So, I watched Tangled. And fell in love with it. Hard. So here it is: a re-interpretation of that story with my favourite couple. Ludwig x Fem!Feli! Enjoy (ps yeah you know the drift: no hiatus, it's already over!)

Once upon a time, a single drop of the Sun fell on the Earth. In that exact spot grew a magical sunflower, which had the power to heal all disease and injury, and to make people young again.

A man called Ivan found the sunflower, but instead of sharing the gift of the Sun with everyone, he decided to get rich with it. All he had to do was say "Flower, flower, gleam and shine, give me back what once was mine" and the sunflower would reveal its power. And so, for many, many centuries Ivan sold the magical medicine to everyone who was willing to pay big amounts of money, never being moved by people who desperately needed it but didn't have enough to pay him. Crying and weeping and begging did nothing to soften his hardened heart.

But one day, Queen Elizaveta got very sick. King Roderich summoned the best medics to his castle, but none of them could do anything for the dying Queen.

But one day Ivan showed up at the castle, claiming that he would heal the Queen in exchange for their kingdom. Money and riches were not enough for him, because now his heart wished for power.

The King, who was a wise man, did not want to give his Kingdom to such a heartless man, and refused the deal.

But he made his trusted guard, Vash, follow the shady Ivan.

Vash saw the magical sunflower, and told the King he had found out why Ivan was able to give health and youth back to people.

The King decided to take the sunflower away from Ivan, in order to use it to save his beloved Queen and share its powers with his loyal subjects.

Sadly, he did not know that once the sunflower was taken out of the Earth, it would heal people just one last time.

The Queen was saved, and the sunflower was thrown out. Some time passed, and the Queen had a beautiful baby boy, born with outstanding blond hair.

The King and Queen took it as a good omen, for the color of their baby's hair was the same of the sunflower. To celebrate his birth, they liberated a flying lantern into the sky.

But Ivan had not forgotten the terrible humiliation he had received from the King. So one night, he broke in the room where the baby was peacefully sleeping and kidnapped him out of spite.

When he found out that the baby's hair had the exact same power of the magical sunflower he could barely contain his joy. He only had to say "Flower, flower, gleam and shine, give me back what once was mine" and it worked the same wonders of the flower.

Ivan got back in his sad business, well away from the kingdom's guards. And since he had been discovered once, he hid the baby in a high tower, and raised him as his own.

The King and Queen looked for their son everywhere, but they couldn't find him. And so, every year on the lost prince's birthday they released thousands of lanterns into the night sky, hoping that one day, their lost prince would return.

Years passed, and the baby grew to be a beautiful young man. Ivan named him Ludwig and took good care of him. He taught him how to fight, scared that maybe one day a guard of the King could come and force him to go back to his rightful place. But there was something strange about Ludwig: his hair was never cut. Ivan had seen that if the hair was to be cut, it lost its power and never grew back. So he forbade the prince to ever cut his hair, which grew to be 70 feet long. He wore it in a tight braid, ravelled five times around his stomach.

And every time Ivan came to visit him, he would call "Ludwig, let down your hair, so that I can use it as a stair" and Ludwig would let down his long braid, so that Ivan could climb it and reach him.

They spent many years like this, and in the end Ludwig grew tired of the confines of his tower. But Ivan knew that the day was to come, so he had scared Ludwig into never leaving the tower, for in the outside world be monsters.

But Ludwig, who every night of his birthday looked out of his window to see the lanterns light the night sky, was growing more and more weary of his secluded life.

That's the prologue. Love it? Hate it? (I hope you enjoyed it!)