For the headcanons ask: the Beast?
sure! sorry this took so long, life kinda caught up with me for a little bit :) gonna go with 2017 beast, try and get to know that guy a little better :D
1. his mother did her best to shield him from his father’s negative behaviours and traits, to spare him any abuse. as a child, it was easy, but after adam started attending lessons, he ended up spending more time with his father. his mother’s good-hearted attempts to make sure adam did not hate his father ended up backfiring when he wanted nothing more than to please him.
2. his mother came down with fever first; the king tried to drag adam away, out of selfishness and cruelty, but the boy still got infected. his mother died while adam was still insensible, and he almost missed the funeral.
3. he was a decently well-behaved teenager until he turned 15, and then all hell broke loose. rode his horses too hard, broke things too easily, snapped back at his father too many times, got more bruises than a normal teenager should.
4. he would never admit it to anybody, the shame stinging him in a deep, dark place, but he believes that he caused his father’s death. it had been an accident while hunting; aimed for the crown stag, caught the crowned king. but his hands had been shaking, and his father had sneered to one of the courtiers about his softness, his gentle soul, and the fear of what would happen if he missed made his palms sweaty and his shoulders jump. nobody blamed him for it – the king’s horse had reared backwards into adam’s line of fire – but adam blames himself
5. the grand ball at the start of the film was for his twenty-first birthday. he wouldn’t inherit until he was twenty five, but otherwise he was completely of age.
6. seven years passed before he met belle. he spent two of them despairing in the west wing, two of them terrorising the forest until all that remained were the wolves who could not leave, and three of them in the library, reading and waiting. those years were not necessarily consecutive.
7. he stuttered and hemmed and hawed when he asked belle to dance with him. it was easily the most embarrassing moment of his life, but her smile when she said yes made it all worthwhile.
8. he only realised he was in love when he started dancing with her – until then, even though his life depended on it, he had honestly thought it was just a very intense friendship, and that non-platonic love was the closest he could come to breaking the curse.
9. when he’s human again, the first thing he does is kiss belle until they’re both breathless. the second thing he does is rummage around in his (newly re-assmbled) bedside drawer for his mother’s engagement ring.
10. he isn’t as grumpy as he pretends to be – most of it is because belle enjoys joking around with him, and he makes an excellent straight man. this makes the moments when he screws with belle even more of a juxtaposition than they would normally be, and leaves her squawking at him when she realises he’s teasing her.
send me a character and i’ll give you 10 headcanons
