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the curse. SO the curse is placed on barnaby for being a selfish rich shithead. BUT because we like to have fun here it’s also tied into trauma stuff for him. so he lives very selfishly because he believes he has a right to it but doesn’t extend that same courtesy to others. so when the enchantress shows up at his door one evening and asks for shelter he casts her away because he looks down on asking others for help as like. a weakness. so thats a whole thing. 

the more selfishly and cruelly he acts the more beast mode he is FDHSJKF think like that oni han au. also just emotional flareups in general correspond with curse flareups. when ko first meets him he’s just Wildin The Fuck Out but then when he like. goes and cools off he’s more humanlike. *ko voice* Wait What The Fuck

BE OUR GUEST so be our guest doesnt happen in this au FHDJSKF OK SO IT CAN I GUESS but instead of cursed furniture servants i’m replacing them with animate suits of armour basically. which i imagine being silent and creepy. we stan. also the castle is in like. a curse bubble. where it’s always winter. the castle is also just like, veiled from normies. again, i’m just picking shit i like from the various incarnations of this story. im even considering it being kind of like, frozen in time so by the time tiger reaches the castle he’s like ‘wow this place is like, a hundred years out of date’

so THAT BRINGS US TO KO WHO I HAVE DECIDED, ARRIVES BY MISTAKE we love that classic bumbling tiger fashion, he just gets lost in the woods and accidentally ends up stumbling into the bubble and is like ‘oh neat a castle’ *armour moves out of the corner of his eye* ‘Wait What The Fuck’

because i love ‘they meet in their respective bad places au’ tiger definitely is like . ‘yeah im gonna stay at this weird castle place just for a while. just scope it out. just see what happens. definitely not using this insane fantasy place as an escape for my actual relatively crap life’

OH YEAH IN THIS AU BARNABY DOESNT KNOW THE CURSE CAN EVEN BE BROKEN i hate this part in the fairytale/movies where there’s like this weird pressure of ‘if you don’t love me in time i’m doomed’ its so creepy and................... het

as for the curse being broken by true love because it’s tied up in aforementioned trauma stuff it’s not gonna be like. ‘they fall in love and then he’s a normal human again!’ it’s more like ‘they fall in love and the beast mode stuff becomes easier to control’ because we like a complex story in this house. its a process