deadrevolutionaries:

~Fantine: white clothes, sacrifice, a needle and thread, the memory of a child’s laughter, the faded taste of champagne, factory grease, a failed Paris romance, biting back the fear, soft hands, gentleness, regretful glances, tired feet and a long road to follow

~Jean Valjean: rosary beads, scarred skin, straight black unforgiving numbers, little shards of glass, a ship at sea, hidden treasure, flickering candles, a dark and lonely room, hot food given away, the taste of fruit picked in the sunlight, lost years, found children

~Cosette: song birds, flowers arranged artfully, love letters, a snowy wood, rags and bare feet, childhood friends, hidden things, moonlight, quiet tears, curled hair, a locked gate, the sound of gunshots on a hot summer night

~Javert: midnight, shining silver medallions, righteousness, falling and falling, newspapers, star charts, cool anger, defending the innocent, a chiming bell, a long long bridge, dread, the feeling of being so very very close to your goal, suspicion, loaded pistols, unflinching in dangerous times, unflinching in the dark

~Marius: gunpowder, flowers on an old grave, books and books on languages and law, long afternoons in the park, passionate poetry, shyness, not taking a cent, the french flag flying high, fraternity, eloquence, forgiving the old and grieving the young, a soft voice full of conviction: ‘my wife’

lawisnotmocked:

Update on reading the Brick that was too silly to go in my proper mostly serious liveblog:

Both Valjean and Javert have already run into multiple moral dilemmas and uncertainties at this point and I’ve noticed that they both respond in a different but distinct way

Valjean tends to respond to a problem like this

While our dear Inspector Javert usually responds to a problem like this

marius-new-hat-and-coat:

My school always puts on a dress rehearsal for the middle school drama class the day before opening night, and afterwards we do a little question and answer session with them. This time, someone asked Javert, “What is it like to be playing the bad guy?”

Javert looks them dead in the eye and responds, “What makes Javert the bad guy?”

And no one can answer.