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Rhoda has dedicated her life to putting the 'pro' in 'professional flight attendant'. Above all, she is defined by her job. There is nothing she takes more pride in than performing her duty perfectly. The highest oath she appears to know is literally 'I swear on my honour as a professional flight attendant' . Likewise, if she wants to ensure someone else is being serious, the makes them swear on their respective profession, which indicates she automatically assumes most other people have the same sense of job honour she has.
As a professional, Rhoda's most outstanding qualities are her calm, her patience and her good manners. She is able to force a smile in conversation with mostly everyone, even if those smiles might end up looking kind of tense and twitchy.
Even when faced with Edgeworth while she assumes him a killer, Rhoda acts polite and strict. If she is scared of him at that point, she does not let it show. Only a certain cold look she gives him makes her disgust at that moment clear. This shows that her professional attitude goes along with a certain amount of braveness. If it's for her job, Rhoda will easily suppress her emotions and fears.
When she does end in a panic, like she does upon finding a dead body on her flight, then she does her best to quickly get over it and resolve the situation swiftly. Her tendency to deal with critical situations fast is not always entirely helpful though, as it results in rash decisions and premature judgement.
Rhoda's personality in general does not vary too much from her work persona. She is a very tidy person in private as well and states that she loves to clean. Her bed on the plane is kept neatly and next to it there is a note board full of little sticky notes, presumably about tasks she still needs to perform. Always doing things correctly is Rhoda's main objective. In this pursuit, she sometimes even ends up correcting her own actions out loud. This is seen when she speaks to Edgeworth about suspecting him to be the culprit ("Maybe I should put on a serious face and say it directly").
As someone who values order, Rhoda only believes what she sees with her own eyes. Before she accepts someone's words, she likes to see proof of what they are claiming. This is opposed to how easily she is deluded by her own first impressions, but it makes sense. It would be fatal if she believed people too easily after all, when she is supposed to be a figure of authority on her flights. Likewise, she also keeps a professional distance from the travellers. When a passenger makes inappropriately flirty comments at her, she neither snaps at him nor responds out of the ordinary in any other way. She simply keeps her professional distance. In a similar manner, she makes clear to Edgeworth that even if he is nice to her and acts as a gentleman, it will not gain her trust. The professional thing to do is wait for him to prove his innocence, so Rhoda let's nothing else sway her. So despite her politeness, Rhoda can be very direct and even though she never gets rude, she will tell somebody when she thinks they misbehaved terribly. However, she will let small things slide as quirks of passengers that she just has to deal with.
After all, the passenger is king for her and even when she doubts one, she will not cease to offer service. Even while Edgeworth is under suspicion of murder, Rhoda is almost frantic over the realization that he hadn't had his proper meal yet. Service comes completely natural to her and she will perform services unless she is explicitly told not to. (When Edgeworth talks to a stuttering passenger, she translates all he says into smooth non-stuttering language, despite the fact that Edgeworth doesn't show any problems understanding the original words. Likewise, she jumps in for her colleague Cammy when she fails to respond to a question properly.)
Still, even tough Rhoda acts prideful, she is woman full of self-doubt. As a professional flight attendant she points out the quality of her work a lot, but it appears to be the only thing she openly dares to be confident about. While she can come across as almost arrogant at first ("I don't think you could ask for a more perfect witness testimony"), it is merely an act that displays the high standards she holds herself to. In truth, she doesn't think she can even afford to make mistakes, so her constant flaunting of being 'professional' is just covering up for insecurity.
Because being a professional flight attendant is the only thing Rhoda thinks she's really good at, she also uses it as a justification for completely unrelated judgements. For example she states that 'as a professional flight attendant' she can recognize the beauty of a vase, which technically has nothing to do with her profession at all.
Indeed, Rhoda goes as far as stating 'all she really has' is her job. Apparently she doesn't have any social life to speak of. Her lack of free time occupations becomes even more clear when you take into consideration that even though her job evidently pays well, she mostly spends the money on the suitcases she designed herself. She buys one on every single flight she is on, despite them costing 1.200 Dollars each - a sum that speaks for itself.
When something goes wrong at her work, Rhoda starts to reveal what she really thinks of herself. It doesn't take much to go from her usual honour as a professional to calling herself 'a failure as a flight attendant', which is obviously the highest insult she could apply to herself. When she makes a mistake, Rhoda is really worried about the consequences it may have. She doesn't easily live something down when there is a chance that someone might have gotten into problems because of her.
Seeing she already blames herself heavily for any wrongdoings, Rhoda can't really deal with someone else rightfully accusing her of any errors she committed. She is able to speak up for herself upon being wrongly scolded, but when she knows the other person is right or when the blame for something really heavy is confidently put on her (like Franziska arresting her as a murder suspect), Rhoda loses her ability to say anything in her own defence. She only stutters uselessly and if possibly excuses herself to flee from the scene.
After a mistake, her professionalism crumbles a little, and Rhoda begins to exhibit a tendency to apologize excessively for any faults in her own actions, even if they are small. She really wants to make up anything wrong she might have done to the person affected. As opposed to her usually strict and calm manner of speaking, Rhoda tends to stutter a lot and physically tremble when she gets like that.
Generally, she loses her ability to think rationally when she is nervous. While she tries to cover up for it, this becomes evident in her actions as such. The fact that she went out of her way to ask a dead man to verbally confirm his own death kind of speaks for itself here. She acts as if she's calm, but what she says is ultimately nonsense.
Still, insecurity and directness aside, Rhoda is not unable to lie and break protocol. Even when it is about her work, there are situations in which a good reason causes Rhoda to behave unexpectedly and dishonestly. For example, finding the truth behind the murder on her plane is important enough to her to do so. She knows fully well that she would never get the captain's permission for allowing Edgeworth an investigation, but she does deem one necessary and wants to make the wrong accusation up to him. So she lies and lets him investigate despite never having even brought the issue to the captain in the first place. It is an attempt at solving the mess she herself got involved in before any higher-up even finds out about it. She wants to make things right, even if she sometimes uses the wrong means to do so.
This also shows that even despite thinking lowly of herself, Rhoda is able to tell when someone wrongs her. She realizes fully well that Cammy, her co-worker, does not deserve the captain's attention and respect as much as her, and instead of thinking it is her fault in some way, she is offended about the way things are. However, she is too timid to bring the issue up openly for real. When it comes to co-workers and people she knows better than random passengers, Rhoda is a lot more reluctant and shy. It appears that she wishes for better, maybe friendship-esque relations to them, even if they treat her badly.
As a last note on lying, it has to be said that Rhoda lies more easily when the subject she lies about only concerns herself. For example, she insists on the suitcases she made selling well - even though they don't. In a way, that is a white lie. It doesn't cause anybody else any harm and only serves to keep up her facade of confidence and success. At least to the outside, Rhoda makes an attempt to cover up for what goes wrong in her life.
Even though she is good at making it seem otherwise, Rhoda just really doesn't believe much in herself. When she won a company design contest with her suitcases by her own words she thought that 'maybe, maybe she had finally accomplished something'.
The mention of design finally finally guides us to a part of Rhoda that neither has to do with work nor self-consciousness. She appears to really like designing things. The only problem is that by common standard she is horrible at it.
These are her suitcases. The ones sold for 1200 Dollars each. I don't think I need to expand on the fact that Rhoda really likes bright colours, but doesn't really know how to combine them in a way that pleases the average eye. However, she really does put her heart into everything she designs. With a lot of love, she made these suitcases to be 'faithful partners for the passengers'. It's easy to tell just from this, that Rhoda truly is a sweet and idealistic person at heart.
Truly, a lot of her behaviour is reminiscent of the stereotypical young and pure maiden. When you get to know Rhoda a little more, you will find her a surprisingly naive woman. As the investigation with Edgeworth progresses, she voices a number of ideas that are painfully obvious, which she seems genuinely excited about. She really hopes to be of help and gets sad when she finally figures that really, it wasn't much use.
However, she doesn't always catch on with her actions being strangely out of place. She makes Edgeworth, an adult man, pinky-swear - with a completely straight face as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
On that note (the note being Edgeworth), it would fit right into Rhoda's character to secretly hope for a fairytale prince to appear. Cammy once implies that she might have a crush on the polite Edgeworth and although Rhoda doesn't confirm it directly, the way she denies the accusation makes it seem like a valid possibility.
Aside from crushes, Rhoda appears to have a general tendency towards idolization. She greatly looks up to Hugo Ifly, the founder of the airlines she works for. Furthermore, she is shown caring a lot about a chair used when a certain rock band was flying with their plane. Here it is implied that she does stay up to date with pop culture some bit and is interested in famous people.
Once Rhoda grows to like someone more, she also comes to rely on them more and begin hoping for their help when she is in trouble. Likewise, she would doubtlessly do anything she could to help them as well. When she's more confident around a person, Rhoda also dares to show a less polite, pushier, but more natural side of herself. (She is almost pouting as she commands Edgeworth to say he'll buy her suitcase, as he says he hasn't bought one.)
Like almost any person, Rhoda brightens up when people are nice to her. If someone gets through to her enough with that, she will show them a bright and genuine smile for once.
Rhoda's wish to get to know people more than just by serving them on a flight is also shown in the way she examines her passengers. Even before she talks to them, she seems to have a habit of looking closely at their looks and behaviour. She appears to enjoy making hypothesises about their lives and backgrounds, even if those often end up completely off. At least it can be said she is an observant person, both by nature and job necessity.
A random and irrelevant flaw of her is that apparently she's really bad at washing clothes. At the badly smelling crime-scene, she is reminded of her own towels after they come out of the drier.
Background: Rhoda's Wiki
Abilities: Rhoda is human through and through. Her only notable skill is indeed being a professional flight attendant. Despite the sounds of it, that is not to be underestimated. When she says she would calmly serve coffee, if so desired, even in the middle of a plane crash, then she absolutely means it. While nervousness sometimes gets the better of her, Rhoda is generally very good at forcing herself to be calm and smile. She has a lot of patience.
Aside from that, she has the ability to combine colours in ways that make everyone lose their cool - sadly not in the way that's intended. Her designs are, to quote a certain prosecutor, 'hideous'.