Beaston

Beaston is the slash ship between Gaston and Beast/Prince Adam from the Beauty and the Beast fandom.

Canon
Gaston first heard about Beast from Belle's father when he was trying to ask Gaston and his men for help in saving his daughter from a monster. Like everyone else in the pub Gaston didn't believe Maurice's claim of a Beast in a castle and laughed the thought of it off. Before Belle revealed her father's claim to be true, in order to stop Gaston from having Maurice locked up. As a hunter Gaston saw the Beast as another "animal" to add to his trophy room and starting to say horrible things about the monster from Belle's magic mirror in order to rally the town's people in his mission to kill the Beast. Believing that killing the Beast would get Belle to marry him after noticing that she may have feelings for a monster rather than someone like him, the most handsome and beloved man of their home village. He claimed that they were taking out the Beast before he becomes a threat to them, but in truth he of jealous and simply wanted to murder his competition.

With the Enchanted Rose running low on petals and believing that Belle was never coming back, Beast did nothing when Gaston and his mob attacked his castle. As he waited in his chambers for the mob to end his suffering. That is why he didn't attacked Gaston when he appeared Beast with an armed bow and arrow, that the hunter used to deliver the first blow. Gaston mocked Beast for being too kind and friendly to fight back as he beats him, until Beast saw Belle return and started to defend himself. The battle between them raged on until Beast hanged Gaston off the edge of his castle in a moment of rage. After Gaston beg for his life and that he'll do anything, Beast started to clam down and decided to spare his life. Along with him telling Gaston to get out of his castle. Believing that Gaston would honour his word and was too happy to see Belle again, Gaston took advantage of Beast having his back turned to him and stabs him. So he could complete what he came to do, kill his rival for Belle's hand and ends up falling to his death while Beast had Belle to help him get back into the castle. If the Beast had remained dead Gaston would have won beyond the grave, but since Beast was revived through the lifting of the spell it meant that Gaston had loss. Along with the former Beast not having to worry about Gaston trying to harm him or Belle ever again.

Fanon
Because moments between Beast and Gaston were very limited and the fact that the later tried to kill the first, Beaston is seen as a creak ship. Those who ship them sometimes have Gaston take Belle's place in the Beauty and the Beast storyline, as a hunter finds himself becoming close to his pray. Along with feature Gaston with Beast's Prince Adam self, just as some The Little Mermaid/Disney characters have been shipped with Ursula's Vanessa self. When is comes to slash ships involving Gaston or Beast/Prince Adam, however, some people prefer to ship Gaston with LeFou while Beast is shipped with other Disney Princes. Since there is a group of people who aren't huge fans of "Hero x Villain" ships, while those who are don't mind the limited interactions between the two BatB characters. As they have Beaston the one of the top rival ships of Belleast, Gastelle and GaFou. When they aren't shipping the two men with Belle in a single poly ship.

Some Kingdom Hearts fans have saw Xaldin as the Gaston of KHII. With how he targeted Beast and the fact that Gaston wasn't made part of the KH series. Making people believe that Xaldin was a stand in for the Disney villain as he tried to turn Beast into a Heartless. Along with the fact that some people have also shipped Beast with Xaldin, for these reasons.

On AO3, the ship only has 41+ fanfics. Some of these fanfics have Gaston and Prince Adam as childhood friends, before the prince got turned into a Beast.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In the 2018 remake Gaston had tried to help Maurice re-find Beast's castle earlier on, but he was mostly did it in an attempt to help himself win Maurice over. Rather than hunting for a Beast he didn't believe to be real at the time.