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amanuensis1) wrote2009-09-22 07:05 pm
amanuensis1) wrote2009-09-22 07:05 pm
Perhaps she's his grandmother.
Maybe she's actually his grandmother, but his real mother died in childbirth, so she took him on as her own and just never told him? He's still young enough not to have questioned it yet.
My second theory: It's a Disney movie. Menopause doesn't exist. I mean... this is a world in which people spend a good portion of their lives existing as anthropomorphic household objects... ;P
My second theory: It's a Disney movie. Menopause doesn't exist. I mean... this is a world in which people spend a good portion of their lives existing as anthropomorphic household objects... ;P
She could just be prematurely gray. I mean, she's got very few wrinkles on that face...
My mom had me when she was 45, and her hair was greying a few years later! Also the stress of being turned into a teapot might have had an effect on her hair color. =)
(I have always wondered about this though...)
(I have always wondered about this though...)
She's one of those rare 'I'm 60 and I got pregnant and had a baby' women. Her story was on CNN last night, you mighta missed it. :/
I'm going to say the feather duster had him out of wedlock and it was all hushed up.
But doesn't he call her mama?
I like that; I'd like to think it was that complex and not just, "Hmm, we made Mrs. Potts too grandmotherly to have a five-year-old son. Ah, fuggit, no one will notice."
I remember when The Emperor's New Groove came out and it was discussed that this was the first time a pregnant (at least visibly pregnant) woman had been shown in a Disney flick. So your "there is no menopause" explanation could hold true since this is pre-TENG, and not necessarily as progressive. :D
Ah, but she's got that key one under her eye! I'm thinking if Fifi the maid (whatever her name is) is in her late twenties/pushing thirty--because she looks too wordly to be much younger-- Mrs. Potts has got to be doing the fifty-plus thing.
Change-of-life babies! Yup, they happen. :D But it's not just the grey hair, it's the subtle "this is how Disney shows age without making people look decrepit and scary" lines she has. Such as by her eyes.
This is what happens when I go to bed early. SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.
This post is making the BEST theories. I almost want to write this one now
My father was in his twenties before he discovered that his 'aunt' was really his half-sister. I expect my great-grandmother got a few of those sideways "Wait, when the hell did she have her" looks.
(And how much do I love your icon?)
(And how much do I love your icon?)
Hee, this is a universe where little boys are turned into vicious beasts, the silverware sings, dances, and fights enemies and Robbie Benson is a BAMF, and this is the point on which you have trouble suspending your disbelief?
I've always sort of wondered that. Along with: what about all of his siblings? What happened to them? ('Cause I KNOW at one point, she tells him to get in the cupboard with all of his brothers and sisters.)
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crescent-moony.livejournal.com
2009-09-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I've also always felt sorta bad for Beast, 'cause he was transformed into a monster at, what, age 12? Something really young, anyway, when ALL kids are cankerous little bastards. So that witch was sorta being unfair, if you ask me.
It's still one of my favorite Disney movies, though. <3
Lol, true! I think I had always assumed when I was little that she was his aunt or grandma or something. Or maybe Chip is one of the servants' illegitimate children and she's raising him 'cause she's the most badass.
My head's twisting around trying to imagine everyone trying to process that. Me included!
(Hee, I'm still shameless about that pairing.)
(Hee, I'm still shameless about that pairing.)
INDEED. We must have PERSPECTIVE.
(Oh, what the hell does that stand for again? Big-Ass Man Fiend?)
(Oh, what the hell does that stand for again? Big-Ass Man Fiend?)
YES. Who are they and are they all running around the castle at the end? Setting fire to the West Wing and swinging on the draperies? I MUST KNOW.
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2009-09-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I always worry that some homeless person will come to my door and ask to come in and I'll be all, "Look, you reek; there are shelters."
(And one of my favorites too!)
(And one of my favorites too!)
(Ooh, lovely icon!) Yeah, she certainly kicks all kinds of butt, she does. In a motherly way!
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