Maybe the reason for Jehan and Marius being the only ones known by first and second name is that they are the only ones who get the “misbehave and I will call you by your full name” treatment.
As in “Marius Pontmercy step away from that tree right now!”
I am not saying they are the only ones who deserve it.
This is brilliant and I adore it. You can never have enough of exasperated friends trying to deal with their r/Romantic friends’ nonsense.
“Jehan Prouvaire, get out of my garden, there are better things for you to be summoning spirits at half-past midnight!”
“Jehan Prouvaire why are my medical skulls covered in flowers? No, I don’t care that it’s asphodel, you’re going to break them.”
“Jehan Prouvaire, stop looking at the sky! No, I do not care that the clouds are the image of a lobster, you’re going to walk into a lamppost!”
“Marius Pontmercy, you have not slept for three days reading Goethe; go to bed! No roommate of mine will look so dishevelled in public!”
“Marius Pontmercy if you spend any more time sighing wistfully over Napoleon you shall run out of air all together!”
Feuilly definitely deserves this sort of thing (see, the sword), he’s not the most responsible of people, but he seems to kind and wise to be upset with (also everyone fears Enjolras’ wrath). Also, they’re all a bit awkward about the class difference so they’re not too fast to criticise him.
Bahorel would deserve it too, but he’s charming and hilarious so everyone forgives him, although he tends to some Jehan’s chaotic romanticism.
Courfeyrac and Enjolras only need a particular glance from Combeferre for the desired effect (before he turns away grabs another book on the minutiae of honeybees).
Combeferre doesn’t need to be told he’s a mess. He knows. But did you read the journal on ancient surgerical practise, Joly, my the Egyptians sure were advanced, did you know they performed eye surgeries using….
Bossuet has too many names to begin with – which would you use ? Bossuet Lesgles de Meaux is already a mouthful, and if you dared try there’s no way he wouldn’t have you both on the floor laughing about it within the minute. Dangerous.
Joly is sweet and a bit of a catastrophe and if you use his name he’ll either panic about whatever you’re saying – oh, but I heard onions had been used as a blister treatment, you don’t think it works? No, no, that’s not good; what if they spread to my brain, I’d die!
Grantaire is messy enough a soul that there can be little attempt to stop him; only to try and reduce the damage.
Alright, anyone who knows me knows that I like to joke around a lot about ships, but if I’m being perfectly honest, the kind of love I adore most in fiction is the love that isn’t romantic. Platonic love is great, but I also really, really love familial love, particularly found familial love.
I saw a comment somewhere that said Cosette was “the love of Valjean’s life,” and…it’s true. “Love of my life” is a term that’s usually used for romantic purposes, but when you think about it, it’s absolutely the term you would use to describe Valjean and Cosette. Cosette shaped Valjean and taught him the meaning of love in ways no one else had done before. Yes, the Bishop taught him virtue and compassion, and he felt genuine compassion and sympathy for Fantine and her situation, but true, deep love for another person was entirely alien to Valjean until he encountered Cosette. And Cosette, on the other hand, needed desperately to have a positive parental figure in her life, someone to love and cherish and protect her. The two became so very important in each other’s lives, and I’d argue that their love for each other was at the very heart of Les Mis as a story. Everything surrounding Fantine’s plight and Valjean’s suffering through prison led up to him encountering Cosette, and everything that followed was relevant to Valjean’s story because it involved Cosette in some way. Most things happened because Valjean and Cosette were destined to find each other, and then continued to happen because Valjean loved Cosette and wanted to make her happy.
And it’s beautiful, because their “love story” isn’t romantic, and the central “love story” didn’t have to be romantic in order for it to be powerful and beautiful. You can absolutely get meaningful, emotional stories from non-romantic love. It can be between two friends, it can be love between siblings, it can be a loving and doting father/daughter relationship. I don’t feel like media focuses a lot on deep yet non-romantic relationships as “love stories,” and it’s a shame, because there’s just so much more that can be explored outside of romance.
Courfeyrac: The cute funny guy that gets most of the leads and everyone has had a crush on at some point
Grantaire: he likes to act but always ends up on tech because no one is as good as him and the drama teacher totally depends on his tech skill
Marius: only signed up because his friends made him but ended up really liking it
Feuilly: thinks acting is really cool but doesn’t have enough time because of all his jobs so he always asks to be a small part
Bahorel: wanted to join since forever but always chose sports over theatre, but decided to finally do a show senior year
Combeferre: The best stage manager anyone could ask for. The cast will circle him and chant “combeferre’s in charge” before every performance and write #combeferreisincharge on everything
Bossuet: always gets the character roles and needs extra supervision with his props because he will probably break them
Joly: hes the kid who always has tea and cough drops and he makes sure everyone is drinking lots of water
Jehan: plans the cast parties and also helps out with costumes
Enjolras: turns out to be an amazing dancer and is dance captain and helps out the teacher with choreo. At first everyone thinks he’s full of himself and then they realize nope he’s just confident- he really is better than all of us
Cosette: has the voice of an angel and gets most of the lead roles but she’s so nice that no one can be too jealous
Eponine: started doing tech because of grantaire, stayed because she has a huge crush on cosette
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