#character: rapunzel

[whatsernamecosplay]

Rapunzel, shot at MCM October 2022 by Decent Photography

I absolutely adore this cosplay! This was my own design of her that I started back in 2021 with the skirt, then got awful creative block and shelved her. I’m so glad I revisited her when I became confident with creating boned bodices, and I’m especially proud of how the lace and appliqués came out.

I’ve cosplayed Rapunzel in 3 different dresses over the years, I can’t help but revisit her. I would love to wear her with a full braided wig, maybe one day!

[enviedriches]

Character Facts:

Name: Rapunzel Corona.

Age: 22.

Occupation: Teacher.

Species: Human.

Registry Status: Punz is not registered because she’s entirely human with no advanced abilities.

Skeleton Bio:

When Rapunzel was but a child, her parents were murdered and she was kidnapped. She was kept locked away in a tower where her hair of magic healing properties were used by a woman named Gothel. She was kept locked up within a cabin deep in the woods, where she had contact with only two individuals, Gothel herself, and a young male by the name of Pascal. She and Pascal had become swift friends, but due to Gothel’s insistence that Rapunzel not see the outside world, soon enough she saw less and less of the young lad.

While she was locked away, Rapunzel took up multiple hobbies, reading, drawing, cooking, and baking, just to name a few, as a result she would dream of being able to pass her skills and abilities onto others. Her hopes and dreams kept her confident in the fact that she would someday be able to join the outside world once again. And while she had the ability to just walk out the door, she didn’t feel right leaving the woman she believed to be her mother.

It was after Rapunzel had learned the truth of what her ‘mother’ had done to her true parents, that she had left the cabin, never looking back. She had gone into hiding with the help of an old friend from her youth, and after a few years she had decided that she was safe and she started on her own path, that led to her becoming an art teacher, helping to mold young minds into something beautiful.

Face Claim: Lalisa Manoban.

The role is closed.

Credit: Sally.

[mari-b]

my desi rapunzel designs (cuz she is) ☀️☀️

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Character designs for the Disney Princesses as seen in Ralph Breaks the Internet by Brittney Lee and Ami Thompson

[artist-issues]

Look I know Rapunzel paints and Tiana cooks, but if you guys don't think Mulan is the Most Creative Disney Princess, you're wrong.

She's literally introduced in this perfect scene that highlights her whole character, flaws and strengths:

The first time you see her she's:

Cheating, which is totally the opposite of what honor-code General Shang would do.

Undisciplined, which is what going to the army fixes.

Problem-solving—by writing the recitation she can't remember on her wrist—

BUT LISTEN. That last one is the first hint you have that she's the Most Creative Disney Princess. Because guess what? She's not the first young woman to cheat at the matchmaker test. The Matchmaker specifically checks to see if she's cheating when the test begins. But the rest of them wrote their cheat sheet on their fans.

The Matchmaker was prepared for the usual kind of tricks. But Mulan's full of her own ideas, not everyone else's.

You guys know the rest. She dresses up like a soldier—nobody suspects her because the idea that someone would do that never occurs to everyone else. She climbs the pole by tying the medallions around each other when none of the other recruits can figure it out. She lights the cannon by grabbing Mushu instead of searching for flints. She creates an avalanche instead of just taking Shan Yu out. She tricks the Huns by dressing her friends up as concubines. She defeats Shan Yu with his own sword and a bunch of fireworks.

But even beyond problem-solving, Mulan never does things like other people do. She doesn't even do things like other women do.

She doesn't just walk across a bridge, she jumps from pillar to pillar. She doesn't just bring her father tea, she puts a spare teacup in her sleeve because she knows she's clumsy.

Mulan is creative. But you know what that moment proves? That she's not just a representation of all women-versus-men. Mulan is representative of a human, who sees where she has strengths, and sees where she has weaknesses. She uses her strengths to her advantage and works to improve or make up for her weaknesses. She doesn't try to be exactly like a man. She just tries to use what she's got to do the right thing. And finding ways to use what you've got, even if it's not like what everyone else has, is creativity.

[nokkiart]

I realized the other day that all my favorite Disney leading ladies hate wearing shoes. So I thought it'd be fun to draw them enjoying a little holiday together!

[kabishkat19]

Princess Counter Parts🖤

(The Grimm Legends vs. Disney)

[stormyth-art]

Varian!

[blue-solstice]

A healer and a bard 🎶 I’ve had this for months and kept forgetting to post it lol

[kathrynskanvas]

Rapunzel 💜☀️

If you like my art and like to read ramblings of someone who draws too many fairies, you can find my art blog here (:

[dasketcherz]

guys hear me out... this "i want" song is so Nuru coded

[deeva-arud]

So, about that one AU that's been marinating in my mind for years

[marduksstuff]

*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚

[ginger-grimm]

DISNEY PRINCESSES & ONCE UPON A TIME LIVE ACTION

Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White Jessy Schram & Dania Ramirez as Ella (Cinderalla) Sarah Bolger as Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Ariel Emilie de Ravin as Belle Karen David as Jasmine Jamie Chung as Mulan Mekia Cox as Tiana Alexandra Metz & Meegan Warner as Rapunzel Amy Manson as Merida Georgina Haig as Elsa Elizabeth Lail as Anna

INSPIRED BY THIS POST

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Rapunzel character designs for Tangled by Jin Kim

[artist-issues]

I remember during the making of Tangled, the filmmakers said they had to work hard to design Rapunzel’s tower to be beautiful and seem like a cozy, fun environment, while also making Mother Gothel seem sweet and loveable, if manipulative.

Because, they said, if the environment is too much like a prison, and Gothel is too much like a villainess, the audience wouldn’t believe in Rapunzel as a character. They’d think she was either stupid or cowardly, to stay in such a nasty situation without trying to escape sooner. But if her circumstances seem just livable enough, just sweet enough, that you can see some of the appeal, then you wouldn’t blame her for waiting so long to leave.

Why didn’t they do that with Wish?

Why didn’t they think that relatability through?

Nobody is really feeling compelled to root for the everyday Rosas citizens during the movie. You don’t feel like rooting for Asha’s cause, or even Queen Amaya’s. Because you think to yourself, “why did it take the townspeople so long to ask the question ‘why can’t we just have our wishes back?’”

Asha comes up with those culture-breaking questions, inexplicably, in the first twenty minutes of the movie. It takes the rest of the townspeople about 24 hours to suddenly start asking that, too.

So why don’t you root for them?

Because when something bad happens to them, part of your brain goes, “why didn’t they see that coming, though? Why didn’t they ask questions? That one’s a little bit on them.”

And you don’t really feel that feeling you got with Mother Gothel, where you were like, “Oh yeah, I can see why the main character trusted this villain; the villain really seems to care about the hero, if you didn’t know what she was after.” You don’t;t get that same feeling with Magnifico. Because the whole idea of what he does—by erasing people’s memories and yelling at them and having no moments with regular folk where he’s warm and personal and building trust—is so malicious that we don’t believe the other characters couldn’t see it.

We COULD HAVE believed it. If they’d added in good writing and character moments to make it believable.

When Magnifico interacts with the people who trust him and are duped by him, he’s up on a stage, flashing superpowers they don’t have and then disappearing back into his tower after only granting one wish. He’s not on the welcome tour with Asha. He doesn’t know his own palace staff by name. He’s done nothing to build the trust all the side-characters unquestioningly give him. So even at the end, when everyone’s like, “aw, we wanted to believe in Magnifico,” we don’t feel it. Because didja? Why? Everyone could see that coming.

Meanwhile Mother Gothel tells Rapunzel she loves her most every time she leaves. She laughs with her. She reinforces every conversation they have with the idea that she’s desperate to protect Rapunzel. She brings her her favorite soup as a surprise and remembers the ingredients. She goes to get white paint on a very long trip so Rapunzel can paint. She compliments her strength and beauty—even if it’s backhanded. She calls her “dear,” and “darling.” She knocks thugs out with sticks, returning even after she argued with and supposedly ‘gave up’ on Rapunzel, all to supposedly’ protect’ her. So when Rapunzel realizes it was all an act, and she’s wrathful and furious and grabs Gothel’s hand, we DO feel it. Because we believed that Rapunzel really didn’t see this coming, so the shock stings worse. We don’t blame Rapunzel, and we do blame Gothel.

Just another example of what #NotMyDisney forgot about themselves.