Mother Gothel

* Young
* Old

**Fanon:** Dr. Faciler, Dr. Faciler's Friends On The Other Side.Evan Potter, Lucifer Magne

## Physical Description

### Appearance:

**Without** the healing and age-reversing power of the Golden Flower, Mother Gothel is a very elderly woman.
**With**, she is voluptuous with a curvaceous figure, and she is a tall, slender woman. Her skin is flawless, smooth, and a shade of very pale ivory.

## Background Information

### Movies:

Tangled
Tangle: Before Ever After (cameo)

### Mics:

The DT RP: improvised (initially; briefly)

**Mother Gothel** is the "adoptive" mother of Rapunzel and the main antagonist in the Disney film *Tangled*. She is a wicked crone who retained youth for hundreds of years through the healing properties of a magic, golden flower. When the flower's powers are transferred to the hair of Rapunzel, Gothel kidnapped the princess and locked her away in a secluded tower, where she hoarded Rapunzel's healing magic. To keep the princess under her control, Gothel posed as Rapunzel's loving, albeit overprotective mother with a mission to protect her daughter from the "cruelty" of the outside world. Mother Gothel would be a member of the Wicked Ten of the Disney Villains (likely a higher up due to her friendship with Maleficent and previous deals with Dr. Facilier and his friends on the other side) and a Main Antagonist of The Disney RP

## Appearances

### Tangled

As an elderly woman near the end of her life, Mother Gothel is the single witness of a drop of pure sunlight falling to the ground, creating a magical flower with healing abilities. When she sings to it and strokes its petals, she becomes younger and beautiful. Determined to keep herself beautiful and young forever, Gothel selfishly hoards the flower's power while keeping its gift a secret from the rest of the world. Centuries pass, and in that time, a kingdom prospers nearby. Its queen falls deathly ill while pregnant, and the entire kingdom searches for a cure: the fabled magic flower. Upon finding it, the king's guards uproot the plant and use it to create a tea that cures the queen, much to Gothel's dismay. The flower's abilities, meanwhile, are passed onto the Queen's child, Rapunzel. In the dead of night, Mother Gothel breaks into the castle and uses Rapunzel's long golden hair to replenish herself. When she tries to cut some of the hair for herself, however, it turns brown and the healing powers are destroyed. Desperate, Mother Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and disappears into the night. She isolates the princess in a tower hidden in a forest far away from the rest of the kingdom, and raises her as her own daughter and teaches her the healing incantation. Mother Gothel refuses to let Rapunzel go outside, telling her the world is a dangerous place where selfish people would try to hurt her and use her gift for themselves

### Tangled: Before Ever After

Six months after the events of *Tangled*, Rapunzel continues to reside in the palace with her real family. At the start of the movie, during the prologue, Gothel is mentioned and makes a cameo appearance in Rapunzel's paintings recounting the events that led to her return as a princess.

Gothel is also alluded to a few times throughout the events that unfold: when King Frederic and Queen Arianna discuss why the former is so overprotective of Rapunzel, he mentally flashes back to the night Gothel broke into the castle and kidnapped Rapunzel. Later, during the climax, the antagonistic Lady Caine warns Rapunzel that she has no idea who she's dealing with, to which Rapunzel retorts, "Believe me, I've dealt with much worse," a clear reference to Gothel.