Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized enjolras, enjolras x grantaire, grantaire, les miserables 2 Comments

A week after Les Mis the movie, I took to the novel and the fandom and found a new OTP:

These two, Enjolras and Grantaire, have BROKEN MY FLIPPIN’ HEART. Basically, it’s the other unrequited love story of the book (the first being Eponine and Marius).

[introducing Grantaire] “However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras.”

Enjolras has no time for such a sceptic and the one time he does trust Grantaire with something important, he finds him playing dominoes instead. But anyway, it builds up to the scene you see in the picture up there:

Grantaire, who has a bit of an alcohol problem, misses the final battle/the deaths of all his friends due to being passed out drunk. He wakes up in time to see Enjolras about to be executed-

““He repeated: “Long live the Republic!” crossed the room with a firm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras.

“Finish both of us at one blow,” said he.

Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile.”

Then they get shot and die, the end. EXCEPT IT WAS SUCH A LOVELY SUBPLOT and I’m really glad a little of it made it into the movie because I might never have discovered the whole ‘ship otherwise. (Although I always planned to eventually read the book, so…)

Anyway then stuff like THIS kept happening and someone made AN ACTUAL ANIME OF THE BOOK (I haven’t had the chance to see it yet, but tumblr seems to have a lot of screenshots) and basically, I am Done.