#catmoth 💀

[coccinelle-et-chaton]

it's been a hot second since i last theorized for an episode, but for ephimeral, I will do it.

let's go. it's time for nelle's clown theories.

As we know from the leak that happened a few weeks ago, the afternoon akuma happens alongside the press conference. Following that event, Su Han visits Ladybug to ask her to find out who Chat Noir is. Simultaneously, Adrien is discovering the corpse of his dead mom, which could be Gabriel's calculated attempt to sway Adrien to the dark side. Given this scene, it might be an important conversation/ the thing that convinces Gabriel to reveal his plan.

But we know it will backfire. Adrien will not yield, he will become akumatized because this is what happened last time he found out in Chat Blanc. He is in a vulnerable state, and at what has to be Gabriel at his absolutely most despicable, I bet he will try using force or his Miraculous, or both, to take the ring away from Adrien, merge it with the Butterfly, and akumatize him.

I also think that Ephemeral will be both akumatized and de-evilized in the middle of the episode, but the duo will deal with the chaos it created after it has been de-evilized because this whole sequence looks like the climatic act/resolution of the episode:

While this looks more like Ladybug caught in the very situation Su Han probably warned her about, being caught between a rock and a hard place WITHOUT Chat Noir. Hence why she's furiously typing on her bugphone. But little does she know, Chat Noir is actually standing right behind her, as pointed out by @gentil-minou. So this happens prior to them emerging from the sewers (HELLO ARE WE HAVING ANOTHER SEWER SCENE? PLEASE ? UMBRELLA AND SEWER SCENE IN THE SAME EPISODE?? you are SPOILING us Zag /j):

Now, regarding the Ladynoir Umbrella Scene. Based on Chat Blanc, Marinette thinks that when either of them learns the identity of the other at the wrong time, they set off a cataclysmic timeline. But this episode will prove her wrong. Because at the chance of standing corrected, Adrien finds out her identity AFTER shit hits the fan, and she learns his identity after he does.

It may be that Adrien breaks out of the akumatization when he sees Marinette detransforming in front of him. And once he does, and once they fight to recover his Miraculous from Hawkmoth, Marinette will tie the strings about who he is. The Umbrella Scene will be that final Eureka! moment. I mean, do these faces look like the faces of two idiots in love who just discovered each other's identity, or does it look more like the sudden assimilation and acceptance that they had been in front of each other all along?

Alternatively, it could be that this is the closing moment right before they reset everything, in which case, I will absolutely cry. Actually, either way I will cry because when you think about it, the realization that it WASN'T their love what caused the end of the world in Chat Blanc, that it's actually okay to know who Chat is, and that she doesn't have to stress out about loving him because their love is not the bad thing, Hawkmoth is, will leave as soon as they reset.

In other words, this knowledge that would allow her to fully embrace her feelings for Chat Noir, will be as the kids say, e p h e m e r a l.

So. How did I do? 🤡

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