les mis au where grantaire is the leader in red and enjolras is the cynic who admires from afar
Okay I was going to do this in tags but then my brain exploded and I realised it wouldn’t fit, so here I go, and I apologise now, feel free to remove if you wanna reblog without this all on it:
What if this is true, this one aspect switched but every other part of them the same. What are you left with?
Grantaire wouldn’t be a feverently passionate leader, no great god on high, he wouldn’t shine and be powerful. He’d be a human leader. A painter, a dancer, a fighter, he’d understand human nature and be part of it and that’s where his glory would come from, through his ability to connect to the everyman. Full of laughter and bad jokes, willing to share a glass and to get pissed with you, he’d be the one in prison with you, he’d be the friend at your shoulder telling you you can do this. He’s the leader that helps you to lead yourself. Sharply intelligent, near unbeatable in arguments, using all forms of rhetoric to defeat his opponent, but he’d do it with a grin, enjoying each word, and making others smile with him.
Then you’d have the man who’s had hope and lost it all, leaving him passionate about everything that fails. Cold and calculating in his anger against the world, about eveything that had his heart and everything that let him down. Passion that’s festered and devolved into hatred. And all this in one man, finds another who loves all of humanity and all the creativity that it pours forth. Having lost all hope only to find it again in a man who has faith in everything his friends can do.
Now that’s an AU that I’d love to explore. How would those two be in an argument? Bitter Enjolras yelling at a happily drunk Grantaire that he’s being stupid, careless, for Grantaire to retort eloquently and sharply, leaving Enjolras to toss his argument aside.
‘You are an imbecile. You will fail, as Icarus failed,’
‘Ah, but what a great view he must have had. To fly so close to sun, for but a short while – is not such beauty and such an achievement worth risking an early grave? And besides, what evidence have you that we will not do better, not be more wise than ill-fated Icarus?’
‘Oh, yes. You’re near blind from drink, a jester, no more. Obviously, such men will always succeed to fly.’
‘Oh, be serious.’
‘I am wild.’
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