Remember the barricade

They Remember it, they remember it all, the barricades the passion the fighting, some more then others but they all remember it, dying for what they belived in but that is not where they are now...they are now in a whole other place as College students...

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The Past

Euphrasie, nicknamed Cosette (from “chosette”, or “little thing”) by her mother, is theillegitimate daughter of Fantine and Félix Tholomyès, a rich student. She is born in Paris in circa 1815. After Tholomyès abandons Fantine, she leaves Cosette with the Thénardiers at their inn in Montfermeil, paying them to care for her child while she goes to work in the city of Montreuil-sur-Mer when Cosette is three years old. Unbeknownst to Fantine, the Thénardiers severely abuse and mistreat Cosette while she is under their care for the next five years. They beat her, starve her, and force her to perform heavy labor in their inn. Under the Thénardiers’ care, she is described as “thin and pale,” wears rags for clothing, and she has chilblains on her hands as well as bruised and reddened skin. She is forced to go barefoot in winter.[2]The narrator also states that “fear was spread all over her.” While Fantine is in the hospital, the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer—who is Jean Valjean masquerading under the name “Madeleine” to avoid being known as a paroled convict—vows to retrieve Cosette for her. Although Fantine dies before her daughter can be brought to her, Valjean becomes determined to look after the young girl. When he arrives in Montfermeil on Christmas Eve, he finds Cosette fetching a pail of water for the Thénardiers. He accompanies her back to the inn and witnesses the Thénardiers’ mistreatment of her, as well as the unkindness that their daughters Éponine and Azelma show her when they do not let her play with their doll. After seeing this, Valjean leaves the inn and soon returns with an expensive new doll, which he offers to Cosette. At first Cosette is reluctant to take the doll, but then she joyfully accepts it. This makes Thénardier furious at Valjean, and Éponine and Azelma become jealous. The next morning on Christmas Day, Valjean informs the Thénardiers that the real reason he is at the inn is because he wants to take Cosette with him. Mme. Thénardier immediately agrees to this, but Thénardier pretends to have adoration for Cosette and acts reluctant to give her up. Valjean pays them 1,500 francs, settling all of Fantine’s debts, and he and Cosette leave the inn. However, Thénardier tries to swindle more money out of Valjean by running after them and telling Valjean that he has changed his mind and now wants Cosette back. He informs Valjean that Cosette’s mother had entrusted her to their care and that he cannot release Cosette without a note from her mother. Valjean, agreeing with him, hands him a letter signed by Fantine. Thénardier then attempts to order Valjean to either return Cosette or pay a thousand crowns, but Valjean ignores him and leaves with Cosette. Valjean takes Cosette to Paris. They lodge at Gorbeau House, and Valjean begins her education. When Inspector Javert discovers Valjean’s whereabouts, Valjean and Cosette are forced to flee. Valjean climbs a wall and climbing they find themselves in a garden attached to a convent. The gardener Fauchelevant recognizes Valjean as the man who rescued him years earlier and agrees to shelter him. Valjean poses as Fauchelevant’s brother and tells the nuns he is Cosette’s grandfather. They live peacefully in the convent for many years as Valjean works with Fauchelevant and Cosette attends the convent school. Over time, she appears to have no recollection of her childhood before arriving at the convent. As Cosette matures, she becomes very beautiful and healthy, with chestnut brown hair, beautiful eyes, rosy cheeks, pale skin, and a radiant smile. Valjean realizes it would be unfair to allow her to become a nun without her having fully experienced the outside world that a cloistered nun renounces. In a later chapter, Cosette does eventually remember her childhood. She remembers praying for the mother she never knew, the Thénardiers as two ugly creatures, and fetching the water for the Thénardiers somewhere “very far from Paris.” In the same chapter, she asks Valjean about her mother, but he does not answer her question. When Cosette has a dream about her mother as an angel, she remarks that her mother must have been a saint. Valjean answers: “through martyrdom.” Marius sees Cosette for the first time in the Luxembourg Gardens. She is fourteen years old, and fresh out of the convent, so he pays little attention to her. After a few months, Marius notices her and sees that she has grown to be an extremely beautiful young woman. Soon Cosette and Marius exchange glances and fall in love. Valjean notices how attentive Marius is to their movements. When he learns that Marius has followed them home and inquired about them, he quickly moves to a more obscure address with Cosette. Marius spots Cosette again during a charitable visit she and Valjean make to the Thénardiers at Gorbeau House, directly next door to Marius. He asks Éponine to find her address for him, and she reluctantly agrees. After many weeks, Éponine takes Marius to Cosette’s new address in order to please Marius. Marius watches Cosette for a few nights before approaching her. When Cosette and Marius finally meet again in the garden, they confess their mutual love, share their first kiss, and introduce themselves. They continue to meet in secret. Éponine prevents Thénardier, Patron-Minette and Brujon from robbing Valjean and Cosette’s house. The same night, Cosette informs Marius that she and Valjean will be departing for England soon. This news devastates them both, because it will mean the end of their relationship. Marius briefly attempts to obtain money and permission to marry from his grandfather to circumvent this issue. Their discussion dissolves into a heated argument stemming from the grandfather’s suggestion to “Make her (Cosette) your (Marius’) mistress”, and Marius storms out. The next day, Éponine (now dressed as a boy) finds Valjean in an embankment in the Champ de Mars and anonymously throws him a note, which tells him to “move.” Valjean considers this in horror for a few days, then informs Cosette they will move to their other house and will be in England in a week. Cosette quickly writes a letter to Marius with this information. She catches sight of Éponine through the gate and asks the “workman” to deliver the letter to Marius. Éponine accepts the letter, but does not deliver it. Several nights later, Marius is led to the barricades by Éponine, in hope that they will die together. After being fatally shot, Éponine reveals this to Marius and gives him Cosette’s letter before she dies. Marius writes a farewell letter to Cosette, which is delivered to Valjean by Gavroche. Valjean reads Marius’ farewell letter and decides to follow Marius to the barricades. After the battle is over, he takes Marius’ unconscious body through the sewers. After, quite literally, dragging Marius through quicksand in the sewer, Valjean finally manages to get Marius through the sewers alive, is let out by Thénardier, who has a government key and does not recognize him simply assuming him to be an assassin who killed Marius. He is confronted by Javert at the exit, who had pursued Thénardier there and was watching the exit in hopes of catching him. Javert helps Valjean return Marius to his grandfather’s house and requests to be brought home to say goodbye to Cosette before being sent back to the galleys, Javert allows it, and when Valjean instinctively looks out the window, Javert is gone. We later find out that Valjean’s sparing his life at the barricade had caused a moral paradox and that Javert had gone to throw himself into the Seine. After Marius’ six-month recovery from his wounds, he is reunited with Cosette. On February 16, 1833, Marius and Cosette marry. The next morning, Valjean tells Marius of his criminal past. Marius asks him to leave him and Cosette. He then allows Valjean to visit her each evening, but makes those visits increasingly difficult until Valjean stops coming. While Marius, assuming the worst about Valjean’s character, searches for the real origin of Cosette’s money, Valjean loses the will to live and becomes bedridden. When Marius learns from Thénardier that he owes his life to Valjean, Marius and Cosette go to Valjean, find him on his deathbed, and reconcile with him. As Marius looks on, Valjean tells Cosette the story of her mother Fantine and how he came to be her guardian. Valjean dies peacefully.

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Cosette is portrayed by Amanda Sayfred  and is OPEN 

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The Past

Marius takes interest in her family, the Jondrettes (who are also his neighbors). Peering through a crack in the wall, Marius sees Valjean and Cosette talking with Jondrette about returning to give a donation. After Valjean and Cosette leave, Marius tries to follow them but doesn’t have enough to pay for a cab (since he’d give five francs to Éponine and only had a few sous). He sullenly returns to his room, only for Éponine to stop him at his door. Noticing his petulant mood, she asks him if she can assist him in any way. Marius then asks her to find Valjean and Cosette’s address. Realising that Marius has an interest in Cosette, Éponine reluctantly agrees to find it, but only if he agrees to do something for her. Marius agrees that if she finds Cosette’s address, he will do whatever she wants. After she leaves, Marius overhears Jondrette talking about killing Valjean. Distressed, Marius visits Javert, who gives him two pistols and instructs him to fire them when the robbery reaches its peak. When Valjean returns to Jondrette’s house, Jondrette and Patron-Minette attack and bind Valjean. Jondrette reveals that his name is actually Thénardier, a fact that shocks Marius. He does not want Valjean to die, but does not want to betray the man that “saved” his father at Waterloo. Eventually, Marius throws the slip of paper Éponine had written on earlier (the one that said “The police are here”) through a crack in the wall. Thénardier reads the note and recognizes Éponine’s handwriting immediately. The Thénardiers and Patron-Minette throw a rope ladder out the window and are about to flee when Javert (who had become tired of waiting for the pistol shots) intervenes and arrests them all (except Valjean who escapes through the window). Marius then moves out of the Gorbeau tenement, due to the violence he witnessed and also so that he cannot testify against Thénardier. After her release from prison, Éponine finds Marius in a park called “The Field of the Lark.” She tells him she found Cosette’s address. Marius makes Éponine swear not to tell the address to her father, and she promises. She reminds Marius that he promised to give her something for finding the address. He hands her a five franc coin, but she lets it fall out of her hand, telling him she does not want his money. She then sadly leads him to the house. After spying on the house from the street for a few days, and leaving a diary (kept every day about his love for Cosette) on the bench in the garden, Marius finally jumps the fence and surprises Cosette in the dark. The two end up professing their feelings for each other, share their first kiss, then learn each other’s names. Their love blossoms for about six weeks, but Valjean shatters that bliss when he announces that he and Cosette will leave for England in a week. Marius goes to M. Gillenormand to try to reconcile and to get permission to marry Cosette. After Gillenormand suggests that Marius “make Cosette [his] mistress,” Marius storms out of the house, insulted. He loves and respects Cosette too much. Marius returns to Cosette’s house, but finds the house no longer occupied. Advised by a voice that his friends are waiting for him, he goes to the barricades the Les Amis set up, hoping to die. A young boy, who is Éponine in disguise, saves Marius’ life by placing her hand and body in front of the musket of a soldier who was about to shoot him. Not noticing this, Marius drives away troops by threatening to blow up the barricade. Marius goes to a smaller barricade to inspect, but finds it empty. As he returns to the other students, he hears a voice calling out to him. He sees that it is Éponine, lying on the ground fatally shot. She asks him that she lie on his knees, and he complies. Éponine then confesses to Marius that it was she who told him to go to the barricades, and saved his life because she wanted to die before him. She also tells him she has a letter for him, which she kept from him since the day before. She lets him take it so that he will not be angry at her about her keeping it from him “when we meet again so soon.” She asks Marius to promise to kiss her on the forehead after she dies, which he agrees. With her last breath, Éponine confesses her love for him, and dies. He fulfills his promise and goes inside the tavern that the barricade is built around to read the letter (thinking it would have been inappropriate to read it beside her body). The letter reveals Cosette’s whereabouts. Marius writes a letter back to Cosette, saying since she left again with no forwarding address, he would fulfill his promise and die for her. He gives the letter to Gavroche, to deliver the next day to Cosette (thinking that this would get Gavroche out of the barricade before it was too late), but Gavroche delivers it that night to a “servant” at Cosette’s address (which “servant” is actually Valjean). As the barricade falls, Marius has multiple head wounds and is shot in the collarbone. He falls back, but Valjean grabs him and carries him away from the soldiers, around a corner to the back part of the barricade in which they have a passionate love session for five seconds. The only way out is through the sewers, so Valjean carries Marius for a few miles through the sewers (including a spot of deep quicksand). He gets to the outside gate, which is locked, and runs into Thénardier, who offers to go “halves” with Valjean (Thénardier believes that Valjean murdered Marius for his money and wants half of it). While looking through Marius’ pockets, Thénardier secretly cuts a piece of Marius’ jacket off. Valjean unlocks the gate and runs into Javert, who had been waiting to apprehend Thénardier. Valjean asks Javert to help him carry Marius home and Javert summons his carriage to take them to M. Gillenormand’s house. As it turns out, Marius is the only survivor from that barricade (there were others in Paris at that time). After six months of raging fever, Marius regains consciousness. Gillenormand gives Marius permission to marry Cosette and the two men reconcile. The wedding day is a happy one. After the wedding, Valjean visits Marius and tells him his past. Marius, who had had a shaky relationship with Valjean before the wedding, but had accepted him as a father afterward, is horrified. Shocked, Marius and Valjean agree that it would be best if Valjean never sees Cosette again. Valjean wishes not to be permanently separated from Cosette, so Marius grants him one visit per evening. Marius starts to think of Valjean as a criminal, and slowly pushes Valjean out of Cosette’s life, with her best interests at heart. A few weeks later, a disguised Thénardier visits the “Baron Gillenormand” (Marius), attempting to blackmail Valjean. Marius sees through the disguise and asks what Thénardier wants. Thénardier tells Marius the proof about Valjean, that Valjean had earned all his money honestly (albeit under an assumed name) and that Javert committed suicide—Valjean didn’t kill Javert. Thénardier tries to convince Marius (who he thinks is the Baron Gillenormand) that Valjean killed a man named Marius, related to the Baron Gilenormand, showing Marius the piece cut off the coat as proof. Pulling out the old bloodied coat that he’d been saving in a safe, Marius accurately matches the piece of cloth to that of the coat he wore in the barricades and announces that he’s the man who Valjean supposedly murdered. He then throws thousands of francs at Thénardier and orders him to leave France and travel to America (with a bank draft for 20,000 more francs, paying the debt to Thénardier that Marius’ father believe he had). Realising that Valjean had lived a completely honest life for years and years and wasn’t actually a criminal or a murderer and had also saved Marius at the barricade, Marius and Cosette rush to reconcile with Valjean. They arrive at Valjean’s and apologize just a few minutes before Valjean says he forgives them, then dies.

And Now

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Marius is portrayed by Eddy Redmain and is OPEN

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So Hello Tags!!! I will be here all day, because R is legit sitting on my lap right now and will not move at all! so while i am here,...how about sending me some messages, or something at all! 

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The Past

Feuilly was a fan-maker, an orphan, who with difficulty earned three francs a day, and who had but one thought, to deliver the world. He had still another desire - to instruct himself, which he also called deliverance. He had taught himself to read and write; all that he knew, he had learned alone. Feuilly was a generous heart. He had an immense embrace. This orphan had adopted the people. Being without a mother, he had meditated upon his mother country. He was not willing that there should be any man upon the earth without a country. He nurtured within himself, with the deep divination of the man of the people, what we now call the idea of nationality. He had learned history expressly that he might base his indignation upon a knowledge of its cause. In this new upper room of utopists particularly interested in France, he represented foreign nations. This poor workingman had made himself a teacher of justice, and she rewarded him by making him grand.

And Now

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Feuilly is portrayed by Aneurin Barnard and is OPEN

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The Past

Gavroche is the eldest son of Monsieur and Madame Thénardier He has two older sisters named Éponine and Azelma, and two unnamed younger brothers. He is also technically unnamed; the readers are told that he chooses the name for himself, but is not provided with his real name, as Madame Thénardier only loves her daughters, whereas Thénardier pays more attention to moneymaking (and racketeering) than he does to his children. Gavroche is told by his parents to live in the street since he would have a better life there. The Thénardiers sell their two youngest sons to a lady named Magnon. Due to a freakish accident, the two boys are separated from Magnon without identification, and encounter Gavroche purely by chance. They are unaware of their identities, but Gavroche invites them to live with him and takes care of them. They reside in the hollow cavity of a giant elephant statue. This was no imaginary construction; located at the Place De La Bastille, it had been designed by Jean-Antoine Alavoine. The two boys leave Gavroche the next morning. They are last seen at the Luxembourg Gardens retrieving and eating discarded bread from a fountain. It is unknown what happens to the two after that. At dawn, Gavroche helps Thénardier and his henchmen escape from prison due to the request of Montparnasse. During the student uprising of June 5th, 1832, Gavroche joins the revolutionaries at the barricade. After an exchange of gunfire with the National Guards, Gavroche overhears Enjolras remark that they are running out of cartridges. He decides he can help. He goes through an opening in the barricade and collects the cartridges from the dead National Guardsmen. In the process of collecting the cartridges and singing a song, he is fatally shot by the National Guard.

And Now

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Gavroche is portrayed by Toby regbo and is OPEN 

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The Past

Musichetta is Joly and Bossuet’s shared mistress.Joly described her as a superb girl, very literary, with tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, with the eyes of a fortune-teller. Joly stated to Bahorel that he is wild over her.

And now

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Musichetta is portrayed by Jenna Colmen and is OPEN 

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Hello again Tags! so its R tonight, working on a few things, only because Apollo is pacing behind me right now pissed off about...something i dont know what it is, but anyway! send some questions or something so we can open sooner! 

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The Past

Lesgle is described to be the man with the smile, though possibly the worst luck ever. He is the only member of Les Amis de l’ABC who doesn’t come from the society. He has been studying law since he was sent to university. There is never a day where laughter does not consume him so least as once and the smile he wears never fails to accompany him on most any occasion. For a man with such luck as his own, he is most certainly a glowing ball of delight that many take pleasure of knowing. He claims he has no hard feelings against his misfortune and seems to be quite content with the fact that nothing quite ever goes his way. Lesgle’s best friend is Joly, whom he shares nearly everything with, including a mistress by the name of Musichetta. Lesgle undoubtedly respects Joly and so long as Joly is around, he himself intends to be around. He is devoted to the cause just as any other and fears the concept of death as do the others. Lesgle is nearly convinced that should Joly die, he would as well. And with his luck, death seems to play in his favour. It is not something he typically wishes to discuss. He prefers humorous conversations with profound laughter.

And Now

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Lesgle is portrayed by Andrew Garfield and is OPEN

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The Past

He is a man with humor at the tip of his tongue and a witty comeback to follow every statement. He has peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for their son.He serves as a connecting link between the Friends of the ABC and other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later on. He studies law, but he doesn’t have any plans connected with this science. He takes few things seriously, the Revolution being one of them. In the midst of their meetings, Bahorel is most eager to listen and proves himself a loyal subject to the likes of Enjolras. He has many a friend among their small association and rarely fails to emit a great sense of bliss. He is a man of profound bravery with a talkative mouth to assist him in his unwavering humor. His bold personality has the tendency to rub some others the wrong way and his spoken words are not always found in favor regarding his opinions. He never minds a fight or two in counting his beliefs. Still, he is a well liked and respected figure within his group of friends. It is to the barricade in which he will take his life with a kind smile to embrace him should death befall his fate. Despite his humor, he also has the ability to flaunt a side of himself that displays both his dedication and stern side. His intents are pure just as any other man of Les Amis de l’ABC.

And Now

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Bahorel is portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones and is OPEN

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Hello tags!!!! i just first off want to say thank you to R for being such a help over the past few days, he legit had to take me away from my computer and lock it up...long story but i am here now! also i want to Welcome our new Admin...Courfeyrac you will start seeing him soon enough, so please be nice.  Other Good news is that we will be accepted Applications we want to get a few of them in before we open as well so get the word out because we would love to start playing soon enough  we are a les miserables based Rp, that focuses more on the barricade boys, and what it would be like if they got to go to collage for more then what they did, and how they would handle today's issues. 

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Hello once again! i was actually going to say that i was sorry for bothering the lovely people in the tags but honestly i am not sorry...but anyway!!! you guys should totally come check us out! i just finished making sure the page looked lovely for our fearless Leader, but anyway... we are a Les Miserables Rp that focuses on the School boys, if you squint your eyes a little you can see the reincarnation side of the plot, but anyway! what would happen if they got to be the students that they were meant to be? we are hoping to open soon enough, just going threw some last things, and then we will be accepting applications but we are always taking questions and other things if you must. but i am off for the night, Apollo should be here in the morning if he is feeling up to it, so you should leave him messages!  -R

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Hellooooo Tags!!!! its R here tonight, our fearless Leader is feeling a little under the weather tonight and i swore to him that i would work on a few things for him, so maybe if you guys wanted to send some questions or anything and keep me company, that would be great! 

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your lovely leader is back once again, i apologize for the lack of updates over here, i assure you that we have not abandoned the cause, we are almost ready to fully open, but i can say that we are totally willing to look over applications or take questions...anything while we are figuring out the new layout as well! 

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Hello! tags enj here once again working on the page for a little while until i am dragged out by courf and them to go see some movie, they say it has to do with our cause, so i will like it...but anyway! maybe come check us out, send some apps or something. 

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so enj here, and we are a brand new, les Miserables Rpg, mainly focusing on the barricade boys, or the les amis de l'abc, we have not opened yet, but we are hoping that we could get some amazing questions or come check out our open characters!  Have you ever wondered what you remember when you die? what you remember when things don’t go your way…well we all remember the french Revolution of 1848, but what no one really remembers is the June rebellion of 1832. but they do, the school boys that were there, the ones that tried to bring the people of France together. This time thought..things feel different, seem different. well other then them being alive once again, or continuing to live as if the barricades never fell and they were allowed to live the life that they were robbed of. So what will happen when school boys…children of the Revolution who remember it all, get the second chance that they wanted…the life that they lost all those years ago they actually may get to change the world that they live in now and see the life beyond the barricade. 

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Have you ever wondered what you remember when you die? what you remember when things don’t go your way…well we all remember the french Revolution of 1848, but what no one really remembers is the June rebellion of 1832. but they do, the school boys that were there, the ones that tried to bring the people of France together. 

"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” -Gabriel Enjolras

This time thought..things feel different, seem different. well other then them being alive once again, or continuing to live as if the barricades never fell and they were allowed to live the life that they were robbed of. 

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.” - General Lamarque

So what will happen when school boys…children of the Revolution who remember it all, get the second chance that they wanted…the life that they lost all those years ago they actually may get to change the world that they live in now and see the life beyond the barricade.  

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Have you ever wondered what you remember when you die? what you remember when things don’t go your way…well we all remember the french Revolution of 1848, but what no one really remembers is the June rebellion of 1832. but they do, the school boys that were there, the ones that tried to bring the people of France together. 

"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” -Gabriel Enjolras

This time thought..things feel different, seem different. well other then them being alive once again, or continuing to live as if the barricades never fell and they were allowed to live the life that they were robbed of. 

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.” - General Lamarque

So what will happen when school boys…children of the Revolution who remember it all, get the second chance that they wanted…the life that they lost all those years ago they actually may get to change the world that they live in now and see the life beyond the barricade.