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I literally can’t stop thinking about an IT and Les Mis crossover. Like the Amis hear about how intolerant Derry is so they show up and try to change things by teaming up with the local outcasts. It starts out serious enough with Mike teaching them about Derry’s past and Ben shows them places to hold a protest, but soon they’re at the quarry and chaos happens. Grantaire and Richie team up to annoy their boyfriends while Stan and Combeferre look on in fond annoyance. Eddy and Enjolras spend a lot of time wondering aloud why they ended up dating these two idiots but when they think no one can hear them they pretty much fangirl over them. Jehan and Ben write poems together whenever Jehan wasn’t too busy cooing over how Richie was a mini Grantaire, while Bev and Eponine smoke and bond over the idiot boys they’ve ended up being friends with. Richie joins them for a bit, and both pretend to be annoyed by him, but Bev’s barely suppressed smiles and Eponine’s abnoxiously ruffling his hair made it known they didn’t mind it. Richie’s jokes had only gotten more annoying throughout the day with Courfeyrac’s encouragement. They all are scolded by Eddie and Joly, whom the others tried to keep away from each other out of fear they would feed off each others’ fears, but instead they end up talking about how difficult it is to be constantly afraid and how they’ve been trying to cope. Bev and Eponine talk about their dads, and Grantaire and Richie also end up having some serious conversations about their childhoods and dealing with homophobia, and Grantaire teaches him some self defense for when Bowers attacks while Enj and Eddie try not to stare. Combeferre and Stan talk about moths and birds and Jehan goes bird watching with them before leaving to make flower crowns with Bev. Gavroche completely corrupts Georgie and the two cause mischief for hours, Courfeyrac giggling right along with them. Mike shows Bahorel and Bossuet around the farm, but Bossuet leaves shortly after being attacked by three chickens. Mike barely controls his laughter enough to help. Bahorel ends up walking around with ten kittens in his arms for the rest of the day. One of the cats ends up in Enjolras’ sweatshirt hood and the only clue to how it got there was a snickering Grantaire, Courfeyrac, and Mike. Bill and Feiully just sit quietly and watch with amusement as the chaos unfolds, and sometimes Enjolras joins them. At one point Feiully leaves to go talk more history with Mike. No one’s really sure why, but Feiully becomes Bev’s favorite, after Eponine, and Richie’s too, after Grantaire. Eponine sat by Bill as well, and he looked absolutely terrified but calmed down as they started talking.
You know that one character? He’s from that one fandom based off of a book that is huge and most people don’t read. He’s a dark haired, depressed guy who’s in love with a small, angry boy and is part of a group of students who are trying to save their home city and annoys the boy he loves just to get attention, especially by calling him nicknames he hates and is super smart and brave even though no one expects him to be. He is the character whom people often make a musician or artist with a sad backstory in their fics and was willing to die just to the love of his life wouldn’t die alone facing the enemy and never got the chance to express his feelings. His name starts with an R and the boy he loves’ name starts with an E. You know him? Surely there’s only one character that fits that description…
Only the good die young AU
So, this is an AU of an AU that @shamedumpster and I brainrotted for a good while a long time ago. I was reminded of it by the Friends to Lovers poll, and I thought I might as well share. And hey, if enough of you ask for it, maybe we’ll write it!
Marius is a Catholic church boy. He helps around during mass, and he’s very involved in the church. Among his duties, there’s serving coffee and cookies to the parishioners after Sunday Mass.
One day, there’s a guy at the potluck. He doesn’t recognize him from mass and he’s wearing a leather jacket and strutting around with a slightly cocky gait, and all Marius can think of is that he is so beautiful.
Courfeyrac beelines for him (the reason he’s here is that he saw him on campus and thought he wanted that boy), and immediately starts flirting. And Marius doesn’t know how he’s feeling (he does, but he can’t acknowledge that, he can’t be gay, he can’t), so he just tells him “I’m sorry, I don’t… do that”.
The hesitation is enough to make Courf pivot. This is not a boy that needs to get laid, he’s a boy who needs a friend to help him get over his internalized homophobia. So he changes tactics, smiles his best smile and asks “do you not do friends? Because that’s all I’m asking.”
That’s how he ends up going out (as friends!!) with Courfeyrac. They hang around, and he calls him “beautiful” and “handsome” and he’s tactile and flirty, but he doesn’t push, and he finds himself feeling more and more comfortable. And he’s so interesting! He has done so much Marius would never dare to!
The Amis own a gay bar downtown, and at one point Courfeyrac manages to convince Marius to come for a drag show. That’s how Marius gets introduced to the rest of the Amis, and in particular to Bahorel in full drag. The poor boy is very confused. Especially once Bahorel tells him they’re “not a man”.
After that, Marius goes occasionally to the Musain. One time, Courf tells him he has a surprise and leaves him with the other Amis; when the next drag queen starts, Marius is startled to realise the gorgeous woman in skintight leather dancing to “Cherry Bomb” is actually Courfeyrac. Surprisingly, that gives him a certain amount of reprieve: he has been thinking that Courf was attractive for a while, and now he looks like a woman. It’s not gay if he’s attracted to someone that looks so much like a woman, right?
He’s still riding that excuse when he kisses Courf after the show. He’s not thinking. He doesn’t want to think. The kiss feels right, more right than any kiss has ever felt, and he doesn’t want to think about how it is Courf exciting those reactions. He just wants to lose himself and not think.
Courf responds at first (he is into this guy, okay?), but he quickly regains his bearings and realises that Marius will hate himself in the morning if he lets him do this. So even though Marius insists that he “wants this, Courf, please, he promises”, he makes him stop, takes him to his apartment next to the Musain and puts him to bed with the promise that if Marius still wants this in the morning, he will be his.
In the morning, Marius is wracked with guilt. The realisation he had been trying to outrun the night before has caught up with him and he can’t take it. So when Courfeyrac asks how he’s feeling, he just says “Thank you for stopping me yesterday. You did good. God bless you.” and runs.
After that, Marius tries to get back to his old routine. He confesses to having almost succumbed to the sin of lust, and the severity of the penitence makes him know that the Father was aware of what was going on, and he doesn’t approve. On the other hand, Courf has disappeared, and Marius latches to anger to keep him going. Of course he’s gone. Haven’t they warned him that gay men only wanted sex? Probably now that sex is no longer on the table, Courf wants nothing to do with him anymore.
(He tries not to think about how he offered himself to Courf, that night, and Courf didn’t take him up on it. Courf is sinful, he’s evil, and he has every right to be angry. That’s the only thing that keeps him going.)
Meanwhile, Courfeyrac is trying to give him space. It might not have been said in so many words, but it definitely felt like he was being told Marius didn’t want anything to do with him. He’s also belatedly realising that he had fallen harder than he had thought. He’s moody, snappy, and if he had never liked the Church much, he now gets a level of vitriolic that even Bahorel finds uncomfortable to listen to.
At the end, it’s Bahorel who goes to find Marius. They find him at the Sunday coffee, the same as Courfeyrac had done so many months ago. Their original plan was to make Marius apologize for whatever he had done to make Courf seem so down, but when they see how downcast Marius looks, they ask him for an explanation.
Bahorel’s bluntness is exactly what he needs. “Dude”, they say, “if all he wanted was sex, he would have gotten it from someone easier. Have you seen Courfeyrac? All he has to do is come to the Musain and flutter his eyelashes and he has five dudes at his feet. And he doesn’t look like he didn’t get laid. He looks like he got his heart broken.”
It’s a few weeks later, and Courf is bartending and trying not to show how much his heart is bleeding, when the amateur drag night starts, and the first person on stage looks stiff and uncomfortable, and… starts singing “Take Me To Church”?? And then the drag queen meets his eyes and stays there, and Courfeyrac realises it’s Marius.
After the show he goes backstage, and his heart is hammering, and Marius looks nervous but determined, and Courf can’t believe he’s really here. “Tell me if I’m reading too much into this..?” he whispers, and Marius shakes his head. So he crosses the room, takes his face in his hands, and goes in for a kiss. Right before he does, a last survival instinct kicks in. “Are you going to change your mind?” he asks, and Marius laughs softly and shakes his head, stronger this time. “Not in a hundred years.”
Hope you enjoyed it! This post is already very very long, but believe me, it is still a summary! So if you liked it, please say something and you might get more!
Les Mis Big Supernaturals #2
Joly as a vampire. The one who started this whole thing:
Bossuet, former familiar now vampire. He still wears the same coat:
Enjolras, the old testament Angel:
Grantaire, gargoyle:
Combeferre, dragon: (PLEASE do yourself a favor and read Ursula K Le Guin's short story 'The Rule Of Names')
Courfeyrac, a fairy:
Feuilly, an elf (with a phrygian cap):
Jehan, witch and amateur-alchemist on the side
Bahorel in his furry werewolf form
This feels personal because I learn to love Bahorel, he is my favorite ami, and the way Victor Hugo passes his death so fast hurts in the perfect way
“Bahorel sprang at the first Guard who entered and killed him point-blank with her carbine; the second killed Bahorel with his bayonet.”
Already we have lost one of Les Amis. In the beginning of the Letters, way back probably in February, I mentioned how Hugo knows how to make it hurt. He can wax poetic for pages and pages, but when it hurts the most he becomes almost brusque.
Bahorel’s death feels like that. In how quick it is it seems to mirror the way death itself is so quick and so shocking. Bahorel is alive and then he is shot and then he is dead. Just like the nameless Guard he killed. Death does not differentiate those who are important to us and those who aren’t.
So much is going on in such a short chapter! Why did everyone leave the barricade?! It’s fortunate that Gavroche “had not quitted his post,” otherwise this initial attack could have been fatal to all of them! Bahorel was the first to act and defend the barricade from the municipal guard, and no! he was the first of Les Amis to be killed. But Hugo does not pause to reflect on this, he has to press on with his narrative, as Courfeyrac and Gavroche are now in danger! The largest guard chose the gamin as his target. And this is where we learn why Gavroche “would have done better to accept Enjolras’ carabine” – because Javert’s gun was not loaded.
Two mysterious and well-directed shots killed two guards attacking Courfeyrac and Gavroche. They are saved, at least for now! Who could this mysterious shooter be? Marius?! Marius, the booby?! What an effective entrance onto the barricade! I recall that when Marius was still living with his grandfather, he claimed he was going hunting. Perhaps it was not a fabricated story after all. Otherwise, I can’t explain where he could learn to shoot so well. And of course, he used Javert’s pistols at last!
Speaking of Javert and his unloaded gun. There could be numerous explanations as to why he did not load it. My interpretation is that he did something directly reflecting Enjolras’ words about “we are judges and not assassins” – Javert is the law, not an assassin. He was not going to kill the guards or the rebels.
And I also have a feeling that time is stretching out. Every episode, represented by a chapter in this book lasts no longer than 10 minutes, yet each is so packed with events and Hugo’s detailed descriptions that it seems that it lasts much longer.
canon barricade boys as they’re introduced
honestly reading this part of the brick is basically reading a list of headcannons off tumblr but i digress
Enjolras
…a charming young man who was capable of being a terror.
- essentially both a nerd and a jock
- very very pretty
- cares about justice, not women
- his speech can be harsh and intense
Combeferre
He was learned and a purist, precise, eclectic, hard-thinking, and at the same time imaginative ‘to the point of fantasy’, his friends said.
- very close with Enjolras, and really balances his out
- believes that education is really important in society
- gentle, and while he could fight would rather not
Jehan
Jean Prouvaire was a lover; he cherished a pot of flowers, played the flute, wrote verses, loved the people…
- learned Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew to be able to read poetry
- likes to walk through meadows of wild flowers
- he likes to contemplate social issues and the immensity of the heavens
- kind in a way that kindness is like greatness
- an only child
- awkward and shy and fearless
Feuilly
There is no more powerful eloquence than that of indignation based on true conviction, and his was the power that he possessed.
- makes fans
- an orphan - he likes to say that his country took the place of his mother
- he taught himself how to read and write
- affectionate and warm hearted
- is really passionate about issues beyond France (greece, poland, hungary, etc)
Courfeyrac
He possessed that youthful ardour that may be termed the infernal beauty of the spirit.
- ditched the de part of de Courfeyrac because it was too bougie and he wanted to be like lafayette
- he’s essentially the heart of the revolution
- he’s “decent” (victor hugo did him dirty here)
Bahorel
He was a born agitator: that is to say, he enjoyed nothing more than a quarel except a rebellion, and nothing more than a rebellion except a revolution.
- wears crimson waistcoats
- connected the ABC to other groups
- his motto is “no lawyers”, he would literally button up his coat every time he walked by the law school to avoid ‘contamination’
- he has no regular habits but likes to stroll through paris and go to different cafes
Bossuet
Bossuet was a cheerful but unlucky young man, notable for the fact that he succeeded in nothing. On the other hand, he laughed at everything.
- so very bald
- he’s poor, as in basically always broke but still finds a way to squander money when he can
- merry and cheerful and good humoured
- studying law
- couch surfs, but mostly lives with Joly
- bald
Joly
For the rest, he was the gayest of them all.
- med student
- disabled and uses a cane
- jolly and eccentric
Grantaire
Grantaire was a young man who made a point of believing in nothing.
- goes by R because of grand R (aka capital R because he’s such a nerd)
- knows where all the best alcohol is
- so fucking ugly
- a boxer, gymnast and dancer
- completely and utterly in love with Enjolras
bahorel needs to die first its his enrichment
Victor Hugo was really out here introducing 1000 new characters in the back half of the brick and saying "oops sorry guys, here are some new little dudes you're gonna be obsessed with, yeah they're all basically kids, yeah, you're gonna love them all, oh yeah also, they're all gonna die, in the same chapter yeah, sorry.."
Aaaaand there they are, all of them ! Can you believe it took me more than one year to do all that, starting with the sketches !
I love them all ! but I think my favourite is probably the Jehan one.
ID texts in the alt description.
Les Amis de l'ABC as "because of woke" twitter memes
Enjolras:
Grantaire:
Combeferre:
Courfeyrac:
Feuilly:
Bossuet:
Joly:
Bahorel:
Jehan:
Bonus Marius:
My first zine piece for @lesmiszine !! Featuring the amazing Les Amis plus friends! I love them all and they love each other (even those who have never met in canon) and I’m happy they’re here!
if courfeyrac had a tiktok:
every friend group has these:
the luxemburgist *filming enjolras holding a red flag*
the anacho-egoist *filming grantaire with his punk-ass clothes*
the leftcom *filming combeferre while he reads das kapital*
the insurrectionist *filming bahorel flexing his muscles*
the queer anarchist *filming himself with a pride flag wrapped around him*
the ancom *filming feuilly with his collection of revolution-themed drawings and posters*
the illegalists *filming éponine smoking weed and gavroche flinging a bat half his size*
the communalist/social ecologist *filming jehan lying in a field of flowers*
the democratic socialist *filming cosette posing in a cute skirt with a rose pin on her sweater*
the token liberal *filming marius being thrown towards the camera by enjolras*
Les Amis as Wrong Answers on Exams
Enjolras
Courfeyrac
Combeferre
Jehan
Feuilly
Grantaire
Bossuet
Joly
Bahorel
Les Amis Headcanons: People They Left Behind
Enjolras: The baker’s assistant, named by his parents François but usually called “you,” “boy” or “dimwit,” lived for 8:05 sharp every morning, because that was when Enjolras would come to buy his breakfast, pay the baker, and then say “Good day, Citizen François” and make François feel like a person. Enjolras was the only one who ever did this.
Combeferre: One of his patients was an elderly woman who was an absolute shrew to everyone except Combeferre, who reminded her of her dead son. After the barricade fell she turned desperate and asked every day why Monsieur Combeferre never came anymore. Nobody had the heart to tell her.
Courfeyrac: For the last few years he had had a friend, a gamin named Nicolas. They had breakfast together on Sunday, and when the weather turned cold Courfeyrac gave Nicolas his old jackets. Nicolas died of frostbite in November 1832, at the age of 11. Draw your own conclusions.
Jean Prouvaire: He was teaching his landlady’s son to play the flute, an endeavor that seemed futile to everyone but the two of them. When the boy finally managed to produce a few sounds he wanted to show his teacher immediately, but his mother told him that Monsieur Prouvaire had gone to some General’s funeral and she didn’t know when he would be back.
Bahorel: For all he griped about law, he had become very close to one of the professors. They spent many happy hours talking about every topic under the sun, and the professor sometimes thought of Bahorel as the child he’d never had. When he heard about the barricades, he knew immediately that Bahorel was involved, and refused to read the names of the casualties when the battle was over. Because he knew.
Feuilly: He’d realized that the girl he’d been nursing a huge crush on actually felt the same way, and a romance started to develop. Every week he gave her a flower–which she dried and saved–and the night before he left for the barricade, they kissed for the first time. When the sun rose two days later, Feuilly had one kiss, Marie had thirty-seven flowers, and neither of those numbers would ever get any higher.
Bossuet: Over the years he had become friendly with one of the “regular” beggars, who always sat in the same spot beside a fountain. Every day Bossuet gave a him a few sous, plenty of schadenfreude and a sense of being something more than just another beggar on the streets of Paris. Then things changed, and it was back to only the birds for company.
Joly: After months of dithering and consulting with Bossuet, he decided that for Musichetta’s next birthday he would give her the gift of a marriage proposal. Musichetta’s birthday was June 8th.
Grantaire: His boxing partner looked forward to their weekly matches not only because he and Grantaire were great friends, but also because when they shook hands goodbye, Grantaire always slipped him some money. It wasn’t much to Grantaire, but the boxing partner was an underpaid workingman with a wife and six children, and that money sometimes meant food for the week.
les amis and their love languages:
enjolras: he isn't the best at expression his affection. he gets really nervous when it comes to showing his love for people because it always feels unnatural for him to tell people out right "you mean a lot to me". he's really good about listening when he loves someone. if he actually stops and listens to what somebody is saying, he cares about them. and weirdly enough, movies are his love language. enjolras will always suggest they watch a movie if somebody is over and he likes sharing the movies he enjoys. sharing something as simple as a movie is something that he only reserves for his close friends because he knows all of the bts fun facts and the other roles the actors have been in and he likes to infodump on people he cares about
combeferre: he's really big on physical affection. combeferre will gently punch people's shoulders or bat them on the back or flick at their nose. sometimes when enjolras gets so wound up and frustrated, combeferre will just come over and hug him for a moment and let him breathe until he feels okay to get back to work. combeferre is really touchy with people he likes and it's really noticeable when he isn't as close with others in the group because he isn't physical with them. he's also a note-giver. combeferre will write sticky notes on courfeyrac's bathroom mirror reminding him to take his meds or he'll leave a sticky on feuilly's bag telling him that the point he made in the meeting was really good and so on. combeferre loves sticky notes, he'll leave them everywhere
courfeyrac: he's really big on trying to prove that he loves people. courfeyrac does everything- touch, gifts, hanging out, you name it. most of the time he's just desperate to keep people around and that's why he relies so heavily on making sure that they know he likes their company. he buys people personalized gifts most often and if he's at a cafe or a restaurant, he always offers to pay for them. money doesn't buy happiness, but courfeyrac is convinced that it buys friendship
jehan: they show their love through physical touch, similarly to combeferre. jehan will lean against shoulders and greet people with a kiss to each cheek and they always offer to play with people's hair. if someone's hair is longer than a buzz cut and they're sitting next to jehan during a meeting, they'll get propositioned with a "can i play with your hair?" jehan is also really good at scalp massages, but enjolras had to take them aside and tell them to maybe not do it at meetings because people were falling asleep when they did it. they're also like a cat bringing their owners dead bugs that they killed- only with jehan it's little trinkets. they bought a sparkly pen for combeferre because it reminded them of him, or they got bossuet a pair of funky earrings, and so on
marius: he's a talker. he's such a talker. if he likes who he's sitting with, he feels comfortable and just infodumps on them. around unfamiliar people and people he doesn't know as well he starts to clam up out of pure nervousness, but around courfeyrac and cosette both he could talk for hours. when he has a good day he wants the people he loves to know. he really really values conversation in relationships
joly: food. so much food. joly is really considerate when it comes to people's diets. if someone has food restrictions and they're over, he'll make them food they can actually eat and enjoy. if someone mentions that they didn't have time for lunch or breakfast, it's totally okay because joly is already pulling something for them to snack on out of his bag. he really cares about people eating enough and that really shows in the amount of baggies of carrots or fruit gummies he keeps on him. whenever grantaire is around, he'll make sure to bring a snack because god knows he doesn't eat enough
feuilly: he shows his love through texting and calling, which is very subtle at first but is very evident as people grow closer to him. he sends really nice good morning and goodnight texts every day to the people he loves and he sends them updates on his day as well as asking for updates of their own. when he really likes someone, he can hold a five hour video call with them and not even notice. it's just nice to have someone to talk to when he's eating dinner and getting ready for bed. he also sends a bus load of memes to the people he likes. he's really big on stuff like that. he'll find like a shitpost of fnaf porn and send it to bahorel with a simple message of "us" because he knows that his friends find it funny
bossuet: he values quality time probably more than anyone else. bossuet loves irl company so much and he frequently comes up with plans and such to have people around. all of his friends can guarantee that there will be some sort of activity to do on the weekends and that their lives will never be boring. bossuet always comes up with new and interesting things to do that he knows will also be fun for the people he's inviting. he wouldn't bring enjolras to a bar and he wouldn't bring joly to a public pool. bossuet is really good about making sure people don't feel left out. if someone new joins the friend group, he's the first to ask them if they want to hang out (with courfeyrac in tow. they're what's called the 'welcome committee')
grantaire: similarly to enjolras, he's really bad at showing affection. for a long time, he really thought that perhaps he couldn't show it at all and that's why no one could stand him. now he sort of catches himself showing his love in weird ways. if he drinks the last beer at someone's house, he'll buy them a new case without telling them. if he sees something in a window that he thinks is cute, he'll send a pic of it to someone who would like it. he's good about listening when he needs to and talking when others aren't sure what else to say
bahorel: he's another physical touch guy. bahorel greets the people he loves in bone-crushing hugs and he loves napping with people in a platonic way. he's also really big on compliments. new shoes? bahorel noticed and he will be informing whoever's wearing them that they're nice. new haircut? bahorel is already going ooooooh i love it. he really knows how to make people smile when they need to hear it and he isn't picky with who he compliments. he'll compliment everybody and it's always really genuine. he has this way of making people feel comfortable around him and he's given a lot of people compliments that they will never forget
Bahorel&Bossuet(2012)
Feuily&Combeferre(JP Ver./2013-15)