Rapunzel

[Rapunzel]

RAPUNZEL

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Name: Rapunzel
Nicknames: Rae
Age: physically- 30 / technically- 58
Fandom: OC


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Height: 5'2"
Weight: 127 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
General Appearance: Of average height and weight with dark eyes and usually tanned skin from days spent riding. She had brown hair that she never lets get passed her shoulders, and is usually pulled back in a pony-tail. She has an athletic build and several mostly-faded scars on her arms and legs from her childhood. Her hands are rough and calloused. She has a pretty smile, though no one ever sees it.

These days Rapunzel doesn't have much to wear. A few raggedy dresses she wears as a servant and some old men's shirts and slacks for casual wear. Her prized possession is a pair of good riding boots she's managed to hang onto. She also still has her wedding band that she keeps hidden at all times.


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Strengths:
-Riding
-Cleaning
-Caring for people
-Dagger-wielding
-Pickpocketing
-Stealing
-Lying
-Cheating
Weaknesses:
-Trusting people
-Opening up/telling the truth
-Cooking
-Staying in one place too long
-Swimming
Fears:
-Drowning
-Losing her family forever
-Going to prison
General Personality:
Rapunzel is somewhat a hypocrite, though she wouldn't call herself that. She hates liars, but she lies all the time. She dislikes greedy people, though she'll do just about anything for money. The problem is that she's conditioned to do these things, and she hates it about herself as well. She hates what she is and what she's done.

She considers her daughter to be the only good thing she's done in her whole life and has felt lost without her near. Mostly she feels torn between doing what she grew up doing - which she now knows is wrong - and trying to better her life and become something she thinks Grace and Jefferson would approve of. It's still hard for her to trust people after all the betrayal she witnessed as a child, though she desperately wants to have friends. She's incredibly charismatic and could make anyone do as she wanted easily.


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Family:
Biological family unknown.
Adoptive mother: Gothel
Husband: Jefferson
Daughter: Grace
History: There is little Rapunzel knows of her early life. She was found at what is believed to be the age of four by Gothel - her mother, for all intents and purposes. She was curled up in a dark alley wearing a torn dress, and apparently had no clue who she was. Gothel took her in and raised her, naming her Rapunzel for the roots she grew that the young girl had a fondness for.

As time went on, Gothel found she didn't have enough money to raise the child with the meager earnings from selling the roots and doing a little embroidery. It was when Rapunzel was six that the family resorted to picking pockets and breaking into homes to keep them going. It wasn't long before they were caught, however, and had to flee their little village. Undeterred, Gothel insisted they keep up the act wherever they went, moving from town to town and collecting trinkets as they went.

Most of Rapunzel's life was spent this way - never knowing anyone as well as she knew her mother, never staying in one place long enough to try. At the estimated age of eighteen she had long-since grown tired of the wandering, but had given in to it, believing it to be the only way they would survive with so many people looking for them. Finally, on the first night spent in a new kingdom, Gothel came to her with the news that they would never have to steal again, if only they could fool a few people into believing Rapunzel was someone else.

It seemed that the royal family was without an heir because the only princess had been kidnapped as an infant. She would've been Rapunzel's age, and she could certainly pass for her in features. Against her better judgment, Rapunzel agreed to play the part, with Gothel acting as the woman who had raised the tiny princess since she found her as a child.

It didn't take much convincing. The queen was overjoyed to have her daughter back and would have believed anything Rapunzel told her. The king was not so quick to trust her, and avoided her for a long while. Regardless, the con-women were set for some months in the castle. Gothel was allowed to stay, being the person to reunite the family, and was even given a title. Rapunzel, acting as new princess, was made to learn eighteen years' worth of protocol in a few months. One of the dozens of servants made to help her with this task was a young man close to her age, named Jefferson.

It was confusing for her, falling in love with Jefferson so quickly. Not only had Gothel conditioned her not to completely trust anyone else, but now that she was a princess there was no way she could be with a lowly servant, and he made sure they stuck with that rule. But it was coming up on sixth months since her arrival when everything changed and the king had her and Gothel locked away, calling them impostors without (as far as she could tell) any proof.

Locked in the highest tower and sentenced to either death or lifetime imprisonment, Rapunzel confessed to Jefferson what she was, and how she'd only meant to make a better life for her mother and her. He sympathized, regretting to tell her that Gothel had told a different story, saying Rapunzel was her master and had made her lie. She'd already been released on the grounds that she was never to return to the kingdom. There was nothing Jefferson could do to help her. Luckily she'd found an alternate way out. A name carved into the stone wall of the tower which, when mumbled out of boredom, brought a guest to her cell. Rumpelstiltskin.

Moved as he was by her charming tale, he offered to set her free for a price. Strange as their encounter was, Rapunzel trusted him immediately, because he didn't claim to be something he wasn't. He didn't pretend to want to be her friend or to not want anything from her - he didn't even say he liked her. He told her his terms up front, and she admired that. She agreed and he made it stupidly easy for her to escape - though she hadn't planned on Jefferson seeing her steal a horse and follow her.

They were married as soon as they found a new town to call home. It was amazing the impact they had on each other - Jefferson's straight-laced, law-abiding-ness rubbing off on her. And Rapunzel teaching him to be a little bit more reckless. They were perfect together, although broke. But then Rumpelstiltskin appeared again while Jefferson was out fishing. He'd come to ask his favor. There was an object of great value that he wanted her to steal for him.

The Hat, while heavily guarded, appeared quite ordinary to her as she examined it after her final heist. Jefferson hadn't been happy about the job, but they'd managed to take a few jewels in the process, and it would cover them for half a year, at least. It was by complete accident they discovered the Hat's abilities, and so began their string of adventures into other lands, exploring and trading. Rumpelstiltskin allowed them to keep it on the grounds that she was to find things for him in other lands, though she never could find more magic beans.

After a couple of years of their travels, Rapunzel became pregnant and they had a daughter, Grace. They took turns traveling then so someone would always be with her, until Rumpelstiltskin came calling one last time, asking for her to pull a job she knew she'd need Jefferson's help with. They left the toddler with one of their few acquaintances and went together. Somewhere along the way they were chased by guards of some nobleman they'd robbed and they became separated. Rapunzel had been caught and was unsure of Jefferson's fate, only that if he survived he would have no choice but to leave her.

She spent almost eight years in that strange land before she'd conned her way into getting her hands on a looking glass and came back to the Enchanted Forest - only to have the curse strike before she found her family. She was among the few who weren't taken to Storybrooke, but was nevertheless trapped for twenty-eight more years without her family.

Now that the curse has broken and people are returning, Rapunzel is doing all she can to be reunited with her husband and daughter. Though she's reverted to her old ways of picking pockets, she's trying hard to be a good citizen, even taking up a job as a servant. Most days she just hopes she won't be arrested for all the crimes she committed in the past.


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