Queen Rapunzel is the well-known fairytale character first appearing in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, who was locked in a tower by a witch and was rescued by a prince who climbed up the tower using her long hair as a rope.
The Wishing Spell takes place after the traditional fairy tale ends and Rapunzel has married her prince and rules as queen of the Corner Kingdom.
Appearance[]
"She was beautiful, with hair that matched the lock Alex and Conner had collected for the Wishing Spell. She wore it up in the biggest bun the twins had ever seen, and it still ran down her back and trailed behind her."[1]
Rapunzel is a beautiful woman with fair skin, bright green eyes, and her most prominent feature is her long, golden-blonde hair that seems almost endless.She wears a long purple dress and wears a gold crown on her head that symbolizes her royalty.
At some point the witch who had her captive cut off all her hair, but over time it grew back as it was before.
Personality[]
Rapunzel spent most of her life alone locked in the tower. After she became queen, she installed a staircase in the tower so she could visit it whenever she wanted.[2]
In Queen Red Riding Hood's Guide To Royalty, Queen Red Riding Hood mentions how Rapunzel sent someone to the gallows for arson, and that the noose may (or may not) have been made of Rapunzel's own hair.[3]
Relationships []
Rapunzel is married to Sir William. She refers to herself as "Aunt Rapunzel"[4] in regards to Princess Hope, but it is unclear if she and Cinderella (or Chance) are actually related in any way. [5]
Story[]
Birth and abduction[]
Rapunzel was the daughter of some bakers from what in the future would be the Corner Kingdom , the couple hoped to have children and had finally managed to do so because the woman was pregnant, they lived next to a mysterious garden full of all kinds of vegetables such as tomatoes, mushrooms and especially cabbages.
Because of her pregnancy, the woman was experiencing strong food cravings, and her husband, being a good husband, brought her everything she wanted to eat. One day, the hungry woman looked at the cabbages growing in the mysterious garden and, seeing how beautiful and juicy they were, she wanted to eat one. She begged her husband to please bring her one to eat, but he was reluctant.
The woman finally managed to persuade he agreed to go to the mysterious garden. When night fell, the peasant sneaked over the wall of the garden and brought some cabbage to his wife who cooked it and ate it happily for dinner without knowing that they had made the biggest mistake of their lives. Unbeknownst to the baker, the garden belonged to a terrible witch who noticed that one of her cabbages had disappeared as soon as it was stolen. She burst into the baker and his wife's house and threatened to curse them for such audacity. The couple knelt down and begged the witch for forgiveness and begged her not to hurt them. The witch told them that her cabbages were not for consumption but for making potions. The cabbage they stole was called Rapunzel cabbage and was used to cure baldness and blindness.
The couple told her that as compensation they would give her anything they had, which intrigued the witch who, despite her desire to curse them, accepted the offer. She looked around the house but found nothing of value. She laid her eyes on the woman's belly and declared that her firstborn would be the one she would take. The parents begged no, but the witch made her decision and if they contradicted her, she would curse them into oblivion.
2 months lather the woman birth a beautiful and heal girl, in that moment the witch returns and take the child bapziting her Rapunzel like the cabbage they stole.
The Witch take the girl to the forest and lock her in a very high tower with no doors, no stairs and only a small window at the top where one person could barely fit and raised her there.
Every day the witch visited her, climbing the tower brick by brick, but as she grew older it became more difficult for her to climb, but she found an alternative method when Rapunzel came of age and became a beautiful young woman. The magic of the cabbage that Rapunzel's biological mother had eaten affected the girl since her hair grew every day longer and stronger than that of all the maidens in the world combined. Every day the witch began to call Rapunzel and asked her to let down her hair. Rapunzel always agreed and stuck her gigantic blonde mane out the window so the witch could use it as a rope, allowing her to climb.
Escape attempt[]
Every day as the years went by Rapunzel asked the witch if she would ever be able to leave the tower she was in but the witch always refused to let her out and told her that she should be grateful to be protected from the terrible outside, however her curiosity about the outside only increased as she did not believe the world was as bad as the witch said. Every day as the years went by Rapunzel asked the witch if she would ever be able to leave the tower she was in but the witch always refused to let her out and told her that she should be grateful to be protected from the terrible outside, however her curiosity about the outside only increased as she did not believe the world was as bad as the witch said. When the witch left, Rapunzel prayed every day to find a way out and have someone to go with, and one day her prayers were finally answered.
A handsome young man named William was wandering through the forest and luckily found Rapunzel's tower. Curiously, he went around the base of the tower and saw that it had no doors or stairs to enter. He heard someone crash and hid behind a thorn tree. He saw that it was an old woman who shouted at the tower, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let your hair down." Rapunzel went out to the window and let her hair fall so that the witch could come up. The boy was captivated by the girl's beauty and wanted to meet her.
He waited hidden for the witch to leave listening to the same conversation that Rapunzel and the witch used to have, she to leave and the witch refusing to let her, young William was forced to save the girl from the tower and the witch who had her captive. The next day he waited for the witch to arrive and say the words and go up the tower, when the witch got down and left the young man shouted the same words as her "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair". Surprised because the witch never came to see her twice in a row, she feared that something was wrong or that she had forgotten something, she went to the window and let her hair down as usual but instead of seeing the witch come up she saw a young man appear in the window which terrified her quite a bit since she had never seen another person apart from the witch.
The young man told her that he would not hurt her since he just wanted to meet her. Rapunzel asked him where he was from and he answered that he was from a town which is on the edge of the forest, which inflamed Rapunzel's curiosity and she asked him to tell her everything about that town.
The young man told her about the place and Rapunzel was enchanted with everything she heard, eager to see the place. From then on, the following days after the witch visited Rapunzel and left, young William would climb the tower to tell Rapunzel about the wonders outside.
The boy offered to let her leave the tower with him to see the world, but at first Rapunzel was reluctant because she did not want to anger the witch since she considered her as her mother, but the boy managed to convince her that she deserved her independence, he thought of a plan to leave the tower with her. After that day, he began to bring her strings to create a rope with her hair so she would be able to use it to climb out the window, but by mistake, he left one of the maps he had and the witch found it on one of her visits.
Enraged, she confronted Rapunzel about who was secretly visiting her and threatened to curse that person if she refused. Rapunzel finally broke down and confessed that she was a boy from the village at the edge of the forest and simply asked her mother what was wrong with having a friend, after which she began to cry.
The witch cuts all of Rapunzel's hair and then abandoned her in the forest, that same night the boy called Rapunzel to let her hair down without knowing that the one who was letting it down was the witch with the cut hair and he didn't realize until he saw her in the window. When he discovered the deception, it was too late, the witch pushed him off the tower and he fell on the thorny vines that covered the tower that although they cushioned his fall and prevented him from dying from it, the thorns pierced his eyes and he was permanently blinded.
Poor William wandered blindly through the forest for several months asking for help until his voice became hoarse from screaming, but miraculously he managed to meet Rapunzel again, who was not alone since before they separated she was pregnant with twins. William was very happy to know this, but his sadness returned when he learned that he would never be able to see what his children looked like. Rapunzel rested her head on his lap and cried next to him, her tears surrounded his face and fell on his blind eyes.
Because she still possessed the magic of the magic cabbage within her, her tears healed William's eyes once they fell into his eyes and he was able to see again. He led Rapunzel and her children to their village and was reunited with the rest of her family and Rapunzel was finally able to gain the freedom she had longed for.
Becoming Queen[]
After the death of the witch, Rapunzel, being her "adopted daughter", became the heir to all of the witch's lands, including many large villages and towns in the corner of the continent. Rapunzel decided to name it the Corner Kingdom and became the first queen of said kingdom.
1. The Wishing Spell[]
Rapunzel is seen near the end of the book along with all the other royals, congratulating Cinderella on the birth of her daughter Hope.
2. The Enchantress Returns[]
Rapunzel goes with her husband Sir William to the meeting of the Happily Ever After Assembly to discuss what to do against the Enchantress, she refuses to hand over her kingdom to Ezmia along with all the other kingdoms.
She is kidnapped along with the other members of the royalty by Ezmia and taken to her coliseum, she finally gives in to hand over the Corner Kingdom to the Sorceress, after Ezmia's death the vine that had her tied up came untied and Snow White and Chandler helped her remove the leaves from her hair.
Quotes []
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