vh described cosette as being ugly bc she was unhappy and that if she were happy perhaps she would be beautiful and now i cannot stop thinking of grantaire and vh describing him as “impossible” and “particularly ugly” and his crippling depression and selfhatred and i’m really upset
#This is where my brain goes #when we talk about #Grantaire #being ugly #In my head I don’t think he was hideous #I think he was probably remarkably plain #with probably crooked teeth #and the marks of hard living #but it’s his self-inflicted cynicism #and self-hatred #that pushes him over the line into ugly #were he happy #I think he would be transformed #in my experience #there are very few people in this world #who are truly physically ugly #everyone has something #about them that makes them beautiful #even if you can’t see it right away #love transforms you #when it’s returned #I think in his last moments #Grantaire would have been unbearably lovelyi’m gonna have to ask you to stop„„„,