Tangled: Between the Kisses

Act Three: Journey Towards Destiny

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sisters and Legends

Eugene and Varian run into a royal sister…

Written by @tangledbea and @the-writer1988

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I sure do! It's kinda weird to me that Willow was in one episode, then went to wander the world, and while Rapunzel was also wandering the world, their paths didn't cross. It would have been the perfect excuse to bring her back in, plus it would have been nice to see if she'd actually learned anything from her previous encounter with Arianna.

(Granted, it would kind of suck to expose Rapunzel to a Willow who hadn't changed at all, and expect the nineteen-year-old to be the adult between the two of them.)

I feel like Rapunzel's resemblance to Arianna was so that she would be undeniably her daughter at a glance, to anyone who knew what Arianna looked like really well. And for that, I have no problem with it.

I actually like that the series carried this forward and had Willow strongly resemble her, too. Sometimes genetics just be like that.

No, my real complaint with Arianna's design is that Disney is allergic to making women look older than 30 unless they're either a villain or a grandma. Arianna should have obviously greying hair (it's greying at the end of the movie, but they got rid of that for the series) and fine lines. She's spent the last 18 years stressed out of her gourd. You're telling me all that stress wouldn't give her grey hair and wrinkles, like Frederic has?

I would classify Xavier and Faith as side characters. Background characters are more like that Black lady we often see in Corona who never has any lines. (Except the sung ones about the kittens in "I've Got This.")

But as for your question, Xavier would be an interesting focus, and, quite frankly, Arianna. She was definitely delegated to side character, rather than secondary character. Willow, too.

Lance Strongbow

Eugene's past with The Baron and Stalyan (though the timeline needs tweaking. Also, his canonical past. I don't consider the events of The Rise of Flynn Rider remotely canonical.)

Frederic and Arianna's names (though those have been retconned as canon)

Willow

Pascal and Rapunzel met because he climbed her tower while escaping a predator when they were both young (it's actually been a long-standing headcanon of mine, though originally I headcanoned it as a hawk that was chasing him)

Tangled: Between the Kisses

Act Two: The Black Rocks

Chapter Eightteen: As The Willow Bends

Queen Arianna celebrates her birthday with her daughter... and her younger sister, Willow.

Written by @tangledbea and @the-writer1988    

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This will be the last chapter we post until September. The main reason is that the following three chapters make up our S1 finale and are all still in editing. We want to make sure we can maintain the two-weekly updates for our S1 finale, and we figured it would be better to take a 6-week posting break here instead of right in the middle of posting it. This short break now will also allow us to get ahead more into S2 as well.

No.

I remember you asking me shippy questions back in the day about Willow. I still don't ship her with anyone.

No, Willow is, like, my age.

Besides, my aunts are all rad as it is. One of them is a literal witch. Another one housed me for the summer when I was 5 so I could spend time with my favorite cousin. The last one is my favorite coworker.

I like Willow. I actually with they'd done more with her, so we could have gotten to know her better.

Honestly, I'm a younger sister, but also an adult, so I could easily see both sides of the argument. It's both that Willow is flighty and inconsiderate/irresponsible and that Arianna was being too sensitive, and Rapunzel was sort of the middle ground between them.

This was a rare instance where the story's focus was on Arianna, attempting to develop her as a character, but they didn't do enough with it. If we'd gotten even more about her through the course of the series, then I'm sure "The Way of the Willow" would have slotted in more neatly.

Oh gosh, thanks! I'm glad you enjoy that little one-shot!

Back in the day, I called them King Henry and Queen Annabelle. And, no, Willow was always Willow in that fic. When I originally conceived of the story concept, years before the series came out, there was no sister figure, but by the time I actually wrote it down, I knew Willow, so I included her. I’ve just always liked the name Ambrose, so I knew that would be the other suitor’s name (until Trevor came along).

I think Eugene would like her. She's the "fun aunt," very friendly and likeable (judging by the number of friends she has among the guards and palace staff), so I can see him enjoying her company (especially if she called him a looker, which I can see her doing), just so long as her carefree, lackadaisical attitude didn't put him, Rapunzel, and/or the kingdom in danger (again).

I can easily a friendship with them turning south if he started to feel like he had to babysit a woman nearly twice his age.

She is. I typoed. Arianna is the older sister, Willow is the younger sister. (And the original post is edited.)