In my life
There’s been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is…
[via nalyne]
enjolras
There are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction and; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the obverse of Enjolras.
Fic: Detail (Les Mis- E/R, R’s sister.)
The original screenplay for the Les Miserables movie had a tiny snippet of Grantaire’s sister and Enjolras’s mother looking for their bodies, which is what inspired this. It’s more book-canon than film-canon, I think- basically, what happened after E&R’s last heartbreaking scene.
I am still very new to this fandom so forgive any glaring errors. *sheepish*
It can be found on AO3, or:
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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.
And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him:
“Do you permit it?”
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.
Oh my gosh since there’s a car behind him, they weren’t filming, right? Does this mean this is how Aaron Tveit walks all the time?
#i think he’s just too into character #like the other actors would be conversing and he’s be like ‘stop this there is a revolution at hand our little lives don’t count at all’ and the actors where like ‘aaron calm down you’re not actually enjolras’ but he is #Aaronjolras