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CARDIGAN

Title: Cardigan

Word Count: 1,610

Summary: Rapunzel reminisces of what once was.

Notes: a few of you suggested for cardigan so i'm putting all of that here in one ask. just cus i don't want a song to be repeated! enjoy!

listen to song here while reading

It was raining outside when Rapunzel decided to clean up her room. There was so much to do, and so much to see, or rather, find again with how her room was full of chaos. ‘It’s like having your very own galaxy in here!’ His voice echoed in her head. That was the very first thing Jack said to her when she invited him over, which felt like a lifetime ago.

Vintage tee, brand new phone

High heels on cobblestones

When you are young, they assume you know nothing

Rapunzel sorted out her things by years. Her childhood toys that she made out of recycled materials go on one corner, the bizarre things she collected as a teenager went on the other, and her adult stuff— which were still as random as ever, according to Merida— on her bed. Though those weren’t as much as the others given how she moved out as soon as she hit college. And honestly? She wasn’t sure what she was doing back at home. Visiting her parents, despite that fact being true, felt like an excuse.

Sequin smile, black lipstick

Sensual politics

When you are young, they assume you know nothing

She paused when she found a picture frame buried beneath a pile of clothes in the closet. While only seeing one corner of it, she already knew what it was. Pushing her clothes aside, she then picked up the picture frame and stared at it. There, under its glass, were high schoolers her and Jack smiling at each other. And like magic, the memory behind it resurfaced and played before her eyes.

But I knew you

Dancin' in your Levi's

Drunk under a streetlight, I

I knew you

Hand under my sweatshirt

Baby, kiss it better, I

Jack was drunk, somewhat, after they stole beer from Hiccup’s stash, and he laughed from a corny joke Rapunzel excitedly shared. She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t tipsy too, and, perhaps from the influence of alcohol, found Jack’s wheezy laugh all so endearing. 

And if they weren’t exchanging jokes, they were exchanging dance moves with Rapunzel egging him to do better. This prompted him to do a backflip, causing the two to squeal and jump around in his success. That was when Hiccup finally found them to get the stolen goodies back, though he was rather forced to take their picture if they were to return the rest of the beer from Jack’s backpack.

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan

Under someone's bed

You put me on and said I was your favorite

Rapunzel remembered how her heart did a somersault when Jack wrapped his arm around her shoulder for the picture. Though they didn’t bother to turn at the camera. Not when they were so engrossed with each other that Hiccup complained about it. If anything, she wanted that moment to freeze so she could stay in its magic forever. But that night went and passed, and there was nothing she could do to go back to it.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Chase two girls, lose the one

When you are young, they assume you know nothin'

Not wanting to drown in her emotions, Rapunzel placed the picture frame with her high school stuff. Though this still didn’t stop the tears forming in her eyes. It blurred her eyesight in a way that made her wonder if this will all her home will ever be. A reminder of what once was. A reminder of Jack. She then wiped her eyes and moved on, until she stumbled on another thing that sparked a precious memory.

But I knew you

Playing hide-and-seek and

Giving me your weekends, I

I knew you

Your heartbeat on the High Line

Once in 20 lifetimes, I

From her pile of clothes that she finally got to sort was a worn out cardigan that she and Jack used to share once upon a time. She carefully picked it up, hesitated for a second, before bringing the cloth to her nose. It smelled like her closet, but also faintly of Jack’s woodsy smell. That boy did, after all, enjoy venturing through the windows nearby their neighborhood, saying it was full of secrets and whatnot.

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan

Under someone's bed

You put me on and said I was your favorite

They had this thing, you see, of sharing the cardigan and taking turns on who gets to keep it or wear it for the day. Or a week, if one forgets to ask for it. Rapunzel still remembers the day they found out in their local thrift store, and how their argument of who gets to buy it was eventually solved by Merida when she jokingly said “Well, why don’t you take turns wearing it instead and be done with it!” The cardigan, in short, held so many memories in it with how it basically grew up with them throughout high school.

To kiss in cars and downtown bars

Was all we needed

You drew stars around my scars

But now I'm bleedin'

But now all it reminded Rapunzel was how things could never go back to what it once was. Not after how she ruined everything. Their friendship, their memories, their everything. All it took was for her lips to say three simple words, and the magic ended right then and there.

“I love you.” Rapunzel confessed with all her heart, but it wasn’t enough. 

Or maybe it was too much.

Because Jack stood there before her, speechless. His eyes almost asked ‘Why?’ like what she did was so irreversible and permanent. And each second that passed by with silence stretching on made Rapunzel choke in her overflowing emotions. Something Jack wasn’t ready to catch.

'Cause I knew you

Steppin' on the last train

Marked me like a bloodstain, I

The days that followed after were painful, with Rapunzel dealing with Jack's rejection. Which was followed by this abrupt distance that cut in between them. And no matter how many times they tried, they couldn’t go back to what their friendship once was. Not with both of their hearts broken for different reasons.

I knew you

Tried to change the ending

Peter losing Wendy, I

The night before Rapunzel was to leave for college, Jack visited her through the bedroom window. It was late, and it was sudden, but at that moment they both had this feeling that this might be the last time they’ll ever see each other. Rapunzel wasted no time in pulling him close for a hug, breathing him in before her heart struck. She pushed him away knowing it would do better for her.

I knew you

Leavin' like a father

Running like water, I

And when you are young, they assume you know nothing

She snapped at him to stop giving her mixed signals. Not after she laid her heart out to him, only for him to drop it the very next second. And tried as Jack might to explain to her that he didn’t want to lose her, Rapunzel had already shut her heart from him to protect it. There was nothing Jack could ever say or do that would make her change her mind.

But I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss

I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs

The smell of smoke would hang around this long

'Cause I knew everything when I was young

I knew I'd curse you for the longest time

Rapunzel would be lying if she said she got over him. Not when he haunted her wherever she went. She could hear his voice whenever she took notes in class, saying how much fun it would be to disrupt class with a sudden lightsaber duel. She could hear his laughter whenever she found herself losing it over a badly executed joke. She could see the way his eyes would shine whenever she was up to no good.

Which didn’t seem fair at all. She then wondered if it was the same for Jack. If her confession ever haunted him too. Stirred up his life even to at least call things even. She wanted to know so badly, but she never once hit the call button whenever she tapped his number on her cellphone.

Chasin' shadows in the grocery line

I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired

And you'd be standin' in my front porch light

And I knew you'd come back to me

You'd come back to me

And you'd come back to me

And you'd come back

Days turned into months, and months turned into a year, and now here Rapunzel was. Back in her room where she was determined to get rid of everything that was holding her back to the past. She had a funny feeling then that Jack would come back. He always did after all. Though this time, she was determined to let him go. It was the least she could do for what remained of her heart.

And when I felt like I was an old cardigan

Under someone's bed

You put me on and said I was your favorite

And yet, when she found herself face to face with Jack, who was breathless and looking as beautiful as ever by her front door, the speech she had for him went down the drain. There was something in the way Jack looked at her that sparked this small hope in her heart. Not trusting what she might say, Rapunzel followed her guts as she and Jack made their next move.

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Written idea by: @moxnlightae

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JACKUNZEL WEEK 2014 » Day 3: Iris

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Do you have any headcanons for jackunzel?

I have!!! So very many!!! And at last, I have a place to put all of them!!!

I'm sorry this took so long Anon, it took me a while to put together all the different ones I have from all my fics/fic concepts. I thought about these guys a LOT back in the day lol

SO without further ado, here they are!!! Sorted into general categories like my Moanida headcanons.

General~I’ve seen a couple fics where Jack is written ADHD-coded and honestly...I see it???? I imagine Rapunzel is the only one who has learned to roll with and not be frustrated by his criminally short attention span (with the exception of Anna, maybe! XD). I also like to think Jack tends to prefer visual mediums of art like paintings (or movies, in a modern AU), but Rapunzel manages to get him into reading!!! He does, however, lament about how much of a “nerd” this makes him.~Jack has dealt with pretty severe depression and loneliness for 300-straight years (or just straight lifelong clinical depression and constant platonic rejection in a modern AU), and Rapunzel is highkey the only one of Jack’s friends who really GETS how to deal with it. Merida and Hiccup do the best they can, but Merida tends to get frustrated when even the wackiest of her shenanigans can’t snap him out of a particularly bad depressive funk, and Hiccup just gets anxious and stressed because there’s not really any logical process or solution to making someone...not depressed with abandonment issues and such. Punz, meanwhile, knows what it’s like to be lonely and to be rejected (just look at what she has to go through with her mom!), and how sometimes you just need to...be there. Not try to cheer him up, but just be a shoulder to cry on and keep him company and show him he’s not alone while he works through his shit. She also is always there to validate how he’s feeling and is more than happy to help cook him a healthy meal if he’s feeling too down to make himself food.~Jack is the THE most touch-starved boi (300 years of being invisible and having the only people you can interact with viewing you with mild annoyance will do that to ya) and Rapunzel is all too happy to remedy this!!! Being a generally extremely physically affectionate person and giving bear hugs to rival actual bears, they’re a match made in heaven (LITERALLY practically, with the sun-moon symbolism lmao). Rapunzel is basically always touching him, even before they formally get together. She gives him hugs (especially surprise hugs from behind!), arm pats, arm swats when he’s being annoying, and just generally likes to grab his arm and excitedly yank him around. He really has no idea what to make of this at first, considering he hasn’t been touched regularly for 300-odd years, but once he gets used to it, he loves it. He had absolutely no idea how touch-starved he was until he found someone all too happy to touch him. He gets little warm tingles wherever she touches him and it takes him a long-ass time to realize it’s because he has a crush on her and not just because he likes physical affection lmao~They do art together!!! Jack can’t really draw concrete things for shit, so what they’ll typically do is Jack will make some really thin, abstract frost designs on a canvas and then Rapunzel’ll paint over them and kinda color them in. Then when the ice melts, it makes kind of a cool, watercolor-esque type deal! They have several of these bad boys hung up in their room. Rapunzel always gives Jack far more credit than he deserves, claiming he did 80% of the work.~She draws on him. A lot. Like she’s near constantly painting on his arm or doodling all over him with a pen. His pale-ass skin makes for a wonderful human canvas, honestly. Jack allows it because feeling repetitive brushstrokes/penstrokes on his skin is surprisingly relaxing, and he has the totally-not-biased opinion that his girlfriend Rapunzel Corona has the prettiest art in the world. Jack’s heavily-tatted friend Aster Bunnymund constantly teases him about these body drawings, and Jack always claps back with “you’re just jealous that I can get better body art than your edgy garbage for FREE”~These two are THE winter activities couple, and try to cram so many into every December, January, and February that it’s almost obnoxious. They have sledded down every hill in town!!! They have visited every single ice rink!!! They have tried every hot chocolate flavor!!! Snow forts? Nay--these two built full-on snow CASTLES and

proceeded to battle one another in a snowball fight so Extra that local film students sneakily taped the entire thing and turned it in as their final project! Jack has absolutely made excessive and theatrical snowman displays on par with Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, and will not apologize for it. Rapunzel often tries to Lighten The Mood by decorating various decapitated or exploding snowmen with dried flowers and little pine boughs and such.~They also really love to just relax by the fireplace and drink hot cocoa after a long, tiring day of playing around in the snow. Jack’s family has a really good homemade hot cocoa recipe, and they love just sitting by the fire drinking it while Jack (rather theatrically) tells stories. Rapunzel’s always acknowledged that Jack’s the one with a gift for storytelling while she tends to just ramble on and on, so she’s more than happy to just listen for a little while.~Rapunzel has truly superb baking skills, and many a time she has tried to make a Pinterest recipe and it comes out far better than it really has any business to. Other times, she bakes creations that are barely recognizable as pastries. A couple times she’s invited Jack to help, but this usually ends with sugar exploding all over the kitchen or flour ending up on every conceivable surface. Regardless, Rapunzel’s creations almost always taste amazing, and she’s always more than happy to bake cookies, cupcakes, or little mini-pies for Jack. Jack, notorious sugar fiend that he is, is absolutely never going to say no. Once he’s done with Rapunzel’s pastries, it’s a wonder there’s anything left for anyone else.~Rapunzel once attempted to bake Jack a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake for his birthday. It was a bona-fide disaster--the cake batter didn’t solidify all the way, the ice cream all melted, and the snowflake designs in the frosting got smudgy and sad-looking. Jack, upon seeing this, re-ice-creamed the ice cream (is that something he can do with his powers? I’m deeming it is) and proceeded to love the cake anyway. He even once attempted to bake an even worse cake to make Punz feel good by comparison.~Rapunzel and Jack’s sister Emma (yes I know her official name is Mary or something but I’ve been calling her Emma for years...I can’t UNknow her as Emma, you feel?) are ABSOLUTE BESTIES! They make each other flower crowns!!! Rapunzel has known Emma practically since she was born and probably has helped Jack read her fairy tales and stories!!! I also like to think that Emma lowkey idolizes Punzel a bit and just constantly roasts her brother about how very out of his league Punz is and how she could do MUCH better if she wanted. Jack is like “yeah yeah I know!!! Stop reminding me how lame I am compared to my girlfriend!!!” and Emma is just like “No :)”~Rapunzel’s hair glows when she orgasms. Also, they definitely use some kind of snow/iceplay during sex. It probably creates literal steam. TMI maybe but COME ON YOU KNOW I’M RIGHT~I totally see them as being the kind of couple who like to take random city adventures, either by Jack flying Rapunzel around or in one of their cars, in a modern AU. Like they’d wanna explore every last corner of their little world that they could--even the dingy parts!!! I also think they’d love to hang out at random cafes and just people-watch. Although Jack is certainly not above repeating especially ridiculous things he hears strangers say in a mocking tone of voice XD It cracks Punz up basically every time. It’s like:Some random stranger a few tables away: They didn’t even put enough mayonnaise on my sandwich!Jack, excessively: tHeY dIdN’t EvEn PuT eNoUgH mAyOnNaIsE oN mY sAnDwIcH~They both love astronomy!!! And bond over this!!! I mean, come ON, Rapunzel CHARTED THE FREAKING STARS as a young teen, and Jack can not only FLY, but also spent YEARS asking the moon for answers and such...no way he didn’t gain at least a little appreciation for the night sky throughout all that??? Anyways, they love stargazing together!!! And Jack frequently muses about black holes and quasars and

nebulous dust clouds and alien planets and the like! Rapunzel knows all the constellations and frequently teaches Jack random astronomy fun facts, and he’s just always so impressed by how much she knows Childhood Friends AU~Besties growing up for sure!!! I can see them being neighbors and just randomly going to each other’s houses and climbing in the windows to sneak up and surprise the other. Jack definitely did this more often, and he may or may not have frequently snuck up on Punzel to scare the poor girl in her own home.~There’s a big tree outside Rapunzel’s bedroom window that Jack would often climb to get into her room. He definitely broke a few bones in their youth because he often got so excited to see her that he climbed the tree like...recklessly fast and fell out of it lmao~Jack had a planet-sized crush on Punzel from the jump, but convinced himself pretty early on that she was very much out of his league and he had no chance with her. Rapunzel’s feelings were more slow-growing (she was a bit of a late bloomer romantically and didn’t have a lot of hardcore crushes during her childhood), and really started to cement in their preteen years. Jack’s been flirting with Rapunzel pretty heavily their entire lives, but always plays it off as a joke because he’s too insecure to tell her he’s actually into her. Rapunzel, meanwhile, thinks it actually is a joke and she is thus in the friendzone too XD~I totally see them making a Childhood Marriage Pact, but in more of a way like “oh cool, if we get married we can be ROOMMATES??? And raise a DOG TOGETHER??? COOL, LET’S DO IT!” and they don’t realize it’s like...a romantic thing XD They just think it’s Really Intense Upgraded Friendship. Mega Bestfriendship, if you will.Modern/High School AU~Theater kid Jack!!! Theater kid Jack!!! (I mean...look at that little performance he was putting on with the deer antlers in his memories, the kid CLEARLY enjoys theatrics) And Rapunzel comes to absolutely all of his shows!!! And claps and cheers the loudest at the end!!!~In an AU where they aren’t childhood friends, I can totally see Rapunzel first meeting Jack because he’s in a school play (or dicking around and being a little shit in one of her classes--one of the two XD) and then getting into theater to impress him because Jack likes it and it sounds fun! I don’t think she’d score any huge roles, but I can see her really enjoying playing a couple small parts and maybe doing something like makeup crew on the side.~On that note, I can see Punz having some kind of makeup tutorial channel on YouTube and using Jack as her guinea pig to test new styles on XD Jack, for his part, totally owns it and poses dramatically at the end of every video when the makeup’s done. Hiccup makes fun of him for this, but Jack’s like “You’re just jealous because I’m prettier than you”~Jack is a closet weaboo. He pretends like he only watches anime to make fun of it, but he secretly unironically enjoys it. His friends all know that he likes to get really high and watch especially weird anime for the trippy experience--what they don’t know is that he also sometimes watches them sober. Rapunzel is the only one who knows this, but she’ll never tell.~Jack constantly mocks and teases Hiccup for how much of a “nerd” he is by being addicted to video games...despite him also being addicted to video games. Rapunzel likes to watch Jack game and cheer him on aggressively! She tries her hand at a few of his games. She’s pretty not great at the shooter ones, and they tend to stress her out more than anything, but she’s surprisingly amazing at the more plot-driven, puzzle-centered ones. Jack has been known to whinily call his girlfriend when he’s playing a particularly hard puzzle game and can’t figure out how to progress XD She just sighs, and comes over and figures out whatever it is he’s stuck on in all of 5 minutes.~Rapunzel is in their school’s art club. Jack goes to every single last one of their exhibitions and acts like Frank Reynolds. just just dramatically points to all the other paintings in

the gallery like “BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! DERIVATIVE! NOW THAT...” *dramatically turns to Rapunzel’s art* “NOW THAT I LOVE. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE!” Rapunzel finds this humiliating yet flattering.~They paint each other’s nails!!! Jack is a simple man, and just does colors, while Rapunzel does full-on mini designs and pictures on Jack’s nails--and damn, is she good. She has a whole Insta page where she puts her nail art, but absolutely no one knows her hand model is Jack (mainly because, of course, he has to wash the designs off before going out in public because he’s an insecure boi XD). Rapunzel is absolutely the only one who knows Jack enjoys having pretty nails!~Sometimes they swap hoodies! Jack insists it’s solely For The Memes, but secretly he just likes the color pink and likes having an excuse to wear it. Of course, he would never admit this aloud to a single soul--not even Punzel. Rapunzel, nonetheless, figures it out eventually, because she’s not an idiot. She figures he’s too stubborn to admit it, so she just starts subtly wearing more pink around him so he gets to see it more ~In general Jack actually has kind of an ultra-feminine streak, BUT being a typical insecure teenage boy, he denies it vehemently and sometimes acts overly macho to try and compensate. Rapunzel is basically the only person he’s felt comfortable showing his more “girly” side to. Merida would just make fun of him, Hiccup would probably just make snarky remarks, and even Anna is too much of a dudebro to really like...get it. Rapunzel, however, has never been anything but supportive and understanding, and Jack loves her so, so much for it ~I kinda love the idea of them both dyeing their hair in a modern AU (with brown being their natural color and Jack dyeing white and Punzel dyeing blonde), and sharing hair-dyeing and hair-bleaching tips!!! Jack definitely tries to get Rapunzel to bleach her own hair (like he DEFINITELY does, let’s be real) to save on salon bills. He’s tried to get her to let him bleach it, but she doesn’t trust him not to completely fry and ruin her hair XD~They go REALLY GODDAMN HARD with Christmas/Yule decorations. Like. I imagine if they had a house together they’d have at least 20 inflatable reindeer, a full-on animatronic singing Santa on the roof, a maze in their front lawn constructed entirely of giant plastic candy canes and lawn flamingos in elf hats (Rapunzel’s idea), and their walls basically covered from ground to chimney with flashing Christmas lights. They do NOT mess around. Traffic gets bad in their neighborhood around the holidays because people come from all over town to see their extra-ass display.~Jack is OBSESSED with junk food. Also a sugar junkie far beyond the point of all reasonability. Like. This child will eat 5 party-size bags of chips, 12 cookies, and 3 chocolate bars in one sitting if left unattended. While Rapunzel is flattered that Jack is always down to eat her baked goods, she is slightly concerned that Jack pretty much inhales sugar and fat nonstop every chance he gets. She tries to get him to eat healthier, to little avail. The only time it really works is if she herself cooks for him--Punz has been known to make a tasty, nutritious meal or two!~Jack’s natural state of existing is Lazy As Hell, and honestly the only reason he’s as skinny as he is is because of Outrageously High Teenage Boy Metabolism (I’m sorry, but 90% of Jock Jack headcanons are just...incorrect??? HE IS A TWIG, HE CANNOT PLAY FOOTBALL). Rapunzel tries to set up a fitness program for him, as does Merida, but 90% of the time all he does is bitch about it XD He sometimes can be persuaded to go hiking with Rapunzel or Hiccup though!!! They know an outrageous amount about the local wildlife, so that makes it significantly more entertaining.~Jack knows how to skateboard!!! He tried to teach Rapunzel one time. It did not go well. Rapunzel sustained a few injuries. Mavis, a local skateboarding legend, is not above lightly mocking her for this from time to time.~Jack snowboards too!!! He is under the impression this makes

him incredibly cool. He once invited Rapunzel along on a family ski/snowboard trip when they first started dating, and endlessly tried to show off to her. He ended up getting a mouthful of snow 90% of the time because he really isn’t as good as he thinks he is.