I am so excited about the kid plot, it'll be awesome!
Gene is actually more ambiguous than I used to think. Because on the one hand, it'd be really easy to have him a boisterous young thing, roaming the streets with a knackered football, smoking behind bike sheds etc...on the other hand, he came from an abusive household and is actually a hell of a lot smarter than he appears. So I tend to think that yes, he was a normal young kid in the 30s and 40s, a definite product of his environment, but underneath the bravado was a lot more sensitive to the problems in his life and community. The vision he creates of himself after he's died is what he wanted to be, and the world is the world as he wants it to be, not as it actually was. But it's canon that he managed to create that place from sheer force of anger and will, so it's obvious that he had a lot inside him even as a young guy.
Javert - it's stated in canon that from a young age, he made the choice of how he wanted to be and how he saw the world. It's his fatal flaw: he made the decision and stuck to it rigidly for the next fifty years or so, and never changed. So yeah, he's kind of like he is now in attitude and character, but I imagine with a lot less pride in what he managed to make of himself. At ten, he'd be nothing but another impoverished gutter rat, either living with his mother or having been taken from her and put in an orphanage, depending on whether she was still in jail when he turned five.
Valjean was canonically a quiet and somewhat surly young man. At age ten, though? His parents would already be dead, but his sister's husband would still be alive and he wouldn't yet be supporting her and all her kids. So he might actually be kind of happy! *gasp* He's a peasant lad, can't read or write, roaming around the countryside. He probably helps out with the kids and with whatever his sister's husband did, but he hasn't had all the shit yet that crushes him later.
Bruce Wayne - hahaha. Parents are dead by age ten. 'nuff said, probably.
Bruce Banner - quiet, withdrawn, with occasional bouts of red-mist fury. I haven't talked about his past in-bar because I don't know if the MCU is going to mention it, or go the same route as comic canon. But if they do, then his father is abusive and killed his mother, so Bruce as a child is...angry.
Courfeyrac was a younger and even cuter ray of curly-headed sunshine. Cheeky as hell, sharp as a tack, running rings around his tutors and somewhat upright father. I don't think he'd have fully grasped the concept of Republicanism at age ten, particularly with a nobleman as a father, but he'd certainly be thinking for himself and asking searching questions. And having a lot of fun. :D
Pearly - like he is now, but smaller. Just as much crazy in a pint-sized package.
Jack Aubrey was much as he is now! He was on he Navy books at nine, though he didn't go to sea until twelve. He was canonically (IIRC) running off to look at the sea and the ships, not concentrating on his lessons. He was a well-off kid who lived a country life until he could get away to the water, happy and smart, but didn't care much about education unless it pertained to sea life.
Jim Moriarty - oh, was a joyous young thing. Not. I don't think he'd committed his first murder by ten - the first boy he killed was eleven, but Sherlock couldn't find Jim as a classmate, or how he was linked to the murder. But anyway, he was certainly gearing himself towards crime around that age. He was isolated by his intelligence, laughed at: he said he's spent his whole life looking for distractions, so we can assume that he was bored in school and looking for ways to keep himself entertained. I imagine him as manipulative and dark, though perfectly capable of behaving like an angel to fool grown ups, and then talking other kids into doing awful stuff which he never got the blame for. The sort of child other parents would worry having around their own kids, but never able to prove anything he's done, or put their finger on exactly why he gives them the creeps.
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Gene is actually more ambiguous than I used to think. Because on the one hand, it'd be really easy to have him a boisterous young thing, roaming the streets with a knackered football, smoking behind bike sheds etc...on the other hand, he came from an abusive household and is actually a hell of a lot smarter than he appears. So I tend to think that yes, he was a normal young kid in the 30s and 40s, a definite product of his environment, but underneath the bravado was a lot more sensitive to the problems in his life and community. The vision he creates of himself after he's died is what he wanted to be, and the world is the world as he wants it to be, not as it actually was. But it's canon that he managed to create that place from sheer force of anger and will, so it's obvious that he had a lot inside him even as a young guy.
Javert - it's stated in canon that from a young age, he made the choice of how he wanted to be and how he saw the world. It's his fatal flaw: he made the decision and stuck to it rigidly for the next fifty years or so, and never changed. So yeah, he's kind of like he is now in attitude and character, but I imagine with a lot less pride in what he managed to make of himself. At ten, he'd be nothing but another impoverished gutter rat, either living with his mother or having been taken from her and put in an orphanage, depending on whether she was still in jail when he turned five.
Valjean was canonically a quiet and somewhat surly young man. At age ten, though? His parents would already be dead, but his sister's husband would still be alive and he wouldn't yet be supporting her and all her kids. So he might actually be kind of happy! *gasp* He's a peasant lad, can't read or write, roaming around the countryside. He probably helps out with the kids and with whatever his sister's husband did, but he hasn't had all the shit yet that crushes him later.
Bruce Wayne - hahaha. Parents are dead by age ten. 'nuff said, probably.
Bruce Banner - quiet, withdrawn, with occasional bouts of red-mist fury. I haven't talked about his past in-bar because I don't know if the MCU is going to mention it, or go the same route as comic canon. But if they do, then his father is abusive and killed his mother, so Bruce as a child is...angry.
Courfeyrac was a younger and even cuter ray of curly-headed sunshine. Cheeky as hell, sharp as a tack, running rings around his tutors and somewhat upright father. I don't think he'd have fully grasped the concept of Republicanism at age ten, particularly with a nobleman as a father, but he'd certainly be thinking for himself and asking searching questions. And having a lot of fun. :D
Pearly - like he is now, but smaller. Just as much crazy in a pint-sized package.
Jack Aubrey was much as he is now! He was on he Navy books at nine, though he didn't go to sea until twelve. He was canonically (IIRC) running off to look at the sea and the ships, not concentrating on his lessons. He was a well-off kid who lived a country life until he could get away to the water, happy and smart, but didn't care much about education unless it pertained to sea life.
Jim Moriarty - oh, was a joyous young thing. Not. I don't think he'd committed his first murder by ten - the first boy he killed was eleven, but Sherlock couldn't find Jim as a classmate, or how he was linked to the murder. But anyway, he was certainly gearing himself towards crime around that age. He was isolated by his intelligence, laughed at: he said he's spent his whole life looking for distractions, so we can assume that he was bored in school and looking for ways to keep himself entertained. I imagine him as manipulative and dark, though perfectly capable of behaving like an angel to fool grown ups, and then talking other kids into doing awful stuff which he never got the blame for. The sort of child other parents would worry having around their own kids, but never able to prove anything he's done, or put their finger on exactly why he gives them the creeps.