New law
You’re not allowed to write Grantaire
You’re not allowed to go near Grantaire
You’re not allowed to think about Grantaire
Unless you can list five facts about his character that don’t involve Enjolras or alcoholism
well lol i think the initial wording is a little strong~ but okay let’s go
– grantaire is extraordinarily playful with language, and more specifically tends to use linguistic tricks to throw conversations off course when they start hitting too close to home. fwiw this is like thing #1 i wish was explored more in fic
– unless he’s bullshitting in some way (unreliable orator herf) grantaire has some pretty deep hangups about a failed art studentship under (‘under’) baron antoine-jean gros
– grantaire has canonical daddy issues
– grantaire is super social outside of his amis friendship group, despite taking ”no pleasure anywhere but there”.
– grantaire genuinely cares about injustice and human hardship, he just doesn’t see a workable solution to any of it.
bonus
– grantaire is kind of fixated on metaphors about clothes falling to rags, and holds a particularly disdain for people who deliberately deprive themselves of worldly goods and pleasures (e.g. living in self-imposed poverty) in order to appear more virtuous
super bonus
– grantaire has an extensive background knowledge of the classics and classical references are scattered throughout his speeches
super duper bonus
– grantaire either woke really early on barricade morning or stayed up all night – ‘waiting for the dawn’ (remember this is june). he also spent what is possibly > one hour wandering miserably around paris in the rain before joining joly and bossuet in the corinthe
(lol i could so go on but)
extra super duper bonus
– grantaire has a relatively intimate female friend (possibly named/nicknamed ‘floréal’, possibly not) who is the last non-insurgent he spoke to on barricade morning.
Grantaire is canonically both a dancer and a street fighter
Grantaire knows the geography of Paris intimately, probably from his above-mentioned social activities
Grantaire seriously knows fucking everybody in Paris
Grantaire not only has a ridiculous amount of knowledge of the classics, he also knows all his Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophers (and can philosopher name-drop at the *hur* drop of a hat)
Grantaire is also up on modern politics, not only of France, but also of neighboring countries
Grantaire can play dominoes, although he’s arguably bad at it
Grantaire may or may not be bad at math, but he certainly doesn’t like it (see above: canonical daddy issues)
Grantaire lives near the Musain
Grantaire probably has clinical depression
– grantaire has a bit of a love/hate thing going on with the philosopher diogenes
– grantaire will push and push and push at peoples’ boundaries then get mortally wounded when they finally snap at him, like he does this over and over again and it’s kind of a defining character trait
– grantaire likes brie cheese
– grantaire discovered the corinthe, entering only on the basis of an accidental bad pun on the sign outside
– joly and bossuet care a lot about grantaire and basically blow off lamarque’s funeral in order to “conduct Grantaire back towards cheerfulness” after he miserably pours his heart out to them
Hugo’s headcanon was that Grantaire had a truly walrus-like mustache
Grantaire’s defining philosophy is not the world sucks, so fuck it all, Grantaire’s defining philosophy is the world sucks, but anything we do to try and change it is going to accomplish nothing or make it worse, so we should learn to be happy with how the world actually is
but while he vocally espouses that philosophy and on some level obviously believes it, on some level he doesn’t want to believe it because his ‘only pleasure’ is taken in being part of a group of students who are actively trying to change the world
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