Rachel Lopez-Faraday

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Sometimes we can't see the glaringly obvious from inside. -- Minerva Michaelson

You carry any flaw like a secret in you, terrified someone will desert you for the simple reality of your personhood. -- Red Blood, Black Ink

Biography

Rachel is the third child of Sofia Lopez (professor of electrical engineering at USC) and David Faraday (materials science expert at the privately-owned CEREM Corporation) -- although she bears no notable resemblance to either her mother, her father, or her three siblings (Robert, a 2020 graduate of the Keck School of Medicine; Lucia, a postdoctoral researcher in aeronautical engineering at JPL; and Matias, currently a USC undergraduate student). Well, she does bear one resemblance: like the rest of the family, she's very bright. Now that she's finished her dissertation, she's busy trying to figure out what to do with her life, and after a stint of paying the bills with a waitressing job at Waffle Shack, she has accepted a position at a private charitable foundation, with a focus on improving primary education. She is also active with a number of public-spirited local organizations, generally with a focus on putting things together for the benefit of the underprivileged, but with a sideline in the high-speed kinetic disassembly of things for the same cause. In her spare time, she enjoys model rocketry, pre-Columbian archaeology, soccer, and membership in the extremely retro Southern Cal Laser Tag Association.

RP Hooks

Argentina: Her mother's family still lives there; she visits regularly and spent an undergraduate semester abroad in Buenos Aires.

Bad Taste: Rachel is notorious for her dreadful taste in clothes. In this case, "dreadful" doesn't mean too tight, too bright, and too revealing: rather, it means she tends to dress like a homeless auto mechanic, in clothes that don't fit and wouldn't flatter her if they did fit. Her choices are gradually improving, but there's a ways to go.

Bookstores: Low income and a voracious reading habit mean she spends a fair amount of time prowling used bookstores in search of a cheap written-word fix. She's not especially picky and enjoys all kinds of vintage SF&F paperbacks, so if you're any sort of bibliophile it's possible you may have crossed paths.

Fixing Stuff: She belongs to groups like the Southern Cal Repair & Reuse Association (a/k/a "The Jesters") that do things like repairing electrical or water supplies, fixing broken but not yet unsalvageable appliances, and the like. Have you benefited from their efforts, donated to the cause, or (you jerk!) sabotaged their efforts?

Late Nights: Rachel doesn't sleep all that much, so she might bump into you at all sorts of odd hours.

The SCLTA: Or "Skullta" to those in the know. Wear a dorky silver vest and zap other people with equally bad taste, in all sorts of exotic locations across the greater Los Angeles area.

Soccer: Candidly, she's pretty bad at it. Even on an intramural team she would be unlikely to stand out as anything special, but she's enthusiastic. And she never misses Argentina's international matches.

The Theresa Kendall Family Foundation: A private charitable foundation dedicated to various high-sounding but vague goals, the TKFF is Rachel's new employer, and she is busy trying to translate some of the lofty rhetoric into actual results.

USC: She pretty much grew up on campus, along with all her siblings. If you've studied, taught, or researched there, especially in the hard sciences, you may have already met her, her mother, her sister, or her brothers.

Contacts
  • Addison - Be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm compost heap.
  • Calvin - But with every gem in his pocket, the jewels he has missed.
  • Chase - No, I really have no idea what I'm doing.
  • Dragana - Scarily competent, but in a friendly way. I think.
  • Hall - Date Lucy. Seriously, just once. I'll even pay.
  • Jack - ... sigh. I hope you find what you're after.
  • Kwan - The person we all want to be when we grow up.
  • Mal - Well. Mission f***king accomplished.
  • Meg - Relax. You're going to be fine spectacular.
  • Minerva - The way the universe has treated you is almost enough to make an atheist of me.
  • Mizha - I just want my life to be the same, just like it used to be.
  • Sierra - Not sure whether I want more of this kind of honesty in my life, or less.
  • Spencer - A football player and a Bruin and apparently a genuinely nice guy. I think they call these 'unicorns'.
  • Wolfe - I should have learned by now not to underestimate people. Maybe this time it'll stick.


Gallery

Rachel Lopez-Faraday
Name Rachel Emilia Lopez-Faraday
Appears As Rachel
Occupation Director of K-12 Programs for the Theresa Kendall Family Foundation
Apparent Age Early Twenties
Demeanor Innovator
Eye Color Hazel
Hair Color Copper
Height 5' 8"
Birthdate May 1, 2000
Sign Pisces
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