Tag: enjoltaire

starfieldcanvas:

dreamtaire:

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(via @dreamtaire) #ok nomally i try to avoid this kind of discourse but uh#fandom mischaracterizes grantaire So Much…. #in fact most of grantaire’s fanon characterization#would be Much more in line with bahorel #who is Much more Chaotic™ and headstrong#and argumentative #that whole exchange between bahorel and enjolras #that exchange is exactly how so much exr fic is written ??? #but UH #grantaire literally has so much respect for enjolras #and he’s very submissive and gentle towards enjolras always #and uh evidently hugo didn’t stress it enough how much grantaire looks up to and admires enjolras #and idk it’s just a fandom pet peeve that i see a lot that kind of uh #idk takes away from the beauty of their relationship #anyways that’s my soap box for today

I wouldn’t say he’s submissive toward Enjolras always. There are key moments where he explicitly sticks up for his own position to Enjolras’ face. The part where he prevails upon Enjolras to get himself sent to the Barriere du Maine, or the “Let me sleep here…until I die here,” bit. But the thing is, those moments? They’re key precisely because they’re exceptions to the rule!

I do think that if they interacted more directly more often, Grantaire’s penchant for quipping would come out more, but yeah, like. y’all. listen. listen. There is nothing in canon to suggest that Grantaire and Enjolras argue during ABC meetings! As far as we know, Grantaire never directly challenges his object of admiration while he’s soapboxing! At best, you can say that in the musical Grantaire adds a few funny comments that fit into the margins of Enjolras’ speech, but he doesn’t pick fights with the man. Doing that kind of shits-and-giggles pigtail-pulling in an actual activist meeting where people are trying to get work done is a surefire way to not get invited back ever. 

Grantaire’s depressive rambling happens during backroom downtime, the same time other ABC members use for shooting the shit about plays and setting things on fire and giving each other advice about their respective mistresses.

In my opinion, at least, Grantaire is a lot more interesting when his snarky downer side is visibly at war with his “treat Enjolras with tender deference” side. If you personally want to write a story where Grantaire argues with Enjolras during meetings while Enjolras is actually taking point brainstorming strategy with the others, or while he’s giving presentations about upcoming events, or whatever, you obviously can – it’s not totally implausible, especially if you’re drawing heavily on the musical’s characterization of Grantaire – but please at least be aware that it’s a fandom trope, not explicitly justified by canon, and shouldn’t be taken as a given.

lesmis-imagine:

Listen, I love sweet, awkward Enjolras who has trouble with pda as much as the next fan but please imagine if you will a really, really adorably physical Enjoltaire.

Imagine Enjolras and Grantaire being unable to keep their hands off each other for more than a second or two (“We’re making up for lost time~!” R insists, with his boyfriend cuddled up in his lap). It gets absolutely ridiculous; Enjolras sitting in Grantaire’s lap even though there are plenty of other chairs he could be sitting in (which has absolutely nothing to do with the way R’s hand rubbing his thigh and cupping his hips), intense after-argument makeout sessions that make everyone in the immediate vicinity feel slightly dirty, Enjolras draped across Grantaire’s lap with the artist running his fingers through his hair and ranting to Courf about something then completely loosing his train of thought because ‘Taire tugged on his hair in just the right way and goddamn that felt good. The Amis are all torn between thinking it’s adorable and begging them to just get a room.

One time poor Marius forgot one of his textbooks in the Musain and went back after a particularly argumentative meeting. He was still bright red when he got home and refused to talk about what he saw.

tattoograntaire:

like don’t get me wrong i love spontaneous and passionate jumping straight into a relationship e/r as much as anyone (that is to say, a hell of a lot) but do u know what gets me even more ????????

slow, tentative boyfriends e/r

e/r who maybe go on a few dates before they’re officially ‘together’

e/r who are nervous to even hold hands at first, who have been friends before they started dating and aren’t strangers to physical contact but this is /new/ and /different/ and maybe enj gets flustered and maybe r blushes a little 

e/r who don’t kiss until the 2nd or 3rd date, but when they do it’s soft and a little shy and maybe their noses bump a lil and they’re both laughing as they pull away

e/r who make the small leap from ‘dating’ to ‘boyfriends’ and it feels so right and neither of them stop smiling for days

e/r who /don’t/ spend every waking second together but it’s the little things that count- the way e will kiss r’s cheek in greeting before getting ready to speak in meetings. the way r will always send e a text asking how his day went. the way they’ll talk on the phone when they can’t manage to see each other

e/r who are low key on the pda but it’s definitely there: it’s there in e’s hand on r’s shoulder, and it’s there when r brushes hair from e’s face. in the way they touch palms in hello and squeeze hands in goodbye

e/r who love each other so much but not straight away. e/r who take time easing into their relationship, navigating and learning about each other, who enjoy spending time together, who make each other happy, who feel so lucky because oh my god my boyfriend is amazing

e/r who are soft and loving and sweet (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

ggrantairee:

Victor Hugo (about Enjolras): He did not seem to know that there was on the earth a being called woman.

Victor Hugo (about Grantaire): This fanaticism was neither an idea, nor a dogma, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras.

Literature experts: Straight? Straight? straights?