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Based on @bestworstcase post

❤- Favorite Tangled Character? 

(breaks down door with a sledgehammer) CASSANDRA

CASSANDRA VERY MUCH CASSANDRA

DID EVERYONE HEAR ME SAY CASSANDRA

...Yeah uhhh I like her a normal, regular amount. And by that I mean I could write literal 10k essays on all the reasons I adore her as a character, in all her messy stubborn infuriating glory, but this is a Tumblr ask, so I’ll settle for just one:

I love how she complements Eugene and Rapunzel’s personalities and balances out their trio perfectly. They clash spectacularly, but they also bring out the best in one another. By the end of the show, they are all just...healthier, happier people, because of their friendship. Teary eyes. It’s BEAUTIFUL.

If Rapunzel is a fluffy golden retriever puppy who buries her pain under a smile, then Cass is a street cat who buries her pain under a barbed-wire personality (and then adds a 10ft thick layer of self-loathing and destructive behaviour on top askdjfhask). Where Rapunzel is wide-eyed and naive, Cass is the voice of maturity and cynicism. Where Rapunzel is an open book, Cass is a walled fortress (complete with moat and dragon), which teaches Rapunzel a huge amount about respecting people’s boundaries, whilst also encouraging Cass to share her feelings rather than bottling them up until they destroy her. And Rapunzel teaches Cass that it’s not a crime to lighten up and enjoy the moment (and each other’s company) now and then. They are. so different. but when they come together, they complete each other. “Two elements longing to unite.” thank you Zhan Tiri :’)

Likewise, Cassandra’s never afraid to call Eugene out on his laziness, and she pushes him to take on hard work and real responsibility (this is like...Eugene’s entire arc in S1, he’s a better man and partner to Rapunzel for it, and it all stems from his relationship with Cass, which I love). They also bring different styles of humour to the show - where Eugene cracks absurd laugh-out-loud one-liners (a la “What is chutney?”), Cass is dry, cynical and magnificently sarcastic (a la “Let’s see who can catch the plague first!”). And when they come together, magic happens. I adore the begrudging, snarky sort-of friendship they build together. 

💔- Least favorite Tangled Character?

Hookfoot. Freaking Hookfoot. What the hell is this character doing in S2. All of his plotlines feel like they belong with Lance, who might as well not be in S2 for all the difference he makes. We fell in love with Lance in S1, and then they just shelved him. Why isn’t he the one to have a mermaid romance? Why isn’t he the one teaming up with Rapunzel to break Vigor’s curse? Why isn’t he the one to trade witty insults with Cass? Cass is the one always doing the cooking, Lance loves food, this stuff writes itself aslkjahksdhasd. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if Hookfoot’s plotlines were originally intended for Lance, and they swapped him out with Hookfoot at the last minute for...unknown reasons. Absolutely baffling. DEEP SIGH.

☕️ but also i feel like a lot of fanworks try to correct this by just moving the focus to whichever character is the fave so rather than the cast getting fleshed out it’s more like the spotlight has moved? and that also bums me out; i feel like i’m constantly on the hunt for fics that really feel like *ensemble casts* instead of the leading player and chorus thing canon does 😭

☕️ unrelated: ik everyone knows s3 did adira dirty and most folks also seem to be annoyed by cap’s irrelevance given *his daughter* is the villain for most of s3 but i specifically think we were robbed of *adira* being the one to tell cap that cass stole the moonstone. i think about this all the time. she’s like the worst possible person for him to hear it from and therefore that’s what i want to have happened. i love drama

☕️ Big agree on this one! I feel like if TTS were really able to lean into its ensemble cast, it’d have been incredible. I love Raps, but the story needing to center on her so much does limit it in some respects- and explains many of the problems on a meta level, haha.

Like, of the episode plots that I see fans wish we’d gotten most commonly- eps focusing on Var in S2, or Cass in S3, or on any of the plot-relevant side characters who got dropped- they’re typically all stories that would take place independently of Rapunzel’s, so it’s no wonder they didn’t happen. And some of the eps we did get prob would’ve been tighter if they didn’t involve her- “No Time Like the Past” comes to mind.

💭- How did you learn about TTS?

🌈- Best moment in the entire series?

📚 - you know I stan Benighted Snow and Strings ofc (and I’m really excited to get to read Moonless air and DAP 👀) 

but I’m also a big fan of @ancientriverbed‘s Burn a Broken Effigy of Me and You series and anything by @love-killed-the-superstar !!

💭 - I actually started watching right from the premiere of Before Ever After! Then I got. Kinda bored after the first few episodes fdskljdsk and only tuned in again midway through S3 

I read all @bestworstcase’s headcanons and lore on ZT because they’re very cool. Had to draw something.

hey. hey. forget max, remember how the criminal horse who was running a literal con became a guard within a day of the captain meeting him,

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