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Full name: Varian.
age: 16 (currently).
date of birth: March 24.
male gender.
species: human.
Occupation: Royal Engineer of the Crown
Scientist
Inventor
Alchemist
Criminal (temporarily).
Goals: To solve the mystery of the Black Rocks (he succeeded)
To free his father (he succeeded)
To get revenge on Corona (previously)
To make up for his misdeeds (he succeeded).
home: old crown. crown.
Relatives: Quirin (father)
Ulla (mother).
pets: Ruddiger (raccoon)
Fidella (horse; briefly).
Likes: The Tales of Flynnigan Rider books, alchemy, helping his village, his father, working with Eugene, Cassandra, ham sandwiches, cocoa, Lord Demanitus and his job, loneliness, apples, hot chocolate, instruments, defending Corona, learning from his mistakes.

Dislikes: Disappointing his father, his inventions causing unintentional harm, betrayal, Andrew and the Saporians, abandonment, King Frederic's ignorance, losing his father, going down a dark path, his inventions being tampered with, Lance's disobedience, having to harm his father, Zhan Tiri, explosions, snakes, blood.
skills: alchemy and engineering.
weapons: Various inventions
Automata (formerly)
The graphic scroll (before)
Firearm (destroyed).
Fate: Makes peace with Corona and becomes the Royal Engineer.

In "What the Hair?!", Cassandra advises Rapunzel to enlist Varian's help in solving the mystery of Rapunzel's hair. At first, they think he is a wizard with magical abilities, but learn that Varian is actually an alchemist; he does not believe in magic, but is instead a man of science (specifically alchemy). At the same time, he reveals that he is a big fan of Flynnigan Rider, mistaking the fictional character for Eugene, and willingly tells Eugene that he built five machines throughout the caverns to supply their village with hot running water. However, Varian does not realize that these creations are unstable, causing numerous earthquakes beneath their village, and eventually explosions that destroy all of their work.

In "Grand Expositions", he arrives at the "Science Exposition" event with his latest invention. The way he asks Rapunzel and Eugene if Cassandra will be at the event suggests that he has a crush on her. He considers Cassandra (whom he calls "Cassie") his friend and is willing to help with her lady-in-waiting duties in exchange for her help with his invention, using alchemy to help her clean up the castle and organize the event. He also shows Rapunzel and Cassandra the black, spiky rocks that had grown near Old Corona and react when Rapunzel stands near them. Rapunzel asks Varian to help them figure out the mystery of the rocks and keep it a secret, to which he agrees.

In "Queen for a Day", black rocks begin to grow and destroy everything in Old Corona. Varian wants to find a way to stop them from destroying anything else, but Quirin tells him to stay away from them. Varian then goes with his father to see the King and inform him of the situation. Upset when his father outright lies to the king about the rocks, Varian tells Rapunzel the truth. He then decides to take matters into his own hands and works to find a way to remove the rocks with alchemy. When Quirin discovers what Varian is doing, Varian admonishes his father for trying to run away from his problems; during this altercation, Varian spills a chemical on the rocks that causes amber crystals to sprout from them. Quirin pushes Varian away so that he doesn't get caught in the glowing amber, but gets caught himself. Desperate to stop his father from being encased in amber, Varian runs to Rapunzel for help, but, with her people in crisis from the impending blizzard, she reluctantly turns her back on him and lets Pete and Stan drag him out. Varian returns home to find his father completely encased in solid amber.

Through tears and bitterly feeling Rapunzel's apparent betrayal, she vows to find a way to save her father and make all those who turned their backs on him pay.
In "The Alchemist Returns", he pretends to have forgiven her and convinces Rapunzel to help him steal a wilted golden magical flower. Rapunzel agrees to help him only because he says it is for Corona. He later confesses that he used Rapunzel merely to get to the flower - it was to save his father and not the kingdom - as part of his revenge against everyone who had turned their backs on him. Rapunzel pleads with him and promises to free her father, but he knows firsthand how well she keeps her promises, then escapes the castle after hearing the door open. Later, in his alchemist's lab, Varian attempts to free his father from the rocks with the flower, but it doesn't work, much to his anger and frustration. Recalling their conversations about the black rocks and the flower, he realizes the heartbreaking truth: the flower is no longer the Sundrop, it is Rapunzel.

In "The Secret of the Sundrop", Varian launches an assault on the castle with an automaton hidden among Rapunzel's birthday presents. Rapunzel, Cassandra, and Eugene quickly figure out how to disable the automaton, but the surprise assault leaves King Frederic fearing for Rapunzel's safety, ordering her to be placed under maximum security. The same night, Varian launches another assault on the kingdom, this time a giant, aggressive Ruddiger under the influence of a serum.
The guards successfully protect Rapunzel (who had escaped the castle) from harm, and Rapunzel, hand in hand, helps the guards finally capture Ruddiger, who returns to his normal size after being captured in Rapunzel's hair. Unfortunately, the attack proved to be a distraction, allowing Varian to easily infiltrate the castle and kidnap Queen Arianna, but not before leaving half of the guards (including the captain) injured after the attack and the kingdom terrified by the black rocks growing all over the kingdom. After the kingdom realizes what had happened, a full-scale counterattack is organized on Old Corona, now surrounded by black rocks.

Rapunzel and King Frederic decide to sneak into Varian's house, separated from the kingdom's army, to break out the queen. Unfortunately, Varian had planned ahead and traps Rapunzel and the king, while unleashing an army of automatons against the kingdom's forces. Varian reveals his plan to kidnap the queen as simple bait to lure Rapunzel to him. Varian threatens to lock Queen Arianna in the same amber her father was trapped in if Rapunzel did not give him her hair to free her father.
Much to his disappointment, Rapunzel's hair does not work against the amber, and the kingdom's forces defeat the automatons, the plan having failed. Varian is devastated that he no longer knows how to save his father, so he takes out his anger on Rapunzel by controlling a giant robot, determined to continue his revenge on Rapunzel. He grabs Cassandra in the robot's metal hands and sadistically taunts her for her former crush on her. When Queen Arianna orders him to stop, he grabs her as well and begins crushing them both. In a moment of revelation, Rapunzel realizes how her sundrop energy can control the black rocks. Varian violently charges towards Rapunzel in anger, only for Rapunzel to smash his robot through the black rocks, much to his fury. Defeated, Varian is arrested by the castle guard. Varian, as he and Ruddiger are sent to prison, swears that he will still make his father proud. However, at Rapunzel's urging, the king assures Varian that he will get the help he needs.

He made a cameo in "Happiness Is..." as a hallucination created by the Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien, threatening to use Frederic for experiments. He was also mentioned by Adira as "Quirin's son" in "Rapunzel and the Great Tree".

At some point after Rapunzel and her crew left to follow the Black Rocks, Varian is revealed to have allied himself with Andrew and the Separatists of Saporia, using the Saporian Wand of Oblivium on King Frederic and Queen Arianna to erase their memories. He reveals his plan to use the same wand to create a synthetic gas that will erase the memories of everyone in Corona, naming it Quirineon after his father. It is later revealed that Varian pretended that he still wanted revenge and that the real reason he created the gas was to make everyone forget their mistakes and regain their trust. But when he learned that the Separatists were planning to destroy Corona with their Quirineon, Varian teamed up with Rapunzel to stop them. After saving Corona, he and Rapunzel managed to free Quirin with a Reverse Charm. When he asked about the note, his father told him that it only said that he is proud of him, and always has been. Later, Varian and Quirin joined Rapunzel and the others in a celebration. Since then, he has done everything he can to make up for his past actions, which includes rebuilding the throne room and attempting to help King Frederic and Queen Arianna regain their memories of "The King and Queen of Hearts". He was also tasked with translating the text of Demanitus' newly reassembled scroll, burning both ends of the candle in doing so.

However, in "Be Very Afraid!" it is revealed that Varian had not yet gotten over the guilt of his past actions and was afraid of repeating his mistakes. When Corona was plagued by fear-induced rocks, he and Rapunzel went underground to encase the source in amber. However, Varian was still afraid of making a mistake that would cost him Corona's trust. But Rapunzel assures him that he could face his fears and save Corona. With Rapunzel's encouragement and empathy, he managed to overcome his fear, using her compound to encase the rocks in amber and earning the admiration of the entire kingdom. In "Cassandra's Revenge", he celebrates Eugene's birthday, which, however, is cut short when Cassandra crashes the party, demanding the scroll containing the Sun and Moon Drop Incantation. Varian reveals that he is almost finished translating the entire scroll and has the incantations memorized, after which Cassandra kidnaps him and uses her own truth serum to make him confess the incantation for full control of the Black Rocks. Varian begs her not to make the same mistakes he made in the song "Nothing Left to Lose", but she refuses to listen and cages him as her prisoner. While in the cage, he has a dream in which the Enchanted Girl tells him to "use the sun to see the sun" as part of her plan to be freed from his prison. When he woke up, he tried to find the answers from the scroll, but gave up, until his glasses reflected the sunlight on the scroll, revealing that it had hidden words on it. He wrote the translation in time just before the scroll was destroyed forever. He then gave the new incantation to Rapunzel, allowing her to defeat Cassandra.

In view of the threat Cassandra poses to Corona, Varian takes matters into his own hands to protect the kingdom from her. In "Race to the Spire", he provides Rapunzel and Eugene (who have received a warning from Calliope) with a hot air balloon that will allow them access to the Spire before Cassandra herself does. In "FlynnPoster", Varian builds another invention that will warn Corona if threats such as Cassandra appear. Unfortunately, the machine is tampered with by Lance, Kiera, and Catalina, much to Varian's frustration.
In Once a Handmaiden... , he and Eugene began "Project Obsidian", which involves imprisoning Cassandra in the same amber her father was trapped in if she harms them, though Rapunzel insists on only using it as a last resort, still believing that Cassandra is not gone. Varian later attempts to fight Cassandra off when she brutally attacks Corona with her black rocks and leaves for the village once she has taken over the kingdom.

In Plus Est En Vous, Varian comes up with the plan to rebuild Demanitus' machine in order to banish Zhan Tiri back to the Lost Kingdom. However, he and most of Corona's citizens were accidentally sucked in. They managed to get back out thanks to Varian's father. But the machine is destroyed during the chaos. He later fights Zhan Tiri head-on alongside the rest of Corona, but their efforts do little to stop her. Following Cassandra's redemption and Zhan Tiri's destruction, Rapunzel heals Varian due to him having previously been weakened by Zhan Tiri's use of the Decay Charm. Once peace is restored to Corona, he becomes the Royal Engineer and is finally able to give Corona hot running water.

Varian is an intelligent scientist, inventor, and alchemist. He does not believe in magic and tends to solve problems through scientific means. However, his experiments were mistaken as magic, causing others to believe he is some sort of wizard. He means well and wanted to make his father proud of his creations. He has heard about the princess's hair along with his father and the villagers and also shows respect to the royal family as he bows to Rapunzel and calls her "Your Highness" until he was told to just call her Rapunzel. Despite his intellect, he is rather naive and sometimes overlooks their plans and inventions. While he has a knack for invention and alchemy, in addition to inventing and making alchemy, he enjoys reading about the adventures of Flynn Rider. He became Flynn's biggest fan for his bravery and combat skills, but the excitement of his hero made him mistake Eugene Fitzherbert for Flynn Rider when Eugene used the name in his life of crime. He quickly trusts Eugene with his secret hot water machines and tries to reassure him that he is under control when Eugene voices his concerns about how unstable the machines really are. When the machines begin to cause chaos, he attempts to shut them down, but is nearly injured in the process. After his house and village fall to the ground and the machines are destroyed, he shows remorse for his actions and for having let his father down.

Varian is shown to be very kind, understanding, and caring. He is also constantly willing to help others in need, such as Cassandra in Great Expectations and also Rapunzel, Eugene, and Pascal with a hot air balloon when the latter three received a note and a key from Calliope in Race to the Spire, attempting to find a solution to the black rocks before they reach the castle in Queen for a Day, and rushing to help when he seemingly sees Stan in danger of drowning in "The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne".
The events of "Queen for a Day", however, have left Varian wounded after his father was sealed away in an amber he accidentally formed from the black rocks. His heart is filled with rage and an obsession with revenge after feeling betrayed by Rapunzel for turning her back on him during his time of need; as well as a drive to save his father. Varian's dark turn left him a much more bitter and unreasonable person, focused on proving that he was capable of saving his father, even at the expense of others. Despite Rapunzel's attempts to make amends with Varian by helping him obtain the wilted Sundrop Flower, Varian betrays Rapunzel as soon as he gets what he wants. Even as Rapunzel tried to heal Varian's heart with her apologies and promising to help him save his father, the barriers Varian placed around him, so that he would not be hurt the same way again, are no match for him.

Varian also proves capable of being ruthless in order to achieve his goals, manipulating and attacking people if necessary. After the theft of the Sundrop fails, Varian sets out to force Rapunzel to help him free her father by raiding the kingdom, but fails. However, it should be noted that Varian had spent months in complete isolation before committing crimes against Corona, which most likely had a deteriorating effect on his mental health.
Even after learning that not even Rapunzel's hair could help him free his father, Varian remains committed to making his father proud of him, no matter what the cost.
However, after a year, Varian showed deep remorse and shame for his past actions and believed that he could never be forgiven, so he teamed up with the Saporian separatists to erase everyone's memories so that he could have a fresh start and be friends with Rapunzel again. However, due to Rapunzel's compassion and the separatists' change of plans, Varian changed course and helped the princess and her friends save Corona. His renewed friendship with Rapunzel brought his father back to him.

Through Cassandra's Red Rocks, it has been shown that Varian's greatest fear is that his father will once again be sealed in amber and that the people of Corona will declare him a traitor and tell him that he deserves to not be able to free Quirin for his past crimes. It is also revealed that Varian still feels guilty for everything he has done and still believes that the citizens of Corona will hate him more than ever. He also considers himself ordinary compared to Rapunzel. However, with Rapunzel's help, Varian manages to face his fear and save the Red Rocks Kingdom, being hailed as a hero by Rapunzel and the citizens of Corona. Even after being kidnapped by Cassandra, Varian expresses sympathy for what she went through and attempts to reach out to her, which is ironically what Queen Arianna attempted with him after he captured her. He even empathizes with her, admitting that the path of hatred may feel good at first, but will slowly lead to the person losing their mind and consciousness, having evidently gone through the same thing. Aside from this, Varian's bravery is again on display, refusing to tell Cassandra the third incantation despite not knowing what it will do to her if she doesn't comply. It is also revealed that he has an extremely good memory, and is able to completely memorize The Scroll. Furthermore, it is implied that Varian is a bit mischievous, tricking Eugene into believing that touching a part of the hot air balloon he built will cause it to explode in "Race to the Spire".

As he matures, Varian takes a more responsible approach regarding his inventions, telling others not to touch them and scolding Lance for ignoring his warnings and causing his "rooster" invention to explode. Though Varian told the Master, Dr. St. Croix, that the latter is generating too much pressure for the Elemental Remogrifier when the former and Cassandra notice it, they rush to the stage in Great Expectations. Also, Varian tells Lance not to touch the button on the machine inside Lord Demanitus' tomb in Plus Est En Vous. Also, Varian told Eugene to be careful with alchemies in Cassandra's Revenge.
In Once a Handmaiden... , he seems to have given up hope that Cassandra could ever give up her vengeful desires, and even began a project alongside Eugene that involves destroying her by encasing her in amber if she attacks again. However, at Rapunzel's urging, he agrees to show restraint and attempts to approach her once more later on. Varian also appears to be somewhat skilled in shooting and horsemanship.

In "Plus Est En Vous", Varian does everything he can to banish Zhan Tiri back to Limbo, including rebuilding the machine used by Demanitus to do so, even taking a leadership role when Rapunzel and Eugene are not around. He further expresses denial and anger at Eugene's concerns that his father, like Adira and Hector, was mind-controlled by Cassandra, but is nonetheless willing to take precautions just in case, putting Corona's well-being first. After she gains possession of the Sundrop and Moonstone, Varian fights Zhan Tiri head-on alongside the rest of Corona, once again displaying his bravery, and becomes the Royal Engineer following Zhan Tiri's destruction, showing that the royal family has trust and faith in him despite him plotting against them. He is also shown to have grown closer to his father, as Quirin helps him with his machines, and when one of them explodes, they both simply laugh it off.

At fourteen years old (in season 1), Varian is a slim teenager with fair skin, shaggy black hair with brown highlights and a teal streak, freckles, two protruding front teeth, and light blue eyes. He wears a greyish-blue shirt with a teal patch sewn on, brown pants, a dark maroon apron, black gloves, dark brown shoes, and brown and gold glasses. He also wears this outfit near the end of Rapunzel's Return, during the time travel episode No Time Like the Past and Error of Once a Handmaiden... when he is in Fidella. In The Alchemist Returns, he carries a brown shoulder bag which he used while wearing this outfit with his winter outfit. Also, in The Alchemist Returns and Secret of the Sun Drop, he has the branch that he tied his chemicals to during the song Let Me Make You Proud.

When Rapunzel and Cassandra first met him, he was wearing a black and grey coat and a grey bauta, which makes his eyes appear to glow a yellowish-green and makes his voice sound intimidating.

During a snowstorm in "Queen for a Day", she wore a brown coat with a grayish-brown two-tone cape with a white fur-lined hoodie, a black belt, a red scarf, and a brown shoulder bag to carry her alchemies.

In "Rapunzel Returns", he donned a bad boy outfit, consisting of a black coat with red outlines, a red bandana with sharp teeth design, grey vest, brown belt and straps that could carry his chem balls, red gloves with metal straps, tan pants, grey and black boots.

From "The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne" onwards in Season 3, he wears a more adventurous steampunk-style outfit, consisting of a beige long-sleeved collared shirt, brown vest, dark brown gloves with brown straps, brown pants, dark brown tool belt, light brown apron, dark brown and khaki boots, and a dark brown backpack to carry his belongings.

Skills
Varian possesses no magical abilities, but displays a wide range of skills and talents, far beyond what is normally expected.

Alchemy and Engineering - His knowledge of alchemy and engineering allows him to build and bring to fruition his creations and ideas, such as machines, gadgets, and chemical mixtures. Even when his inventions don't always work and sometimes nearly kill people, he tries to overcome and fix his mistakes and become the alchemist he can be. Varian was also able to use his alchemy to modify the mood potion into a truth serum, as well as replicate it, while his engineering allowed him to build an army of reverse-engineered copies of the automaton he found in the underground tunnel system. He also used his engineering to build a hot air balloon in The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne.

Season 1
I mean, technically it's not magic, it's alchemy, but don't worry.
Hi Cassandra, I always knew I could win you over.
I'll make you proud of me, Dad... even if it's the last thing I do.
Season 2
(In a vision)

Hi Rapunzel, I need your father to help me with a little experiment.
Season 3
Welcome home, Rapunzel.
I don't know if I should be fascinated or terrified. And we have a winner.
Oh yeah, I think, I think we'll be safe up here for a while, heh heh.
I think I know what's going on here. This place is changing us.

According to the first book in the Tales of Rapunzel series, Secrets Unlocked, Varian is canonically fourteen years old at the time of "What Hair?!".[1]
Ben Balistreri specifically designed Varian so that people could dress up as him. He added glasses to give him an iconic costume. [2]
The name Varian is the French word for "variable," meaning something not consistent or subject to change, which could be a reference to him starting out as a good guy, then turning bad until he redeemed himself, as well as a nod to his role as a scientist.
He has been shown to faint at the sight of blood. This could mean he has hemophobia.
Varian's hair (especially his bangs) is drawn in such a way that it barely covers his face, regardless of the head and camera angle. This was inspired by a similar technique used to animate Mickey Mouse's ears.

Varian is Corona's first Royal Engineer and the youngest to hold that position.
He has a crush on Cassandra, as shown in "Great Exposures". Also, both characters are similar.
In "Cassandra's Revenge", both Cassandra and Varian fall from Cassandra's fortress. However, Varian fell into Lance's arms, while Cassandra had to save herself using her powers. This reflects how Varian's return to the side of good has caused him to surround himself with friends once again, but Cassandra's path of hatred and darkness has left her with no one but herself.
Additionally, he and Rapunzel are the two characters who reasoned with Cassandra during a hero/heroine/villain duet song in season three.
Varian is shown to be able to play the piano and tambourine.

His mother has never been mentioned, so it is unknown what happened to her, as Varian was raised only by his father. According to screenwriter Kaitlyn Ritter, her name would have been Ulla and she would have been an alchemist like Varian.
Varian almost had a spin-off series that would have been called "Varian and the Seven Kingdoms", and would have focused on Varian teaming up with a cast of other alchemists to pass 7 Trials and unlock ancient alchemical totems that would free Varian's mother from being trapped in another realm, as well as help the other realms face their own share of hardships.

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