AU Rapunzel is AU

[cautionwetpaint]

I'll get to meet new people? Aunt Moira doesn't usually like it when I--

No, no, I want to! I do! I'm eighteen now, and if I can't go to college, I guess being here is the next best thing, right?

So, am I going to one of those games?

P.S. Why do you keep calling me Blondie? Who's Flynn Rider?

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[carnivalesque]

'Games'?

[cautionwetpaint]

Yeah, the games the muns put us in. The other worlds.

[carnivalesque]

I don't...think I've been exposed to that yet.

[cautionwetpaint]

Oh.

Well then what does your mun do with you?

[carnivalesque]

She says...I'm still in 'developmental' stages.

...Makes it hard to identify who I am. [:(]

[cautionwetpaint]

...That sounds kind of spooky.

[carnivalesque]

It's a creepy feeling. I don't really like it.

[truffulacide]

[now, is it just him or is Rapunzel looking a little different today?]

You got a haircut. [it's said like he's still trying to figure out if that's a good thing or not.]

[cautionwetpaint]

...Do I know you?

[truffulacide]

[RUDE]

Um. Yeah? I don't think there's a good reason why you shouldn't.

You're not going incognito, are you? [that would explain the short - well, short for her - hair and the strange new fashion sense. he places one hand on his hips and looks at her carefully.] Or - oh, man, you didn't hit your head, did you?

[cautionwetpaint]

I've never met you... I really haven't.

I'm not... No! I haven't hit my head. I'm just... I'm me. Here. Being myself.

Who are you?

[truffulacide]

Really...? But you look just li - [he tries off, puzzled and more than a tiny bit freaked out. maybe the similarities are just that - similarities. it's entirely possible he's got the wrong girl.]

I'm, um. I'm the Once-ler. [he wags his thumb at her.] And your name isn't Rapunzel, is it?

[cautionwetpaint]

The Once-ler? Huh.

That's different. I like it. I'm Zadie. You really know someone named Rapunzel?

[findanewdream]

Blondie sounds like an appropriate nickname to me.

[cautionwetpaint]

I guess! It's just that... Nobody's ever called me that before.

[findanewdream]

All nicknames gotta start somewhere, Blondie.

[cautionwetpaint]

I guess you're right!

What about you? What's your name, because I have to nickname you now. It's only fair.

[findanewdream]

[Laughs] Is that so? I went by a different name for a long time, I kind of like my real name now. It's Eugene.

[cautionwetpaint]

Eugene's a great name! But it's not very good for a nickname...

But I guess your whole point was that you're kind of over nicknames now, huh?

[mathcupcakeslove]

You can't go to college?

[cautionwetpaint]

Mmmm. Aunt Moira won't help with--

We can't afford it.

[mathcupcakeslove]

Can't you get, like, a loan or something?

[Adelaide doesn't exactly know how that works - yay for having an incredibly sought-after scientist, architect and inventor as a daddy - but it's something other people do, right?]

[cautionwetpaint]

Um.

I'm not supposed to.

[mathcupcakeslove]

How come? I mean, if you go to college you get a really good job, right? So you can pay it back real quick!

[cautionwetpaint]

Well... Not necessarily. I want to be an artist.