[Seeing it on the screen like a fairytale of his own crappy existence settled heavily on him. The words made it so very real- not that he thought they weren't real before, of course. That much he was very aware of. But he's never written it down before. It doesn't feel good. ]
She did. She and the King came to save the Queen. What remained of the guards and a handful of Rapunzel's friends tried a direct assault, but I set up a bunch of automatons. They kept them busy. I laid a trap for Rapunzel and the King. I forced Rapunzel to help me. I could have just asked her but I didn't, I gave her a choice. I released my amber solution by the Queen. She either helped me or the amber would take her mother like it took her father. So. Not really a choice at all.
I didn't even know if using her hair on the amber would have killed her- I knew there was a chance and I didn't care. It didn't work. Nothing worked. The King and Queen got free and I just snapped. I got aboard one of my automatons and attacked them. I literally told Rapunzel that if I couldn't have a happy ending, then she couldn't either. I tried to crush the queen and Rapunzel's best friend to death with my machine. I was killing them. But Rapunzel figured out her connection to the rocks and stopped me, destroyed my mechanical army and I went to jail for a year for high treason.
And you know, even THEN after ALL that, she still asked them to go easy on me. After everything. Because that's the kind of person she is.
[Rapunzel has always been an endless well of goodness and forgiveness in a way Varian could never understand. She really was the epitome of the Sundrop. ]
Anyway, Rapunzel went off on an adventure to understand the rocks better while I was in jail. I had time to reflect and realise what I did was wrong. When I was there, I met an extremist in there. He convinced me to help him and his people take over the Kingdom. I wiped the memory of the King and Queen and aimed to do it to everyone else, too. I figured that was the only way I could be forgiven. Rapunzel showed up and the extremists told me they were gonna destroy Corona instead. I didn't want any more people to get hurt. So I helped Rapunzel stop them. I cleaned up the mess I made. I tried to sacrifice myself to keep everyone safe, but she didn't let me.
[And god, he'd been HAPPY for the airship to blow with him aboard. Because that would have solved everything. All the pain he was carting around, the fact that he'd done so much harm. But Rapunzel didn't let him, she'd saved his life. Given him a second chance that he never wanted to waste.]
Corona was saved, Rapunzel used her new powers to save my dad and I was given a ticket to freedom. I've been trying to make up for everything since then. Trying to help her deal with the latest threat to the kingdom. Trying to make the world better than what I did to it.
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She did. She and the King came to save the Queen. What remained of the guards and a handful of Rapunzel's friends tried a direct assault, but I set up a bunch of automatons. They kept them busy. I laid a trap for Rapunzel and the King. I forced Rapunzel to help me. I could have just asked her but I didn't, I gave her a choice. I released my amber solution by the Queen. She either helped me or the amber would take her mother like it took her father. So. Not really a choice at all.
I didn't even know if using her hair on the amber would have killed her- I knew there was a chance and I didn't care. It didn't work. Nothing worked. The King and Queen got free and I just snapped. I got aboard one of my automatons and attacked them. I literally told Rapunzel that if I couldn't have a happy ending, then she couldn't either. I tried to crush the queen and Rapunzel's best friend to death with my machine. I was killing them. But Rapunzel figured out her connection to the rocks and stopped me, destroyed my mechanical army and I went to jail for a year for high treason.
And you know, even THEN after ALL that, she still asked them to go easy on me. After everything. Because that's the kind of person she is.
[Rapunzel has always been an endless well of goodness and forgiveness in a way Varian could never understand. She really was the epitome of the Sundrop. ]
Anyway, Rapunzel went off on an adventure to understand the rocks better while I was in jail. I had time to reflect and realise what I did was wrong. When I was there, I met an extremist in there. He convinced me to help him and his people take over the Kingdom. I wiped the memory of the King and Queen and aimed to do it to everyone else, too. I figured that was the only way I could be forgiven. Rapunzel showed up and the extremists told me they were gonna destroy Corona instead. I didn't want any more people to get hurt. So I helped Rapunzel stop them. I cleaned up the mess I made. I tried to sacrifice myself to keep everyone safe, but she didn't let me.
[And god, he'd been HAPPY for the airship to blow with him aboard. Because that would have solved everything. All the pain he was carting around, the fact that he'd done so much harm. But Rapunzel didn't let him, she'd saved his life. Given him a second chance that he never wanted to waste.]
Corona was saved, Rapunzel used her new powers to save my dad and I was given a ticket to freedom. I've been trying to make up for everything since then. Trying to help her deal with the latest threat to the kingdom. Trying to make the world better than what I did to it.