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[notjustaposterboy]

I have made the most important discovery.

The Bachelor.

You see this face of mine? The next time they make a wanted poster, it'll actually look like me. That's what fame does for you.

I am definitely going to audition for it, and they're crazy if they don't take me. You can't just resist good looks and cocked eyebrows.

From now on, I will answer only to Flynn Rider, the most eligible bachelor of the Kingdom of Corona.

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[watcheslanterns]

The Bachelor? Really?

[notjustaposterboy]

What? You don't think I can cut it?

[watcheslanterns]

Considering I don't think the show actually exists in Corona...it might be a little difficult.

[notjustaposterboy]

Then easy! We just make one! Who better to introduce it than me, right? I think it's perfect.

[watcheslanterns]

Of course you do. [She rolls her eyes, but smiles just the same.]

That's really what you want; a bunch of girls who probably don't really care about you, falling over themselves to be with you?

[Not that she's jealous or anything.]

[notjustaposterboy]

[Oh. Of course not. It's totally not like Rapunzel has her own version of Dagger Eyes.

Eugene's not a complete idiot. Just partially.]

Want to come fend them all off with a frying pan? I bet that'd be great for an audience.

[watcheslanterns]

I save the frying pan for people who are actually dangerous.

[notjustaposterboy]

An army of women sounds plenty dangerous to me.

[watcheslanterns]

So why subject yourself to them in the first place?

[notjustaposterboy]

Well, it's not like they'd necessarily be after me... [Unless he opens his mouth to say the wrong thing as he's prone to do.] Just in the worst case scenario they might be a problem.

[watcheslanterns]

Sooo...does that make me your body guard, then?

[notjustaposterboy]

Now, now. I didn't say I needed one, right? It should be me guarding you.

[watcheslanterns]

Pretty hard to do something like that when you've got a bunch of other women trying to get your attention.

[tonewlengths]

[Laughing] I can't wait to see how that works out.

[notjustaposterboy]

Something tells me you're not taking me seriously.

[Don't make him pout.]

[tonewlengths]

Now what would give you that idea?

[notjustaposterboy]

Maybe it's that smile.

Or maybe. Just maybe, it's that Rapunzel laughter I'm so well acquainted with.

[tonewlengths]

Why I don't know what you mean, my laughter is perfectly innocent.

[notjustaposterboy]

I'm pretty sure I know you better than that. Pretty sure. Unless you've become a really great actress and have been keeping things from me.

[tonewlengths]

[Rapunzel? Keep secrets? Perish the thought!]

No, no, you're the one with acting aspirations here Eugene. I wouldn't dream of trying to pull the wool over your eyes, how could I compare with all that talent?

[notjustaposterboy]

[He's got his eye on you, missy.]

Oho, sarcasm too? I'm just getting the whole pie today, aren't I? Maybe I'm rubbing off on you too much.

[He's kidding. Eugene actually likes it. But then, attention from Rapunzel is attention, even when it's bad. It could always be worse.]

[tonewlengths]

[Maybe it would be nicer attention if he weren't talking about wanting to go on dates with a dozen other girls, he should know that's just an open invitation for bullying. But it's a friendly kind of bullying, they're both having fun with it and nobody is getting hurt, so Rapunzel has no qualms about putting on a fake scandalised expression, teasing]

What an awful thing to say!

[notjustaposterboy]

[Okay. Maybe he just likes trying to get a rise out of her. That's always a possibility.

By this point, he's pretty sure she's not serious. And she wins a sincere smile.]

I know. I'm just the worst influence on you that ever was.

[tonewlengths]

[Oh he got a rise alright, but she was determined to turn it back on him. The scandalised expression turns to a smirk as she leans in closer]

Don't feel too bad, I was already a little bit of a terror.

[notjustaposterboy]

I'm not sure 'terror' is the word I'd use.

[No, she's pretty right on. Terror is one way of putting it.]

If someone's going to terrorise me, then I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have do it.

[He'd lean closer if, you know, he wasn't under the impression she might pull on his ear or something.]