feuilly – fearlessstateofmind backup

pilferingapples:

thecoffeetragedy:

I should look at how many times it’s mentioned that Feuilly is a fan-maker in the text, because looking at the fandom sometimes it’s 90% of what he ever talks about (the remaining 10% is Poland of course).

OKAY BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY A REALLY INTERESTING ASPECT
historically I mean
and first, in answer to your question: Twice, Hugo mentions it twice, once in the introduction and once in the constructing of the barricade

and this is important, because in that first intro mention a person might just think “Oh, he’s a fan maker”

but at the barricade it’s specific that his fingers are used to painting the delicate folds of fans

He is specifically a fan PAINTER

and guys at the time were almost NEVER fan PAINTERS, apparently (according to people like @maedhrys and tenlittlebullets who’ve done research on actual French-language sources)— guys made FANS, they worked in the shops, they might draft designs, but when they did the actual hands-on work it was almost always fan CARVING— carving the patterns into the wood or bone or whatever slats that make up solid folding fans. Better paid work, and more “manly” probably, what with the carving and all. 😛

So what I’m saying is there’s actually room to talk about this a LOT MORE for his character, there’s a whole realm of plot bunnies to explore there— why is he doing “women’s” work, is it a very very SMALL fan painter’s shop so there’s not that kind of segregation, did he start painting when he was a little (underpayable, don’t-let-him-near-the-carving) kid and then just sort of aged up into being a pro (and now he’s a skilled worker and the bosses don’t want to move him whoops) , is he working in The Most Progressive Fan Shop in Paris? Does he get flack for this from other workers (did he start hanging around students partly because they don’t KNOW enough to bug him about having a Woman’s Job, and it was nice to just not have that conversation sometimes?), is he a sort of shift boss Because Sexism, are most of his non-political friends women, ARE the women he knows non-political? THERE’S SO MUCH WE CAN DO WITH THIS.

LET’S TALK ABOUT FEUILLY BEING A FAN PAINTER.

Protest modern au amis! A doodle project in Environmental science lectures.

Second set: Bahorel, Feuilly and Jehan

Bahorel is their first line of defense, mostly because he’s the best person for the job but at least partly because there is no way to stop him being out in front and going for it at all times. He is also not one to comprise on fashion for protests claiming his leather jacket is the right weight for if he needs to throw a punch and the waistcoat hides any body armour or cardboard he’s wearing under his clothes. Joly yells at his with reasonable regularity about remembering to put up his hankerchief or tear gas protector (he also has goggles, which i forgot to draw, as he tends to be the one shielding the others if that happens). Feuilly serves back up to both him and Courfeyrac and is responsible for pulling other people out of danger if they need it. He also designs and paints most of thier protest signs and flyers and is not entirely adverse to using one of those protest signs as a weapon if he needs to. he’s quite conservativly dressed (particularly in comparison to the other two in this set) needing the anomility more than some of the others with a bit more social protection. Jehan is the secret weapon, being the best at providing a distraction and also providing the surprise of being able to hold his own most aptly if anyone sees through that. He’s another who likes to keeps his sense of ‘fashion’ so much so he sometimes gets forced to wear someone elses more nondiscript jacket over some of his crazier sweaters. Found of having different slogons on his face protection every week.

first set: here

I’m enjoying these, for this set Bahorel and Jehan are pretty heavily based of cosplayers I know. The waistcoat should be obvious! And jehan’s hair is based on luc’s jehan wig even if you can bearly see the plait cause its too scribbly. You can also see part of my table about metabolic heat gains next to him (sorry)