#tangled series Xavier

[tenshichan1013]

tangled before ever after series bible 2 of 2

[mkpersephone]

You can't tell me this is not accurate🤣🤣

[rhmis-user-2020]

Black people in Tangled the series (+Nuru from Vat7k)

[tangledbea]

Okay hear me out: Xavier redeemed disciple of Zhan Tiri

Interesting take!

I would also accept: Xavier, Demanitus' other (lesser) partner who was not transformed into a monkey, but was there for the whole thing. Perhaps a follower of Demanitus who didn't betray him, but went into hiding after everything went down, and he was left alone in the world without his mentor, and without the enemies they'd been fighting.

[nerdasaurus1200]

Awww I just realized, Varian’s actually probably a little apprehensive about being partnered with Xavier cause he knows that Xavier was part of the rebellion against him and the Separatists

[theinternetarchivist]

Idk where it came from, but I need more of the duo between Xavier and Varian desperately like please

[disneynerdpumpkin]

Xavier is such a big sweetheart ❤️🥰

[pattheanimator]

As I’ve been reposting a bunch of my art to Tumblr, I was going to post these for Tangled’s anniversary, but missed it by a day! Oh, well. A couple of years ago, some members of the fandom decided to do a Tangled challenge for Art April, and I thought I’d give it a shot! These are my entries, batch 2 of 3: 11. Favourite duet song - Buddy 12. Favourite Corona citizen - Xavier 13. Favourite character from outside Corona - King Trevor 14. Guard from any Tangled Kingdom - Maximus 15. Design new Tangled character - Bastion (kinda cheated on that one) 16. Favourite solo song - Waiting in the Wings 17. Sign of a new Original Tangled pub - The Pickled Chameleon 18. You as a Tangled the Series character 19. Character with Sun powers not Rapunzel - Old Lady Crowley 20. Character with Moon powers not Cass - Hector

[twotangledsisters]

Tangled Sisters - 2 Truths, 1 Lie

Hey, we're nearly halfway through Season 2 of Tangled Sisters! Which means I'm deep into the Season 3 outline and let me tell you, Season 3.... A LOT HAPPENS.

And when a lot happens some of those stuff are unavoidably going to be absolutely insane!

So I decided it'd be funny to make a quick comic with two things that are planned to happen and one thing that doesn't! (Using the Spanish way of playing because I learnt today there's a tiny difference in rules in other countries... The more you know!)

Quick thanks to everybody who answered my 'fandom research' as I thought Quirin and Xavier were of similar age, then a friend pointed out there may be a quite big age gap and with no canon age I just needed to quickly check what general perception was so as to be sure!

I will not be revealing publicly which is the lie for spoiler reason! (but if you pm me I'll tell you)

I can't believe I'm going to be publishing The Great Tree in less than a week... I feel like this series started a month ago! But it's actually been almost a year... How time flies!

[tts-celestial-garments-au]

So, I have a bit of a fondness for TTS, however, there's been something I've been thinking about recently that I have a bit of a problem with in regards to the show.

In my Celestial Garments AU, there are a lot of POC/POC-coded characters (my biracial ass just can't help it), and when that's the case, I like to double check for harmful tropes by browsing the @/writingwithcolor blog. But whilst doing that and working out the relationships between one of my Black woman characters and Raps, I realized something unfortunate about the show.

While I love multiple of the POC characters we get in the show, I noticed that they perpetuate various unpleasant and negative stereotypes, and some of these tropes even bring down the quality of the show by not doing more with certain characters.

Let's go over each of the POC shown in the series, and analyze if/how they feel into racist tropes:

Xavier:

I love this man, since I like wise, mysterious characters like him. But unfortunately, he is 100% a Magical Negro. Half the time, it feels like he is only there to provide wisdom, advice, and exposition for our white protagonists. And that makes me kinda sad, since you could do a lot more with him, even in very subtle ways. Maybe better show how he is a legitimately respected pillar of the community, and don't always have him go out of his way to help. Instead, he'll just be doing his own thing most of the time, or priorities his fellow commonfolk.

But sadly, in canon, that is not the case. Instead, he mainly just pops up to help the white people. We barely know anything about him as a person or his backstory, nor does he have an arc of his own. He's just the wise old guy who's often delegated to being a plot device rather than a fleshed out character.

Lance:

This disappointed me so bad. Personality wise, I don't see too many problems with how Lance is written, though I could be mistaken. But narratively? Oh boy.

Lance is considered a "major character" and member of the main cast, being present in all three seasons and often accompanying the main group. And yet, somehow, he gets very few singing rolls (despite having an amazing voice), no real arc of his own, and very little time in the spotlight.

Cass has a whole song about "waiting in the wings," but Lance is the true one constantly waiting in the wings. I don't even remember an episode that's all about him. He has room for depth, and yet it's never explored.

He also, to my dismay, is constantly regulated to the "Black best friend" roll more often than not despite having so much potential. What is he often described as? Well, he's Eugene's best friend. That's essentially how he was introduced as in his debut. He's a sidekick, and we never really get to seem him lead during their times together. They are supposed to be partners in crime, and yet we mainly see Eugene taking charge, Eugene coming up with the plans, Eugene telling Lance what to do, Eugene getting the final hit in.

It's never Lance who goes first or makes a plan. I'm fine with characters being more followers than leaders, but in terms of duos, I think they should both be able to lead each other.

Honestly, the fanfic writers are better to him than the show ever was. There are fanfics in which he supports Varian and hangs out with Varian, Catalina, and Kiera, but in those, even when he's supporting Varian, there will be a large part exploring how his backstory has caused him to react this way. He gets depth and emotional intelligence and appreciation from the author and readers.

The show rarely explores his strengths and instead chooses to show his weaknesses and flaws, and whilst characters having flaws is great, you need to balance it out a little. The fandom knows that he has some amazing qualities, but the show never highlights that the way they do for the rest of the main cast.

The only times Lance gets to shine is when he's in a fanfic, and that makes me really fucking sad. And even then, part of his role is to support other people. Whilst I love Varian-Lance friendships in fics, it makes me sad that Lance never gets supported. He's always forced to take care of other people, and I have yet to find any fics where Lance is getting lifted up rather than doing the lifting.

It's just really disappointing and noticeable that they mainly do this to the only MOC in the main cast.

Adira:

If how Lance was handled made me feel bad, it is nothing in comparison to the immeasurable disappointment I feel in regards to how Adira was handled.

She was one of the most interesting characters in the series, to the point that I would 100% want a spinoff just about her travelling around and doing stuff. Many in the fandom have even called her the best character in the show, and I can see why. Which honestly makes how they treated her narratively much worse.

Adira clearly had her own personal goals and backstory, but she is still regulated to being the "mysterious Asian mentor". And worse off, her whole role in the series is to guide the white main character around and support her journey. Adira's whole (barely even finished) arc revolves around Rapunzel, and it feels disappointing. She has so much potential, but she is constantly forced to revolve around the white lead.

And once Adira starts having her own stuff (like the thing with Hector), she's quickly taken out of the story again. And then they don't even manage to finish her plotline properly. She has so much potential, and yet she's constantly being pushed aside.

Kiera:

Not completely stereotypical, which is good. I can't think of any stereotypes she fits into, though it does feel a bit weird that her red-head sister gets an episode around her, whilst Kiera doesn't. But at least she's pretty well written (in my opinion). But, I might be mistaken on the lack of stereotypes, so if any Asian folks have anything to say on her, please add more in the replies/reblogs.

The Separatists of Saporia:

Oh Saporia, you poor, underexplored concept. You had so much potential and were so intriguing, and yet this happened to you.

Other folks have commented on the antisemitic aspects of the Separatists and how they are designed, and since I am not Jewish, I can't exactly comment on that much. But I will believe people on that, and even then, I myself have some complaints to make.

Andrew's race/ethnicity is hard to pinpoint (racial ambigious character alert), but he clearly has a lot of ethnic features and there is no way in hell that he is white. And what is this character's main trait? He is a terrorist who has enslaved an entire kingdom. Not a good look for one of our few MOC in the series.

Juniper is one of the only Black woman in the show, and not only does she have little to no speaking lines, but she is also a violent terrorist and seems to fit the "Angry Black Woman" stereotypes, at least from what I remember. She at least always looks pissed off, which is...a choice.

Kai is a large, dark skinned man who is also part of this group of terrorists. A "Scary BIPOC Man", if you will. Great...out of the few brown/black men we have in this show, basically all of them are either big and muscular, or soldier/warriors. That's nice...

So, out of our very small cast of POC, three of them are terrorists. Fun.

Ruthless Ruth:

She is one of the two Black woman in the series, and god am I disappointed. Literally a "Strong Black Woman", and a violent "barbarian" at that. This hurts my soul. I just- I just can't. I can't deal with this shit. Two out of two of the Black women in the show are violent criminals. Why? Just....why?

Captain Quaid:

This guy is only in one episode, and he seems okay to me. I can't remember too much about him, though, so I can't say for sure. If anyone has any comments on him, please mention them in the replies.

Fernanda Pizazzo:

Not sure how to feel about her, but she's giving me "Romani Fortune Teller" vibes, in like, a bad way. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's there.

Madame Canardist:

I thought Fernanda was bad, and then I saw this character. Holy fuck.

If there is an outline for how to write an offensive caricature of Romani folks, I'm pretty sure some of the crew read it and used it verbatim for writing her. It would almost be hilarious how stereotypical it is, if not for the fact that this portrayal is deeply harmful. -1000/10, very icky no good.

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So, yeah, I mostly love this show, but the way the characters of color are written/designed is very bad and harmful. They are always either caricatures, bad tropes, or have their potential wasted in order to support the white leads. I hate it, and it adds yet another gripe I have with the show.

I just think it's very important to always acknowledge as a fandom the racism in the show. I'm just glad that the fans are better at writing the show than the showrunners, since ya'll have improved a lot of this stuff in your fanfics and stuff.

I'm not sure exactly how to end this post, I just felt the need to make it, especially the parts about how the narrative handled Xavier, Lance, and Adira. They deserved better.

[nightcloudx]

New chapter of tts season 3 rewritten!

Varian being himself, Hugo not beliving in how much magic is in this Fricking kingdom and Xavier being nerd(our ) about legends.

Rapunzel forgetting.....

[tenshichan1013]

rapunzel's tangled adventure (season 3) hugs and kisses part VIII

[rhmis-user-2020]

God dammit, Xavier.

tfw ur 2 seconds from going back on ur redemption arc

[rhmis-user-2020]

Someone who hasn't watched Tangled the Series, explain what's going on here

[tangledbea]

I could just imagine Xavier gathering Lance Casandra and Rapunzel and the twins to tell Old Scary Corana Folktales around a campfire covered with leaves.

"The twins"? What twins? Do you mean popular headcanon New Dream kids twins?

But anyway, yeah! Also, Eugene loves a good scary story. In fact, he likes them a lot more than Lance does. Lance doesn't like being scared, after all. In fact, I don't headcanon Rapunzel as enjoying listening to scary stories. After all, Gothel used to deliberately scare her all the time. I don't think it's something she'd enjoy, even years later. Kiera and Catalina are all in, though.

Let's just say that Xavier would host scary stories around the fire and whoever wanted to sit in and participate are welcome to.

[nerdasaurus1200]

Could you please make a gif of the scene when Varian pushed Xavier in The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne?

I assume this is the scene you're talking about