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secretmellowblog · 6 months

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For me the ‘canon homoerotic subtext’ between brick!Valjean and Javert is really more about the parallels between Javert and Eponine, who are explicitly set up as character foils.

Brick!Javert isn’t obsessed with Valjean like he is in adaptations. He’s not psychosexually obsessed with hunting him down; he really doesn’t seem to think of him as being any different than any other criminal—- he doesn’t think about Jean Valjean much at all until after Jean Valjean saves his life.

But after the barricades, Javert’s sudden weird desperate emotions about Jean Valjean are like a twisted mirror of his character foil Eponine’s weird desperate emotions for Marius.

Some guy takes pity on them, and extends them a bit of basic impersonal kindness— and they react by descending into this violently self-destructive suicidal admiration built on self-loathing. They’re both described as making themselves the “dogs” of Marius/Valjean, the dogs of people who barely remember they exist.

And anyway! I think there is potential to explore things there in analysis and fanfiction

#les mis #les mis letters #ANYWAY #this is why my post-seine fanfic is like that #and why i tag it so strangely #how do you tag ‘javert has whatever Eponine had. but for Jean Valjean’#but yeah I keep saying I’m gonna write a full length post about this parallel #but then I don’t #the Valjean/javert and Eponine/Marius parallels are real though #I feel like before I write and overlong masterpost on that #id have to put one together that’s just about the javert-Eponine parallels alone #and yeeg #so much to write #idk if this is coherent I’m typing late and tired 😂#I feel like this is why I often don’t feel the same way as other valvert fans tho

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