tushanshu | Video:

Current Mood: curious

Entry tags:

Video:

[Hello, Turtle. Here is an Enjolras who looks a bit embarrassed that he's even started this late night/very early morning post, but well. The question he wants to ask IS actually a valid one, now that he has TIME to ask it, and he finds the current most popular phrases to be incredibly awkward or childish so..The hell with it. People have asked all sorts of questions here, haven't they? He's clearing his throat, flushing a little, then glancing into the vid directly and clearing his throat.]

A question, everyone.

I find that most of the current terms for one's...romantic friend...but more than such are either juvenile or not quite accurate. 'Boyfriend' for example, makes us sound as if we were children, 'Partner' has several connotations that do not immediately state the obvious and 'Lover' sounds particularly awkward.

[And well, they have not quite gotten to the lovers stage yet. Enjolras is hardly ready for it and still accustoming himself to the kissing and cuddling things that he never let himself seek out in life.]

When others here speak of the other piece of their soul as he is to me...what terms seem to work best for you?

[He will deny this video happened later. He really will. He just...really wishes to know and can't sleep so...here it is. Have fun with it?]

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

What makes 'lover' sound awkward? It is what I have always used.

[And Delaunay certainly fits that description for him. Though he is pretty sure that isn't mutual.]

It feels...what is the word I wish to use here...illicit, I suppose, as though he were a mistress to be kept secret if I use that term. Perhaps it is a holdover from home only. I do not... I have not done this before and I confess the elements apart from loving him seem complicated.

Yes, I suppose that the usage you're familiar with can affect your perception. [Quite a logical conclusion.] In my home, there is no shame in taking a lover at all- it is common enough that the act is entirely unremarkable.

[He looks thoughtful.] That is the most important part of it, is it not? If you keep it central, the other elements should come naturally. Act and speak from your love of him and whatever mistakes you make should be pardonable.

[Enjolras supposes it is common enough but even so. It's hardly the way he would have people considering Combeferre when he introduces him. The next part though, he's nodding at Alcuin's words there.]

Yes, yes of course that IS far more important. Perhaps the words may come as well, with time. The mistakes certainly have, but I have been...lucky in that. I DID manage to choose the most patient person I know.

I suspects the terms that I would use are of no useful, unless you have intentions of wedding and crowning him. But I must ask, may I have the pleasure of meeting this beloved of yours?

[You know who has an almost vicarious interest in the romantic success of his friends? This bastard. He wants to meet Enjolras's boyfriend!

And then he wants to give advice on anniversary celebrations and insist on Enjolras sending flowers to declare his affection and scold people for not going all-out on birthdays, and really it's for the best if you don't let Richard know anything about your love life. Asbel did, and now Asbel has to suffer for it.]

...does it really matter?

[And what's with all the sudden Love-related questions around here?]

Well, I cannot say I am much help, as all have my lovers have been for mutual pleasure and not 'the other piece of my soul', so to speak, and the one who would best bear that title would be impossible for me to marry, and has declined to be my lover.

But I do not see the trouble in calling him your lover.

Edited 2013-09-14 15:10 (UTC)

I can't say I've ever been in a position to use any of those terms, but none of them sound insufficient to me. There's nothing more precise?

Edited 2013-09-14 15:24 (UTC)

Crowning. Yes, that would go over incredibly well with any of our lot. [Have a wry face there, Richard, and a bit of a smirk.]

But yes you ought to meet him. He's spoken of hosting something similar to what we had at home soon, a meeting to discuss political philosophies and such. You would enjoy that at any rate, I think. Perhaps there?

[Oh. Oh dear. Not that Enjolras doesn't need relationship advice but...]

That is exactly the problem I have been finding, yes.

Curiosity, more than anything else compels me, I suppose now that I have the time and luxury to consider such things. And perhaps the questions others have been asking here of late.

[Yeah, he noticed that too.]

[It's like the entire Turtle was becoming one giant, Reality TV/soap opera hybrid.]

If we weren't still baking outside in the sun, I'd almost start to wonder if Valentine's day was coming up.

Have you ever tried...I don't know...asking him what he wants to be called?

[Impossible to marry, quite. Marriage is not something that has even occurred to Enjolras as something that two men might do. He's nodding at that part though, quite solemn there.]

It was not possible where I came from either, or more that I could not consider it then, and had my duties to something else. I would not trade those for anything, so I do know the feeling of impossibilities there. The new ones before me here...they are quite overwhelming, I suppose.

Perhaps that is why I wonder so much, if there is something I am doing wrong by not knowing entirely what to do. But thank you. This does help.

[When even ENJOLRAS of all the people is affected by it, perhaps there's something to that. Ah, psychology and subtle subconscious influences on someone who has not a clue what they are doing. Go figure?]

Saint Valentine? That trend continues?

[Enjolras had observed on a few occasions, lacey sentiments and such being made, saw a very few printed varieties appearing in the shops in Paris a few years before his death, and been dragged along by a few friends who wished to select them for mistresses, but had not spent much time paying attention to it, thinking the fad was a bit ridiculous. He still does in fact, so knowing it is still a...what do some of the people call it here, a 'thing'? is pretty odd to him. He is not necessarily judging it but it had seemed so small a thing at the time and particularly a gesture of the Romantics that he's surprised it's held, really.

And then she's speaking again and he is blinking.]

Why IS that the easy solutions often need to be pointed out. Thank you, Mademoiselle, I'll likely do just that.

[Richard's own expression is teasing in return.] But 'consort' stands so poorly without 'royal' affixed before it.

[Teasing aside, Richard straightens up, clearly interested in that.] That would be a fine setting, and I would enjoy that very much.

[He read a lot of books on courtly love, sorry.]

Citoyen consort. [Somehow, Enjolras manages to pronounce that rather gravely, which he is ending with a smirk.] That does not sound SO terrible all things considered.

[As to the rest, and actually important bits, aside the joking, yes, he's nodding enthusiastically.] I HAD thought you would rather enjoy that, yes.

...I have missed something important, I fear.

Possibly? Depending upon what 'tradition' we're talking about here.

[The 'Saint Valentine' line was a pretty big hint that this guy was either from another world, or another time. Because who actually uses that name outside of maybe History class in February?]

[Enjolras DID forget to mention this to...well, really everyone but Courfeyrac. And that was more because Courfeyrac already knew a bit. Then again, the timing of that was...not entirely ideal, considering it was RIGHT after Grantaire's disappearance. He's ducking his head a little though, acknowledging that, yes he ought to have said SOMETHING sooner.]

Ah, yes. I ought to have mentioned that much. It has all been so NEW to me, that I did rather forget the parts with mentioning it, but Etienne and I have become closer for a few months now.

Oh!

[Jehan is unsurprised]

Is that all? I was worried you had taken on a lover and I had not realized it.

[His heart hurts for Grantaire, though. Even if he's not here, it hurts.]

The cards and sentiments and such. It had really just begun to be a fashion a few years before I came to be here. A few of my friends engaged in it, but it sounds as though it has gotten bigger if such is possible.

[Ah those wacky later than him victorians, huh?]

[Well, very nearly that, Jehan. Almost. Just someone that you know instead. He's relieved though, that Jehan does not seem to find it all that unusual in any way. That helps to make this thing feel far more normal.]

The timing was also...not ideal. Grantaire had...gone not long before it. Not having had the chance to speak to him again that I remember has shown me some things are better said, better acknowledged than not. I never understood that before, I fear.

[The wackiest]

Sounds vaguely familiar.

Some of the girl at school used to go around calling it Singles Awareness Day. [She'd caught her dad using the expression once, too...but, considering, she'd never had the heart to call him out on it. He earned the right.] Me? I always thought it was a good opportunity for people to do what they really should be doing all year long.

[He smiles softly.

(Honestly, he had thought it unusual when he first suspected it. Enjolras and relationships? What? But by now he's adjusted to the idea that maybe their leader can, in fact, have normal relationships with others.)]

I see. I am glad for you, then.

[Normal insofar that this is Combeferre, of course. Normal may not entirely apply here still. But life HAS started to become life in ways that Enjolras would not have allowed for before, or even dared to consider. If that is normal, then perhaps. He's learning anyway, and that is something.]

I will be the first to confess that I have no idea what I think I am doing much of the time, but I am trying. I suppose the rest will come. Thank you, though. [And he's returning that smile now.]

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Page 1 of 17

Video:

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

video

video

Video

[video]

video

[video]

Video:

Video:

Video:

Video:

video

video

[video | private]

Video:

[video | private]

[video | private]

Re: Video:

[video | private]

Video:

[video | private]

[video | private]