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Published: 2013-05-02 21:02:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 4524; Favourites: 133; Downloads: 34
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Oh, crisps, i don't even know.Started doodling Wonder Woman as a Disney Princess the other day and she ended up garroting her prince charming.
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Yeah, so, don't know what's going on here really. Perhaps Batman has been cursed by Circe or something and Wonder Woman has been dispatched to slay the beast because it's not like they've got a prince and Amazons tend to be of the 'Keep Calm and Carry On Killing' attitude.
Filled with Can Do that lot.
Background is something off Google image because i was supposed to leave for my boyfriend's house about an hour ago
Trying cell shading some more with limited success methinks. The angle of the lighting was made of ass so...pfft. I'm a light from the left or light from the right shading kind of gal. This up, down, behind bullshit is completely beyond me.
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Honestly this would be an excellent elseworld both for Batman and Wonder Woman!
Bruce is like in the story where he accepts to be a monster Bat for protecting his loved one /in that case was Catwoman)
And a full greek story of Diana would actually gave a great omage to her golden and silver age person where she had to fight mythological gods and monsters.
Plus we need more Elseworlds of WonderBat here too!
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Seems like a good jumping-off point for a DC Elseworlds comic, doesn't it? (I mean, they've done fairy-tale mashups before--including one that was a retelling of the Green Lantern story as an Arabian Nights tale.) So, consider this cast of characters...
-Miss Diana Prince: Clever and spirited daughter of a female merchant. She inadvertently sets the story in motion when she asks her mother for a rare rose as a gift...
-Lady Hippolyta Prince: Widow and merchant, clever, shrewd, devoted to her only daughter and prouder of her than words can say. She never expected what would happen when she lost her way in a forest on her way home from a business trip and came upon a castle in the heart of the wood...
-"Count" Jean de Napier: Fashionable gentleman, who claims to be descended from French nobility and to have fought alongside Napoleon at Waterloo--the source, or so he claims, of the scars on his right cheek that are the only mar to his good looks. (Indeed, the story grows with each telling--by this point, he claims to have missed saving Napoleon from defeat by a hair.) The haute ton admires him for his style (especially his smart coat of plum velvet), his laughter, his smiles, and his jokes--but those with a more discerning eye (like Diana and her mother) notice that his laughter has no warmth, his jokes are always at someone else's expense, and his smile never reaches his eyes. Indeed, there are rumors that he did not come by his wealth honestly, and that his title is a sham. In any case, however he got his current wealth, he seems to be seeking to increase it the old-fashioned way--by MARRYING it. It is for this reason he has become a persistent, if most unwanted, suitor to Diana--who surmises that he pursues her instead of the dozens of more willing maidens he could have because she is the only one who's ever said "no". As it turns out, the so-called Count has secrets of his own...and he'll stop at nothing to protect them.
-Harleen: Count de Napier's page-girl, dressed in two-colored livery. She has convinced herself that the Count's vows of love to her are true and not merely a tool to manipulate her with...and could end up being in far over her head.
-The Bat: Dweller in the isolated castle in the heart of the forest, the curse that has stripped him of his humanity is not even the worst thing that has happened to him. As a human, he was the beloved son of a kind and benevolent Duke and Duchess...but when he was ten, his parents were murdered in their carriage before his eyes by the notorious masked highwayman, Laughing Jack, who'd tricked them into stopping their carriage by pretending to be an injured traveler. Laughing Jack was known for occasionally disfiguring his victims with his knife as the whim took him; when he attempted to do so to the Duchess, Duke Thomas tried to fight him off--and inadvertently tore off his mask, exposing his face and sealing their doom. (Laughing Jack, of course, did not want his identity known.) He would have killed the boy, too, if he hadn't heard people coming. As the young heir grew, he vowed to find Laughing Jack and avenge his parents--but the thief always managed to elude him. The youth's heart grew cold and bitter, shutting out all human warmth--perhaps he told himself that kindness and benevolence hadn't saved his parents, that it had only doomed them in the end. For this reason, when a ragged beggar woman begged for shelter one freezing winter's night, he coldly dismissed her--remembering how Laughing Jack had tricked his parents with a similar ploy. But the old woman was no thief, but a powerful sorceress...
-Circe, sorceress and wise woman. She had been watching the young Duke from afar for a while, and his treatment of her that winter's night had only confirmed her suspicions. Had she really been a mortal beggar woman, she would have frozen to death before reaching shelter. So, in his way, he's no better than the criminal he claims to be against...perhaps worse, because of his self-righteousness. To show him that it is not enough to claim to be on the side of good if he has no compassion in his heart, she casts a powerful spell. Her speciality is to change human beings into beasts that resemble their true natures. The young Duke Bruce Wayne behaves like a creature of night and darkness...so let him BE a creature of night and darkness...and let him remain so unless he can love unselfishly and earn unselfish love in return...
As you can see, my idea would combine elements of the original fairy tale with some from the Disney and Jean Cocteau versions along with some wrinkles of my own.
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Wowzers, that's a lot of thought you've put into that.
I have to say that wasn't the original plot device I had. Something about time travel and i don't think I'd really thought about how Bats got turned into the giant beast but whatever.
I used to LOVE Beauty and the Beast. My favourite Disney movie...alas, no more. For reasons too numerous to go into here.
My only problem with Belle/Diana mashup is that Hippolyta would just...slay the beast? She'd never sell her daughter into servitude. She just wouldn't do it. She'd kill a monster with her bare hands and have a new rug in time for Christmas.
...okay, I wanna do that comic.
That being said, if you want the character designs, they're not really mine anyway as they belong to DC. So if you want to have a crack at the comic, go for it.
Also, if you really do like Beauty and the Beast retellings then definitely check out Bryony and the Roses by T Kingfisher.
In fact, anything by T Kingfisher, she's awesome.
Thanks for the comment!
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I've heard of T. Kingfisher--must try the story out. I've also put Lisa Jensen's Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge on my Christmas wish list.
Some retellings of the fairy tale have the father planning to go back and surrender himself to the Beast--but Beauty overhears him talking about it and leaves on her own in the dead of night (in one version, on the horse the Beast provided) to spare her father. That's probably the wrinkle I'd go with...or something similar to Disney in which Diana tracks her mother down in imprisonment and offers herself of her own free will.
Thanks very much!
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T Kingfisher is amaaaaaazing. Look up Ursula Vernon on this here site and read some of her stuff if you want a taste of what she's like because T Kingfisher is her pseudonym.
I read one retelling set in 1800's San Francisco, wherein the Belle character was hired as a translator for the Beast character and for the longest freaking time she didn't know he had a wolf's head. That one was by Mercedes Lackey who is occasionally interesting.
Right, I gotta stop thinking about this or I'll get sucked into the design and redesign process again.
Laters!
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The Fire Rose was the first Mercedes Lackey novel I ever read, when I was just discovering fairy tale retellings. (Well, aside from Robin McKinley's Beauty which I'd read some years earlier.) Her Elemental Masters novels (of which The Fire Rose was the first, I believe) are all right, being rather hit-and-miss, but I really like the Five Hundred Kingdoms series and wish she'd pick up on them again. (I like the idea of the Tradition--forcing people into the roles of fairy tale archetypes.)
I also wish she'd write more stand-alone retellings of fairy tales/ballets. The Black Swan was very good, and Firebird, I think, was her best. I liked Ilya--a good-hearted hero, but one with flaws that could lead him into trouble (especially his tendency to think with something other than his brain when a beautiful girl is involved).
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"Stay out of the West Cave. ...THAT'S NOT A REQUEST!"
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ahahaha, that hadn't even occurred to me, despite reference being taken from that scene.
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i don't know the shortcuts for the dA emoticons to up that so
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I love Batman and I love Beauty and the Beast!
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i'm happy if you're happy
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The Phantom Of The Opera
Nightwish
[Diana:]
In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came,
That voice which calls to me,
And speaks my name.
And do I dream again? For now I find
The phantom of the opera is here
Inside my mind.
[Bat Beast ( Bruce ):]
Sing once again with me our strange duet;
My power over you grows stronger yet.
I know you turn from me to glance behind,
The phantom of the opera is there
Inside your mind.
[Diana:]
Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear.
I am the mask you wear,
[Bat Beast ( Bruce ):]
It's me they hear.
[Diana & Bat Beast (Bruce):]
Your spirit and my voice in one combined;
The phantom of the opera is here
Inside (Diana)my (Bat Beast Bruce)your mind.
[Voices:]
He's there the phantom of the opera.
Beware the phantom of the opera.
[Bat Beast ( Bruce ) :]
In all your fantasies, you always knew
That man and mystery
[Diana :]
Were both in you.
[Diana & Bat Beast ( Bruce ):]
And in this labyrinth where night is blind,
The Phantom of the opera is here
Inside (Diana)my ( Bat Beast Bruce )your mind.
[Bat Beast ( Bruce ):]
Sing, my angel of music!
[Diana :]
He's there,the phantom of the opera!
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Well ... I always thought the Prince Adam from Beauty and The Beast much more attractive and charismatic as "Beast" than as "Prince" ... and I am also forced to admit that Bruce as "Bat Beast" is quite charming ... I loved the look of it the "Bat Beast" like one of Disney's Gargoyles ... he was simply majestic ... I wonder he and Diana singing instead of "Tales Old Time" theme song from "The Phantom of the Opera"
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There are a lot of similarities between Beauty and the Beast and the Phantom of the Opera, but the Beauty and the Beast at least has a happy ending. Phantom of the Opera isn't quite 'Everybody Dies - the musical' but it gets close...and the Phantom -though i love him dearly- is a murdering psychopath whereas the beast is just...hairy.
And yes, i preferred Adam in his beast form to his prince form. He just had so much character like that.
There were a lot of influences for the Bat Beast and the Gargoyles was one of them, as well as Manbat and Adam/Beast.
Thanks for taking the time to review so extensively. It's appreciated.
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Tale as old as time.
True as it can be.
Beraly even friends, then somebody bends unexpectaly.
Just a little change, small to say the least.
Both a little scared, neither one prepared.
Beauty and the Bat Beast.
Ever just the same, ever a surprise.
Ever as before, ever just as sure
As the sun will rise.
Ever just the same, ever a surprise.
Ever as before, ever just as sure
As the sun will rise.
Tale as old as time.
Tune as old as song
Very sweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong.
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rime
Beauty and the Bat Beast
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rime
Beauty and the Bat Beast
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Indeed in the case of Beauty and the Beast is the theme that "true beauty is that you can not see!" Like the case of Batman / Bruce Wayne and Diana / Wonder Woman the two are a couple of "Beauty Amazona" and "the Dark Knight Beast" of the Justice League Unlimited still I am moved when Batman gave up his pride and lowered all his defenses and not only sang and sang AND WELL everything to break the curse of Diana. I imagine that if it had been he who was cursed by Circe and transformed into a monster Bat Beast is his love for Diana is still the most beautiful love story between two Super-Heroes and the only love that Bruce would feel. And I have to admit something to you too. Bruce was super sexy as Bat Beast ... I do not care if he kept this up after the last rose petal falls ... but anyway it was my pleasure to comment.
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This is what happens when i have too much caffeine :]
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Poor Bruce. How will he get out of this one? lol.
Nicely done piece and concept.
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Oh, you know, the usual. True love, fireworks and enchanted inanimate objects.
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Just had an image of Diana's tiara talking to her and now have to go and have a lie down. Snert.
That'll be my next image then
Thanks for the comment.
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Sounds great and lovely.
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lol I get it. I see what you did there! nicely done.
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glad you like it
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