History Manga / BeautyAndTheBeastOfParadiseLost

* {{Foreshadowing}}:[[spoiler: During La Medium’s flashback, princess Belle shows up while Cyril is orchestrating his coupe d’etat to rebuke him that they were supposed to be marrying that day and then calls La Medium a “disfigured woman”. That establishes her fundamental selfishness and cruelty, but still, it could have been taken as the speech of a spoiled kid who doesn't know better and the whole thing is told from La Medium’s point of view. Yet, as soon as the princess meets Belle, she bluntly [[InnocentlyUnsensitive asks if only her’s hair was cursed]]. And, when she asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he believed later that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If the Doctor hadn't talked to the Duke Albert, he wouldn't have been recognized and maybe Beast's cover wouln't have been blown, or at least, not before they had the chance to find out where La Medium was hiding. Beast also goofed when he called the Vengeful Guy "ankle biter", same insult he used previously to the army when they tried to shoot Belle along with him.

* OminousFloatingCastle: A rare heroic example. Beast’s castle floats away, as he searches for the crystal fragments.

* AppearanceAngst: Belle’s hair is violet, which caused her a lot of distress when she was a kid, from the villager’s scorn to her father’s bodyshaming. Once, she saw one of the local guys put some flowers on his girlfriend's hair, but the local boys teased her that nobody would want to do that to her. Belle decided then to pick some red roses, because their color was the only one that would match her hair, but they grew only in the woods, so she insisted for her mother to take her there. Sadly, the result was that she spent the next five years hearing over and over that her appearance offended the people and believing that her mother wouldn't have been abducted if she was "beautiful enough".

* NotOfThisEarth: [[spoiler: La Medium, Isolde and Laetitia are from an outworld race called the Hidden People, which explains the witch’s powers and Belle’s unusual hair color – La Medium heard once that the women of their people have hair colored like flowers. They can be recognized through their rose-shaped sigil, which protects them (more or less) from evil. Unlike human women, the ones from the other world last more, making possible for La Medium use Laetitia’s body for years. She wants to get Belle as a replacement when Laetitia's body becomes too old.]]

* PimpedOutDress: The story happens in an alternate world like 18th century France, so all the nobles and rich women wear elaborated, frilly dresses, especially La Medium. Princess Belle's dresses are particularly interesting because they look simpler, but have roses stuck all over it. Giselle’s body wears black, doll-like dresses with white frills (Kaori Yuki defines her as a “gothic Lolita”). Even Laetitia was beautifully dressed before her kidnapping, thanks to her husband's hardworking. Belle is also dressed up a few times after coming to the castle and later for the king's masquerade, but that always makes her uncomfortable.

* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler: After suffering a humiliating defeat by Beast and Belle's hands, La Medium gives back all the shards she still had of princess Belle's heart, so the latter would wake up and stand between the two. [[AllForNothing Also, that makes Beast's efforts to gather the crystal pieces all those years were for nothing]].]]

** The reason why Belle wanted so much to go to the forest when she was a kid was because it is the only place red roses grow in that region. In the original story, Beauty's father starts all the trouble when he picks up a rose he couldn't find anywhere else.
** Belle’s InternalizedCategorism seems a dark {{Flanderization}} of Beauty’s issue in [[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeastRobin McKinley's romance Beauty]]

** Belle sees her father, whom she saw die a few days ago, and happily runs to him, ignoring the Beast telling her it must be an imposter. Fortunately, she notices [[ImposterForgotOneDetail he is missing a scar on his arm]] and knocks him down. It turns out a demon possessed the corpse of her father and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain tore his scarred arm off to have one with claws]].

** Some people will take advantage of your remorse to keep you chained to them. It’s your duty to make it up for you mistakes – when that is possible - but not for the atrocities commited by someone else, and you must not let the regret rule your life.

** You can’t force someone to love you, and harming their loving ones, killing innocent people or ‘’trying to destroy the world’’ won’t change that!

* RunningGag:
** Beast's ears are frequently taken by horns, which [[BerserkButton pisses him off]], or stand in the way whenever he has to wear disguises.
** When Belle's rants about how "ugly" she is, people ask what is she talking about, since she is actually pretty.

** Belle’s InternalizedCategorism seems a Flanderization of [[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty’s issue in Robin McKinley book]]

** Speaking of Studios Ghibli, a girl who lost her parents, is saved by a mysterious guy and gets a job among magic creatures that try to turn her away out of FantasticRacism brings Anime/SpiritedAway to mind, but that must be unintentional.

* SignatureHeadgear: Giselle's bird form [[NeverBareheaded always wears a black bonnet]] adorned with frills. La Medium is rarely seen without her own frilled hat.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If the Doctor hadn't talked to the Duke Albert, he wouldn't have been recognized and maybe Beast's cover wouln't have been blown, or at least, not before they had the chance to find out where La Medium was hiding. Beast also goofed when he called the Vengeful Guy "ankle bitter", same insult he used previously to the army when they tried to shoot Belle along with him.

* NiceHat: Giselle's bird form [[NeverBareheaded always wears a black bonnet]] adorned with frills. La Medium is rarely seen without her own frilled hat.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Belle, she [[TraumaCongaLine goes through so much shit]] that brings to mind the protagonists from old shoujo mangas like Manga/CandyCandy.

* AppearanceAngst: Belle’s hair is violet, which caused her a lot of distress when she was a kid, from the villager’s scorn to her father’s bodyshaming. Once, she saw one of the local guys put some flowers on his girlfriend's hair, but the local boys teased her that nobody would want to do that to her. Belle decided then to pick some red roses, because theyr color was the only one that would match her hair, but they grew only in the woods, so she insisted for her mother to take her there. Sadly, the result was that she spent the next five years hearing over and over that her appearance offended people and thinking that her mother wouldn't have been abducted if she was "beautiful enough".

* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Princess Belle uses a wheelchair, pretending she can't walk because of the long time she spent into a coma, so she'll be pitied by her fiancée and the staff. The ruse is revealed when Beast prepares to go to the capital, and the princess stands upstairs, leaning on the railing and begging for him not to go. Everybody is shocked because she was able to walk up a flight of stairs ins spite of having left her wheelchair in her bedroom, but she shamelessly lies she [[BlatantLies "crawled all her way to that spot."]]]]

* AppearanceAngst: Belle’s hair is violet, which caused her a lot of distress when she was a kid, from the villager’s scorn to her father’s bodyshaming. Of course, it was nothing compared to hear everyday you are ugly and think that your mother wouldn't have been abducted if you were "beautiful enough".

** La Medium used to be the "saint" that protected Issus (though their subjects lived poorly, but that was the kings' fault)with her magic. She lived imprisoned, but was okay with that, because she believed that the prince Cyril would marry her someday. When he finally freed her and she found out he was going to marry another woman, La Medium snapped out and cursed not only the prince, but everyone who loved him. Since then, she started to use her powers for her own pleasure and to collect beautiful women’s faces to wear as masks, remaining eternally love and gracious at the cost of their lives.

* NotOfThisEarth: [[spoiler: La Medium, Isolde and Laetitia are from an outworld race called the Hidden People, which explains the former’s powers and Belle’s unusual hair color – and probably the reason why Isolde is the only idole to keep her personality, in spite of having lost her memory. They can be recognized through their rose-shaped sigil, which protects them (more or less) from evil. Unlike human women, the ones from the other world last more, making possible for La Medium use Laetitia’s body for years. And for the same reason, she wants Belle, too.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Princess Belle uses a wheelchair, pretending she can't walk because of the long time she spent into a coma. The ruse is revealed when Beast prepares to go to the capital, and the princess stands upstairs, leaning on the railing and begging for him not to go. Everybody is shocked because she was able to walk up a flight of stairs ins spite of having left her wheelchair in her bedroom, but she shamelessly lies she [[BlatantLies "crawled all her way to that spot."]]]]

* ApologizesALot: Belle has this tendency of apologizing a lot in awkward moments, because of the emotional abuse inflicted by her father.

Belle is a spirited, brave girl [[DontGoInTheWoods who insists on going to the forest, dismissing the rumors about a beast that kidnaps women to steal their faces]]. Until she and her mother, Laetitia, are found by the monster. Laetitia hurriedly pushes Belle into the river and is kidnapped; hours later, her faceless body is found and burned along with the corpses of other victims to keep them from turning into dangerous zombies called “idoles”. Twisted by the tragedy, Belle's father [[MadwomanInTheAttic locks her away for the next five years]], insisting that she is too ugly to show her face in public. But she suspects her mother may be still alive, because the body found in the river wearing her clothes didn’t have her rose-shaped birthmark. So, when she hears rumors outside about the return of the beast, she slips out of the house. When her father tries to get her back, he is killed by the beast, who carries Belle away without answering her questions… and then is killed, too. By a second beast!

** Giselle first seems the friendly sidekick bird made popular by Disney films, offering to help Belle to escape from the “terrible beast” before he eats her, but locks her up in a basement full of idoles and then almost makes her fall to her death. In both situations, she is saved by said Beast whom calls Belle out for relying só much in appearances. Afterwards, Giselle tries again by luring her into seeing the other Belle and convincing the girl that Beast was just being “good” to her because she had the same name as his comatose fiancée. When Belle still refuses to leave, Giselle threatens to hurt her, but Beast and Lucas catch her red-winged. [[spoiler: Much later, it is revealed that Giselle has became too comfortable with their cursed life (despite hating her new appeaarance) and didn’t want a stranger, especially a commoner, disrupting it. Also, she doesn't want Lucas' heart broken again, like it happened when Cyril was bethroted to the other Belle. But, after princess Belle wakes up unexpectadly, Giselle sees [[ManipulativeBastard the princess manipulating Cyril again]] and realizes that not only that situation would hurt Lucas a lot more but that her brother could be happy with the peasant Belle, who , despite her flaws, is a good person.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}:[[spoiler: During La Medium’s flashback, princess Belle shows up while Cyril is orchestrating his coupe d’etat to rebuke him that they were supposed to be marrying that day and then calls La Medium a “disfigured woman”. That establishes her fundamental selfishness and cruelty, but still, it could have been taken as the speech of a spoiled kid who doesn't know better and the whole thing is told from La Medium’s point of view. Yet, as soon as the princess meets Belle, she bluntly [[InnocentlyUnsensitive asks if only her’s hair was cursed]]. And, when she asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he believed later that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]]]

** Belle sees her father, whom she saw die a few days ago, and happily runs to him, ignoring the Beast telling her it must be an imposter. Fortunately, she notices [[ImposterForgotOneDetail he is missing a scar on his arm]] and knocks him down. It turns out a demon possessed the corpse of her father, which healed his scar.
** Belle ends up captured when La Medium possesses her mother, but she escapes on her own.

* AppearanceAngst: Belle’s hair is violet, which caused her a lot of distress when she was a kid, from the villager’s scorn to her father’s bodyshaming. [[spoiler: According to La Medium, many women from the Hidden People have hair coloured like flowers.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: The king of Issus had his son Cyril bethroted to princess Belle because she was a daughter of the rulers of a neighbouring kingdom. [[spoiler: He went back on this because she was just the sixth daughter, thus had lower status, but the uncommitment caused a war. At this point, the princess was so head-over-heels about Cyril that she set fire on her parents' castle, killing them, so the royalty of Issus had no choice but getting her back.]]

** Almost all royalty members are evil. Cyril and Giselle’s parents were tyrants that saw their children only as political tools. The king [[spoiler: kept La Medium imprisoned for years and blindfolded magically, so she would believe she was blind. Besides, he took advantage of her love for his son, keeping her happy with the fake promise that she would marry Cyril someday.]] The royalty also made the people of Issus starve, so it's not hard to figure out why Cyril wanted his parents dead.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Despite [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple not seeing eye-to-eye most of time, Belle and Beast bond]] because both are trying to make it up for their mistakes and have strong tempers that their hard knocked lives couldn't tame completely. Beast gets to admit he identifies himself to her because, before the curse, he was pressed to be what people expected from him, like she is. [[spoiler: Also, he is emotionally chained to his fiancée by guilt just like Belle was to her father, although he doesn't seem to realize it.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}:[[spoiler: During La Medium’s flashback, princess Belle shows up while Cyril is orchestrating his coupe d’etat to rebuke him that they were supposed to be marrying that day and then calls La Medium a “disfigured woman”. That establishes her true (lack of) character, but still, it must be taken into account that story is told from La Medium’s point of view; yet, as soon as the princess meets Belle, she bluntly [[InnocentlyUnsensitive asks if only her’s hair was cursed]]. And, when she asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he believed later that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]]]

** Against her will, Belle falls in love with Beast as she realizes the lengths he goes to free his people from the curse. Still, she believes that he only cares about her because she has the same name as his beloved fiancée.

* NiceHat: Despite being a bird, Giselle [[NeverBareheaded always wears a black bonnet]] adorned with frills. La Medium is rarely seen without her own frilled hat.

** Beast gives Belle one during the ball, after he finally realizes why she's still haven't overcome her trauma.
-->'''Beast:''' You've put a curse on yourself. After all these years, you should've realized by now. Your mother was lying to protect you from that beast. Your father took advantage of that lie to keep you all to himself. And you've been imprisoned ever since. That's it. You're cursed. Beauty isn't everything, and it doesn't last forever. But it can be a source of power. It can give you an advantage. Looking good can help you in any circumstance. But, one day, no one will remember what you look like. That fact makes the sight of the morning dew or the innumerable stars on the sky all the more humbling. Comparing to them, the beauty of youth only lasts for the blink of one eye. That's why it's so precious. But you still have time. Don't let yourself wilt, still afflicted by your own curse. It would be too sad. I know you feel guilty that you couldn't save your mother. But it's time to forgive yourself. You've suffered too much.
* YouAreNotAlone: After saving Belle from the princess’ trap, Giselle comforts her, saying that she understood what she was going through because she loved someone she couldn’t have (Lucas), too.

** In a BreatherEpisode, the cat maids commment they used to raise cats before they worked in the castle, [[LampshadeHanging so that's probably why they were turned into felines]]. Which means that the curse transforms people according to their activities or personalities; the butler was turned into a clock because he was obsessed with timings and schedules, the gamekeepers are hound dogs, etc. Giselle became a literal CagedBirdMetaphor because even before the curse she became a sort of shut-in for being repressed by her royal condition and unable to stand seeing Lucas suffering with his UnrequitedLove for another.

** [[spoiler: Lucas was biologically a girl, and Cyril's childhood friend. They used to fence(according to Cyril, she/he was better than him), but people judged Lucas for her unladylike behaviour. Following Cyril's advice, he decided to be "faithful" to his true self, cut his hair and assumed his new identity as a man, scandalizing the court.]]
** Beast met the Doctor when the latter lived as a commoner in a village slaughtered by La Medium's minions. Doctor seems to have some notions about magic, having made for Beast a magical binding so the prince wouldn't destroy things accidentaly (or kill someone) whenever he lost his temper. [[spoiler: During the masquerade, he calls a duke "Albert", and the latter reacts with shock. Moments later, the doctor comes running to warn Beast and Belle they have to go; seems the Doctor is actually a noble and the royalty isn't much fond of him.]]
{{Hypocrite}}: At the first chapters, Beast criticizes Belle harshly because of the lingering effects of her trauma and for defending her father, saying she “must like of being a prisoner”, [[spoiler: although he is practically enslaved to princess Belle through her emotional abuse.]] His tone changes gradually after their trip to Issus, with him saying he feels sorry for her and trying to help Belle to overcome her mental issues.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: After Beast's cover is blown during the ball, he can't use magic because he is too far from the castle, so he takes off the magic bind that held his physical powers back (making Belle blush, because she is in his arms and he had to open his shirt). That liberates a wave of energy so strong that pushes the soldiers back, before he takes Belle away by jumping as high as a flea.

* PlagueDoctor: The only human inhabitant of the castle before Belle came. He makes “experiments” on the idols at the basement, with Isolde as his assistant. Beast don’t approve that much, but [[BetrayalByInaction doesn’t forbid, either]].

** [[spoiler: Much later, Giselle saves Belle from everyone's anger when she is suspected of having stuck a pin on princess Belle's wedding dress out of jealousy ([[WoundedGazelleGambit actually, the princess herself did that]]). She and Isolde drag Belle to the garden,where the bird tells them how vicious and manipulative the princess is, but that Cyril can't say no to her because he thinks it is his fault she became "a witch". Afterwards, Giselle lies to everyone that she wanted to interrupt the wedding for fun, so she asked Belle to pretend she was in love with Cyril and for Isolde to put the pin on the dress. Beast doesn’t believe it, but postpones the wedding anyway (and probably starts to suspect WHO really stuck the damned pin)]]

* DamselInDistress: Belle, chronicallly.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: [[spoiler: During La Medium’s flashback, princess Belle shows up while Cyril is orchestrating his coupe d’etat to rebuke him that they were supposed to be marrying that day and then calls La Medium a “disfigured woman”. That establishes her true (lack of) character, but still, it must be taken into account that story is told from La Medium’s point of view; yet, as soon as the princess meets Belle, she bluntly [[InnocentlyUnsensitive asks if only her’s hair was cursed]]. And, when she asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he believed later that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]]]

** The women whose faces are stolen by La Medium die and become mindless, mute zombies called “idoles” that try to steal the faces of the living and [[BodyHorror grow mouths on their bodies]]. [[spoiler: Isolde]] is the only one that has kept her sanity.
** The souls of the idoles are sent to another dimension called Samhain, where they are eventually devoured by the void. According to Isolde, when a woman has her face stolen, she loses her identity and memory; Isolde herself only kept her mind because she is from the Hidden People, but is amnesiac, too (her name was given by the Doctor). [[spoiler: Belle remains alive after having her face stolen because she is from the Hidden People through her mother, and also because Beast's rosary helps her to retain her memory.]]
** [[spoiler: La Medium is currently using not only Laetitia’s face, but her entire body. The first time she sees Belle, a tear runs down her face, surprising La Medium and hinting that Laetitia’s soul must be still inside and watching. La Medium suppresses that emotion quickly and [[DeathOfPersonality retakes total control of Laetitia's body. ]]]]

* ChickMagnet: Beast. In spite of his cursed form and behavior, La Medium and [[spoiler: princess Belle (after she woke up)]] are still obsessed with him.[[spoiler: Not only girls: Lucas (a transman) became Cyril's chamberlain to stay close to his beloved.]] And Belle, of course, but she only met him after he was already the Beast and initially hated him; [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe so her love really came from noticing the good camouflaged in his actions]] without being influenced by the memory of the gentle, handsome young man he once was.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: When Belle and Beast first meet, she [[EasilyCondemned threatens him with an axe and accuses him of having kidnapped her mother]], although he had just saved from the fake beast (she probably wasn't thinking clearly, after having been threatened by her own father, carried by the fake to a carriage full of dead women and finding out that there was a second beast). Angrily, Beast knocks her out with a vine, saying he doesn't care if she lives or dies, and she faints thinking she'll be devoured by the wolves. However, in the next day, Belle wakes up in his castle, so he obviously changed his mind.

** Zigzagged with Cyril. Belle is the only one in the castle who calls him "Beast" -sometimes "Mounsieur Beast" - and because he asked her so. Everybody else either calls him by his name or treats him like Highness or Sir. Naturally, out of the castle people calls him the Beast because they see him as a monster.

* FlowerMotifs: It's a Beauty and the Beast story, so it has roses everywhere. Even the fragments of princess Belle’s heart and the [[spoiler: Hidden People’s]] sigil are shaped like roses.

* HenpeckedHusband: [[spoiler: Beast acts like one when princess Belle is around. He gets better.]]

** Belle’s conviction about her ugliness seems a flanderization of [[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty’issue in Robin McKinley book]]

** In a BreatherEpisode, the cat maids commment they used to raise cats before they worked in the castle, [[LampshadeHanging so that's probably why they were turned into felines]]. Which means that the curse transforms people according to their activities or personalities; the butler became a clock because he was obsessed with timings and schedules, the gamekeepers have hound dog faces, etc. Giselle probably became a bird in a cage because even before the curse she became a sort of shut-in because she couldn't stand seeing Lucas suffering with his UnrequitedLove for another.

** Giselle first seems the friendly sidekick bird made popular by Disney films, offering to help Belle to escape from the “terrible beast” before he eats her, but locks her up in a basement full of idoles and then almost makes her fall to her death. In both situations, she is saved by said Beast whom calls Belle out for relying só much in appearances. Afterwards, Giselle tries again by luring her into seeing the other Belle, to convince her that Beast was just being “good” to her because she had the same name as his comatose fiancée. When that doesn’t work, she threatens to hurt Belle, but Beast and Lucas catch her red-winged. [[spoiler: Much later, it is revealed that Giselle has became too comfortable with their cursed life and didn’t want a stranger, especially a commoner, disrupting it. Also,she doesn't want Lucas' heart broken again, like it happened when Cyril was bethroted to the other Belle. But, after princess Belle wakes up unexpectadly, Giselle sees [[ManipulativeBastard the princess manipulating Cyril again]] and realizes that not only that situation would hurt Lucas a lot more but that her brother could be happy with the peasant Belle, who , despite her flaws, is a good person.]]
** [[spoiler: Princess Belle is a lot worse. At first, she seems a kind, [[ProperLady sweet lady]], but at soon it becomes evident she is a RoyalBrat that uses her sweet smile and falsely kind words to keep everyone wrapped around her finger. As soon as she meets Belle, she begs for her to become her friend and personal assistant, in spite of Beast’s resistance.  Belle is delighted in meeting someone so nice, until the princess condescendingly rants about how lonely and miserable she must be and rubs on the girl's face that everything – Cyril, the castle, the rosary that saved Belle's life - is hers. She also insists for Cyril to announce their engagement and has Belle sewing her wedding dress. The poor girl is an emotional wreck at this point, and the princess takes advantage of this to sneak a pin in her wedding dress and hurt herself with it, making everyone think that Belle was careless. To add insult to injury, she pretends to defend Belle, saying aloud that it was just natural the girl was nervous because she was in love with Cyril, too! Fortunately, Giselle and Isolde come to save her face.]]

* NotOfThisEarth: [[spoiler: La Medium, Isolde and Laetitia are from an outworld race called the Hidden People, which explains the former’s powers and Belle’s unusual hair color – and probably the reason why Isolde is the only idole to keep her personality, in spite of having lost her memory. They can be recognized through a rose-shaped bithmark, which also protects them (more or less) from evil. Unlike human women, the ones from the other world last more, making possible for La Medium use Laetitia’s body for years. And for the same reason, she wants Belle, too.]]

** Giselle first seems the friendly sidekick bird made popular by Disney films, offering to help Belle to escape from the “terrible beast” before he eats her, but locks her up in a basement full of idoles and then almost makes her fall to her death. Afterwards, she lures her into seeing the other Belle, to convince her that Beast was just being “good” to her because she had the same name as his comatose fiancée. When that doesn’t work, she threatens to hurt Belle, but Beast and Lucas catch her red-winged. [[spoiler: Much later, it is revealed that Giselle has became too comfortable with their cursed life and didn’t want a stranger, especially a commoner, disrupting it. Also,she doesn't want Lucas' heart broken again, like it happened when Cyril was bethroted to the other Belle. But, after princess Belle wakes up unexpectadly, Giselle sees [[ManipulativeBastard the princess manipulating Cyril again]] and realizes that not only that situation would hurt Lucas a lot more but that her brother could be happy with the peasant Belle, who , despite her flaws, is a good person.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** Giselle. She first poses as Belle’s savior, but locks her up in a basement full of idoles and then almost makes her fall to her death. Afterwards, she lures her into seeing the other Belle, to convince her that Beast was just being “good” to her because she had the same name as his comatose fiancée. When that doesn’t work, she threatens to hurt Belle, but Beast and Lucas catch her red-winged. [[spoiler: Much later, it is revealed that Giselle has became too comfortable with their cursed life and didn’t want a stranger, especially a commoner, disrupting it. Also,she doesn't want Lucas' heart broken again, like it happened when Cyril was bethroted to the other Belle. But, after princess Belle wakes up unexpectadly, Giselle sees [[ManipulativeBastard the princess manipulating Cyril again]] and realizes that not only that situation would hurt Lucas a lot more but that her brother could be happy with the peasant Belle, who isn't selfish like her namesake and loves him unconditionally.]]
** [[spoiler: Princess Belle is a lot worse. At first, she seems a kind, [[ProperLady sweet lady]], but at soon it becomes evident she is a RoyalBrat that uses her sweet smile and falsely kind words to keep everyone wrapped around her finger. As soon as she meets Belle, she begs for her to become her friend and personal assistant, in spite of Beast’s resistance.  Belle is delighted in meeting someone so nice, until the princess condescendingly rants about how lonely and miserable she must be and rubs on the girl's face that everything – Cyril, the castle, the rosary that saved Belle's life - is hers. She also insists for Cyril to announce their engagement and has Belle sewing her wedding dress. The poor girl is an emotional wreck at this point, and the princess takes advantage of this [[WoundedGazelleGambit to sneak a pin in her wedding dress and hurt herself with it]], making everyone think that Belle was careless. To add insult to injury, she pretends to defend Belle, saying aloud that it was just natural the girl was nervous because she was in love with Cyril, too! Fortunately, Giselle and Isolde come to save her face.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: [[spoiler: During La Medium’s flashback, princess Belle shows up while Cyril is orchestrating his coupe d’etat to rebuke him that they were supposed to be marrying that day and then calls La Medium a “disfigured woman”. That establishes her true (lack of) character, but still, it must be taken into account that story is told from La Medium’s point of view; yet, as soon as the princess meets Belle, she bluntly [[InnocentlyUnsensitive asks if only her’s hair was cursed]]. And, when she asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he believed later that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: When Beast announces his decision of going to the capital to face La Medium, princess Belle won’t let him go, not caring if he’s doing that to break the curse to end the suffering of the castle denizens. Worse, when they suspect that she lied about not being able to walk, she rants that SHE is the victim of the curse because it stopped her from marrying Cyril. To keep him stuck to her,she takes off her gloves to show her burned hands, reminding him that she saved him from the fire SHE set on her parent’s castle! It doesn’t work this time, and [[TakeThatScrappy she has to see Belle going with him to the capital. ]]]]

->'''Beast''': Just call me "The Beast". That's how you've always known me as, right? [[TakeThatScrappy Unlike a certain dumb bird, I don't need you to puff my ego with some fancy title.]]
-> (Everyone stares at him in shock. Giselle's horrified look, especially, is pretty satisfying.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: When princess Belle asks Belle to be her friend, Beast tells his fiancée to leave the other girl alone. As much as he missed the princess, he suspected that she would eventually pick on Belle... [[IdiotBall though he ''believed'' that Belle forgot the pin on the dress.]]]]

** The scene where Beast has a tantrum because someone(Belle) entered the courtyard seems a nod to the West Wing incident from [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney's Beauty and the Beast]].

* ThereAreNoTherapists: If there were, the line would be very, very long.

** Discussed with Isolde. She seems to not resent the way everyone treated her before the end of the [[spoiler: Faceless Arc]], when they learned she had a mind and could speak. Even towards Beast, who called her a "thing", told the Doctor to keep her confined and [[spoiler: sacrificed Denis, the only one to treat her with genuine kindness. On other hand, if the prince hadn't her locked up, probably some of the servants would have killed Isolde because of their fear of idoles. Besides, during her encounter with Belle on Samhain, Isolde tells her she feels on Beast a great pain, because he takes for himself the suffering of others. About Denis, he was the only way Beast had to reach Belle in Samhain because of his accideentaal connection to La Medium; the poor teddy bear was doomed, anyway.]] And after everyone finally learns she is sentient and not dangerous, Beast allows her to walk freely around the castle.

* SpidersAreScary: La Medium's favorite servants are spiders. She uses them as spies and rides a giant one in a scene.

** Discussed with Isolde. She seems to not resent the way everyone treated her before the end of the [[spoiler: Faceless Arc]], when they learned she had a mind and could speak. Even towards Beast, who called her a "thing", told the Doctor to keep her confined and [[spoiler: sacrificed Denis, the only one to treat her with genuine kindness. On other hand, if the prince hadn't her locked up, probably some of the servants would have killed Isolde because of their fear of idoles. Besides, during her encounter with Belle on Samhain, Isolde tells her she feels on Beast a great pain, because he takes for himself the suffering of others. Also, after she looses contact to Belle, Denis is the only way he has to reach the girl and the poor teddy bear was doomed, anyway.]] And after everyone finally learns she is sentient and not dangerous, Beast allows her to walk freely around the castle.
** Zigzagged with Giselle. After she saves Belle from the princess' trap, Belle reminds her that the little bird tried to kill her. Giselle dismisses the remark with a huffy "can't you forget that?" However, when they say goodbye before the trip, they are in such good terms that Giselle even sheds a tear.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Despite [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple not seeing eye-to-eye most of time, Belle and Beast bond]] because both are trying to make it up for their mistakes and have strong tempers that their hard knocked lives couldn't tame completely. Beast gets to admit he identifies himself to her because, before the curse, he was pressed to be what people expected from him, like she is. Also, he is emotionally chained to his fiancée by guilt just like Belle was to her father, although he doesn't seem to realize it.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: According to the MagicallyBindingContract Beast did to La Vouivre for some magic he would be able to control,, he must defeat La Medium and break the curse until the clock tower of his castle strikes midnight, or the entirecastle will be engulfed by a void and La Vouivre will devour Beast’s soul and body.

** When the demon/fake beast asks Laetitia if Belle is beautiful, the woman says no and pushes her daughter into the river. The saddest part is that Laetitia was just telling Belle how much she found her lovely. Hearing her mother deny her own words not only destroyed Belle's self-esteem but also made her believe that her mother was taken in her place because she wasn't beautiful enough, thus she deserved to be punished by her father. By other turn, Laetitia's HeroicSacrifice saved Belle from a FateWorseThanDeath.

** In a BreatherEpisode, the cat maids commment they used to raise cats before they worked in the castle, [[LampshadeHanging so that's probably why they were turned into felines]]. Which means that the curse transforms people according to their activities or personalities; the butler became a clock because he was obsessed with timings and schedules, the gamekeepers have hound dog faces, etc. Giselle probably became a bird in a cage because even before the curse she was already a sort of shut-in, and repressed by her parents.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Belle, she [[TraumaCongaLine goes through so much shit]]that brings to mind the protagonists from old shoujo mangas like Manga/CandyCandy.

** [[spoiler: Lucas originally was a girl, and Cyril's childhood friend. They used to fence(according to Cyril, she was better than him), but people judged Lucas for her unladylike behaviour. Following Cyril's advice, she decided to be "faithful" to her/his true self, cut her hair and assumed his new identity as a man, scandalizing the court.]]

** La Medium used to be the "saint" that protected Issus (though their subjects lived poorly, but that was the kings' fault)with her magic. She lived imprisoned, but was okay with that, because she believed that the prince Cyril would marry her someday. When he finally freed her and she found out he was going to marry another woman, Princess Belle, La Medium snapped out and cursed not only the prince, but everyone who loved him. Since then, she started to use her powers for her own pleasure and to collect beautiful women’s faces to wear as masks, remaining eternally love and gracious at the cost of their lives.

* ArrangedMarriage: The king of Issus had his son Cyril bethroted to princess Belle because she was a daughter of the rulers of a neighbouring kingdom. [[spoiler: He went back on this because she was just the sixth daughter, thus had loww status, but that caused a war. At this point, the princess was so head-over-heels about Cyril that she set fire on her parents' castle, killing them, so the royalty of Issus hhad no way but getting her back.]]

** [[spoiler: Princess Belle. She was so obsessed into marrying prince Cyril (Beast) that she burned her parents’ castle, so they would be killed and unable to undo their commitment. After she wakes up, [[ClingyJealousGirl she asks for Belle to become her servant to humiliate her out of petty jealousy]]. No wonder Giselle calls the princess a "witch".]]

* NoPlaceForMeThere: Subverted and played straight with Belle. Despite the insistence of the castle dwellers that she doesn’t belong there, she decides to stay, first because she has nowhere to go (see YouCantGoHomeAgain) and secondly because she has had enough with people telling her what to do:
->'''Belle:''' I see that I’ve come barging into your castle without the slightest consideration for anyone else. But still… you aren’t the one who hired me, Madame Giselle. The Beast… your brother is. I won’t leave until the master of the castle, the man who saved my life, orders me to do so;. Maybe he only did help because of my name… but it doesn’t matter. You have no right to cast me out!

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: When Beast announces his decision of going to the capital to face La Medium, princess Belle won’t let him go, not caring if he’s doing that to break the curse to end the suffering of the castle denizens. Worse, when they realize she lied about not being able to walk, she rants that SHE is the victim of the curse because it stopped her from marrying Cyril and takes off her gloves to show her burned hands and remind him that she saved him from the fire SHE set on her parent’s castle! It doesn’t work this time, and [[TakeThatScrappy she has to see Belle going with him to the capital. ]]]]