“The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant glance of the transfigured drunken man.“
I did nothing but coloring the scene from Takahiro Arai sensei’s manga.
Grantaire off to the side singing Let Him Live for Enjolras the night before the final attack, not even believing in god but seeing this prayer as a last resort, and choking up on “if i die, let me die”
I’m sorry, but I’m currently in love with this paragraph in the brick: “One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You might just as well say O and P as Orestes and Pylades.”
Like, I have things to ramble about but also it’s like literally three am for me so this is short and probably confusing
If you’re part of the Les Mis fandom and hear E and R, you’ll probably think Enjolras and Grantaire. Aka, ‘you might as well say E and R as Enjolras and Grantaire.’ A modern version of the fame of O and P.
Also, there’s so much symbolism with the whole alphabet thing? Like, if we use the first letters of their names, P comes after O, making them ‘inseparable’. Apply that to Enjolras and Grantaire, you’ve got ‘EFG’. Not inseparable, but close together. And if E stands for Enjolras and G for Grantaire, F must stand for something. Maybe France. France, and it’s people, separates Enjolras and Grantaire, but also makes sure there is no space left between them. The cause keeps them together and apart.
The above doesn’t really apply if you take into account the fact that Grantaire is referred to as R (I just… live for puns, flawless naming on Hugo’s part, excepts for when he, you know, left out the first names of half his characters). It can be argued that in the original drafts Grantaire’s name was Grange (he would’ve signed as G that way). But if you stick to Grantaire deciding to sign as R, that also can represent a lot of things. Grantaire removes himself from Enjolras, he’s a rejected Pylades and he acknowledges it, furthering the distance between their two letters.
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