See, this is a difficult question not because I think any of them wouldn’t but because I think they all definitely would.
Enjolras shows up in a temper because someone was abusing a baby goat and who does things like that and raging about the injustices of animal abuse while cuddling the baby.
Combeferre is goat-sitting and enthuses about the many and varied uses for goats and has his goat litter-trained and thus figures he may as well bring it out to get socialized.
Courfeyrac confiscated the kid because it was being held as evidence at the police station or something and it was bleating and really, Enjolras, what was he supposed to do, leave it there?
One of Feuilly’s neighbors had the goat but couldn’t take care of it anymore, so he took it in, and it’s still young enough to need frequent feeding, so he brings it to the meeting.
Jehan turns up with the goat following at his heels, announces he’s named it Eurydice because it followed him out of hell, and declines to explain further. When Combeferre points out it is a boy goat he only gets a withering look in response.
Joly and Bossuet turn up with a goat, Bossuet’s arm in a sling, and about six bags full of potential goat foods Joly wants to try. Both of them look very shifty. They all decide it is probably best not to ask.
Bahorel met this dude with a baller goat, and the dude was totally an asshole, so he punched him out and took the goat. The goat’s name is Rex. Like T. Rex, Enjolras, cool it, I’m not indoctrinating my goat into the monarchy.
Some model for one of Grantaire’s art classes came with a goat because they thought it would make for a good ~pastoral painting~ or something, and then left the goat there, so Grantaire shrugged and brought it with him. It’s named Bottle. Shut up, Courfeyrac, that’s a totally legit goat name.
Marius does not know why this goat is following him will someone please help him and stop giggling and taking pictures :(((((
I really fancied drawing @deboracabral‘s version of Enjolras with his pointy ass nose, and I was also gonna draw her version of R too… but my version of R just demanded to come out and be sassy instead.
Oh no look at how pretty he is, I’m crying
Two can play at this game
Grantaire is like ‘oh shit there’s another one’
I see you… and I raise you… Grantaireception
“Can you believe them?”
–…Which one is your Jehan?
–I don’t know… I think they’re the one with bangs? Or I think I’ve seen them wear that T shirt before.
–I think they switched clothes.
–Oh god it’s like the Parent Trap.
“Idk just pick any”
–I think I’m seeing double.
–I don’t know how you’re supposed to see at all in these!!?
–What are you talking about? You’re blinder than I am!
“Both?” “Both is good”
–I think I hear someone coming!! Glitter bomb is armed and ready!!
–Well hurry up! We’re not as light as we think we are!
“I wonder what these sounds are” “I’m sure it’s not a glitter bomb being set”
Going off old letters and journal entries of the time, it seems to have been pretty common, yeah! Even friends who were on tu terms would often use last names to refer to each other. While some people almost always got called by one or the other–or by a nickname– If there was any particular pattern to it at super close levels of familiarity that applied across the board, I haven’t been able to pick it up!
Guys who were less close– casual acquaintances, or school friends but not close school friends, or coworkers, etc– seem to have used last names the vast majority of the time; it would probably be weirder to have men calling a casual acquaintance by his first name, unless the person in question was very young– adults talking to a teenager or child.
(My main sources for all this are of course letters and journals, mostly from Romantics– but since that was Hugo’s primary social scene, that’s close enough to being a realistic Social Norm for him.)
So the Amis using last names for each other a lot isn’t unusual or any particular sign of distance. My own advice to people looking to have them not calling each other by the last name all the time would be to just substitute out with nicknames or terms of affection, which were also very common.
Because otherwise sorting out all those Jeans is gonna get exhausting XD
ENJOLRAS – has three little circles on his collarbone forming the Borromean circles link- it’s a maths thing where all three circles can only be linked using three, and take one away and it doesn’t work. The triumvirate all have these. He also has a tiny cartoon line tattoo of a sun on the inside of his left wrist
COMBEFERRE – the same circles as Enjolras and a silhouette of a moth on the inside of his right arm. A series of arrows along his left forearm
COURFEYRAC- the circles again, and little symbols forming almost like a doodle tattoo sleeve on his right shoulder and upper arm. Includes the rainbow flag, a compass, a doodle of a lion and the words “carpe the fucking diem”
GRANTAIRE- tattoo sleeves, quite a few flowers and just general patterns. Hates wearing jewellery so has the letter E on his ring finger (yes I stole this from Lin Manuel Miranda, who has V for his wife Vanessa). Has a constellation of stars across his upper back which Enjolras likes to add to with biro when waiting for him to wake up.
JOLY – tattoos are unhygienic!
BOSSUET – “felix culpa” which means happy mistake/ when something bad eventually leads to something good. Unfortunately there’s a spelling mistake in it.
BAHOREL – series of rings wrapping all the way up his arms with vines twirling around.
JEHAN – a cartoon skull on the back of his shoulder, and something poetic along his wrist
FEUILLY – a row of tiny little circles along the inside of his arm, one for each Amis
MARIUS – has a tiny line on his back from where Cosette tried to get him to have a heart but he passed out before they could finish it
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