Warnings: Sibling Rivalry and Ableism
Summary: To lift everyone's spirits, Rapunzel takes her companions to Hook Hand's concert, but the reunion of the Hook Brothers awakens elusive memories in Hook Foot.
Everyone is in the caravan. Arianna leans up against the window as she sits on a skinny magenta mattress, shivering with a pink blanket wrapped around her. She looks out the window at the rain in the forest. I don't want her to get sick from the cold. Rapunzel thinks. She picks up a pink mug of cocoa from a round, purple table. "Mom, can you drink this?" Rapunzel asks her.
Arianna nods as she takes it. Rapunzel holds her close. The Great Tree was horrible! Kiera thinks.
"The Great Tree was horrible!" She whines.
"Kiera, be positive." Rapunzel reminds her.
"I'm positive that the Great Tree was horrible!". Rapunzel sighs.
Rapunzel looks out the window. She sees a poster with a sketch of a muscular man with skin, hair, eyes, wearing a fur robe with spots, Hoot Hand. "Look! Hoot Hand's reunion concert!" She announces. Sounds fun! Hook Foot thinks.
The caravan arrives at a big, light blue wooden caravan with rainbow, stained glass windows. Everyone gets out. Oh no, we don't have money for tickets. Arianna worries. She starts hyperventilating. Something's wrong. Rapunzel thinks. She holds her.
"Dear, can you tell me what's wrong? Do you feel okay?" She questions.
"We don't have money for tickets." Arianna vents. I bet Hook Hand will let us in. Hook Foot thinks. He puts his hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, Ari, I bet Hook Hand will let us in." He tells her. She smiles.
They go into a dark red room. Piles of gold are in the room. Big pink and green jewels are scattered throughout the room. A golden, grand piano is in the middle of the room. Woah, the group thinks. A muscular man with tan skin, brown hair, and eyes, wearing a white fur robe with spots, Hoot Hand sits at the piano.
"HEY, HAND!" The group shouts. Did they seriously just call me that? Hoot Hand thinks.
"Call me that again and I will do a really bad descending glissando." He threatens.
"Sorry!".
"It's fine.". He sees his younger brother. "Hook Foot! How have you been!?".
"Good!" Hook Foot exclaims. Hoot Hand goes over to his younger brother.
"Not as good as me." He replies.
Hook Hand goes behind an emerald puppet boot with golden lining. The top is shaped like a pirate's hat. There are white drama masks at the top. A little red curtain with golden tassels is at the bottom. Inside, there is a green scene of a cottonwood forest with hills, darker bushes with purple flowers. There is light orange ground.
Hook Hand pops up a puppet that looks like him on a popsicle stick.
"I had a dream
My dream came true"
He pops up a piano puppet on a popsicle stick and makes the puppet that looks like him play it.
"Yes, I got what I deserve
And so did you"
He makes the puppet that looks like him point at Hook Foot.
"I'm rich and famous and completely respected and I'm livin' the dream!"
He pops up four puppets of gold piles; two on the left and two on the right.
"My digs are snazzy and my agent's connected and I'm livin' the dream!"
He makes the puppet that looks like him dance.
"I'm makin' millions playin' national tours"
He pops up four puppets of gold piles; two on the left and two on the right.
"Decked in the latest from my head to my drawers"
He pops up a gold suit in front of the puppet that looks like him.
"Guess you could say my life is better than yours
Brother, I'm livin' the dream!"
He makes the puppet that looks like him point at Hook Foot.
"The ladies love me"
He pops up three puppets of girls with long, golden braids, palace skin, red lips wearing red, orange, and green sleeveless silk dresses.
"and the critics adore me,"
He pops up three puppets of three, bald European men with blue eyes, white mustaches, wearing black suits, and blue spects.
"yeah, I'm livin' the dream!"
He bounces the puppet that looks like him.
"I hit a pub, they roll the carpet out for me, 'cause I'm livin' the dream!"
He pops up a red carpet puppet and a puppet of a brown, log building with a purple roof. It has a purple, wooden sign with a yellow duck painted on it along with the words 'The Snuggly Duckling'.
"My fans around me wavin' autograph books
They ooh and ahh about my stylish good looks"
He pops up a puppet of a crowd of black, brown, and tan hands and waves it.
"While I endorse my line of signature hooks"
He extends his hand out towards a row of silver hooks with blue diamonds.
Hook Foot goes to touch one. Hook Hand slaps his brother's hand. "Don't touch, those are diamonds! For artistes only!" He exclaims.
"Face it, I'm livin' the dream!"
He turns back to the puppet boot.
"Your dreams
Were lame, stupid
Poor dreams"
He bounces a puppet that looks like Hook Foot.
"But hey, we don't all get to be a talent like me!"
He spins the puppet that looks like him. Seriously, the group thinks. They glare at him. Uh oh, he thinks. "Haha, everybody!" He laughs nervously.
"This former lowlife is enjoying the high life and I'm livin' the dream!"
He bobs the puppet that looks like him up and the puppet that looks like Hook Foot down.
"Livin' the dream!"
He pops up all the puppets.
"Too bad that your life ain't as awesome as my life, you know what I mean"
He makes the puppet that looks like him point at Hook Foot.
"He's livin' the dream!"
He pops up all the puppets.
"Look what I got from simply payin' my dues"
He spins the puppet that looks like him.
"The fame"
He pops up a puppet of a crowd of black, brown, and tan hands and waves it.
"the fortune,"
He pops up four puppets of gold piles; two on the left and two on the right.
"the designer tattoos"
He shows off a tattoo of him playing a bright red piano on his left shoulder.
"I bet you'd love to spend one day in my, uh,"
He starts. What should I say? He wonders. "Shoes. Just say shoes." Hook Foot tells him.
"shoes!"
He sings.
"Shame your career's out of steam"
He drops the puppet that looks like Hook Foot.
"Me, though?
I'm livin' the dream!"
He spins the puppet that looks like him.
What a jerk! The group thinks. They leave.
Everyone is in the caravan. "What a jerk!" Kiera exclaims. Hoot Foot needs to stand up to him. Rapunzel thinks.
"I say that Hook Foot goes over there and stands up to him!" She announces.
"Yeah!" Hook Foot agrees.
Hook Hand and his piano are under a circular, white shelter in a green, grassy field. Hook Foot marches up to him. "Brother, I don't like how you treated…" He starts. Suddenly, a man with tan skin, brown eyes, blonde hair, mustache, and beard, wearing a red and yellow Renaissance-style suit, a purple, puffy hat with gold lining and rubies at the base, and a gold heart necklace, King Trevor walks up.
"Hook, tonight's performance better be perfect, or else you're out of the gig!". Hook Hand nods. Trevor walks away.
"Oh, you're working for that jerk. That's the problem." Hook Foot announces. Hook Hand nods.
"Could you please dance with me to improve my performance?". He asked me to perform with him! Hook Foot thinks. He nods. "You will need a partner.". Ari!
Everyone is in the caravan. Arianna is writing in her journal at the table. Hook Foot walks up to her. How did things go with Hook Hand? She wonders. "Hey, Hook Foot, how did it go with your brother?".
"Awesome! He asked me to dance with him!". Arianna squeaks. He giggles. "And I need a partner." He continues as he holds his hand out. She takes it.
Everyone is in the courtyard. Arianna's in a purple and white sparkly, sleeveless Renaissance-style dress. Trevor walks up. Oh curd, Arianna thinks. Her face sweats. Is she okay? Hook Foot worries. "Ari, is something wrong?" He asks her.
"Trevor's my ex-boyfriend from when I was a princess." She explains. What?! Hook Foot thinks.
"He's your ex-boyfriend?! You should've led with that!".
"Guys," Hook Hand addresses. They look at him. "Just dance. Everything will be fine.". They nod.
Hook Hand plays his piano. Hook Foot and Arianna waltz. Hook Foot picks Arianna up and twirls her. Everyone besides Trevor claps. "THOSE ARE OUR FRIENDS!" Varian shouts. The rest of the group laughs.
Trevor walks up to Arianna. "Your dancing was beautiful, darling." He tells her as he strokes her hair. Rapunzel pulls out her black cast-iron frying pan.
"Do so much as think about touching her and you're waking up the next morning dangling upside down by my hair.". Cassandra walks up.
"You're waking up the next morning if you're lucky." Cassandra tells him. Uh oh, he thinks. He runs off.
Hook Foot goes up to his brother. "I'm going to miss you." He tells him.
"I'm not going to miss you." Hook Hand replies. And he's still a jerk. Hook Foot thinks. He looks at him. "I mean, how am I going to miss you if you're with me?". Hook Foot hugs him.