Ever since left Neverland, Arthur has been feeling a little too stressed out, he was an introvert kind of guy, so you wouldn’t see him around everyone too often, he was more into being outside, on the top of some random tree just watching the few bunnies who were caught inside the spell just like everyone else, nature and it’s life was something important to him. As he was watching the little animals from above, a figure walking by the trees got his attention, he wasn’t sure what the person’s goal was, but Arthur had quite a bad feeling, he watched for a few seconds before letting his body weight fall from the tree and float to the ground, landing right in front of the person. “I know some people are worried about going out of food in here, but if you’re thinking about hunting those cute bunnies, I won’t let you.”
"You - won't let me?" Gaston scoffed, looking the being over who'd just floated out of the trees. It was a dangerous and often ill-advised thing to intercede on behalf of any sort of prey and a hunter's natural instinct to kill it. Gaston's particular quarry had been in his line of sight, ready to strike down the small lives of insignificant animals who were food and this. Spooked the bunnies scattered, and the game was gone now, he was here. "You eat rabbits. They are not pets. That was my kill."
With everything in his life, Amir was conflicted about how he felt about his current situation. For one, he was staying in a huge castle having a great time. On the other hand, he was stuck here with no way out. Or that is what he was told. Amir hated feeling trapped. To make things a little better for a momen, Amir grabbed himself a glass of whiskey and found the closest body. “How are you holding up?” He took a quick sip. “Because I have been itching to try and take my flying carpet out of here.”
A sharp brow lifted at the intrusion to his moment of solitude at the boys blathering. It wasn't blathering yet but Gaston had little time for the majority of people here with as salty a mood he was in lately. Surely news was spreading through the castle there were enemies of goodness here, villains who despised heroes that had ruined their lives for a happily ever after and who rightly knew what was going on. Gaston wasn't privy to the big decisions which were the cause for the majority of the edge to his mood now. "Boy, I'd like to see you try. What's stopping you - parents, that believe they know what's best for you?" He smirked shaking his head imagining the kid hitting a barrier and being shot clear across the island. Gaston then had a curious thought - dangerous it was when he had ideas - they didn't make heroes like they used to or heroes had made their children softer than one expected.
A more significant concern on is mind, if not the single most crucial thing, should’ve been his daughters. As a father, Gaston – should’ve been worried out of his mind over the little one’s he’d raised. They could take well enough care of themselves Mousier Legume should’ve been tearing the place apart to secure the safety of those lives he loved but where did feet find him? The library. Stepping over piles and piles of knowledge and information, he gingerly avoided touching anything. Knowledge and ideas were a disease and you’d swear if he touched a leaflet, he’d break out in a rash. “Oh Belle-“ He called out just feeling itchy around new ideas and information with little to no pictures. “This place is entirely too stuffy” // @liveddreams
SEEING HIM , all adam could think about was the army gaston lead into his castle , hellbent on destroying the beast in their midst . the way he’d fought so viciously , somehow believing that if he offed adam that belle would crawl right into his arms . just the thoughts alone caused his anger to rise . maybe a part of him wasn’t afraid to show his face because he was ashamed of the monster he’d become , but he knew how people like gaston would react knowing that someone like him was sitting on the throne . adam no longer tries to keep the wolf in check , now golden hues settling on gaston . ‘ on the contrary . you live in my kingdom , you live under my rules . how does it feel to know just how inferior you are to me , to belle , even ? ‘ he takes pause , the anger boiling once more when gaston dares to utter his wife’s name . ‘ i suggest you watch your tongue . ‘ tempted to demand gaston never speak of belle again , but he knew she wouldn’t want him to speak for her .
Therein lay the rub. The great misfortune to not only live having been beaten so severely by the man and the woman Gaston would’ve loved; he lived under his rule. Gaston had he not served in the army and had young women to provide for what an anarchist he would’ve made. Then again, that wouldn’t be any more different than it is now. It would only be a retelling of his current ideas and dreams. Gaston wanted his king dead, but now was not the time to actually end his life. He was trapped here like the rest of them, and his ‘friends’ had failed to inform him of the more intimate details of their plans. Gaston had good reason to be as salty as he wished, but that would get no one anywhere. “Watch what I say about Belle? Am I not allowed to talk about the queen of my own country? Neither of us has changed; it seems – no matter how superior you think you are or cleaned up now king Adam… still a beast. I am a prisoner like yourself here, and I’m not so foolish to attempt anything locked in a cage where these people are your friends.”
SEEING THE FAMILIAR face before him sent adam into a silent panic . he had to be dreaming . there was certainly no way that this encounter was anything but a nightmare , but when he tried to shake himself he’d realized that this was , in fact , his reality . on the outside , adam hoped he appeared confident and anything but distressed , but on the inside he was screaming . the only person to terrify him like gaston did was his own father , and thus he couldn’t imagine what the man before him had planned . ‘ the hell are you doing here ? ‘ the king questions , the hint of a gruff growl to his voice . how did gaston even get in to the kingdom in the first place ? ‘ answer me . ‘ @ofgastons .
Gaston quietly seethed with anger, a slow-boiling rage in the pit of his stomach full of murderous desires. What little effort it would take to reach out his hand and end a life he'd ended before? Why wouldn't this king die - how and why Adam was any better than Gaston was? Perhaps that was why the Legume was here to end his life or perhaps torment it enough. He'd drive him mad. Maybe now that he was locked here, the hunter could study the man to find ways to tear his life apart. Who other than Gaston knew? Those were things to dwell on later as a vulpine grin spread across a perfectly chiseled face. "The beast speaks," Gaston spoke with a broad smile dripping with lies and feigned admiration for the other man. "It speaks but still lurks behind that perfectly polished smile. You are not my king - I owe you nothing. What concern of yours is it as to why I'm here? Could Belle be dissatisfied with you after all?"
vidyut jamwal ( he + him ) ! | have you seen gaston legume from beauty & the beast in the castle ? they are forty-five years old and i heard they’re pretty strong-willed, but can also be a little conceited. wonder how they feel about being trapped here.
well hello there my lovely fellow writers! tis i eden and after playing a few other choice disney villain pieces it does seem like my dear gaston will the first out of the gate when it comes to introductions. we’re not about to flip the entire script but we’re about to make it all that much more. to be honest I’m incredibly excited to play this classic disney villain ( with an eden twist ) and what happened after he fell off into darkness and didn’t actually die... TW : none .
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full name : gaston legume .
nicknames : gaston ( most commonly used nicknames ) + various others ain't nobody’s lefou
age : forty-five .
birthday : tba .
gender + pronouns : cis male + he / him .
sexual + romantic orientation : ahh what is sexuality but he identifies as gastonsexual & whatevenisaromantic ( heterosexual )
birth place : A french colonial settlement ( pondicherry essentially - this will be explained )
current residence : this island, right here trapped like everyone else // before he was in that provincial french town they all came from.
spoken languages : french, english and tamil ( this will be explained )
height + body type : 5’ 11" / incredibly muscular . ( i mean those 4-5 dozens of eggs every morning w/ some intense physical training #builtlikeabarge )
specialty : there is a musical number... Gaston... you may have heard this song...
martial status : unmarried. after getting rejected by belle he gave up on the idea of being married.
accent : slight french
children : he’s got six girls. six girls with books and ideas and though he’d never openly state it to give them more irrational though. he is proud but struggles with the fact they’re all girls because he’s still got some growing
faceclaim : vidyut jamwal .
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Let me take what we know about Gaston ( which his past is relatively unknown ) and throw it on its head adding a little more depth and explanation to his overall characterization. Simply put let's make him a little more human - a reason why he is the way he is. While Gaston gladly assumes France as his home country and as his identity, the chauvinistic Frenchman is in truth not french at all. He wasn’t born in France, nor was he raised there entirely either. In reality, Gaston was born in a french colonial settlement based on Pondicherry in India.
Bonus Fact !! beauty and the beast is set technically in the 17th century if you look at the concept art, the costuming and the sets. the original tale was even published around this time. The French were in Pondicherry as early as the late 1600′s ( 1674 to be exact ). Albeit going back and forth from French to English control in 1742 to 1763 it remained part of French India until 1954. As this is a fairytale setting actual history is mildly fudged about this still makes perfect sense that not every character in Beauty and the Beast had to be white especially since our Belle is the most perfect and awe-inspiring goddess Fahriye Evcen ( the French and Turkish peoples have enjoyed a friendly albeit complex relationship since the 16th century - also if you go by the 2017 version plague came to France in 1740 so all facts but we’re not going by the actual dates they’re actually set ). Anywho tidbit over )
Gaston was adopted ( GASP ) by a french merchant family who quite obviously gave him his very, very french name. They were influential people who while not rich enjoyed a decent fortune and had very large personalities ( another reason Gaston’s always been so extra and why no one says no to Gaston. ) Belle wasn’t the only one to have an issue in that poor provincial town if they thought she was odd for reading and having ideas.. a brown child in the middle of that town .... yep. Great steps were taken by himself to really stand out for the right reasons and have people see past that. ( not saying we should feel sorry for him because a lot of his own problems are created by himself. to it makes his prejudicial and narrow-minded ideas that much more sad because he should’ve been an overall more understanding character if he went through all that. it also adds a bit more realism to him why he doubted the existence of magic and dismissed Maurice's concern as the ravings of a mad man believing in only very practical things like wolves eating you, frostbite and starvation #survivalist nature ). He was scrawny and being the adopted son of a very thoroughly french family did a lot to get large and be a man no one could push around. Gaston became a man’s man - very athletic, outdoorsy and skilled in what most small-minded people consider a man.
In the mission to be everyone’s favorite guy - that perfect paragon of manhood - Gaston became all the things we’ve loved to absolutely hate him for. In his late youth, he joined the army, went to war and really excelled there amid all the death and destruction proving his worth to the world. Coming back home he became the deceptively good looking rotten to the core town ‘hero’ and all-around favorite and most massively talented huntsman of that area.
Now let's insert all we know into the story - he tries and fails to court Belle dignity and intelligence are so attractive but Gaston’s block-headed held to the archaic beliefs he had of women should be. After a few horrible mistakes like trying to have her father committed, having the if I can’t have her no one can let's kill the beast attitude and then killing him well... our dude fell off into a deep ravine.
Surprisingly he did not die!! Just got very broke - in medical care for several months plotting his revenge against Adam and Belle. No one makes a fool of him and lives to talk about it. However, revenge plots change and adapt as Gaston threw himself into the arms of several women and even after all of this they throw themselves at him ( give me the bimbettes as mothers to some of his girls! ). The quest became to have a hoard of boys to prove he could still live out his dream of what life would’ve been like. In some great grand twist of fate as the ultimate revenge no matter how many women Gaston ‘loved’ none of the children that resulted were ever boys but good god much to his everlasting dismay ever last one of them were girls.
Cursed with girls and being a single father because there aren’t any women like Belle ( still carrying that torch ) never married any of their mothers nor made it a secret he never loved any of them ( the mothers, not the daughters because I’m not that evil - yet ). He has always consistently struggled to raise them with his old ideas of how girls and women should be and act. Yet as much as Gaston hated having daughters, hates giving them ideas and typical Gastonian things and has had a tendency to make them feel they’re not as important to him as they could be because they aren’t the boys he wanted.... God the man flipping loves them and that shows through in his complete overbearing over protectiveness. [[ Insert Mother Knows Best from Rapunzel with an equal mixture of Stay With Me from Into the Woods ( with it being father knows best and minus the parts about being ugly cause he’d never call himself ugly ) ]]. Simply summed up he’s tried and failed at being a great parent, kind of sucks at it and while excessively proud of himself and overly vain loves them in his own way. Gaston himself has never really known how to show actual love to anyone and has quite a bit of personal growth to go through. That and he could stand to get his ass kicked a few more times... His six girls give him all the grief. They are the reasons for his grey hair reading books without pictures in them being women with ideas...
Now we arrive at our current moment and despite how it may seem Gaston hasn’t given up on ruining the lives of Adam and Belle. It remains a mystery how he actually got into the party but where there is a will there is a way and Gaston is just determined enough he found a way. Alas having not been entirely included in on the plan for whatever this is he’s feeling even saltier then our heroes and their children are. Why? Because no one told him the master plan and now he’s stuck here with his most hated enemies and his girls trapped. Really and truthfully he’s not about to help the good guys fully intending to be anything but helpful to their cause. Gaston’s not about to be entirely helpful to the evil side either - he’s simply going along with whatever the villains may be doing because he is one and its another way to fuck with Adam’s life and gain the upper hand in a fight he won’t win. ( too he is mildly concerned about ‘ideas’ and goodness rubbing off on the girls ). He’s not toned down in his own personal villainy it only has a different edge to it now.
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wanted connections !!
his daughters!! Please oh please give me his daughters because I live for the idea of him having all six girls here ( literally the best comeuppance to jerkface over here ). I do feel like these women would be incredible human beings despite him. Some of them might fight to earn his affection, some might be brilliant, some may be soft beautiful innocent little things afraid to come out of their shells. I just want them to make him see how incredibly capable they are and how wrong his ideas about women’s roles are. give me the badass daughter with daddy issues. give me the soft one who loves her father but has yet to find her fire to stand up for herself. give me all the feels because the girls I feel would’ve unjustly been lumped in with the villains because of who he is when each of them is a princess in their own right.
fellow villain parents ! give me more bad guys
exes ( the man is handsome and despite most peoples better judgment he’s popular )
LeFou because of reasons!
all the things!! let us make something happen
If anything strikes your fancy please hmu! I can’t wait to plot and write anything and everything with all of you!
