I speak for both myself and @aromantic-enjolras when I humbly ask for some enjolras/courfeyrac friends with benefits content 😇 (the E/C shippers are STARVING) thank u thank u lots of luv <3

i love them as fwb i think it has so much fun potential ive done a post like this a WHILE ago but i wanna revamp it and go canon era baby! fuck okay this might get long

-anyway my #1 hc for enj and courfeyrac friendship wise is that they grow up like a door down from each other. in canon era this translate more that like their parents are good friends and they know each other even before they have children

-so enjolras is somebody that courfeyac grows up knowing from their father's hunting trips that they go on and their private schooling that they do together that they sneak out of to go play in the garden with wooden swords

-there's this sort of ball they're forced to go to when they're teens and neither of them are that interested. enjolras keeps complaining that his shoes are uncomfortable and courfeyrac is bored by formal conversation and standing by his parents as they introduce him to someone else's daughter

-they end up leaning against the wall together by the food and refreshments, just sneaking a bunch of little fruits and hors d'oeuvres because theyre teenagers and theyre hungry. anyway, they're sort of just watching people in fancy dresses and suits passing by and enjolras is rolling his eyes and saying something when they both reach forward for the same thing and enjolras's arm bumps into the glass of dark wine courfeyrac is pretending to drink just spills all over enjolras's sleeve. both of them kind of start to freak out and courfeyrac's solution is to hide before either of their parents see because oh they are so dead. you can't fix a stain like that. so they run to the nearest washroom of this manor they've never been to before and courfeyrac is yelling at him telling him that they need to soak it in hot water and enjolras is yelling back that they need to soak it in cold water. they're in this panicked rush to undress enjolras and courfeyrac is struggling with all the buttons and layers and their hands keep bumping into each other and as enjolras hits the wall and courfeyrac finally gets to his inner layer and yanks the shirt off

-and both of them are panting from the struggle and sort of coming to realize how close they are and it's cold in this washroom so the hairs on enjolras's arms stand and courfeyrac is maybe thinking and maybe not at the same time and he leans forward and kisses him. and it takes enjolras a second but he kisses back. and that's the first time they ever have a sort of more-than-friends encounter

-they don't really talk about the hour or so they spend making out in the washroom. they have to show enjolras's parents the red stain all over the sleeve and courfeyrac gets told off for the wine and enjolras gets told off for being irresponsible and neither of them talk for a week before enjolras breaks because he misses his friend and he goes back to ask courfeyrac if he wants to look for frogs by the river

-it happens again. and again. and courfeyrac comes to realize that they have a really unconventional relationship but he doesn't mind it at all. enjolras isn't interested in marriage or girls. he doesn't seem interested in courfeyrac either, not in the way that courfeyrac maybe looks at other boys their age on occasion. and maybe the portrait of saint sebastian in his library that appears in his dreams and fantasies more often than he'd like to admit. enjolras asks courfeyrac to lounge in the garden with him or read the newspapers and play chess and catch frogs, even when they're probably too old to be doing so. enjolras is just his best friend and honestly courfeyrac doesn't mind. they can go catch frogs and end up hidden from anyone else beneath a tree by the river to kiss and maybe more

-courfeyrac is a year older than enjolras, so he's already at uni when enjolras finally comes to paris. he's ecstatic, really. he greets his friend in the biggest hug and shows him all of the best places to eat and have fun. enjolras winds up distracted by the harsh split between their lives with what wealth they have and the lives of the poor in the city. he's not as used to seeing it and it really breaks his spirit

-courfeyrac listens to him rant about it and agrees, wondering what it is enjolras is willing to do about it. he's not sure himself, but he'd follow enj to the ends of the earth if he'd ask. so they start their group. and it's difficult. it's difficult to find people with "treasonish" opinions and enjolras gets frustrated. really mf frustrated

-he's in courfeyrac's lodgings one night just so aggravated and upset as he paces back and forth and talks with his hands. he doesn't know what to do. he can't relax. he just feels shitty all the time. courfeyrac stands up and takes his hands and tells him that he is brilliant and charming and will always be capable of change, but sometimes these things take time. and enj kisses him. and they fall back into old habits

-sex for enjolras is an outlet to let go of care. courfeyrac is willing to indulge in whatever enjolras might give him

-courfeyrac likes that enjolras will tie him with a furrow in his brow. he likes that enjolras gets angry and will leave a bite on his chest that bruise for days on end. courfeyrac also likes that sometimes enjolras taps his sleeve at frustrating points in time, nodding his head towards the nearest empty room, and just wants courfeyrac to take control.

-and enjolras likes courfeyrac. he's a beautiful man with a solid weight to him and bright eyes and somebody that he is incredibly attracted to on occasion. he likes to kiss him in their rooms and pull on courfeyrac's hair and sit on his lap and then get dinner together that night and discuss the newspaper, just like they used to

-combeferre notices their odd little relationship but never comments on it. he worries that courfeyrac might have some sort of love for enjolras, that his heart is going to get totally broken when enjolras doesn't feel the same way. courfeyrac loves enjolras, of course, but it isn't like that.

-he's willing to follow enjolras to the ends of the earth and he knows him like no one else, but he's comfortable loving him in a way that doesn't need romance and courtship.

-combeferre's diaries do discuss his journey of discovering how their friendship works and they're quite funny. he worries that they have murdered a man with the way they suspiciously whisper to each other and he corners courfeyrac one day, only to find a peculiar bruise on his neck that wasn't there before enjolras left. ah. combeferre has to pinch his brow and walk away