Punishment:

Teen Rapunzel is foolish...(From the incinerator in my mind).....

Teen Rapunzel finds a quiet place for her and her grandmother to swim away from the crowd, so they can wear their matching bikinis. After hours of frolicking in the water, they are spotted by the beach owner while Teen Rapunzel washes her glorious tresses in the bay and Grandmother relaxes on a towel. Foolishly, Teen Rapunzel filled the pristine bay with shampoo residue. For this, they are captured and tied to the post of a sign they should have read! Now, they must surrender their beauty in return for freedom. The beach owner severs Teen Rapunzel's pigtails, one at a time. She drops the shears at the knees of Aging Rapunzel. (you might have to wait for a picture to load here.)

It's time for Grandmother to pay her bounty. Aging Rapunzel agonizes over her punishment, knowing it was her granddaughter, not her, that compromised the pristine bay. Her screams stir the lightning from the brewing storm over the bay! Finally, she takes her free hand, picks up the instrument of destruction, and raises it to her life long beauty. She howls in agony once more. Wincing in pain, tortured in bondage, embarrassed in her bikini, and broken in spirit, she slams her eyes shut and places the shears in her hair at ear level. She becomes silent. The wind and thunder cease. Aging Rapunzel closes the shears on her silver tresses quickly. She feels the shorn beauty fall to her knee in the sand. POW! the thunder burst! Tears flowed from the lakes of her eyes with more tortured screams and more frequent lightning. "Finish, Grandmother! Finish so we may be freed before the impending storm!!!", pleads Teen Rapunzel.....................

OK, this is some pretty weird stuff, huh??? Yes, I was bored on a hot Thursday afternoon. It started out as a drawing of a girl in a bikini and ended up as this. Total time from conception to publish, 5 hrs.