things that people forget when talking about grantaire:
grantaire boxes. grantaire is actually a fucking good boxer. not only is he a good boxer, grantaire is also canonically trained in dance and fencing too. grantaire is not a drunken layabout who doesn’t take care of himself. grantaire drinks but grantaire also throws himself into many different forms of activity
grantaire is realistic. grantaire has flaws. grantaire can’t do math. grantaire sucks at math. grantaire’s father gave up on grantaire because grantaire loved ‘love and liberty’ more than he did mathematics
grantaire hates when people try to appear more virtuous and more holier-than-thou by depriving themselves of worldly pleasures like rich clothes, food - i wonder how he’d feel about bishop myriel -, when they could afford to live well. it suggests some bitterness, which wouldn’t be too out of character for him
grantaire fucking loves classics. grantaire uses multiple classics references in his speeches - lengthy speeches that ramble on and on about nothing at times -, and the most notable of these is probably the famous ‘apollo’ nickname for enjolras
grantaire is almost a representation of paris. grantaire is gritty and cynical. grantaire is also a romantic and a social character. grantaire could find his way through paris with a blindfold, he knows the city like the back of his hand
grantaire has a love/hate relationship with diogynes
grantaire is not a fucking saint. grantaire is a natural born antagoniser. grantaire irritates people and he actually enjoys doing it. grantaire systematically picks apart enjolras’ speeches, tears down the foundations that enjolras has built his character around, and then he gets upset when enjolras retaliates. grantaire is not an angel. however, grantaire’s actions can be seen sympathetically if you’re of the mind to believe that grantaire only does this to get attention - that isn’t canonical though, and it shows grantaire in a much more sympathetic light than he canonically seems
grantaire’s closest friends are not bahorel or courfeyrac. grantaire’s closest friends are joly and bossuet. grantaire is drinking buddies with them. grantaire laughs with them, jokes with them. they come with grantaire to ‘conduct [him] back towards cheerfulness’ - joly and bossuet care deeply for grantaire, and grantaire, a guarded and independent character when it comes to dealing with his depression, allows them in because they mean a goddamn lot to each other
grantaire has ‘melancholy’ which yes, could very well be - and does seem to be - clinical depression. grantaire is not a lazy alcoholic because he has nothing better to do, because we know that grantaire has plenty of other options. grantaire is an alcoholic because he self-medicates his depression
grantaire studied under a man named gros and he failed. this was a study into art, arguably one of grantaire’s main passions
things that people remember when talking about grantaire:
grantaire drank a lot and loved enjolras
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