"but what if enjolras secretly admired grantaire the whole time" "enjolras who deeply respects grantaire and holds intellectual debates with him" "what if grantaire actually had good points and enjolras listened to him" i cannot stress enough that the character you're talking about is COMBEFERRE. grantaire is the cynic whose unbelief in the revolution couldn't be moved, not even by his love for enjolras, until the very end (see this post). he's the cynic who exists in the shadow of enjolras. combeferre is the philosophy of the revolution to enjolras' logic. he's the one who's been at enjolras' side this whole time. he complements and corrects him. if anyone is enjolras' verbal sparring partner, intellectual equal, and the only one who can change his mind, it's combeferre. also why are we still doing "grantaire had a point and les amis should hear him out" in 2025