it’s always so insane to me how quick people are to drag rapunzel in s1 for everything that went down in QFAD. keep in mind, this is an 18-year-old girl who spent her entire life trapped in a tower, never experiencing the outside world, and has only been out for less than a year. then she’s put in a castle where she’s also barely allowed to leave and is somehow expected to already have everything in her life figured out. i’m not trying to undermine what happened with varian because he is my favorite, but blaming rapunzel for what happened as if she even had much of a say in the matter is crazy. everything that went down in that episode should be blamed on king frederic. he’s the one who made sure rapunzel wasn’t seeing varian and had everything to happen the way it did















