Supervising animator Andreas Deja on Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Deja is also well remembered for other Disney Renaissance-era villains he served as supervising animator for, such as Jafar from Aladdin and Scar from The Lion King.
The last play I watched before the pandemic was a Beauty And The Beast adaptation and when Gaston proposed to Belle there was this little boy in the audience who yelled NOOO DON’T SAY YES, so when Belle naturally turned him down Gaston turned to the boy with his hands on his hips and said “well, now look what you’ve done”
so here is the second part of illustrations by amazing 小ノ木get, all scenes from that dodgy fanfic i wrote spoilers haha
i never even asked for this! ;.; they just drew them because they wanted to and I will NEVER GET OVER IT. I’m still having a heart attack which is made of joy, but at least i’ll die happy she made the story seem way better than it is
first part
artist page
please pm me for a link to the fic if you want it, because i’m shy about sharing my writing publicly here
I’d like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first, I better go in there and… propose to the girl!
Beauty and the Beast (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
So half of us agree that Mrs Potts was gaslighting Belle to fall in love with the Beast because she wanted to be human again, right?
Someone write me a fanfic where Belle like keels over and dies accidentally and Mrs Potts starts gaslighting Gaston into falling in love with the Beast and in the process he realises he is actually gay, and so was the Beast.
And once the curse is broken, Mrs Potts smugly looks upon the new couple cause the devil works hard, but Mrs Potts works harder
I'mma let you finish, but Gaston from Beauty and the Beast is a freaking mastermind
So I apologize for this OOC rant out of nowhere but I watched through Beauty and the Beast and I realized something. Gaston is actually so incredibly brilliant, it’s terrifying. Wait, you say, seriously? Gaston? This Gaston?
Yes, hear me out. On the surface of the smart-girl-dumb-boy narrative, he’s the obvious brainless hunk. But if you step back and look at it, Gaston’s pretty damn clever.
For starters, he’s a massively successful entrepreneur. He owns the pub his titular musical number takes place in, and that pub is obviously very successful. I’d even go so far as to call it the cultural center of the town. On top of that he’s clearly a skilled enough hunter to use antlers in all of his decorating, and later shows that his tracking skills are anything but superficial, but more on that later.
Another really big indicator is how impressive his vocabulary is. “Expectorating” anyone? At one point during the Mob Song he says the words “Screw your courage to the sticking place.” That’s right. Gaston is quoting Macbeth.
On that same note, when he asks her “How can you read this, there’s no pictures!” Who’s to say he doesn’t mean “How can YOU read this without the aid of pictures, you sheltered little dumbass?”
Moving on, he’s a master manipulator, strategist, and leader. Anyone who’s ever been in charge of anything knows it takes intellect to whip a crowd into a fear-frenzy and bend them to your every word. And Gaston does it marvelously. Watch his face as he stalks around making sure the right message is getting around. He’s conniving as all get out.
Then you get to the actual execution of his plan. In his last hours he demonstrates damn brilliant tracking, strategy, and military leadership. Not to mention, he actually manages to fully strike his much larger, superhuman enemy down in single combat. Not many villains can boast that claim. So yeah. Gaston is damn smart.
Fucking amazing hand-eye coordination too.
When he tells Lefou “I’m afraid I’ve been thinking,” and Lefou comments that it’s “a dangerous pastime,” he’s RIGHT. Because when Gaston thinks, he concocts some scary, brilliant, impressive shit.
I've created a discord server dedicated to the Belle/Gaston pairing. Feel free to join it even if you have a preference for Gaston/Lefou, Adam/Gaston or Belle/Adam. I made channels for each pairing !
The server is hate free so I hope to see you there soon!
Omg I just realized a character from a belgian comic is called Gaston Lagaffe which looks like a weird mix of Gaston, Lefou and Gafou! Also he kinda looks like their son
literally disney villain deaths are so fuckin brutal. gaston fell off the top of the beast’s castle and plunged to his death, clayton unknowingly hung himself in a fit of rage, and dr facilier was fuckin dragged to hell by demons like what the fuck