Rapunzel

Rapunzel
Age	18
Species	Human
Sex	Female
Height	5'5"
Weight	95 lbs
Background
Series	Tangled
Combat Styles	Flower Power
Hometown	Corona
Group	Unaffiliated
Occupation/Job	Former Tower Occupant
Force:	Wandering Force
Quote
"And I keep wondering and wondering and wondering and wondering, when will my life begin?"

Profile

Rapunzel has spent almost 18 years living in an isolated tower in the forest, never once leaving or seeing the outside world. She lived there hidden away by Mother Gothel, who told Rapunzel that the outside world was too dangerous. Instead, she spent her time painting, reading, cooking, candlemaking, and brushing her long, long hair, which will lose its mysterious powers if it is ever cut. She has a dream, however, and shes decided its time for her to break out for her own and see it. She loves her mother, and feels guilty about her escape, but feels she has to know more about the outside world before she can return. In the meantime, shes determined to keep the Shadow Lords from finding out about the magic in her hair. Shes kind, energetic, and she has a frying pan.

History

The story of the girl named Rapunzel starts with the sun.

Once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens and from this small drop of sun grew a magic golden flower. It had the ability to heal the sick and injured.

Centuries passed and on a nearby island there grew a kingdom. The kingdom was ruled by a beloved king and queen and the queen was about to have a baby. But she became very ill. She was running out of time and that's when the subjects of this kingdom began to look for a miracle. Or in this case, a magical golden flower.

However, the flower had been discovered by an old woman named Mother Gothel many hundreds of years ago when it first sprouted from its magical origins. Instead of sharing the flower's gift with the world, she hoarded its healing power and used it to keep herself young for centuries. And all she had to do was sing a special song.

Fortunately for the kingdom, Mother Gothel accidentally revealed the hiding place of the flower in her haste to escape notice from the soldiers who were desperately searching. They took the flower from its perch on the bluffs and the king used all of its magic to create a remedy for his sick wife. The magic of the golden flower healed the queen.

A healthy baby girl, a princess, was born with beautiful golden hair. To celebrate her birth the king and queen launched a flying lantern into the sky. And for that one moment, everything was perfect. And then that moment ended.

Mother Gothel, refusing to give up her gift of eternal youth, stole into the castle in the dead of night. At first, she only intended to take a small lock of hair, just enough to use its magic. But when she cut the hair, its power withered and it turned brown. Unwilling to simply let go, Mother Gothel stole the child and vanished.

The kingdom searched and searched but they could not find the princess, for deep within the forest, in a hidden tower, Gothel raised the child as her own. Gothel had found her new magic flower, but this time, she was determined to keep it hidden. She told Rapunzel lies about the outside world, filling her with fear so that she might never wish to escape.

But the walls of that tower could not hide everything. Each year, on her birthday, the king and queen released thousands of lanterns into the sky in hope that one day their lost princess would return.

Many years passed. As Rapunzel grew older her magical hair also continued to grow at an incredible rate. Unable to cut it, lest it lose it's magical healing properties, she was forced to cope with her ever increasing burden. Once she realized how durable and long her 'daughter's' hair had become, Mother Gothel came up with yet another way to keep her precious flower hidden from the world. She sealed over the hidden doorway at the base of the tower and whenever she wanted to enter or leave, Rapunzel would lower her hair to the ground from the window and allow the old woman to use it for a rope.

In order to pass the time, Rapunzel developed many hobbies. She learned how to read from Mother Gothel and became quite familiar with several subjects, especially that of astronomy, geology, and botany. She became a skilled maid, mastering the arts of cooking and cleaning through trial and error. She learned to play the guitar, to knit, dance ballet (sort of), and how to play chess. Pottery, ventriloquism, candle-making; there are very few things that can be done in the small space of her tower that she has not tried, however, it was art that she truly loved. The interior of the tower was covered from top to bottom in painted images, many of which were depictions of things she had only ever heard about.

Throughout her entire life, however, Rapunzel only ever really wanted one thing and that was to leave her tower and see the outside world. In particular, she longed to discover what the source of the many unusual but beautiful lights in the sky were that only appeared on her birthday. She felt that this odd timing was somehow linked to her and she was determined to find out the truth.

Mother Gothel would have none of it. She adamantly refused to allow Rapunzel to leave the tower, constantly warning her with dire threats of what lurked in wait for young innocent girls such as herself and she reluctantly agreed to remain each time.

That changed on the day that Flynn Rider climbed into her tower. Alone and afraid, she ambushed the unsuspecting thief, clobbering him on the head with a frying pan and stuffing him into her closet. At first she was overwhelmed by what she had done but her surprise quickly turned to excitement. By defending herself from one of the scary threats from the outside world she had proven that she was ready to go out of the tower. When Mother Gothel returned, she attempted to convey this to her but before she could mention the unconscious thief, the old woman exploded with anger at her daughter's constant badgering.

Rapunzel was heartbroken but she also saw an opportunity. She asked her mother to go on a long journey to collect sea shells she could use to make paint. Mother Gothel hesitantly agreed and left the tower. In her absence, Flynn awoke to find himself bound in hair and being questioned by the beautiful young girl. After a long debate, she managed to force him to agree to take her on a journey to see the lights.

Unfortunately, the world that she knew is no longer there. Flynn and Rapunzel escape from the tower, only to find that the land around them has changed drastically. With her guide just as confused and lost as she is, the two of them could only move forward and try to figure out what has happened. However, before they can get very far, they are ambushed by Heartless and separated, leaving the frightened young woman to fend for herself.

Personality

Rapunzel is a spirited, smart, and playful girl in her late teens. Despite her age, however, she is rather naive due to the fact that she's seen so very little of the world beyond her small tower. Having spent all of her life isolated with little else to do, she has become very proficiently educated in literature and talented in almost any hobby or skill she could develop, such as music and baking and even more advanced subjects like astronomy, as illustrated by the completely charted astronomical patterns she has laid out on the roof of the tower.

Above all else, her greatest passion is art, as indicated by the pervasive amount of painting on the walls inside the tower. Over nearly two decades of being cooped up she has covered almost every square inch of canvas she could find and become quite talented in the process.

Though she longs to see the world beyond her window, Rapunzel is very obedient to her mother, doing everything that she was asked for years and respecting her wish to remain within the safety of the tower until she could not restrain herself any longer. Despite having ambivalent feelings after leaving her tower in excitement to finally see the world, her new-found freedom has bolstered her confidence in herself and she grows less inclined to return with each passing day.

Rapunzel is also quite daring, leaping from tall cliffs and swinging great lengths with her hair. She is also not afraid to stand up for herself or others when the situation calls for bravery though she prefers to settle things peacefully when possible. More often than not, her incredible charisma is a capable tool for defusing tense or potentially dangerous situations. She is also very trustworthy and never breaks the promises she makes.

The one main goal in her life currently is to find out what the source of those elusive floating lights that appear on her birthday are, even strong-arming Flynn into going along with her plan. Secretly she fears that her dream of seeing the lights will not meet up to her expectations or that the Heartless have robbed her of the chance of finding out.

The healing properties of her magical hair is a secret that Rapunzel does her best to hide from the general public out of fear that she will be ostracized for being different as well as the concern that people might attempt to use it for their own greed. She also wishes to keep her powers from being known to the Heartless for fear of what they might do should such a powerful gift fall into their hands.

Abilities

Golden Hair - Channeling potent energies from the sun itself, Rapunzel's hair can reverse any injury or damage done to a person, including complete regeneration of damaged tissues and organs. More than this, however, she can reverse the flow of time to restore youth. Such a powerful gift must be carefully guarded and she rarely ever shows this property off to others.

Anyone she wishes to heal must be in direct contact with her hair in order for the magic to work while she sings a special song that activates its powers. Singing this song also causes her hair to glow a brilliant gold. Though it would be much easier for her to move about and deal with her hair if it were shorter, cutting it causes the magic within to immediately lose its power, and turn back to her natural brown hair color.

Rapunzel's hair also possesses a limited prehensile ability, able to grapple or grab objects that easily outweigh herself without straining or hurting her in any way.

Strength - Rapunzel also has super-human strength to a lesser degree; swinging from one cliff to another and suspending herself in the air using leverage provided by her hair as well as hoisting Mother Gothel up into the tower, day after day, to her amazement. Additionally, her hair appears to be almost weightless when she carries it around. Needless to say, a normal person cannot perform the stunts done by Rapunzel with her excessively long hair.

Considering the extraordinary amount of hair, she has also shown a great deal of agility and dexterity with it, such as climbing to high altitudes, jumping off without much effort, and running as fast as Flynn, who is a professional thief that is not burdened by anything nearly as cumbersome.

Animal Empathy - Like many Disney princesses, Rapunzel travels about with an animal companion in the form of a small chameleon named Pascal. She is able to communicate with him easily and he in turn seems far more intelligent than any normal lizard.

Logs

Tower of Ombra	July 21st, 2013	The Missing persons TP finale. Welcome to Bleak Horizon. We're all happy here.
A Cunning Plan	July 14th, 2013	Alma and Gerad gather a number of people to speak on a plan seeking a castle buried in the sands of the region. Also talk of a hidden cave of wonders which may be the way to access what they seek comes up. This is but the start of an adventure for good or ill.
A Flower in the Desert	July 10th, 2013	A couple of young travelers accidentally stumble into one of the seedier taverns in Agrabah. Fortunately, they get a little help from an unexpected person.
Painting the Red City	July 6th, 2013	Rapunzel is enraptured by the sun setting over the mountains and stops to immortalize the scene on canvas, whereupon an unlikely person happens to cross her path.
A Journey Begins	July 5th, 2013	After dealing with the skeletal invaders at Traverse, Rapunzel hops aboard a ship that takes her to the inland port of Wutai. There she encounters a few familiar faces.
Prelude 1: The Mysterious Mist	July 4th, 2013	Fireworks are shooting. People are celebrating. However something comes from the depths, green sickly mist starts to rise from the ocean. People start to run to shore screaming, as few become infected by the mist and crash into the water. What rises from the ocean depths, is nothing good...

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