okay, like i said it is implied she looked for varian. that was my original point of the post lol. but i agree the show portrayed it really badly, im not trying to argue with you at all /gen i honestly just want to talk about how i personally see her character for a minute here, because i really like talking about her LMAO
in regards of it being out of character for her- rapunzel is an adult, yes, but she is also a princess, and its made clear to us from the beginning of the show that fred is protective of her and is fully capable of exerting his power over her. despite rapunzel having every right to rebel fred is still objectively the more powerful one in the dynamic. he is the king, after all. and i suspect he definitely wasn’t happy about rumors of his daughter being attacked so him pushing castle security after his return doesn’t seem unlikely to me.
also, rapunzel is extremely traumatized. for pretty much her entire life gothel coddled her and when you’re coddled like that you kind of learn to just sit back and let things happen…. it’s called learned helplessness and it’s something i relate to a lot in her character. i feel like the incident with varian was like, one of the things that really pushed her to start working through that feeling of helplessness. she’s determined and bullheaded in a lot of situations- eager to rebel even if it gets her into trouble, eager to help people when they’re in danger. but the thing that’s different about varian’s situation in particular is that rapunzel already feels like she’s responsible for it.
she was given a choice, evacuate or help varian. and heres the thing, gothel never gave her a choice about anything. gothel had her entire life planned out from the day she came to that tower to the day she died; and now all of a sudden she has power over an entire kingdom and has to make choices that will affect thousands of people. thats a lot of pressure for someone, especially when up until just a few months ago the most important choice you had to make was whether you were going to make cookies or pie after dinner and what you were going to paint on the walls next.
it’s fucking scary, especially when youve been coddled your entire life and told that you’re naive and worthless, because now you’ve convinced yourself that you cant even trust your own judgement and that everything you do will always be wrong. gaslighting fucks you up, man. and it can sometimes make you look uncaring or insincere because you can’t find it in yourself to stand up and use your voice when you really need to.
rapunzel tries to look for varian. she does what she can. but she’s not as relentless because her decision was what lead him to get dragged away in the first place. shes scared because she thinks whatever she does, she’s only going to make things worse.
rapunzel knows gothel was wrong. she wants to be strong and she wants to help people. but it takes years to push through a mindset that’s been drilled into your head since the day you were born, and as much as disney wants her to be, rapunzel isn’t perfect.
that’s why rapunzel isn’t ready to be queen yet, and that’s why she doesn’t seem as determined to help varian. it’s not because she doesn’t want to, or because she doesn’t care about him. it’s because she’s convinced she can’t.
and that’s not her fault. its the fault of the one who told her she was helpless.
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