no listen if you want to do a royalty au it has to be enjolras as the scrappy commoner who is plotting to overthrow the monarchy and grantaire as the sheltered and nihilistic crown prince who drinks too much and doesn’t think about the oppression of the people under his family.
and then he meets enjolras and something changes and soon enough he comes to power and immediately abolishes the throne and the nobility and looks like we won’t need that revolution after all.
what he said: drink with me to days gone by could it be your fear to die will the world remember you when you fall could it be your death means nothing at all is your life just one more lie
what he meant: before the we all die does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me 👉👈🥺
no matter how cool we try to act every single one of us has had a moment where some blog we looked up to followed us back and we felt for a second like we truly made it
maybe not the absolute best thing about les miserables the novel (it’s a long book) but the one that stood out the most to me and has remained with me most strongly is that when the book is explaining to us the plight of fantine, who basically like finds herself poor and knocked up bc iirc she hooked up with some fuckboy who was never gonna stick around, victor hugo really takes pains to be clear that fantine did a lot of really dumb shit. she made stupid ass choices. she was naive and impulsive and unwise and myopic. it’s not a story where a tragic heroine did everything right and still got screwed. but the moral argument put forth by, i mean, to some degree the entire novel but particularly (to my recollection) by this section is essentially like, isn’t it so fucked up that we live in a society where someone can be functionally condemned to a life of suffering for the crime of being a fallible human being in their youth? isn’t being young and stupid and getting to move on from that a human right that we are denying people? shouldn’t you be allowed to be kind of an idiot without ruining your entire life? it’s such a clearly and expansively empathetic view and it’s an idea that people obviously continue to struggle with based on Any Time Anything Happens Ever and also one that i feel like continues to be rare in narrative art or media, at least expressed this fully or strongly.
