listen i love fanon Hot Mess grantaire as much as the person next to me but i can’t help but feel that if you actually met modern au grantaire, he would be more like that lad kind of guy who’s in a different study program but sits in your class because he still lacks 2.5 credit points for graduation, but he just needs to pass, not a good grade, so he constantly raises his hand to ask semi-nonsensical questions that he hopes will make the professor interrupt her lecture and go on a tangent and when she doesn’t immediately gives him his turn he repeatedly shouts “um excuse me?? i have a short question” and then phrases it in the most unnecessarily lengthy way just to annoy everyone, so there’s an immediate, collective groan whenever his hand goes up, and you’re like, goddamnit it’s eight in the morning and i just want this to be Done, and when you happen to sit next to him he won’t shut up about the latest discourse in the flat earth discord he’s following ironically, and then he adds you on facebook and you find out he once wore a “make america great again” snapback to uni every day for three weeks “to troll people and see what their reactions would be” and then published a thinkpiece post about it on his wall
Give me teen Cosette being so shy she perpetually hides her face in a scarf and nervously plays with her hair whenever she can’t do so, never looking directly someone in the eyes to avoid seeing mockery in them
Give me teen Cosette who can only find flaws in her appearance – she’s too skinny, too pale, with too many dark circles under her eye, the brace doesn’t suit her- no matter what her totally enamoured and loving papa says
Give me teen Cosette not having many friends because of this but still being polite and kind and generous with everyone
Give me growing up Cosette who start getting tired of this and sick of being afraid of being herself and showing herself for what she is and what she looks like
Cosette who starts watching make up tutorials on youtube and becomes very good at make up herself (”No papa, my smile isn’t the only make up I need”)
Cosette who’s still unsure of herself but fake it till you make it, am I right?
Give me Cosette who after some time finally gathers the strength to show up at those “les amis de l’abc” meetings she always heard of and never had the courage to attend
Cosette who introduce herself with such conviction (daring anyone in the small crowd of strangers not to take her seriously) and yet grace that someone shouts “wow Enjolras why didn’t you tell us you had a twin”
Enjolras being dubious about her at first but immediately regretting it the moment he hears her talking about equality and feminism and glass ceiling (“I’M SO SORRY THAT’S SO HYPOCRITICAL OF ME DOUBTING SOMEONE FOR BEING GOOD-LOOKING”)
Cosette that gradually grows to be so comfortable around these kind and totally crazy people that she even manages to show herself without make up (and is still obviously gorgeous ) (her papa cries a little when he sees her go out like that so confidently but shh don’t tell that to anyone)
Give me growingly-confident Cosette gradually revealing her sunny and kind but also mischievous personality to her friends
Give me Cosette who doesn’t take anyone shit anymore and doesn’t allow anyone to walk over her or her friends
Grantaire personally can’t wait for the cold weather to drag its ass back amongst them mere mortals because a) hoodies and scarves and b) Enjolras wearing /his/ hoodies and scarves
Around the beginning of September, Enjolras and Grantaire sit down and make a very serious TV planning with all the shows that they want to watch together, taking both of their schedules into account
Enjolras tries to bake an apple pie every year, since it’s Grantaire’s favourite, but always burns the curst or something disastrously similar. Grantaire will still eat it though, bless his soul
Enjolras always picks up the crunchiest-looking leaves for Grantaire
Coffee dates in the yellowing and reddening parks of Paris with traveling mugs. Grantaire brings marshmallows
Grantaire teaches Enjolras that sipping apple juice through a cinnamon stick is very much a thing and that it’ll change his life
As the nights get more chilly, they opt for the “huddling for warmth” method rather than adding a blanket
Grantaire: Wanna know what I’m feeling? Enjolras: *heavy sigh*: How are you feeling? Grantaire:
Hey, quick suggestion, what about stop making Montparnasse the one-dimensional villain in fics when there are so many other, definietly more intriguing possibilities like
the sassy, sullen co-worker in your coffee shop AU who wears too much eyeliner and is absolutely done with all the flirting going on around him
the super eccentric leader of the drama club in your High School AU or
the super eccentric drama teacher in your Teacher AU who tries (and fails) every year to get Rocky Horror Picture Show approved
the disgruntled hot topic employee
the other neighbour in your cute new neighbour AU with three black cats, a love for dramatic music and worryingly irregular work hours
the constantly glitter wearing fashion blogger silently judging everyone (except Bahorel, because Bahorel has style, okay?)
the weird cousin no one really likes or actually knows anything about but is still invited for Christmas every year
the tattoo covered, black-haired second flower shop employee with a weird foible for roses next to the cute, flustered, nerdy one in your Flower and Tattoo Shop AU
the guy in the other holding cell that constantly flirts with every police officer nearby and always gets out first because there’s no solid evidence to send him up
the snippy, overly dramatic, incredibly smart criminal child who steals nice clothes, tries not to show that he cares too much, desperately seeks respect and admiration and goes to any lengths to get those, who is a deeply flawed but incredibly multifaceted, interesting character – oh wait… that’s canon.
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
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