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OOC INFORMATION
NAME: Lucy
AGE: yes
PREFERRED CONTACT: lucylovespluto
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Dave Strider, Annabeth Chase

IC INFORMATION
NAME: Rapunzel
AGE: 17 BUT SHE IS EFFECTIVELY 18 since the day after she gets in she will be. 18.
CANON: Tangled
CANON POINT: After her song about dreams in the tavern!
CANON INFORMATION: Here is her page on the wiki.

PERSONALITY:

Rapunzel is and always has been a vibrant young woman (although when she was smaller she was admittedly a vibrant young child). She rarely seems to have any idle time, preferring to spend her time productively or at least in fun ways. Stuck in her tower, she woke up every morning before seven and did all the cleaning and cooking before going on to just jam as much as humanly possible into every minute. Candle-making, baking, puzzling, reading, climbing, painting...you name it, Rapunzel was doing it. It's hard to find a moment in the movie where she actually sits still without something to occupy her. The nearest would be when she's listening to Eugene's past, and that still counts as "doing something". While waiting for the lantern ceremony to start, as well, she seems unable to sit entirely idle, instead making patterns in the water with flowers handed to her by Eugene.

Given her dislike for idle time - or rather her inability to even have any, preferring to stuff every second of every day - it should be no surprise that Rapunzel enjoys new experiences and ideas. She can admittedly be a little nervous and torn about this earlier on in the movie, but as it progresses she gets somewhat more confident in herself and in her desire to see and do everything there is in the world so long denied to her. She has absolutely no problem jumping into new things. That is, she starts out somewhat hesitant about it, or at least torn about what Mother Gothel would think about it, but the fact that she wants to do it is clear. From the second she takes the plunge and puts one foot down on the grass after leaving her tower - because she does hover a minute before taking the step and defying her mother in that biggest of ways - Rapunzel is very clearly trying to do as much and see as much as possible. While she's nervous - jumping at bunny rabbits, anyone? - by the time she and Eugene reach the capital of Corona Rapunzel is confident enough to run through the town doing pretty much everything: reading at a book store, eating cupcakes, dancing, and so on.

Given all the hobbies mentioned, some of which are fairly academic, it should be noted that Rapunzel is a fairly intelligent girl, despite her lack of formal schooling or access to much of the outside world at all. In spite of the lack of formal schooling she charted the stars, apparently without Mother Gothel's knowledge or instructions, and presumably just from her own curiosity. She's apparently good with chess, as well, and all those hobbies? Well, Mother Gothel didn't seem that interested in them, so presumably Rapunzel taught herself most of them. One of the first things she does in Corona is devour books in the library, too. However, while Rapunzel is bright, she was also locked up in a tower for eighteen years, even if the lock was more mental than physical. She's fairly naive about a lot of things in the real world, and relies on Eugene's street smarts and, well, common sense in order to make it outside of the tower. The fact that she realized she would need a guide to take her to see the lanterns is another example of her intelligence - while Rapunzel has her shortcomings in knowledge she's generally willing to admit them and ask for help, which is a good thing.

Despite the fact that for the first eighteen years of her life Rapunzel had no other company than Mother Gothel and Pascal, her chameleon pet slash best friend, Rapunzel is amazingly friendly and outgoing. Considering that she could not have possibly had a lot of time to refine her social skills, this is actually pretty impressive. She's able to persuade Eugene to take her to see the lanterns easily enough (...admittedly via blackmail rather than awesome interpersonal skills, but she did recognize an obvious lever and pulled on it) and to talk down a pub of angry ruffians with a speech about dreams, of all things, and then in the capital of Corona appears to fit in with the townspeople almost effortlessly, playing with children and creating art on the ground with chalk and pulling various townspeople into the traditional dance despite their token protests. Rapunzel likes people, and often enough in the movie that seems to be returned.

This is not to say she is always all sweetness and light with people (although she does have a noted aversion to upsetting people she likes). Rapunzel's initial reaction to Eugene climbing into her tower is to knock him out cold with a frying pan (which admittedly is a really good reaction to some random dude breaking into your home, let's be real) but not only does she do that, she knocks him out twice more. One of the times she knocks him out solely to re-hide the tiara she's blackmailing him with! She also blatantly uses the fact that it's her birthday to get Max and Eugene to get along (which is, well, sort of dirty fighting for a Disney Princess)! Rapunzel is actually pretty willing to throw down and do what has to be done, which might be a little surprising to people. When Eugene refuses to take her to see the lanterns, she basically tell shim the only way he's getting the tiara back is if he does it and refuses to take no for an answer. When the ruffians attack Eugene, she tries to get them to knock it off physically before she resorts to shouting at them (...really, trying it the other way around might have been more sensible, as she was shorter and slighter than like everyone in that pub). And when she realizes she's been lied to later on (which is past her canon point, but the reaction is worth noting!) Rapunzel snaps at Mother Gothel and refuses to go along quietly. And on a more general interaction note, Rapunzel is pretty darn willing to sass people who are not Mother Gothel. That is to say, at her canon point? She sasses Eugene a lot and teases him as well, and occasionally gives lip to Pascal (...because apparently she has sassy conversations with her mute chameleon bff but hey she WAS in that tower for a long time) but wouldn't dream of back-talking Mother Gothel, and never has done.

It would be impossible to write a personality section for Rapunzel without addressing her relationship with Mother Gothel. For eighteen years Gothel raised her, and Rapunzel believed her mother loved and cherished her, though it was somewhat more accurate in reality to say that Mother Gothel loved and cherished her hair. That reality was not something Rapunzel has seen as of yet at her canon point, however. Her earnest belief is that her mother loves her, and that Gothel intended to protect her by keeping her in the tower. Although she did refuse to return with Gothel after healing Eugene by the campfire, Rapunzel had not yet seen the lanterns and was by that point determined to do so. She had immediately before at the fire said that she didn't know whether or not she was going back to the tower. Rather, her immediate reaction was a huge "NO!" but right after a hesitant "yes". Rapunzel was torn by the fact that she loved the outside world - had always wanted to go there - and the fact that she very much loved (and loves, in her canon point) Mother Gothel. Rapunzel's initial plan involves going to see the lanterns and coming back before her mother was ever the wiser, even. In the first part of the movie, Rapunzel's so torn she goes through moods faster than anything, from elated to be outside to hating herself for "being a horrible daughter".

Mother Gothel raised Rapunzel not to be the independent, confident girl she grew into being over the course of the film (at her canon point she is somewhat more confident than she was at the start, but hasn't yet denounced Mother Gothel entirely nor realized she is the lost princess of Corona). Gothel did give Rapunzel a home and brought her back trinkets and things to do from her journeys outside, and apparently they had tea together in the afternoons whenever Gothel was home (this was A Thing in a supplemental book!) as well as other meals. Rapunzel was never actually well and truly neglected - not outright, at least. She was apparently left alone for days at a time sometimes, but she never appeared to resent this at all. Instead Rapunzel lived in apparent hope that someday her mother would allow her to leave the tower, once she was older, perhaps. It took eighteen years for Rapunzel to even consider leaving on her own without her mother's leave, as well as a shouted declaration that Rapunzel was never leaving the tower. Even then, Rapunzel was clearly torn about it. But the fact that she simply had never defied Gothel from love and obedience is an important facet of her personality, here. Rapunzel even made herself believe that she liked it in her tower, even if she occasionally resorted to naming trees from boredom (supplemental book, again).

However, Gothel's personality came into play with how Rapunzel was raised as well, whether or not it was specifically manipulative at times. Some of Gothel's comments appeared to just be Gothel being Gothel; she would diminish and undermind Rapunzel's confidence in herself with comments about her, and didn't seem to believe Rapunzeel was capable of doing anything. And when Rapunzel did something and tied to tell Gothel about it, her mother shouted her down, and then made it out to be Rapunzel's fault, which was outright manipulative. The entire sequence of "Mother Knows Best" was also outright manipulative; Gothel kept Rapunzel in the tower with fear, making the world and all the people in it out to be evil and unsafe, and making Rapunzel believe she would never last in the world outside, no matter how much she yearned for it. And Rapunzel believed her. Part of why Rapunzel was so nervous about leaving the tower - besides never having done so and being so unfamiliar with the world outside - was because she believed all the things Gothel had said. She even checked Eugene's teeth when he came up her tower, to see if they were pointy! Rapunzel was raised into insecurity, and it does show through even at her chosen canon point. Gothel is able to push Rapunzel off-center with one conversation, and it isn't until she sees the lanterns - after her chosen canon point! - that Rapunzel decides to put aside her worries and give Eugene the tiara without thinking he would up and leave her immediately.

Despite all of this, even when Rapunzel does realize that she has been lied to, her first instinct when Gothel trips to fall out of the tower is to reach out towards her "mother", although she doesn't move fast enough or enough at all to save the old woman. But this shows just how ingrained her relationship with Gothel is, as does it show her compassion, which is also a big part of Rapunzel's personality. Because Rapunzel does have a big heart! And she's brave. While she's never been outside the tower and is very much afraid of all the things Gothel told her, Rapunzel still takes the plunge to go outside. When Eugene is in trouble with the ruffians she gives everything to try and help him. When they're being chased by the guards and the Stabbington brothers both, Rapunzel helps again, her bravery and resourcefulness shining through. And again, in the tower after her current canon point, she is willing to give up her freedom in order to help Eugene. It's telling of her character that Gothel allows Rapunzel to go and try to heal Eugene after she promises to go with Gothel and never struggle; Rapunzel keeps her promises, and as the woman who raised her, Gothel would know that better than anyone, trusting the girl to keep her word, however horrible the things she was promising.

To sum it up? Rapunzel is a resourceful, vibrant girl who very much wants to live her life, although she's also plagued by insecurities and the occasional sassy impulse, naivety and a war within herself about being an obedient, loving daughter, or finally staying out in the light she'd so longer to be in. She is many things, and some of those things are a teenage girl still settling into herself and finding out who she is (in more ways than just literally finding out she's the lost princess, which she hasn't done yet anyway).

ABILITIES:

The biggest power of note for Rapunzel? Her hair. As those familiar with her canon would know, Rapunzel's long golden hair becomes long golden glowing hair when she sings a certain song ("flower gleam and glow..."). When in contact with injuries as it glows it has healing abilities; for most of her life she'd mostly used it to reverse the aging process of Mother Gothel, who had kidnapped her solely for that. More than that, her hair seems to be really strong (it doesn't break when people climb it, or when she uses it to pull things to her) and the ends seem to be either prehensile-ish or Disney Magicked, as she can grab things with her hair. It is sort of ridiculous, but hey, she's a Disney Princess. Her hair doesn't seem to weigh her down, and she's weirdly acrobatic and able to run around, but Rapunzel also seems to be strong enough to haul someone up a tower every day and do pretty much all the household chores, so there is that.

Typically of a Disney Princess, Rapunzel is good with animals, as well. She also has a variety of hobbies/talents ranging from cleaning, cooking, botany, geology, astronomy, candle-making, knitting, chess...all the sorts of things you'd, well, look into doing to occupy your time when you're stuck in a tower for eighteen years. Also, she's good with swinging a frying pan around, although she has been known to accidentally hit herself with it if she gets too cocky. Whoops.

INVENTORY: Her frying pan, the satchel with the princess's crown in it, and PASCAL, THE BEST DAMN PET IN THE UNIVERSE.

MEMORY ALTERATION: She got split up from Eugene in the tunnels under the tavern and came out on the base somewhere? This seems weird but. Okay.

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