if we use the old disney-rule that a duet between lovers is code for a sex scene then A Heart Full of Love and its reprise are just the story of Marius and Cosette being cockblocked by not only Eponine but also Valjean and Marius’ grandpa
I was thinking about what Valjean’s perspective on his crime was and if he would do the same thing again (ie he and Cosette are starving and he’s tempted to steal food) and what he considers moral
and there’s a discussion to be had there but I realized that it doesn’t really matter what he believes. if cosette was starving, he would steal the food. even if he fully believed that would damn him to hell. he’d do it in an instant for his daughter.
September 29 marked the day women across the world stood together against Bolsonaro, the fascist candidate in the presidential run in Brazil. He is racist, homophobic, sexist and a threat to brazilian democracy. Knowing the amis would stand up against him gives me peace of mind, so here is Musichetta, Cosette and Eponine showing their support to brazilian women #Elenão
I have a really vivid mental image of Marius standing outside Cosette’s window at midnight, blasting “Uptown Girl” on a boombox and it strikes me as being very in character
okay but Jean Valjean almost certainly has ptsd from his 19 years on the chain gang, and Cosette def has some deep trauma from years of living in an abusive household, and I just. papa valjean teaching cosette how to deal with panic attacks bc he knows what it feels like to wake up with your heart pounding and the walls closing in… cosette taking his hand and helping to ground him when she sees him start to dissociate… valjean holding cosette tight when she’s anxious and needs the pressure and safety… cosette making sure he eats regularly… valjean always making sure to keep his voice soft and move slowly even when she’s in trouble so he doesn’t trigger a panic attack or flashback…
Sometimes I wonder if Jean Valjean has already misnamed Cosette by calling her Baguette
I see your amusing headcanon and raise you the utterly devastating idea that he has probably at least once accidentally called her the name of one of his dead neices
so headcanon that Marius doesn’t tell Cosette about Courfeyrac because he’s still hurting from his death and talking about it with Cosette will only make it a confirmed reality
meanwhile Cosette notices that Marius sometimes carries around with him a handkerchief that she does not recognise as one of his own or hers (and not her papa’s either, Ursule is still a running joke between them)
one night he’s sitting on the edge of the bed gazing at it, and Cosette finally asks whose it might be
and that’s when Marius finally gives in and tells her about Courfeyrac because the handkerchief was his and it was the one item of Courfeyrac’s which Marius could not bare to part with, and how Cosette would not have noticed but he had tucked it into his pocket during their wedding so that, in a way, the best man would be present
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