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Winx Gamix lol
Managed to post it before the end of January!
Since I'm now more of a gamer myself, I decided to come up with AU Winx girls as gamers too, and why not make it a transformation? They had Dreamix and Tynix and what not, so high time they traveled to the world of games, amirite?
The descriptions are a mix of my personal head canons and my IG followers' suggestions.
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Seeing this picture made me think that if Uncle Iroh had a phone it would be filled with Zuko's silly pictures. Uncle would consider all of them cute and he would gladly show them to the gaang. Meanwhile, Zuko would die from embarrassment.
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The biggest red flag about male wife Adrien is that Canon pretty much ruined it to have any healthy roots within the story.
Adrien is an extremely abused kid who never got to have his own dreams and ambitions while also being forced by his celebrity ceo father into being the face of the company at a young age.
Adrien in season 5 centers his entire future around Marinette because by that point Adrien knows exactly that he has no saying in his future anyway nor does it matter to his father what he wants.
Gabriel was gonna send him away from France into an already decided future, that is the most depressing shit ever and yet Canon used Marinette as a mouthpiece in "Representation" to pretend like her loosing her boyfriend is the worst thing about this and she straight up basically victim blames him in front of their friends ("maybe he'll stand up to his father and come back")
Adrien at the end of season 5 KNOWS he has no own future, so Marinette was all he held onto as a copying mechanism.
But back to Adrien having no ambitions:
The way the Fandom (especially Marinette stans/ Fans) romanticize the fact that Adrien is "male wife material" is honestly incredibly disgusting and it's so unbelievably transparent that they have no actual empathy for abuse victims because they want Marinette to have servants.
Adrien in the beginning of season 5 just got to stop being a model (I'm giving Marinette no credit for this, if Adrien had followed her advice a single day earlier Gabriel would have brought the actual hell down on Adrien. For some fucking reason in Canon it's GABRIEL who must be thanked for being rational about it for once, and not Marinette for helping. Because helping was the last thing she actually did in this. She send an abuse victim to pissed of his abuser and she should be grateful that Gabriel didn't react the way he would have a day ago. So, yes, thank you GABRIEL)
Adrien is priorizing being actually happy for once over finding another career path which is very realistic for victims of abuse/ control. Marinette already grew up in the privilege of having a loving and supportive family who let's her make her own dreams and go after them. Adrien had non of that, being in a loving relationship for the first time covered a fraction of ground ZERO to the path of healing and to possibly make the same plans for his future .
(ignoring the fact that Adrien is still controlled by both his amok rings. Not that Marinette fans give a damn about abuse victims)
It's not that Adrien necessarily WANTS to be a house spouse, it's that the show is giving Marinette a heavily pre-abused and controlled boyfriend who never got to have a future and who is so desperate for love that he would settle for anything.
Which is insultingly the exact amount of ambitions Marinette's love interest is allowed to have and her fans are eating it up as some girlboss victory.
Adrien SHOULD be allowed to have ambitions, hopes and dreams of his own but his abusive home never gave him the chance, and here are Marinette's narrative and fans taking an abuse victim and basically celebrating that Marinette gets to lock him up in her kitchen because they don't WANT Adrien to have ambitions because it would mean Marinette would need to have an equal relationship for once.
Adrien never decided any of this, he just got barely out of 14 years of horrific control and abuse. He never chose to have no ambitions, no future, and only be Marinette's perfect therapy male wife since that's all she can handle in a relationship. Marinette fans just WANT an abuse victim to be taken advantage of and kept small and decide his future as Marinette's little servant themselves just like Gabriel does.
What do you think of malewife/house husband Adrien posts? Personally, they're a guilty pleasure for me:
Yeah, I agree that after all his father put him through, becoming a house husband would be the last thing Adrien would ever do, but I still find the concept cute.
Conflicted. On one hand, it is cute and I can see him wanting to take a chance at the happy family life with him and his spouse. It's also kinda canon that he doesn't have any ambition towards a specific career, at least not at the moment. The kid is still in his early teens, not everyone has that sorted out that young... but if all I got in canon is him centering his future around whoever he's in love with, I'm worried for him keeping this up in his adulthood. Like, ever since S5, Adrien's tendency to center his worth onto one person is looking less and less healthy to me (I know, I'm late to the party and I should've listened to the critics on this one). Being a house husband male wife, I feel it might reinforce that.
While it's usually the spouse that handles the domestic stuff that has the strongest influence among the family as a whole - the kids will more likely side with the parent that personally raised them than the one that financially provides for them... In days when everything is at peace, it's the house spouse that's expected to keep everthing together with little to no fuss, taking care of everyone over themselves. He and his most likely future spouse, Marinette, are already lacking effective communication, mutual respect, support, and a willingness to work through challenges together that keep a partnership balanced... While they are still young, these traits don't feel like they're encouraged enough to make me feel this would actually change. Welp, there's always fanon that tries to ignore their worst issues to keep the cutesy veneer.
Also, yeah, after all his father put him through, I can picture him both wanting a family but having reservations about being a father. Daddy issues. I headcanon him having kids late because of this.
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Lucifer: *enters the hotel*
Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈
An animation my sis and I made for fun
Music is Perception Check by Tom Cardy.
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Okay. I didn't actually want to contribute more to the discourse that Azula rejected "redemption" in "Azula in the Spirit Temple". But it seems I will, anyway, sort of.
So I find it interesting.
What Spirit actually keeps telling her.
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What it actually shows the first time is a cheap lie. It's not a redemption of any sort or tranquil peace with love and ponies, where Azula potentially should have been able to find her right path and peace. As the Spirit insists. That's not a crossroads of any sort.
It is some sort of evil imperialistic peace, I would add, that Spirit showed in her first dream/vision. The Avatar is dead (the Spirit of Light & Balance) and the world is under the FN's rule.
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But subconsciously Azula knows that this is all a lie, and that manifests in Mai and Ty Lee.
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And what this Spirit actually does, when this sweet lie of a dream is broken? It pushes her out of the Temple.
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Like, Spirit, dear, it was a lie. And you probably know it.
Oh, no. It actually knows it, and admits it to her face, after the second try with Ursa's& Ozai visions.
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Are you sure you're a good Spirit?
But "poor" Spirit needs to fight with Azula's mind, which already steadied herself as an unlovable monster in her own head.
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For what actually? What is the endgame?
But that's not the FUNNIEST part of this illusions & dreams trip.
THIS ONE IS
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(Do you remember what the first try of this Spirit actually was? Sweet Dreams of youthful imperialists, that Azula rejected through Ty Lee and Mai manifestations and how Spirit actually reacted to this)
BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY HOW YOU LOOK LIKE
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The illusion of the Temple disappeared, but that thing is the same but smaller.
This comic ofc is more of Azula character study than anything. But considering everything I don't think that this Spirit had any good intentions in the end. IT IS A MONSTER ITSELF.
Its first attempt didn't work out and it kept on going until he reached for the part where Azula considered herself as a monster. That she didn't shy away from admitting. That's more or less the thing that Ursa's hallucination (hence her own mind) has already said to her in the cartoon but with more words and insight, but also with little more lies.
Because I don't think that this Spirit had an actual intent to propose any sort of redemption. Because It wouldn't be acting as it was at the beginning. It plays with the mind of the traveller until they finally give in to the dreams it proposes. (but you can read it differently and insist that Azula rejected something real here)
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AS YOU SHOULD, GIRL
In the end, Azula makes the right choice to leave Fire Warriors happy together (something she denied Ty Lee in the circus, which Ty Lee vision previously in the comic said to her), without getting her revenge on them... Which is kind of in character of her in cartoon already, at least most of the time? Like Mai and Ty Lee were in prison under Mai's uncle's rule. The Palace staff were simply banished, when she was going insane and suspected them in everything, instead of something more malice... And even in S&S and in this comic she didn't fight Ty Lee seriously.
PS: It was a wooden toy, not a real turtleduck. I'm going to remind it in every post about this comic now, because people are insisting to add too Azula's sins, while there's already a bunch.
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I love the fact that the only two irredeemable parents in this show are the ones we never see in person and only come out of the characters' lips (Colt fathom and mylene mother)
I feel like they're added just so the writers can point at them and say, "see, we don't condone child abuse and play all abusive parents sympathetically. Let this be proof that our show does not spread child abuse apologia! A grand total of 1.5 parents are held accountable for their shittiness! We are so progressive!"
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Sometimes I still think back to how odd it was that in season 4 "Optigami" (the first mid-season finale episode, right?) they just randomly had Nathalie come back as Mayura and then never again.
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Normally when you do that that's a sign that said character will come back in future because they officially undid her conventional exit from the narrative in the season 3 finale:
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If that had been Nathalie's last appearance as Mayura I still would have been sad because of how underutilized Mayura was in the narrative, but it wouldn't feel like she stopped showing up at a weird and unsatisfying point in the story.
But because of "Optigami" that's now the case and I find that so weird. Why do that for no reason?
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So in short: every miraculous holder from the season 2 finale, but Carapace and Queen Bee (and Chat Noir) ever since suffered greatly under the show's irrational demand to have Maribug be the strongest person ever and be the untouchable leader of an unnecessary team of 18 miraculous holders.
(I am just curious)
Which Holders are (in your opinion) "Major Characters" of Miraculous Team (i.e. these Holders that weren't given Miraculous "just because")?
I'm interpreting "just because" as meaning that getting a Miraculous had some visible impact on their characters as opposed to just being given out for plot purposes to fill the quota. In that case, obviously Ladybug and Chat Noir. Becoming Rena Rouge actually had an impact on Alya's character, so she's also a "major character." And even though it was short lived, Queen Bee fits the description. Really, that's about it.
You could say that characters like Juleka, Mylene and Zoe "developed" because they got a Miraculous, but they were never really characters who had an arc to grow and develop as much as they were background characters with distinct personalities. Their hero debuts lasted for all of one episode, and they were given some surface level "growth" after which they were shuffled off into the background. It was less about developing them and more about handing off the Miraculous, ultimately, so I don't think they count. I'm also putting Nino in this category, because while him being Carapace was relevant to his character for longer, and did help him grow, he's also like... barely around. Not enough for us to actually see him grow.
So yeah. It's a pretty short list.
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Look, I don't wanna be a downer, but this question has been haunting me for several months now
Since both of Adrien's parents are dead now, he will obviously inherit a couple of things. How many episodes do you think it'll take for Marinette to lie in Adrien's face and take advantage of her status as his girlfriend to get the Grimoire from her orphaned boyfriend and he never sees it again?
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thinking back, I just realized Marinette decision to make alya become a permanent hero and her apprentice guardian is a bad decision. Not to salt on Alya, she's a great friends, but her identity already compromised and it could be used by the enemy, which is dangerous as we have seen in s4. Now Marinette may be think with monarch gone alya and her faminily no longer in danger but considering Nathalie, tomoe and most likely Lila know, the danger is still looming. Especially since Lila is more dangerous than Gabriel. Hence why I don't understand why Marinette choose her instead of chat noir? Like gurrrlll, I know she's your bff but her identity already compromised I thought you're so strict to the whole identity thing because you told Chloe she can't be hero anymore because her identity is compromised? Or is that only work for Chloe because she's a girl you hate?
To be fair her decision there was a spur-of-the-moment one that came from her just... breaking down, and needing support. She wasn't really thinking through the wider implications.
Honestly I think Marinette training Chat more in the apprentice guardian stuff makes more sense, but I also think she needed someone who could be with her as a civilian, and she was still pretty strict about no one knowing both hers AND Chat's identities.
I wouldn't say that Alya's in that much danger now. Sure, Nathalie still knows Alya's secret identity, but I don't see much reason why she would have divulged that info to Tomoe, and she doesn't really have any reason to be a supervillain anymore. I don't see how Lila would know Alya's secret identity at this point, either. All the temporary heroes coming back, with the possible exception of Kagami depending on how aware Tomoe is of her secret identity, should be as safe as it ever was.
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I can't stop thinking about how upsetting it is that in MLB the "Power Of Love" only applies to the villains instead of the heroes, and for such flimsy reasons
Marinette is never allowed to truly nor fully rely on her relationship with her classmates to help with interpersonal problems because if she does, then she can't be the "super strong female protag" the show totes her as. So the show will constantly/actively discourage any cooperation or reliance on her friendships (even as it "punishes" her for failing to do so like in "Penalteam" and "Strikeback") by having it always end in failure or a worst situation, while presenting the others as too "naive and trusting" of her enemies or any adults/solutions as useless (Oh hi Su Han!) to justify it, thereby forcing her to have to tackle whatever issue she faces alone while presenting it as necessary. She's even made to lie to her partner because telling him any relevant information regarding their previous main enemy would mean removing Adrien's glued-on rose-tinteed glasses regarding his father and what an awful human being he was in his final moments of life.
Meanwhile, Gabriel can do everything short of tax fraud and always be presented as our deeply conflicted "morally grey" villain who's actually totally in the right, because everything he does can be excused because it's being done in the name of obsession love for his comatose wife. Nothing he does is worthy of persecution because in the narrative's eyes, he hasn't done anything wrong actually, since it's all for love. Emotionally abusing his son and trying to take advantage of his depressive episodes for his own goals? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Using a clearly emotionally vulnerable child and a super exploitive one for his plans and then abandoning them to the consequences? It's fine, it's for Emilie (and Chloe and Lila are She-demons, so they deserve it!/s). Harassing his son's girlfriend (through both his position and magic) to either try and get them to break up ("Protection" and "Pretension") or getting a magical servant for his own ends ("Chat Blanc")? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Leaving his friend and secretary to die from the same broken miraculous that magic coma-ed his wife? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Using his adult friends and his son's same age ones for his activities as Hawkmoth by purposely upsetting them? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Exploiting his son's image despite said son being clearly uncomfortable with it? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Instructing one of his Akumas to throw his son off a roof to confirm if he's his teenage nemesis? It's for Emilie, so he's good! Locking his child in a bleach white rubber room (Unfriendly reminder that Adrien has canonical claustrophobia) because he went to visit his friends and to have him out of the way of his ultimate plan via using the previously mentioned image exploiting? Emilie, Emilie, Emilie - so long as it's for her, anything he does is golden! Even at the very end, where you have Marinette pointing out how much he made his son suffer, Gabriel does no proper reflecting or is forced to have his goal denied of him as a result - instead, he's given posthumous hero status (along with a statue and another adult villain who skipped consequences giving a speech about what a great and noble man he never was) and made directly responsible for the utopia the world became because he threw the heroine's mercy right back in her face; all because the "Power of Love" makes it so that everything he does for Emilie is moral and good, no matter how vile.
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Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?  I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.
The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth
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Forgot to add- Tomoé/Gabriel/Lila take down Chloé. Marinette's just allowed to mouth off about it after the fact.
Oof yeah this too. This is especially painful cause what did Chloe ever did to those three???
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Wow, is this real or just a hoax?
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That would be very fast but also fit the schedule informations we were given years ago, though I'm not sure if this came out before or after covid for time adjustments
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Idk I always find it bizarre when people shocked that Marinette just let rubble and whatever fell down to Emilie's coffin just so Gabriel move to protect it as if it's smt new. Miraculous can be inconsistent with it's characterization sometimes, but not for Marinette. Her characterization is still strong and constant from s1. Her let the rubble fell to the coffin is her s1 equivalent of taking down Eiffel tower at the Mime episode or s2 when she baited anansi to punch the arc de triomphe so she'd be buried under it's rubble.
What bizzare is the amount of what Marinette destroyed is far exceed what Adrien, as the holder of desruction ever did. Chat Blanc excluded because he was akumatized while Marinette did all that intentionally.
Can't imagine just how much destruction she caused if she were the holder of black cat miraculous instead. Must be terrifying.
I feel like those other two were different because The Mime and Anansi were akumatized villains with superpowers, so they wouldn't die from that or anything, and they could defend themselves just fine. But it's not the same with Emilie Agreste. This is an innocent woman who as far as she knows wanted no part of this. This is the mother of the boy she supposedly loves and is fighting for. And she drops a whole elevator onto her body without a single second of hesitation. That's so cruel. That's awful.
This literally proves why Marinette is so unsuited for the role she occupied in the finale. She has no connection to any of this. The whole Agreste arc was built on their family drama and the emotions they have for each other. We're supposed to feel something for Emilie Agreste, regardless of her lacking presence in the story. And here comes Marinette, who cares fuck all for any of them, treating this innocent woman like a prop in her fight, literally dehumanizing her in order to get an advantage over Gabe. There's no consideration for Emilie, from the narrative or the characters. Gabriel had to be the one to save her from Marinette.
And I am a proud "Emilie Agreste was an abusive parent" truther, but that doesn't excuse this. At the end of the day, she was an innocent in Gabriel's supervillainy, and Marinette threatening her life as part of a strategy to defeat Gabe is awful. And like I said, this shows why it's so counterproductive to have her take the central role in the resolution of this conflict. We're supposed to watch Emilie's heartfelt words reach Gabriel, as if she matters, when Marinette just treated her like an object and almost killed her (not sure if she's already dead or just in a coma, but my point still stands). The emotions are all gone. Nothing matters expect Marinette being a girlboss (which is literally the stated reason for why Bug Noire happened, so that Marinette could look cool).
Like, can you imagine if Adrien was here? Could you imagine how he'd feel watching his partner who supposedly loves him using his mother as a tool to defeat his father? Could you imagine how he'd feel to see his mother's body be almost destroyed, to see his mother be killed because Ladybug wanted to beat Gabe's ass? How would it feel to see that Marinette doesn't consider his mother a person more than she thought of her as a prop to get an advantage over Gabriel?
But no, treating Emilie Agreste with any kind of dignity is secondary to letting Marinette be awesome and cool ig. Removing the character who is the emotional core of the story removes all emotion from the finale, who woulda thunk it.
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One fear: the Paris special is going to serve the "Gabriel Agreste was a good man driven to despair by the loss of his life" narrative
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Past me, I'm so fucking sorry...
On Ladybug salt for “not treating Chat right”
You know, I wonder… sometimes I see Marinette salted for not appreciating Chat enough and sometimes for belittling him (mostly on reddit. Tumblr and AO3 tend to go waaaaay far in the other direction). And she does sometimes tease him or throw a bit of banter his direction that I can see being interpreted that way. Though I don’t think he takes that to heart quite as much as some of Marinette’s salters do. (See the same thing happen when it comes to Alya’s salters salting her for ribbing Marinette. Marinette can dish it too, she just tends to do it more with Chat on-screen than with Alya.)
Chat definitely has some major insecurities, showcased especially prominently in Syren, when he’s feeling like Ladybug doesn’t trust him and doesn’t need him, and that no one would know or care if he was gone. It also rears up a few other times a bit less prominently, like in Anansi when he’s afraid that Ladybug will replace him with Carapace, Sandboy when it’s revealed that one of his greatest fears is that Ladybug has never cared about him and would like to get rid of him, Reflekdoll with how after he struggles and fails to come up with a workable plan for the Lucky Charm himself he believes that he could never measure up to her, never do what she does, and in Desperada he believes that she doesn’t need him as Chat Noir… admittedly because she told him as much.
I don’t think Marinette realizes how much these things actually affect Chat. Even in Glaciator, she didn’t realize that he’d been serious about his feelings the whole time. She does try to comfort him in individual circumstances when she notices him feeling down - In Anansi she tells him that he’s irreplaceable after he seems put out about Carapace, and in Desperada in a later timeline, she tells Viperion how important it is that Chat Noir is with them while he’s in earshot. In Syren she noticed that Chat had been feeling like he was being shoved aside and being treated as lesser because he wasn’t permitted to know what was going on, and in Sandboy she asked him whether he really thought she was as evil as his nightmare of her was.
But she doesn’t seem to realize the full extent of how deep these feelings run. She throws out a line or two comforting him when she notices he’s feeling down, but then he seems to perk back up and get back to business, so she thinks everything’s fine. 
Chat has a tendency to express his feelings more bluntly than Marinette does, but he also tends to cover them up more afterwards - or tries to at least. So she thinks that it’s taken care of, for the most part. Even when there are some MAJOR red flags, like Chat’s nightmare version of her hating him, having ALWAYS hated him, and wanting to destroy him. she doesn’t seem to understand what it really represents.
Ladybug: Cat Noir? You don’t really think I’m as evil as your nightmare, do you? Cat Noir: ‘Course I don’t. You’re the lady of my dreams. (Ladybug smiles to the spot where Cat Noir had disappeared)
She sees him as thinking she’s evil, but that’s not the case. He’s insecure about whether she really cares about him, and whether deep down she’d rather have someone else as her partner, and merely tolerates him because he’s there. 
But Marinette doesn’t GET that. And I think I can see why. That’s a relatable, realistic insecurity, but not one that she can easily imagine him having because… well, it’s just not true. She KNOWS it’s not true. It’s easier to think that he had a nightmare of her being evil because of how insanely absurd that thought is, and because that plays into her own insecurities of thinking she’s done things so terribly wrong that she’s come off that way. 
The more realistic, smaller-scale insecurities that Chat actually suffers from? That’s harder for her to imagine. I think partly BECAUSE she suffers from her own, similar insecurities about not being good enough and messing up and having the people she care about hate her… but she doesn’t react the way Chat does. When she’s deeply insecure about that and feeling very anxious, she comes up with wild scenarios that spiral out of control and verges on having anxiety attacks, and doesn’t calm down easily unless either some solution is presented or someone takes her by the shoulders and calmly, reassuringly tells her that she’s got this, they’ve got this, that things will work out, that she’s not alone. Her anxiety is more obvious and it takes more to (seemingly) calm her down from it.
Chat’s anxiety is more subtle. It tends to manifest as seeming more slightly grumpy and put out, rather than the full-blown anxiety attacks that she suffers from, and he tends to direct his hurt outwards towards others (though pretty mildly, considering matters), while she directs her hurt inwards at herself, sending herself deeper into a spiral unless someone’s there to break her out of it.
Because they manifest so differently, she doesn’t recognize that they’re similar sorts of hurt, and that Chat would benefit from more frequent and in-depth conversations and reassurances. She only really knows her own type of reaction to those feelings of inferiority and uselessness, so Chat’s displays fly under her radar.
Honestly, this is part of why I like to emphasize just how YOUNG these children really are. They both have very limited frames of reference (Adrien especially), so they both can miss out on what others are thinking and feeling, especially when they react differently to similar thoughts and feelings. Combine that with neither of them having fully developed emotional control or coping mechanisms, and they can sometimes hurt each other without intending to. They’re kids, they’re going to be inexperienced and immature at times.
But they love and care about each other, and if either of them realized the full pain (and the reason for that pain) that the other was going through, they’d try to help as best they could. 
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