BELLE’S VILLAIN SONG | Animatic | Tale as Old as Time | By Lydia the Bard

✨STREAM THIS SONG ON SPOTIFY HERE✨ - It’s the last Villain for a little while! Rest assured there will be more, I’ve been working on a bunch of other exciting projects which will be coming out over the next few weeks. Keep an eye out for a very exciting halloween original song coming at the end of this month! BIGGEST THANK YOU to the absolute geniuses I had the pleasure to work with on this song! @FrostudioChambersonic arranged the music and they are just incredible! They also have their own YouTube channel so make sure to go and subscribe! Big thank you also to Luck_Buggy who created the animatic for this video, an artistic WIZARD, every still is breathtaking and you are amazing, make sure to follow them on insta! - Now for the story! ✨BELLES VILLAIN STORY✨ Belle has always been the smartest person in her village, perhaps even the smartest person in the province. But she never held that against anyone. Even when everyone in the village thought she was strange and spoke about her when they thought she couldn’t hear, she did her best to simply ignore the whispers and get lost in a book instead. Of course, it bothered her that people spoke about her but as long as she ignored them they were harmless. Until they weren’t harmless anymore. Belle began receiving advances from men that couldn’t even hope to be her match. Arrogant, brainless Gaston hadn’t so much as picked up a book since he was a child, how could he possibly think she’d marry him? Following this her father was kidnapped and Belle imprisoned in his place by a terrifying Beast. But no more terrifying than the beasts in her books. Belle isn’t someone you want to get on the wrong side of, especially when it comes to her family so did you really think she would go quietly? After all the suffering she had endured at the villages hand? Well, this is where our tale differs from the original and our version of Belle doesn’t take kindly to being locked away. And she certainly doesn’t take kindly to those mistreating her father. She isnt in a forgiving mood and so hardens her heart and makes a different decision. And so our story follows a similar trajectory to the original, except our Belle isn’t falling in love, she’s plotting revenge. Locked away, Belle bides her time, playing the part of the perfect little prisoner, getting along with her guards, nursing the beast’s wounds, putting up just enough of a fight to make it seem realistic. When, in actual fact, she was gathering information and looking for her perfect moment and weapon of choice. Which is when she found the rose.  “Did they all really think I was going to help them? They lock someone away, lock my father away, and expect to not face any consequences? Their fate was sealed as soon as they locked me away. You truly think ill forgive that? I have been mistreated by men who wish to marry me my whole life! My family has been mistreated for far too long. I am better, smarter, more intelligent than all of them combined and its about time I embrace that. I’ll ensure we’re never underestimated again.” And so Belle tricks the Beast and the castle’s inhabitants into thinking she was falling in love with him. Simply killing the Beast wouldn’t do, but offering him the thing he most desires and then removing it at the last moment, yes that’ll do nicely.  Soon no one would mistreat her or her family ever again, they will be too afraid. They will never underestimate Belle again. Soon everyone will see Belles true strength. But at the cost of her own humanity? Disclaimer: These songs are all dressed up as Villain songs, in this case the villainous side of Belle is that She begins to believe she’s better and smarter than everyone and is done with compassion, she’s done pretending they’re her equal. This is spurred primarily from a place of anger at being locked up/underestimated one too many times. HOWEVER, I believe this is a far more fitting ending for Belle, forcibly imprisoning people is obviously wrong and not something our belle is willing to accept. Belle was one of my favourite princesses growing up so I’m giving her the ending I think she should’ve had, with a little evil flair. This Belle is evil, but she’s also kinda in the right. Byeeeeeeee ────── ✨STREAM THIS SONG✨ Listen to this song on streaming services here - ────── ✨CREDITS✨ Vocals/Lyrics - Lydia the Bard Arrangement/Music - @FrostudioChambersonic Animatic - Luck_Buggy ────── ✨PATREON✨ Check it out here - ────── ✨SOCIALS✨ PATREON - DISCORD - INSTAGRAM - TWITTER - WEBSITE - TIKTOK - @lydiathebard