... or "Oh, God! This is insane!"
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This insanity's prologue:

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young princess lived in a shining castle. Although she had everything her heart could ever desire, the princess never became spoiled, selfish, or unkind.
But then, one winter's night, one of her many pursuers came to the castle and demanded her to be his wife while holding a rose as an engagement offering.
Having always been repulsed by his ill manners and cruel nature, the princess refused and turned the evil suitor away, but he warned her not to be deceived by her belief that her life should always be so fortunate. And when she dismissed him again, the evil man's handsomeness melted away to reveal a demonic sorcerer.
The princess tried to escape, but it was too late, for the spell was already cast, and as revenge, he transformed her into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.
Ashamed of her monstrous form, the beast concealed herself inside her castle, with a magic mirror as her only window to the outside world.
The rose he had forced on her was actually an enchanted rose, which would bloom until her sixteenth year. If she could find someone who could love her despite her form by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, she would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.
As the years passed, she fell into despair, and lost all hope, for what sort of man could ever learn to love a beast?

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This sucker was a pain to make. About 90% of the times I started my art program, the thing shut down. Perhaps it is getting too old? Perhaps that image was too complex? Oh well. It is done! Heck, yeah!

That narration is basically in the same structure of the BatB movie despite the changes. I figured it needed something to start it off, since it is hard to make a plausible story with a spoiled, selfish, and unkind female beast being able to have a beautiful man fall for her. Nope. Femelle-bête will have to play along the lines of the actual fairytale - KIND. Beau will pretty much be the same as Belle I guess...

Yeah. His mother is sick - and is considered a loon due to it - so he goes off to town to get her some meds. On his way back he gets lost in a storm, seeks shelter in the foreboding castle. Femelle-bête notices him but hides (like the fairy tale) until the rose comes into play. Yeah. That'll do.

Gaston is likely in there somewhere... but as a chick. My what a gal that... Giverny? Yeah, odd choice, But! Gaston is French and means "From Gascony" and Giverny is French and means "From Giverny"... both places are of course in France. Ha!

The sad thing I have found through all of this however is... Belle makes a better looking man than Beast... and Beast does not make much for a human woman. No sir. How do I know? The penciling of this little number was of them both as humans - needed the human to get the correct shape for the Beast part.

Oh, and the BatB princess dress is a B!TCH to color...

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Blah. Well, other than that... This insanity was inspired by this:

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Background - A blurred, somewhat recolored screen capture.

Art © Me (Nyxity)

Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) © Disney Company