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Previews fill me with trepidation brrr but I keep wondering how would you handle an akumatized Marinette or Adrien (or their hero forms) arc? What might be able to push them over the edge? How would MC Kwami take it? Do you have any headcanons or favorite fandom akuma forms for akuMarinette? How would MC akumAdrien be other than Chat Blanc?

Whoa! A lot of questions there, haha.

I keep wondering how would you handle an akumatized Marinette or Adrien (or their hero forms) arc? What might be able to push them over the edge?

[Canon Marinette]

The akumatization of normal Marinette would be a very slow process. It would be an arc where things in episodes would feel… off, but it would be hard to pinpoint exactly why.

Maybe Marinette’s friends don’t hang out with her as much, but there’s so much other stuff going on that it’s hard to notice.

Maybe Adrien continues to insist that Marinette is his friend while not actually trying to spend time with her, but he’s got such a tight schedule that it’s more easily shrugged off.

Maybe people start having Marinette stand up to people like Chloe all by herself, but Marinette is so good at it that it’s easy to presume that everyone knew that no one could do it better than Marinette.

At some point, we’d have a version of “Chameleon”, but where Lila had taken time and care to manipulate the class. Lila had shown up more frequently beforehand and was confirmed to have everyone’s phone number.

Lila knows that Marinette can’t be trusted. Lila is aware that Marinette knows that she’s full of it. She’s seen people like Marinette before and knows that there’s only one way to get rid of them; sabotaging their reputation.

Lila is careful and calculated, asking the classmates if she’d “done something wrong” to make Marinette dislike her. The class has no proof, but Lila has a lot of stories that she tries to back up using previous episodes and stories that people have told her.

And the classmates believe her, not because they like Lila more than Marinette, but because Marinette was so easy to not pay attention to. They don’t scowl or huff at Marinette, but Lila tends to call them away and make Marinette feel like something’s wrong.

The conflict would build up to the students having taken advantage of Marinette. They’re not bad people, but they saw Marinette as a happy-go-lucky girl who couldn’t say “no.” Some people were always on edge, fearing someone’s akumatization, but Marinette never seemed like someone who could be akumatized.

It was just easy to take advantage of her without meaning to. No one ever noticed that they did it because Marinette did everything she could to keep a level head and work things out. She was the mediator, the strategist, and so many other things that she just seemed incorruptible.

Besides, it’s not like Marinette’s around a lot. Marinette is always so late; they think, surely Marinette just doesn’t care. Surely Marinette just prioritizes everything evenly and doesn’t pay extra attention to people she likes.

It’s not like Marinette could have problems in her life. Her parents are “perfect” and her friends are just “so supportive all the time.” How could Marinette ever have issues?

Marinette being sent to the back was just one more example of the class seeing Marinette as someone without emotions. She was their guide and their creator, but an everyday Ladybug is apparently someone who’s never supposed to think of herself.

The loneliness would get to her. The lack of support would get to her. Lila threatening Marinette held weight and meaning because Marinette knew.

She knew right then how her friends saw her, and she was going to make every one of them realize that she’s an actual person. She was going to make everyone understand that she’s not perfect in their own twisted way and that they can’t shunt her aside just because that’s easier than putting in the effort to support her.

And as Miss Bustier begins her next class, she starts calling on students to ask them questions. Idly (and after far too long), she notices that Marinette isn’t there.

“Where’s Marinette?” she’d ask, more confused than anything else. Marinette was always absent. Surely, she’s just being forgetful, distracted, and clumsy again.

The classmates all look around. None of them had noticed that Marinette was missing.

They think, it’s not like they didn’t care that she wasn’t there! It wasn’t like they were so enamored with Lila that Marinette became meaningless. It’s Marinette’s fault. She’s always so quiet and meek (she’s not); how could anyone notice her missing?

Then, the door flies open. Papers scatter. The windows break from an unknown force.

Students nearly bolt out of their seats as they all feel a strong chill run up their spines.

There, in the doorway, stands the akumatized form of the one person no one ever thought could be corrupted: Marinette. Her eyes are wide, bright, yet somehow empty and completely devoid of emotion.

Staring ahead at nothing yet simultaneously making everyone feel stared at, Marinette speaks in monotone.

“I’m right here.”

[MC Marinette]

In the MC canon, Marinette is actually incorruptible. She doesn’t have horrific luck like the canon Marinette does and either she or someone else solves her big problems. Lila might be able to make her a bit miserable, but MC Marinette would never experience anything emotionally-destabilizing enough to warrant an akuma.

[Canon Adrien]

I’d make Adrien an akuma to teach him some sort of lesson.

The akumatization itself would probably involve Gabriel becoming desperate. He would be willing to do anything to get the miraculouses at this point.

Even if it means akumatizing his own son. After all, Adrien seems enamored with Ladybug and Gabriel figures that he or Nathalie might be able to manipulate that into something useful.

And Adrien is easy to manipulate, given how entitled he can act and how insistent he is on pursuing Ladybug romantically when she has no interest in him.

Post-deakumatization, he’d realize the disaster he almost caused (he thankfully didn’t give away his identity as Chat, convinced it would give him some sort of advantage) and would go to Ladybug as Chat to pretend like he merely had an epiphany on the matter. He’d acknowledge that he never meant for his attraction to go so far that it made her uncomfortable.

He would be vulnerable enough to properly absorb it this time when Ladybug stresses that she doesn’t want to date him (nor anyone else, for that matter) in her superhero form. It’s way too risky and Chat isn’t helping with his constant advances.

Even if Chat wants to argue, he knows he has no ground to stand on, so he agrees.

How would MC akumAdrien be other than Chat Blanc?

[MC Adrien/Chat]

I was never a fan of just making the superhero akumatizations nothing but them being inverted. I’d probably go for a combination of them being a “monster” form of whatever their miraculous represents (so, a monstrous cat for a cat miraculous user) and a trait of the person behind the mask, like Adrien’s want to not be hounded by fans and slink into the background, for example (giving him the ability to blend into shadows).

As for how it’d happen…

Chat wasn’t sure how far he’d run. He wasn’t sure when he’d started to.

All he knew was that he was following the white peacock feather wherever it was going to go. Every footstep reminded him of his mission: finding Hawk Moth. Following the feather was the best lead he’d ever had.

As the peacock floated through darkness, Chat finally realized that he was in a long dark hallway. Where was this? Was this in the mansion?

He pulled out his baton, dialing Ladybug.

No answer. While trying to keep an eye on the feather, Chat spoke “Ladybug, quick! I have a lead on the peacock, you have to–”

A light came on right as the feather passed by it. It continued flying down the hall, its pattern irregular but seeming to have a purpose.

Chat hesitantly put his baton back and walked after the feather.

Each light flicked on one-by-one as Chat continued. He was tense, ready for a supervillain to surprise him at any time.

Yet, as he stepped into the last area of darkness, his foot hit something and the light near it came on, revealing an even worse surprise.

As the peacock feather floated down to rest on the glass casing of a coffin, he saw his mother lying inside.

Chat inhaled sharply. He stumbled back, eyes widening as he stared down into the coffin.

He forgot his current state as Chat. “M-mom?” he called.

He rushed forward, banging on the casing. The feather was jostled around, but remained resting on the coffin. “Mom! Mom, are you okay? Please be okay! Answer me!”

A voice echoed through the halls, but it wasn’t the one Chat wanted. “Your mother has been in this state for quite a time, Adrien. She’s not going to answer you.”

The feather suddenly floated away, as if hit by a small gust of wind, while Chat jerked his head toward the voice.

There, standing a good distance away, was a tall, slender woman. Her long flowing blue dress almost touched the ground, but Chat noticed hints of purple. She had two weapons: a cane and a fan.

Two miraculouses? She had two of them?

Chat finally registered what she’d called him: Adrien. He looked down at himself, then remembered that he’d called Emilie “Mom”.

There was no turning back. He’d just have to take the woman’s miraculouses while he waited for Ladybug.

“Y-you!” Chat pulled out his baton, standing in front of his mother protectively. “Who are you and what did you do to my mother?”

“I’m your savior,” she spoke calmly. “And I didn’t do anything. It’s your father who’s to blame.”

“Liar!” Chat yelled.

He watched as the woman moved her fan out of the way, making Chat now able to see the peacock and butterfly brooches lined up along the center of her chest.

“I took these from him,” she said without apology. “You didn’t think it was odd that he had a book of miraculouses?”

Chat went to yell again, but the words died before he could use them.

It was odd. Of course it was odd. He thought that, but…

No…

“No!” Chat shook his head. “I don’t believe you!”

He stood there stiffly, warily, waiting for the woman to make a move.

She chuckled darkly. “You’re wondering if I only just now learned your identity. I assure you, I’ve known for a while.”

Chat hesitated, but his curiosity got the best of him. He tried to sound menacing, but his body was shaking and his voice wavered with it. “W-why didn’t you just take my ring then?”

“Because you’re useful to me,” she replied without hesitation.

As the feather returned to her, she placed it back in her fan, the cane remaining standing next to her. She raised a hand, a white butterfly coming down to rest on her palm.

Chat’s eyes widened as he watched her close her hand around the butterfly. A dark aura surrounded her hand, revealing an akuma in the butterfly’s place.

He knew who it was for.

“Y-you’ll never akumatize me!” Chat told her. “I’d never betray Ladybug!”

“You don’t have a choice.” The woman gestured behind Chat. “If you want your mother to wake up again, you’ll need to make a wish with yours and Ladybug’s miraculouses.”

For a split second, he’d considered it. “I–I’d never…I–”

Chat stared down at the floor, frustrated and upset at the sheer overload of information. He could feel his emotions getting to him. He could almost sense the akuma staring into him. “N-no. Mother…”

Ladybug. Where was his lady?

The woman held her palm out. “Fly, my akuma.”

Chat jerked his gaze back up, staggering back as the akuma came toward him. He bumped into the coffin and turned to it, seeing his mother still laying there, motionless.

He had to make a decision. It brought tears came to his eyes. “I-I’m sorry, Mom.”

He placed his baton on the ground, extending it to launch himself into the air. He flew right over the akuma, landing on the floor behind the woman as he ran off in an attempt to escape.

The woman watched without concern, the akuma putting up a fair chase. It was only a matter of time before Chat tired himself out.

The woman turned back to Emilie. “I suppose he’s going to need a hand, hm?”

She took the feather from before out of her fan, then allowed it to darken in his grasp. “You’ll want to protect your son, won’t you?”

She leaned forward, blowing her feather off her palm. It flew across the room, then trailed down and slipped through the coffin’s casing. It fluttered down to the rose attached to Emilie’s jacket, turning the rose an ugly black.

The woman smirked.

How would MC Kwami take it?

Post-deakumatization, Plagg would be livid that someone messed with his holder like that. He might even get reckless, insisting that Adrien go hide somewhere while he takes care of the mystery woman himself.

Do you have any headcanons or favorite fandom akuma forms for akuMarinette?

Just general headcanons on an akumatized Marinette?

If I were to theoretically akumatize Ladybug, I would have the akuma be in only one earring (akuma don’t go into more than one object, after all). Ladybug would then have to remove it and simultaneously drop it into her yoyo to cleanse it before fully detransforming.

She’d be a very hard supervillain to face because she’d have to willingly give up her akuma herself since only she can open her yoyo.

I also headcanon that the amount of humanity that seeps through an akumatized person depends on their will. Marinette has such a strong will that she can mentally force Hawk Moth out of her mind if there are things she doesn’t want him to see/hear. She’d try to feel out Hawk Moth to see if she can get a read on his location.

Potentially, she’d try to get Chat’s ring so Hawk Moth will meet up with her and she can double-cross him. She’d block Hawk Moth out of her mind and insist that Adrien secretly follow her so she can give him his ring back once the betrayal happens.

Essentially, akumatized Marinette is OP as heck and Hawk Moth would be an idiot to try and akumatize her.

My favorite akumanettes are the same as everyone else’s basically, but I’m also biased because my friends are very talented and I love their work most.

Zoe’s Little Devil is basically everything I ever wanted in a salty canon divergence. It’s satisfying, creative, beautifully drawn, and was timed perfectly. Zoe is incredible at design and it shows here. She never needs to write long, complex stories because her art speaks for itself and gAH, IT’S SO GOOD.

There’s also Punch’s Manynette. What’s better than one Marinette? Manynette! It’s an enjoyable ride to watch the Manynette go crazy as everyone is just like “????” and honestly, it gets to the point where you almost don’t want Manynette to get de-akumatized. (Ha, imagine that; Hawk Moth just has to give up and all the Manynette become less and less like each other as they develop. Love interests abound!)

Also admittedly a sucker for Pursecutor if for no other reason than I can appreciate a good pun with some quality trash on top.

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