#the icon i used is actually hugh when he was gaston & i think thats beautiful
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{ hugh jackman ; heterosexual ; cismale } — » introducing gaston legume , the 55 year old also known as gaston from beauty & the beast . rumour is that he has been in auradon for a week . it’s been speculated that he is a taxidermist at auradon fine taxidermy . word is that he is suave but he can also be vain .
SAY IT AGAIN ! WHO’S A MAN AMONG MEN ! ------ yes yes who can write up these great little bits at the beginning of their intros like link ? my little blips are lovely & now part of my aesthetic so i can’t make an intro without them anymore . can’t just get straight to things . anyway , though , as a kid gaston was always my favorite disney villain ! he’s interesting to me in that he’s just . . . a really bad guy . like no powers or anything . . . & it’s not like he’s looking for world domination or to overthrow a kingdom . he’s just an angry , self absorbed man who can’t take no for an answer yet he’s still terrifying because he’s so manipulative . anyway ! i’ll get to this before i go blabby . this may . . . be long . i’ll be taking influences from the original animation , the live action , & the disney novelization .
so here’s a dip into gaston & the hcs i have on his past & why he is the way that he is !
while he does have ancestors from france , hence the french name ‘legume’ , i hc his father was from england . his father moved to france to help relatives there & met gaston’s mother .
his mother left them when gaston was young .
his father is who taught him such toxic masculinity growing up & it only worsened after gaston’s mother left them .
his father hired tutors for gaston , but they were english tutors . gaston’s education suffered greatly from this fact since , even though he was taught to read & write , he was only taught in english . he never took to naturally learning french from the world around him so he can’t read the books outside of his father’s collection due to the fact they’re all in french .
even so , though , he doesn’t read much anyway . he’s ok with a few books ( he liked hamlet & macbeth a bit hence him quoting macbeth in the mob song from the live action but also i think that that quote just really stuck to him he probably doesn’t even remember what its from ) but he doesn’t really like reading much . thinks it’s boring .
fast forward some odd years
in the live action batb , it is implied that gaston fought in some war . i’m going to include this because there’s a very interesting fact you can pull from the fact he was in the war .
gaston wasn’t in the french army !
gaston’s uniform , clearly , is bright red ! the french wore navy blue uniforms . you know who was red ? the british ! gaston fought in the biritsh army ! he was a captain , even .
so why’s it he’s popular among all these french people ?
in the ‘gaston’ musical scene in the live action , we can see murals of gaston painted on around his tavern . one of which is a picture of a victorious gaston in the war , holding his sword , atop a mound of defeated soldiers . dead , defeated soldiers . . . dressed in red .
gaston was a deserter from the british army !
he got to the rank of captain then changed sides & stabbed the british in the back .
a hero , for france . he’s a filthy traitor to the british .
he has ptsd from the war , yes , in the fact that he’s never been able to settle back into a normal , peaceful life . in the war he commanded & was surrounded by action ! he had a lot of purpose . coming back , he couldn’t stand the mundane life .
he drowned how jaded & hollow that made him by feeding off the praise from the villagers which made him feel wanted & important again . he just buried everything under his ego .
his mind craves action , though , & extremely militaristic . his anger , especially , shows this . if there is something in the way , destroy it . wars are not won with soft hearts .
he really sets into a militaristic mind set by the mob song . the beast was a threat to him ( for belle’s hand mostly but to the village too i suppose but i really don’t think he gave a shit about the villagers he just liked them for the praise they gave him ) so he rallied the town ( the closest thing he had to soldiers ) to destroy him . an excuse for him to feel the war again , too .
--------- NOW .
gaston on the isle . first of all , gaston never thought he was in the wrong . he , the entire time , though himself a hero . he figured , once he killed the beast , belle would come to realize that , too , & realize how foolish she was .
needless to say , he’s pissed that he was sentenced to that place .
doesn’t matter if the beast was good in the end , he was trying to save his village & the girl he loved from what looked like a threat to the people at the time ( sure he wasnt doing it for the people & more to seem like a dashing hero to belle so he could finally marry her but hush ) & he doesn’t think he should be locked up for that .
still thinks belle is delusional .
still hates the beast .
i don’t know why he was brought from the isle like bringing him here is one of the worst ideas but hm ok .
he’s sensitive . don’t bring up what happened with him & belle / beast . do not bring up his failure . its the biggest stab to his ego to remind him of that . he’s beyond pissed about it .
thinks himself better & above all the other villains . but , like , what do you expect ? he’s so full of himself .
proud of his sons in the fact that they’re all handsome , strapping young lads .
thinks his daughter needs to shut her mouth more & do as she’s told because he is a sexist piece of shit .
didn’t like . focus on his kids’ education much because he didn’t think it really mattered .
he’s short tempered but he does try to keep a slim bit of extra patience towards his kids since they’re his flesh & blood .
does taxidermy because he got more into it a bit on the isle . does well for his aesthetic & he’ll sometimes go out & hunt for the animals he uses on his own . so it lets him hunt which helps calm him . nothing like shooting innocent animals to chill u out .
spends much of his free time in bars .
hates belle ?? like absolutely loathes her . but still wants to marry her but at this point i’m sure it’s out of pure fucking spite .
#aurcdon:intro#gaston intro.#tbh i loved the bit more depth the live action gave to his character#i was really really happy w/ live action gaston#made him a v interesting character#also i couldnt find a gif but#the icon i used is actually hugh when he was gaston & i think thats beautiful
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