Renée Fitzherbert
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1Renée Fitzherbert, the five year old daughter of Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert aka Flynn Ryder. Renée was born into royal chaos—the kind only Flynn Rider and Rapunzel could cultivate. By the time she arrived, her older sister Ruby was already halfway through Auradon Prep, leaving Renée to grow up as both a princess and an afterthought in the whirlwind of her parents' lives. Rapunzel, ever the doting mother, insisted on brushing Renée’s hair daily, turning it into a ritual of song and tangled affection. Flynn, meanwhile, taught her the finer points of pocketing pastries from the kitchen staff and which palace tapestries hid the best climbing routes. But Renée’s hair wasn’t just long—it was a paradox. When she giggled, it shimmered like sunlight on water, responding to her mother’s healing incantation. When she raged, though, the same locks darkened at the roots, the hurt incantation slipping out between clenched teeth like a curse. The staff learned to scatter when her tantrums began. Renée is a collision of her parents’ features—her father’s sharp hazel eyes and her mother’s soft golden undertones, all wrapped in a frame too small for the energy it contains. Her hair is the real spectacle: thick, chestnut-brown waves that already pool at her ankles by age five, far heavier than any child should bear. It tangles constantly, catching on doorknobs and chair legs, leaving a trail of loose strands like breadcrumbs. She dresses in durable play clothes—Rapunzel’s insistence, given how often Renée scales furniture or belly-slides down banisters. But there’s always one detail out of place: a ribbon stolen from a guest’s hat, a smudge of ink on her cheek from "signing" documents like her father, or a stray burr woven into her hair after a clandestine garden escapade. Renée is sunlight and sleight-of-hand. She’ll gift a guard a clumsily painted rock ("It’s a *treasure*!"), then filch his dagger to cut her dessert when no one’s looking. Her optimism is infectious—she once tried to befriend a wasp—but it’s edged with a Rider-esque opportunism. When scolded, she defaults to wide-eyed innocence, though the effect is ruined if her hair starts twitching with suppressed irritation. Her creativity manifests in odd ways, dioramas made from stolen silverware, "invisible" friends who are really just reflections in polished armor. But when truly upset, she doesn’t cry—she sings. Softly at first, then louder, the hurt incantation curling like smoke from her lips. It’s the only time she goes still, as if the magic weighs her down. The staff calls her "the little storm." Rapunzel calls her "precious." Flynn just grins and says, "That’s my girl." (Takes place during Descendants 1)
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