Rapunzel/Relationships

The relationships of Rapunzel from Tangled.

Pascal
Hiccup seems to enjoy the company of animals, dragons in particular, and would probably get on Pascal's good side. Toothless on the other hand, might have a good relationship with Pascal or end up having a similar relationship as he did with Torch, competitive but still being able to tolerate him.

Mother Gothel
Mother Gothel has the closest relationship with Rapunzel as they have known each other all their lives. Rapunzel clearly cared for Gothel and adored her until she revealed her true nature. If Gothel however loved her back is debatable. Gothel may have once cared enough for Rapunzel enough to go out of her way to keep Rapunzel happy(such as making her favourite dinner and collecting rare paint colours) though this might just have been to keep on being able to use Rapunzel's healing hair to remain young.

She also repeated to Rapunzel she loved her many times, but when she said she loved the most, she kissed her hair (which meant she loved her hair more). Following the events of Tangled, Gothel later reveals her true nature, and Rapunzel realizes that she views her as a tool and nothing more, straining their relationship to being arch-enemies, and providing a modicum of mental and emotional confusion for Rapunzel.

Gothel, in most encounters with Rapunzel and her friends, would try and convince her to return to the tower and live the way things were before. Nevertheless, despite Gothel now serving as her enemy, Rapunzel still seems to care for he as at one extent, when Gothel had been pushed off the tower by Pascal while she was dying, Rapunzel made a gesture to help her but to no avail.

Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert
When they first meet in the movie, their relationship is rather rocky, with Flynn simply using Rapunzel to get his stolen satchel back. As they spend more time together, however, they learn to trust each other, and they eventually fall in love. In the movie Eugene is willing to sacrifice his life to free Rapunzel, and Rapunzel is willing to sacrifice her freedom to save Eugene's life. In the end, Eugene brings Rapunzel home to her family and they live happliy ever after. In the short film Tangled Ever After, Eugene and Rapunzel are married.

Maximus
Rapunzel's sunny personality and compassion won Maximus over the moment they met. She presents affection that he was clearly missing from the Kingdom's royal guard and lightens his serious mood enough for him to post-pone his hunt for Flynn. In Tangled Forever After, Maximus is the ringbearer in Eugene and Rapunzel's wedding.

Pub Thugs
While they do not seem to care much for Flynn, the denizens of the Snuggly Duckling have taken a liking to the lost princess, inspired by her dream and willing to help the two of them, dropping their stance on turning Flynn into the authorities immediately. They later turn up to rescue Flynn from the gallows (having received the news from Maximus somehow) specifically so that he could save Rapunzel.

Since then, they have turned up on more than one occasion with the two, attending/performing Rapunzel's homecoming and even being their for their wedding, implying that not only have they kept in touch with her, but that she was able to give them.

King Frederic
Rapunzel is the Queen's daughter, that was taken away from him as a infant. He was the one that gave his daughter her crown, before she was kidnapped.

When Rapunzel returned home and became living her life as a princess, the king became very protective of her, fearing that she may be taken away from him and his wife again.

Queen Arianna
Rapunzel is the Queen's daughter, that was taken away from her as a infant. The queen loved her daughter very much, and was devastated when Mother Gothel took her away. For the next eighteen years, she and Frederic hosted the lantern festival on Rapunzel's birthday to commemorate her memory. After one of these events, the queen was informed of her daughter's return and, along with Frederic, rushed to greet her. While Arianna did not recognize her daughter at first, her motherly instincts kicked in and she and her husband embraced the princess. They celebrated her return for an entire week.

By the events of the TV series, it is shown that the pair have formed a strong mother-daughter bond, with Arianna often giving Rapunzel advice on how to pursue her dreams and sympathizing with her as well, establishing herself as someone that Rapunzel can confide in during times of uncertainty.

Cassandra
Cassandra is Rapunzel's handmaiden and close friend in Tangled: Before Ever After and follow-up series. Cassandra not only does what she can to serve Rapunzel, but also does what she can to help and support Rapunzel in her palace and princess life, as Rapunzel had spent the eighteen years of her life locked with a tower and has not idea on how to a princess; as well as having to deal with her overprotective father. Cassandra came up wit the idea to take Rapunzel over the wall and into the outskirts of Corona, so she could cheer her friend up and give her a chance to spend time in the outside world; as well as taking Rapunzel to the spot that the royal guards had found the flower that save both her and her mother, and the reason for her healing powers. When Rapunzel touched one of the stone spikes that surrounded the spot, her long, blond heir returned, the two knew that they could be in series trouble should the King discover their little "trip" and how it led to Rapunzel's hair to grow back. Since the magic within the hair was the reason that Rapunzel was kidnapped as infant, so the two did what they could to hide it from the King, until Lady Caine's attacked forced Rapunzel to revile it to the kingdom. Cassandra and Rapunzel then set out to uncover the truth for the hair's return and how it is connected to the stone spikes.

Lady Caine
Caine holds a grudge against Rapunzel's father for locking up her father, as he believed him to be one of the people that kidnaped his daughter. After Rapunzel and her friends foiled her revenge and got her locked up for her crimes, she began to hold a grudge on her. Should she escape, she would most likely take her revenge on her; and possible on those she cares about.