Why The Beast Was Cursed: Disturbing Details from Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

Just WHO was the Prince cursed to be a beast? Why was he cursed? You may know tattered and torn bits and pieces, but the whole story is QUITE intriguing (and very concerning!)
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In this deep-dive into some obscure Beauty and the Beast lore, we’ve got a fierce, glorious war queen for starters, and a truly vindictive and twisted fairy (among a LOT of other fairies, turns out!) Heck, even Belle (I mean, “Princess Beauty”) is not even who she seems: SHE WAS DESTINED TO TURN INTO A SERPENT after all! Yeah. Be my guest and enjoy this Beauty and the Beast Backstory - a buffet of creepy details not in Disney's Beauty and the Beast!
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[@KiTA-]

I love how she 100% make it known that the prince and princess are *cousins* every chance she gets. LMAOOO 😂

[@soren3569]

Funny thing, in that era, it really wasn't uncommon. And it's still legal to marry a first cousin in almost half the U.S.

[@ashleyjeffers1542]

13:09 "princess beauty and her cousin the beast get married" 😭😭

[@KiTA-]

@@soren3569 well I am from the US and am very aware of that. It's pretty weird but like I guess those people can love their life in Alabama.

[@KiTA-]

@@ashleyjeffers1542 LMAOOO RIGHT! XDDDD

[@bertha1745]

@@KiTA- And your cousin

[@nowlwane9623]

So it wasn’t about the beast, but the conflict between fairies and a warrior queen? Sounds like a better series than a movie.

[@babyyodel3738]

fr id watch that

[@Miss_Camel]

@@babyyodel3738agreed

[@The_Maroon_Rose]

Legit.

[@xMissxArtx]

Sounds like A Midsummer Nights Dream

[@danninmatthews5640]

In Disney's animated version, he was an 11 year old. She cursed a boy and his servants. Also, screw the fairy and enchantress in every version.

[@tylerpatti9038]

He wasn't intended to be 11, it was accidentally implied when they left in a throw-away line by Lumiere which came from an earlier version where the prince was cursed at age 21. The fairy was punishing him for his vanity and callousness for throwing an old begar lady in the cold.

[@davidalicea6705]

According to Selena Valentino he was either a teenager or an adult I would say teenager because it makes sense but it's not made clear but we know he's mowed in 11 years old in that book and also he was cursed by someone who loved him so yes so apparently in the actual in the Disney version of according to Selena Valentino the prince was cursed because the reason why because he thought she was a pig farmer when she ended up being related to royalty and that royalty happens to be snow white's family I'm not kidding and the reason why she pretended to be a pig farmer was to see if he actually loved her when he didn't so she decided to curse her

[@angelfairy6676]

@@tylerpatti9038 I mean if a random old lady came to your door asking to be let in most prob would close the door on her too

[@xrayfisg]

@@tylerpatti9038 yeah even if he was a adult i wouldn't want to let a creepy old lady in my house in at the middle of the night either lol

[@bloatedcow1361]

@@xrayfisg remember what Snow White did last time? Almost got her killed because of an ugly ass lady.

[@jasmidnurmi9857]

I like how everyone, except for the one creep fairy were good people (not including the incest, but that was common back then, so that can't be held against the story) No bad parents is refreshing

[@Crow_Smith]

Well the Queen Mother probably could've been happier her son was free like "oh ...well he's free but she's not a noble :\ so I don't approve" - and the Merchant giving up his daughter like that probably wasn't the best parent move - but yeah otherwise pretty good folks.

[@sarge6508]

If this story had taken place in modern times then i would've said that the mother should sue the ugly fairy for child support.

[@jasmidnurmi9857]

@@Crow_Smith True that. But the mother disapproving the girl, while making her snobbish and a jerk, doesn't make her a bad mother unless she starts to actually try to break them up or bullying the girl. The Merchant is a fair point.

[@seabreeze4559]

First cousins isn't incest, it's still legal in England.

[@Crow_Smith]

@@seabreeze4559 It literally is incest. They're like as close to siblings as you can get without being siblings. And if either of your parents are /identical twins/ they basically are your siblings. - There is a super interesting story about identical twin men, marrying identical twin women and having babies and biologically their kids are siblings, but TECHNICALLY they're first cousins. If your parent is an identical twin, your first cousins are like biologically your half siblings. -- But yeah just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not incest. Incest is literally getting with someone in your family, I do know that after like 3rd/4th cousin it starts to not be an issue for your offspring - but a 1st cousin is definitely close enough to you biologically for it to be an issue. - And a quote from Discover Magazine "In the western world, marriage between first cousins is labeled incest or inbreeding, and in the United States the practice is banned or restricted in 31 states." --- and from Wikipedia: Children of first-cousin marriages have an increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders, and this risk is higher in populations that are already highly ethnically similar. Children of more distantly related cousins have less risk of these disorders, though still higher than the average population." --- also despite being legal in the UK it is still considered incest and is apparently a hotly debated topic in the UK if it should remain legal.

[@kittykittybangbang000]

"after all I've done for you, if you loved me you would do it" that is a common manipulating and abuse/sexual abuse tactic, god even back then the were aware of it.

[@ViktorErikFade]

At this rate I wouldn't be surprised why the "true loves kiss" ending happens so much is because it's better than "and then the cousins and siblings got married" ending stories used to have 24/7 . Or something like that

[@alexp.d3689]

Well, the "LOVE" part was added by Walt Disney ... Didn't really exist in any famous stories with kisses breaking spells ,they were JUST kisses, no true love required .

[@seabreeze4559]

elizabeth and prince philip were cousins

[@christinecameron1612]

The fairy cursed an 11 year old CHILD for not letting a (creepy as f*ck) total stranger into the castle in the middle of the night. Then tries to blame him for "not being hospitable". His instinct to not trust her was accurate, if he had let her in, who knows what grizly fate he might have ended in at her hands??

[@MissCaraMint]

1.) the imlication that he was 11 probably unitentional. 2.) Hospitality has traditionally been a huge deal. To the point that in Greco-Roman times it was a divine duty to offer hospitality to anyone who asks. The person guess has a right to hospitality. This was also big in the Medieval times. By denying hospitality the Beast is essencially denying her basic human rights. Think about that for a second. That’s really bad.

[@bagpaper6964]

@@MissCaraMint People are Humans, We're are all not the same. hospitable to anyone? that's how you easily get robbed and murdered. Just imagine the amount of people that died from that , especially since society was way worse, No cameras no tech. with the way of living back then, getting money was even more difficult. Aside from diseases, murders were just as common

[@carlorielmendez6505]

@@bagpaper6964 I commented the hatred for the custom in Ted videos. But then the lamest excuse of the Greeks/Romans would be that the gods loved cosplaying as mortals so denying them hospitality can mean death or a curse. I know middle-eastern or people of the book cultures practice hospitality to great extent but at least it's because they have a shared culture and experience of the desert being harsh, and serving guests is always god's blessing

[@scurryfunge9581]

The child was a PRINCE. Castles aren't large bungalows where the prince himself attending to the "door" lol. In a monarchial set-up that's basically the head of the government. The king has the responsibility to provide for his people (and every third traveller that lands in his court). My personal interpretation of the tale Disney presented was that the fairy got offended upon being denied shelter for the night and rightly cursed the servants as well as the master(which happened to be a boy in this case) for being inhospitable. 11 years old in Medieval times was basically 2 years away from marriage. He was old enough. The entire staff got cursed too, though he bore the larger brunt for being the supreme authority.

[@MissCaraMint]

@@bagpaper6964 So the lord of a large estate would be in danger of getting murdered by some old woman? Were there no guards? no servants? Oh wait there were. His duty to host travellers could be safely undertaken. Stop trying to make denying an ostensibly elderly person who could very well have gotten killed out of doors at night shelter seem like a logical thing. It's not. It was incredibly cruel. And again the 10 years thing was just a trow away line from a single song. Lt could well have been figurative and not literal.

[@eliza.the.earthling]

THANK YOU for mentioning how evil characters are portrayed as ugly (a trope of being bad on the inside is reflected on the outside which obvs isn’t true) and this also often includes bodily difference or deformities as well. Jen Campbell makes videos on this topic of how bodily difference is represented in literature and films which is super interesting. Great video as always, I didn’t know this version of the story!✨

[@birdmcturd1626]

Nah,I think it checks out. I’m both evil and ugly so I’m pretty sure the two things are linked

[@yamataichul]

@@birdmcturd1626 wtf, no bad person would acknowledge they're a bad person. People who see themselves as unredeemable are not actively trying to harm others for selfish reasons, bad ppl actively do. It depends on the situation but hatred of the self doesn't equal bad/ ugly even though sometimes might intertwine

[@birdmcturd1626]

@@yamataichul It was a joke,obviously not all ugly people are evil

[@yamataichul]

@@birdmcturd1626 I figured but seemed a little too self deprecating 😳

[@birdmcturd1626]

@@yamataichul Really? Huh

[@littlearies3862]

I like to believe that the good fairy just lied about Beauty's life. 😂 The ending is just mighty convenient.

[@okrasamwich]

I knoww the story seems so much more interesting than Disney but then at the end theres so many weird explanations to characters and plotlines which seem unnecessary to introduce in the first place

[@DGolden247]

The Queen: How could you? She’s not of royal blood! The Fairy: So then I started lying

[@tami7992]

Honestly would've been amazing 😂

[@FenrirWolf203]

Being honest, I'm happily surprised about the mother of the beast. Like, this queen is quite a fighter, like, she defended her kingdom for as long as she had to, even though it meant not being able to see her son for quite a long time, she did it for her kingdom, showed the king who thought that attacking her kingdom was an easy win that he was so wrong about it, and wasn't a bad mother either, truly a role model in that sense. It's quite wholesome (minus the incest part, but, well, it's royalty in an age that it wasn't considered bad.). Only thing I dislike about the queen is that after Beauty saved her son, she wasn't pleased that her son was marrying her, who had saved him from the curse (but I guess that's how it was seen at that time, I guess. But I'll admit it's nice that the family that had raised Beauty was also treated nicely instead of being forgotten, so, one good thing for one bad thing.). Also, it seems like there could've been some secondary story about how it went for the queen and the good fairy's plot, because it would be interesting to see how things went, even though I like this beast's behaviour, like, he asks everyday about sleeping together, but never pushes when said no and also, he only wanted to sleep with someone, just that, and falls asleep when he achieves it, like, it was kinda goofy, I would want to see what happened in the shadows, while we were reading about how Beauty and the beast lived together.

[@darkmask5933]

Funny thing is many stories like these involved fairies and fey being the main cause of the problems, it's the reason these stories were called "Fairy Tales", cause they were often stories where fairies would pop into people's lives to make them better or worse. Nowadays about the only story people really still associate with fairies is Sleeping Beauty (mostly thanks to Disney).

[@kKkk-bi1ed]

how about Cinderella?

[@Junodragon6780]

So the prince back story is the LITERAL definition to what a child pr£d@+0r$ is, and what they will do to keep kids away from their parents so they can do god knows what horrible atrocities? Dang man, these folks were a head of their time. 😮 Edit: Also, I think it was a good idea how they use the first fairy changing form situation as a metaphor for how Pr£d@+0r$ will disguise themselves as normal people until they managed to get what they came for.

[@MissCaraMint]

I mean this backstory is way newer than the actual fairytale it was inserted into.

[@cullenlatham2366]

Well, it is now one of the few fairy tales that focuses on the prince instead of the princess when including this entire backstory. Some questionable choices in there, but most can probably be written off as a product of its time. The biggest harm comes in loosing the "beauty is skin deep" moral from some of those choices directly contradicting it. No longer is belle a commoner, but a fairy princess. beast is no longer a paragon trapped in a curse, but one who makes the same mistakes that would prevent someone from breaking his curse.

[@dupirechristophe7703]

She was destined to be a serpent.... She is the daughter of a inventor and constantly reads books signifying to us she has a thirst for knowledge. So yeah... ...it doesn't surprised me one bit.

[@pastelpop1442]

The most frightening thing about the fairy's decision to write the prince's mother out of his life is that it brings up the possibility that she was intentionally grooming him to one day become his lover. It is entirely possible that she had feelings for him *when he was a child* and she was waiting for her time to ask him, assuming that he would say yes with the absence of his mother's judgement. I wouldn't typically say this, but for fairytales back then, older people being attracted to children almost seemed to be a trend and I hate my brain.

[@clarity2199]

So what happened to the creepy fairy after the spell was broken? How come none of the fairies ever approached the psycho one, after what she did? Why was no one hesitant about Beauty being the daughter of a fairy after what happened to her son from another fairy? After all, for all they know, these other fairies might have been in on it, and did this all along to get him to marry beauty. Sounds fishy to me!

[@cthonisprincess4011]

It’s been a hot minute since I last read the Villeneuve version, but if I recall correctly, the Prince was raised by two fairies, who’d take yearly turns of raising him, giving the other a break. During her off time, the Good Fairy was working towards uncovering the Bad Fairy’s deeds, and after the curse, the Bad Fairy is imprisoned. The Good Fairy was also Beauty’s Aunt, being the sister of Beauty’s Fairy mother. As Beauty’s Fairy Mama broke Fairy law by marrying a human before she was old enough to be permitted, Beauty was cursed to someday wed a monster; which is why Good Fairy came up with the plan to marry the Prince and Beauty to each other (kill two birds with a single stone).

[@tyriaxepheles7996]

@@cthonisprincess4011 this part was missing in the video and it would make the story a lot less random and nonesensical if she had mentioned it

[@rachelpops9239]

I believe the reason why most fairy tales associate evil with ugly is because when the more someone surrenders their heart to evil the more distorted their nature. I think Gollum from LOTR us a good representation of this.

[@cramerfloro5936]

12:30 ooooh, the classic story of the serpent-turned fairy! It can be found all over the world! In Germany, there is a whole type of snake faeries, called "Unken", though they also take the shape of toads and frogs.

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

there are many tales of cursed princesses turned into snakes depending on the region

[@karanhdream]

I remember reading in a children story book an Indian version, the trope really exist almost everywhere on Earth. A beautiful princess, fairest of her kingdom, is chased away by her jealous mother and sisters when the Serpent King request marrying the "ugliest princess". The tiger lord of the jungle and the elephant king take turns to take the disgraced princess to the Snake Kingdom. Upon seing her, the Serpent King sigh and says "You are too beautiful, you shouldn't marry a monster the likes of myself... Go back to your kingdom." The princess begs him, she had nowhere to go since she was chased away by her own family and the King reluctantly allows her to stay. Despite how gloomy, dark and scary the snake jungle is, she is well treated in her new home and the Serpent King is very good to her. Everyday, the Serpent King goes hunting and while he's gone, a handsome prince riding a white elephant shows up and asks the princess to come with him. Each time, the princess refuses saying that she wishes to stay with the kind Serpent King who treats her well and will not betray her betrothed. After the third visit and the third refusal, the princess finds a piece of snake skin and burns it. Upon doing so, the returning Serpent King transforms into the fair prince and the dark jungle turns into a lush emerald green paradise. The faithful princess and the prince married and they lived happily ever after in their blessed kingdom 🥰

[@amer6706]

That is a beautiful story.

[@alexiaivan7708]

The thing with this story is that beauty comes and reflects from within. Thus, because the fairy is evil, she is hideous. That was a popular theme in folk stories

[@rahcollier7006]

To paraphrase Aristotle, (at least, I think is was Aristotle) beauty is morality on easy mode.

[@ravenartistofficial]

Yo, that Fairy was capping bro. She probably lied to the Queen so that Belle could stay married to Beast, and had other fairies disguise as the other characters. I mean, c’mon! How would a lowly merchant end up raising the kings daughter with no knowledge that she isn’t his? I can imagine him going along with it for benefits, but it was obviously fabricated by the fairy cause of Drama. She may be a “good” fairy, but deep down all pixies are mischievous lil pranksters that love drama, let’s be real.

[@jacobshore5115]

Man, where’s the movie or TV show adapting this story? Sounds like it could be awesome! (Aside from the possible Incest… maybe that’s why it hasn’t been made into a movie or something else…)

[@msjkramey]

To be fair, cousin incest was super common especially among royals until fairly recently. Pretty sure it still happens but with more distant cousins since they are all basically related

[@jacobshore5115]

@@msjkramey yeah, I know. The Habsburgs were a good example of that.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

*GoT has entered the chat*

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

@@msjkramey It's legal to marry your cousin in the state of Alabama lol.

[@spicybeantofu]

There's a french movie

[@Spicie95]

It's funny how there are a lot of adaptations of Beauty & the Beast already, yet this background story would make another one worth it.

[@mihaelaflorea7901]

0:48 In Once Upon A Time they actually explained how Rumple became "the beast" aka the Dark One in detail. I know it's not the backstory told in this video but they gave a better explanation than most other tellings

[@davidalicea6705]

All you need to do for the Disney version is just go to the bookstore and then just buy the book but you might be confused hopefully it won't because that was one to see always will sell food chain because then the series started going into this stock where it became less self-contained and became moving over walking story I'm talking about Selena Valentino's villain series

[@kKkk-bi1ed]

@@davidalicea6705 what

[@brenlyndebenham2259]

I missed you! I hope your doing ok mentally ive noticed youve been taking time away from socials, but then again it could just be because animation takes forever to work on- either way thank you for all your amazing content! your my favorite animator of all time I love the effort you put into details for your fans and how your animation has truly gotten better over time, yet the overall style of your art has stayed the same which im sure not only I but your other spooky fans love where every season is spookay season! Have a good day-

[@lauraruizesparza4654]

In summary: fairytales are weird

[@myragroenewegen5426]

It's a male Sleeping beauty story! I love that there are echos of Sleeping Beauty here, with the castle of inactive, unconscious courtiers (this time they are stone statues, instead of sleeping people) and decay, forest and vines slowly taking over as the prince remains. Unlike Sleeping beauty, he gets to be conscious and even gets a magic fairy keeping him happy and just better not contact the human world for obvious reasons. That's both better and worse for him, but more interesting, in any case. The idea that he is sequestered and helpless until the right woman finds and chooses him is a nice change-up even if I'm sure there are many things in the text mitigating how woman-powered that sounds.

[@madmethodmouselivestreams3598]

I am just now realizing that the hair in the centre of your face is not a stray hair, but rather the outline of a nose. I'm just now seeing it cause I noticed the same on the other characters and questioned why they would have a stray hair in the middle of their visage.

[@antifagoat6591]

So... Beauty was the LOVELY stepsister.

[@LobbyLoiterer]

So wait, you're telling me that the Goodtimes Entertainment version is one of the most accurate adaptations??

[@alexp.d3689]

YEP ....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheAnonyomusGuy]

Weirdly enough a lot of their stories are very accurate to these tales

[@carrierose7351]

Honestly if they had just made Beauty's mom the fairy queen and removed the king entirely this would be a perfect story.

[@Lodrelhai]

When you read this on the other channel, I fully expected some revelation at the end that the enemy king kept coming back after being defeated because the evil nanny fairy was magically supporting him. That way he'd keep the warrior queen from coming back and reclaiming her son.

[@jesternario]

Always love to see a new video on this channel. Whether it be about your love of the darker side of fairytales or about something else, it is always a joy

[@sillygabbs]

I remember a version of the story where the fairy/enchantress, was paid to cast a spell on the Prince. His parents simply, wanted him to learn some humility. The spell would've been taken off, either by his parents or he learned his lesson. Sadly, his parents died.

[@jimothyworldbuilding3664]

Alabama really is just preserving an old part of the world's culture that the rest of us dropped I guess.

[@chubbybunny6975]

It's legal to marry your first cousin in almost every state in the US, all of Canada, and all of the UK. So no, the rest of the world didn't drop it

[@wolfetteplays8894]

As long as it’s between two consenting adults, it’s okay

[@jimothyworldbuilding3664]

@@wolfetteplays8894 The kid that's born with cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and Big Ugly if a child ends up being born from it: *"Okay."*

[@letitiayates5361]

@@chubbybunny6975 and yet we all like to make fun of *_sweet home Alabama_* about it XD

[@KateeAngel]

@@jimothyworldbuilding3664 not all people want to have kids though. Also, yeah the slightly elevated risk of genetic problems in a cousin marriage is disturbing, but isn't then people who have genetic illness having kids disturbing? But if you tell them to adopt instead, you will be called an "ableist"

[@godmodevegeta1216]

I love your video style. I rewatch the Coraline content quite a bit :)

[@TarhosTheKnight]

Same🧵lol

[@apathetic_aesthetics]

I always love seeing a notification from you! It's like early Christmas- er, Halloween??

[@TarhosTheKnight]

It's always a Halloween and Christmas gift to me lol

[@jinxstales9307]

I mean, even though she was a fairy/witch, stranger danger!!! You're blaming a child for not letting in a stranger into your home.

[@anez1266]

Just when I think that nothing else can surprise me of the classic mess up fairy tales, finding out that Beauty and Beast are cousins has made me loose all my sanity

[@nicoleackerman205]

Royals keep it in the family.

[@Roxxi_Rose]

I love how smooth and quiet your voice is, it’s so nice to listen too🤍

[@stephr2980]

I read in a few places (can't remember which, but it seemed congruent with my studies of that era in France - I'm French and read Villeneuve's version in the original version) that the moral of the story isn't so much "beauty isn't skin deep but comes from within" as it is "regardless of how repulsive your betrothed might be, you have to go along with it and if you respect and appreciate him, then it may turn out your husband is a catch after all!". In a time when if your family had even a bit of money and status your marriage would be arranged and often to much older men, it makes sense. Which means the evil fairy being ugly doesn't contradict the moral of the story. It is still f***ed up to have that shortcut all the time, don't get me wrong. It's just the original moral of the story may have been quite different from the one Perrault later implied and even later on Disney and our reading of it.

[@rahcollier7006]

I read somewhere that the Villeneuve version could also be a reassurance to young men in arranged marriages. You know, the more I think of it, the more I see Beauty and the Beast's situation summing up the way gender relations still often work between men and women: The man fears rejection/that he is unworthy or just can't be loved, and the woman fears that the man before her may be a monster will will hurt or even kill her. The beast becomes a man when they no longer fear the worst of each other and have grown to love each other.

[@calbedard]

I've missed these!

[@nineblackgoats]

Next time you wish you lived a royal's life, remember this prince whose only marriage option were a creep fairy and his own cousin. Edit: These folks don't have a family tree, they have a family wreath. And this isn't a fairytale, it's a telenovela.

[@nineblackgoats]

@Sofía Jiménez it really does, with all the unnecessary torment the protagonists go through and the unexpected cousins popping up out of the blue... x)

[@nineblackgoats]

@Sofía Jiménez Spoiler alert, at the end of season 72 we learn that she actually was the prince's pet frog's grandfather all along 🤫

[@maomi1852]

There is much to be said about an ugly character being the reflection of their personality but that is not the only reason why characters are depicted either as beautiful or ugly by an author as a reflection of their heart. When someone's heart is evil (in stories) they usually do not concern themselves with beauty, unless they are vain, instead they concern themselves with either power, self-centered goals or the demise of others (these are general topics)). These are characters that pursuing their purposes are more important than appearance and as such would not take care of their health, wardrobe, presentation, etc. Not only that but a character's beauty is also reflected on their role of the story. If the fairy was beautiful she probably would not need to manipulate and threat a man to marry her, she would have her own list of men to choose from, even if she was evil. In many stories where the villain is beautiful they do have many admirers, who they mistreat terribly, but finding someone isn't a problem. We can also argue that one of the reasons why the fairy became so evil and bitter is because she was born hideous, and as such being rejected by men and maybe mocked by other fairies as well, made her grow mean and vengeful. We can also argue that, in fact, the way you feel about yourself and the world actually reflects on your physical appearance. Usually, when people are happy or in love they look much more beautiful, joyful and pleasant. If you are bitter, angry and unsatisfied that will reflect on your appearance or demeanor or behavior. We can also argue that because one is so evil and mean people automatically are unattracted to them and as such see them even uglier than what they already are. Another point is that it is in human's nature to sympathize with beautiful people and not ugly people. This is because of our biological wiring, since we are "programmed" to search for people who look healthy and well for the best chances of creating offspring. Usually, wellness and health translate into beauty, since a person who takes care of their body aka eats well and does exercise, will at least look moderately beautiful. In animals, deformities are usually a death sentence since a deformed animal will have less physical abilities/resistance and maybe not be capable of surviving on its own or catch/forage its food. The same reasoning goes for humans, for no matter how many years of input civilized society and history we have in us, we are instinctually programmed to survive like our fellow non-rational animals. We can also talk about the writer's perspective. Some stories are written from a specific perspective, like Lolita for example. The story is told by the man's perspective and so everything he says about the girl alludes to the fact that they are actually in love, that she is actually mature, promiscuous and taunts him to be with her. The reader is tricked because the story is being told by the man's perspective. If the man says, she was as beautiful as a blooming flower. That is his personal opinion, not the real truth or an objective one. At the end of your video you said this is supposedly a story that "actually happened and was written by the queen for prosperity (not your exact words)". As such, the story is told by the queen's personal and subjective perspective, in her eyes, the fairy was a hideous monster. Not only did she keep her and her son from communicating, she basically forced herself on a child she helped raise like a mother and even tried to threaten/manipulate them (well and let's not forget that she actually cursed the poor child). To the queen, the fairy was a horrifying creature that was ugly no matter how one looked at her. In sum, it doesn't matter how the fairy actually looked like because that was the queen's perspective and not the "truth". There are many reasons why an author goes through the trouble of making evil characters either beautiful or ugly. Nonetheless, no writer "makes" a character ugly or beautiful for no reason at all.

[@TarhosTheKnight]

_So, you've come to stare at the BEAST, have you??_

[@DarkAnewbyss]

In this case I feel they made the bad fairy ugly because she had ugly character traits. She was selfish, vindictive, and arrogant. Back then I feel they described characters with bad traits as ugly to better describe it in the story. Much like how good characters with good traits are seen as the most beautiful and most admirable of all. The contrast makes the characters stand out more from the regular characters. That is my head cannon anyway.

[@damotoneko1500]

Hearing the story i feel like there's plenty of room to asume the fairy was behind the war.

[@icecream1672]

We needed this 😫 Love you 💙🌹

[@pileofsocks8287]

4:22 you can see the exact moment you regretted reading farther XD

[@DragonLovingGirl6]

When it comes to evil characters being ugly, I like to quote Roald Dahl's view on the matter. "If you think mean and ugly thoughts, it will start to show on your face, even if you were born pretty. But if you are kind and think gentle thoughts, you can never be ugly. Even if you can be overweight and have a wart and a hooked nose and crooked teeth, that goodness will shine through and onto your face."

[@kellymcphaul2793]

I feel like Coraline is the narrator. I love it.

[@mosesa.weaver3058]

I’ve missed these lore vids of yours! I love these!😊❤️🥰

[@IDoNotFeelCreative]

I had no idea there was more to beast's story! Love the videos

[@bloodblues85]

Great video, very interesting! Your voice is so soothing.

[@mikeroegames]

…well, that was interesting. I never would have seen this coming.

[@Loogoni]

The Beast's mother is a true girlboss

[@angrytheclown801]

So this is even more of a stranger danger story than the start of the Disney version.

[@undeadladybug7723]

Not gonna lie, this kinda made my brain hurt. Wow, is that one hell of a backstory.

[@okidokidraws]

They need to make a new movie called Beast XD Also back then cousins and 2nd cousins esspically with nobility was a common thing becasue they did not wish outsiders to inherit anything they thought they'd be immature with all the power.

[@susan-payne]

you remind me of my english 2 teacher from last year, she moved schools and i miss her bc i thought i’d be able to see her again after summer

[@EchoOfKnights]

I really like and appreciate your art style and videos!

[@SlyfyGummy]

I just noticed that your hand stick splits apart to form fingers....

[@lotusjewell9984]

There's one thing I want to know..... If the 'Good Fairy' was Beauty's aunt, then who the heck was the evil fairy!?

[@RoninCatholic]

I completely _understand_ making evil characters as hideous as possible. It's intuitive and lets your initial gut reaction feel vindicated. This story is less "true beauty is on the inside" and more "don't let initial appearances deceive you, someone's TRUE colors will reveal themselves in time".

[@chasebarber10]

But it's terribly unrealistic and promotes lookism and ableism. It also creates a dangerous facade that if a person looks good you should immediately trust them and like them no matter what they actually show themselves to be. It makes more sense to have a range of looks on all sides of morality.

[@califailure1082]

​@chasebarber10 lookism lol

[@bjrock1235]

@@califailure1082 It is a real thing

[@RocketTheRat]

@@chasebarber10yeah

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

The breaking of hospitality is an old trope and honestly forgivable, at least in the Disney version. The young prince had everything, and a seemingly fragile old woman needed help that he could have easily provided. If she was who they thought she was, she could have died. But she wasn't. Also, it's still funky what kind of timeline Disney layed down since context clues don't make it seem like the prince was 11 at the time, but even if he was he has staff and even guards.

[@Down.D.Stairs.]

I really love the art style you have in your videos

[@tayloredwards4968]

I really like the Disney version. Because it gives a good reason why he was cursed in the first place. Cuz he was selfish and only cared about appearances. But in the fairy tales they just cursed him for no reason

[@mysticalkeyblade759]

He’s literally a child abuse victim. He doesn’t want her as his bride. He has the right to say no

[@nowlwane9623]

@@mysticalkeyblade759 even in the Disney version, he was 10 years old when he was turned.

[@tylerpatti9038]

@@mysticalkeyblade759 He wasn't intended to be 11, it was accidentally implied when they left in a throw-away line by Lumiere which came from an earlier version where the prince was cursed at age 21. The fairy was punishing him for his vanity and callousness for throwing an old beggar lady in the cold. the "10 years line" was supposed to be changed but they never re-recorded it; thus the continuity error. That's why the painting shows him as a young man because that was when he was cured.

[@davidalicea6705]

@@tylerpatti9038 and it's also officially Canon because of the Disney villain book The beast of in which is weird because that book is not about a villain because the beast is the main character in that book so yeah that book just shows how good Serena Valentino is as

[@stevenhiggins3055]

@@davidalicea6705 The Valintino novels are about as canon as the direct to home video sequels they used to do. As in, not at all.

[@kuriosastoryteller]

I want an adaptation of this version!

[@PetProjects2011]

Abitfrank has the most soothing voice on KZbin. Change my mind.

[@perrytheplate]

1:58 even when she’s complaining she still sounds calm and graceful lmao

[@a-l9158]

This make me feel better about loving the beauty and the beast. It was my favorite growing up and I always felt like the beast was a victim himself. But I had an older, femenist sister who told me the 'stockholm syndrome'- angle, which isnt entirely untrue. But still... is...

[@sarikrana4215]

Awesome stuff :)

[@RoninRen]

with the coincidental Sleeping Beauty references, I can see why some fanfic writers like combining the fairy tales,

[@madisonross8762]

“DREAMS 😳”lol the way you said it to was so funny

[@drswag0076]

that story had a whole lot of plot twists it might as well be a big fat knot.

[@couturissime]

ive watched this channel once or twice but everytime i get recommended a video from you im always entranced by the artwork in these videos!! this was fun to learn about, love ur stuff ^_^

[@sammysoppy3361]

the beast was groomed is the most chronically online video essay title ever lmao

[@kingemo7806]

I been thinking about doing an audio story of this fairly tale i have a old comic book on it and seen the live action and the cartoon. I also heard both of the stories you posted on your other channel definitely going to a beauty and beast vampire style type of story

[@azraelvrykolakas157]

I sure know that when I've been frozen as a statue for decades it doesn't adversely affect my social life, career path, psychi, or even affect my understanding of the simple things like the construction and funtion of everyday tools and the availability of commodaty goods and whether or not someone moved the chair I was about to sit down on.

[@wyoboy01]

Hearing you break the fairy tale voice with that "uh huh" at the 12:42 mark was the funniest thing ever today.

[@thelunarghost]

Live action I give kudos to because it attempted to fill in the gaps on Bells side and the beast somewhat. We get the beast ( Prince Adam) was reared by a cruel father after the death of his mother who fell ill. I've thought of the possibility of why she fell ill in the first place and why magic was always there before the "incident" with the enchantress. I don't think she was human o.o

[@jessicat3507]

So glad I found your channel all the videos and animation are awesome thank you for all your hard work and dedication 😊

[@bobbylee7471]

Thanks🖤 Loved this

[@shreddedcardigan3972]

Yoo so Beauty was the one of the earliest “hybrid princess” tropes

[@teacherverina]

The queen goes off to battle because a man thought a new mom wouldn't put up a fight? Give 👏 me 👏 that 👏 movie 👏

[@John-qy8qd]

Bruh This explains 👀 Edit: your voice is eerily hypnotic. Very nice 👍

[@92JazzQueen]

That backstory was convoluted

[@bobamochi4793]

i really like ur vids ur voice helps foaucs scary vibes,art,humour ur amazing dont let anyone bring u down

[@smb-c3po]

I wish I could do my own telling combined of different adaptations, I always doubt I'll ever find love 'cause sadly too many people are shallow just like society wants them to.

[@Lily_of_the_Forest]

It’s ok to be single. I’d like a fairytale with an Anti-Cupid fairy saving people from crappy relationships and encouraging them to find contentment in singlehood.

[@DDespicable]

Little kid me: yaaaayy! Tinkerbell! Adult me: wow, you know fairies are actually kinda the worst.

[@happycloud7469]

When you ask a kid what they're playing:

[@RaphBlade7]

I love the warrior queen mom bit! Seriously she could be the protagonist of her own story, a B@D@$$ mother who defends her kingdom affer her beloved husband dies! Seriously more fairy tails need kick@$$ Warrior Queen Moms in them!

[@wolfman-zd1ed]

That fell off like a rollercoaster nosediving at the end. Wow The Queen and Prince were cool tho.

[@mellowmallow4855]

Okay, but wasn't Prince Adam grown? There's a portrait of him as an adult, Chip is like the only kid dishware with awareness, and Lord knows his mother was not in her prime. Where did the eleven year old thing come from? Didn't he lose his parents and become an orphan having to deal with ruling a kingdom and overcoming grief? I thought time just froze for all of the residents in the castle. That can happen as would have been the case for Sleeping Beauty. (Depending on which version of the tale you've read)

[@stevenhiggins3055]

1. The rose would bloom until his 21 year. 2. They were cursed for 10 years 3. Their time is almost up That's where it comes from, simple math.

[@TheDriegelz]

It was very common for royalty to marry brothers,sisters, 1st cousins and so forth. Look at the Habsburgs, why am I not surprised! Great story, I loved it.

[@sumayyahkhan9850]

I discovered this channel last week and I AM OBSESSED you are one of the few that I subscribed to......

[@gregzotter6189]

This is the very reason I watch these videos: they're informative and fun.

[@IronKore]

Feels like an Amazon show, reference Guyladreal

[@_Bo_Stardust_]

"hang on I will be right back, I need to ask my mommy first"-Prince

[@kierasthoughts2480]

Cousins marrying was extremely common in the past.