I tend to believe that the rest of the household was sort of... frozen, emotionally, along with Beast. Meaning Chip was like 5 or so when the spell landed, and he just hasn't matured any in the decade since.
Because the alternatives are very brain-breaking, and it honestly makes sense -- I mean the spell was basically set to be broken by Beast's maturation, so it having frozen everything until Beast grows the fuck up makes sense.
(And no, Tumblr ain't wrong about that. I mean, Gaston's a fucking piece of work and the immediate danger. But the enchantress who fucked up an entire household because a noble kid whose parents were presumably off to war (where the hell else would his parents even be? what else would call them away for so long?) was a brat/asshole is... a lot MORE of a piece of work and arguably a danger to a whole lot more people than Gaston. Gaston is one-off worksmanship villainy, as it were, where the enchantress is mass-production villainy. And like so many mass-production villains, the majority of folks don't even notice or even laud her work...)
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Because the alternatives are very brain-breaking, and it honestly makes sense -- I mean the spell was basically set to be broken by Beast's maturation, so it having frozen everything until Beast grows the fuck up makes sense.
(And no, Tumblr ain't wrong about that. I mean, Gaston's a fucking piece of work and the immediate danger. But the enchantress who fucked up an entire household because a noble kid whose parents were presumably off to war (where the hell else would his parents even be? what else would call them away for so long?) was a brat/asshole is... a lot MORE of a piece of work and arguably a danger to a whole lot more people than Gaston. Gaston is one-off worksmanship villainy, as it were, where the enchantress is mass-production villainy. And like so many mass-production villains, the majority of folks don't even notice or even laud her work...)