after an incident in 2012 Joly, Bossuet, and Grantaire try to avoid pirates and mariachi bands at all costs
but then Marius and Combeferre decided to throw Courfeyrac the best birthday party ever, which included a band of pirates and a mariachi group
it does not go well
at least three things are on fire, the cake is stuffed into a trumpet, there’s for some reason a giraffe for which they’re all banned from the Parisian zoo, and Grantaire, Joly, and Bossuet are in a rowboat in the Seine, frantically rowing away from the police and some very angry pirates while Grantaire’s playing an accordion he took from the mariachi band
This is, without question, the best post that anyone has ever tagged me in.
But now I have to wonder, what was the original incident? Did Bossuet accidentally steal a trumpet from one of the mariachi players, forcing them all to take refuge among the pirates (which of course backfired because, as everyone knows, pirates prefer the low brass instruments)? Were they drafted to serve as extras in the mariachi band because the lead singer wasn’t wearing his glasses and mistook their pirate costumes for mariachi outfits, only to mortally offend the band members with Joly’s fantastically awful sense of rhythm? Inquiring minds want to know!
they were running away from Madame Houcheloup, whom they had mortally offended, and they came across a pirate ship. the pirate captain was having a birthday party with a mariachi band as entertainment.
the three of them stole mariachi costumes to escape her wrath, and as always with these three, things went wrong. things went so wrong. it’s hard to believe how wrong things went.
they ended up accidentally sinking the ship, insulting the captain’s honor by yelling that captains have to go down with them ship- that’s the rules of being captain, ruining the mariachi costumes and instruments, and starting a fist fight between a mariachi player and the first mate.
but the worst slight was that Joly offended everyone with his awful sense of rhythm while playing the maracas.
Update on reading the Brick that was too silly to go in my proper mostly serious liveblog:
Both Valjean and Javert have already run into multiple moral dilemmas and uncertainties at this point and I’ve noticed that they both respond in a different but distinct way
Valjean tends to respond to a problem like this
While our dear Inspector Javert usually responds to a problem like this
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