Modern les mis college au majors but I basically almost don’t care about canon:

Enjolras: law and polisci. Wants to go into politics but also holds the view that the modern political system is deeply broken and doesn’t want to contribute to it in it’s current state so maybe he’ll just be a public defender.

Grantaire: art. He doesn’t really care about it but he’s really, really fucking good at it and got into college on a full ride scholarship and his folks were really pressuring him to go to post secondary so he went. His professors are reaallllyyyy trying to get him to be more engaged because they think he could be great but he’s got his own stuff going on.

Combeferre: History with a minor in entomology. Moth combeferre has my heart till the day i die. He’s going to work a museum and really pushes for ecological preservation.

Courfeyrac: MUSICAL THEATRE COURF. He always gets the lead in all of the shows and is something of a local celebrity for his turn as link Larkin in hairspray. He’s getting a philosophy minor but has no plans to use it.

Jehan: classic lit + poetry, duh, but with a minor in botany or something. In another life they’d like to be a dancer and realistically they COULD do that now, but they decided to go with the safer option and wants to work in a library or maybe with combeferre at the museum after school.

Joly: again pretty obvious, he’s pre-med and his minor is history. He’s insanely passionate about making healthcare more accessible and might not go to med school proper and instead focus his efforts on the HR side of things (though he’d make a really good doctor).

Bossuet: elementary education or adolescent psychology!!! He really wants to work with/help kids, which is wonderful because kids naturally just love him, he’s funny and kind and easy to talk to and always keeps a little stash of candy and juice boxes on him when he works.

Feuilly: design. Maybe a minor in war history or religion. He’s pretty interested in knowing where he and his family came from but doesn’t really know how to utilize that career-wise, so he goes for design as his main thing because he’s pretty good at it. He’s only a part-time student and works construction.

Eponine: either psychology or criminology. Yeah i just think. Yeah. I’ve gone in depth about my ideas for how Eponine wants to use her life to be better than her parents and wants to understand why people are sometimes terrible and how to help their victims.

Marius: languages, mostly German, Latin, and English (and maybe Hebrew bc of my Jewish Marius hc). His minor is in music composition. He’s very much a romantic and loves the fine arts but he hasn’t unhitched his life from his grandfather’s ideals enough yet to dive into pursuing that full-time so he studies languages and might work as a translator.

Cosette: also law. She wanted to study it before she met enjolras but when they met he really encouraged her to pursue it and he’s a really big role model for her. Like him, she wants to be a public defender, because right before she went off to college valjean finally told her the full story of fantine and this really lit a fire under her and she wants to help people who the system has turned it’s back on. She’s minoring in theatre with courf.

Musichetta: chetta didn’t go to a traditional college, she went to cosmetology school and works at a salon and is the most sought-after stylist in town. Ideally she’d like to go back and get a bachelors in social justice or something but right now she’s happy where she is.

And Gavroche, well. He’s the best science student in his 6th grade class.

oh my god just watched tonight's performance of les mis with Will Jennings (i think) as Enjolras and he was so great!! He has a lot of chemistry with this Grantiare (Matthew Dale) and i spend all act two just crying because of this. The way they just hug in desperation when Gavroche dies, and how Grantiare tries to run to help Enjolras after he has fallen but still dies. It was so good I just couldn't stop crying

would you rather be constantly berated and be the source of annoyance of your crush or have two fairly nice encounters with them but are too shy to talk again

if noah kahan and his music had been around during the 2012-2015 Les Mis tumblr fandom I fear the repercussions it would have brought on for the Grantaire gays (me, I am the grantiare gay)

Hi Guys, What are you favorite musicals? (If you like any) i could see you Enjolras enjoying more older muscials such as My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. Where as Grantiare i think you would prefer more modern musical such as Everybody's talking About Jamie, Bonnie and Clyde and Moulin Rouge.

Hope you both have a lovely day

Liv xx

Enjolras: I mean, I don't really watch musicals. I have watched some before, but they're not really my thing. I did watch one with Ferre and Courf about striking newsboys in America once though. It was good.

Grantaire: I love Hadestown! I love the mythological aspect of it and the story itself. The songs are also really good! And the ending- Don't get me started on the ending! Its ... *his voice faces out as he keeps rambling. Enjolras is staring at him with an adoring look in his eyes.*

I failed at getting into les mis several times already do you have instead of it an enjorlas grantiare fic to reccomend for me to spend my time sending into my brain instead

yeah so i always recommend world ain't ready for ppl getting into it—it's the most kudos'd les mis fic on ao3 and it's like. shockingly good. you'd never expect a romcom about american high schoolers on ao3 that happens to be about les mis characters (which, like, it definitely is—the characterization is a really accurate interpretation of these characters as high schoolers in 2006 imo, but it's far enough removed from the source material that it's easy to get into even if you don't know the original story) to be this good.

i also like to recommend into the light, which is much shorter, and also possibly the only exr fic i've read that's completely canon-compliant? it's about them as ghosts spending decades together after they die. also how does it have <100 kudos what's going on there.

you can also look through my ao3 bookmarks, which isn't every fic i've enjoyed, but it's a list of everything i think was exceptionally good or really gets at some important concept or just stuck with me in some way. obviously heed the ratings and archive warnings here, some of them get really dark or explicit. and ofc i can recommend specific ones if you want! the thing is that i definitely tend to prefer canon era stuff but that's harder to get into if you're not already into les mis/exr

So, I recently saw Les Miserables in theatre in the Netherlands and I went in not knowing too much about it (except that it would be fucking sad, of course) and let me tell you. I was so convinced that Grantaire and Gavroche were siblings.

They had so much sibling energy. Gavroche was the (only) one to go after Grantiare after he fought with Enjolras and Grantaire held Gavroche when Éponine died. And so many other little moments where they'd stand together and hang around each other and !!!

I was seriously so convinced they were brothers and so shocked to find out Gavroche was Éponine's little brother and Grantaire wasn't related to them at all.

sat here for like ten minutes trying to remember the origins of the quotes "You don't believe in anything." "I believe in you" before remembering it was Enjolras & Grantiare les mis.

I know who you’re gonna say but I’m trying anyway. Maybe I’ve earned someone better by now. Who’s my character?

you're fucking elliot schafer or grantiare and it just keeps making more sense,

also elliot is literally so freaking cool, you guys have the same sense of humour.

grantaire is a vibe honestly and you two just giver off the same energy

This is fully meant as a compliment, but I cannot get Delf as Grantiare and Prityal as Enjolras (I think it was the 'my lady' comments) and now I have the image of your characters - dressed in red - standing by the window sill - perhaps they are both holding their flag - and ow ow ow

aaah one of those modern AUs where like, they are recognizable but also like, not canon fucked up or weird so it's not as upsetting to read and also you can get a happy ending where they own a cat and are mostly functional as a couple!

Yes. I should have given Prityal red sneakers. In my head they were pink. Did I say they were pink? I think in the book I described her dyed hair color as red or auburn? But modern Prityal had like, fuschia hair to me. To match all the pinks in the book cover.

Anyway. The tragedy, in this instance, would be Delf at the last moment shoving Prityal aside (to safety) and just dying for her. Because Delf is... like that.

Grantaires idol is Paris Hilton

alt! c:

Ooof so many to choose from....Shall I start from my early beginnings in 2005/06 (I was 11 when I found a Proboards called Flaming Passions (A horse and wolf rp site). It died out in my when I was 16/17 from low activity and older people posting super smutty things that shouldn't have been posted per Proboards rules) where one my horse characters unlived herself via a cliff cuz all her friends were dead ?

SOOO let's go with 9 years ago, I played Grantaire from Les Miserables. Under the name Sobergrandr. I dug up this old starter:

Sitting upright, his back too straight for his comfert. His black curley hair was the only thing that was still remoltely him. He stabbed at the lettuce with his fork, taking a bite of the lightly ceasered dipped lettuce Grantaire forced himself to listen to his father drone on and on about his life and how well his new investments where going.  Grantaire stared at his father, a blank expression rested on his face. 

“Answer me Kenneth.” Grantiare scowled at the use of his name. Kenneth Grantaire Tremblay. No one had ever called him by Kenneth excpet his father. No one liked that name but his father. Grantaire had changed his legal name to exclude Kenneth all together.  So Grantaire did not answer his father who looked cross until he sighed and gave in.  “Grantaire.” Hearing his name he looked up from his plate and spoke “I’m glad your investments bode well for you father.” Grantaire replied robotically.  He’d been too used to these conversations. “You’re majoring in business. So these investments bode well for you as well.” His father told him in a matter-of-fact way.  “Art, father” Grantaire told his father. “No, you majored in bu-”

“Art, I’m going to major in art."  His father was shocked. "Going to?! You haven’t-  Grantaire could feel his father glare at him as he cut his father off. "Picked a major yet, yes.” “You’ve been wasting these past two years?!!” Grantaire wanted to flinch and run away as his father’s voice raised. He had to be strong this time. I’ve finally found my passion" His father scoffed. “I’ve been right about you since you were in first grade.” His father paused, smirking at his son’s open mouth. “Worthless piece of shit, I should disown you.” Grantiare bite his tounge, trying not to lose his cool. “Then do it, go ahead!” He challenged his father.

"Your mother would kill me if she could hear me say that, so in her memory, I won’t…Yet.“ At the mention of his dead mother, Grantaire’s expression grew dark. "The only thing keeping me here is her.” He whispered bitterly. “Grantaire-” He cut off his father. “No.  You can go to hell. Fuck off. You’ve always treated me worse than a dog. Disown me, we’d both be better off.” He told his father who stalked to the table, grabbed his suit’s collar roughly, and threw Grantaire on the floor, pounding into Grantaire who tried to curl up into a ball. “You don’t talk to me like that until you grow up. Understand?!” Grantaire tried to run from the monster, he felt his leg get caught by his hand and was drug back. He soon felt his ribs re-break, new bones break and old wounds bled. Shit, shit. That was all Grantaire could think as he started to black out.

He woke up outside near his car, Grantaire struggled to get up and stumbled into the car, got in, and drove the hour-long trip back to campus, his body bruised and bleeding, his head felt foggy as he pulled into his apartment and once inside he broke out the closest bottle and downed the whole thing, he drank another bottle and reached for a third as he sent out drunken texts.  He didn’t know who he was sending them to, nor did he care.  After the third bottle, he could barely feel any pain coursing through his system. Oh, how he loathed himself right now.  His life was just one fucked up mess.

Enjolras: * running into the room* Grantaire just said he doesn’t love me anymore!

Éponine: What?

Grantaire*following him in* I did not say that. I just said that we were not driving all the way to Kentucky just so you can punch Mitch McConnell in the face.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables) Characters: Grantaire (Les Misérables), Enjolras (Les Misérables) Additional Tags: Angst, Canon Era, Canon Compliant Summary:

A poem from the perspective of Grantaire. My entry for Enjoltaire Games 2021

I consistently forget Enjolras and his band of merry men aren’t the main characters of Les Mis

The Miserable(s) Month, Day 13: Repair

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26750227/chapters/65876476?view_adult=true

Enjolras and Grantaire have a fight, and this time, Enjolras thinks it’s beyond repairing

A new oneshot for the Miserable(s) Month, Day 13 from the prompt repair is now up on Ao3. Sorry I made Enjolras kind of a dick, it’s so out of character for him in my opinion, but for some reason that was the only way I could think of to go with this prompt