Cassarian

"Call me Cassie"

- Cassandra to Varian in "Great Expotations"

Cassarian is the het ship between Varian and Cassandra from the Tangled fandom.

What the Hair?!
Cassandra had heard about Varian from whispers about him as a "wizard" and when she and Rapunzel took it upon themselves to uncover the answers to their questions about the princess's newly returned hair, Cass subjects that they seek Varian's help. When they met Cass is surprised to learn that the person she heard about is in fact a young teenage boy and an alchemist.

Great Expotations
As Cassandra was hanging up a banner of Corona's science exposition, that Varian attends with one of his inventions, he says hello to her while his crush on Cass has him putting some charm into his words, that aren't able to sway Cassandra to them. Since she isn't interested in him and only seen Varian as a kid who can be a bit annoying at times, like Eugene. Along with her asking Varian to not call her "Cassie". When one of the royals guards told Cass that she have her chance of being one for the day and dashes off to see her adoptive father about it, Cass's owl alerts Varian to the undo rope Cassarian was in the middle of tying and races up the ladder to keep the banner from falling down, by retying the rope. After Cass's meeting with her Caption of the Guards father and works to continue her chores, so she can be made a royal guard for the day, Varian asks her if she can be his assistant in the demonstration of his invention, but Cass tells him that she can't and she needs to get all of her long list of chores done as soon as possible. During their conversion the two bond over the shared feeling of wanting to live up to their fathers, knowing where Cassandra is coming from and seeing how importin being a member of the royal guards is to her Varian officers Cassandra his assistant, through the use of his alchemist intentions and formulas to speed things up.

After Cassandra was made a guard, however, her assigned role of acting body guard to Doctor St. Croix prevented her from becoming Varian's assistant. Cass tried to explain it to him and that she is sorry that she can't pay Varian back for his help, even though on his formulas is the reason that a few of the guards have slipped and fall in the aria he used it in, but chose to not tell anyone of that fact to keep Varian from getting into trouble on her behalf. With little choice and short on time, Varian gets the Pub Thug, Shorty, to act as his assistant. Varian's presented invention creates a purple stone element that he calls Cassandrium, in which touches Cassandra as she knew right away that he had named it after her. Corona's visiting judge, however, wasn't impressed by it due to the lack of showmanship in displaying it and after Shorty's drunken-like actions had nearly gotten Croix hurt, if it wasn't for Cassandra's quick reflexes, he disqualifies Varian. Seeing that he is upset on the matter, Cassandra goes over to him at the fountain so she can cheer him up.

Quotes
Great Expotations "Call me Cassie"

- Cassandra to Varian

Fanon
Shortly after "Great Expotations" aired Cassarian became a well liked het ship within the Disney Tangled fandom, despite the age difference gap between them. Which is why some fans age-bend (which is a bit like genderbending) Varian's age to make him older and more around Cassandra's age for the ship. There have even been a few fans who feature the two having a sister and brother-like relationship. The romantic side of the ship has Cassandra treasuring the necklace Varian gave her, since the small purple element he made and attached to it, Cassandrium, is named after her.

After Varian became a villain in the second half of season one, a few fans feature Cass being devastated of the dark path he took, in their fanfic and art. While a few non-villain Varian fanart and fics have him accompanying Cassandra and the others on Rapunzel's journey in season two. In which would have had Varian turned into a bird with the others, until they were all turned back to normal. At the end of season two, Cassandra became the main antagonist of season three, while Varian was able to redeem himself at the beginning of the third season.

Long before Cassandra merged herself with the Moonstone opal in "Destinies Collide", and sometime after "The Quest for Varian" reviles that the mysterious black rocks originate from a drop of moonlight, just as the magical golden flower came from a drop of sunlight, fans had theorized that Varian might end up being the human host of the moon drop's power. This fan theory has given Varian the fan nickname of "Moon Varian", which is also the name of the popular fan theory within the Tangled fandom. While "Destinies Collide" disproved this theory, the idea that began in season one of the Tangled TV series is still well liked among fans of the series; which is why it is sometimes featured in the ship. Along within the fanon side of the Tangled fandom. With Moonstone Cassandra and Villain Varian teaming up, Cass giving Varian some of her newly gained destructive powers, or has an non-villain or redeemed Varian trying to reason with Cass to not go down the same path that his own rage led him down.

On AO3, the ship has over 114 fanfics in total. 79 about the romantic side of the ship and 35 on the friendship side of it.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Cassandra/Varian tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Cassandra/Varian tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Cassandra/Varian tag on FanFiction.Net

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