Ah, it’s That Chapter in Brickclub! I always find this post to be enormously helpful in understanding thecultural context for Mme. T’s novels here. I actually wish it wasn’t all behind a cut, it’s just so much useful context!–Especially the bit about how a lot of the novels Hugo’s citing were by men “legitimizing” fictional forms women created by …writing the same thing but being men, and by how the specific narrative through-line of them ties in with Mme T’s expectations for herself and her girls.
After cosette introduced her dad to them; les amis de l’abc accepted jean valjean as their dad weirdly fast and as did valjean like over the course of a week Jean Valjean had unexpectedly adopted 11 college students and 1 ten year old and they all look up to him as a fatherly figure and randomly call him for advice and he is pretty sure that over half of them have him as their emergency contact now. Sometimes the call him and give him life updates like enjolras excitedly calling him one night: “GRANTAIRE ASKED ME OUT TO GET COFFEE TOMORROW!!! Wait what am i supposed to do?” Then proceeded to slightly panic while valjean gave him dating advice and told him to be himself (yesterday grantaire had called him for advice on how to ask out enjolras) and every time they tell him about one of their latest achievements in life he gets this swell of pride in his heart.
He goes to gavroches soccer/football games, grantaires art shows, courfeyracs plays or musicals, every protest he can go to, and every big event that matters to them because even though they arent actually his kids they practically are at this point
jean valjean modern day headcanons bc i don’t see it often
owns 5 dogs, all were once strays that he found
raising cosette with 5 dogs.. can u imagine… it precious
one of the dogs is called ursula. when marius finds that out, he dies
he has such a guilty conscience for his past, he tries his best to give to charities when he can
can u imagine big strong jean valjean, holding hands with tiny small cosette… precious
started greying when he was 30
always has mints and butterscotch in his pockets
always was down for tea parties with cosette, tiara and everything
he is the hot single dad
once went on a blind date with javert… it went well but jvj had to go earlier and he forgot to split the pay like he said he would… javert is bitter policeman neighbour and jvj can’t understand why he won’t call him back
probs makes the worse dad jokes, an example:
cosette: ‘can you draw me a bath please?’
jvj: ‘*already laughing as he grabs the pen and paper*’
feel free to add some??
– does cosettes hair everyday before school, probs asks for advice from moms and learns from youtube videos – The Ultimate PTA Dad ™ – once cosette was made fun of because she wore a dress to school so valjean absolutely wore one when he went to pick her up the next day – yes to the unstoppable dad jokes even when cosette is like 19, also makes them front of her friends, cosette is mortified but she loves him anyway – leTS COSETTE PRACTICE MAKEUP ON HIM – makes her cool and nutritious lunches in cute lunchboxes – is probs supportive of everything she does lbr (including that one time she wanted to be a stripper) – is confused about parenting 928382% of the time – probs read all the parenting books he could find when he first got her – im basically all for those tropes where single dads just learn the ropes as they go and their daughters turn out ‘weird’ by society standards but actually, awesome – ‘do you want more chicken marius’ ‘no thank you sir im full’ ‘well hello full im cosettes dad’ ‘daAAAAAD’ – beard with flowers and bows just because – cosette has a lot of followers on instagram and vine – the ones with valjean in them are the most popular – ‘DO IT FOR THE VINE DAD’ – has dabbed by request from cosette at least once
magloir: nothing could be worse than a door that can be opened from the outside by the first comer *there’s a violent knock on the door* myriel: come in!
javert being done with everything from the first moment he appears
tholomyès is so happy, he sings a spanish song
fantine selling her teeth
champmathieu’s trial
CATHERINE
fauchelevant getting rid of the gravedigger
“you will not leave by the window. you will leave by the door, it is healthier”
bald bossuet
gavroche & his brothers
bahorel
“to be free”
e x r
jolllly
“I have just met marius’ new hat and coat, with marius inside.”
marius making out with valjean’s handkerchief
marius crying against a tree
that one part when marius arrives to the barricade
marius asking courf for money
marius being the emo bitch he is
marius calling gillenormand father
marius refusing to wear anything that isn’t black
grantaire’s robespierre waistcoat
MUSICHETTA
mabeuf being the national treasure he is
gibelotte: *sees grantaire* *puts two more wine bottles on the table*
grantaire drinking two wine bottles before going to the barricade
jehan teaching latin to gavroche
bossuet: enj doesn’t love anyone enj: patria
“who’s there?” “The French Revolution!”
everyone is like, really gay
courf insulting the canon
Feuilly carving “vivent les peuples”
jehan shouting “Viva la France! Viva l’avenir!” before being shot
This noodle is madly in love with Cosette
gavroche knocking a national guard over with a cart
Monsieur Marius, I believe that i was a little bit in love with you
op’s sister’s child was close to death and they were starving but go off i guess…
op will starve again unless you know the meaning of the law but go off i guess……
op knows the meaning of those 19 years a slave to the law but go off i guess……..
op got five years for what they did, the rest because they tried to run but go off i guess……..
Commissaire of M-sur-M: (showing Javert around) Yeah things are pretty chill here overall. Just watch out for Father Madeleine, the tackling existentialist
Javert: What
Jean Valjean: (tackling Javert) WHO AM I
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