festivefeuilly:

i’m so tired of seeing marius reduced to his awkwardness

yes, he’s awkward, but consider— he’s talented at everything he picks up

give me marius who sits down in front of a piano one day and begins playing a song he heard on the streets by memory, who only makes a mistake when he realizes courfeyrac is in the room

give me marius who memorizes long passages of novels or speeches and can recite them off the top of his head, who gets flustered and starts reciting it in an entirely different language

give me marius who can bake amazing things out of the weirdest ingredients with absolutely no recipe to follow, who accidentally burns the first batch because he got so distracted talking to enjolras about this documentary he’d seen the night before

give me marius who knows the best places all over the world to visit for an authentic experience, who gets lost when he’s leading the way because he got distracted by the flower shop across the way

give me marius accidentally tears jehan’s crocheted sweater but turns out to be excellent with knitting needles and fixes it without any problem

give me marius who turns out to have a mean right hook, a fact learned first hand by bahorel when he’d playfully swung at marius

give me marius with an intellect that could rival combeferre’s, one he keeps to himself for the most part because combeferre is more clever with words even though marius is the quickest with facts

give me marius who isn’t reduced to just his awkwardness, give me marius who knows his anxieties and handles his awkwardness and is still an amazing person, cultured and clever and full of love and happiness that he spreads.