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PERSONAL

NAME: Kabby

PERSONAL JOURNAL: alifeenchanted

EMAIL: kahybee[at]gmail[dot]com

AIM: kabbbs

WIKI NAME: Kaboot

CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a (I played Rapunzel here once before, but I don’t wish for her to remember previous times in Paradisa.)





CHARACTER

CHARACTER NAME: Rapunzel

SERIES: Tangled

CANON POINT: After mediating between Flynn and Maximus during the second day of her adventure.

LOSS: The ability to paint. This is clearly Rapunzel’s favorite hobby, and without it, she’d feel a lack of fully being able to express herself and definitely a sense of boredom and unease.



ABOUT THE CHARACTER: When Rapunzel's mother, the queen, was pregnant, she became dangerously ill. The people of her kingdom sought out a magical golden flower from a nearby island, a flower that could heal... And do more. It could keep people young, and a woman called Gothel had been using it for this for hundreds of years.



The people of the kingdom found the flower despite Gothel's attempts to hide it, and made it into a soup which saved the queen... And transferred the flower's powers to the hair of the newborn baby. Gothel snuck into the baby's room the very night she was born and tried to cut the hair for herself, but found that when the hair was cut it turned brown and lost its powers.



So Gothel took the child, raising her as her own, keeping her locked in a tower for nearly eighteen years with terrible stories of the dangerous world beyond their home, and of the people who would try to take Rapunzel for her hair. Rapunzel's only friend in the tower was a chameleon named Pascal. She picked up a number of hobbies trying to pass the time, but wanted to see the outside world, particularly curious about the floating lights she would see each year on the night of her birthday, not knowing they were lanterns sent out for her… For the lost princess.



And she might never have found out if a thief hadn’t climbed her tower one day. Making good use of a frying pan, Rapunzel knocked him out, and tied him up with her hair to interrogate him… But not before hiding his stolen crown. They worked out a reluctant deal; Flynn would lead Rapunzel to see the lanterns if Rapunzel would then return what she’d took from him. The two set off, with Flynn trying to dissuade Rapunzel at every turn.



The dynamic changed after a visit the The Snuggly Duckling pub, where Rapunzel convinced some thugs to let Flynn go... By getting them to sing about their dreams. Add in a daring escape from castle guards looking for Flynn, and you’ve got some serious base for bonding. So it wasn’t a surprise that the two shared some secrets over a campfire that night, with Rapunzel showing Flynn the power of her hair. The night ended on a sour note, though, with Gothel showing up and warning Rapunzel once more about the evils of the outside world.



The next morning, the captain of the guard’s horse, hell-bent on hunting down Flynn, found the duo, and would have taken him away to be arrested if Rapunzel hadn’t calmed the horse down and charmed him into joining them.



At exactly 18 years old, Rapunzel is primarily three things: Curious, talented, and sweet. The curiosity comes from her sheltered life, and she longs to know more about what other people's lives are like. In fact, her curiosity is one of her main driving forces. Due to it, she develops the bravery to look at the world as more than just a scary place. She loves to learn about a number of subjects, and approached the world wide-eyed and ready to be taught… Which leaves her perhaps a bit too impressionable.



She has a number of skills she developed early in life, to cope with being bored, and while none of them are particularly helpful in a big-picture sense, (she's mostly artistically gifted), it passes the time. As an artist, she's truly exceptional. Painting is her true passion, whereas her other hobbies are more ways of passing the time. So while her artistic gifts are grand, she is not an expert in her other areas of interest, even the other artsy ones. Still, she's not doing these things to be the best - She's doing them to have fun.



She's also quite... Well, really, good, to the point of being somewhat naive and trusting those she shouldn't. She has a positive nature, is incredibly obedient, (most of the time), and in general is just a well-intentioned soul who brings out the best in others. She's non-judgemental and very open to new ideas about other people and accepting their flaws. A large part of this is the fact that she's had so few people in her life that she really isn't about to discriminate when it comes to who she gets to know.



Rapunzel can be a bit of a scaredy-cat, but it's not without good reason. While, as mentioned above, she has the ability to bring out the best in people, she was always taught that there was no best in most people. Though she is very trusting of people, her initial reaction is still always suspicion and fear when meeting someone new.



Additionally, she is perfectly capable of being tricky and manipulative when a goal is important to her. On that note, the girl is incredibly determined when she has a dream to reach. She just doesn't give up, even if she has to do some wrong - so long as it's not truly cruel - to get where she wants to be. She works hard, faces her fears, and thinks and acts her way around obstacles when she's on a mission.



But how does Rapunzel see herself? Well, that's a little complicated. She will wake up in the morning feeling pretty good about who she is, but it doesn't take much from Gothel to make her see herself as weak and helpless. However, she is very quick to overcome that when she does something right.



ABILITIES: When Rapunzel sings a special incantation, her seventy feet of hair glows and can heal the sick, injured, or even dead. This same incantation can also restore one's youth.