Beauty and the Beast (TV) RPF
Also see Disney RPF.
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| Name(s): | Beauty and the Beast (TV) RPF |
| Scope/Focus: | RPF fandom from Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
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There has been very little RPF and real person art in the Beauty and the Beast (TV) fandom.
Devin Wells: The Complicated Real-Life Thing
The character, Devin Wells, and his characterization in fandom is complicated by the fact that Wells was portrayed by Linda Hamilton's then real-life husband, Bruce Abbot.
Abbott and Hamilton had a child together; this was one reason the actress left the show, something that led to great strife in the fandom, and ultimately the end of the show itself.
Hamilton and Abbot divorced in 1989.
Fanworks with Devin Wells and Catherine Chandler, because of this real-life cross-pollination, are a vague sort of RPF.
Examples
- The Bridge (1989), "Vincent is an uptop man, physically like other men (he actually is written and drawn to portray Ron Perlman). He has the qualities (if not characteristics :) of Vincent, though. "[1]
- The Closet Beast... and Beyond (1990), a humor zine in which Vincent is real and Ron Perlman is his front man
- The 58th Episode (and "The 57th Episode: The Throat Convergence") (1991-92) from Lionheart #2 and #3
- Two Beauties and a Beast, a heavy-handed polemic on good fans and bad fans by Wendy Darling, Vincent intervenes when two panting fans pursue Ron Perlman in the park (Once Upon a Fairy Tale 1992)
- "Make Believe?" is a story by Lynn Murray (Devin Wells is a showrunner for Beauty and the Beast (TV), something he doesn't tell anyone about.) (from Our Tunnel World 2002)
- Dimensions in Time, a story in Stories from Below (unknown date) (An AU story in which Ron Perlman gets hit on the head with a falling branch and is taken below to Father by Vincent. Ron sees them as the actors in his television series, not as the people they believe themselves to be. Eventually Ron and Vincent meet.)
- Love & Light...The Fable (1990) (Catherine is transported to another world where she meets a nameless man whom she names "Captor." Captor's original form is that of Vincent Wells, but he is under a spell so that he greatly resembles Ron Perlman (though he has actually taken on the form of someone named Ian).)
Most Art Features Ron Perlman
from Wishes and Dreams #1, the artist is Dragon, from a story in which Catherine dreams Vincent loses the appearance of a beast: "The hair was similar to Vincent's; it was of the same tawny color, only shorter and curlier. The chin and bottom lip were strikingly like Vincent's own. A mustache graced the upper lip; the nose was strong and masculine, the forehead high arid noble. But two physical qualities were uniquely Vincent's; the beautiful topaz blue eyes and whispery baritone voice. A voice that was now strained with doubt and trepidation, and eyes that glistened with tears... "You mean you think I look normal? Like a man, Father? I look like a real man!" Vincent rose to his full height, a smile crossed his newly formed lips, and the smile revealed beautiful, gleaming white teeth where canine fangs had been."
by Beth Blighton, from Love & Light...The Fable
by Pam Tuck, from Love & Light...The Fable
by Kevin Hopkins, from Love & Light...The Fable
by Pam Tuck, from Love & Light...The Fable
by Kriss Farver, from Love & Light...The Fable
by Pam Tuck, from Love & Light...The Fable
the artist is Beth Blighton, from Destiny #4
by P.S. Nim from The Absurd Season, Catherine Chandler kisses Vincent Wells, and he turns into... Ron Perlman (1990)
by Rosemarie Hauer (1997)
- ^ comment by the author of The Bridge -- The Bridge, alt.tv.beauty+beast, April 12, 1997