basically if someone ever asks you to describe the characters in les mis you can tell them that cosette represents the pure good, the thénardiers represent the pure evil, jean valjean represents the good in evil, and javert represents the evil in good
Real Deep Lore from even before my day, Nonny XD @irenydraws , you want to take this one?
/PUSHES GLASSES UP NOSE
long story short, a small portion of old man fandom was watching the ‘72 les mis movie one night and we decided that the only explanation for bernard fresson’s facial hair, as seen here–
–was that he must be keeping squirrels under his hat. in a fit of inspiration i drew a small doodle and from there things spiraled wildly out of control.
face squirrel canon is as nebulous as a face squirrel’s tail, but the general consensus is that javert’s face squirrels are highly trained police agents, top of their class at the finest police squirrel academy in france. they are motivated primarily by the idea of justice and the promise of candied almonds, and are rather more tractable than their inspector.
here is a (by no means comprehensive) list of face squirrel fanworks. my personal art tag can be found here, and i have a small collection of face squirrels on my main blog as well.
i hope that helps, this has been your daily plunge into fandom history with ireny
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