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• darkness exists to make light truly count by AquaQuadrant

  Fandoms: Tangled: The Series (Cartoon), Tangled (2010), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  26 Dec 2021

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Rapunzel & Varian
  • Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider/Rapunzel
  • Mother Gothel
  • Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider
  • Cassandra (Disney: Tangled)
  • King Frederic of Corona (Disney)
  • Queen Arianna of Corona (Disney)
  • Varian (Disney: Tangled)
  • Rapunzel (Disney)
  • Lady Caine (Disney)
  • minor language
  • Kidnapping
  • nongraphic references to death
  • au where mother gothel kidnaps moon!varian as a baby and raises him as rapunzel's little brother
  • also know as the LittleBrother!au
  • ratings warnings and genres will vary by chapter
  • chapters may or may not be chronological
  • but they will span pre-movie movie and series timeline
  • i'll give a short breakdown of each one in the beginning notes
  • and update the tags as i go
  • sibling relationships
  • Child Neglect
  • description of injury
  • Mentions of Blood
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Gaslighting
  • self-depreciation
  • Nightmares
  • Ballet
  • SCIENCE!
  • Magic
  • Controlling Behavior
  • enforcing gender roles
  • Verbal Abuse
  • blunt force trauma via frying pan
  • now including flynn!!!
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Near Drowning Experience
  • Panic Attacks
  • now with maximus
  • not including pascal
  • (sorry pascal)
  • violence slightly more intense than canon
  • kicking off that slow burn character development yeye
  • Stockholm Syndrome
  • Therapy
  • Minor OC - Freeform
  • mention of past miscarriage
  • FINALLY BACK FROM HIATUS WOOT WOOT
  • eugene is the real mvp here
  • rapunzel just wants everyone to get along
  • and varian is the long-suffering little brother
  • regarding frederic arianna and quirin: THE PARENTS ARE FIGHTINGGGG
  • i'm like dropping hints that there's some lore being foreshadowed
  • keeping secrets from your magical children is like catnip to corona parents
  • and cass and varian are slowly getting siblings rights
  • we love to see it
  • definitely putting my own spin on tangled before ever after
  • so the canon divergence tag especially applies here
  • hopefully a most realistic portrayal of rapunzel six months after the tower?
  • forbidden road trips are great bonding opportunities
  • who's ready for some AWKWARD PARENT-CHILD BONDING
  • papa quirin is trying his best
  • BAMF!rapunzel
  • bamf!eugene
  • BAMF!cass
  • not quite BAMF!varian yet but he's got the spirit
  • the name of the game is 'communication' and new dream is winning
  • ALSO i'm not rewriting every season 1 ep but rather taking bits and pieces
  • and then lovingly dressing them up with my own changes
  • should make for a fun time
  • DO NOT FEED MY FIC INTO CHATGPT OR ANY OTHER AI

  Summary

  This is the story of Rapunzel’s life in, and after, the tower. But there’s one crucial difference; Varian was born with moon powers, and Gothel stole him as a baby to be raised as Rapunzel’s little brother.

  Currently playing: Chapter Forty-Seven - so what do i do now? As Varian works to unravel the mystery of Rapunzel’s hair, Eugene’s plan for the Day of Hearts gets thrown for a loop when Rapunzel discovers that Cassandra has a secret boyfriend. A double-date couldn’t be that bad, right?

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