Because I can

[trappedwithin]

So why are you bothering me? You're not putting me in a game so why are you looking at me like that?

[GRUNT]

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[wasonceabeast]

Calm down.

[la_plus_belle]

Maybe your mun is just interested in you.

[trappedwithin]

No.

[Wait... blink, blink, blink]

Who are you?

[wasonceabeast]

Would you believe...you?

[trappedwithin]

Impossible.

[True, he had seen odd things on this community but this was a first - looking at himself, as he would appear, at this age as a human.]

[trappedwithin]

[....]

Belle!

[Smooth]

Um. Yes, I suppose.

[beau_sest_leve]

Perhaps they are able to see beyond your horrendous temper?

[hippie_shifter]

"Maybe it's so she can learn how you think. Most of the pups in my mun's head aren't in a game. We're just here so she can learn who we are and tell our stories more effectively."

[wasonceabeast]

Not at all.

Remember when we were young? And we used to hide in the maze behind the castle?

[trappedwithin]

[STARES]

How did you...?

[wasonceabeast]

Or how we used to play with toy soldiers. We dreamed of being soldiers ourselves.

[trappedwithin]

[.....]

So... we got back to being human?

[wasonceabeast]

Only if you learn to control your temper.

[trappedwithin]

[Oops!]

Belle!

[Another beat]

She's the one who dragged me out. I didn't start this - she did!

[trappedwithin]

So we stand around and do nothing? That makes no sense.

[trappedwithin]

My temper is controlled. I am perfectly calm. This typist, though - she's the one who dragged me out for no reason!

[wasonceabeast]

Adam, you need to calm down.

[trappedwithin]

You need to stop telling me that! If I could I would and hearing you say that over and over is like listening to my servants and it's just as infuriating.

[wasonceabeast]

The servants who raised you! Stop growling and grumbling--what the Enchantress caused us was wrong, but what we cause ourselves is just the same.

[trappedwithin]

She turned an 11-year-old into a monster and then told me to change. How can I change when I look like this! How about you actually tell me something useful that you did instead of just parroting the same useless lines I've heard over and over?

[wasonceabeast]

Because, in a way, she wants us to be miserable. That's how she'll teach us humility. Is that what we want? To be miserable? Certainly we were not the kindest children, but were we ever compliant to orders of which we refused?

[la_plus_belle]

[Oh Beast... She can't help but smile a bit wider.]

I hear there are many other things to do out here besides games. Your mun could be looking into those.

And... it's very good to see you.

[heartisabattleground]

Beast, don't get mad at your mun! It's not their fault, for whatever it is!

[hippie_shifter]

"No, you go out and you chat up other people. Go out and learn. That Sora kid might be a good one to talk to; he's familiar with your canon and all. I'm just a farmer who got turned into something not quite human."

[beau_sest_leve]

She obviously likes you. Why else would she bring you here?

[Belle is optimistic when it comes to Muns.]

You're not alone.