There once was a kingdom ruled by a King and Queen who wanted a child, but they just couldn’t concieve one. Until one day, a miracle happened. A child was granted to them and they named her Rapunzel due to her being found by a rapunzel flower bush. The couple was filled with glee to have an heir and begin their family. Soon, an evil woman would steal the baby at night. In the morning the mother woke up to find that the child was gone, she was rightfully devastated.
She prayed for years that her child would come back, but it appeared as though the praying just wasn’t working. Due to this horrific tragedy, the Queen would soon go see a known practitioner of magic without her husband’s knowledge. The queen is pretty skeptical of all of this magic stuff and saw it as none other than nonsense, but the queen had no other choice. The queen was desperate to get her daughter back, for it had been years, the king was worried of her delusion of their daughter's return. Their daughter would now be fully grown, but a mother’s love never dies. The practitioner’s name that The Queen approached is Clementine. She’s known throughout the kingdom to have been magically gifted since birth. Clementine may have some skeptics, but she knows that her abilities are truly real and powerful. The Queen approaches her and her mother’s home to request some aid in her daughter's return. Clementine, weary to help the queen, requests some prerequisites before she begins; she wants to be respected among the royal court. The Queen, desperate for her daughter's return, agrees to her terms. Summoning the spirits, Clementine begins to put together pieces of The Queen’s daughter’s disappearance. One of the most shocking pieces of news The Queen got from the practitioner of magic was that her daughter wasn’t far from the kingdom! She also predicted that her daughter would soon be set free and will return home to the kingdom.
Rapunzel would spend the majority of her life living in a tower on the outskirts of the kingdom. Her now mother would only allow her to look out into the window, for her mother claimed that the world is a dangerous place. Rapunzel didn’t understand the rules of her mother because all that Rapunzel saw through the window was the beauty of nature. She could stare out the window of the tower for hours, imagining her life out there. One of the most astonishing things that Rapunzel would experience through the view of the window would be lanterns floating into the sky on the night of her birthday. In the present time of this story, she was a young adult, she was beautiful and had long, glorious blond hair. Her hair’s magnificent appearance was that of heavenly bliss. Because of this her mother didn’t allow her to cut her hair causing it to be shockingly long. Her favorite hobbies, which she did often, were in the tower, singing and painting. Little did she know that her hobbies would be the reason she’d get rescued.
One day while she’s singing in the tower, a man approaches the tower. He couldn’t resist the voice. He calls out the person in the tower for their name. Which would lead him to yell out “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.” Causing Rapunzel to let down her long blond hair for the man to climb. Once the man reached the window, he realized that this woman was so beautiful and he asked her for her hand in marriage. Though, her mother eventually catches them. The man manages to escape her wrath the first time and plans his second arrival. Upon his second arrival to the tower he managed to rescue her. Soon after the man realizes that she was the long lost princess, so they return to the kingdom where her parents welcome her with open arms. Rapunzel and the man that rescued her soon get married and live happily ever after.
The three oblique strategy cards I used were “From nothing to more than nothing”, “Decorate, decorate”,“Revaluation (a warm feeling).” The first two cards led me to add more detail to the story than I had originally, and I used these cards almost all over the text. With the third card, I just tried to add more emotion and reasoning behind the characters actions. I;m unsure if I was able to pull it off with that card, but I tried my best to do as told.