guys i’m having an emotion about grantaire again
i blame that post going around with the thing
but like, can we talk about how incredibly important it is that grantaire dies loved? because i think that that’s really incredibly important, like important enough i might start crying
because hugo’s thing has always been about how important and wonderful love is and how it can transfigure people into something much more wonderful and transcendent and amazing and you look at enjolras, who is so beautiful because he loves so brilliantly and powerfully and unflinchingly, and he is loved, he’s beautiful because he loves and is loved, there is so much love and a fair portion fo it comes from grantaire
can you imagine how beautiful they were when they faced down the guard? when they both were loving and loved? even with everything else gone, they’re loving each other and they know now
it’s transparent now, that they love each other and they must absolutely glow in that moment.
i’m sorry i’m just having feels again i’m sorry i’m sorry
enjolras x grantaire
Inspired by and based on this post, which is a fragment of Victor Hugo’s original notes for Les Miserables, posted by flo-nelja. (Textures from planets-bend-between-us and rosebein.)
You know, that quote I reblogged not long ago (“Remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them”) quite nicely leads into a discussion of E/R as well, actually:
Because I’ve often heard people say that Grantaire was much more in love with Enjolras the idea than Enjolras the person, and to some extent that might be true, perhaps to R Enjolras represents the brighter future he can’t make himself completely believe in, or represents something he finds greater than himself at least. And Hugo outright says that Grantaire ‘venerated’ Enjolras, so there’s that.
So does R actually dehumanise (in a loose sense) E through idolising him? Maybe a little. Remember when Enjolras yells at Grantaire for being drunk at the barricade and Grantaire just looks at him “with indescribable gentleness”- doesn’t yell back, doesn’t really defend himself that much? That’s not healthy behaviour, especially since Enjolras’s assessment of him is extremely harsh and a little cruel.
BUT: then we have OFPD. And Grantaire wakes up to see Enjolras covered in blood, and at the point of a gun and about to die. Surely, surely he must see him as human now- he’s failed, just like Grantaire failed, he’s lost the battle and he’s about to lose his life. And Grantaire still goes to him, still cries out when he could’ve gotten away. I don’t think he’d have done that if he was only in love with the idea and not the man, after all, it was the man who was dying. I think they both died seeing each other as people, as people who were absolutely worthy of love, rather than disdain or veneration…
And you say “Each life has its place”
Ever since I finished drawing it, my girlfriend has been repeating she hates me and I’m an evil person. I have no idea why.
sclez:
why haven’t i seen fan art of a dark-skinned enjolras being worshiped by a light-skinned grantaire?
Apologies it’s so sloppy.
