It's Spooky Month! Last year I did a bunch of classic horror story characters as pokemon: Count Dracula, Victor Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, etc...

I decided I wanted to do something like that again this year but with a little twist. First of all, instead of horror I decided to go a different direction capturing another side of Halloween: Fun (with some scariness mixed in)
This year the theme is Fairytales.

I had an idea I wanted to explore:
These pokemon are NOT meant to be taken as the characters from their respective fairy tales, these are kids who are wearing costumes that allow them to embody the story for which they are dressed as and gain abilities associated with their character/story, so a character might not just be the character who they resemble but a culmination of the entire story, and stories can be very powerful!

Cybele Tower Embodies the spirit of the story: Rapunzel, a German Fairytale. A Husband and Wife have been unable to have a child for years. They live beside a high walled garden belonging to a local Sorceress and and the wife is craving a salad of Rapunzel flowers (Apparently it is a type of flower!) and refuses to eat anything else, starving herself until her husband climbs the wall and gets some Rapunzels from the Sorceress's garden. He makes a Salad and feeds it to his wife, but the next day she craves more and so he has to go over the wall again and steal more flowers from the Sorceress, but this time she catches him in the act. He begs the Sorceress for mercy and explains his wife's condition, so the Sorceress spares him and agrees to let him take all the Rapunzel he wants but she will be given the baby when they are born and raise them herself.

She names the baby girl Rapunzel after the flower that was stolen from her, and when she turns 12, she locks her away in a tower in the middle of the woods with no stairs or door so only she can access her adopted daughter through the window on the top floor.

A few years later a prince who was riding though the woods discovers Rapunzel singing in her tower and becomes enthralled by her. After multiple visits the two both fall in love and secretly marry coming up with a slow and methodical plan where the Prince would bring a strand of silk when he visits and she would weave each strand into a ladder for her to climb down the tower with, but eventually the two are discovered by the Sorceress.

In anger, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and banishes her to live in the wilderness, where she gives birth to twins: a boy and a girl. The prince later comes by looking for Rapunzel but finds the Sorceress instead who throws him from the tower into a patch of thorns. The Prince survives but is blinded by the thorns in his eyes! After years of wandering the wilderness blind he eventually hears Rapunzel singing again and is reunited with his wife, and her tears restore his eyesight. He leads his family back to his kingdom and they live happily ever after.


Also it's believed by some scholars that the Rapunzel story is a retelling of a Proto Indo-European myth about the Sun or Dawn Goddess.