For the character headcanon ask: Grantaire, 3 and 17 :)
Okay so Grantaire suffers from meloncholia in the brick, and to somewhat the similar extent in the musical too. So its pretty safe to say his sleep pattern is fucked up. He has managed to reign it in a little in the past few months mainly due to his recent switch in medication, and regular working hours. It still doesn’t stop him from going a few days on less than two hours sleep, and it only really happens when he’s trying to work his way through a creative block or three, but he’s more careful about it. He did however do a 5 day stretch without having a decent nights sleep to finish his dissertation, and so that Joly could study the affects of a lack of sleep for his coursework too. When he does sleep he sleeps like the dead though, you can find him curled up like a cat. Everyone has a picture of him sleeping in a weird place as his contact picture on their phones. (Courf’s idea)
Grantaire and his soft spot:
Okay, I could probably write an entire essay on this one. Grantaire for all his protests about being a nihalist, and a ‘fucking delight’, he is just a big ball of mush. Here’s a few of his soft spots.
Kids. Grantire fucking loves kids, like they’re so pure and not as jaded as him, but also they can be the shadiest little fuckers ever. He finds it hilarious, and the kids love that he’s honest with them. When all the Amis start having kids, Uncle R is their favourite because he tells the best stories, and takes them the best places. Don’t annoy him when you’ve asked him to babysit though, he’ll show your child the best time, fill them full of sugar and hand them back. Kids love him.
Cats. Grantaire has a special kinship with cats. They have humanity trained around them. It amuses him no end that Enjolras can emote such drastic change in others, but in reality his life revolves around his grumpy ginger cat, Crookshanks. He has a plan that if the Les Amis decide to turn criminal, he and Musichetta would run a cat cafe as a cover for whatever illegal activities that they decide to run.
Sweets: Massive sweet tooth. His Grandmother used to run a bakery, she taught him how to make cakes and do sugar work when he was small. He made the mistake of making Combeferre’s Birthday cake three years ago, a scientifically accurate model of jupiter. He is now in charge of everyone’s birthday cakes.
Out of his friends, he has the softest spot for Marius. Marius insists he wasn’t scared of R when they first met, because of his loudness and his confrontational attitude to Enjolras. But once he got past his prickly exterior (I’m not a cactus Pontmercy) they actually became quite close. They both take a German class on Thursday night, where they’re trying to learn more langauges, for one point to be useful to ‘The Cause’ and mainly on Grantaire’s part to fuck with people. (Grantaire speaks; French, English, Spanish and Italian fluently. Musichetta is teaching him arabic, he speaks passable Polish, and learning German with Marius and Mandarin from Marius. Marius speaks French, English, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish. Chetta is also teaching him Arabic, learning German with R, and R is teaching him Italian in return)
His celebrity crushes include: Matt Bomer, Natalie Dormer, Harrison Ford, Chris Evans, Andy Murray (He’ll ask you to fight him on this), David Beckham, Lin Manuel Miranda, Philippa Soo, Hayley Atwell, Ming-na Wen But his first crush was on Kovu from the Lion King 2.