Once upon a time there was a curse placed upon a handsome young man. For years he lived with this curse, hiding himself from the mortal plane so as not to harm anyone. And it happened that in the 21st century a young orphaned woman, who dealt with magic, came across a way to break his curse…
'And then they got married and lived happily ever after,' Rapunzel finished, reading the last of the book she had just been reading. It was her mother's diary from when she was a young woman. It spoke that she had broken her father's curse and that everything afterwards had ended just fine.
But it hadn't ended there. Her mother and father had created her, a beautiful child with long flowing golden hair. Her mother had named her Rapunzel after the stories she had read when she was a young girl herself. And every night her mother read to her the Grimm's fairy tales, telling her that they were based on truth.
Rapunzel had never believed her, until the day that her hair began to grow as long as the Grimm's Rapunzel's had. And then on that same day her mother had locked her away in one of the many towers of their castle. Rapunzel had never understood, not until she'd read the one tale that her mother had kept from her, and that tale opened up to her the reason why she had been locked away for so long.
For you see the witch that had cursed the handsome young man, had not only cursed him, but his entire line. So even though his curse was broken, his children be they male or female could still bare his curse too.
There was so many times that Rapunzel had found herself wishing that she'd never read the book, or that her mother had never met her father. But that didn't take away from the one thing she wished more than anything else in the world. She wished that she was normal. She wished that she could leave the castle, the tower for heaven's sake, and show herself to the rest of the world, but she couldn't. She shared her father's curse, one that she would share until her mate came to her.
She didn't realise that her mother was helping her, by keeping her from the other humans, she didn't realise that her mother only had the best intentions for her. Rapunzel felt that her mother was selfish and cared only what the public thought about her daughter and their family reputation. But the thing was, unbeknownst to Rapunzel, her mother was constantly using her magical heritage to divine the future for her daughter's mate. And then when she thought she'd succeeded she would invite the male to the castle.
Rapunzel's mother knew that only a man of magical heritage could bless her daughter, but she had never found one, in the eighteen years that her daughter had been alive. And she was growing increasingly helpless. Her divinations were off due to her stress, and her runes kept repelling her. She just didn't know how to cope. She spoke of this often to Rapunzel's father, away from the tower so her daughter would not hear.
Unfortunately for her parents Rapunzel was just as magical as her mother, and the curse that had been passed down her lineage allowed her to hear things from a very long way. She knew of her mother's plans her plots, her divinations and wanted to join the occult too, she could never tell her mother this in person. She was too afraid of how she would feel about that.
Rapunzel wanted to study magic, she longed to, but she didn't know if a cursed being could wield magic successfully or if it would just rebound onto their curse and intensify many times over.
'Mother has hid many things from me in my lifetime, including the world outside. And I will not hide this secret wish I have harboured for years. I will inform her of my wish to be included in her magic coven the next time that she comes to me,' Rapunzel decided and with a deep breath, as the moon went down, she closed her eyes and fell asleep. Tomorrow she would tell her mother, but for now she would dream peacefully. For peace never lasted long.