Mavunzel

Mavunzel is the femslash ship between Rapunzel and Mavis Dracula from the Tangled and Hotel Transylvania fandoms.

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Mavunzel, more widely known as Golden Blond Jet Black, is a two way crossover between two characters from different movies and studios. Rapunzel is from the Disney film Tangled, while Mavis is from the Sony Pictures Animation film Hotel Transylvania. Due to this, the two never met each other in canon.

Golden Blond and Jet Black
The ship exploded in popularity in 2013, when the user bleedgirl uploaded the video named Golden Blond and Jet Black to their YouTube channel. In fact, to this day, it currently has over 50 million views.

The crossover fan video features Rapunzel as the daughter of the Sandman from Rise of the Guardians, the Guardian of Dreams. Mavis, on her part, is not Dracula's daughter in this AU. And she's not even a vampire here. She is the daughter of Pitch Black, The Boogieman, also from the Rise of The Guardians universe. Both of the girls have lived very similar childhoods with both of their parents being rivaling entities who are the total opposites of each other while playing their own role in the world. Pitch Black brings about nightmares, fears, phobias on children and pretty anyone who feels fear. While the Sandman, more known as Sandy, brings about sweet dreams, pleasant night sleeps and a brighter side of their respective fears to help others conquer them. Despite this, Rapunzel is still not allowed to come out and explore the outside world. This is seen when she asks Sandy to go out and see the floating lights for her birthday, just like in the Disney movie, and he doesn't allow it.

Both Mavis and Rapunzel soon cook up the same idea to sneak off into the night after their requests and promise to go out into the world. That night, the two of them meet in the forest. Rapunzel is scared to find someone else at first, but Mavis is quick to prove she is friendly. The two of them realize that they share a lot of things in common, like the same birthday, the same age and the same dream of exploring the outside world. This propels them to spend the rest of their adventure together. Soon, the two girls find out how different they are, with Rapunzel being way more energetic than Mavis. However, these differences don't stop the two of them from getting closer to one another.

The two of them end up going to the town together, to see the lights, and both of them start realizing that they might have feelings for each other. As Rapunzel braids her hair and Mavis tries on different clothes, the two of them start seeing each other with "heart eyes." And while dancing, when they get close to kissing due to the close distance between them, the two of them blush and quickly separate.

Later, when they go see the floating lights, they get closer and Mavis makes the move to gently touch Rapunzel's hand. Rapunzel moves closer to Mavis, going for a kiss. But the scene cuts to the reaction of both their guardians, who realized that both of them were gone. Mavis and Rapunzel meet each other at the forest later in the night, and share an intimate moment again. Just when the two of them were going to kiss, both of their guardians arrive, breaking off their moment, and separating them from each other. Both of them tell the two girls to go with them, to come back to their homes. But the girls are still resistant. However, Rapunzel sorrowfully decides to go. At that moment, Mavis bravely declares that she won't go. She hugs Rapunzel tightly and declares that she loves her.

This angers Pitch Black, who strikes his weapon against Rapunzel. Mavis quickly defends her, by pushing her aside, so the attack strikes her instead, mortally wounding her. Rapunzel rushes to the side of a dying Mavis, crying as soon as she sees her struggling. Rapunzel desperately cradles the dying Mavis, as Sandy watches with worry. So he decides to approach the two of them, and placing a magical hand over Mavis, he's able to revive her. Rapunzel rejoices after seeing Mavis revived, and the two of them share a passionate kiss.

In the end, the two of them start living together, go on to live many adventures together and Mavis and Rapunzel even adopt a baby, who turns out to be Vanellope.

After the massive success of the video, the ship became really popular and thousands of fanworks were made for the pair. Some years later, in 2018 Pride month, Tumblr user Gothgfs posted a meme featuring the ship, which currently has over 19 thousand notes. This meme made the ship even more popular than it already was and brought it back into fandom spaces' conversations.

Currently, fans of the ship look back at the original video that made the ship so popular, fondly, specially queer fans, that often cite the video as the first queer ship they've ever shipped.

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