Pygmalion projects

[osprey_archer]

My newest terrible Les Miserables fic idea, inspired by sineala's Rome AU Res Novae. Free to a good home!

Enjolras gets a significant other. But this is no ordinary significant other! No, it is the personification of his Cause come to life, like a terrible version of Pygmalion's statue!

The exact personification would vary depending on the setting: Roma Dea in a Rome AU, Marianne for France in an actual canon fic, and...God knows what in a modern AU. Enjolras does not really seen to have a Cause in a lot of modern AUs. (How is he even Enjolras without a Cause?)

Somehow the United States does not seem like a Cause quite like nineteenth century France. I mean really. Leaving aside shifts in revolutionary fervor, Uncle Sam is just not sexy. And obviously Enjolras is not going to sleep with, like, an eagle.

Anyway! Enjolras gets his Cause. Meanwhile, Grantaire simmers with jealousy.

And possibly it turns out that the personification is actually sucking out Enjolras' life force in order to remain personified, and Grantaire is all "Enjolras, your cause is going to kill you," and Enjolras is like "Obviously, Grantaire, that is the point, why do you think I entered into this pact with my demon lover?" and then Grantaire gets very drunk and beats his head against the wall because how do you argue with someone so unreasonable, how? It is impossible!

If I am feeling very kind, maybe it will turn out the Enjolras' Cause is just a run of the mill demon who tricked and seduced him, and Grantaire will defeat it and send it back from whence it came. Enjolras probably will not thank him.

Comments

[ursula]

I am now trying to imagine a personification of Occupy Wall Street.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I know, right! Modern political movements need to work harder at their allegorical representations. Occupy Wall Street clearly would have been better for a personification draped in Grecian garb.

[ursula]

Except it would have to be The 99%, and the 99% are not draped in Grecian garb.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Neither are any of the other things usually represented by allegorical figures in classical robes. Perhaps if the Grecian garb had some patches on it? Maybe a couple of carefully positioned tears? A smudge of dirt on the allegorical figure's handsome but work-haunted face, to complete the picture?

[ursula]

I was thinking more like Rosie the Riveter or Soviet propaganda, except with a waitress instead of a factory worker.