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[solo_patria]

[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?]

Comments

[solo_patria]

That is truly frightening. I can imagine one myself. [there is no way that he wishes to behave like Marius after all ]<\small>

[passively]

There must be one for every world. They are from your world, correct?

[solo_patria]

Yes, yes he is. And here as well.

If you should happen to meet one Marius Pontmercy, or see him posting on the network and do not want to face that sort of thing, I would advise you never mention love, his beloved, or beloveds in general.

[There is a pause as Enjolras considers what else he might add, and then...]

Or Napoleon Buonaparte...

[passively]

... Aah.

I've already met him, and I wouldn't really mind. Growing up the way I did, it's rather refreshing to listen to someone talk about something like that.

The Napoleon, though. Is that... the one I think you're talking about?

[solo_patria]

If you refer to the Corsican dictator who seized control of France, and dismantled and destroyed the first republic, yes. He's something of an admiration bordering on obsession with the man.

[passively]

... There's one in every world and every age.

Marius Pontmercy did seem like the very romantic type-- kind, at least. He gave me his handkerchief when he spilled wine on me by accident.

[solo_patria]

And he IS ours, I am afraid. Enough to claim him, even.

Oh he did that to you as well. Poor Marius. He's rather like a puppy sometimes.

[passively]

... He spills wine a lot?

[solo_patria]

He...has on a few occasions I am afraid. Which would not have been so awful, it was only wine, but I was wearing a friend's waistcoat.

[Courfeyrac's though, which did not make it such a big deal, really.]

Marius has a habit of becoming...distracted, I shall put it. But he is a good man at heart, really. He simply...Well. He is learning and he tries. That counts as something, even when it comes to the wine spilling.

[passively]

[... Enjolras you need to keep an eye on your poor flustered friend.]

Oh, I don't hold it against him. Although, if he tends to do that so habitually he should probably consider not walking around with wine in his hand.

[solo_patria]

There are....a good number of things that Marius should probably avoid, I think. [Enjolas's tone is still even, but he eyedarts just a little here.] It probably is good the friend who sometimes serves as his minder is here.

[passively]

Haha. Well, that's probably true.

If a friend of mine shows up here by any chance, I'll do my best to keep them apart. He'd have too much fun with someone like Mr. Pontmercy.

[solo_patria]

It CAN be tempting to point people at him, I do confess.

[Because Enjolras has never in his life done that, and that's not how Marius came to really get to know Bahorel or anything. Of course not.]

But likely not productive. Still. I understand that urge.

[passively]

Oh, no, you misunderstand.

I've got no urge to let anybody be victimized by that man's whims. It takes someone just like him to be able to keep up with that madness that he flaunts so proudly all the time.

[solo_patria]

You are, clearly, a better man than I, monsieur, in that case.

[Enjolras's smirk is tiny, but it's there.]

As far as someone like him, Lord, are there more of them? Ought we to put out warning signs?

[passively]

... Occasionally.

I know about one person who splashes things on people and herself more often than even he does, but I think her clumsiness is far different from his sort.

[solo_patria]

Well, there is natural awkwardness, and then there is that awkwardness borne from a total lack of awareness of one's surroundings. I would nominate him for the second one of those I think.

[passively]

That's the dangerous sort.

The woman I know of is simply... lacking, I think. In whatever would make one a functioning human being.

[solo_patria]

I believe it can be, at times. More to Marius than anyone else, I think in the end. He can be strangely aware of others while not so much of himself.

[Not that Enjolras has ever actually understood that about Marius, truly.]

Oh...dear. That does sound...awkward.

[passively]

Well, let's just say I'm very relieved that Mr. Pontmercy at least understands that people are not mere tools for experimentation.

[solo_patria]

Ah but did we not all have to learn to overcome that tendency in ourselves?
Admittedly, we were all likely children at the time, but even so...

[passively]

I don't claim to know a lot about her... but if possible, I'd like to put in a request she stays very far away from this city.

[solo_patria]

That...does seem quite ideal from what you've said.

[passively]

... Well.

There's no use worrying about a woman who is not here now. I wish you luck with Mr. Marius and your word-searching.

[solo_patria]

Thank you for that. I may well need it.