cosette and christine could save the world together but raoul and marius would just get lost in a cellar or sewer somewhere
And then sing sad songs about how their lady loves were maybe never real in the first place and cruel fate has led them to lose their damn fool selves underground.
Elsewhere in the sewers, a frustrated Javert and Daroga are angrily chasing Valjean and Erik-two criminals oppressed by society
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
you must tag @songoforpheus in every cute pet photo you can find. no exceptions.
the salty lesbians will come attacking with eposette (i am proud to be a salty lesbian-ish)
if you’re welcoming someone new to the fandom, or greeting your old friend, you must be super nice. like, everyone’s required to be nice.
pretty much everyone who’s read the brick is half brick half musical
“thank you so much for this one kudos!! you are my lifeline and support’
pretty much saints and gods
Very true. If I (song-of-orpheus, self-declared prophet) do not receive sacrifices of cat pictures I will be mysteriously drowned in the castle lake, and I’m not letting that happen for at least a few centuries.
Also, Éposette is Everything. I have only finished a few fics of them but they are still incredibly dear to my heart.
to further add on: i must also be tagged in any and all cute animal pictures (particularly cats) in order to fuel my mysterious rate of churning out endless amounts of courferre, eposette, and exr fics. it is the unspoken rule.
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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