#Character: Fantine

[ruiiplume]

Felix and Annette VGen commission for @iubworks

Thanks so much for commissioning me, Enn! <3

Bluesky | Cara | Ko-fi | VGen

[awholelotofsad]

Let’s fall and fall and fall into the vortex of this hole-dwelling life…

a bit different from how i usually draw things but i was listening to a lot of horror songs lately and got Inspired

happy barricade day, fellas

[fei-rest]

My contribution to the Les Mis fandom, part 1 of character lineups!

Designs are a mixture between brick and musical, so not very historically accurate

[wanderinghedgehog]

Been thinking about Fantine and her portrayals. As a character, she has so much depth and emotion. She is an undoubtably good character, but she’s not good in the way Valjean is. Fantine isn’t a reserved saint. She lashes out when she’s been wronged and she does things out of desperation that make people look down on her. But she’s good and the audience wants to see her happy. While Valjean refuses to express the anger he feels towards the society that wronged him, Fantine proves it is possible to express this anger and not lose a bit of audience sympathy. I have yet to find one person who doesn’t cheer her on when she retaliates against Bamatabois. Of course, there are in universe consequences for her anger, however unfair they may be. But my point is that the audience isn’t encouraged to condemn her as well.

On a different note, I also find her placement near the beginning of the story very interesting. In many ways, she is the initial call to action, one that emerges before the barricade but gives it an emotional leg to stand on when it does appear. The resistance coming from Fantine gives only more reason to ensure that it continues.

[torn-coattail]

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

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Holy shit, the absolute massacre I am about to encounter.

[the-bar-sinister]

Let's hear it for plucky teen girl sidekicks doing their best. Round of applause please. They work so hard supporting the grumpy heroes and always get called annoying. but I love them.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Annette is a better person than me bc if my dad just abandoned my family for several years and then ignored me when we saw each other again then i would slap him five ways to sunday.

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[gavroche-le-moineau]

Initial Character Names in Les Mis

I've been having fun poking around in the "Rédaction Initiale" (the earliest version) of Les Mis and want to collect the different initial character names I've run across in one place!

Jean Valjean <- Jean Tréjean

madame Magloire <- madame Marthe

mademoiselle Baptistine <- mademoiselle Sylvanie

Fantine <- Marguerite Louet

Cosette <- Anna Louet*

Marius Pontmercy <- Thomas Pontmercy

Gillenormand <- Charpentier

Gavroche <- Chavroche

Eponine <- Palmyre

Azelma <- Malvina

Grantaire <- Grangé

* This name is the reason Cosette is called Alouette! “La mère s’appelait Marguerite Louet, son enfant s’appelait Anna Louet. D’Anna Louet on avait fait Alouette. C’était le nom qu’on lui donnait dans tout Montfermeil.” Translation: The mother was called Marguerite Louet, her child was called Anna Louet. From Anna Louet they had made Alouette. It was the name she was given in all of Montfermeil.

This isn't an exhaustive list, these are just the ones I've noticed.

[prince-jelli-fish]

back at it again

[bestmothertournament]

Propaganda Under Cut:

Fantine (Mother of Cosette): Recommended by Elmaxlys. Was abandoned by the father of her child and did everything her power to provide for her young daughter no matter what happened to her.

Eudora (Mother of Tiana): Recommended by yen-sids-tournament. She is her daughter's confidante and wants her to be happy but she is worried that she is overworking herself.

[jazzyjuno]

took a few days off social media and i was able to get through volume one of les mis !! heres a bunch of doodles i drew in that time (and also some i just djdnt post yet)

[la-pheacienne]

sometimes girls daydream about romance and sometimes they daydream about cutting javert and the thenardiers to little pieces with a chainsaw 💕💕

[meet-the-thenardiers]

This started out as a joke, but then I ended up liking the idea and decided to make a whole playlist around the theme "you are a female character written by Victor Hugo", and I ended up liking the result. So if you want, you can go and take a look and also suggest any other songs that you think would fit the proposal.

[tinypaperstar]

Annette Meet 'n Greet!!

Who is joining? 🤔