listen i love fanon Hot Mess grantaire as much as the person next to me but i can’t help but feel that if you actually met modern au grantaire, he would be more like that lad kind of guy who’s in a different study program but sits in your class because he still lacks 2.5 credit points for graduation, but he just needs to pass, not a good grade, so he constantly raises his hand to ask semi-nonsensical questions that he hopes will make the professor interrupt her lecture and go on a tangent and when she doesn’t immediately gives him his turn he repeatedly shouts “um excuse me?? i have a short question” and then phrases it in the most unnecessarily lengthy way just to annoy everyone, so there’s an immediate, collective groan whenever his hand goes up, and you’re like, goddamnit it’s eight in the morning and i just want this to be Done, and when you happen to sit next to him he won’t shut up about the latest discourse in the flat earth discord he’s following ironically, and then he adds you on facebook and you find out he once wore a “make america great again” snapback to uni every day for three weeks “to troll people and see what their reactions would be” and then published a thinkpiece post about it on his wall