Arianna and Rapunzel - Tangled Fanart

A thirty minute drawing.

Every so often I make myself sad remembering how Frederic and Arianna never got to raise their child. So I drew Arianna with her baby to make myself feel better.

I don't know how to write out this full story so I'll just put the idea here.

The Season 1 finale goes the exact same as usual until the end of Ready As I'll Ever Be, but Varian and Arianna wind up waiting way longer for the rescue team, to the point where he's like "where in the hell are they" so he looks and I turns out more rocks grew and sealed up both entrances to where they are.

Varian has what can charitably called "a complete fucking meltdown" and winds up wrecking all his mechs trying to get over and/or through the rocks while Ruddiger quietly frees Arianna. Once his rage burns out and he's just despondent, she takes control of the situation and convinces him to team up to find a way out.

Then what you would expect happens, a lot of talking, bonding, joking around, Varian doing the math to figure out the proper way to prepare human meat so that Arianna and Ruddiger don't starve when he "inevitably dies first" (she is Not Happy when she leans about this and makes him burn the notes).

Eventually they manage to make a pedal powered helicopter to fly out, and almost crash into the hot air balloon Rapunzel and the rest made. When they land Fred's ecstatic to see his beloved wife safe and sound but she's like "sit the fuck down bc we're going to have some Words".

The next time he's seen he looks like he's aged at least 5 years. I don't know if it makes more sense for Varian to join the Season 2 road trip or not in this scenario.

The Lorcana cards (so far) from the "Rise of the Floodborn" and "Into the Inklands" sets.

They're actually using series style in "Heal What Has Been Hurt" ;u;

Cassandra's character info in the pitch for TBEA and TTS season 1 is mostly the same except with that additional blurb about Eugene in the season 1 version

OH MY GOD IT’S CANON CASS DOES ADMIRE ARIANNA

AND THE OUTRIGHT STATING THAT SHE LOVES BOTH ARIANNA AND RAPUNZEL TOO! FOUND FAMILY FOR THE WIN

Also the bit about Cass keeping secrets kinda reminds me of the original draft where she remembered Gothel

Arianna's travel attire from Tangled: Between the Kisses

We wanted to give her a departure from her usual color scheme, one that was more harmonious with the group's overall look. Unlike Lance and Varian, I went through several looks until we found one we liked.

Her hairstyle was inspired by early concept art of the Queen from the movie. The spear and sword are both inspired by objects in the portrait she showed Rapunzel in "Fitzherbert P.I." (Seen under the read more).

Lance

Varian

Costume Design Development

y'all want to know what always makes me emotional? thinking about how arianna and frederic took cassandra in at the worst point in their entire life. i think about arianna particularly, i believe she had to convince frederic to let her stay. where he, at least at first, likely saw a bitter and painful reminder of his missing daughter, arianna saw a sweet and innocent child.

i mean really think about it for a sec--it wasn't long at all after rapunzel's disappearance, that cap must have gotten the official 'yes' to take cass as his ward. of course i feel bad for frederic in that time period, but i feel even moreso for arianna. carrying a baby for 9 months, almost dying to birth her, and then having her kidnapped is something i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. the pain she felt must have been utterly unbearable. think of how much grace and compassion she must have had to, immediately after losing her child, allow the captain of her guard to take on and raise an adopted daughter. even setting aside cass' lineage.

to be honest i think it largely speaks to the way they govern corona. sure cough frederic cough has his...moments, but generally they both act with benevolent intentions. cass is their subject but it'd have been easier in every sense of the word to cart her off to some orphanage. let's be real, king trevor would have done it in a heartbeat. but they allowed her to stay, they gave her a home. and that in and of itself, the fact that cass is a character in tangled the series and not just gothel's forgotten daughter, makes me oh so emotional. :')

What do you think, if Varian had a massive growth spurt and grew even taller than his dad?

Like, from little boy to massive towering adult?

Could you please draw that?

Here you go 😊

Tall Varian (and Cass)

Short bonus comic (With Rapunzel and Queen Arianna)

Thank you for the request, hope you like it 🥰

(Sunshine ☀)

Sleep deprived idea hi hello: rapunzel trying to explain to her parents how she’s polyamorous afraid they won’t understand but they’re just like “oh yeah like us and quirin :)” and she goes. Excuse me

glace. glace glace what is WRONG with you. /affectionate

this ask has haunted me for 4 MONTHS and it still inflicts exactly the same amount of psychological damage every time i reread it. essentially what i am saying here is please do not EVER stop

As we come to the end of one year and the start of another, I thought it would be a great idea to look ahead at what fanfictions I've got planned. Whether they all debut in 2024, I do not know!

To start with:

Tangled: Between the Kisses is an ongoing collaborative project between myself and @tangledbea and we will continue to work on this project in 2024. My hope by year's end is that we have reached the end of writing Season 2. There are a lot of fantastic storylines coming up with our S2 gang of Rapunzel, Eugene, Varian, Lance, the Captain of Corona, and Queen Arianna!

The Lost Prince is my current WIP exploring the idea of Eugene being kidnapped by Mother Gothel and used for his Moon powers. Rapunzel grew up a Princess without the sundrop with her best friend, Cassandra, who just so happens to be Eugene's hidden twin sister! Shenanigans ensue when all three meet up and secrets and lies are discovered! This fic should be finished by the end of January 2024.

Twinned Destiny is a AU spin-off of The Lost Prince. More of this prosect will be revealed once TLP is finished.

Darkest Intentions is an S3 AU. After gaining the Mind Trap, Cassandra decides to attempt to ensnare Eugere under its control after her ghost friend suggested they could use him to get the Sundrop from Rapunzel. Little does Cassandra know that her "friend" has her own plans afoot. This fic will focus heavily on the friendship of Cassandra and Eugene. I am hoping to start posting this fic early 2024...

Our Undying Dream is a callobarative project between myself and the amazing @twotangledsisters All I will say is this fic is a twist on the modern idea of Tangled and we are both really excited to share this fic with everyone! Stay tuned... for it is coming soon ...

Uprising is part one of two part duology exploring the idea of what if Old Corona had risen up against the Royal family? It is primarily a fic about Eugene and Varian. If you enjoy Eugene hurt/angst there will be plenty of it in this duology! I am hoping I can start posting this sometime in mid 2024.

The Royal Wedding is a 5-chaptered fic centered around New Dream's engagement, planning of a wedding, and their wedding day. It is going to be romantic fluff! I hope to post in February 2024 but it does depend if I've ever written it or not!

Team Awesome Adventure (untitled) is a 3-chaptered comping trip fic centered around Eugene and Varian. I hope to post this fic in March 2024!

A Queen's Story is a multi-chaptered story dealing with Arianna's grief at losing her daughter and then reuniting with the child she never saw grow up. Late 2024.

I think that is it for now...

Happy New Year everyone! See you all in 2024!

I would love to write a TTS essay explaining why Gothel isn’t Cassandra’s mother and Frederick and Arianna aren’t Rapunzel’s parents and the show’s insistence on pushing parent/child struggles into those characters is kind of really forced so that’s exactly what I’m gonna do:

(Disclaimer: this got really messy and is kind of a bunch of nonesense glued together, so read it with a bit of patiece lmao)

Rapunzel grew up for the first 18 years of her life with Gothel, when TTS starts she has been living with Fred and Ari for 6 months and it’s wild to me how Raps already calls them mom and dad, but I won’t judge this part, she wants to be their daughter and wants to be a family so it makes sense that she would call them that way regardless if it feels natural or not, but I think where the series really fails is when it starts (by the very first episode) to give Rapunzel and Frederick father-daughter struggles, which is complete bs if you ask me, those two don’t know each other. Rapunzel shouldn’t have a “oh, I can’t disobey my father” train of thought because she doesn’t even know him and therefore he isn’t her father, at least not yet. She shouldn’t be so trusting of his judgement of love for her because they don’t have intimacy and the fact that they are fighting and disagreeing so much after having just reconnected is wild. Arianna is not that important for the plot, but her relationship with Rapunzel being so unapologetically perfect also rubs me the wrong way. Rapunzel was ruined by her mother, she was abused her whole life and I don’t think she would just let anyone fulfill the role Gothel did without getting some therapy to unpack everything wrong that her mother, the one that actually raised her, did.

Rapunzel had a narcissistic mother, an awlful one who never loved her, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t love Gothel. Raps lived her whole by that woman’s side, she loved her more than anything in the world and realizing the manipulation and abuse wouldn’t just immediately stop a person as kind and forgiving as Rapunzel to still love her like a mother, because like it or not Gothel raised her for 18 years. She wasn’t a good mother by any means but she was her mother nonetheless.

Another point is that at the end of season one Rapunzel goes away from Corona to explore, learn about the world and her own powers. I am not exactly sure how much time passes from the beginning to the end of s1 but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t more than 6 months, so Rapunzel lives with her bio parents for about a year and then goes straight into a one year long self discovery journey and you’re trying to tell me that she missed them? Not even just missed, but when she got hold of an artifact that showed what you waned the most what she saw were her biological parents and the people of Corona who in the first episode she claims to not remember the names of? That’s some real bs right there and I have no idea how the show runners thought this made any sort of sense. She doesn’t fucking know them, maybe she respects or care about her folks, but she couldn’t have possibly built this life long parent/child relationship that the show treats like she did.

Now, with Cassandra it’s a bit more complicated. She lived with Gothel for about four years of her life before being abandoned, but she very obviously didn’t remember any of this, either because she was too young or because she repressed those memories. Gothel didn’t seem to love Cass in the slightest, but because Cass grew up with only a emotionally distant father she longed for this reassurance that she was loved by a parent figure at some point in her life, she blames Rapunzel for everything that went wrong with her life, which can make sense but also is a bit awkward to sustain once you analyze the actual facts. Yes, Rapunzel and Eugene killed Gothel, but she didn’t mean to do that, it was Eugene’s plan and he only did it because Raps had literally agreed to be used and locked up from the real world for the rest of her life. Cass isn’t dumb, she would know better than lashing out at her friends for accidentally saving her from living with a narcissist who didn’t care about her. Gothel isn’t Cassandra’s mother, Cass doesn’t have a mother because she didn’t have anyone to actually raise her.

If I was to rewrite Tangled we’d have a very different approach to how bio parents are handled, especially Rapunzel’s. I don’t think she should be close to Arianna and Frederick at all, heck, I don’t even think she should call them mom and dad. Cause bear with me, if you randomly found ot you are adopted by the time you were 18 and actually went to live with your biological family for about a year do you think you’d even have this sort of intimacy and bond with them?

BIG MOOD.

I think I should make a list of my favorite TTS characters as well!

1. Pascal: Most loyal companion ever! No matter how many times Rapunzel forgets him, he was always there ❤️.

2. Maximus: He's the hero of the story, you can't convince me otherwise. Without him, the gang would get into so much trouble, especially Eugene; he would die like millions of time! 🤣

3. Lance: He was so sweet and innocent and cute and loyal and...to be continued.

4. Kierra and Catalina: I put them together since they are a package deal! They were sooooo adorable.

5. Shorty: He taught me the importance of remaining indifferent to my overwhelming emotions! 😌

6. Arianna: "Plus est en vous"; best quote ever, she is a great mother!

7. Frederic: I don't know why so many people hate him; that poor man was suffering from trauma, I can relate to him. People blame him for being over-protective, overbearing, over-controlling, but I have a question to them; have you ever heard of Asian parenting? If you had, you would never complain again!

8. Adira: Oh, I just love warrior kinda ladies!

9. Attila: He's so me, poor, and neglected! 😥

10. Honorable mentions: I think, uncle Monty, Vigor, the nameless captain, I can't decide; there were so many lovely characters!

Who named Rapunzel? If it was the king or the queen, why Eugene couldn't recognize her by the name? And why Gothel kept this name?

If it was Gothel, then why the king and the queen kept the name? Doesn't it mean "lettuce" or something?

According to the series, it was canonically her parents who named her. We know this for two reasons:

In Tangled: Before Ever After, when Fredric is remembering the night she was kidnapped, he calls out her name in his memory.

In the season 3 episode "No Time Like the Past," we see missing posters of her up around Corona with her name on them.

I have headcanons that go way back to before the series existed about her name, so strap in, because this is a kind of involved answer.

First, I'll address the meaning. Rapunzel is not lettuce. Rapunzel is another name for the rampion plant which, yes, has edible leaves and roots and can be used as a salad green, but more closely resembles a radish than lettuce. However, it is also the name of the plant's flower, and just like how Rose, Daisy, Lily, Hyacinth, etc are all names, why not Rapunzel? Furthermore, Disney's Rapunzel was not named after the rampion flower, specifically. She was named after the Sundrop flower that saved her and the queen's life.

Here is what the rapunzel flower looks like:

And here is what the Sundrop flower looks like:

Notice how the center of the Sundrop flower essentially contains a rapunzel flower. This was deliberate on the part of the artists who designed it. Rapunzel was named after this flower.

As for why Gothel kept the name, I have a headcanon for that.

Back in the day, in ye olden tymes, babies were often not named until they were Christened, which didn't really happen until the parents were relatively sure the kid would survive. Now, Corona doesn't appear to be a Christian nation (it appears to be a sun-worshiping one that has the trappings of Christianity, if you ask me, but that's neither here nor there), and the king and queen clearly named their baby. So my headcanon is that the night they lifted the lantern was not the day she was born. I mean, look at that baby. She has the wiggliness and personality of a three-month-old, at the youngest. I think the lantern lifting was their version of her Christening, when her name would be revealed to the people. Up until then, I headcanon she was called Baby Princess by the citizens. Now, since the people only knew her name for one night, they sort of defaulted to calling her The Lost Princess after she was kidnapped.

My headcanon goes on to say that Gothel either didn't know the baby's name and also named her Rapunzel after the flower that she now embodied, or else she did know her name and figured that the girl was never going to see this kingdom again, so was too lazy to come up with anything different when it already suited her perfectly.

Eugene is, canonically to the series, not raised in a Corona orphanage. He's raised in a Vardaros orphanage. If the citizens were by and large calling her The Lost Princess, then that's the name that would spread to other kingdoms and territories. Then, by the time Eugene was doing that job in Corona that was happening in "No Time Like the Past," he wasn't looking at "lost baby" posters around town, just keeping an eye out for the guards (and other things worth stealing). He wasn't consciously aware of the posters, he didn't hear anyone referring to the Lost Princess as Rapunzel, he didn't know that was the princess' name.

All of this is a long way to say that the series actually complicated things by having the king and queen name her Rapunzel. If it had been Gothel, I wouldn't have had to come up with a convoluted headcanon to explain it all.

Frederic and Arianna's little blurbs in the TBEA/TTS Season 1 pitch bible

The parents were out for blood here