Hi I just wanted to stop in and say your blog is right as hell! I always though Jean was aroace since I saw the non-musical adaptation of Les Mis with Liam Neeson bc it developed him and Fantine’s dynamic more and you could see that he cared/loved her deeply and wanted to be a family with her and Cosette, but not in a romantic way, so when I saw your blog I was like !!!!

Thank you so much!!!  I haven’t seen the movie with Liam Neeson but there’s a part in the book where it says that when Jean Valjean had trouble noticing that Cosette had a crush on Marius because he’d never had one himself, and I thought that maybe the reason why he seemed so uncomfortable at Marius and Cosette’s wedding was because he hadn’t realized that attraction was a real thing before then.