Rapunzel

## Background

### 1512 - 1530: Rapunzel

A lonely couple, who long for a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to a sorceress. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with pregnancy, notices some root vegetable growing in the nearby garden & asks her husband to fetch it for her. Desperate to please his wife, he breaks into the garden to get some for her. He continues to do this for weeks until the witch catches him & accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy & she agrees to be lenient, allowing him to take all the vegetables he wants on condition that the baby be given to her when it's born. Desperate, he agrees. When his wife gives birth to the girl, the witch takes her away as the mother cries out for their child.

Raising the girl as her own, Gothel names the child "Rapunzel" after the plant her mother craved. As the girl & her golden hair continued to grow, Gothel locked her up inside a tower in the middle of the woods that had no stairs or a door but only one room & one window. In order to visit Rapunzel, the sorceress stands beneath the tower & calls out "Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!"

When Rapunzel became a teenager, Leysa the Defender aka the Fairy Godmother showed her godsons Prince Charming & Prince Darling the way to the tower she was kept in, mainly to spite Gothel (who was her nemesis' daughter). Rapunzel wanted nothing to do with Charming's promiscuous ways, so he returned home. However, she & Darling had a passionate love affair behind Frau's back which resulted in Rapunzel's pregnancy. When Totenkinder found out, she went after Rapunzel but Darling seemed to have killed her with his sword.

Taking the woman who was now carrying his children, he & Rapunzel travelled to his home of the Silver Realm. The two were then married & she gave birth to twin girls. Life changed drastically for Rapunzel as she no longer was the servant for someone else & now had servants herself. Though she insisted on not having any, she soon accommodated top the life of a royal.

## Personality

Rapunzel is a driven person, who still hopes to find her children one day. She describes herself as an excellent spy, a competent assassin & a lousy diplomat. She's friendly though she sometimes has a mean streak & has a habit of making men angry. This doesn't bother at all as she tends to stick to herself & likes it that way.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Fable Physiology**
	+ ***Immortality*:** As a Fable, Rapunzel is immortal.
	+ ***Invulnerability*:** She is extremely difficult to kill as she is one of the popular Fables.
	+ ***Rapid Hair Growth*:** Rapunzel's hair constantly & quickly grows. Extreme emotion can accelerate her hair's growing rate.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Due to the years she spent looking for her children, she soon became a warrior & even killed a minotaur.
* **Espionage:** Rapunzel has been extensively trained in espionage, covert operations & stealth. She herself is very confident in her experiences as a spy for Fabletown.
* **Firearms:** She is a fair marksman with several firearms.
* **Occultism**
* **Swordsmanship:** She has been trained in fencing by Bluebeard.
* **Magical Translator:** Rapunzel was given a magical translator that allowed her to, at the very least, communicate with birds who were otherwise incapable of human speech.
* **Antique Hair Clip:**A enchanted hair clip enchanted to slow down the rapid growing of her hair.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Rapunzel's hair grows inches in a mere hour. Because of this, she has to get two to three haircuts each day.
* Because of her marriage to Darling, she met & became friends with all of Charming's wives (Snow White, Briar Rose, Cinderella)

## Notes

* Rapunzel is a character from the *Fables.*
* Many of her attributes come from Cinderella of the *Fables.*
* I chose the last name O'Hare for her alias as hare & hair are homophones.