#brick!grantaire

[chazstity]

Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a Robespierre waistcoat.

"Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of the waistcoat across his breast.

And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:—

"Be easy."

Enjolras grabbed him by the lapels and kissed him passionately

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#enjolras #grantaire #exr #enjoltaire #brick!enjolras #brick!grantaire #les miserables #les mis #les mis fanart #les miserables fanart

[a-la-sante-du-progres]

Grantaire was also a dancer and boxer in canon no?

Quite true.

He dances well and he practices "savate" and "chausson". I tried looking up their differences but I keep finding the same results for both words. It's not boxing, it's also called French boxing but it's much more similar to kick-boxing. It originated in Parisian and Marseillais slums but it later got popular among aristocracy as well. You use kicks and slaps, punches were introduced around 1830.

According to the brick, Grantaire is very good in stick fighting too. I always found interesting he is the only one among Les Amis (as far as we know) who is actually trained to fight and he is the one who doesn't lift a finger. It's emblematic of how he has the potential to serve the revolution, he doesn't apply it deliberately.

It's said he also sings constantly, even if I don't think it's very good since it's drunk singing.

He's very knowledgeable in history, he reads english mortality statistics, he has a classical education from what we know but he randomly talks about acids in a drunken rant and once I read (I don't remember where so it may not be reliable info) that what he said was correct and academic knowledge in 1832.

Indeed a super varied range of interests.

#grantaire #brick!grantaire #savate #les miserables #the brick #les mis

[omgjolras]

les misérables 2012 has definitely committed many war crimes but it is redeemed by unintentionally being one of the gayest adaptations of all time like tom hooper cast the cuntiest twink enjolras the most soul crushing yearning grantaire the most pathetic gay javert but he intended NONE Of it

#les mis #les miserables #les mis 2012 #enjolras #grantaire #javert #like i am sure he intended none of it because he inserted that weird scene with grantaire and what i assume is matelote #her in his lap when in the brick he's literally harassing her lmaooo #i always ignore it because it's so canon divergent it's everything divergent regardless of R's sexuality he gets noooooo bitches #i legitimately think he was actively trying to no homo through it but accidentally made it worse

[sirgawainofgalifrey]

The REAL reason Les Mis is a great book is because it has the duality of you being able to randomly open it to any page and find the most beautiful-soul-crushing-poetic-timeless-eye-opening sentence ever

but also Victor Hugo consciously chose to make every single character is the lamest most socially inept mess and awkward crazy dork you've ever seen and it's great.

#and yes i include most of the les amis in this they're all nerds #les mis #les miserables #les amis de l'abc #les amis #the brick #victor hugo #jean valjean #javert #marius pontmercy #cosette #enjolras #grantaire #courfeyrac #jehan prouvaire #feuilly #combeferre #bossuet #les amis joly #eponine #madame thenardier #thenardier #even the bishop

[hyperfixationstation1]

cheers to the man who sleeps during the end of the world

Grantaire sketch.

Micron 0.2. Derwent HB and 9B

#les mis #les miserables #grantaire #victor hugo #the brick #cant stand his ass btw #like duuuuuuddde shut up #when I first read his description #you know #he was extremely ugly #which is so mean #then I googled him #none of the people that have ever played his ass have been ugly #Victor what the fuck do you mean by ugly #ridiculous #oh it’s meant to show that skepticism is ugly #still mean Victor #still mean #oh uh #les amis #enjolras #les amis de l'abc #yeah #pencil illustration #art

[la-pheacienne]

Mystery of "Night begins to descend upon Grantaire" solved (continuing this post)

@everyonewasabird @pilferingapples So because I am insane and couldn't sleep I went through hundreds of pages of the manuscript on Gallica and finally found the text and it's CANON. What Grantaire said with an "indescribable sweetness" was not "let me sleep here", it was "you know I believe in you" (tu sais que je crois en toi) but Hugo wrote it on the margin of the page and so faintly I almost missed it but thankfully I spent 1 hour scanning every centimeter of this page because I'm nuts.

Also if anyone wonders (no one) Grantaire said "you'll see" only once, not twice as some translations show, and here is the proof:

Two remarks:

At first the "you know I believe in you" seemed random to me, because I was not used to it (since my version doesn't have it). Then I realized that ACTUALLY it has to be there. When Enjolras says "you're incapable of believing, of thinking, of wanting, of living and of dying" he's referring to two things Grantaire said : that he believes in him, and that he's willing to die there, for him. "Believing", and "dying" are the beginning and the end of his phrase. He's wrong in both, as we know. Grantaire is capable of believing (in Enjolras) and of dying in the barricade. The text has a perfect harmony this way.

What is driving me absolutely crazy is that Hugo added probably the two most meaningful exchanges E x R had on the margin as an afterthought, as a correction, and I'm talking about "you know I believe in you" and "you'll see". Like he wrote the draft and then was like, that's mid. I'm not going for mid, let me throw a phrase there to give it an extra oomph that will make tumblr girlies lose their minds and their sleep 200 years later. You don't get it, he was working for us. First incident of fanservice recorded in the history of human kind - and the editors MISSED IT. CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

#lm 4.12.3 #les miserables #the brick #enjolras x grantaire #enjoltaire #victor hugo #i mean of course it wasn't fanservice it had an actual thematic significance and was essential for their arc etc etc BUT ALSO #he must have known the effect these words would have on people #aspa reads les mis

[marbleluvrofliberty]

reading enjolras and grantaire’s character descriptions back to back is the funniest thing a girl can do

#he’s literally like #enjolras was the most beautiful man alive and embodied the ideals of the revolution and everyone wanted him but he couldn’t be bothered #grantaire was sooooooooo fucking ugly and idiotic and he tried to convince his friends that he got bitches but EVERYONE knew he didn’t pull #les mis #les miserables #grantaire #enjolras #exr #enjoltaire #the brick #victor hugo

[dis-astre]

i love love love the quote "tu sais que je crois à toi" ("you know i believe in you") in les miserables cause it hold so much meaning for grantaire's character cause he's a cynic, he's not supposed to believe in anything but he believes so much in enjolras that he's willing to die for the cause etc

but at the same time i can help but to think that this line is just a lie. he doesn't believe in enjolras, because believing in him means believing in the cause and in the revolution and everything enjolras' character symbolizes. he doesn't believe in him, he loves him. he means "you know i love you", but obviously doesn't say it (and so enjolras doesn't know it). he doesn't go to the barricades because he believes in the cause. he goes to the barricades because he loves enjolras so much he can't do anything else.

#i am unwell #i swear this two keep me up at night #i can't get over this tragic little gay men #no fr i have just so much thoughts about les mis and about r and enj like i can't help thinking about them #their story is just so tragic and beautiful #les miserables #les mis #the brick #victor hugo #enjolras #grantaire #enjoltaire

[protectionsquad24601]

victor hugo simply refuses to write a sentence about Enjolras without calling him pretty

#les miserables #les mis #enjolras #“said the handsome Enjolras” m8 we get it #me talking about my friends like #Grantaire probably talks about him the same way pffft #victor hugo #the brick

[dum-spiro-spero99]

Italians do it better aka brick accurate Permets-tu

#enjoltaire #enjolras #brick accurate #sorry for the quality btw #victor hugo #les miserables #les miz #grantaire

[fruity-pontmercy]

not enough people in this damn fandom are talking about this saturday's West End enjoltaire kiss and im kinda pissed about it

#les mis #les miserables #les miz #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #enjolras #litblr #grantaire #enjoltaire #ExR #west end #musicals #musical theater #les mis headcanons #hyanthis speaks

[a-la-sante-du-progres]

The thing with R's design is that he's very canonically ugly, but I can't see "ugly".¹ I just never feel repulsion when looking at human traits. It's not a political stance but an instinctual lack of reaction. Lacking a internal compass telling me who is ugly, I can just use conventional ugly traits but those imho are associated with poverty, illness, violation of gender roles, violation of North European traditional aesthetics, old age². So even if I give R random conventionally ugly traits, I still won't think of him as ugly but as something else. It's a fruitless effort. So I gave up on picturing him as ugly and physically repulsive to me.

So my R design is:

-something makes him repulsive, but it's nothing people can explain rationally. No ugly trait in particular. After all, he's described as "impossibly" ugly. What if it's impossibly ugly because people can't say why he's looks ugly to them? Because it's a sensation that defies logic? My realistic headcanon is that people can sense his all-encompassing dread and lack of any positive belief, and they fear it and from fear it comes the irrational repulsion, also I'm sure that his behaviour toward women has a big impact on his perceived ugliness. It would be right in Hugo's alley anyway, Hugo uses ugliness as a visual metaphor for psychological and social issues.

(In a fantasy!AU I like to headcanon his perceived impossible ugliness as people unconsciously feeling that he's not human. The same is valid for Enjolras, but with his angelic and statuesque beauty.)

-I adopted as headcanon what it can be deduced from the brick. He's 26-29 years old, so quite young, he's fit and strong because of the multiple sports he does, he's short because he's impressed at Enjolras's height, he must have good hair because he appears to be proud of his hair and glad of not going bald like Bossuet. He's supposed to be the apparent opposite of Enjolras, so my headcanons are dark hair, small forehead, bad teeth, strong manly features. His hair may have been ginger too because Hugo had a bit of anti ginger bigotry and he stupidly thought ginger hair were ugly so he may have thought of R as red haired when he wrote he was ugly. Ginger!R is a fascinating idea to me, 99% of the times I see him as black haired, but I think ginger hair is a likely feature for brick!R (and also hot NGL).

-Bladgen!R has imprinted on me, so I borrow some of his features, but he looks too delicate to be R, so I usually roughen up his face a bit when I think about him as Grantaire. He's also too beautiful (I can tell when someone is beautiful to me), but when I try to think of traits to assign to R to turn him ugly, my mind goes blank. Without the obligation to make him ugly, I manage to picture him with different features, but I can't give up on his curly hair in the 2012 movie. Grantaire with curly hair is fixed in my imagination as if it was canon. Bbc!R is sometimes R in my mind, but I don't think he's ugly either (on the contrary, I find him beautiful as well), he just gave a great R impression thanks to his interpretation. No musical actor left something into my headcanons, it's regrettable because I usually enjoy a lot musical!Grantaires.

-Canon R is white imho, he talk about other ethnicities as "other". I'm not sure because he may identify with the dominang group despite not being part of it, but it's a likely guess. He also said he would rather be born a Turk/Arab, he's was joking/trolling, but I take it as inspiration for modern and reincarnation AUs. Obviously, it's unrelated with his perceived ugliness, and to avoid involuntary correlation and involuntary endorsement to white supremacist propaganda, I would explore his ugliness and being Arabic in different fanworks.

-Green eyes just because he's associated with green by the musical.

-Damages from his addictions. So corrupted teeth from smoking and alcohol, flawed skin from smoking, sleepy/tired eyes. Those could work as conventionally ugly traits, but I still think of them as neutral, bad just because they're symptoms of bad habits, not necessarily bad to look at.

¹I'm not trying to be holier than thou, I acknowledge ugliness is real and can be defined by what triggers repulsion at the sight. I can feel this repulsion when I look at very ugly architecture, for example, but I simply don't feel it when I look at people. If I'm repulsed at someone, it's just because I already hate them because of their behaviour. I don't know if it's related, but I don't feel repulsion at anything from the human body either. I've spent some nights in the hospital with surgery patients, and nothing repulsed me, no fluid or matter I saw. It's not high morals, it's high scientific interest, and the human body is too interesting to me to feel other than utter fascination. Like there is one thing I find ugly, and there are bushy eyebrows. idk why, that's it. As I said, lacking an internal compass that tells me what's ugly to me, when I try to picture ugly, I resort to conventions. ²But "ugly" traits are always ugly for ulterior motives, they're ugly because they're associated or they have been associated in the past with the poors (es badly groomed hair, inelegance, bad teeth), they're associated with a lack of health and physical strength (fat bodies, very skinny bodies, asymmetry, paleness, eyebags etc), they defy gender roles (moustaches/beard/big bodies for women, small stature/small hands/small D for men), they're typical of old age or they're anything else than north-European (big noses, bushy eyebrows too probably). I don't blame who find those traits ugly, we can't choose what is repulsive to us, we can only treat everyone decently (unless they're being harmful). But while I recognise ugliness is legit, I see every ugly trait as being something else, the trait of a poor/sick/old/androgynous/poc person so I'm unable to think of someone who is just objectively ugly. Instead I can well see beauty, I'm charmed by people with some colour and proportions as if they were work of art, also I see beauty in all the people I care about because looking at them is pleasurable to me. The opposite of beautiful is just "normal" to me, when I don't feel anything when I look at someone, likely with random strangers.

#brick!grantaire #les miserables #enjolras #aesthetic #ugliness #grantaire design #grantaire headcanons #ugly grantaire vs twink Grantaire discourse

[quoth-the-goblin-nevermore]

At the request of @reggiecanswimipromise

Enjolras and Grantaire in the style of the communist propagando posters. I tried my best :,)

#les mis #enjolras #grantaire #enjoltaire #les amis #les mierables #barricade boys #art #my artwork #my art #les mis fanart #les miserables #request done #les mis book #the brick

[barricade-bops]

STOP twinkifying Grantaire in fanart he is UGLY. He is a FREAK. STop it.

#only george bladgen is allowed to be pretty thats fine #also of course ugly in the way that vic meant #so like by conventional european standards i guess #like in the metaphor of the way vic and his contemporaries meant it i guess its just 1) foil to enj 2) lacks one or both of the fortitude of #character and the societal means to “succeed” (he lacks one) #by all of this of course i mean he is gorgeous #the most beautiful man on earth #but for the love of god stop making him a twink with a little nose and a cute little face im losing it #sorry good night #Grantaire #les mis #les miserables (2012) #the brick #les miserables #enjoltaire

[hyperfixationstation1]

Enjoltaire is waaaayyyyyy too interesting a dynamic to be boiled down to one guy is politically determined and has autism and the other guy is sad, drunk, and has ADHD and then they kiss.

Like, Enjolras does not love Grantaire. Or, at least, no more than he loves Bahorel or Mabeuf or Claqesous.

And, hell, I’ll go further to say Grantaire doesn’t truly love Enjolras. No more than Cosette loved Catherine the doll she couldn’t have before she received her.

Because neither is a complex person to the other.

But I also think, that out of all of Les Amis, Grantaire best represents “the people,” those that Enjolras romanticizes in his pursuit to cure the illness that is injustice in his Patria.

Grantaire exemplifies the city of Paris. His winding prose mimic the narrow streets with back alleys and grotesque buildings, both beautiful and hideous. His dedication to his friends mimics s dedication to the Parisian identity, taking it as it is. He’s the ugliness, messiness, and drama of the city, but the jovial nature of a community of people who occupy a shared identity.

But Enjolras doesn’t love Paris. Or he doesn’t love Paris in its contemporary state. He loves an idea of France as an beacon of democracy. He loves the future and it’s untouched possibilities for equality that he vows to make unmanipulatable.

The two are inherently a battle between the present and the future. The beauty of them dying hand in hand is due, in part, to them never coexisting well while living.

#les miserables #les mis #the brick #enjolras #grantaire #les amis de l'abc

[enjolraspermettendo]

#les miserables #les mis #grantaire #enjolras #enjoltaire #the brick