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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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[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.

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?]

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?]

[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.

[Singles Awareness? Does one really need to be aware that they are not a member of a couple? Would such be designed to promote the idea that someone is available for a courtship or...

Her idea does seem better, really and Enjolras is nodding.]

I think that I prefer your way of thinking of it. Is it not the things that happen every day that matter most?

Particularly when you're trapped on a giant Turtle with only the vaguest possibility of parole.

That WOULD very well do it if you were in a position to return home but could not, I imagine. [Have a wry little grin there.]

I can't imagine what that might be like.

[Oh, wait.]

I've come to realize I am luckier than not because of that. It seems so odd to say, and yet...

Well. You have the harder time of it, I think.

[She's not offended. She's not even upset by the assumption.]

What makes you say that?

That you of course, have something to go back to.

[If he had been taken from any point in his life before his death, Enjolras would have considered himself far less lucky to be trapped here now, when there was work to do.]

For my part, I have been given a second chance at life instead of being dead in Paris. Between death and here...I must choose here, but between life and here...that would be difficult.

Mmm...it's a little more complicated than that.

[She would have had something to go back to, had she been taken from nearly any other point in her life. Backwards or forwards. But at that single, crucial moment? All that was waiting for her was a potential eternity in Limbo. Lost. Alone.

[Something only a select few knew about. And that she had no intentions of divulging the details of over the Network.]

They should use that for tourist advertisements. "Better than Being Dead."

That's one way to boost morale, wouldn't you say?

[And Enjolras is snorting now.]

Ah yes. I can imagine that now. Posters on the palace walls perhaps as we're escorted out. Painted inside the cart in cheery letters?

[She grins back.]

All that's missing is a rousing Turtle theme song.

And what aspects of our new home would you see fit to capture in one then?

Hey, don't ask me. I'm a magician, not a songwriter.

And I am but a humble insurgent myself.

...we may need outside help for this.

[...'insurgent'?]

Got any ideas? Because I don't.

[Well, yes Zatanna, AND a republican. Actually if he said that here and now, he'd probably get quite a weird look come to think of it.]

I actually can think of no one who I know who is especially musical myself. Some of my friends enjoyed the operas but...

[She's 15. Really not big on the whole politics thing right now.]

...but there's a difference between critiquing one and actually writing one.

Though, I have to admit, they weren't as boring as I thought they'd be.

That IS the problem at hand here, I am afraid here. Well, perhaps if someone mentions an interest, suggestions will be taken.

Oh? I do admit I've never found the appeal in either it, or the theatre, but both DO have their uses as far as influencing the popular opinion and...I am probably quite dull, my apologies. I tend to be that.

[Enjolras simply can't manage to sit still through the few hours or entire evening that most performances tend to run into, rather than any actual disdain for them. And he's terrible at the social aspect of it all, when the point is not quite to see something, but to mingle. It's all a complicated social mess that he has no idea how to handle. ]

I suppose I've simply not developed the patience required for them.

No, you're not dull at all.

[In fact, she was somewhat amused that the conversation had taken the subtle deviation it had. Then again, he had been initially enquiring about things of a more romantic nature, and...well...]

It's all about the person you go with, I think. I wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if I'd been there by myself.

[It probably helped that he asked the question out of, well, a somewhat academic wish to be correct, and to get this right rather than because he wished to go on some sort of a discourse on Combeferre's eyes or some such as well. THAT is the sort of reaction to love that Enjolras will never understand. He tries not to condemn it, but for him, love is the security of that other person and being with them, and less about the dramatic highs and lows. He has no time or patience for them, really.

That said, the shifting conversation is perfectly fine with him. It's easier to find the words for things like discussing the theatre than searching for a way to refer to his boyfriend in conversation. Granted, he has about as much experience with both.]

That may have something to do with it. The times I've gone have been more out of duty, I confess.

[He's a very good friend in that he's allowed some of them to bring him a few times. Of course, he is not mentioning the moments he talked through a new Dumas production either. He used to be a good son, when his parents brought him to Paris sometimes and insisted he go to plays with them but he had found that to be about as dull as church and twice as useless.]

Or perhaps somewhere society is changed enough to be engaging. That could also be well my problem there.

[Zatanna, on the other hand, wasn't quite as sentimental when it came to this particular subject. She wouldn't disagree with most of his thoughts--there was a degree of security that came with being in a presence that brought her such joy. She just usually preferred to focus on the joy.]

So, next time, try it with your...um...[The only problem with rarely bothering to assign labels to such things]...other half of your soul.

Which leaves me wondering if such actually exist here as a curiosity. We DO know there is no theme song apparently of course.

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