#combeferre and jehan also work there

[alilsakurablossom]

sometimes I think about valjean owning a little bookshop and then I smile :)

#javert who is a regular customer who keeps complaining about the books valjean recommends but he just wants to see valjean #valjean who also does free tutoring lessons for kids who need a little extra help learning how to read #combeferre and jehan also work there #so does cosette #cosette who also jelps with the store marketing and branding #i was also tjinking a little cafe attached to rhe bookstore #or maybe a little bakery #jean valjean #les mis #les miserables #just had the thought of r trying to find fhis book tjay enj mentioned once

[fillsta]

Les Amis and how they'd decorate for Christmas

It's like, super late and I have tons of shit to do tomorrow morning but here we go

Enjolras & Grantaire

Enjolras is big on the whole "Christmas is just a capitalist propaganda" thing and Grantaire wouldn't really care that much, so I feel like there wouldn't be many decorations in their apartment. However I think Grantaire would still want to be a lil festive so he probably gets one of these tiny ass trees and some lights. And one of those elf pushes because "Look it's blonde, it looks just like you enj!"

Combeferre & Courfeyrac

Courfeyrac absolutely LOVES tacky Christmas decorations and he fills the apartment with glittery shit every year. Their Christmas tree is huge and has literally everything imaginable on it. They probably invited les amis to decorate it with them, so it's messy. Combeferre just goes with the vibes and rocks that Christmas sweater Bahorel knitted him all winter long. (I'm,also 1000% sure they even have one of these Christmas toilet seat covers or whatever they're called)

Feuilly & Bahorel

Feuilly just has a box full of handmade decorations so their tree has some a-list ornaments on it. Apart from that, the rest of their place isn't really decorated. Maybe some lights on the windows. Anyway, Bahorel probably printed Feuilly's face and put it on top of the tree because "he's a star✨" and Feuilly just went with it

Bossuet, Jolly & Musichetta

Either did one of those creative alternatives to a Christmas tree or have the most chaotic decorative situation going on. I'm talking randomly placed fairy lights, weird ass tree ornaments, and one (1) Christmas themed candle that Bossuet made in high school and is still around for some reason

Jehan

No one does Christmas decorations better than them. Pretty lights on the windows, candles, cookies always on the counter, red and green couch cushions etc. I have a feeling they decorate their plants instead of a tree because they'd rather DIE than have any sort of fake plant in their space.

Marius & Cosette

Marius unironically bought one of those god awful white trees, thinking Cosette will like it. She absolutely did not, but she worked with it and made it look decent. She even made a gingerbread house, which pissed her tf off.

Marius decorated the balcony and it ended up being a bunch of random lights placed awkwardly on top of each other, no plan at all.

Eponine, Gavroche and Azelma

A fairly small tree, nothing more nothing less. Eponine let her siblings decorate it and it shows, but she loves it because "it has personality". Azelma decorates her room with garlands and stuff.

Bonus: Montparnasse

Straight up doesn't decorate. Bitch barely has his own apartment

#les mis #les amis #les amis de l'abc #les miserables hcs #les miserables #christmas edition #fuck im done

[aromantic-enjolras]

The Amies of the HRT headcanons

This is based on a brainrot with @shamedumpster a long time ago, and a continuation of this post. I won't go into Grantaire, Joly and Bossuet because they are all that post.

Enjolras is really in-your-face about being trans. She is not trying to pass, she doesn't have to pass to be trans. If cis women can be butch and still be women, she can go around with a five-o-clock shadow and not go on HRT and still be a woman. One time during one of their fights Grantaire accuses her of saying that "because you already look like a girl to begin with" and she almost decked her.

Combeferre is your classic case of the person who went into a STEM major as a boy and came out as a girl. She jokes that she should have been tipped by the fact that she always played girls on RPGs. She's thankful that her coworkers are not overtly transphobes, but also sometimes they're..... they've got the spirit. That's what she tells herself. The Amies are her safe space. Also, the moment she realised she was trans she started digging into the literature. Any question you can have, she will whip out an answer, with peer-reviewed citations and footnotes.

Courfeyrac is a theatre kid. She started playing with gender at theatre, putting on dresses and makeup at rehearsals. She went down the he/they->they/them->she/they-> she/her pipeline. Her family is relatively supportive and also loaded, and she started her transition relatively young, which means she has the most complete passing out of all the Amies. She's very hot and she knows it; but she is also very careful around cis guys. She has been called "a trap" enough times to be wary.

Feuilly is mostly closeted. She can't, or doesn't dare, to be out in her blue-collar job. She can't lose her source of income, no matter how uncomfortable she is. One year she gets the courage to go to Pride, staying in the middle of the Amis and trying to stay invisible from the outside, when she hears a voice calling her deadname, and sees a girl from work looking at her. Before she can react, though, the girl is apologizing for misgendering her at work and asking for her real name. After that point, at least she has an ally.

Bahorel started her gender realization as an almost ironic thing. She became a drag queen because "wouldn't it be funny if a guy that looked like me pretended to be a girl???" and somewhere along the way she realized that actually no, it isn't funny. And she's not pretending. Now she's the biggest defender of "cringe is dead". Do things wholeheartedly or don't do them at all.

Jehan is a witchy trans. She knows everyone's star charts (or she thinks she does, Grantaire gave her a fake one to mess with her), and she swears that she can tell who is going to be trans by their star charts alone.

I hope you enjoyed this!!

#les misérables #text posts #my posts #headcanons #my headcanons #just trans things #enjolras #courfeyrac #combeferre #bahorel #feuilly #jehan

[euphraisette]

Modern les mis college au majors but I basically almost don’t care about canon:

Enjolras: law and polisci. Wants to go into politics but also holds the view that the modern political system is deeply broken and doesn’t want to contribute to it in it’s current state so maybe he’ll just be a public defender.

Grantaire: art. He doesn’t really care about it but he’s really, really fucking good at it and got into college on a full ride scholarship and his folks were really pressuring him to go to post secondary so he went. His professors are reaallllyyyy trying to get him to be more engaged because they think he could be great but he’s got his own stuff going on.

Combeferre: History with a minor in entomology. Moth combeferre has my heart till the day i die. He’s going to work a museum and really pushes for ecological preservation.

Courfeyrac: MUSICAL THEATRE COURF. He always gets the lead in all of the shows and is something of a local celebrity for his turn as link Larkin in hairspray. He’s getting a philosophy minor but has no plans to use it.

Jehan: classic lit + poetry, duh, but with a minor in botany or something. In another life they’d like to be a dancer and realistically they COULD do that now, but they decided to go with the safer option and wants to work in a library or maybe with combeferre at the museum after school.

Joly: again pretty obvious, he’s pre-med and his minor is history. He’s insanely passionate about making healthcare more accessible and might not go to med school proper and instead focus his efforts on the HR side of things (though he’d make a really good doctor).

Bossuet: elementary education or adolescent psychology!!! He really wants to work with/help kids, which is wonderful because kids naturally just love him, he’s funny and kind and easy to talk to and always keeps a little stash of candy and juice boxes on him when he works.

Feuilly: design. Maybe a minor in war history or religion. He’s pretty interested in knowing where he and his family came from but doesn’t really know how to utilize that career-wise, so he goes for design as his main thing because he’s pretty good at it. He’s only a part-time student and works construction.

Eponine: either psychology or criminology. Yeah i just think. Yeah. I’ve gone in depth about my ideas for how Eponine wants to use her life to be better than her parents and wants to understand why people are sometimes terrible and how to help their victims.

Marius: languages, mostly German, Latin, and English (and maybe Hebrew bc of my Jewish Marius hc). His minor is in music composition. He’s very much a romantic and loves the fine arts but he hasn’t unhitched his life from his grandfather’s ideals enough yet to dive into pursuing that full-time so he studies languages and might work as a translator.

Cosette: also law. She wanted to study it before she met enjolras but when they met he really encouraged her to pursue it and he’s a really big role model for her. Like him, she wants to be a public defender, because right before she went off to college valjean finally told her the full story of fantine and this really lit a fire under her and she wants to help people who the system has turned it’s back on. She’s minoring in theatre with courf.

Musichetta: chetta didn’t go to a traditional college, she went to cosmetology school and works at a salon and is the most sought-after stylist in town. Ideally she’d like to go back and get a bachelors in social justice or something but right now she’s happy where she is.

And Gavroche, well. He’s the best science student in his 6th grade class.

#les mis #les miserables headcanon #hcs #les amis #les miserables #cosette #marius pontmercy #les mis headcanons #enjolras #grantiare #joly #bossuet #combeferre #courfeyrac #jehan #feuilly #Eponine #Musichetta #Gavroche

[little-orphan-ant]

Ami name hcs (plus reasoning)

disclaimer a lot of this is just me infodumping about names. i really like names.

Alexandre Enjolras - yeah idk i just stole this from the fandom. Enj despises being called Alex though (he will punch you in the face :D), if you must shorten Alexandre he prefers Andre or Al/Allie

Florian Combeferre - i fucking love this name. according to wikipedia it's a saint name, which im like 80 percent sure was popular Back in the Day, so it works for canon era which im happy abt. in modern day France, the name Florian peaked in 1991 at number 9 for boys before promptly dropping out of the top 500 by 2020 for some reason. but when Ferre was born it would still have been pretty popular.

Olivier Courfeyrac - idk it just fits him. similar to Florian, Olivier was uncommon but not unheard of in canon era, and also dropped out of the top 500 a few years back. however, Olivier peaked back in the early 1970s. although it was still being given to several hundred kids a year by when modern!courf would have been born, i hc that he was named after a relative who died soon before his birth.

Camille Feuilly - in both modern-day and canon era France, Camille is seen as a gender-neutral name, which is great because i hc Feuilly has enby-spec. since Feuilly is an orphan, xe may have named xirself after the revolutionary Camille Desmoulins, but i must admit that I only skimmed his wikipedia page and maybe this Camille was an asshole idk. also i found a French artist born in 1934 named Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and he's pretty cool ig. painting are nice but not as nice as Gainsborough Dupont's ofc

Jean-Marie "Jehan" Prouvaire - of course, we already know Jehan's name, but I added Marie just bc i can

Corentin Bahorel - if you call Bahorel Cory he with smite you btw (like enj they bond over it). Corentin peaked in France at 21 in 1996, but was also very popular during the Revolutionary Period so. thats good.

Valentin Joly - means 'health', i mostly gave him this name bc Irony. as a kid, Joly went by 'Val' and Bahorel, who knew him as a kid still calls him that. Valentin managed to make it to number 11 in France in 1998, and while uncommon, was in fact a name in canon era (like literally all of these akjddsfsa). also i found a French painter called Valentin de Boulogne from the 1600s who died after taking a dip in a fountain while drunk and freezing to death which. slay.

Louis Lesgles - I mean. i can't give all of them cool names. Bossuet gets to be Louis. his family were royalists and named him after all 17 (?) Louis of Frances. that's one of the reasons he goes by Bossuet, he doesn't want to be associated w a (scoff) king

Claud-René Grantaire - i cannot take credit for this it was @jolys-cane (hello). but yeah Very Good. double thumbs up i'd say. maybe even triple. both Claud(e) and René fell out of favor for boys in france around 1990, so our R would have been born *just* (a decade) to soon for it to be popular (eg not in the top 500). works for canon era as well. R tolerates his name, but Only his family is allowed to call him just René. anyone else must say both.

might do this for non-ami characters sometime (god i hope i didnt forget any of them lkjfksd) idk always love an excuse to talk abt a (minor) hyperfixation

#les mis #les amis #les amis de l'abc #les miserables #les misérables #why are my tags so fucked up rn #enjolras #grantaire #bossuet #lesgles #joly #bahorel #jean prouvaire #jehan prouvaire #combeferre #feuilly #courfeyrac

[secretmellowblog]

Hi! Do you have any idea of the etymology of Les Amis’ names/French words that sound like their names?

I’m not an expert on this and someone else probably knows more! But here’s all I know off the top of my head. I’ll go from “ones that have canonical book explanations” to “ones that are vague or more speculative”:

Grantaire: His name sounds like “Grand R” or “big R” in French. As a result, he doesn’t sign his name with a normal signature but with a giant letter R. This is also why it’s a popular fan headcanon for “R” to be Grantaire’s nickname.

Lesgle/Bossuet—this is a pun but I’m still not completely sure I get it. So his name is “Lesgle,” which sounds like “l’aigle” (the eagle) and he comes from Meux. Unrelated to him there’s also a famous bishop who was known as “L’aigle of Meux,” whose real name was Bossuet. So les amis made a pun and Lesgle got the nickname Bossuet as a joke about the bishop.

Jehan Prouvaire— Jehan is obsessed with Medieval literature, so he added an “H” to his name “Jean” to make it more medieval.

Feuilly— sounds like the French word for paper, a nod to his work as a fan maker

Bahorel— sounds like “Borel,” like the name of one of Hugo’s friends Petrus Borel

Courfeyrac— comes from a wealthy family, and there’s a whole thing where he should go by “de Courfeyrac” because he’s upper class— but he refuses and just goes by plain Courfeyrac. Idk much about the origin of the name but it seems to me like it’s supposed to mark him as Wealthy— I guess it’s similar to being named something like “Thaddeus Winston the Third?”

Enjolras— is apparently a very strange uncommon-before-les-mis name that would come from Southern France, and even French people disagree on how to pronounce it (?)

Joly - I know nothing about this name except that his friends like to add extra Ls to it as a joke, I think?

Combeferre— I know nothing. This name is a mystery just like the character himself

Bonus:

Marius Pontmercy: Marius’s name is based on Victor Hugo’s middle name, “Marie.” And “Pontmercy” is the French word for “bridge” and then the French word for “thank you.” (I’ve seen fics with an English Marius named “Marius Thankbridge.”) The Pontmercy name pun is important because it’s why Thenardier never learns who Georges is; when Georges is struggling to tell him “my name is Pontmercy” all Thenardier hears is “merci,” so he just thinks the man is just thanking him.

If anyone knows more, feel free to add on! : D

#les mis #les mis letters #les amis de l'abc #les amis

[alicedrawslesmis]

What English translation of Les mis would you recommend the most? :) (gotta preserve the homosexuality that's my top priorityyyy)

Well, see. I've only read the Fahnestock-MacAfee translation and follow things somewhat on @lesmisletters (I believe it's the Hapgood translation? The one they have available on Project Guttenberg online for free). I *personally* think FMA is the superior translation. Just in terms of maintaining the spirit of the metaphors and the overall phrasing of things. They based it off of the Wilbour translation so that one is essentially the same but much older, if you aren't bothered by the 19th century of it.

But since you want the most homosexuality then FMA in NOT your guy. FMA has the very annoying habit of no homoing every interaction to the point where it gets in the way of the text. Like, when overwhelmed with a very emotionally charged scene, Combeferre and Jehan *shake hands* (???????) (like I understand on some level that sometimes 19th century platonic friendship reads gay to us now, and you want to preserve that, but you can't no homo it to the point where you make the text bad. It's not how translation works. You can't cut the part of the original text that makes you uncomfortable, Norman and Lee. And Denny you need to learn that too, my god)

Also they make a few weird mistakes in numbers all the time. But I have it on good authority that Hugo doesn't care about math that much

Anyway I guess my recommendations are either Hapgood or Rose, whichever you think reads better!

EDIT: oh yeah just remembered something I think may be relevant. If you're looking at books as objects, the FMA paperback is a single volume (that's why I bought it in english originally instead of portuguese, I haaaaaate books that are split into different volumes. Just give me the full brick already, cowards) and the FMA paperback is a TANK that thing is INDESTRUCTIBLE. Absolut UNIT.

[expired-applejuice]

Les Miserables headcanons that I have.

Marius, Cosette, and Eponine are a thruple or something.

Jean Valjean would never judge any woman in a bikini.

Jean Valjean would go to all the pride parades, BLM movements, Pro-choice protest, and everything inbetween.

Javert would be for it as well, but he sides with the law until something or someone changes his mind.

Les Amis would be on a pride parade float.

Gavroche would be yelling "Protect The Trans Youth"

Courfeyrac would dress in drag to settle a bet between him, Bahorel and Grantaire.

Enjolras would be waving the progress flag

Musichetta would explain to marius and his lovers how the thruples/poly relationships work and that she's glad they joined the community

Valjean talks javert the join the pride parade with him.

Joly has a small panic attack because of everyone cheering and stuff but never fear, Bossuet was near.

Grantaire would try to fight a protester at the pride parade.

Valjean would be a good father and pull him away.

Feuilly would be making lgbt fans. You know the ones.

Combeferre would correct the protester. They "quote" the Bible and hes like: "DING DONG, YOU'RE WRONG"

Jean Valjean would also correct them.

The bishop (no one can convince me he's homophobic) would be marrying same-sex couples.

Jehan Prouvaire would be throwing flowers and hugging anyone who needs a hug.

Jean Valjean would give father hugs, and I'd be crying.

Fantine, like Valjean would be giving mother hugs.

Grantaire would kiss Enjolras making him blush. Than Enjolras would blame it on the heat

Combeferre would be like yeah. Sure.

Courfeyrac would also blast Lady Gaga songs

Who knew les amis would be so good at lip sync battles

It got competitive

Jehan won

This turned into a Pride post but that okay. It needed to be said. There's a reason Barricade Day is in pride month.

#cosette #bossuet #feuilly #bahorel #musichetta #combeferre #jehan prouvaire #fantine les mis #queer pride #pride month #barricade day #exr #enjolras #grantaire #les amis de l'abc #courfeyrac #les mis #les amis #enjolras x grantaire #enjoltaire #e x r #rxe #lip sync #les miserables

[cx-shhhh]

Oh god, I never thought I’d ever combine my two hyperfixations but-

Les Amis as Stray Kids songs:

(Yikes.)

Enjolras: MIROH. The music video just cements this, and it’s my favorite song. I wanted to put Red Lights for shits and giggles, but it might put him into a coma. Scars can also be an Enjolras song, methinks. Thunderous is Enjolras and not just because of the red outfits

Grantaire: Silent Cry. It’s ultimate sad boi hrs, but it’s also upbeat with a really slutty choreography. I have never listened to a song that is as R as Silent Cry

Courfeyrac: Easy, Double Knot, My Pace. They just give Courfeyrac vibes. Spread My Wings is also very Courfeyrac

Combeferre: Levanter. It’s uplifting, and he needs that. Booster or Question both suit him too

Joly: Side Effects. For obvious reasons

Bossuet: SSICK. Lonely St. And also… CHEESE. Fuck the haters

Feuilly: The Tortoise and the Hare. It’s just so niche and ‘never let them know your next move’. Hellevator also works for him because it gives hard working vibes and it’s the first song, so. God’s Menu is also very Feuilly

Bahorel: Wolfgang. Yeah. Just… yeah. Awaken works too, I guess

Jehan: Haven, Back Door, MANIAC, Charmer. All sorts of vibes for Jehan because that’s what they deserve (plus I think all of them fit too)

And as a bonus, CIRCUS for the fans because what the hell are we still doing here?? Sorry, I Love You. Haha.

(I recommend all these songs.)

(Silent Cry is so R that I’ll be thinking about that for a while now. Goddamn.)

#les mis #les miserables #grantaire #enjoltaire #enjolras #exr #les amis #les amis de l'abc

[fremedon]

No one asked for Les Amis as lesser Maiar, for good reason, because making them beings of any inherent power beyond the common measure of humanity fundamentally doesn’t work; LM is fundamentally a story about the Second-Born.

But I’ve been reading and rereading Silmarilion fic all week so here, have Les Amis as lesser Maiar.

(This got long.)

(And I am not coming up with their Quenya names or it would get longer.)

(That’s a lie, there will totally be Quenya names at some point.)

Enjolras: I was really taken by a couple of asides in @thearrogantemu’s fic, characterizing Olórin (Gandalf) as originally a Maia of Melkor, before he came to Irmo’s service, and characterizing Melkor’s original domain before he became Morgoth as transformation--that because of his fall, the Children have never known change without loss; and because of his banishment, change comes now unwilled by any Power.

You see where I’m going with this.

Enjolras is a spirit of transformation who joined in the Second Theme early and enthusiastically, because hell yes every creature should have a right to partake fully in shaping creation. And he did not repudiate him immediately: he saw the dissonance of the Second Theme as necessary to bring about the harmony of the Third, and as of the descent into Arda he was still Melkor’s creature to the extent that he was anyone’s.

When it became clear that Melkor had set himself as the enemy not merely of Manwë, but of creation, he left his service and attached himself to Manwë. In some ways it’s not a great fit. In substance he is a Valarauka, or close to one, a creature not of air but of fire; in temperament, he is the spirit of the sovereignty of the will over itself--the Maiar inherently serve the natures and functions of the greater powers, but his service is very much to the function and not the being that embodies it. He will take direction from Manwë, as the embodiment of legitimate authority rightfully wielded, but his nature is still that of transformation, and Manwë knows he will always serve the spirit of the law over the letter and conscience over authority.

Still, fire and air can collaborate well, and like his cousin Arien who draws the Sun, he accustoms himself to his new realm. He enjoys, more than anything, the long view from the crest of the Pelóri and the lower reaches of Ilmen, but his usual realm is far below that, in the spark of lightning, or as the breath that stirs the banked ember to sudden flame; or, among the nations of the Second-Born, as the voice that stirs oppressed spirits to remember that they are sovereign, and they are strong.  

He appears in form sometimes as an eagle, but most often as a Man with a high forehead, like a horizon with much sky.

Combeferre: So in every possible Les Amis as system, Combeferre is a mess who doesn’t really fit anywhere. He has some affinity with Estë the Healer, obviously, and some with Aulë the Maker, but I’m going to put him in the domain of Irmo, Lórien, Lord of Dreams and the spouse of Estë, whose gardens flow into his own. He is the spirit of chimeras, invention, what is not but that yet may be. He treasures all the Children but loves especially the Dwarves and the Noldor, and shares with them many designs they must look to Aulë to realize; and for this he is also a friend to Aulë, for in this way the Maker is driven to expand and perfect the scope of his Art.

Prouvaire: And for Jehan, while Irmo would have been an obvious choice, I’m going to go with Nienna, the Lady of Tears, who grieves for all in the world that sorrows or is marred. By day he weeps for the world that is, and he weeps with the passage of time for the worlds that are no more and for those that will never be; and by night he walks in the gardens of Lórien and imagines the world that still might be, and he smiles.

Feuilly: While he also has some affinity for Aulë the Maker, who was so eager for others to teach what he knew that he created a whole nation of people, Feuilly is obviously a Maia of Vairë, the Weaver, who sees and understands all of history and translates it into the medium of decorative art.

Courfeyrac: Courfeyrac is a servant of Vána, the Lady of Spring, who governs birds and flowers and also all things that are young and full of potential. There is great friendship between him and Enjolras, as has often puzzled the dwellers in Aman, for Enjolras takes no notice of flowers, or birds, or springtime; but they walk often together in Arda, by themselves or in company with Combeferre, and where they go the spirits of the young are moved to the thought of new struggles.

Bahorel: Bahorel’s friendly belligerence could have gone a lot of ways--Tulkas, obviously, or I could see him as one of Ulmo’s, a cousin to Osse--but ultimately I think he belongs with Oromë, who along with Ulmo never entirely forsook Middle-Earth or the Children of Ilúvatar, and who is always ready to throw down with Morgoth’s servants. Sometimes he rides in his train in the shape of a great wolf, but more often he wanders through the cities of the Second-Born, and where he walks the paving-stones remember the mountains, and the fountains the rivers, and Men remember that they too are wild creatures.

Bossuet: So Bossuet is the reason that I wrote this up in the first place, because what he’s associated with, alone among the Amis, is luck. Which is to say, Fate. And fate and free will--and laws and contracts, and also curses--are all very firmly in the domain of Námo, Mandos, the judge of the Dead.

Which is hilarious.

So, yes, Bossuet is the happiest servant of the Doomsman of the Valar! If his master’s domain is that which is, and Irmo’s is that which could be, and Nienna’s that which now can never be, Bossuet dwells in that which could be worse, and helps--in what measure he can, for his power is not great--to ensure it is not.

(On the plain of Araman, during the Flight of the Noldor, while Mandos pronounced his Doom, Bossuet, unseen, slipped through the host untying shoelaces and breaking the buckles on luggage. The extra minutes of consideration granted to several would-be Exiles while they got their gear in order were instrumental in their choices to turn back with Finarfin.)

Joly: Like Bossuet, Joly is a minor servant of one of the greatest Powers--Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. He finds and mends the errata in creation, helping to ensure that every living thing has something to eat, and something to eat it, if only in its decay. Fungi, especially, are his interest, and everything that lives and sprouts anew from death; but he appears most often in form as one of the Children, cheerful and pleasant to look upon.

Grantaire: I initially thought Grantaire would be hard to place--wine is Yavanna’s domain and art is Aulë’s, and depression is Nienna’s and Estë’s, and verbal shitposting doesn’t seem to have an obvious patron. But then I looked at his name, and who else’s could grande aire be but Manwë’s? Spirit of fog and vapor--the cloud that obscures, or seems to be other than it is; pipe-smoke and the wisp of the dying candle.

Grantaire maintains that it was he who introduced pipe-smoking to the Halflings and the Halflings to Olórin; this is almost certainly untrue, but Olórin has never denied it.

Manwë has never really known what to do with him, but Varda is fond of him. Her husband finds this unaccountable; to everyone who doesn’t have to work with him it’s clear enough why the Kindler, whose greatest work requires darkness for its greatest effect, might find mist a comfortable companion. Grantaire is dazzled by her--as he is by Arien, by Enjolras, by all bright spirits. Varda doesn’t encourage it; but when she retires her old and dying stars, those too weak to blaze out all at once, she will set a few of their embers aside for lamps, and in their light Grantaire’s vapors make brief but haunting shapes, and even Enjolras, who has no eye for beauty, cannot look away.

#les amis as #maiar #ainur #silmarilion

[fillsta]

Les amis & others hc | What they do/study (modern au)

Screw it, it's been sitting in my drafts for a while now

Enjolras: Political science. Nuff said. Not that he ever practices it but, ya know

Combeferre: He is really interested in bugs and insects and considered initially studying something close to that instead, but ended up settling with literature.

Courfeyrac: I don't know why but something tells me this boi is a culinary student.

Grantaire: Art student, need I say more?

Joly: Medicine, as it is also cannon

Bossuet: Acting. I think he'd really enjoy working in a theatre, although his family pushed him to go to law school at first.

Bahorel: Martial Arts instructor at a gym. I can so see him teaching Krav Maga and Kickboxing.

Feuilly: Mechanic at a garage or Electrical Appliances store employee. Higher Education isn't really for him.

Jehan: Art student. Also sales paintings and other creations near Paris' tourist attractions.

Marius: Law student because none of us can deny it.

Eponine: Journalism student / shop employee (Ok but Eponine working in a clothing store and taking no shit from Karen clients)

Musichetta: She is a barista ok?

Cossete: Ballerina! I saw somewhere a hc that she is a professional ballet dancer and I loved it.

Azelma: One year away from graduating high school, would love to go to fashion school.

Gavroche: When you ask this boy what he wants to be when he grows up, he replies with 'a reptile' and walks away.

Montparnasse: Scams tourists near the Eiffel Tower and other tourist attractions of Paris.

#les amis de l'abc #les mis #les miserables #les amis #feuilly #enjolras #grantaire #r #combeferre #courfeyrac #bossuet #joly #musichetta #cossete #eponine #azelma #gavroche #montparnasse #jehan prouvaire #Marius #Bahorel #les mis headcanons

[aromantic-enjolras]

Demon Amis, Part II

The Bible states that the first rebellion occurred because some angels didn't want to bow to humanity. But as Enjolras (also called the Lightbearer, Lucifer Morningstar, Prince of Darkness, Father of Lies and more simply "The Enemy") will tell you if you ask, history is written by  the winners...

Although the Amis didn’t have specific areas of influence when they started, they have gravitated towards different ways to relate to the world and to approach the people in it since then. Also, they have fashioned Hell over the years to reflect them, with each Ami having a different circle (yes, Dante was right about the circles.. although that was pretty much all he was right about).

Enjolras is the original Rebel. The church teaching he tackles primarily is the idea that you should put yourself in God’s hands and hope he solves the issue. He pushes people to question authority, find a community and fight for their own beliefs. If you want something done, you should do it yourself. His circle is mostly made of empty rooms, places where people can meet up and make things together. People who sell their souls to him in particular tend to end up brainstorming ways to win over people to their cause.

Combeferre is the Demon of Curiosity. His war is principally with blind faith. He encourages his targets to ask questions, never take an answer at face value, try their damn best to understand the world around them. He’s the Serpent of Eden, and Hypatia of Alexandria was one of his favourite wards. His circle consists of sprawling libraries and laboratories with every condition and technology you could possibly need.

Courfeyrac is the Demon of Lust. His target is the idea that your body is just a carnal prison you should try to avoid as much as possible. Although he will freely admit that he likes sex a lot, his domain isn’t just that: it’s everything that has to do with celebrating your own body and the pleasure you can get from it. His circle has week-long orgies and every sex toy in existence, but also sleep piles and cuddles and back rubs and kisses and hugs.

Bahorel is the Demon of Wrath. The teaching he goes against is that you should always put your other cheek because the meek will inherit the Earth. He’s the demon equivalent of the “don’t you ever just want to go apeshit” meme. He usually goes for women and children, which have been told all their lives that they should be submissive and accept their fates, and helps them find their inner rage at the injustice of their situations. His most proud moment, though, is the Roma uprising in Auschwitz. His circle has rooms full of things you can shatter, on any scale (ever wanted to be Gozilla and wreck Tokyo? Bahorel has you covered) and can reproduce any person you might want to yell at or hurt.

Feuilly is the Demon of Pride. His war is with the idea that everything you can achieve is God’s work. He pushes people to be proud of their own achievements, to know their worth and fight for it to be recognized. He works with Bahorel a lot, and a lot of worker’s riots and strikes are their joint work. His circle is a museum-like structure, where people in Hell can come and put the things they’re proud of up for show: physical objects (their first painting after deciding to take classes, a work of a lifetime), but also memories (making their little sister smile, winning the war). Feuilly has his own room in the middle of his realm, a small space with stuff his wards have given him over the centuries. In the center of it, though, there’s a small pedestal with the memory of the Amis, bloodied and hurting after their Fall, helping each other up.

Jehan is the Demon of Self-Expression and Unpious Art (he decided on the title himself). What’s that about art having to point to God? No, art is about making yourself heard and making beautiful (or not beautiful, beauty is relative) things. He goes for people sometimes, but he mostly occupies himself with movements and currents. You can bet the Bahaus are his people. He also works the most alongside other Amis: the country subgenre of angry women getting revenge on their abusive partners and fathers is his favourite joint work with Bahorel, and you can bet the entire LSD scene of the 60s is a collab with Grantaire. His circle in Hell is a mix of museum (”please do touch!”), concert hall and art studio. In it your paint never dries prematurely and you never run out of supplies.

Grantaire is the Demon of Gluttony (and Safe Drug Trips). As he will tell you if you ask, the whole “abstinence and self-restraint” thing is bullshit. Life is short, and it’s here to be appreciated in as big chunks as humanly possible. Why wait to indulge tomorrow when you can indulge today? His circle resembles quite closely one of those Roman banquets (Roman orgies are one of his favourite collabs with Courfeyrac), but with more drugs. You will never have a bad trip nor a hangover while you’re in Grantaire’s realm. Keith Richards is his favourite ward.

Bossuet is the Demon of Joy. But wait a second, you say, isn’t religion all about joy? No, he answers, this religion is all about suffering in silence, as much as possible. Honest happiness is always viewed with suspicion and guilt, and he’s having none of it. He will fight for the right to be unbridledly joyful of every human on Earth. His laugh is contagious, and his humour could make anyone happy. He works a lot alongside Grantaire. His circle is.... well, this one is escaping me, so if someone has ideas I’ll happily take them.

Lastly, Joly is the demon of Selfishness. His personal enemy is the idea that we should be self-sacrificing all the time, that putting ourselves first is a terrible, unforgivable thing. He helps people establish boundaries, say “this is enough”. He’s very good friends with Grantaire and Bossuet, but his circle is at the opposite end of Hell (as much as Hell has “ends”). It’s structured a little bit like a spa (Joly is very fond of those), with saunas and massages and soft clothes; but also there are chambers that are empty and silent in case someone feels overwhelmed, and beds with weighted blankets. Putting a foot in his realm already makes you feel better, to the point where “go to Joly’s” is a common phrase in Hell.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed it! Again, big shoutout to @shamedumpster​ for coming up with a good chunk of these!

#Les Misérables #text posts #my posts #headcanons #my headcanons #Enjolras #Combeferre #Courfeyrac #Bahorel #Feuilly #Jehan Prouvaire #Grantaire #Joly #Bossuet #religion #long posts #alternate universe #Demon AU

[midasinc]

The Amis have a video game night: what do they play? Who knows every move and is better than they have any right to be? Who buttonsmashes and gets annoyingly good results? Who prefers sitting back and commenting to actually playing? Who keeps falling down the side of the screen? Who says "oh, I don't play that much" and then is really decent at it? Whose controller keeps running out of battery at the worst moment (Bossuet)?

it definitely all starts with feuilly and combeferre complaining about some character added to smash that they think is lame. feuilly is a gamer and has been really into video games since he was a kid and this is a topic he gets very heated over, combeferre is similar. anyway, bahorel is sort of listening in and argues that he's played the character and they arent even that bad. this ends up in the three arguing and enjolras is a little annoyed bc he's never played smash and he doesn't see why it's a big deal so he says "why does it matter?" which ends up being the wrong thing to say bc feuilly goes around taking a poll of who likes them and who doesn't. half of them dont know what he's talking about, and to educate them, combeferre ends up having everybody invited over one night to play

-right at the start, feuilly is superior at games. he's been playing for so long that he's got it down pat. no one wants to play smash against him because they get their ass beat so hard. well, grantaire plays him because he's overly confident and has a joint hanging out of the corner of his tight mouth bc he spent the past ten minutes talking about how this shit was a "cake walk" and he's getting his ass handed to him on a silver platter

-jehan and enjolras are both afflicted with "omg this character looks pretty/cool/sexy" and chooses them without knowing how they work and both lose miserably bc they only choose characters based on how sick they look

-enjolras also falls off the edge all the time. bless his heart he isn't great at button smashing

-MARIUS on the other hand... oh this is infuriating. marius has never played smash in his life, nor has he really heard of it. he grew up in a really old-fashioned household and never played video games but courfeyrac brings him along and jfc

-he smashes every button. he doesn't know what they do or which character he is. he is so unbelievably good and he makes feuilly lose like three times in a row. it gets so bad that feuilly has to shove the controller into someone else's hands and storm off into another room to calm down. marius is upsettingly good but he SHOULDNT BE. HE HAS NO REASON TO BE GOOD AT ALL

-bossuet does the same thing but he's ass. he sees marius play and is like "omg wait i could do that" and unfortunately he cannot LMFOA

-joly and bahorel are really competitve with each other but in a fun way. they arent tryharding and getting mild (or extreme if you're feuilly going against marius) gamer rage bc they're having fun and genuinely playing instead of being bad or infuriating on purpose

-courfeyrac is lowkey a tryhard. he's just really good with strategies in general and he's a fast learner. he's absolutely like "lol ive never played this im gonna suck" and then is really good after the first round.

-smash becomes either a person's suggestion or hard limit for hanging out afterwards. feuilly never ever wants to play with them again (he'd rather just play online w combeferre) because he claims "it's not fun" (which means it isnt fun losing to marius). enjolras always ends up wanting to play bc even though he was ass he had a lot of fun... falling off the edge

-bahorel was right- the character is cool. feuilly and combeferre are just haters

-anyway, the final verdict of players is this:

a.) the people who are upsettingly good via practice and only fun to play with if you're also upsettingly good: feuilly, combeferre

b.) the people who are good but fun to play with even if you suck: courfeyrac, bahorel

c.) mid, good-sport. fun to play with: joly

d.) mid, bad-sport. annoying to play with: grantaire

e.) cannot play for shit but fun to play with bc they make you laugh: bossuet, enjolras, jehan

f.) shouldn't be able to be good but is really fun to watch bc of how good they are: marius

#les mis #les miserables #les amis #les amis de l'abc #les mis headcanons #modern les mis #now if you want to imagine them getting into fights that would end friendships #have them play super auto pets #they will never be the same #you guys should play super auto pets w me it's so fun

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Jehan for the character ask!

Sexuality Headcanon: they use queer! Their sexuality and romantic preferences are extremely fluid, so they think simply queer is the label that fits them best Gender Headcanon: non-binary, they/them pronouns A ship I have with said character: Kind of just Courfeyrac/Jehan really, and like I said I've been off that one recently. I don't actively consume Jehan/Grantaire content but I can definitely see where y'all are coming from A BROTP I have with said character: Gotta be Jehan and Grantaire <3 and also Jehan/Combeferre!!! Combeferre wants to study Jehan like a bug under a microscope. The feeling is mutual. A NOTP I have with said character: Like with Courfeyrac, I don't really have one for this! I can see them working with everyone really A random headcanon: They have Raynaud's, so their hands and feet are constantly cold during winter (lmao me af). They solve this problem by knitting lots of multi-coloured gloves/socks/mittens General Opinion over said character: are u surprised that the blog pumpkinspice-prouvaire adores Jean Prouvaire I sure hope not

#answered #headcanon

[euphraisette]

tell me about marius and cosettes children pls

HUZZAH I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS QUESTION

modern au because that's just where my head lives ok

so like i've said before i imagine that it's been a lifelong dream of cosette's to adopt when it came time for her to have children because it was such a lifesaver for her to be adopted by valjean and she wants to be able to save another kid from a bad home situation and give them all of the love and protection and good opportunities that she was given when she was taken away from the inn

and marius like never rlly thought about that?? like he wasn't against it it just wasn't something that particularly occurred to him but when cosette bring it up he falls head over heels for the idea and yeah like less than a year into dating they decide that that's what they're doing

(also offside but i hc marius and cosette as dating for like, a loooooong time before they get married and then waiting like 5+ years to adopt after the fact, mostly because they want to be really settled and stable before they start their family and they meet before either of their prefrontal cortexes have finished developing and cosette is very aware of this so she makes Marius wait like 5 years before they get married, tho he'd have married her on the spot the moment they met if he'd let her)

BUT ANYWAYS i hc they adopt a little girl and then when their daughter goes into school and they have a little more free time on their hands they become foster parents to twin boys who they eventually end up adopting. their daughter is named fantine eponine and she sort of looks a lot like musichetta which cosette loves and musichetta and fantine bond instantly and are close forever and ever

and the rest of the amis are so in love w her and protective of her from the moment marius and cosette bring her home they are the best aunts and uncles in the world courfeyrac reads her endless stories no matter how many times she asks him to repeat the same page over and over again and grantaire sings her lullabies and feuilly paints little birds on the wall above her cot and joly is on call 24/7 for all of the new parent's worries about every little cough and sneeze and too-long blink and enjolras buys baby books about historical figures who were amazing women and buys little plaques for her room with inspirational quotes and bossuet makes her little flower crowns and braids strands of costume-jewellry pearls into her hair when it gets long enough and lets her do makeovers on him and combeferre has a special butterfly pressed in glass for her and instills 'bring your niece to work day' so she can run around the museum and jehan knits her a blanket with her initials monogrammed and eponine is actually the best babysitter because she's quiet and sort of plaintive with the baby which puts the baby at ease so she can sleep and bahorel gets a tattoo of a little cursive 'f' on his hand and helps teach her how to ride a bike and whenever she has like an important day at school or a dance recital or sporting event or smth they ALL show up and cheer and bring flowers and cry over her and eventually they mellow out with their excitement but the first few years they are NON STOP

then when they bring home they boys, georges courfeyrac and jean enjolras, the whole ordeal starts up again

and marius and cosette are the best parents, they've both done a lot of work on themselves to overcome their trauma from their childhoods and marius is so overly cautious, especially when the kids are babies, that he'll drop them or rattle them or otherwise disturb them and he's sort of a helicopter parent like lourding over the kids taking their first steps or using a spoon for the first time or toddling around the house worried they'll get hurt but he's so unabashedly affectionate with all three of them, especially his sons, because it's important for him to let them know that their father loves them and will always be there for them and will never abandon them no matter what

and cosette is so naturally maternal it comes so easily and quickly to her that it almost makes marius panic like 'what am i doing wrong :(((((' like i imagine hime to be the type of dad whos baby starts crying as soon as he picks them up but it's just because he always picks them up right after they eat or after they've woken up from a nap so they have gas and need to be changed and he takes it sooooo personally but once cosette sort of teaches him how to know the baby's cues and when they need what he becomes so confident and like a super-dad basically

THIS WAS GREAT IL DEF COME BACK TO THIS BC I HAVE SOOOOOOOOO MUCH MORE TO SAY BUT PLS TALK TO ME MORE ABT THIS KIND OF STUFF IT WAS SORELY NEEDED

#hcs #les mierables #les mis #les amis #les miserables headcanon #les mis headcanons #les amis headcanons #cosette #marius pontmercy

[expired-applejuice]

Les Amis: dress up as the first letter as your name.

Note: it also includes JVJ, Javert, Marius, and Cosette

Courfeyrac suggested a fun idea for a social event, so everyone can get to know eachother

Though some wanted to stay professional, some being Combeferre and Enjolras, they were out voted by everyone else.

So, they had a lot more drinking at this get together, and took turns saying who they thought was going to be the drunkest.

"I'm a cowboy, baby, and I think Bahorel will be the drunkest," Courfeyrac said tipping his cowboy hat with one hand and held a drink with the other. He wore a traditional western outfit. It was so cliche, down to his boots.

Next was Jehan Prouvaire, "I dressed as Jasmine, but blonde. I think Courfeyrac will be the drunkest it's his party." Prouvaire had his hair like Princess Jasmine',s instead of his usual braids. He wore two pieces and had a stuffed tiger to complete the look.

"Um, I'm Coraline from the book. I think Papa is going to be the drunkest," Cosette said holding her doll, Catherine, who was also dressed up. They both wore the signature yellow raincoat and boots. The only difference was the doll's hat.

"Obviously I'm Elphaba from wicked, notice the green skin, qnd Grantaire will definitelybe the drunkest. How did no one say that yet?" Eponine asked fixing her hat. She had a dress that could go from blue to black. She had the blue hat in her hands so she could put the traditional Witch hat on. She undid something and the dress turned into the beautiful black gown.

"Mermaid here! Just without a tail. Um, I know joly won't that drink, and Bossuet is already too clumsy, so I agree with 'Ponine, R," Musichetta said sweetly. She was truly an angel. She had a flower in her hair, and a shell bra, but she wore green pants in the place of a tail.

"I'm next, I'm a boxer, so Grantaire I'll beat you ass. And Grantaire will be the drunkest." Bahorel said, drinking right after. He had to take one of the gloves off to drink. He had a robe on that didn't do anything to cover his chest. It wasn't like it wasn't ment to, but still.

Marius stood up, only to be interrupted by Feuilly, "I'm Fix it Felix! And Bahorel is like my calh-"

"Don't you dare!"

"Reck-it Ralph? Yeah anyway... bahorel will be the drunkest tonight. Last time Grantaire was the one to help me carry him home." Feuilly had his work clothes on, that looked like Felix's, so he added a hate and a hammer he pained gold.

"Ok, I'm Marius-"

"Marius we know who you are, just say what your costume is," Groaned Combeferre.

"Oh well then, I'm Mr Incredible!" Marius then proceeded to flex his muscles, "And I think it will be Courfeyrac." Marius used to have a mask on, but Courfeyrac kept pulling it and letting go, making it hit his face so he took it off. He also had fake muscles so he could look more like bob.

"I'm a Greek God. Nothing more to say. Bahorel is definitely getting drunker than I am. And I'd like to see you try. I will knock you out," Grantaire wore a toga that showed haft his bare chest, and he wore shorts under it just in case he blacked out.

"My costume is Jean Valjean. And I think Jean Valjean will be the drunkest." Javert was wearing Valjean's clothes and had a loath of bread in his hand.

"I'm dressed as Javert, and I think Marius will be the drunkest, he looks like a light weight," commented Valjean. He wore Javerts clothes and had a toy weapon, because Javert wouldn't let him use his.

"Hey, I'm a jeti. Even though I have never seen star wars, um, I think Bossuet will be the drunkest." Joly got creative with his cane. He painted the body of it a bright green, and it he held it up, it would look like a Lightwave.

"Egyptian. That what I am. Um Grantaire will be the drunkest, no doubt." Enjolas said. Who knew that he could do eyeliner so well. He wore a white shirt and shorts with tons of false gold jewelry.

"I'm last, and I'm a Chimney Sweep. Unpopular opinion, but I believe Enjolras will be the drunkest, seeing as this is just a party." Combeferre had black soot all over his outfit, and wore a flat cap. He was adorable to day the least. He needed to work on the accent thought.

This isn't to be taken seriously, I just saw so many of these videos and thought it would be cute.

#exr #enjolras #grantaire #enjolras x grantaire #enjoltaire #les amis de l'abc #e x r #rxe #courfeyrac #combeferre #cosette #jean valjean #jehan prouvaire #joly #javert #jehan #barricade boys #bossuet #bahorel #musichetta #les amis #eposette #feuilly #les miserables