#combeferre and jehan also work there

[thatisntverycombefair]

sometimes I think about valjean owning a little bookshop and then I smile :)

[fivie]

hello there! i just came here to say that umw is one of my top fics of all time and it has always been a delight whenever i reread it ❤️❤️

also i've been working through a full rewatch of spn and i just realized how fully i just integrated umw into my version of spn canon. i am watching winchester shenanigans on my laptop and half my mind is also just going "boy i hope enjoltaire is doing okay back in europe where they definitely are" and it does make the show more fun.

Aww thank you!! 🩷

Also that's so funny. Here's a quick and approximate guide for your SPN rewatch reference:

Season 1: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras is probably finishing up high school??

Season 2: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras starts university.

Season 3: Grantaire is moping around alone. Enjolras becomes a hunter and meets Combeferre, Feuilly and Bahorel.

Season 4: Grantaire is moping around alone in the pre-apocalypse. Enjolras and Feuilly meet Jehan and successfully prevent one of the 66 seals from being broken (impressive but ultimately meaningless since the Winchesters goof up everything over in the US)

Season 5: Grantaire is moping around alone in the active, ongoing apocalypse. Feuilly dies. Jehan and Enjolras become friends after Enjolras nearly gets killed hunting alone.

Season 6: Apocalypse averted! Grantaire and Enjolras meet and start hunting and travelling together during this year!

Season 7: Combeferre, Enjolras and Grantaire see reports about God!Cas on the news. Grantaire feels God!Cas wipe out hundreds of angels. And then the story immediately stops running in tandem with SPN plotlines because I hated the rest of season 7 so much 👎

ENJOY!!!

[seesboy]

okay this is old art (late 2023) but i thought i might as well post it instead of leaving it to rot forever lolol

it's for an e/r persona 5 au that i never did anything with... these two pieces are the only art i did for it but here's some extra info: - enjolras takes the role of joker here, he's living above a cafe in paris run by valjean and works part-time there - les amis takes the place of the phantom thieves here, though not every member is actually part of the group (i.e. has a persona) - grantaire enters the picture when les amis becomes more well-known; he's extremely skeptical of them and doesn't think what they do will actually have an effect on society in the long run, and constantly debates enj about this (not knowing that he's the leader of les amis). later on he ends up in mementos somehow and enj is the only person around to protect him from the dangers there; this results in him getting almost killed by a powerful shadow and r ends up saving him by awakening his persona and helping him out. idk i know that's a little cheesy but it's the best 15-16 y/o me had (also it's meant to parallel That scene. except they live)

more under the cut because idk how long this is gonna be

okay hi here's more general au stuff - other characters that mirror p5 characters in this au: cosette (futaba), eponine (yusuke), marius (yuuki; this kinda doesn't make sense but who am i to question 2023 me) - javert has the first palace here, but instead of becoming incapacitated like other targets he ends up being some kind of man on the inside for les amis. idrk where i was going with this i think i just wanted an excuse for some old man yaoi:tm: - second palace goes to the thenardiers and cosette would probably have an equivalent to futaba's palace, beyond that i didn't really think of much i don't have an idea of what most characters' personas would look like (if i imagined them to be a persona-user) or their arcanas but i do have some ideas about what type of elemental skills a few personas would use: enjolras - fire combeferre - ice courfeyrac - electric eponine - prioritizes physical skills jehan - light bahorel - nuclear joly - prioritizes support/recovery skills grantaire - wind or psychokinesis i think cosette would take the role of navigator here, i don't think it fits her too well in the context of les mis but it's perfect in the context of p5 if you want to do anything with this/based on this i give you my blessing 🙏 idk if anyone would actually Want to lol but this au's been abandoned for almost a year and a half by now so i might as well show it off and see what happens

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

Raz Reads Les Mis (XX)

Marius - Friends of the A B C

This chapter was incredibly fun, and introduced a cast that could carry the rest of this book

But I don't want them to because I want to see Valjean again

We meet the original Dead Poets Society, or at least the political French version of them

Their membership being comprised of Enjolras, Combeferre, Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle, Joly and Gran

taire

Enjolras is our natural leader, our beauty, our pillar of everything the Friends of the A B C aspire to, the logic, the backbone

Combeferre is the water to Enjolras' fire, the philosophy to his logic, the balance to his passion

Prouvaire (or Jehan) loves love, he is the soft romantic, he will bring flowers to a first date

Feuilly is an orphan and lives of hard work for low pay, obsessed with international relations and adopting the people of France when there was nobody there to adopt him

Courfeyrac is the exact same character as Tholomyes, but I beg to disagree - I have a hit on Tholomyes, I'd be friends with Courfeyrac

Hugo creates a trilogy of Enjolras, Combeferre and Courfeyrac; Enjolras the chief, Combeferre the guide, Courfeyrac the centre

Bahorel's whole personality is that he never wants to be a lawyer and sees even the law school as a carrier of infectious disease

Lesgle (called Bousseut) is berated for a whole page for being bald at 25 - this is just ergonomical for French summers, leave him alone

Joly is our medic, who is also a hypochondriac and if he were around today he'd run a witchcraft Tumblr

Grantaire is apparently ugly and in love with Enjolras and compared to both Patroclus and Hephaestion

I have opinions on Enjolras and Grantaire

But I will treat them as platonic (and not unrequited pining) and a metaphor until evidence suggests otherwise

And I think Courfeyrac is my favourite, from these descriptions at least - the irony

This is the group that Marius stumbles upon, all because he and Bousseut share a law class together that Marius didn't attend

Courfeyrac meets Bousseut and Marius while they are talking together at a cafe and Marius is introduced to the rest of the Friends

Courfeyrac calls him "a pupil" when he learns of Marius' political ideology - a little too pro-Napoleon for the Friends, but Courfeyrac's whole intro screams "I can fix him"

The Friends are drinking and Grantiare is rambling about 100 different topics, making the sort of sense that someone drunk will, the sort that they probably don't realise themselves doing

Somehow, through fate, the conversation turns to Waterloo

Waterloo! Marius knows Waterloo

The impassioned, naieve child talks with so much pride of how much he adores and respects Napoleon

The Friends are shocked into silence

But Enjolras is there to lead him out of the darkness of the woods

Poor Marius is confused for where his beliefs now lie, but the pupil will soon learn

Rent becomes due for his hotel, which Courfeyrac offers to pay, but Marius insists on doing himself

"Yeah I'll just sell my clothes and learn English and German and I'll be fine"

His principles even stop him from accepting financial aid from his aunt

And thus is how the life of Marius begins

This chapter was great! I really enjoyed meeting all the Friends and seeing their unique personalities and viewpoints all start to blend into one unified group. @pilferingapples is your url lifted from Grantaire's rant perhaps? I can just imagine him drunk and jovial and telling the Friends anything and everything that comes into his mind. He and Enjolras seem like the perfect opposites to bookend the society of the Friends with. And I want to know how Marius fares! Does his mind change? Is he accepted? Does he manage to find his way in the world?

[lucythornwalter]

これは「Dear Friends of L'Heure Bleue」第 1 巻のレビューです。とても気に入りました。他のファンにも私の感想が伝わるように英語で話していますが、あなたの作品は素晴らしいです。描いてくれたすべての作品に感謝します。

I bought the first volume of Dear Friends of L'Heure Bleue by the incredibly talented @aki-511 because I wanted to support the print release of one of my new favorite digital comics, and I have to say - this book is a love letter to les Amis and to MY SPECIALEST BOY COMBEFERRE (and also to Enjolras and Grantaire and Jehan and Feuilly and all the rest, but if you like Combeferre you will love this work). The art is gorgeous, the lettering is evocative, the composition is easy to follow, and the warmth and humanity that shines through in every drawing of the cast is so wonderful.

This is a prequel, detailing how les Amis met and came together and how they slowly radicalized and refined their mission. I read only a little Japanese, but I would imagine that if you don���t, anyone familiar with the book and the setting and the history would have little trouble following along with the story because the art is so evocative. I love watching Enjolras and Combeferre slowly become friends (I also love how immediately stricken with gay yearning everyone in this cast is upon beholding Enjolras) and I love seeing Combeferre grow into himself. There are tiny little details in everything that speak to book canonicity and the care for the Brick that is vital to a good story.

The first volume is currently the only place you can read the complete first few chapters, but once you’re caught up, it is being serialized on Comic Growl in Japanese. If you, like me, want to see an English release, go comment on the comic as it’s posted!

I love this series so far and I cannot wait to see it grow.

[thenardierfamilytherapy]

LES MUPPETS MISÉRABLES

CAST

JEAN VALFROG - Kermit the Frog

MYRIEL, BISHOP OF DIGNE- Rowlf the Dog

FANTINE - Fozzie Bear

BAMATABOIS - Clifford

JAVERT - Miss Piggy in drag

CHAMPMATHIEU - ‘original Kermit’ (see below)

MUPPETTE (child) - Baby Miss Piggy

ÉPONINE (child) - Baby Janice

MME. THÉNARDIER - Waldorf

M THÉNARDIER - Statler

MONTFERMEIL INN GUESTS - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem band, dressed as a funk band

GAVROCHE - Animal

ENJOLRAS - Gonzo

GRANTAIRE - Rizzo the Rat

LES AMIS DE L’ABC - Beaker (de Courfeyrac), Dr. Bunson Honeydew (Combeferre), Pepe the King Prawn (Joly), Bean Bunny (Jehan Prouvaire), Beauregard (Feuilly), and Scooter (Bahorel)

MARIUS - Robin the Frog

MUPPETTE (adult) - Miss Piggy

ÉPONINE (adult) - Janice

PATRON-MINETTE - Electric Mayhem band again, now dressed as a punk band: Floyd Pepper (Claquesous), Zoot (Babet), Lips (Geuelemer), and Dr. Teeth (Montparnasse)

BARRICADE GIRLS - Camilla and the Chickens

FARMER - Farmer

FAUCHELEVANT - Dr. Julius Strangepork

FRENCH NATIONAL GUARD - Sam Eagle, Link Hogthrob, the Swedish Chef, Bobo the Bear

ENSEMBLE - Dancers

NOTES

- Fantine’s co-workers in the factory are French poodles; the Lovely Ladies are shaved poodles. Fantine’s ‘hair cutting’ is more a ‘fur shearing’ which leaves him bald. Please imagine for a moment a bald Fozzie Bear in drag, sitting down to a piano with a somber, solo spotlight to sing ‘I Dreamed a Dream.’

- Now please imagine Kermit the frog consoling a shaved dying drag Fozzine Bear that he will look after her darling child, Muppette.

- Honestly Kermit as JVJ is a no brainer to me, apart from simply being the male protagonist, but just imagine Valjean’s solos sung with as much gusto as permitted by Kermit’s little voice. ‘Who am I? Jean ValFrog!!!’

- Some of the Muppets playing Les Amis canonically cannot speak but instead make noises that others understand as speech (i.e. Beaker as Courfeyrac); this is reflected in their versions of ‘Red and Black’, ‘Drink with me’, and ‘Do you hear the people sing?’

- Likewise with the Swedish chef’s portrayal of a French national guardsman, and Animal as Gavroche, both of whom are just barely comprehensible. Animal’s Gavroche is a feral child.

- The Robbery scene transition where Kermit and Piggy as Jean Valfrog and Muppette run offstage now occurs not only to follow the plot, as scripted, but also for the practical reason that Miss Piggy must appear dressed as Javert almost immediately as soon as she disappeared dressed as Muppette.

- Miss Piggy’s double casting is due to a backstage conflict: Piggy has insisted upon playing Muppette despite already having been cast as Javert, with all of the others agreeing that none of them but Piggy have the imposing presence necessary to play him. This is true: she takes both rôles.

Picture: Miss Piggy on stage with mutton chops and a black overcoat and hat, acting as a sort of obsessed parole officer to Kermit. Now picture (Baby) Miss Piggy as the iconic Cosette illustration from the 80s posters, wistfully sad and baby faced with that giant brush. I could be convinced of a different casting for Javert (Sam Eagle comes to mind as an obvious choice), but imo Piggy has to be Muppette. Muppette is a particular kind of Cosette: one played by a prima donna who has strong-armed the production behind the scenes, an angelic soprano with a barely suppressed, explosive rage. Also,

- Casting the Baby Muppets as young ‘Muppette’ and young Éponine works particularly well, coincidentally, due to the canon of Baby Muppets, in which baby Janice happens to be the only one who can read. Janice’s Éponine accompanies herself on electric guitar (as she did as a member of Electric Mayhem) during ‘On My Own.’

- Behold, Champmathieu, the man mistaken for Valjean, who is portrayed by the original ‘abstract lizard’ design of Kermit the Frog (i.e. before he got his feet, collar, and explanatory epithet):

‘Jean Valfrog’ with ‘Champmathieu’:

Fin.

(Credit to @gutsofgold for casting statler and waldorf as the thénardiers; possibly others have done this already, I’d love to compare notes!)

[fillsta]

Les Amis and how they'd decorate for Christmas

It's like, super late and I have tons of shit to do tomorrow morning but here we go

Enjolras & Grantaire

Enjolras is big on the whole "Christmas is just a capitalist propaganda" thing and Grantaire wouldn't really care that much, so I feel like there wouldn't be many decorations in their apartment. However I think Grantaire would still want to be a lil festive so he probably gets one of these tiny ass trees and some lights. And one of those elf pushes because "Look it's blonde, it looks just like you enj!"

Combeferre & Courfeyrac

Courfeyrac absolutely LOVES tacky Christmas decorations and he fills the apartment with glittery shit every year. Their Christmas tree is huge and has literally everything imaginable on it. They probably invited les amis to decorate it with them, so it's messy. Combeferre just goes with the vibes and rocks that Christmas sweater Bahorel knitted him all winter long. (I'm,also 1000% sure they even have one of these Christmas toilet seat covers or whatever they're called)

Feuilly & Bahorel

Feuilly just has a box full of handmade decorations so their tree has some a-list ornaments on it. Apart from that, the rest of their place isn't really decorated. Maybe some lights on the windows. Anyway, Bahorel probably printed Feuilly's face and put it on top of the tree because "he's a star✨" and Feuilly just went with it

Bossuet, Jolly & Musichetta

Either did one of those creative alternatives to a Christmas tree or have the most chaotic decorative situation going on. I'm talking randomly placed fairy lights, weird ass tree ornaments, and one (1) Christmas themed candle that Bossuet made in high school and is still around for some reason

Jehan

No one does Christmas decorations better than them. Pretty lights on the windows, candles, cookies always on the counter, red and green couch cushions etc. I have a feeling they decorate their plants instead of a tree because they'd rather DIE than have any sort of fake plant in their space.

Marius & Cosette

Marius unironically bought one of those god awful white trees, thinking Cosette will like it. She absolutely did not, but she worked with it and made it look decent. She even made a gingerbread house, which pissed her tf off.

Marius decorated the balcony and it ended up being a bunch of random lights placed awkwardly on top of each other, no plan at all.

Eponine, Gavroche and Azelma

A fairly small tree, nothing more nothing less. Eponine let her siblings decorate it and it shows, but she loves it because "it has personality". Azelma decorates her room with garlands and stuff.

Bonus: Montparnasse

Straight up doesn't decorate. Bitch barely has his own apartment

[weaponizedducks]

hello!! who do you think all the yellowjackets characters would be as les mis characters?

omgg thank you i love this

okok so lottie is either jehan or enjolras- jehan bc of the whole 'poet' thing, and enjolras bc a) both leaders, and b) both 'prophets' of a sort. nat i think is grantaire and im not budging on this one. both very cynical, practical characters. or she could be eponine that would work extremely well.

laura lee could also be jehan. i think weirdly she's very fantine coded though.

shauna is a little more difficult- i think she could be combeferre. idk why they kinda give the same vibes. perhaps a mix of ferre and bahorel. jackie is cosette. OR she's musichetta. (pushing my jackienat/eposette agenda here)

misty is marius. both desperate to be included. i could also see her as joly. orrr the brick version of eponine. wait im sticking with that she is SO book eponine.

tai is enjolras- they both have the same kind of energy. i think van is either feuilly or bossuet (boss bc they're both incredibly unlucky).

akilah is jehan. mari is feuilly. travis i think could be eponine. which would make javi gavroche and i really like that.

ben is javert. his canon bf is jean valjean.

i could also see jackieshauna being enjolras and grantaire. that would really work for their dynamic- but not so much their characters.

this was fun ty and sorry this turned into a bit of a yap

[potatosonnet]

hello i wanted to say that i love your art for-ever i love your designs for jehan and courfeyrac and also you are correct about feuilly/prouvaire. genuinely such a big fan you are so cool

THANK YOUUUUU

There’s still so much to work on both of their designs though, I hardly know the 1820-1830s fashion to give them the best and worst choices era-correct wise 😳

Tysm for your kind words, I don’t know if I’m cool but I know for sure that I like Combeferre a lot😳😳👍

[baba-the-yagaa]

"#The dynamic between two paladins would be INSANE#and so fun" Hello , I saw your tags, tell me more about your Ideas about the TTRPG Amis -slash-Les Mis?:D

dear god im sorry i let your ask marinate its been a Time man anyway

(im a mathematician) so we gotta look at two cases: Les Amis play a ttrpg like dnd together, or we make ttrpg based on Les mis/and Les Amis

case 1: oh my god dont get me started (well you did, so here we go) we all know how dramatic ttrpgs can get, so maybe a modern au where the barricade is ttrpg and everyone is playing various characters, except for marius who is new and very obviously playing himself. which is why he like that. anyway!! this can also give rise to the two paladins dynamic i was yapping about, so lemme yap some more. The tension would be unparalleled. Courf and Enj arguing about who serves whos god better and being the same kind of divine but different would be bonkers. Grantaire would try to roll so many times to seduce Enjs character and fail and Enjolras is oblivious so its Courf who confronts him about it and is like 'yo. whats up with all that' and R is just like 'wouldnt you like to know, weatherboy' etc the other half of the table (Combeferre, Joly, Lesgle, Jehan, Feuilly) (Bahorel is more partial to the above mentioned drama) is on about something more sciency and shit (except for the occasional glances and giggling about the rest) which all begs the question, who dms? and the answer is simple. Gavroche. he would be a very, very good dm i feel like. kid's got crazy ass ideas they're perfect (also dm candidates are: Valjean) this au is generally very on point to the book i feel like because of how most characters are symbolic and extraordinary but also its just fun

case 2: again, right after i got the ask i started ruminating on this. came up with stats even! so regular dnd 5e has 5: strength, dex, int, wis, and charisma. Les Mis ttrpg: decided to merge strength and dex into one, but maybe we split em up, dunno. Charisma we obviously keep, and add two more stats: religion and revolution. religion works kinda like wisdom/int, bc les mis is heavily influenced by religion and its fairly self explanatory revolution is a scale of 0-20, with 10 being 'i dont give a shit', 20 is Enjolras and 0 is Javert. other than that, mechanically i have no idea lol but it should be also very fun

thanks for coming to my TED talk lmao hope this wasnt too long

[alicedrawslesmis]

What English translation of Les mis would you recommend the most? :) (gotta preserve the homosexuality that's my top priorityyyy)

Well, see. I've only read the Fahnestock-MacAfee translation and follow things somewhat on @lesmisletters (I believe it's the Hapgood translation? The one they have available on Project Guttenberg online for free). I *personally* think FMA is the superior translation. Just in terms of maintaining the spirit of the metaphors and the overall phrasing of things. They based it off of the Wilbour translation so that one is essentially the same but much older, if you aren't bothered by the 19th century of it.

But since you want the most homosexuality then FMA in NOT your guy. FMA has the very annoying habit of no homoing every interaction to the point where it gets in the way of the text. Like, when overwhelmed with a very emotionally charged scene, Combeferre and Jehan *shake hands* (???????) (like I understand on some level that sometimes 19th century platonic friendship reads gay to us now, and you want to preserve that, but you can't no homo it to the point where you make the text bad. It's not how translation works. You can't cut the part of the original text that makes you uncomfortable, Norman and Lee. And Denny you need to learn that too, my god)

Also they make a few weird mistakes in numbers all the time. But I have it on good authority that Hugo doesn't care about math that much

Anyway I guess my recommendations are either Hapgood or Rose, whichever you think reads better!

EDIT: oh yeah just remembered something I think may be relevant. If you're looking at books as objects, the FMA paperback is a single volume (that's why I bought it in english originally instead of portuguese, I haaaaaate books that are split into different volumes. Just give me the full brick already, cowards) and the FMA paperback is a TANK that thing is INDESTRUCTIBLE. Absolut UNIT.

[thatbarricade]

characters who i think wouldve fucked it up at the club:

courfeyrac: goes without saying, he gets all the bitches. but not in like a sex way more of like a makes-out-with-everyone-because-he-can kinda way. can handle alcohol like a champ and is unfazed the next day.

grantaire: he’s so chill, he just hangs out on the couch doped up on some insane weed strain from the local weed connoisseur.

jehan: said local weed connoisseur, also owns a bedazzled vape pen. he does shitty palm readings in the corner for five bucks and wears self-embroidered skinny jeans. sits on every surface.

feuilly: just disappears. no one knows where he goes but he posts the most insane private stories and shows up to work like nothing happened.

thenardier: 30% of people at the club leave with something missing and he’s the reason why. on the watch list but somehow always makes it inside.

valjean: local dilf celebrity, beloved by all. if he drinks enough he starts lifting various heavy objects and everyone cheers him on.

characters who would not have fucked it up at the club:

enjolras: gets pickpocketed 20 minutes in (thenadier) and made fun of for saying “likewise” (grantaire). calls an uber at 6:30 and goes home to rant to himself on a google doc in silence.

combeferre: never went to the club, stayed home on chess dot com.

marius: perpetual victim of “go white boy go” jokes. has to limit his caffeine intake due to a personally diagnosed history of heart palpitations.

javert: once attempted an undercover drug bust and failed miserably, now can’t go within a block of the club without being heckled. does not know what “daddy chill” means.

thinking about how old valjean was when he stole that bread. he should have been at the club etc etc

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Les Amis (and others) and horror movies

(Because I went to the cinema tonight and I’m incapable of not turning anything into modern au fictional French revolutionaries)

Jehan is a horror movie fiend. It’s their favourite genre and they will watch any and all horror. The good, the bad and the ugly. They’re not pretentious about it, and they’ll always find something they like even in the worst plots, the lowest budgets, the trashiest remakes and sequels. They also don’t know why they bother watching with the friends as they spend most of the time yelling “Will you all SHUT UP I’m trying to WATCH this!!!” Favourite: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Cosette also adores horror. It was one of the first things she and Jehan bonded over. She gets very into them, sitting forward in her chair and shushing the others during tense scenes and jumping at all the jumpscares. Favourite: A Quiet Place

On the other end of the spectrum you have Joly. Joly point blank refuses to watch any scary movies- He’s squeamish, he’s sensitive, he’ll have nightmares. He still wants to hang out with his friends, so he’ll sit in between Bossuet and Musichetta under a blanket with his phone and his headphones in. Sometimes Marius will stay under the blanket and keep him company. Favourite: Nope!

Bossuet likes horror movies well enough, but he’ll hide under the blanket to keep Joly company and just emerge for air and a little bit of plot every so often. Sometimes Joly will ask him what’s happening in the movie (just because he’s not watching it doesn’t mean he wants to be out of the loop completely), so Bossuet will explain the plot in a whisper when he’s under the blanket. Favourite: The Blair Witch Project

Marius is super annoying to watch horror movies with. He’ll hide under a blanket with Joly the whole time, but he’ll look up the plot on Wikipedia so he knows everything that happens. It doesn’t stop him from asking “What’s happening now???” every few seconds, and everyone is like ffs Marius either watch the movie or don’t! He also screams every time everyone else screams even though he has no idea what’s happening. He always has a hand outside the blanket so he can hold hands with Cosette though. Favourite: Coraline (”Pontmercy, that’s a kid’s movie....” “Have any of you seen it???? It’s horrifying...”

Musichetta doesn’t take horror movies all that seriously, she can take them or leave them. She spends most of the movie night in the corner with Grantaire making up drinking games: “Drink every time a character who has sex dies” “Drink every time a character hears a noise and says ‘Oh, it must just be the wind!’” Favourite: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

On that note, Grantaire is the really annoying guy who spends the whole movie trying to guess the killer. It’s annoying because he has no idea who it is but guesses someone different every five minutes and gives a long list of reasons why it’s them, and then they immediately die and he has to move onto someone else. Favourite: Halloween

Courfeyrac likes horror movies, but more than that he likes sneaking up behind his friends and screaming BOO, or hiding under the kitchen table until someone walks in for a glass of water and grabbing their ankle. It was all fun and games until one time he leapt out from behind a door at Feuilly and Feuilly just....Punched him in the throat on pure instinct (serves him right, honestly....) Favourite: Psycho

On that note, Feuilly doesn’t really care about horror movies one way or the other. He can watch them sure, but...Meh. He says all this, but he still gets pretty jumpy after he watches one (Hence the Throat Punching Incident) Favourite: Scream

Enjolras isn’t really into horror movies, or at least he pretends not to be. Everyone thinks he’s just sitting on his phone the whole time (and it really annoys Jehan and Cosette omg), but normally he’s watching out of the corner of his eye. No one realises he’s paying attention until there’s a jumpscare and he screams bloody murder and grabs the arm of whoever is next to him. Favourite: Dawn of the Dead

Combeferre isn’t really interested in slasher movies, but he loves a good supernatural or psychological horror. Emphasis on the good. He won’t watch any old trash (Honestly, he’s a bit of a movie snob...) Favourite: Hereditary 

Bahorel is incapable of taking any horror movies seriously. He just laughs the whole way through them (and Cosette has definitely petitioned to ban him from horror movie watching for this). He likes horror comedies best, because they don’t take themselves too seriously, and so Bahorel doesn’t have to either. Favourite: Zombieland

Eponine is absolutely impossible to scare, and knows the scariest, most fucked-up horror movies ever. She’s great for recommendations, but everyone will watch it and be like “Eponine what the hell where the fuck did you find this?” and she’ll just casually say, “Oh my dad used to put it on the TV to keep me busy when I was a kid, this was my favourite movie when I was nine years old. Nothing scarier than my childhood home babyyyyyy” and everyone’s like “....Ep, get therapy” Favourite: REC

Gavroche has seen his fair share of horror movies, although Eponine tries her best to stop him from watching anything particularly gruesome. Saying that, he was the only one who didn’t feel a little bit queasy after watching the first three SAW movies in one day. Favourite: Paranormal Activity

[portgasdsue]

Sometimes I wonder why I like scrolling through Les Amis text posts or shitposts (like, posts where they speak to each other and make jokes and have fun with the Ami: "" format, idk) so much and spend hours looking for them and reading, and then,, I realize,, "so I do this because I need to imagine them talking and having a good time together and stuff in order to stop being sad about them and this is yet another sign of me not getting over their deaths because I try to make myself feel like they're still alive and I'm going to cry-"

[secretmellowblog]

Hi! Do you have any idea of the etymology of Les Amis’ names/French words that sound like their names?

I’m not an expert on this and someone else probably knows more! But here’s all I know off the top of my head. I’ll go from “ones that have canonical book explanations” to “ones that are vague or more speculative”:

Grantaire: His name sounds like “Grand R” or “big R” in French. As a result, he doesn’t sign his name with a normal signature but with a giant letter R. This is also why it’s a popular fan headcanon for “R” to be Grantaire’s nickname.

Lesgle/Bossuet—this is a pun but I’m still not completely sure I get it. So his name is “Lesgle,” which sounds like “l’aigle” (the eagle) and he comes from Meux. Unrelated to him there’s also a famous bishop who was known as “L’aigle of Meux,” whose real name was Bossuet. So les amis made a pun and Lesgle got the nickname Bossuet as a joke about the bishop.

Jehan Prouvaire— Jehan is obsessed with Medieval literature, so he added an “H” to his name “Jean” to make it more medieval.

Feuilly— sounds like the French word for paper, a nod to his work as a fan maker

Bahorel— sounds like “Borel,” like the name of one of Hugo’s friends Petrus Borel

Courfeyrac— comes from a wealthy family, and there’s a whole thing where he should go by “de Courfeyrac” because he’s upper class— but he refuses and just goes by plain Courfeyrac. Idk much about the origin of the name but it seems to me like it’s supposed to mark him as Wealthy— I guess it’s similar to being named something like “Thaddeus Winston the Third?”

Enjolras— is apparently a very strange uncommon-before-les-mis name that would come from Southern France, and even French people disagree on how to pronounce it (?)

Joly - I know nothing about this name except that his friends like to add extra Ls to it as a joke, I think?

Combeferre— I know nothing. This name is a mystery just like the character himself

Bonus:

Marius Pontmercy: Marius’s name is based on Victor Hugo’s middle name, “Marie.” And “Pontmercy” is the French word for “bridge” and then the French word for “thank you.” (I’ve seen fics with an English Marius named “Marius Thankbridge.”) The Pontmercy name pun is important because it’s why Thenardier never learns who Georges is; when Georges is struggling to tell him “my name is Pontmercy” all Thenardier hears is “merci,” so he just thinks the man is just thanking him.

If anyone knows more, feel free to add on! : D

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les miserables cluedo au part 2!

SUSPECTS:

Mr. Green: René Grantaire

Rene Grantaire, or preferably “R,” (27) is a freelance graphic designer and guitarist with no formal education. He grew up in the heart of Paris and has never left the city; he can frequently be found busking outside the Paris Metro on weekends or bar hopping along with Courfeyrac (see previous entry, Felix Courfeyrac). R maintains a close relationship with his only sibling, a younger sister, but his relationship with his parents is believed to be strained. Contrary to his cynical nature, R is a regular member of Les Amis de l’ABC (see previous entry, Julien Enjolras) and has been for years. His contributions, however, have more often been described as annoyances rather than anything helpful. Courfeyrac and Combeferre (see previous entry, Charles Combeferre) both commented on this when asked:

CC: “R’s not there to do anything but irritate Enjolras. And he’s been there for years. We all know why, but it’s gotten ridiculous.”

FC: “He just likes to rile up Enjolras and watch his face turn a pretty shade of pink. R can claim he doesn’t believe in anything, but he believes in Enjolras (..) Don’t tell either of them I said that.”

Upon hearing of Courfeyrac’s invitation to Marius Pontmercy’s estate, Grantaire persuaded Courfeyrac to bring him along as well, claiming he had a bad feeling about the situation and didn’t trust him and Enjolras to go alone. Courfeyrac disbelieved him but was never one to say no to causing some potential drama.

Enjolras is currently unaware Grantaire will be meeting them at the Pontmercy estate.

Ms. White: Eponine Thénardier

Eponine Thénardier (22) is a long-time friend of Marius Pontmercy. Working full-time as a waitress to support her two siblings Gavroche (9) and Azelma (13) while taking night classes at the University of Paris has left Eponine with little time for herself. After a difficult and neglectful upbringing, Eponine saved her siblings from the same fate by fighting for and acquiring custody of them as soon as she turned 18. Marius Pontmercy has consistently supported her through her struggles, ever since childhood, and the two have been close friends for over a decade. There was a running joke, which Eponine started, that they spent so much time together they might as well get married. However, Marius has recently wed Cosette Fauchelevent (see next entry), whom he was introduced to by Eponine herself. She also helped plan his marriage proposal, for which Marius had thanked her profusely.

Unfortunately, in the past year, Eponine’s studies and home life have become more intense and she has lost touch with Marius Pontmercy. Marius was hoping to reconnect with his old friend through an invitation to his estate, which he was slightly surprised she accepted.

Dr. Orchid: Jean “Jehan” Prouvaire

(I went a little off-script with this one—Colonel Mustard is the last suspect in the original Cluedo game, but I didn’t have an Amis I wanted to add to this story that I felt I could compare him to. Dr. Orchid is from some of the newer versions of the game, if you want to look it up! :) )

Jean Prouvaire, or preferably “Jehan,” (22) is an undergraduate student finishing up their bachelor’s in biology at the University of Paris. Like Combeferre (see previous entry, Charles Combeferre), they discovered their calling and passion early on in life when they were a child; plant sciences. Having grown up on a farm in the French countryside, they moved to Paris when they were 18 to attend college and explore city life. During their first year, Jehan unintentionally interrupted a Les Amis de l’ABC (see previous entry, Julien Enjolras) meeting and ended up a member for the rest of the group’s existence at the university. Courfeyrac (see previous entry, Felix Courfeyrac) became quite good friends with them and were on the path to something more, but lost touch when the group disbanded and when Courfeyrac graduated. Courfeyrac, however, was supposedly the one who introduced them to toxicology, and Jehan has since redirected their studies to that field, specifically plant toxicology.

Jehan met Marius four years ago in their first year at the University of Paris, where they were roommates in the dorms. Since then, they meet up every now and again for lunch and coffee and call on holidays. Jehan is introverted and despite living for four years in Paris, has yet to make many friends, so they eagerly accepted Marius’s invitation to the Pontmercy estate.

i’m so glad you guys are liking this so far :) i have one more entry i can add to this if you want, and then we can see where it goes from there!

les miserables cluedo au!

(somebody please write this fanfic because i do not have the skills required to)

SUSPECTS:

Miss Scarlett: Julien Enjolras

Julien Enjolras (24) is the only child of wealthy socialites Augustin and Marie Enjolras. They paid his college tuition for the University of Paris before he was kicked out due to disciplinary actions (relating to the protests he held on campus). Afterwards, he cut ties with his parents and officially formed the Les Amis de l’ABC, a political activist group he started at university. Enjolras has been accused by the police force of inciting violence in his rallies and has been apprehended for resisting arrest several times. He is described by his friends and fellow activists as a fiery, passionate individual with a tendency for trouble. Currently, he lives in Paris, France, and is unemployed.

Per his best friend’s request, Enjolras is reluctantly accompanying Felix Courfeyrac (see below) to Marius Pontmercy’s estate.

Ms. Peacock: Felix Courfeyrac

Felix Courfeyrac (24) is a graduate of The University of Paris and a struggling actor. After earning a degree in Theater Arts, Courfeyrac traveled to the United States to fulfill his dreams in Hollywood. Unable to find work after a year abroad, he returned to France and rejoined the activist group he formed in college with Julien Enjolras (see above). He is well known as a party animal and frequently spends his nights bar hopping or at a club. Courfeyrac can be described as gregarious, flirtatious, and at times, impulsive. He is currently living in Paris, France, and is employed at the Corinthe as a waiter.

Courfeyrac first became friends with Marius in university, where he unsuccessfully introduced him to the Les Amis de l’ABC. However, despite their political and personal differences, the two have managed to stay close.

Professor Plum: Charles Combeferre

Charles Combeferre (26) is a graduate student at the University of Paris. Born and raised in Arizona, Combeferre developed an interest early on in butterflies and moths, and has gone on to pursue a Master’s of Science with a concentration in Entomology and Lepidopterology. After obtaining his Bachelor’s Magna Cum Laude at Harvard University, he made the choice two years ago to relocate to France and study abroad. He frequents the Cornithe and is acquaintances with Courfeyrac and Enjolras. Enjolras has been trying to persuade Combeferre to join the Les Amis de l’ABC, but Combeferre has so far turned him down. Despite this, he occasionally attends their weekly meetings in the backroom of the Cafe Musain and voices his opinions. At first glance, Combeferre is on the quieter side, but shows no hesitation in standing up for others or his beliefs. Enjolras describes him as “overwhelmingly intelligent, witty, and unfailingly kind.” Combeferre is currently presiding in Paris and is unemployed.

Combeferre was introduced to Marius through his friendship with his fiancé, Cosette Fauchelevent (see next entry). Their relationship is strained due to their widely differing opinions, but Combeferre accepted Marius’s invitation to the Pontmercy estate nevertheless.

should i continue the suspect profiles? let me know!