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Eu fiz essas ilustrações durante o Dia dos Namorados de 2022, eu amo demais esse projeto! “Uma moça inteligente e determinada, que para salvar seu pai de uma dívida, vai trabalhar na mansão de um jovem veterano da Segunda Guerra, recluso e amargurado pelas cicatrizes em seu rosto devido ao campo de batalha.” >>> I made these during brazilian’s Valentine’s Day 2022, and I love it so much! “An intelligent and determined lady, to save her father from a debt, decides to work on a manor of a young, World War II vet, recluse and bitter due to the scars in his face caused by the battlefield.”

#oh???#fairy tales#disney#fanart#batb#i can’t stop thinking about these possibilities actually#belle could have a university degree#could be recruited for the soe during the war#but afterwards#when her mother has died and her father’s health (broken by the first war) is not strong#she goes home#as all dutiful daughters are expected to do#and she settles into a different sort of life#she earns a little money doing translation#she volunteers at the library#is recruited onto parish committees#she tries to loan books to as many girls (and boys) as she can#she hasn’t met the lord of the manor since they were both climbing trees as children#he was (of course) sent to boarding school early; their paths didn’t cross at oxford#village rumor casts him as the ogre keeping people off his land#and she mentally shrugs#unsurprised to find him spoiled by privilege and the celebrity of being one of the few to whom so many owed so much#but when her father comes home in tears – he had only wanted some plums from the manor garden; they wouldn’t be missed or begrudged surely#she marches up the front drive and rings the ancient bell pull#(she and her father live in the lodge probably)#(maurice is basically allowed to keep the post out of charity though belle would be FURIOUS to have this pointed out)#anyway he’s patching up the hall from the scars of requisition#she agrees (ashamed at her own breathless eagerness) to help with the library#she starts helping out elsewhere too: polishing the silver with the arthritic housekeeper etc.#she wouldn’t live in but he’d have a bedroom aired so she wouldn’t have to cycle home in bad weather

Yes, hello, @oldshrewsburyian, OBVIOUSLY you have to write this story now!

Friend, friend, I am diligently telling myself I do not have time to do so. This is a slippery slope.

Ooooh love these ideas! Also, the drawings are MAGNIFICENT!

Sending you writing vibes and time, @oldshrewsburyian 😁