this is the dilemma of all human existence. and no fate poses this dilemma, ruin or salvation, more inexorably than love. love means life unless it means death. – part 4, book 8
Okay but let’s talk about Jean Valjean for a second, because he’s so often overlooked. I definitely head canon him as Asexual and Aromantic but look how much love he has for the world – like agape altruistic love, familial and platonic love and just… He doesn’t have romantic or sexual relations in the brick and that’s okay, like he doesn’t have to. There are other forms of loving and it just makes me very happy to see a character like him. He loves Cosette and Fantine fiercely, he loves the people he protects, he grows to love Marius, he love everyone he works with, he is kind to strangers and the poor and even frickin Montparnasse and even offers love towards Jarvert in that he bears him no ill will. I just love that ace Valjean. *heart eyes emoji* 😍
Day 3: A character you see as grey-a or demisexual
Jean Valjean // Les Misérables
❝With the exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter and in men who pass fifty.❞
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