Freckle Siblings

Varunzel is the friendship ship between Varian and Rapunzel from the Tangled fandom.

Season One
Sometime after Rapunzel's hair grew back and had her first nightmare about the black rocks, that are believed to be the cause of it, she knew that she has to find answers about her returned hair. So when Cassandra tells Rapunzel about a wizard she heard about called Varian, she began to believe that Varian would be able to help her. When they got to Old Corona, Rapunzel was surprised to learn that the wizard was actually a fourteen year old alchemist who doesn't believe in magic and was humble to be in the princess's presents, while Rapunzel asks Varian to call her by her name and not her title before they got to work on her hair.

Season Two
In "Happiness Is..." Rapunzel finds a magical idol that grants her happiness with the visions it gives Rapunzel of her loved ones back in Corona, but when she was about to give the idol away to the Lorbs and then became consumed back its power when she tries to take it back, it gives her a terrible vision of Varian in his enrage villain state. As he greats her before threatening to use her father in one of his experiments. Because that frightening vision of Varian had helped to open Rapunzel's eyes to the danger the idol brings to those who seek its power, she knew that she has to destroy it before the island tars itself apart.

Fanon
Because of the big age gap between them, fans prefer to ship them as friends or to have Rapunzel as a big sister like figure to Varian. Before Varian became a villain, in the second half of season one, and after he was redeemed, at the beginning of season three.

After the events of "The Quest for Varian" revealed that the black rocks had came from a drop of moonlight, just has a drop of sunlight had created the Sun Drop flower before Rapunzel became the human host of its healing powers, fans had theorized Varian could had been the human host of the "moon drops" power in which would link him to Rapunzel through the powers they hold within them; along with having his hair blue like hers but in a blue color instead of yellow. Before "Destinies Collide" disproved that theory that later became a popular fanon AU within the Tangled fandom, a few versions of Moon!Varian have Gothel kidnaping Varian for the power he holds and raises him beside Rapunzel in the tower in which has the two growing up together as siblings. There have even been a few role swap AUs that commonly has Rapunzel and Varian switching places and sometimes color schemes with each other, for fun as fans have Rapunzel as an eighteen year old alchemist and Varian as the young lost prince. Along with there being fans who have Varian joining Rapunzel on her journey in season two.

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

Variations

 * Cassunzerian refers to the ship between Cassandra, Varian and Rapunzel