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?

Comments

[cautionwetpaint]

That's amazing!

[carnivalesque]

Really? You think so?

[cautionwetpaint]

Definitely!

[carnivalesque]

Well...thank you! I'm glad you think so. The circus is my home, so it's...nice to know it's appreciated.

[cautionwetpaint]

What's it like? Being in a circus?

[carnivalesque]

[PAUSE. This is a different kind of circus, boo.]

Well...it's like having one big family. Everyone knows everyone. It's both nice and...

Not so nice, sometimes.

[cautionwetpaint]

Why not so nice?

[carnivalesque]

...Ever have someone constantly in your life? A...dominating force that you can't ever get away from?

[that's what the enigmatic ringmaster is like. always there, but not.]

[cautionwetpaint]

...Yeah, actually. I have.

[carnivalesque]

That's how it is, sometimes.

[cautionwetpaint]

I'm sorry. It's awful.

[carnivalesque]

It...yes. It can be.

[cautionwetpaint]

May I ask who it is?

[carnivalesque]

Well...some family is like that. But--

Sometime the Ringmaster can be...pushy.

[cautionwetpaint]

Pushy?

[carnivalesque]

...Yes.

[cautionwetpaint]

Do I want to know?

[carnivalesque]

Probably not.

[he's not nice all the time.]

[cautionwetpaint]

God, I'm so sorry.

[carnivalesque]

It's -- alright. I am happy to be in the circus.

[cautionwetpaint]

Are you sure?

[carnivalesque]

[firmly;]

I am, yes.

[cautionwetpaint]

Okay...

[carnivalesque]

That is odd to you, huh?

[cautionwetpaint]

Well, yes.