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Pascal stared at the purple button in his hands. Rapunzel was his best friend and always has been, he couldn’t remember his life before her other than his mother dying. Back then in the tower, Rapunzel had nothing else other than Gothel, similar to him. Now that she’s out of the tower, she has other friends and doesn’t need Pascal anymore.
But Pascal needs her.
Now that he’s lost Rapunzel to her other friends, he has nothing. Pascal realizes something in that moment.
He has no purpose now.
Pascal wonders what use someone is if they have no purpose. They’re not really doing anything by continuing to live. Pascal makes then.
It was like his eyes were finally being opened to the harsh reality of life. He has nothing to gain from continuing to live, so why should he continue? He finally tears his gaze away from the button and wonders how he would end it. He could take a trip to Old Corona and see if Varian has anything that Pascal could steal.
That would take too long.
Pascal set the button down and climbed out the window to see if anything outside could help him. Pascal could have jumped out of the window, but he didn’t want to risk only getting broken bones. Pascal paused at the sight of a thorn bush, the thorns long enough to stab him but short enough for Pascal to hold.
Pascal pushed away any voices in his mind telling him not to grab a thorn and walks over to the thorn bush. He carefully picked a thorn from a bush and held it in his hand. Pascal started at the sharp tip of the thorn, memories of him and Rapunzel flashing in his mind. Tears pooled up in Pascal’s eyes as he thought about what he was leaving behind.
But then his memories also showed him Rapunzel choosing Eugene, Cassandra, and even Max over him, her best friend since childhood. He blinked away his tears.
She has her other friends now, she won’t miss me, she’ll get over it.
Pascal gripped the thorn tighter in his hand as he pointed it to his heart and he finally pushed it in with certainty.
Within the first few seconds, a sharp pain went through Pascal and he became weak a few seconds afterwards. He collapsed as his breathing became irratic and his sight began to blur. Pascal remembered when Rapunzel saved him from death after a snake bit him and he found it ironic that she wouldn’t be able to save him now. He wondered if she was out with Eugene now, having fun with him and forgetting about Pascal. Pascal’s eyes started to close as black spots formed around his vision and he fell into an eternal sleep.
Rapunzel was the one who found him in the morning. She quietly weeped for her best friend, feeling guilty about ignoring him and likely pushed him to do this.
She vowed to never forget him from that moment on.