#beastpost

“Queen of the Clouds”

“Of course. We made a promise, didn’t we?”

“The Ever-Burning” (aka Hexxus-Beast fusion)

“Ohhhhh~, that’s rather nice...”

Human/Modern AU Moodboards 2/20

“Oh, I’d like to sleep in ‘till two on a Sunday, And listen to the bluebirds sigh, Get soaked in the rain, and smile through the pain, Slow dance under stormy skies...” ~ Love Like The Movies (Laufey)

Samuel Best is a horror novelist who lives a reclusive life and rarely mingles with the public. When he accepts the offer from a small bookstore to stop in for a limited book-signing event, one of the bookstore’s workers is honored to meet one of her favorite authors. An aspiring writer herself, Rose goes for broke and asks to study under him. Amazingly, he agrees. 

Villain f/o writing prompts

"No, absolutely not, you do not get to turn Giri into a tree!"

"And why not?" The Beast replied, tilting his head to one side. "It's not as though it would be killing him. He's already dead."

"Already dead? He's not dead!" Rose snapped back. "He was, once, but so were you! And a bunch of other people here. He's alive now, and I care about him!"

"But you also care about me, right?" Beast pressured her.

"Of course I do," she replied with a sigh. "But I know you as well. I know you don't really need Edelwood oil as long as there's something else your soul can burn, and it's well taken care of in the fireplace. Besides, if you really want to do your thing, there's other places you can do that! I don't care if you're menacing the people of the Unknown or something. Just leave the other people I love out of your hunting."

Beast chuckled. "You know I can't make that promise," he replied, almost teasingly. "You should know that you're the only one I grant safe passage through my forest to. If you want to keep the others safe from me, my love, keep them indoors."

"Sometimes I wonder why I let you haunt this area," muttered Rose, shaking her head.

"Because you care for me too much to extinguish my soul," the Beast said. "Don't tell me you didn't realize what you were getting into when you took a liking to me."

"I should have considered it," Rose said. "Love makes fools of us all, I guess. And that includes you, since I've been an easy meal since day one."

Constellation ask game

Apus - What sort of future do you and your F/O desire to have? What sorts of things are keeping you from it (if there is anything)?

Licorice wants to be a respected and feared great villain, and I guess that’ll make me his minion or maybe villainous queen? I’m okay with that, that sounds pretty fun. The only things really standing in the way of that are the good guy cookies and honestly I don’t worry about them. They’re silly and cute. I like them.

Acrostics f/o asks

B - Before - Before you decided to make them your f/o, what did you think of them/their source?

Over the Garden Wall came out when I was 14. And I immediately fell in love with it. I excitedly waited for every new episode and watched every one when it premiered. The ending left me ROCKED and even then I knew it was something special compared to a lot of other stuff I'd seen. It followed me all through that fall and winter, always in my mind. I actually made a drawing of Beast (who I know I was totally crushing on even then, but back then I didn't know about selfshipping) purely from memory during a girl scout camping trip that same year. I still have it laminated because it's one of the few pieces I did during that time of my life that I'm still proud of. It helps that Beast is just a silhouette so he's simpler to draw than some of the other characters I love, but I still think I did a pretty good job on it for 14.

E - Emotion - Is your f/o open with their feelings or do they keep them close to their chest?

Beast is a manipulation extraordinaire. This man is almost NEVER telling you the whole truth, so you can bet he's the same way with his feelings. I don't even think I can really tell sometimes.

A - Art - Do they draw or paint? What about any other kind of art? What's their favorite style/subject/another artist who inspires them?

I think the only art Beast actually engages in himself is music. He sings as well as seemingly writes his own lyrics and melodies to perform. However I think he does have a pretty significant interest in visual art, especially the kind that inspired the look of OtGW...but also classic art that's very dark in tone. This is a guy who would make a pleasant comment on a rustic painting of a waterwheel, and then contemplatively stare at a painting of a man being devoured by an animal for hours without a word.

S - Story - If you and them were in a fairytale, which story would you be and who would play which character?

You already know I'm gonna say Beauty and the Beast. Maybe instead of a young prince cursed for being rude, he's a fae king cursed to have his life bound to a lantern and his entire kingdom shrouded in never-ending night and winter. And instead of love transforming him back into a young prince, he just becomes able to survive without the lantern and the kingdom goes back to all four seasons.

T - Teach - What skills of theirs would they teach you? What would you teach them?