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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-10-06 02:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #6118 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6118 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-10-07 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The only other interpretation is willing ignorance at this point. There is never any action that isn't written, per both script and what we see, that is true affection for anything other than the girl. She even largely calls Rapunzel "her flower."

The ONLY people I've seen defending Gothel are people deep in denial about their own abusive families or abusers themselves. Or people, like OP, who somehow think a different kind of abuse would be better. But there is NOTHING in "I'm going to chain you down when you finally escape from me, literally, because I want nothing more than the youth-restoring power of your hair" that could be interpreted as actual love. She literally keeps Rapunzel as a prisoner, Rapunzel only has three books to read which she rereads daily, and even the paints example was something Gothel only did reluctantly because she thought it meant Rapunzel gave up on leaving the tower.

Other interpretations can exist, but this is like saying the sky is actually made of cheese.