Discover a new and exciting Les Mis ship every day!

Suggestions are open: your rarepair must comprise 2+ human Les Mis characters, and you must include some propaganda or explanation for them!

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Welcome to Les Mis Rarepair Daily!

This is a blog dedicated to appreciating Les Mis ships of varying degrees of obscurity. Every day, we will suggest a new and fascinating ship for you to consider, along with a short description or scenario to hopefully compel you. Enjoy!

Suggestions are open, but you must include propaganda or an explanation for your ship, which must comprise at least two human characters from Les Misérables or any adaptation of it. If the mods are insufficiently intrigued or the pairing doesn't feel rare enough, we probably won't post it. Nothing personal.

The ships may range from very serious to deeply unserious.

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Les Mis Rarepair of the Week: 10th — 15th August

Mme Thénardier/Prince de Beauff*******

Mme Thénardier/Madame la Princesse Bagration

Bishop Myriel/Jean Valjean

Jeanne Valjean/Toussaint

Javert/Grantaire

Jean Valjean/Combeferre

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

❤️Jean Valjean/Combeferre❤️

"The answer to his philosophical paradox, the man who desires pacifism but is forced to fight meets the man whose shot misses nothing and kills no one. All this while on the barricade, Combeferre has been losing himself, seeing horrors befall his friends both in the deaths of them and the killings of others, he has been allowing himself to fall into pieces until... what's this? A hero emerges as a savior, stripping as he walks up, ensuring all five can return home. He supplies a mattress and uses the power of personal strength and physics to block the cannon strike Combeferre was just infodumping about, he handles a sniper without costing the sniper his life and family. The others are amazed to, but do they fully realize what this man truly represents? That he is real? That he is saving them? If only there were more time... Who is this mysterious old man who seems to be the answer to all his questions?"

—Submitted by @deathanddogs

Do you ship it?

Yes (crackship)

Yes (genuinely)

One-sided/nuance

No

Combeferre rhymes with don't care

Remaining time: 1 day 1 hour

John Owen-Jones as Valjean, Killian Donnelly as Combeferre

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️Javert/Grantaire♥️

Loser4loser. Both love to go on rants even when nobody is listening. Both oddly obsessed with their respective beautiful light-haired men in leadership positions, which ultimately leads to their demise. They might have even had a chance to talk about it! If Grantaire woke up, that is.

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

One-sided

No

Cheers, I won't drink to that.

Remaining time: 1 hour 6 minutes

Earl Carpenter as Javert, Connor Jones as Grantaire

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️Jeanne Valjean/Toussaint♥️

The last scrap of news Valjean hears of his sister Jeanne places her in Paris in 1800. What if she had met another woman of humble means, also from the provinces, and they decided to stick together?

(Tracy Chapman voice: Maybe together we can get somewhere / Any place is better / Starting from zero, got nothing to lose / Maybe we'll make somethin' / Me, myself, I got nothing to prove)

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited

No

I am classist and do not care about peasant women

Voting ended onAug 16

Images: Peasant Woman from Normandy by Asta Nørregaard (1889); Washerwoman, Study by Camille Pissarro (1880).

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❤️Les Mis Rarepair Weekly Stats❤️

Overall, you SHIP/DON’T SHIP rarepairs

PvP winner: Théodule/Favourite

Your most shipped rarepair was: Théodule/Favourite

Your least shipped rarepair was: Myriel/Cravatte

Your most one-sided rarepair was: Georges Pontmercy/Thénardier/Mme Thénardier

The rarepair you cared least about, breaking your mods’ hearts, was: Redacted Polycule

Most votes in a poll: Javert/Thénardier

Least votes in a poll: Myriel/Cravatte

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

❤️Bishop Myriel/Jean Valjean❤️

"If you think about it and make the age gap irrelevant, Valyriel could work out.

Fresh out of Toulon, Jean Valjean's heartless personality charms Bishop Myriel. The clergyman falls head over heels, mitre over cassock, for our protagonist. After a nice dinner together, the Bishop and the convict elope. They travel on ass northwards to Faverolles, where they set a bakery and live happily ever after."

—Submitted by @peissalat

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited

No

Catholics fail to interest me

Voting ended onAug 15

Earl Carpenter as the Bishop, Gerónimo Rauch as Jean Valjean

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

❤️Mme Thénardier/Madame la Princesse Bagration❤️

"Maybe she would have turned out a little different if she had figured out what she really needed was a princess."

Submitted by @unsolicitedf001ishness as "Mme Thénardier/a princess", in addition to "Mme Thénardier/a prince" (see yesterday's post).

Once again, mod has handpicked a princess mentioned in the Brick. Princess Catherine Bagration was a Russian princess "known for her beauty, love affairs and unconventional behaviour" (Wiki). Shacking up with Mme Thénardier would be pretty unconventional, after all.

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited

No

*** ****** *** —oh wait, I have to actually think of something to put here again

Voting ended onAug 14

Johanna Carlisle as Mme Thénardier in Arizona Broadway Theatre production (2015).

Portrait of Princess Bagration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1820).

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️Mme Thénardier/Prince de Beauff*******♥️

"She used to dream that she would meet a prince. What if she had?"

Submitted by @unsolicitedf001ishness as "Mme Thénardier/a prince". Mod has selected a prince mentioned in the text. Who can resist a redacted man of mystery?

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited

No

**** *** **** **** ***** **** * ** *** ****

Voting ended onAug 13

Johanna Carlisle as Mme Thénardier at Arizona Broadway Theatre (2015).

1843 portrait of Prince François of Orléans, Prince of Joinville. Painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, redacted by #ThisMod.

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Les Mis Rarepair of the Week: August 3rd-8th

Georges Pontmercy/Thénardier/Mme Thénardier

Bishop Myriel/Cravatte

Javert/Thénardier

Théodule/Favourite

Blachevelle/Tholomyès

The redacted polycule

Voting ended onAug 12

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️The redacted polycule♥️

Who knows what the Marquis de Sass****, the Vicomte de Val***, the Prince de Beauff*******, Marquis de C***** d'E******, the Comte d'Am*****, M. de Cl****** T*******, the Marquis de T*******, The Cardinal of Cl****** T*******, the Marquis de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the Vicomte Damb***, the Duc de Val********, and the Prince de Mon*** were REALLY getting up to at Madame de T.'s salon. Why all the secrecy?

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited to some extent

No

**** ********** ** * ******* * **** ***

Voting ended onAug 11

Image: Copper engraving by Adolphe Godefroy after drawing from H. S. Harriet, circa 1800. Edited by this mod.

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️Blachevelle/Tholomyès♥️

“Then be gay,” resumed Blachevelle. “I agree to that,” responded Tholomyès. [1.3.7]

Do you ship it?

Yes (genuinely)

Yes (ironically)

Unrequited

No

Don't remind me about these two

Voting ended onAug 10

Images: Matthew Steer as Blachevelle and Johnny Flynn as Tholomyès in BBC Les Mis (2018).

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

♥️Théodule/Favourite♥️

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every vain young fop with a wasp-like waist must be in need of an experienced older woman with a caustic wit to show him what's what and make him eat her gloves :3

(We first meet Théodule in about 1827 when he is presumably in his early 20s; Favourite would be 33 by this time.)

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Unrequited

No

I don't care about them

Voting ended onAug 9

Images: Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina (2012); Charlotte Dylan Blake as Favourite in BBC Les Mis (2018).

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❤️Les Mis Rarepair Weekly Stats❤️

Overall, you SHIP/DON’T SHIP rarepairs (💔)

PvP winner: Javert/Marius

Your most shipped rarepair was: Javert/Marius

Your least shipped rarepair was: Javert/Combeferre

Your most one-sided rarepair was: Javert/Marius

Your least one-sided rarepair was: Dupuytren/Récamier (0 votes for one-sided!)

The rarepair you cared least about, breaking your mods’ hearts, was: Dupuytren/Récamier (💔💔💔💔💔)

Most votes in a poll: Javert/Marius

Least votes in a poll: Abbé Banés/M. Ansiaux

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️Javert/Thénardier❤️

“I think Javnardier may have a layer of like, actual attraction underneath the blackmail in both directions

Every time he has them in his grasp, Javert *just ever so happens* to fail to capture Patron Minette

Thenardier finds a way to repay him :)”

Definitely not submitted by @viktor-frankenstein

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

One-sided

No

In the absence of any interest, dear mods, may I go?

Voting ended onAug 8

James Gant as Javert, Adam Linstead as Thénardier

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️ Bishop Myriel/Cravatte ❤️

The robber having some feelings about the bishop and sending him the treasure he stole from a cathedral? The bishop also going against the law and not returning them? Together, they make a whole Robin Hood.

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

One-sided

No

They didn't steal my heart

Voting ended onAug 7

Art by Gustave Brion

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The Les Mis Rarepair of the Day is...

❤️Georges Pontmercy/Thénardier/Mme Thénardier❤️

"The two men met on the battlefield of Waterloo, and one found a loving wife. Perhaps he had conflicting feelings... perhaps the soldier who had saved him felt love for him in more than a brotherly way... perhaps his wife loved them both and never wanted to choose."

—Submitted by Anonymous.

Do you ship it?

Yes (genuinely)

Yes (ironically)

No

Unrequited

Not even New Order could make me care about this Bizarre Love Triangle

Voting ended onAug 6

Images: Georges Pontmercy played by Henry-Lloyd Hughes in the 2018 BBC miniseries; the Thénardiers played by Red Concepcion and Lea Salonga in “Les Misérables World Tour Spectacular.”