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Ooo, I like it! I was already leaning towards her sisters not liking how their mom treats her but not sure how to do anything about it (possibly lest they become targets as well), and helping in secret fits very well into that! And Cinderella got started making/upgrading her canes because they managed to get her books on magical engineering. I think that the sisters managed to convince their mother to let them study magical engineering as a way to make them more marriageable for some handwave-y reason, so Step Mother thinks that Cinderella stole their books when she finds them in C's room. And part of the happy ending is the sisters switching from helping in secret to helping overtly, by defying their mother and making sure all the doors are open and stuff so Cinderella's cane can carry her to the front door.

The Beast being gruff and angry as a defense mechanism definitely has potential. I do kinda want there to be a magical aspect to the transformation, but maybe it made him incorporeal instead of beastly looking? And Beauty's dad is terrified of ghosts or something? (A part of me definitely wants the magical transformation aspect to be there and to affect the entire castle, so the first thing the Beast does when he gets turned back is vocally freak out about how everything's changed and now Beauty will have to re-learn all the landmarks she used to be able to navigate. And that's when Beauty knows that this is a love that will last.)

(If he doesn't already know sign, that could be an extra problem, especially if Beauty relies to any degree on lip reading: He might not have lips shaped in a familiar way! Though I might get around that by some degree by giving a friend or relative of hers a cleft lip? Hmm...)