On the wake of her eighteenth birthday, she works up the courage to finally ask Mother Gothel permission to see the lights in person. Since childhood, Rapunzel has witnessed 'floating lights' covering the sky every year on her birthday (really floating lanterns the king and queen set free to remember their lost daughter) and wants to find out what they are. To ensure she keeps her new magic flower hidden, Mother Gothel refuses to let Rapunzel go outside, lying and telling her the world is a dangerous place where selfish people would try to hurt her and steal her hair to use her gift for themselves, while ironically, using her for her desperate need to stay young.Įighteen years after Rapunzel's abduction, Mother Gothel is still as manipulative and 'overprotective' as ever. She isolates the princess in a tower hidden in a forest far away from the rest of the kingdom, and raises her as her own daughter and taughts her the healing incantation. Desperate, Mother Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and disappears into the night. When she tries to cut some of the hair for herself, however, it turns brown and the healing powers are destroyed. In the dead of night, Mother Gothel breaks into the castle and uses Rapunzel's long golden hair to replenish herself.

The flower's abilities, meanwhile, are passed onto the Queen's child, Rapunzel. Upon finding it, the king's guards uproot the plant and use it to create a tea that cures the queen, much to Gothel's dismay. Its queen falls deathly ill while pregnant, and the entire kingdom searches for a cure: the fabled magic flower. Centuries pass, and in that time, a kingdom prospers nearby. Determined to keep herself beautiful and young forever, Gothel selfishly hoards the flower's power while keeping its gift a secret from the rest of the world. When she sings to it and strokes its petals, she becomes younger and beautiful. Her hair was much more gray and her skin, as expected, is much more wrinkled and pale.Īs an elderly woman near the end of her life, Mother Gothel is the single witness of a drop of pure sunlight falling to the ground, creating a magical flower with healing abilities. She wears her red dress and cloak.Īs her older self, Gothel hunched over and concealed most of her physical features with her black cloak. She wears the same clothes as in the movie as well. She has long, wavy dark black hair with gray highlights and frizzes which Cassandra, being her only biological daughter, inherited. In her young form, she looks middle-aged. Esther in the show has appeared as her both her old and young selves.

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