#everyone who's ever written 'grantaire corrects enjolras during meetings and it strengthens his positions' owes me twenty dollars | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

starfieldcanvas · 1 day ago

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yes!!! as an exr shipper myself, can we please stop giving other people's plotlines to grantaire. if the two of them ever managed to get together it would be so, so much messier and less rational than any of those options

it’s so so funny silly. “grantaire is a working class person who inspires enjolras through new perspectives” so close, that is feuilly. “grantaire is enjolras’s intellectual equal who has complicated and conviction-informed feelings about revolutionary violence and his articulations of these feelings round out and supplement enjolras’s perspective” so close, that is combeferre. “If grantaire had joined in the fighting he would have been super awesome at it and earned enjolras’s respect and admiration” so close‼️‼️ that is MARIUS!!

#it's like that thing where somebody takes the main couple apart and just gives the role to their other preferred character instead #and literally nothing about the plot changes whatsoever #like. what are you doing here #why do you like this character if none of the actual canon details about them matter to you #grantaire has a hell of a lot going on with him #it's messy and interesting #if you just want to give him the template of a different character then why am i here #everyone who's ever written 'grantaire corrects enjolras during meetings and it strengthens his positions' owes me twenty dollars #including all my favorite authors. yes i love you yes i enjoyed the fic but i'm still annoyed #i just think!! that 'guy who keeps showing up to activist meetings because his friends go' is fascinating!#having him actually be politically engaged enough to nitpick is not going to lead enjolras to think r isn't politically engaged!#being the party guy who just goes because he loves his friends is SUCH an interesting character note #for ARMED INSURRECTION #i think my favorite little fanfic snippet about this #is the one where grantaire stops hanging out with the amis for some reason and goes to hang out with another group #and realizes he's kind of upset by how racist and sexist they are bc he got used to hanging out with hyper progressives #and his overton window has moved radically left without him realizing #that MIGHT be if music be the food of love? idk #grantaire already being a snarky leftist who can keep up with enjolras from the start is #much less interesting than his imagination being captured by enjolras #'without him being clearly aware of it'#and his growing genuine investment in enjolras and all these other people being a transformative force #but simultaneously his persistent personal attachment to enjolras being something that affects enjolras in return #love and attraction don't have to be logical!#grantaire doesn't need to be super admirable for enjolras to experience desire or interest #like. there are lots of ways to do this #of course #it's not totally unreasonable to give SOME traits to modern AU grantaire that overlap with canon era feuilly/ferre/marius etc #but it does often feel like somebody just fuckin gave up on it being realistically messy and decided to make it pat #sigh.

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