Originally Posted by
ClanAskani
Honestly, it's just lazy writing since it allows them to take Rachel off the playing field and male characters to play the hero.
It's one thing for there to be a story arc which involves a female character being enslaved/tortured/mind controlled but it's another if there's no payoff where the character actually gets more an 1-panel time to actually shine. In Game of Thrones, at least what happened to Sansa was part of her character arc. In a long-form story, repeating Rachel's storyline by putting her back to being a Hound and on a long path for recovery would be fine but I don't think there's any plan. None of the writers are talking to each other, they just have individual ideas and repeat the same stories over and over.
I just cannot believe it's 2019 and this is happening in X-books. It's shameful that the 1980s books were more progressive and female characters were better written. The only comic readers who would enjoy this storyline with Rachel are the incels and Comicsgaters who want to see the female characters as sex objects and weakened.