I was writing out the outline for my beauty and the beast fic. The outline is a few thousand words and keeps going well past the "merlin becomes not a beast" stage and goes into "All the people forced to be inanimate objects recovering from the trauma of that shit" phase. So actually, beauty and the beast AU is a fic about recovery. somehow. good for me ig.
I'm not sure what possessed me to render an entire background but uh,, @naffeclipse's Orca!Eclipse has fucking bewitched me body and soul @.@ please go read Apex Polarity I love this big grabby fish boy!!!
• This idea has been presented before in a drawing of an old bead that I had. It's a shame I lost the original drawing. | Essa ideia já foi apresentada antes em um desenho de uma conta antiga que eu tinha. É uma pena que eu tenha perdido o desenho original.
• I was heavily inspired by a fanfic I saw many years ago. (and also the drawing from before, which was a little outdated) | Fui fortemente inspirado por uma fanfic que vi há muitos anos. (e também o desenho anterior, que estava um pouco desatualizado)
I went through several concept sketches and see-sawed between doing my own iteration vs trying to stay true to the original design, then I ultimately settled on this one.
While her base story will remain mostly the same for this... AU? Retelling? I’m considering giving a little more detail into how she became a beast in the first place. One of the ideas I have is that she is far more vain than her canon counterpart and can’t help but view herself as hideous now, so that could play a role into how she became Beast? Or maybe I should keep the coldhearted ass angle? Hm. :/
But ye! Likely will do a few more concept sketches of her as well as Belle, but I hope you all like it so far! :)