[Dipper gets it, Dipper always gets it. Sometimes, you just make a thing because you need the thing, doesn't matter if that thing should exist or not beforehand.

And Dipper would be right there- Varian doesn't accept failure all that easily. He's too goddamn stubborn at the best of times, add his father's life being at stake to the mix and it was inevitable he'd head towards disaster. ]

Nope, I kidnapped her mom, the queen. I knew she wouldn't come to me without an...incentive. When she came to rescue her, I trapped her and the king and used my amber solution next to her mom- basically forced her to help me or let her mom get trapped by it just like my dad was.

[He doesn't sound proud of it, he sounds sick to his stomach. It wasn't fair. Rapunzel was such a sweet, decent person and he forced her into something she probably would have helped him with if he'd just asked again instead of slamming up all his walls and deciding the world was against him. ]

It didn't work anyway. Whatever power was in her hair, it didn't break the amber. The royal family escaped and I just... I just snapped. Attacked them with a robot. I... I tried to crush the queen and Rapunzel's best friend to death with it. I wanted her to hurt.