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gray or blue | enjolras/éponine | part x / ?
graphic by abcabaisse
title: gray or blue fandom: les misérables pairing: enjolras/éponine rating: t summary: Éponine begins working in Montparnasse’s coffee shop, and her life becomes entangled with the students in the bar downstairs who talk of revolutions.
(link to part ix)
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Enjolnine - Modern Gangster AU
Enjolras, the leader of a growing crime syndicate, becomes concerned when his partner Marius begins to fall in love with Cosette, the mysterious daughter of the reclusive Jean Valjean. Suspecting that Valjean and his daughter may have ties to a rival syndicate, Enjolras hires the tough and independent Eponine, corporate spy and hitwoman. It’s her job to uncover the Valjeans’ secrets and, if need be, take them out. But Eponine is already in love with Marius herself—and she finds herself having trouble finishing the job. Meanwhile, pressure from unstable federal agent Javert threatens to expose all of them. Enjolras begins to realize his growing frustration with Eponine isn’t just because she isn’t following through on the kill, it’s because he’s falling in love with her himself…
“You should have finished the job weeks ago, Eponine.”
“Fine. Deal’s off.”
“I hired you because you’re the best, not so your crush on Marius could fuck everything up!”
“What do you care? I’ll get you your damn money!”
“I don’t care about the money! I care about—“
“…About what?”
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“Um, Scorp?”
“Yeah, what?”
“Why the hell did you bring so many books? You know there’s, like, the greatest library in the world right across the street, yeah?” Al was sitting on the windowsill, fiddling with settings on his camera as he recorded sweeping shots of the room they shared.
His roommate looked up from organizing the pile of classics. “These are mine, they’ve got notes and such. I’m supposed to be on top of this whole studying thing.” Scorpius smirked. “As are you, if I recall.”
“Yeah, yeah, well, I’ll get to it I guess.”
“You could try getting to it before tomorrow,” Scorpius suggested.
“Before tomorrow? That gives me, what? Today?” Al shook his head. “I haven’t cracked a book yet, and I have no system of taking notes or maintaining a schedule. School…is not ready for me.”
“Well that’s a real shame since our first lecture is at nine a.m.”
“Lecture?! What lecture? Nothing’s even started yet! Freshers fair is like, next week.”
“It’s on Friday, and the lecture is an introduction to Wizarding Oxford—we’re supposed to go every Wednesday for five weeks. At St. Bart’s.”
“Oh, but there won’t be an exam or anything.” Al sighed with relief. “So maybe I’ll skip the first. And, you know, all of them.” He chuckled and imagined all the things he could do with that extra hour—mostly relating to sleep.
“Maybe not exactly, but you’ll need it for the essay.”
“What essay?!”
Scorpius rolled his eyes. “Merlin, Al, this is just like seventh year all over again. New year, new school, new essays, new books! Doesn’t any of that sound familiar?
“Merlin, Scorp,” Al mocked. “This is just like seventh year all over again….You’re still a fucking nerd!”
“Hrmphf. You’ve got go to lectures, mate. Remember almost failing fifth year? Remember why that was?”
“Well, I don’t know why you’re so excited to go,” Al deflected. He paused. “Rose will be there, no getting around that.”
Scorpius let out a long breath that sounded suspiciously like a string of curses.
“‘Fraid so, old pal. And the two of you are going to make me pick sides, too, huh?” Al made a pathetic sort of face.
“You would make this all about you,” Scorpius muttered.
“Hey now! I just mean if I sit with you in lectures, she gets mad. But if I sit with her, you get all mopey. The balancing act between cousin and roommate is a bitch.”
“Fine, sit with her. It’s not a big deal. God forbid we upset Rose.”
“Um…”
“Just remember who makes the tea around here.” Scorpius forced a half-smile and waved a book at his best friend. “Go on already, I know you’re itching to scope out the girls.”
Al frowned but stood up. “I thought we were going to dinner…you know, together. I need my wingman!”
“Naw, I’m not hungry.” Scorpius’s deliberate lack of eye-contact indicated that the subject was closed.
“Liar,” Al muttered on his way out the door.
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How creepy are we? (in which we discuss One Direction and our darker sides)
Emma: Miiiiight have just watched and quite enjoyed the iCarly 1D episode....gotta say. Zayn needs to stop being so deliberately sexy. And their stylist wins ALL the awards.
Emma: I mean seriously. there's this one scene where he just sits there stroking his lip....and it's NOT WEIRD.
Lizzie: I just made this incomprehensible sputtering noise. I can't believe you just sent me this message. bahahaha.
Lizzie: but yeah, I'm expecting Zayn to come out with his own line of mascara any day now.
Emma: bahaha I just had to share it with someone. plus, you have the harry's hair vice. that's worse than anything in my message. :D
Lizzie: it's really not. i mean, lip stroking? really? :P
Emma: lol not really my point...he's not even my favorite one, it was just really distracting! haha.
Emma: you know how typically a guy stroking his lip would be really creepy and desperate? well it wasn't, and it weirded me out. :P
Lizzie: pffffffttttttttttt you.
Emma: (niall has the cutest accent ever, and louis is by far the cutest. :) :P )
Emma: (zayn is just creepy sexy)
Emma: (and they ALL have really strange names.)
Lizzie: harry is the cutest one. he has freaking DIMPLES.
Emma: harry is the awkward one.....
Emma: (also, I should point out, I only knew harry's and zayn's names before i watched that episode. the others were just a bluf of L-related names. lol)
Lizzie: bahahahaha l-related names.
Emma: and I couldn't argue whether any one of them was actually real-life creepy....I'm going almost exclusively off of one performance on SNL and the iCarly episode. haha
Lizzie: louis just gives off a creepy vibe to me. idk.
Emma: well, i don't get one. i wouldn't really say i get a "creep" vibe from any of them, just that zayn was wayyyy to good at acting sexy.
Emma: ha
Emma: (very "classic" bad boy)
Emma: but so much so that he's way not my type
Emma: really, none of them actually are bc they all look 15 and they're a boy band.
SanSan? (in which we discuss characterization, metaphorication, and possibility)
Lizzie: we could talk about sandor and sansa, too. not necessarily in a shipping way, just...i'm not sure GRRM is done with the two of them yet.
Lizzie: have you heard the theory that Sandor is the gravedigger on the quiet isle?
Emma: hmmmmmmmmmm :)
Lizzie: see here- http://towerofthehand.com/blog/2010/09/16_the_golem_and_the_/index.html. make sure your scope is set to all the books so it lets you see the spoilers. :)
Emma: :D verrrry interesting
Lizzie: yes indeed.
Emma: i could probably talk that. idk if in relation to sansa much though
Lizzie: ....so I may have lied and I kind of do want to talk about it in a shipper way. as in, is that where he's headed? is it too effed up to work? what's problematic vs. what's good?
Emma: lol ok
Lizzie: not a debate about whether or not people should ship it, though.
Lizzie: i do think it's interesting from sansa's pov, too.
Emma: meaning?
Lizzie: she keeps the clock he leaves....something about it being at the bottom of her chest, and 'she's not sure why she kept it.'
Emma: ohh right
Lizzie: and then the whole business of her misremembering the blackwater scene with him kissing her.
Lizzie: which didn't happen. so it's weird that she did. not necessarily in a fantasizing way, but...it's still really interesting. i mean, it's crossed her mind.
Emma: alright. do you want to start by presenting your questions in a more discussy-way, or do you want me to start by trying to answer them?
Emma: (and have you finished your hw??)
Lizzie: discuss-y way. and now, not done. :/ and i need to go to bed soon because i'm actually kind of living on a normal schedule. ugh, this time difference is killing my fandom productivity!
/later/
Emma: reading comments... I like the idea that Sandor has metaphorically/practically replaced Sansa's dead wolf--Lady. she's the only Stark kid who is alive with a dead wolf (because Nymeria is clearly still alive and wild).
Lizzie: YES. that is super significant, I think; the fact that Lady is dead. it speaks so much to Sansa's dangerous position. I mean, even beyond Sandor, I think it's a big deal.
Emma: Very much so. Even Arya, who doesn't have her wolf with her, has the option of sort of living with her wolf, or idk, the option of joining her if "Arya" dies. (and the dog aspect, too, really, for Sandor.)
Lizzie: right. arya has options open to her that sansa just doesn't.
Emma: I think Lady's name is important, too. after she dies, Sansa starts to grow up a little more and realize that there's more to being noble.
Lizzie: it's definitely a loss of childhood thing.
Emma: and if Sandor replaces Lady, that can also represent Sansa's own realization.
Lizzie: what it means to be a true knight. yes, exactly.
Emma: like, she names her wild pet wolf "Lady", and then Lady dies due to cruelty from a "real lady". So Sansa realizes there's more to it than just a name.
Emma: and when Sandor takes over the role of her protector, he's also replacing the idea of chivalry in her mind, kind of.
Lizzie: like, he's kind of a crap person, but he doesn't play the games.
Lizzie: oh gosh, you've seduced me away from my schoolwork.
Lizzie: ughhh this is giving me so many feelings about everything.
Lizzie: there's so much of their relationship that we didn't get in the show, which makes me really sad.
Emma: ok. my biggest *eh, idk* about Sandor being the gravedigger though- the fact that is SUCH a crap person. like, to the end. when Arya leaves him, nothing about his personality has changed.
Emma: and so if he were to end up on the Quiet Isle (and ESPECIALLY) if he were ever to end up anywhere near Sansa again, I would think there would need to be something /bigger/, you know? I would think maybe even something involving Sansa to change him.
Emma: not just "whoops, I almost died--hey bro, thanks!"
Lizzie: i would suggest, maybe, that seeing him from arya's pov and from sansa's are going to be very different? just in the sense that sansa brings out the "best" in him. sort of.
Emma: oh sure. but still, he was a crap person when he left Sansa, and then he was still a crap person when Arya left him, just objectively.
Lizzie: can't really argue with that. haha.
Emma: right. I really think Sansa DID bring out the best in him, but it's been quite a while since she's seen him, and so I have to wonder either A) how he ended up on the Quiet Isle/repentant at all or B) what his game is, if maybe it IS him and he's playing along for some reason. Because I really can't buy that he changed without something /bigger/. Just really can't.
Lizzie: I guess I'd have to see how it's done. I'm dubious, but open to persuasion.
Today I realized how sad it is that I know so much more about the houses/families and political alliances of Westeros than I do about any period in medieval European history.
purveyor-of-dreams (whilst discussing Blackwater)
Long distance. (or, Emma watches Blackwater) PART 3: CERSEI'S BOOBS
Emma: ok so i had seen references on tumblr....but what the hell is cersei wearing?????
Lizzie: i don't even know
Lizzie: 'this armor will protect my boobs!'
Emma: 'i need those still!'
Lizzie: ....boobs?
Emma: it's a joke about how she's old
Emma: or something :P
Lizzie: hahahhaa sorry
Lizzie: I'm tracking now
Lizzie: he he he, 'breastplate'...
Long distance. (or, Emma watches Blackwater) PART 2: SANSA FTW
Lizzie: so is this you live-messaging the episode? :D
Emma: lol yes
Lizzie: oh, and i'm sorry you're not feeling well. but glad this means GoT. :)
Emma: haha yup. i'm feeling a bit better now, actually
Lizzie: good. and i'll stop distracting you now.
Emma: good! ha
Lizzie: ....
Emma: ....
Emma: this is so intense, btw
Emma: 20 minutes in and we're already going to battle
Lizzie: omg i knowwwwwwww. what's happening??
Emma: sansa just said goodbye to joffrey
Emma: prick.
Lizzie: yep, but she got some snark in there, too.
Emma: ohhh yeah. and her burn on tyrion was hilarious too (even though i'd already seen it on tumblr :P )
Lizzie: sorry if that was me...
Lizzie: and yeah, she got him GOOD. :D i like that they showed her biting back a bit in this one.
Long distance. (or, Emma watches Blackwater) PART 1: VARYS HAS NO BALLS
Emma: stayed home from interning bc i don't feel good....now I get to watch it!!!!! it's loading. :D
Emma: the rains of castamere omg!
Emma: Varys- 'remember how I don't have any balls? .....good.'
Lizzie: yes, the rains of castamere! even if it sounded weirdly country at times?
Lizzie: I was like 'VARYS IF YOU UTTER THE WORD "SCROTUM" I WILL END YOU'
Emma: bahahaha
Lizzie: Good lord, just can't get over the fact that you don't have any balls, can you??
Emma: clearly not. he's kind of hung up on it, actually.
they're like the 21st century british Blues Brothers.
I asked my boyfriend if he paid the iron price for his watch and then I explained it to him and he said the whole concept was dumb. And then I killed him and stole his watch.
Is it just a game? I don't know.
Dramione in canon
ICH LIEBE
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Discussion #3 - The Sorting of Hermione Granger
Lizzie:
Re-sorting in Harry Potter. [There's been some interesting discussion in this on tumblr.] First of all: Hermione. IMO, there's no way she really belongs in Gryffindor. I'd put her in Ravenclaw and maybe even Slytherin. GO.
Emma:
First off, I would say she's not underhanded or ambitious enough to be in Slytherin. That is to say, she's going to be more confrontational and less slit-your-tires-in-the-middle-of-the-night (which is /more/ how I see Slytherins dealing with things); she is ahead intelligence-wise and likes to be better than everyone else, but I don't know if "ambitious" is really the right description. Not to say she /couldn't/ be in Slytherin, but I just don't see it over another house, really. Second off, then. Entire plot and function of the Harry Potter universe aside, I definitely would have put her in Ravenclaw. I would say her cleverness and thirst for learning and devouring of all things knowledge-related /outweigh/ her (present) Gryffindor qualities. Basically, she's more Ravenclaw than anything else, in my opinion. As far as "no way she really belongs in Gryffindor," I wouldn't totally disagree with that, but I kinda would. :P She is certainly /more/ of a Ravenclaw, but she IS incredibly brave and whatnot. (What else is a Gryffindor, actually? rather loyal? but that's Hufflepuff too.....) Anyway, I would give her Ravenclaw/Gryffindor/Slytherin/Hufflepuff. Would also like to point out the possibility that she, like Harry, requested Gryffindor. #shrug
Lizzie:
Interesting, because I think of Hermione as being very ambitious and definitely willing to be underhanded/sly to help her ambition along. Admittedly, she's less selfish with her ambition than one might think of a Slytherin being--since she uses her smarts to help out Harry and Ron with their shenanigans--but we've definitely seen her being willing to break the rules when it suits her or when she thinks it's necessary. Which sounds very Slytherin to me. A few examples of rule-breaking and/or sneaky behavior to achieve her ends: The Polyjuice Potion plot, the Time-Turner (and yeah, she got permission, but she went behind everyone else's back--which shows how she IS ambitious to serve her own ends, not just her friends), using Confunding to get Ron on the quidditch team (which is incredibly insulting to him and really ticks me off, fyi), the Sneak curse that ended up on Marietta Edgecombe (note that this was definitely more malicious than it needed to be), blackmailing Rita Skeeter, and lying to Umbridge to get her into the Forbidden Forest. I think all these show that she is definitely more of the slit-your-tires than the confrontational type...her brand of dealing with issues is very non-confrontational and quite sneaky. Most of the time, she's the one dragging Harry and Ron away from a fight--the slap in third year being a significant exception. I don't think I even need to argue that she would have fit into Ravenclaw--we pretty much agree on that. :) Hermione IS brave, of course, but there's no rule that Slytherins can't be brave. And I think that Hermione's particular brand of bravery is more Slytherin than Gryffindor. She isn't impulsive or reckless. She's really quite calculating. I think that what I like the most when I think of putting Hermione in Slytherin is that it expands or redefines what a Slytherin is. Yes, you CAN fit all the characteristics without being a Junior Death Eater, thank you very much. And yeah, the Sorting Hat takes your choice into account, blah blah blah. Colin Creevey might have wanted into Slytherin, but let's be honest. Never woulda happened. *"come at me bro" arms*
Emma:
I'm sleepy. But I will say: I think Hermione would definitely be the Slytherin of the three, but I still just really don't see her as an actual Slytherin. Maybe it's because she developed in/as a Gryffindor the way she did, but I just can't quite see it actually happening. (She's also a Muggle-born, whether you like it or not, which means /if/ she had been in Slytherin (and that's a BIG if), she would have gotten a lot of grief from her fellow Slytherins, no lie.) Your examples are good, certainly, but I always saw those things as, idk, maybe /more/ Slytherin, but not a dominant part of her actual personality. Honestly, that could just be me. Come on, you know I got me some mad Slytherin love. Don't even pull that "don't have to be a Junior Death Eater" crap with me. :P (Although as far as that paragraph goes, I don't necessarily oppose your idea there, but I don't know that redefining what it means to be a [house] is the point of Sorting. *cringe* Just saying.) And what I mean by the Sorting Hat considering your preference: Because Hermione really can fit in Gryffindor (I will stand by that one), if that's what she wanted (over, I would say maybe Ravenclaw. Don't think the Sorting Hat would put her in Slytherin, I really don't). #kanyeshrug
Lizzie:
I love your use of slashies for italics. *steals for future use* I'm still not seeing a lot of convincing evidence that Hermione "belongs" in Gryffindor. I guess she /fits/ in Gryffindor because it's such a loose definition, but to me, she /belongs/ in Ravenclaw and could have been a Slytherin. I can't argue with the Muggle-born thing, but hey, it would have been a really interesting twist. [Sorry to throw the Junior Death Eater line at you. This is as close as I'll ever get to a rap battle and it makes me feel sassy. :P] "Redefining what it means to be a house" was poor word choice on my part. What I was trying to get at was /expanding the definition we're given./ What does it mean to be cunning and ambitious? Those are adjectives that DO NOT have to be negative or sinister. Hermione IS ambitious; she is driven to achieve her own personal goals and to defeat (pardon the trope) the Forces of Evil. [Harry, for example, was never that driven--he had a lot of (understandable) angst about being the chosen one, and he pretty much sat on his hands for a month in GoF until Cedric told him to take a bath with the egg. Which is why I honestly don't feel like Harry could have fit into Slytherin, despite the claims otherwise. /irrelevant rabbit trail] Hermione is also cunning. She follows the rules until she feels it's necessary to break them. She is the brains of the trio because the sneaky plans are always her idea. (See previous post for list.) She's willing to lie and hex and blackmail to work things out for what she believes is right--the definition of Slytherin.
Emma:
Well, I agree with you there, I really don't think Gryffindor's her best fit. I say that's Ravenclaw. :) And like I said, not that she /couldn't/ have been a Slytherin, I just don't see it over Ravenclaw at all, so to me it's almost irrelevant. (Although you're right, a twist. But then that REALLY screws with the entire HP universe. lol. [haha, rap battle. YES. we should have one of those. Don't kid. You're always sassy.] Okay yeah, I see that a little bit. Like I said, I just don't see it enough to be able to say "Oh, yeah, Hermione, Slytherin, totally." She's just SO Ravenclaw for me. [Haha, NICE tangent. I never saw Harry in Slytherin either. Like I said, of the three, definitely Hermione. I really really really really really (did I mention REALLY) want Al to have been in Slytherin though. I realize that's even more rabbit-traily and irrelevant, but I want it SO DARN BAD.] This is true. I guess because I see me as more Slytherin but not much like Hermione, it's hard to reconcile those. But again, I see your point. Can we just agree that she belongs in Ravenclaw? :P
Lizzie:
This was a good one! [CONSENSUS REACHED]
Discussion #2 - Pensieve Reliability
Lizzie:
Okay. The accuracy of Pensieves. Do they literally copy and paste memories, or are they subject to the owner's bias/misremembrances?
Emma:
Hmm. Good question. I would say maybe the memories themselves are unaltered (because we see with Slughorn how it's possible to go back and alter them, so I would think otherwise they're perfectly preserved), but certainly the selection of memories is up to the bias of the rememberer. For example: Snape will likely remember all the times James was mean to him, but nothing else. (bit of an exaggeration, but you know.) I think part of the point of a Pensieve (see Dumbledore's explanation for why he has one) is to make sure you remember things correctly as they happened. That's why you have to extract them and not just tell people how you remember stuff. This is my opinion.
Lizzie:
Okay, I'd buy that. Except I think it's a stretch to say that memories can be altered...it was a pretty obvious slap-up job. *wonders if some wizard will market photoshop for memories*
Emma:
:P Well obviously it was a bad job. But I mean there is a way to "alter" them. So they wouldn't start out altered, I'd think. If I remember correctly, it seemed more *possible* to do it right in the books, when that bit came up. There is totally a wizard memory photoshop. Memoryshop? on MagicSpells4? Come on. Surely you've heard of it.
Lizzie:
Memoryshop 4.0: Available at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes and other [less] fine retailers.
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