Donella

Mom (Hugo)

Boss, Celine Dion (Cyrus)

Donella is an uncanonical character and the main antagonist of Tangled spin off series Varian and the Seven Kingdoms, and poses as the main threat and villain during the course of the story

Many years ago, Donella was a research partner to Varian's mother, and is now presumed responsible for her death. Currently, Donella is trying to find a way to access her former colleague's secrets. As a means of accomplishing this, she employs Hugo to act as a double agent for her, infiltrating Varian's travel party disguised as a friend.

### Appearance

Donella is tall, mature woman with beige skin, diamond face shape and sharp features. She has long silver hair tied up to a single braid. She has thin, dark brown almond eyes with gray eyeshadow and dark undereyes. Her high angled eyebrows are black and her nose is straight and sharp with a raised base of nose. Her lips are an ashy mahogany shade. She has a scar on her lower right cheek.

Her clothes consists of gray and black, practical clothes. She has a high necked, long-sleeved gray undershirt with puff sleeves. On top of that, she wears a black/dark gray tank top with silver buttons. She wears baggy, gray pants hold up by a black belt with a silver button, along with long, black boots.

In one of her concept arts she wears a long lab coat, a face mask and a head scarf, most likely her outfit for dangerous alchemical or scientific work.

### Personality

Donella is often portrayed as a highly intelligent, cunning and stoic woman who uses this persona to hide her true feelings. She is observant and bright with an eye for detail but often times trips herself up with her own insecurities. It is show that Donella has a difficult time articulating her emotions, which leads her to lash out and act in unexplained ways, giving her a villainous reputation.

However, Donella is shown to be capable of kindness and compassion, even if she doesn't believe this herself. Her cold and rational way of approaching conflicts may make this seem untrue, but she is shown to truly care about Hugo.

### Story

When Donella returned from the final trial without Ulla, she told Quirin that Ulla did not survive it. Quirin believed this, which was a big part of why he was torn on Varian taking after Ulla as an alchemist. Varian would have learned on the road that Ulla might not be truly dead- and that Donella was very aware of that.

Maybe years ago when she and Ulla set out to complete the trials they came to an ideological disagreement. Ulla wished to keep the knowledge of the Eternal Library under strict restriction while Donella wished to share it. This disagreement lead to a battle where Donella locked Ulla in the library and Ulla locked Donella out, utilizing the magical skills the two possessed. During this battle Donella received the two scars across her right cheek.

Returning to Old Corona, she returned Ulla's journal to Quirin before disappearing, presumably to live in the Iron Kingdom where she later adopts Hugo. She never told a soul what happened in the Library, not wanting to destroy Ulla's reputation as well. Another motivation could be her additional feelings towards Ulla, later revealed to be romantic. In turn, she is largely perceived as a murderer and a traitor as well as a woman to be feared.

### More info

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37293373/chapters/93053308