#i hateee this situation. i dont like it. i dont like anyone right now.

[bikerboyfriend]

[pansy-picnics]

NO SAME. OMFG I GET ITTTTTTTT. Honestly i love varian but like if rapunzel was cold i would use him as firewood 🫶🫶 BC ITS WHAT YOU SAID HE IS NOTTTT HER RESPONSIBILITY!!!! and i definitely think the show kinda fumbled their arc after painters block which is a shame bc rapunzel’s in depth feelings on that and towards varian i think couldve been sooo interesting….like the show makes so many. Decisions with rapunzel that i just cannot fathom her doing ever. the way the show frames her as always in the right and the way they have her villainize varian so much despite showing so much empathy for him in the beginning of the show its so….bizarre to me. as much as i will defend rapunzel to the end of the earth i realize that the show kind of MADE her unlikable in a lot of regards and i HATEEE that. i can honestly go on and on about how varians obsessive fanbase and the misogyny in the fandom was cultivated by the show itself and it fumbling its characters as badly as it did but that’s. For another time. <3

i genuinely dont think rapunzel believes anyone to be Truly Evil. I think even with gothel she still lies awake sometimes wondering if she could’ve done something different. If she couldve helped her. The thing that drives me especially crazy about rapunzel’s guilt is that like, not only was she taught that she was weak and frail and incapable of fending for herself but she was also taught that her existence is ONLY to serve other people. She was gothel’s “flower”…. She was not her daughter she was her anti-aging potion. Rapunzels job was to sing to her and obey her orders and stay in the tower all day bc she was not a person. She was a POSSESSION. and she literally went from being in a position where she was basically gothel’s pretty porcelain doll to being the face of an entire kingdom and being HONORED and PRAISED by EVERYONE and basically being treated like a GODDESS bc she basically WAS. Essentially what i’m saying is that rapunzel has literally never been treated as just…. a human being. and i don’t think she sees herself as one either.

She has been taught that she exists purely to serve other people and this has only been SOLIDIFIED now that shes the LITERAL PRINCESS, the only difference is that now shes just in a higher and more visible position while she’s doing it. her conflict with varian is such a complicated one because TO ME, i believe wholeheartedly that rapunzel realizes he is just a kid who’s struggling. she WANTS to help him but when she was faced with the situation she just…Froze. And i dont think she ever really got over that To bee honest. <3

She still sometimes apologizes to him about it late at night and varian is so adamant on it not being her fault but she just cant shake it no matter what. I think she does realize that like, the LENGTHS he took things to werent her fault, at least to an extent, but she still blames herself for the fact that he got there in the first place. Bc if she would’ve just helped him everything would’ve been fine….At least she assumes.

On this topic that whole “this is your mess but its my kingdom” thing in rapunzel’s return makes me so fucking mad because like She would not say that SHE WILL DEFEND HIM WITH HER LIFE I DONT CARE. She knows what he did is wrong and like she will tell him that it was wrong, but like SHE WAS PARTIALLY INVOLVED IN HIM GETTING TO THAT POINT, and i think she would really start to think about that ESPECIALLY after everything with cassandra. (It’s the main reason why i think so many people find raps so unlikeable is because we never see her actually Accept fault or validate anyones feelings and it makes me SOOOO mad because like THATS LITERALLY HER ENTIRE THING LIKE THATS WHAT SHE’S BEEN LEARNING THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE SERIES. TO ME.) And varian hates it bc he hates his younger self with a burning passion and he would much rather defend HER. Basically its a very nuanced and complex situation but i think they both are blaming themselves completely while holding the other on a pedestal of righteousness /Lh

Idk. eye love you rapunzel eye love you freckle siblings. nobody gets them like i do

URREGHFHFHF I cant stop thinking about. Rapunzel horrible crushing guilt complex

rapunzel crying and calling herself horrible after leaving the tower. rapunzel shifting the blame onto herself mid sentence when she tells eugene that she's never left the tower (that's why mother never let me- that's why I never left.) rapunzel desperately trying to save eugene when hes dying. When he dies. (does she blame herself for this too?) rapunzel being so crushed by guilt after queen for a day that she can hardly bring herself to do anything. Rapunzel blaming herself for what happened to cass in the great tree.

How much do you think she blames herself for? How long do you think it took her to stop feeling selfish and burdensome and guilty for just. Taking up space? Existing? GFJDJDHD :(

RAPUNZELLLLL