Haahahaha he calls his “un grand niais” at some point which is like “A huge dork” which I’m DELIGHTED by
Tag: les mis
i love this cast and this project so much. I posted a sketch on istagram and i finally decided to color it
This is amazing! Thank you so so much! Everyone looks fantastic!
Until you are Sleeping
Short exR fic, kinda angsty and shitty. Canon era, after the barricade w/ only Enj and R surviving.
TW: Mention of self-harm
Insp. in part by @enjoloras fic Chasing a Ghost, def go read that, it’s incredible.
Noise. Blood. Smoke. Suffocating smoke. He heard screams, gunshots, tasted iron and the copper tang of blood on his lips. Where were his friends? He could see nothing beyond an arms length away, bodies twisting and writhing in the fog and dirt. Voices. Pleading.
“Help”
“No!”
“Please”
Begging over and over and over until, one by one, they fell silent, their bodies collapsing at his feet, blank eyes staring up at him.
He was alone.
Enjolras awoke with a strangled scream, throwing the blankets off as he sat bolt upright in bed, gasping for air. He could still taste the smoke. Beside him, Grantaire stirred, raising himself half up on one elbow, looking at Enjolras through heavy-lidded eyes. He reached out, brushing Enjolras’ trembling wrist, then took his hand, pulling him against his chest, running his other hand through his boyfriend’s damp curls.
“Shhh. It’s okay. It was just a dream. You’re safe. You’re home.”
Grantaire repeated these words over and over, holding Enjolras’ shaking body close. Enjolras relaxed slightly at the touch, but tensed up again immediately, turning away from Grantaire’s embrace and shaking his head.
“Don’t.”
Grantaire reached out for him, running a hand along his back.
“What is it?”
“You don’t have to do this.”
“Yes. I do.”
“It happens so often now, you shouldn’t care anymore.”
“I will always care.”
“Don’t pretend.”
“I am not pretending.”
Grantaire slid up the cuff of Enjolras’ shirt, running a finger over the scars on his wrist. “I can’t let this happen to you.”
“You would gladly kill me if you knew what I’ve done.”
“You could never, in a thousand years, do anything to make me hurt you.”
Enjolras pulled free of Grantaire’s grasp, turning to face him with tears in his eyes. “You don’t understand. I killed them. I killed them and I watched them die. I killed them as surely as if I’d held a gun to their heads. I’m the reason they’re gone. The reason for grieving sisters and widows. I’m a monster, Taire!”
His tone escalated through the sentence until he was screaming, tears streaming down his cheeks, hands blindly snatching at thin air as though it could bring his friends back. Grantaire reached for him, only to have his hand slapped away.
“Stop!” Enjolras wrapped his arms around his own heaving chest, rocking back and forth, trembling from head to toe. “I don’t deserve to have you hold me and tell me that I’m safe, you’re here for me. I don’t deserve your love!”
“Everyone deserves love, no matter what. You are my love, for life, and nothing will ever change that.”
Enjolras’ only response was to bury his head in his hands, fingernails digging into his forehead, a ring of angry red crescents marring his pale skin.
Grantaire waited, murmuring reasurences to the trembling figure, feeling more helpless than ever.
He reached out, hands brushing across Enjolras’ back. This time, he did not pull away. Grantaire slid across the bed to gather him in his arms, holding him tightly to him, stroking his back and hair. Enjolras turned towards him, burying his face in Grantaire’s chest.
“I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“For this, for the mess that I am, for making you deal with me.”
“You are not making me do anything. I have chosen this, and would not trade it for the world. I love you, all of you, no matter what happens.”
“I should not be like this. I am weak.”
“Everyone is.”
“I can’t live like this, Taire.” Enjolras looked up at Grantaire, tears dripping down his face. “Will they ever go away?”
“I can’t promise they will. But I won’t either.”
Grantaire pulled Enjolras into a tighter embrace, clasping him against his chest until he could feel the other’s racing heart. He kissed the top of Enjolras’ head, stroking his hair and rocking him until he felt him relax and lean into him.
“You’ll stay with me?”
“Until you are sleeping.”
Courfeyrac: Are you a big spoon or a little spoon?
Enjolras: I’m a knife.
Grantaire, from across the room: He’s a little spoon.
Marius: Haha, how would you know?
Les Amis: *looks into the camera like they’re on the office*
Marius: What? What are you all looking at?
Reincarnation au where you only remember your past life when someone says the last words you heard before you died.
It’s Enjolras and Grantaire’s wedding day, each having written their own meaningful vows, Grantaire starting his first. He has marveled at the beauty of his soon to be husband, gushed and revered their time together. With tears of gratitude in his eyes, he ends his vows: “I love you, and if you let me, I would love you forever. Do you permit it?”
And suddenly it all comes rushing back.
the aromantic icon game
It’s ya girl, arolace, back at it again with inventing things that relate to being aro. Today’s question is: Are you tired of not being able to see yourself in the media? Well, look no further than this fun game! Help other aros like you discover fun characters that we can actually relate to! All you gotta do is:
1. Write character’s name and what book/movie/tv show they first appeared in
2. (optional) Since this is open to everyone who’s arospec, if you’d like to be more specific about what you headcanon/what is canon, feel free to write it down
3. any other details about the show/book/movie you feel is important
I’ll provide some examples to start it off
Data from Star Trek TNG. I hc him/them as aroace or greyroace and agender/nb, and Star Trek in general is actually a really good show if you’re not to into the romance plots
The Doctor from Doctor Who (specifically doctors 1, 3, 6, 7, war, 12 for aro hc) I think all the doctors are ace, but 1, 3, 6, 7, war, and 12 are super duper aroace. Sixie in particular has the very obvious six/peri QPR. Doctor Who (especially classic doctor who) has some of the most canon QPRs in any show ever. Also the remaining doctors are also pretty easily arospec but I’m too lazy to write them all down right now (later my dudes, later)
Merida from Brave. I mean come on ShE sHoOtS aRrOwS aNd WeArS gReEn AnD hAtEs ThE iDeA oF MaRrIgE. I hc as demiroace because she seems to hate the idea of getting married to some loser she doesn’t know but doesn’t necessarily ever say she wants to be single forever
who do you guys think? Can’t wait to hear your aro hcs!
Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia. I headcanoned him as aroace even before I knew that was a thing. He was the first character I could fully relate to since he clearly loves all his friends and doesn’t seem to be interested in romance.
the sequel doesn’t count that game can try to pry my aroace lloyd from my cold dead hands for all i careSorey from Tales of Zestiria. Again, an aroace headcanon. Sorry, I just get so excited when I find a character I can actually relate to. Also, Sorey and Mikleo in a queerplatonic relationship is the best thing ever.
Granny Weatherwax from the Discworld Witches books by Terry Pratchett has to be the archetypal autistic-coded non-amorous aro-ace-coded witch woman, at least to my mind. She has that common disconnection from society and its romantic entanglements but she will be there to save it in the end, even if she’s a shade (or a lot) disgruntled by the necessity and there’s nothing soft about her blunt tongue. I personally think her brand of cheerfully living alone combined with her willingness to wade into society’s problems when needed make her a better portrayal of non-amorous aro-ace than Clariel, plus she’s a thousand different types of clever and heroic in a very understated fashion.
(In fact, I feel that the the construct of the role of the Discworld witch and their service to society while living on its edges is very friendly to aromantics. And autistics.)
Granny Weatherwax is in several books, but you can see her as a main character in Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum, and she’s a supporting character in some of the Tiffany Aching books. But … just read all of Discworld, honestly. It’s not romance-free, so I don’t recommend it for folks who are very romance repulsed, but it’s generally not the central focus even in the books where it’s more of a significant presence, and several books are barely or minimally romantic. There’s heaps of characters who don’t have romantic relationships or, if they do, those relationships don’t have significant page-time. I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of Vimes and Sybil’s romantic relationship (which is against the prevailing opinion of many alloromantics I know) but it still doesn’t occupy too much of his stories!
If you like witty, clever fantasy and stories that are concerned with so much more than their characters’ romantic entanglements, Discworld.
Dean Winchester from Supernatural seems very aro to me. He does often have sexual relationships though so any sex repulsed aces should probably avoid this show.
@aroacestuff, Dean Winchester as an allosexual aro has just blown my mind! It makes so much sense about his character, his relationships and the show! So much sense! I mean, it’s not canon in the sense that they come right out and say it, but there’s so much evidence for Dean as an allosexual aro (who doesn’t know he’s aro) that I feel it’s more coding than headcanon. Hell, his trying to have romantic relationships and it never quite working and sticking instead with family and making found-family, and his primary, defining relationships always being platonic or familial–that feels so aro to me. So aro.
(And Dean and Castiel makes so much more sense, in terms of the narrative, as a QPR.
A romantic relationship between them always felt forced,
between the queerbaiting that it might go there and the evident truth that the show was never going to, but a QPR? That fits. It fits the show and it fits Dean. They just don’t know that’s what it’s called.)I’m still probably never going to make it past Season 11 because I was starting to find the later-later seasons too repetitive (not necessarily in individual episodes but in terms of season narrative arc) for my enjoyment, but I think I will have to rewatch the Supernatural seasons I do have with an eye for allo-aro Dean.
Thank you so much for pointing out just why I’ve always found Dean to be the more relatable of the brothers. Because he’s allo-aro.
Finn from Adventure Time. His obsession with Princess Bubblegum has no sense of depth, and is much more along the lines of “I think you’re really cool…is that what a crush is? Does that mean I like you?”
He has repeatedly told Jake that he’s not interested in going out with girls, and fails to see why Jake thinks Finn would be into dating.
His relationship with Flame Princess had disastrous effects to everyone, and after getting out of that relationship he describes himself as not really being able to feel anything like that. In one episode, Huntress Wizard tells him directly that “exceptional beasts like us cannot fall in love. That is the secret of ordinary people.” It’s evident in the series that that wasn’t just a throwaway line, and it was so important for Finn’s character to be validated by that.
Jean Valjean from Les Mis. I think he’s aroace and that might be why he seemed a lot happier living in the convent than anywhere else and why he seemed so uncomfortable at the wedding. There is a part in the book that says that he had trouble telling that Cosette had a crush on Marius because he had never had one himself. He and Cosette have this really beautiful found-family story that @euphrasievaljean did a lot better job of describing here than I could.
~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’
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