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This is... A very odd pull for Lila of all people, given the genre, but these lyrics to really kind of fit?

Songs Into the Dark by Divide Music, analysis incoming.

"Come into the scene, but i don't advertise

I see a better world, no need to compromise

I'm gonna take the light away, the other side"

Lilas always been a pretty flashy liar, for the entire show she has been but we can clearly see that's not really the case anymore.

When she shows up nowadays, she's not showing off all she can do. She's been scheming, she's been keeping her cards close to her chest and not revealing the true extent of her powers and she's already taken away the other sides light, the heart and soul of their team that's kept everyone going for this long.

Chat Noir AKA Adrien Agreste and she's never going to let him go, especially now that she has his Amok.

"You see it's a desease that i will sterilise

And they can try and take away all my supply

But every single move i make, they're one behind

Their begging as they cross their heart and hope to die

Give 'em one shot, but not between the eyes"

Now slightly stretching here but Lilas real goal seems to be absolutely stomping out hope on all sides. Gabriel? She killed the last chance he had at love again, both in killing Nathalie and hy stealing the wish right out from under him. She's not gonna bring back, Emilie, we all know that. I wonder if Gabriel does.

She's trying to stomp out the hope and complete confidence Adrien has in Ladybug, allowing her own team to be compromised (even if she probably knows well that Felix is turn coating) by allowing her to sink deeper and deeper into the depth of despair she's found herself in. How low can she stoop? And how much more like Lila and Gabriel can she become? And in such, she's also stomping out others hopes in Ladybug. I'd tack Ladybug on here, but we haven't quite seen how's she's gonna kick Ladybug while she's down just yet.

And of course, she's helping to actively stomp on everyone's friends and families and bonds. Zoe, Chloe and Luka all being targeted specifically, Adrien watching his best friend get targeted and turned against them and even forcing them to help them in their Akumatized forms. More specifically Chloe and Adrien there. And of course, every single step Lila makes the heroes are just one behind.

Every move she makes, every chance she takes, every new plan the heroes are always lagging behind in the truth. Every revelation the make is overshadowed by the fact there's at least several layers of half-truths and unknown circumstances orchestrated by Lila.

"I hereby declare, the end is upon us

Celebrate the fallen

They will never repair

Or regain the promise

They made to the fools

Who blindly followed them into the dark"

Speaking of destroying people's hope in Ladybug, I do wonder just how Paris would feel if they were able to see all the horrible things Ladybugs done in her pursuit of justice. Luka and Chloe already don't fully trust her to do what's right, having to do god knows how many loops to stop her from going completely psychotic and Chloe now knowing she's killed her in loops. I wonder how many times Lila has driven her to insanity with her illusions in those loops.

And once she's ready to reveal to the world, to the heroes her plans I'm sure it WILL be the end, what hope could they possibly have against her anyways?

"I will hold you in my hands

Break you down and build you up again

You got no patience, so why pretend?

You think you know me

I'm your means to an end"

I feel this works best about her talking about Adrien and Gabriel. She holds both of them firmly in the palm of her hand, she can manipulate them and break them down to rebuild them however she wants.

She has Adriens Amok, she can do whatever the hell she wants to him if it comes down to it, she doesn't think she will have to cause she's just oh so great and all Adrien needs is a little push to see how great she is.

Gabriel however, her breaking and building of him comes at a much more direct example. She took away every single lifeline this man has. Nathalie's gone and dead, the only person who could MAYBE help him see reason. His own son is in her clutches and she can make him do whatever she wants with that alone. After all she could always just kill him, right? Make him HATE Gabriel, let him in on every single little secret possible.

Gabriel thought he knew Lila, that he had a read on this girl he let into his home, let in on secrets, she was always meant to just be another pawn. A means to an end.

How wrong he was.

"Keep 'em at distance

Make 'em think that we need their assistance

Think they're in control, but they don't listen

Stuck in adolescence, mind's a prison

Lacking wisdom"

This feels pointed at Felix, actually. She keeps everyone at a distance but he's really the one to worry about. So the best way to keep him where she wants him? Make him think he's integral. Make him think she doesn't know exactly what his game is and of course, make him think he actually has a chance to save Adrien. Cause if he's still stuck on thinking Gabriel has the Amok, she's perfectly safe.

Felix is an amazing schemer, yes. But compared to what Lila can and has done? He's kind of childs play. He can hide secrets, mince words with the best of them, but he simply cannot keep up with what Lila is capable of.

After all, we've already seen Amelie break down and cry over Felix' situation, and she's all but confirmed to be the one akumatizing people. And of course, her invisible spying on groups, who knows how many identities she has and how many secrets she's aware of.

"From start to finish, promise i will end this

Reconstruct their kind, leave 'em defenceless

Break the spirit, mind and all their senses

With costs so high, they justify expenses!"

Thie is probably the line that made me pick this song out really, it's such the perfect line for ODNLB!Lila, no?

She's pretty much been here from the start, she's seen all there is to see when it comes to Ladybug and Chat Noir. She worked with them briefly as it was, and she's been working for Hawkmoth for a while. And she has no intentions on being shut out or denied, she will see this through to the end no matter what (parallels to Ladybug and Gabriel? Mayhaps.)

She's already begun targeting the people who's been secretly helping them. Luka and Chloe are obviously on the chopping block, it's incredibly obvious Luka is Aspik, he knows too much NOT to be and Chloe's already being targeted. It's a clear plant. It's such OBVIOUS bait and it's work. But beyond that? She's targeting their friends and families with Akumas, she's reconstructing their purpose, taking over their minds and making them kill people, even those they love (if I recall, Nino DID shoot Alya)

"Break the spirit, mind and all their senses" who ELSE could this be about? Lila has a death grip on all of them, she can infiltrate their minds, she can trick every last on of their senses to believe whatever the hell she wants them to believe. None of them know the true extent to Lilas grip on them, all of them are more focused on getting Adrien his freedom from GABRIEL. They KNOW Lila is a threat, she's a wild card but to them she's just that. A threat. She's not THE big bad. But she is.

"Where'd you run to? tryna hide?

You know the outcome, i will let you decide

I gave you purpose to purify

Those dirty stains we'll cast them all aside"

Now this can go one of two ways.

Imagine, if you will. A cornered Ladybug, brought to her knees and nearly killed once again ala the reveal of who Cat Walker really is.

Failing once more to protect her Chaton she's given a choice. Join her, or die. Join her and help them get the wish and they can cast this entire world away, the filthy stain that it is and join her in a new, perfect world.

Or even better... Take all of that, and have Cat Walker be there. And of course he'd lunge at them, try to help his Lady but when Lila pulls that blade from the cane and presses it to Ladybugs throat she gives him a clear option.

Cut the bullshit, or she will. Just a thought! Feels very Lila, doesn't it?

"No one can protect them

City will be crying out in mayhem

I will be the one to choose and condemn

Take away their power, they will cower

Sing my anthem!" This is really what Lila wants, after all my.

No one can protect the group from her, not really, not yet and she will beat and break them and steal away their Miraculous. She will sow the seeds of chaos throughout Paris and bathe in their screams. Picking and choosing who lives and dies. Who's guilty and who's innocent.

And then she will bathe in their cheers, bathe in the attention as they sing her anthems and praise her accomplishments.

"In the end, they will plea

They will beg on their knees

Screaming forgiveness

The world will witness them all cry out!"

And in the end they too will come crawling to her. Begging her for forgiveness, begging to not be forgotten in their new world, begging her for a scrap of mercy.

And she will refuse.

And the world will remember their despaired cries for one moment and one moment alone as she erases it all for her new, perfect world.

Or maybe I'm crazy and off base and this is once again insane rambles, either way enjoy!

holy crap mythical lol. i intended to make lila scary to the readers but through your analysis she scared even me.

you're absolutely right; having adrien's amok is having his life in her hands, and since everybody in the story loves and cares about adrien, lila holds untold power over all of them. and of COURSE gabriel knows she's not going to bring back emilie. if you look closely in the story *cough chapter 25 cough* you'll see what her actual wish is >:D and you'll maybe be able to guess why she's playing the long game.

honestly, i...i think you've said it all. this analysis is really good and really detailed and fits with lila's i'm-the-hero-of-my-own-story delusion. she has the upper hand on all of them and puts herself steps ahead of everyone by making them think they're evenly matched. she has ways of discovering secrets and ways of bringing out the worst in a person. she does want a new, perfect world. she enjoys seeing people suffer. she's definitely the worst villain i've ever written and like i said, you made even me a little scared of her.

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