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Enjolras | Les Misérables | Not Reserved
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✒ IC
Name: Michel Ney Enjolras
Canon: Les Misérables (novel)
Canon Point: Shortly before his death on June 6, 1832.
Age: 26
Personality: Enjolras is a serious man, not given to pleasantries or small talk and almost entirely without a sense of irony - he recognizes sarcasm (usually), but it's not a part of his own vocabulary. He's unfailingly earnest. Focused to the point of single-mindedness, he tends to organize everything around his own beliefs about what's important, and that's a short list: duty, right, and progress. Revolution and the ultimate elevation of the human race are his only ideals and only priorities. He's willing to use almost any means, admirable or otherwise, to achieve those ends, and that devotion often makes him fall short in more mundane roles like friend, son, or neighbor. While he's charitable and caring in the abstract, in one-on-one interactions he tends not to give people benefit of the doubt, sometimes valuing their contributions to his causes over their individual virtues. His personality - independent, reserved, emotionally level - makes the implementation of his beliefs into his immediate personal life harder than it might be for someone better at connecting with individuals.
Still, the driving force behind his all-consuming dedication is love. It was the foundation of the religious devotion he learned as a child - which, despite his ultimate renunciation of the Church as an institution, never fully went away - and it expresses itself now as a deep love of his nation and his fellow man. And while he doesn't acquire friends quickly (and has none who aren't in some way politically active) he does have a few. The years he's shared with the other members of Les Amis have brought him close to many of them as people, not simply as tools or ideals. He doesn't have the best understanding of his own emotions, not at all given to introspection or articulating how he feels, but he knows his friends mean a great deal to him. He can seem to run hot and cold in that regard - his affections are as intense as all of his other expressions of loyalty and faith, but they're always subordinated to his one true cause. He can go from sweeping acts of interpersonal love to ruthless disregard for the feelings of others as soon as they come into conflict with his designs.
Like any man, he has his pleasures and his private moments, his incongruities: his sweet tooth is formidable, he takes an almost childlike pleasure in his favorite meal, he's willing to go to almost embarrassing lengths to keep himself warmer than most people would find comfortable. He also retains some lingering guilty inclinations - for instance, he still has strong emotional responses to many aspects of the Catholic tradition. Because it seems inappropriate and often irrelevant, he very rarely shares these parts of himself with others. When he does, though, he finds it pleasurable in a way that hints at a kind of intimacy he doesn't make much place for in his life - which feels, to him, almost taboo.
Like his love, his disdain is more often abstract than personal, but people can certainly be forgiven for taking it personally - it's on the icy side, and doesn't come with a light touch. He's quick to become irritable when taken away from the things he feels are important, and while in every other aspect of his life he's absolutely sincere, the one thread of disingenuity that can sneak into his personality is spite. He can lash out powerfully and with great calculation, and in his wrath he doesn't hold back from using everything at his disposal, even if he ought to know it isn't fair or even really what he means. He often feels badly later, but since his apologies seem to come from a sense of moral obligation rather than from genuine emotion they're rarely enough.
For a man so thoroughly invested in the future, Enjolras is remarkably tethered to the past. His respect for institutions of filial piety and of republic are in some ways at odds with his dedication to progress; if you're looking for a paradigm shift, you won't find it here. He's not an innovator, and in many ways is hampered by his insistence on sticking to models he knows and values. His ideals are rooted just as much in what has been as in what can be, which lends him a certain concrete practicality, and also a single-mindedness that exists in dissonance with his expansive view of humanity and the future. He's at once rigid and free, and it's a contradiction that really doesn't serve him well.
History: Enjolras; Les Misérables; and, for historical reference, The Bourbon Restoration, the The July Revolution, the first two years, give or take, of the July Monarchy, and the June Rebellion. The novel doesn't touch on Enjolras' early history, so I've added the following.
Enjolras was born in 1806 near Toulouse to wealthy, middle class parents who were staunch supporters of Napoleon - and was named (much to his later chagrin) after one of the Emperor’s most well-liked officers, Maréchal Michel Ney, who was at that time something of a popular hero. One of his most vivid childhood memories is the discord surrounding the departure of the Imperial army and the arrival of the British, and his parents’ heated and apparently unpopular opinions on the matter. In a city full of rejoicing royalists, he had his first taste of political conflict.
He was raised to revere and was largely educated by the Church - another conflict of conscience, given his household’s politics - mostly at his mother’s insistence, but with his father’s not-too-unenthusiastic consent. His was a traditional family, at the end of the day, and he was well-suited to that - and, at first, to the religious atmosphere and its emphasis on faith, on discipline, and on revelation. He was a serious boy and grew into a serious, respectful, unfailingly well-behaved adolescent. He developed incipient politics and morals of his own under the influence of a Jesuit tutor and an elderly man, one of his father’s friends and mentors who had served in the Assembly and retired back to his family’s farm at the end of the century.
Despite the fact that his entire family was highly opinionated, articulate, and fond of discussion, he never really had a confrontation with his parents on the subject of politics - certainly never with his mother. He knew he would make his difference somewhere that wasn’t the home, and so preserved his domestic life as the peaceful, hierarchical place he believed it was supposed to be. For all his dedication to progress, there are plenty of boats he’s never been interested in rocking, and it never really occurred to him to try to reshape the dynamics of the family unit. After briefly considering entering the priesthood, he was dissuaded by his mother, and ultimately his opinions on the Church as an institution (if not on religion entirely) came to resemble those of his revolutionary predecessors. Instead, he entered the law school at the Sorbonne when he came of age.
Paris was a pilgrimage of sorts; and then it was much more. Between legal education and his intensely personal, devout study of and connection to the history he understood to be a living part of him and a great responsibility, he found his place and his calling. Through his classmates, their friends, charitable connections, and overtly political organizations, he began refining his own beliefs, which became a bit more radical without the softening environment he’d had in Toulouse. He soon found a steady group for whom he held both affection and admiration, and with them began what had always been his life’s work.
Re: Enjolras | Les Misérables | Not Reserved
Fairy Tale Role: Orestes; Greek Mythology.
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities: Nothing useful, aside from the physical perfection attributed to most Greek heroes and some ability to interpret dreams. He leaves tracks of blood behind him which are visible to those who seek him (canonically only visible to the Eumenides, but I'd expand it to everyone here). His most defining quality is that he's haunted constantly by impossible decisions - damned if he does and damned if he doesn't - which actually aren't impossible at all, and might be rather obvious to anyone not bound as he is to such overly strict and literal interpretations of laws and moral codes. I'd like to shift Enjolras into his new role by chipping away at his present confidence in the propriety/necessity of violence - dealing him out some Oresteian consequences for his decision and seeding a little doubt and regret in him he's never before had to deal with.
Personal Items: A copy of Saint-Simon's Nouveau Christianisme; a Bible; a bloodied red banner smelling strongly of gunpowder.
First Person Sample:
I thought at first this must be death; there seemed to be no other place I could have gone. I see now it can't be. I'd be in more familiar company. Or - I'll not flatter myself - alone, and punished far more severely. Whatever death is, I can't believe it would be quite so cryptic. There would be no point.
I don't know who will read this. I have nothing to say on my own behalf. My reputation is worth very little to me. One can hardly embark upon the overthrow of a tyrannical government without expecting to be slandered. There are many names and accusations I'd embrace whole-heartedly.
But never - never - have I been called something quite so vile as a prince.
And so, as a citizen of the world, I lodge my objection.
Third Person Sample:
The fire was smoking - one of the many small inconveniences of the Musain - but Enjolras hardly noticed. The heat was very welcome against the snapping cold outside, the smell was inoffensive, and the sting in his eyes could hardly compete with the energy pushing through him like a second pulse - pushing through the entire back room, in fact, although now it was somewhat less populated than it had been an hour ago. His announcement, delivered earlier in the evening, that their friends at Aix, at Toulon, at the convergence of all those strategic points in the south not only stood with them but had begun stashing not inconsiderable armories along the road to Paris had been received with the enthusiasm it deserved. They were a long way off from a nation-wide uprising, of course; and it would be weeks, perhaps months, before the necessary arms reached the city. But it was a step, a very concrete step, the sort of movement that made one glance toward the horizon. And these days, when sometimes it seemed there could be nothing to look forward to but winter, it was good to be shaken. To cast off that lazy warmth and be reminded that soon something would be burning.
But now it was late; after a few hours of animated (he would never have said giddy) discussion of the development and its possibilities, the crowd had thinned to three or four stragglers, all of whom, at least after Combeferre had finally departed, appeared to have their own business to attend to. Enjolras paid no attention to them, least of all to that perrennial straggler who might as well have been a fixture of the café. He busied himself in writing letters (so much news to spread, so many oblique terms to put it in) because, to be perfectly honest, it was more appealing than walking home in this weather, and he could write here just as well as there. He didn’t live close by - across the river and some distance away - and even though the company was dwindling, even though there was nothing inherently appealing about this place, all the same he found he wanted to stay. It was a rare moment of what might have been sentimentality; a desire to preserve the fervor that would fade slightly once everyone had left.
And then he spilled his ink, which, perhaps, served him right. He sacrificed his handkerchief to sop up the mess, turned his attention back to his (mostly unstained) letter, and left the fabric soaking at the corner of the table as though that was simply where it belonged.
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