#guelemer

[awholelotofsad]

pov: you’re getting mugged

#thenardier #montparnasse #guelemer #claquesous #babet #patron-minette #les mis #les miserables #illustration #thenardier made this illsutration harder than it needed to be for reasons that are entirely my fault #but it’s still funnier to blame him

[lafcadiosadventures]

Hendrick Goltzius, The Farnese Hercules

(hd here to appreciate Goltzius' INSANE metal etching talent in all its glory)

#aka balzac's bodyclaim so to speak. for vautrin #later used by hugo for guelemer #and gautier for workers in the harbour #a bit of a romanticism meme #i just love the two guys down there looking at him

[patron-minette]

Guelemer: 8, 12, 13, 25!

Hello wonderful friend!! Ah, I'm so excited to answer these questions!

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

This goes beyond just the fandom; it is also true for the Les Misérables musical, but— I am begging— please stop the Gueulemer erasure! I get that Patron-Minette are not talked about very often within fandom circles (which is totally understandable), but it really upsets me when folks discuss Montparnasse, Claquesous, and Babet without showing Gueulemer any love!

("Of course I love all Patron-Minette! Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and *looks at smudged handwriting* Gewgaw.")

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

I've recently come up with a rather sad headcanon about how Gueulemer and Babet first crossed paths, wherein Gueulemer is working as part of the group of "freaks" that Babet canonically used to tour around fairs before making his move to Paris. Considering Gueulemer's Herculean stature and towering height (keeping in mind that the average height for a male in France in 1830 was 5.4ft, while Gueulemer stands at 6ft!), he would have undoubtedly stood out as a phenomenon. Coupled with his immense strength, I'm sure he would've been a suitable "freak" of nature for Babet to showcase! :(

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

🙂 you know the inside joke.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Oh, this is a GREAT question! Admittedly, when I first read the novel I simply regarded Gueulemer as a brute without much thought. But over time, and especially as I have done more research into the racialised contexts and stereotypes Hugo applied to the character, my perspective on Gueulemer has undergone a complete transformation. Now, I strive to uncover as much complexity as possible surrounding the character!

[Ask Game]

#ask game #AAA Gueulemer is such an underrated character I could talk about him forever! #thank you for the questions!!

[schattenwerfenkeineschatten]

« i brought you a little… gift. » -guelemer

His eyes narrowed at Z. Receiving guests was unusual enough. He'd given them his address for emergencies, not surprise visits. Now this...

"A gift?" he repeated, as though he couldn't quite wrap his head around the concept. "Why?" And why did that sound like a threat? He trusted Z, but this had all the telltale signs of an ambush.

#escapedartgeek #sorry this took 300 years #🎭 gueulemer (moving shadows)

[crackspinewornpages]

Les Misérables 260/365 -Victor Hugo

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That night Babet, Brujon, Guelemer and Thenardier had planned an escape and Montparnasse was to help from outside. Brujon had woven a rope in confinement. He was transferred to the new building and found Guelemer and a nail. At this time roofers were relaying the slates and the new building was falling into disrepair (the irony) and the two’s beds were on the lower floor against the chimney that pieced the roof. Thenardier had been in solitary on the top floor and had somehow procured a bottle of wine. “There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailors, half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can.”p.616 (again things never really change)

When Gavroche picked up the two children Babet escaped and waited for them on the other side. Guelemer and Brujon used the nail and a chisel to loosen the boards and cause an avalanche of falling stone work and scaled the chimney and were on the roof. They used the rope to scale the walls and end in the street. That night Thenardier was too worried to sleep, he saw their shadows pass the roof and waited for the sentry to deliver food. He was allowed an iron bolt for his bread, (they just hung it on an iron rod) when it was delivered two hours later another sentry would round and found the previous one unconscious and a hole to the roof and his bayonet missing. Thenardier reached the crest of the ruined house somehow but his strength failed at the edge of the wall and the clock minutes before chiming the next round of sentries, when it did an uproar followed. Fall or arrest he thought, until he saw a man in the street who stopped under him, he heard their slang and recognized them.

Brujon was telling Montparnasse his tavern keeper accomplice must have been caught when they hear the prison alarm and figure Thenardier was found. They patrolled La Force looking for him, he didn’t dare call but threw the rope at them, he’s too cold to climb down. There was a plaster flute but it was too narrow except for a child and Mantparnasse went to fetch Gavroche. They give Gavroche his orders and up there Gavroche recognized his father. When they got back to the ground Babet told Thenardier that Eponine found there was nothing to be done but they’ll look into it. Ignored Gavroche listened for a bit before running off, Babet saw the family resemblance but Thenardier doesn’t acknowledge it.

BOOK SEVENTH SLANG

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Pigritia engenders the whole world theft, hunger, the son and daughter and idleness the mother, slang, a dialect theft in people and language. Thirty-four years ago, the author was aghast at it from the abominable of society. Balzac and Eugene Sue were objected for writing dialects. “When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when has it been considered wrong to go too far?”p.623 It was seen as a courageous act, fulfilled merits, why should one not explore everything, why stop. It is neither or attractive to investigate the lower order of society, the vocabulary of monsters, but when has horror excluded study. (page of examples)

All rungs of societal hierarchy and intelligences have slang, an extension not everyone will admit. There is veritable slang and pre-eminent slang, but it is vile and attacks the social order, what use is preserving it. “Assuredly, if the tongue which a nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and study. It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible human misery.” p.625 So we insist in the study of deformities to find remedy, descend into darkness, a historian isn't good if they do not understand hidden life interior as well as exterior, a true historian mingles in everything. “Is the under side of civilization any less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more sombre?”p.625 It is really the human tongue, words misshapen obscurity in voices and acts the real human division and cry education through those in the light can burn from excess.

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Every syllable is marked from those in darkness but it has rights in literature it has syntax and poetry, it is language. A study in it would be fruitful, a language within language, dig deep enough and find the language of Mediterranean ports. (well yeah linguistic drift and borrowing vocabulary exists that’s why English is such a hodge podge and some west states pronounce iron as urn) An edifice in common by the miserable growing. Slang is metaphorical, sometimes slang passes into metaphor, it lives in the language and ordinary words are deformed and complicated and when understood changes. Man with only rags and vices are ripe for crime and in the galleys and in hell they sang songs of their birth, some were tender. “Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.”p.631 In the world of dismal deeds people kept secrets in the aide of metaphor and to research slang is to discover it. Slang is the convict of language to deliver in the abyss and create consternation.

254

Slang four hundred years ago, words now mournful, now menacing, a sadness of the vagrants in the Court of Miracles. In the middle of the last century there was a change in prison songs, the melancholy of the dejected class vanishes into laughter. The eighteenth century is healthy and good humanity advanced to the light with philosophers Diderot, Turgot, Voltaire and Rousseau. One winter was of an unhealthy gallery was Retif de La Bretonne, effected Europe summed up by Schiller, crime rose up and suffering engenders wrath and prosperous classes blind themselves to it, as to set a light to it brings society’s scrutiny to everything, crumbles and the French Revolution cut it short, the Revolution changed societal conditions. (given recent events in France they could use another one)

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Is all social danger gone, no phthisis is there and called misery, even selfish hearts understand political necessities and first thought is the disinherited, so enlarge the horizon, educate them, (the Midatlantic accent common in old movies used to be taught in schools because it was considered upper class after WWII it declined) offer labor, balances, it is the beginning. “The true question is this: labor cannot be a law without being a right.”p.635 A body starving for bread isn't as sad as a soul starving for light, (Valjean would have a few words about that) as humans move up, layers emerge from distress to elevate a level is to eliminate misery. Why do those who do not desire a future say no, they only condemn themselves, staying in the past is to die. Humanity enters equilibrium, equity aided by science, but in the meantime, there can be no halt.  

More than once society has given way and was crushed from unknown reasons, could they have been saved, was it their fault there’s no answer. “We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient civilizations; we do not know the infirmities of our own.”p.636 Our society is worth the trouble of saving, it will be, but there are those that doubt and have weaknesses. “Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness.”p.636 (did he really just write all this to shit on accents and justify his use of them and yeah Gavroche has an accent and uses slang but in English translations he has a cockney accent because Victor says gadin is the Parisian cockney but also translated to English cockney is a recognizable low class form of speech to signify a lack of status and education like America would use an Appalachian or very southern dialect)

BOOK EIGTH ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS

256

The reader already knows Eponine recognized Cosette on Rue Plumet and didn’t inform the ruffians and told Marius. Marius easily entered the garden at night, (he’s compared to Romeo) had Cosette fallen for a man less unscrupulous she would have been lost as women yield to generous natures, love ruins or saves, (I think she could do better) the dilemma of human destiny, Cosette encountered a love that saves. All through May they met but kept a distance they didn’t cross. Cosette told him her real name, Euphraise, Marius prefers Cosette, she tells him she loves him and they laugh that he thought her name was Ursule. Then he told her how he was going to beat a veteran for seeing her ankle, (girl run this is a red flag) he imagined life with her.

257

They didn’t notice the cholera outbreak that month and they didn’t tell each other much besides their names, Marius told her of his father but being a baron didn’t affect Cosette. Cosette told him she was raised in a convent and her father was poor but generous, denying himself everything while giving it to her. Marius never thought to tell her of what happened at Gorbeu house. Love takes the place of thinking and they didn’t think of anything but each other and didn’t ask where it would lead them. (you both are young and dumb)

258

Valjean suspected nothing, Cosette being happy made him happy and he didn’t think of Marius and Toussaint was ignorant as well. Marius never went in the house and they hid in the trees when he returned to Courfeyrac around one in the morning he asks what’s her name but Marius wouldn’t talk. They spoke of finery and politics as complications approached, one day on his way to Rue Plumet Eponine met him, he had out her out of his mind, she couldn’t say anything to him and left.

259

June 3 1832 was an epoch on the horizon, Marius ran into Eponine again and she followed him to Rue Plumet to see the rendezvous and hid in a niche. Six other men had followed Marius and Thenardier is shocked to see Eponine who asks why he’s there, how did he escape and how is mamma. She keeps hugging him and greets the other thugs and when asked lies that the woman living at Rue Plumet moved, the lights are from the squatters. Thenardier will turn the place over and Eponine begs Montparnasse not to enter, they won’t listen and she threatens to scream, she’s not afraid of them. Montparnasse has plans to use a knife and Thenardier didn’t say anything but Brujon called off the job and Eponine followed them until they disappeared.

260

After the ruffians departed Rue Plumet was tranquil in the mist, there are things beyond man which the living are ignorant of, a black figure stops the wild beast.  

NEXT

#les miserables #victor hugo #books #book summaries #epic #historical fiction #tragedy

[feratscal]

Oooh if you're still taking requests, maybe draw the four heads of Patron Minette or Montparnasse and Sous cause I love them?? :D

Hi thanks for this request! ive been meaning to get my designs for the crew in order and this was a great motivation! Hope you like it!

#my art #request #patron minette #guelemer #babet #montparnasse #claquesous #les mis

[completely-lesamis]

Hello everyone! 

This blog is, as of a few days ago, one year old! 

We sincerely apologise for the fact that this blog has been mostly inactive in the past while. We as a group are hoping to become more active, and with this comes replacements for the members that have left the group. 

We’re currently accepting applications for some new characters, and replacements for some current characters!

We are looking for:

Montparnasse

Babet

Claquesous

Gueulemer

Bahorel

Cosette

Marius

To apply to this blog, you must be:

Between the age of 13 and 20, or have been asked to apply

Able to use Discord as a main source of communication (and, if does not have a Discord account, can create one)

Able to be online at least once a week regularly

Able to answer asks as your selected character

Must be following both @queerfave and @probably-enjolras

In about 2 weeks, we will go through the responses and select our characters!

- Mod Enj and Mod B (Enjolras and Combeferre)

#Les Miserables #les mis #montparnasse #babet #claquesous #guelemer #bahorel #cosette #marius #les mis rp #b speaks #enj speaks

[thunderfcknroad]

claquesous being a witch and guelemer being like "???? what's this how does this work wh-"

“What’s this?” 

Without turning round Claquesous just says “That’s a hex bag, dear, if you touch it your teeth may fall out.” They let out a satisfied chuckle as he heard the hexbag fall to the floor, indicating Guelemer had dropped it.

“So what do you do with it all?”

Claquesous rolled their eyes. “I make fairies appear and send them to people’s houses to fix their shoes. What do you THINK I do with it we are criminals.”

Guelemer picked up Claquesous’ mask. “So this thing….”

Claq felt their breath hitch. That really WAS precious to them. “Please be careful with the ‘Mer. That’s incredibly powerful.”

“What does it do?”

“It’s a mask. It hides my face.”

“No I mean - magic wise.” 

“It makes people forget they saw me. when I’m wearing it of course.”

There was a tense silence where Claquesous debated pulling their mask from Guelemer’s clumsy hands. The silence was broken.

“So can I try it on?”

Claquesous lunged forwards with a shout of “No!” but Guelemer just laughed.

“Man, I’m messing with you.” He handed the mask carefully back to Claquesous who glared at him.

“I could kill you with any of these spells. You should be terrified of me.”

Guelemer just raised his eyebrows. “Don’t be an idiot you take 6 sugars in your coffee. I take my coffee black. You should be terrified of Me.”

I hope this was ok!!! Love you!!!!! I haven’t written PM before but this was super fun and I want to get better!!!

#ask #cottoncandyfeuilly #patrom minette #calquesous #guelemer #les mis #les miserables

[weisbrot]

Guelemer added upon request ;^) I am sure this is super duper rare OT3 !! hope you and ur RP friends like this uwu @cottoncandyfeuilly  Thank you for this interesting request and letting me use your feuilly design!!

#lesmisrarepairsweek #Les Miserables #les mis #feuilly #claquesous #guelemer #patron minette #pirate au #my blergh #lm my blergh #i really hope i got the design kinda right oh my! thank you also for talkingme thru this one!! the details were a lotta fun! #sadly the corset for feuilly didnt make it into the picture but maybe another day #and look i made a fast design for guelemer!! tho definitely subject to change later on

[euphxmia-pxtter-blog]

Les Mis fancast - part 5/5 - Patron Minette {Montparnasse - Alexander Vlahos; Claquesous - Matt Daddario; Guelemer - Ezra Miller; Babet - Jake Abel}

#les mis #les miserables #fancast #patron Minette #Montparnasse #Claquesous #Guelemer #Babet

[lafcadiosadventures]

I have lots of Vautrin vs Guelemer thoughts right now (thanks to last post reblogged) and the role of education in hugo and balzac’s worlds (guelemer is basically an uneducated vautrin in a way, and an education would have saved him, whereas vautrin is a man of the people who got an education and a love of art and literature but that doesn’t channel his rage into anything constructive) but can’t make it into anything coherent and non reductionist at the moment.

#the vaccine arm pain blues #vautrin #guelemer #balzac/hugo related #must read Hugo’s thoughts on the vautrin novels if I remember correctly and robb mentioned them in balzac’s bio #also maybe the farnese hercules was trending at their times and in mentioning it hugo is NOT alluding to vautrin at all lol

[mon-d-i-e-u]

Les Miserables in Colour (17/?)

Guelemer - Dark Green

#guelemer #patron-minette #les mis #moodboard #minette #green #dark green #lmic #aesthetic #typography #mood board #les miserables #musicals #colour meme #thénardiers #knives

[patronminettefannet]

This appellation, Patron-Minette, was probably derived from the hour at which their work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title.

This is a network for fans of the Patron-Minette who are disappointed by the lack of content for the lesser known members, and would like to meet others to create content and share headcanons with!

To Enter: 

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I’d like this to get at LEAST 20 notes! If it doesn’t seem like enough people are interested, I won’t be able to do it.

First round of members will be chosen on 2/20/2017

What you’ll get

New friends to talk about the PM with!

A group chat

A follow from the mod!

Good shit

Guidelines

The group will be 16+, so be aware that there will be minors and adults together in this group

There will be a list of triggers/topics to avoid to ensure that everyone has a safe experience. The Patron-Minette can cover some sketchy topics sometimes, so please be ready to put warnings before anything you think might affect someone.

You must be active! We want the group to be lively and fun for everybody! 

Try to have something to contribute, whether it be headcanons, art, fics or even moodboards!

If you get chosen, I will message you with details on what to do next! The first round of members will be chosen on February 20th, so you have plenty of time! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to shoot me a message. 

#les mis #les mis network #patronminettefannet #patron minette #montparnasse #guelemer #claquesous #babet

[butchfaith]

montparnasse is trans

thanks for coming to my ted talk

#montparnasse #les miserables #he started his Life Of Crime™ by stealing mens clothes as a teenager bc he knew his parents would never buy them for him #his obsession with fashion/looking amazing is to combat dypshoria #he ran away from home as a teenager bc his parents were. Not nice. and fell in with patron minette #at this point he still hadnt decided a new name- he was torn between a few and none seemed to fit #babet: hey kid whats ur name #montparnasse: *looks up at the nearest street sign* uhhhh #and they were all??? surprisingly accepting #he hadn't anticipated that #babet Knows A Guy who can get him on t #guelemer is fuckin terrifying so who would say anything bad about his new friend in front of him #and then he meets jehan!!!!!!!!!!!!! and hes like FINALLY someone who UNDERSTANDS!!!!!!!!!!! #bc sure the others are great and try their best but they cant. like. *get* it in the way another trans person can yknow? #and one day when theyre all hanging out together he looks round him at all these amazing misfits and thinks how impossible it would #have seemed a couple of years ago to think that he would finally feel at home #anyways ive made myself emotional now i love my trans son montparnasse 💕💕💕

[completely-lesamis]

Hello everyone! We’re currently accepting applications for some new characters, and replacements for some current characters! 

We are looking for:

Montparnasse

Babet

Claquesous 

Gueulemer

Bahorel

Cosette

To apply to this blog, you must be: 

Between the age of 13 and 20

Able to use Discord as a main source of communication (and, if does not have a Discord account, can create one)

Able to be online at least once a week regularly 

Able to answer asks as your selected character

Must be following both @actually-combeferre and @probably-enjolras

In about 2 weeks, we will go through the responses and select our characters!

- Mod Enj and Mod B (Enjolras and Combeferre)

#patron minette #paton-minette #les amis de l'abc #Les Amis de l'Abaisse #babet #claquesous #guelemer #montparnasse #bahorel #cosette #text #applications #enj speaks #b speaks

[everyonewasabird]

Brickclub 4.8.4 ‘Cab Rolls in English and Yelps in Argot’

THE next day, it was the 3rd of June, the 3rd of June, 1832, a date which must be noted on account of the grave events which were at that time suspended over the horizon of Paris like thunder-clouds.

Oh NO.

Hugo even says “3rd of June” twice to emphasize the year, like he knows we know how bad this is. Or he wants us to guess how bad this is.

It’s an effective transition out of Marius’s blissful insensate fog.

Marius sees Eponine walking towards him and literally turns and walks away, while she’s looking at him, because he thinks her daring to speak to him two days in a row is too much. Fuck you, Marius. He’s progressed from awkward pontmercying to being a misogynistic dickbag--because, obviously, the reason for walking away is that Eponine is one of Those Sorts Of Women whom he avoids now, since he’s met Cosette. She's presuming to need to talk to him and to remember their acquaintance once he’s found his one true love?? How dare she!

And--he owes her a debt? Like, an actual one, not one of the ones he made up? She asked for something in exchange for showing him the house, and Marius “life debt” Pontmercy doesn’t bother remembering. Maybe it’s because he’s too in love now. But I kinda think it’s because she’s a woman--and worse, she’s That Kind of Woman.

Fucking hell, how was the popular ship when I was a kid Marius/Eponine and not Marius/Getting Punched By Eponine? And, gah, it was so popular to blame COSETTE for this?? The nineties sure were a time. (Yeah, yeah, musical canon, I know.) (But fuck this guy.)

About ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three passers in the Rue Plumet, a belated old bourgeois who was hurrying through this deserted and ill-famed place,

Huh, I hadn’t thought the Rue Plumet was disreputable? It’s clearly unfrequented and not fashionable, but I hadn’t thought it was a bourgeois-get-nervous-after-dark neighborhood. (I still find it bizarre that P-M are robbing the house NOW and not at any point during the previous several decades when it was uninhabited but full of rich people’s stuff.)

For the second time in just a few chapters, Thenardier fails to recognize his own kid.

The musical makes him the head of Patron-Minette here, which is a fair adaptational adjustment, I think--but also, there’s something to that, actually? We’re seeing again the thing we saw when he tried to shoot Javert, that Thenardier seems desperate and desperately hungry in a way they aren’t, and he always reaches for more than they were going to. None of them mind him overreaching, but it’s striking to see him among the supposed worst men in Paris, being considerably more uncontrolled and brutal.

I sense a sly observation about NIII somewhere.

Eponine is vastly outnumbered and physically outmatched, but she intends to stop them anyway.

First, she tries something like Cosette’s style of asking for what she wants under cover of playful feminine effusiveness and familial affection. But Thenardier doesn’t care like Valjean might.

Then she becomes Javert, naming them as they stand in line and greeting them with faux politeness, like he did. But she can’t intimidate them like Javert.

Then she becomes Fantine, and the text emphasizes her weak and bony hands and the newfound refinement in her speech as she supplicates first the man she’s been sleeping with--but Montparnasse just warns her away from his knife--and then the gigantic Guelemer, in a moment that resembles Fantine taking Javert’s hand.

But they don’t listen any better than Javert did, and there’s no Valjean to hear and intervene. In fact, by rights it should be Marius taking that role--he’s just a couple hundred yards away, and Eponine is suffering from his stupidity about “honest women” the way Fantine suffered from Madeleine’s--but Marius is in love and perfectly oblivious, as usual.

It’s worth noting that the other characters whose modes she adopts were using strategies that came naturally to them, whereas Eponine is picking them up and putting them down like a series of masks.

It’s also worth noting that none of the women’s strategies she tries ever actually worked for the other women. Hugo fails at feminism a lot, but he does sometimes manage very good points about the awful position women were in.

In increasingly desperate attempts, Eponine tries blatantly lying. Then she tries to presume on Montparnasse’s loyalty because of their relationship, but just like Marius--and I think these moments bookend the chapter deliberately--his debts of loyalty don’t extend to women. He just threatens her with his knife in an increasingly dangerous tone. His first mention of the knife may or may not have been a threat, but this one definitely is.

When all else fails, Eponine transforms suddenly into something specifically herself that we’ve never seen before. It’s an eerie, spectral mix of bravery and total indifference to whether she dies tonight--because, as she says, either her father will kill her sooner, or she’ll commit suicide within the year. Like Fantine at the end of her life, there’s nothing more that can be done to harm her--she thinks.

She’s invoking the magic system, and she pays a heavy cost for it: as she talks, she has a horrifying rattling cough that makes her more spectral and terrifying, but says terrible things about how long she’s going to live. She has become Fantine not in mannerisms but in actual spirit, exchanging her life and health to protect the person that matters to her.

It works. The men start supplicating her, but she won’t be supplicated.

And we end with the conclusion to the Montparnasse redemption arc that Hugo’s been teasing these last few chapters: His loyalty to men is real, but to women he’s an outright misogynist. He even boasts to his friends, after there’s no more reason to stab Eponine, that he totally would have gladly stabbed Eponine. He sounds young here--but he also sounds like an asshole. Even Babet--who, remember, abandoned his wife and kids and moonlights as a traveling dentist, so he’s the literal personification of all the shit done to Fantine--feels the need to say that he treats women better than Montparnasse does.

Montparnasse transforms here from a possible subject of a redemption arc back into Marius’s dark shadow--and right now, I think he’s there to demonstrate the misogyny that Marius is veering way too close to

#brickclub #lm 4.8.4 #uggh fuck marius #and montparnasse #eponine</3