#*chat noir voice* the miraculous ladybug will fix it

[scoobhead]

i've listened to miraculous ladybug in many languages at this point - some out of necessity, a few out of boredom - and i really should just sit down and do a definitive ranking of all of the chat noirs

#i'll tell you right now: french is number one. the va nails every line. 10/10 best voice for blot o #english is near the bottom on principle (sorry bryce) #miraculous ladybug #ml #chat noir #nat og #**BLORBO not blot o. i am on mobile i'm not fixing it

[thetraingotsetonfireonmidnight]

𝕶𝖎𝖘𝖘 𝕶𝖎𝖘𝖘, 𝕱𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖎𝖓 𝕷𝖔𝖛𝖊 ~ 2

(Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir x reader)

This was highly requested! Thank you all for the support. The fact that KKFIL got so much support shocks me! I appreciate all of you!

< Part one

"You're pathetic." Plagg said ever so bluntly in-between his chews. He took another bite of cheese, crumbs falling onto Adrien's newly cleaned desk, "Just admit that you like them and move on."

Adrien grumbled in response, "I don't like them, Plagg." 

Living with the kwami of destruction always presented a challenge. There wasn't a day that passed by without the mischievous cat trying to pull some dirty prank behind Adrien's back. At first, he didn't mind it. It added something new to his day, and it was usually harmless.

But apparently hiding his phone or ruffling his hair before a photoshoot wasn't enough for Plagg anymore, because as of late, he's been turning off Adrien's alarm so he doesn't wake up for school on time. So now he was stuck in this position, shoving everything in his backpack last minute while trying to rush out the door.

Right now wasn't exactly the best time for him and Plagg to be having a conversation about his upside-down love life.

"You don't like them?" Plagg pushed, "Sure, and cheese is my worst enemy."

"Look Plagg, it's too early for this conversation." 

"So let's end it right here with you admitting that you like them."

"Get in my jacket or I'm throwing out the cheese you stored in my desk." Adrien opened up his jacket as Plagg let out a shrill gasp before immediately flying into his pocket. 

"For the record, this is called manipulation."

"You're insufferable sometimes."

Monday.

Adrien walked into the classroom ten minutes late, and he'd never forgive Plagg for ruining his perfect on-time attendance. 

He huffed and sat down next to Nino.

"Woah, dude, you look like shit. Totally unexpected from the model of the class."

Adrien smiled at Nino's bluntness, "I had a bit of a rough morning." He made sure to subtly flick his pocket as he said that. He felt Plagg pinch his side in retaliation.

"Yeah, I can tell." Nino shook his head, turning his attention back to the teacher. Adrien wanted to follow suit, but he couldn't help but notice you.

You sitting in your desk.

You looking wonderful as ever.

You…staring…right at him.

He smiled and waved.

You waved back.

And time stopped.

He wished he could sit next to you. Ask about your morning, hold your hand under the table, and pass notes throughout the class, giggling every time you nearly get caught.

But, alas, he wasn't sitting next to you, he wasn't holding your hand, and passing notes from this distance would be a guaranteed detention. 

Life was cruel and unfair sometimes.

"Psst." He raised a brow at you, silently asking you what you needed. You smiled, looking a bit bashful as you put your fingers to your lips and blew him a kiss.

Maybe life wasn't so cruel and unfair.

Tuesday.

"Are you ok? You look tired." 

Your voice was something Adrien would never get tired of, and it was just the remedy he needed after dealing with an akuma who had a…not so melodic voice. 

The fight was harder than he had assumed it would be. A few scratches littered his arms and legs while stubborn strands refused to stick with the rest of his gelled and styled hair. Though most of the ringing had gone away, his hearing hadn't quite recovered yet. He questioned the miraculous ladybug and why it decided that fixing a civilian's ripped tie was important, but Adrien (the person who helped stop the villain) would have to suffer the rest of the day with hearing loss. It needed to get its priorities straight.

You looked him up and down, your nose scrunched at the sight, "Did you lose a fight to a pigeon or something?"

"Very funny." He reached to scratch the back of his neck, but quickly remembered how Plagg had made fun of him for doing that when he got nervous the night before, and quickly put his hand down. "I tripped. I can only imagine how happy my father will be when he sees me." Adrien laughed, "I have a photoshoot after school. He's going to kill me."

You smiled awkwardly, "And you're laughing about that?"

He paused, realizing how strange it must've seemed for him to be laughing at the idea of upsetting his father and maybe another day, he would've been more worried than joyful…but…

A part of him felt like sticking it to his dad. It was something he never would've considered doing before, but dressing up in a cat costume everyday can change a man.  

"Well, good luck with your dad." You pressed a kiss to his cheek and turned to leave. He could still feel it on his cheek, his face growing increasingly warmer. 

"You like them~" Plagg whispered.

"It's completely platonic."

Wednesday.

A festival was in town.

Adrien didn't exactly get permission to go, so he had his good old friend, Chat Noir, help him get to where he needed to be. It was a risky game he was playing, but he couldn't miss seeing you.

You ran into his arms the second you saw him, hugging him for longer than necessary (not that he was mad about it).

You walked through multiple booths, picking up small snacks.

Soon a dance broke out, and Adrien couldn't resist asking you to dance. 

He bowed deeply, grabbing your hand and pressing a kiss to it. "Would you like to dance?"

You looked bashful.

It suddenly didn't feel so platonic anymore.

Thursday.

You were trapped in a closet with him. 

Chat noir had run in to detransform, not realizing that you had already occupied the space.

He tried to quickly turn back and leave, but the door handle broke in his hands, leaving the two of you in the closet alone. 

"So…you like jazz?" Chat asked. He felt like banging his head against the wall. Talking to you was so easy as Adrien, but it was difficult as Chat Noir. 

How could pretend like he knew nothing of you when all he did was think about you?

You gave him a very confused look, "Uh…is the akuma gone?"

"Yeah! And so is the doorknob!" 

The joke didn't land as well as he wanted it to. You just nodded and shifted back and forth on your feet. He was terrible at this.

He knew the two of you couldn't stay in there forever, but the only way you could get out was if he cataclysmed the door….

But in order to do that, he'd have to detransform.

"Do you mind closing your eyes?"  

"Uh…how come?" 

"I need to detransform."

You stared at him for a few more minutes. He wondered what you thought of Chat Noir. He had never asked you about it before.

He could only hope that you liked him. 

You finally closed your eyes, and Chat whispered the magic words that rid him of his magic.

Plagg shook his head disapprovingly at the blonde, though Adrien wasn't sure what the cat wanted. There was nothing else he could do, and he knew you would be trustworthy. 

He fed Plagg quickly.

"I just wanted to say…"

Adrien froze, scared you would someone know it was him if he breathed too loudly.

"I'm very grateful for what you and Ladybug do for Paris…really. Thank you."

Adrien smiled, relaxing slightly. He wished to respond, but without the quantum magic to mask his voice, he knew speaking would only screw him over. Thankfully, you seemed to understand that, as you didn't say anything about his silence.

He waited for Plagg to finish eating before transforming back. 

He cataclysmed the door and stepped to the side, "Victims in distress first!" 

You smiled and stepped out, he followed quickly.

"Thanks again."

"There's nothing to thank me for, all I did was get you stuck in a closet."

You laughed, "I meant for stopping the akuma…and getting me out of the closet."

You smiled, and Chat could've sworn his heart stopped. He wanted to kiss you now more than ever.

Not on the cheek.

Not on the hand.

A real kiss.

Chat couldn't do such a thing, but he knew someone who could.

Friday.

It was raining. 

Neither you nor Adrien brought an umbrella.

The smart option would be to seek shelter immediately, but instead you ran in the rain.

Adrien had offered to walk you home, and during the walk, rain poured down on you. It wasn't cold or uncomfortable, but freeing. Your clothes stuck to your sides and your poor shoes would struggle in the puddles, but you didn't care. You didn't care because Adrien had grabbed you by the hand, leading you down the street in a fit of giggles.

Each drop of rain let out its own ring, like the weather was singing its own love song for the both of you.

You twirled and spun, grabbing both of Adrien's hands. He seemed flustered, but he effortlessly followed your movements. 

Perfectly in rhythm, you and Adrien were stuck in your own world.

"I love you." 

You stopped, face heating up as you locked eyes with a now embarrassed Adrien. 

"What?"

"I…I love you." He repeated. Despite his stutter, his voice was confident. He couldn't be more sure of his words.

You smiled, "I know, I heard you the first time." 

You leaned forward and pressed your lips to his.

Finally, your first real kiss.

#chat noir x reader #cat noir x reader #cat noir #chat noir #miraculous x reader #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanfic

[katanasonata]

MY THOUGHTS ON THE MIRACULOUS LADYBUG MOVIE

Note: i didn't finish watching s5 before watching this - should i be concerned?

[ANIMATION ✅]

absolutely stunning, jaw dropping, amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, everything i ever wanted

i love how their eyes are so shiny

adrien looks like a baby

THE KWAMIS ARE SO SMOOTH? their skin IDK they're so pleasing to look at

Im sorry but did you notice Nathalie's eyebrows literally appear and then disappear in one scene

[CUTE ✅]

r o m a n c e

rivals -> lovers (ish)

i want to hug all of them

[ADRIEN ANGST✅]

actually sad boi

my guy had EMOTIONS, he was so MOODY

careless whisper

P I A N O

also GABRIEL ajdkddjjdkd he was a smidge more likeable here

[CAT NOIR✅]

his personality was something i really liked here

took on some more leadership, had more of a rival role

more charming frfr

[MUSIC ✅]

some of these songs actually SLAPPED

will be listening to chat noir's solo on repeat

only thing that was kinda weird was how Marinette's VA and Vocalist were two diff people with very diff voices but whatever, still good

[LADYNOIR TEAM DYNAMIC✅]

Felt more balanced, I really liked the push and pull of both of them, especially how they were more like rivals in this depiction (can u tell i like my rivals to lovers)

Both were sort of equal here compared to the show, whereas in the show Ladybug is oftentimes the one who can do everything without Cat Noir, it was nice to see more CN appreciation <3

[CRINGE😐]

Careless Whisper

Sometimes they'd start singing out of nowhere and I'd cringe inside but then the song is actually good??? so...idk at this point

[STORYLINE 😐]

um okay where do i even start

to save one person is to save the world? UM...okay...good quote if you don't think about it too much...or at all

marinette solved all her problems and fixed all her character flaws by singing one song

like, it was mildly engaging, but i kinda got whiplash with how fast the plot progressed, like i was watching the world collapse in front of me in a matter of seconds - not sure what went wrong, but it just left me wanting more and feeling like there could be gaps filled

anyways, what can i expect for a movie that has to cram an entire origin story and final battle in 1.5 hours

ended in a way that made me happy tho :)

FINAL THOUGHTS

it was fine... animation & music was solid, but the plot felt kinda mid to me...TBH EVERYTHING IS MID COMPARED TO SEASON FIVE

so yeah, hope y'all enjoy the movie, it blessed my eyes - may it bless yours~

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug awakening #netflix #miraculous #my thoughts

[kasienda]

A Miraculous Reveal - Representation

Spoilers for Representation (5x24) Link to Ao3

...

Chat Noir swings wildly at the akuma who is his father. Adrien is almost glad Ladybug has yet to show up. He doesn’t have a plan, he almost doesn’t want to fix this one. It just feels good to lash out, to hurt this man and send him crashing to the ground, for every blow to make solid contact against the man who seems bent on stealing every good thing in his life. 

As Chat Noir, he doesn’t have to listen to his father. He can resist, he can fight. He can cataclysm anything that stands in his way as many times as he needs to! 

He can do all the things he can’t do as Adrien. 

Why can’t he fight as Adrien?!

“I feel sorry for your son!” 

“Don’t be. He’s very happy,” Nightormentor replies.  

Adrien is thrown by the statement. Was his father referring to the fact that he’s in love with Marinette, or does he actually think Adrien is happy locked away in some tower with an arranged relationship not of his own choosing a five hundred kilometers away from the most important person in his life. 

The akuma broke past his defenses, knocking the wind from his chest. He coughs as he inhales the sparkling dust of his father’s power. The magic settles around him, clinging to his eyes and throat. Reality dissolves around him.

Everything is silent like his ears are clogged with cotton. He turns frantically in every direction. Everything is destroyed. The moon split in half, every building a crumbled skeleton of what it once was. Human-sized statues made of ash surround him as far as his eyes can see. 

He looks down, and Marinette is there in his arms, as black as his cataclysmic power. He jerks backwards and her form dissolves into ash and dust in his arms. 

“What happened?!” he demands, trying to push back his rising panic. Where’s the akuma? There had to be an akuma somewhere to have caused all of this. 

“The same thing that always happens when a child can’t control their anger.” It’s the same voice. The deep foreboding voice that Adrien can never block out, can never escape.  

He did this? No! 

“No! It’s not real!” he screams, clutching his head.

Next thing he knows, Kim’s hovering over him. “You okay, there buddy? Because we could really use your help right now.” 

But Adrien isn’t sure how much help he can be. He’s never stood up to his father and won.

He doesn’t include this time as an exception even when Nightormentor’s staff dissolves under his cataclysm because it was The Resistance that defeated this akuma. 

Not Chat Noir. 

He flies to Marinette’s balcony as soon as it’s safe to do so, letting his transformation fall the moment almost the moment he lands. He’s not sure what he wants to say to her, but he needs to see her. Just once if not every day.

He’s about to knock on her skylight when the nightmare strikes a second time. 

He clutches his head and falls onto his knees as the vision sweeps through him again.

“No,” he sobs. “It’s just a nightmare. It’s not real! I would never do this!” he insists.

Plagg purring at the crook of his neck brings him back to himself once again. 

“Plagg! I don’t know what to do. I miss Marinette so much even though it hasn’t even been a day. But I can’t disobey him. And I’m also scared of putting her in danger. I could—“ he clutches his hand into a fist, imagining the power of cataclysm crackling at his fingertips. “—destroy everything.” 

“Adrien, you've just come into your own as the holder of destruction!” Plagg says. “I know you will find a way to break free of your chains. All of them.” 

Adrien shakes his head. How can he do that when he can’t even say the word no to his father, let alone actually defy his orders? 

It all feels so impossible. 

The trapdoor window to Marinette’s room opens. 

He tenses, still uncertain what he wants to say. He shouldn’t have come here. As much as he wants to see her — needs to see her, he can’t protect her, he can’t explain how he’s there without putting her in danger. 

She startles when she sees him, then approaches him slowly. 

“Adrien?”

She’s wearing a flowing white dress with intricate pink flowered embroidery that he’s certain she hand-stitched herself. Her eyes are puffy, red, and underlined with dark streaks of mascara running down her cheeks. 

It kills him that she’s been crying. He knows it’s his fault because he couldn’t say no to his father. It’s just another example of his weakness, of his selfishness that he wants her love anyway even though she deserves someone who can stand up for her.

In spite of himself, he reaches out for her. She takes his hand, and he pulls her against him, feeling shaky. He buries his head into her shoulder.

“Is it really you?” she asks. 

“Who else would I be?” he asks absently. 

“Felix.” 

He tenses and pulls away, gripping her at the elbows tightly, searching her face for jest and finding none. “What did he do?”

She waves away his concern. “He led me on a wild goose chase through the city. But in the end he only told me a story.”

“A story?” he repeats, confused. “What story? Why?” 

Marinette put a hand on his chest. “Adrien, take a breath.” 

He does as she says, feeling some of the tension within him bleed out. It always does when he’s in her arms. An experience he’s had on precious few occasions. If only he realized his feelings for her sooner. 

“I’m really happy to see you,” he whispers.

“Me too,” she says back, leaning her head onto his chest. “I feel like I’ve been looking for you all night. How are you here?” 

He tenses all over again, unsure of how to answer that question. He knows what he wants to tell her. The truth, and all of it! But the vision of Marinette’s ashen form cradled in his arms flies through his head and he’s terrified.

It’s just a dream, a nightmare sent to him by an akuma. It wasn’t real. That wasn’t going to happen. He was careful. He would never hurt her. 

He would never hurt her.

“Are you okay?” she asks when he doesn’t answer her question. 

He shakes his head, tears falling down his face of their own volition. 

She squeezes his hand. “Whatever it is, we’ll get through it together,” she promises.

And some part of him melts. She really believes that, but he can’t see any way to win. 

Even Chat Noir couldn’t stand up to Nightormentor. Not on his own.  

“My father wants me to stay in London. He wants to control every aspect of my life. And I tried for so long to earn his admiration and approval, but it’s impossible. And what has it ever gotten me? It’s never enough and I can’t do it anymore. I can’t.” 

Her grip tightens around his hand. “Shhh, it’s okay.” 

“But I can’t get away. It’s like, the second he’s in the room, I can’t… I can’t disobey him, Marinette. I don’t know why. I try, I think I’m going to, and then I just do what he wants anyway. I’m sorry that I’m so weak.” 

Tears break past his battered defenses and he drops his head into his knees. He’s shaking so hard, but Marinette never lets go. If anything, she clings to him harder. 

“Adrien, does he… does he have a ring that he always wears?”

He glances up, completely thrown by the random question. “Uh, yes. He has his and my mother’s wedding ring. Nathalie has been wearing the other. Why?” 

“The story. The story Felix told me! He said that the two princesses gave birth to two boys who were as similar as their mothers. You and Felix. Felix – he was controlled by his father all his life through a ring, and he was only able to break free once his father died and he had the ring for himself. It sounds like it’s the same for you.”

Adrien blinks several times, his brain trying to understand what she’s saying. 

Then the tears come back full strength, and he’s trembling like an earthquake. 

“Adrien?”

But he’s crying in relief. He wasn’t weak and spineless. He was literally being controlled like a puppet on strings. 

And then he was angry. 

He looks up into Marinette’s concerned crystal blue eyes that seem to pierce straight through him. “I don’t understand. How?” 

Her hands tighten around his and his clings to the lifeline that she’s providing. He fears that he’s weighing her down, that he can never give her everything she deserves, especially if he literally can’t go against his father.

“Felix said his mother and yours were infertile. They tried and tried to have babies, and they never could.” 

Adrien stares at her. This was new information. Why had Felix told Marinette all of this? And not him? 

“So your parents found and used the peacock miraculous–” 

He hissed in a breath.

“--and their desire to have a child to create a pregnancy.” 

“So I’m… I’m… some kind of sentimonster?” 

She shakes her head violently. Her hands on either side of his face. “No, you are not a monster. You are the kindest, most beautiful person I have ever met.” 

He held her hands and wrists against his face, needing to feel her holding him as his stomach dropped. 

“But he can literally control me?” 

She nods. “I think so. Felix asked me for help. He has his ring, and Kagami has hers.” 

“Kagami too?” he whispers.

She nods again. 

Kagami - forceful, ever confident, and never-hesitate-Kagami who he looked up to - could be controlled with a ring.

He could be controlled with a ring, snapped out of existence with the peacock miraculous. 

No wonder Felix had been willing to trade all the other miraculouses for it. 

He can’t breathe. 

The vision of a shattered moon on a red sky, surrounded by destruction and decay flashes through his mind’s eye again. A new dark heavy presence stands behind him, controlling every movement, directing his miraculous powers against everything Chat Noir is supposed to protect, against everything that he loves.

The nightmare suddenly feels all too possible. 

If his father ever learns his identity, he can make Adrien destroy anything his father disapproves of. 

Like Marinette. 

He scuttles backward from her, his back crashing against the railing of her balcony. 

“Adrien! What’s wrong?” Marinette asks, standing over him like an avenging angel. She reaches out to hold him, but he holds a hand out and shakes his head. She stops, but tears are falling silently down her cheeks. Her dress is fluttering around her, and strands of her hair have fallen from her updo, framing her face. Her eyes are like shining lights in his darkness. 

God, she’s so amazing, so strong. 

And he can’t ever be what she deserves. Not when he isn’t his own person.

He buries his eyes under his fists. The rest of him crumples like tissue paper. She wraps around him like a warm blanket on the coldest of nights, and he lets himself fall into warmth and love. This might have to be the last time, so it will have to last him forever.

“I love you,” he says through his devastation. “So much.”

“I love you, too. Talk to me please.” 

He untangles himself from her embrace and struggles to collect himself. It shouldn’t be that hard. He’s done it so many times before. 

“Marinette,” he starts, slipping his miraculous from his finger with a broken sob. It feels like he’s tearing off a limb, but he would do anything for her. He opens her palm, places the ring in her grasp, and closes her fingers around it.  “You have to take this from me, keep it safe so I can’t ever hurt anyone, so I can never hurt you.”

She looks down into her hand, her eyes frozen on the now-black ring in her hand. Her gaze darts up to his face, and then back down to the ring.

“You’re Chat Noir,” she breathes. 

“I’m Chat Noir,” he confirms. “I was going to use it to come visit you, so we could stay together even if I was exiled to London. I figured I had to come back for akumas anyway, but… but if my father can literally control me, I can’t keep it. He could discover it, take it, and force me to betray Ladybug and everyone I love. I can’t go through that! Will you please keep it safe for me?.

“No!” she cries, trying to shove the ring back towards him. “You can’t give this up!” she insists. “You can’t!”

He caresses the side of her tear-streaked face, and smiles softly. “I need you to take this for me, Marinette. There’s no one I love or trust more than you.”

Her fist pounds on his chest. He grabs her arm and pulls her against him. 

“Please?”

She shakes her head. “No, you don’t understand. I need you.” 

“I’m sorry. I wish there was a way for us to be together, but if he ever found out–”

“He won’t!” 

“Marinette, he could literally just order me to reveal all my secrets and it’d be done. He could order me to give him my miraculous. He can’t have it. Not ever.”

Her eyes well with tears. He kisses the top of her head. 

“What about Ladybug?!” she demands. 

“I think I’m only a liability to her right now. I’m a sentimonster. You’ll–” 

“You’re not a monster!” Her voice is shrill. 

He smiles again, feeling strangely at peace. “You’ll be an amazing partner to Ladybug in my stead.” 

“No! I can’t take this from you. It’s yours! It’s your freedom! And I can’t be Ladybug’s partner anyway.”

“Of course you can!” he reassures. “I remember Multimouse. You had every miraculous in the box. You were amazing! You could use any of them.”

She shakes her head, tears pouring from her eyes.  

“Marinette,” he begs. “Please!” 

“I can’t be Ladybug’s partner,” she says again, her voice suddenly clear and firm. She looks up at him, and he can’t breathe at the depth in her swirling blue eyes. “She needs you. I need you.” 

His mind is swirling, on the precipice of something grand, he knows it, but he can’t grasp onto it. 

“Tikki, spots on,” she whispers. And in a sparkling wave of pink light, Marinette is gone, transformed and it’s his partner sitting before him with tears in her eyes. “Please Chaton,” she begs. “I have told you over and over, I can’t do this without you. You are irreplaceable. You are perfect. I will never ever abandon you. Please, please don’t abandon me.” 

He can’t move, he can’t speak. 

She takes up his hand, and holds up the ring, but she pauses her eyes on his, waiting for his permission. 

“I don’t want to be turned against you,” he says weakly. 

“Whatever he makes you do,” she snarls, “you will never actually be against me. You will fight him, I will fight for you. And neither of us will rest until you are free, truly and completely free. Please, please be my partner again.”

And he is already in love with her. He fell for Ladybug a long time ago, the day they met for a moment almost exactly like this one. He fell for Marinette more recently, slowly after another thousand instances of her standing her ground again and again. 

But in this moment, looking at her with determination and love shining from every pore, he falls in love with her all over again.

She can’t conceive of a battle that she can’t win no matter how much the deck is stacked against her. And really, he can’t conceive of a battle she can’t win either. Chat Noir has always had the front row seat to watching her come out on top again and again through creative genius, persistence, and a fierce determination to protect everyone she loves.

Her cause is right, and her sense of justice is stronger than her doubt, and her love is stronger than her fear.

And so he can’t deny her. With his lips stretched into a watery smile, he nods his permission. 

She slips the ring back onto his finger and it feels like coming home after being lost in a blizzard. 

Their arms are around each other in an instant, and he knows that as long as he has her, as long as she cares and believes in him, he will always fight anyone and everyone that stands against them. 

Even his father.  

And with her by his side, how can they ever lose? 

#miraculous ladybug #love square #give me a canon reveal damnit! #ml spoilers #ml representation spoilers #identity reveal #sentiadrien #my own content #angst #happy ending #theyre in love your honor #They're going to fight gabriel together #They are! #I've decided #And they're going to win! #Because power of love is so strong #power of love #a miraculous reveal #miraculous ladybug fan fiction

[vampyrsutton]

Lukanette~Panties&Lingerie

Summary:

Marinette is making a new fashion line inspired by Paris' Heroes with a special line of lingerie to match. She gives Luka a sneak peek.

Ao3 Tags:

Lingerie, Kinktober, Kinktober 2021, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Penis In Vagina Sex, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, they deserve better, post-identity reveal, Post-Hawk Moth Defeat, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Deserves Better, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Deserves Happiness, Luka Couffaine Loves Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Deserves Better, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Has Me Salty, Not Canon Compliant, Snake Luka Couffaine | Viperion, Snake Tongue, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, no one is straight, Miraculous Ladybug Salt, Sex Toys Under Clothing

Notes:

Now for the one I am most reluctant to put on this hellsite because I've heard the anti horror stories. Antis? Treat this like an early 2000s yaoi. Don't like? Don't read!

They both deserve so much better than how cannon is treating them. 

I am not straight. I do not know how to write straight sex. This was an adventure.

They are adults, and also I like the idea of them getting some of the traits from their animal the longer they wear their miraculous so :)

“How are you so talented?” Luka smiles at Marinette as he hands her back the few designs he’s been permitted to look at.

Marinette’s cheeks darken as she bumps him with her shoulder. “They’re just drafts for the Hero series.”

“And they’re only the drafts?” He looks at he in awe making her giggle.

“I’m thinking of trying a special sub-line this time, too.” She hums, a dash of mischief in her voice as she pulls a few new ones from the folder as well.

Luka tilts his head at the look in her eyes but takes the papers to look at and almost chokes on his spit. In his hands are sketches for what appears to be a his and hers lingerie line of what will probably be all the heroes who have worked alongside Ladybug, and he suddenly understands why Marinette spent so much time having him, Ivan, Mylene, and Alix transform through whatever miraculous hadn’t been used by the opposite sex. She must have been seeing how they would manifest between the different styles, sexes, and body types.

Help in his hands were the designs for what looked like the mouse, the fox, and the dragon. Each was in the colors of the appropriate kwami with their accent colors appearing like they will have a shimmer to them. He looked over the lacey hood and rope...whip?...the tail of the mouse, the obvious fox play aspects in orange, and the elegant Chinese inspiration for the dragon until something occurred to him and his head snaps up to look at Mari.

“Is there a snake design?” He asks wide-eyed, suddenly realizing that was the exact reason for her behavior as he sees the smug look on her face. His mind races through possibilities of how Sass’s colors will play with her eyes and flops back against the couch with a groan. “Please tell me you already have a test run made.”

“Hmm. Maybe.” Marinette smirks, slipping the designs back in her portfolio carefully. “Guess you’ll just have to wait and see.”

Luka sighs dramatically, sinking further into the couch. “How did I get such a talented, pretty, and beyond amazing girlfriend?” He asks, just to see the pink dust her cheeks at the praise. Even after all these years of him desperately trying to fix the damage her so-called friends caused, she still can’t handle genuine compliments. At least she’s stopped denying them.

“Flattery will get you nowhere this time.” Marinette giggles as she flops equally dramatically across his lap. “At least not any faster anyway.”

“So you do have one ready?” He hums with a smug eyebrow raise.

“Well of course I’m going to use my favorite hero for my pitch to the boss.” She smiles slyly, playing with a button on his shirt. “By the look of things, it might be done by Friday.”

Luka’s eyes lit up at her hidden meaning. “Just in time for date night?”

“Might be literally just in time if the dark teal shimmer lace doesn’t stop catching.” She pouts, looking at the bangle around his wrist in annoyance. “Would be a great time for someone to let me borrow him for Second Chance, but nOooo. Someone is too attached to their holder.”

“Itsss not my fault he’sss the besst holder I’ve had sssince the American Revolution,” Sass smirks from where he has landed on Luka’s shoulder. “And while you’re a fantassstic Ladybug and an amazing Guardian, you put too much on yourssself which is not a good thing for timeliness. Even if itsss jussst fussssy fabric.”

Marinette pouts up at the small snake, trying to use her puppy eyes. 

“Thossse only work on Luka.” The snake snickers as he flies out of range of the pillow thrown at him in embarrassment. 

“Sssshush you! They do not!” Luka huffs at his kwami while trying to ignore the hiss that slipped out even as his ears turn pink. 

Marinette and Sass look at each other before looking back to the guitar player with deadpan expressions. 

“What?” Luka sighs, knowing he’s already about to get tag teamed. 

“Hey, Marinette? Remember that one egg disssh?” Sass hisses.

“The kind of smelly one that tastes really good, but someone won’t let in the house?” Marinette hums innocently. “Yeah, I remember.”

“I sssudenly got a craving for it and had to ussse Sssecond Chanccce too many timesss today. Think we can have it tonight?” Sass sighs with dramatics more befitting of Plagg than the snake.

“That sounds like a wonderful idea!” Marinette grins before looking at Luka with her earlier puppy eyes. “Pleeeease, Luka?”

“Absolutely not, Marinette!” Tikki scolds as she zips into the room. “It took all weekend to get rid of that smell last time!”

“Tikki’s right. It does smell really ba-” Luka started to try but saw the girl’s lip wobble as she clasped her hands together. “Mari…”

“Please, Luka?” She pouts.

“Come on, Luka! Be strong!” Tikki tries to help despite knowing they’ve already lost.

“Mari, come on. Those won’t work…Not the whimper.” He sighs, letting his head flop back on the couch again. “What happened to the shy awkward girl on that boat all those years ago?” 

“She got the world’s best boyfriend who showed her her worth?” 

Luka sighs again. “I’ll open the windows…” He relents, ignoring Tikki’s groan and Mari and Sass’ celebration. 

“I told you, Luka,” Sass smirks, ducking behind Marinette before the next pillow could get him. 

“Ssshush you.” Luka hisses despite smiling fondly at the two. “Menacesss. The both of you.”

Marinette giggles, giving him a quick kiss on the lips before pulling him up from the couch with her. “Come on, help me cook.”

Luka just smiles, letting himself be pulled to the kitchen as Tikki, Sass, and the non-permanent Kwamis zip around to open windows.  

I ended up smelling foul the rest of the night, but the happy hums from Marinette and Sass were worth it.

~~~

“Mari~!” Luka calls from the entrance. “We’re gonna be late for the reservation! Should I cancel and we go to a cafe instead, or are you almost ready?” He had gotten used to changing plans a while ago when he found out she was Ladybug and they decided to try again so it didn’t really bother him.

“Coming! Coming!” Mari yells, jumping down the two entrance steps and struggling into her flats. “Sorry, the clasp broke on my purse and a certain dragon stole my spares because they looked like treasure.” She huffs, calling the dragon out despite knowing he’s across town with Kagami and probably did it the last time they visited. “Let’s go.” She smiles. 

Luka chuckles at the kwami’s antics, offering his arm as he opened the door. “Find a substitute?” 

“Yeah, luckily the Chat purse matches well enough with the teals of my dress.” She smiles, taking his arm as they leave the apartment. “Guessing you got us in at the hotel?” 

“Mhmm.” Luka nods as he opens his jacket for Sass to fly into the pocket. “The fame has its perks, but it’s also nice that Chloe finally calmed down after she went away to college.”

“You’re telling me. She spoils Sabrina rotten now that they’re together. I thought the poor girl was going to combust.” Marinette giggles as they leave the building, hand in hand.

“Still wild to think that all those years, she was just pulling on your pigtails. You seriously had everyone in your class enamored with you didn’t you?”

Marinette flushes at the reminder, hiding her face in her coat. “Oh shush, Mr. Chat Noir’s Bi-Awakening.”

It was Luka’s turn to flush now as he laughed. “Fair enough. Probably would have asked to go for it if his two sides weren’t so horrible to you.” He smiles lovingly down at her.

“He’s in therapy after the Hawkmoth stuff so maybe one day.” She giggles, hip bumping him. “As long as you let me show Kagami how Adrien should have treated her.” 

Luka chuckles at the mischief in her eyes. “I almost feel sorry for my fellow reptile if you get ahold of her. I thought you already started on her?”

Marinette slumps, pouting. “We’re still working on the being emotionally stunted. What’s with rich parents messing up their kids so much?” 

Luka shrugs with a frown. “Almost glad it took my dad 16 years and me getting akumatized again to show up if that’s the result.”

Marinette frowns up at him, bumping their shoulders. “At least he’s trying now?” 

Luka smiles at her, bumping her back. “Yeah. It still feels like babysitting when we hang out, but it’s nice to see him and Juleka finally bonding now that Roaar’s helping her. Good choice as always by the way.” 

Marinette beams up at him, and his smile turns fond as they enter the restaurant and get seated. As they separate to go to their separate seats across from each other, however, Luka finally realizes Marinette had slipped something into his hand while they were walking. His brow furrows as he looks at her, only to be met with her mischievous look from behind her menu.

“Uh, Mari, what is thi- Oh.” He turns the small rectangle in his hand as he begins to question her before he finally sees the brand name on what he realizes is a remote and it finally clicks what he’s holding. He looks back up at her with a smirk. “Are you sure you shouldn’t be the one with the fox?” 

“Nah, Nathaniel is doing much better with it than I ever could.” She giggles, waving him off. “Though Trix and Marc are probably going to be the death of him.”

“Probably.” He hums in agreeance as he slips the remote into his lap so she can’t see it. “So how is your new pitch going?” 

“Almost done.” She sighs, looking through the menu. “I got the one project done today finally.” She hides the smirk behind the menu as she watches the meaning click and his head snap up to look at her. “I’m wearing it now.”

Luka’s eyes spark in interest as he looks her over. “Oh?”

“Mhmm. Looks kind of like your original suit if it was lacey and showed off assets.” Marinette hums.

Luka groans under his breath while giving up on the menu. He’ll just end up ordering the same thing as a few months ago anyway. “What day is your meeting again?”

“Monday, so it needs to stay in one piece.” She warns, looking at him mischievously. “But it is washing machine safe.”

“Perfect.” He smiles before pressing the remote in his lap.

Marinette slaps a hand over her mouth to hide her squeak as she pretends to glare at him. “Getting right into it, huh?” 

“How can I not when you’ve given me such a nice new toy?” He smiles at her innocently. “Don’t worry, I’ll behave when the waiter comes...As long as you do that is.” 

His smile may look innocent, but the tilt of his head and the look in his eye sends a shiver down her spine as she suddenly feels like a mouse cornered by the snake. Marinette squirms in her seat with the toy not being the only thing getting to her. “And if I don’t?” She squeaks.

He just smiles as suddenly the vibration between her legs shoots to the max setting for about three seconds before dropping back down to a 2. It’s enough to make her have to cover her mouth though as she leans her head on the table. 

“Understood?” He asks, brushing her bangs from her face when she looks up at him with a pout.

“I made a mistake didn’t I?” 

“Maybe.” He chuckles before smiling at the waiter who comes to take their order. 

The night continues with them laughing and teasing each other as they talk and each; only broken up occasionally when Luka sends the remote back to 10 for a few seconds before bringing it back down to the next highest setting.

By the time they leave the restaurant, the toy buzzing away inside Marinette is at a 7, and her legs feel ready to give out on her as she clings to Luka’s arm on the way back.

“Evil.” She pouts up at him as he holds the door open to their apartment building. She barely hides her moan as she enters the building and Luka raises it again in retaliation.

“Maybe a little.” He hums as they go up the stairs. “You did start it though.”

Marinette huffs, unable to deny it as she stumbles on the stairs a little. 

Luka just chuckles at her pout, ruffling her hair a little as he unlocks the door and opens it for her. 

What he forgot during his teasing, however, is that he just so happens to be dating Ladybug who despite her small, clumsy frame, is a lot stronger than she looks.

Marinette smiles, accepting his act of chivalry, but ass shoon as she’s over the threshold, it’s his turn to yelp as she pulls him inside and pins him against the door.

“I keep forgetting you can kick my ass.” Luka groans as he thumps his head against the door behind him. “Fuck it’s hot.”

“One of these days you’ll learn.” She hums as she starts manhandling him out of his coat despite the still very present size difference. 

“Nah, the surprise is half the fun,” Luka smirks as he helps her get his coat off to let Sass out before picking her up so her legs can wrap around his hips as he carries her further into the apartment. 

Marinette moans at his own little display of strength and is delighted to find him just as affected when she starts grinding herself against his front, causing him to almost stumble.

“Mariii~” Luka groans as he catches his footing and hurries the rest of the way to the room before she can do something else. 

“Luka, please. Bend me over the counter for all I care, just get inside me now.” She moans in his ear before continuing to kiss and suck at his neck. 

“Shit, Mari, you’re gonna kill me.” He moans before kicking open the door and dropping her on the bed. “Come on and show me the pretty lingerie you worked so hard on while I get out of these skinny jeans you insist I wear every date night.” 

Marinette whines at being put down but hurries out of the coat on Viperion inspired dress to reveal her masterpiece underneath. 

Luka’s breath hitched as he took in the sight before him. The sight of aqua lace dancing around her shoulders in a much daintier version of his shoulder pads and coming to rest in a point between her breast. The sight of that aqua connecting at her sides to the shimmering teal that she had fought so hard with to apparently craft the underwire before snaking down her sides and leaving her belly exposed. This teal then melted back into the aqua to create the panties which, now that he looked closely, had an open crotch. He groaned at the outfit, finally kicking his pants off and throwing his shirt somewhere before he crowded her into the bed.

“Do you have any idea what you do to me, Mari?” He whispered as he trailed his fingers along the lace at her sides. ‘Open back, too.’

Marinette smirked a little as she palmed at the erection hanging between his legs hand his head dropped into her shoulder with a low moan. “I have an idea.”

“Which one of us was the evil one again?” He chuckles as he nips at the spot behind her ear that makes her gasp and squeeze him.

“Ah! Um, I think it’s a tie by now.” She says in a breathy giggle, moaning when his fingers travel between the open crotch.

“Any specific reason for this design choice?” Luka hums as he starts kissing down her body.

“Mmnm uh remember that one time we did it transformed, and turns out more than just your mouth turned reptilian?” Marinette blushes even as she tilts he head to give him more room. 

“So these are like an inside joke? Others will just think it’s to tease, but you’ll know it’s from when I made you cry on my cocks?” He smirks and lets a finger slip inside. “God, you’re already soaked.”

“LUkaaa~!” She moans, trying to grind herself down on his finger.

“Shh, I’ve got you, Mari.” He chuckles as he dips the finger in and out while moving his head down to her exposed breast and sucking one of the pretty pink buds into his mouth.

“MmNm! More~! Please, Luka! Even one more!” She whines as she tries to get him deeper before moaning loudly as he sucks on her nipple.”AHh! Luka!”

“Mmm.” He smirks as he sucks and licks at the bud in his mouth. Suddenly he’s a little less annoyed at how long extended use of the snake miraculous has made his tongue as he flicks the forked tip before wrapping it around the nipple in his mouth and sucking hard, pulling the most beautiful notes from his Marinette’s mouth. 

“Oh gods, your tongue!” Marinette moans, fingers latching into his hair to pull him closer. She’s so distracted that she doesn’t even realize he’s slipped a second finger in to retrieve the egg until she’s practically screaming when he starts teasing her clit with it. “Luka! Luka, please! More! I need more, please!” She whimpers as she grinds down on the egg sending electricity up her spine. 

Luka hums around the bud in his mouth before switching to the other one and bringing the still buzzing egg to the one he just left and causing Marinette to arch off the bed.

“LukAaa~!” She whines, wiggling to either escape or get more, she doesn’t even know.

After a few moments of enjoying the small windows she left him at the top of the garment, he moves his face down to enjoy the main one. As he settles between her thighs, he makes sure to make eye contact before letting his tongue lull out to its full past chin-length. 

“Thanksss for the dessssert.” He smirks before his tongue disappears inside her and she screams.

“LUKA~! AhHhhh~! Your tongue! Please, Luka! Gods! AhhhHhh~!” Marinette moans as her hands twist into his hair to bring him closer as he eats her out like a starving man.

He’s now beyond grateful for the long tongue as he presses it against her G-Spot while assaulting every last spot that makes her thighs tremble and clamp around his head like she plans to crush it. ‘God, I love her muscles.’ He moans into her, making her moan louder. 

Within minutes he has her begging like she’ll die if she doesn’t get to cum soon, and all it takes is another flick of his tongue against her G-Spot and the egg being pressed to her clit, and she’s cumming hard across his face, clinging to his hair like she plans to drown him. 

He would die happy even if she did. 

She continues to grind against his face as she rides out her orgasm, before deflating into the mattress as a broken mess.

“You good, Mari?” Luka asks as he licks his face clean.

“Remind me to buy Sass more eggs for gifting you with that.” Marinette chuckles, shaking as she tries to sit up only to collapse once more with a pout. “I wanted you in me though…”

“I mean, that can still be arranged.” Luka laughs, gesturing to his still hard dick.

Mari licks her lips before making grabby hands at him. “Put me on your lap, and fuck me like you did in that alley after patrol last week.” She demands.

Luka groans but, after rolling a condom on, quickly moves to obey, pulling her into his arms as he kneels on the bed. “As you wish.”

Marinette wraps her arms around his neck and buries her head in his shoulder. “I’m more than ready.” 

Luka chuckles at her eagerness as he eases her onto him, reveling in her quiet moan even though he’s in a similar state, moaning low as he’s swallowed by her tight heat. Once she’s fully seated, he stays still, trying to let her adjust, but Marinette apparently has other plans as she tries to bounce herself on his cock.

“Shit.” He curses as his head falls forward. “Now. Gotcha.” He huffs out a laugh before planting his feet more firmly and thrusting into her.

She lets out a squeak at the sudden action, but it quickly turns into more moans and pleas as he starts up the brutal pace he knows she craves. 

“Why have the muscles if you’re not gonna use them. ” She had once said when he had tried to be gentle. The only times he managed to get away with that without being flipped on his back and rode within an inch of his life was whenever he had her tied up. 

He’d be lying if he tried to say he wasn’t into it though.

“LUKAAAAA~!” Mari moaned in his ear as she clawed at his back, desperately trying to meet his thrusts.

“Gods, I love your sounds.” Luka groans as he snaps his hips harder and faster, changing the angle enough for him to tilt her back a bit and attack her chest again with his tongue.

“LukA~! Gods, please! More! Faster! AHhNngh~!” She cried out as she gripped his hair for leverage.

Luka hummed around the sensitive bud in his mouth, before licking a stripe up to her mouth and dominating a kiss with ease.

Marinette whined as she tasted herself on his tongue and her legs trembled again as another orgasm approached and she clawed at his shoulders once more in a warning.

Luka is by no means far behind, desperately holding back his own orgasm to let her cum again, but he doesn’t have to wait very long as soon enough her walls are clamping around him like a vice and milking him into the condom.

Marinette shudders as her second orgasm wracks through her body, moaning loudly as she feels his hips still and warmth fill the condom. 

Soon enough, Luka is pulling out and tossing the tied-off condom into the nearby wastebasket so he can collapse onto the bed and pull Mari onto his chest. 

“How are you so perfect?” Luka whispers into her hair as he spoils her with kisses.

“I could ask the same about you?” Marinette hums as she curls into his chest. 

“I guess you just bring out the best in me.” 

She wants to argue that he was like that before they even met, but she knows it will just end with her as red as a tomato if she tries to out compliment him.

“And you with me.” She smiles, kissing his chest. “I love you, Luka.”

“I love you, too. My perfect melody.”

It’s not long before they drift off to sleep, cuddled close, and with love-struck smiles on their faces. 

Yeah, it was perfect.

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What Comes After Pt5

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Mari sat at the table with Chloe next to her, and the Sirens opposite. She had no idea how to even start this conversation.

"If you want us to leave because of what happened, we understand." She could only blink at Harley in confusion. Leave? Oh.

"Batman would have shown up at some point whether you were here or not, and I'm the one who said Red Hood could stay." She paused and glanced at Chloe, but the all she got was an encouraging smile. Not helpful. "This is actually about what Batman said about the Miraculous."

They all just stared at her, waiting. No questions. Nothing she could use to jumpstart her brain or her mouth. Harley was giving her an encouraging smile, but the other two were blank, and that was just creepy, especially from Selina. Finally, Chloe took pity on her.

"I know we haven't talked about it, but what do you know about what happened in Paris?" Harley and Ivy shared looks, but Selina just frowned at them. It was a good question, though. Given what they'd said in the beginning, the Sirens hadn't really looked into it at the time. Mari wasn't certain how much research they'd done since. Harley ended up answering.

"Not much, to be frank. A lot of the media we found, we aren't certain if it's reliable and don't want to make any assumptions. Other than the basic information on the villain and all the statistics from the final battle and aftermath, we were honestly waiting for you two to feel comfortable enough so we could ask." That was good and bad. Mari took a deep breath and kept her eyes on her hands as she began speaking.

"The Miraculous are magical jewelry that grant powers to their holders. The first Akuma was Stoneheart. A boy in our class named Ivan was being teased about his crush, and that's all it took. Ladybug and Chat Noir appeared to fight him. Ladybug screwed up and didn't capture the Akuma after the fight which led to a much larger problem. When that escalated, Hawkmoth made himself known to the public. After that, the people of Paris were in constant danger of their emotions being weaponized until he was defeated. At some point, Chat defected to Hawkmoth's side. Hawkmoth and Chat Noir were both killed in that last fight and revealed as Gabriel and Adrien Agreste. Gabriel's assistant died a week before from using the Peafowl Miraculous." She let out a sigh. "Those are the official facts that are known to the public."

"That's... that's not very much." Mari could only sigh at Selina's observation. She still had no idea how much secrecy was necessary, but fewer people knowing the details certainly made things easier to contain.

"No, it's not, but for most people living it, it was more than enough, given what they went through. Honestly, I think everyone was too relieved to question anything, even if Ladybug was willing to share, and she wasn't." Chloe started rubbing her back, but it still took everything in her not to cry. Mari wasn't even certain if it was grief or anger.

"But you know more about it?" It wasn't really a question, and Harley kept her voice soft.

"I know everything." She couldn't help the dead tone, not that she tried very hard. Chloe actually scooted her chair closer so she could pull her into a hug. "But, before I tell you anything, I need to know if you're willing to help fix the problems that Ladybug and Chat Noir caused." Mari put a hand over Chloe's mouth before she could argue. This wasn't something they were going to agree on, and it wasn't relevant for this discussion. Granted, the Sirens didn't look happy with her wording either.

"We'll do whatever you need us to." Mari was surprised that Ivy was the one who spoke, but they all nodded. There was no hesitation and that, more than anything, made her decision.

"I need you to be part of a team of new Miraculous users."

"What?" Ivy seemed surprised the word came out and immediately cleared her throat. "I thought Batman said the Ladybug and Black Cat had to be active."

"Batman knows nothing about the Miraculous. While having a balanced pair wielding those two is one option, it's not the only one. Given what happened the last time, it's not worth the risk." Harley was frowning at her, but Selina seemed to be trying to analyze her.

"Okay, so this other option doesn't require balance?" Mari let out an amused huff. She should have expected Ivy's question.

"All life requires balance, but there are different types. Finding two people who balance each other exactly for the most powerful Miraculous is extremely difficult, and that doesn't account for how people change and grow. I'm not sure exactly how long it would take to restore the balance, but the chance of making things worse is higher than the other options. Our current plan only requires the team to have a common goal."

"And what would that be?"

"Well, restoring the balance for one. Other than that, it's something for us to discuss and figure out among ourselves."

"You're going to be part of this team?" Harley tried to hide her worry, but all three of them looked concerned.

"I am. Five people are needed, and having us all living and working together will reduce any chances of someone breaking from the group and causing issues."

"You don't trust us?"

"I don't trust anyone, not with this. With that in mind, you'll also have to agree to being put under a spell that will make it impossible to talk about anything you learn about the Miraculous with anyone other than the five of us. The spell should be powerful enough to sense if anyone is listening in covertly as well." None of them seemed comfortable with that, but they didn't say anything. "This isn't your problem, and I understand if you don't want to do it."

"It's not that. We want to help you, but having some random person casting magic on us isn't exactly smart for us." She could only blink at Selina in confusion for a moment. Oh, of course they thought it was someone else.

"Not some random person. I would be doing it." That just got more blank looks. "I'll be able to explain a bit more once it's done."

"If you're sure this is how you want to handle things, we'll do it." Harley didn't seem to like the idea, but Mari wasn't certain how much of that was the magic, and how much they were just worried about her and Chloe.

"Want is not the issue, unfortunately. This is the only option that isn't likely to end with the universe imploding." Ivy let out a short laugh, but it seemed more of a reflex than anything else. The other two were just exchanging frowns.

"What do you need us to do?" Selina sounded resigned more than anything else, and honestly it was comforting. The fact that they weren't excited about wielding a Miraculous made her think this plan was likely to work. She pulled three vials out of her pocket.

"Drink this." They all took them, but waited for Ivy to smell it and nod before they drank. It was good that they were cautious. Given the look Ivy was giving her, she knew about the 'special' ingredient in it as well.

"That's all?"

"That's all you need to do for the spell. Now you won't be able to speak about what I tell you. For everything else, it's only the beginning." She knew she sounded tired, and far more grim than she should have, but this wasn't something she could be happy about. "I suppose it's best to start with what the Miraculous really are. Each one is powered by a god tied to it. They grant their users abilities based on their aspects. We will be using Miraculous that give powers based on emotion, metamorphosis, subjugation, deceit, and protection."

"Gods? Like one of the old pantheons?" Selina's nose wrinkled as she talked, and Mari could understand why.

"No, the Kwami predate all of them. The gods you're thinking of were actually created by the Kwami in an attempt to have better control over the physical world. Not their best work, I'll admit. Honestly, it's right up there with Plagg wiping out the dinosaurs in an 'oops' moment."

"You're kidding." Ivy's tone was dry and Mari just tilted her head. "You're not are you? And you want us to just let these gods use us as they see fit?"

"That's not how it works. The Kwami that bound themselves to Miraculous gave up their autonomy for the most part. They have to obey their holders, which is why Hawkmoth and Chat Noir were able to do the damage they did." Chloe hugged her tighter, and the Sirens were shooting them both concerned looks. Mari could only wonder when thinking about Paris wouldn't feel like someone was ripping her heart out of her chest. "You guys can come out now."

The Siren's confusion turned to surprise as the five Kwami made their presence known. Pollen went to sit on Chloe's shoulder, while Nooroo hid under Mari's chin. Even if she hadn't been the most suitable for them, she wouldn't have given the Miraculous to someone else. Nooroo needed to be with someone they trusted. Wayzz, Dusuu, and Trixx settled on the table studying the Sirens, who, in turn, were just blinking at them. Trixx broke the silence by giggling.

"This is going to be fun. It's been a long time since I've had a suitable holder." Mari felt herself flinch. While Alya had been a good person, and now a lot less nieve, pairing someone who wanted to get to the truth of things with the Kwami of deceit wasn't her best decision. Especially since it had actually made her more susceptible to Lila's lies.

"This isn't about fun, Trixx. But I'm glad you approve." Now all the Kwami looked worried too. Wonderful.

"I'm sorry Guardian, we know this isn't easy for you." All the Kwami cuddled up to her. She'd forgotten how nice it was to have them around. Well, when they weren't driving her insane anyway.

"Guardian?" Harley's soft question brought her attention back to the discussion at hand. The question was how much she wanted to tell. Even knowing they couldn't tell anyone else, she wasn't certain.

"I'm the Guardian of the box of Miraculous that all these Kwami belong to."

"Just these five?"

"No." She could tell they wanted to know more but were afraid of overstepping. "There's currently nineteen, including all those used in Paris."

"So Batman's assumption that you could get him in contact with Ladybug was correct?" Selina looked like she wanted the words back as soon as they came out.

"Ladybug no longer exists." None of them knew how to take that. Even the Kwami were giving her odd looks. It was true, though. Even if she had to use the Miraculous again, she wouldn't be Ladybug anymore. Too much had changed. She'd changed. "Batman is chasing a ghost, and I'm more than willing to let him." Honestly, she was glad that the magic users in the league either didn't know, or didn't feel the need to tell him, about the order or Guardians. That or he just felt finding Ladybug was the only way to get to them.

"When you say she doesn't exist..." Harley didn't seem to be able to finish the thought, and Mari tried to give her a reassuring smile.

"The hero no longer exists. The person who was forced into that role is alive and as well as they can be." She looked less than thrilled with that explanation. "Right now, we need to figure out how this is going to work, or rather, how we're going to work together."

"I still vote setting off explosions in the Batcave." Chloe's words just made her roll her eyes.

"While I certainly don't have a problem messing with Batman, going after him on his home turf isn't wise. We could have all sorts of fun with him when he's on patrol, though. We know Gotham just as well as he does. Some of it better." Chloe pouted at Ivy's suggestion, but Mari knew it was a much better plan. He was already going to be pissed that they were in his territory. Going after his base was just going to get all the others riled up as well.

"I'd prefer that our main goal be helping people, rather than just trying to see if we can get steam to come out of Batman's ears." Mari's voice was dry, but she couldn't help it. "The last thing I want is for us to only be thinking about petty revenge." Would it be a good uniting factor? Absolutely. Did she want it to be the main one? Absolutely not. The Sirens softened at that.

"There are certainly more than enough people in Gotham that could use the help. Did you have any particular person or groups you want to start with?" Harley's question caused Mari to pause. She hadn't thought about it, but the answer was obvious.

"Kids, and people who have suffered the loss of family, blood or otherwise." She honestly wasn't certain what to make of the looks she was getting.

"That's definitely something we would be happy to help you with." 

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AHHHHH I WATCHED MIRACULOUS AWAKENING TODAY AND BELOW ARE SOME OF MY THOUGHTS (SPOILERS OF COURSE!)

LET ME KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS AS WELL 🐞🐈‍⬛

I was so taken off guard by the fact that it was a musical?!? Bruh 😂 At first, I thought it would just be that one song then they kept going. We’re not going to talk about the change of voice actors lol. I liked some of the songs but some were a bit cringe haha. Especially the one in the tune of the theme song with Marinette and Tikki but maybe I need to listen to them all more.

But my FAVOURITE was the song Chat sings after he falls in love with Ladybug ahhhh it absolutely confirms that Adrien is a Disney princess 👸

I liked how nervous they made Marinette and how obvious it was that she had no friends and was being bullied and ostracised by the rest of the school. In the series, back in Origins (I know they also cover it well in a Season 5 episode but ngl that was a while into the series), I did get the feel that Marinette was being bullied but more so solely by Chloe. I could tell that she didn’t have any friends until Alya came along but it didn’t seem like people didn’t like her per se. In the movie, they make it really obvious that the rest of the school avoids her like the plague because they think she’s weird. I mean, even Adrien thought she was weird when he first met her lol. Edit: Just to clarify this isn’t because I don’t want Marinette to not have self-confidence but I do think that it expressed how many people do feel at school: lonely, like they don’t fit in, and also many do struggle with bullying. And then she gets magical powers and gains more confidence (albeit a bit rushed but still).

I absolutely love how they portrayed Ladybug and Chat Noir’s relationship. The teasing (“watermelon”) was really fun to watch. And the fact that Chat called her the sidekick was just so funny. But the main thing was how Ladybug said they were partners and then they truly showed that they were!! Chat deserves love!! Although, at the end when Ladybug fixes everything, the crowd is only cheering Ladybug. I get that Chat had just found out his father was Hawkmoth so he was probably taking him to prison or something but he should have gotten some cheers as well.

Also, I don’t think this is the same in the show but the movie kind of hinted that the Ladybug and Chat Noir Miraculous often ‘fight’ a bit. I always love a bit of enemies to lovers so that was a little interesting thing I noticed they added to the lore.

Careless Whispers. That’s it.

They sort of did Plagg dirty here. Especially with the fart jokes and trash cheese lol (I know children apparently like fart jokes bit still). I mean, he was still funny but I didn’t feel the same emotional connection between him and Adrien as I do in the show. I guess they didn’t have enough time to develop them but we could have at least had one serious moment with Plagg or one moment where he actually gives Adrien some heartfelt advice. I think he did give him some love advice but it wasn’t that good haha.

Love seeing Adrien standing up to his father. Legend.

Gabriel progressively getting weaker and haggard while using the Miraculous is what we needed to physically see in the show. Also just generally movie Gabriel has my heart. I was so scared when he recognised Chat as Adrien that he would just carry on trying to get his Miraculous etc but the fact that he broke down and detransforms, makes me empathise with him. This is what show Gabriel should have been 😭

THE REVEAL?!? I was not expecting this. I didn’t think they would go that far. But they did!! And it was so sweet. The way she puts his mask on her and her voice becomes confident as she says she’s Ladybug. Ahhhh!!! And the cut before the kiss!!!

Finally, it seems as though they might make a second one as the final scene with Nathalie seems to suggest Nathalie will become the next big bad?? Ngl though, if Nathalie becomes the next villain (with Gabriel’s encouragement) that kind of ruins his character arc lol. But it might be that he wants Nathalie to get rid of that corpse (hide the evidence, girl, hide the evidence). Idk we’ll see 🙈

Overall, this movie had me squealing, awwing and glued to my screen!!

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Are there Marinette Salt takes that you disagree with?

So we’ve established in the last ask that I think Adrien gets a bit of a bad rap with salters at times, but that’s absolutely nothing compared to how I feel about Marinette salt takes. TL;DR at the bottom since this was much longer than I anticipated, as per usual with my constant ramblings

One angle I just really can’t wrap my head around are people who think Marinette is to blame for the LadyNoir conflict overarching season 4 because, in all honesty, I don’t know if Marinette was even made fully aware that there was an ongoing issue. I’m probably misremembering or forgetting some stuff, and I’m about to go on a long-ass ramble, so bear with me on this

The conflict begins with MariBug having constant breakdowns due to her responsibilities piling up, her alter egos bleeding into each other and having zero guidance or even vent options. Back in Truth Chat said that he doesn’t mind Ladybug being the new Guardian as long as it doesn’t impact their relationship/dynamic. But due to how overwhelmed and alone she is, Ladybug can’t always be there for all the patrols and silly little things the heroes do, which leaves Chat disappointed and feeling ignored

Is he entitled to these feelings? Absolutely. Can’t help how you feel. And for the most part he doesn’t bother Ladybug with these feelings, except for mentioning it once that he misses seeing her all the time and she explains herself and promises to try and prioritise patrols more. Healthy stuff, good communication, I’m vibing so far

But Chat continues not to voice his feelings while starting to let them dictate his behaviour, and this is where the problems arise - not just with Chat, but with Marinette salters, too. I was surprised to see how many people were mad at Ladybug for not prioritising Chat more or not being more considerate of his feelings

As far as I’ve seen, Chat hasn’t voiced his concerns to her, so you can’t expect Ladybug to fix a problem she doesn’t know exists, and even then you can see she doesn’t have the mental capacity or available free time right now, every other episode featured her having a mental breakdown. At this point Chat being disappointed that he’s not his coworker’s top priority isn’t… well, a priority

People were also getting mad that Marinette revealed her identity to Alya and not Chat was also a surprise to me. Alya is Marinette’s best friend and was chosen to be a hero for her loyalty and trustworthiness (arguable whether the show does a good job at displaying these qualities but I digress) and Chat Noir, the holder of the only other Miraculous Hawkmoth needs, is the most dangerous possible choice to share her identity with, especially considering what little Marinette remembers about Chat Blanc

Plus, Alya was there. Like, physically right there. And Marinette broke under all the pressure that was put on her. You think she’s gonna break and then sit around peacefully until Chat shows up before she actually acts on the breakage?

Anyway, speaking of Alya, her becoming more involved in the hero work makes Chat Noir feel replaced, resulting in him straight-up ignoring the plan after he was informed of his role in it multiple times by multiple people during Sentibubbler. I’ve seen takes that Marinette should have apologised for him not being better informed or for not including him more in the plan, and that absolutely baffles me

This wasn’t Marinette’s plan. Hell, Marinette herself didn’t even know half the plan, and she was the only other person aware of Alya’s trump card. Not to mention there was a whole thing about how Alya couldn’t contact Marinette, so how do they expect Marinette to have any way of knowing more than what was canonically stated to have been told to Marinette? There’s no way people aren’t just making up issues at this point

Rocketear then shows us something I think highlights one of the previous points very well; Ladybug notices that Chat looks upset after he’s learned that Ladybug broke the secret identify rule by handing Alya and Nino their Miraculous at the same time back during Heroes’ Day

She asks Chat what’s wrong and if he’s okay, and you know what he says? He fkn reassures her that he’s okay and it’s nothing

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen; Ladybug noticed there were signs of a problem and asked Chat about it, only to be told there was no problem. But as all the salters have told me, Ladybug just doesn’t care about Chat Noir or his problems. How do people expect her to fix a problem that she not only doesn’t know exists, but a problem that’s now actively being kept from her?

Now we come to Chat Noir no-showing to fights, which results in Ladybug needing to call in additional backup more often. At first Chat has valid reasons for not showing up; he had obligations as Adrien that he couldn’t escape. But the problem here isn’t that he didn’t show, it’s that he took the temp heroes showing up as a sign of Ladybug replacing him as her partner rather than filling a vacant but necessary role

And the problem only worsened when Chat stopped showing up to fights even when he had every opportunity to, opting out due to being depressed that Ladybug was relying more on the temp heroes… which in turn forced Ladybug to rely more on the temp heroes. He was creating his own problem

And it stumps me how so many Marinette salters decided that it was her fault for letting things get so bad between them that he was sitting out akuma fights due to depression. Dumber still, people agreeing with Adrien and saying that Ladybug is replacing Chat and she shouldn’t keep bringing out the temp heroes and instead rely more on Chat

Guys, I’m sure she’d love to rely more on Chat, but right now she can’t even rely on him to show up to his job. What do you realistically want her to do? Fight akumas all alone, without any backup? Not fight the akuma until Chat shows up first, thus enabling the akuma to run rampant and unchecked through Paris until then? Somehow figure out Chat Noir’s identify, show up at Adrien’s house and beg him to help her fight? What’s her realistic alternative to the temp heroes?

Kuro Neko is where this comes to a head. To start we have salters saying that Ladybug’s interview was insulting to Chat, but I don’t see it at all. Her exact words were “Of course [Chat and I aren’t at odds with each other], it's just that... umm, he's a partner like any other! The most important is to pick the best superheroes for each mission, with or without Cat Noir. No matter what, we've got a great team and we'll always be here to save Paris.”

She’s saying that Chat Noir wasn’t necessary for the fight, not that he wasn’t wanted or missed. Could she have phrased it slightly better? Yes. But she was put on the spot to answer a question she doesn’t know the answer to but probably secretly fears the worst for, all while knowing that she needs to reassure the public that they’re safe and that she and all the other heroes will transform back any minute now

She was trying to say “Chat Noir’s absence isn’t because of any fights between us, and I can assure you that with the help of the team, Paris won’t be any less safe than it is when we work as a duo”, not “Chat Noir is useless and I’m phasing him out in favour of all these other heroes”

Chat finally shows up and addresses his issues, albeit totally out of the blue for Ladybug since this is the first time she’s actually gotten some form of confirmation that something is, in fact, wrong. Chat shows up out of nowhere after missing a ton of akuma fights, wants to hang out and chat while Ladybug is already on the clock, then offers to help her out by going to all the meeting spots to collect the loaned Miraculous

The problem here is that Chat doesn’t know half of their identities, so in order to help Ladybug, he needs her to break the identity rule in a non-emergency situation and reveal secrets that aren’t hers to share

He tries to argue that he already knows some of the heroes, which is fair, but even then it’s made pretty clear that Ladybug doesn’t have time to work out which heroes Chat knows the identities of and then tell him where these specific individuals are currently located

They’ll all be turning back any moment now, Ladybug included, and if she turns back then it’s game over for them all. At very least King Monkey would have only lasted another three or four seconds if Ladybug had gotten his Miraculous back, and he was left dangling from a chimney

Seems to me that Ladybug is not currently in a position where she’s able to accept Chat Noir’s help, but she has made it clear that she’ll talk to him after everything is taken care of and she’s no longer racing against the clock

But because she’s turning down Chat Noir’s offer of help, regardless of circumstances, the salters blame her for it as if she and all the others wouldn’t have turned back before she even finished sharing all the heroes’ locations

There’s also an argument going around of ‘she should have told him all their identities before’, but this is ignoring that, while it’s Ladybug’s job to know this stuff as both their Guardian and not Ladybug’s place to share the secrets of others, we’ve also had several episodes detailing how dangerous it is to break the identity rule; Queen Wasp, Heroes’ Day, Miraculer, Miracle Queen, Optigami, Sentibubbler, Rocketear. Hell, three of those happened just the other week or something

And just to clarify, Ladybug still doesn’t know that this is part of an overarching issue; as far as she knows, he showed up out of nowhere after a fight, she told him multiple times that she has to rush around gathering these Miraculous and that she didn’t have time to explain where she needed to meet everyone, he was teasing and making puns while interrupting her and then she snapped that “If you want to save me time, stop wasting it in the first place!” since he was being pushy at an inappropriate time when she didn’t have the time to talk it out calmly or anything

It’s an understandable reaction when you’re trying to do something very important and someone swoops in out of nowhere and pesters you with puns and demands while you’re already on the clock, and frankly Chat did need her to snap a bit to show she was serious

And all I have to say is… that’s it? That’s all she had to do to be the bad guy in this situation, according to salters? Yes, she could’ve been more polite, sure, but Chat was the one keeping her from doing her job. Showing up with the intention of helping doesn’t absolve him of causing further disruptions. At that point he was the one disregarding social convention

And then immediately after that, Chat tells her that she should just take his Miraculous away from him as well, to which she just gives a barebones acknowledgement as she rushes away, then expresses that she doesn’t know what he meant by that. She still thinks this is just him wanting to be helpful and not taking her responsibilities seriously in favour of being playful

This is an extreme overreaction to what she perceives as just a minor bump in the road, if anything, which is probably why she didn’t catch on right away what he meant; he wouldn’t really quit being a superhero altogether just over her not having the time to talk to him right this second, right?

Plagg is the one to break it to her that there’s an overarching issue; Chat’s co-dependency issues making him struggle with the idea that he’s not necessary because job-wise he can be replaced with the temp heroes and his struggles to healthily communicate this due to his stunted social development resulting in his bottled up feelings spilling over… wait, what? He said it was because she broke Chat’s heart by not being in love with him? When the hell did that become relevant?

But some salters ate up the idea that Ladybug rejecting Chat is a moral failing on her part and all this would’ve been solved if she just dated him already. The love square isn’t even a contender in these issues, why is this the explanation? And why are people falling for it? It’s clearly just another excuse to make Marinette ‘learn a lesson’ and blame her for all this while absolving Adrien of any perceived imperfections

And to clarify once more; MariBug is now finally aware that there is some overarching conflict, but she believes it’s just Chat being butthurt that she’s still not in love with him. So nothing new. Same conflict as always

Oh, and a bit of a tangent but what the hell were the salters thinking when they blamed Marinette for going to London in Hack-San? We saw her make several attempts to get out of it, then when she couldn’t she called Alya - the second most experienced superheroine after herself and someone already familiar with Tikki and already aware of Mari’s identity - to take over for her to ensure Paris still had a Ladybug hero

Even after she was long gone, Mari was still texting Alya non-stop to provide tips for being the Ladybug hero, including special tips on how to make Chat feel valued and happy. Girl thought of everything, did all she could, and you’re still managing to complain that she should’ve just… what? Confessed to her parents that she’s Ladybug so they’d have to let her stay? Run away? Destroy all their passports?

Look, even Tom was vibing with not going, but Marinette tried every trick in the book and it all failed, so she ensured she appointed the most qualified replacement she could. That’s called being responsible

I bet those salters are the same people that got pissed off when Ladybug yelled at Chat for abandoning Paris in the New York special, despite the fact that he left completely unannounced yet pre-planned and willingly, while knowing Ladybug wouldn’t be there and without appointing anyone to fill in in his absence and as such knowingly leaving Paris undefended

Anyway, things come to a head again in the finale when Chat is yelling at Ladybug mid-battle for keeping secrets from him and being too reliant on the temp heroes rather than him and all that fun stuff. Now remember, this is once again coming out of nowhere for Ladybug, who has managed to reach the season finale without actually knowing that she’s in the middle of a season-long conflict as opposed to just same old, same old

Ladybug is trying to defend herself from both the sentimonsters and from Chat’s accusations and insults, with no idea where all this animosity has ‘suddenly’ come from

More salters argue that, once again, Ladybug should’ve caved to his whims by now, and all I can do is wonder why the middle of a huge fight is seemingly their definition of an appropriate time for that conversation, let alone any time at all being appropriate for spilling secrets that aren’t yours to share and are being kept for the purpose of child safeguarding

Salters really need to understand that while LadyNoir are equals in terms of a team unit going into battle, Ladybug is still effectively Chat’s boss due to her Guardianship role. They don’t have to be equals in absolutely every aspect, and Marinette doing her job is not a flaw in Marinette’s character or an argument towards her being a bad person who doesn’t care about Chat Noir

Then we get to the big risk of giving a Miraculous to ‘Adrien’, and salters love to claim that it’s all Ladybug’s fault because she chose Felix and not Adrien. Can you guess what I’m going to ask how, guys?

As opposed to what???

Ladybug was knowingly under the influence of an akuma that impairs judgement. She came to a very logical conclusion given the information she had that ‘Adrien’ didn’t have a mark, and thus was the only person in Paris not judgmentally impaired. She was, need I remind you, correct

The only problem is that she didn’t know - and had no way of knowing - that at that moment, Felix was pretending to be Adrien for completely unrelated reasons, just so happening to get caught up in the crossfires of whatever the hell MariBug was getting up to that day. Her logic was ‘I can’t trust myself to make a smart decision, so I’ll go to someone who I can trust to make a smart decision’. And just because Felix was already acting the part, a fact she couldn’t have possibly known, suddenly she’s to blame for the fuck-up?

Anyway, when we finally begin to conclude the LadyNoir drama, it occurs when Ladybug realised that she’s been tricked and Felix steals her yo-yo. Adrien gets in a snide comment about “If you’re gonna trust me once, please let it be this time!” which should make exactly zero sense to Ladybug

And then we get to the final scene, where Ladybug breaks down crying and apologises for lying to Chat, not listening to him, keeping him at a distance and refusing his help

And I just… what? Chat’s done all these things without context to make it understandable or called for in the moment, yet the Marinette salters are just nodding along and agreeing that she’s the one at fault. So many of them have said that Ladybug didn’t deserve his forgiveness or his loyalty or his pep talk, it baffles me

And that brings me to conclude my biggest gripe about the LadyNoir drama and the Marinette salters that go with it; MariBug was almost solely blamed by the narrative and the salters alike, but she didn’t actually know anything at all was going on until Kuro Neko (episode 23 of 26)

From there she figured it was just some of Chat’s habitual pouting on the job over his advances being rejected until the very last episode of the season but never got clarification on what exactly had been bugging him for this long, then it all magically resolved without apology or explanation

He didn’t bother with that because, by the end of the episode, Chat had gotten his way; no more temp heroes. Ladybug was now forced to rely on him and only him, so he instantly quit fighting her and carried on as though nothing had ever happened. Ladybug must’ve been reeling, no wonder she was just listing off all the bad stuff she could think of that she might’ve done; she was trying to see which one stuck. Girl lasted the entire season drama without knowing what the drama was

Marinette salters to that extent don’t take into account her perspective of many situations, and a lot of it is from Chat stans getting mad when MariBug doesn’t bend over backwards to his every whim, even when he’s actively keeping them a secret from her. She’s just supposed to telepathically know what the problem is and is expected to fix it simply because ‘they’re partners’, when even that isn’t an obligation to care for him beyond a professional capacity

Sorry I know this one is long as all hell but it really annoys me how certain Marinette salters will practically invent problems to blame her for - the show’s writers included. And to be clear, I’ve done my share of Marinette salting before, she’s far from perfect, but I do think that a lot of the salt she gets is pretty baseless

TL;DR is that my worst issue with Marinette salters is how they often blame Marinette entirely for the season 4 LadyNoir drama despite the fact that a lot of their problems with her behaviour don’t really have a reasonable alternative and she didn’t ever actually work out what the drama was truly about, having not even known there was drama until episode 23 of 26

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43. kissing away tears

It comes out in one sharp burst of words as soon as she sets him down. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Adrien doesn't respond, gaze fixed on a puddle scattered in the concrete.

She hates this. Hates the way he won't look at her, hates the way she always ends up yelling at him, hates the fact that they keep having this conversation over and over again, as if it will make any difference to what he does.

Ladybug sighs, leaning back against the brick. She glances down at her fists. Still shaking.

"Adrien,” she says softly. “I'm not going to die again.”

He swallows hard, looking down at his ring. The sky is a blue square of light in his eyes.

She doesn't remember much about that fight. It started just after sunset and ended when it started getting light again, but everything in between is empty, a hollowness she can feel, trace her hands around the shape of but never be able to fill, no matter how many news reports she's read about it. All she knew was that it was a sentimonster — a giant, black wolf — and that the Tour de l'Horloge rang out only twice before she died.

Chat Noir had to take her earrings while the sentimonster was still on top of her.

She was back by the end of the battle, when he’d used her Cure on the city. She remembers standing up, brushing the dirt off her clothes, and bumping her fist against his once he came to find her. He didn’t mention what happened, and so she didn't either.

He speaks after a long pause. "How do you know I'm thinking about that?"

"Because you haven't looked me in the eye all afternoon." She reaches out for his hand. "Adrien. I know you're scared. But you can't keep putting yourself in danger just to save me."

His fingers loosen around hers. Slowly, he slips his hand away and puts it in his pocket.

She stares at the space where it used to be, pretending that didn't sting.

"What if it were me?" he says.

She looks at him. "If what were you?"

"If it were me that had to die that night." Finally, he meets her gaze. "If you had to see me like that."

"That's…" She trails off. "I don't know."

He lets out a scoff. "Yeah. Thought so."

She raises her eyebrows. "What?"

"Nothing."

"No, tell me."

"You'll just yell at me again. Just like you always do."

Her mouth falls open. She wants to be sympathetic. She does. But it's hard when he becomes cold like this, when it feels like she has to smoke him out of the walls he's built around himself. 

"Adrien," she says coolly. "It was one battle. And I came back. If anything happened to me again, the Cure would fix it." She looks at him. "What the Cure can't fix is if Hawk Moth gets hold of our Miraculous because you jeopardise our plan by throwing yourself in front of an akuma."

He sets his gaze on her, hard and unyielding. "Wouldn't you do the same for me?" he says. "If it were me who'd died?"

She swallows hard. “I’d just use the Cure."

He scoffs. “Bullshit. You’d tear up the whole city.”

A deep breath leaves through her nose. She wonders, briefly, if this is why he keeps doing this. To teach her a lesson. To get even with her.

"I'm not saying that I'd handle it well," she says. "I'm saying that, sometimes, shit happens. But I have my Cure. We need to remember that. We can't just toss away all our strategies just because we're scared. That's not the way we've ever done things."

His silence is cold and sharp. "Because back then I could look at your face without remembering what it looked like when you were dead."

His voice cracks mid-sentence.

Any further argument dies in her throat.

Adrien yanks his hand out of his pocket and fumbles with his ring. He slides it off, and holds it out to her. “Take it,” he spits. “Find another Chat Noir. One who wouldn’t care if you died.”

She stares at him. "You're not serious."

"I'm completely serious." His voice is shaking. "I can't do this job anymore. Not if it means having to be okay with seeing you hurt for the sake of the battle."

She looks down at his ring. A thin thread of sky light traces the shank. He's not taking it back. 

Her first instinct is to tell him to put his ring back on and agree to talk about this when they've both cooled down. But this feels like more than just something said in the heat of the moment. Something that he might actually… want.

And… she doesn't blame him. It would be easier, wouldn't it? 

At least the next time she died, he wouldn't be the one to see her body.

She closes her eyes, a lump swelling in her throat. 

But she's not sure anyone else would save her the way he did. Take the risk of wielding the Ladybug against a canine sentimonster just so they could possibly summon the Cure by the end of it. 

When she opens her eyes, tears are streaming down his cheeks.

"I'm sorry," she says softly. Reaching up, she touches his face. "You're right. You shouldn't have had to see that."

His fingers curl around his Miraculous. 

He squeezes his eyes shut, lowering his head. "I thought I lost you," he says quietly. "That— that whole battle, I just remember knowing you were lying there, knowing what happened to you, so sure that I would never see you again—" 

She steps closer right away, pressing herself as close to him as she can, fingers sliding on his wet cheeks and into his hair while she kisses the tears off his face.

"I'm sorry," she says. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll always stay alive."

"Always?" he asks, lifting his gaze to meet hers.

She holds it firmly, watching every shard of light glitter in his tears. "Always. For you."

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[empressofthesunwriter]

Isekai'd as Chloe

You were watching Miraculous Ladybug on your phone as your bus got hit by a truck. You died, it sucks. But a godly being gives you the chance to start anew in a brand new world. Sadly it's Miraculous, with all the plotholes, and flat characters, and don't forget worshipped while being a sexual abuser Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir. Could your day get any worse? You shouldn't have asked because you were reborn as Chloe and forgot who Papillion was. Someone wanted to see you suffer, that was sure! But you wouldn't give them the satisfaction. It was time to throw canon out of the window and make Miraculous a better show or in your case world!

Main Pairing: Reader/Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

26.06.2023: Here is the improved and longer version of the chapter, hope you like it ^^

Chapter 8: Noir VS. Blanc

“I should have now!”, you said under your breath as you run for cover to transform. Thank the Kwamis Chat Blanc was more interested in destroying buildings than hurting people, at least that. “I should have now Agreste wouldn’t accept that he couldn’t be Chat Noir anymore! Of course, Papillion would get to him.”

You finally found an abandoned alleyway and let Plagg out of your purse.

The kwami of destruction had his flippers crossed.

“Now, now, don’t blame yourself too much. Only Papillion is to blame here and don’t start with you shouldn’t have or you should have, we can never know what can happen.”

You blinked surprised at him.

“That actually was good advice.”

“Whatever, transform so I can go back to my nap.”

“And just like that it’s over.”

Still, you called for your transformation. You hoped Marinette was already transformed as you called her from your Baton to her Yoyo.

“Calamity, I bet you already know what’s up.”, greeted Ladybug’s voice.

“Difficult to not, when this crazy white cat destroys anything in his fucking way.”

“We need a plan before he hurts someone!”

“I have one.”, you told her with a sign. “But you aren’t gonna like it.”

“…How much I’m not gonna like it?”

“A lot, but Blanc thinks with his dick, that’s the best strategy against him.”

“What?”

You started to explain your plan. Indeed Ladybug didn’t like it, but after some good arguments from you, she agreed that this would be the best.

You bet she would take after this a long shower. Not that you could blame her.

As Adrien- no he was Chat Blanc now awoke today and didn’t find HIS ring, his whole world collapsed.

How should he now see his lady?

How should he now get out of his house?

How should he now live happily ever after with Ladybug after she finished playing hard to get?

Chat Blanc didn’t have an answer, but the purple butterfly, who hand flew in the camembert wheel carton in his hand did.

Maybe he and his lady were too hard on Papillion. The men seemed to understand what it felt like to be separated from your true love.

In any case, Papillion made him stronger than he ever was. He would hunt down with his new power the one who stole HIS ring and show his lady that he was still the best partner in the world.

Okay, maybe destroying some buildings wasn’t that good of an idea, but he didn’t have any other means to contact his lady.

And Miraculous Ladybug would fix anything, so there wasn’t a problem.

He was whistling a little tune, making his way to the Eifeltower, randomly destroying a building here, a monument there.

The screams of the people got on his nerves. Couldn’t they see that he just wanted Ladybug’s attention?

What did they need to be so dramatic?

That’s when he heard how two persons land behind him.

He turned around and let out a happy gasp.

It was his lady in all her spotting glory. In her Yoyo was tangled a girl, the thief of his ring.

Nobody else but this girl in a black cat outfit could be it.

A girl dared to still his ring?

What, did she want to be like Ladybug?

No one could be as perfect as his lady.

“My lady.”, he purred happily. “You found for me the person who stole my ring!”

Ladybug smiled cutely at him, his heart was beating hard seeing this wonderful smile on her rose lips.

“Of course, chaton. I know you would only take an Akuma to get your powers back.”, she said to him sweetly.

Papillion’s voice came into his head, commanding him to take the ring and the ladybug earrings, but he wouldn’t do this to his lady.

He just wanted his ring back.

“Give me this thieving girl, I will take care of her and we can be a team again!”

“This would make me so happy chaton!”, she declared and batted her eyelashes at him. Oh wow, she never has done this before. He felt himself turning red. “When I saw her instead of you, I realized how much you meant to me.”

“My lady!”, he gasped happily.

He took a step forward to embrace her when suddenly anything happen in a blurb.

The female cat untangled herself without problems from Ladybugs Yoyo and shouted: “Cataclysm!”

Her attack hit him on point and he fainted.

You stared down at Chat Blanc shaking your head.

Goddammit, he really thought only with his dick!

You were so scared of him, but in the end, he was probably the easiest Akuma in history.

“I can’t believe that it was that easy!”, shouted Ladybug raising her arms to the sky. “He truly is obsessed with me as you said.”

“Yep, let’s search for the Akuma and be done with it.”

You two got to work and found a little box in his pocket that was formally pulsing with energy.

Bingo, here is the Akuma.

Ladybug called for her Lucky Charm, which was a winner trophy, ha, then purified the Akuma and used her Miraculous Ladybug.

All was restored and good in Paris.

You hold her by the hand as Chat Blanc turned back to Adrien.

She needed to see this.

Shocking would be an understatement for what you saw in her eyes.

A lot of emotions were battling in her.

Finally, with a groan, Adrien woke up.

“Oh, what happened?”, he wonders. Then he saw Ladybug and turned into an excited puppy. “Ladybug, my lady, oh dear it wasn’t how I wanted to reveal myself to you, but at least you can give me back my ring!”

You so wanted to say something, but you needed to see if Ladybug would do the right thing.

“A-Are you out of your mind!”, she declared in disbelief. “Even if I wanted you back as a partner, Papillion knows your true identity now. You can’t be anymore, Chat Noir.”

“Oh…but we could be still a couple!”

Adrien got down on one knee and stared at her with a creepy look. He thought probably it was romantic, yet it made you wish for a shower.

“We will be like Superman and Luise Lane, doesn’t it sound delightful my lady?”

Ladybug blinked.

One.

Two.

Three.

Times.

“You…are out of your mind! You would just date me as a civilian, do you know how dangerous it is for you?”

“Aww, you are again, playing hard to get. When will you stop?”

Oh no, he didn’t just say that!

“I beg your pardon?!”, hissed Ladybug.

“We are meant to be my lady, you are the only one we can’t see it. With or without the ring, I’m yours, as I will love however is under the mask!”

“Really? What if I was Chloe Bourgeoise.”

Yeah, let her drag your possessing Chloe’s ass into it. Hey, you were nice now! What would it take her to see it too?

You saw for a second the fear in his eyes and Ladybug did too.

That was enough for her.

“Come Calamity. Let’s go.”

“Right behind, you L.B.”

With that, you both left the scene, before the reporters came to ask Adrien out.

Now that it was known he had been Chat Noir there would be surely a lot of questions asked.

You and Ladybug feed your kwamis and then transformed again.

It was Ladybug pleading to you since she needed somebody.

At that somebody was you.

So you hold her, while she cried over Adrien, probably in her mind regretting ever falling in love with him, with this creep who thought with his dick and had put her on a pedestal.

He never would truly love HER, only the made-up version in his head.

This was a bitter pill to swallow.

Even more, if she also realizes what stupid stalker shit she did in the name of love.

Sadly you couldn’t say these things, since you couldn’t know them without telling your whole story.

No, it wasn’t the time.

She needed to handle this first before you told her about yourself and how canon would have screwed her over.

So you just hold Ladybug in your arms, humming a little melody to calm her down.

You don’t know how long you two stayed like this. Time didn’t matter while you hold her. The world didn’t matter.

A meteor could come crashing down and you wouldn’t even take note of it.

Ladybug was a shaking and crying mess. She struggled to talk, she wanted to get her emotion also out in words, yet she couldn’t.

It was too much for her soul.

So you just shushed her, stroking her hair.

Your suit was wet with her tears and snot.

You never saw someone crying this much.

You had wished to save Marinette/Ladybug from trauma, from all the trauma she would have faced in the future, sadly you didn’t think that new traumas could take place.

You had a feeling it would take a long time, till she let anyone back into her heart.

But this was okay.

You would wait for Marinette till the end of the world.

And you know a certain guitarist would do this too after he meet her.

The sun was going down when Ladybug calmed down enough.

You both were sitting on the rooftop, she in your lap, hugging you tight, while you rocked her back and forth.

“Calamity.”, she rasped out. “I—Thank you. I…I needed that.”

“Anything for you.”, you simply said.

She signed and put her head under your chin.

“You didn’t need to do all this, yet you stayed without asking anything in return. You…you are a good partner.”

“I want us to be friends, L.B., if it helps you snotting all over me then, by all means, do it any day.”, you tried to light the atmosphere with a joke.

It worked since she snorted.

“Today…was a lot.”, she whispered, snuggling up to you. You hummed, stroking her hair. “I…I need to rethink a lot of things…I need to look at myself too…I did some really questionable things I realized, thanks to Chat—thanks to Agreste in my civilian life.”

“The first step to being a better person is to admit their mistake and work on them.”, you told her softly.

It was good that she realized what a creepy stalker she had been.

You have read before dying and becoming Chloe the theory that after original Chloe and Kim played this cruel joke with the spiders on Marinette, she become obsessed to know anything about her crushes so something like this would never happen again.

Well, one could understand her. She nearly drowned and if it wasn’t for Socqueline’s original Chloe would have posted online the cruel joke played on her.

Yet, it still was wrong.

Cool motive, but still murder, you know?

You hoped with all your heart that she would grow from it.

You were now back at the hotel, sitting on your bed, freshly showered, and thinking and writing down your thoughts in your little notebook.

Plagg was sitting like a king on a pillow beside you and eating 100 times his weight in camembert.

“What’s with that face?”, he asked you, gulping down a whole wheel.

How in the name of the kwami he managed that was the real mystery of life.

Where did all this cheese go in his little body?

“I’m just thinking.”, you answered him, scribbling down. “My memories I have from watching the show, and the memories I inherited from Chloe have made a little mess in my head. I forgot this girl named Socqueline Wang who was Marinette’s friend and stood up to the original Chloe. Today I remember her again. I need to apologize to her too.”

“Don’t worry so much about that. Sanura had the same problems. It takes a while before you can live with two mindsets and remember things right.”, he told you.

Curious you looked up from the notebook.

“Sanura, the Egyptian black cat who was a Dimensionwanderer just like me and had to misfortune to be reborn as a boy even if she was a girl?”

“Exactly.”

“When will you tell me her story?”

“When this pharaoh Akuma comes. Would be too simple if I told you all right now.”

“You are a meanie.”, you whined. “Also after today with Chat Blanc, could be I screwed canon totally over. This could be bad. We need that Papillion appears on Hero’s Day, so we can catch him and Mayura and end this show before it drags on.”

“So bad was the future?”

“You have no idea, it was just so dragging, and stupid and like how can someone have three moms and not expose themselves!”, you talked rapidly and angrily.

Plagg frowned.

“What? Who has three moms and doesn’t expose themselves?”

“A girl named Lila Rossi. A manipulative and serial liar. She will be joining at the end of this season my class, then stay away for the whole of season two, till Heroes Day, then be back in season three. All besides Marinette will kiss her ass and she will become the Papillion of the future. But if we manage to get Nooroo and Duusu back this headache doesn’t need to happen.”

The kwami frowned even more.

“Are you sure, we will be ready till Heroe’s Day?”

“We need to be ready.”

You put your notebook down.

Writing on it were all potential new holders for the bee, fox, and turtle.

Alya and Nino couldn’t become Rena Rouge and Carapace, even though Alya knew Marinette was Ladybug she still believed Lila and Nino just followed his girlfriend along.

No, you needed strong people in mind and body to catch Papillion and Mayura.

You had already a few in mind.

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[judyhopps934-mt-zd]

Quick Thoughts on Miraculous Awakening

Warning: Spoilers. And I can't let go of the fact that they changed the name.

It's a musical!

The criminally insane difference between Marinette's speaking voice and singing voice. But then again, I am a huge fan of Lou and she sings so beautifully

What happened to Adrien's modeling career?!?!?!

AND HE ATTENDED SCHOOL WAY BEFORE THE MOVIE?!?!?!?!?

Alya is a real one for befriending Marinette despite the rumors (the other kids are jerks)

Speaking of which, Max steals hats now?!?!?!?!?

Still hate Chloé. She still reminds me of my bullies.

THE LIBRARY SCENE!!!!! I love how they just casually met and there was no intense drama

The foreshadowing of Adrien being Cat Noir when Marinette held a book to her face

Honestly, Adrien's personality of being aloof initially is valid considering his mom died*

TIKKI WE GOTTA LOVR TIKKI

They meet

WHAT ARE YOU, A WATERMELON? -Chat Noir

Apparently, Tikki and Plagg don't get along, which somehow influences how Ladybug and Chat Noir did not like each other at first and why they initially did not see themselves as equals?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

The Cherry Blossom Garden scene after the fight! Gotta live for their banter IN FRONT OF MASTER FU

Dammit Tom! We love you for being a great dad, but why are you following your daughter and interrupting her conversation with Adrien right after she says great things about you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Glad that Ladybug and Chat Noir got along mid fight

Nino's last words were that he loves Alya, but Alya interjecting him with "Ladybug" was for some reason so funny to me

THE ROOFTOO SCENE IS SO ICONIC AND I WAS HAPPY STIMMING THE WHOLE TIME!!!!

Will never forgive the loss of Ce mur qui nous separè, but the rooftop scene makes up for it (somehow)

DAMMIT WHY DO THEY GOTTA YANK MY HEART OUT WITH SUCH A LOVELY SCENE WITH MELANCHOLY BECAUSE OF THE WALL BETWEEN THEM?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Destruction!

Noooo, now Hawkmoth knows that Marinette is Ladybug 😵

He actually stops his madness after realizing that Adrien is Chat Noir? He is more respectable than his show counterpart? I gasp they actually fixed the show in a movie

Chloé, Adrien does not seem into you, have you not noticed this by now?!?!?!?!?!? Nobody is getting in your way

AHHHH THE REVEAL THEY ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB!!!!!

And they kiss?AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

NO PLEASE NO SENTIMONSTER I AM GONNA BE UPSET

Gotta give credit to everyone who worked in the movie for making it much better than the show! I feel like the show would be so much more enjoyable if they took the set storyline from the movie and expanded it without all of the inconsistencies and controversies that the show has, because this would be a show I want to see. I laughed, I happy stimmed with glee, I cried, and repeat. Overall 100000/10

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #ml #ml ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #mlb #934 posts #ml spoilers #miraculous awakening spoilers #miraculous awakening #miraculous spoilers #ladybug and cat noir the movie #ladybug and cat noir awakening #ladybug and chat noir the movie spoilers #lou #movie was so much better than the show #and i am not sorry about it

[hijinxensues]

EDIT: i did it

I very literally need ONE person to support this idea and i will write it as a multi chapter fic

OKAY HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT. ITS REALLY SPOTTY BUT I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A RLLY GOOD CONCEPT FOR SOME FUCKING FLUFFY SHIT

miraculous ladybug and cat noir type love triangle/square????? with donnie and reader (OC, maybe???).

Reader is half-mutant/whatever (think mirko from my hero academia- basically human with bunny ears and feet. PLZ IM BEGGING FOR AN EXCUSE TO HAVE A PART-BUNNY OC) but goes arnd w a cloaking broach to continue living as a human. Regular ass job at a coffee shop (because OF COURSE they do), has a weird customer has comes in late at night, can never really see his face but donned in purple- ALWAYS. They dont chat much ever and hes pretty much in and out when he grabs his caffeine fix.

reader goes home and hops onto their computer and plays whatever video game to reconvene with “bootyyyshaker9000”, some guy she’s only heard the voice of because his cam is “always broken”. hes good company though!!! and hes fun to chat with, so the online friendship continues. god forbid she admits to herself her heart seizes when he laughs.

donnie doesnt often use his cloaking broach often (why would he? Him and his brothers literally get by as “humans” with a “skin condition”), but occasionally he doesnt want to sneak around topside, (even though yokais are relatively welcomed after the krang invasion) and so he dons his cloaking broach to pick up whatever (parts? tech related?). he runs into reader on the street for whatever reason, he recognizes them as the barista from the coffee shop he frequents. Theyre nice enough, but hes never really chatted with them extensively. SO TRUST ME WHEN HES SURPRISED WITH HIMSELF THAT HE’D ACTUALLY WANT TO CONTINUE TALKING TO HER AFTER A FEW QUICK WITTED REMARKS ON HER END. they part without exchanging contacts though but both of them are honestly lowkey INTRIGUED with eachother. (Also head canon for me that bc the boys r made from lou jitsu dna, their human forms are asian- CHECK @/smallest_of_smol on tiktok to see their asian!human!donnie which this is literally inspired by)

OKAY IN THE HIDDEN CITY, reader goes around without her cloaking broach but does use a mask to cover up their face since they mostly look human. Theyre too-mutant for topside but not yokai-enough for the hidden city so she does hide away their features a fair bit. she never needs to really venture down into the hidden city, but she likes the pizza there (always takeout so she doesnt need to take her mask off to eat) and does find some use in the mystic trinkets down there too. RUNS INTO DONNIE, as he picks up pizza for his brothers at “run of the mill”. They knock shoulders and they both drop their pizza boxes. CUE THE SASS FROM DONNIE. CUE THE SASS FROM READER. they hate eachother from the STARTTT.

OKAY PLEASE IS ANYONE WITH ME? ITS A BIT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND ITS BEEN YEARSSSS SINCE I WROTE FANFIC BUT THIS IS SPEAKING TO ME. FLUFFY AND SMUTTY MAYBE???? SOMEONE TELL ME THIS IS A GOOD IDEA AND ILL DO IT RN.

#rottmnt #donatello #donnie x reader #donnie x oc #rise donnie #rise donatello #rise donnie x reader

[halfagone]

Ooh, that’s a good point, maybe I won’t add Dc to this AU then. So disregarding the Dc stuff, I think you’ll like this prompt. What if Ladybug and Chat Noir meet Dan after he escapes the thermos, with Danny having to come in and save them? I’d imagine this would be a few months after he’s started mentoring them, and I think it would be interesting to see their reactions to seeing their seemingly infallible mentor’s greatest fear. What do you think?

Oof, Danny would have to come in quick, because while Marinette and Adrien are plenty capable against foes like Hawkmoth or the akumas... Dan kills. He does not seek anything other than destruction. He doesn't really choose his victims, because everyone is his target. It's part of the reason he's so damn terrifying. Which... is a really fun idea to explore. ;3

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Marinette watches on as the man- who looks so much like Phantom, but not- floats above the burning Paris and watches on with glee. Phantom doesn't like to talk about his past battles unless they ask, or it's relevant to a lesson he's trying to teach, and Marinette can't remember Phantom once mentioning someone like this. She knows that he has family, in a general sense, so is this a relative of his? They do look a lot alike, but... could any relative of Phantom's ever do this?

She and Chat Noir don't even try to fight him. It's obvious he's far too powerful for them, so instead they try to save as many people as they can, spamming Phantom's phone as they go along. Marinette knows it's bad when even Chat Noir isn't making any of his usual jokes. He's broken limbs, ribs, and even then he's always managed to crack a pun or something. But not today.

Today, they are terrified.

Marinette just about sinks with relief when she sees the familiar flash of light that signals Phantom has teleported onto the scene. She doesn't know when seeing the more experienced hero had become a constant and grounding presence, but right now it's like a life raft in the middle of the storming sea. Phantom's done a lot for them these past few months, but right now, he is the only thing standing in between this stranger and Paris' total destruction.

Except instead of the steady confidence she's used to seeing from him, he looks half terrified out of his mind, eyes enormously wide as he stares down the opponent. So maybe they do know each other? The stranger certainly looks happy to see Phantom, even though Marinette is pretty sure that's not a good thing at all.

Phantom doesn't back down- he never does- but it's obvious he's not prepared and ready to face this foe, even though he's the only one who can.

"Aw, look at you, you're practically breathless," the stranger sneers with a cruel grin. "Did you miss me that much?"

"Get out." Marinette blinks in surprise when she hears the quiet intensity in Phantom's voice. The air quivers around him as Phantom shouts, "Get out! There's no reason for you to be here-"

"You're here. Isn't that reason enough?" The stranger remarks and then swipes out a hand. The Eiffel Tower sparks up with flames. Chat Noir makes a strangled noise over their communicators. That's right, he had been closer to the- She goes running off in that direction, hopelessly trying to help him and save everyone she can.

And for once, Marinette has to come to terms with the possibility that this time... There may be no miraculous rewind to fix what little is left behind.

#halfagone replies #dp x mlb #i don't know if you wanted the whole battle #but i definitely wanted to show the confrontation

[inner-sakura]

the law of equivalent exchange

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: F/M Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug,  Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Summary: 

In one world, a wish is made.    

Yet for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And a price that must always be paid.  

[’Tuesday, Ladybug thinks, is a very arbitrary day to die.’]

[canon divergent, not season 5 compliant. angst. major character death. author makes questionable use of The Wish mechanics.] 

i wrote this instead of sleeping. it can probably be generously called conceptual.

-x-

Tuesday, Ladybug thinks, is a very arbitrary day to die.

Not that she’d ever given much thought to which day of the week would be her last, per se. But as she lays there, blackness slowly creeping into the edges of her vision, she can’t help but ruminate; her mind flitting from one thought to the next as though trying to cram as much material into as little time as possible.

It’s not like she can do much apart from sit there and think, anyway. She’s completely lost feeling in her legs now, numbness replacing what used to be a world of sensation. Even if she wanted to move, it’s simply not an option anymore.

Besides, she lost the taste for it fairly quickly upon realizing just how painful moving could be when your insides have suddenly become outsides.

So she sits, and she thinks, and she waits to die.

She’s in the process of contemplating the simple majesty of a cloudless blue sky when blackness fills her vision, followed swiftly by gold and green and–

“Oh hey, kitty,” she smiles, and then immediately regrets it when she begins coughing, the greeting aggravating her already angry throat. When she finally stops, her lips are damp, and she doesn’t need to look at Chat’s stricken expression to know that her mask isn’t the only streak of red on her face anymore.

His hands are heartbreakingly gentle as they lift her, cradling her broken body against his trembling chest.

Chat’s voice is so low it’s nearly inaudible.

“No no no no no,” he mutters, the mantra he’s been repeating almost from the moment he landed beside her. The single syllable carries with it a well of desperation far too deep for such a simple two letter word.

“This can’t be happening,” he says, speaking more to himself than to her. Even though her eyes are having a hard time focusing, she can tell when his gaze zeroes in on hers; can feel his resolve crystallizing in the air between them. “Tell me what to do, my Lady. Where’s your Lucky Charm? We have to fix this, please.”

“Gone,” she rasps, the word leaving her with difficulty. “Bro–ken–” Useless now, she wants to add. Monarch made certain of that.

She has to stop there, though, because her vision is going spotty the longer she tries to speak and she has so much she wants to say and so little time left to do it.

Chat lets out a mournful noise like that of a wounded animal, his hands gripping her shoulders desperately.

“No, there has to be another way,” he all but wails, leaning over her until all she can see and feel is black leather and devastation. He presses his forehead to hers, each of his tears burning hot against her clammy skin.

“I’m sorry,” she mouths against his ear, trusting his enhanced hearing to pick up her nearly voiceless plea. I’m sorry that I’m going first. I’m sorry that we couldn’t win.

I’m sorry that I’m leaving you alone.

Chat is openly bawling now, his body wracked with sobs that jostle her in a way that would have probably been painful, if she could feel anything anymore.

But the only thing she’s feeling at this point is increasingly sleepy; her eyelids weighted down with all of the failures she’s experienced in her nearly sixteen years on this planet.

I love you, she wants to tell him, but her throat won’t cooperate, her lungs and vocal cords standing in opposition to each other, denying her even the right to choose her last words.

And so Ladybug dies, wordlessly and anticlimactically, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon.

-x-

This is one ending.

But in a world of infinite possibility, with thousands of threads woven together to create the tapestry of time, even one slight tug can be enough to unravel the fabric.

Chat Noir, like many holders of the Black Cat Miraculous before him, has never been known for his delicacy, however.

Which means that he doesn’t so much tug on the strands as he shears through them with his claws, reaching through the sea of infinite realities to wrest creation from the jaws of oblivion.

He makes a wish.

And he destroys the world.  

-x-

Tuesday, Ladybug thinks, staring down at the broken body of Monarch, is a very arbitrary day to die.

Although judging by the hour, it is barely Tuesday anymore; the clock on her yoyo inching steadily towards the dawning of a new day.

And a new day has dawned indeed.

For the flood of first responders steadily trickling into the hidden catacombs that lie beneath the Agreste mansion; for the citizens of Paris, asleep in their beds, blissfully unaware of what has taken place in their city tonight.

And for its heroes. Ladybug’s eyes dart to her partner, who remains frozen at her side, his acid green irises fixed unwaveringly on the dead man at his feet.

The police have already questioned them both, their statements written and recorded for posterity. Now all that is left to do is wait for the medical examiner to come and remove the body in the basement.

Or, she should say the bodies, plural. Her eyes flick to the glass case to her right and Ladybug’s stomach turns anew with horror at the sight of the tomb that contains the remains of Adrien’s mother.

For how many people are in the room, there is a remarkable lack of noise; each person moving with the distinct knowledge that they have entered a graveyard and respect must be shown for the dead.

Nevertheless, the work is not quite done.

As the world continues to spin madly on around them, Ladybug turns to her partner, grim-faced and determined.

“We need to find Adrien Agreste,” is what she says.

Chat does not respond, but he follows her silently, out of the grave and into the early morning hours of what will soon become known as the most climactic Wednesday Paris has ever seen.

-x-

This is another ending.

A world, newly forged by the hands of a boy desperate to save a girl.

A world of infinite possibility, with thousands of threads painstakingly woven together by hands more accustomed to destruction than creation.  

Adrien Agreste, unbeknownst to him, lives to realize his father’s dream.

He makes a wish, and saves his love–his Lady, his classmate, his best friend. The other half of his soul residing within a different body.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng lives.

And together they kill his father.

-x-

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanfic #ml fanworks #ml fic #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #ladynoir #ml fanfic #I HAVE #NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS #other than pain #and probably residual trauma from the season 5 finale manifesting itself in strange ways #im sorry?? #im soft-launching this on tumblr cause im afraid its too offbrand for my ao3 LMAO #lemme know folks

[cringecorekitty]

you should write rpf of us

Anonymous batted their eyelashes, looking up at the hero's statue with hearts in their eyes.

"Wow.... Chat Noir.... it's even cooler to see his statue in purrson," they say, almost swooning at the sight. He looks as he normally does in this particular piece, but he normally looks very awesome, so their reaction makes sense. "I would give ANYTHING to actually meet him..."

"Who, little ol' me?" a voice says, before ACTUAL FOR REAL LIFE CHAT NOIR (ZOMG!!!!!) lands beside them.

"OHHHH MY GOSSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH YOU'RE EVEN MORE AWESOME AND COOL AND CAT-LIKE THAN THE STATUE MADE YOU SEEM!" Anonymous shouts. They tackle into Chat Noir, crying hysterically, but he takes it like a champ. "CAN I HAVE YOUR BABIES PLEAAAAAASE!?!?!?"

"Hahahhahahaha nooo, but thank you for asking," Chat Noir says. He pats Anonymous on the cheek. "I must go before I'm late to meet my girlfriend, but thank you for being a fan!"

He pries Anonymous' arms away, and as fast as he came into the scene, he's gone. Anonymous starts to cry really hard.

"A GIRLFRIEND??????? NO!!!! HE'S MY SOULMATE! MINE!!!!!" they bawl. A purple butterfly comes down, landing in their homemade 'Chat Noir Loves Me Most' shirt.

"Fanon, I am Monarch. You've been spurned by the one you love; I will give you the power to make anything you want happen. All I need are Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculouses in return."

"Yes, Monarch. I'll get them for you, just as I'll have Chat Noir's heart."

_

Ladybug purifies the akuma just before her and Chat Noir bump fists. Her earrings are beeping already, and she flees once Chat Noir assures her they'll handle this. When she's gone, Chat Noir turns to the fan from earlier.

Offering them a hand up, and a tissue from his cool miracle pockets that definitely have tissues in there, Chat Noir smiles at them.

"I'm sorry you felt so bad when I left earlier," he starts. "I appreciate your feelings, but please, never force them on another person. My life isn't a story written by other people, it's... my life. I want to live it in the way that will make me happy."

Anonymous takes his hand and stands, sniffling and blowing their nose with the tissue. They're a mess, but at least the Miraculous Ladybug fixed their shirt.

"...I understand. I'm sorry," they say, and they seem to mean it. "I think I've moved on now anyhow..."

That makes Chat Noir smile more.

"Good. That's good. I hope you find someone deserving of the love you have." He steps back, turning to go, but he looks back over his shoulder at Anonymous one more time. "I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in Paris! It's really the cat's meow!"

And then he's off like a shot, leaving Anonymous all alone. Anonymous takes off their backpack, and then removes their Chat Noir shirt. From their bag, they take out a different shirt, rolling up the Chat Noir one and replacing it. They put their new shirt on and hold it out, smiling down at it.

It's a homemade 'Ladybug Loves Me Most' shirt.

Opening their phone, they search for the nearest location of one of Ladybug's statues, and start heading off...

_

Thank you guys i hope you enjoy my RPF of you :)

#chat noir

[kasienda]

Love Remains - Ch 4

Written for @thelibraryloser‘s birthday. (Apparently her birthday is going to last awhile. ^_^).

Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

Read on Ao3

Chapter 4:

Ten Days Since Marinette Lost her Memory

Marinette faced the door to her classroom for the first time with a storm thrashing in her gut. She understood that school was for learning and she definitely wanted to be educated, to continue her education. But how could she participate in any of her classes when she couldn’t remember anything that she supposedly had already learned? 

“Are you ready to go in?” Alya asked.

Marinette had met Alya all over again two days prior. Her parents had invited her over for dinner. Marinette already loved Alya. Alya hadn’t asked a million questions about what she remembered or didn’t. She had just gone right into explaining things. She told Marinette about her friends and her teachers, shared context for half the unfinished projects that littered Marinette’s floor space, and told her the most ridiculous stories about outings and sleep overs. Alya felt solid and reliable. Her mere presence made Marinette feel brave - like she could face anything. 

And so she nodded. 

“Marinette!” a girl greeted once they were through the door. And suddenly every set of eyes was on her. They all stayed frozen for a moment, and then all swarmed to circle around her.

She tried not to flinch. She had read her diary over and over to prepare for her first day. The only problem was she had memorized their names, but she didn’t know their faces. And right now, there were so many of them all at once.

“Marinette! It’s so good to see you. We’ve missed you!” 

Marinette took in the other girl’s pink summer dress and cropped blonde hair. “You’re Rose,” she said. 

The girl’s face lit up. “Yes! Do you remember me?” 

Marinette bit her lower lip. “Umm… no. I just read about you in my diary.” 

Rose was unphased, her expression just as delighted all over again. “You wrote about me in your diary?!” 

“How are you feeling?” another girl asked. 

“What about me?” a tall boy interrupted. “Do you remember me?” 

Someone elbowed the tall boy. “Shut up, Kim!”

The classroom door whipped open, and yet another girl lit up at the sight of Marinette. She rushed over and cradled Marinette’s hands against her chest. 

“Oh Marinette! This is so dreadful! I can’t believe Miraculous Ladybug didn’t bring back your memory. I thought that Ladybug could fix everything. Please know that whatever you need, I’m here for you.”

Marinette pulled away from the hand clutching her own, her heart suddenly pulsing in her throat with the need to get away.

“Lila, don’t even start,” a male voice growled. 

Lila?! Old Marinette had a lot to say about Lila.

“Oh come now, Adrien,” Lila cooed, “You know better than anyone how worried I’ve been about Marinette!” 

Marinette’s eyes whipped towards the boy in the doorway, her heart pounding even louder than before.

Adrien? The boy whose face covered her wall, and whose name filled up every other page in her diary. The boy who old Marinette had tried to confess to over and over again?! 

The boy she had turned down Chat Noir for?

“Yes, I very much remember how we both agreed that we would give Marinette some space,” he hissed out, “until she asked us for something.”

“Of course, I remember that,” Lila said smoothly before she turned back to Marinette. “I just felt overwhelmed with relief at seeing your face, Marinette.” 

Adrien continued to glare at Lila until the girl took the hint and made her way to the back of the classroom. 

The scowl on his face vanished as he turned to her with a smile that felt incredibly familiar. And not like with so many others where she had a feeling about a person she used to know, but like she had actually seen his smile before in her living memory. But… that couldn’t have happened. Once home from the hospital, she hadn’t met that many new people. Just her parents, Alya, Rena Rouge, and Chat Noir. 

And yet, she felt like she had already met Adrien. 

“Have we… already met?” she asked, her eyebrows scrunched together. 

Several people in the class chuckled. 

“Oh boy. Here we go again.”

“Umm… yes, but my understanding is that you don’t remember that.” He tried to put on a brave face, but his sadness leaked out in the way he glanced away and swallowed before turning back to her with another smile.

She stared at him like he was a puzzle. After her initial shock at his name, she wasn’t sure she felt the echo of strong feelings, which felt strangely disappointing. Like, there was definitely something. Maybe her anticipation had ruined it. Or maybe since she had already known what he looked like, she had tainted her first impression.

He seemed nice enough. His first action had been to come to her defense. He felt solid, like she could rely on him. 

But was that the same thing as love? 

It had felt different with Alya and her parents. 

It had felt very different with Chat Noir. 

“Did I do something wrong?” he asked her, frowning in concern. 

She shook her head rapidly. “No, of course not! Why would you think that?”

“Your face was just all scrunched up and you were staring at me.” 

“I was not!” she denied, heat building in her cheeks. 

“Okay,” he conceded, smiling. 

She liked his smile.

…

When the bell rang at the end of the homeroom period she packed up and started out the door without thought. 

“Hey! Wait up!” Alya called. It was only when they were halfway there that Alya noticed. “You know where we’re going!”

Marinette froze. “What? No, I don’t.” 

“But you were heading exactly in the right direction.” 

Marinette shrugged. “I can find fabric in my drawers, too.” It was like her head was haunted.

“Really?! Maybe your memory is starting to come back on its own.” Alya sounded so hopeful.

Marinette sighed. Her memory was definitely not coming back. 

…

Literature was dreadful. The class was more than halfway through a novel that Marinette did not remember reading, and when she started over she was confused about where the characters were and why they were doing what they were doing. Apparently she had forgotten a lot of geography and culture in addition to her own life. Ms Bustier was really nice and patient about it at least. She said it was important to see what Marinette remembered and didn’t. And that she might assign her some separate assignments to help her rebuild her foundation.

History was somehow worse. If she was missing context in literature, she was missing the entire timeline of French and world history. She knew nothing. None of the place’s names felt or sounded familiar. It was overwhelming, and her teacher was not patient with her total lack of knowledge. 

“I’m totally down to ditch with you, girl,” Alya said after their third class, clearly sensing Marinette’s frustration. “We can go explore the city, just say the word.”

Marinette smiled, but shook her head. “No, that’s okay. It’s definitely frustrating, but I also kinda just… want to know…?”

“Know what?” 

“What my life is like.” 

Alya turned away. “I’m sorry that you don’t already know.”

Marinette considered her friend carefully. “Are you okay?” 

Alya’s attention jumped back to her. “Am I okay? I’m fine! You’re the one who lost your whole life.” 

Marinette bit her lower lip. “You lost something too though, didn’t you? Your best friend?”

Alya couldn’t turn away fast enough this time. Marinette saw the tears glistening at the corners of Alya’s eyes. She threw her arms around her best friend.

Alya clung to her, buried her face in Marinette’s shoulder. And Marinette just held her. 

“It’s going to be okay,” Marinette reassured. “I don’t know how and I definitely don’t know when, but I know that you and I have never let anything stop us before, and we won’t let this either.” 

Alya laughed through her tears. She wiped her eyes. “How do you know just what to say?” 

Marinette shrugged. “From what I have gathered, intuition is my strongest skill!”

“That must be hard,” Alya said sadly. 

Marinette didn’t necessarily think so, but she didn’t want to argue the point either. She gripped her backpack. “So what’s next?”

“Art class.” 

Marinette’s feet left the ground, she was so excited. “I get to just take art? Like, as a class?”

“Yes, why wouldn’t you be able to?”

“Let’s go!”

Art was even more amazing than Marinette’s anticipation - definitely Marinette’s favorite class by far. After the class had started on their current project, her teacher came and checked in with her.

“How are you feeling, Marinette?”

Marinette grinned. “I’m doing okay. It is very nice to meet you. I figured out last week that I could draw, and now I get to take a whole class on the subject? I’m so excited!” 

He grinned at her enthusiasm. “Would you like to see some of your old pieces?” 

Marinette’s eyes widened. “May I?”

He laughed and waved for her to follow him. He went through piles of work, pulling out select pieces and placing them before her. Marinette’s eyes drank in the sights. Her old pieces were so varied and different from the drawings that filled her sketchbooks at home. 

There were abstract pieces that seemed to simply explore the use of color and shadow, pen and ink drawings the showcased shading and stroke styles, she had painted a couple landscapes - an ocean at dawn and a forest with trees dressed in all the colors of autumn. 

Her favorite was a watercolor of her kitchen sink. She didn’t know what it was about it that called to her. It was just her kitchen sink with the same faucet, soap dispenser, and sponge, but the painting was somehow softer and prettier. And maybe it was also familiar when hardly anything else she encountered in her life was. She loved it.

But she couldn’t breathe at the sight of the next picture, all of the other pieces were forgotten. It was a two point perspective drawing of the view of Paris’s rooftops. The level of detail was amazing. Marinette knew the exact spot - this was where she met Chat Noir to start patrol. It was a picture that she understood - it wasn’t just the view - it was a place where she felt welcome, safe, and free. And for the first time, Marinette felt like she and the old Marinette were the same person.

The bell rang, and the moment of clarity fell away. 

Within moments she and Alya were in the cafeteria, surrounded by her classmates who were once again asking questions Marinette couldn’t answer. 

“Did the doctors know anything about what caused your memory loss?”

“Is there any chance you’ll get your memory back?” 

“What's it like, not remembering anything? You’re like, what? Two weeks old? How do you know how to talk?”

“Shut up, Kim!” 

The girl with dark hair - Juleka? - offered Marinette a hug, and Marinette accepted it, but she still didn’t understand why everyone expected her to be upset. She’s fine. 

Well, except that everyone surrounding her with well-meaning concern was just a lot , incredibly overwhelming. Turned out, being Marinette was hard.

When it was time to go back to class, she felt almost relieved, but before they got there an alarm sounded simultaneously on everyone’s phones.

She didn’t know what the sound meant, but every part of her body tensed. She wasn’t scared, but she suddenly needed to take off and fly. 

“An akuma,” Alya said. 

And then Marinette understood her body’s reaction. She needed to get out of here. She needed to find Chat Noir. She needed to be Ladybug. 

Her head spun, looking for a way out, but she was surrounded. There were people everywhere. 

“Marinette, do you know what to do during an akuma?” 

“You can come with me if you like!” 

How would she get away? 

Alya grabbed her wrist. “I’ll help you find a place to hide and explain everything.”

Marinette knew she needed to say no, that she needed to get away from everyone - even her best friend, but there was something intense in Alya’s eyes - like there was something she wasn’t saying. And Marinette trusted that look, and so she nodded. 

Alya pulled her away from their peers, and into a deserted hallway before shoving her alone into a locker.

“This is usually where you hide during akumas,” Alya said. “You said you prefer to be alone so no one can see if you have a panic attack.” 

Marinette nodded. Smart of her old self to come up with a standing excuse to get away. “Thank you,” she said.

Alya grinned, and closed the locker in her face. “I’ll try to find out what we’re dealing with this time,” Alya called as she ran from the room. 

Marinette waited a moment to be sure the room was silent. 

“Tikki?”

Tikki burst from her purse and flew up to her eye level, offering a bright smile. “Are you ready, Marientte?” 

Marinette had no idea, but it didn’t matter because Chat was probably already out there. “I guess we’ll find out.” 

When she arrives on the scene, Chat Noir’s already there, herding the akuma away from people expertly with the use of his spinning baton. She watches him for a second, until the akuma breaks past his defenses and sends him flying backwards.

Without thinking at all, she shoots out her yoyo and dives straight towards him. Her yoyo catches, and she’s swinging. Her trajectory lines up perfectly and she catches him with ease. Their hands wrap around each other naturally, like they’ve done this a thousand times before. 

Because they have done this a thousand times before. 

He smiles so beautifully her heart flies into overdrive. 

“Hi,” she says, her cheeks burning. 

“So glad you dropped in,” he says as they land on the edge of a roof. 

“Sorry it took me so long.” 

He shakes his head. “Don’t worry about it. It’s often difficult to get away. Are you nervous about the akuma?”

Her hands twist against her chest. “Maybe a little.” 

He grins and her stomach flip flops. “Don’t be. I’ll be with you the whole time.” 

How did the old Ladybug ever focus for a second with her partner around?

But when she turns back to the battle, her nerves fade away. She knows how to do this, the same way she knows how to make a cup of tea or sketch a dress. 

They work in tandem, chasing the akuma away from the crowds, and into the open. When they have it surrounded, she calls for her lucky charm. 

A wooden spoon - red and dotted in black - falls into her waiting arms. She glances around. It’s a puzzle, a puzzle that requires no memory or prior knowledge to solve. She spots a crate and a pole. The spoon needed to be a lever to tip the crate over to trip up the villain. It was just a matter of getting the akuma in the right spot. 

“Chat Noir! The crate!” And it’s absolutely amazing how he just intuitively seems to understand what she wants to do.

A few minutes later, she watches the purified butterfly fly away, a huge grin stretched across her face. She feels so accomplished. She turns to Chat and he’s grinning at her as widely as she must be grinning at him. 

He holds out a fist and she meets it with glee. “Bien jiou, M’lady,” he says.  

“Bien jiou, Chat Noir.” 

Being Ladybug was awesome. 

…

#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain-cheng #adrien agreste #love square #partial reveal #ladynoir #memory loss #amnesia #marinette gave up the guardianship and lost on her memories #not as angsty as the trope usually is #happy ending #my own content #love remains