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Happy Barricade Day!
[ID: A digital drawing in shades of brown of Les Amis de l’ABC, Éponine, Gavroche, and Père Mabeuf standing behind or climbing over the barricade. Mabeuf is holding the flag, and there is a fire burning in the background. The next four images are closeups on different parts of the drawing. End ID.]
From left to right
Gillenormand: "By the way...you have an intimate friend?"
Marius: "Ah! Uhm...Yes, Courfeyrac." Is he really...is it true??
Gillenormand: "...and what has become of him?"
Marius imagines various interactions he had with Courfeyrac
Courfeyrac: "Come and live with me, monsieur,"
"Good morning, monsieur l'abbe!"
"She's loooking at you, Marius!"
"Unexpected! But I'm glad you're alright."
Marius comes back to reality
Marius, shaking with anger: "He is dead."
Gillenormand: "That is good!"
I'm mourning, Marius is mourning, we all want to kick Victor Hugo in the head.
72tober day 4!
you are wrong to laugh, messieurs. puns are sometimes serious in politics.
the triumvirate!
HAPPY BARRICADE DAY
please enjoy my first ever full animatic!! this song has always been so les mis-coded to me. please understand I have been daydreaming about making this animatic for literal years. it's, ah, a bit messier than I'd intended since I did Not practice effective time management and didn't start until june 1, but I'm SO GLAD I finished it!
hope you like it :D
Courfeyrac: “You, my friend, have what I like to call ‘an Eeyore complex.’”
Grantaire: “Yeah, it’s a result of what I like to call ‘my crippling depression.’”
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…
Grantaire: “Anyone want to go out drinking?”
Courfeyrac *dramatically*: “My heart says yes but my schedule says no.”
Enjolras: “My heart says no and my psychiatrist who prescribes my three anxiety medications says definitely no.”
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!
We are moving a little further back in time. I don’t mind: this way, the finale is postponed. Hugo has decided to explain how M. Mabeuf joined Les Amis.
The fact that Courfeyrac recognized Father Mabeuf is quite curious because previously, Hugo seemed to suggest that these two friends of Marius hadn’t met. Now it turns out that Courfeyrac had accompanied Marius to Mabeuf’s house many times. It seems that Marius and Courfeyrac were much closer.
When M. Mabeuf first encountered Les Amis, he was an extremely pitiful sight; you just want to hug him and cry. He walked “in zig-zag,” was hatless and soaked with rain, and he obviously did not seem to belong to where he was. So, it’s understandable, but also adorable, that Courfeyrac insisted that the old man return home. Of course, he did not know that he had nothing to return to. But it appears that this short dialogue with Courfeyrac added some determination and confidence to Father Mabeuf. Now he knows he is not alone; he found someone who knows what it’s all for. His steps grew firm, and the students even suspect that he was a former member of the Convention. Knowing Mabeufs’ history, that’s a funny theory.
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
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
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.
all james potter kins are courfeyrac kins sorry i don’t make the rules
I've been listening to the Percy Jackson musical on loop and I love AUs so... Les Amis as half bloods?
-combeferre is a son of athena and he just thrives with his fellow nerds and also designs the most epic chariots
-courfeyrac is a son of hermes and his father may be the god of thieves but the only thing he’s known for stealing is people’s hearts <3 <3 <3 and also the occasional bag of chips
-marius (son of athena) is convinved that cosette can use charmspeak but really she’s just really pretty and he would do anything for her
-a certain son of apollo can’t seem to look away from a certain son of dionysus hmmmm
-they get really into capture the flag what’s that oh look i wrote a fanfiction about this once maybe check it out
Les Amis de l'ABC as "because of woke" twitter memes
Enjolras:
Grantaire:
Combeferre:
Courfeyrac:
Feuilly:
Bossuet:
Joly:
Bahorel:
Jehan:
Bonus Marius:
