Variger

Variger is the friendship between Varian and Ruddiger from the Tangled fandom.

Season One
Varian first met Ruddiger as a wild raccoon that kept wondering into his house and had set a harmless trap in order to keep the raccoon in one place until he is able to send him back out side. Over and over again, until events between "What the Hair?!" and possibly around "Great Expotations" (as it is before the events of "Queen for a Day"), had Varian deciding to adopt the friendly raccoon he names Ruddiger.

When Old Corona came over run by the black rocks and were putting its people in danger, Varian hated the fact that his father had lied to the King of their problem and later to the villagers that he had sorted things out, Ruddiger walks up to Varian caresses himself around Varian's legs, like a cat, before Varian picks the raccoon up and shares his concerns with it. While Ruddiger didn't fully understand what Varian has said, he does smile at his young owner before Varian begins to do some experiments on the rocks in order to find away to get rid of them. After Quirin was encased in amber and Varian was enraged that the people of Corona turned their backs on them when he needed Rapunzel's help to save his father, Ruddiger could sense the anger that darkened Varian's heart and hid under a table. A few days or weeks later, after Varian learns that the Sun Drop flower still exists, Ruddiger accompanies Varian to Corona, while sticking to the shadows and not showing any signs of being afraid of Varian, before they go into its underground tunnel system with Rapunzel and Pascal.

Because the flower Varian stole had lost its power that were now within Rapunzel, he uses his alchemy to turn Ruddiger into a giant raccoon-like monster to serve as a distraction while his owner kidnaps the queen for his plan. After Ruddiger reverts back to his normal self again, he heads back to Old Corona where Varian is setting things up for his plan. Even though the raccoon his loyal to his human owner, Ruddiger knew that he couldn't stand by anymore and frees Pascal so the chameleon could help the royal family. Once Varian was defeated and arrested for his crimes, Ruddiger willingly accompanies his master to prison and sympathetically consoles Varian as the young alchemist swears to make his father proud.

Season Three
After Varian was redeemed and was finally able to free his father from the amber with Rapunzel's help, both Varian and Ruddiger journey back to Corona in "The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne" as they help a group of its people to repair the damaged throne room. The two later partake in the treasure hunt race after the map to it was found.

Fanon
Variger is mostly seen as side friendship ship of the Disney Tangled fandom, due to the little screen time that there has been on the two together.

In some fanart of Beast/Monster Ruddiger from the "Secret of the Sun Drop", is able to clam his four legged friend down and tame the beast he turned the raccoon into. Along with having a few regrets of what he did to him, and even imagined what their shared time in prison would have been like as Ruddiger keeps Varian company in his cell. While in an role swap AU that commonly has Varian as a male Rapunzel, it makes Ruddiger Pascal.

On AO3, the ship has only 29 fanfics.

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