On the brush, it was written, 'To Rapunzel on her first birthday. Among other things, Rapunzel found a box with a silver brush in it. She finds many ball invitations as well as a picture with a face cut off. One day, when Rapunzel was doing Gothel's tea, she discovered a secret room where Gothel kept everything that reminded her of her past.

In between doing all the jobs around the manor Gothel had her do, Rapunzel spent her free time painting. With her, in the castle were two animals: a dragon named Penelope, and a rabbit named Hobie. She spent seventeen years in captivity, as a servant thinking Gothel had saved her as a baby when she was young.

When Rapunzel was a baby, she was kidnapped from her parents by the evil witch Gothel and placed in a manor, hidden in the deep forest behind the enchanted wall.