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tragic-ships-tournament · 8 days ago

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Tragic Ships Tournament Round 3

Propaganda under the cut!

Tenrose:

"Oh my god they're so. ugh. they mean literally everything to me. From the wiki: 'They frequently bring out the best in each other, supporting and uplifting the other person, comforting them, and sometimes just acting totally giddy to be in each other's presence. They both display their trust in the other person's capabilities on numerous occasions, and seem uncommonly matched.' HOW CUTE IS THAT 😭😭😭😭 . BRO HE LITERALLY SAYS I LOVE YOU TO HER AND THEN FLIES AWAY. OH MY GOD. BEING THE DOCTOR PREVENTS HIM FROM MAKING ACTUAL CONNECTION BUT THAT DOESNT STOP MY BOI. OGH AND ALSO " “I made my choice a long time ago. I'm never gonna leave you.” ROSE WTF"

Enjoltaire:

"Okay so the whole thing with them is that Enjolras is like the leader of the Les Amis; he believes in the revolution in his heart and soul and his being. He is a shining beacon of hope like Victor Hugo calls him Apollo in the book. He believes in freedom and in the future and that beyond the barricade, there's a new tomorrow waiting for them. Grantaire, on the other hand, doesn't believe in anything. He's a drunk and a cynic and he doesn't believe in that new tomorrow. If nothing had something to offer, Grantaire would stop believing in nothing. When he offers to do something to help the Les Amis, he gets distracted and drunk and I think he ends up playing dominoes? It might have been cards. Anyway, that's Grantaire. BUT Grantaire believes in ONE thing. And that ONE thing is ENJOLRAS. No matter how cynical and pessimistic Grantaire is, he believes in Enjolras. If Enjolras is Apollo, Grantaire is Icarus flying ever closer to him. And then at the end. When their revolution has failed and they are facing down the barrel of guns. Grantaire gets up and stands next to Enjolras and asks if he can hold his hand so that they can die together, and they do. It's heartbreaking and heart wrenching and Icarus brings the sun down with him as he falls."

#(tagramble time lol this got longer than I expected)#look look all my respect to the other tragic ships I'm sure they make people very sad /pos #but e/R is THE capital-R-Romantic tragedy #(with capital R in it loll)#their one moment of happiness was achieved in uh. in death so #AND #Grantaire is overcoming his narrative position as the bourgeois—the sitting-down class the content class—by joining hands with enjolras #bc love may not overcome the national guard today—society isn't there yet—so they die.#but someday it will #they are tragic and they replicate the “ideal loves” in the letter #they're ORESTES AND PYLADES for chrissakes.#enjolras is his object of worship and grantaire constantly falls short because he loves him deeply—enjolras the only source of his belief—b #Grantaire could've left. he could've slipped away. he didn't have to die #but he DID have to die. he couldn't not.#and they were narrative foils (oh my god they were narrative foils)#they changed me. on a fundamental level #ohhh they changed me.#love and life and morality and mortality all intertwined. oh man they're the peak of tragic love #propaganda

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