21ENJOY ~
With every minute, every second, of every day Varian grows a smoldering animosity toward the kingdom of Corona.
King Federic holds Varian for high treason due to the near destruction of his highness's palace. The best form of punishment was to keep Varian in a heavily guarded cell with restraints at all times. After all that's happened to Varian, it wasn't an astonishment, or an inconvenience.
There was no one or anywhere to turn to.
His home, the mainland, Old Corona, had crumbled down to the ground. The people were in a constant state of panic. It has come to their knowledge that Varian was to have an audience with the king and the queen in a matter of hours. A handful of people in the mainland were wondering if Varian really had the intention of tearing down the kingdom. They were concerned. He was just a child. A sweet boy with an astounding amount of knowledge and pure fasination with the science of discovering new things and inventing absurd contraptions. The only bad thing that was ever said about Varian by these few people was the fact that he would sometimes get carried away with his inventions to the point where they would accidentally go awry. These people believed he was good at heart, that he wouldn't purposely hurt anyone. Ever.
Others on the mainland, however, the LOT of them, believed that that was exactly the problem with Varian. These people would speak out of anger. They would say Varian was a nuisance. Someone who grew with up a very busy father and without the proper love of a mother. Varian could build anything out of nothing from the ground up. That was brilliant and everything. However he never once thought to be considerate of those around him and warn them of the possible consequences of his careless inventing and they believed he wouldn't be in the unfortune perdicament he is now.
Varian's truth was far beyond from what anybody in the mainland, or the kingdom understood. Which made his blood boil. Yes. He had a fasination with science. Yes. He loved to build things . . . but they were anything. But. Absurd. No one in the mainland ever understood he would build things to benefit others. To make difficult tasks easier for others. Yes. He would get carried away in inventing. Yes. Things would go awry. Severely and frequently. That's the only thing everyone in the mainland has ever known Varian to do. Fail. To cause destruction. Which is why he would often keep his inventing to himself. All Varian ever wanted . . . all he ever needed . . . was the acknowledging encourgements of others.
When the recent homecoming of the kingdom's missing princess came to the surface it wasn't long before Rapunzel became aware of Varian's fixation in problem solving with his superior intellect. She and her hand maiden personally requested Varian's assistance. Quickly becoming friends, Rapunzel explained she was in perdicament of her own, she entrusted Varian for help. It was certainly a bizzare problematic situation that invovled very long, beautiful, golden, hair growing over night and the upbringing of dangerous mysterious pointed stones. It was a chance for Varian to prove himself. The fact that Princess Rapunzel gave that chance to Varian, and believed he could anything in his power to help, was enough to keep him upbeat and useful.
Everything backfired. Like it always did.
Varian's world had turned upside down, when he and his father were the ones who needed help. The upbringing of the dangerous mysterious pointed stones had worsened. The stones were indestructible, and they invaded the mainland. Varian's father, Quirin, believed their people were in trouble. Quirin requested to see his majesty, king Federic, along with the agreement of Varian's. Things went a bit differently to Varian's surprise. Instead of asking for help, his father simply asked for more land for their crops. Which was untrue and very confusing. Dismissing his son's questions and concerns Quirin simply told Varian to stay away from the stones. Disobeying his father's wishes Varian experimented with different methods and variables with the intention of being rid of the stones. Concerned Quirin interrupted Varian in the middle of his experimentations. This caused them they aruge wether or not if Varian can do it. Varian was positive that he could, and that he was close, to prove this he had one of his experimentations drop on to the stones, something went wrong. It grew amber instead. The amber grew to such an extent that it encased his father . . . The amber was just as indestructible as the stones before.
Scared at his mind Varian returned to the kingdom. Only to find that the king and queen had left the kingdom on a two day trip and left princess Rapunzel in charge. Rapunzel was flabbergasted being that she had problems of her own, her parents' horse returned immediately after they left with a missing carriage, which lead to the belief that they were possibility hurt. The kingdom's best men went out looking for Rapunzel's parents and she was left alone in charge of her people in a middle of a crisis. Varian bursted into the scene without the knowledge of Rapunzel, begging for her help. She was the only one that could help, for she wanted to solve to mystery of the undestructable pointed stones herself, it was somehow linked to her long golden hair . . . However . . . She just simply couldn't do it. Varian didn't hear her reasons as to why . . . or rather he didn't want to, all he heard was the sound of utter and complete betrayal when her guards forcefully escorted him out of the palace.
Varian vowed that day he couldn't rely on anybody. Not the people of the kingdom, not the people in his mainland, not even those who were supposedly his companions. He could only rely on himself.
Countless sleepless nights Varian had stayed up and heavily researched ways to rescue his father from his amber encased prison. The answer was right in front of him when he stumbled upon an old encripted scroll foretelling the stories of the sunflower and the moonstone. The flower had magical properties to heal any disease of any kind, it helped the queen concieve princess Rapunzel, but the moonstone . . . the moonstone was its counter part. The details were missing from the torn scroll. With no knowledge of why they were so indestructible. Nevertheless. Varian's idea only consisted of the Sunflower. If it was the polar opposite of the stones, maybe they had the reaction needed to save his father. The only question: Where was the SunFlower? Varian was certain there was remains of it. The king couldn't have possibly be rid of something so previous and valuable. It was possible that it was hidden in the palace of Corona. But where? It was the last place he wanted to be, but he was eager to find answers.
Varian ran into princess Rapuzel the minute he set foot out of the kingdom. By then he already had an idea of where the remains of the sunflower were with the help of his latest concoction baked in harmless looking treats given to guards who were stupid enough to eat them. The truth serum. Rapuzel genuinely seemed apologetic how she and Varian left things since they last seen each other. They were just empty words resonating through Varian's heavy heart, but he used them as an opportunity. Rapunzel got Varian to the sunflower with great effort, but eventually he got what he was looking for. The look on the princess's face when he took the remains of the flower, realizing it was only to rescue his father, was one that was familiar and left a twinge in the pit of his chest.
The efforts in retreiving the remains of the sunflower were completely useless. Much to Varian's anger and frustration his attempt to rescue his father ended in failure. Thinking back on the stories of the flower he realizes the properties of healing weren't in the flower anymore. They were in Rapunzel's hair.
Not a day soon after, Varian announces his presence in the Kingdom of Corona, informing them of the growing destruction made from the stones, and his intention of making Corona pay for ignoring him in desperation need of help. Varian terrorizes people by unleashing a giant monster that use to be his devious pet raccoon and a small built of severely strong army of ancient giant mechanical guardians known as automans. In the midst of all the chaos, palace guards were injured, while Rapunzel and her friends were distracted he managed to capture the Queen from her castle.
Varian explained to the queen he was only using her as leverage to have her daughter come to her rescue. He only needed Rapunzel's hair to free his father.
When the time came King Federic, Rapunzel and company had fallen into Varian's traps. Telling them if he didn't do what they were told there'd be serious consequences. He'd even gone far as to telling them he'd encase the queen in amber just like his father. Rapunzel gave in. Rapunzel's hair began to react to the amber, but the amber did not break, draining Rapunzel of her strength. King Federic, eventually freed from Varian's traps, ran to help the queen, and then comforted Rapunzel. Varian's sanity was pushed over the limit. None of this would've happened if they would've just helped Varian. None this would've happened if he hadn't met Rapunzel or told him about the stones. It was all her fault. IT'S ALL HER FAULT!
Varian wanted Rapunzel to suffer. He wanted her to feel what he felt. In his last moment of desperation Varian wanted to crush Rapunzel's best friend and her mother to death.
And he couldn't even do that . . .
NOTE: This is just my understanding of what happened in Tangled: The Series and for those who haven't watched the show. I recommend watching it. For those who like quick action, quirky humor, and sitting through an agonizing slow telling story that leaves you nothing but an ending with piling questions, and wondering if the bad guy is really a bad guy. That poor unfortunate soul. :'D
If you like this, stay tuned for the beginning of the actual story. I promise I'll try not to disappoint.
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