Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara)’s Timeline and Summary
- Belle emerges from her humble cottage to sing an elaborate song about how staggeringly boring her little village is.
- She firmly but politely fends off Gaston's skeevy advances, then gives her father a pep talk on his way to the fair.
- Those skeevy advances kick into overdrive, and Belle turns down Gaston when he sets up their marriage without bothering to ask her if she is down with it.
- She reiterates the general crumminess of this town in song form and wishes for something more.
- Something more arrives in the form of her father's horse, Philippe…who arrives without her father.
- She saddles up and tells Philippe to take her to her father. They end up at the Beast's castle.
- She finds her father locked in the tower and decidedly on the pneumonia-heavy side.
- She agrees to take her father's place as a prisoner of the Beast. The Beast tosses her dad out without so much as a second thought.
- Not a good start to their relationship. It gets worse when the Beast—after halting steps to be an accommodating host—first denies Belle permission to enter the west wing and then orders her to dinner. She refuses.
- After he departs, she comes out, and the servants respond by feeding her dinner…complete with an Oscar-nominated musical number.
- Slipping off to the west wing of the castle, she finds the shattered remains of one of the Beast's previous temper tantrums, along with the magic rose holding out hope for him becoming human again.
- Turns out, he's a trifle possessive of it. And again with the bellowing.
- Belle decides she's had enough and heads out into a winter storm to get away from him.
- The local wolves smell a free lunch and move in on her for the kill.
- The Beast interrupts their French farmgirl smorgasbord, driving them away but getting badly hurt in the process.
- Belle starts to slip away but then decides that she can't leave him in the snow to die. She and Philippe take him back to the castle.
- She nurses his injuries as their mutual rage mellows into low-grade bickering.
- Things improve for Belle over the course of the next few months. She and the Beast start to bond, and the Beast seriously improves under her attention. He even starts caring about her more than he cares about himself…a strange and kind of scary new experience for him.
- He woos her with a romantic dinner, followed by dancing to a song you've probably heard before.
- At the end of this perfect evening, she asks to see her father in the Beast's magic mirror. He's cold and sick out in the woods. The Beast releases her from her promise so she can go to him, and he gives her the magic mirror so she can always see him.
- She finds her dad and takes him back to town…just in time to meet the mob ready to cart him off to the loony bin.
- In a well-meaning effort to calm down the mob, she shows them the Beast in her magic mirror. Maurice isn't nuts at all!
- Unfortunately, the Beast is still kind of freaky, and Gaston uses that to turn the mob into a bona fide torch-bearing mob.
- They lock Belle and her father in the basement while they head off to set the castle on fire.
- Belle and Maurice break out with some timely help from Chip, and they race to the castle to stop the mob.
- She arrives just in time to rally the Beast, who dispatches Gaston and turns his attention to her.
- Gaston stabs him in the back and then plummets to his death like a good bad guy should.
- The Beast dies in Belle's arms, and she sobbingly whispers that she loves him.
- Cue the magic light show. She gets those three words out in the nick of time, and the spell is broken.
- The Beast turns back into Studly McBlondmane, the castle is restored to its former non-creepiness, and Belle lives happily ever after with her one true love.