I did a lot of very, very terrible things for it. It... wasn't a good excuse for everything I did. And yeah, it hurt her, but I didn't see it at the time.

[He hesitates for a moment, god, this is a shitty story to be telling on a nice holiday.]

Okay, so. Rapunzel couldn't help me with him at first, but I knew there was a flower that gave Rapunzel her powers- that if I could get to that, maybe I could use that to free my father. So I drugged the castle guards with a truth serum to find out where it was, and lied to Rapunzel to get her to help me into the vault where it was. Stealing it was treason, and when she realised what was happening she tried to get me to give it up. I didn't, and I escape with the flower. It... didn't work. The power was all in her now. But I'd burned that bridge when I stole the flower, I knew she wouldn't help me any more. Not willingly, anyway.