Lily Crozier

And it actually, the parts we know of as Beauty and the Beast goes up to about halfway through the story.

And then after that it's all Prince backstory and it goes into some very unhinged territory, to be frank.

And so you mostly only see the first half.

There's kind of little bits of sort of half alluded to in Valve Eternal Night from the rest of it, but it's mostly,

It's a bit of a fever dream, let's just say.

And how did you pick which bits to pull out?

I mean, I mostly stuck with what we recognise as Beauty and the Beast.

So it's like, it's the curse.

To be honest, it's mostly just the curse.

But there were little things like in the original one, the prince is raised by an evil fairy because his mother's off at war.

and the curse is put upon him because she, turns out she's actually been grooming him since he was a child and it's kind of, she was planning to marry him and so that kind of vibe

Does carry through.

Yeah.

That kind of darker side of things.

Yes.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

And the nature of Raleigh's curse as well.

I love true enemies to lovers, and so there had to be an element, and I've alluded to it already today, where he's already done something irredeemable, and so there's the question of how they get together, not so much if, but how.

And so for them, it is that Raleigh killed her mother, and he's also led her town into 15 years of famine.