More than shy, Bashful's a hopeless sentimentalist. When the dwarfs return to find their cottage mysteriously tidied up, he's even sentimental about his newly cleaned cup, lamenting that "the sugar's gone" as if he'd lost a dear friend. While everyone's suspicious upon finding Snow White asleep across their beds, Bashful's the first one to see her for who she really is, observing, "She's beautiful, like an angel." Indeed, Bashful can't help but blush, twist his beard into knots, and bat his eyelashes whenever Snow White's around. And when the dwarfs ask her to tell them a story, Bashful, of course, requests "a love story." To his delight, that's exactly what they get.
 

       In the initial development stages of the production, Bashful's character was to have a high-peaked skull which made him ashamed to take off his hat, and the rest of him resembled Dopey's eventual character design. It was later decided that Bashful didn't need such an elaborate reason to be bashful - he simply was.

" My cup's been washed. Sugar's gone. "