Daermon420
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Accusations of rape or sexual assault can carry more consequences for the person accused than simply expulsion from school or college. They can result in prison time, a permanent criminal record and registry to a sex offender list. When the MC has powerful people (other Founding Families) also out to get him it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility it could escalate to that if Rachel got her way. They're influential and if Rachel brought even flimsy accusations to their attention they could weaponize them, manufacture "witnesses" and try to have the MC incarcerated if they wanted to. That is far more serious than simple comic relief. Comic relief would be if Rachel was annoying but harmless, what she does is NOT harmless. It would also require Rachel to be funny, which she isn't, in the slightest.It's a matter of perspective. If this was a boarding school novel, then one could give a character like Rachel enough power to make her a credible villain. For that she would also have to be taken seriously by the headmistress, and have at least some effect. But this is not a boarding school, the students are all adults, and most events take place outside school. And in fact, the way that her maneuvers turn into nothing each time she runs to the headmistress, she is clearly more of a comic relief character than a villain.
And as far as matters of perspective go, of course. Even the most cartoonish villain who wants to destroy the world for example thinks they're doing the right thing and that the world deserves to be destroyed for one reason or another. Does that make the person who wants to kill everyone right? Because from their own perspective they think they are? Just because Rachel believes she is right doesn't mean that she actually is. Clearly she is not if you pay any attention whatsoever to this story.
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