at first I thought this was a cigarette and I thought that for a long time before rewatching the episode.

Like, “why would he smoke indoors in a room full of BABIES ????he tryna look cool in front of Barbara smoking & in his troll form”

In the first episode he craves adventure, for there to be more then just high school, which hey sounds familiar to Belle in her song asking for the exact same thing.

Claire is pretty much cursed by the Pale Lady in canon, so for this au I would have Morgana approach Claire to take her on as her apprentice, as she can feel Claire haveing a strong connection to magic, but Claire says no. Being pissed that's she was slighted, she turns Claire into a Beast of darkness, the castle taken over by shadow magic. Claire's family and friends are either turned to stone, or turned into something entirely.

Mary is a talking mirror, and I’m not sure what for Darcy

Jim's mom is a herbal doctor in the village and disappears on her way to another village to help someone sick, but the whole movie plot with wolves happens and Jim goes to find his mom and turns up at the castle.

I think I'm going to do the plot with Barbara a bit different, her staying with him in the castle, her falling in love with one of the castles grotesques aka Walt, who was Claire’s tutor before the curse

Bular would be a main antagonist, not really having a Gaston type, I won't do that to Steve. But Bular more so wanting Jim to join him in the hunt of the witch and Beast.

Here’s some wips

keep questioning why people is shipping hammerhunter in my fic, but then I remember this is them

plus Stricklake