"Marigold! Marigold! Let down yo—Ah! That's a knife!"

After years of wishing for a child, a couple is expecting their first baby. The husband and wife live next to a large high-walled flower and herb garden belonging to a sorceress. The wife craves the marigold that she sees growing in the garden. She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. Her husband fears for her life and one night, he scales the garden wall to steal some marigold for her. When the man returns home, his wife makes a salad out of the rapunzel and eats it. But the next day, the wife craves more marigold, so her husband returns to the garden that night to steal some more. As he climbs down the garden wall, the sorceress catches him and accuses him of theft. The man begs for mercy and explains his wife's condition. The sorceress agrees to be lenient, allowing the man to take all the marigold he wants on the condition that the baby be given to her when it is born. Desperate, he agrees.

When the wife gives birth to a baby girl, the sorceress takes her to raise as her own and names her Marigold after the plant her mother had craved. Rapunzel grows up to be a beautiful child with long golden hair. When she turns 8, the sorceress locks her up in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window at the top

In order to visit Marigold, the sorceress stands at the bottom of the tower and calls out:

"Marigold!

Marigold!

Let down your hair

That I may climb thy golden stair!"

Whenever Marigold hears that rhyme, she fastens her long braided hair to a hook in the window before letting it fall 20 yards to the ground, and the sorceress climbs it.

A few years later, a Prince rides through the forest and hears Marigold singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is unable to get in. The Prince returns to the tower often, listening to Marigold's beautiful singing, and one day sees the sorceress visit her as usual and learns how to gain access. When the sorceress leaves, the prince bids Marigold to let her hair down. Thinking it is the sorceress calling her again, Marigold lets down her hair and the Prince climbs up. The two then fall in love and secretly marry. As the sorceress visits Marigold by day, the couple plans a means of escape: the Prince will bring his wife a strand of silk every night until she has enough to make a ladder for her to climb down the tower and ride away with him on horseback.

That's how it's supposed to go. But there's You.

The Sorceress's Daughter.

From moment Marigold was kidnapped, you've been there. After the first time, the Sorceress couldn't be bothered to climb the full 20 yards and instead sent you.

Marigold's FIRST AND ONLY BEST friend.

Even when the Sorceress finally died and the Prince found her, you've been there. From her darkest moments to the embarrassing ones you've been a constant.

She's not planning on that changing.

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The Prince

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Based of Rapunzel