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09/28 network video

[ there is a teenage girl with just. way, way too much hair. way too much hair. she looks nervously excited, and waves at the communicator once. so does the chameleon on her shoulder. ]

Um, hi! I'm new? I mean, that's not a question, I'm new, and! I was wondering if anyone is really good at braiding hair? I kinda can't do it all on my own. Or not...quickly? And it's, um, there are so many little passages and stuff around here it's kind of a pain to just leave it down soooooooo. I can cook you something in exchange?

[ a beat. ]

Oh! I forgot. I'm Rapunzel? That's. Also not a question oh my gosh I can't do this anyway even if you can't braid I'm in the kitchen? Making cake and cookies? If you want any? It's kiiiiiind of a holiday for me. A little bit. It's my birthday! So. If you want to drop by that'd be great! If not, that's. Also great? Yeah!! So I should just. Turn...this off now.

[ she needs to work on her awkward levels but she. tried. ]

09/28 base kitchen

[ like she said, rapunzel can pretty much be found in the kitchen all day, just. reorganizing stuff (no one seems to mind? it should be okay?) and chopping and drying the spices magnus chase found like in the tdm and also just. baking cake. lots of cake. and cookies. they have eggs and she can make a ton of shit from scratch okay she's got this even if it's mostly fruit flavored cakes but hey we have cocoa so. she can do chocolate stuff?

she's also probably singing or humming to herself and she'll jump just, super high whenever anyone comes in. ]

Oh! Oh, uh, sorry, you scared me! Not that you're scary. I mean, unless you want to be scary? I'm not sure why someone would want to be scary - er, anyway, hi! Did you want something to eat? I have...lots.

09/27 | locked to korra

[ the last thing she remembers is the ugly duckling and the tunnels underneath, and rapunzel can't recall when she fell asleep. but she must have, because she wakes up on a...mountain. so. that's a thing. she also has to spend some time negotiating with the birdogs who tried to make a nest of her hair, but luckily her disney princess powers make her super great with animals. so that's not actually that difficult.

the mountain climbing is also...well, it's more difficult than befriending birdogs, but they kind of lead her down and so she follows along, all her hair bundled up in her arms, although she's probably getting cuts on her feet and legs and yeah this is just. all around a dumb thing.

she has no idea where she is. at all. but she's tired and confused and no one is there to stop her when rapunzel huffs and flops to the ground, her hair spilling out of her arms. ]

Oooooh. I don't know if we should keep wandering around, Pascal. Maybe we should wait for night time? I could at least get us oriented from the stars, then. But...that's pretty far away?

[ help her??????? help her. korra, you're her only hope. she's talking to her chameleon who has no ideas, either. ]

But I didn't see anything familiar from up there - how's that possible?

[ she's mumbling again. ]

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[He takes the cue and moves back out of her space. Since you know he got the bump so he no longer needs to be all up in there.]

Dude. That is even more hair way up close. I may need to build multiple bots for this.

It...takes a long time to do anything with? And, um, I don't want anyone to trip over me so if there were a way to...make it easier.

[ besides, you know, CUTTING IT which is not an option ]

I'd be grateful? Oh, but you wanted cookies, right? [ she has SO MANY baked goods let her grab the cookies to offer to him ]

Yeah. At this rate, you'd be trailing it from one end of the base to another.

[Which would be hilarious, but not actually great for anyone. He accepts a cookie with a polite 'thank you' and shoves it into his mouth.

He then gives her a thumbs up because these are great.]

Yeah I alllllllready kind of trip over it on my own so having all these people around just sounds...er, not like a great idea?

[ she also gets tangled up in her hair sometimes. it is a tragedy. ]

Oh! But you like the cookies? They're my own recipe!

Understood. And also, congratulations on managing to grow it that long. I'm pretty sure that's physically impossible in my universe. [Says the boy whose hair defies physics.

He gives a nod.] They're really good. Could I please have another?

[All of Dirk's manners are concentrated on being polite about baked goods.]

[ let's move on from the topic of her hair, lest he discover its MAGICAL PROPERTIES and want it for his own ]

You can have as many as you want! I. Maaaaay have made too many?

[It's true, Rapunzel. You must fear the God Tiers wanting immortality. (Actually it'd solve some problems with Karkat mOVING ON—)

Dirk takes a glance around. At all of these cookies.]

I guess that's the end of our eggs and flour for a while. Good job finding appropriate substitutes, by the way. [But he's going to take her at her word and just stack some cookies on a plate... he'll definitely bring some back to the fam in case they haven't tried it out. Growing Strilondes need their cookies, or something.]

Oh! I'll help, er, get more of everything? I can, um, garden. And eggs, I know how to collect those, although, er, some of that is more...academic knowledge?

[ she's so bad at socializing. ]

[Fortunately for her, she has met the crown prince of incompetence in socializing. Okay, sure, he's gotten better, he knows how to handle many situations now, but also he has no problems with Rapunzel because she is 1) friendly and 2) offering information that can be responded to. And those two things mean that in Dirk's opinion she is not only good at socialization but better at it than he is.

A+ Rapunzel. Good work.]

You might have needed to relearn egg-collection anyway. We get ours from the fish around here. [a pause] I'd suggest trying with the birdogs for establishing a sustainable coop on the new island but that might be too much if you're just familiar with farm animals from an academic perspective.

Oh, actually, I'm...really good with animals?

[ like, it might be academic knowledge, but. disney princesshood seems to make all animals like you and work with you, or something. because disney. she should absolutely weaponize that somehow. ]

But I'd love to learn how to help collect them, for, er, fish! Or to start a coop on the new island, I could absolutely do that!

You mean like Pascal.

[He will never forget Pascal. They're bros now.]

Cool. You can do whatever you'd enjoy more, since it isn't like anyone around here assigns jobs.

[Except. Like. Annabeth and Reyna...]

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