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trying not to lose my head, but i’ve never been this scared before.
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rebel vigilantes, woman kings & warrior goddesses
rule my heart with iron fists.
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northkingshighway-deactivated20:
trying not to lose my head, but i’ve never been this scared before.
Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically beautiful. He was Antinous wild.
In all honesty? No one. There is no canon Les Mis character, nor an OC that I could properly ship him with without changing his character entirely. If anything, I ship Enjolras with his cause. He and revolution are one, and as the revolution dies, he himself dies alongside it. I cannot see him romantically invested in anyone like he is to his mission, whether it’s Eponine, Marius, or even Grantaire. To me, the closest he can get to developing an actual link with another human being is through sex, and I will not deny that I believe him to be rather promiscuous due to his attitude that he can die at any moment. However, once any sort of feelings begin to grow inside of him, Enjolras reminds himself that romance is not his purpose in life, and separates himself from whoever it was that caused his eye to momentarily stray away from the prize. He is a fierce friend, but is not afraid to sacrifice his comrades is that is what it takes to advance his cause.
So I suppose the answer to your question is not so much a who, as it is a what, and that what is revolution.
All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire…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. - Les Misérables, Volume III, Chapter I
Let me tell you about book!Enjolras. When one of the revolutionaries got drunk and shot an unarmed citizen, Enjolras grabbed the man by his hair, forced him to his knees, and gave him one minute to say his prayers. He stood calmly timing him on his watch as the man screamed and begged at his feet, then put a pistol to his head and shot him. Then “he thrust the body aside with his foot and said, ‘Get rid of that.’” Enjolras had no problem giving Gavroche a gun. Enjolras stayed at the back of the barricade because he knew that he had to stay alive to give orders. Enjolras killed the young National Guard who was loading the cannon even though it pained him to do so— he shed a single tear, called him “brother” and shot him to buy a few precious minutes. Enjolras instructed the revolutionaries to keep a stack of several paving stones on the first floor of the cafe, and when the National Guard attacked, they threw them on the soldiers below and crushed them. Enjolras found several bottles of wine in the back of the cafe; he placed them on the first floor, too, so that when they inevitably ran out of bullets they could use the bottles as clubs. When he was finally pinned down, surrounded by the bodies of his friends and and facing twenty members of the National Guard, Enjolras threw away his gun, offered them his chest, and said, “shoot me.” He refused a blindfold.
Enjolras is vicious. Enjolras is angry. And above all, Enjolras is an idealist; and there is absolutely nothing more dangerous.
