Good Cheer
A/N: I found out that the name "Euphrasie," Cosette's full name, means "good cheer" in Greek. Personally, that sounded like something that Tholomyes would have told her, and said a lot. And that sounded incredibly angsty and sad to me.
Ergo, a plotbunny was born.
And then, the plotbunny turned into my first drabble!
Disclaimer: Since this is not a musical-based fic, I wonder if this is even needed. Isn't Hugo public domain? (Mwahahahahahahaha...)
In the year 1817, a squalling child entered the world.
She was born in a cramped, unpaid apartment, to a mother without a help in the world. To a mother who was hardly able to feed herself, a mother who had been abanodoned, a mother who was, quite probably, dying.
The child was bound to bring nothing but sorrow to her mother: another mouth to fill with all-to-dear black bread; a wailing, flailing armful; an unbearibly heavy burden of shame...
Her mother named her Euphrasie, or "good cheer."
Fantine never thought the name ironic -- it had been her father's word.
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