Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20170909025746/@comment-25926288-20171114144306

There are many ways to look at it (as I do want to restate that Hook did not say tower).

1. If Rapunzel is Hook's daughter, then she should be ancient/dead. If 30 year old Hook runs into 20 year old Rapunzel, at worst, she should be late 40s, early 50s. If we take time flow difference into consideration, she probably would have aged so quickly in relation to Hook (as I'm certain he did not foster a child at the age of ten, plus everything was the same for both Hooks until DC1).

2. Rapunzel cannot be the Witch, given the casting announcement and the press release. Unless they are trying to be unnessarily misleading, why go through all that trouble. There are similarities between each actress, but Adam and Eddy pretty much says that the Witch is the one from Hook's backstory, Gothel, and very much evil. (It could be that the Witch is Eloise's mum, but then the Witch is sorely inconvenienced.)

3. Rapunzel could be Hook's partner. The writers could stretch things and have WR and NEF have the same time flow, so Hook falls in love with Rapunzel, then they have a child together, which the Witch kidnaps. It wouldn't answer who Hook's daughter is, but it's something.

4. Rapunzel could be Tremaine, which has pretty much has very little going against it.

5. Rapunzel could be a nobody that will be tangential to every story. This idea is just plain bad.