Infinite Amount of Favorite Characters

Rose Tyler, Sirius Black, The Doctor, Lily Evans, James Potter, Eponine, Jake and Elwood Blues, Remus Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Jim Moriarty, Gavroche, Courfeyrac, Tony Stark, Jean Valjean, Amy Pond, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Troy and Abed, John Bender, Enjolras, Sybil Crawley Minerva McGonagall, Jack Harkness, Augustus Waters, Grantaire, Hazel Grace Lancaster.

My entire 150 words could just be comprised of characters' names if I continued, so I will stop my list now. 

As Courtney mentioned earlier, I realized that the majority of my favorite characters have troubled and arduous lives, or tragic deaths (James Potter, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Eponine, Gavroche, Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Sybil Crawley, Augustus Waters, Grantaire, Amy Pond,), and therefore, I would not want to be them. So in my opinion, I would not be able to answer the prompt correctly, because the answer would be conflicting; I think my life is much better than most of my favorite characters' lives. So I think I will answer only half of this prompt: who is your favorite character.

And now I can't choose.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

My immediate response would be to pick one from James Potter, Lily Evans, or Sirius Black, because I absolutely adore them and they have such a capacity of love for Harry and their friends. But as I'm thinking more about this, I think that a better choice would be Enjolras or Jean Valjean. And since I can't choose between those two, I shall write about both.

I am not ashamed to say that I blubber hysterically every time that both Enjolras and Valjean (SPOILER) die, in any production that I see. I mean when Enjolras is about to die and Red and Black starts playing and the red flag and GAH! I completely respect Enjolras' determination and devotion to his country, and wanting to make it better for the people. He has no time for Marius' "lonely soul." All he wants is a freer France. He is self-sacrificial all for the benefit of France, and even at such a young age. He even says "our little lives don't count at all." And he freakin' dies for his country! Plus he wears a pretty amazing xylophone vest, and we all know that Les Misérables didn't win the Oscar for best costume design because Enjolras didn't wear it.

I mean seriously, if they had put Aaron Tveit in the xylophone, it would have been perfection.            

I don’t even know where to start with Jean Valjean. He completely turned his life around, even though his first act that got himself into slavery wasn’t even that bad (stealing bread for his starving nephew). He became a man of God when a bishop gave him the option to become a better man. He leads a complicated life because while he did become a wonderful, charitable man, he still continues to live a lie, trying to escape his life of Jean Valjean. “Jean Valjean is nothing now. Another story must begin.” Along with creating a better life for himself, he also saves Cosette from the slums with the Thenardiers and gives her a better life as well. The entire rest of his life, he tries to live up to the bishop’s wishes for him to follow God’s will. When he hears that a man has been accused of being himself and will go to trial for it, he considers letting it go. “If I speak I am condemned, if I stay silent I am damned.” He knows that if he doesn’t do the right thing then he will have sinned, and so therefore goes to save the accused by admitting that he himself is 24601. And promptly runs away. And when he finds out that the man who loves his “daughter” is at the barricade and will most likely die, he goes to save him, risking his life for this boy he doesn’t even know. And when it’s finally his time to die, his last words are “forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory.” He still believes that his sins throughout his life will outweigh all the good that he has done. As if it wasn’t completely heart-wrenching enough, the movie had to go ahead and have the bishop leading him into heaven, the man who “saved his soul for God.” And he just happens to be the original Jean Valjean, Colm Wilkinson. It’s like Valjean inception and just causes the tears to flow even more than they already were. And this blog is making me tear up as I write, probably because of the subject matter, and mostly because of the fact that the Les Misérables 25^th anniversary is playing on my TV right now and there’s just too many emotions.

My sincerest apologies for rambling on this long. I am so sorry.