notre DAMN

Whatsup besties this is just a sideblog where i talk about how much I fucking love The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[mercury-mage]

It's them. The useless cunt gargoyles.

[litanumb]

Concept Art of Gringoire if he was in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"

[garvallade]

he hunch on my back til i notre dame

[snakeryy]

Boys and their guardian

So, you see, one of my favourite things about Claude in canon - is the fact he genuinely loved his little brother, genuinely tried to care for Quasimodo when no one else would want to, and put a lot of effort into everything he did, including raising the children (until he let it all go down the drain during the plot lol)

So not surprisingly, I'm clinging HARD to the concept of their lil disfunctional family we came up with for the au! :D a big text with thoughts below

So, for this au we decided that:

1) both Frollo kids are a lil older when their parents die: Claude is 20, barely finishes his licence in chemistry when he becomes the legal guardian of a 2 yo Jehan (yes, Jehan is a lil older in the au for plot convenience). Of course, still adores his little brother to the core and care for him as good as he possibly can (given that, well, they have a family inheritance, money situation wasn't dire - the fact that Claude was himself barely adult was definitely more of a problem)

2) Raphaël wasn't just found on the stairs of the cathedral: he was, in fact, found by child protection services and assigned to a church based orphanage... By chance, it was the same parish Claude was a part of, and he quickly heard about the "poor misshapen child" who was brought in, "barely had chances for adoption", was "difficult" as by his 4 he still wasn't really verbal (due to his environment being, well... Not great), had some temper issues and, of course, required medical attention due to his birth defects, which would cost someone too much money to spend on an adopted child. Claude, as in canon, got sentimental about an "abandoned child whom NO ONE needs and is ready to care for" and made a decision to adopt the kid.

At 21.

Great decision, my dear: you're definitely not overestimating your capabilities of raising two whole kids with zero childcare experience before, and especially doing it along with your own start of adulthood

ANYWAYS, kids did not get along: you can actually read more about that part in the post by @hissto , and another one

[thelouisfanclub]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i love how for every song in the hunchback of notre dame, alan menken was just like “i think adding a gregorian chant choir would improve this” and he was right

[crazedlemon]

La la la

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i am once again wondering how this got adapted as a children’s movie

[thehunchcast]

Them: Do you like The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Me: Yes.

[thehunchcast]

[johnnyhatesducks]

Quasi and Frollo’s designs for my modern au yippe YAY YAY

[ars-3n1-c]

idk man just sing the bells the bells the bells the bells the bells of notre dame 🤷

[thetyrannytranny]

want to express my love to all who have musicalized tales about ugly French people 💖💞

[fayzart136]

And the hunchback looked his master in his piercing eye And for the very first time in his life He told a lie.

Timelapse under the cut (brief flash warning, I play around with layer modes at some points)

[fayzart136]

These were meant to be "quick sketches" to explore some poses, but whoops!

Timelapse under the cut

[thondsarchives]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): Phoebus and Quasimodo get capture at the Court of Miracles storyboard sketches.

[shamebats]

I love that they made an exception for him and not some rich person.