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Lucifer Enjolras from the demon AU @shamedumpster and @aromantic-enjolras came up with
To be honest, I kind of like that Valjean isn't that mentioned in the concept album, not because I don't like him (Actually I love him, he's my favorite character). Just because it’s closer to the book that way. Because Valjean is mentioned in the book but we usually see the stories of other characters more often that his history from his own perspective.
Reasons to love the Original Concept Album
Fantine gets a song about misery that basically summarizes the political views of the book.
Gavroche has two full songs and multiple cameos!
Fantine is angry.
Gavroche is overtly political. Actually, everyone is more political.
Rose Laurens and Michel Sardou (my beloved).
Disco Enjolras!
The less talked-of Rock Javert.
"Master of the House" has much better puns.
Seriously, the lyrics of this album fuck severely.
Gavroche's death songggg. :((
It uses the lyrics of the songs from the book verbatim.
Marius is destitute.
No weird religious undertones.
Reasons to maybe not like the Original Concept Album as much
If you don't know the story already you're going to be lossssst.
Jean Valjean? Who? Oh, you mean the guy who gets mentioned a couple of times in passing?
Cosette calls both Valjean and Marius "my prince". Gross.
The Amis don't even get a death mention...
Marius and his grandfather make up.
Enjolras calls Marius "my best friend" (???).
Les Amis de l'ABC as "because of woke" twitter memes
Enjolras:
Grantaire:
Combeferre:
Courfeyrac:
Feuilly:
Bossuet:
Joly:
Bahorel:
Jehan:
Bonus Marius:
The triumvirate + the freeloader.
The triumvirate + the freeloader.
The triumvirate + the freeloader.
wake up babe its barricade day today and tomorrow that means i can be totally normal about gay french people
once again thinking about les mis… this is bad for me
yeah pride month is great and all- but the og alphabet mafia was Les Amis d’ABC
*not specifically directed at op*
Not to be excommunicated by Les Mis stans but is fandom not a sandbox anyone can play in? Like I get being annoyed by character assassination but like most of the people writing are kids. Not only kids though! It doesn’t matter, they shouldn’t have to worry about getting ‘e-mobbed’ just because they’re doing their own thing. What happened to ‘don’t like don’t read’? It’s just a story.
If you want canonical Enjolras, there’s 14,368 works on ao3 you can filter though. You’re just clogging up the Les Mis tag yourself with complaints over something I’m yet to actually see, and if I did I’d decide it wasn’t for me and move on! Who cares if one kid on the internet hasn’t understood the political nuance of a 19th century novel??? Who cares if someone just wants to lust after an actor they like in a specific role in peace??? Please just let people do their own thing and if you don’t like it, there’s no need to dog pile on them for doing so, just scroll away.
like not to sound pretentious or gatekeepy but it really does infuriate me when enjolras gets boiled down to hrngh sexy revolution man (yes i am talking ab the joe quinn stans) bc this exact same thing happened in 2012 with aaron tveit and the second that happens u lose all sense of his character and complexity and then boom hes just another boring man for yall to write fics about.
even if we’re excluding the fact that enjolras most definitely is NOT straight (literally canon the book says hes not interested in women hes either aro/ace or gay personally i think hes gay but to each their own yknow) his one true love is france, not you, not ur self insert, its france and the second you change that you arent writing about enjolras. and i know it might not be that deep but the character assassination of enjolras always rises again every few years and bbc les mis is the worst culprit they absolutely destroyed him to appeal to a hetero audience and it just MAKES ME SO FUCKING MAD
FINALLY THE FABLED ENJOLTAIRE BUTT SLAP CROSSES MY DASH
hello les mis people
my contribution to the class today is this recording of red and black i took on July 22nd
it's not the best because I was... losing it... but I'm sure someone will like it
patiently waiting for the annual re-awakening of the les mis fandom to celebrate a failed rebellion
When the best fandom reunites to celebrate a non-official holiday based on a revolution mentioned in a 200-year-old novel
Javert after his deception is found out:
Cheers to the gay revolutionists 190 years ago