#god forbid i want to show to capitilize on the gimmick they created

[simplystefanie-rae]

Wooooah making text posts on mobile is different and weird. Anyway.

Yeah as long as adrien is only ever gonna consider marinette as someone special after he finds out she’s ladybug I’m never gonna be satisfied because it’s not earned. It’s precisely because marinette and ladybug act the same that I’m scratching my head over every instance adrien instantly falls in love with her. In oblivio I still don’t understand how he considers her so special after seeing her act exactly as she does in gorizilla but after that episode the only progress we have on that front is that she, as usual, is a good friend.

This episode in isolation is fine, just as oblivio is as big what if scenarios. But before people jump down my throat about prescribing to some true selves bullshit for some reason i need to stress how after a season of adrien not even considering marinette as a romantic option, of there even being a lack of that special something that hints at something more, this whole thing just feels unearned to me and like he will only ever think of marinette romantically after finding out she’s ladybug. ‘But they’re the same person!’ Yeah and that makes it worse lol what is stopping adrien from seeing all those qualities in marinette and giving us that moment where he really thinks of her as someone special? He calls her everyday ladybug, we have an episode where we see him say their friendship is important to him, but because we don’t have much if any moments of Adrien really considering marinette as any more special than his other friends (he gets super angry on marinettes behalf in ladybug but without getting into the lack of responsibility on his end, they don’t even really interact that episode???) this whole episode scenario feels obligatory. Or like they’re jumping to the end without a satisfying middle.

The satisfying middle, btw, should be each individual side of the love square given equal progress. Idk when it suddenly became taboo to want specifics sides of the love square to have its own moments in isolation without a reveal but that’s what I want. That’s what this entire show should be because that was the whole shows entire gimmick in the first place, so here I am wondering why in the world there is only ever progress on adriens side regarding marinette in either alternate scenarios that don’t matter or when he finds out she’s the person he already loved, yet those same qualities in ladybug hes noted marinette having multiple times don’t stir a thing in him. I’m baffled guys.

Anyway yeah I would like some actual adrienette content in isolation without the messiness of an identity reveal clouding the purity of that relationship by itself and there shouldn’t be any problem with me expecting something that should have been a damn given from the get go.

#idk why me wanting this means i think of mari and lb as different people #god forbid i want to show to capitilize on the gimmick they created