#tangled-rants

Like, how is this not deliberate? Their social media manager had to pick a thumbnail. They're not blind. They had to see how this looks.

So, a great deal of our fandom believe, no thanks to the series episode 'Rapunzel Day One,' that Rapunzel would have fallen in love with anyone who saved her. That Eugene wasn't special. They didn't uniquely bond. It was just she was grateful and bonded to the first person she met who showed her kindness and the world, and saved her.

And if you speak against this, people get rabid on social media, coveting their AUs where they think characters are so exact you can just interchange them and they'll have the same ideas, same events, same scenarios. Once more, thanks to that damn episode.

But what people don't realize of that episode is that Cassandra knew the story, she knew about the tower she had been told the events of the movie. So she knew what to reenact, how to play things, what to do and not to do. She didn't go into it blindly like Eugene. Her ideas and treatment were genuine, they were a replay based on meta knowledge.

She was just a part in a play that already happened, following a paraphrased script of events.

But that's beside the point.

There's an anime known as Haibane Renmei, in it the MCs are Reki and Rakka. And in the last episode, Reki tells Rakka to try to hurt her that she only wanted salvation and that it didn't have to be Rakka, there was nothing unique about their bond, it could have been anyone.

This is treated as a TERRIBLE thing to say that wrenches them a part until Rakka realizes she was lying and does save her. This is a line given to make Reki a bad person in that moment.

And yet, it's literally what this fandom is constantly saying about Rapunzel and Eugene. That Rapunzel only needed to be saved, it didn't have to be Eugene, nothing special about their bond, and could have been anyone.

Why is this treated as terrible by the anime?

But this is pushed in this cartoon and its fans?

Saw someone's post on here asking for OC x new dream or OC x series only characters content. Okay, whatever, yume shipper, ignore them. BUT THEN they in the same post say no varian and Hugo x OC because Varian only belongs to Hugo.

Wait what?

So let me get this straight. They want a third wheel into new dream, not even the fandom typical ships, just any OC thrown into Disney's most beloved couple.

But don't touch Varian and Hugo.

That's some fucked up double standards there.

Rapunzel and Eugene are outright shown to be jealous over each other in the series. Eugene jealous of Andrew, Rapunzel jealous of Stalyan. And if movie only, for each other and for each other alone. Eugene belongs to Rapunzel, Rapunzel belongs to Eugene, they are married, holding each others hands and Disney's most beloved COUPLE only for each other, created for each other, etc.

But they want an OC thrown into that but don't you dare touch Hugo and Varian.

What even?

Okay, I'll admit when it comes to the rules of love I'm the last person one should ask (asexual and can't feel affection) but even I know this is the most backwards thing to say. '

"crazy misogynistic things to say"???

Are you sane? That's like the point of a marriage and a relationship to get to such marriage. You are one half of each other, you complete each other. "To death do us part." You belong to them, they belong to you. Staying faithful you know? Soulmates?

There's nothing misogynistic about saying 'so and so belongs to so and so,' when talking about their relationship and marriage.

Did you just ignore the entire episode where Rapunzel showed her extreme jealousy when Stalyan became a thing? So Rapunzel is allowed to be jealous and have Eugene belong to her, but Rapunzel can't belong to Eugene?

And 'anxieties about marriage,' you mean in the series where Chris pushed that marriage was a prison and end of life as you know it trying to convince the audience that you can't have adventures, fun, or still live once married? You mean the series where it took Rapunzel who was literally the one to initiate and kiss Eugene both at the end of the movie and in the wedding short and was the most eager of the two and made her question it?

You talk as if Rapunzel thinks marriage is just this temp-tie down where she shouldn't stay faithful to her partner and can do whatever she wants.

News flash: That's cheating. She does belong to Eugene so long as they are together. And he belongs to her. It's not a circle of fuck whoever you want while married. Like OMG.

And for the princess who 'never breaks a promise,' do you honestly think she's going to go and break her wedding vows? A literal life promise?

I mean, last I checked it's perfectly logical that you can hate on a character if that character was used as a vehicle to sideline and steal the parts (to the point of literally re-enacting their parts), skills, and importance of the original deuteragonist and co-lead.

Getting mad at people for disliking that is dumb.

And I've already said I don't hate Cassandra. I hate the -idea- of her. I liked her in s1, I liked the concept of her being the Captain's daughter, I liked her as part of the group dynamic.

I DO NOT like that she was used to sideline, and quite nearly replace the co-lead. I do not like that she was railroaded into being more important than the co-lead, and quite literally near more important than both leads. I don't like that the show became about her. I don't like that now a great portion of the fandom wants to Divorce Rapunzel because 2-3 storyboarders decided to insert their fanfic ideals into their job against what they were hired to write. And just like I can't stand Zoro fans in the One Piece fandom, I absolutely cannot stand most of Cassandra's fans because they're just like the railroading, nearly all of them constantly talking about how she's much better than the co-lead, will argue vehemently that she would have more survival skills or parkour or stealth skills than the literal prodigy character ,or should replace him, or should be part of the original move remake.

I don't hate Cassandra. (I put her in my fics, and theorize about her) But I hate what she represents. It's like other 'fan favorite' characters in other fandoms. You don't hate the character. But as the fans of that character become insufferable and try to take over everything about the original fandom, you start to hate the character because you hate the fans so badly.

It's not the characters fault for what she was a catalyst for. But it's the character who ends up taking the fandom fatigue and disgust over her worshipers.

People who tag things like this are so dumb I swear.

No one shoved Eugene anywhere. He was there FIRST dude. The movie came FIRST. The Wedding and sealing of vows came FIRST. Rapunzel was created conceptually to be with Eugene and he was conceptually created to be with her . That is canon, that is set in stone. That predates your catradora rip off.

When I said I don't like C4ssunzels and UKD shippers because I feel they just hate Eugene and New Dream and push their ship for half fandom agenda vs having fun. THIS person is the type I'm talking about, not the harmless ones. I won't name names, but they wrote a divorce-fic where they completely massacred Eugene's character. Wrote him to be hated with things he'd never do just to give reason for Rapunzel to tire of him. Nothing accurate to the character or nice to him or even trying to keep him canon. Just straight up 'even you'd hate this guy,' summarized actions.

Like with writing like that, when you're OOC-ifying the characters just to have your fantasies, you're being completely disingenuous dude.

> Okay stop forcing parallels of the characters then and let the character be his own character without the other character needing to mirror him in all of his scenes and actions then.

> BLOCK