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cartoonfangirl1218 · 3 years

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What if Gaston had his own musical

In the vein of Wicked or Twisted...well here’s what I made up. Enjoy!

The play opens in a house with a mother and her three children. The teenage Gaston is play-shooting with his brothers and walks around the town ("A hunt"). He is surrounded by protests and such about the revolution. Gaston joins a hunting group despite his little brothers warning to come home for the sake of adventure and his first real hunt. He says that he will get more food this way for dinner. The hunt starts off well but a beats frightens off the deer leading off to a wild chance, leaving Gaston terrified, in the mud and a broken fence. Gaston still manages to bring a few rabbits and comes home.

Gaston' father comes home from the tavern and asks who broke the fence. Gaston mumbles it was he, but his mother tries to tell her husband about all the rabbits he got for dinner. Gaston's father goes off into an angry, drunken rage about all the work he does, and how he didn't want children, and Gaston in particularly keeps ruining his life which leads into a hard punch ("Failure").

Gaston goes into the woods to be alone and yells in frustration. A young woman, revealed to be his aunt, Giselle tries to comfort him, telling how he can go beyond his father's thoughts and become famous ("Look beyond the hills").

Giselle brings him to her small villa, and takes care of Gaston. While in the parkour he hears the beautiful voice of Hélen singing how a smart woman can be queen ("I'll be your queen"). Gaston flashbacks to when his father taught him how to use a gun and telling him stories of his fame. ("The hard beaten man"). Hélen greets him and talks to her mother about her betrothed, a man similar to his father. ("The hard beaten man (Reprise)") in which Gaston realizes that women like those kind of men.

Though disheartened Gatson returns home and goes to the village the next day to start an apprenticeship as a skinner for the famous huntsmen, Marius. He meets a young boy (LeFou) who is begging and offers them some wolf skin, grateful and awed by Gaston's boast he proclaims his undying devotion to him which Gaston writes off as a silly appreciation ("Thank you Thank you Thank you"). There Hélen spies his kindness and they start to talk. Hélen tells Gaston about a man her mother cursed to be a beast becomes of his selfish, hypocritical ways. Marius overhears the story and makes a plan to kill the beast so he can be a greater hero and renowned for all ("Greatest of them all") he interrupts them and reveals to be Hélen's betrothed. Several years later, Gaston (18) is now a hardened hunter with LeFou in tow who is quickly beating Marius. Hélen visits the village and tells them she's pregnant.

Marius fearing Gaston's growing fame and attraction to his wife, he gives him a "better" position in the government. Hélen cries to Gaston how she is moving to the city with Marius and that she hopes he will visit her sometime, LeFou promises to watch Gaston's family.

Months later, Gaston sticks out like a sore thumb in the government with his rugged ways and humbleness. Louis, notices and gives him an encouraging talk on what he should do to fit in, how woman need to be controlled, and to treat those less than him ("Claw ontop").

The king's messenger suddenly arrives and informs them that the villagers are rebelling again the king. They go to the town where the villagers tael their complaints and such. ("Off with his head").

Meanwhile, Gaston finds his home ransacked, and his mother about to be raped by a corrupt officials. Gaston tries to stop it and is beaten back because he is nothing, no one important or strong: it is only stopped by Gaston's father who yells at his wife and complains how she should have listened to her teaches him one final lesson to get what you want and that woman should obey his commands if they don't want to be hurt ("Man of the house"). The family leaves for the country and Gaston resolves to become a man to become famous and respected and LeFou promises to help him (No good-es que "Toast of the Town")

Act II (Beginning of Beauty and Beast, after Revolution)

Gaston left the government and went to the village to be a hunter, now imitates Marius, Louis, and his father's actions and the town proclaims his glory, a downbeaten Marius who now is a drunkard complains how he lost he everything in the revolution, his wife, his child, everything. Gaston is briefly saddened on how it would have been if he married Hélen, ("What could have been"). LeFou comes to snap Gaston out of it and reminds him of Belle, the strange girl in town (played by a girl Hélen)

Gaston goes to find Belle and have her marry him, and is unsuccessful, Gaston doesn't understand why she does want him, LeFou tries to cheer him up and tell him how to become even more of a man (Popular-esque song, "Brawns"). Gaston goes to Belle's house and talks himself up but she refuses and claims she wants life out of the village and adventure like in her books, but Gaston dismisses the idea and says she is better off home.

Belle's father interrupts to tell about his plan to go to the science convention. Days later, Belle ventures into the Beast's castle and meets him. The Beast (played by guy that played Louis) is taken with Belle and wants her to become the queen of the Beasts. Beast takes Belle on a magic carpet ride where he tries to convince her to bed with him but Belle is put off and talks about adventure ("It would be an adventure/Loving you").

Gaston worries over Belle, and tries to go hunting to take his mind off of it. He goes back to his aunt's cabin and finds that it had been torn down. Gaston reminisces what a fool he was when he was a child and meets his brother, Gavoreche now a hermit. Gavoreche tells him what him how he used to be good, Gaston claims that he would never have been successful that way ("Worth it"). LeFou comes down the path and Gavroche goes hiding. Belle has returned and tells how wonderful and kind Beast is and since he was a prince, that he could help rule the town.

When the Beast arrives, Belle introduces all his glory and the town is first disgusted at his appearance. But Belle and Beast talk him up and the town wants him to be their king ("As your king"). Gatson appears with. LeFou tells the town what Hélen had told him and how horrible he is. The town turns against Gaston and chases him out of town, LeFou seemingly deserts him. Gaston goes to Gavroche who refuses to come out of the bush. LeFou returns and tells Gatson that they should go back and fight. Gaston refuses as no one in the town believes him. LeFou says he believes in him and they could fight the Beast together ("Two of us, one of him"). Gaston thanks LeFou and they go to the village. LeFou excitedly rambles on about fame and how everyone would love them and all the woman they'll meet.

Time stops for a while as Gatson thinks about all the women in his life and the joys they brought despite not being a housewife ("I'll be your queen" (Reprise)). They meet an old woman on the way who begs for food. Gaston is about to refuse and tells her to go to her husband when Gaston hears ("I'll be your queen" (Reprise)) and hands her his gun to sell for food. The woman gives him a rose in return and tells him to rip off the petals to defeat the Beast.

Gatson, and LeFou return to the village and ambush the Beast in Belle's house. Belle is about to defend him whe Beast yells at her to stay back and just be a good housewife in which Belle takes a frying pan and hits him, ("I WILL NOT BE A HOUSEWIFE"). Beast runs off to the woods and Gaston follows after him and goes into a dramatic final battle when Beast claims that Gaston is just as bad as him ("Rise Above") and Gaston rips off the petals and the woman told him. The Beast screams in agony and returns to his normal form, an ugly prince. Belle thanks Gaston and tells him that she was sorry she was so mean to him.

Gaston thanks her, tells her not to tell anyone what has happened and leaves the house. LeFou asks why he didn't want the fame or ask her to marry him and replies that he realized if he did he would be no better than the Beast ("Just too conceited"), LeFou runs off to meet a bimbette he had a date with.

This next musical is based on an obscure Tarzan villain. Which I am dubbing as Feral.

Act 1 Out on the West coast of Africa, a young tribal couple sets off into the jungle to go to the temple with their 2 year old daughter. The mother, a priestess starts making some remedies when a storm hits.

While their daughter sleeps, the mother tries to reassure the father that he is not going to succumb to the sickness, in a few days they could go back to the Waziri tribe. They find the temple to see it is deserted. The father dies a few days after, the mother knowing she's sick tries to comfort her daughter while keeping her as far away as possible. The daughter eventually befriends the leopards as her mother watches on singing ("La's Lullaby"). She eventually grows up with the leopards. The parents, Opar and Kurdira treating her as her own, calling her La and teaching her what to do to survive in the jungle ("Stealth and Fangs").

One day a young man from the Waziri tribe finds her (13 years old) recognizes her necklace and brings her to the tribe. The tribe rejoices and chooses to train her as a priestess like her mother.

Despite this, the children treat her differently because of how she acts and weird name ("Feral Girl") and La hangs out only with her mentor, Usulan and his assistant, Tomas (a British sailor boy who wascaptured as an invader). She grows to be 18, training as a priestess and always hunting with the leopards ("Splitting time").

When one day, the tribe brings in a few leopards for a feast, she protests saying they were her "siblings" and they helped raise her. The leader says they raise her now, let them eat and act more civilized. La refuses and helps the leopards escape, leading to her banishment ("We're Your Tribe"/"Feral Girl"(Reprise)").

After Usulan and Tomas say goodbye La leaves to the temple where she was raised, Kurdira tries to comfort her but is pushed away ("Free Now"). La lives her day in exile and when hunting bumps into a young man at the waterfall being bullied by apes, ("Man") she charges to rescue him, but he protests. He tentatively calls himself Tarzan and that those apes were his family even if they didn't accept him.

La is thrilled to find someone like her, raised by animals and they start to talk and bond and compare, ("Do they....") Tarzan is cautious at first with the leopards since they killed his parents, but slowlybecomes friends, and he introduce her to his mother, Kala and friend, Terk and tells how he always longed to be with another human, ("With skin").

They grow older and fall in love and live in the temple which they named Opar, and start celebrating their six year anniversary, ("Every year with you"). Suddenly gun shots are heard and the two go investigate. Prof. Porter, and Clayton come onto the shores and meet with them introducing themselves as explorers. They are very curious to learn more about people raised by animals. Tarzan is very eager to know more about man but La acts distant because she remembers how she was treated, ("Strangers").

The day comes for the group to leave, they invite Tarzan and La but they refuse. When La and Tarzan go hunting Clayton captures Tarzan. On the ship, Clayton assures Tarzan he's going to like his new home while La watches from shore ("You'll love it there").

ACT 2 (2 years later)

The years go by, La grows sad, and cold (emotionally) and becomes leader of the leopards, mourning the lost of Tarzan, ("Still Beside Me"). Kurdira tries to reason with her but is yelled at.

On a ship, Clayton and Prof. Porter celebrate their return and talk of getting more monkeys and possibly leopard skin, and hope La will help like the "other one".

La hears gun shots and prepares her leopards for battle when she sees, Tarzan. All dressed up in a suit and with a British accent. He greets her formally and tells her to address him as James Greystoke, and

introduces her to his wife, Jane Porter. La gets confused as to weren't they married and he starts to explain British society and his adventures in England, ("Society").

He says how he wants her too become a civilized woman and starts discussing how to change her with Jane, Prof. Porter and Clayton ("She looks like a Charlotte").

Over the days, La refuse their changes but keeps trying to reconnect with James in hunting, with apes and all that, ("Every year with you (Reprise)/"One Night"). Finally she begs him to pretend once more to

be like how it used to. They go on a date and is fine until she tries to kiss him. He refuses and La questions why. James explains how he was only doing it to please her. He finds no pleasure in it now and

that he had been just a uneducated ape man. He starts questioning why she doesn't change and that he was finally be accepted with human, why couldn't she ("Accepted") he ends asking if she was willing to make a business deal, but she leaves before he finishes. (Start listening to Still Hurting on Cue the Lights channel for Not beside me)

La stands alone and saddened by the riverside ("Not beside me") and goes off in a angry rant to Opar and Kurdira on humans being bent on civilization ("Civilized").

As she goes to sleep one night, she hears Clayton plans to get monkeys to hang on walls and some leopard skin. Realizing that was the business deal James meant she tells the leopards to hide and that she would handle the invaders herself. Opar and Kurdira tell her to be careful and run off.

La goes to the Waziri Tribe to steal some weapons and potions that she

think will help her. There she meets Tomas, all grown up. She tells him what she needs and asks if he'll keep it a secret. He says he'll do more than that and help her fight, he'll even have Usulan help. As

they walk and talk he. says how much he admired her spirit when they were younger and she compliments his klutziness.

Hours later the three gather for battle, Tomas asks her why she is so bent in being uncivilized and hurt by the Waziri tribes, feral girl taunts. After all, if she just gave in a little it didn't mean she would have to give it all up, just be independent. La starts contemplating on independence vs uncivilized and Usulan pats her back saying, "Just like your mother. Always thoughtful and your father. Stubborn."

"I'm really like my.. my parents?"

"Yes,I'm your mother's father. And as your grandfather I think they both would be very proud of you. I am......I think I have something you could use." (Melody of La's Lullaby in background) Usulan, and Tomas get ready for the final battle (Stealth and Fangs melody in the background) as Clayton and James come to ambush with their guns. Usulan uses his magic to his advantage and Tomas is able to hold off Clayton but is overpowered by admittedly still ape-like James. Then La comes with her special weapon, a leopard staff at the top of the temple, (Bring on the Defying Gravity song!)-----("Wild")

at the sun set, the leopards turn into leopard people, outnumbering the British camp as the run to their ship.

It ends at the temple of Opar with Usulan playing with the leopard Cubs as Opar and Kurdira look on, whispering about La and Tomas. La and Tomas sit watching the sunset and La slowly puts her head on his shoulder. ("Finale").

My other idea was a sequel to Tarzan. Much like how Aladdin’s third movie somewhat built on the animated series. Tarzan 2 would build on the show. So the apes get captured again by mysterious villain, and Tarzan goesto rescue them (per usual) and of course, stumbles on La who used magic to regain her original body. Of course, she suggests to helpmuch to Tarzan's annoyance. So they trudge through.

The jungle together and Tarzan has to admit the fact that she can use a spear, and magic, and can talk to leopards (unlike Jane which she loves pointing out.) And La is forced to see that he has an actually personality and stubbornness and desires behind the hulking abs and loincloth. Though she figures she could change that. (a la' Say no to this). And then end up snarking a lot at each other. During one fire in their many nights of adventuring, Tarzan asks about her past.

La: So which is the story you wanna hear. The one where I'm the evilyour precious British woman thinks I am.

Tarzan: I agree with her La: (rolls eyes) And I'm the one that does the brainwashing? Oooor the real one where I'm completely right and everyone else is an idiot?"

Tarzan: What happened? The idiots forgot to teach you how to skin meat.

La: Servants skin meat! I was a high priestess.

Tarzan: And now, you are a......Lost soul, overthrown queen,overthrown by a girl who only lived in the jungle for a year while youlived for a 1,000.

La: I'm only 27.

So, her mom died in childbirth, her dad died from a snake bite. She was 4, but then a nice leopard ends up raising her as one of theirown. She lives in a ruined city where there are lots of diamonds sheliked to play with.

Then she is found by one of the Waziris when she was 13, brings herback to her tribe to become civilized again. She hates it because everyone calls her the feral girl and the whole idea of shared workand responsibility of marriage etc.

She tries to escape multiple times but when she tries to go back to the leopards but they exile herbecause she's one of "the humans and can't be trusted." (Sorta like the Tarzan movie).

La, bitter and decides the leopards are the petty and disloyal whilethe Waziris are untrained in the hunting she used to do. She starts training as a high priestess like her mother before her. As a high priestess she is guaranteed lots of rights and power. She decides to immortalize her soul even against the rules. Then gets exiled again.

She persuades people to come join her in exile and they got the ruins which she names Opar. Their main source of currency is in the diamond mines. Lonely and wanting someone who is just as worthy as herself she looks for a husband.

Then the city is attacked by the European invaders, destroyed and looted. La as one of the remaining survivors sneaks back to the tribe, steals the staff and changes her old leopard "friends" to leopard mento kill the invaders.

She marries a guy but he ends up getting killed by a rogue leopard.Convinced the leopards should be kept under her control and now, she needs a mate who is fearless, and strong (aka the Tarzan attraction) and able to give a perfect heir and rebuild Opar.

Which brings to the events of the series. And then near the end of the movie thing, the villain offers boththeir greatest wish. Tarzan being the good guy doesn't choose anything and attempts to rescue his family.

La chooses to become queen of Opar again and team up (later betrays) with the villain to keep it that way. So of course they are defeated in the end.

In private Tarzan yells at her, saying he thought they were somewhat close, that she could be redeemed, was it really worth getting her greatest wish?

La: Will you stop yelling nonsense! I didn't choose my greatest wish.Yes, I wanted my empire back, and my leopard servants back too...having SOMETHING is better than the alternative. If I didn't choose anything, I would help you get your wife and I get.....I get to punch her in the face before leaving you to in ridiculous bliss.

Tarzan: You wouldn't'!

La: I just don't understand your love for her, I mean look at me, I can swing vines with you, and hunt and talk to your apes friends, all she has is a bad wardrobe, she wouldn't have lasted a single day we have done together (Tarzan glare) but I digress. At least I get something out of this.

Tarzan: Your wish was what? For her to die. For me to marry you.

La: (unusually soft) If I got my greatest wish. You would hate me. I don't have an actual ending ending but you know little sympathetic. She knows enough that Tarzan would hate her more for wishing Jane’s death than for betrayal.

Some small final ideas...

La series (basically different stories that are not related but different perspectives of what could have happened. Some sympathetic, some not)

La (Tarzan movie but to her instead, and Tarzan doesn't exist. And she and Jane become bffs)

Tarzan and the Trails of ????- Set after the series. She and Tarzan team up to save the apes and a magical golden lion. well Tarzan is, she just wants him. Non sympathetic

Free Spirit-Never raised by leopards. Stayed with her tribe. Got married, but longs to be free and not oppressed by her husband.

The Queen and the Lady- She and Jane switch bodies. Title from Prince and Pauper. Non sympathetic

#gaston #concieted #the musical #lefou #my stuff #beauty and the beast

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mka4r7 · 3 years

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Tarzan Meets La of Opar by Frank Frazetta, c. 1960s

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Have you read "Lords Of Mars" yet? The comic book where Tarzan And Jane get sent to Barsoom and meet Dejah Thoris?

I thought that was an intriguing series and I really liked it. The part that I liked best was the villain, who was essentially a Thern version of Baron Harkonnen, a grotesquely obese nobleman pedophile who seems to be ruled by his disgusting appetites...but who you underestimate at your peril. He had a gift for cunning plotting and “plans within plans,” and who wanted his enemies to fight each other, hence the reason for the crossover.

I have two critiques of the series. One, I was fascinated by the idea it was Tarzan and Jane on Barsoom, which was an intriguing wrinkle that had my full attention. Unfortunately except for a bit at the end, Jane (who at this point in the series was no longer the fainting hostage seen in Tarzan the Terrible) didn’t really do much.

The other critique is that the series didn’t try to “mix mythologies.” If the purpose of a series is fanservice it should be judged on its fanservice, right? Other projects attempted to mingle the Tarzan and Barsoom mythos more effectively. The unpublished Tarzan on Mars from 1962 did a layup: La of Opar, who was implied to be immortal and may or may not have had weird powers, who was from a city that was a baroque outpost of an advanced civilization that went to seed, was revealed in Tarzan on Mars to be Barsoomian. In fact, Opar itself was a Barsoomian outpost on Ancient Earth. That’s the kind of thing I wanted more of, taking the most of this opportunity.

Following in the footsteps of the John Carter movie, the series had Therns on earth, which actually, in proper ERB lore, isn’t that farfetched, since it is known that Barsoomians may have visited earth in periods of immense antiquity, and some Barsoomians even speak English, Chinese, and Russian due to their observation of earth (the purpose of clothes totally baffles them). Since the Therns’ gimmick is being false gods, couldn’t that be connected to one of the approximately one billion “evil jungle cults” encountered in the Tarzan tales?

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Okay that is almost hilarious to imagine her as "that" mom. I bet she would still kill the others for PTA stuff if that existed. So I guess you can do another post after the Isle one, but what is their marriage like? Fine on the surface, but internally complicated. Or as you said, Tarzan encouraging her "good" side making her seem sweeter than usual.

Sheis, and she threatens but doesn’t actually go through with it, asher children and her husband are incredibly skilled at physicallyholding her down, the magic ban is still in effect on her and shedoesn’t have her staff.

The marriage with Auradon-side La and Tarzan is a mix of actualaffection, constant complaining and arguing about the way things workin Auradon, and a lot of La being confused and terrified of losingher edge.

If I had to summarize it, “it’s as complicated, chaotic, andworrying on the inside as it is on the outside.”

Her Auradon Marriage with Tarzan is similar to a person from anincredibly abusive environment finally learning what it’s like tolive normally for once: to not have to watch your back, to not haveto distrust everyone and assume that they have an ulterior motive, tobe able to actually be vulnerable and not ripped apart.

“I don’t understand!” La cried. “Why did you just let himinsult your honour like that? ‘Uneducated jungle dweller likeyourself’--you should have struck him down where he sat, thebastard! Why would you just let him walk away like that?”

Tarzan just smiles, caresses her cheek, and says, “Because, ‘Theweak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.’A wise man once said that. One who lead a revolution and changed theworld without ever raising his hand up to strike another.”

It’s confusing to La, this peaceful land of compromise,laws, and the common good challenging her very worldview, what sheknows to be true. A lot of her villainy can be attributed to the factthat it was necessary for her to be as cruel and conniving as she wasjust to survive.

Now, she doesn’t need to do any of that. Now, she HAS power inher New Opar, but her people still swear fealty to her by choice,even if there was an element of manipulation. Now she has everythingshe needs without having to fight tooth and claw for it.

And now she has a man, and children who genuinely love her and doeverything in their power to get her to abandon all the Evil in herlife to truly join this new world with them, together.

Having your EVERYTHING fall out from under your feet is never apleasant experience, even if you do land on a bed of soft, sweetflowers.

Onto Isle La, Tarzan, and their Kids and the VK’s:

With the Isle La and Tarzan, It’s a constant interplay of powerand dominance with them, about as “rough” as a “rough”romance gets.

It’s one of those really strange exceptions where a couplefrequently fights in the Gladiatorial Pit, draws blood and seriousinjury often, and yet spends the night lovingly tending to the otherswounds and honestly talking about how much they love the other,complimenting how badly they had hurt the other with a well-timedstrike.

It’s not a HEALTHY relationship by any means, but that’s ararity if not an impossibility on the Isle, and I wouldn’t besurprised if the “Good” Tarzan hardens and becomes a lot wilderto adapt to his new environment.

(Also, La grooms and encourages the “Wild” side of Tarzan likeJane never could.)

He is still kind, generous, and willing to compromise unlike theother leaders, but with the stakes involved I wouldn’t be surprisedif he is a lot more quick to exile people, has very strict standardshe expects you to meet, and is much quicker to resort toviolence--talk is very cheap on the Isle, and the only person he cannegotiate with on a regular basis happens to be Maleficent, and eventhen through her lackeys such as Mozenrath.

Adana is still the warrior of the trio, but this time, Lais much happier with how she turned out. She doesn’t need to askpeople nicely if they want to duel, as there’s always a constantsupply of VK’s and some minor villains always looking to try andreclaim their honour from having (repeatedly, and badly) lost to her.

She’s a lot less virtuous and willing to protect the innocent,and gains a highly xenophobic view of the world, treating“City-dwellers” with suspicion and distrust until they provethemselves strong enough to survive the Badlands, and earn herrespect as a fellow warrior.

Tarzan actually helps encourage this behaviour as it’s necessarywith the viciousness of the animals around them, but still tempersher by telling her never to initiate the first strike unless it’sto defend someone in imminent danger.

Thankfully, the Isle of the Lost is all to eager to earn her irewithout provocation.

Alika is still the administrative heart of the trio, takingcare of all the non-combat needs of the tribe such as healing,agriculture, and dealing with the interplay of Isle Politics, and theodd inter-tribe conflicts back at home. However, she is much moreconniving and cunning, prone to half-truths and very carefully wordedphrases, along with an annoying (to everyone) habit of writing downeverything that is said and frequently getting them to sign claims asdefinitive proof that yes, they said that.

It isn’t as binding as contracts and written statements are inAuradon, but then again, she usually just wants to piss them off andmake them emotional and manipulate them to doing what she wants, andit’s all too easy to forge everyone’s handwiritng.

Abayomi is the link between the Badlands and the urbansides of the Isle, still born with that great ambition, though thistime he’s a much more ruthless and cunning businessman, usually outto undercut everyone if it will serve his tribe better.

He’s the one that takes over the distasteful (to La) task ofnegotiating with Maleficent’s goons and the other city-dwellers forvaluable supplies they can’t produce, like medicine, along withbeing a spy for them to keep tabs on Maleficent, and help procuresome semblance of an education for himself and Alika.

(Adana is still very much your complete, stereotypical jock withan aversion to reading—more so that the quality of books here isworse, and she doesn’t have much of a choice on what she can read.)

With the other VKs, Tarzan takes over as the “Summer CampCounselor” for La with most things. Aside from the fact that thekids genuinely like him better, the feeling is mutual, and they trusthim more as most of La’s achievements were thanks to magic she nolonger has, and Tarzan can still fight and gut an alligator with hisbarehands, and get out of it mostly unscathed, with everyone watchingand (in an incredibly rare twist) be completely, absolutely honestwhen they say it was that crazy and awesome.

Jay still gets the lessons about the nature of power, strength,and how it’s not just the ability to beat everyone into submission(La disagrees, but Tarzan advocates more “high road” tactics),and he looks up to him as his “half-naked, wild-man uncle” thathe looks forward to seeing every summer.

He still ends up being roughly the same by the time he entersAuradon because Jafar is still the primary influence in his life andthe life-lessons, Isle-style for the other three seasons of the year,but with Tarzan’s influence his joining Tourney is a lot lesstumultuous and he turns to “Good” faster.

(He also ends up using Tarzan as a sympathetic figure for gettingmore than just the VKs off the Isle, showing how much of a baddecision it is with someone the Auradons legitimately miss.)

#Of White Apes and Leopard Queens #Descendants #Disney #Headcanon

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epica-fantasia-ilustrada · 3 years

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#Frank Frazetta #Tarzan Meets La of Opar - II #Arte Fantástico #Tarzan #Edgar Rice Burroughs

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cartoonfangirl1218 · 5 years

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Winner’s Curse Prologue

Note: Thanks to @edream93 who gave me the “crazy” suggestion to stop lagging on one of my old fics and do something new and for encouragement in this beginning prologue. This is going to deal with more potential fae problems in Auradon and the villain’s dire living conditions on the Isle. Hope you enjoy.

2 weeks after Cotillion

“Everyone shut up!” Queen Nerissa commanded loudly banging her fist on Queen Grimhilde’s table so that the assembled villains would pipe down about how they were missing their latest soaps or needed at their shops.

She surveyed those present. Each with their own skills and ruthlessness that would be useful when the time came for them to invade Auradon.

At her right, sitting on her throne since she refused to sit at the dinner table with the rest of the villains was Queen Grimhilde, filing her nails.

At the head of the long, dusty, unused dinner table was Dr. Facilier in a heated debate with Ursula next to him. Going over past grudges and insults no doubt. They’d had a complicated history since Ursula’s accidental pregnancy resulting in twins.

Further down the table next to Ursula was Morgain Le Fey conferring with Circe. They were newcomers to the Isle. Just arrived six months ago as part of King Adam’s second crackdown following his spawn’s coronation so neither showed the signs of defeat and neglect in their appearance as other villains had. Both were impeccably dressed, the rot of the Isle had not touched them when it came to physical beauty. Their long black locks were free of tangles and they managed to maintain the velvet robes that they had come with so that the patches and faded material were not visible. And their skin remained perfectly pale and smooth.

Which was more than Queen Nerissa could say for Mother Gothel who sat across from them scowling enviously. She looked reminiscent of a gargoyle with her frizzy hair and wrinkles that were deeply entrenched into her forehead despite her vigorous use of a anti-aging cream that she had found among the Auradonian’s leftovers.

Next to Mother Gothel were three of Agrabah’s formerly most powerful sorcerers, Jafar, his sister, Nasira and Mozenrath. Jafar and Mozenrath had been going at it, arguing over who was more powerful and who humiliated Aladdin more while Nasira sat in the middle of them rubbing her temples at their infantile fighting.

Squished between Dr. Facilier and Mozenrath was Yzma, the former advisor of Emperor Kuzco and formerly a kitten before her banishment to the Isle. She seemed to be praying for a bottle of wine if she had to deal with these people and was mumbling something about cow potions under her breath.

At the other end of the table was Queen La, impatiently tapping her ragged nails on the table. She hadn’t aged so drastically as the others- keeping fit by hunting animals in the Isle’s jungle area allowed her to look almost pretty in her skimpy hyena fur bikini. But age had taken its toll on the immortal Atlantean too, crow’s feet were creasing her angry cyan eyes.

The villains immediately quieted down at Nerissa’s action but still harshly glared at the interruption of their tirades.

Queen Nerissa paid the glares no mind. They were harmless, just delusional blowhards still yakking about their evilness even though none of them had their magic anymore. Or even muscles to punch someone to the ground. They were pathetic, aging mortals griping about their glory days.

Well that was all going to change.

Giving a steely glare back at them, Queen Nerissa looked at each of them in the eye as she began her explanation for why she had brought the 11 of them to Queen Grimhilde’s castle.

“If any of you cared to figure out why I’ve called you here, look around. We all have something in common here. Something that no other villain in this forsaken place possessed.”

“More brains than Gaston?” Yzma suggested, rubbing back the wilted flower attached to her hat. She had a recent confrontation with that lug head when Dr. Facilier made her pick up Zevon from Dragon Hall after Gaston Jr. mummified him with his own leather coat and stuff him in the garbage pile. It was humiliating to have such a louse for a son. And pummeled by an idiot like Gaston’s spawn!

“More evilness.” Jafar half-heartedly guessed, slouching in his seat and rubbing his hungry stomach. He wished he could be back at his shop with some moldy baklava.

Dr. Facilier took a discreet glance around, absentmindedly his useless shadow cards in his hands. “Hmmm” he hummed, his voice transitioning to its infamous velvety tone, “I believe what la reine is implying is that we all had magic.”

“Yes.” Queen Nerissa cut in shortly with a curt nod in the voodoo man’s general direction, “We all had magic before we were sent to this hellhole.” “So what?” Ursula interrupted.

Queen Nerissa tensed, glaring at Ursula until the hefty sea witch rolled her eyes and made a dismissive “continue” motion with one of her tentacles. “King Adam may have stopped us from using magic with his little dome around the Isle, but Maleficent and Ursula’s brats have done something useful. They have broken the barrier twice. They have weakened it enough so we may have a chance to gain some power back.”

It was almost comically that at her last claim, all the villains leaned forward in unison waiting for her to explain.

“I have invited you all here to join my coven. With the barrier weakened, little spurts of magic can come into the Isle and we can practice here, growing and combining our powers until we can break the barrier from within. And from there, we invade Auradon for a glorious, bloody new reign.” Queen Nerissa exclaimed proudly.

The other villains looked toward each other, evil smirks spreading across their faces, minds alight with visions of revenge.

“We can have King Beast grovel at our knees!” Circe gasped. She had been particularly vengeful toward the former king for throwing her on the Isle despite various Auradonian citizens vouching for her to stay in the U.S.A. and that she had reformed.

“And his head decapitated on a ship mast.” Ursula added, protectively touching her stomach where Prince Eric once stabbed her.

The only one not joining in the happy atmosphere was Queen La. The former queen was stonily glaring at Queen Nerissa as if assessing for the best way to rip out her jugular.

“Your coven?” she growled, slicing the excitement to dead silence. The other villains’ happy grins faded away s they realizing the meaning behind that possessive word and Mozenrath and Morgain Le Fey got up, looking ready to fight.

“I meant, my coven as in it was my idea.” Queen Nerissa began to explain.

“I will not work under your coven. I am the Queen of Opar.” Queen La got up, fists clenching as she strode towards her. Mozonroth sat down with a satisfied smirk at the thought of the coming catfight.

“Was queen!” Queen Nerissa cut in but Queen La continued her furious complaints.

“I am Queen. I magicked my own kingdom. I brought rain. I had an army of leopards who when they rebelled, I disintegrate into dust. I fought Tarzan three times and he, not once, was he able to kill me.”

“Just put your soul into a rat body.” Yzma snickered.

Queen Nerissa began backing away to Queen Grimhilde’s throne as Queen La reached throat-grabbing distance, “I was not defeated by a little princess by losing my balance and falling off a building. I will not work under someone who is my inferior!”

Queen Nerissa didn’t bother to defend that she had been stabbed before falling off a building as Queen La’s sharp nails aimed at her face when Queen Grimilde threw a box in between them.

The shoe box clattered to the ground and out scurried a small purple lizard.

“What is that!? Is it poisonous?” Mother Gothel screeched, getting up on the table with Circe and Nasira.

“That’s Maleficent.” Queen Grimhilde answered, shoving between a momentarily shocked Nerissa and La.

“Can we keep this meeting moving along? I need eight hours of beauty sleep a day.” Without a big display, Queen Grimhilde pulled out a vial of bright pink liquid and threw it at the lizard that was running under the table causing several villainesses to screech with uncharacteristic fear. The lizard began to grow and morph into the familiar, formerly petrifying figure of Maleficent.

“So our magic potions can work?” Yzma whispered joyfully.

Flinging her head back so that her horns almost stabbed Dr. Facilier’s hat, Maleficent stretched and cracked her bones before turning to face Queen Grimhilde. “About time!” she huffed and turned her attention to the other villains.

“Scared of a common lizard, no wonder you were defeated by royals. You’re just as soft as them.”

“Hey, I have a right to be scared. Didn’t Nasira’s daughter almost die from some lizard bite last month?” Circe questioned.

“It wasn’t a poisonous lizard, it was just the infection from the bite. Though I think she was being a bit over dramatic about it if you ask me.” Nasira said, “Just because I don’t have medicine to treat a wound doesn’t mean she was “dying” or whatever.”

Maleficent snorted derisively to signal a topic change, “And La, you were defeated by a half-witted gorilla man and his British twat of a wife. Your soul was in a rat’s body before you came here. You don’t have the staff that allowed you to have a kingdom or bring down rain. You don’t have any claim to being someone’s superior....Now as for the coven, it will not be ruled by Nerissa, it will be ruled by-”

“Not you.” Queen Nerissa moved next to Maleficent, away from her safe spot next to the throne. “You’ve been gone for months, Malfi.”

She smirked at Maleficent’s clenched scowl, “You’re no longer the Queen of the Isle and with your daughter turning out to be as big of a goody goody as Aurora I don’t think you have any claim to being the Mistress of all Evil.”

“Exactly.” Queen Grimhilde agreed, glaring at Maleficent to respond, “As a coven, we shall have no ruler. Just a common goal. Bring King Adam to his knees and kill the royals that have foiled our plans and ruined our lives far too many times.”

“How do we know you won’t try to take the power for yourselves?” Jafar challenged.

“How will we know that you won’t?” Queen Grimhilde shot back.

“He’s too weak to be able to do such a thing. He’s nothing without his cobra staff.” Mozonroth said. “Why you-” Jafar reached to strangle him when Morgain Le Fey waved her arms and the two dueling sorcerers split apart with a force pushing them to the walls.

With a satisfied smile Morgain Le Fey confirmed, “We can use some of our former magic. And as the only one here who has been in a coven before, you should know that covens work without a ruler. Just one common goal as Grimhilde said.”

The rest of the villains seemed to begrudgingly accept that explanation so Morgain continued to talk.

“Even without our wands or staffs, we can still use alchemy. Ursula, your powers are derived from the sea right? You don’t need your necklace.”

Ursula nodded, “I would prefer to have my necklace but yeah I can do it.”

“Jafar? Nasira?” She turned to the Agrabahans.

“We can try to go back to the old fashioned magic until we can have our objects back again.” Nasira answered as Jafar got up and shuffled back to his seat, wiping himself of imaginary dust.

“La?”

“Queen La. I’m fine without my staff. I was a High Priestess before I became queen.”

“Mother Gothel?”

“I can use old spells.” Mother Gothel answered.

“Good. Then we can all be useful in this coven.” Morgain said. “The most powerful magic users on the Isle. And soon to be most powerful rulers of Auradon.”

“What about Madam Mim? If we are going to have all the magic users, shouldn’t we include her?” Dr. Facilier questioned.

“A coven either has three people or thirteen people.” Queen Nerissa said, “Besides do you really want to work with that madwoman?”

None of the villains volunteered to continue with that suggestion.

“No leader?” Maleficent hissed through clenched teeth. “You’re saying that we’re all equals.”

“In the coven at least.” Queen Nerissa said, “I was thinking on the Isle...we can be at the top of the food chain. After all, we have powers. The others don’t. They should all bow to us.”

Maleficent smirked, “That would be good.”

“So we’re all in agreement. We work together until we take over Auradon. In the meanwhile, dominate the Isle.” Queen Grimhilde clapped her hands and some of Maleficent’s goblins came in carrying trays with unfermented wine.

When Maleficent looked at her incredulously, Queen Grimhilde just shrugged, “You were gone. So I took them.”

The villains took their seats at the table, and clinked glasses to their coming takeover of Auradon.

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Very interesting. Any headcanons of LaxTarzan and their marriage or children. Does Jay still visit or because Jafar never had a fling, they don't have that relationship?

Because I proposed two entirely separate realities for this, this ask will be split into Auradon and Isle of the Lost, in two separate posts, and in that order.

Auradon

La is of mixed opinion with her marriage with Tarzan.

On the one hand, she is ruling over her New Opar, has the most powerful (in body, spirit, and mind) consort she has ever had in her immortal life, and they had born the excellent children and successors to the throne that she had wanted.

On the other hand, thanks to Tarzan’s willingness to bend over to Auradonian regulation and enacting policies to make good with the other states, and she can’t really DO much in the way of violently exercising her power and getting exactly what she wants; the same qualities she admires in him also keep her from completely taking power from Tarzan and force her to tamp down on her ambitions lest he divorce her; and she fears her children and herself are growing soft thanks to Auradon being stocked with all the “Nice” people and its policies being the exact opposite of “only the strongest will survive.”

Privately, she admits even she is going “soft,” when she found herself giddily opening her wallet and showing off pictures of their kids, complete with stories about inane things they did that completely enamored her.

She had not realized she had become one of “those” mothers until she found herself sitting with the other mother gorillas from Tarzan’s troop, and they were no longer suspicious of her, as she was truly acting like one of them.

She is currently with a massive personal crisis, between the La she believes herself as--cruel, cunning, and unyielding in her desires--and the La she might become if she “lets herself go”--that is, kind, diplomatic, and concerned for others well-being even at cost to herself.

It’s a real problem that sadly isn’t helped by Tarzan wholeheartedly believing and supporting her being the latter, as that will help remove her “just tolerated by association” problem in Auradon.

Their kids, from oldest to youngest, are as follows:

Adana is the spitting image of her father in action and her mother in looks. Brave, determined, and of unyielding spirit in her pursuit of justice, you could say that she was born for the Auradon Royal Guard.

Fond of studying all manner of martial arts and fighting styles, alongside getting into all manner of (friendly, consensual) duels and fights with everyone who would care to indulge her (and not mind being used to wipe the floor with), it seemed that she would be the new Queen of the Jungle when her father formally passes on his duties.

However, she has absolutely no interest in ruling, firm in her belief that her purpose in life is to defend Auradon from those who wish Her and Her people harm, not to lead its people and give order to their days.

(That aside, she tried studying law and governance once, saw the HUGE stacks of books and reading for a basic understanding, turned around, walked away, and never looked back.)

No, that honour would go to Alika, as brave as her twin sister in her spirit, even if her body is the complete opposite, her lack of muscles making her incredible height look lanky than intimidating.

Preferring all her battles fought with words in arenas such as cafes, auditoriums, or the meeting rooms of town halls and other administrative buildings, she lives for the nuance and intellectual acrobatics of debate and compromise, than the rush of blood and the sound of your fist making solid contact with someone’s face.

A born leader, she happily whittles away the mountains of paperwork, braves the longest and most boring of meetings, persisting and fighting till the dust settles, and ideally, all parties leave satisfied, or realistically, the bad choice is made rather than the worse one in the never-ending push-and-pull of Auradon Politics.

They are both supported by their younger brother, Abayomi, who describes himself as “The walking meeting personified.”

From the youngest age, he never seemed to be able to stop moving, constantly engaging himself in various forms of work or commerce, whatever is most profitable at the moment. One week, he is championing the proliferation of rooftop gardens for enhanced food security, sponsoring exercise regimes meant to get reclusive social media addicts the activity and sunlight they need the next week, and trying to sell you new-fangled “fidget spinners” the week after that.

Though his causes vary, he seems to live by three key tenets:

It should be a wholesome endeavour that seeks to improve people’s lives.

It should be legal, and not profit at the cost of others or the environment.

He sits behind a desk the least amount possible, or is able to turn it into a miniature exercise room so he can swing and climb about to his heart’s content.

La laments that they are the three keys she wanted in her successor, split into three souls--Strength, Intelligence, and Ambition--and more so, that Auradon is raising them up to be soft, bowing down to Beast and others than taking their rightful places as the rulers of this world.

But still, she admits that they have time to grow yet, and more so than that, she has other, more pressing concerns, such as the need to write the most grossly incandescent recommendation letter for Adana to get a Squireship in the Royal Guard.

Much as she doubts in the abilities of who she sees as either young children chasing dreams and fairy tales, or elderly veterans long past their prime, her daughter’s getting in, damn it.

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