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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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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.

...wondering if what 'actually' exists here?

Oh the theatre or anything like it. I have not exactly heard of it, but then I have not sought it out either.

[Wait, what?]

The theater does exist. I've been there.

Ah. Well, worth investigating then. I do confess I've been much in my own world mostly.

[Really though, when ISN'T he?]

Well, stop by and pay this one a visit sometime. You might be surprised at what you're missing.

Perhaps I will. Thank you for the suggestion.

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