The skunks being American thing, and resulting conclusion that Bambi was American, was the biggest, though not insurmountable, obstacle to my theory that Gaston was the hunter who killed Bambi’s mom
(Beauty And The Beast is set after the European colonization of the Americas began; Gaston is absolutely the type to go on an intercontinental hunting voyage; his room full of trophies contains multiple indisputably American heads including a fucking bald eagle)
