#batb headcanon

[stuckasmain]

I actually have a few solid ideas now for Beauty and the beast fics… but I wonder if there’s a market/interest for them? I don’t mind “playing with dolls” alone but it’d be nice to have folks to talk with.

At the same time I’m struggling a little to fully capture all the characters in my minds eye. I’m doing my re-watches, reads etc — anyone have suggestions or things to look out for? I know I asked before but hey, worth a shot.

[lumiereswig]

Beauty and the beast but the people who are normally the good guys are evil

heheheheheheee I actually have a playlist called “evil batb” I listen to when I am ready to be wicked and commit crimes

Agatha cursed Adam at the last moment not as a sort of justice from hell measure but because he was about to crush her windpipe. sometimes self defense has to be a spell you set with your own blood. she crumples to the floor, dead, as Adam grows bones and claws and nails and teeth—and teeth—and teeth—and teeth….

In this timeline, a girl who might have just once been a dreaming bookworm has gone mad with loneliness, her heart a husk of what it was. she had a mother once, who died. she had a father once, who lived, staring at nothing, his fingers tinkering with gears that never fit. the magic and adventure never came. and when she hears there's a monster in the woods, she thinks I can turn my loneliness to some good measure. I'll go and kill the beast. Maybe then someone here in this village will take me as I am, if I finally have blood on my hands.

why was Adam trying to kill Agathe? because he doesn't trust magic, never has. What good is magic if the people you love can die and they do nothing to stop it? Agathe could have kept his mother from dying. Agathe could have stopped his father, any chance she had. but loneliness and anger creates more loneliness and anger, and in his desire to kill the last magic thing in the forest he becomes it, himself, roaring through the hallways and filling the rooms with a shaggy, aching rage.

Belle shows up and these two souls who don't have one good thing to say about the rest of the world start trying to kill each other—Adam because he has nothing left to be but a beast; Belle because she has nothing left to be but a slayer.

the staff are evil too!! oh my god they’re all so bad! but they’re bad in like, the campy tim curry ooo I’m evil because I wear leather kind of way. they’re bad like muppets. plumette throws knives lumiere wears thigh-highs cogsworth plots and schemes on like, how to set the table with purple napkins instead of white. in a previous life mrs. potts was a master assassin. they're all so busy dancing to lady gaga and being gay they never get around to actually committing any crimes.

what’s Gaston doing here? Gaston is simply a Man of the People! He’s been put down Too Long! he is in love with Belle and entirely unknowing that she’s got a heart made of holes. he's big into examining himself from a "safe and healthy perspective" and discussing every aspect of his personality in therapy but hasn't actually noticed that Belle is lonely or, uhh, not here anymore because she went to kill the monster in the woods and that was five weeks ago.

as naturally happens when two angry toxic people with precisely the same cocktail of loneliness meet, Adam and Belle segue quickly from trying to kill each other to, oopsie, relating over their shared griefs and maybe actually finding solace in each other. Are they in a healthy relationship? Absolutely not! Oh my god nobody go near them! They're surrounded by evil gay furniture why would you even want to! But they are what the other one needs, in this broken and fragile state, and I don't think anyone should fault them for holding onto each other, if it's the only life raft they have, as they patch their broken pieces in the only ways they know how. No one wants to be wicked. Some just have shadows that grow longer, and need a little sun to light the way.

So maybe they're damned. It's not a bad thing to be damned together.

[ohmyitsvv]

This is so super random

But I remember I read a fanfic on here once for Beauty and the Beast.

It was like what happened if they just casually realized they loved each other and out of nowhere he transformed.

It was so cute and I can’t find it. Anyone know what I’m talking about?

[eliza-makepeace]

Okay, rewatched batb and there's something in my mind: at the end, at the celebration, when mrs potts is singing her part of the song, and she looks at maurice when saying "the beast" and maurice nods... What was that??? Did no one tell maurice that the handsome posh boyfriend his daughter seems to have acquired out of thin air was the beast? Did he just need the confirmation?? Is this just a joke mrs potts and maurice have post-curse??

[iheart2manyfandoms]

SO LAST NIGHT I WATCHED BOTH BEAUTY AND THE BEAST MOVIES BACK TO BACK

And it was great

I had to go out and buy the first one bc I didn't have it and the world seemed against me watching it so of course that made me want to watch it even more. So that was an adventure

I decided to watch them bc I have a half finished one shot that I'm working on and I need to Stay Inspired! I have the worst habit of only half way finishing things and going on to something else. But I really want to finish this one!

I don't think I had ever heard Human Again before recently. But it's so good

Lumiere is the Absolute BESTEST I love my candle husband

Common knowledge really but Lumiere is So. FCUKING. EXTRA. And I love him

I went back and rewatched Be Our Guest like 3 times. In both movies

I need a gif set of every time Lumiere SPINS. So much spinning. How is my poor candelabra not constantly dizzy.

Lumiere is an amazing dancer

All the little details in the 2017 movie like Lumiere's candles dripping wax. They didn't have to put that but they did.

Also I noticed the flowery things under Lumiere's candles kinda resemble the poofy cuffs on his sleeves as a human

Le Growl omg

Lumiere is so ridiculously ass-over-candlesticks in love with plumette and it's great

Like I FRIEND-ship Belle and Lumiere really really hard. #1 brotp

I have drawn many pictures of my favorite French candlestick. I should probably post them

I have So Many Headcanons

I have a literal list of little ideas/ fic prompt type things that I really want to see

I need some BatB friends. I don't have any. Someone come yell at/with me.

Srsly I never get any asks someone please talk to me

P.S. Lumiere absolutely still has fire powers after they change back AND NOTHING YOU CAN SAY WILL CHANGE MY MIND

P.P.S. Where was all of my Lumiere constantly burning Cogsworth!?! Those 2 bicker like siblings. And I had forgotten how much that happened in the original

[shennzi]

[naturepointstheway]

BatB (2017) headcanon/musing

So, pre-curse prince. After his mother died and his father became more abusive to him, and the servants more or less stood by, Adam slowly begins to feel he will never be part of a “family” again. His father eventually convinces him that such thoughts are unworthy of a man who is to rule a country (really, a tiny circle of small towns) one day, and he slowly begins to convince himself that his father is right after all. 

During the years of the curse, he sees how much more tightly knit they become, a found family, watertight, always there for each other. He resents them for it and, over time, feels he doesn’t deserve to be a part of anyone’s family anymore--and hearing the servants laughing as they have fun only makes him feel worse, especially when that laughter dies as soon as he enters a room. But then Belle comes along, and gradually he remembers what it is like to love again, and soon he feels he does belong to someone, that perhaps there is hope after all for him. Maybe he is worthy of love. 

Post-curse--while overjoyed that he and his staff are all human again, he still flinches the first time he walks into a room, only for the laughter to fade away when he appears. He nearly panics, remembering how it always happened when he was a Beast. Several seconds pass before he realises that they didn’t fall silent out of fear or apprehension, relaxing when he sees that some have immediately smiled at him. 

“You look like you just walked into a room full of ghosts,” Lumiere remarks, “Unless we look that bad? Say it ain’t so!”

The others laugh, as does Adam, but more uncertain, still hovering in the doorway. Mrs Potts sets out another teacup and points to an empty chair. 

“You look like you could use a cup of tea. Come sit down--even a prince can spare a couple minutes of his day for tea.” 

Adam gently tries to decline the cup of tea, not sure he should really join what appeared to be a very involved conversation before he walked in. 

“Don’t be daft,” Mrs Potts ambles over and puts a gentle hand on his back, “You belong with us. And whatever this is that’s troubling you will seem less troubling after a bracing cup of tea.” 

He tries to tell them it’s fine, he’s used to laughter or chatter dying when he enters a room. He doesn’t want to intrude on a conversation they clearly had many times over the years--a happy one that did not include him. He was used to it.

“Then get un-used to it,” Cogsworth speaks up, “Now that you’re no longer a terrifying Beast--”

“Cogsworth!” Lumiere interrupts him, “Mon dieu, mon ami, you think that will make him feel better?” He gives an apologetic grin to the prince, gesturing to the empty chair, “Just ignore that old fool and come join us!” 

The prince, seeing they aren’t going to be persuaded easily, reluctantly joins them, and a strong cup of tea is placed before him not a moment too soon. 

“Drink up!” Mrs Potts encourages him, “You’ll feel better for it.” 

He expects them to keep talking to each other, laughing among themselves, like he doesn’t exist, but to his shock, they’re all chatting to him as much as to each other--perhaps more the former than the latter. They ask how Belle is, what she is reading right now, or of the newest inventions she’s dreaming up. Adam cracks a joke without thinking, and is stunned when they laugh appreciatively--a thing that had never happened for a long time. 

Seeing that perhaps they are giving him a second chance, now that he has changed for the better, Adam decides that they deserve a second chance too. Maybe he can be as close and comfortable with them again as he once had been as a child, before his mother had passed away. While a part of him will regret the lost years, he is quick to remind himself that he is only in his early twenties, that he still has a lifetime ahead of him to mend what has been broken, to bring back the days in the sun he once knew when he had been closer to the servants long ago. 

[headoverhiddles]

Gaston: I'm especially good at EGG-spectorating

Villagers:

Tom, Dick, and Stanley:

Distant Wolves:

Belle's Dead Mother:

Lefou: HAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA THAT WAS FUNNY HAHAHAHA MY WHAT A GUY THAT GASTON