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purrincess-chat · 6 years

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RPM Day 10: Competitive

I’m hopefully in the clear now, so I’m gonna try to catch up on RPM. Here’s some MariKim/DupainChien/LadyKim(Kimbug idk) Dedicating this one to @queenkubdel because this ship is one of her faves as of late.

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Day 10: Competitive

“So, how much can you lift?” Kim asked, crossing his arms over his chest and pressing his lips into a firm line.

Ladybug met his gaze head-on, unwavering, breaking eye contact only briefly to nod at the bus parked on the curb. “I can lift that.”

“Prove it,” Kim said, and Ladybug rolled her jaw a little before nodding in acceptance.

“Fine.” She shrugged.

“Fine.” Kim echoed, and they held each other’s gaze for a few more seconds before Ladybug moved into place, stretching her arms above her head and rolling her shoulders a little.

She rubbed her hands together before cupping them under the bus and lifting. The bus tilted as she pulled up, rocking precariously on one side until she set it back down gently, and Kim offered a small clap.

“Impressive.” He nodded approvingly.

“Thanks.” She dusted her hands off and paced back over to him.

“How fast can you make it to the Eiffel Tower from here?” He asked, and she turned to gage the distance, pursing her lips.

“2 minutes tops.” Kim seemed to weigh her answer for a moment before coming to a decision.

“Challenge accepted.”

“What?” Ladybug’s mask furrowed in confusion.

“I’m gonna beat your time. We’ll race to see who gets there the fastest,” He said boldly, squaring his shoulders.

“You can’t be serious,” She scoffed, but the look in his eyes said otherwise. “Alright. You’re on.”

“Wait.” She stopped on Kim’s command, cocking a curious brow as a sly grin spread across his face. “Let’s make this more interesting.”

“I’m sorry?” She tilted her head to the side, eyes narrowing skeptically.

“Let’s make a bet.”

“You’re asking a superhero to gamble?” She chided with an amused smirk, cocking her hip to the side and shaking her head with a tsk.

“Not with money,” Kim said, shaking his head.

“Then what do you want to bet?” He tapped his chin a moment with a crooked grin.

“If I win then you have to be my girlfriend for a week,” He stated, crossing his arms over his chest. “And if you win-”

“If I win then you have to do my homework for a week,” She decided, and Kim’s eyes narrowed. “Being a superhero takes up a lot of time, and I’d like to get some sleep.”

“Fine. Deal.” They shook on it and moved into position. “Ready?”

“On your mark…”

“Get set…”

“Go!” They said in unison before taking off, Kim on foot while Ladybug tossed her yoyo and tugged the slack.

“See you at the Eiffel Tower, slow poke!” She called as she shot off. When Kim finally made it, Ladybug was leaned against the base casually, and she slid open her yoyo with an impressed nod. “Five minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Not bad for a civilian.”

“I want a rematch,” He demanded, placing his hands on his knees as he gasped for air.

“No way. I won, so you have to do my homework for the rest of the week,” She said, shaking her head firmly.

“I want a rematch,” He repeated, and Ladybug detected a hint of desperation in his tone that reflected in his expression.

Pursing her lips in thought, she fastened her yoyo back to her hip and smiled. “Tell you what. If you do my homework for the rest of the week, then I’ll let you take me to dinner tomorrow night.”

“No way, Dupain-Cheng.” He shook his head, and she glanced around nervously at the mention of her civilian name. “I’m gonna beat you and earn my reward.”

“Kim, you don’t have to work so hard to get me to go out with you. You could just ask,” She said pointedly, and Kim flashed her a grin.

“Where’s the fun in that?” He said with a laugh, and Ladybug sighed in mock-exasperation.

“Fine. I bet I can do more push-ups than you,” She declared, and Kim straightened up, that challenging twinkle returning to his eyes.

“You’re on.”

#miraculous ladybug #le chien kim #marinette dupain-cheng #marikim #dupainchien #mlrarepair2018 #day 10: competitive #my writing

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purrincess-chat · 6 years

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For the ship headcanons, how about Marinette/Kim? ("Dupainchien" I guess!)

I call it MariKim, but DupainChien works too!

Ship

-Marinette reeling Kim in when he gets ridiculous and wants to race a panther.

-Mutual dislike of Chloe.

-Marinette knits them matching sweaters for Christmas.

-Couples yoga!

-At first Kim thinks yoga is silly, but when he realizes how much strength and endurance it takes, he’s immediately into it.

-Cute flustered babs

-Piggy back rides!

-Kim approaches Marinette all conflicted because he doesn’t know how to confess to the girl he likes, and Marinette cheers him on like in Dark Cupid, but then he gets on one knee and asks her to be his Valentine.

-Marinette is a blushing mess, but she accepts cause oww her heart, that’s so sweet.

-New Years kisses

-Sharing their deepest secrets because they trust each other.

BrOTP (because I know you ;)

-Marinette helping Kim get better at games to impress Max.

-Work out buddies!

-Kim being wildly impressed, and instantly competitive when finding out Marinette’s identity.

-”How much can you lift?” “Uhh, I dunno. I can lift this couch…” *Kim starts doing push-ups* “What are you-” “I have to get strong enough to lift a car.” “Kim, no.” “Kim, YES!”

-”Bet I could beat you to the Eiffel Tower from here.” “I don’t think you ca-” “I’ll cover for you any time there’s an akuma, and let you copy Max’s notes.” “…Bring it on.”

-Kim dead-lifting Marinette without breaking a sweat.

-Marinette dead-lifting Kim without breaking a sweat.

-Kim talking Marinette up to Adrien at lacrosse practice.

-Being the ultimate wingman/woman for each other.

-Kim carries cookies around just in case Tikki needs to recharge.

-One day Marinette is feeling sad, and Kim is literally ready to fight whoever it is, no questions asked.

-Sibling-like rivalry, but also sibling-like protectiveness and love.

-Kim knows exactly where Marinette is ticklish, but Marinette threatens to get a pet tarantula if he ever tickles her.

#marikim #dupainchien #miraculous ladybug #le chien kim #marinette dupain-cheng #tropes

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Marikim? Dupainchien? Lovebug? Whatever it’s called, I ship it

#very occasionally my art is not completely terrible i guess #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #le chien kim #dupainchien #random stuff #my stuff #i promised i would go to sleep early today but it's 1am whoops

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Marinette/Kim is such a god-tier ship though, the wacky childhood friends who know each other so well, like Kim doesn’t care that Marinette steals phones and Marinette doesn’t care that Kim tried to fight a panther and they just love each other

#this is my second favourite kim ship by the way it's just so so good #random stuff #dupainchien #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #le chien kim

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Fresh Start - chapter 4

Haha hopefully I’ll get this thing finished before the end of @mlrarepairmarch ... Anyway another chapter of Marinette being a useless disaster and super in love with Kim, because I ship it

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Marinette and Kim returned to her house after school that day to finish off their project. It probably wouldn’t take too much longer, thankfully. Marinette was not sure how much more of Kim’s presence she could take – maybe if she could just get away from him a while, things would go back to normal? Until then, she would just have to deal with his ridiculous flirty attitude and keep reminding herself that they were friends, and none of it meant anything…

It really, really didn’t help when he took off his hoodie again, this time without prompting, and dunked it right on her head. “I thought you might like this, don’t think I didn’t notice you blushing last time, Cupcake…”

Oh, curse this stupid heatwave, and curse that stupid nickname and stupid hoodie! Marinette lifted the hoodie up slightly to see him lounging on the chair with his arms behind his head, smirking at her. She quickly threw the hoodie back at him.

“I wasn’t blushing!” she insisted. “My cheeks were red because I was hot, obviously.”

He winked at her. “Sure.”

Ugh, there was no point trying to fool him. They had known each other for so long, it was easy to tell what was blushing and what wasn’t. The thought made her blush again – yikes, that was not good. She quickly turned aside and slammed her homework books on the table. “Enough messing around, let’s just get on with this.”

Kim, however, had ceased to pay attention and was looking at something on his phone. “Hey look, Alya’s just sent all the photos from today to the class chat! These are great, I look amazing in all of them…”

Marinette rolled her eyes – of course he would be admiring himself, wouldn’t he? She checked her own phone to see that Alya had indeed sent them all plenty of photos from today’s celebration, most of them just of the classmates themselves, since Miss Bustier had been trying to keep their lesson on track the whole time and didn’t seem to care that it was her own birthday.

Wait… what was this?

“Kim,” Marinette began, willing herself not to burst into laughter, “is it me or are you doing that bunny-ears thing to me in every single photo here?”

“Yep!” Kim leaned across and poked her on the nose. “I’ll never stop.”

“It’s been like 10 years since you started doing that!”

“Well yeah, it’s kinda like a friendship meme for us, isn’t it?”

Friendship meme…

Marinette ignored the odd pang deep in her chest at hearing the word “friendship”. Of course they were close friends. It didn’t need to be anything else, obviously. That would be ridiculous…

“Come on then, let’s do our work,” she said firmly. At least when absorbed in the project, her mind wouldn’t be tempted to wander, would it?

They were soon finished with the work. Hopefully they would get a good mark on it – both of them had actually tried hard. Marinette was adamant to make up for all the homework she missed and bad grades she got thanks to her duties as Ladybug, and luckily Kim had been putting in the same effort.

And now he would leave, and she would have some peace of mind again…

“So Cupcake,” he said, getting up from the chair, “when are you next inviting me over? I mean, I need some excuse to take off my hoodie in front of a pretty girl, right?”

…pretty girl?

Marinette dropped her open pencil case. Red in the face, she crouched down to scoop up all the fallen stationery, very stubbornly refusing to look at Kim. She wanted to say something back to him, something to wipe that stupid grin off his face, but her mind just had to be blank! And it was all his fault!

Finally she just grabbed his hoodie and thrust it back at him, intending to say, “JUST PUT YOUR DAMN HOODIE BACK ON, KIM,” but ending up spluttering too much to be intelligible. At least he got the message. She still refused to look directly at him as he wore the hoodie, tried hard not to listen as he said something else that was probably stupid and self-centred as always, and ignored the heat in her face as he kissed her cheek and left.

Phew…

Rational thought was beginning to return to her brain, at long last, slowly trickling in like a welcome drop of water to a parched desert. Yes… yes, maybe she was being a flustered idiot. But she had to remind herself that Kim probably just treated all girls like this, the annoying player that he was. For starters, he had a crush on Chloé, he’d literally been akumatized over it.

And if he thought Marinette was pretty…

Well yeah, he was absolutely right! It was true, and he had good taste (except for Chloé), fair enough. Plus, beauty didn’t matter as much as Marinette being a superhero and saving the city constantly, something that Kim would never know. He was just being an idiot, as always, an idiot who always thought he was the best at everything, and thought he was all charismatic, and hot, and thought he could get everyone to like him even though he was so reckless and stupid and… charming…

“Tikki, spots on,” she whispered, her patience with herself at an end.

Leaping over the rooftops as Ladybug did nothing to calm her brain down. She tried so hard to focus on the wind in her face, the sounds of Parisians going about their lives, anything! But all she could think about was some stupid boy, and it was killing her.

She almost tripped off the rooftop when she spotted said boy ambling down to the bus stop below her, kicking loose pebbles out of the way absent-mindedly. And before she could even think for a second, she had thrown out her yoyo and dropped down in front of him Spider-man style – oh why had she done that…

“Hi Kim, what’s up?” she said. At least being in this superhero suit seemed to give her brain the false confidence that it needed to speak without going into the old oh-shoot-it’s-Adrien mode.

Kim looked startled for a second, but then smiled at her. “Hi Ladybug!”

Well, he certainly didn’t treat Ladybug the same way he treated Marinette. The guy was acting like a total fanboy now – that goofy awestruck grin, bouncing on his toes in excitement of seeing his hero right in front of him.

“I hope you’re not challenging any more panthers, are you?” She wanted to smack herself in the head as soon as she’d said it. Was bringing up the panther incident really a good idea around this kid? Luckily Kim didn’t mind.

“Haha, no, I was just hanging out with a close friend and doing homework and stuff,” he said. “I haven’t even been back to the zoo since that one time.”

Before she could stop it, her imagination was throwing all sorts of potential zoo date scenarios at her – okay wow, that was not what she needed to be thinking about right now. It occurred to her that she had no real reason for speaking to Kim as Ladybug, especially since there were no akumas around right now, and he wasn’t causing any trouble, and Chat Noir was the one who went around having casual conversations with civilians, not her!

But the thought of stopping was constricting her throat so oddly. Clearly she really, really wanted to talk to her friend. Spend time with him. All that stuff. Friendly things.

“So how’s life?” she asked quickly. “Any more stupid challenges in general?”

Oh come on, why would Ladybug be interested in asking him something like that…

“Nah, I’ve been trying to be less idiotic lately,” Kim said, seeming somewhat more down-to-earth than usual. “I know it gets me in a lot of danger and trouble and a bunch of akumas have already killed me before, so I don’t want more of that.”

“Yeah, that’s definitely a bad thing!”

“I think I might actually be doing okay these days, though. Thinking before acting and stuff. Or at least… better? Well, sometimes anyway. I keep, uh…” He was looking at the ground, blushing slightly. “…I still keep saying stupid things around this one friend I have and I can’t stop, I hope she’s not annoyed…”

Wait, really? Not only was Kim being humble for once, but he was getting flustered around someone?!

She smiled encouragingly at him, ignoring the voice in her head screaming IT’S ME!!! HE’S TALKING ABOUT ME!!!

“I’m sure you’re doing great!” she said. “And she probably doesn’t find it annoying, I mean, maybe she does, but maybe she finds it cute – well I don’t know, but–”

For god’s sake, why couldn’t she just shut up? She was really digging herself into a hole there.

“I doubt it,” he said, shrugging. “I’ve known her way too long, she knows I’m an idiot, she’d never find it cute, haha…”

Known her too long?? Known her too long???

“Um I’ve GOTTA GO, SEE YOU LATER!” She gave a quick wave and then zoomed right back up to the roof, leaving Kim standing there bewildered.

He couldn’t have been talking about her. No way. Definitely not.

Oh, but he had said it was a girl he was friends with…

Nope. It couldn’t be Marinette. Kim had loads of friends! He was close with Alya, right? Maybe he meant her. Or maybe he counted Chloé as a friend, despite how she treated him, and actually was talking about her. After all, he had already tried asking her out before. Or did “friendly rivalry” count as friends? Because then that could even apply to Alix!

But he had said he’d known the friend for a long time…

That already ruled out almost everyone else in the class. But surely it couldn’t be Marinette! It just couldn’t!

Anyway, even if it was her, it didn’t matter. He was just a friend.

And no matter how many more times she had to keep stubbornly, aggressively telling herself that, she would do it.

“Are you okay, Marinette?” Tikki popped out of her pocket. “You were quiet at dinner…”

“I’m fine,” Marinette replied. “I’m going to bed.”

“Already? It’s so early!”

“Goodnight, Tikki.”

The poor kwami must have been confused, but Marinette did not feel like explaining right now. Or perhaps Tikki was not confused at all, and her multi-generational knowledge gave her a level of insight that Marinette could never hope to achieve. Whatever.

She curled up on her bed, trying to think about kittens and rainbows and nice things, anything to keep her mind distracted as she fell asleep. And maybe tomorrow her brain would actually start working again, and things would be back to the way they used to be…

No such luck. Marinette was no stranger to lucid dreams. She knew perfectly well she was dreaming, and made no move to wake herself up.

Not even when her dream self, sick of flying like she always did, had landed on the ground right in front of someone annoyingly familiar.

Not even when that familiar, gorgeous guy leaned forward with an alluring smile, gently slipped her jacket off her shoulders, slid an arm around her waist, pulled her in closer, ever so slowly.

And she didn’t wake herself up when she looked into those enticing grey eyes of his, or when he leaned in so close that she was sure he was going to kiss her, and she allowed herself to hope that he would, and closed her eyes and waited, only to feel his breath tickling her cheek and then hear his voice in her ear…

“So are you in love with me, Cupcake?”

Cupcake?!

Marinette catapulted awake.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

She was NOT just dreaming about kissing Kim. No way. No way!

It was just a dream, it didn’t mean anything–

But it was a lucid dream! A lucid dream! She knew she was dreaming, she could have done anything at any second, and she didn’t, she didn’t do a thing! And oh god, was she sweating?! Well obviously that was because it was summer, and she was warm, and – and –

Oh, for fuck’s sake!

She turned around and just screamed into her pillow.

That… that GUY, honestly… how dare he always just be so smooth and so flirty all the time? And even if he was, she shouldn’t fall for it! Marinette knew how much of an idiot he was! She had always known! There was no way he was charming enough to get her all hot and flustered, there was no way she could find his arrogance and cockiness attractive, when it should be annoying, and this was just so stupid and stereotypical!!

She lay down and tried to go back to sleep, kicking off the covers, far too warm to need them. But was sleep even a good idea? She just kept hearing that stupid voice of his on repeat in her head, and that dream just kept playing over and over, and as much as she tried to fight it off, it wouldn’t leave.

And part of her didn’t even want it to leave…

Oh come on! She had just managed to get over Adrien! Did she really have to go and start pining over some other guy, some guy way more annoying in every possible way? Did she have to be all lovesick and stupid like this? She could fight this! She could definitely, absolutely fight this!

Right?

But every time she remembered the way he called her “Cupcake”, or the way he held her so close in that stupid dream, and how good it felt, and how much she wished she hadn’t woken up and let it all fade away…

Oh, forget it.

Marinette curled up around her pillow and just let herself daydream to hell and back. About grabbing Kim’s stupid face and kissing him senseless, ripping off that stupid hoodie, running a hand over every one of those stupid muscles that hadn’t been there before, ruffling up that stupid hair, listening to him whisper that stupid nickname…

She didn’t know when she fell asleep, where the daydreams stopped and the hopelessly lucid dreams began. It wasn’t like it made much difference anymore. Who even knew how long the night lasted? It was morning before she knew it, a hot sunny Saturday, and she simply lay there in her bed refusing to move.

Fine… there was no point denying it any longer, was there? She had to admit it.

Marinette had a huge crush on Kim.

And it felt so damn good.

“Marinette?” Tikki was tugging on her hair. “It’s almost noon!”

That late already? Time really flew by when she was hypothetically making out with that hot loser, didn’t it?

“I don’t know what to do,” she mumbled. Somehow, intuitively, Tikki already knew what she was talking about. Or at least seemed to.

“Maybe talk to Alya?”

“Oh, but I don’t wanna tell anyone…”

Even before finishing her sentence she recalled how accepting Alya had always been of everything Marinette had told her. If anyone was going to know, it had to be her.

“Alright, fine,” Marinette said, pushing herself up and out of bed. “But just Alya.” She grabbed her phone and sent a quick message telling Alya to come over urgently, then lay back down and waited, feeling too useless to do anything else.

“Marinette! Everything okay?” Alya burst up through the trapdoor and ran over. “What’s the problem? Do I need to fight anyone?”

“No,” Marinette sighed. “Just me.”

“Aw, babe, what did you do this time?”

She planted her face in Alya’s shoulder. “I accidentally have a crush on someone.”

“What? Oh, that’s so awesome! Who is it? Do you need my help?”

“No, no, nothing like that! Please Alya, just… don’t start scheming or anything, not this time. I just wanna get this off my chest, that’s all. I don’t want any help.”

“Alright then, you disaster…” Alya patted her on the head. “So who’s the lucky guy? Or girl?”

Marinette took a deep breath. “Um… it’s Kim…”

Alya, the blessed friend that she was, did not engage in any “told you so!” type taunting. Instead she gave Marinette a hug and said, “Nice! And I promise this time I’ll let you handle things yourself. I know sometimes I can be a bit… intense.”

“Thanks, Alya.”

“No problem. I hope things work out.”

“What do you mean?”

“Oh, I mean, are you gonna make a move?”

Crap – that was something Marinette hadn’t even thought about yet. She could barely even wrap her head around liking the guy, let alone actually doing anything about it.

Well, should she make a move? On the one hand, of course she wanted to! But on the other hand there was no way she could let that arrogant smug fool know that she liked him, or his ego would increase ten-fold and he’d be completely intolerable…

Alya seemed to notice the silence. “Hey, it’s okay, you don’t have to decide yet. You’re barely even over Adrien.”

Adrien felt like a million years ago at this point. It was impossible to remember what she ever saw in him that she didn’t see in anyone else.

“Alya, please distract me,” she said finally. “I need to get my mind away from… from…”

From how much she wanted Kim, how much she couldn’t wait to hear him call her “Cupcake” again, and give her one of those silly winks…

“Don’t worry, I’ve got your back.” Alya stood up and pulled Marinette up with her. “Let’s go do something fun. Like getting footage for the Ladyblog!”

Marinette couldn’t help grinning. They wouldn’t exactly have a high chance of seeing Ladybug around if Marinette was too busy being with Alya to transform! But hey, maybe they would bump into Chat Noir, or find some other interesting things going on in this giant city, and maybe then Marinette would have regained enough of her common sense to decide what to do.

#THIRSTINETTE'S BACK WITH A VENGEANCE #hey kiddos don't forget this one's t rated because these bad children SWEAR #mlrarepair2018 #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #le chien kim #dupainchien #random stuff #aish writes

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Had a headache and couldn't sleep so for once I drew on actual paper, anyway, you can pry this ship out of my cold dead hands Marinette also stole his phone and his heart along with his hoodie

#i can't draw kim and i definitely can't draw kisses but this ship is great okay #miraculous ladybug #dupainchien #marinette dupain cheng #le chien kim #random stuff #my stuff #now i'm gonna sleep so goodnight

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Fresh Start - chapter 3

@mlrarepairmarch continues and I’m still total Dupainchien trash (I wrote this chapter ages ago but forgot to post it whoops)

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It certainly wasn’t the first time Kim had been to Marinette’s house. Far from it. For as long as she could remember he had been welcomed there with open arms, her family always giving him free snacks, him taking refuge there during some akuma attacks. This wasn’t like the odd time when Adrien came over, when her parents would be extra sweet towards him and spy on his and Marinette’s interactions to judge how they were getting on, much like her classmates did. No, they tended to leave Kim alone with her.

Usually it didn’t matter at all. This time, however…

“I see you’ve taken down all those pictures of Adrien,” Kim said as he sat down at the desk, getting out his homework.

He had noticed those? For some reason she had always thought him incapable of noticing things, what with how self-absorbed he was all the time. She just watched him for a few seconds, wondering what could be going on in that ridiculous brain of his. Then she quickly looked away as her cheeks heated up. No staring!

Anyway, of course the real reason her cheeks were heating up was because of this June heatwave that was hitting Europe, obviously. Daytime temperatures were soaring. Even now in the evening it still hadn’t cooled down. Considering Marinette’s room was upstairs, all the heat was trapped up here with her. It made logical sense.

She shakily ran a hand through her fringe, which was now starting to catch the sweat from her forehead. “Is it hot in here or is it just me?”

Kim turned and looked at her with a sudden grin on his face, giving her a wink. “Uh, actually it’s me.”

Oh, for god’s sake! Could he not go five minutes without flirting?! Or being a show-off? He wasn’t exactly wrong, but still…

Seeing her facepalm – more like an excuse to hide her face from him – he chuckled and said, “Nah, but you’re right, it is hot in here. Hang on a minute…”

She had only just removed her face from her hands to see him reach up and–

No. He wasn’t going to take off his hoodie, was he?

But he did. She watched him pull it off and… oh okay there was a shirt underneath, thank god. That being said, she still couldn’t tear her eyes away, indignant fury welling up inside her along with something else – it was so unfair! Why had puberty been so nice to him? Marinette, despite being Ladybug, had to deal with a spotty face and spindly limbs and dorky voice and yet this freaking goblin-looking little kid just had to turn out to be hot!

For several more seconds, though it felt longer, she let herself stare at that annoyingly tight shirt, at everything that certainly hadn’t been there a few years ago that a bit of fabric couldn’t hide, not even noticing Kim’s look of confusion when he caught her watching… which quickly turned to a smirk. He threw the hoodie right at her face.

“Admiring the view, huh Cupcake?”

Cupcake…?

Well, at least that managed to snap her out of it.

“Cupcake, seriously?”

He grinned sheepishly. “I know, it’s lame, but like… you live in a bakery, so…”

“Alright, I’ll allow it.”

“Nice.”

She felt like she ought to say something else, but her mind was blank. She just clutched the hoodie in her arms, still annoyed that someone as cocky as Kim could be the one to win the puberty bingo, still half mesmerized by the fact that he definitely had not been that shredded the last time he took off his hoodie–

“So are we gonna start doing homework or what?”

Oh yes – homework! Marinette flung the hoodie over her shoulder into the corner of her room. “Yeah, let’s just get on with it!”

Phew. Maybe homework would distract her from her… annoyance. She put her homework out in front of her, still feeling far too hot. Which was still because of the heatwave, of course! She fanned herself with one of the pieces of paper, wishing her electric fan hadn’t broken. If only she could use Lucky Charm to cool herself down!

“Mari, if you’re hot why don’t you just take off your jacket? Why do you even wear that thing literally all the time?” Kim’s grin suddenly returned. “I mean, I know you’re probably jealous that you’re not as ripped as me, but…”

She tore off her jacket and threw it at him, not even daring to look. “NEVER MIND, LET’S JUST GET ON WITH THE HOMEWORK NOW…”

Kim had never exactly been the best at homework. That being said, he did try hard when he had to, for which Marinette was grateful. What she was less grateful for, however, was how her own brain did not seem to be working at full capacity, only worsened whenever she looked aside and caught sight of this damn hunk sitting next to her.

What was the big deal anyway? Okay, so he had muscles, whatever! It wasn’t like Marinette herself didn’t. Sure, she looked scrawny on the outside, but all that exercise as Ladybug had left her stronger than she looked – a fact that even Alya had been shocked by that one time she came across Marinette in a sports bra. And Kim’s handsome face wasn’t a big deal either. She saw that smug mug of his at school every day, and she herself was no slouch in the beauty department.

No. Big. Deal.

It would have been way easier to convince herself of all this if it hadn’t been for his near-constant flirting. She was used to it, of course, since that was how they always acted with each other. Kim was full of himself, and expected everyone else to love him that much too. Usually Marinette just laughed along and took it in stride. Today, however, it was making her feel far too hot, even beyond the point that the heatwave could explain it…

It was all because he’d taken off that stupid hoodie! That was to blame. Marinette had never cared before, so why should she start now? She was distracted because he was hot, and once that fact had been fully accepted by her brain then things would go back to normal. They had to. She was sure of it.

Until then she would just have to grit her teeth and bear the sudden heart attacks every time he spoke, every time he even moved…

Kim had to leave later that evening to go back to his own place for dinner. He put the hoodie back on – oh, that was a little better – and then she went downstairs with him to let him out. Her parents called out to them on the way past.

“Kim! You’re always welcome to stay for dinner, if you’d like!”

“Sorry, Mrs Cheng, I’d love to but I have to go – but maybe next time?”

It was odd how polite he could be to her parents, considering how hot-headed and reckless he was the rest of the time. In any case, she was pretty glad he wasn’t staying for dinner, since she wasn’t sure if she could deal with more of him right now.

Well… mostly glad. He was kind of nice to look at. Not that it mattered, though!

She let him out of the back door, forcing her brain to work again. “See you at school tomorrow, Kim.”

“Yeah, you too Cupcake.”

That silly nickname again! He didn’t give nicknames to other kids in the class. Maybe it was just a side-effect of having known her for so long, or maybe–

Her train of thought was halted in its tracks as he leaned down and pressed a kiss to her cheek, then walked off without another word.

Marinette stood totally still for several seconds, her face slowly flushing bright red… at least until she remembered that they were French, and it wasn’t the first time he’d done that, and the only reason she was blushing was because of everything else on her mind today, NOT because it meant anything. Because it didn’t!

Tikki floated out of her pocket. “Marinette, are you okay?”

She took a deep breath. “Yes. I’m fine.”

She was. She really, really was. And with that, she turned around and went back inside.

After dinner that night she transformed into Ladybug and met up with Chat Noir, as she often did. The temperature was still ridiculously warm, though luckily her suit caused her not to feel it so much. Of course, her suit did nothing to stop her feeling so warm on the inside, so annoyingly, uncomfortably warm, especially since she couldn’t stop thinking about… certain things…

“So what’s up, my lady?” Chat asked her, laying on the surface of the roof like an art model, so over the top as usual.

“Not much,” she said after a pause. There was no need to get into her personal life with him.

Amusingly enough, though, she couldn’t help thinking fondly of how similar Chat could be to a certain someone. Giving her a silly nickname, acting so flirty and extra, always putting on the charms, always being there for her like friends should be. Not too shabby-looking, either.

So then why didn’t Chat Noir affect her? Why did this heartthrob of a superhero in a skin-tight suit not send her mind reeling the way Kim had been doing lately? Chat Noir was hot too, and she knew it! All of Paris knew it!

“Well I’ve been having a paw-some few days, so I’ll try and make your day a little better too!”

Oh, his stupid puns. They always brought a reluctant smile to her face. “What’s got you so upbeat today, chaton?”

He got to his feet and walked over, resting his baton across his shoulders. “Nothing big. There’s this friend I have, and she was always really weird around me – but recently she’s been warming up to me! It’s nice to be able to get to know her better.”

Well, at least his life really seemed to be looking up. “That’s nice. Having friends is always good.”

Except when they were way too hot and stuck in your mind no matter what…

“Don’t worry, you’ll always be my best friend,” Chat breathed, leaning closer. Oh, this silly kitten and his ridiculous attempts at flirting. It was just as entertaining as it always had been.

“You’re always my best friend too. Anyway, come on – we’ve got a patrol to be getting on with!”

She swung off the roof, and he quickly followed.

The next day, Miss Bustier’s birthday, was a day of celebration for the class. Or at least, they had wanted it to be. The teacher herself refused to let the kids make a big deal of things. Marinette still brought in a box of cupcakes from the bakery for everyone to share, though, and Alya snapped away a bunch of class photos to send to everyone. They all appreciated their teacher, and they wanted to show it.

Later that day Marinette stood alone in the lockers, quietly opening her bag and slipping the last cupcake inside for Tikki to eat as a treat. That wonderful kwami deserved all the food she could get, really. She closed her bag again, about to go back to the courtyard to meet up with Alya, when someone suddenly covered her eyes from behind.

“Guess who?”

Judging by that voice, and the fact that she had a mini heart attack on hearing it, she didn’t even have to guess. “I know it’s you, Kim.”

“Yeah, of course it’s me.” He took his hands away and came round to stand in front of her. “Hah, Cupcake actually brought in cupcakes! I’m totally psychic.”

Boasting again? How predictable. “It’s just a coincidence.”

“That’s exactly what I want people to think,” he said with a wink. Marinette found herself having to stifle a giggle, and also having to ignore a sudden adrenaline rush – what was up with that? Anyway, this stupid kid’s ego was way too big for his own good, and she wasn’t about to let herself add to that!

“It’s very childish to pretend to have superpowers,” she said.

“How do you know I’m pretending? What if I’m secretly Chat Noir?”

“That’s ridiculous, you can’t be Chat Noir, because–”

She stopped. How to explain that she knew Chat Noir too well to be fooled by something like that? That Chat Noir didn’t give her heart attacks when speaking to her? Oh – and that Kim had literally been akumatized before, and she and Chat had saved him more times than they could count?

“See?” Kim said when she didn’t continue. “You’ve got no proof! I’m totally a superhero, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

He tapped her on the nose, then walked off. She clenched her fists, a second adrenaline rush hitting her. That – that guy! He was so annoying! And not just because he was hot, but everything else about him too…

#if you think marinette's smitten now just wait for later huehuehuehue #mlrarepair2018 #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #le chien kim #dupainchien #i guess cat child is here a bit too but he's irrelevant lol #random stuff #aish writes

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 6 years

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Time isn’t real so therefore it’s still March and I can write the last chapter of that thing I was writing for, yknow, Rare Pair March

#i forgot earlier oops #and a certain mermaid made me forget dupainchien is a ship that exists and is good #anyways i'm lowkey doing this out of spite towards a few things i didn't like in a certain episode #problem is i've been writing so much gen fic lately i can't remember how to write the mushy stuff lol #eh it'll come back #random stuff

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 5 years

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More of the Misadventures of Aish rereading Misadventures and fixing typos, like a cowardly fool because I can’t sleep

chapters 21-25 oh no here we go

(actually I did this in like November on my phone but only just now remembered that I never posted it so here ya go, this is all weeks old)

Okay so with the chapter titles, I didn’t actually start naming them until about ch27 or so, but I had already nicknamed this chapter something like “IT’S FRIENDSHIP YOU COWARDS” bc this one got a surprising amount of notes on tumblr and I’m 99% sure most of the people who read it did not realize that this is in fact a Kimax fic

And also THIS CHAPTER WAS THE TURNING POINT. I could either have kept the fic rly lighthearted until way near the end, or decide to start shoving in the Angst much quicker. 3 guesses what I picked >:D

Oh highkey same Alix?? except for me it’s not superpowers or anything it’s just called “anxiety disorder”

The obliviousness physically pains me

I’m the guard who just blatantly lets Alix steal popcorn. also why was there just casually popcorn there. god I don’t even know what I was thinking when I wrote any of this

Oh yeah I remember!! I was mad at people setting off the smoke alarm while making popcorn in the middle of the night!! just uni things am I right

...why am I noticing now that the whole popcorn thing is just a metaphor for Kim’s entire love life I am going to throw this fic out of the window I swear

IT REALLY IS, UGH I HATE THIS, ARE YOU TELLING ME I DID THAT BY ACCIDENT

this is a freaking game of Civilization where one civ takes a runaway lead in the science victory while the rest are all still stuck in the industrial era

Kim is me watching dinosaur movies too tbh, dinosaurs are so frickin rad

well this is depressing

and adorable

I hate so much that I know what the Bad Dream means I hate it I hate it I h

IT’S OKAY KIM I’M PROUD OF YOU, YOU’RE MY SON AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

“It’s not up to you to question why people care about you so just roll with it” damn past me, that’s actually some really good advice???

Alix is a Kimax shipper even this early in the fic, btw. whenever she talks to them about each other she’ll always say stuff like “oh yeah you two are so close” or “he cares about you so much” without specifying whether she means that platonically... my dudes... she’s shipping it

Kim having an existential crisis in early hours of the morning is such a mood because it’s 2am and I’m having one right now

BAD FORESHADOWING, YES BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO START HAPPENING SOON LIKE ASSASSINATIONS AND STUFF, YOU WEREN’T WRONG

Alright chapter 22 now

the carriage guards!! my favourite characters in the entire fic!!!!!! they’re the BEST okay they just casually chill at school through the entire thing and only show up again in the last chapter omg they’re so amazing I love them??? absolute LEDGES

Kim’s parents being all like “yeah if our son doesn’t wanna come home from school then just KIDNAP HIM and bring him back lmao”

“Hey, do you want me to threaten your guards with my snake or something?” WAS THAT FORESHADOWING??? BECAUSE SHE VERY MUCH DOES DO THAT LATER. TO DIFFERENT GUARDS YES BUT IT’S LEGIT A THING SHE DOES

talking on the phone is stressful? yes it’s that good old “anxiety disorder” again, really a pain tbh

god I’m so proud of Kim, already that good good character development

also Kim’s grandma is me

omg I have to put Kim and Alix’s dumb chess games in the sequel, I came up with an entire thing about how they blatantly cheat etc and it’s ridiculous and Max gets a headache whenever he has to “referee” (aka make sure they don’t fight), it’s so great okay

me: *thinks about chapter 34 and throws up*

oh I’m the snake too btw. the snake also will hate chapter 34

Max holy moly repressing your feelings isn’t healthy??? stop that

hhhhhhh chapter Lila now, like literally that’s the entire chapter 23, it’s basically just Lila

this is just the damn Volpina episode

dupainchien!!!!! dupainchien!!!!!!!!!

I know this isn’t even that much of a big deal in this fic but like... can Marinette and Adrien just get together already lmao

hskdjhdkjfhgs for the record Lila and Kim is actually a pretty good ship?? but they’d both try to out-brag each other and it would be ridiculous so uh

hm anyways. time for CHAPTER AROACE

Kim’s like. ABOUT TO start falling for Max oh thank god, I need this

Lila: *just stabs Kim’s homework with a parasol*

Kim just... Did That??? WE STAN

(oh and later note: in this he just treats Lila like how Adrien treated her in Chameleon lol)

I remember at this point I wasn’t sure if Lila would actually really return in the fic, and then literally like 2 chapters later I brought her back already because damn that girl needs a redemption arc

do I hug Kim or do I hug Max?? you FOOLS, you ABSOLUTE BUFFOONS, I am going to hug ALIX for having to deal with all their romo bullshit

Max trying to get drunk on orange juice is the mood

JULEKA’S MAGICAL GAYDAR!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!

(also Juleka is absolutely wearing a Reflekta dress)

Juleka, outright: “Max. my dude. alix is aroace you dense idiot. you are all idiots. you absolute fuckwits.”

I’m still the snake btw

hhhhhhhhhh I wanna make a daisy chain now, or just go outside and sprawl in some grass, I can’t because it’s 2.30am and I live in the city and it’s winter, screw this fic for making me miss my school days

oh no I’m having an allergic reaction again

I mEAN IT’S CUTE THO, IT’S CUTE, BUT I KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN A BIT LATER SO THIS IS JUST PAINFUL

“You need more sleep” me calling myself out

I am going to hit Kim over the head,,

STOP BEING WEIRD JUST TELL HER YOU LIKE HER?? GOOD GOD I DON’T EVEN SHIP IT AND I STILL WANT YOU TO GET A BLOODY MOVE ON

oh good, he wants to smack himself in the face too

no nonono no Alix I think you are cute too. but you see, I mean it in the adopting way. but you ARE objectively adorable (source: the Reverser episode and also like all the other episodes) people just don’t say it in this au because of your TERRIFYING PET SNAKE

she offered to give him a telephone... lov that foreshadowing

*unimpressed* “are you in love with me?” OH FUCKING FINALLY

skdfhskdjfhsd avoiding people and having a heart attack when someone knocks on your door? I see the return of that anxiety disorder eh

Alix didn’t bring the snake (me) with her on purpose bc she knows Kim is still a bit scared of it at this point and doesn’t want him to be in a bad mood while she’s crushing his heart and soul

GOD YES I LOVE THIS SCENE

I hate myself because when I was writing this I was thinking “oh mood?? oh mood worm same hat???” and yet still. didn’t. realize. I’m. aro. *le sigh*

I’m gonna cry this is so sweet

“So are bossy, intimidating, hot girls your type?” no actually because Ondine is neither bossy nor intimidating (tho yeah she is hot) (and not particularly relevant in this fic unfortunately)

Alix is not in fact as oblivious as she claims to be btw, she just thinks it would sound mean to say “oh yeah I guessed you had a thing for me but I aggressively ignored it bc it annoyed me since I’m aroace lmao”

I’m genuinely going to hecking cry omg I remember now why this was my Ultimate Brotp for so long ugh it’s so good, @ ZAG LET KIM AND ALIX BE FRIENDS

I’m laughing?? so hard??? at the fact that their height difference is so ridiculous that literally like he has to kneel down??? god this is the funniest thing

oh also btw she was internally debating with herself like “should I give him the mistletoe kiss?? sounds gross but I feel so bad for him dammit” and decided to right there on the spot because she was lowkey curious anyway, which I’ll be honest is still an aro mood

OMG I’M ACCIDENTALLY SUCH A GENIUS OMG LISTEN NO LEMME EXPLAIN

SO LIKE. there are two (2) instances in this fic where I tried to pretend to be funny by dropping in the word “heartrate”. one is near the beginning, and the other is right here

in other words, the exact start and end points of Kim’s crush on Alix?? AND I DID THAT BY ACCIDENT OMG I’VE CHANGED MY MIND I’M PROUD OF MYSELF NOW

oh... oh no. uh oh. the dreaded evil Chapter Twenty Hecking Five

it’s called “Pain” for a reason. also my OG nickname for it was “Death”. also for a reason.

I even listened to Death Valley (the FOB song) on repeat while writing it (along with the next like 9 chapters lol) because the word DEATH just seemed so accurate

no really this is THE real turning point in the fic, where it stops being just a dumb teen movie and starts being all A N G S T Y

like this is the first chapter that has NO lightheartedness AT ALL

okay. here we go

this is all??? foreshadowing??? for dumb chapters like 30 and 34??? I Hate

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE SNAKE

I’M HAVING A HEART ATTACK JUST READING THESE WORDS THIS IS SO HORRIFYING ALEXA PLAY DEATH VALLEY

this is the equivalent of seeing a kwami die, for the record. like I know kwamis can’t die but THIS IS HOW IT WOULD FEEL

god this is even worse in hindsight knowing what happens later, bc poor Alix is all like @ herself “oh well it’s a nightmare so it’s not real” and I’m just like... oh dear. honey. sweetie. welp. I mean on the bright side you’re psychic so that’s kinda cool right

I love how Jalil is actually really sweet and a genuinely cool brother, you just never get to see it when Kim’s around bc he hates Kim lmao (I mean for good reasons..)

“I can’t live without this snake!” I MEAN YOU’RE NOT WRONG

these timeline powers are SO cursed man. why was I so evil and cruel holy actual shit

(the whole “some character deaths but not really” tag refers to all this clusterfuck btw)

okay it’s funny how this bit with Adrien is the Collector episode despite it not having aired yet when I wrote this, I guess I’m psychic too

Nathalie being sympathetic huh? not so much in the sequel when I get round to it...

Adrikins being all “I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER” I’m dying

uh yeah there’s a difference between being grounded, and like, literal actual house arrest

damn... capitalism really is bad

so is imperialism

fix this damn typo thing where I used the word “soon” twice in one sentence like was that really necessary

DUPAINCHIEN

I love how Kim is so obviously bi that even Marinette notices and straight-up tries to set him up with a hot commoner boy

oh noes here comes The Death

Hi Aish Snekwami, I am afraid

god imagine how horrible it must be??? to have something traumatic happen in another timeline but you’re still aware of it in this one so you still suffer the effects even though nothing bad happened in this timeline????

Max shows up for two seconds this chapter to remind everyone that I have an anxiety disorder again and then hecks off, good for him

HOLY FUCK?!?!?! IMAGINE LITERALLY DYING ACTUAL DEATH IN ANOTHER TIMELINE AND EVEN THOUGH YOU SURVIVE IN THIS ONE YOU STILL HAVE TO LIKE. FEEL THE WHOLE TIME YOU’RE DYING OF GODDAMN COBRA VENOM HOLY FUCK WHY DID I MAKE THIS SO ANGSTY

I mean I think I remember writing this when I was on a very heavy painful period which full-on incapacitated me but like even that’s nowhere near as bad as fucking. snake. bite (ye I did some research, it was creepy...)

man this is so evil... I can’t

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO DIE

god that’s so haunting ughhhhhhhhh

honestly whenever I stub my toe etc I always think to myself “is this karma for that time I lowkey killed Alix off in chapter 25?” and yeah, it probably is

OKAY THAT’S ENOUGH FOR NOW

#more like the misadventures of aish having anxiety #random stuff #misadventures

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