#mariposette

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

I think when it comes to lesbian eponine, another huge factor could be her relationship to Cosette? They don't actually hate each other. They like the same guy (even if it's comphet) and come from the same abusive environment. And Eponine sees Cosette as "better" than her, and having an easier life, and she hates her for that reason, when she really just envies her.

Oh yeah absolutely. like, it's probably complete self-projection, but I view all of Éponine's interactions as being "a lesbian with BPD and CPTSD."

One of my favorite Les Mis dynamics/ships is "Cosette is dating Marius and also dating Éponine; and Éponine and Marius are best friends." Because Ép and Cosette share that childhood trauma, and Cosette ACTUALLY loves Marius, while Éponine just thinks she does.

in canon or even fanon I think it'd take A LOT of character development for Éposette (or a triad involving Marius) to happen. but honestly, in a way, that's part of why i love it. lfdaghafigh les mis is probably my most multiship fandom, and as i said, comphet lesbian éponine is VERY important to me.

like, as I've said, On My Own is absolutely a comphet/maladaptive daydreaming song - but I do not think that that diminishes Éponine's feelings for Marius in any way! I think it just allows for the audience to see her feelings in a different context than the norm.

also, ép's moment in the brick where she wants to drown herself, but chooses not to, only because the water is cold, is such a mood.

like...listen, i'm not making this post as a way to be against mariposette (or whatever the ship name is) shippers. but rather it's to be FOR whatever the fuck comphet lesbian éponine feelings i have. like, i love éposette, but also i think a huge part of lesbiponine in general does not necessarily have to involve her ships. sometimes it can be just based on vibes.

[strawbcrrywine]

fav dynamics: THE TEENAGE LOVE TRIANGLE

In my life

There is someone who touches my life

Waiting near

Waiting here

[fleetwoodworm]

sometimes a family is a girl, her mother, her adopted father, her adopted fathers boyfriend, her boyfriend, her girlfriend, and her girlfriends two younger siblings and i think that’s beautiful

[mysunfreckle]

“Hoards and Herds” 

Or: the finale of “For Love of Lore”, in which:

Enjolras is a dragon (who is not hoarding his friends),

Grantaire and Éponine are selkies,

Jehan is a wisp,

Montparnasse is a kelpie (who refuses to attend ABC meetings)

Cosette is a swan maiden,

Marius is a half-elf,

Courfeyrac is a troll (of the friendly, non human-eating kind, thank you very much),

Combeferre is a vampire (also of the non human-eating kind),

Musichetta is a woodsprite,

Bossuet is a fae,

Joly is not a mermaid but a jiaoren,

Feuilly is a werewolf,

And Bahorel is – presumably – human.

[amerileste-cressderqueen]

So is there a ship name for Marius/Cosette/Eponine or.....

[luciphe-r]

Oversharing tag game!!!

Thank you so much@nuytsia-floribunda for tagging me!!! I dont really know who to tag so please if you want to do this say i tagged you

My fandoms

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood/Mangaverse, Les Mis, Marvel CU, Marvel Netflix, Harry Potter (marginal), used to be *really* into kpop but won't talk about it lol

The first character you loved

Fmab: Roy Mustang

Les Mis: Enjolras

MCU: Iron Man

Marvel Netflix: Jessica Jones

HP: Hermione

The character you never expected to love so much

FMAB: GreedLing

Les Mis: Joly

MCU: Thor

Marvel N: Frank Castle

HP: Ron

The character you relate to the most

FMAB: Ed? All of them on some level

Les Mis: Grantaire!!!!!!

MCU: .........Bruce Banner........

Marvel N: Jessica Jones...

HP: Remus

The character you'd slap

FMAB: Pride

Les Mis: ... Hugo...

MCU: Steve. (Even though i did agree with him in civil war)

Marvel N: Daredevil

HP: Id fucking deck piton

Three favorite characters in order of preference

FMAB: Riza, Alphonse, Izumi

Les Mis: R, Valejan, Enjolras

MCU: Thor (t:r!), Bruce Banner, Nakia +Spidey!!!

Marvel N: Jessica Jones, Frank Castle, Karen Page

HP: Sirius, Remus, Ron

A character you liked at first but dont anymore

FMAB: n o n e. i love them all

Les Mis: im a lil fed up with the whole thing but eh no one... i love them all still

MCU: Scarlett Widow......

Marvel N: Luke Cage... an excuse of a character

HP: Hermione

A character you didn't like at first but that now you love

FMAB: General Alex Louis Armstrong, my poor boy i love him

Les Mis: Marius... he seemed... dumb...

MCU: T h o r, thanks taika for my heart

Marvel N: Frank

HP: Luna Lovegood, she was a ravenclaw like me and sounded like i never wanted to sound like... i love my bby now

Three OTPs

FMAB: Royai, Almei, Edwin (Olivier×Me)

Les Mis: Enjoltaire, Mariposette, Courferre

MCU: i equally like stony and stucky tbh... so that's 2, banner×thor, clintasha (if clint wasnt married with children in the mcu but yknow... *someone* had to fuck that up)

Marvel N: Kastle, Jessica×Oscar though i was rooting for Jessica×Daredevil, Foggy×Self Care

HP: Romione, i... really think drarry could have worked..., Ginny×Luna *side eye emoji*

!!!!!

That was incredibly fun, thank you SO much again <3

[granteares]

!!!!! EPONINE/COSETTE/MARIUS!!!!! WHERE'S MY AU WHERE EPONINE SURVIVES AND MARIUS TAKES HER IN AND SHE LIVES WITH MARIUS AND COSETTE AND THEY ALL START GOING PLACES TOGETHER, TOURING THE WORLD AND SHARING TINY FLATS, AND ALL OF THEM FALL IN LOVE AS THEY GET TO KNOW EACHOTHER MORE, COSETTE AND MARIUS ARE ALREADY IN LOVE, BUT THEN THEY START FALLING IN LOVE WITH EPONINE, TOO, AND THEN THEY CONFESS TO EACHOTHER ABT IT AND THEY MAKE A PLAN TO WOO EPONINE, NOT KNOWING SHE'S IN LOVE WITH THEM TOO

(2/2) i lovE THEM SO MUCHH

I LOVE THEM TOO AHHHHH YES I AM 10000% BEHIND THIS SHIP AND THIS AU PLEASE!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[mysunfreckle]

Wonderful as it is to walk through the town with Cosette, hands clasped and heads raised proudly, Éponine secretly likes their midnight-dates best. Cosette is so beautiful, wrapped only in her feathers, the moonlight kissing her skin silvery where the white down has slipped off her shoulder.

They are both barefoot on dewy grass, Éponine only wrapped in her seal coat, and the world feels so different like this. The night’s sky is wider, but the horizon closer, as if the sea is never more than a single jumping step away.

It feels to Éponine like she could sweep Cosette of her feet and into her arms and start running in any direction she chose and no harm could come to them wherever they went.

This collection of folkloric nonsense is still not done! Here is 1.8k about the first meeting between two soft shapeshifting girlfriends and one silly elvish boy.

There’s moonlight, there’s music, Marius’ headbutts a tree. The usual~

[mysunfreckle]

Could you write something fluffy with Eposette? You don’t have to if you’re busy but if you do...

A visit to Fantine

Developing Eposette(with background Marisette), Fluff, 1.8k

[This was a challenge, I do not write these girls often enough, so I pushed myself to write something in my ‘official modern au’. I hope you’re not averse to mariposette, anon

It’s notthat Éponine is nervous, but— Well,no, scratch that, she’s incredibly nervous. Which is ridiculous, she knowsthat. It’s not like she hasn’t met friends’ parents before, even if the likelihoodof that is a lot smaller nowadays than it was in high school. Besides, Cosettetalks about her mom so much that Éponine feels like she knows her already. Shealso sounds incredibly nice. As nice as Cosette, which is—

“We’renearly at our stop,” Cosette says cheerfully and Éponine smiles at her, becausethat’s all she seems capable of doing these days. She suddenly wishes Mariuswas here, he knows Fantine already and having him here – in all his officialcapacity as one of her best friends and Cosette’s actual boyfriend –   shouldat least help a little to keep her thoughtsin check. Because right now Cosette, sitting opposite her on the train, in hersalmon dress, travelling to introduce her to her mother, is just a bit too much like the stuff of dreams. Dreams Époninecan’t afford to have.

“I’m so gladyou wanted to come,” Cosette says and for a second Éponine almost thinks shesees some of her own nerves behind the warmth in Cosette’s eyes. It’s gone instantlythough and she continues:

“The ride’sgone much faster with you here.”

“Well, itnearly was a lot longer,” Éponine grimaces. She had gone to the wrong platformat first, nearly missing the train and nearly making Cosette miss it becauseshe was out looking for her.

“I was intime to rescue you,” Cosette says lightly. “And we made it just fine. A miss isas good as a mile.”

“What?”Éponine laughs.

“A miss isa good as a mile,” Cosette repeats. “If something goes right, it doesn’t matterhow close it got to going wrong.”

“Yeah, Igot that,” Éponine smiles. “From context. But I’ve never heard anyone say that.”

Cosette’scheeks colour a little and damn it she’s too cute for human comprehension.

“It’s froma book,” Cosette says, now looking as pink as her dress. “Now I think about it,it must be a really old expression. Probably no one uses it anymore.”

“It’s agood one though,” Éponine says hastily. Cosette always talks prettily, evenwhen she curses she does it poetically. Terrifying, but poetically. “What book?”she asks and Cosette smiles.

“Little Houseon the Prairie?”

The name isvaguely familiar, but Éponine has very little idea of what it actually is. “Isn’tthat an American tv show?” she frowns.

“Yes,”Cosette says, wrinkling her nose slightly. “I don’t like the series much.” Shelifts up her eyes. “The books are wonderful. Very idealistic, I know, consideringit’s about pioneering. But they’re just so cosy.”

They are interruptedby the need to get off the train, but during the walk to Fantine’s houseÉponine gets to hear at least a little of Cosette’s gushing about muslindresses and homemade cheese.

Apparentlyshe’s grinning a bit too widely, because Cosette gives her a scolding push. “Don’tlaugh at me!”

“I’m not,”Éponine chuckles. It’s just cute. And typical. She’s pretty sure that Cosettehas lived in cities all her life, just like she has.

“You aretoo!” Cosette huffs. “And I’ll have you know that rural escape fantasies are biculture.”

Époninesnorts. “I think I know at least a few people you’ll have to fight on that.”

“I’m sorry,”Cosette says airily. “I don’t make the rules.”

Époninewould argue, except she really doesn’t want to and before she can think ofsomething she does want to say, it turns out they’ve arrived.

“Tada,”Cosette laughs, giving a little wave of her hand.

There areroses growing by the door and Éponine takes a moment to appreciate that theuniverse at least has some sense of living up to expectations.

“Maman?”Cosette calls out as soon as she has unlocked and opened the door.

There is aglad shout of greeting in return from someone in the house and before Époninehas a moment to compose herself Cosette is holding her hand and she’s beingdragged through the tiny hallway and into a cheerful living room. It’s so cosyand homey that Éponine would like to tell the universe it’s overdoing it a bitby now, but she needs her attention for the young woman in the blue dress andblazer that must be Cosette’s mother.

Cosettelets go of her hand and Éponine quickly retracts it, because her first impulseis to reach for her.

“Welcomehome, darling,” Fantine says, hugging Cosette tight.

“Maman,”Cosette says and she smiles just likeher mother. “This is Éponine.”

“Well, it’shigh time I actually got to see you,” Fantine says warmly and Éponine letsherself be kissed on both cheeks with an odd feeling of appreciation. Fantinedoes really feel like a mom, even if she barely looks ten years older than thetwo of them. Éponine knows Fantine had Cosette very young, no older thansixteen if she remembers right, but she hadn’t expected her to look so young.

“How lovelyto have you both here,” she says. “And I do appreciate it, Éponine, it’s quitea trip to go up and down in a day.”

“Thanks forinviting me, ma- Fantine,” Éponine says.

Fantinelaughs, eyes twinkling. “I hear you’ve been instructed already, very good. Ireally do prefer Fantine.” She glances down. “Look at me still in my workclothes, I can’t tell you how hot it was today. Speaking of work, Simplicesends her love.”

Cosettemakes a cheerful noise and Éponine nervously tries to remember if she shouldknow who Simplice is. She really needs to stop being so silly, her heart isskipping just a bit too fast and she can still feel the press of Cosette’s handon her own.

“Oh,Éponine!” Fantine says, taking off her blazer and looking up at her cheerfully.“Cosette told me you had a big test a few weeks ago, have you heard back yet?”

Éponine canjust see Cosette’s apologetic smile from the corner of her eye. “Eh, yes,” shesays, smiling at Fantine. “I did well.”

The wayFantine’s face lights up is very much like Cosette’s. Honestly, Cosette isstarting to make more sense by the minute.

“That’sfantastic,” Fantine beams. “Well done you!” She turns around. “Well, thatwarrants celebration! Strawberries for dessert, I think!”

Éponine canfeel her face grow hot. “It was just small test,” she mutters.

“Oh, but Iknow you study so hard,” Fantine says earnestly and Cosette adds cheerfully:

“Neverargue with strawberries.”

“Quiteright,” Fantine nods. “Go on, show Éponine around the house if you like,Cosette, I’ll get started on dinner.”

“I’d liketo help,” Éponine offers immediately. She was right, Fantine is nice. Far too nice and she wants toshow that even if she might have had to teach them to herself, she has goodmanners.

“Thank you,dear,” she smiles. “And I’d love a hand later on, but the prep I can handle onmy own. You two run along.”

Cosettegives Éponine a reassuring look, following it up immediately with a grin. “Doyou want to see my room?”

“God, I’mtwelve again,” Éponine groans, but she laughs and follows Cosette back into thehallway and up the stairs. The house is small, but very well kept and passingby a window on the first floor Éponine can see a pretty little back garden.

“This ismine,” Cosette says, opening a door. “And speaking of being twelve, this roomis basically still the way it was when I left home at eighteen.”

“Is it pink?”Éponine grins, leaning past her to look inside.

Cosetteblows out an amused breath and Éponine blinks. It’s not pink. Most of the wallsare dark lavender. One is nearly black and the curtains are dark velvet.Éponine turns to Cosette with as serious an expression as she can command.

“Don’t tellme you were goth,” she says, vowing to herself that if the answer is yes shewill do everything in her power, including enlisting Marius, to get her handson photographic evidence of this fact.

“I wasn’t,”Cosette says regretfully. “But I wanted to be so badly.”

Époninelaughs. “You weren’t allowed?” she can’t really imagine that. Then again shecan’t imagine Fantine having breakfast opposite a teenage mess of black clothesand make-up either.

“No, I wasjust really bad at it,” Cosette laughs, walking further into the room. “Catastrophicallybad. It’s good you didn’t know me then.”

“I wouldhave loved to have known you then,” Éponine says unthinkingly.

“Yeah?”Cosette smiles, looking at her with soft eyes. “Would you have fixed my awfulmake-up for me and psyched me up enough to actually go through with dying myhair?”

Éponineswallows. “Absolutely.”

Cosettesmiles a little wider and Éponine gives herself a single second to be sorry forherself. But no more. She made that mistake with Marius and she’s not making itagain. Being lovesick is overrated, being friends is better.

“Your roomis great,” she says, letting her mouth pull into a smirk. “Especially the Aristocatssheets.”

“Hey, thoseare the softest sheets in existence,”Cosette defends herself.

“I wasn’tjudging,” Éponine grins.

“I can hear you judging,” Cosette says, a smileclearly audible in her voice. She turns around to pick a cardigan up from thefloor and Éponine takes the opportunity to look at her desk. She doesn’tactually get to look at it though, because tacked against the wall just aboveit, is a poster. A poster that Éponine looks at, takes in, and stares at withan odd sort of silence suddenly filling her mind.

The poster,contrary to the rest of the room, ispink. And the letters on it, curvy and blue and purple, spell out the words: ‘Perfectly Poly and Practically Perfect’.

“Shall wego back down or do you want to snoop some more?”

Époninebarely hears Cosette’s teasing, but she turns around anyway. She turns aroundand looks at her, with her loose curls framing her face and her laughing eyesand her pink cheeks and she just… Perfectly poly.

“You okay?”Cosette asks, her face turning just the slightest bit concerned.

“Yes,”Éponine blurts and she better think of something to keep her mind busy becauseright now it is racing, along with her heart, and full of sudden and startlingnew ideas and possibilities. “We should go help your mom.”

“Yes,”Cosette agrees cheerfully. “There are celebratory strawberries to tend to.”

Époninefollows her out of the room, doing her best impression of a girl that’s got aperfect handle on the situation. It’s a good thing she has considerablepractice with that act. A very good thing indeed.

[mysunfreckle]

Thank you for what you said about poly relationships. I am in one and holy cow you are entirely accurate when you say you need a lot of mutual trust and communication if you want to be invested in a romantic relationship as a group or with separate people with their knowledge. Thank you, I always see poly relationships portrayed unrealistically - I’ve only seen one ship work without falling through regularly, three guesses which one as it’s in the same fandom. Aah, I’m sorry. Thanks, is my point

(Sorry I didn’t see this last night! I posted your previous ask just before falling asleep ^^;)

[Edit: I’ve…only just realised you might not be the same anon! Whether you are or not, everything I said still holds 😅]

I’m glad my answer was not dissapointing. And I’m glad you’re in a relationship where communication and mutual effort are involved ❤Before Les Mis I had never written poly relationships and I am still only confident enough to write established JBM (I’m guessing that was the one ship 😉). I’m practicing for the sake of mariposette and jehanparsous (is that the right name??), but the realism you mentioned is important to me and it’s not easy to get right!

That being said, if you ever have a prompt, I’m always willing to try! 🌷

[mysunfreckle]

Different anon than the original poly ask - same as the response to it from last night. You were right when you said JBM - it’s the only one I’ve actually seen done right and healthily. Mariposette often starts very rough and if it’s pre-established, there is often a need for an explanation for why all three are together - and if it’s two separate relationships with one connecting partner, an explanation for how that all works and why it happened, even if it’s not the focus of the fic. (1/2)

Another issue that I frequently /don’t/ see addressed is how poly relationships are frequently perceived by society. It’s often seen as mutual cheating, or it’s assumed that it’s for the benefit of one partner. Honestly, it can get kind of rough. I have actually gotten death threats over it in the past! And while the relationship itself may be healthy, the outside perception of it from friends, family, or strangers who don’t understand the dynamic often isn’t. (2/3 it turns out sorry)

I love seeing a happy, healthy JBM relationship so friggin much. Believe me. I don’t think issues or angst would come easily from within the group, they’re too well woven together for that. But I wish sometimes the angry friends and family, threatening strangers, and the shouted insults when people recognize there’s three or more of you all together would be at least /mentioned/. God, it takes forever to recover from it sometimes. Take it as a prompt if you’re in the mood for it. (3/3)

I can’t imagine how hard it must be to have to deal with people condemning your relationship like that, especially when it comes from people who are supposed to be on your side like your friends and family. You shouldn’t have to deal with that and I really hope we’re collectively going towards a time where you won’t have to ❤

Considering your experiences I completely understand that it’s frustrating to not see that represented in fics. It takes a very firm understanding of the characters as well as of relationships in general to write something like that on a deeper level, it’s quite a task. (Personally I think the Mariposette in the background of Mardisoir’s One Thousand Nights comes across as very realistic. Positive, but not rose-tinted. But I don’t have first hand experience of course, so I am definitely not the best judge.)

Fluff and healthy relationships are my bread and butter and I must confess that I usually purposely stay away from the more negative experiences of the world in my stories. I want them to be positive and comforting (to myself as well as to my readers) and that’s why my stories are populated with good parents, accepting friends and supportive partners. It had not really occured to me that the exclusion of negative experiences might directly undermine the positivity, because it seems to deny the existence of the bad things people have to deal with. Thank you for that bit of perspective, these things are important to me and I want to learn them! 

Consider a fluffy JBM piece with a splash of ‘the shit of the world getting you down’ on my to do list 🌷