#tangled angst

[vat7k-user-2026]

Ruddiger supports his owner

[stardustedlovers]

5 for the writing game with New Dream 🥰

Katie you are asking for angst with this one 😂

Physical One-Liners Part II prompts

5. “Should I comb your hair for you?” with New Dream

Rapunzel was working at a particularly large knot in her hair. Despite being cropped to her chin, the tangles were still dreadful.

Eugene popped his head in the door and saw Rapunzel trying to brush the knot out at her vanity.

He chuckled, "need some help Sunshine? Should I comb your hair for you?"

Her eyes widened to saucers and the brush fell from her grip. Rapunzel stood too abruptly, knocking into the vanity and jostling the little glass bottles of perfumes and makeup on it. She turned around to face Eugene and shook her head profusely.

"N-no," she said.

"Sunshine?" Eugene was alarmed. Sure he was very particular about his own hair, of course, but this reaction was strange, even for him. "Did I do something wrong?"

"No-- just leave me alone, Eugene. I can brush my own hair."

"Rapunzel, if I did something wrong, I want to know."

She plopped back down on the cushioned bench and buried her face in her hands. Her breath hitched a little and her voice was almost too soft to hear.

"Gothel always brushed my hair."

Eugene kneeled down in front of her and braced his hands on her thighs.

"Sweetheart, I would never hurt you."

Rapunzel leaned forward and dropped her head against Eugene's shoulder. "I know," she whispered. "But she's the only other person who has ever brushed my hair. I won't even let the maids do it. I guess I just feel like I always had no power when Gothel did it. Because she would sing or make me sing and then I had no control. But if I brushed my own hair, I still had control! I know that doesn't make sense--"

"It makes perfect sense." Eugene wrapped his arms around Rapunzel, wishing not for the first time that he could go back in time and save her from the abuse Gothel had put her through.

"So you aren't mad?" She looked up at him with shiny eyes and red cheeks.

"Of course not, Sunshine. What Gothel did to you is not your fault and I completely understand why you need control over your own hair. I could never be mad at you for that." He leaned forward and gave her a soft kiss before drying her eyes with his thumbs.

"Eugene?" Rapunzel asked softly.

"Hmm?"

"Maybe you could help me comb my hair?" She picked up her brush where it had fallen on the floor and offered it out to him. Maybe it would help her work through her trauma, and Eugene was honored to be the one she wanted to help.

"I would be honored to, Sunshine."

[k0ekienut]

Nightmares

Short little thing for what @jkoo7jkoo5-baby-susan and I have dubbed the Choppin AU~

(This happens shortly after https://jkoo7jkoo5-baby-susan.tumblr.com/post/627941323822022656/the-scars-of-a-child)

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“No! Don’t touch me!” Is what Varian tried to scream, he had been half-awake and just shaken out of a horrible nightmare. If you could call it a nightmare, it was more of a flashback to his time in the Coronian prison. He flinched away from the desperate person who was standing near him. Varian’s eyes were wide, his breaths fast and shallow, his whole body was trembling in fear. 

Who was standing next to him? His mind wanted to say it was another guard, it had to be. The more Varian tried to focus on his surroundings the more he started to believe what his head was telling him, that he had never been freed by the princess and her friends, and that he was still down in the dark, freezing, solitary cell. By himself, in the silence. 

Varian tried to curl up more, it stung his back, they were probably going to hurt him again, no, they most definitely were going to hurt him again. They always did, they always would hurt him or beat him in some way, make him feel like he was going crazy, even when he hadn’t done anything wrong and had tried to hard to stay unnoticeable, they would always hu- 

“I’m not going to hurt you.” 

The person that was standing near him said in a gentle sounding voice, he could feel their hand grip onto his own. Varian didn’t want to look them in the eyes, he felt like he had been overtaken by fear. 

“Varian? Can you hear me?” The person that was talking to him started to sound more familiar… Varian thought for a second, maybe they’d leave if he gave them what they wanted and just answered… He slightly nodded his head. 

The person almost sounded… surprised that Varian had responded at all. He still felt their hand gripping his, but not in a harsh or mean way, it was almost. Comforting? 

Varian slowly uncurls from the ball he had curled into and slowly looks at who was trying to comfort him. 

“Listen to me. You’re safe and you’re not there anymore, you’re not with them anymore. We’re here Varian, I’m here and trust me, no of us are going to let anyone hurt you again.” 

The hold on Varian's hand felt so reassuring, like that simple grip was letting him know that he was safe.

Varian finally looks up at the person holding his hand.

Eugene?

Eugene was looking at Varian with concern in his eyes, Eugene had been trying his best to comfort the young teen and had been surprised when Varian didn't rip his hand away in the panic.

The panic in Varian's eyes seemed to be calming more as the boy started to realize who was next to him- more tears formed in Varian's eyes, letting out a breath. "I..."

"It's okay now Varian." Eugene said with a small smile, pulling Varian into a hug, he didn't pull back from the gesture like he normally did. "It's okay now, we're here for you now..."

[tangledinraps]

New Dream Appreciation Week: Day 1

Sun and Moon

This drawing took me 17 total hours so reblogs are appreciated and encouraged, thank you! ❤️

also this clearly has a little angst in it too ;)

[honeyxmonkey]

I kinda want to write a fic where Hugo straight up dies. No fakeout deaths, no coming back to life through magic, he just dies. I want to write a Moon Hugo and Sun Varian au where Hugo dies at the end because the moonstones power was too much for him to handle. I want to write Hugo making all the wrong decisions, thinking he's protecting Varian, only to realize that he was hurting him along the way. I want them to argue about whether or not its worth it to have taken on these powers. I want them to be conflicted about their relationship because they love the other boy so much but he's truly become their complete opposite and being together is too dangerous. And most importantly, I want Varian to break. I want to write him slowly going insane over the distance they've had to create. I want to write him watching the love of his life slowly withering into nothing because the moons power is consuming him. And I want Varian to be powerless to stop it

[polymathart]

Raps!

I pierce her right between her ribs.

I walk towards her but I know it’s too late.

They lay her quietly in the throne room.

I slip away.

(Aaaah//Aaaah//Aaaah)

I hear wailing in the streets.

(Aaaah//Aaaah//Aaaah)

Somebody [Eugene] tells me, “You’d better hide.”

(Aaaah//Aaaah//Aaaah)

They say Eugene and Varian

Were both at her side when she died.

Death doesn’t discriminate

Between the sinners and the saints,

It takes and it takes and it takes.

History obliterates.

In every picture it paints,

It paints me and all my mistakes.

When Rapunzel shined in the sky

She may have been the first one to die

But I’m the one who paid for it.

I survived but I paid for it.

Now I’m the villain of this story.

I was too envious and blind to see.

I should’ve known—

I should’ve known

The sky was wide enough for both Rapunzel and me...

The sky was wide enough for both Rapunzel

And me...

[dothethunderthing]

People always focus on Varian’s angst but there is so much unexplored Eugene angst.

The way he uses humor as a coping mechanism

Growing up an orphan

Feeling ashamed of his past mistakes

Getting stabbed

Literally Dying

Worrying about Rapunzel

Worrying he’s not good enough

He doesn’t seem to open up about his emotions or worries as much to Rapunzel as she does to him.

Wanting to be a good person and learning to do the right thing.

Worrying about taking care of his friends and not wanting them to get hurt.

And so much more.

Like y’all

[vat7k-user-2026]

Panic attack