LIKE. THIS WASN'T HARD. Lumiere and Cogsworth is not a fucking LEAP for *ANYONE* that is aware things other than heterosexuality exist to make. Not personally actually sure how you read the original animated without assuming something there, but also I am SO FAR FROM THE FIRST PERSON TO NOTICE THIS. Even some of the fucking straight people have noticed the potential!

But, no. It's the fucking comic relief villain. Not even the main villain! NOPE. Joke character villain. Are you fuckin' kidding me.