#combeferre and jehan also work there

[thatisntverycombefair]

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

[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.

[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?

[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

[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

[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-"

[little-orphan-ant]

Ami name hcs (plus reasoning)

disclaimer a lot of this is just me infodumping about names. i really like names.

Alexandre Enjolras - yeah idk i just stole this from the fandom. Enj despises being called Alex though (he will punch you in the face :D), if you must shorten Alexandre he prefers Andre or Al/Allie

Florian Combeferre - i fucking love this name. according to wikipedia it's a saint name, which im like 80 percent sure was popular Back in the Day, so it works for canon era which im happy abt. in modern day France, the name Florian peaked in 1991 at number 9 for boys before promptly dropping out of the top 500 by 2020 for some reason. but when Ferre was born it would still have been pretty popular.

Olivier Courfeyrac - idk it just fits him. similar to Florian, Olivier was uncommon but not unheard of in canon era, and also dropped out of the top 500 a few years back. however, Olivier peaked back in the early 1970s. although it was still being given to several hundred kids a year by when modern!courf would have been born, i hc that he was named after a relative who died soon before his birth.

Camille Feuilly - in both modern-day and canon era France, Camille is seen as a gender-neutral name, which is great because i hc Feuilly has enby-spec. since Feuilly is an orphan, xe may have named xirself after the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins, but i must admit that I only skimmed his wikipedia page and maybe this Camille was an asshole idk. also i found a French artist born in 1934 named Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and he's pretty cool ig. painting are nice but not as nice as Gainsborough Dupont's ofc

Jean-Marie "Jehan" Prouvaire - of course, we already know Jehan's name, but I added Marie just bc i can

Corentin Bahorel - if you call Bahorel Cory he with smite you btw (like enj they bond over it). Corentin peaked in France at 21 in 1996, but was also very popular during the Revolutionary Period so. thats good.

Valentin Joly - means 'health', i mostly gave him this name bc Irony. as a kid, Joly went by 'Val' and Bahorel, who knew him as a kid still calls him that. Valentin managed to make it to number 11 in France in 1998, and while uncommon, was in fact a name in canon era (like literally all of these akjddsfsa). also i found a French painter called Valentin de Boulogne from the 1600s who died after taking a dip in a fountain while drunk and freezing to death which. slay.

Louis Lesgles - I mean. i can't give all of them cool names. Bossuet gets to be Louis. his family were royalists and named him after all 17 (?) Louis of Frances. that's one of the reasons he goes by Bossuet, he doesn't want to be associated w a (scoff) king

Claud-René Grantaire - i cannot take credit for this it was @jolys-cane (hello). but yeah Very Good. double thumbs up i'd say. maybe even triple. both Claud(e) and René fell out of favor for boys in france around 1990, so our R would have been born *just* (a decade) to soon for it to be popular (eg not in the top 500). works for canon era as well. R tolerates his name, but Only his family is allowed to call him just René. anyone else must say both.

might do this for non-ami characters sometime (god i hope i didnt forget any of them lkjfksd) idk always love an excuse to talk abt a (minor) hyperfixation

[antisocial-cheesepuff]

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!

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Les Miserables headcanons that I have.

Marius, Cosette, and Eponine are a thruple or something.

Jean Valjean would never judge any woman in a bikini.

Jean Valjean would go to all the pride parades, BLM movements, Pro-choice protest, and everything inbetween.

Javert would be for it as well, but he sides with the law until something or someone changes his mind.

Les Amis would be on a pride parade float.

Gavroche would be yelling "Protect The Trans Youth"

Courfeyrac would dress in drag to settle a bet between him, Bahorel and Grantaire.

Enjolras would be waving the progress flag

Musichetta would explain to marius and his lovers how the thruples/poly relationships work and that she's glad they joined the community

Valjean talks javert the join the pride parade with him.

Joly has a small panic attack because of everyone cheering and stuff but never fear, Bossuet was near.

Grantaire would try to fight a protester at the pride parade.

Valjean would be a good father and pull him away.

Feuilly would be making lgbt fans. You know the ones.

Combeferre would correct the protester. They "quote" the Bible and hes like: "DING DONG, YOU'RE WRONG"

Jean Valjean would also correct them.

The bishop (no one can convince me he's homophobic) would be marrying same-sex couples.

Jehan Prouvaire would be throwing flowers and hugging anyone who needs a hug.

Jean Valjean would give father hugs, and I'd be crying.

Fantine, like Valjean would be giving mother hugs.

Grantaire would kiss Enjolras making him blush. Than Enjolras would blame it on the heat

Combeferre would be like yeah. Sure.

Courfeyrac would also blast Lady Gaga songs

Who knew les amis would be so good at lip sync battles

It got competitive

Jehan won

This turned into a Pride post but that okay. It needed to be said. There's a reason Barricade Day is in pride month.

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Oh god, I never thought I’d ever combine my two hyperfixations but-

Les Amis as Stray Kids songs:

(Yikes.)

Enjolras: MIROH. The music video just cements this, and it’s my favorite song. I wanted to put Red Lights for shits and giggles, but it might put him into a coma. Scars can also be an Enjolras song, methinks. Thunderous is Enjolras and not just because of the red outfits

Grantaire: Silent Cry. It’s ultimate sad boi hrs, but it’s also upbeat with a really slutty choreography. I have never listened to a song that is as R as Silent Cry

Courfeyrac: Easy, Double Knot, My Pace. They just give Courfeyrac vibes. Spread My Wings is also very Courfeyrac

Combeferre: Levanter. It’s uplifting, and he needs that. Booster or Question both suit him too

Joly: Side Effects. For obvious reasons

Bossuet: SSICK. Lonely St. And also… CHEESE. Fuck the haters

Feuilly: The Tortoise and the Hare. It’s just so niche and ‘never let them know your next move’. Hellevator also works for him because it gives hard working vibes and it’s the first song, so. God’s Menu is also very Feuilly

Bahorel: Wolfgang. Yeah. Just… yeah. Awaken works too, I guess

Jehan: Haven, Back Door, MANIAC, Charmer. All sorts of vibes for Jehan because that’s what they deserve (plus I think all of them fit too)

And as a bonus, CIRCUS for the fans because what the hell are we still doing here?? Sorry, I Love You. Haha.

(I recommend all these songs.)

(Silent Cry is so R that I’ll be thinking about that for a while now. Goddamn.)

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No one asked for Les Amis as lesser Maiar, for good reason, because making them beings of any inherent power beyond the common measure of humanity fundamentally doesn’t work; LM is fundamentally a story about the Second-Born.

But I’ve been reading and rereading Silmarilion fic all week so here, have Les Amis as lesser Maiar.

(This got long.)

(And I am not coming up with their Quenya names or it would get longer.)

(That’s a lie, there will totally be Quenya names at some point.)

Enjolras: I was really taken by a couple of asides in @thearrogantemu’s fic, characterizing Olórin (Gandalf) as originally a Maia of Melkor, before he came to Irmo’s service, and characterizing Melkor’s original domain before he became Morgoth as transformation--that because of his fall, the Children have never known change without loss; and because of his banishment, change comes now unwilled by any Power.

You see where I’m going with this.

Enjolras is a spirit of transformation who joined in the Second Theme early and enthusiastically, because hell yes every creature should have a right to partake fully in shaping creation. And he did not repudiate him immediately: he saw the dissonance of the Second Theme as necessary to bring about the harmony of the Third, and as of the descent into Arda he was still Melkor’s creature to the extent that he was anyone’s.

When it became clear that Melkor had set himself as the enemy not merely of Manwë, but of creation, he left his service and attached himself to Manwë. In some ways it’s not a great fit. In substance he is a Valarauka, or close to one, a creature not of air but of fire; in temperament, he is the spirit of the sovereignty of the will over itself--the Maiar inherently serve the natures and functions of the greater powers, but his service is very much to the function and not the being that embodies it. He will take direction from Manwë, as the embodiment of legitimate authority rightfully wielded, but his nature is still that of transformation, and Manwë knows he will always serve the spirit of the law over the letter and conscience over authority.

Still, fire and air can collaborate well, and like his cousin Arien who draws the Sun, he accustoms himself to his new realm. He enjoys, more than anything, the long view from the crest of the Pelóri and the lower reaches of Ilmen, but his usual realm is far below that, in the spark of lightning, or as the breath that stirs the banked ember to sudden flame; or, among the nations of the Second-Born, as the voice that stirs oppressed spirits to remember that they are sovereign, and they are strong.  

He appears in form sometimes as an eagle, but most often as a Man with a high forehead, like a horizon with much sky.

Combeferre: So in every possible Les Amis as system, Combeferre is a mess who doesn’t really fit anywhere. He has some affinity with Estë the Healer, obviously, and some with Aulë the Maker, but I’m going to put him in the domain of Irmo, Lórien, Lord of Dreams and the spouse of Estë, whose gardens flow into his own. He is the spirit of chimeras, invention, what is not but that yet may be. He treasures all the Children but loves especially the Dwarves and the Noldor, and shares with them many designs they must look to Aulë to realize; and for this he is also a friend to Aulë, for in this way the Maker is driven to expand and perfect the scope of his Art.

Prouvaire: And for Jehan, while Irmo would have been an obvious choice, I’m going to go with Nienna, the Lady of Tears, who grieves for all in the world that sorrows or is marred. By day he weeps for the world that is, and he weeps with the passage of time for the worlds that are no more and for those that will never be; and by night he walks in the gardens of Lórien and imagines the world that still might be, and he smiles.

Feuilly: While he also has some affinity for Aulë the Maker, who was so eager for others to teach what he knew that he created a whole nation of people, Feuilly is obviously a Maia of Vairë, the Weaver, who sees and understands all of history and translates it into the medium of decorative art.

Courfeyrac: Courfeyrac is a servant of Vána, the Lady of Spring, who governs birds and flowers and also all things that are young and full of potential. There is great friendship between him and Enjolras, as has often puzzled the dwellers in Aman, for Enjolras takes no notice of flowers, or birds, or springtime; but they walk often together in Arda, by themselves or in company with Combeferre, and where they go the spirits of the young are moved to the thought of new struggles.

Bahorel: Bahorel’s friendly belligerence could have gone a lot of ways--Tulkas, obviously, or I could see him as one of Ulmo’s, a cousin to Osse--but ultimately I think he belongs with Oromë, who along with Ulmo never entirely forsook Middle-Earth or the Children of Ilúvatar, and who is always ready to throw down with Morgoth’s servants. Sometimes he rides in his train in the shape of a great wolf, but more often he wanders through the cities of the Second-Born, and where he walks the paving-stones remember the mountains, and the fountains the rivers, and Men remember that they too are wild creatures.

Bossuet: So Bossuet is the reason that I wrote this up in the first place, because what he’s associated with, alone among the Amis, is luck. Which is to say, Fate. And fate and free will--and laws and contracts, and also curses--are all very firmly in the domain of Námo, Mandos, the judge of the Dead.

Which is hilarious.

So, yes, Bossuet is the happiest servant of the Doomsman of the Valar! If his master’s domain is that which is, and Irmo’s is that which could be, and Nienna’s that which now can never be, Bossuet dwells in that which could be worse, and helps--in what measure he can, for his power is not great--to ensure it is not.

(On the plain of Araman, during the Flight of the Noldor, while Mandos pronounced his Doom, Bossuet, unseen, slipped through the host untying shoelaces and breaking the buckles on luggage. The extra minutes of consideration granted to several would-be Exiles while they got their gear in order were instrumental in their choices to turn back with Finarfin.)

Joly: Like Bossuet, Joly is a minor servant of one of the greatest Powers--Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. He finds and mends the errata in creation, helping to ensure that every living thing has something to eat, and something to eat it, if only in its decay. Fungi, especially, are his interest, and everything that lives and sprouts anew from death; but he appears most often in form as one of the Children, cheerful and pleasant to look upon.

Grantaire: I initially thought Grantaire would be hard to place--wine is Yavanna’s domain and art is Aulë’s, and depression is Nienna’s and Estë’s, and verbal shitposting doesn’t seem to have an obvious patron. But then I looked at his name, and who else’s could grande aire be but Manwë’s? Spirit of fog and vapor--the cloud that obscures, or seems to be other than it is; pipe-smoke and the wisp of the dying candle.

Grantaire maintains that it was he who introduced pipe-smoking to the Halflings and the Halflings to Olórin; this is almost certainly untrue, but Olórin has never denied it.

Manwë has never really known what to do with him, but Varda is fond of him. Her husband finds this unaccountable; to everyone who doesn’t have to work with him it’s clear enough why the Kindler, whose greatest work requires darkness for its greatest effect, might find mist a comfortable companion. Grantaire is dazzled by her--as he is by Arien, by Enjolras, by all bright spirits. Varda doesn’t encourage it; but when she retires her old and dying stars, those too weak to blaze out all at once, she will set a few of their embers aside for lamps, and in their light Grantaire’s vapors make brief but haunting shapes, and even Enjolras, who has no eye for beauty, cannot look away.