Important but very unhelpful information.
Yesterday night, I met Les Amis de l'ABC from Les Miz, as well as Fantine. (Both are the 2012 movie incarnations.) And Marius has shown up a couple of times, being my past-brother-in-law, but in meditation that day, Aaron Fucking Tveit and a gang of other guys just barge into my room, and I'm like "ENJOLRAS?!" He just laughed and nodded, so I'm like, "WHY ARE LES AMIS HERE?!"
And Enjolras grinned at me and went, "LA REVOLUTION!"
"What the hell? What revolution?!" So then he sent images of the Occupy movement through my head, and I'm like, "WHAT. Enjolras, that ended REALLY badly here. And now nobody is taking us seriously because we ended up like all the other protests that get ignored and put out."
"Well, little bird, the seeds were still planted. Everyone's fed up with things; they just don't know how to express it."
Cue the HELL YEAH vibes from Les Amis, which are loud enough to get the Fianna's attention; they did the energy equivalent of "wild animals pricking up their ears." So I facepalm and go "PLEASE DON'T MEET THE FIANNA, PLEASE DON'T MEET THE FIANNA" in vain. (And am now well aware that I could have just told Les Amis to shut up.)
So. Fianna and Les Amis de l'ABC meet up and are very, very happy to see each other.
But weirdly enough (or not, considering later events), they aren't SURPRISED. Like, the Fianna pretty much expected Enjolras to show up at SOME point, given that David went "HELL YEAH! SHIT IS GOING DOWN SOON, LITTLE BIRD."
And suddenly I realize that the Tuatha De are the only people who call me a LITTLE bird, being mostly the Game of Thrones cast, and I go, "Hang on, Enjolras, why did YOU call me a little bird?"
Enjolras laughed and went, "We called you that because you were tall and violent! I remember you boxed my ears once for upsetting Cosette." Then he looked at me a bit sadly and said, "But I suppose you ARE a little bird now, aren't you."
And then I realized, "...Wait. Spring Awakening, Les Miz, Firefly, and Game of Thrones. Are you all showing up because everything sucks in the US right now?"
Cue more hell-yeahs. And fist-pumping. And... yeah, I resign myself to not sleeping for another couple of hours.
They meet up with the rest of the Les Miz cast first, and then Dove-Wendla squees and flies in, and Les Amis go "LOLITY LOL, AN ACTUAL LITTLE BIRD." Martha, Melchior, and Hanschen are very much amenable to them as well, being really fiery in various ways, and then Moritz comes along and they go, "BAHAHAHA, THE LITTLE BEAR IS HERE."
At this point I'm just rolling with it and ask, "Why's Moritz a little bear?"
Enjolras responds that "He was tall and sweet. The farthest from a little bear you could get."
And then Enjolras gave me a gun. Like, he literally just took a flintlock pistol off his belt and handed it over to me after he finished that sentence, and I'm like, "WHAT?! NO. Enjolras, what are you doing?! I can't use this!"
"Like it or not, little bird, you're on the brink of revolution. You know what that means."
"But I already HAVE a knife for emergencies!"
"And that's all well and good, but there are things that are too fast for knives. Or that you REALLY shouldn't get close enough to stab." So he tried to make sure I actually held it this time, and he went, "Little bird, nobody's saying you absolutely HAVE to shoot something--this is just in case!"
At which I just devolved into ohgodohgodohgod vibes and went, "Enjolras, the LAST time people went 'take our entire fucking armory just in case,' I ended up needing HALF OF IT! 'Just in case' is NOT A GOOD PHRASE to use around me!"
"Well, it was better than not being prepared at all, wasn't it?"
I had another "ohgodohgodohgod" moment until Martha went, "Honey, you know you need it. Just calm down; it ain't gonna shoot YOU."
So after I calmed down, I asked how to use it and Enjolras said, "Guns are easy, little bird--all you need is focus."
-----
Then Les Amis met the non-Fianna Tuatha De; or at least, my main group.
Brighid came in first because she was really just warning me, "Don't think you should run off and do something stupid just because Ostara's your birthday! Everything is just fine right now, even if it doesn't feel like it."
And then Enjolras stepped forward, bowed, and said something in French that I couldn't quite catch. Seeing as it made Brighid laugh and blush, it was almost certainly something not-Enjolras. With his usual portrayal being either asexual or gay, and all.
Then came Ogma, who said to me, "You're in something much bigger than yourself and along the way, the old you is dying. Of course that's going to scare you."
"...Why is the old me dying?"
"New growth."
The Morrigan concurred with Ogma after she flew in. And after she met up and rallied Les Amis, she reminded me, "You didn't pick this life because it was easy. You picked it because it's RIGHT, and for YOU."
Suddenly I noticed that Brighid and the Morrigan were both in really deep red dresses, and Brighid's hair was especially red and doing that "firelight" thing that signals something really important.
And then Anne Hathaway's Fantine arrived. She walked in rather quietly and I went, "Maman? But Valjean said you weren't coming back yet!"
"I'm not so tired that I can't give you a hug." But then she looked at me and went, "Good god, you're so small! What are they feeding you?" And she looked again and went, "NETTLES? Ugh, that's for POOR people!"
"Well, Maman, nettles are really healthy."
"Yes, yes, but they grow everywhere! And they taste so BORING." So Fantine fusses over me for another few minutes until I tell her that maybe she should just give me a hug and go back to wherever the tired/drained ancestors go. She ended up leaving for the night, but she did show up when I had bacon and a bagel for breakfast.
Then Aine comes in (and is greeted rather enthusiastically by Les Amis), and I asked her about all the visions I got and (am still getting on occasion).
The theme I noticed is that I'm involved with plays that deal with terrible subject matter, but they're responsible for transforming lives for the better. "Aine, why do my visions involve plays with horrific subject matter leading to good things? First Spring Awakening where I meet my spiritual family, and now my combination of fairy-tale about incest with the myth of a goddess getting raped is giving REALLY heavy vibes that it's how I'll meet them in the flesh."
"Because you're willing to go to those places, sweetie."
"Huh?"
"You have to risk something to get something, and you're risking a lot. Most people wouldn't pick a story about incest OR a story about rape for their first play--especially not a MUSICAL. And so we have to recognize that."
"But I didn't pick it--you and Hanschen showed a bit of it and went 'FJDLSAK THIS.'"
And Aine laughed and said, "But you wrote it down, didn't you?"
-----
Moritz left to check on something again this morning, and he came back with a pistol of his own. And I sighed and asked, "Just in case, honey?"
"Just in case. The guys gave it to me."
Enjolras was following me around today and I was trying to get my head around whatever revolution I'm evidently getting fifty heads-up for, and he said to me, "Revolutions never start with thousands of protesters. It always starts in someone or another's head, and then a few people's heads, and then more, so eventually everyone knows that THIS IS NOT RIGHT. But then a little bird tells them HOW TO FIX IT."
And... I thiiiiiink he made a roundabout reference to the phrase "a little bird told me." I asked him about it, and he chuckled and smiled very much like Manannan or Hanschen would.
So he's definitely not Enjolras-the-character.
And Enjolras grinned at me and went, "LA REVOLUTION!"
"What the hell? What revolution?!" So then he sent images of the Occupy movement through my head, and I'm like, "WHAT. Enjolras, that ended REALLY badly here. And now nobody is taking us seriously because we ended up like all the other protests that get ignored and put out."
"Well, little bird, the seeds were still planted. Everyone's fed up with things; they just don't know how to express it."
Cue the HELL YEAH vibes from Les Amis, which are loud enough to get the Fianna's attention; they did the energy equivalent of "wild animals pricking up their ears." So I facepalm and go "PLEASE DON'T MEET THE FIANNA, PLEASE DON'T MEET THE FIANNA" in vain. (And am now well aware that I could have just told Les Amis to shut up.)
So. Fianna and Les Amis de l'ABC meet up and are very, very happy to see each other.
But weirdly enough (or not, considering later events), they aren't SURPRISED. Like, the Fianna pretty much expected Enjolras to show up at SOME point, given that David went "HELL YEAH! SHIT IS GOING DOWN SOON, LITTLE BIRD."
And suddenly I realize that the Tuatha De are the only people who call me a LITTLE bird, being mostly the Game of Thrones cast, and I go, "Hang on, Enjolras, why did YOU call me a little bird?"
Enjolras laughed and went, "We called you that because you were tall and violent! I remember you boxed my ears once for upsetting Cosette." Then he looked at me a bit sadly and said, "But I suppose you ARE a little bird now, aren't you."
And then I realized, "...Wait. Spring Awakening, Les Miz, Firefly, and Game of Thrones. Are you all showing up because everything sucks in the US right now?"
Cue more hell-yeahs. And fist-pumping. And... yeah, I resign myself to not sleeping for another couple of hours.
They meet up with the rest of the Les Miz cast first, and then Dove-Wendla squees and flies in, and Les Amis go "LOLITY LOL, AN ACTUAL LITTLE BIRD." Martha, Melchior, and Hanschen are very much amenable to them as well, being really fiery in various ways, and then Moritz comes along and they go, "BAHAHAHA, THE LITTLE BEAR IS HERE."
At this point I'm just rolling with it and ask, "Why's Moritz a little bear?"
Enjolras responds that "He was tall and sweet. The farthest from a little bear you could get."
And then Enjolras gave me a gun. Like, he literally just took a flintlock pistol off his belt and handed it over to me after he finished that sentence, and I'm like, "WHAT?! NO. Enjolras, what are you doing?! I can't use this!"
"Like it or not, little bird, you're on the brink of revolution. You know what that means."
"But I already HAVE a knife for emergencies!"
"And that's all well and good, but there are things that are too fast for knives. Or that you REALLY shouldn't get close enough to stab." So he tried to make sure I actually held it this time, and he went, "Little bird, nobody's saying you absolutely HAVE to shoot something--this is just in case!"
At which I just devolved into ohgodohgodohgod vibes and went, "Enjolras, the LAST time people went 'take our entire fucking armory just in case,' I ended up needing HALF OF IT! 'Just in case' is NOT A GOOD PHRASE to use around me!"
"Well, it was better than not being prepared at all, wasn't it?"
I had another "ohgodohgodohgod" moment until Martha went, "Honey, you know you need it. Just calm down; it ain't gonna shoot YOU."
So after I calmed down, I asked how to use it and Enjolras said, "Guns are easy, little bird--all you need is focus."
-----
Then Les Amis met the non-Fianna Tuatha De; or at least, my main group.
Brighid came in first because she was really just warning me, "Don't think you should run off and do something stupid just because Ostara's your birthday! Everything is just fine right now, even if it doesn't feel like it."
And then Enjolras stepped forward, bowed, and said something in French that I couldn't quite catch. Seeing as it made Brighid laugh and blush, it was almost certainly something not-Enjolras. With his usual portrayal being either asexual or gay, and all.
Then came Ogma, who said to me, "You're in something much bigger than yourself and along the way, the old you is dying. Of course that's going to scare you."
"...Why is the old me dying?"
"New growth."
The Morrigan concurred with Ogma after she flew in. And after she met up and rallied Les Amis, she reminded me, "You didn't pick this life because it was easy. You picked it because it's RIGHT, and for YOU."
Suddenly I noticed that Brighid and the Morrigan were both in really deep red dresses, and Brighid's hair was especially red and doing that "firelight" thing that signals something really important.
And then Anne Hathaway's Fantine arrived. She walked in rather quietly and I went, "Maman? But Valjean said you weren't coming back yet!"
"I'm not so tired that I can't give you a hug." But then she looked at me and went, "Good god, you're so small! What are they feeding you?" And she looked again and went, "NETTLES? Ugh, that's for POOR people!"
"Well, Maman, nettles are really healthy."
"Yes, yes, but they grow everywhere! And they taste so BORING." So Fantine fusses over me for another few minutes until I tell her that maybe she should just give me a hug and go back to wherever the tired/drained ancestors go. She ended up leaving for the night, but she did show up when I had bacon and a bagel for breakfast.
Then Aine comes in (and is greeted rather enthusiastically by Les Amis), and I asked her about all the visions I got and (am still getting on occasion).
The theme I noticed is that I'm involved with plays that deal with terrible subject matter, but they're responsible for transforming lives for the better. "Aine, why do my visions involve plays with horrific subject matter leading to good things? First Spring Awakening where I meet my spiritual family, and now my combination of fairy-tale about incest with the myth of a goddess getting raped is giving REALLY heavy vibes that it's how I'll meet them in the flesh."
"Because you're willing to go to those places, sweetie."
"Huh?"
"You have to risk something to get something, and you're risking a lot. Most people wouldn't pick a story about incest OR a story about rape for their first play--especially not a MUSICAL. And so we have to recognize that."
"But I didn't pick it--you and Hanschen showed a bit of it and went 'FJDLSAK THIS.'"
And Aine laughed and said, "But you wrote it down, didn't you?"
-----
Moritz left to check on something again this morning, and he came back with a pistol of his own. And I sighed and asked, "Just in case, honey?"
"Just in case. The guys gave it to me."
Enjolras was following me around today and I was trying to get my head around whatever revolution I'm evidently getting fifty heads-up for, and he said to me, "Revolutions never start with thousands of protesters. It always starts in someone or another's head, and then a few people's heads, and then more, so eventually everyone knows that THIS IS NOT RIGHT. But then a little bird tells them HOW TO FIX IT."
And... I thiiiiiink he made a roundabout reference to the phrase "a little bird told me." I asked him about it, and he chuckled and smiled very much like Manannan or Hanschen would.
So he's definitely not Enjolras-the-character.