#cosette x marius

[lalarose216]

When Cosette says “I will never go away” in A Heart Full of Love (Reprise), it’s referencing the first Heart Full of Love, because Marius says in the longer stage version, “And you must never go away.”

She’s trying to comfort him and make him happy and give him what he wants, she isn’t selfish or ignorant of his grief.

[feratscal]

Hi for another Les Mis request can you please draw Cosette and Marius. They are two of my favorites

theyre actually just the cutest wonderful delightful babies???

[btlandlesmisfan4ever]

MARISETTE!!! HOW CUTE ARE THEY!!!! AHHH MY HEART!!! ALSO TWO OF MY FAVS

[slimerancherbracket]

FINAL ROUND

[thatisntverycombefair]

-valjean asking cosette about marius

[n0thinginlife]

Hear me out! Flight attendant Cosette x Marius who’s scared of flying

[differentprincedinosaur]

[could-they-raise-the-eggbaby]

Poll: Would Cosette and Marius from Les Misérables pass the egg baby project

Reasoning: Well they’re married so this is probably a question worth asking.

[arcadianambivalence]

Les Mis Letters 4.5.4 - The Heart Beneath the Stone

I really like this set of chapters leading up to Marius and Cosette getting to have a proper introduction to each other. Knowing what we know about the same year/years from Marius's perspective, the reader is expected to draw a line between each partner's emotional highs and lows.

Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into sorrow and emerge from it again.

-4.5.1

When she's at the dawning of a new time in her life, he feels like he has the world shut on him. Where she's courage and action, he's contemplation and hesitation. One shrinks back, the other steps forward (like a dance). When he is like one with one foot in the tomb, she is emotionally bringing Valjean back to life again, and thought of her gives Marius renewed life, too.

It sets up that as a couple, they could draw on each other's strengths. Like the saying goes: You complete me. Or, as Marius puts it:

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unit [...] they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit.

-4.5.4

And to balance Cosette (according to Hugo) making the first move (i.e., meeting his eye, looking after him, crossing the park to intentionally pass him when he gets too nervous to draw attention to himself), Marius makes the first declaration.

Yeah, his words can be awkward and corny, his contemplations on love and the universe perhaps grandiose, but it's from the heart beneath the stone. It's real feeling and real effort, not Tholmyes singing someone else's song with little sincerity to Fantine and the other ladies. That's how we know he means what he wrote, that Cosette isn't in danger of repeating her mother's life. (His mother's, on the other hand...)

When paper and ink should have been carefully preserved for his translation work, he took the time (over months) to write out his feelings and later carefully select which papers to enclose in the envelope for Cosette. Instead of just climbing into the garden as soon as he got the address or trying to force some introduction by pressuring Toussaint, he leaves the ball (er, the envelope) in her court to read and respond or reject at her leisure.

The focus on how attraction to the other initiates character development and introspection instead of having them introduced the socially proper way through a mutual friend or with her father's express permission doesn't bother me.

[The sneaking to the garden at night (if it was him on all occasions and not Eponine scouting the place initially) to determine if this is indeed where She lives, I have no excuse for.

Like, I get that it's following the footsteps of classical forbidden lovers, with explicit and implicit references to Romeo & Juliet, what with her symbolically representing light and life to his melancholy, the instinct for the young lovers to keep everything a secret from her father, etc., etc...but Toussaint's worries over "the men" does make the modern reader worry about foreshadowing instead of subversion.]

...But the rest of the furtive glances to pining to secret love has some logic from an in-universe standpoint that gels with the nineteenth century novels I've read, so...

Plus, I'm a sucker for love stories that make everything seem to go wrong with one person as they fall for someone and think they've lost them only for the narrative to flip to the other character's PoV and reveal they've felt the same way all along.

[blackcatsandlockets]

Me: Cosette was a brunette in the books, stop saying she was blonde.

Also me: Regulus and Pandora are platonic Marisette and Félix and I would be too if he was real.

[devasdiary]

fashionistas cosette and courfeyrac and their sad little loser boyfriend marius <3

[btlandlesmisfan4ever]

New video from Les MIs Us and it fts our Marius and Cosette ☺️

[phantomstatistician]

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[differentprincedinosaur]

Literally marius

My baby loves Napoleon, so I drew this…😔

[thatisntverycombefair]

has a great day everyday gf x only has a great day if gf smiles at them

but make it cosette x marius

[chrysalismandtea]

les amis de l’abc as things me and my friends have said

enjolras: i wish i allowed myself to smoke just to escape functions

combeferre: i’d probably be better off as a jukebox

courfeyrac: (in a discussion about what we should make a podcast on) how many mini sandwiches i can eat in an hour?

jehan: dude i was dizzy when i was BORN

feuilly: (talking about cop shows) i’d make a great dead body

joly: (stressfully) you’ll leave me without a neck, and people without necks aren’t people, they’re corpses!

bossuet: hey, if i made you run errands without paying you would it be considered slavery?

bahorel: we have plenty of grass for you, too. goat (affectionately)

grantaire: (clearly sarcastically) today is my forte

marius: just think about it.. your children’s parent lives on this planet right now

eponine: manic pixie dream girl? nah, i said i’m a panic moxie grim girl

cosette: actually girlhood is listening to loud music and rearranging furniture

musichetta: dude they’re men, they only care about books and astrology