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Akuma Ideas

Basically fanfic prompts from someone who doesn’t have the time and energy to write fan fiction herself, I guess.

Real talk, though, if you need help coming up with a villain for your fic, message me!

Securator

After an attempted break-in at the Louvre stresses him out, Alim Kubdel is akumatized into Securator, a villain whose power is bringing artwork and artifacts to life. He brings some of the Louvre’s most famous pieces to life to patrol each wing of the museum and catch any intruders while he hides in the heart of the museum with the akumatized object, a piece which was the target of the break-in.

His appearance should be reminiscent of Louvre artwork, like maybe a living Greek statue or heavily stylized oil painting version of himself dressed like a Renaissance man. If not for Jalil, I would’ve gone with Ancient Egyptian art since he studies it, but that’s The Pharaoh’s thing.

Ladybug and friends have to break in themselves and split up to take down each “guard” using strategies unique to each piece of art. I feel like making the Mona Lisa laugh is the overused, corny cliche, but they could cheer her up to make her less grumpy/more agreeable and let them pass. Other examples: using “eye for an eye” logic to defeat Hammurabi’s code, convincing Liberty Leading the People that they should rebel against the Securator’s control, and pitting Winged Victory against another guard because the goddess of victory always wins.

Red Baroness

You know that pattern of people’s moms getting akumatized with different modes of transportation? (Befana: motorcycle, Captain Hardrock: boat, Ikari Gozen: car, Startrain: train) well we’re missing airplane mom and I think that needs to be fixed. Whose mom? Why was she akumatized? What’s her power? Doesn’t matter. Airplane mom.

Concept: she’s a commercial airline pilot, so she spends a lot of time away from her family. This makes her upset when she comes back to Paris, so Hawkmoth takes advantage and akumatizes her. The akuma flies around in a WW1 style fighter plane that drops the PG version of bombs.

She wears the typical bomber jacket, goggles, and cap, maybe a scarf too. I think it’d be fun if she had red skin and horns like a devil, making her a red baroness, but idk if they’d be able to do something like that. On one hand, it’s a current religious symbol, but on the other it’s an iconic mythological creature and a lot of akumas are mythological references.

The Jade Emperor

(I wrote this before the s4 finale, but as of right now it could still apply to a post s5 scenario)

Su Han feels like Ladybug hasn’t been careful/strict/thoughtful enough about the distribution of the zodiac miraculous, but Ladybug insists everyone on her team is the right choice. He worries that her quick decision making is a sign of poor guardianship, and that she might be giving miraculous to people who aren’t superhero material just because they’re her friends. Hawkmoth catches him by surprise with an akuma before he can repel it, akumatizing him into the Jade Emperor.

He’s a bit bigger than Su Han and looks like him, but he’s wearing ancient Chinese emperor clothes that are mostly jade.

The Jade Emperor makes a deal with Ladybug. She will hand out the whole zodiac at once, and he will craft a city-wide obstacle course by creating minor villains and making all the bridges disappear. The villains aren’t akumas or sentis, but henchmen that come with the akuma such as Chrismaster’s. The heroes have to defeat them all and cross the Seine to reach him within a certain time limit. The deal is that if they make it, they have proved themselves, but if they don’t, the Jade Emperor will take their miraculous. Ladybug figures she can’t defeat him by fighting because he’s so skilled, and trusts that they’ll all make it, so she agrees. Hawkmoth hopes they won’t, in which case Ladybug will be short on teammates. Cue a re-enactment of the Great Race myth.

Detailed outline: Mylene and Ivan start together, but run into a villain who takes them by surprise. Chat Noir jumps in and sacrifices himself so that both of them can make it since they need to pass the race while The Jade Emperor is already fine with Chat. They defeat the villain, and Ivan crosses the river with one mini mouse hitching a ride on his ear. Juleka comes next on her own, taking down another villain on the way. Kagami is moving fast on her own, taking a detour to stop a villain. When she crosses the river, she notices Alix struggling, so she turns into wind dragon to lift her out by the umbrella. Max realizes he can’t teleport straight to the finish line because of a magical boundary set by The Jade Emperor, but he can move side to side and backwards. He opens a portal and backtracks to save Luka from trouble, then they both run on and cross the river. Kim asks Marc and Nath to join him. Nath makes a boat/raft for all three of them, and Kim uses uproar on the villain after which Marc kills it. They cross the finish line. Rose decides to take it easy, and Sabrina joins her. They make sure nobody overlooked any villains, and Sabrina finds a sneaky one, using fetch on it. Even though it moves like a ninja, fetch carries it right back to the girls. They defeat it and cross the river right before the timer runs out. The Jade Emperor is satisfied by the competence of the team, so he gives Ladybug his akumatized object, his staff, and tells her that she made good choices after all.

Kafoolu

The kids get into a heated prank war on Poisson d’avril (April Fool’s Day). At first, everything’s fine, and everyone is carrying out their own evil mastermind plans on each other, but at some point they take it too far. The fisherman (unique background character model who appeared in Simpleman) is minding his own business catching fish in the river, but the kids have moved their practical jokes outside. By accident, the fisherman gets caught in the crossfire. Maybe the fish he already caught get knocked back into the Seine? He gets upset, so Hawkmoth sends an akuma into his hat.

He turns into Kafoolu, a sea monster-like villain who’s dressed like a jester. He wields a giant floppy fish in each hand that he uses as weapons. Chat Noir jokes that something about him smells fishy. His powers involve setting up classic prank traps to trip up the heroes.

Savant Méchant

(I don’t speak French so correct me if I’m wrong but I believe savant is a masculine noun so for that reason the corresponding adjective is also masculine even though the actual person is female?)

AJT du Bocquale tries to have her research be taken seriously by the people of Paris as well as fellow scientists, but they ignore her and think she’s joking because her studies are too ambitious, plus she’s not even an adult yet. AJT feels like her work is pointless if no one cares about it, so Hawkmoth targets her. The akuma lands in the flower in her hair, which turns into a little satellite dish.

She looks like a stereotypical mad scientist, even more so than usual. Her gloves become comically large rubber gloves like Yzma and Kronk’s, her glasses become goggles, her hair is very messy with a white streak in it, and her eyes become spirals. I’m thinking her lab coat looks kind of like a trench coat, but also has straps hanging off of it like an undone straight jacket.

Her power is building machines that do ridiculous things. Think Dr. Doof’s -inators. So she can counter LB and CN’s advances as long as she has enough time to build a machine to foil their plan or can creatively use one she already made.

Akuma ideas I don’t have a super solid concepts for:

More minor characters who haven’t been akumatized yet:

Fire Captain Hessenpy becomes a cowboy-themed villain

Mr. Montalain is the only adult at school who hasn’t been akumatized. What would it take to break that man? Maybe he could be a villain who forces people to be super kind and polite to each other no matter what. It’d be like a cross between Zombizou and Simpleman. Marinette and Chloe get into an argument, but as much as they want to curse each other out, all that physically comes out of their mouths is (angry tone), “good job getting an A on the physics test. I thought it was pretty hard, so I’m impressed” “thanks. By the way, I love the way you did your eyeshadow this morning”.

Prince Ali is bored of rich people diplomacy stuff, but his chauffeur says he has to carry out his whole schedule of lame performative events. He’s akumatized into a gentleman thief type villain who runs around causing mischief while actually helping people. Ladybug and Chat Noir still have to stop him because he’s willing to snatch their miraculous. Maybe he starts out doing genuinely good things, but then his “help” is unwanted favors that people didn’t ask for.

Alternatively, he runs off to hang out with Rose and friends because he wants to experience Paris like a normal teen, but his chauffeur panics when he’s gone. She gets akumatized into an overprotective villain.

XY gets akumatized because his father is constantly overstepping his boundaries. We, along with the characters, finally get to know him a bit better and see a sympathetic side to him as he doesn’t really agree with a lot of his father’s actions. Or maybe he just gets akumatized over something bratty.

More episodes where defeating the akuma requires winning a game or solving a puzzle instead of fighting:

Whodunit/murder mystery spoof where solving the case beats the villain. This would be fun as a “locked room” mystery on the Startrain. Maybe the akuma is a theft victim who won’t give up until the kids bring them the culprit or the stolen item. In standard cartoon fashion, the solution is probably that everything was a domino effect of accidents that lead to a big misunderstanding, and it wasn’t actually anybody’s fault.

Heist movie spoof where they have to steal the akuma object from a high security hiding place (Moolak dedicated episode?)

Escape room villain

Casino or card game-themed villain. It’d be fun if they beat this one by cleverly cheating at the games because otherwise “the house always wins”.

Villain with an awesome chess aesthetic (name idea: Grandmaster)

or one that turns the city into a giant board game Jumanji style

tabletop RPG villain called Dungeonmaster who got akumatized because someone called their hobby lame, so they create bosses the heroes have to defeat using a turn-based system. I just reminded myself of that one Gravity Falls DND episode.

Courtroom villain where the heroes have to act as a legal team and win the case. The akuma could be either a corrupt defense attorney trying to clear the name of a bad civilian (e.g. akuma Amelie protecting normal Felix), or it could be a prosecutor who was akumatized because of the civilian who wants to sentence them, the defendant, to a cartoony, exaggerated punishment for their crimes (e.g. standard Chloe grudge). The judge could be a sentimonster called Your Honor who is made to be objective. If the akuma is the judge, then team LB and team HM could be on opposite benches trying to convince the akuma, who is one of those more independent types, which side to play for.

More villains about French or Parisian culture:

My Poisson d’Avril idea fits under this

Pierrot themed villain

Cabaret villain

Villain in the catacombs. This would be perfect for a potential Halloween special.

On one hand, it could be a coward who got akumatized through fear whose power involves scaring others (like Horrificator and Sandboy). This villain would lurk in the tourist-accessible part with the walls of skulls.

Alternatively, and I don’t think canon could ever do something like this for legal reasons, a cataphile gets akumatized after getting in trouble for trying to illegally explore the catacombs. They turn into some cryptid cave monster and slither in the dank, dark ruins.

Miscellaneous

Someone’s pet is sad that their owner has to leave for work every day, so they get turned into the first animal akuma. The villain is a big beast, for example a dog turning into Cerberus. It’d be cute if it was Fang becoming a dragon-like monster independent of Guitar Villain.

The body swap akuma that is the subject of oh so many fan works. The most common version of this is that LB and CN switch bodies, which is great, but I raise you a completely random rotation of the entire group. I think this would work best post reveal. Imagine Adrien ending up in Chloe’s body, and Marinette has to constantly remind herself that she’s talking to her beloved bf and not her detested enemy. Imagine Kim in Juleka’s body being uncannily silly and talkative or Rose in Ivan’s body going tee hee and accidentally smashing stuff. Give me someone finding out they have an invisible disability from swapping bodies with someone who doesn’t. Imagine people having to quickly adapt to using miraculouses they’ve never used before because everyone going back to get “theirs” would be too risky, and their fighting style or strategy is noticeably different from the usual holder. I could see this as a power for the Montalain akuma I mentioned earlier because the message could be like “if you try walking in each other’s shoes for a day maybe you’ll all get along better”

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moregraceful · 4 months

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i think editing this fic made it worse BUT in de-aging everyone in this fic by five years, i have accidentally created a delightful d-plot called jordie benn adopts wyatt johnston as his own child:

Wyatt says, through a mouthful of pancake, “yeah, so all four of them—no, six, but the oldest son got drafted and he’s over in Europe, still, and the other is went to college in Boston but he might come home for break, so there are only four of them downstairs, youngest one’s a girl and she tried to beat my younger brother with a snow shovel, because my brother was getting fresh but I just stood there and let it happen ‘cause Jordie told me you don’t ever get fresh with a girl and if a girl comes after you with a shovel you probably had it coming so maybe the other two sons come home soon and all four of them knock some sense into my damn idiot brother—what was I saying?” Jamie squints. Jordie says, with a huge sigh, “The family lives downstairs, Wyatt.”

AND:

Wyatt comes clattering down the hallway. He trips on a loose floorboard but manages to stay up right. “I got it!” he says. “Mom says thanks for letting her borrow it, she took care of all my sisters last week. Is Jamie gonna give him a haircut? Hey—” he addresses Tyler directly “—Jamie will clean you up good.” “Oh, good,” says Tyler. His smile is wider. “I bet he does.” “Don’t run with scissors, Jesus Christ,” says Jordie abruptly. “Wyatt, who raised you?” “You did,” says Wyatt. Jordie frowns at him, trying for irritated but Jamie can tell he’s pleased. Jamie takes the scissors, rolling his eyes. Wyatt leans around Jamie to look at Jordie dead on. “Hey, we’re going to play hockey, you wanna come, Jordie?” “No, ‘cause I gotta work. Which you are making me late for. Thanks, boys,” says Jordie, when Miro and Roope appear behind him with a duffle bag of clothing. Jamie takes that too. It’s heavy – they must have packed a lot of winter clothing in it, and maybe some shoes as well. “You two are the best of men." Wyatt makes a face. Miro looks smug.

("where's joe pavelski" the fic is technically tyler/jamie hurt/comfort but it's ACTUALLY wyatt johnston's indomitable fifteen year old spirit forces old men* [*men in their mid-late 20s/30s] to play hockey with him while they adopt him as their child. joe pavelski is there dw)

#the amount of shit i've had to cut from a 2/3rd completed draft because there's so many threads and b-plots that i don't have time #to follow up on... every goddamn year the same story with me i swear #if i write a sequel where jamie oleksiak and stephen johns have a tender homefront romance would anyone read it 😭#that video of them silently and grumpily eating ice cream out of individual tubs in johnsy's kitchen knocks me out every time i think of it #yeah so stephen has a bar that jamie frequents after his job in a paper mill and jamie stays late to help clean up even though #he is tired from working all day. jamie wipes down counters and tables while stephen complains about the price of whiskey going up #as he washes glasses. jamie doesn't know much about god but stephen bar fills him with peace like a church maybe #ok NO MORE POSTING i gotta try to knock out another 900ish words before bed #on god i will get this shit edited and posted before becs lands at the airport #unfortunate birdcage fanfictions

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