Les Amis from an outsider’s point of view
Enjolras: The rich guy who everyone kinda knows and who is friendly and civil but not out to make friends, and who is a top student because of course his parents got him into this school and of course he got a private tutor to teach him the course material thoroughly. He’s the one who is intimidatingly elegant.
Combeferre: The guy who everybody thinks they know but actually don’t know about. You know he hangs around in the library at 5 o’clock on a wednesday and that’s all you really know about him. He talks but not about himself and you don’t think you even know his first name, but after every time you have to share the workplace with him, you feel incredibly inappropriate.
Courfeyrac: The guy who is loud and popular, who is always somewhere with someone and often he is exhausting to be around. He makes you feel like you belong but it’s superficial because he only follows social conventions. He is impulsive and has almost no patience for senseless noise and negativity and will drop you with no hesitation if you cross him one time too many. You are not sure what he thinks of you or everyone else. He is always civil and treats everyone the same but his true thoughts? You have no idea.
Jean Prouvaire: The kid you make fun of. Maybe not directly to his face and maybe you don’t make fun of him personally but you sure do talk about him. He is gloomy and he is off. He talks strangely and dresses even stranger. You believe he is poor but you saw the name Prouvaire on several lists of sponsors already. He is nice but everyone avoids him. People tease him and it’s all in good fun, so you don’t quite understand why he threw the first punch.
Bahorel: The infuriatingly relaxed guy with a booming laugh and an incredibly obtrusive presence. He offers you the last seat in the lecture hall and leans back in the last row with his feet on the desk and he will argue and disrupt lectures for the ones in his immediate vicinity. He is the guy who did everything once. Every campus story somehow involves him.
Feuilly: The guy who works at the little coffee trolley in front of the main entrance every day. You know his face and you know his voice, for some reason you remember all his shirts, you know the people he talks to, you know his music preference and that his favourite season is Autumn but for some reason you never get to learn his name.
Joly: Your class project partner who does everything twice. You are sure that he is one of those people who honestly love mondays judging by the way his grin seems to be stuck on his face forever. He talks fast with chipper voice and shining eyes and gestures even faster. He is the guy who has everything in his bag from tissues to spare socks and for some reason also hair ties. Always in the company of Bossuet.
Bossuet: The guy in class who never hands in his assignments and has an excuse for everything. The one who should be a nervous wrack but isn’t, who misses most of his classes but somehow still passes all of them. “He is a liar” is the common agreement and you don’t question it. He is always with Joly.
Grantaire: The first time you see him, you think he grew up in the wilderness. Unkempt hair and rude manners coupled with obnoxious loud behaviour. He is the guy who hits on and catcalls everyone he meets and who runs around with sunglasses even in winter. For reasons completely incomprehensible to you, Joly and Bossuet like him.
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