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foursaints · 6 days ago

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you seem like you would have fascinating opinions about les miserables /pos

this ask came with eerily perfect timing... ive been considering a brick reread (monumental decision. its been years) and i feel the demons creeping back. as a teen i was a huge jehan/montparnasse shipper and i didnt really leave my rarepair corner. BUT currently the guy im truly obsessed with is javert and it's getting so bad.

i think generally im interested in texts whose plots are inextricable from an extremely didactic & strict morality system. i like getting watsonian about it and configuring the characters as doomed... obviously lesmis (masterpiece) is much better & more nuanced than hp (garbage text) but i think that's what makes me insane about both

#a #JAVERT GET BEHIND ME #the jvj also gets to me there is no other character with the sauce like that. im going to say something crazy #but i wish jvj existed in marauders because i would have shipped him with barty crouch junior. fascinating character foils sorry.#like the azkaban!jean valjean au i feel crazy. i get that javert is his perfect foil but i want to see him contrasted against another #prisoner who has an entirely opposite worldview but is just as human (bcj). both grappling with the absence of self.#their wildly different reactions and motivations. the shared core and pain. also how they'd both interact with javert.#I FEEL CRAAAZY. also the concept of jean valjean x barty crouch jr is just making me laugh. your “crackship” could NEVER

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