FALL ASLEEP.

rachel’s stupid lil undershirt under her ratty disgusting dress solidifies my headcanon that she does Indeed fall into hypocritical christian ideals of modesty vs. vanity and i will Absolutely be makin a meta soon on how intrinsic that hypocrisy is to her character, esp in terms of the way she presents herself as a modest apostle of faith and by extension God while also being hugely sexual and blasphemous with her wife, AND rather “lewd” or sexually liberated among other women (by practicing unabashed nudity in the bliss and goin all tiddies out around her circle of women in new dawn).

dark mothers… mystic women who will help rachel hone her abilities as a prophetess! maybe even free her from her spiritual n religious confines to unlock its full potential.

sirens, nymphs, ect. all kinds of witchy water women who lure men to the banks & eat their hearts for some good girlish bonding!

redemptions, extractions, awakenings… basically any scenario in which someone frees rachel of the project n her fanatical beliefs, so she can truly escape the never ending cycle of abuse that she’s fallen into.

the village (2004)… community of people frustrated by the corrupt modern world who escape to a “simple” life. either following the actual story of being plagued by monsters they created, OR actually being ancient woodland creatures they offer sacrifices to as a truce hehe…

apocalypse… zombies, infectious disease, natural disaster, nuclear, ect. rachel jessop deserves a shotgun & i WILL die on that hill!

big fucked up dynamics with either newly brainwashed or newly rehabilitated angels! rachel feeling like she’s “purifying” them n giving them purpose, therefore feeling maternal towards them n how that would… not go down well or how it might just go Terribly well lol.

my adaptation of the bliss on this blog looks EXACTLY like dani’s trips re: grass sprouting through her hand / becoming her feet, the flowers of her may queen crown opening n closing, and the vines of her throne swishing alongside her arm.

i’ll run this by the wife in the morning but... the consummation scene occurs similarly between rachel n mara when they conceive pythia n scylla re: the bed of flowers (moonflowers in their case) though not so much the mentors watching sksjsksks.

( HOWEVER... in new dawn era, marriages likely do have to be “approved” by faith and rachel between cultists and moonflowers would 100% be part of the marital custom, as cultists are constantly exposed to bliss to remain “blissful” post-collapse. )

the culmination of life vs. death and the practice of sacrificing the elderly to give their names to newborns are a custom that probably arises post-collapse as a means of “population control.” it was already somewhat established prior, when mara judged rachel’s vassals before they were afforded bliss, but obviously....... committing literal suicide under the guise of rebirth is far more extreme than that lmao.

the collective screaming of the hårga women alongside dani to take her down from her panic attack was a fucking MASTERPIECE and new eden women definitely perform the same sort of ritual as a “prayer circle” to relieve any stress that could otherwise be considered negative to the cult’s attitude.

similar methods like the encouraged, uninhibited violent outbursting after the sacrifice in the finale are used cult-wide to unleash any perceived negative energy in the same way.

BODY HORROR BABEY!!!!!! rachel already established the custom of emptying the stomach cavities, eye sockets and mouths of “non-believers” to fill them with moonflowers and hang them as a reminder, but i can absolutely 100% see her hollowing out bodies entirely to fill them with straw, and essentially “embalming” the bodies w bliss so they can be....... preserved.