beauty and the beast, or, I kind of suck

[bedlamsbard]

Okay, so I am actually writing the story where Beauty falls in love with the candlestick instead of the Beast. *stares* I'm sorry, I can't help myself. The high school musical this year was Beauty and the Beast, and while it was all fantastically fantastic, the actress that played Beauty had way more chemistry with the actor that played Lumiere than the Beast. Which really raises the question: what happens if Beauty doesn't fall in love with the Beast? And the enchantress is pretty much a grade-a bitch for enchanting all of the Prince's people as well as the Prince himself.

And something else, which I notice a lot in musicals: the leads have next to no personality, the support has it in spades. I mean, look at the Beast compared to the other male characters: Lumiere! Cogsworth! Gaston! Lumiere! (no, seriously, David played him so well) Even LeFou and Maurice -- even Chip -- have more personality than the Beast. Now, female leads tend to have more personality than the male leads, and Belle is a doll and spunkier than most Disney females (Cinderella, Snow White: I'm looking at you. Ariel, Jasmine, you guys are spunky too. Same goes for Mulan. Nala, somewhat. Meg, sort of. Elizabeth Swann, you're just disturbing), but look at Mrs. Potts! Look at Babette! (Okay, Babette and Lumiere are adorable, but seriously, if I was Belle? I so totally would have fallen for Lumiere, not the Beast. Sure, she's a girl, he's a candelabra, but they could have made it work! That's what magic's for!)

In other words: I actually am writing the story where Belle falls in love with Lumiere and Lumiere practically has a heart attack because oh shit, this chick is for the Beast, if she falls in love with him they'll never be human, and can she just get away from him already??? And Belle does the whole, why would I be in love with him he's a jerk and he has no manners and all he ever does is yell and sulk, you have a sense of humor and we can work around the spell thing, that's what magicians are for. And if I'm stuck here, then I want to be stuck here with someone I like.

You see my point? Lumiere/Belle is my new OTP, right after James/Sirius, John/Rodney, and Drew/Mac.

Comments

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

You are made of eight kinds of Win.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

You can't blame me, Beauty and the Beast have no chemistry at all (or at least the actors didn't, but there's not really an excuse for them to develop much chemistry, because seriously, the Beast, at least the Disney version? Not really the guy you want to fall in love with. Lumiere, on the other hand -- or at least the actor that played him, and I know the guy, he is good -- I'd totally hit that. Except for the, uh, candlestick thing).

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds, to borrow someone else's expression, cracktastic. I want to see this fic.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I fail at life. It's, like, half-Disney and half-original, and so far I need to get Lumiere's personality solidified in my head.