#ladyofmidgard

sure! sorry this took so long, life kinda caught up with me for a little bit :) gonna go with 2017 beast, try and get to know that guy a little better :D

1. his mother did her best to shield him from his father’s negative behaviours and traits, to spare him any abuse. as a child, it was easy, but after adam started attending lessons, he ended up spending more time with his father. his mother’s good-hearted attempts to make sure adam did not hate his father ended up backfiring when he wanted nothing more than to please him.

2. his mother came down with fever first; the king tried to drag adam away, out of selfishness and cruelty, but the boy still got infected. his mother died while adam was still insensible, and he almost missed the funeral. 

3. he was a decently well-behaved teenager until he turned 15, and then all hell broke loose. rode his horses too hard, broke things too easily, snapped back at his father too many times, got more bruises than a normal teenager should. 

4. he would never admit it to anybody, the shame stinging him in a deep, dark place, but he believes that he caused his father’s death. it had been an accident while hunting; aimed for the crown stag, caught the crowned king. but his hands had been shaking, and his father had sneered to one of the courtiers about his softness, his gentle soul, and the fear of what would happen if he missed made his palms sweaty and his shoulders jump. nobody blamed him for it – the king’s horse had reared backwards into adam’s line of fire – but adam blames himself

5. the grand ball at the start of the film was for his twenty-first birthday. he wouldn’t inherit until he was twenty five, but otherwise he was completely of age. 

6. seven years passed before he met belle. he spent two of them despairing in the west wing, two of them terrorising the forest until all that remained were the wolves who could not leave, and three of them in the library, reading and waiting. those years were not necessarily consecutive.

7. he stuttered and hemmed and hawed when he asked belle to dance with him. it was easily the most embarrassing moment of his life, but her smile when she said yes made it all worthwhile. 

8. he only realised he was in love when he started dancing with her – until then, even though his life depended on it, he had honestly thought it was just a very intense friendship, and that non-platonic love was the closest he could come to breaking the curse.

9. when he’s human again, the first thing he does is kiss belle until they’re both breathless. the second thing he does is rummage around in his (newly re-assmbled) bedside drawer for his mother’s engagement ring. 

10. he isn’t as grumpy as he pretends to be – most of it is because belle enjoys joking around with him, and he makes an excellent straight man. this makes the moments when he screws with belle even more of a juxtaposition than they would normally be, and leaves her squawking at him when she realises he’s teasing her.

Thanks! Based on 2017!BatB (woo! a first for me! apologies if they’re ooc, but i’ve only seen the film once)

20. things you said that i wasn’t meant to hear

The Beast hadn’t accidentally eavesdropped since he was a child, and hadn’t deliberately done so since the night the curse was cast. This was his (admittedly tenuous) defence for what he was sure would be Belle’s horrified reaction when she inevitably knew he could hear everything she was saying.

Of course, this defence would be a lot more airtight if he wasn’t crouched on top of the stable roof, which was almost directly below the currently open window of the library, which Belle was occupying.

He had only been looking into the state of the thatch, and that was the honest truth. None of the servants were large enough or robust enough to do it for him, and there was something about Belle’s sharp, keen eyes that made him more than slightly ashamed of the otherwise indolent lifestyle he had led up until now - both before and after that fateful ball. He had been quietly settled there for about half an hour, taking note of where the roof appeared patchy, when he heard Belle memorising Shakespeare; the trait that had prompted him to introduce her to the library in the first place. He had noticed the yapping of Madame Garderobe’s dog, Frou-Frou, but didn’t realise it was in the room with Belle until she started talking to it.

He had been alerted to her words when he heard his name - not his old name, of course, but the one she knew him by. The Beast.

“He’s … he’s not as awful as I thought he’d be,” Belle said. “Not a monster at all. Well, I suppose he was technically a man, once - but you know what I mean, Frou-Frou.”

She laughed at something the dog did, and the Beast felt his heart pound in his throat.

“Don’t look at me like that!” she exclaimed. “I’m not - I’m not falling in - well, I’m not even going to say it.”

The Beast silently willed her to say it, anyway.

“I don’t know,” she sighed. “I mean - for one thing, he was human once, but what about now? And - well, this is clearly his home, and I’m an artist’s daughter. Such things are only found in fairytales, not real life - no matter how strange real life is.”

The Beast felt his heart sinking a little.

“No,” she said decisively. “I’m not Cendrillon, there is no magic carriage or dress to take me to the ball, and the Beast, kind and gentle as he is, is no handsome prince in disguise. Although he’s snobbish enough about his literature to be one.” She laughed a little at her own joke, but even the Beast could tell she seemed disappointed.

“But I am,” the Beast murmured. “And if you could love me - that would be the key, Belle.”

He heard the door shut a minute or two later, and went back to his work, confident that Belle had heard nothing he had said out loud.

However, he had forgotten that when a window is opened, sound will travel in both directions.

thank you!

7. Which fandom character do you most enjoy writing?

Probably the Beast - he has such strong emotions that they’re really easy to write, and it’s always fun coming up with a backstory for him.

24. What do you think attracts people to your works?

Oooh, that’s a good one. I guess my writing style? It tends to be descriptive and goes into emotions, which is one thing. My grammar and spelling are generally of a high quality too, which I know people appreciate. I think my plots might interest some people as well? Idk, I’m just happy they like the fic.

30. Have you ever done a collaboration? Would you like to?

I haven’t, but I’d love to! I’ve listed authors I’d like to work with in a previous ask, but if anybody felt so incline to ask me I’d be more than happy to write with people!