Les Amis de l’ABC | The Friends of the ABCA reinterpretation of the 19th century illustration by Frederic Lix from Les Miserables aka the one where they all look too old to be students. See a bigger version here.
So it’s finally done! A special thanks to fivie and daisy-is-not-a-flower for the encouragement and suggestions. And to et-in-arkadia, whose post started it all.
les amis de l’abcfrom left to right: enjolras, combeferre, courfeyrac, joly, lesgles, prouvaire, feuilly, bahorel, grantaire
it’s done! finally !! :^
A gift for PlinytheYounger(her ao3) in our latest miseres exchange.
She requested Valjean interacting with the amis and my mind immediately jump to this.
Aaaah, first time I saw this was on mobile with the entire right half of the image cut off, I kept scrolling up and down going “that is a lovely Valjean but are the Amis hiding or what???” Now that I can see it PROPERLY I love it even more (and aaah what a gorgeous sky).
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.
enjolras to combeferre: beautiful dawn – the wailin’ jennys
teach me how to see when i close my eyes / teach me to forgive and to apologize / show me how to love in the darkest dark
enjolras to courfeyrac: i never walk alone – huey lewis and the news
it ain’t what you got it’s who you know / we take that with us wherever we go / we stick together and we have our fun / you know we’re taking our days one by one
enjolras to feuilly: working man – imagine dragons
i think that this life is darker than the view / so help me help me help me /be a little more like you
enjolras to jehan: sing – patrick wolf
just sing, from the bottom of your heart / sing, blossom every broken part […] if your voice is vanishing / if your life is shortening / you must sing, sing
enjolras to bahorel: the fighter – the fray
the lover held her love / she begged him not to go […] but somehow they both know / he’s not coming home, coming home
enjolras to joly: seagull – bad company
here is a man asking the question / is this really the end of the world / seagull, you must have known for a long time / the shape of things to come
enjolras to bossuet: forever young – rod stewart
may good fortune be with you / may your guiding light be strong / build a stairway to heaven / with a prince or a vagabond
enjolras to grantaire: after the storm – mumford and sons
and i took you by the hand / and we stood tall / and remembered our own land / what we lived for / and there will come a time you’ll see with no more tears / and love will not break your heart but dismiss your fears
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Again [Marius] beheld Mabeuf fall, he heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the cold brow of Eponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, charming or tragic beings merely dreams?
Still brickin’ and I have three thoughts on this bit: a) WOE b) I bet you anything that this was the bit that inspired Empty Chairs At Empty Tables and c) I always forget that Marius and Grantaire were friends, I’ve read so many otherwise excellent fanfics where Marius either doesn’t care for or barely knows R that it came as a pleasant surprise to see him included. (Although Joly, Feuilly and Bahorel aren’t there, alas.)
