Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a parody of Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled, who appears in Drawn to Murder as one of its six update characters.
==Appearance==
Rhododendron appears to be a cute-looking Caucasian late-teens to early-20s girl with excessively long brown, fading into blonde, hair who wears a near-medium-sleeve light yellow dress and is barefoot.
===Personality===
Rhododendron is free-spirited and curious about the outside world, with a strong desire to explore it, and shows no regard for Mother's strict rules, despite trying her very best to be an obedient daughter.
==Movelist==
===Drawn to Murder===
====Special Moves====
* Flying Panwheel: Rhododendron jumps over her opponent to the other side, holding a frying pan out in front of her and spinning 1080° clockwise or counter-clockwise as she does so, which deals three hits total and crumples the foe on the third hit. On Meter Burn, upon landing back down onto the ground, she wallops the opponent horizontally to the left or right in the back of the head with the pan, knocking them down onto the ground.
* Follicular Grab 'n' Slam: Rhododendron grabs her opponent with her hair, then jumps into the air, spins them 360° clockwise or counter-clockwise around her and slams them down onto the ground. Meter Burn causes her to, after the grab, slam the opponent against the ground left or right and right and left five times, with the fifth and final hit launching them into the air.
* Hairy Drill: Rhododendron descends diagonally downwards at her opponent with her right or left foot encased in her hair, which takes the form of a drill, dealing three hits upon contact with them. Meter Burn adds two additional hits and causes knockdown on the fifth hit. Must be done in midair.
====Hyper-Toons====
* Follicular Thrasher: Rhododendron grabs her hair, during which she calls out, "Hair today...", then wildly flails it in the form of multiple tendrils in different directions in a manner reminiscent of Omega Red's Omega Destroyer, the hair tendrils damaging her opponent upon contact with them, and declares, "Thrashed, uh... later today!"
* The Water Wheel: Rhododendron creates a water wheel from her own hair with her inside it, during which she calls out, "Here's a new style you'll like!", then runs across the inside of the wheel, causing it to start moving, then rushes at her opponent, continuing on as she does so, "I call it: the Water Wheel!" The super move deals seven hits total, and on the final hit, the character on the receiving end of this Hyper-Toon is knocked down onto the ground, and upon getting back up, goes into a "slowed" state. This can also be performed in midair.
=====Level 3 Hyper-Toon=====
* Watch the Hair... Or Else!: Rhododendron starts this Hyper-Toon by grabbing her hair, during which she calls out, "This'll be a total hair-raiser!", then encasing her opponent in it, both sides of her hair still in her hands as she does so. The next thing she does is perform a triple under with the foe, slamming them down onto the ground with each jump, in a manner reminiscent of Birdie's Street Fighter V Critical Art, "Skip to My Chain," continuing on as she does so, "If you don't go easy on me OR my hair," followed by throwing them in the direction of the "wall" behind them, then grabbing the other character with her hair again, this time using only the right or left side of her hair, and lasso-spins them above her head 2160° clockwise, during which she continues on, "Then I won't go easy on YOU!", and lastly, pulls the character on the receiving end of this super move towards her with her hair and smacks them in the face with a frying pan, causing, in slow motion, blood to fly out of their nose and mouth, the latter of which two blood-stained teeth also fly out of, then it's back to normal speed and they go flying through the air and down onto the ground.
====Finishing Moves====
=====Deanimations=====
* Hair-Tied: Rhododendron lowers her head and thrusts her hair into the ground, causing multiple hair tendrils to wrap around her opponent in a manner reminiscent of a spider's web, and they struggle in their binds as Rhododendron tightens her hair's grip on them for five seconds until she pulls her head back, reducing all but the losing character's head, hands, and legs, which then fall to the ground in a pool of their own blood, then lets go of the now-dead foe. Must be performed at jump distance.
* Hairycopter: Rhododendron grabs her opponent by the ankles with her hair, then throws them very high up into the sky, causing them to disappear off-screen for three seconds, giving her time to form her hair into helicopter blades, then spin it, and as soon as the character on the receiving end of this Deanimation reappears on-screen and falls into the hair blades, spinning multiple times at extreme velocity as they do so, their whole body becomes mincemeat in a bloody, gory mess. Must be performed at sweep distance.
==Sequences==
===Drawn to Murder===
* Intro Sequence: Rhododendron uses her hair to swing into the fight and says, "You sure we should do this?", then lands onto the ground and continues with a sigh, "All right, but watch the hair!", before going into her fighting stance.
* Round Win Sequence: Rhododendron takes some of her hair and spins it 720° clockwise or counter-clockwise in her left or right hand and says, "I've had better hair days than this," then goes into her fighting stance again.
* Outro Sequence: Rhododendron dusts off her excessively-long hair, during which she says, "Damn, I'm going to need a lot of shampoo after this," then Peter pops his head out of the ground like a mole and ogles her bare feet, only for Rhododendron to wrap his eyes in her hair and say, "HEY! I don't think you can stare at me like that."
== Win Quotes ==
=== Drawn to Murder ===
==== Generic ====
* "Damn, I had no idea how fun the outside world could be until I started kicking your ass."
* "Oh, fuck, no! I've got to get back to the tower! Mother doesn't like when I stay out too long..."
* "Have you ever worried about getting split ends? I have. UMPTEEN times!"
==== Mirror Match ====
* "Since you like to pretend to be people, how about you stand in for me as my mother's fuck toy?"
==Storyline==
===Drawn to Murder===
==== Prologue ====
To be added...
====Ending====
After learning from the Nothingness that she was born from an adulterous affair between her mother and the king of Marigold's kingdom, Rhododendron defeats him in an arduous battle, saving the very ink of cartoonkind in the process. Later, when Rhododendron returns home to Mother's (an exaggerated parody of Mother Gothel from Disney's Tangled) tower, she tries to ground her for a longer period of time for her disobedience, but to no avail, as the Everlastian royal guard come to drag the older woman away to the castle dungeon, where she will stay for all the years she abused and committed incest with her own daughter, much to Rhododendron's relief. Upon learning that she is the lost princess and Marigold's half-sister, the guards return her to the castle, where she is happily reunited with her true family, the royal family, and comes to realize that her faith in family comes not from the overprotective cruelty of her mother, but from the loyalty and support of her sister.
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