Maybe? I don't know. I feel like there would be a tricky line to walk with swapping everything around while still keeping the characters enough themselves to be worth it.
(I really want Inspector Simplice now. That would be AMAZING. really you could leave the rest as-is and just swap those two, and see what happened....)
I still lean toward Cosette being Fantine's son via an upper-class woman who got herself in trouble and then dumped him... I feel like Valjean's relationship with sexuality is different enough from Fantine's that a 63!Valjean probably wouldn't have become anyone's mistress - or if so, would have gone into it for different reasons and not fallen for Tholomyes' particular brand of assholery? But 63!Valjean with a kid could work - especially if she'd been working the streets instead of in prison....
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Date: 2013-11-13 09:02 pm (UTC)(I really want Inspector Simplice now. That would be AMAZING. really you could leave the rest as-is and just swap those two, and see what happened....)
I still lean toward Cosette being Fantine's son via an upper-class woman who got herself in trouble and then dumped him... I feel like Valjean's relationship with sexuality is different enough from Fantine's that a 63!Valjean probably wouldn't have become anyone's mistress - or if so, would have gone into it for different reasons and not fallen for Tholomyes' particular brand of assholery? But 63!Valjean with a kid could work - especially if she'd been working the streets instead of in prison....