WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE COSETTE FAUCHELEVENT/MIREILLE (SHOUJO COSETTE)
Mireille is Courfeyrac's partner in Shoujo Cosette canon, she is friendly with the members of Les Amis de l'ABC, she has her own group of female friends (yes, the ones who fawn over Enjolras) and they all go for a lovely picnic together at Courfeyrac's request to try and cheer up Marius.
Mireille (middle) and her friends <3
Here is Mireille with Courfeyrac and Les Amis helping a child who took some food from their picnic because she was hungry. They eventually reunite the child with her parents and it's a really sweet little subplot (and also brings them into the path of Cosette and Valjean!!!)
She is a minor character throughout the story BUT she is present at the barricades!!!! She is sympathetic to the aims of the revolutionaries and wants to help them succeed. She is sent away from the barricade along with the other women just as things take a turn for the bloody; she gives Courfeyrac a charming necklace as a good luck token in the battle to come and they promise to have another picnic like the one they had to cheer Marius up. We all know how that ended.
Mireille (top right) in the Corinthe during the uprising
Why ship her with Cosette?
Mireille was close with Courfeyrac and therefore likely knew Marius as well. That provides a nice background for a reunion post-barricades when Mireille is perhaps searching for some connection to her lost lover. Marius, as we know, is out of action for months after the barricade- Cosette must be pretty lonely! If only she had a friend to talk to, someone who knew Marius and his friends and could bridge the gap between his world and Cosette's... someone who understood why the revolt happened and lost someone to the barricades. Enter Mireille.
ALSO, when I was doing research to see if any good screenshots of Mireille existed for submission into the bracket, I came across this post by @pilferingapples showing that Mirielle is quite clearly seen later in the show AT MARIUS AND COSETTE'S WEDDING!!! And again standing next to Cosette as they both smile and hand out food!!!!! I'd missed this my last Shoujo Cosette rewatch but it sent me into a frenzy because here I had been imagining this nice world where Mireille and Cosette become friends after the barricade only to have it CONFIRMED???? Mireisette nation we are soooo back!!!!
Mireille and Cosette hanging out together post-barricades. The ship of our dreams <3
We can all agree Cosette needs more female friends. We can all agree that things for her aren't ideal post-barricades, when all the men in her life start trying to control her and the information she has access to. Wouldn't it be nice if Cosette had Mireille? Wouldn't it be nice if Mireille, who lost her lover in the fight for The Future, who was to some extent involved in that fight herself, had Cosette, the symbol of a better tomorrow? They have sooooo much symbolic potential!!!
Like the idea but can't bear to separate Cosette from Marius? That's okay, this fandom has always embraced a trio and given that Marius/Courfeyrac/Cosette and Marius/Eponine/Cosette are some already popular Marius/Cosette triads, I don't see why we can't have another!!! Marius and Mireille have a shared connection via Courfeyrac and I imagine it would help them both to heal to be able to talk about him <3
THIS IS MY PITCH. PLEASE JOIN ME IN MY QUEST AND VOTE COSETTE FAUCHELEVENT/MIREILLE (SHOUJO COSETTE). THANK YOU.
