hello students welcome to les mis university and more importantly: e/r theory au application 101 aka How E/R Works In An AU Setting
i, professor dan p gigs, will be your instructor
so heres whats what with my deal with e/r ok i get freakin BUGGED when i see people write total complete 100% flat out requited e/r because quite honestly that is impossible and illogical
just imagine you are enjolras and there’s this guy just following you around all the time wanting to touch your butt and you dont really agree with him on a lot of things and hes really annoying and gosh sometimes you just have to blow your freaking top because it gets so annoying and
okay do you really think you can have 100% requited feelings for someone like that
ive thought long and hard about this and no the answer is no
you see e/r isnt like that ok if you want that then there’s marius/cosette you can go read some of that somewhere else
e/r isnt requited and e/r isnt normal and e/r is FUNCTIONAL its highly dysfunctional and its a mess and its something you look at and you just go
oh dear oh dear
and thats kind of how enjolras feels about grantaire i guess
theres a lot of head shaking involved with e/r and enjolras does all of it and well a lot of what grantaire does warrants gratuitous head shaking and judging because grantaire is a freaking mess
there is just so much freaking desperation on his part and omg its so sad it makes me want to cry because wow give the guy a break except it is all his fault i mean hes not really being the best that he could be and mAYBE
enjolras wants him to be the best that he could be (heck enjolras wants everyone to be the best that they can be and he expects them to do so) and maybe he pities him an awful lot and well come on who DOESNT pity grantaire hes really rather pitiful
so yeah its just awful amounts of pity and maybe they were pals once and grantaire just vaguely spiralled downwards and started doing things enjolras didnt agree with and maybe enjolras feels responsible for that and maybe enjolras is nice sometimes and its a horrible pattern of positive reinforcement and gosh grantaire is just a freaking puppy who needs to be loved ok please lOVE HIM except he pees on the carpet a lot and enjolras doesnt like him because of that
so yeah i kind of forgot where i was going with this but basically e/r cant work as 2 + 2 = 4
e/r is more like
and its really complicated and its really unhealthy but its really
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