Gijinka Renamon's Beauty and the Beast
Disclaimer: Would you honestly believe that I own anything you see here? …Didn't think so.
Oh yeah, and the roles for the two main characters will be played by characters from the video game Tale of the Abyss…which I'm not sure too many people know about.
There probably won't be spoilers for the game…but I would recommend checking out the game itself or looking it up online in order to familiarize yourself with these characters.
Prologue: The Witch-Gunslinger's Curse
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a handsome young prince lived in a shining castle.
But although he had everything he could ever want, the prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind.
Then, one winter's night, a beggar woman came to the castle, offering a single rose in return for shelter from the harsh winter cold.
Repulsed by her appearance, the prince just sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. Then she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within, not on the outside.
But when he dismissed her again, the woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful Witch-Gunslinger named Kurohime.
The prince tried to apologize, but by then, it was too late. She had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, transformed him into a hideous beast and cast a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there.
Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast locked himself inside his castle, with a magical mirror as his only link to the outside world.
The rose the sorceress had offered the prince was truly an enchanted one, for it would bloom until the beast's twenty-first birthday. If he could learn to love another, and earn their love in return by the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken.
If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all eternity.
As the years went by, the beast fell into despair and lost hope.
After all, who could ever learn to love a beast…?