u/KarlyFr1es

I was re-watching the 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty & the Beast for the hundredth time or so and while I know there is supposed to be inspo there for ACOTAR, I really can’t see Feyre in Belle at all. Buckle up because she sounds more like a combo Gaston + Enchantress.

1. Belle is clever and reads voraciously while Feyre is often making exceptionally stupid choices and isn’t even literate in the first book. You know who is illiterate and makes dumb and terrible choices? Gaston. He and Feyre are also both good hunters (despite the fact Feyre is starving, but whatever). If anyone is going to shoot a wolf, it’s Gaston, not Belle.
2. Belle has a loving, albeit odd, father who is the reason she briefly leaves the Beast. Feyre’s father is awful and no one should leave a sandwich for him, let alone someone they’re falling in love with.
3. The Enchantress tests Prince Adam, ultimately making him the Beast when he fails her test. This leads to him destroying the west wing, which Belle is later forbidden from. Feyre tests Tamlin often, especially once he thinks she’s been kidnapped by his friend-turned-enemy and his illiterate fiancée is suddenly writing notes? He fails the test and destroys her room.
4. Feyre doesn’t cure Spring of any curse really, she leaves it in ruin as the Enchantress did with the castle, grounds, and entire staff.

All this to say, our Beast is cursed by Feyre and hasn’t found his Belle yet. How long he has before he’s consumed by his loss, grief, and self-loathing? I don’t know. And Amarantha? Just a flat, static villain.