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It's this desire to please others that cultivates one of Varian's most glaring flaws. Varian desperately seeks validation from his loved ones- particularly his father, Quirin. He wants nothing more than for his father to be proud of him - a motivation that pushes him through the first season while also being one of the root causes for his descent into villainy. Quirin is their village leader- a tough, hardworking man with a dark past of his own- miles apart from his science-minded, curious son. There's definitely a gap between them, personality-wise, and Varian does his best to bridge it, wanting his father to see what he does and be impressed by it. The thing Varian wants most in the world is to be praised for his efforts, to be told he's doing good and helpful things- that he can make a difference in the only way he knows how. He creates an entirely new element to impress Cassandra, whom he carries a torch for, admitting that "if I could show you what I was capable of, you would see something in me, something special." He's treated as something of an oddity- with a mind beyond his time, so he tends to be ostracised, marked as 'a wizard' and 'dangerous' by the citizens of Old Corona. He's misunderstood by everyone who speaks to him, and this only makes him more determined to show what he can do and earn their praise and acceptance.
The kid has a streak of righteousness in him. Varian cares, an awful lot, sometimes a little too much. He wants to make the world a better place with scientific progress- and later wants to use his knowledge to help people fight forces that might otherwise destroy them. He feels that he sees things others either don't see or choose to ignore. When the Black Rocks started taking over Old Corona, his was the loudest voice shouting to do something about them. He could see the threat they were to the village (and likely the world at large) and studied them to try and find out how to remove the threat. When his father not only refused to do anything about them but then later lied to the King about the fact they were a problem at all, Varian lashed out- arguing that their home was being destroyed and he seemed to be the only person who cared about it. Quirin, knowing the true nature of the rocks and trying to protect his son, forbade Varian from experimenting on them. This was something Varian utterly disregarded- believing his father was burying his head in the sand instead of trying to save their village. Later, Varian was the one Rapunzel entrusted with the Demanitus Scroll, knowing that he has the drive and passion to decipher what it means and would not rest until he understood how to use it to protect Corona. Once Varian has set his mind on something, very little will deter him. He's a stubborn little dude.
Unfortunately, this righteousness and his desire for validation mean Varian often fails to understand the consequences of his actions before it's too late. He has tunnel vision when it comes to his experiments and creations. He sees what his end goal is and is willing to reach that no matter what. To him, the end always justifies the means, even when those aforementioned means dip into morally grey areas. This results in his inventions often backfiring on him or causing severe harm to those around him- simply because he failed to think through what might happen if he achieved what he was aiming for. He almost blows Old Corona sky high trying to create a hot water system for them (to make the villagers happy and his father impressed!!!) and his focus when things go wrong was that he "couldn't let it happen again" - trying to fix his mistake- rather than admitting he probably shouldn't have done it in the first place. He does, at least, try to resolve the problems he inadvertently causes. That said, most of those problems could have been averted if he'd thought about if he should do something before thinking if he could.
Varian is a sassy little so-and-so, he has a sarcastic streak a mile wide and has no problem with unleashing it on people. Eager to please as he might be, he doesn't suffer fools gladly. He doesn't have a lot of patience - especially with people who might not be on his own wavelength. Lance especially tends to be the subject of his ire- delightful himbo that he is. This isn't ideal when he's usually the smartest person in the room. Ironically, for an alchemist, he has a short fuse. If he's been irritated or had any of his buttons pressed, he has explosive (hah) angry outbursts. While usually a relatively harmless trait- he cools off relatively quickly- this anger can (and did) turn into something much darker if it's allowed to fester in him.
And eventually, that dark streak was allowed to fester. Rapunzel being unable to come to help him when he needed her most left a deep sense of betrayal in him. The loss of literally everyone he could rely on hit him hard and turned him against the very people he respected and cared about so much. Here, he showed his ability to be deceptive and cruel- pulling Rapunzel along with lies to get her to commit treason for him, and then letting loose with how much she let him down and how he only used her when she finally called him out on it.
This only got worse after he turned completely on Rapunzel. He thought nothing about kidnapping the Queen- then using amber against her to force Rapunzel to help him. All that mattered was saving his father and then making Corona pay for failing them. When that failed, Varian finally snapped. All his anger and hurt exploded out of him, and he lashed out at his former friends. He only cared for revenge, and tried to kill both the Queen and Cassandra in front of the princess- he wanted Rapunzel to "endure the same amount of pain and agony I have". It was no longer about the greater good, or saving his father- it was about making his former friend suffer. That anger and hurt still boiled inside him as he was defeated and taken away. Varian had crossed a line and found himself capable of things he never realised he was capable of before.
This was something that was used to the group's advantage once Varian rejoined the fold. Eugene entrusted him with finding a way to stop Cassandra permnenantly. Both knew this was an absolute last resort, but Varian is also one of the few people within the group who can cross that moral line and do what needs to be done if all other options fail. In the lead up to the final battle, installed a stun mechanism in Quirin's helmet- once Eugene pointed out he was likely a sleeper agent under Cassandra's mind control. It visibly broke Varian's heart to harm his father again- but he did what was needed for the greater good.
Varian carries a lot of guilt over his past actions. His year in jail gave him the space he needed to actually think about what he did, and where he let his anger and hurt take him. After aligning himself with the Saporians, he decided the only way out of the dark place he'd got himself was to erase what he'd done completely. He desperately wanted to redeem himself for what he did- but he felt no one would give him a second chance, and wiping everyone's memories was the only guarantee he could have for a second chance. He was willing to die in a suicide mission to stop the Saporian plot from destroying Corona- begging Rapunzel to let him "clean up his mess". Even after he earned his redemption and became part of Rapunzel's inner circle again, he is haunted by his shame and guilt. This came to a head when they needed to deal with the Red Rocks- Varian admitting to Rapunzel that what he saw in them weren't visions of his worst fears (as they were for everyone else), but reminders of what actually happened- of what he did. He came clean about how he felt no one would ever really forgive him and how he felt that most of the kingdom hated him- adding that he didn't blame them for this at all- that he did terrible things and he deserved their ire. He tackled these fears, but they have not left him entirely. When he tried to reach out to Cass- to convince her that the path of revenge would not end well for her, he opened up plenty about just how much his villainous period still bothers him. He told her it would leave her with a "permanent mark" and in carrying on this way she would "lose her faith and lose her soul". His desperate plea to her made it clear he's still very much haunted by his past and he's not as content in himself as he's been making out to the others.
Despite his past still haunting him, he still settled into his own Disney Certified Happily Ever After after the defeat of Zhan Tiri. He moved into the palace as Corona's Royal Engineer. He finally perfected his hot water boilers and Corona because the first Kingdom to have hot running water. He made a little more peace with himself and his place in the world (despite his mistakes) and was finally relatively happy. He still had plenty of healing to go- but he was on the path towards it at least.
features The blue streak in his hair is natural, no, this is never explained. He has an absolute shit-ton of freckles and prominent buck teeth. He pretty much constantly wears his thick alchemy gloves and always has his goggles on top of his head (except for when he's sleeping or if he actually decides to use them for their intended purpose). His style tends towards a weird steampunk-goth mashup. Learning Hot Topic existed was the best thing in his life. He has a werewolf form during a full moon or when he's in the Spirit Realm. He wears a engagement ring that he made himself.
CANON
Backpack - Always contains at least a few notebooks, charcoal pencils and potion vials.
Shrine - A collection of Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert items Varian has collected throughout his life, these include: The complete Adventures of Flynn Rider book collection (about 12 books total), a wanted poster, a single boot, a lock of Eugene's hair, a broken dagger hilt, a coin purse, a satchel, a few royal proclamations concerning Eugene's thief status.
Family portrait - - Showing baby Varian, his father, Quirin and his dead(???) mother, Ulla. Gifted by the Birthday Skeleton for his 17th birthday.
Alchemy Bombs - He can only make one potion a day and has limited supplies- luckily for everyone.
Canon Outfit - The outfit he arrived in, includes trousers, shirt, maroon vest, steel-toed boots, gloves and scratched-up goggles.
Welding Mask - Keeps his face safe and also makes him look like he's gonna murder you at summer camp!
Blow Torch - For welding things!!!
Team Rapunzel Portrait - A portrait of him, Rapunzel, Cass, Eugene, Lance, Angry, Catalina, Max, Pascal, Owl and Ruddiger.
King Herz Der Sonne's Journal - Writing your name in it as a couple will bring the moogles!!
PETS
Ruddiger - Semi-sentient trash panda. Loyal lab assistant, endless companion, will steal your food.
Newton - His Zigzagoon Pokemon partner with POKEGO.
Edison - - The Pachirisu he won on a sidequest.
Pokemon TMs: Surf and Thief
Ghost Cat - You are now the owner of a ghost cat. It is like a normal cat in every way but it's also a ghost. It is prone to go invisible and knock things off your table and walk on your keyboard.
Thesaurus :A little dinosaur companion that acts as a living thesaurus and dictionary. It's like clippy but actually useful and cute.
WEAPONS
Quarterstaff - Helps focus his earth elemental powers. (Amal)
Pod - A flying robot companion that basically serves as an Alexa/Siri assistant that you can pet. While initially disabled, you can regain it's ability to shoot things using regain points.
Magic Knife - A knife imbued with the power of fire
A compound bow and arrows (Amal)
ARCUS - Comes with the Gloom and Moebius master quartz (Elliot)- see abilities
Magic Knife - A knife imbued with the power of fire. All attacks done with the knife are treated as fire elemental attacks.
CLOTHING
General outfits
Pile of Umatchable Socks - Just a big pile of novelty socks. None of them match.
Heavy Duty Gloves - A Santa-built gift. These are inbued with the fire element and can create a bucket worth of fire while also being heat/fireproof. (Fern)
Goggles - Shiny and new with magnifying lenses! (Fern)
Leather Gloves - Fancy leather gloves for his work, heavy duty! (August)
T-Shirt - Both sentimentally and punny at the same time. (Moana)
Big Ol' Boots - They have pockets in them!!! (Luz)
Blue Vest - Hand-sewn to match his blue streak. (Snow)
Magical Hoodie - A hoodie that when the hood is up, people are unable to identify your face.
Magic Coat - A coat that will change to match your style and the weather.
Gear necklace - Makes common metals easier to smith, grants a permanent strength boost. (Amal)
A pair of heat-resistant lab gloves - Matches his POKEGO labcoat (Jun)
Raccoon hoodie - A hoodie that looks like a raccoon (Elliot)
His god-awful villain outfit
MAGICAL
Positive Affirmation Stone - A stone that will give you positive affirmations when you touch it.
Yarn of Ariadne - Magic yarn that cannot be broken and if used to make a trail through a maze, in the real world or the spirit realm, it will not be moved by anyone but the owner.
Midnight Channel TV - A TV that acts like a TV most of the time, but on rainy nights at midnight it will show a weird channel that reflects the state of the spirit realm. If you touch the TV, you can use it as a gateway to either the event log's Spirit Realm, A Stable Spirit Realm, or the Spirit Realm that belonged to an OU when they joined the game (the OU MUST be in the thread for this to work).
Enchanted Cat-Ear Headphones - A pair of headphones with cat ears attached. Can be used as normal headphones, or could be used to boost the user's hearing to enhanced levels
Sleep-inducing pillow - A pillow that will make you sleep a solid 8 hours as soon as your head touches it. The sleep can only be interrupted if contact with the pillow is stopped.
Tea Friend - A living teapot that is more than happy to try to make sure you have a nice relaxing tea time (Mikleo)
Mary Poppins Bag - A seemingly normal bag that can fit an unreasonable amount of things. However, it does not cancel out the weight of the items.
Serenitea Pot - A teapot that houses a personalized spirit realm within that you can treat as your own personal estate. Choose one of the layouts available through the link. There is a two-story home within the pot, but you'll have to bring in and make your own furnishings.
Magic Rainstick: A rainstick that when used will cause a microburst to happen in your general vicinity. Microbursts area is no bigger than 10ft x 10ft
Lover's Car : A red (or pink) car with an enchanted backseat can grow and size and become a full sized bedroom. Unfortunately, the bedroom is decorated like a love hotel.
True Sight Camera: A camera that when you take a picture of something, it will undo any illusion or invisibility spells it may be casting.
Hair Brooch of Protection: A hair brooch that's enchanted to keep your hair perfectly kept no matter what.
Magic Possum Ring: A ring that looks like a possum. It allows you to summon one possum. It's a normal possum.
NON-MAGICAL
Model Car - A model car. You put it together yourself! He's done 2.
First Aid Kit - So very needed. (August)
Books - Set of books on different topics in science history from this world. (Danny)
Bakeware - Lots of bakeware supplies and mixing bowls. (Amal)
Kinetic Sand - A box of kinetic sand to practise his earth bending with. (Jun)
Beaker Drinking Set - Safe flasks to drink from! (Moana)
Star Cube Puzzle - Like a Rubiks cube but evil. (Luz)
Tractor Wars (Book) - It's a book about modern agriculture and tractors!!! (Danny)
Multitool - Look at all the KNIVES! (Danny)
Car - It's an old junker he's fixing up! It'll probably look worse.
The Hottest Hot Sauce Known To Man - It will let you breathe a small stream of fire up to three times a day.
Void Denny's Membership - A membership card to the Void Denny's. When visited, you're given a random food item from another world. Often cursed.
Googly Eyes - A pack of 50 googly eyes that can be stuck onto places.
Daruma Doll - A seemingly normal daruma doll, but you can't help but shake the feeling it's judging you for not accomplishing your goal.
Tape Deck - An old fashioned tape player deck. "Best of Queen" is lodged inside the deck and cannot be removed.
Cardboard Box - A regular cardboard box
Game console - A current gen game console (Switch).
Books- one is the xkcd guy’s what if?, another is a science fiction novel about space pirates that Edward figured sounds scientific enough, and the last one is a picture book about raccoons entitled You Are A Raccoon (Edward)
Tool maintenance supplies (Dang Heng)
A little knit hat for his Zigzagoon (Dang Heng)
A pair of mugs (Josuke)
Color pencil sketch of his zigzagoon and his raccoon (Jun)
A knitted sweater that'd fit on one of his pokemon (Jun)
Handmade winter decorations that look like birds. They're painted coppery-brown in colour, and each of them sport a pair of goggles atop their heads (Vash)
A small plant pot with a very tiny start to a bush growing in it--recognisable, perhaps, as one of the berry bushes from the Kanto region starting to bloom flowers.
A large binder of typed notes - The first page has a very brief forward: A Selection from the Library of Alexandria, with a brief explanation of how Eve enjoys the library and wanted to share it. Inside are various scientific excerpts and texts, carefully copied. A little philosophy might have been mixed in, as Eve's grasp of what counts as science is still young (Eve)
A book - The Chemisty of Plants (Souta)
Extremely durable coffee travel mug (Jun)
Manga Volume: A single volume of a manga - It's FullMetal Alchemist. Varian hates it so much.
Fridge: A full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Armchair: A normal but comfortable armchair
Garfield Phone: An old style phone that looks like Garfield.
Polaroid Camera: A polaroid camera
Animal Plushie: Plushie of your favorite animal- it's a raccoon, naturally.
Paper Fan: A paper fan to help keep you cool in summer!
Donnie Darko fact mask- FRANK!
Bepsi Machine: A soda machine that dispenses mysterious strangely named sodas. They taste different every time - in The Alley
Inflatable Tube Guy : Your very own inflatable wavy tube guy! He put it outside the Fortress.
Insulting Tarot Cards: A beautiful set of tarot cards, but whenever you do a reading words will appear that'll insult the person the reading is for.
name Varian Vasiya (Larch) | pronouns He/him | housing Meropide/Amal's |
canon Tangled | age 19 | dob 24 March |
timepoint Series epilogue | species Werewolf/Puca | job POKEGO/Uni student |
game Kaisou | sexuality Bisexual | element Earth & Shadow |
About
They say there's a thin line between genius and insanity. Varian not only straddles that line, but he's set up a permanent base on it. Science, especially alchemy, is his lifeblood, and he's at his happiest when he's creating inventions or mixing new alchemical concoctions. It has made him something of the village weirdo, and before Rapunzel showed up on the scene, he clearly didn't have any friends. Though Varian likes people plenty, he tends to gloss over that maybe not everyone is as interested in science as he is. He tends to yammer on about whatever he's working on to his friends like an excited puppy, not picking up that they're not really all that interested in what he's talking about. Even when they outright tell him so. It makes him on the socially awkward side at best and dismissive of people's interests at worst. He's very eager to share what he knows and show people what he can do- there's a deeply ingrained need to please people there.It's this desire to please others that cultivates one of Varian's most glaring flaws. Varian desperately seeks validation from his loved ones- particularly his father, Quirin. He wants nothing more than for his father to be proud of him - a motivation that pushes him through the first season while also being one of the root causes for his descent into villainy. Quirin is their village leader- a tough, hardworking man with a dark past of his own- miles apart from his science-minded, curious son. There's definitely a gap between them, personality-wise, and Varian does his best to bridge it, wanting his father to see what he does and be impressed by it. The thing Varian wants most in the world is to be praised for his efforts, to be told he's doing good and helpful things- that he can make a difference in the only way he knows how. He creates an entirely new element to impress Cassandra, whom he carries a torch for, admitting that "if I could show you what I was capable of, you would see something in me, something special." He's treated as something of an oddity- with a mind beyond his time, so he tends to be ostracised, marked as 'a wizard' and 'dangerous' by the citizens of Old Corona. He's misunderstood by everyone who speaks to him, and this only makes him more determined to show what he can do and earn their praise and acceptance.
The kid has a streak of righteousness in him. Varian cares, an awful lot, sometimes a little too much. He wants to make the world a better place with scientific progress- and later wants to use his knowledge to help people fight forces that might otherwise destroy them. He feels that he sees things others either don't see or choose to ignore. When the Black Rocks started taking over Old Corona, his was the loudest voice shouting to do something about them. He could see the threat they were to the village (and likely the world at large) and studied them to try and find out how to remove the threat. When his father not only refused to do anything about them but then later lied to the King about the fact they were a problem at all, Varian lashed out- arguing that their home was being destroyed and he seemed to be the only person who cared about it. Quirin, knowing the true nature of the rocks and trying to protect his son, forbade Varian from experimenting on them. This was something Varian utterly disregarded- believing his father was burying his head in the sand instead of trying to save their village. Later, Varian was the one Rapunzel entrusted with the Demanitus Scroll, knowing that he has the drive and passion to decipher what it means and would not rest until he understood how to use it to protect Corona. Once Varian has set his mind on something, very little will deter him. He's a stubborn little dude.
Unfortunately, this righteousness and his desire for validation mean Varian often fails to understand the consequences of his actions before it's too late. He has tunnel vision when it comes to his experiments and creations. He sees what his end goal is and is willing to reach that no matter what. To him, the end always justifies the means, even when those aforementioned means dip into morally grey areas. This results in his inventions often backfiring on him or causing severe harm to those around him- simply because he failed to think through what might happen if he achieved what he was aiming for. He almost blows Old Corona sky high trying to create a hot water system for them (to make the villagers happy and his father impressed!!!) and his focus when things go wrong was that he "couldn't let it happen again" - trying to fix his mistake- rather than admitting he probably shouldn't have done it in the first place. He does, at least, try to resolve the problems he inadvertently causes. That said, most of those problems could have been averted if he'd thought about if he should do something before thinking if he could.
Varian is a sassy little so-and-so, he has a sarcastic streak a mile wide and has no problem with unleashing it on people. Eager to please as he might be, he doesn't suffer fools gladly. He doesn't have a lot of patience - especially with people who might not be on his own wavelength. Lance especially tends to be the subject of his ire- delightful himbo that he is. This isn't ideal when he's usually the smartest person in the room. Ironically, for an alchemist, he has a short fuse. If he's been irritated or had any of his buttons pressed, he has explosive (hah) angry outbursts. While usually a relatively harmless trait- he cools off relatively quickly- this anger can (and did) turn into something much darker if it's allowed to fester in him.
And eventually, that dark streak was allowed to fester. Rapunzel being unable to come to help him when he needed her most left a deep sense of betrayal in him. The loss of literally everyone he could rely on hit him hard and turned him against the very people he respected and cared about so much. Here, he showed his ability to be deceptive and cruel- pulling Rapunzel along with lies to get her to commit treason for him, and then letting loose with how much she let him down and how he only used her when she finally called him out on it.
This only got worse after he turned completely on Rapunzel. He thought nothing about kidnapping the Queen- then using amber against her to force Rapunzel to help him. All that mattered was saving his father and then making Corona pay for failing them. When that failed, Varian finally snapped. All his anger and hurt exploded out of him, and he lashed out at his former friends. He only cared for revenge, and tried to kill both the Queen and Cassandra in front of the princess- he wanted Rapunzel to "endure the same amount of pain and agony I have". It was no longer about the greater good, or saving his father- it was about making his former friend suffer. That anger and hurt still boiled inside him as he was defeated and taken away. Varian had crossed a line and found himself capable of things he never realised he was capable of before.
This was something that was used to the group's advantage once Varian rejoined the fold. Eugene entrusted him with finding a way to stop Cassandra permnenantly. Both knew this was an absolute last resort, but Varian is also one of the few people within the group who can cross that moral line and do what needs to be done if all other options fail. In the lead up to the final battle, installed a stun mechanism in Quirin's helmet- once Eugene pointed out he was likely a sleeper agent under Cassandra's mind control. It visibly broke Varian's heart to harm his father again- but he did what was needed for the greater good.
Varian carries a lot of guilt over his past actions. His year in jail gave him the space he needed to actually think about what he did, and where he let his anger and hurt take him. After aligning himself with the Saporians, he decided the only way out of the dark place he'd got himself was to erase what he'd done completely. He desperately wanted to redeem himself for what he did- but he felt no one would give him a second chance, and wiping everyone's memories was the only guarantee he could have for a second chance. He was willing to die in a suicide mission to stop the Saporian plot from destroying Corona- begging Rapunzel to let him "clean up his mess". Even after he earned his redemption and became part of Rapunzel's inner circle again, he is haunted by his shame and guilt. This came to a head when they needed to deal with the Red Rocks- Varian admitting to Rapunzel that what he saw in them weren't visions of his worst fears (as they were for everyone else), but reminders of what actually happened- of what he did. He came clean about how he felt no one would ever really forgive him and how he felt that most of the kingdom hated him- adding that he didn't blame them for this at all- that he did terrible things and he deserved their ire. He tackled these fears, but they have not left him entirely. When he tried to reach out to Cass- to convince her that the path of revenge would not end well for her, he opened up plenty about just how much his villainous period still bothers him. He told her it would leave her with a "permanent mark" and in carrying on this way she would "lose her faith and lose her soul". His desperate plea to her made it clear he's still very much haunted by his past and he's not as content in himself as he's been making out to the others.
Despite his past still haunting him, he still settled into his own Disney Certified Happily Ever After after the defeat of Zhan Tiri. He moved into the palace as Corona's Royal Engineer. He finally perfected his hot water boilers and Corona because the first Kingdom to have hot running water. He made a little more peace with himself and his place in the world (despite his mistakes) and was finally relatively happy. He still had plenty of healing to go- but he was on the path towards it at least.
Appearance
height 5'2
build Skinny
hair Black, teal streak
eyes Blue
first impressions Varian is noticeably very short. While his legs and arms are in that gangly mid-teen stage, there's no height to him at all. His body language is confident only when he's talking about science, otherwise, he tends to shift around a lot- hugging his arms around his body or rubbing the back of his neck. He doesn't like making eye contact and he shies away from being touched. He speaks with a stammer and often has long pauses between words. Outfit collection. build Skinny
hair Black, teal streak
eyes Blue
features The blue streak in his hair is natural, no, this is never explained. He has an absolute shit-ton of freckles and prominent buck teeth. He pretty much constantly wears his thick alchemy gloves and always has his goggles on top of his head (except for when he's sleeping or if he actually decides to use them for their intended purpose). His style tends towards a weird steampunk-goth mashup. Learning Hot Topic existed was the best thing in his life. He has a werewolf form during a full moon or when he's in the Spirit Realm. He wears a engagement ring that he made himself.
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CANON
PETS
WEAPONS
CLOTHING
MAGICAL
NON-MAGICAL