#its like watching red flags waving high and everyone in their rose colored sunglasses continuing to set sail bc the sun's out

[sweetblossoms]

medium-warm take: genuinely concerned by all of you who didn't see anything hostile about mother goose's interaction with rapunzel (in particular the hug) from what i was watching, rapunzel was hostile from the moment tim was found alone in the kitchen, before tim even spoke. yes it was with sweet smiley words of course, but brennan was playing her as a masterful manipulator who uses charm and socializing as their weapon, something that explicitly told a couple of times leading up to this episode as rapunzel's whole schtick. tim could have found his way out of the hostility if he played his cards right, but the words weren't chosen correctly enough from the jump on ally's part watching ally fall for it in real time (with the whole 'oh she must not be a part of the plan bc of her answer to the metaphor question' 'oh i genuinely want to give her a hug' to then nobody figuring out she took the book in the hug), watching my own d20 viewing friend in real time going "aw i love rapunzel, she's just socially awkward from isolation!! why dont you trust her?", to now seeing all these posts and tags of "woahhh i wouldnt have expected rapunzel to have taken the book, i didnt think anything of that hug!!" genuinely concerns me on like, a psychological level this is how manipulators/emotionally abusive people act and speak. in our real life. this is how they take advantage of others, mentally, to get their way for their own schemes. there's many people like rapunzel and many conversations like the one she had with tim out there in our daily lives. very troubled and concerned seeing just how many people fell for it and thought nothing malicious of it