les miserables -reluctantheroine
Aha! The good thing about Les Mis is that potentially you can change it in adaptations. Speaking of-
1) Remove the people in charge of the current adaptation, make me showrunner instead
On a slightly more serious note
2) Make Eponine a bit more… Eponine in the musical. She gets portrayed as the perfect tragic heroine and that’s really not her. (Also, I really hope one of these days a production or an adaptation has the guts to make her ugly)
3) Include Azelma in the musical. She doesn’t even need to have lines! I just want her in there somewhere
4) In the novel: Fauchelevent’s death is dealt with in like two lines and that’s terribly unfair. He helped Valjean! He helped raise Cosette! He deserved better, a proper death scene or something
5) Also in the novel: Less sexism would have been nice, obviously, although I gather that considering the era it was written in it could’ve been a lot worse