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muchlesstouchyfeelyTHE CHARACTER;
Series/Fandom: Tangled
Character's Name: Eugene Fitzherbert / Flynn Rider
Character's Sex: Male
Character's Age: 26
Abilities: Superhuman good looks? Yeah, something like that anyway. Canonly, Flynn is your everyday non-magical human being. However, he's a fairly talented thief and has an assortment of skills that compliment this pretty well. But he doesn't possess any magic or mutant powers. He knows how to fight with a sword, manages to use this knowledge to fight with a frying pan.
Strengths:
Flynn's strengths all seem to be talents that he worked fairly hard to acquire. He's quite a good horseman (when said horse isn't trying to chase him down and land him in jail). He's very agile, fairly strong and a bit on the acrobatic side when he needs to be. He escapes through rather treacherous woodland terrain and even de-horses an armed guard with a well timed swing from a tree. He climbs Rapunzel's tower to hide from Maximus with nothing but a couple arrows to help him grip handholds and some desperation. Later he shakes off several guards while he is shackled, though some of this may have been aided by the desperation and worry he had for Rapunzel at the time.
Flynn is also a smooth talker. He thinks he's more charming than he is, but he is actually fairly charming. Sometimes. Usually when he's not trying to be. When he's not being his own worst enemy (which is, admittedly, most of the time), Flynn is actually a smart guy. He's got a good eye for strategy and assessing a situation. And although his tricks to get Rapunzel to turn back are thwarted by the blonde's spirit and spunkiness, they are well thought out and fairly devious. He also manages to pickpocket one of his thieving accomplices, relieving them of the satchel and the crown hidden within without their realizing it until it is too late.
Though he would be the last to admit it, underneath the cocky, self-serving attitude that he presents, Flynn does have a good heart. He's just still learning how to listen to it.
Weaknesses:
Flynn has spent most of his life thinking that he needs to look out for himself. As such, he's bad at trusting others, and a little bad at being trustworthy. Spending time with Rapunzel has helped him with this, but from the canon point he's coming from, he is still very much in the process of working through this. He's greedy and obsessed with monetary wealth and treasure, and he gets himself into trouble because of it.
In general, Flynn is a normal human being with normal human weaknesses. He has no magical powers, no extra resistance or resilience. He's very much mortal -- going so far to prove this as dying towards the end of the movie -- and has the weaknesses that one would expect a normal man to have. In particular, he's pretty good at being knocked out. Really. Count the number of times he winds up unconscious in this movie.
Background: History link!
Appearance: superhuman good looks
Personality:
There are two very distinct parts of Flynn Rider. In a way, he is almost two people all together. There is the him that he pretends to be, the character that he has created and lives his life as. And then there is the more genuine part of him that tends to be kept hidden beneath his otherwise brash and confident exterior. In a way, there is even a distinct name for these two sides of himself -- the dashing thief who doesn't need anyone: Flynn Rider, and the more caring and less confident Eugene Fitzherbert.
When we first meet Flynn, he is in the middle of a very ambitious theft. He is working with a pair of other thieves to steal a crown from within the palace. Flynn initially comes across as cocky and carefree. He makes all sorts of comments about wanting a castle to live in of his own. He can't quite resist commenting at the guard even as he's being lowered down behind his back. It may get him caught, but his sense of humor and brash attitude get the best of him. Flynn is all about his ego. Even when they are fleeing from the palace guards, he stops to bemoan how poorly his nose is drawn on his wanted posters -- something which according to Flynn is a downright travesty. For all intents and purposes, he is flippant and quick to joke and entirely out for himself. He even tricks his accomplices and takes their loot for himself, leaving them behind to get caught by the guards. None of these moves are very heroic, and it's pretty clear that Flynn has learned to be all about Flynn. He is looking out for number one, and number one is him. No questions asked what-so-ever.
Despite this, Flynn is an oddly charming guy even when he is being his selfish, wealth-obsessed self. He is quick to joke and laugh. He is, however, not quite as charming as he thinks he is. He tries to lay the charm on thick for Rapunzel, waggling his eyebrows and using his "smolder" on her, to absolutely no effect. Whether this has worked for him in the past is debatable, but if Flynn and a few trailers for the movie is to believed, it has. After all, he calls it an "off day" which would lead someone to believe that this strategy must have worked for him before. While it's probably true, it is a little difficult to say, because Flynn does not appear to suffer from a lack of self-esteem regarding his abilities -- though we later find out that at least some of this is a front that he puts up, perhaps as a defense mechanism and that he does have his own self doubts and insecurities.
As he travels with Rapunzel, it becomes clearer that Flynn is more than he appears. Even after he tries to trick the blonde into returning to her tower and giving him back her satchel and chirps about how his dream for life involves him, lots of money and solitude, he starts to show other pieces of himself. When they escape from the Snuggly Duckling and he believes that he and Rapunzel are going to drown, he blurts out his real name (Eugene Fitzherbert) to her, saying that if they're going to die that she should at least know his actual name. Later, he elaborates and explains why he calls himself Flynn Rider. And bit by bit, it becomes clear that Flynn is hiding a lot of uncertainty and doubt from his younger years. He grew up an orphan, as he puts it, with nothing. And the stories of Flynnigan Rider, a man who had money and adventures to spare, were something that got into his imagination, enough so that he modeled himself after his literary hero, with one major exception, the book character was not a thief. But Flynn has lived a life without much of anything and sees this as his only way to ever get the money he believes he needs to be happy.
It becomes apparent to him, and to us, that this is not really what he is looking for, however. And we begin to see a much softer, more sincere side of Flynn. He begins to show genuine concern for Rapunzel and Pascal and even begins to develop a certain fondness for Maximus (though they harass and beat on each other a bit still). He begins to take an interest in other people and discovers in himself a kindness and selflessness that he did not expect to find. He falls in love with Rapunzel and realizes that the treasure he stole isn't what he wants; he even tries to return it to his accomplices so that it doesn't wind up drawing Rapunzel into his problems. Later when he realizes she's in trouble, he is frantic to get to her. And at the end of the movie, he proves that he is willing to give up his life so that Rapunzel won't always be a prisoner of Mother Gothel.
Meeting Rapunzel changed Flynn, or Eugene since he returns to using his real name. But more than creating an entirely new person, it helped him discover parts of himself that were long buried and forgotten. He talks about his childhood and how he would read to all the other orphans every night. He expresses a sincere and candid moment of self doubt when Rapunzel says that she prefers Eugene Fitzherbert as a person to Flynn Rider, telling her that she'd be the first. BUt her acceptance of him for who he actually is and not the flashy, cocky, debonair thief that he wants people to believe he is, is the beginning of the end for him. He taps into a bravery and a selflessness that were lost very deep below the person that he had become.
Of course, Flynn never really loses his fairly snarky and teasing nature. He enjoys poking fun at people, teasing sometimes gently and sometimes somewhat less than gently.
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Series/Fandom: Tangled
Character's Name: Eugene Fitzherbert / Flynn Rider
Character's Sex: Male
Character's Age: 26
Abilities: Superhuman good looks? Yeah, something like that anyway. Canonly, Flynn is your everyday non-magical human being. However, he's a fairly talented thief and has an assortment of skills that compliment this pretty well. But he doesn't possess any magic or mutant powers. He knows how to fight with a sword, manages to use this knowledge to fight with a frying pan.
Strengths:
Flynn's strengths all seem to be talents that he worked fairly hard to acquire. He's quite a good horseman (when said horse isn't trying to chase him down and land him in jail). He's very agile, fairly strong and a bit on the acrobatic side when he needs to be. He escapes through rather treacherous woodland terrain and even de-horses an armed guard with a well timed swing from a tree. He climbs Rapunzel's tower to hide from Maximus with nothing but a couple arrows to help him grip handholds and some desperation. Later he shakes off several guards while he is shackled, though some of this may have been aided by the desperation and worry he had for Rapunzel at the time.
Flynn is also a smooth talker. He thinks he's more charming than he is, but he is actually fairly charming. Sometimes. Usually when he's not trying to be. When he's not being his own worst enemy (which is, admittedly, most of the time), Flynn is actually a smart guy. He's got a good eye for strategy and assessing a situation. And although his tricks to get Rapunzel to turn back are thwarted by the blonde's spirit and spunkiness, they are well thought out and fairly devious. He also manages to pickpocket one of his thieving accomplices, relieving them of the satchel and the crown hidden within without their realizing it until it is too late.
Though he would be the last to admit it, underneath the cocky, self-serving attitude that he presents, Flynn does have a good heart. He's just still learning how to listen to it.
Weaknesses:
Flynn has spent most of his life thinking that he needs to look out for himself. As such, he's bad at trusting others, and a little bad at being trustworthy. Spending time with Rapunzel has helped him with this, but from the canon point he's coming from, he is still very much in the process of working through this. He's greedy and obsessed with monetary wealth and treasure, and he gets himself into trouble because of it.
In general, Flynn is a normal human being with normal human weaknesses. He has no magical powers, no extra resistance or resilience. He's very much mortal -- going so far to prove this as dying towards the end of the movie -- and has the weaknesses that one would expect a normal man to have. In particular, he's pretty good at being knocked out. Really. Count the number of times he winds up unconscious in this movie.
Background: History link!
Appearance: superhuman good looks
Personality:
There are two very distinct parts of Flynn Rider. In a way, he is almost two people all together. There is the him that he pretends to be, the character that he has created and lives his life as. And then there is the more genuine part of him that tends to be kept hidden beneath his otherwise brash and confident exterior. In a way, there is even a distinct name for these two sides of himself -- the dashing thief who doesn't need anyone: Flynn Rider, and the more caring and less confident Eugene Fitzherbert.
When we first meet Flynn, he is in the middle of a very ambitious theft. He is working with a pair of other thieves to steal a crown from within the palace. Flynn initially comes across as cocky and carefree. He makes all sorts of comments about wanting a castle to live in of his own. He can't quite resist commenting at the guard even as he's being lowered down behind his back. It may get him caught, but his sense of humor and brash attitude get the best of him. Flynn is all about his ego. Even when they are fleeing from the palace guards, he stops to bemoan how poorly his nose is drawn on his wanted posters -- something which according to Flynn is a downright travesty. For all intents and purposes, he is flippant and quick to joke and entirely out for himself. He even tricks his accomplices and takes their loot for himself, leaving them behind to get caught by the guards. None of these moves are very heroic, and it's pretty clear that Flynn has learned to be all about Flynn. He is looking out for number one, and number one is him. No questions asked what-so-ever.
Despite this, Flynn is an oddly charming guy even when he is being his selfish, wealth-obsessed self. He is quick to joke and laugh. He is, however, not quite as charming as he thinks he is. He tries to lay the charm on thick for Rapunzel, waggling his eyebrows and using his "smolder" on her, to absolutely no effect. Whether this has worked for him in the past is debatable, but if Flynn and a few trailers for the movie is to believed, it has. After all, he calls it an "off day" which would lead someone to believe that this strategy must have worked for him before. While it's probably true, it is a little difficult to say, because Flynn does not appear to suffer from a lack of self-esteem regarding his abilities -- though we later find out that at least some of this is a front that he puts up, perhaps as a defense mechanism and that he does have his own self doubts and insecurities.
As he travels with Rapunzel, it becomes clearer that Flynn is more than he appears. Even after he tries to trick the blonde into returning to her tower and giving him back her satchel and chirps about how his dream for life involves him, lots of money and solitude, he starts to show other pieces of himself. When they escape from the Snuggly Duckling and he believes that he and Rapunzel are going to drown, he blurts out his real name (Eugene Fitzherbert) to her, saying that if they're going to die that she should at least know his actual name. Later, he elaborates and explains why he calls himself Flynn Rider. And bit by bit, it becomes clear that Flynn is hiding a lot of uncertainty and doubt from his younger years. He grew up an orphan, as he puts it, with nothing. And the stories of Flynnigan Rider, a man who had money and adventures to spare, were something that got into his imagination, enough so that he modeled himself after his literary hero, with one major exception, the book character was not a thief. But Flynn has lived a life without much of anything and sees this as his only way to ever get the money he believes he needs to be happy.
It becomes apparent to him, and to us, that this is not really what he is looking for, however. And we begin to see a much softer, more sincere side of Flynn. He begins to show genuine concern for Rapunzel and Pascal and even begins to develop a certain fondness for Maximus (though they harass and beat on each other a bit still). He begins to take an interest in other people and discovers in himself a kindness and selflessness that he did not expect to find. He falls in love with Rapunzel and realizes that the treasure he stole isn't what he wants; he even tries to return it to his accomplices so that it doesn't wind up drawing Rapunzel into his problems. Later when he realizes she's in trouble, he is frantic to get to her. And at the end of the movie, he proves that he is willing to give up his life so that Rapunzel won't always be a prisoner of Mother Gothel.
Meeting Rapunzel changed Flynn, or Eugene since he returns to using his real name. But more than creating an entirely new person, it helped him discover parts of himself that were long buried and forgotten. He talks about his childhood and how he would read to all the other orphans every night. He expresses a sincere and candid moment of self doubt when Rapunzel says that she prefers Eugene Fitzherbert as a person to Flynn Rider, telling her that she'd be the first. BUt her acceptance of him for who he actually is and not the flashy, cocky, debonair thief that he wants people to believe he is, is the beginning of the end for him. He taps into a bravery and a selflessness that were lost very deep below the person that he had become.
Of course, Flynn never really loses his fairly snarky and teasing nature. He enjoys poking fun at people, teasing sometimes gently and sometimes somewhat less than gently.
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