Cassandra and Eugene finally start to bond over one of the only things they have in common - neither of them grew up with their birth parents or can even remember them.When Cassandra talks about being raised by the Captain of The Guard, she mentions that she doesn't remember her parents.As we all know, that dream never came true. Eugene admits to Cassandra that as a young orphan, he used to console himself with a daydream that his parents were treasure hunters, and they would come to call on him the moment they struck it rich.Admittedly, she handled it really poorly and would have avoided a lot of grief if she'd just explained her feelings to Rapunzel in the first place, since Rapunzel would have backed down if she had known, but she doesn't seem the type to admit her feelings easily. She's been training so hard to be a good fighter so people will finally take her seriously and see her as more than just a pretty handmaiden, and Rapunzel just waltzes in and steals the show without any effort even though she doesn't have any stake in winning the event. Even though it made her The Scrappy for some, Cassandra's predicament during "Battle of the Brave".Rapunzel being unable to handle being booed.She decides there will be no more secrets between them. What finally makes Rapunzel tell Eugene about her hair: he stays with her when she's strapped to Varian's analysis machine and his boiler threatens to bury them alive.Given what his father says, Varian causes damage on a regular basis. He means well with his inventions, and he even has a reputation of The Dreaded wizard in town, but his devices are downright dangerous. Varian is a teenage Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds.Even though most of it was played for laughs, this part wasn't at all. Eugene confessing to Rapunzel, who's actually Pascal in disguise in this scene, after she rejected his proposal.With his eighteen year old, capable daughter, in the room. How OTT is he? During the song Life After Happily Ever After, he closes a window.His flashback to her kidnapping is also pretty tearjerking, especially since you can hear him desperately calling for help as his daughter is taken away. Is his over-protectiveness putting Rapunzel in the same predicament she had for her whole life? Yes. Are his actions sympathetic given how his only child was kidnapped as a baby? Yes. Does he have good intentions unlike Gothel? Yes.
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