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[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?]

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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.]

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...]

[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.

[Richard holds back the laughter, but he can't resist the smile.] It would be precisely true, at the least.

Did you often hold such events, and was that something your friends alone did, or was it common practice in France? [Not that he's thinking about how awesome it would be to have things like that at home or anything.]

And precision is important, is it not?

The backroom of the Cafe Musain, or sometimes the Corinthe wineshop usually had at least a few of us of an evening. Our larger meetings took place once a week, with others of our society, and we were part of a larger group of republicans who wished to better things in France besides, but my lieutenants and I, the nine of us spoke most evenings without needing standing appointments.

[Well. Enjolras himself did not speak so often or as loudly as the others did, perhaps, but when he spoke, they seemed to listen, and to like his words. Together though, is where they all excelled. Well, most of them, at least and Grantaire had been easy to ignore and trustworthy enough to keep his mouth shut so that was that.]

I look forward to beginning here again, to focus on the world beyond that we knew. I think the last few months prove that we may be needed here.

We've seen well enough that there is much work to be done. [A point of curiosity, though—] Do you mean change to Keeliai itself as well, to the way it is run?

I do not speak for the others, and I could not speak for the majority of the people here, but I myself mean to investigate.

If there IS an injustice that changing the structure of Keeliai would correct and if it is an injustice that enough people wish to see changed, I would advocate for that, though I would hope that the means of repairing things would not require bloodshed here. There are other, and better ways that must be tried out first before that is ever the option.

[He considers the point.] You specifically set the condition that enough people wish to see it changed. Do you mean to say that if the majority is content, you would not advocate it?

[It's not questioning Enjolras so much as seeking to understand how he approaches matters of injustice.]

That IS another matter, but..I would see the minority protected to whatever end. The act of allowing the people themselves to make the decision, a majority of them, even if they disagree with the position I would have...

[Enjolras shakes his head, frowning more thoughtfully.]

Well, it would already be the matter of democracy, letting the people speak. But letting them truly speak, and not be cowed by fear... That is what I would wish for most of all.

I cannot speak for the others here. We haven't much of an official platform yet, but I would hope that the opinions of all can at least be expressed and heard and then decisions made.

Everyone has a right to that, and to influence how this world stands. Inherently. That it went against mine. I would simply have to adapt if it was so once everyone had spoken.

[He would not LIKE it but Enjolras would have to see it through, knows this, and is trying to accept it as an abstract idea. At least he knows that to be right, even if his emotions suggest otherwise. That IS something of a step, he thinks.]

[Richard considers what Enjolras has said. The minority must be protected, but all also must be heard and the majority must be respected. To sustain both of those, there is a logical conclusion.]

Do you hold, then, that certain rights are necessary, regardless of the opinions of the majority, that the minority may also be protected?

I do at that. Even those who did not agree with any of my own opinions, the things that I know to be true, must be protected in society. So long as it does not harm another, or impose on their free will, there must be some allowance for their voices to be heard and their contributions to be made. There is no way that a society may truly be equal, otherwise.

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