[ SECRET POST #4512 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4512 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Kinda OT, but I'd actually like to see an AU version of Rapunzel with a Gothel that's not blatant evil to start out with

Maybe a story where there's a witch who's terrified of death and dying who somehow finds a way to be young and beautiful and live forever, except that enchantment is tied to another living person. One who she starts off really trying to do her best to look after and care for. Except the daughter grows up and tries to have a life on her own and turns out to be a kind of reckless naive kind of child who tends to get herself hurt and the witch, while she does care for the daughter, gets slowly more paranoid about dying and mortality, and gets slowly crazier and more controlling because she's so scared for her own life while still fighting herself because she does care about the daughter for real, and things spiral into creepy psych horror mode

Except I'd like the side of it to be portrayed where - while the witch is abusive and it's explicitly depicted as abuse, and what she feels is bad - being afraid to die is portrayed as also a totally reasonable emotion to feel. In a "If your life were at stake, how far would you go?" kind of way. She's aware she's becoming a horrible person who probably doesn't deserve to live, but she also really doesn't want to shrivel up and lose her mental facilities and physical autonomy and all those body horror things that come with advanced old age. As a viewer you don't have to like it, or like her, but you understand where she's coming from, rather than being able to dismiss it as "well she's a superficial asshole abuser who just wants to stay pretty"

Relevant to the secret though, I'd like a version of Rapunzel where all the "you wouldn't leave your mother, would you?" comes from a place of terror rather than selfish greed, where genuine arguments over whether Gothel really loved Rapunzel could be had, vs. obvious cackling evil, you know

[quirkytizzy]

Someone with more talent than me write this, please.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like a really cool idea, in would really love to play around with it. If I ever got around to making some kind of work with this -- where could I find you?/post/say hey some anon on a site I frequent had this interesting idea I wanted to toy with lol