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.

[cautionwetpaint]

...Can I help your mun develop you? Does it work like that?

[carnivalesque]

I'm...not sure. I think it might? She seems to think it does, anyway.

[cautionwetpaint]

Oh, good! I'm glad!

So... Do you have a name?

[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?

[carnivalesque]

[...hesitant pause.]

Yes. Clare.

[cautionwetpaint]

Oh, that's a pretty name.

[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?

[carnivalesque]

[tiiiiniest smile.]

Thank you.

[cautionwetpaint]

You're welcome.

Do you have any hobbies? I like to paint.

[carnivalesque]

I'm -- well.

I'm in a circus. A...contortionist.

[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?

[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.

[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]

What's it like? Being in a circus?