&& @verdelivre / batb sentence starters. 

‘ Belle, Belle, Belle, Belle, ‘ he begins, fingers drumming against the shoulder of his thick jacket __________ ' your father has been gone for DAYS. ‘ old kook probably went && got himself lost in the forest, Gaston was sure.     ‘ He would want you to stay ; if you ran off, too, you might not make it back. The forest is no place for a girl as pretty as you. ‘ 

     && @stillnotfree // batb sentence starters 

Up until this moment, Gaston had assumed he was being a gentleman _____ a perfect embodiment of a gentleman, as he often was. The book that she once held, now pressed between his forefinger and his thumb, swung back && forth in the air ; he was only glancing at it. ‘ If I was not a gentleman, I might have tossed this book into a garbage ___ ‘ 

     && @ignatiius // batb sentence starters

‘ My, your determination is INSPIRING _________ have you ever considered fighting alongside a man who is a reputable leader ; strong, fierce, also equally inspiring? ‘ 

         && @thebeauty // batb sentence starters 

‘ Belle, if you left this Village then your father would be lonesome. ‘ Truth be told, Gaston does not care even an ounce for what her father may or may not have felt, but he needed her to keep around for himself. He still needed a wife. ‘ This Village is filled with opportunity, Belle _________ opportunity beyond your wildest dreams ! A home, an adventure with children && your handsome husband. ‘

                       For SURE I DO. Let’s take this in chronological order _____ 

I’m going to just BRIEFLY mention that Gaston, obviously, had fighting training prior to this war ; without it, there is no doubt he would fail to protect the Village, as he did. With that being said, when Portuguese marauders attacked their village I imagine that Gaston was not alone in the fight, but he certainly led the men. He was only sixteen years old, and was forced to take on this strong LEADERSHIP position ___ why, I’m going to take the guess that maybe there was nobody else who stood up to do it, or maybe whomever had taken it first was gone? I would like to go with the former, because I think at the age of sixteen, his ego hadn’t been fully developed && therefore the thought of leading this army of men hadn’t necessarily taken place in his mind from the beginning. ( E.X. no sixteen year old with limited experience is going to wander into a war and scream ‘LOL listen to me !’ )

His leadership in the war was acquired. I’m going to pinpoint this war at about a two-three week’s length ; had it been a bigger Village, it would have taken longer. The first day, they are in the fields just miles South of the Village. Gaston, under a different captain’s orders, is fighting && protecting alongside his friend Lefou. This sense of PRIDE && ACCOMPLISHMENT when he takes down another man starts to fuel this ego that we all are familiar with. When their captain is taken down, someone must stand up to the plate && based off the small ounces of power he is feeling, he wants more, && he therefore assumes the position as captain. At sixteen, he is conversing plans && he is finding that the more people who listen to him, the more successful he and their team become. 

He leads them into battle ____ an army just roughly the size of the Portuguese marauders, && they attack from all angles, and eventually the Portuguese collapse in on themselves. Let’s give him some depth && say that he saw this tactic once with stray dogs in the Village, where they eventually encircled their prey and attacked. Here you have sixteen year old Gaston, having just not only survived, but LEADING, a war, and now being introduced to this feeling that power gives. I think the war certainly changes him, && it changes his dynamic with people around him ( insert future headcanon about gaston and lefou here ). But also remember that anyone who goes to war can develop different things, && so therefore I think Gaston is leaving this war worse off than he had entered it ________ bloodied, a killer, egocentric, now craving any sort of attention he can get, but also loving the attention that the Villagers are giving him. && PTSD for sure. + these small underlying tones of insecurity. The war made and broke him. If you’d like anything more specific, let me know !

     && @unerwunschtte // beauty & the beast sentence starter

‘ You’re talking to me now, aren’t you? ‘ In fact, the inn had been COVERED in men and women, all as slick && slimy as the rest && Gaston always put himself above the bunch _______ he was, no doubt, the best man to talk to in this Village ; certainly someone had directed her to come && speak with him. ( A wise choice ! )  ‘ You’re not from here, ‘ Gaston points out, a sip of his beer following. ‘ Where are you from? ‘