Welcome to Soultember!

The month for soulmates.

And who better to represent that special bond and connection than Rapunzel and Eugene: The lost princess and the thief with a heart of gold who found her, coincidentally, right after stealing her crown. Whether guided by fate, or narrative. It can't be questioned that these two are forever tied by the universe itself. Heck! Even both the series and Rootbound placed his origins in the thematic opposite kingdom to hers.

If that doesn't scream 'meant to be.' what does?

That said!

The origin of soulmates spans centuries, and throughout the years the meaning has grown and evolved. So while there were a few of the more popular tropes chosen for the event, know that these are completely optional. You do not have to do all five. Pick one, combine multiple, or do none and choose your own. This is a free-for-all event where you can post however and whenever.

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Optional Prompts

Red String of Fate

>The thread of fate that ties two people together in an unbreakable bond, reaching across vast distances and worlds, leading their souls to one another. In this instance, perhaps it's the red hair of fate.

Star-Crossed Lovers/Ill-Fated Across Time

>Think CLAMP's WISH/Kobato or Kanon, AIR, Dark, and Xenogears where Fate is real and it's not kind. Whether through reincarnation, divine curse, or a prophecy that says they can't stay. Star-crossed means misfortune ending until you find that one timeline that works.

Find Each Other in Every Universe

>No matter the AU, the world, the timeline, life, incarnation, or universe, their souls will always find one another as they are meant to be.

Soulmark

>The belief that the name or emblem of your soulmate will appear upon your body to guide your souls together. Some tropes combine it with a timer.

A Fairy Tale Through the Ages

>The Story of Rapunzel and Eugene didn't just start with Tangled. An aged story for many generations with many different incarnations.

As said above, feel free to do all, none, one, or some or even some other soulmate trope.

Have fun!

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EDIT: Because it apparently needs to be said. While star-crossed from Romeo and Juliet means the stars are against it and not meant to be. The trope has evolved over the years into 'not meant to be, but we'll make it happen anyway as soulmates.' Where the story typically goes to breaking the cycle, fighting god, finding the right timeline, or many other impossible feats to be together. Hence why it says star-crossed and ill-fated in the soulmate trope.

For me, I thought Demanitus's words to Eugene about being the moon were part of his plot for Eugene.

I thought by telling him that, that he wanted Eugene to take the moonstone, since he was with Rapunzel and was her intended, and together they'd join them as the two halves of the magic space rock that wanted to be together. Maybe do it as a marriage ceremony or something.

Clearly past me was wrong, and we all know what happened instead.

Let me preface this by saying I have hypchondriasis, and constantly fear dying of various ailments.

But I'm also getting older (36 next month) and in the risk age unlike years ago. I live a sedentary lifestyle like severely, on the computer 24/7, or lately my phone with my legs curled up rarely ever straight.

But I'm not overweight, I'm 5ft1 and 85-90lbs.

The last week or two my leg behind my right knee and down the calf has a stiffness feeling to it. Like no pain or red or heat. Just stiff, and I wouldn’t say heavy, but slightly heavier than usual.

And of course I'm freaking out. My aunt is trying to tell me it's just getting older, and not moving much, made worse by not drinking enough water. But I'm not convinced.

I told her if I get cleared, I'd finally start using the treadmill daily. But I can't decided if I should go get it checked just to make sure. I've seen so many stories of gamers in their 30s that just died from DVTs out of nowhere but most were overweight...

Should I wait or get checked?

I saw this going around social media with real court documents about their plan to destructively scan every book in the world.

Like, I like Claude, it's the only one I willingly pay for.

But this feels like betrayal

Anthropic, why?

One Twitter account already got packed up. If Disney or their lawyers ever come to the subreddit, we need to be able to point to the source links and have the excuse 'well these pages were posting it.'

You can post spoilers in SPOILER, but link where you got it.

Please remember to set all posts about it to SPOILER for the first month.

After request by a member:

For the future, please make sure to add the SPOILER setting to any leaks of the Live Action that involves information or photos. News Articles from official sources don't need the setting. But leaks do.

Likewise, as Rootbound is releasing tomorrow, many of you will read and want to post. For the FIRST MONTH, please keep posts set to spoilers in the Rootbound flairs.

This is the Tangled Subreddit, for the Tangled Franchise which has the Movie at its core. And with the Movie being its core means it is centered on its two co-leads and protagonists: Rapunzel and Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert.

You may critize their writing in any of the various pieces of media.

You may debate.

You may dislike how one was handled or the current direction in any media.

However you MAY NOT hate on, wish death, or delete either of the two co-leads of the Franchise or criticize them as a whole in all of the media.

If you cannot follow this simple rule of respecting both of the characters that the Franchise is about, then you are not welcome here and there is the door.

Any other characters are free-for-all.

Like seriously guys, if you don't like the leads, why are you even here?

"Oh but it's the same characters (flanderized) and starts after the movie to the wedding."

1. Directly contradicts the movie's literal intro.

>once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens. And from this small drop of sun, grew a magic, golden, flower.

A SINGLE DROP OF SUNLIGHT. Not half of a magic space rock power source. Not from far out in space. A drop of sunlight. From the sun. Now unless you're changing it to a sun from another galaxy or star system, your space rock doesn't work. Even if it is a different sun it still doesn't work because 'single drop,' of sunlight. Not half of something else.

Spacerock lore = contradicts movie lore.

2. The hair-braiding girls in the wedding short were the same age as in the movie not 3 years older. Only months or a year has passed.

3. The tears were supposed to be the last of the sundrops powers.

It is an AU.

Honorable mention: Eugene's whole thing was that Rapunzel was the first one to see him and accept him, having a best friend-to-brother makes no sense.

Feel free to add your own.