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midautumnnightdream · 5 years

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Oh you are doing the character meme thing too yay. Can you do Combeferre & Jehan?

Ooh! Thanks!

Combeferre:

Why I like them

He's a supernerd, which makes him both someone I'd like to be friends with and also an excellent character for almost any kind of hjinks that come up in canon era research. Science? Hieroglyphs? Balloons? Wilder aspects of revolutionary philosophy? He's your guy. He's also gentle, when it's so common to depict his type of character as cold, so that's refreshing, but I also appreciate that he isn't always Right, or at least the people arguing with him are Not Wrong either.

Why I don’t

.. I'm interpreting this as "what negative characteristics this character has", otherwise I wouldn't be able to answer about any of them. With Combeferre, I guess he's caustic when he gets upset in a way that isn't always helpful to situation at hand, and generally doesn't really hold back when he's feeling strongly about something. Which isn't a bad thing on the whole! His friends especially probably appreciate that about him, but it can cause some distressing moments (cough*artillery sergeant*cough)

Favorite episode (scene if movie)

A fun moment: his reaction to Courfeyrac setting the charter on fire (there is a pun and I know there was a good Pun Explanation post around, I saw it recently, but now it’s lost and it’s so late augh)

A distressing moment: his barricade speech

Favorite season/movie

I'm very fond of Shoujo Cosette!Combeferre!

Favorite line

“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”

Favorite outfit

... the Saint-Simonian back-laced waistcoat I totally headcanon him owning >_

OTP

Enjolras/Combeferre/Courfeyrac

Brotp

... same. Rest of the Amis as well

Head Canon

his various ahem, studies and experiments have taken a few wild turns. Sometimes things explode a bit. Sometimes there are drugs involved. There is an incident involving a poodle and a bottle of absinthe that Courfeyrac is honour sworn to never talk about, but his eyes lit up in a particularly fiendish way whenever it's alluded to

Unpopular opinion

Though he seems like the calm and reasonable one of the group, he's often not really either. He's also not the mom friend, he shouldn't ever be anyone's mom friend, this is a disaster (see above).

A wish

That he got to see all the cool discoveries and inventions that he just barely missed out on ;_;

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen

Well. It happened

5 words to best describe them

curious, insitent, compassionate, knowledgeable, supportive

My nickname for them

Don't have one!

Jehan

Why I like them

Well. He's basically me, except better. Everything he says or does (or is implied to be like) is intensely relatable and also inspiring.

Why I don’t

The above bit is a double-edged sword :p

Favorite episode (scene if movie)

I really like his speech about the gods of Olympus, both in itself and also because it's basically only slightly paraphrased quote of Gerard de Nerval, which adds this delightful sense of meta perspective and blurring the lines of narrative and fiction to already spiritually intense moment

Favorite season/movie

none of the adaptation Prouvaires has really stood out to me. Shoujo Cosette I guess? At least he got lines and stuff

Favorite line

His entire poem!

Favorite outfit

.. how did Courfeyrac put it again? “Poets are very fond of wearing the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of France.” xD

OTP

Poetry Smash always! But the way Prouvaire is described, I kinda headcanon he's kinda in love with all his friends, romantically and Romantically, but it's more of a spiritual thing.

Brotp

same as above

Head Canon

so many! One thing I have brought into my stories a couple of times is having him embody the Poet-As-A-Prophet trope on a low-key level, in a way that could be read as a magical realism, or as a spiritual experience, or simply as a character being hypersenstive to narrative flow because that's how he himself sees the world. Mostly it's just the excuse to experiment with the fourth wall a bit in a way that makes at least some narrative sense.

Also he totally went to Hernani. For all the showings.

Unpopular opinion

What even is an Unpopular Prouvaire Opinion these days? I guess I imagine him as more Awkward in less easily forgiven/cute ways than a lot of fandom, like, genuinely being difficult to deal with when he gets into a mood, and also sometimes being a bit dense about the undercurrents because he zoned out at a wrong time or smth. (I mean, he's often headcanoned as being super emotionally intelligent and while in some ways I think he is, in some ways... also... not)

A wish

that he lived to make friends with Father Mabeuf

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen

The worst already did

The worst ship also did

5 words to best describe them

dreamy, loving, shy, intrepid, [above all] Good

My nickname for them

Again not really a nickname, but i guess I call him Prouvaire more often while most people call him Jehan? In fic, I usually write it out as 'Jean Prouvaire' because that's what Hugo does, it's one of these nuance things I'm weirdly picky about.

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