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It's time to return to Tangled with even more forgotten characters!
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During one of the many rewrites of Tangled, (HAHA! I did it AGAIN!) Bastion was a deleted character from The movie Tangled, which back then was known as Rapunzel. He was intended to be the deuteragonist.
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Bastion was originally the love interest of Rapunzel. In the film's original plot, young Bastion was orphaned at a young age and grows up to become a thief to make ends meet. Unlike Flynn Rider, Bastion despised his lifestyle and wanted to go straight. His only companion was a basset hound named Beau (a character carried over from Rapunzel: Unbraided which we talked about in the last chapter). He mostly got by with his large intimidating appearance though deep down was a sensitive man.
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He was to be in league with two other thieves, one named Crowley (another deleted character) and another one that is unnamed. They worked for Griffol (also deleted) who was an aristocrat who worked for the king and queen, but secretly planned to usurp them.
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Bastion ends up finding Rapunzel's tower and falls in love with her and would have to convince her to leave the tower over 2/3rds or 3/4ths of the way through the film.
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The name Bastion would still be kept for quite some time even when the design began to move more closely to his final appearance as seen in the film.
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Bastion's design would later be loosely recycled for Kristoff in Frozen. Bastion was affectionately referred to in passing as "Bear Flynn" by the story team and it is a nickname adopted by the fan community as well.
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And that's our kindly giant we never got to see in Tangled but his appearance was used for Kristoff as it indeed worked for him.
Tune in next time when we take a look for our last deleted Tangled Character!
Sparky: And this character is one we mentioned before, so heads up!
Mysterious voice: The time is drawing near to meet your fate, little Silent Rose!
Source: DisneyWiki
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