also, the more i think about it, the more plausible it is that javert never recognizes valjean in m sur m. it’s kinda like the argument for why no one ever realizes clark kent is superman? because no one expects superman to ever masquerade as a human! it’s beneath him! and ridiculous! so not only has it been years since javert saw jvj (who also has to look a lot different when not starving and in rags and covered in grime), he would also just. never expect him to be mayor of a small town?? he’s a convict! he wouldn’t dare–he wouldn’t be ABLE to rise to such a position. so even if javert ever did think he looked familiar, or reminded him of 24601, he would have dismissed it outright because it’s just beyond comprehension that a prisoner could ever become this. there’s too much of a cognitive dissonance between a man he looked down upon as evil and less than human and the man he looks up to as a perfect model of respectability and authority.
until he lifts the cart. because, you know, if you saw clark kent lift a car, your passing comment that he resembles superman starts to become a lot more suspicious.
~prosopagnosia Javert~~~~
I have a whole post about this somewhere that I wrote like a year or more ago that’s exactly this so uh yes? Yes.
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