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ruedesfillesducalvaire · 4 months ago

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Javert is NOT a rich white cop, he's a poor Romani man born inside a jail. When I first joined the Les Mis fandom about a decade ago I remember there were a lot of people who made Javert a rich white policeman. Which, hey, I do kinda get it, especially when you're contrasting Javert to characters like Valjean or Les Amis. I totally get why people would want that story to exist within Les Mis fanworks. But also, that is not Javert whatsoever. He's canonically half Romani, born in a prison.

Javert being a class traitor actually means so much more to the story than Javert being some random privileged asshole pig.

#(didn't want to put the authors of these tags on the spot by tagging them but i appreciated what they had to say)#although we can't know for sure if hugo intended for javert to be romani -- it's possible but by no means certain --#it's such a good interpretation and i will always stand by it #no matter his racial identity though the class traitor thing is spot on #he's just such a good character...love a lawful neutral! love the moral greyness of a character who staunchly stands for what is Right #while being dead wrong about what Right *is*; having pledged himself to a deeply flawed and predatory system #love a narrative foil. love a redemption arc. love meeting a tragic end. he's got it all #(as much as i love to read/write fanfic where javert survives there was no other possible ending for him in canon that would have felt true)#anyway #yeah guy of all time

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