Gothel - Tumblr Posts

While I agree more than 100% with your Gothel post, she can't be blond "in universe" because Rapunzel is the only one with that hair colours in their entire kingdom! Blond hair is just something that can't happen in their realm. It is made with the purpose to make her stand out even more! But I think Gothel would look better with light red hair, kinda like Anna.

Sorry for the late response bestie I have executive dysfunction problems, anyways! Blonde hair being unnatural in the tangled universe is interesting, I haven't heard of that theory (or that rule? if it came from the animators) but I did look through the movie again & low and behold there wasn't a single blonde background character. In the show there are blondes, so if you count the series the concept falls apart. but I didn't count the series when making my original blonde gothel posts so we won't count them here! With the new context of no-blondes-other-than-raps. I still think blonde gothel works. It just wouldn't be "Natural". The same themes and internal character stuff can happen with gothel as an unnatural blonde (I had mentioned the possibility of the blonde being a side effect of using the healing incantation like crack for 18 years straight) and on top of that, the layer of gothel stealing something from rapunzel to make her feel not as special is also added in this tweaked version of it. The onnnnllyyyy reason red hair *might* not suit gothel is then we'd have to circle back to the antisemitism thing. As mentioned in part 1 of those posts; red hair (as beautiful as it is) has associations with fetishization and dehumanization of jewish & norse/celtic women. And the de-masculinization of the men of those races aswell. :( she'd look great with it though! unfortunately; History.

Gothel:

The Darkling:

Fine, make me your villain.

I bet they are related.