Cassandra Reventon

Cassandra Reventon was a close friend of Rapunzel and was her lady in waiting until she betrayed her and stole the Moon Stone and became the main antagonist of the last part of the Sun and Moon Story Arc, she reformed herself after the battle with Zhan Tiri and is trying to make up for her mistakes.

## Appearance

Cassandra is a pale-skinned young woman with dark pink lips, hazel eyes and black bob-cut layered hair with grey highlights.

Her signature outfit is a greyish-brown shirt, black leather gloves, a dark brown belt with a purse and a dagger on it, dark brown-and-red striped leggings and brown boots.

Since attempting to touch Adam while she was reciting the Moonstone incantation, Cassandra's right hand and wrist were turned pitch black.

To cover for her injuries, Cassandra donned a knight's Armor and a purple cape.

When she is corrupted by the Moonstone opal, her hair and eyes turn turquoise and her clothes turn black and dark blue with spikes similar to the Black Rocks.

The Moonstone opal itself becomes embedded in her chest, glowing turquoise.

After Zhan Tiri takes the Moon Stone from her, Cassandra's armor turns gray and her hair and eyes return to normal.

Later in the episode, she dons a new outfit that includes a black cape, green tunic with a small light blue purse, and the Cassandrium Varian had given her in "Great Expotations".

## Personality

Cassandra is described as being "tough-as-nails", a fitting description for someone who wishes to join the royal guard.

She is snarky, sarcastic and has a somewhat dry sense of humor.

She is also very intelligent, often subtly insulting Eugene in clever ways that go over his head.

Despite this, she is extremely supportive and protective toward Rapunzel, her polar opposite—so much so, that she openly holds animosity for Eugene, believing him to be a selfish freeloader and undeserving of Rapunzel's love and friendship.

In the series, however, their relationship gradually becomes less hostile, and slightly more playful as the two spend more time together.

In "Fitzherbert P.I.", Cassandra genuinely admired Eugene's determination to become a royal guard, and actively assisted him in proving his worth to her father.

It was later shown that Eugene's quirkiness had started to warm up to Cassandra, who found amusement in his excitement to school the guards as head of a training class.

Aside from her no-nonsense persona, Cassandra is also a free-spirit, not unlike Rapunzel.

Though she has a more cynical way of going about life, Cassandra also finds joy in adventure, living life to the fullest, and experiencing new things.

This is most notably seen during "Wind in My Hair", where Cassandra is seen enjoying herself almost as much as Rapunzel.

Although loyal to King Frederic and Queen Arianna, Cassandra is willing to break their rules (and risk her job) for the sake of Rapunzel's happiness and to accomplish her own dreams; this is seen when Cassandra offered to take Rapunzel beyond the kingdom's wall to explore some of the outside world and escape the pressures of royalty.

Doing so required much stealth and cunning, traits Cassandra revealed herself to have abundantly that night.

In "Challenge of the Brave", it is revealed that Cassandra has some insecurities about how she is seen just as a girl/handmaiden instead of a strong, skilled, and capable warrior who deserves as much respect as anyone in the royal guard.

These insecurities, and the desire to prove herself can sometimes drive Cassandra to act selfishly, even to those she cares about.

Once she realizes her mistakes, however, Cassandra is mature enough to own up to her faults and make amends as best she can.

Cassandra's cynical nature gives her trust issues.

Examples are that she doesn't forgive people easily, she doesn't like sharing her feelings, keeps secrets to herself, or she won't accept help.

This is one of the reasons she has a rivalry with Eugene because he was a thief in the past and she thinks he's ignorant enough to not address other people's feelings (even though it's not his fault he can't tell).

In "Not in the Mood", her personality develops a bit.

She likes to show no mercy toward not just Eugene, but other suspicious-looking people.

She later realizes she should be more compassionate.

For starters, she made friends with a man who was large and scary, but friendly.

She still has a firm belief that strangers can’t be trusted, especially when they lurk in the shadows.

She jumps to conclusions about people’s actions rather quickly.

If she doesn’t like someone, she’ll fight them.

She even fights just for the fun of it, not in the mood for being nice.

Over the course of Season 2, Cassandra's insecurity and desire to rise above everyone's view of her grew to a point where she became bitter to Rapunzel for always upstaging her at everything; a growing crack in their relationship that only gotten worse when she discovered her own backstory in the House of Yesterday's Tomorrow and that her mother chose Rapunzel over her, which soon motives her to betray Rapunzel and take the Moon Stone for herself.

She then ran away with the opal opting to use its powers to make her own destiny apart from Rapunzel and her former friends.

As depicted in the episode "Cassandra's Revenge", she has become increasingly ruthless and sadistic.

However, there are some lines she is still not willing to cross, such as sparing Varian's life, who has been in the same position as her.

However, she tells him they are not as similar as he says, and rejects his pleas for her to stop.

Fueled by not only her own resentment, but Zhan Tiri's controlling manipulations, Cassandra becomes increasingly evil, self-centered, deranged, and malicious, not unlike her mother Gothel.

Her ruthlessness proves to be equal or even superior to that of Varian during his own period of hatred and darkness, given that she blames Rapunzel for Gothel abandoning her, even though Rapunzel was an infant during the time, was taken away from her loving parents, and had suffered under Gothel's abuse, something Cassandra was ironically fortunate to be spared from.

She also goes as far as to threaten Corona if Rapunzel does not comply with her demands, and has hurt people who have not severely wronged her, attempting to crush Eugene to get Rapunzel to fight her, enabling Zhan Tiri's threats against Calliope, and using mind control on the members of the Brotherhood in hopes of igniting a war.

However, in "A Tale of Two Sisters, Cassandra being stuck with Rapunzel under Gothel's old cottage gradually causes her to become protective and warm-hearted towards her once more.

They even reminisce and bond over the old times, only for a misunderstanding caused by Zhan Tiri to revert Cassandra to her bitter and vengeful self, prompting her to leave Rapunzel to die in the mines (only momentarily hesitating) and did not come back for her, with Rapunzel only surviving due to being rescued by Pascal.

In "Once a Handmaiden...", after realizing that Zhan Tiri tricked her, Cassandra becomes remorseful over her actions and seeks to make amends with Rapunzel.

However, she expresses fear that Rapunzel won't forgive her, and comes back to Corona disguised as Faith.

Unfortunately, after Zhan Tiri manipulates her again, Cassandra comes to believe Rapunzel intends to destroy her, causing her to turn her back on her once more, as well as conquer the kingdom with her black rocks, endangering the lives of innocents in the process.

She is also unwilling to take responsibility for her actions, blaming them on Rapunzel and Zhan Tiri, and refuses to acknowledge herself as "the bad guy".

In “Plus Est En Vous”, Cassandra's rage and anger has made her become completely malevolent, and any remembrance of Rapunzel’s “betrayal” causes her to destroy things in a rage.

She also no longer trusts Zhan Tiri, possibly blaming her for most of the he events that transpired.

As she and Rapunzel fight, Cassandra sadistically mocks her and reminds her of how she’s always felt second best.

Cassandra seems to hold some fondness left for Rapunzel by sparing a jar made by her Aunt Willow, which Rapunzel holds dearly.

However, this fondness wasn't enough for Cassandra to spare Rapunzel entirely just as she was about to end Rapunzel but Zhan Tiri took both the Moon stone and Sun Stone from both her and Adam reducing Cassandra back to her old self.

While imprisoned, Cassandra breaks down and finally apologizes to Rapunzel, revealing that she had let her rage cloud her mind and prevented her from seeing what she really needed.

She also reveals that all she wanted to find her own destiny and set out a path for herself, but let her insecurities blind her from those needs.

The two then make amends and Rapunzel says that there is more in Cassandra, more than she ever knew, which installs a new confidence in Cassandra.

Once they break out of the prison and defeat Zhan Tiri, Cass was gravely injured in the scuffle and apparently died, but was revived by Adam by using the Ultimate Power.

She later leaves Corona after tearfully bids farewell to Rapunzel, acknowledging themselves as best friends, and sets out to travel the world and find her destiny.

## Former Powers, Skills & Abilities

Cassandra possesses skills in horseback riding, fencing, archery, athletics, and other skills in combat; which she had learned for being the adopted daughter of Dobo.

She is also shown to be very clever when she understood Megan's clues, had helped Varian with his project and spotting the mistakes in letters from a suspicious character.

As well as possessing skills in acting, as she had tricked a Separatist of Saporia member into thinking that she has romantic feelings for him, so he would come to Corona and she could uncover his true intentions.

Cassandra also has skills in sewing, cleaning and other skills that are needed for her handmaid duties.

After bonding with the Moonstone's supreme dark powers, she, most likely, receives the life-draining powers that it possesses, as evident by its energy coursing through her blue hair or her burnt (now fully healed) left wrist and hand.

* Lunakinetic Combat

* Moonlight Energy Solidification: Cassandra is also capable of generating the Stone's supremely powerful pure lunar energies from her body and causing extensive bodily harm to those who come into contact with them.

* Command Over the Black Rocks: She has total command of the Opal's supremely powerful physical defenses at her disposal; capable of manipulating their unpredictable direction and movements at a higher rate than the rock spikes themselves. Her first display of her control over them, was using them as a shield to prevent Princess Rapunzel from approaching her. Their mental connection to her seems to be strong enough that she could even erect the bridge that they had made for Princess Rapunzel to approach the case from within the heavenly magical Stone rested.

* Lunar Shield Erection: Utilizing the Black Rock Spikes, Cass is able to defend herself and anything around her by commanding them to shield herself from any approaching threat, even from a distance. She has yet to create one from the Opal itself.

* Moon Affinity & Empowerment: Now that she and the Moonstone are forever one entity, Cassandra can now draw more strength from the Stone and even the Moon itself.

* Lunar Energy Creation & Manipulation

## Weapons

* Shadow Blade (Formerly): By overpowering Adria with relative ease by generating a very strong burst of light blue-colored moon-related energy from her right chest-bone, from where the Moonstone Opal is embedded, she takes full control of the warrior maiden's lunar-powered sword and even creates a scabbard for it on her back. To further demonstrate that her ties to her best friend are forever severed, she slashes to rocky bridge she herself created to prevent the desperately pleading Princess from coming any closer.

## Family

* Mother Gothel (Real Mother)
* Unnamed Father
* Captain of the Guard (Adopted Father)