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So much like my OUAT Just Some Ideas story, this fanfic will be about Disney theories. My brother got me into the theory game and I've been thinking about it non stop since. Because questioning children films should be on everyone's to-do list.

So today, let's talk about the movie: Beauty and the Beast. The animated one, not live action.

Is the Beast Really a Bad Person?

Most of us know the story of how Prince— wait, what's his name? Adam, it's Prince Adam.

So most of us know the story of how Prince Adam became the Beast correct? Well, if you haven't watched your annual viewing of B and the B yet, let me fill you in.

So basically, this old beggar woman shows up at the doorstep of the prince's palace on night, asking for a place to spend the night. In exchange for a bed, she offers the prince a rose. The prince is so disgusted by the beggar's appearance and rejects her rose. The woman says that real beauty is what lies within, not on the outside.

Adam still isn't having it and tells the woman to get lost. All of a sudden, the beggar turns into a magical sorceress and the prince realizes his mistake and pleads forgiveness. The sorceress doesn't give it and instead curses Adam into a beast and he'll remain that way until he's 21.

If he's found love, great, he'll change back into a prince and live happily ever after. But if he doesn't find love before his twenty first birthday, he will remain a beast forever.

The sorceress also curses the staff at the castle for good measure.

She gives him the rose he rejected and it's basically the worst hourglass ever, blooming until his 21 birthday and then it will wilt. Once it loses it's last petal, it's too late for the prince to change back.

So yeah, that's how it goes and then we're introduced to Belle and the movie starts.

But the part that has me interested is Prince Adam's age. The narrator just says that he's a young prince, but not exactly how young. Luckily for us, in the song Be Our Guest, Lumiere says that, "For ten years, we've been rusting, needing so much more than dusting…" And when we see the rose, it's fully bloomed, and is starting to wilt.

So we're nearing the home stretch; the beast is almost twenty one.

After doing the math, at most the beast is 10 years old!

At the beginning of the story, Adam isn't just a young prince, he's a child prince.

Adam is just doing what any responsible kid would do in the situation he was in. Anyone heard of stranger danger? If a creepy, old beggar woman appeared on your doorstep in the middle of the night, what do you think you would do? Keep in mind that you're also 10 to 11 years old.

You would say no and ask her to leave right? I mean, she's a stranger, and old, and probably smells disgusting. And your a kid. Where are your parents anyways?

Also, shouldn't Cogsworth answer the door as the butler?

Everyone just assumes that since we see Adam at the door in the stained glass, that he opened the door. But this is completely wrong.

Let me tell you the story one more time, and see if Prince Adam is actually a bad person:

Late one night, an old beggar woman narrowly escaped the forest wolves and finally made her way to the palace. She was cold and hungry, and decided to ask the royal family for shelter to escape the storm.

She knocked on the door and the butler answered. The woman asked to see the prince, and would only speak to him. The butler was hesitant at first, but the woman was persistent and eventually the prince came to the door.

The beggar woman asked for shelter but the prince, only 10 years old, had just lost his parents, and was in a state of grief. He did not want any visitors, and did not know the woman. His parents taught him not to trust strangers, so he turned down the woman.

The woman didn't know about the prince losing his parents and thought that he wanted payment. She didn't have any money so she offered him a single rose.

The prince was really upset at this point. He wanted the woman gone. He told her to get lost.

The woman pleaded, but the prince wasn't having it. He told her to go back the way she came. The woman didn't want to go through the forest again and was having enough of the prince.

She transformed into a sorceress and the prince realized his that he was being mean to the woman and tried to apologize. The sorceress was so upset at not receiving kindness from the boy and transformed him into a beast. She put a curse on the castle and made the whole kingdom forget that they were ruled by a monarch.

The curse also turned the whole staff into an IKEA because why not.

So you see, the beast isn't even a bad guy. He just is a child that never got to grow up.

Thanks for reading and have a fantastic day!