#fauchelevent's trying to flirt

[secretmellowblog]

I love how the first thing Fauchelevent says to Valjean in the convent is a stock pickup line:

"Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: if ever you do fall, it will be from there."

It's just like

Valjean: *terrified, panicking, not sure where he is, and having an emotional breakdown over Cosette nearly dying* Fauchelevent: Did you fall from heaven? bc baby.....ur an angel <3

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l’amis headcanons

these are just my personal opinions but i do get most of my info from the Brick + basic history, message me if u have questions or a different opinion tho! Enjolras -v v gay -for Grantaire specifically -french native (via the Brick; his family were likely French aristocrats) -studying law when he’s not arguing with a teacher -literally incapable of writing an essay within the given parameters it's always at least a page too long enj tag

Grantaire -bi as fuk -loves enj with every fiber in his being -moroccan on his father’s side and romani on his mother’s, hopped on a boat to france one day bc he heard the wine was good -actually is a genius, studying art but he took one Popperian philosophy class and hasn’t stopped trying to falsify enj since. -reads too many Greek mythology books he Needs to Stop -he has severe depression and is an alcoholic (this is straight from the brick!! however, this is not ///cute/// in any way; i don’t romanticize it at all but it’s important to acknowledge that he has mental health issues) taire tag enjoltaire tag

Combeferre -hes jus doin his queer lil thing being bi -literally!!! cannot!!! express!!! his love!!! for!!! Courfeyrac!!! -his family are Cargèse la Grecque (Corsican Greeks) -double majoring in philosophy and physics as an undergraduate degree before med school -his blood is probably 95% coffee ferre tag

Courfeyrac -very pansexual and somehow?? everyone he flirts with is attracted to him -he mainly flirts with ferre tho because ferre is the Love of his Life -spanish, moved to France from Spain to study law -“study” law lmaO he has a fuckin bookshelf full of trashy romance novels that he calls his “legal library” jhsdbfjkhsdg -he brings his mother’s sangria recipe to every meeting and nobody drinks it but him and ferre because it’s  ridiculously sweet but ferre is a good supportive boyfriend and dutifully has one glass every time courf tag courferre tag

Feuilly -he makes fans thats…. rly gay -i guess u could say he’s BahoreL’S BIGGEST FAN LMAO -lil redheaded nerd from Poland (according to the Brick, “He had for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him.”) -English major with a minor in Eastern European history -he really went to the fuckin barricade with a sword :’) a fucking sword :’))) dramatic impractical femme ass bitch :’)) feu tag

Bahorel -gay are u kidding…. -forever trying to get Feu to arm wrestle just so he has an excuse to hold his hand :)) -his family probably originated from Port-au-Prince in Haiti before being trafficked into France via the slave trade– he reminds me a lot of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who really was a general in the French Revolution -very lazy law student who is only in school to spite the system lmao -sdgfhjkdgh he literally has a ritual of cursing and flipping off the law school every time he passes by (“Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened… he took hygienic precautions… He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing.”) -tends to get into fights easily especially when drunk… he needs 2 chill…. bahorel tag feuhorel tag

Joly -poly + bi -constantly trying to get musichetta and bossuet into medical cots if u catch my drift :)))))))) -i headcanon joly as chinese-french, since that’s currently one of the largest immigrant groups in Paris. however, this characterization would be difficult for canon-era since Chinese immigration began in early to mid 1900s. however, once the Chinese immigration wave did begin, it resulted in the popularization of Eastern medicinal practices in Europe, which goes along w the brick’s characterization of joly as a med student -majoring in biology for his pre med and when he had to dissect a cow brain he almost puked on it -canonically, has some kind of anxiety disorder, most likely OCD and/or severe germaphobia (again, not to be romanticized!!! it would be a legitimate issue that would realistically affect his life in some negative ways) -always trying weird teas and herbal medicines -he thought that grantaire’s crush on enjolras was symptomatic of a brain tumor for the longest time joly tag

Bossuet Laigle (Lesgle) -who the fuck knows lmao he’s poly and ????? pan?? all he does is make gay jokes -chetta and joly know :^) -his mother was probably one of the 50k+ free black people that migrated to Paris after Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the United States and most likely met Bossuet’s father after he was given the posting office in Meaux, Paris by the king (the Meaux part is canonical and results in one of the best puns in the brick) -he’s a year behind Bahorel in law school and honestly……… his grades are abysmal help him -its not even because he’s stupid he’s literally just lazy and his professors always???change due dates without him knowing lmao -let! bossuet! be! bald! bossuet tag

Musichetta -bi + poly -started dating joly and bossuet after L'Amis began using the Musain as a meeting place, maybe she hooks up with Éponine too??????????? idk -french native, light skin, dark hair and brown eyes (in canon, she is “…white and dimpled, with the eyes of a fortune teller,“ this may indicate Romani origin) -works as a bartender in the Musain (for modern headcanons I think she studies English on the side, since Joly describes her as “very literary”) chetta tag jolsuchetta tag

Marius Pontmercy -he’s literally the only str8 here lmfaO -i mean maybe one time courfeyrac convinced him to dabble but it didn’t work which is fine bc he is devoted to Cosette -french native; like enj, his family were rich and closely affiliated with the monarchy -he’s an English major working towards becoming a lawyer and is the epitome of the Poor College Student -!!! freckly and shy and full of LOVE (it’s canon that his Bonapartist views conflicted with the more extreme politics of the rest of L'Amis. he’s not a doormat in any sense, but he is a quieter character since he’s learning the way of the revolution from the rest of L'Amis) -he’s so fuckign dramatic jshdbfhjdsb once he stood with his head against a tree in angst while cosette cried in the background like thats in the text actually marius tag

Cosette Fauchelevent -bi and proud!! -Marius is her angel -french native, “chestnut” hair, blue eyes, v innocent look about her -majoring in political science and interning as a journalist (obviously i’m ignoring the sexism of canon-era, but this career choice fits her canon personality: “Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her”) cosette tag marisette tag

Jehan  (Jean Prouvaire) -nonbinary af, pan -they’re “married to Romanticism” jhsbjkfhe they’re like the Queen Elizabeth of L'Amis -french native, according to canon, he too came from an extremely wealthy family -poetry major who is never matching ever at all -,sjbkjhdhj they literally learned four fucking languages just to read their four favorite poets and their past times include “saunter[ing] through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers” they’re Extrá jdhvfjhds jehan tag

Éponine Thénardier -shez-a-lesbian and the mess w marius is compulsive heterosexuality, genderfluid imo -she’s totally over marius but cosette…. come 2 think of it cosette is kinda cute… -her grandparents were likely immigrants from the french territory of guadeloupe (this is possible in canon, give or take a decade, because France received an influx of black immigrants in the late 19th century. also, guadeloupe’s enormous amount of internal conflict would account for the Thenardiers’ crooked ways and affiliation with crime gangs) -she’s gotta be an english major bc her entire adult introduction in the brick is a scene where she shows marius how well she can read and write despite being a plebeian -KBFKJHB SHE HAS SUCH A DEEP VOICE (“It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, roughened with brandy and liquor”) ponine tag

[esteliel]

Les Mis London Jan 10

This is as always not a real review but more notes on things that stood out to me (heavily skewed towards Old Men obviously.)

First off - Hayden’s wig! :D He had very nice whiskers and a ponytail that suited him very well. SO MUCH BETTER than that atrocious Broadway wig, not that it would be possible to be worse than that. I still don't know what they were thinking. In any case, the classic ponytail!Javert look suits him very well, and they also give us the tousled, strands pulled free from the ponytail and hanging into his face disheveled look for the suicide. I'm very pleased by this, even though he managed not to rip his trousers this time, but you can't have everything! :P

Hayden is still the smirkiest and smuggest Javert I've ever seen. During Toulon, Javert keeps smirking at Valjean for pretty much their entire interaction. He doesn’t use his cudgel as much as Jeremy does, but when he holds out the yellow ticket for Valjean, he doesn’t release it until Valjean turns his head to meet his eyes, and then Javert once again gives him a smirk before releasing the ticket. (Javert did no one ever teach you how to flirt properly???) He also really blatantly rolling his eyes during Fantine's “there’s a child that sorely needs me” and is in general still very smugly expressive.

Also Javert uses his cudgel to hand back Madeleine’s coat after the Runaway Cart. Teevert makes a very good clothes hanger.

During the Confrontation, when Valjean breaks the chair, Teevert gets all wide-eyed and terrified in response and stumbles several steps back! (This is aesthetically very pleasing to me but at the same time really not in character at all. I think I prefer my Javerts a bit less fearful there – I always appreciated Secombvert's bulldog Javert who you can feel is just itching for that physical fight in that situation.)

Simon also does the rock opera wailing of “there is power in me yet, my race is not yet do-one!” :D

When Simon lifts the cart from Fauchelevent he makes eye contact with Javert for the first few long seconds which is quite lovely and one of the few moments where I genuinely liked him.

Simon also gets angry with the Thénardiers and takes a menacing step forward while they haggle over Cosette, while they cower in response.

In general, Simon wasn’t outstanding, but okay. I’ve heard him called aggressive which – he wasn’t really most of the time, not physically, except for one or two scenes. But for example – his BHH was beautifully gentle as it started and I was already thinking to myself how lovely it was to hear it treated as a prayer, and then he basically shouted the last verse while doing some incredibly over the top gesturing with his arms? Come on. You don’t need that. We get it.

Javert interacts with the sniper again! It was one of the things that stood out to me from his Broadway performance because I've never seen a Javert do that before – and he's still doing that in London! It's a detail I like because I can just see Javert still trying to do his work undermining the insurgents even when he's a prisoner. On the other hand, he also still shouts “No!” when Enjolras hands him over to Valjean, which I find a bit more confusing because he's never shown fear before. Is it some special sort of reaction because it is Valjean he's given to? I just have a hard time seeing it make sense because Brick!Javert is so coldly delighted by the fact that Valjean will murder him because that is what criminals do.

Also once again A+ smirking during Valjean's Revenge when he pulls Valjean’s rifle against his chest. Simon on the other hand is unfortunately way more aggressive than Peter here, he just grabs Javert and wrestles him to the ground which seems a bit in direct opposition of “I'm a man no worse than any man”? Peter always managed to make that seem like an act of gentle exasperation instead.

Also Enjolras was agitatedly whispering to Javert at the Barricade when he was tied up and I'd love to know what he was saying to him!

Hayden still does the kneeling and visibly praying bit during One Day More! (I'm usually not into overtly religious Javerts but given that the musical gives him that background, okay. Though Adam Monley will always be my fave in that regard!) And he's still mostly singing his Suicide now instead of the growling/shouting from the Australian audios which is a relief as that never worked for me.

Simon's old Valjean is also disappointing; his wig is ugly and matted, no more lovely fluffy hair. ;__; Augh I will forever miss Peter's death scene and his grace and nobility and gentleness!

On the other hand, Simon does the Cosette nose boop before dying, awww!

Jonny Purchase was on again as Enjolras for this show, and I liked him more this time! Also Andy Conaghan was on as Bishop & Grantaire – I really liked him! No dick jokes from this Grantaire, but lots of e/R hugging. I'm usually not into e/R fanservice on stage at all, but that's probably because most stage Grantaires are awfully obnoxious, and Andy is so lowkey about everything that what there is is actually enjoyable to watch. His Bishop was also really lovely!

Lucy O’Byrne’s Fantine is quite enjoyable. Rachelle Anne Go is still my fave, but she's quite watchable. I also really liked Charlotte Kennedy's Cosette! Something about Zoe's voice just never worked for me in the role at all, so this is a real relief. On the other hand, this gets unfortunately hampered by the fact that there's no real Marius/Cosette chemistry on stage. It was my first time seeing Paul Wilkins' Marius, and he didn't leave a huge impression on me either. On the other hand, he's no Chris, so I'm not complaining!

The one real let down is that Hollie O'Donoghue's Eponine does absolutely nothing for me. :/ I don't know what it is, she doesn't even look like an Eponine to me – which is weird because I've loved lots of different Eponines and the only thing they have in common is the costume. Which leaves – the acting/body language, I guess? I really can't pin it down, I just came away with this impression that I saw a woman trying to dress up as Eponine, instead of being Eponine. A real disappointment, especially since I loved Eva Noblezada. :(

Final verdict: I'm really completely baffled by how my impression of Hayden changed from Broadway to London. It has to be the directing? Because what he does – the smirking and smugness and swagger – is actually quite entertaining to watch if it's reined in where it matters, whereas whatever was going on with Broadway seemed to encourage people to just go over the top with everything.

It's still not how I personally see musical!Javert (I loved Earl's tight control and focus which makes the unraveling of the derailment so much more powerful) but like this, it's entertaining to watch and at least feels consistent in itself and I just genuinely had fun watching!

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Paris is a Place in Which We Can Forget Ourselves

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by im_les_miserable

Enjolras is working tirelessly to prepare for the Les Amis's upcoming rally. Combeferre and Courfeyrac are just trying to keep him from losing his temper. Jehan's been acting really weird lately. Bahorel and Feuilly are still fighting over who stole the last of the Poptarts. Bossuet keeps tripping over his feet. Joly's got another cold. Marius and Cosette won't stop flirting. Eponine won't stop being jealous.

And of course, Grantaire's drunk.

In other words, it's just another day with the Les Amis de l'ABC.

Words: 1802, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Enjolras (Les Misérables), Grantaire (Les Misérables), Combeferre (Les Misérables), Courfeyrac (Les Misérables), Bahorel (Les Misérables), Jean "Jehan" Prouvaire, Bossuet Laigle, Feuilly (Les Misérables), Joly (Les Misérables), Marius Pontmercy, Eponine, Cosette Fauchelevent, Musichetta (Les Misérables)

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables), Courfeyrac/Jean Prouvaire, Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy

Additional Tags: I'm Bad At Tagging, Quotes for Chapter Titles, idek

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Enjoltaire One Shots

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by odettewritessuckers

Cool one-shots I try to write. There will be alternate universes, background relationships, fluff, smut, angst and more. Get ready to cry, laugh and kill your time.

Enjoltaire!

I tried!

Words: 346, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (2012)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Enjolras (Les Misérables), Grantaire (Les Misérables), Combeferre (Les Misérables), Alexander Hamilton, Éponine Thénardier, Courfeyrac (Les Misérables), Cosette Fauchelevent, Marius Pontmercy, John Laurens

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables), Enjolras & Grantaire (Les Misérables), Combeferre/Courfeyrac, Cosette Fauchelevent/Éponine Thénardier, Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy/Éponine Thénardier, Enjolras (Les Misérables)/Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton & John Laurens

Additional Tags: One Shot Collection, Fluff and Smut, Smut, Fluff, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Les Amis de l'ABC - Freeform, Les Misérables References, Les Amis de l'ABC Shenanigans, Unrequited Love, Love Confessions, Love Triangles, Idiots in Love, Love/Hate, Poetry, I'm Bad At Tagging, Bad Poetry, Bad Decisions, Flirting, Drunkenness, Drunken Confessions, Light BDSM, Kinks, Alternate Universe - Hogwarts, Halloween, Christmas, Holidays, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, First Time, Top Grantaire, Bottom Enjolras, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I Tried, Alternate Universe - World War II, Modern Era, 1830s, Barricades, On The Barricade, Enjolras Is Bad At Feelings, I Ship It

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