#danadia

omg ABSOLUTELY tysm for asking <333333

(gonna put this under the cut at a certain point bc it got Long NKDNFKN)

SO. gage has grown up... knowing he was very much The Second Choice. gothel only has (steals in rapunzel's case, and gage wishes in his case, but i'm like 99% sure he's her biological son, to his chagrin) kids to keep them as possessions, so she does keep gage close. but she also always resented gage for not being rapunzel. she thought it'd make her feel better to have another kid, fill the void, but it doesn't, because he doesn't have anything to give her in return. well, besides being something she can keep. so she keeps him, but she lets him know he isn't his sister and he'll never be his sister. she draws up any comparison she can between them - looks, personality, ability, whatever. just to remind him he's less-than, and because he's inherently less valuable, he has a little more slack. he has to leave his tower to attend school, and when gothel leaves on business, he can sneak out and come and go as he pleases (as long as he's back before she is), which is more than rapunzel ever got. sure, he has to find his own way down, but he can still leave. bc (at least to him) his mother cares less. yes, rapunzel was kept, but she was cared about, and gage is freer, but he is hated. so. that's one big fucked-up layer. (and obvs this is gage's twisted mind like. gothel did not love rapunzel but the half-controlling half-uncaring approach she takes with gage really Fucks him up.)

so gage is nothing like his sister. yet at the same time, gage is everything like his sister. of course he thinks about seeing things that aren't on the isle. he's realistic, he's not stupid, he knows it's never gonna happen, he doesn't have any dreams or grand escape plans, but yeah. he thinks about it. especially because of rapunzel. he has her storybook - he stole it from a kid at school and kept it hidden in his room ever since. his mom will kill him if she finds it, but he has to know, and so he knows, and it haunts him. why did she get to get out? why do people care about what happens to her, but not him? why does she get the mother who actually gives a shit, and then gets to marry the prince and ride off in the sunset? does she know about him? does she care? would she come back for him? has she tried? so he envies her, he wants to be her, he resents her, he wants to know her, he misses her, he knows he'll never be like her. all he'll have is the same shitty mom and her shadow to live in, and he'll never be the one to get away or the most-loved or the one with a prince.

👊 - Would your muse fight someone in a Denny’s parking lot?

yes absolutely she would. her timeline wyatt. leo. anyone who she thinks deserves it tbh

mike chang - well, i mean, it’s obvious i guess. but their relationship... their FRIENDSHIP... outsells! if it didn’t go to the top of my list, i’d be wrong. i love them so much. their transition from friends to lovers is something that is so personal. their dynamic is so interesting, and adds so much depth to both of the characters. the parallelism ALONE!!!!

the band kids - i know that the band kids got absolutely zero screentime, but it’s the me making up my own dynamics and personalities for me. she’s close with all of them, especially scott (the floppy-haired bass player), who’s been her best friend since they were kids!

blaine anderson - so while she was in high school, billie was working at the lima bean to save up for college, and that’s where she met blaine. she thought he was just a stuck-up moron at first, but then they got to actually talking, and she just loves that little nerd so much. she appropriately bullies him when ryan murphy starts ruining his character development, but she (begrudgingly) has to admit, he’s one of her closest friends. (she literally names her son after him like........)

virginia avery - my other oc, vi, is also one of billie’s closest friends! neither of them really had a lot of female friends before, so they have a very weird but fun relationship. i mean, who else would billie drive a getaway car for? there’s something so personal about you and mike chang egging your ex’s car and then billie fucking flooring it out of there.

tina cohen-chang - i know, kind of a hot take. but billie and tina’s relationship is so complex and interesting, it had to go on my top five dynamics. her relationship with her older brother was close to beating this out, but he has like zero screentime and no substance, so tina it is! whenever i think about how shitty billie feels for dating mike even when she and tina aren’t really talking anymore..... chills. love you queen.