Both are depicted as beasts correct? Where in scripture does it provide an altered mandate to interpret metaphorical beasts as individuals, as opposed to the instruction Laos down by the angel Gabriel as nations/ empires/ political- religious institutions as are those beasts described in Daniel?
Sometimes beasts are kingdoms, like the beast with ten horns/kingdoms. Sometimes a beast can be an individual.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of
the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and
that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Titus 1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said,
The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
2 Peter 2:12 But these,
as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally,
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
A person called a beast:
Rev 13:11 And I beheld
another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth
by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him
the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.