#Rapunzel rta

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DO YOU GUYS SEE MY VISION

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They're being silly<3

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I would love to write a TTS essay explaining why Gothel isn’t Cassandra’s mother and Frederick and Arianna aren’t Rapunzel’s parents and the show’s insistence on pushing parent/child struggles into those characters is kind of really forced so that’s exactly what I’m gonna do:

(Disclaimer: this got really messy and is kind of a bunch of nonesense glued together, so read it with a bit of patiece lmao)

Rapunzel grew up for the first 18 years of her life with Gothel, when TTS starts she has been living with Fred and Ari for 6 months and it’s wild to me how Raps already calls them mom and dad, but I won’t judge this part, she wants to be their daughter and wants to be a family so it makes sense that she would call them that way regardless if it feels natural or not, but I think where the series really fails is when it starts (by the very first episode) to give Rapunzel and Frederick father-daughter struggles, which is complete bs if you ask me, those two don’t know each other. Rapunzel shouldn’t have a “oh, I can’t disobey my father” train of thought because she doesn’t even know him and therefore he isn’t her father, at least not yet. She shouldn’t be so trusting of his judgement of love for her because they don’t have intimacy and the fact that they are fighting and disagreeing so much after having just reconnected is wild. Arianna is not that important for the plot, but her relationship with Rapunzel being so unapologetically perfect also rubs me the wrong way. Rapunzel was ruined by her mother, she was abused her whole life and I don’t think she would just let anyone fulfill the role Gothel did without getting some therapy to unpack everything wrong that her mother, the one that actually raised her, did.

Rapunzel had a narcissistic mother, an awlful one who never loved her, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t love Gothel. Raps lived her whole by that woman’s side, she loved her more than anything in the world and realizing the manipulation and abuse wouldn’t just immediately stop a person as kind and forgiving as Rapunzel to still love her like a mother, because like it or not Gothel raised her for 18 years. She wasn’t a good mother by any means but she was her mother nonetheless.

Another point is that at the end of season one Rapunzel goes away from Corona to explore, learn about the world and her own powers. I am not exactly sure how much time passes from the beginning to the end of s1 but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t more than 6 months, so Rapunzel lives with her bio parents for about a year and then goes straight into a one year long self discovery journey and you’re trying to tell me that she missed them? Not even just missed, but when she got hold of an artifact that showed what you waned the most what she saw were her biological parents and the people of Corona who in the first episode she claims to not remember the names of? That’s some real bs right there and I have no idea how the show runners thought this made any sort of sense. She doesn’t fucking know them, maybe she respects or care about her folks, but she couldn’t have possibly built this life long parent/child relationship that the show treats like she did.

Now, with Cassandra it’s a bit more complicated. She lived with Gothel for about four years of her life before being abandoned, but she very obviously didn’t remember any of this, either because she was too young or because she repressed those memories. Gothel didn’t seem to love Cass in the slightest, but because Cass grew up with only a emotionally distant father she longed for this reassurance that she was loved by a parent figure at some point in her life, she blames Rapunzel for everything that went wrong with her life, which can make sense but also is a bit awkward to sustain once you analyze the actual facts. Yes, Rapunzel and Eugene killed Gothel, but she didn’t mean to do that, it was Eugene’s plan and he only did it because Raps had literally agreed to be used and locked up from the real world for the rest of her life. Cass isn’t dumb, she would know better than lashing out at her friends for accidentally saving her from living with a narcissist who didn’t care about her. Gothel isn’t Cassandra’s mother, Cass doesn’t have a mother because she didn’t have anyone to actually raise her.

If I was to rewrite Tangled we’d have a very different approach to how bio parents are handled, especially Rapunzel’s. I don’t think she should be close to Arianna and Frederick at all, heck, I don’t even think she should call them mom and dad. Cause bear with me, if you randomly found ot you are adopted by the time you were 18 and actually went to live with your biological family for about a year do you think you’d even have this sort of intimacy and bond with them?

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Another sneakpeek for y'all! Enjoy!

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Kapow :P

(I think the proportions are a bit off... but hey, I drew this for fun :'D)

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What if Rapunzel learned martial arts along with using a sword?

👑 I think Rapunzel would struggle with swordfighting at first. Growing up isolated inside her tower, she's never really had to learn how to watch out for people the same way that she would have to if she wasn't.

👑 I think she would prefer martial arts to swordfighting. She loves friendly competitions between herself and other people, and nobody's feelings are bound to be hurt by martial arts unless one of them pulls a really dirty stunt

👑 Tbh I think she would seek out lessons somewhere outside of Corona. She wouldn't want anyone to go easy on her the way they might when they know she's a princess

👑 Though she gets really good at swordfighting, I don't think she could win against Cass. She's lighter on her feet than Cass, but she [Cass] has the benefit of experience

👑 Her second-favorite martial art would probably be taekwondo. She's always appreciated being light on her feet to compensate for the sheer weight and amount of her hair

👑 Her absolute favorite would probably be tricking. I don't see her as someone who particularly cares about official rules/regulations. She loves coming up with her own moves

👑 Her favorite sword would probably be the Zweihänder. Its heft and style aren't something she's used to, but she loves trying new things. She loves how powerful she feels wielding it

👑 She would probably win against Eugene if he were her sparring partner. Her eclectic sparring style would contrast pretty heavily against his somewhat stagnant fighting style (although in his defense, he's never been formally trained)

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HOLY COW. This actually looks like the movie.🤩

So I traced. I don’t normally trace (trust me I can draw decently), but something was bothering me about Rapunzel’s design in the new series.  I decided to try my own version. I love the organic feel of the series, but I wish the lines were less harsh and the colors had a more pastel feel like the movie.  Here is my design.

I do not own Tangled or the art on the left (I drew/altered the one on the right)

© Disney TV Animation

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[stellesappho]

the secret kissing of the sun and moon ☀️🌙

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tangled my beloved you will always cause me to take warm up sketches to far

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Sand-Angels.

I am officialy on summer break.

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chappell 🤝 rapunzel

rescuing ur girlfriend from the convent

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YAYA, I drew Cassandra and Raps! It's sort of similar to the tts style >:D

(huh, I wonder why I drew them so unhappy though)

Also, here is a random gif of a raccoon eating something. You're welcome.

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Rapunzel - Abandoned/Finished piece!

I have to say, for a little while I was finding this drawing REALLY scary, like she was giving 'uncanny valley' vibes. But after a while longer of tweaking, she's looking pretty cute!

Despite this, I definitely need to rework how I draw her before doing the three-drawing-piece like I did for Eugene and Cassandra.

I do like how shiny her hair is though!