THE BARRICADE BOYS

a simple guide by me

there are are actually loads this might take a while

ft. javert

ENJOLRAS aka enjolas according to ro

here is a picture of him even though you know what he looks like because everyone knows what he looks like because he’s motherfucking enjolras

• he’s basically the leader of everything and he doesn’t care about your fucking lonely soul

“Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome.... His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty....  those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth.”

he’s basically perfect

he also tells grantaire to put the bottle down a lot

COMBEFERREthis is him in the movie he’s played by killy d

he hates marius almost as much as enjolras

combeferre is basically enjolras’s right hand man they’re like best buds or whatever but ferre is more reasonable

• he likes reading books

“ Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. Homo and vir, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural whiteness.”

natural whiteness lol wtf victor hugo

MY LIFE IS NOT URS TO RISK MARIUS

JEAN PROUVAIRE (his nickname is jehan)

“Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied woman, wept over the child...”

• he’s basically the most adorable thing ever he likes making flower crowns and writes poems

“He spoke softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was very timid.”

HE’S JUST REALLY FUCKING CUTE OK

RECAP!!!!!

FEUILLY• there isn’t a lot to write about this guy

• his name’s weird it’s pronounced like foo-ee

hong kong fucking phooey

look at that hat you dont mess with a hat like that

MORE PICS “He had taught himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by himself. Feuilly had a generous heart.” 

COURFEYRAC you take the watch

he’s played by fra fee who yes nomi does look like a hammerhead shark but he’s also really cute

he makes friends with marius and offers him money and stuff even though they barely know each other it’s real nice

HIM AND GAVROCHE ARE ALSO HEARTBREAKING

“Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance.”

he’s just a proper solid guy

WE NAED AS MUCH FARNOTURE AS YHO CAHN THRAOW DOOWN

BAHORELthis is basically a joke because he’s not even in the musical (though he is in the book and they put him in the movie)

• so this slide is literally nothing

• he just exists basically

“Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras,” retorted Bahorel. “This bishop’s prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted.”

he wants to eat eggs without being permitted

L’AIGLE / LESGLE / BOSSUET he has like 10 names

“Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, hence his joviality.”

• everything just fucking goes wrong for bossuet

HE’S ALSO BALD but not in the movie

“in this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. ” well done les mis movie A+ casting

his name in french also means the eagle which is cool i guess if u like eagles

JOLYJOLY IS ALSO REALLY CUTE

das him

he thinks he’s ill/dying all the time and has a cold throughout like the whole book

“Joly was the “malade imaginaire” junior. At three and twenty he thought himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue in the mirror. ”

“In his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe.” 

im the same joly

GRANTAIRE I’VE SAVED THE BEST TILL LASToh god im getting palpitations

he’s played by george blagden aka gblags

he’s always drunk like all the time

he signs his name as ‘R’ because grantaire basically translates as capital R

he doesn’t believe in the revolution or anything really he’s basically there because he wants to get jiggy with enjolras

”However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras.”

Always harshly treated by Enjolras, roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of Enjolras: “What fine marble!”

unrequited love’s a bitch eh

he sleeps through the final battle and wakes up to find his friends dead and instead of running away he goes to die with enjolras because oh god i can’t go on you get the idea

do u permit it

that’s basically it pretty much

now u can fall in love ( ﾉ ヮ◕ ◕ ) ﾉ

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