#in the arms of his beloved stanley 🫶

[lumiereandcogsworth]

this is kinda random but I saw Josh Gad on tiktok and it got me wondering, do you think LeFou and Belle keep in touch as time goes on or do they just say hi if they happened to see one another and that's kind of it?

lovely Q!!! so, my personal post-canon world for lefou is that he and stanley end up falling for each other and moving to another village to start fresh and live a life together. that doesn’t happen right away though.

i don’t think belle and lefou ever really spoke much. she obviously wasn’t a fan of gaston, and given that lefou was his lackey, they probably didn’t really interact much. however, after all the shit goes down, i think lefou does find a moment, maybe even at that celebration ball (which i hc takes place a week after the curse lifting), to apologize to belle for following gaston’s footsteps all those years. he should’ve stood up for what was right and he’s sorry for being a coward when she and her father needed the support more than ever.

belle, of course, forgives him entirely. she knows (and has known for a while) that it was very clear what gaston and lefou’s relationship was like, and she understands his influence was strong and that lefou did have a good heart deep down. i think they became friendly after that, but didn’t have much reason to interact. lefou went to pick up the pieces of his life in villeneuve, and belle was courting her beloved. whenever she did stay in the village during this period, she’d definitely stop and say hi to lefou if they happened to cross paths. just to check in on how he’s doing. i think by this point he’s found acquaintanceship with stanley, and probably attraction, but because of how shaken he was from everything that happened with gaston, i think he’d be pretty guarded about having any kind of relationship with anyone at first.

(and for the record, i don’t ship gafou. no hate, i just don’t ship it! i think lefou definitely very clearly was into gaston, but i don’t think gaston felt that way about him. gaston just needed someone to worship him, and lefou was perfect. and obviously the entire thing was unhealthy and toxic anyway, so it’s all for the best. but anyway, i just mean that lefou would be afraid to let anyone close into his life again, since it all went so terribly with gaston.)

all this to say, besides maybe sharing some pleasantries and hey! maybe even a pint or two at the pub, i don’t think belle and lefou would interact much. she’d definitely be glad to get to know him though, considering he was living in gaston’s shadow the entire time she knew of him, but i don’t think they’d become besties particularly.

by the time belle had married adam and they’d returned from their honeymoon, i think something had sparked between lefou and stanley and they were talking about leaving town to start fresh somewhere. i don’t think lefou would feel inclined to tell belle in particular that he was leaving, especially considering she’s The Queen now, he knows she’s got a busy life. but eventually at some point (not too much time having passed), belle, maurice, and père robert are having dinner together on a sunday, which they often do, and belle suddenly thinks to ask what lefou is up to. feels like she hasn’t seen or heard from him in a while. and père robert reports that lefou and stanley moved away together. he says that he seemed happy, and also a lot more confident than anyone had ever seen in him before.

belle was content to learn this, and they toasted to lefou and his happiness before continuing their lovely dinner. we all wish lefou and stanley a very pleasant evening 🫶🎩