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#Felinette Month 2020 Day 7
fandomsilhouette · 3 years
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the presents they measured (the presence she treasured)
Love is a powerful motivator. Jealous is even more so. Suddenly, someone finds themselves falling faster than they knew how to breathe, before they knew they were even walking to the edge of a cliff, too quickly to enjoy the scenery on the walk over, and all they know is that by the time they crash-land, they’d better be ready to fight. Someone pushed them over the edge. It’s time for revenge.  Happy @felinettenovember​, y’all! Yes, we are in fact back to happy times. This has been written in collaboration with @musicfren​, who will be posting the second part on his account tomorrow. It continues to be fluffy fluff, don’t worry... for now >:3 We’ll be doing every weekend pair together, so follow him if you don’t already or you’ll be missing a whole chapter!!! 
Part 1 below. Part 2 upcoming. 
“...did I miss Marinette’s birthday?” 
“Dude, what are you talking about? Mari’s birthday is in April.” Nino shoots a pointed look at the snow drifting down to the streets as he shakes the now-sludgy water off his snow boots and starts unwrapping himself out of his winter gear, piling them up in a wet mess on Felix’s desk. Felix, for once, chooses not to complain, opting instead to focus on the main issue here. 
“Well, but there’s a gift on her desk and November seventh is definitely too early for holiday gifts.” Felix smirks slyly at a camera no one else can see as he said the date, making Nino send him a weird look. Then again, Felix was weird all the time. Nino is used to it by now, so he doesn’t comment any further. 
Nino shoots him a sidelong glance. “Dude, why are you specifically checking her desk?”
“Unimportant, I saw it as I walked in. Do you know who put it there?” Felix says, swerving the discussion violently back to the most salient point. 
“…bruh… her desk requires you to turn almost 180˚ from where you would need to go for your desk.” 
“Unimportant, I said.” Hopefully his Ladybug-red blush doesn’t show under the still-flickering half on lights that no one has bothered to flick the other switch for. The back half of the classroom is bathed in residual light and Felix can hardly see his own hand in front of him, but by Nino’s amused smirk, his blush is clearly bright enough to light up the path to his doom. 
Nino opens his mouth, but whatever snark he was going to respond with is lost under a quiet “ooooooh!” and the sound of wrapping paper being carefully pried apart. Felix turns and his meticulously coiffed composure slips a bit. 
“Marinette!” He half-falls out of his chair as he scampers anxiously to her side. He stands protectively behind her as if about to pull her to safety, hands hovering awkwardly around her waist, but she seems far too engrossed by the present before her to notice. Later, Felix will blush and be glad she didn’t. Later than that, she’ll admit she saw and just chose to ignore it, and Felix will blush again. 
“I wonder what it i-- ooh!!” With a small happy gasp, she pulls back the paper (a disgustingly garish shade of green, easily three shades off of the correct shade, obviously) to reveal a dainty box of chocolates and an elegant white card, ornately decorated in gold leaf print. Marinette curiously picks up the card as Felix cranes his head intently over her shoulder. Inside, in pretentiously penciled cursive, is a simple phrase:
“With love, your secret admirer <3”
Felix immediately scoffs, grabbing Marinette’s wrist and pulling her into his chest, but she scarcely pays him any mind, so engrossed is she in her gift.
“Gosh, that’s really thoughtful of them, picking my favorite!  Who… whoever they are…”
“It’s not even your favorite kind of chocolate!” Felix screams in his head, and refuses to acknowledge the follow-up question of whether he even knows what her favorite chocolate is. He’s quickly distracted, anyways, when Marinette giggles, which is a very distracting sound, Nino, stop looking at him like that!
“Haha, I could even say it’s… sweet! of them!!” She pops a chocolate in her mouth and Felix is riveted to the way her lips purse around the sweet, the way her tongue swirls around her finger as she sucks the last of it off. 
Nino shoots him an impressed glance and mouths, “Dude, nice!” but Felix’s mind is too busy spinning to process why. What on EARTH was happening?! 
It takes him the next two classes and most of lunch to work up the courage to ask. “Um… what’s a secret admirer?” 
Nino pauses mid-bite, fork dangling in the air, to give Felix such a dumbfounded look that Felix immediately chooses to google the term instead, furtively hiding his phone under the bench. “Dude… why did you use that word if you didn’t even know what it meant, you walnut??” 
Felix slams the lid down on his food and walks away immediately, footsteps echoing to the sound of Nino’s laughter. 
He hopes to put this baffling incident behind him, but to Felix’s immense distress, the parade of gifts does not stop there. At her locker the next morning, Felix finds himself needing to push through a group of students all cooing over… something he cannot make out from behind the crowd. As he gets closer, he notices flowers pinned up in the shape of a heart over her locker, with a grand bouquet of roses pinned in the center. Felix’s nose twitches, itches, and then-- 
“Achoo!!”
Rose petals go flying everywhere and Marinette laughs, delighted. Kim nudges into him. “Sick show, bro! She loved that, how’d you time that sneeze??” 
Felix doesn’t know. He’s confused. He wants to go home.
Two days after that, the PA system crackles through the classroom five minutes before the class  is scheduled to end. Principal Damoclese clears his throat with a sharp peak in the audio and says in his most bored, reading-off-a-paper voice: “Marinette Dupain-Cheng to the courtyard, please, that’s Marinette Dupain-Cheng to the courtyard.” Bustier winks and ends class early, and everyone floods outside to see a teddy bear holding a cute little love-heart. Marinette makes a beeline to it and hugs it immediately, burying her face in its fur. It’s adorable, actually, and Felix tries very hard to not be jealous of a stuffed toy. 
He does not succeed. 
“OHMIGOSH, Felix!!!” Rose squeals, “That was so romantiiiiic, you’re sooooooo good at this!!! How are you being this sweeeeeeet??? <3 <3 <3” Felix can hear the hearts in her voice. Juleka mumbles something that he can only assume is agreement. Felix just sits down where he was standing and puts his head in his hands. Why did nothing make sense?
Felix leans his head against the window of the car, letting the bumps in the road thunk his forehead against the glass in a nice, soothing, repetitive dull pain, better than the constant headache he’s been living with for the last week. Their words spin about his head, hounding his thoughts. His chauffeur is silent for once
“Dude, nice!” “Sick show, bro!” “How are you being this sweet???”
And that’s when it hits him, making a hollow thunk off his empty skull.
Someone is getting her these gifts. And they think he did it. 
Another heartbeat. 
OH NO, THEY KNOW HE LIKES HER! Wait. He likes her?! ...oh no. He DOES. 
Staring out at the road speeding by far too fast, Felix clenches his hands into fists. He’d never expected to find himself here: head over heels crushing on a girl that everyone knew he liked before he ever worked it out on his own, a week late into a competition he doesn’t remember entering. 
Well, no matter. There’s still time to enter, catch up, win.
The next day, Marinette finds another chocolate box on her desk, bigger, more expensive, and exactly the correct shade of green. Each one is handcrafted into increasingly more elaborate designs, laced with caramel and toffee and candied pecans. The spread takes over her desk and Alya’s, and Felix grins smugly. 
“Wait. Didn’t you already do this?” Nino asks, but Felix is too busy. There is an entire wheelbarrow of flowers to deliver by lunch. 
His competition moves quickly: by the end of the school day, the PA is playing a serenade for her in front of the whole school. As soon as the bell rings, he cancels his next order and places a rush on the biggest size they offer: clearly, he’s going to need to do better. He doesn’t bother to look at the sizing or the price. Nothing is too big or too expensive for Marinette. 
The next day Marinette finds a third box, so big it doesn’t even fit on her desk and instead sits next to it like an awkwardly crouched gremlin. Felix glowers at it, not having realized exactly how big it was going to be, and becoming increasingly concerned as she shrieks with delight, yanking out the artistically crinkled tissue paper and tossing it gleefully behind her, climbing into the giant box as soon as she makes enough space for herself. 
Terrified, Felix shuffles over and peeks over the edge. She’s curled up in the paws of his giant stuffed animal, half asleep, looking so cozy he can hardly bear it. 
...oh, goodness, he’s getting jealous of a toy again. His own toy, even!  
There’s nothing for a few days, and Felix relaxes, and then--
The entire classroom is covered in flowers of every kind come Thursday morning. Bustier cancels the first period and directs everyone coughing and sneezing to the nurse, and convinces everyone who can stand the pollen to help her move it out of the way. 
It turns out the class has been talking about the secret admirers-- a lot more than Felix expected. Sometime after the impromptu courtyard concert by Jagged Stone and the last minute fashion walk between classes, and between the endless planning and scheming and glowering, Felix finds himself cornered by Nino, who’s lost his hat, glasses hanging half off his face in a way Felix could’ve sworn they didn’t used to bend, looking more feral than Felix had ever seen him. 
“ENOUGH, FELIX.” And then Felix finds himself being dragged bodily to an empty classroom where at last he faces his opponent-- nay, his nemesis. He recognizes them at once, because of the way they, too, are being held prisoner, the only other put together person in the entire room. 
Oh, he really should’ve known. 
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felinettenovember · 4 years
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Felinette November Prompts 2020
Sorry for the delay, y’all: Felinette Month prompts for this November 2020 are decided at last, and we’ll be releasing the list before the calendar so that creators have maximal amount of time to prepare. 
Instead of Weekly Themes like we did for Felix Month 2020, we have Weekend Pairs. You’ll notice that every weekend has a set of two prompts that are linked, which we thought would be fun and cute and easy to write for. 
If you decide not to link them, that’s valid too! No matter what you choose to do, we look forward to your contribution. 
At last, the prompts!! 
Sunday, November 1: Purrito Monday, November 2: Call Out Tuesday, November 3: Teashop Wednesday, November 4: Love Stinks Thursday, November 5: Shenanigans Friday, November 6: Detective
Saturday, November 7: Secret Admirer Sunday, November 8: Blind Date Monday, November 9: Date Night Lessons Tuesday, November 10: Mysterious Melody Wednesday, November 11: Ballroom Dances Thursday, November 12: Reunion Friday, November 13: Haunted House Hunting
Saturday, November 14: Shakespeare Sunday, November 15: Battle of Wits Monday, November 16: Pretentious Tuesday, November 17: Disguise Wednesday, November 18: Heist Thursday, November 19: Fallen Angel Friday, November 20: Beach Day
Saturday, November 21: Flower Languages Sunday, November 22: Tattoo Artist Monday, November 23: Curses and Swears Tuesday, November 24: Huntress Wednesday, November 25: Dreamers Thursday, November 26: Playground Friday, November 27: In Between
Saturday, November 28: Lost Sunday, November 29: Found Monday, November 30: Coming Home
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miraculousmarifan · 3 years
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Felinette Month 2020 - Day 7: Secret Admirer
Possibly my favorite @felinettenovember prompt up to this point and definitely the first full idea I had for writing. Now if only I could actually develop the outlines popping up in my head, we’d have a full story!
Felix’s first week of school and Felix is of course a big idiot that overthinks everything. Marinette is also just smooth AF
Only about 650 words though :/
Felix looked around for a clue about the culprit that had left the latest package on his desk. Three days in a row was too much of a coincidence for him and yet he had not seen anyone sneak in during lunch to leave it. The only label was a tag with his name and the mysterious initials "FDSC" but that had proven to be an alias. He checked in the school records and found no student here with those initials. Clearly Felix already had an admirer, and an impressive one based on their ability to pull together a decent little pastry basket by lunch on his first day in school. Regardless he needed to figure this out quickly so he could let them down easy. There was only one girl he would pursue and he didn't need the distraction of another trying to get his attention. 
Based on the lack of entrance or exit by anyone outside his peers while he staked out the only door into this classroom, the perpetrator clearly was a member of this class. Based on the clean and cute handwriting, he could rule out several individuals including most of the boys and a few of the girls. With one girl being the daughter of bakers, it seemed most likely that it was either Marinette Dupain-Cheng or her deskmate, Alya Cesaire. If Felix was willing to assume that it was a solo effort, he would lean towards Dupain-Cheng as she seemed to have more ability overall to work well under pressure and think quickly. That was an assumption he wouldn't make. More thorough surveillance was necessary.
On the fourth day, as the students were dismissed for lunch, Felix struggled to think of an excuse to linger in the classroom longer to see what the culprit planned. He foresaw three possibilities: one, they would leave it despite him being there; two, they would try to wait him out and it would become obvious; or three, they would not leave the intended gift at all. Marinette rushed out of the room, leaving her bag and Alya chuckling to bring it. It appeared that option 3 was the winner. Either way he intended on hiding there to see if anyone came back. He also forgot to take into account nature's call and determined he couldn't watch the classroom the entire lunch period this time. When he got back, a small package was on his desk.
Felix planned this stake out much better than the previous and was truly prepared. He would catch this troublemaker red-handed if it was the last thing he did! As lunch rolled around, Felix made a show of discussing something with Bustier without packing up his stuff to give most of the other students time to filter out, then slowly returned to pack up.
"How was your first week of school Felix?" Marinette inquired as she set a box down next to his things. Felix saw how she tried to do it subtly so he may not notice.
"Aha! It was you leaving these on my desk!" Felix felt a wave of victory at guessing correctly and grinned at his own cleverness.
"Uh yeah…" Marinette looked just a little confused at his reaction but tried to smile politely.
"Would you have revealed yourself to ask me out if I hadn't figured you out first?" Felix wanted to soak up the victory as much as possible, even if she didn’t seem as embarrassed as he anticipated from a secret admirer. 
"I didn't realize my handing out the student council welcoming gifts was a mystery. You can always ask me out on a date if you really want though," Marinette laughed out as she turned to walk to lunch.
Felix froze as a blush surfaced. Student council welcoming gifts… Francoise Dupont Student Council… F. D. S. C. I'm such an idiot.
Felix had not fully recovered by the time lunch ended.
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moonwalkiingbae · 4 years
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MariChat May 2020 prompt list!
Hey Miraculers 🐞 
I ain’t an official account for this, but I have constructed my own MariChat May prompt list for each day of the month!
Here is the prompt list:
1.      Dancing on Rooftops
2.      Night Stroll
3.      Baking Lessons
4.      Model
5.      The Wall Between Us
6.      Thorns and Pink Roses
7.      Cat’s Meow
8.      Serenade
9.      Balcony
10.  Scarf Reveal
11.  School Escort
12.  Cat Puns
13.  Lost Bell
14.  City Tour
15.  Superhero “Boyfriend”
16.  Star Gazing
17.  Hidden Blushes
18.  Plagg
19.  Pound It!
20.  Untameable
21.  Silly Kitty
22.  Princess Visits
23.  Masquerade
24.  Midnight Kiss
25.  Pets and Purrs
26.  Shopping
27.  Time Offs
28.  Black Cat
29.  Sleepovers
30.  Damsel in Distress
31.  She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
You can do use the prompt list however you want, in any order, in any day of the month. Feel free do to the following:
- Use these prompts for fan arts, comic strips, short stories/fanfiction.
- NSFW is not allowed unless the characters are depicted as adults (18+)
- AU’s are allowed :) (that includes Felinette fans 👀)
Tag me @moonwalkiingbae so I can see and share your work with everyone! I’d love to see what everyone can come up with (and yes I will participate in the fun too 😊).
REPOST TO SPREAD THE WORD!
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