when i was in english, i had to write an essay on a character of my choice. i chose to write about éponine because i knew i could argue the relevance of her character in the novel very well. however, when i read my essay to the class, people shouted at me for not understanding the character at all and told me that i was stupid. this really has made me absolutely hate éponine. die hard éponine fans really need to let up; they should be happy people like the book all in all, and not be angry because not everyone adores their favorite character.

i can’t help but think that if éponine had just talked to cosette, they could have become great friends.

i wonder if i would have liked éponine better if i had discovered les mis as a teenager. i just don’t really identify with her unrequited love, and that’s such a huge part of her character in the musical and its film.

i sometimes ship éponine and marius in a ‘maybe now cosette can go hook up with courfeyrac’ kind of way.

i hate it when éponine sings in ‘a heart full of love’. it completely ruins the moment.

my best friend / boy i love writes letters to all his close friends at the end of the year. last year, he also wrote one to his ex-girlfriend. she’d broken up with him, but he wanted to thank her one last time for the experiences they had together. when he had to leave early from the party where he was going to give it to her, he gave it to me to have me deliver it. though i really thought about not doing it, i gave it to her. as stupid as it sounds, i really felt like éponine in that moment. having the power to put an end to a relationship, but caring enough about that person’s happiness not to.

i would have liked to seen taylor swift play éponine. i wonder what she could’ve brought to the role, and how she would have tackled the character and her songs.

i don’t understand why éponine/cosette bothers me so much due to cosette’s time as the thénardier’s slave, but javert being a guard who more than likely beat valjean at times doesn’t faze me. it’s just not very consistent.

i went to see the movie without having any knowledge of the plot or characters. when i first saw éponine, i thought that she would be the cliché evil unrequited love interest who tries to ruin everything. so i was surprised that this wasn’t the case, and i literally gasped and put my hands over my heart the moment she saved marius. since then, i’ve been obsessed about les mis. i just need to read the novel and my life will be complete!

i like éponine a lot, but i hate seeing her described as “selfless” — that’s one character trait she just does not possess.

it annoys me that so many people only remember éponine as the girl in love with a guy who will never love her back, even though she faces off with a notorious street gang and they stand down! she is so much more fierce than people know, and although i love her, it’s sad that sam barks didn’t get that across in the film.

i don’t care about what anyone thinks — lea michele is and has always been my favorite éponine.

i can’t bring myself to look at éponine’s character objectively because the actress who played her in my school’s production was one of the nastiest people in school.

i used to hate it when people called her ‘ponine; it just seemed so pointless as a nickname. now it’s started to grow on me.

éponine is such a fascinating character in the book, but i hate what they did to her in the musical. they take away all her flaws and make her a boring selfless saint. i’m glad the movie adds some of her depth back in, at least.