There’s something about how Victor Hugo assures us that Monseigneur Bienvenue died peacefully by telling us his older sister stayed by his side until the very end. That, even after he went completely blind, she spent every night sleeping in the bedroom next to his, and spent every day taking care of him. And under his sister’s care, the blind bishop was more happy than he’d ever been in his entire life because “to be blind and to be loved is one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness . . . the supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves— say rather, loved in spite of ourselves— this conviction the blind have. In their calamity, to be served is to be caressed . . . light is not lost where love enters . . . the soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it.”
And then when first describing Grantaire, Hugo writes that the only thing the skeptic had ever dared to love was Enjolras, because “[n]o one loves the light like the blind man.”
And then Grantaire spends his final moments by Enjolras’ side, just like the bishop died by his sister’s side.
There’s so much projects I have left in order to study, and this is all I can draw between studying breaks 😪
The bottom doodle is a thing I whipped up with mon ami @friendlyvictory where Grantaire wakes up in the middle of a bush (it’s a long funny story but basically part of his drunk shenanigans) and says he’s only been hitting the hay for a few hours and Enjolras replies with the speech said huehuehe
I need help finding a fic i read ages ago- it was an ao3 enjolras/grantaire fic where the entire les amis squad were reborn constantly, and grantaire would be the only one to remember and he'd always find enjolras. He'd paint the different versions of him, and the version depicted in the fic was doing something protest related, and grantaire joined with the excuse that he was studying sociology-
That's all I remember of the fic, and I can't find it in my own bookmarks ^^