#THE COSETTE OF ALL TIME
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NO ONE haunts the narrative like Fantine
#like. it's not like she's mentioned all the time after her death#but nevertheless. her presence always looms shes there in everything valjean does and in cosettes life too#les mis
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I just couldn't resist, I love them so much and they deserve to celebrate a christmas togheter!!
#les mis#les miserables#jean valjean#javert#gavroche#cosette#fanart#christmas#Jean Valjean would love celebrating christmas and he would always rome Javert into joining#Cosette likes spending some time with her dad#Gavroche would protect that sweater with all his might#they're so cute
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“Does anybody want me here? I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius.” With an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. “I love you!” said Marius. “I adore you!” said Cosette. And they fell irresistibly into each other’s arms.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)
#victor is this a parody#because it feels like a parody#always remember that time theophile gautier named all his cats after les miserables characters#but there was no cosette cat#because his favorite cat was eponine 🤍#les miserables#victor hugo#literature
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reading about them like what if i burst into tears
#HELLO I still haven't finished the book bc I'm going to through it but I can't stop thinking abt them :(#so have some doodles. idk I'm still getting the hang of how I picture them so sorry abt inconsistency ajdhksjk#thoughts#my art#les mis#cosette#jean valjean#anyways I'm sure this has all been drawn a million times but. I also had to do it#also sorry to my historical fashion mutuals to whatever I've done here. not v familiar w this period#also still Not convinced by the beard but i wanted to give it a try
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im like, yes, tell me more about the animal symbolism in victor hugos 1862 novel les miserables
#like baby talk to me about javert and dogs!#valjean is a lion but when hes with javert hes a mouse#when javert is angry hes a tiger but hes also a bulldog but hes also a bloodhound#arm of the law and all that shit#and cosette is a lark!#shes literally called the lark!#gavroche is usually a songbird i think but i feel like i remember him being compared to a cat a couple times???#les mis#les miserables#elias.txt
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I know this is a pretty niche brick meme but - Theodule in Volume 4 Book 5
#When I read this passage I was screaming giggling and kicking my feet frrrrr#Like imagine being cosette at your wedding and finding out that that wierd guy you had a brief thing with was acctually ur husbands cousin#my art#digital art#Les mis#Les miserables#theodule gillenormand#Theodule#Babygirl of all time#Cosette fauchlevent#Marius pontmercy
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I'm going in for my Les Mis costume fitting after work and on the one hand, I'm really excited because it's another moment of OMG I'M REALLY GONNA BE IN LES MIS. IN A PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION. AT THE LOCAL BELOVED OUTDOOR SUMMER MUSICAL THEATER VENUE.
On the other hand, I'm half expecting that they'll take one look at me and go "Well, of course we can't use you after all, you're too fat."
#fat shaming for ts#this was also why my mother wouldn't let me audition for young cosette when i was little#instead of telling me that we just wouldn't have time if i were to get the part#or even letting me audition safe in the knowledge that i was absolutely not going to get the part#(because i was too fat)#(also too tall)#ANYWAY this company specifically encouraged people of all ages ethnicities AND BODY TYPES#they also are very short on tenors (i am singing tenor for les mis)#so i am just spinning myself up pointlessly#thanks mom!
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Cosette and malnourishment ( a Les Mis drabble )
When Cosette first entered the convent
She doesn't just have bandages from head to toe
She is also malnourished and underweight from all the times she nearly starved to death in her years at Thenardier Inn
So, not only Cosette was in a 3-year suicide watch period
She also is in a one year malnourishment recovery period, where the medical nuns helped design a special recovery diet for her ( like adding in the lack of protein AND vitamins in Cosette from those horrid years at Thenardier Inn )
And sometimes, her panick attacks and nightmares can get so intense, that Cosette had to spend some nights sleeping at the medical wing of the convent for that 3 year suicide watch period
Usually, malnourishment takes 5 or 6 months to recover.
Yet Cosette's malnourishment recovery took longer than expected
That's just how serious Cosette's malnourishment is when she first entered the convent
In fact, when she first entered the convent, her malnourished and underweight self, with bandages head to toe, shocked the nuns, gardeners and the students there to the point that they instantly began treat her with mercy
Some of them even shed some tears over horror and shock, of who could do such cruel things to a young child
Cosette covers her bandaged self with gloves and sleeved clothes from head to toe, even in summer days
As the medic nuns helped heal her injuries, and helped her recovery from malnourishment
At times, when those medic nuns helped her recover from such injuries and sickness
They would weep, with respect over the sheer spiritual strength of the child, and the horror of who could do such cruel things to a child
With these acts of kindness,
At first Cosette is both overwhelmed, terrified and touched at once
She sometimes thought that all these acts of kindness are just a wonderful dream, or that she actually died and went to heaven
Yet Valjean, and those nuns and gardeners, and her convent school friends, told her repeatedly that all these are real, that no child deserves to go through what she been through, and all that she experienced as a kid is not her fault
When Cosette first entered the convent, she was also one of the shortest girls in her class
By the time Valjean and Cosette left the convent, Cosette becomes a beautiful and lovely lady with a curvy figure and rosy cheeks, a stark contrast to her malnourished and underweight self when she first entered the convent
As Cosette grew,
Her heart is filled with so much love,
That she cannot imagine treating someone with such violence and cruelty that Monsieur and Madame Thenardier treated her in those horrid years, no matter who that may be.
#cosette#les mis#malnourishment#child abuse ptsd#underweight#cosette is LITERALLY MALNOURISHED AND UNDERWEIGHT when she first entered the convent#by the time she left the convent#she became healthy curvy and rosy cheeked#THE STARK CONTRAST BETWEEN HER PRE CONVENT TO POST CONVENT YEARS#like.....i am even more emotional how cosette maintains having such a big heart even after all the shit she seen and been through#DAMN#literally the ENTIRE convent is horrified over what cosette been through as a kid and THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES#petit picpus convent#convent school#trauma and sickness recovery#valjean is indeed a good dad
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Meet Cosette! 💖
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#she has two backgrounds bc they're both equally valid for her#in her 'canon' playthrough she's a noble tho only bc it's boring to get the same inspiration as gale every time lol#also i kept waffling on putting two or three companions under 'best friends' but then i felt like i was doing a disservice to the rest 😭#cosette has a very special bond with each individual companion and she loves them all sososo much ;v;#ability scores are her endgame stats#cosette dupont#bg3#oh and the different hairstyles are her camp vs adventuring looks. the bun is 'practical' and she lets her hair down at night#yes i do that every long rest
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I love drawing TB Damien because honestly what the fuck is wrong with him
#i need to draw someone else immediately. but all i want to do is draw damien#i need to start. drawing gregory and pip and estella and cosette because. i have not draw them#I drew estella One Time and that was all#but maybe i have to let the virus run it’s course.#pluto’s orbit
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just finished les mis... wow! i'm already sad and miss it :( but! here are some random thoughts post-finishing it:
hugo understands people and their relationships (and the interactions within said relationships) so well. this was my favorite aspect of the entire novel. i feel like i could pick apart so many different relationships and characterizations for hours
^ the above is how i could tell tolstoy really loved/admired him and was influenced by his work which was cool to see
my favorite section of the entire novel was the barricade section. he captured so much of humanity in such a vivid way within that section. also it was just gripping to read
favorite character was easily enjolras but no one is surprised. also loved jean valjean and grantaire. found myself loving cosette way more than i realized by the end of the novel
"to love or to have loved, that is enough. ask nothing further. to love is a consummation." that quote struck me more than i anticipated. i really loved how you could tell hugo geniunely loved humans and the world and how that love was a driving force throughout the entire novel. love - a love for and faith in the people, for change - is what pushes us forward and how progress occurs.
^ going off of that I thought of this quote from lady bird often: "don't you think maybe they are the same thing? love and attention?" you can tell hugo really loves paris
the sewer chapters were not as bad as people made them out to be like they're fine
#feel like pure shit just want them all back#suppose it's time for me to watch the adaptations now!#also enjoltaire girls i finally understand they make me so...#victor hugo#enjolras#grantaire#jean valjean#cosette#les mis#les miserables#currently reading
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And in today’s category of dumb shit the Les Mis official page posts: we have this.
Like it’s 2023, how about we stop pitting these two against each other???
#ps half the time I look at the picture (not the caption) when I’m scrolling through IG#hence why the heart is lit up red#anyway…it literally annoys the shit out of me#like none of what happened to eponine is Cosette’s fault#I honestly have never understood the hate towards cosette#she’s the heart of the entire story#she’s the reason all the stories connect#like…you don’t have to like all the characters that’s fine#but hating her purely because she fell in love and didn’t have as hard a life as eponine is just bs#marius pontmercy#Marius#cosette fauchelevent#cosette#Éponine#eponine#eponine thenardier#éponine thénardier#les mis#les miserables
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i love jean valjean so much i could drown in my own tears
#he’s so…..#how was i to know at last that happiness could come so fast trusting me the way you do i’m so afraid of failing you#your child will want for nothing#none shall ever harm cosette as long as i am living#she’s the best of my life#it’s the story of those who loved you#there’s a castle just waiting for you#if i die let me die let him live bring him home bring him home bring him home#you are free and there are no conditions no bargains or petitions there’s nothing that i blame you for#okay also#when he gives her the doll…..#when little cosette hugs him and he freezes because this is new to him but then he hugs her so so tightly#when she hugs him right after everyday and he still pauses before hugging her because he still can’t believe she’s real and she loves him#and he loves her so much#he fucking. he’s fine with dying. if he dies whatever let him die. but marius?? let him live#because he’s had so much time to love and care for cosette#and now she’s in love and all he has ever wanted is her happiness. he would die for her happiness. he’s begging god to take him if he must#but spare marius. and then they’re both spared. so valjean carries him. just so fueled with the love he has for his daughter#takes him all the way home. doesn’t even take credit for it#the only reward for anything he’s ever wanted is cosette’s happiness#i’m so. guys i love valjean so much. i love everyone in les mis but he’s been my number one guy since day one and it’s staying that way#oh my god#les mis
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Just got back from watching a production of Les Mis and yeah man to love another person really is to see the face of God 😭😭😭
#my favourite musical. last time i saw it was in..... 2015? around there#i have... some criticisms for this production but it made me cry a lot and left me dehydrated so it's still a win!#les mis#ramblings of a bystander#ok but seriously who decided to cast what looked like two south east asian sisters as child cosette and child eponine#and then adult eponine was also south east asian but cosette was NOT and was a full white woman#bizarre choice. we have so many characters to keep track of you should not be confusing my ability to follow them#a bit TOO many extras and too much activity on stage during sort of ensemble scenes#that made it a bit difficult to locate who was actually speaking/singing a couple times#javert was just a touch too stiff in his body language. actually a few missed body language opportunities#that would have helped clarify what was happening I'm just lucky to really know it all already#REALLY didn't like fantine's characterisation and delivery on a few lines but otherwise she was fine#also i can't believe enjolras first appeared on stage NOT wearing red and then had a costume change for the les amis cafe meetup#just put him in red straight away? why did grantaire also have a costume change to completely different color scheme at one point.#...it WAS a good production I'm just nitpicking. because it's my fave so i have OPINIONS#jean valjean was fantastic!#anyway. I'm gonna make myself some dinner now. and then see what I've missed
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Can we hear about Cosette? Seeing her makes me feel nostalgic! (I read warrior cats as a kid, and probably would have made a non-warrior cats universe OC if I realized I could do that)
AWW ABSOLUTELYYY I was not expecting an ask about my OC HAHA <3
So I made Cosette back around 2015 when I was active in a lot more RP groups and this one was basically Warrior cats but with big cat species and centered in/around Roman cities. You had your typical "clans" of wild cats and then one clan of city cats that were kept by the humans and trained to hunt the wild cats and capture them for use in fighting rings. Cosette was born to two of the more elite hunters in the city (Caelina, who was mine, and Scaeden, who belonged to staniqs on dA) and was raised with her brothers Helios, Icarus, Manes, Libero, and Regilius to capture the loose cats that had run away from where they belonged with the humans in the city.
She was named after a previous leader of the hunters who lost her position in disgrace, with the belief that she would reclaim the name and give it back its honor and pride. Cosette never really cared about any of that, or even being a hunter; she was a carefree spirit that just loved to play and make friends, and learned to fight well but rarely wanted to use it on any of the enemy cats.
So a big war broke out between the wild clans and the hunters (where before they were just attacking the wild clans here and there where opportunity arose) and one night a big battle occurred and her father was killed by one of the wild cats. Scaeden was a huge presence with the hunters (I can't remember if he was leader at the time or second in command?) and the death hit the family hard, so a big group that included Cosette, Caelina, Helios, and a handful of non-family but close friends snuck onto a ship in the middle of the battle to flee to Rome where they all became a small found-family of deserters hiding out away from everyone else. It essentially made them targets of the hunters in Rome, ironically. The young flourished while the adults kind of withered. Cosette's mother Caelina becomes terminally ill and is killed when she confronts the brother of the cat that killed Scaeden, the younger group of the found-family breaks apart when Cosette learns that one of them informed the hunters of their whereabouts, and that was about where the development of the story ended.
#it was an RP group so plot lines are kind of disjointed HAHA#and this was her original story but I plan on reclaiming all of my characters from these groups to use them in other stories instead#so expect to see more about Caelina/Cosette/Helios and tons more that weren't even relevant to this arc#I had so many big cat characters in these groups HAHA#the art here was drawn around the time they fled to Rome after her father's death and one of the others was consoling her
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Anyone have les miserables art requests?
#idk how many les mis ppl follow me anymore lol. who has survived the tide of narut0?#i just rewatched the 2012 movie for the 1st time since 2017 when it originally got me hooked on les mis#and i mean. i like the musical 10000x more than the movie i just forgot how the music gives me chills#especially: to love another person is to see the face of god.#i just. i love the story so much. i love that bastard javert. and jvj the saint and cosette and eponine#i even love that noodle marius and yes of course i love all of les amis. tho i feel way more detached from the fandom aspects of it#oh. fantine and gavroche as well. it also reminds me how much i hate the way bbc les mis decided to do things. god i have so many les mis#feelings. so if uv got requests now is the time. bc my brain very nearly collapsed yesterday so im forced to chill a bit haha#les miserables#les mis#do i post this at 4.40am my time? sure fuck it. idk y im awake rn#listen. the reasons i like les mis and narut0 overlap more than u would think lmao
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