Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170317013818

So I was thinking about how Rumple is also the Beast and the Crocodile, and I realized something. Read this from the original version of the story Beauty and the Beast:

Villeneuve's original tale includes several elements that Beaumont's omits. Chiefly, the  back-story of both Beauty and the Beast is given. The Beast was a prince who lost his father at a young age, and whose mother had to wage war to defend his kingdom. The queen left him in care of an evil fairy, who tried to seduce him when he became an adult; when he refused, she transformed him into a beast. Beauty's story reveals that she is not really a merchant's daughter but the offspring of a king and a good fairy. The wicked fairy had tried to murder Beauty so she could marry her father the king, and Beauty was put in the place of the merchant's dead daughter to protect her. [7]  She also gave the castle elaborate magic, which obscured the more vital pieces of it. [8]  Beaumont greatly pared down the cast of characters and simplified the tale to an almost archetypal simplicity. [8]

Notice anything? The Beast was left in the care of an evil fairy, who wound up turning him into a Beast. You know who is an evil fairy? That's right, the Black Fairy!  