Man, Gavroche isn’t even my favorite he’s just the most fun to draw. Plus a bonus Enjolras.
Ah, Enjolras. So absolute. So symbolic. So COMPLETELY OUT OF HIS DEPTH against an 11 year old. XD
I’m glad you have fun drawing Gavroche, because I cannot get over your design for him! HIS TINY LITTLE FEET AND HIS POSTURE AND EVERYTHING he’s such a high-power engine of destruction and it’s GREAT.
I got bored so I made a map of Les Amis significant interactions with/feelings towards each other, with dialogue from the Brick and some manip’ed character designs. (Mostly just heavily edited screencaps from the movie.)
IT TOOK A LONG TIME. Click the high-res button to really get the flavour of it.
Grantaire finally built up the courage to ask Enjolras out, and he caught him as he walked into the Musain for a meeting and tried to ask him out; but Enjolras was exhausted and stressed about his finals and when Grantaire tried to ask, he interrupted with, “Will you fuck off, Grantaire, I don’t have time for you!”
Grantaire didn’t ask again.
You have a VERY MISLEADING url
do you ever think maybe the reason grantaire didn’t want to be involved with serious aspects of the revolution (the barriere du maine, building the barricade etc) because he knew that, by helping it to succeed, all he would be doing would be bringing enjolras’ inevitable death even closer and when it came down to it he would rather let enjolras hate him beyond all else for his apparent apathy despite the unbearable pain it would cause him than actively aid him in his own destruction lol bye
I have accidentally stumbled upon a book with some early drafts of Hugo’s works, and the OFPD scene was there. Roughly translated:
On the first floor they’re about to shoot Enjolras. Grantaire wakes up and says: I am with him. Shoot me.
Enjolras grasps [?] his hand.
‘Thank you,’ says Gr.
And hold on, just imagine this: Grantaire stands in front of the guns and says “I am with him. Shoot me.” He doesn’t announce his support for the cause, only his allegiance to Enjolras. And it seems that he doesn’t even want to die with him, because he doesn’t feel like he’s worth it. He rather hopes he can die instead of him, or at least before him. As if he was saying “If you want to shoot him, you’ll have to shoot me first.”
Grantaire doesn’t say anything to Enjolras, so he’s probably looking at the soldiers the whole time. And here we have Enjolras, who sees Grantaire, whom he used to scorn so often, consciously choosing to die for him. And acting as if he thought Enjolras would let him be executed right there in front of him. So he has to do something to let him know that he doesn’t really think Grantaire is good for nothing, that he accepts him, that he’s grateful. So he grasps his hand. And Grantaire, surprised, finally looks him in the eyes, and understands everything. And he says: “Thank you.”
OH MY GOD
