#Tangled Negactivity

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You know, I never liked Cassandra’s personality or her redemption. She lacks compassion for others. Think of how Cassandra treated Eugene. It’s one thing to be skeptical about an ex criminal, but if they prove themselves and make amends, they should be given a second chance. Cassandra doesn’t see the person behind the criminal. She can’t look beyond their past. That’s what made her redemption ironic. She was shown the compassion she has denied to so many. Learning it should’ve been in her arc

Her whole arc was a hot mess, and S3 only made it worse. It could have been so good. At the end of S2, I was so pumped to see where it was going, and they flubbed the execution.

She’s also shown to be extremely untrusting of people when she meets them (read: Eugene, Lance, Adira), and so it made no sense that she trusted Zhan Tiri right away without even knowing her name.

Cassandra: Who are you? Zhan Tiri: A friend. Or, I’d like to be. Cassandra: Oh, okay! Makes perfect sense and requires no follow-up questions despite my previously-established character!

I mean, Cassandra does eventually start trusting people on an individual level, but it takes a long time for her. It wasn’t until “The Quest For Varian” that I personally started considering Eugene and Cassandra actual friends. We see them warm up to each other through the course of S1, but it wasn’t until Eugene called her cold blooded and she laughed it off and said she walked into it that I was convinced they were actually friends.

And it wasn’t until “Keeper of the Spire” that she called Lance her friend (in a general, “these people are my friends” comment, but it did get Lance to say, “Wait, we’re friends?”)

She never did start trusting Adira (obviously).

All that being said, though, Cassandra being forgiven speaks to Rapunzel’s personality and not Cassandra’s (not that I think Rapunzel should have just forgiven her, I’m still super salty about how Punzie acted in S3 a lot of the time, they wrote her so OOC in order to force their narrative). People might not think that Cassandra “deserved” to be forgiven, but it wasn’t really about what she deserved at the end, but what a good person Rapunzel is. I don’t think Cassandra deserved her redemption because up until Zhan Tiri took the Moonstone from her, she was completely prepared to just take the Sun Drop for herself. It wasn’t until she was double crossed that she was “sorry”. 

Honestly, the whole thing could have been so good, and they stumbled and tripped at the finish.

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