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les_miserablesSo I keep wondering why Enjolras expects Marius to show up and be helpful in the Barriere du Maine scene; after all, we're told that after the Great Napoleon Debacle, Marius essentially storms off in a huff and never goes back to revolutionland again. Also, he is Marius. Myself, I can think of about four reasons:
1. Unreliable/ambiguous narrator: Marius had been hanging out with the gang before Napoleongate way more than the text implies.
2. Marius has not been hanging out with the gang, but Courfeyrac trusts him enough that he asks him to run errands sometimes when it would be useful to have an unfamiliar face show up, which he does because of the debt he feels he owes Courfeyrac, and Enjolras interprets this as Marius being way more interested in revolution than he actually is. This would actually be an interesting fic-premise -- Marius Pontmercies his way through a revolutionary errand he knows nothing about; hijinks ensue!
3. Enjolras really is JUST THAT DESPERATE. Maybe all the redshirt revolutionaries have gone home for the summer holidays. Or are dying of cholera.
4. Enjolras is not actually talking about our Marius at all, but about a friend of his named Jean or Pierre or Guifford Marius. Jean Marius has been very lax about showing up to meetings recently and we are VERY DISAPPOINTED in him.
1. Unreliable/ambiguous narrator: Marius had been hanging out with the gang before Napoleongate way more than the text implies.
2. Marius has not been hanging out with the gang, but Courfeyrac trusts him enough that he asks him to run errands sometimes when it would be useful to have an unfamiliar face show up, which he does because of the debt he feels he owes Courfeyrac, and Enjolras interprets this as Marius being way more interested in revolution than he actually is. This would actually be an interesting fic-premise -- Marius Pontmercies his way through a revolutionary errand he knows nothing about; hijinks ensue!
3. Enjolras really is JUST THAT DESPERATE. Maybe all the redshirt revolutionaries have gone home for the summer holidays. Or are dying of cholera.
4. Enjolras is not actually talking about our Marius at all, but about a friend of his named Jean or Pierre or Guifford Marius. Jean Marius has been very lax about showing up to meetings recently and we are VERY DISAPPOINTED in him.
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Date: 2013-05-22 07:27 pm (UTC)- Marius actually did graduate from law school, so presumably he did go to classes with a bunch of these guys, or at least the ones who ever bothered to turn up to class, and they got used to seeing him around there before he fell into his LONELY ROMANTIC DESPAIR
- Courfeyrac probably turns up ALL THE TIME at the Cafe Musain with "lololol my wacky roommate Marius" stories, so even after Marius goes incommunicado, everyone feels like they know him incredibly well. My brother's roommates and girlfriends totally form topics of family gossip, even though mostly we never meet them!
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Date: 2013-05-24 01:04 am (UTC)He is canonically mentioned as hanging out with Grantaire, Bossuet, and Courfeyrac at least, and I can easily see him being on casually friendly terms with the more earthbound of the Amis, in the kind of way that he would take very seriously.
What I can't square this with is Enjolras, of all people, actually thinking of him as a plausible emissary to the Barriere du Maine. augh. I think I'm repeating myself, I'm circling around to the "Option 5: Marius Sue" bit again; do you suppose I'm supposed to imagine that Enjolras has been socially hanging out with Marius? I... find this rather hard to envisualize... and dreadfully awkward...