Lily Crozier

It's actively working against you.

So he's put this hypnotic trigger on the castle so that it protects anyone who harbours ill will against him.

And so it also responds to his emotions and also the person navigating the castle's emotions.

And it just ends up as this almost sentient being.

And so that's pulled a little bit from Howl's Moving Castle, but also the relationship dynamic is Howl's Moving Castle inspired.

Interesting.

Certainly not consciously, but I can see how that would, I can see how that would come across.

No, it was actually in the very first instance, it was trying to capture the vibe of, in Stephen Moffat's Dracula, there's a scene where Jonathan Harker is just getting lost in perpetual labyrinths.

And so I was trying to capture that feeling.

And then I kind of realised that

castles aren't actually that big and they can't actually be that labyrinth-y.

So there has to be some sort of magic at work and it kind of unfolded from there.

But I can absolutely see the video game vibes.

It's coming in.

Yeah.

Yes.

So, I mean, original is very contested.

As you'll see, if you say anything online about the original Beauty and the Beast, everyone will try and

The one I think of as the original Beauty and the Beast, because it was the first time it was published as Beauty and the Beast, was a French fairy tale published in the early 1700s.

It's a novella length story.