In "Challenge of the Brave", it is revealed that Cassandra has insecurities about how she is seen just as a girl/handmaiden instead of a strong, skilled, and capable warrior who deserves as much respect as anyone in the royal guard, this would later contribute to her fall to villainy.
Background. As revealed in "Rapunzel's Return", Cassandra is the biological daughter of Mother Gothel, though she was severely neglected and was often left to fend for herself and doing chores by herself in their cottage while Gothel went about her daily business.
In September 2020, Amber Vanich, a story revisionist for Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure revealed that Cassandra "Cass" was gay coded, with sapphic looks toward the story's protagonist, Rapunzel, and that some of these feelings are shown in the episode about memory loss.
Getting her hand burnt because Rapunzel refused to trust her was the defining scar that started Cass down the path towards her eventual betrayal, even if she didn't want to betray her at first, but Zhan Tiri pushed her by showing her the night her own mother chose another baby girl over her.
With her life suddenly endangered, Gothel kidnaps the infant, imprisoning the princess in an isolated tower for eighteen years while posing as her mother to exploit her powers. Mother Gothel as she appears in Disney's Tangled.
Why Cassandra Betrayed Rapunzel! | A Tangled The Series Theory
Why does Cass betray Rapunzel?
Over the course of Season 2, Cassandra's insecurity and desire to rise above everyone's view of her grew to a point where she became bitter to Rapunzel for always upstaging her at everything; a growing crack in their relationship that only gotten worse when she discovered her own backstory in the House of Yesterday's ...
Cassandra is Varian's will-be wife and a fierce fighter. Her mother is the nefarious Mother Gothel, who abandoned Cassandra when she was small just to kidnap Rapunzel when she was a baby to use for her magic hair to keep her young.
Gothel wasn't a good parent and was capable of awful things. She was selfish, cunning, and smart, which made her a great Disney villain. Audiences know that Gothel is bad news, but in certain ways, she's still an underrated Disney villain.
Gothel is the main antagonist in Tangled. She kidnapped baby Rapunzel to get the magical power of Rapunzel's golden hair. Its magic can make people young but when the hair is cut, it will lose its power. So instead, she had to kidnap baby Rapunzel to make herself young.
In the last episode, Cassandra is seen wearing Varian's Cassandrium necklace, symbolizing how they are friends once more. Because of Varian's crush and the dynamic between the characters, some fans like to ship them. Their ship name is Vassandra (or Cassarian).
Cassandra is a main character in DU S1 but takes charge as main protagonist in S2. She is the biological daughter of Mother Gothel and the older sister of Varian. Cassandra shows herself as strong and brave but does have insecurities about her past witch is what Greg uses against her.
The ship is often considered canon by some fans, due to all of their moments that can be interpreted as romantic and their last conversation when they say they love each other.
Before the fall of Troy took place, Cassandra foresaw that if Paris goes to Sparta and brings Helen back as his wife, the arrival of Helen will spark the downfall and destruction of Troy during the Trojan War. Despite the prophecy and ignoring Cassandra's warning, Paris still went to Sparta and returned with Helen.
According to Aeschylus's tragedy Agamemnon, Cassandra was loved by the god Apollo, who promised her the power of prophecy if she would comply with his desires.
Helenus, in Greek legend, son of King Priam of Troy and his wife Hecuba, brother of Hector, and twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra. According to Homer he was a seer and warrior.
Instead, Gothel exercises control over Rapunzel by playing on her fears. In her villain song “Mother Knows Best,” she sings “One way or another, something will go wrong I swear”; she belittles her, “You're looking a little chubby”; and then isolates her, “Skip the Drama, Stay with Mama, Mother Knows Best”.
Once Rapunzel disobeys her and begins to fight back, Mother Gothel becomes overtly violent, more abusive and dangerous. Mother Gothel consistently puts Rapunzel down in underhanded ways. In her brilliantly written villain song “Mother Knows Best”, she insults her “adopted daughter” incessantly.
After Mother Gothel stabbed Flynn Rider (who was actually named Eugene Fitzherbert), Rapunzel made a deal with her mother to save his life. She promised that she would go with Gothel anywhere she wanted and wouldn't try to escape, so long as Rapunzel was allowed to heal his wounds.
The Mattel cartoon Ever After High (2013–2017), features Rapunzel's has two daughters: Holly O'Hair and Poppy O'Hair. Tangled: The Series (2017–2020) is a 2D animated TV show based on Disney Animation's computer animated musical feature film Tangled.
According to the Brothers Grimm, Princess Rapunzel is named after the cultivated vegetable of the same name, growing in a witch's garden. The wording of the story suggested to me that the Grimms' contemporaries would be familiar with the plant as a vegetable, that it wasn't a fantastical invented thing.
Mother Gothel imposes extensive gaslighting on Rapunzel, a term used to describe a form of psychological manipulation that causes someone to question their own reality, oftentimes by presenting a false narrative which leads someone to doubt their perceptions and become misled or disoriented.
Seeing as how blue hair isn't exactly a natural hair color (perhaps even in the Corona universe), it's likely that this indicates Varian either having come into contact with blue-hair-inducing magic either he was that little (similar to Anna in Frozen), or perhaps he and his mother came into contact with magic sometime ...
He has a crush on Cassandra, as shown in "Great Expotations". In addition, both characters are similar. In "Cassandra's Revenge", both Cassandra and Varian fall off Cassandra's Stronghold.
