#varain angst probably makes up a significant percentage of tts episodes

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i’ve been rewatching tangled the series!! and boy do i love varian more than ever

but now that i think about it, it’s no wonder - he checks every box when it comes to ‘character that the entire fandom adores’:

adorable? check. dorky? check. can sing? check. daddy issues? check. insanely talented? check. sympathetic? check. sympathetically evil? check. absent for a season so we miss him? check. major part of the next season? check. redeemed from villany? check. is very much traumatized? checkeroo. deals with angst? check. helps save the day? check. funny? check. stars in awesome songs? check. is easily flustered? check. completely dysfunctional? check. super fun to psychoanalyze? check. can build an entire hot air balloon in 20 minutes for some reason? check, apparently.

you can’t blame me or anyone else for liking hair stripe here, now can you