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[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[potatosonnet]

[quoth-the-goblin-nevermore]

I forgot I made these until I rediscovered them in my camera roll. Enjoy.

[the-lark-not-the-dove]

drew this little fellow. greatly inspired by aaron tveit in the 2012 film.

[jondrettegirls]

my thing with enjolras is i realllllly love a mean enjolras, i love it when he is just awful and perhaps cruel, i think its sooo fun and compelling but. thats not the True Enjolras to me. in my mind and heart the only true enjy is simply extraordinarily kind and compassionate and gentle (as well as harsh/fierce when needed ofc) but “let enjolras be perfect” is always so much harder to follow than “let r be an asshole”…….

[kenobihater]

i'm liking the donougher translation so far, save for one of my favorite lines being translated a little strangely.

in french, which i do speak a little of, the line is originally "enjolras était un jeune homme charmant, capable d'être terrible". this is often translated as "enjolras was a charming young man, capable of being terrible", which i think is the best translation. terrible is a cognate in french and english, having the same spelling and meaning in both languages, even if the pronunciation is different. i've seen it argued that terrible has slightly different implications in french vs english, that terrible in english brings only negative things to mind, whereas in french it is more ambiguous.

i'd like to argue against that! in english, terrible doesn't always mean wholly bad, it can be used in a more ambiguous manner as well, though this usage is more obscure and archiac for sure! the most notable example i can think of is the jrr tolkien quote from galadriel "and i shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night!", which to me implies almost a sense of awe. that galadriel is so beautiful that it's like being confronted with the rising or setting of the sun for the first time. i've also heard of "terrible storms", and i think the association with the word with feats of nature is interesting and adds layers to the description of enjolras.

i think you lose out on some of that when you translate terrible as fearsome. fearsome to me implies looking scary, which enjolras decidedly does not if you read the passages immediately following this sentence. donougher likely then is referring to his temperament, but i still think terrible would be a stronger choice here!

[meet-the-thenardiers]

So, I decided to rewatch My Happy Marriage (わたしの幸せな結婚) this weekend, and now I can't shake out of my head the idea that Kiyoka Kudo fits perfectly into the way Enjolras is described in the novel.

Yeah Grantaire, I would too follow him blindly!

[bluntandsaucy]

saw les mis and i'm so happy because enjolras was exactly how i imagined him and it was so fantastic

[kvothes]

enjolras for the love ask?

BOLD okay let’s see. mmm i feel like people lean on the side of making him abrasive and angry all the time but he is much more compelling to me as someone who is genuinely charming and kind and thoughtful but when pressed can become absolutely vicious. and that’s what i love about him.

[t0rturedp0etry]

PRIMARY MUSES.

[chaotic-history]

[1ntothebreach]

OTHER MEDIA.

[quoth-the-goblin-nevermore]

The “They will come when we call!” Line in the Les Mis musical breaks my heart. Enjolras is so certain that everyone has the same devotion to the people, enough to march to certain death for a glimmer of hope for their country, his Patria. I do suppose that Enjolras is mentioned to be a rare kind of man, and not everyone can “soar in the upper airs of faith” as he does.

[corvidcantina]

Has anyone ever drawn Enjolras as Saint Sebastian cause like

[brendannichols]

tag dump.

[ofpd]

enjolras is really the character of all time. he's the most attractive man ever. he's a virgin. his girlfriend is france. he's gay. he was born into wealth. his entire purpose in life is to lead a violent rebellion. he has a martyr complex. he loves his friends so much. he leads them to their deaths. he's angelic. he's only human. he's deeply repressed. he's entirely full of love for humanity. he understands violence to be necessary to the cause. he abhors it. he can be quite unthinkingly cruel. he's a charming young man. he's capable of being terrible. he's even blond