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hey if it’s not too much to ask, what are some of your recs for longer fics, as in like over 10k words? i tend to enjoy them more than shorter ones but they’re a bit rare, and vary vastly in quality, too. btw i loved your fic Love Is Blind!!!

[image description: Do you have any recs for long fics? Not super picky on which corner of the love square but I’d be super pumped to get some fresh fics (I’ve reread Back To Us, Happiness, and TLBATB one too many times lol)]

Thank you 💖🥰💖 (Love is Blind for anyone else who wants to read it)

I love long fics too, although I don't read as many of them as the short little one-shots due to the time commitment required. (There’s probably another dozen fics sitting in my marked for later list that would be great additions to this list.) 

I contributed to a rec list of long fics previously, and I’ve tried to avoid duplication, so I recommend you check those out as well! I actually had trouble narrowing these down. Here are my recs of fics that are over 30k. (Also, in case people aren’t aware, you can search by word count on AO3. Here’s an example searching for complete works over 30k sorted by kudos.)

The Unintended Consequences of Being a Superhero's Boyfriend by @karkalicious769​

"Adrien Agreste, is it true that you're Chat Noir?"

The world fell out from under him.

"The two of you do look remarkably similar." A second microphone was shoved into Adrien's hands and he took it instinctively. "And what do you have to say about the footage that showed Chat Noir going to your home after a successful akuma battle?"

"Yes, Chat Noir did come to my house. But not because we're the same person. See, ah—" His tongue stuck in his throat. And then, either by good luck or bad, Adrien thought of Ladybug. "We're dating!"

Or — With his back against the wall and his secret identity about to be revealed, Adrien blurts out the first thing that comes to his mind. Now, he has to manage the consequences.

129k. Once I started reading this fic, it was hard to stop! It’s just such a ride with a lot of ups and downs. This fic starts out kinda crack-y with Adrien blurting out that he’s dating himself to protect his identity. But things quickly spiral out of control from there and, while it’s still fun, there are a lot of serious bits too, and it’s all handled so well with a satisfying ending. I really loved this!

When The Morning Comes by @into-september​

Gabriel Agreste has been unmasked as Hawkmoth, and the girl who was fighting him all these years turns out to be Tom Dupain's daughter. And standing between them is Adrien Agreste with his life in shatters that Tom Dupain has no way of piecing together.

But baking is at least a place to start.

42k. This fic detailing the fallout, especially for Adrien, of a Hawkmoth defeat is so well done and has such an air of realism to it. The whole thing is told through Tom’s perspective, and it’s so interesting both because of the insight we get into his character, as well as all the things he sees--and all the things he doesn’t. He doesn’t know what happened between Adrien and Marinette, so neither do we, but we all see the ripples, and have to wonder. The relationships here are all so well done, especially relationships that haven’t gotten much (or any) development in canon. This one hurts, but it’s worth it, both for the journey and for its conclusion.

The Five Minute Adventures of Snake Noir by @kasienda​ 

After Ladybug admits to Chat Noir that she told someone her identity, she insists that he do the same. He wants it to be her. She insists it has to be anyone else. He suggests they use the snake. She finds this to be a reasonable compromise.

After many heartfelt five minute conversations that Ladybug doesn't remember, she decides he should keep the snake. That way he can always confide in her if he needs to. He also realizes it means he can talk to anyone… for five minutes... on repeat.

Contains many Season 4 Spoilers.

40k. This is one of those fics that I come back to over and over again because it’s just so good. The use of the snake miraculous here is different from any other use of it I’ve seen and it’s BRILLIANT. The way we get reveals over and over again, only for them to be taken back, and the development that happens. There’s amazing love square, but also platonic adrino, djwifi, and incisive and heartbreaking Gabriel and Adrien scenes. The heart and the angst and the development are all so well done. The concept is amazing and there’s so much emotion and the entire fic is intense af. This is seriously one of my favourites.

Imbalance by @thelibraryloser

Chat Noir is fighting evil all on his own, not aware he’s supposed to be half of a whole. Hawkmoth is desperate to get his hands on the Black Cat and Ladybug Miraculous, knowing that if he causes enough destruction the world will demand balance and the Ladybug will have to appear. And when she does, she's not what anyone expected. Chat thought having a partner would feel different- maybe like how he feels talking to the girl on the balcony.

42k.  This is a great AU where Adrien not only never went to school, but got his miraculous under different circumstances. Instead of Chat Noir and Ladybug meeting as fellow superheroes, we have Chat operating on his own for years before the story starts. I don’t want to give away too much and spoil it (though Marichat fans will especially enjoy this one). The writing is fantastic, and the storyline is unique.

Heroes and Lullabies by @botherkupo​

"There is something you can do," he says, mouth dry and his heart thumping faster and faster. "But I … I'm not sure if I should ask you."

Adrien risks everything when he reveals his identity to Sabine. Now, he has to deal with the consequences.

40k (but it’s the fourth in a series after 3 short fics which you should really read first). When Chat is badly injured in battle, he asks Sabine to take his place, resulting in his identity being revealed to her. And then Master Fu takes the ring and ahhhh there’s a lot of pain but also a lot of beauty and found family (the relationship between Adrien and Sabine is so beautiful) and a brilliant ending that really, really worked for me.

Maintaining a Professional Distance by @buggachat​

“I mean, how dumb does the mayor think we are? Offering us a permanent hotel room as a ‘gesture of gratitude for all our work for Paris’, like it isn’t clearly just some half-baked political ploy to place him more in the public’s favor after the whole school funding scandal, like we’ll allow ourselves to sleep in a hotel that we were publicly offered, making ourselves sitting ducks for Hawkmo—”

“It’s a pretty big building,” he countered, and at least he seemed amused, because she certainly wasn’t, “Nobody knows which room we were given but us.”

“It doesn’t matter!” she scoffed, “It’s still a security risk that he can narrow our location down at all! Also,” she jutted her arms out towards the bed a second time, “May I remind you? ONE. BED. ONE!”

———

Or, Ladybug and Chat Noir receive a hotel room from the city, which they most certainly will not use. After all, that wouldn't be very professional, would it?

Yes, it's a Ladynoir bed sharing fic.

43k. Immediately after finishing this fic for the first time, I did a speed read through because I wanted to experience it again 🙈 I loved the way the boundaries slowly shifted and blurred between ladynoir until cuddling was just a normal thing they do every night. I’m obsessed with Chat being so completely thoughtful, Ladybug being jealous (of herself!!), and the inevitable conflict with all of its hurt and beautiful resolution. Just absolutely love.

A Cat of Their Own by @sariahsue

Tom and Sabine have learned Ladybug's secret identity, it's obvious their relationship It's also obvious to them that Cat Noir adores their daughter. How deep do those feelings go? And how far are they willing to go to mother the boy underneath the mask?

30k. (Okay it’s a little under but rounding rules!)  This fic is so great! Once Tom and Sabine figure out Marinette is Ladybug, they want to be involved in that part of her life, and that means reaching out to her partner. And I am absolutely soft for Adrien finally getting loving parents in Tom and Sabine, with "Tim" and "Serena" taking Chat under their wing, even if they can't exactly meet. I love the way this impacts his relationship with Ladybug and the way Marinette feels about him and it all builds to a beautiful happy ending and identity reveal!

Can I Steal You for a Second? by AsAlwaysMir

Adrien is forced to participate in a new dating show, but becomes more excited when Ladybug says she'll participate as her civilian self.

AKA: AU where Adrien doesn't know Marinette, the superheroes are 22 and Gabriel is mean and ruthless but not Hawkmoth.

156k. This is an AU where Adrien and Marinette never met before, so ladynoir are in love. When Gabriel forces Adrien to go on the Bachelorette, Marinette decides to compete so they have a chance to be together. The catch is that, eve though she now knows Chat’s identity, she won’t reveal herself to him in order to be “fair” to the other contestants. The whole thing is pretty ridiculous, but really what’s reality tv without that? It’s a fun and crazy read that should definitely keep you entertained for a while!

#ml #miraculous ladybug #ml fic rec #ml fanfic #ml fic #ml love square #ladynoir #marichat #adrienette #adrinette #ladrien #ml long fics #jennarecsml

[their-destinys-writer]

Akuma Flashpoint - Chapter 1

Art by @carolgpr (thank you so much again for this fantastic work)

Rated: M

Chapters: 1/?

Summary: It was over. Gabriel was in jail, the butterfly miraculous had been recovered, Emelie was in recovery and the heroes knew their identities. All that was left was the sentencing of Gabriel, and they could finally, after eight years of superhero work, close that chapter of their lives. But when Gabriel escapes for one last hurrah, and akuma, things didn't resolve quickly. One ill-timed wish warps reality around Marinette, and she suddenly finds herself in a world where nothing is right, and Hawkmoth is winning.

Canon compliant up to Season 3, Episode 'Ladybug'. Miracle Queen never happened. Canon divergent from that point forward, but might borrow a few details from later seasons. Very loosely inspired by DC's Flashpoint Paradox (the animated movie). Updates on the last Monday of every month.

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A/N: I'm super happy to be sharing this story, finally! For the record, I already have up to Chapter 10 of this story written, so it's not one that's going to suddenly be abandoned. I already have the end of it and everything, and if I manage to get a few chapters further ahead, I might consider posting more than once a month. But that will depend on how it goes. Enjoy what I hope becomes a wild ride for your feelings!

Next

Distorted Reality

It was over. After years of fighting, of struggling with knowing the truth, it was finally over. Hawkmoth was defeated. But at a price.

Team Miraculous never had intentions of releasing Hawkmoth’s identity to the public. Ladybug gave him the chance to quietly return the butterfly miraculous and let him move on with his life. But Gabriel Agreste was tougher than the smell of dog excrement under a person’s shoe. Even after Nathalie betrayed him and Adrien begged him to give up, the man refused. And soon enough, law enforcement intervened.

Gabriel was then arrested and made to wait for the justice system to do its work.

It was a bittersweet ending for the team, but it didn’t stop them from having a small get-together the day before he was convicted. Everyone arrived at Marinette and Adrien’s apartment as a team, for what they hoped would be the last time. There were kwamis flying about. Teammates who had never interacted befriended each other. But for Adrien, it was inevitable to hear forms of condolences, as if he had lost his father.

“It’s not like he was ever there,” Adrien complained at the end of the night, when the most trusted team members where the only ones left sitting around a coffee table. “How can you lose someone you never actually had in the first place?”

“They’re just saying what they think is respectful,” Luka sighed, pulling back the few bangs that had fallen down his brushed back hair. “They don’t know what else to say, and they don’t want to be rude to you by saying what they really think.”

“I’m sure that whatever they think, I’ve already thought of it.” Adrien took a sip of his glass of wine.

“Yeah, well, they don’t know that,” Nino added, giving his best friend a light pat on the shoulder. “But what matters is that you know and helped put his stiff ass in jail.”

Adrien snorted.

“They have a point,” Marinette said, cozying up on his other side, holding a glass of her own with both hands. “Besides, we gave him a chance. It’s not your fault, or any of ours, that he didn’t take our offer.”

“Ridiculous,” Chloé said under her breath, before taking a swig of the bottle she was holding. “Utterly ridiculous.”

“How much of that have you had?” Alya asked, as she took the bottle from the blonde.

“Clearly, not enough, if I can still understand all of you.”

“Half of that bottle and two glasses earlier,” Kagami responded instead.

“Snitch,” Chloé scoffed. She tried stealing the bottle back, but Alya gave it to Nino to keep it away. She huffed before standing up and heading to the kitchen.

“I still can’t believe this is real,” Marinette sighed. “After eight years, I was starting to think we’d never get those miraculouses back.”

“Hear, hear.” Nino lifted the bottle.

“It’s only too bad he didn’t give it up willingly,” Adrien muttered, slightly sinking into the chair. “Would’ve been nice if he had shown at least one last shred of humanity before getting taken.”

“Screw your pops,” Nino said after taking a mouthful of wine. “He doesn’t deserve your pity or good wishes. You said it yourself when we found out his identity. The dude’s irredeemable.”

“Alya—”

“Got it.” Said woman pried the bottle away from her fiancé.

“Hey, I’m not Chloé level buzzed yet,” he complained, beanie slightly askew.

“Pah-lease,” the blonde in question said as she entered the room with a new bottle. “You wish you had my alcohol tolerance.”

As if the universe wanted to contradict her statement, Chloé missed the sofa by an inch, her butt falling to the carpet instead. She cleared her throat and wiggled about, trying to play it off as if planned.

“Smooth,” Luka commented.

Kagami, on the other hand, rolled her eyes as she got up from her chair and took the new bottle away. Chloé protested, but her drunken state made her a pathetic fighter.

“The hearing is in less than twenty-four hours,” Kagami stated. “Do you all plan on being hungover tomorrow?”

“Maybe,” Nino shrugged.

“Guys, Kagami’s right,” Alya said dejectedly, placing her own glass on the coffee table. “We gotta be responsible for one more night. Marinette, I expected better from you.”

Marinette gasped. “How dare you. I’ve only had two glasses—”

“Two and a half,” Adrien corrected.

“Shh.” He chuckled at her antics. “I am the most responsible woman in this group. I am Ladybug: Queen of responsibility.”

“Until you become Lady Noire: Lady of puns.”

��You’re supposed to be on my side!”

“I’m on the side of truth tonight. That’s Kagami’s.”

“Traitor.”

The rest of the group groaned as Marinette and Adrien playfully bickered. Although they were used to it, Marinette knew it was still slightly annoying for them. But she didn’t care. She enjoyed these moments with Adrien. It reminded her of all the reasons she said yes to his proposal. Of why she had moved in with him and often imagined just running off to city hall, instead of waiting for the wedding they were planning.

“I swear, if you two don’t stop—”

But Nino didn’t get to finish his sentence. There was a sudden collective emergency alarm resounding around the room, coming from all their phones. A sound that had not been heard for three months already. Everyone quietly checked their notifications, hoping that it was not what they thought it was. Only to be sorely disappointed.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Adrien breathed.

Kagami was the first standing to grab the remote. When the television turned on, they were immediately greeted by Nadja Chamack on the streets, reporting their worst fear.

“Police suspect that Agreste had help in his escape from prison. Unfortunately, they’ve yet to find his whereabouts at this moment. In the meantime, an akuma calling herself The Genie has been terrorizing the city, demanding Ladybug and Chat Noir’s miraculouses—”

“TIKKI!” Marinette called towards the kitchen. It only took a second for seven kwamis to zip into the living room.

“We heard!” Tikki said, worried. “We have to stop and find him!”

“Wait!” Chloé intervened, struggling to stand up. “How are we supposed to stop him when we’re in this state?!”

“I’m-hic-with Chloé,” Nino hiccupped.

“Just when you think it’s safe to drink,” Adrien lamented.

“Okay, who drank the least?” Marinette asked. Kagami, Luka and Alya raised their hands. “Okay, you three and I will go on ahead. Adrien, you get these two something to lower the buzz and come as soon as you’re ready.”

“You really think that’s safe?”

“We have to move before he gets away,” Marinette reasoned. “We don’t have time to waste.”

Adrien’s features hardened, as he nodded in understanding. Several magic phrases later, Ladybug, Rena Rouge, Ryuko and Viperion were running through the balcony doors and jumping over the rooftops. After several blocks, they arrived at the source of the commotion.

From their vantage point on top of a building, what they saw could only be described as bizarre. Some people were running away from what looked like giant versions of cute things, like dogs, cats, hamsters, and a snake. Others seemed to be… happy crying? That, while holding either objects or people.

“I don’t understand,” Ryuko muttered, her eyes scanning across the street.

“Talk about weird,” Rena Rouge agreed.

“What’s our move, Boss?” Viperion turned to Ladybug.

“We need to find the akuma first. Let’s split up, and whomever finds it first, call the rest.”

The team nodded, immediately running to separate directions. Ladybug, on the other hand, couldn’t help but search in the direction of Master Fu’s massage parlor: where they had last seen the butterfly miraculous. She had to know if the old guardian was okay, if Gabriel hurt him in any way to get the miraculous back.

When she entered the building where his parlor was, the first thing she noticed was how the door was ajar. Ladybug took a deep breath, holding to her yoyo tightly as she neared the entrance. She slowly exhaled.

BAM

Ladybug kicked the door fully open, just as it was illuminated by lightning from the window. The place was a mess. There was dirt everywhere from the plants. But most importantly to her, at that time, was the small old man unconscious on the ground.

“Master Fu!” Ladybug slid to her knees and took him in her arms. There was a drip of blood flowing from his temple, seeming to be caused by a blunt object. “Please, wake up. Master!”

There was a low groan, allowing Ladybug to release a breath of relief.

“The box,” he croaked.

The superheroine frowned, her eyes quickly scanning the room. While the phonograph was splayed across the floor in two pieces, the compartment containing the miracle box seemed intact.

“The box is fine. Whoever did this didn’t—”

“No.” Master Fu started checking his pockets. “The box. With the butterfly miraculous. It’s gone. Nooroo is gone.”

It was true then. It really was Hawkmoth out there. Whoever broke in must’ve entered when Master Fu was in the middle of one of his therapy sessions with Nooroo. The poor little thing had been through so much.

“Do you remember who did this?” she asked. “Was it Gabriel?”

“I don’t—I don’t remember,” the old man said groggily. “I can’t think straight.”

Ladybug immediately opened her communicator and called emergency services, giving the address they needed to send an ambulance. While they waited, she took several blankets to rest his head. She looked around the room, hoping to find any clues on the perpetrator.

Had it been Gabriel, or whoever broke him out of jail? Or both? Who could have such a connection with him to want him free? It couldn’t be Nathalie. She had left for Tibet once her testimony was given to the authorities. She was in charge of overseeing Emelie’s recovery in the Guardians Temple, thus had no reason to help Gabriel.

Neither Mrs. Bourgeois nor Mrs. Tsurugi wanted anything to do with them, much less when they knew it could damage the strained relationships they already had with their daughters. The Gabriel company cut all ties with him, and none of his employees remained loyal. Who else knew him well enough to feel sympathy for him?

* * *

Ladybug was back swinging on the rooftops during light rain, after the ambulance took Master Fu to the hospital. Normally she would have gone with him, but Mr. Raincomprix of the Police Department promised to have guards keeping an eye on him. So, for the moment, Master Fu would be under the authorities care.

With one less problem to worry about, Ladybug was able to go back into the real battle. Following the tracking device in her communicator, she ran towards her team’s signals as fast as she could. She jumped down the building right next to Rena Rouge’s mark.

“I’m here!” she announced, turning to the fox heroine. “What’s the…status.”

Where a superheroine was supposed to be standing, instead there was a woman in a big, puffy wedding dress. Fighting off small dinosaurs.

“This is ridiculous!” Rena Rouge complained, using a bouquet as if it was her flute. Petals flying everywhere. “Let,” swing, “me,” swing, “pass!”

Without skipping a beat, Ladybug used her yoyo to beat away the little critters. Meanwhile, Rena Rouge growled, as she tried to lift her pompous skirt.

“This akuma is annoying,” she said through gritted teeth.

“How did this happen?” Ladybug placed her weapon back on her waist.

“The Genie happened,” Rena huffed, kicking off a pair of high heels. “She showed up, and all she did was look at me and say: Your wish is my command. Next thing I know, I’m walking around in this.”

She gestured towards the dress. Ladybug tapped her lips with a finger.

“So, she probably grants wishes,” she thought out loud. “We need to find Ryuko and Viperion.”

“I think they were around the corner.”

With a nod, the two women ran in the direction they hoped their teammates would be. However, just as they turned the corner, several large toys invaded their path. Before Ladybug could do anything, they took Rena Rouge, yelling ‘Our Princess’ over and over. Ladybug was about to go after them, when she heard Viperion’s distinctive voice yelling reassurances.

She turned to see Ryuko floating upwards, as Viperion did his best to keep her grounded.

“Don’t let go, Viperion!” Ryuko yelled.

“I swear, I won’t!”

“I will kick your ass if you do!”

“I know!”

“What the hell is going on?” The voice of Chat Noir said beside her. Although she was relieved to hear his voice, her attention was on the floating heroine.

“They’re…getting wishes granted,” Ladybug answered absentmindedly, her head tilting.

“Ryuko wanted to float?”

Ladybug squinted.

“With her powers, that doesn’t make sense,” she thought out loud. She placed a hand on her chin. “Maybe it’s about how—”

“LOOK OUT!”

Chat Noir slammed his body against hers, sending them both several feet away from a dog shooting lasers out of their eyes.

“Why would anyone want a dog who shoots lasers?!” Ladybug yelped.

“Some kid out there has been watching too many cartoons,” Chat Noir commented.

“You okay, dudes?” Carapace’s voice said from above. Ladybug looked up, but instead of wearing the green hoodie outfit, he was dressed in a tuxedo of the same color.

“What happened to you?” she asked.

“Dunno,” he shrugged. “I was on my way here, and next thing I know, I’m dressed like I’m going to my wedding.”

“Wedding?” Ladybug scanned the area for Rena Rouge. It seemed she had gotten away from the giant toys and was now still trying to fight in the orange wedding dress, the bouquet looking more like a bunch of dying weeds. She looked back at Ryuko. And then back to Carapace. Her eyes widened. “The akuma is called Genie, right?”

“Yeah?” the men said in unison.

“And we can assume her power is granting wishes, right?”

“What are you getting at?” Carapace frowned.

“I don’t think Ryuko wished to float, and I’m a hundred percent sure the last thing Rena wants is to get married during a battle.”

“Meaning…?” Chat Noir squinted.

“We have to be careful what we wish for,” Ladybug concluded. “We can’t wish for anything. Not even in our minds, just in case.”

“Sounds simple enough,” Carapace shrugged.

“That’s what you think,” a voice behind them said.

In an instant, Ladybug and Chat Noir rose to their feet, making a battle pose. In front of them was what looked like a character from the animated Aladdin movie. Her skin was completely blue, and she wore a bustier with baggy pants. Her nose and mouth were covered by a belly dancer veil. Only her purple eyes were clearly visible under her bangs.

“I’m not a pushover, like other champions,” The Genie declared, slowly pulling her arms back. “I will get what I wish for, and not even you will stop me.”

“Isn’t there a rule that genies can’t grant wishes for themselves?” Chat Noir quipped.

“But I’m not a regular genie, now am I?” the villain then rested an elbow on her hand, fingers under her chin. “Once I have your miraculouses, I can get any wish a genie could want.”

“Miraculous wish?” Ladybug parroted. She and Chat Noir exchanged gazes, hoping they hadn’t arrived at the same hypothesis. Before they could say anything else, Carapace had placed a hand on her bicep.

“You’re not making any sense,” he said. Ladybug frowned, but noticed his eyes glimpsed to somewhere behind Genie. “I still don’t understand how your wish could come true with the two miraculouses.”

“It really isn’t clear,” she joined, trying not to give away Queen Bee sneaking behind the villain, ready to strike Venom.

“I think you’ve been given some false promises there, Genie,” Chat Noir mocked, using his staff like a cane and leaning forward on it.

“Hmph.” Genie closed her eyes. “You really think I’m that stupid.”

With a split-second movement, Genie was facing the other way, squeezing Queen Bee’s wrist. The superheroine screamed in pain, her weapon clattering on the floor.

“Bee!” Ladybug, Chat Noir and Carapace shouted in unison, as they ran to her aid. However, before they could get to her, Genie swung her towards them. All four landed painfully on the ground, as the villain vanished in swirling smoke.

“Where did she go?!” Ladybug panted, sitting up. Not a second later, a chilling laugh echoed in the air, with no point of origin.

“Bug,” Queen Bee grunted. “I think she broke my wrist.”

“That’s not good,” Chat Noir whispered, taking off his belt to wrap it around the injury.

“I can’t remember the last time one of use got seriously hurt in an attack,” Carapace commented, holding Queen Bee’s arm steady through her hissing.

“I shouldn’t have asked you two to come,” Ladybug lamented. “Not only are we a little rusty, but we’re clearly not in condition to be fighting.”

“This was my choice,” Queen Bee retorted, burning her eyes on their leader. “We had won. I am not letting stupid Gabriel get away with this. Not after everything we’ve been through. After everything we achieved. Everything I achieved…”

Ladybug’s face fell. “Chloé,” she said quietly, placing a hand on the blonde’s shoulder, “He’s not getting away with it. We beat him once. We can do it again.” She looked at Carapace. “Keep her safe, while Chat and I go after Genie.”

“Sure thing, Ma’am,” Carapace nodded, placing an arm around Queen Bee. “Kick that akuma’s ass for me.”

“Aye, aye, sir.” Chat Noir gave his best friend a two-fingered salute.

The original duo stood up and walked together to the middle of the street, where they stood back to back. Alert, waiting to see where Genie would show up.

“Just like old times, huh?” Chat Noir commented, loud enough for his fiancé to hear.

“Don’t we always say that, every time it’s just the two of us again?” Ladybug quipped back, while scanning the area.

“And it never gets old, Bugaboo.”

Ladybug chuckled. “You always know how to break the tension, Chaton.”

“One of my many talents.”

“ENOUGH!” A voice echoed angrily in the air. There was a puff of blue smoke, and the next thing they knew, both were sent flying in opposite directions.

Ladybug landed hard on the concrete. Suddenly very thankful that the suit protected her from scrapping any skin against it. She raised her head, to see Genie standing where she and Chat Noir had been only a moment ago. On the other side of the street was her partner, almost on his feet.

Unfortunately, the second he was up, Genie disappeared from where she was, to reappear right behind him.

“Chat Noir!” Ladybug yelled. But it didn’t matter. He still got hit on the back of the head, with enough force to make him fall on his knees. Genie raised her arm again, but Ladybug swung and wrapped her yoyo just in time to stop her.

Gotcha, she thought triumphantly.

Genie’s head snapped towards Ladybug, sending a chill down her spine. Nevertheless, she kept her grip firm on the yoyo. The problem was that so did Genie. The villain grabbed the string and started pulling on it. Meanwhile, Ladybug did her best to stand her ground, but the akuma was surprisingly strong.

“Come here, Little Bug,” Genie hissed as she yanked the string hard enough to drag Ladybug several meters forward.

The superheroine gritted her teeth as she attempted to do the same to the akuma. With little success, only managing to anchor her feet where she was.

“You’re so annoying,” Genie huffed.

The next second, she was gone again, making Ladybug fall backwards. Chat Noir had regained his balance enough to run to her side, to make sure she was all right. He had just helped her back to her feet, when she was pulled back as if from an invisible rope around her stomach. Once again, sent flying across the street.

“Why don’t you fight us head on, you coward?!” Chat Noir yelled, any trace of playfulness gone.

A chilling chuckle resounded in the air.

“As you wish, pretty boy,” the disembodied voice of Genie said.

There was another puff of blue smoke, and the villain hit his chin upwards with the palm of her hand. Chat Noir staggered backwards, attempting to raise his staff. The next blow he managed to block with is weapon, but Genie immediately followed it with a hard kick to his stomach.

All the while, Ladybug slowly stood up, trying her best to ignore the pain on her ribs. This akuma was of the kind they rarely ever saw. It was almost like she had purposely allowed herself to be akumatized. Much like Catalyst on the first Heroes Day.

If there was anything she had learned from these type of akumas, it was that they were far more powerful than the regular brand. Mainly, because they weren’t aimless. Not only was their goal clear, but they collaborated with Hawkmoth to create a more coherent plan.

Ladybug breathed heavily, her arm over her torso. She looked around at her incapacitated team. Viperion had even turned back to Luka, for his five minutes were wasted as he kept his hold on Ryuko. How did it get this bad so fast? And why did it have to be Adrien fighting his father once again?

She could see it in Chat Noir’s eyes. Yes, he made jokes and insulted his father all the time, but he was still hurting. And at that very moment, his heart was simply not in it, if the way he was fighting was anything to go by. Why couldn’t Adrien be freed of such pain?

Genie puffed out again, to appear right in front of Ladybug. The heroine didn’t even get a chance to move, before a hand grabbed her neck and pushed her into the wall. Ladybug struggled, trying to both focus on the villain and on freeing herself.

“You’re so predictable,” Genie whispered, with a menacing grin.

Ladybug could feel her consciousness wavering, as her eyes focused on the glowing necklace on Genie’s chest.

“You’re wish is my command, Little Bug.”

And there was a glowing purple light…

* * *

Marinette’s eyes snapped open. Above her was a plain, white ceiling she didn’t recognize. With a gasp, she bolted into a sitting position. She gazed around the room, still not recognizing anything of it.

There was a desk topped with fabrics, a mannequin with several hats on it, papers scattered on the ground, a floor length mirror. And she was lying on a full-sized bed she didn’t recognize. Marinette shuffled out of the bed towards the mirror, hoping she hadn’t been transferred to someone else’s body.

To her relief, she was still her. And yet…not. Her hair was much longer than she originally had it. Gone was the pixie cut and now her hair almost reached her waist. Under her eyes were heavy bags she hadn’t seen in a long while. Like she hadn’t slept in days.

But what struck her most were the scars around her bare arms. When did she get those? Did she have them all over her body? Marinette dared to lift the shirt from her stomach, to see three more scars. As if leftovers of a battle.

From the reflection, she saw something move behind her. Marinette snapped her neck towards it, luckily to see a familiar little blob of red burying herself in the fabrics over the desk.

“Tikki,” she whispered called, scurrying towards the kwami. “Tikki! Wake up!”

“Shh,” the small being said.

Marinette’s brows furrowed. It wasn’t like Tikki to be lazy. With gruntled determination, the woman poked her little friend, calling her again.

“No,” Tikki responded.

“This is important,” Marinette whisper-yelled. “Something is really wrong, and I need your help to figure it out.”

“Talk to the tail,” Tikki mumbled, turning enough to point her tiny butt towards her charge.

Marinette gaped. “Since when are you this rude?”

“Since when do you not let me sleep in?”

“Are you really Tikki?”

“How much did you drink last night?” The kwami snapped back.

“You know very well I only had two glasses and a half.”

“And you know very well that I wasn’t there!” Tikki finally turned to Marinette, her eyes with a fury she had never seen.

“What are you talking about?” she said. “You were all in the kitchen. You were there when I divided up the team before going out to fight.”

Tikki looked at her like she had grown a second head.

“You’ve finally lost it.” With that, she turned and collapsed in the fabrics.

“Lost what?! I have no idea what’s going on or—” Marinette’s eyes widened. “Adrien.”

“Wait, what?”

“Of course!” The woman rummaged through the room until she found a cellphone, a jacket and a pair of pink flats to wear. “I need to find Adrien. I need to know if he’s okay, what happened to him, if Plagg is acting the same way—”

“Plagg?!”

“—maybe he’ll have answers. Hopefully he remembers what happened last night, when we fought The Genie.”

Ignoring Tikki’s sudden interest, Marinette yanked the door open and crossed what seemed to be a small living room to get to what she hoped would be the exit. Once in the hallway, she started inspecting the phone that luckily had no lock.

“Ugh.” She grimaced at the background picture of a ridiculously revealing dress. “Whosever phone this is, they have terrible taste in clothes.”

Marinette continued tapping on the screen, ignoring a mutter from Tikki nearby about the phone. Looking into the contacts, she had to admit surprise when she saw Alya almost at the top of the list. Without waiting any second longer, she called the number.

Once. Twice. Three times. No answer.

“Dammit.” The voicemail came through the speaker. “Hey, Alya, it’s Marinette. I need you to call me to this number as soon as you can. Something very weird happened. Call me back, please!”

She hung up and continued scrolling through the contacts.

“Huh.” She tilted her head. “This phone is the same model as my old one.”

“You’ve had that phone for three years already,” Tikki said loudly. Marinette stopped on her tracks. She glanced at the kwami peering from under the jacket, and back at the phone.

“You’re not making any sense,” she resorted to say.

Yet her mind started racing as she ran down the stairs. The phone was clearly not hers, if it didn’t have the background picture of Adrien and her on their engagement party. Then again, things had been pretty bizarre already that morning.

Once in the ground floor, Marinette powerwalked towards the exit. Hopefully, she would find some answers once she stepped out of that door.

However, it wasn’t much help.

Stepping into the blinding sunlight, Marinette only realized she was an arrondissement away from her apartment. She was suddenly tempted to transform, to reach her home faster. But with Tikki’s mood, perhaps it was best to walk.

As the woman marched, she scanned her surroundings. From the looks of it, there was no sign of The Genie. As if it had never happened. No giant pets, no reanimated toys, nothing strange at all. She checked the phone again, which was very unhelpful when it barely had any contacts. Tikki said it was her phone, so if that was the case: where were Nino and Chloé? Was it even safe to try other numbers?

Marinette sighed, her head starting to hurt. Just as she looked up, she noticed a blond mop of hair she would recognize anywhere.

“Oh my gosh!” she breathed, breaking into a run, eyes trained on the man exiting a café. “ADRIEN!” she yelled.

Said man raised his head in bewilderment, almost apprehensive. She called several more times until he looked to her direction.

“Marinette?” He barely said her name, when she threw her arms around his neck, almost making him drop the brown bag in his hand.

“Adrien!” Marinette sighed in relief. “Thank goodness, I was worried something may have happened to you.”

“What?” the man questioned, brows furrowing.

“I’ve been so worried, and so confused,” she pulled back, grabbing on to his biceps. “I woke up this morning and I was in a strange apartment, and you weren’t there, and Tikki wasn’t talking to me, and I couldn’t get a hold of Alya, Nino or Chloé, and everything feels weird, and—”

“What are you doing?” Adrien cut in, shrugging his arms away from her. “Did you hit your head or something?”

“Huh?” Marinette frowned. “W-well… I don’t know! Adrien, nothing feels—”

“Why are you talking to me?” he snapped when her hand had reached out again.

The woman slowly straightened, staring at her fiancé dumbfounded.

“Chaton?”

“Chaton?” Adrien parroted. “You really have lost it now, haven’t you?”

“What are you talking about?”

“What are you talking about?” Adrien rolled his eyes, before checking his watch. “Look, I don’t have time for this, I have things to do. So, if you’ll excuse me—”

“Wait, no!” Marinette grabbed his wrist desperately, only for him to roughly shake it off.

“Listen here,” he said, pointing at her menacingly. “I swear that if you come at me like this again, I will be forced to get a restraining order—”

“Restraining order?!”

 “—against you. I don’t want to, but you know very well I can’t be seen with you. Or do you forget I’m a public figure?”

“Why are you threatening me? Are you under an akuma spell?”

“Marinette, it’s been two years!” he shouted, rendering her quiet. He let out a defeated sigh. “And here I thought we were past this. Just… I’m with Lila now, so just deal with it.”

Without a second look, he walked past her shell-shocked form. The words slugging through her mind, wondering whether they had been real or not. Two years? Two years of what?! Since when would Adrien threaten her with a restraining order? Since when does he not recognize his own nickname?

But most importantly… Since when were they not together?

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#akuma flashpoint #ml af #miraculous ladybug #ladrien #ml fanfic #oooooohhhhhhh I finally get to share this

[a-fantastic-time]

Guide to a Fantastic Time!

Hello everyone! Thank you for coming, I hope we have a grand old time. First things first, this is a 18+ Rp area, so I hope you please respect that we should do just fine. Rps do not need to go down that route, I am 100% down for SFW rps, but I mainly prefer NSFW. Just pointing that out now. Also I will absolutely will not do anything with anyone under age, characters or people.

Muses! Unfortunately I do not have a set listing for muses. I actually love to play as many characters as I can from different fandoms, or OCs that I have sorta made up and never really put them to pen and paper. So feel free to ask me about them, and I will gladly talk your ear off. Note that I do play any gender, be it Male/Female/Herms.

Fandoms! I will do my best to get as many of my favorite Fandoms/interest listed down, I will be editing this when I can, so if you ever have an interest, or show, or game that you like and you do not see it on my list. Please feel free to ask me about it, and maybe I can add it to the list.

List of Interests-

She-Ra The Dragon Prince Glitch Tech Transformers (series, not movies) TMNT(series, not movies) Steven Universe Big Hero 6 RWBY Marvel(Comics/Shows) DC(Comics/Shows) Halo Pokémon Digimon Mortal kombat Mass Effect Dragon age Final Fantasy (Any game/series) Boku no hero UnderTale DeltaRune Sonic(Series) Ben 10 Diablo League of Legends Wakfu Miraculous Ladybug Bleach D&D Yu-Gi-Oh Gargoyles Aliens(Franchise, and in general) Kaiju(Monsters in general, not just the franchises) Gundam (any series) Hazbin Hotel Helluva Boss Murder Drones Starwars Critical Role Destiny Warframe Panty & Stocking

RULES: More may be added at a later time. But for now please read and follow.

I absolutely do not "one line", I have told many people this and sometimes I do make exceptions depending on the situation like if you are tired and its late, or you are not feeling up to rp. If you continue to one-line after I give you a warning, After that, I will simply not reply.

I do not in any shape or form condone rape. I am ok with rough sex or maybe being dominate with my partner, but I will not participate in rape of any kind sorry.

I will do my best to message you first as soon as possible. If you do not get a message from me right away, its most likely because I thought I did or I forgot. So please let me know if I have yet to talk to you yet. I do not treat anyone as a number.

If you have a problem with the way I RP, then please let me know. I have no problems changing things to make the rp more pleasant for both parties. Whether it be either grammar, or possibly with how you prefer actions or talking to be placed in either ** or "". Please just let me know, and I will see how I can change it to make it more pleasing to you.

I am completely fine with rough to kinky sex, but I hate abusive sex. Examples: forcing me to suck, ride, fuck you when I do not want too. cussing me out while we fuck for the sake of demeaning someone during it to make yourself seem superior or saying you can do that just because your Dom/alpha is bullshit. If you do this I will tell you to quit it, but if you whine about not being allowed to be yourself you will be blocked enough said.

I enjoy futas/shemales/dickgirls as much as everyone else. But if you plan to stick anything in me, you will get the same treatment in return. Its how I see its fair. I do not care of your "DOM" or "Your only comfortable with giving". With that said, I do have a preferences towards woman, and futas. So, sorry guys, not into you. Especially not into femboys, sissies, or traps.

[themosleyreview]

The Mosley Review: Bullet Train

You know when a film's trailer delivers a glimpse of the entire thing in a fun way? Its rare for a trailer to deliver the exact tone of a film so accurately isn't it? Well the team that designed the trailer to this film should win an Oscar for it because this film was everything it said it was gonna be and so much more. It is truly rare for a film to be this much fun and engaging from the opening montage to the closing credits. The action film genre can be a variety of things whether it be an action film that has a thin layered story with great set pieces or a great story that informs the set pieces and they work in tandem together. This film was the latter and I loved the story and all of its moving parts. It does take some influences from films like Snatch and Smokin’ Aces with the plot being centered around a person and object and it was great. There were multiple slivers of a family drama, dark comedy and revenge tale all mixed into this perfect storm of circumstance and luck. The characters themselves push the story and take you on a fun ride that you'll never forget. This film definitely features my favorite collection of characters this year so far.

Brad Pitt was excellent and having the time of his life as the "unlucky" character Ladybug. You want the guy to succeed and get off the train, but there's always something or someone pulling him right back on. He was charming and hilarious as he tries to stay so Zen throughout the mayhem. Sandra Bullock was fun and witty as his handler Maria Beetle. The two of them have such great chemistry and I love their heart to hearts after and sometimes during the action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Tyree Henry were truly my favorite characters of the film Tangerine and Lemon. Their chemistry was electric the moment they were on screen together. Their banter was the funniest, insightful, quick and you truly feel their brotherly love toward one another. Tangerine was the perfect bruiser and Lemon was truly the brains and I loved every second. I kind of want a spinoff with those characters. Joey King was perfectly sadistic and cunning as The Prince. She has such command on screen and you love her even though she is so evil. Andrew Koji was endearing and wonderful as Yuichi Kimura and his story was one of the strongest pillars of the film. The great Hiroyuki Sanada was as awesome and elegant as his father The Elder. There isn't a role he's played where he doesn't bring such gravitas to each scene. Their chemistry was strong and I loved their strained relationship. Michael Shannon was awesome and a pure rockstar as the Russian crime boss The White Death. Once he's on screen, you just love every villainous moment of him chewing the scenery. The way his story is tied to everyone is wonderfully weaved throughout and its one hell of a payoff in the end.

The soundtrack in this film was excellent as we here the Japanese version of classic hits and they're all perfectly placed and compliment the tone of the story and emotional beats. The action in this film is perfectly choreographed to tell the story and deliver some great comedic moments and shocking twists. You have to appreciate when a director that comes from a stunt background, really shows how to shoot action the correct way. Visually the film is stunning and each train car has its own personality. Director David Leitch has made not only one of my favorite action films, but one of the best dark comedies of the year. I loved this film and I can't recommend it enough. Do stick around for one of the best story buttons in the mid credit scene that made myself and the entire theater cheer. Let me know what you thought of the film or my review in the comments below. Thanks for reading!

#bullet train #brad pitt #sandra bullock #aaron taylor johnson #bryan tyree henry #joey king #andrew koji #hiroyuki sanada #michael shannon #zazie beetz #david leitch #channing tatum #ryan reynolds

[familyagrestefanblog]

I looked through the Bible leak and it's a Eh on my part. Its 113 pages and the only part that actually managed to convince me to some degree that this could be legit legit are the s5 summeries at the end and the s5 mentionings althrough the whole thing. And thats only because I have no way to find out if these s5 informations are accurate and therefore I just have to accept them. If this is real then I'm let down but I guess I will enjoy the ride. But at the same time I'm not throwing everything away because of this one document.

Because not gonna lie, it manages to not say much at all while still speaking alot of words in ALOT of regards. Some show aspects are either hardly explained, simplified to the max, misleading or just straight up wrong. Like the relationship between Adrien and Plagg for example, something the show has put so much care into developing. And here the explanation of them goes hardly further than middle of season 1. Alot of these kind of things. Like, Rogercops (was that his name?) akumatization in Kuro Neko is acknowledged but Nathalie being Catalyst in "Ladybug" isn't? Or also in Kuro Neko the document says that the girl was akumatized... she wasn't.

Kuro Neko only had the Sentimonster and no akuma victim. That's like... who wrote this??

Then there are just straight up inconsistencies and errors in the document that shouldn't be present in these kind of documents. Here and there Cat Noir suddenly gets written CHAT again, Pigella is either Piggella or has a completely different name. Ninos brother Chris gets the mentioning that his name is Noël in the french original, but.... literally nothing else gets that?? Why mention this one french name and nothing else? Not from heros, villains or anyone? Nothing? Mkay.

The section of "rules for how an episode is written" is honestly laughable in how small and basic it is. If this is legit then I’m sorry wtf?? And overall it just doesn't feel like an document that got updated very often and now merely has received new informations on a solid enough quality level to piss people off before s5 even starts. Like, sometimes the tense-forms in which the story contexts are written in get very inconsistent and makes for a weird reading experience.

That's what Im going with right now. The way these 113 pages feel to me is that it's astoundingly little in alot of words. that often just leaves out crucial key elements of the story, gives them in the most basic form to the point where it becomes misleading or even straight up false. Unprofessional continuity errors are being made that have absolutely nothing to do in this work file. It's highly incomplete and a few times weirdly written.

Especially concidering that this is a show Bible it lacks points ESPECIALLY in the "how an episode is written" part (and in general the fucking LORE part) to absolutely ridiculous degrees. There is no more in depth structure, explanations etc of the world building, overarching narrative and magic system that a show Bible would explain. A show Bible is being pitched to channels, higher ups etc to understand, take and finance your project. Where are the explanations for things on more than a superficial level?

I dont want to say there is nothing in this document that shows it could be legit but it reads more like a dedicated fan analysis on a superficial level “because its already 113 pages long so we keep it to the absolute minimun”, than an actual work document. After reading this I honestly have the feeling like I could have faked this better lol

That isnt to say that I'm saying this document couldn't be real (I would be disappointed on more than one level if it where. Not only from how s5 will go but also from like... the quality standard of these professional show documents) but I will say that if it were to come to light that this ex-employee had this Bible document for a long time already (so its the bibel of the show in a much earlier development stage. It honestly feels like s1 where s2, 3 and 4 merely got added without changing the whole pov to the current season. Or at least ADJUST THE POV in the points where it makes SENSE now to properly get the show across. Which is the purpose of this document) and now just updated it with a couple of details they either know of s5, made up and/or laid out in ways to deliberately piss off the fanbase before s5 starts to turn the fans against the show and screw over ZAG (which I may add WAS the intention of leaking this bible, to get one on  ZAG)... then I would believe it

I acknowledge this documents existence, but to be honest I’m not impressed from too many angles and I will not loose too much sleep over this. If it turns out to be true than thats that and if it doesnt then I’m not surprised either.

#miraculous #miraculous ladubug #ml spoilers #ml leaks #ml show bible leak #I apologive for having read it

[purrincess-chat]

Under the Moth’s Wing (Not-so-enemies AU) CH3: Mr. Pigeon

It’s time for bird man! RIP Adrien’s nose and immune system. This chapter is more cracky than the last two. 

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Chapter 3: Mr. Pigeon

“Good morning, Father,” Adrien said the next morning when he entered the evil moth cave, perfectly nonchalant as if he hadn’t spent most of the night thinking about their very attractive archnemesis — which he hadn’t. Obviously. That would be counterproductive to their mission to save his mother, whom he missed very dearly. His eagerness to hear about the next plan to create an akuma and lure out said breath-takingly gorgeous superheroine was strictly in honor of their mission to take her earrings and had nothing to do with how badly he wanted to see her again.

“So…” Adrien clapped his hands together awkwardly. “What are we doing today?”

His father turned to him, letting his transformation drop. Nooroo emerged from the brooch, shrinking out of the way as his father walked.

“Paris is too cheerful after Ladybug’s success yesterday. We need to bring them back down,” he said. “I’ve devised a plan that will guarantee success.”

“Yes!” Adrien cheered.

“I appreciate your enthusiasm, Adrien.” His father smiled.

“Well, I just really want you to win, Father. Then we can get Mom back,” Adrien said. And he’d get to see that bug girl again.

“There is still a flaw in our plans that has been eating at me all night.” His father frowned. “Ladybug appeared alone both times. The Black Cat Miraculous has yet to surface. I will need both if we want to bring your mother back.”

Adrien pursed his lips. “Well, maybe if you get Ladybug’s Miraculous, then whoever has the Black Cat will have no choice but to come out of hiding.”

His father paced over to the window, leaning against the railing with a sigh.

“We can hope,” he said. “I miss your mother sorely, Adrien.”

Adrien’s shoulders curled. Seeing his father look so sad only added to his guilt over falling for Ladybug, but he couldn’t help it! Love was more powerful than anything — or so his comic books told him. Ugh! Stupid Ladybug with her stupid perfect hair and soft lips, eyes that shined like a clear sky in the afternoon, just absolutely radiant-

He shook himself, pacing over to stand beside his father.

“So, tell me about your plan for today. I’ll help however I can.” He smiled.

His father pressed his lips together, trailing his fingers over the brooch on his shirt.

“I’ll be holding a competition at your school. Your classmates will design hats for a chance to have their work featured in my next fashion show. You’ll be modeling the winning design as an added incentive.” His father explained. “The losers are bound to be disappointed. It’s the perfect way to lure out negative emotions.” He turned to Adrien. “I need you to make sure we succeed today. Ladybug cannot get the upper hand again.”

“You got it, Fathermoth. I’ll do anything I can to get close to Ladybug.” Adrien winked, but at his father’s glare, he cleared his throat and added, “Uh, I’ll work very hard, Father.”

“Good.” He dismissed Adrien with a wave of his hand.

Adrien slinked back to the elevator, biting back a smile as it made its descent. He was going to see Ladybug again! Sure, he needed to figure out a way to steal her earrings without completely ruining his chances of going on a date with her, but he was going to see her. On second thought, maybe he should shoot for the date first, then steal her earrings. Or maybe on the date he could tell her about his predicament, and she would just give him the earrings. And maybe Ladybug would know where to find the Black Cat ring. If they had the earrings and the ring, his father wouldn’t have to send out any more akumas. It was a win-win for everyone.

 Paris was much brighter on his ride to school. The pedestrians they passed were all far more at ease, some of them even smiling. All of the damage had been repaired seemingly overnight too.

“How did everything get fixed so quickly?” Adrien asked as they passed the park across from his school.

“The Ladybug Miraculous has the power to fix anything that’s broken by a villain.” Nathalie explained. “After Ladybug defeated Stoneheart, she used her lucky charm to repair all of the damage.”

“Whoa, so no matter how smashed up everything gets, she can just fix it?” Adrien gaped. He’d been too distracted to notice the day before. “Wait, but does that mean she could fix my mom with her powers?”

“It doesn’t quite work like that,” Nathalie said as the car rolled up to the curb outside of school. “Focus on your mission, and have a good day at school.”

“Thanks, Nathalie.”

His classmates were in a much better mood since Stoneheart was officially dealt with. Ivan and Mylene walked across the courtyard together holding hands. Even Chloe’s spirits were up.

Adrien couldn’t blame them, since he was enamored by this new superheroine too. Plus, he was getting to attend public school for the first time. He even made it all the way to art class, which given the track record of his first two days was a huge milestone. Their art teacher was a kindly old man who beamed as their principal whispered to him before their class.

“Good afternoon, students,” he said when they all found their seats. “We have a very exciting announcement!”

“Yes, I received news this morning from Gabriel Agreste that he intends to hold a contest at our very school,” M. Damocles said. “He is looking to promote young talent. Those who are interested will have the rest of the day to design and create a derby hat. The winning design will be featured in Gabriel’s next fashion show.”

Adrien bit back a smirk as his classmates buzzed with excited chatter. One step closer to seeing Ladybug!

“Dude, isn’t that your dad?” Nino asked.

“Yeah.” Adrien rubbed the back of his neck.

“Those that are interested, come up to sign the entry form,” the art teacher said.

Adrien sat back as everyone piled to the front, a smile curling on his lips when Marinette and Alya jumped in line. If they were interested in competing, maybe it would be a good chance for him to talk to them and clear up the whole gum thing. Seeing as his father was going to wait until the end of the competition to akumatize someone, he wouldn’t have to worry about being interrupted.

“I don’t know why any of you bother,” Chloe said, pushing her way to the front of the line. “Gabriel Agreste is friends with my daddy. All I have to do is make a phone call, and this competition is good as mine.”

“So make that phone call,” Alya said.

When Chloe opened her mouth to retort, Adrien jumped up and stepped between them.

“Come on, Chlo. This competition is about talent. Trust me, my father doesn’t care how loud you scream. He just wants to see some fresh new designs, so if you want to win, you’ll have to come up with something like everyone else,” he said.

Chloe scrunched her face into a pout and stalked off, prompting an eye roll from Marinette and Alya. Adrien flashed Marinette a small smile, but she turned around without so much as a second glance.

After art class, they were given a break to work on their designs for the competition. Adrien and Nino were the only two that didn’t enter, so they claimed a bench together in the courtyard.

“I’m surprised you didn’t sign up,” Adrien said.

Nino popped the seal on a soda can and slouched back on the bench, a loud thumping beat blaring from the headphones around his neck. “Nah, clothes aren’t really my thing. Now, if your pops wants a DJ, hit me up.”

“I might be able to make that happen.” Adrien tapped his chin.

“Dude, seriously?” Nino shot up. “That would be sick!”

“My father is a hard man to convince, but it’s made me pretty good at begging.” Especially since Adrien knew his big mothy secret. His father would do anything if Adrien convinced him it was for the good of their mission.

Nino sat back with a grin, draping an arm over Adrien’s shoulders. “Ya know, you’re alright, dude.”

Adrien didn’t know what that meant, but if he had to guess from Nino’s expression, it was a compliment. He was pretty sure anyway.

“Thanks?” Adrien said. “I’m just happy to have a friend. My parents kept me at home all my life, so I’m not good at all of this social stuff.”

“Yeah, we can tell,” Nino said, but when Adrien’s shoulders curled, he added, “Don’t worry, dude. I got your back. I’ll teach you everything you need to know about life on the outside. Starting with those two.” Nino pointed to Alya and Marinette across the courtyard.

“I feel like they hate me.” Adrien sighed.

“They don’t hate you.” Nino shook his head, turning Adrien’s head to the staircase where Chloe and Sabrina were lurking. “They hate her. The problem is, you’re too attached to Chloe.”

“I’ve tried standing up to her several times, but they never seem to notice!”

“Telling Chloe off is a good start, but Marinette’s beef with her runs deep. They’ve been mortal enemies since kindergarten when Chloe put gum in her hair,” Nino said. “Look, I know you and Chloe are old buds, and there’s always going to be a connection between you two whether you want it or not. If you want to be friends with Marinette and Alya, you’re going to have to prove to them that your friendship with Chloe hasn’t corrupted you. Show them that even though you’ve got history with the worst girl in school, you’re still willing to be a bud to them.”

“How do I do that?” Adrien asked.

“Well, you’ve got experience in all this fashion stuff. Go over and give them some pointers on how to do well in this competition. Your dad is like Marinette’s idol, and fashion is her dream. Start there.” Nino nudged him in Marinette’s direction. “And loosen up.”

Adrien took a deep breath, wiping his palms on his pants as he strolled over to their bench. Marinette was too busy pacing to notice him, and Alya had her nose buried in a sketchbook. He leaned against the wall beside Alya to peek at the designs inside. Most of them weren’t half-bad and reminded him of his father’s older work.

“Sick designs, Alya. You’re really talented,” he said, mimicking Nino’s casual speak. The words sounded foreign coming out of his mouth, lacking Nino’s ease of delivery, but Adrien had to admit, it was fun to talk like that.

“Actually, they’re my designs.” Marinette snatched the sketchpad and flipped the cover closed before he could see anything else.

Show them you’re willing to be a bud to them.

“Oh, well, uh, they’re really awesome. If you want, I could give you a few pointers to give you an edge.” Adrien offered.

“I’m not like Chloe. I don’t need to cheat to win.” Marinette hugged her sketchbook to her chest.

“No, no, no! That’s not what I meant.” Adrien waved his hands frantically. “I just meant that you’re really talented, and I think you have what it takes to win this thing.”

She and Alya exchanged looks.

“I gotta go.” Marinette gathered her bag and stalked off without another word.

Adrien shoved his hands into his pockets with a sigh. What was he doing wrong? He sounded just like Nino, but they still didn’t like him!

“Aww, what’s the matter, daddy’s boy? Was someone’s crème brûlée not toasted enough this morning?” Alya stood up, slinging her bag over one shoulder.

“I know you guys don’t like Chloe — I know everyone doesn’t like Chloe — but I’m really not like her.” Adrien curled his shoulders. “I’ve never been allowed out before, and all I want to do is make friends.”

Alya pursed her lips, reaching a hand to pat his shoulder. “Look, maybe you’re not a bad guy, but you can’t just expect people to roll over when you surround yourself with bad people. Especially when those bad people are stepping over the rest of us.”

“Yeah, I know.” Adrien lowered his gaze to his shoes. “I’m sorry about Chloe.”

“I don’t think I’m the one you need to be apologizing to,” Alya said. “Me, I couldn’t care less who your daddy is or what snobby little heiress clings to your neck, but Marinette works really hard every day only to get tormented by Queen B.” She nodded at Chloe, who was ordering Sabrina around across the courtyard. “So, it’s a little hard for us commonfolk to believe that the 1% really cares about us when we see them together.”

“I can’t just stop being Chloe’s friend entirely. She and I have known each other since we were little, and I know she’s not perfect, but she’s the first friend I ever had,” Adrien said.

“Ya know, I had a toy that I really liked as a kid. I took it everywhere until it was dirty and broken. Then my parents got me a new toy and I had to choose whether to keep the dirty old one, or toss it out for something better,” Alya said. “I had a lot of good memories with that toy, but in the end, the broken pieces would have hurt me if I didn’t let go. Just because it was my first toy, doesn’t mean I had to hang onto it forever.”

Adrien lowered his gaze to his shoes and nodded. “I get it. Thanks.” He flopped onto the bench as Alya walked off, running a hand through his hair.

Alya paused after a few steps, turning back over her shoulder. “You’re right, ya know. Marinette does have what it takes to win your dad’s competition. And if anyone—” She flicked her gaze over to Chloe— “gets in her way, I’ll give them bruises not even Ladybug can fix.”

She stalked off, leaving Adrien cowering on the bench. Marinette might have a reputation for being harmless, but Alya was scary. He supposed every nice girl in a best friend duo always had a stronger, feistier friend to protect them on TV. It was just a lot more intimidating in real life.

The school bell rang, signaling lunch, and Adrien’s phone buzzed with a text from his bodyguard. A silver town car was waiting on the curb as he made his way down the front steps with several other classmates going home to work on their contest designs. He may have struck out with Marinette and Alya, but at least he had Ladybug to look forward to at the end of the competition.

Adrien leaned back against the seat with a sigh as Gorilla pulled out into the street. Part of him did feel guilty for using his classmates. Maybe he was more like Chloe than he thought, harnessing the misery of others for his own selfish gain. Was he really a good friend to Marinette if he looked forward to her losing and getting akumatized? He really needed to brush up on his superhero comics for answers.

Car horns honked, and Adrien leaned to see out the front windshield. They were blocked in on every side by a sea of cars, all stalled in a line. A group of pigeons landed on the hood, hoards more closing in around them.

“What the-” Adrien unfastened his seatbelt and climbed out onto the sidewalk. Birds littered every flat surface with more flocking overhead. They hadn’t covered bird migrations yet in school, but Adrien had a sneaking suspicion this wasn’t normal.

His nose tickled and burned as a pigeon flew past. He sneezed, covering his nose with his shirt as tears formed in his eyes. Great. Paris was being taken over by pigeons, and he was allergic. But where were they all coming from?

He started up the block, avoiding birds where he could. The park across the street from the school seemed empty enough, so he ducked through the gate, breathing a sigh of relief. It was only a few blocks to his house. Hopefully his face didn’t swell up before he got there.

Red and black spots landed across the lawn and crouched to pick up a feather from the ground. Adrien’s heart took off into a sprint, heat creeping up his neck. Or he could stick around in the park for a while. A few sneezes never killed anyone.

“Ladybug, hey!” He waved, walking swifter than he intended to meet her, unable to contain his eagerness. “Lots of birds out today. It’s a shame your Miraculous isn’t a cat.”

She looked him up and down, mask furrowing.

“Oh right, my name is Adrien. You kinda saved me yesterday from Stoneheart—sorry I’m just really excited to see you.” He rubbed a hand over his neck. Smooth. He needed to practice more.

“Yeah, I remember you,” she said.

She remembered him! Three simple words, but they made his heart soar.

“I wanted to thank you again. It was really amazing what you did yesterday,” he said.

“You’re welcome, but you should really head inside now. It could be dangerous out here.” She turned the feather over in her hands.

“Why? What’s so dangerous about a bunch of pigeons?” Adrien turned away from her to sneeze. Ugh, other than making it impossible to flirt with his future wife.

“They aren’t behaving naturally, and now the park rangers are all going missing,” Ladybug said. “I think Hawkmoth might have akumatized someone again.”

“Wait, no, he-” Adrien blinked.

His father wouldn’t akumatize a bunch of birds knowing his son was allergic…right? What about the competition? The plan? Then again, his father was desperate to get his mother back. He’d do anything if he thought it would help him win, but a warning text would have been nice. How was Adrien supposed to help him if he couldn’t breathe? He’d have to navigate on the fly again.

“Uh, so since you saved me, I was hoping I could return the favor and help you out,” Adrien said. “I could a-a-achoo!”

Ladybug quirked a brow.

“Sorry, I’m allergic to feathers, but I can still help!” Adrien assured her in a totally natural and not at all desperate way.

Ladybug crossed her arms over her chest and pursed her lips. Even skeptical she was still beautiful.

“It’s risky but…”

“Please? I’ll do anything.”  He pressed his palms together.

“Okay.” Ladybug nodded. “I need to find out where the park rangers have gone because I have a feeling it will lead us to whoever is causing all of these pigeons to swarm like this.”

“So, you need me to help track down the villain’s hideout?” He gave a theatrical bow. “I’ll be happy to be your Watson, m’lady Holmes.”

“Well, I kind of have something else in mind…” She bit her lip.

Several minutes later, Adrien whistled as he paced around the park in a blue baseball cap. He stood tall for his first couple laps around the fountain, wanting to impress Ladybug, but on his third loop, he paused. Judging from his calming sinuses, he’d wager there wasn’t a single pigeon on the block. Which was good for his allergies, but bad for their plan.

He touched the ear piece Ladybug had given him. “I don’t think this is working.”

“It’s only been two minutes. Give it more time,” she replied, her voice sweet and melodic in his ear.

He set out on another loop, humming the song Nino had been listening to in the courtyard. Swaying in time with the beat, Adrien slid back to his starting position, his singing growing louder.

“What are you doing?” Ladybug sighed. “You’re supposed to act natural!”

“What do you mean?” He grinned, moon-walking through the dirt. “This is natura-choo!”

A shadow loomed over him, the chorus of flapping wings growing louder. Pigeons cooed in his ears, swarming him on every side. His nose burned, but before he could sneeze again, his feet flew out from under him. Yelping in surprise, he attempted to struggle, but the birds pressed his arms against his sides and carried him off.

When the pigeons finally released him, his eyes were bloodshot and watery, an unattractive trail of snot dripping from his nose. The other park rangers cowered in a huddle in one corner of their cage, though thankfully Ladybug was nowhere in sight. He’d hate for her to see him like this.

A lanky figure approached the cage, a pigeon perched on his forearm. His eyes narrowed as the pigeon spat out the ear piece Adrien had been wearing prior to getting kidnapped. Birdnapped? What had his life come to?

“Excellent work capturing a spy for that wretched bug, my pigeons. Soon she will come here to rescue him, and we will take her Miraculous for Hawkmoth. Then me and my precious pigeons will rule all of Paris!” He threw his head back with a maniacal laugh, prompting coos of approval from his pigeons.

Adrien sneezed again, not having the heart to tell him that Hawkmoth had zero intentions of fulfilling that wish for him — he’d figure it out after they won. Rubbing his nose, Adrien sat back with a sigh.

“Are you unimpressed with my vision, boy?” The pigeon man asked, sounding offended at the prospect.

Adrien shrugged. “I’m allergic to pigeons, so I wouldn’t be sad if they all disappeared.”

“How dare you! Your physical shortcomings are no fault of my birds! My first order as ruler of Paris will be to banish anyone allergic to my dear pigeons,” he said.

“You’re gonna have to give those dreams a raincheck.”

Mr. Pigeon turned as Ladybug tossed a bag of vending machine popcorn, splitting it open with her yoyo. Kernels rained over the villain’s head, attracting a swarm of pigeons. With the villain incapacitated, Ladybug swooped down and hooked his bird call with her yoyo, crushing it under her foot.

“No more evildoing for you, little akuma,” she said.

Adrien leaned against the bars with a smile as Ladybug captured the akuma and set everything right. Her Miraculous Ladybug cure freed them from their cage and sent all of the pigeons back where they came from. The park rangers cheered, but Adrien’s watery eyes and stuffed nose just wanted a decongestant. Leave it to his father to ruin the one thing he’d looked forward to all day. He couldn’t impress Ladybug when he was a snotty, red-eyed mess!

She waved goodbye to the park rangers and leapt back through the open window she’d entered through. With a sigh, Adrien texted his bodyguard to come pick him up.

***

The next day went by without any major happenings. Adrien hadn’t spoken to his father that morning after the pigeon incident, especially not when his nose was still runny. He wasn’t surprised when his father sent Nathalie to judge the contest in his place. Not that his father went anywhere in the first place, but Adrien was sure he wanted to be ready to akumatize someone immediately when the judging was over.

He took his place by Nathalie who pulled up the video call with his father. They said nothing to each other as Adrien’s classmates set up their displays. Some of the designs were really creative, even Chloe managed to pull something together, though knowing her, she probably paid someone to do it for her. But Adrien pursed his lips, looking around the room. Where was Marinette? Alya was there, but the podium next to her was still empty.

“M. Agreste, it’s an honor to meet you, sir,” the art teacher, M. Monlataing, Adrien learned from class, greeted.

“We are so happy that you picked our school to host your competition and to let your son study with us,” Principal Damocles echoed.

“Andre Bourgeois is an old friend of mine. If your school is good enough for his daughter, then I expect you will all be just as accommodating to Adrien,” his father said.

“Of course, sir. You have my word.” M. Damocles bowed.

“I think everyone is ready for you to judge now. I’m sure you’ll be pleased with what my students have created — they are an exceptionally talented bunch,” M. Monlataing said.

“We’ll see.”

Kim and Max were first, and while the concept with flowers was solid, the execution left a lot to be desired. Some of the stitching was uneven, and the circumference was too small for Adrien’s head. Juleka and Rose were next with a cool steam-punk design. It looked really edgy, but all of the metal gears were heavy.

“Hi, M. Agreste! It’s me, Chloe Bourgeois.” She leaned into the camera.

“Yes, I know who you are.” His father rolled his eyes.

“Of course you do. My daddy is an old friend of yours.” Chloe shot a snide look to her other classmates, a smirk curling on her lips when Marinette rushed in late and slapped her box on the empty podium. “I’m sure you’ll find my design to be the best.”

His father stroked his chin. “Very impressive indeed, Chloe.”

“Thank you, Gabriel.” Chloe fluffed her hair.

Adrien turned toward Marinette who was glaring daggers at Chloe, and Adrien could see why. The hat on Marinette’s podium was nearly-identical to Chloe’s, a fact his father didn’t miss.

“Nathalie, turn back to Mlle. Bourgeois’s display,” his father said. “What is the meaning of this?”

“No fair! Marinette copied me.” Chloe cried. “M. Damocles, she should be disqualified! No, you should kick her out of the school for cheating!”

“I apologize for the situation, M. Agreste.” Marinette crossed her arms and cocked a hip. “But I can prove to you that I’m the original designer.”

“Very well.” His father nodded her on.

“You see, everything about my hat is handmade from the stitching on the brim all the way down to the embroidery. Plus, there’s a secret design element that only the true creator would know about.” She flipped her hat upside down and gestured to the gold stitching along the side that read Marinette when flipped. “I signed mine.”

Chloe gasped, stepping backward into her display and knocking her hat from the podium. It bounced on the floor, spinning around to reveal the identical signature on the side. Chloe raced off, crying for her daddy like always, and Nathalie turned the camera back to Marinette.

“Very impressive, Marinette. You have all the skills of a hatmaker. Yours is the winner,” his father said.

“Thank you, M. Agreste!” Marinette bowed.

“Adrien will model your hat in my next fashion show. My assistant will send you the details later.”

“Wait, what?” Marinette blinked.

Nathalie sauntered off with Principal Damocles in tow. M. Monlataing patted Marinette’s shoulder with a smile and followed after them.

“Awesome job, Marinette.” Adrien congratulated, rubbing the back of his neck, but she turned to Alya as Rose, Juleka, Max, and Kim joined to congratulate her, seeming to not notice him.

He shoved his hands in his pockets, turning back to her hat. He had been right — Marinette did have what it took to win — but she’d been right too. She did it all on her own without anyone’s help, even managing to thwart Chloe without realizing. Maybe trying to be her friend was a fruitless endeavor. After all, Adrien was the bad guy of this story, and judging from how happy everyone was to see her succeed, she must have been a good person. Would his classmates ever root for him like that?

His nose tickled and burned, and he stifled a sneeze in his elbow. The light gray feather sticking out of Marinette’s hat seem to mock him, and he threw his head back with a groan.

Seriously? His father did it again! Adrien was going to need a lot of allergy pills if he was going to make it through his next fashion show.

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #ladybug #ladrien #my writing #under the moth's wing #not so enemies au #simply ladrien au

[theadventurerslog]

Chuchel | Part 2

The Adventurer's Log

Part 2 and finale of this zany trip: the cherry chase continues. I had an alien to deal with. I was given several options every time I clicked on it. They all result in getting blasted. The alien was not impressed.

Even some lovely guitar playing! The guitar was fried...

After going through some options there was one to get angry. Chuchel basically threw a fit at the alien and it went away. Have a problem? Yell at it until it goes away.

So another alien can come down.

Much like the first instance I had multiple options to try including some very ridiculous things.

Like...

summoning a dinosaur! It was surprisingly ineffective but certainly entertaining. Offering a flower, however, got results in a sneeze fest that caused the blob trapping the cherry to get knocked aside. I mean, then a UFO showed up so things still weren't good for our friend here.

Writing this is almost as much of a trip as playing this. I was once more given many options to try none of which worked.

But after goofing around with a few things, who should show up but Kekel of course. Kekel in a hot air balloon. Kekel who proceeded to stab the ufo with scissors, causing it to deflate.

Kekel, who then, well, took the cherry away because that's just what Kekel does, isn't it? So, this led to another multi-screen chase this time armed with a blow pipe as we try to get Kekel. Down.

Utter chaos

More chaos.

We may have crashed the moon.

And the cherry continues to remain out of reach!

Well, okay, he did get a hold of it, but played enough by now to know that never sticks.

Especially when there's cute ladybugs to be distracted by and poke and...

And get chomped by. Ya kind of brought it on yourself, Chuchel.

Things progressed as they do and I ended up in a screen of blob frogs.

Kekel had escaped with the cherry through the pipe so I needed to get up there. That involved some reorganization and bounciness of these fellows that did take a bit of fiddling and some trial and error but I got there.

There were situations. There are always situations but I ultimately ended up in toothbrush land.

Thanks to Chuchel and Kekel fighting over the cherry it got flung into the glass with the teeth. I was able to get knock the teeth out by knocking the glass over, but the teeth still prevented me from just going in to get the cherry. There was toothpaste, and moving toothbrushes, and tubes. This was another one that was a little trickier for me, but I managed.

Cherry.

The teeth wasn't gonna let that stand and summoned more of their brethren. Already have a ready-made escape route though, so Chuchel fled back up the goo into the pipe.

Which led to a dark space with a single light switch. Flicking the light switch off and on caused a variety of effects and shenanigans including grim reapers showing up and playing the switch while taunting Chuchel instead...

But the torment came to an end only to result in the next level seeing both Chuchel and Kekel contained in beakers for experimentation.

I had to make three selections: pill colour, some kind of liquid with different effects and happy or angry mood. The right combination turns them into an angry dog and cat like critter respectively and they can break out. But of course there was other combinations to experiments with too along the way.

The day didn't get any better though. Sure they escaped, but the cherry is still the ultimate goal here and the ol' giant hand came back to wave it in our faces. So the chase began again.

Until at last we meet the hand's owner...

Hi.

Things got kind of gross for a bit here. Big fella there swallows cherry then Chuchel and Kekel end up getting into its mouth. There were teeth.

I had to move through while avoiding getting bounced back by being bitten. Just kind of gross.

Then there were angry teeth? And I had to punch them away. Because why not!

But that led to a biiig tooth showing up which we then hitched a ride on.

There's gotta be some kind of tooth or molar joke in here somewhere, but I got nothin'. You can maybe guess where this is going.

Yeah, stomach time.

You have to rotate the stomach to drop Chuchel down the right paths. I had an 'oh no' moment of dread, but it wasn't too bad actually and I did it quite quickly. I got dropped into another 'room' where Chuchel got knocked out or fell asleep to give us a good ol' dream sequence.

Oh that dreamy cherry.

Until...

UNTIL

Mean green Chuchel locked the cherry in a cage. So there were lots of options here and a lot of them led little mini games, like snail racing! But none of them were the solution. Just fun to be had. Instead it's a simple matter of running off to the left to use screen wrap-around to sneak in behind green Chuchel and knock the cage off cherry over green Chuchel.

Victory!

Then Kekel woke Chuchel up.

It's back to working together--still trapped in giant meanie after all. We ended up at its brain where there was a switch to make him happy instead of angry.

And it turned him a happy orange! We got out and he carried us back home.

After all of that, the rivalry, the aid, the adventure, the clinginess, the cherry greed... Chuchel splits the cherry in half and they share. How sweet.

Then more cherries rain down...

The last gift from the big fellow. And an ecstatic Chuchel.

But you know things come in cycles and while Chuchel got his cherry what about this orange giant?

Pear!

And then...

Another adventure! But not for us. We can only wish him well...

Just a happy end for Chuchel and pals over here.

I missed the screen the actually said The End. But, here's a nice ending screen anyway. Look at 'em all.

And that's that! Cherries were gained, happy day.

Time: 1:57

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Final Thoughts

It was fun! Completely goofy and absurd, but entertaining. I do prefer Botanicula and Samorost of their library that I've played at this point, but I'm glad to have given Chuchel a shot too.

There were some bits I felt went a little too long even with how short of a game it was. Nothing game breaking just my preferences.

I don't want to say it's easy or not too hard because everyone varies on what they find difficult but I found it mostly fairly easy over all. There's also a hint that will become available after a little bit but is totally optional to see or not.

Not much else to say really. It's very much an Amanita Design game with all the wackiness that brings.

#chuchel #chuchel_log #amanita design #adventure games

[trashcankitty12]

Introducing Lily Sylvane!

Younger Sister of Willow Sylvane

Elder Twin of the New Chaos Twins

-Lily is the elder twin of the new Chaos Twin Duo.

-Birthday is May 15. She’s a Taurus on Earth and a Satyr in the Magical Dimension. (We meet her at her freshman year. She’s 14 turning 15.)

-Like Willow, she and her twin refer to Valkyrie as “Mom” and Flora as “Momma”. (Though they also have joking names for their parents, including calling them “Mother” when feeling irritated.)

-Lily inherited her mom’s violet locks, and has allowed them to grow long, often wearing her hair in braids or ponytails. She’s got her Momma’s green eyes though, and her skin tone is a just a shade lighter than her Momma’s, but still darker than most of her friends. (Aside from her Androsian friends.)

-She also inherited her Momma’s power over plant life. She’s currently working under the title “Witch of Poison Plants”, but she is subject to change it as she “blossoms” at Cloud Tower.

-(Poison Plants were chosen as her main set of skills due to her being able to connect more fully with such plants as opposed to others.)

-Lily, while not one to overdo being social is no wallflower. She tends to stay in the middle of things, keeping tabs on what could be used for fun or mischief later on. Though she is not nearly as sociable as her sister.

-Being the elder twin isn’t easy, she often feels like the middle child between Willow and their sister. Willow is the brilliant older brother and heir to the Dragon Fire, and her sister is strong-willed and quite the adventurer. Makes her feel a little unsure of where she fits.

-(Not that she lets it bother her. Not too much. She’s mature enough to know people come in different types and have different purposes, even within the same family. She just hopes she doesn’t fade into the background.)

-Lily, despite being a witch, is a bit of a softer woman. She loves the soft pastel tones her Momma does, the differing shades of pinks and greens and purples. Maybe a few splotches of yellows. It does her heart good.

-Her typical style tends to include what she and her Grandma call “greenhouse wear” (dirt covered jeans and shirts with unknown stains and boots), soft dresses, and something ‘new’ the nature-based witches are calling ‘eco goth’. (Greens and blacks and dark browns.)

-Don’t get comfortable if Lily doesn’t immediately retaliate after a prank or other misdeed; she’s a patient witch and tends to wait for the perfect moment to strike. Usually right when something important should be happening and everyone gets an eyeful of the ‘response’. (And good luck trying to prove it was her. She and her twin have long perfected being able to cause trouble from across a building.)

-Of course, her ability to be patient isn’t a bad thing. It’s helped keep her and her friends out of trouble, has shown her how to grow difficult plants, and has helped her create lovely tea. (Just for example.)

-Lily has her own garden, one her Grandma (Flora’s Mom) helped her cultivate on Linphea. She loves her little garden space and getting that time with her grandmother. (And it usually ends in a lovely ride on the Ladybugs.)

-Lily is an incredible leaf surfer. One of the best (and most aggressive in the competitive circuits). She typically competes in the speed competitions while her twin competes in the style/trick ones.

-She has a kitty familiar like her brother does. A white short-haired cat named Drago. He’s one of her best friends and her greatest confidants. (And he purrs. Which is always nice.)

-It’s no secret that Lily is a lesbian. She didn’t even really have to come out, just sort of put the flag in her room. (A flag she got from Earth because apparently, it’s an Earth thing to have flags for everything. Which is cool, but sometimes seems unnecessary to those born outside of the planet.)

-Her favorite flowers so far are Aconitums. They’re pretty, but deadly and she just feels it’s part of her aesthetic. (Even if its basic for a witch to love them.)

-(She is interested in these ‘corpse blossoms’ she’s heard of on Earth, but she’s not sure about the smell considering she’s prone to migraines and certain intense smells can set them off.)

-Lily’s vegan and has been slowly trying to convert her sister. (Which is hard because of a love of cheese, but she’ll get there, probably with some pushing… Maybe.) She also enjoys putting together/making her own meals. Her momma helps her out and has been actively enjoying learning new foods. (Even if she keeps to her mostly vegetarian but occasional fish diet.)

-She’s sort of a ‘hippie’. While she may not talk about ‘peace and love and harmony’, she does encourage finding meaning in the chaos. Or at least, realizing that chaos just happens and you’ve got to learn to enjoy it. (And maybe even create it.)

-Also, she’s not exactly happy about the militarization of everyone and everything. It seems many realms are looking more into what could be useful for war and battles instead of helping out their own people with basic needs. Generally none of her business, but she is very quick to make it her business.

-(And she is about harmony… In that she understands the Magical Dimension has a very delicate balance of things and she’d rather not live in an apocalyptic hellscape because the balance was fucked up.)

-She and a few of her other friends are all about Yoga and Meditation, often using both methods to connect deeply to their magic and to themselves. (Which is a surprisingly helpful tool when faced against those who use illusion magic or mind-controlling/mind-messing powers.)

-Lily loves her Cloud Tower classes. Mostly. Learning is fun and knowledge is power… But there are a few classes she wishes she could be dismissed from.

-Like Physical Education. She’s not exactly a fan of it and she’s not the strongest or the fastest when she’s not using her magic. But it is what it is. (She is good with flexibility and gymnastics, thanks to yoga. But she has a bit of a coordination problem. Just a touch.)

-Obviously she loves her potions and herbology classes, but she’s also really into transfiguration magic and the beast-taming classes. (Especially the beast-taming classes. Granted, she can’t fully participate until her sophomore year, but she is looking forward to making friends with the creatures of Cloud Tower.)

-(Beast-taming and creaturology are things she and Willow could talk all-day long about. Both have such a passion for the animals in Magical Dimension. If only he didn’t still eat meat…)

-Being at Cloud Tower does have some difficulties though. She’s always worried about letting her Nana Griffin (the Headmistress) down if her grades aren’t up to par or if she’s not as fierce or loud as her classmates.

-She is a force to be reckoned with, she knows what her powers are capable of and what she can do, but she’s always preferred a more ‘behind the scenes’ sort of approach. Watching things crumble for her foes from the inside out. (Perhaps that will just have to be enough.)

-Lily’s not quite sure what she wishes to do in the future. Part of her wants to look into nature preservation like her Aunt Miele and her Grandpa (Flora’s father). And part of her wonders what new medicines she could come up with by using poisons in reverse. (It’s been done before, she knows, but she wonders just how far she can take it.)

#winx club #winx club next gen #next gen #winx club child #winx club oc #the healer in the roots #lily sylvane #winx club lily sylvane #winx club flora and oc child #winx club oc next gen #winx next gen #winx oc

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

s2ep6 gigantitan

this episode was fucking stupid and hawkmoth is an idiot.

i would leave it there but there was more i disliked about this episode.

the pacing was bad, they were talking too fast. the set-up was contrived. chat noir's cataclysm did nothing once again.

so much of the set-up was contrived, too. the weird mission to organize a date between marinette and adrien--the fact that the girls being there also meant they decided to help ladybug even tho that's extremely stupid and dangerous. alix is right that it's a little creepy marinette knows that much about adrien and his schedule. and the marinette says no to adrien giving her a ride home in the end??? like i know i don't like the love square at all and think they should've focused more on the power of love via friendship, they're the ones who want the love square to be a thing!! so why have her say no?? she doesn't even know why she said no, so why should we buy into that?? the writers are so incompetent!

but the thing i realized would've been a really cool character growth arc: is marinette realizing that ladybug isn't someone else, it's her. like obviously sometimes we feel more comfortable with things when it's anonymous or ppl won't be able to tell its us. but that's still a facet of ourselves.

marinette as marinette doesn't feel confident in herself, and is very shy. but she's still very smart, well-spoken, and outgoing. she can think on her feet in a pinch. and those are what ladybug is too! what would've been a cool arc or her was marrying the two sides of her. having her come to understand that she's the same person, even as ladybug, and applying that knowledge to her civilian side of her life.

and then something for adrien/chat noir if we're going to make him a deuxteragonist. but idk what it would be. he doesn't have an identity crisis, he just wants more freedom. that's not really a conflict of character.

also funny to me that to pad time for this one, the writers had to have ladybug come up with a convoluted plan, even tho chat noir is right from both a watsonian and doyalist viewpoint. watsonian in that her lucky charm is one of her superpowers that helps them save the day. doyalist in that there's never an episode we've seen where she doesn't use her lucky charm. it's like when you're watching a crime procedural and they catch the bad guy but there's still 30 mins left in the episode. if it looks like they're going to defeat the akuma but there's still 15 mins left and she hasn't used her lucky charm, we know she's not going to defeat the akuma.

now i know that it's supposed to parallel marinette and her friends coming up with a convoluted plan so marinette to spend some with adrien and it was supposed to be a learning experience or whatever. but if we only get one line from marinette about not making things too complicated, which again, didn't even get her anywhere, then that's just not enough. bc if you took that singular line out, it would look like the writers padding time. and again, it still felt that way to me, even with the line.

funny to me that ladybug talks about singing the akumatized baby a lullaby during her plan explanation, pretty sure she said chat noir could do it. only to tell him she didn't want to hear him sing like 5 mins later when they're actually luring the baby away.

anyway, this episode was a mess. hawkmoth should've known as soon as the baby couldn't see "miraculous" back to him to find another victim. also doesn't he have the power to take away an akuma's powers even after akumatization? why didn't he use it???

#chirp.ml #chirp.txt

[surveysand]

seventeen.

What is the most annoying noise you can think of? chewing noises.

When you dance to a song do you dance more with your head or your hands? head, i think.

Do you like the feeling of flour? no.

Do you feel the water in a pool before you get in, or do you dive right in? i always feel first.

Last time you walked around naked, or in a towel? this morning after i showered.

Have you ever switched names with a friend, and made someone believe you? no.

Have you ever touched a squirrel? no.

Do you have a fear that’s sort of uncommon? ladybugs. i'm also terrified of moths, but i think that's a little more common.

Have you ever had your hands stuck together by glue, or something else? no.

Whats better, candles or incense? candles.

How often do you make simple spelling mistakes? every now and then, but i'm pretty good at spelling and notice errors quickly.

Do you know anyone with a common sounding name but its spelled differently? yes.

Which situations are you usually in, when u tend to zone out, or space out? working on schoolwork or riding in a car.

In your school which was higher most of the time, the students or grades? the grades. we had drug problems in the school, but my school was pretty well-off despite us being a very small school that wasn't funded well.

What letter does the state you live in start with? p.

Whens the last time you’ve smelled a skunk? probably the last time i visited my hometown, so a few months ago.

How many pets have you had in your life time? six: four dogs, a cat, and a rabbit.

Which teacher was the most hated in school? my science teacher. he was so strict and also gave me major creepo vibes, lol.

Which parent do you get your eyes from? my mom.

Do you currently have some kind of alcohol in your fridge? yes, white wine, malibu, high noons, and mike's harder lemonades.

What kind of headphones do you prefer? airpods.

Whats the last thing you had to take responsibility for? not sure what this means exactly, but i guess the last responsible thing i did was transfer my utilities to my new apartment.

Do you ever untie your shoelaces, or do you just slip your foot in? untie.

Do you have anything on your fridge? magnets that are holding up photos, postcards, etc.

If you added three years to your age, how old would you be? 25.

Whats the cutest pair of pj’s you own? pajama pants with eeyore on them. they're so, so comfy and cute.

How easily do you get grossed out? not much unless it's a gross smell. i'm very prone to vomiting and strong, bad smells will push me over the edge.

Would you rather be inside, or outside? inside.

Have you ever fallen asleep on a trampoline before? no.

How often do you roll up your pantlegs when your wearing pants? never.

[declanfs]

May 21, 2023

So you’ve gotten a lot more independent and we’re doing so many fun things now that the weather is nice, so I’ve been neglecting updates. Since my last post in March:

- you like to play and lay and dig in sawdust that dada dumps over the fence

- we started giving you melatonin at bedtime and it has been a game changer. Instead of taking 90 min to fall asleep, it takes 20-30, which is a totally normal amount of time. I think that your body just has a hard time winding down and then you get overtired and its just a disaster. But melatonin is the little nudge you need to relax.

- you dug in the ashes of the fire pit and burned 6/8 of your finger tips

-you completed your second wave of survival swim and can now begrudgingly survive and swim to the edge of the pool if you somehow fall in unsupervised - highly unlikely, but better to be prepared.

- we’ve learned you like to wear noise canceling headphones for chronic loud noises (lawn mowers, power washer, etc), so that’s really cool to be aware of when you are so little. (I ordered them for a monster truck show that we ended up not going to)

- you got your second haircut

- Easter! You did so great at the egg hunt and loved your stuffed honey bee the Easter bunny left. Along with egg shaped chalk and garden tools and way too many other things because the Easter bunny spoils you even more than we do. We dyed eggs. You were a cute outfit with a bow tie.

- you’ve learned how to identify specific bugs and birds. Roly poly, ladybug, worms, snakes, beetles, slugs, snails, robin, cardinal, owl, woodpecker, goldfinch. I’m amazed by you and your vocabulary.

- riding with you in the car is actually a delight most of the time. You look out the window and make all kinds of observations. Pink house! Water tower! Excavator! BIG truck! Cement Mixer! Horses! Cows! Trees! Jeep! Van!

- You still really love to see the mail truck or delivery drivers, they are local celeb status in your world.

- we went to a tulip picking farm! You weren’t super impressed by the tulips after the first 10 minutes, but you really liked the bouncy houses and the little houses and playgrounds. We’ll definitely go back and plan better in regard to your nap.

- you ran a race at the Stafford hospital with Ryan on a weekend you spent with Granny! You ran for a part of the way at least, but you were only 1 and new to races so you did really well all things considered.

- We got a new car - a Hyundai palisade. We all love it very much.

- You love to eat coconut milk ice cream sandwiches and have started asking for them for breakfast.

- You love to go on the trails and to the parks. Our neighborhood park and the court land park. It’s tough for you to understand that we cannot go to Courtland elementary during the weekday.

- Your vocabulary has really exploded in every way, and I feel so grateful. You are so chatty and communicative about what you want and what you need. We can say “show me” and you’ll take us to what you need if you don’t know the words for it yet. You’ve said things like “a cardinal on bird feeder”

- we’ve had play dates with so many friends: Lily and Chase; Archer; Jace and Cami; Rey and Remi; Stella and Laney;

- You learned how to rock your body back and forth to get a car you’re riding in to roll down a hill

- we got you some of those bank box blocks and you love to make a big house and watch Tumble Leaf inside

- We had a whole tumble leaf themed birthday party that only one other family truly appreciated because Tumble leaf is wildly under appreciated

- we got a new trampoline with netting so that you and your friends will be safe

- we learned you share a birthday with Sir David Attenborough, which is honestly so perfect for your current demeanor and interests

- you and dada had a 3-day party together while mama went to Philadelphia to see Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour

- you’ve been to 2 more birthday parties (Remi/Rey and Jack)

- you pushed a shopping cart around Publix and it was the cutest thing ever

- You’ve helped me workout in the gym twice and it actually wasn’t as difficult for me as I expected

- you went camping and slept in a tent for the first time!

I will probably do posts about more of these things in detail, but wanted to document just in case time gets away from me again and I just do a big photo dump.

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Bio! Dad Strange Part 9

Jason returns, may be a 2 parter to cover tim getting kidnapped and the aftermath. Will let you know at the end. We are getting to Marinette dealing with Ladybugging soon.

Marinette wasnt sure what to think this year. She met The Barry Allen last year. She also figured out 2 heroes pre-flash revelation and two more after—in her defense Hero Stalker’s old theory on The first Robin did Batman in. it is not her fault 5 founding members have the multiple-persona game of a booger.

She was also Tetch (Mad Hatter. Doesnt deserve the name) and Mr. J’s, Jerimah’s, last victim before they died. Then some idiots revived Jerimah. She hates his cult a lot, okay.

Everyone was on high alert and trying to keep her inside. The thing is, she hates being inside. She’s inside for designing, sure. Research? She’ll live.

But 24/7 inside time?

Never a good combo with her.

Rose’s plants may be snitches, but they seemed to agree on the over coddling. She’s ten, can break phones by tapping them, and is defiantely more off her stickers than on at the moment.

The one on her was uring her into some alleyway. If she was reading the movement pattern right, a gang fight.

Lovely, she usually did these with some sort of supervision but they were all being rude and she needed time outside.

She checked her belt, a few pairs of ball weights tied together with one chain each to make bolas clipped to back. She has a taser in hand, and a few rubber bullet loaded gun on one hip and a stun gun her size in the other. She had a packet of zipties and rope up each sleeve. Easy to giftwrap and humiliate bad people, like Batman does.

She blinked once when she saw—new player? In a bright red full face helmet that looks horrible. And he’s holding that gun make all wrong to max out usage. Ugh, amatuers.

Some part of her groaned about a potential run-in with Batman and his new Robin—she was pissed about Tim not telling her still—and decided this was as good an anger management as any. New vigilante, maybe the sirens would help him find a team.

She snuck up behind a few members, quick to grab the guns and move them out of reach. No need to give anyone playing possum an easy out, right—she saw a mix of her people in with the gang. She needed to teip this guy up before he hurt the RKC street kids and honoraries tangled up in this.

“Hey helmet, if you’re gonna shoot them you’re holding the gun wrong.”

Helmet turned to see her. She didnt grab her usual harley-knock off outfit for helping today. She wanted to be Pixie Pop for a bit. And if the Rogues forgot that she’s Pixie well, better for her, right? Pixie just wore her hair like Tinkerbell and wore a bit of green.

The guy he was aiming at made to run.

Marinette grabbed a makeshift bolas and threw it at his knees. She recognized him from one of the RKC hit lists—human trafficker. He fell with them wrapped around tight and defiantely injured bith his knees with how the weights hit him.

“I, Pixie Pop?” Weird, no one had seen her as Pixie in two years. How’d he know it was her?

“Yeah. Havent been around much lately.” She threw another bola at another guy. “You new?”

“Talk after i kill these guys.”

Marinette rolled her eyes, because really?

She threw a knife to screw his aim into non-lethal on one guy. “Kick their ass first, some RKC are in here.”

Helmet oddly did as she said, switching from guns to—is that. A. Sword?

She twisted to punch the guy sneaking up on her. Helmet threw a sword and landed it in his shoulder.

“Thanks!”

“Holy shot you’re really here this time.”

“Did you get hit with feargas as a baby or something?” Her partner being prone to dellusions and good with weapons was a bad thing.

“Just came back from the dead is all.”

marinette hit the guy going for helmet with her stun gun.

“That’ll do it!”

Helmet turned to one of the guys, gun at the ready. She had a feeling Helmet needed a lot of help, or else one of Rose’s agents would be down.

“If you know about pixies, you should know she got an upgrade to having some trust dust.”

Marinette walked over to the guy, letting her tracker plant take a look. The flower bloomed and he got a face full of ‘filter-less pollen’ that’s as close to a truth serum as Rose could make. After all, people can turn sides.

“Truth pollen?” Helmet was staring at her closely.

“Yep.” Marinette turned to her victim. “Are you helping the traffickers?”

“Does infiltration and killing them count as helping?”

Helmet stared at them then.

“Which team?”

“HKT ma’am. How did you get rose to give you one of those?”

“Think for a minute who she gives these to.”

“Comanding officers of the the RKC reconn and interigation but there’s only 15 and i met them all when i joined in the fall.”

“Im the summer help when theyre not puppy gaurding. Now, i have to do zipties on the traffickers, think you can help?”

“I lost coordination from the pollen.”

“Of course you did.”

Marinette turned to see Helmet staring at her. Like she should be dead, not the new revival guy.

“Good enough.”

“I thought only Poison Ivy could do things like that.”

“I have a badass team, well, when they aren’t going overboard. One week kidnapped and suddenly im made of glass.”

“Pixie you are what, ten?”

“So? Two of my best friends went missing becuase no one stepped up, one of them resurfaced as an idiot a year later but still.”

Helmet stopped then. “Two?”

“Hero stalker went after our big brother vanished.. he came back as an idiot.”

Helmet paused. “Hey, you check the others and i’ll help you drop off the good ones at a doctor or something.”

“Zipties are at the ready. Mind doing your share?”

Helmet did as she asked, working with her until all was squared away.

“Okay, my tracker gave off a signal to the RKC to gather our guys here, and—why are bleeding?”

Helmet looked up at her then. “I am?”

“... you’re coming with me since i dont know if you need a transfusion, but i know a guy who can help.”

“I’m driving.”

“On what?”

“Motorcycle.”

Marinette let him walk her to it, and she got on first. He ‘drove’ them while the plant told her when to turn. They ended up at her dad’s clinic as ‘Mr. Smith’. He was so grounding her.

“Smith, i need help,” she tried.

Her dad came out and paled when he saw her carrying Helmet. Before he passed out he let her take it off. “Red hoodie... oh god he said he was revived.”

Her father worked out the blood bags while she checked the wound, bullet still in there. She got it out with tweezers. No major damage to the muscles and shit. How many scars did he have? Pre or post revival?

When he came to she turned to her father and said one thing.

“So this is my new brother. Dont try to get out of it, he kept me alive when i was comstantly pixie, and you said if he was in a bad place then you’d take him in, no questions asked.”

Strange sighed, nodded, and went back to fixing Helmet up.

The next day he was forced moved into an extra room by hers. Somehow there was already clothes his size and style in it.

“Pixie...”

“Im determined and my honorary aunt is a cat burglar.”

Helmet hugged her.

“So for the documents, what do you want to go by?”

Helmet said he didnt want it to be obvious, given who he was before.

“Its not like you were robin.”

“I was.”

“.... i know two robins now, pre-robining. What is my life?”

“ you are ten, calm down. And you knew dick?”

“Met him as Nightwing, not very friendly. But uh, remember hero stalker?”

“The idiot who followed me and B?”

“Yeah, so funny thing, it was a thing that he wanted to be Robin when you went off from Gotham, and then he somehow managed to convince bats to take him on.”

“That Child is Robin.”

“Will be another hero soon if he knows what’s good for him—he’s too easy to make.”

“Wait, you know who he is-is or—”

“I know 5 secret identities and want to lodge a formal complaint about heroes having no secret identity game.”

“Youre ten. I refuse to let you deal with legal things.”

“But illegal is still on the table?”

“I am a vigilante, of course it is.”

“Good, so can we tlak about how dumb Supes secret id is? I photoshoped glasses on as a joke and looked at my file and knew.”

“Wait have they found you yet?”

“No? I dont think so. Not the mom and step dad or father one yet.”

“But its.”

“I know, but i can keep multiple secret identities. They cant handle one. What is this bull they drop in my lap? No masks for two of them, and the three with cant even manage a basic gait switch?”

“I am so glad you noticed too.”

“Also we need to intervene with Hero Stalker.”

“Does your father know-know or...”

“Knows i know, but knows im not telling even in death.”

“Fair. So, heads up i am going to yell at the JL after killing B for impact.”

“How about beating him up instead and kidnapping Hero Stalker? Bats is fine just needs an adult working with him.”

“Maybe. If my mind wasnt so fucked i’d send the Dick a text or something about this, but i think he hates me so that probably wouldnt work.”

“We have planning time, that’s what my house arrest is good for. Now name.”

“... i want to go by Jay.”

“James work?”

“Sure.”

“James “Jay” Smith then. And we are fixing your vilagante outfit.”

“What’s wrong with it.”

“Your helmet has a nose. And the who this is shit for discreet armour. I’ll get a rant in fifteen on armor history from a fashion obsessed friend and make something for you using that, ok?”

“Do i have a choice?”

“I am your little sister offically. resistance is futile.”

—

So the long awaited return of Red Hoodie/Red Hood/Jason Todd.

For refrence (as age is weird here) Jason looks 14/15 here, but due to dead years is technically 18

Tim is 12

Marinette is 10

Dick is 20something.

Bruce is 30something

Heads up, this will be a two parter for this summer. As i love the next part but need sleep.

@ilovefluffbutsmutisalsogreat @emeraldpuffguide @dast218 @weird-pale-blonde-person @mystery-5-5

#maribat #maribat au #ml au #my au #my idea #marinette strange dupain cheng #marinette strange dupain cheng part 9 #bio! dad au #bio!dad strange #bio!dad au #this was so long guys #jason is back though #next one is chaos and tag-teaming and so much #its a ride and then we get ladybugging after

[arty-shadow-morningstar]

Graveyard Siblings (4)

I am sorry for not posting in a while. School is a total bitch. Here is part 4 of a fic that is not a fic.

[Masterlist]

(Part 1)(Part 2)(Part 3)

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Tall Marinette.(I admit I might be projecting a little here.)

One day, she took out something from someplace high and the whole family realized that ‘holy shit when did you get so tall?’

Bonus if Jason comes back from a long mission and had a wtf moment because she was wearing 6-inch-heels and met his eyes with them on.

“Pixie?!”

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You know how Bruce has the identity of Matches Malone to infiltrate the Gotham Underground.

While Jason does the drug deals more street crime stuff, Maria uses an excuse of being the representative for Red Hood excuse to mingle with the rich people who does crime on the side (Penguin), she uses it to go to black market auctions and buy some of the lost miraculouses which got into the hands of black market dealers.

Jason knows about it and acts as her ‘bodyguard’ anytime he can or sends one of his henchmen to be one with a death threat if she gets a single scratch on her.

Bruce is unaware of this. Or is he?

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Mari helps with running WE since she is a little less busy with the vigilante side of things.

It started with Tim panicking about deadlines and Mari offering to help, to Bruce and Tim bullying the board to have her as co-CEO.

She has to be that and head of Afterlife. So she is very busy. Doesn’t know about what comes next….

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Somehow the class comes to Gotham for a trip. It has been 3 years since her death.

Mari has changed her appearance since the day she left Paris. She has highlights in her hair after a ‘sibling bonding day’ with Jason. Her hair is kept short for convenience and not in pigtails. Along with her tall height and more confident aura, she is almost unrecognizable.

She rides a motorcycle too.

The class waits in the lobby for the tour and in walks this badass woman with aviator sunglasses, leather jacket and designer clothes which was all MT brand, making a lot of people swoon.

She takes off her glasses and walks past the class. Checking stuff on her phone and sipping coffee in her other hand.

She seems familiar but they couldn’t figure out why. (All except Chloe, Alix and Felix who are snickering in the background.)

Lila sees her and comments on how she must be a criminal with the way she dresses. (Lila internally freaks out because were her eyes messing with her? Because she looked a little like Marinette. Also jealous of the new arrival for stealing all the attention.) Alya takes the bait and calls security to ‘arrest’ her.

They just laugh. The class doesn’t understand, speaking in confused French.

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“I am Maria Todd-Wayne, also known as designer MT. CEO of Afterlife and co-CEO of the very company you are in. I am allowed in here. Don’t judge a book by its cover.” she said in perfect French.

“But Lila told us you can’t speak French.”

“Who?”

“Lila Rossi, your friend. She told us that you and MT were dating.”

“Me dating myself. Okay I love myself because self-love is a thing but that is a whole other level. MT are my initials. Anyone who has a brain could have figured that out or at the very least do a Google search. I am not sure where your friend got that notion.”

“Hey, Bean, come on. We have a long day ahead of us.” Tim reminded her.

“Goodbye but cease the rumours or you would be escorted off the premises.”

As they rode up the elevator, “Tim, why are they here?”

“They are the lucky winners of the Wayne Enterprise Young Prodigies Contest. Why, Maria?”

“Lucky, huh.” She muttered under her breath. She might as well tell him. They are the Bats and they will find out anyway. “They are from my old class, the one you know…”

“Oh. Want me to send them back? I can do that if they are making you uncomfortable.”

“Nah. Too much to deal with. And it is unfair to send them back over a petty grudge. Besides, I could have some fun.”

“Anything that Bruce and I should be worried about?”

“I swear no killing. Just because Jason came back from the dead, hell-bent on killing. Doesn’t mean I am too.”

“Cool, just don’t do any property damage or traumatize our employees.”

“I might need you to erase some footage later and tell Bruce about this.”

“Some brownies, my favourite coffee cake, the ‘special’ brew and you have yourself a deal.”

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So basically she just showed up around where the class was ‘by coincidence’.

Talk to a few people and take them out of earshot of the rest of the class.

End the conversation by saying a few things only they and her would know. Insides jokes and secrets. (I pick her old childhood friends like, Nino, Kim and maybe Sabrina)

Uses Trixx to turn into a walking dead version of her 15-year old self and disappears as they freak out about how she knew that secret/story.

Freaks them out further by appearing again in front of the whole class and pretending not to know their previous conversation.

Mari manages to get Lila alone.

I should also say that Lila thought that her curse was making her see MT as Marinette.

It terrifies Lila when she finds out that MT is actually Marinette, not dead but alive after all this time and apparently living the high life she wanted. This fact made the Italian swell up with jealousy.

“I hope you are not lying about me again, Lila Rossi. Like you always do.”

“What do you want with me? I swear I didn’t say anything else about you.”

“Aw, Lila. Don’t recognize me?”

Maria flickers and Ladybug is in her place and later, the Marinette that appeared in her bedroom and back to normal.

“You! How? Why are you here? Why can’t you leave me alone?”

“Why not? I mean you did take away nearly all my friends, my parents and made my life a living hell. If you think about it, I am just repaying you the same favor. How are the others? Treating you well?”

“What did you do to me, you bitch?”

“I just put a curse on you. The ghosts of your past will haunt you until you stop.”

“Stop what?”

“Stop Lying, Liar. They all feed and grow in power from your lies. I wonder what would happen in a few years if you kept this up.”

“You think you can get away with this. This is war and I have already beaten you once.”

“Oh Rossi. This isn’t a war. It’s a death sentence.” With that she disappears.

Lila tries to tell her class that MT is actually Marinette. She is met with crazy looks. Some of them look like they want to believe her but don't because they don’t want to look crazy too.

Oh. Adrien wasn’t on the trip because his mother didn’t want him to go to the crime capital of America although the crime rate has gone down a little due to Hellbat curing some of the city’s bad energy..

Right after Lila told the class about MT, Scarecrow came to steal some Wayne tech and the class got caught in the crossfire. So later, it was brushed off as Lila seeing things due to the fear toxins.

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Joker made the mistake of kidnapping her. Once was enough to never try that again.

(It involved the use of nearly all of the Miraculouses, old and new. He was thoroughly humiliated at the end of it and his picture by the time Hellbat was done with him was on the Batfam’s Christmas Card. Like I said she doesn’t kill but making them beg for death was okay.)

It coincided with Jason’s Birthday and the video of the incident was ‘the best birthday present ever.’ The uncensored version was watched at the next undead siblings bonding day. Damian included.

After hearing a few rumours about what happened, most criminals were glad for Hellbat’s rare appearances. (which happens once a month and during really busy time of the year)

There was a time where Penguin was carrying out one of their plans and when Hellbat showed up, all of their thugs surrendered instantly. (No Batman did not pout at the fact that this French girl was more imitating than him.)

Scarecrow used his newest batch of fear toxin on her during the first year after she died.

He was astounded to see her still standing and she later proceeded to beat the crap out of him while being under the toxin’s influences.

He has tried to stay out of her way since then.

She saw Scarecrow as Hawkmoth and said a lot of things in French which scared everyone because she said it with so much hate, anger and in a very menacing tone that everyone is like ‘I am not touching this.’

It took Red Hood and Nightwing to restrain her from further beating Scarecrow up.

He was one of the people who sympathised with the Joker after the Incident.

The next was Riddler being so arrogant in his plans and managed to get Hellbat and Spoiler into a death trap.

“You know I have a few regrets in life. And my final one is that I got captured and am now going to get killed by a walking fashion disaster.”

“Hey! I made this myself. I will have, you know.”

“You have a brilliant mind but no sense of fashion at all. When I get out of here, I am going to burn that thing with you in it, for your crimes against fashion.”

“What is wrong with it?”

Cue a lot of roasting of Riddler’s costume and Spoiler adding more fuel to the fire.

They manage to escape while Riddler is crying on the floor, having an existential crisis.

The thing was no one knows why Riddler was silent the entire week after encountering Hellbat and crying when anyone mentions it.

They now think Hellbat is the scariest one in the Batfamily, second to Batman and tied with Black Bat/Orphan.

The few who find out what really happened in the warehouse that night. Blackmail material on the Riddler.

Three ( four if you count Penguin) of Gotham’s biggest villains of the Rogues Gallery scared of Bats’ newest addition. Hellbat was not someone they wanted to mess with.

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Magic crisis stuff. Like a world ending event thing. Dr. Fate says they need the Miraculous jewels but the last mention of them had been in Paris a few years ago and had vanished since then.

Costantine looked at Batman. “You know who you have to call.”

Batman calls Hellbat. Who hasn’t been introduced yet to the JL.

“Ah. Bats. Not that I question your authority or anything but how can your newest ‘ward’ help us?”

She takes off her helmet and reveals her face and more importantly, her earrings.

Tikki comes out of her hiding place.

“I am the current Guardian of the Miracle Box and wielder of the Ladybug miraculous during Hawkmoth’s reign in Paris a few years ago. Any other Questions?”

“Oh great Guardian. Tikki. It is an honour to meet you.”-Wonder Woman, who else.

“You too, Princess Diana. Pass on my regards to your mother.”-Tikki

A huge face-off and the big evil is defeated.

WW asks abt HM and gives a horrified face at the end of her story. Nearly everyone who eavesdropped on the conversation was.

"Forgive me, Guardian for not aiding you in your hour of need.”

“It’s okay. I understand that there are other crises, world-ending ones that JL have to take care of. I am better now. Mostly.”

“I doubt it with those revenge schemes I found lying around. But she is getting there with her therapist.”-Batman

“I hate you, Dad.”

“Did you just call him Dad?”

“No….”

“Do you see me as a father figure?”

“I see you as a nuisance with how nosy you are with my personal business. So you are more of a bother figure.”

“I see you as part of the family too, Daughter.” (Got that reference anyone?)

“Jason was the one who adopted me.”

“Legally you are adopted by me.”

Maria with Pikachu surprised face because nobody told her that. “My life is a lie.”

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(Part 5)

#graveyard sibling #platonic jasonette #maribat #mlb x dc #platonic daminette #platonic timinette #some class salt #lila salt #lila bashing #joker doesn't look good here either #platonic! jasonette #siblings jasonette #platonic timminette #marinette and stephanie teaming up to rip into Riddler's costume

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ML Fic Recs - Angst

I’m back with another Miraculous Ladybug rec list! As before, I’m trying to rec fics that readers are less likely to have read, generally trying to keep to under 500 kudos on AO3. You can find my other rec lists on my blog under #jennarecsml

If you enjoy these, please reblog so more readers can find these awesome fics!

I’m a sucker for fics that hurt me. The sting of rejection, the pangs of unrequited love, the hurt and the suffering yesssss, give it all to me!! Read these fics and come suffer with me! (Most have happy or at least bittersweet endings.)

Persuasion by InkyCoffee

Of course, she probably wasn’t going to be there in person. And if she was, she may not even remember him. And if she did, she would probably throw him out without an interview.

She would be well within her rights.

He didn’t deserve to be in her presence.

Still, he hoped.

She was why he was back here, after all.

One-shot. Adrienette. Post-relationship (i.e. they were together but they’re not anymore.) and post-Hawkmoth defeat. Adrien knows. And worse than that, he knows he’s responsible for breaking her heart. My hearttttttt, it breaks. The tension between them just hurts in the best way. But this is seriously beautiful.

Alone by plikki

Adrien thought he knew what it meant to be alone, but he had never felt like that before in his life.

One-shot. Set after S4 Gang of Secrets, this fic just HURTS because Adrien is hurting and it’s even worse because we know that something like this is probably coming. Plikki’s Adrien characterization is perfect. There’s no comfort to be found here, but you should still read it.

our hands would not be taught to hold another's by @ladyofthenoodle

Adrien knew that wasn’t fair to blame Ladybug for this. There were rules, and now that Master Fu was gone, it was her job as the Guardian to enforce them. There were rules, and he knew the rules, and he broke them. He hadn’t meant to, but he did.

That didn’t make losing the ring hurt any less.

Plagg shot Ladybug a skeptical look. “And you really think you can do this without him?”

Ladybug bit her lip. “I… I don’t know. But I have to. It’s my job, I shouldn’t need… I should be able to do it with anyone."

But… maybe there couldn’t be Ladybug without Chat Noir. Ladybug by itself didn’t sound nearly as cool.

Multi-chapter. I put off reading this fic for the longest time because I didn’t know if I could handle the angst of Ladybug taking the ring from Adrien, and I really regret that because it’s SO FREAKING AMAZING. Missnoodles does a fantastic job of exploring their relationship and their characters and really does the work of exploring all the feelings. I really can’t sell this one enough.

Anhedonia/When Adrien Met Marinette... by @mikauzoran

Chat Noir hadn’t been lying when he told Ladybug he’d moved on. It was only when he found out that Ladybug was Marinette that he realized he was wrong. Meanwhile, Marinette thinks that she’s missed her chance when Adrien insists that he’s gotten over his feelings. Now, they’re roommates and making themselves miserable as they pine for one another, thinking the situation’s hopeless. Things finally come to a head, and they’re forced to sit down and have an honest conversation about their feelings.

One-shot. Adrien is pining and feeling unlovable, and wow, do you ever feel all of his pain and anxiety seeping out of every word. This is just so heartbreakingly beautiful with a happy ending.

when you weren't mine to lose by @bugsandchatons

Change is a scary thing, especially when it feels like nothing has stayed the same.

It's been a year since Marinette became the Guardian of the Miracle Box - a year of struggling beneath a burden she never asked for, a weight that has her leaning on her partner more and more as the hours fly by, of letting him come to her, too, when he needs a soft place to land. A year of falling for the boy who takes on the world by her side with a smile made of sunlight, and fighting the growing urge to tell him what he means to her.

After all, they'll have time enough for that when Paris is safe.

But when the unthinkable happens, Marinette learns the tragedy of loving someone quietly, and the lines she'll cross to save him.

Multi-chapter. This is what happens when Ladybug loses Chat Noir. It hurts in all the best ways and the writing is absolutely gorgeous and somehow we still get a happy ending!

Echoes of You by @kittinoir

In the day time, she's Marinette - a normal girl, with a normal life. A normal girl, with a normal life. A normal girl, with...

Multi-chapter. You know the angst train everyone’s been riding since we learned in Miracle Queen that renouncing the miracle box costs the guardian their memories? Kittinoir murders us with it. Marinette’s got giant gaps in her memory she’s struggling to understand while Adrien is desperately trying to figure out just what the hell happened to his lady. Lots of angst and a mystery and this fic is one hell of a ride from start to finish! (There’s also a sequel that’s a WIP but I haven’t started reading it yet.)

balancing act by @fictionalinfinity

“Besides, being Ladybug always came first. It came before school, friends, and sometimes even family. Now it had to come before her health. Marinette had a duty to Paris. She wouldn’t let them down.”

Or, being both Ladybug and the Guardian starts to take its toll on Marinette.

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the epilepsy au literally no one asked for

Multi-chapter. Oooh boy. Fictionalinfinity does an amazing job of weaving these new symptoms into the existing canon in a way that feels completely organic and believable. The characterizations are AMAZING, and the conflict is just so completely believable and absolutely heart-wrenching.

I swear I’ll let you go in the morning by plikki

When you lose all certainty in your life, you hold onto the only person that keeps you from falling apart.

One-shot. Hawk Moth’s identity is revealed and as a result, Ladybug and Chat Noir share their identities with each other. Not nearly as angsty as some of the other fics on this list, but have some sweet hurt/comfort after all of that.

When Push Comes to Shove by @thatanonwiththeoc​

Adrien had lost everything after he ran away from her in that sewer. His miraculous, his kwami, his Lady.

However, little did he know that she caught a glance of him without him knowing it, and she wasn't about to let him leave just yet.

One-shot. Set after the NY Special. Once Marinette realizes who ran away from him, it changes everything and the way they interact is just sad and sweet and lovely. The happy ending makes up for all the hurt!

Cut here because of spoilers for season 4 below

Behind the Masks by @mikauzoran

Ladybug’s announcement that she revealed her identity to someone and her insistence that she and Chat Noir still have to keep their identities secret from each other leave Chat Noir in fear of akumatization. When he goes to Marinette for help, she realizes just how badly she’s screwed up and becomes determined to make things right between her and her partner.

One-shot. Set after S4 Gang of Secrets, this was exactly the kind of angst-fest I wanted. Adrien has a lot of buried issues and we’re seeing that explored more in season 4. But Adrien doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge any of that. But here he does and it’s beautiful and the ending asdfghjkl please read!!!

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[fanficmaniatic]

The "Anti-Chat" Theory.

(Which is also why Chat Blanc 2.0 wont work and why Ladybug needs to be akumatized).

This is a turducken on my thoughts for S4 and the future of the show so just roll with it.

So, Season 4 has been wild so far, and if clues given by the writers and people involved in show are any indication, this is only the beginning, we are in for a bumpy ride and things are just going to keep getting worse.

In all the discourse revolving season 4 something that we are all mentioning is how “Chat Blanc” is still a thing and there is no guarantee it won’t happen again. If anything it now seems more likely Chat Noir will get akumatized considering the imminent Ladynoir fallout, and how Adrien is still living with his Father, as his isolation keeps getting worse. And though I am always In for some good Character angst, and I feel like it is necessary for Adrien to know about Chat Blanc, and/or for Chat Blanc to reappear, I don’t think Chat Blanc 2.0 is something Adrien nor the show needs right know.

This theory has many parts, I promise it all ties neatly at the end.

First things first, I may be a little biased, Chat Blanc is an episode I really enjoy. I love Time Travel shenanigans, and I was dying to see Adrien finally find out about his father. The heavy consequences of the episode were obviously erased, but the impact of it all still remains trough Marinette, whom we see in the episode ‘Sentibbubler’ is having nightmares about the whole thing. But still, I love the episode, and I really don’t want an “Stormy Weather 2”… which is an episode I heavily dislike, compared to THE BEST formulaic episode of the Whole show, a.k.a “Stormy Weather” a.k.a My favorite episode. So yeah, this whole first point is just me REALLY not wanting an episode called “Chat Blanc 2.0” But there is more to it, and is the fact that I don’t see how it could work out.

“Chat Blanc 2.0” is unnecessary, and the reason why is that bringing him back wouldn’t actually do anything besides perhaps bringing Ladynoir further apart. Ladybug still CAN’T know Chat noir’s identity, (Let’s be honest and admit that’s prolly s4 finale OR happening during s5) so the show would go out of its way to make his dialogue as plain as possible without mentioning his father being hawkmoth. And yes, I do realize that Chat has been bottling his emotions and it all is likely to come out during THE ladynoir fall out… But people are ignoring the elephant in the room which is that Chat Noir DOES NOT fight Ladybug.

I promise this is relevant.

Chat Noir, unless mind controlled, would never attack Ladybug. The most clear example of this is in “Gamer 2.0” when he straight up says “I could never bring myself to fight you” as he sacrifices himself for her, that added to their classic “Is us against the world, My Lady” every season finale, and Marinette’s “In case something happens to me” In ‘Optygami’, it all could pretty well be a foreshadowing of a Ladynoir fight, where Ladybug is akumatized, and Chat has to willingly fight her. Yes, one could argue that he did fight her during ‘Chat Blanc’, but it could also be read as more of him trying to make her listen.

Where am I going with this? Chat Blanc 2.0 would be unable to bring the nuance the story needs right now. Chat Blanc still wouldn’t fight his father, because I doubt they won’t leave that for season 5. Chat Blanc still doesn’t have a motive to actually fight Ladybug. But the most important part is… What would happen at the end? What would be the change? What conversation are we having? What would be different than what we got in the original Chat Blanc?

To be fair, maybe I am wrong, maybe it can work out, this is just a theory. Maybe all the things I crossed out as impossible will actually happen, but I have been watching the show for 6 years, and If I have learned something about it, is that it is a slow burn, in ALL the aspects.

So yes, I believe Ladybug/Marinette needs to be akumatized, but I also think that Adrien has to learn about Chat Blanc, and that Chat Blanc needs to reappear, having a bigger Role than just a nightmare. So… how does that tie with everything I just said? Easy, the “Anti- Chat” Theory’

So you probably remember “Anti-Bug”, one of the best episodes from season 1, where Chole tries to help Ladybug, she doesn’t listen, and Chloe ends up being akumatized into “Ladybug but evil” … In theory, that is the deal, and is no wonder I am picking Felix Graham De Vanily to fill this role.

From an animation perspective, Felix is the obvious choice, he is identical to Adrien, and if following Anti-bug’s logic in costume desing, that would mean they can reuse Chat Blanc model with no alteration needed.

Now, How would this work? By giving Ladybug a jump scare. She thinks she has to live one of her worst nightmares again, to then find out “Oh… This is not Chat Noir” while still creating enough tension, by looking scared and distraught, that she HAS to tell him that she is scared of him being akumatized WITHOUT actually needing to mention the alternative timeline. This gives Chat noir the chance to lash out, once he realizes this is part of why ladybug is keeping him away, which can lead to Ladybug’s future akumatization.

Why this way? And please hear me out. Chat Noir NEEDS to let his emotions out, and I don’t think lashing out at ladybug is the best way but I see it as necessary. Adrien needs to take on more responsibility while being Chat, but he also needs to learn how to healthy express his emotions, because he is not allowed to do that in his current situation. Ladybug being akumatized because she feels guilty about Chat Noir allows Adrien to do BOTH. Because to save Ladybug he would have to realize “My emotions are valid, and is okey to let them out, but the way I did it was not the right one”, and both Ladybug and Chat Noir would have to apologize because this whole thing is not miscommunication… is a misunderstanding of their partners character. Ladybug needs to relay more on Chat and Chat needs to take on more responsibility… it won’t happen if Ladybug is the one that needs to save Chat Noir.

Adrien needs to realize that he needs to save himself, and that there’s people outside of his father that care for him. Ladybug is this figure that he looks up to and Admires, and is from a side of his life that his father has no control over, (At least from his perspective). So if she forgives him, if they are able to fix their relationship he will realize that things can get better.

Now, going back to Anti-Chat… his deal is way bigger than just bringing The Ladynoir fight… Is about setting up seasons 6 and 7.

What do we know so far? The Love Square and Gabriel’s Hawkmoth is going to come to an end by season 5. Which has left many fans wondering “Then what is happening on seasons 6 and 7?” And the best answer we have so far is in the episode “Timetagger” where Bunnix reveals that there is a whole team of miraculous holders fighting the Hawkmoth of the future, which is by the same episode confirmed to not be Gabriel Agreste. Besides this, I think it is safe to assume that the specials are quietly setting up themes that could come back In seasons 6 and 7.

Now, when speaking about characters that could be future villains the fandom seems to have its collective mind set on two individuals: Lila Rossi, and Felix Graham De Vanily.

Besides ‘Rocketear’, (E17), ‘Wishmaker’ (E18), and the special ’Shadow Moth’s last attack’ (Eps 25&26) we don’t know the names of the episodes of the second half of the season, which is really uncommon for miraculous ladybug, and the reason they gave us as to why is “You would know who is akumatized based on the names”… Which AGAIN, is really uncommon for ML. If you have been in this fandom for a long time you’ll realize that most people working in the show don’t really seem to care about spoilers. Now, this is kinda a conspiracy theory, but If you saw that there was an episode called “Anti-Chat” would you have assume it was any one other than Felix?…. No, right? That’s what I though. Miraculous has proven that it is good at subverting expectations, so when they are pointing at something (like a Chat Blanc 2.0 episode) it may not be as we want or suspected it to be. So I think an Anti-Chat episode makes a lot of sense.

Now, Why am I saying that this can set up future season? Buckle up, pals, here we go. What do we know about Felix?

He is evil, or at the very least seems to be ill-intentioned, if his attitude and look at the end of his episode is anything to go by.

He is after jewelry. Which, yeah, was only shown in that one episode he appeared, but this could pretty much be a foreshadowing of him later on going after the miraculous.

We know that he is bound to appear 3 more times

For this theory to work, I need it to happen in episode 22… Yes, the feared 100th episode of the show. It is not as important why Felix is akumatized, but what is happening WHILE he is akumatized.

Besides what has already been discussed, with Ladybug being scared, Ladynoir should not be able to work together. They are tumbling on each other because Chat Noir feels like she doesn’t trust him, but Ladybug NEEDS his reassurance right now, which he wont give.

This, is directly parallel with what is happening between Anti-Chat and Shadow Moth. Because Felix, even though he wants the miraculous, he won’t let himself be bossed around. He is demanding things from SM, and like in Robustus, Anti-Chat tries to, not just take Ladybug’s and Chat noir’s Miraculous, he wants to destroy Hawkmoth too. Which will lead to Shadow Moth being the reason he gets de-akumatized, instead Ladybug and Chat Noir saving him... bringing more fuel to the Ladynoir fire.

Now, Why should Felix have an attitude with Shadow Moth? Well, my friends… Do you remember, years ago, when the producers of the show said “The peacock miraculous holder will make Hawkmoth look like a baby”…. That’s not Mayura. Nathalie is a great miraculous holder, and she is really clever. But instead of making Gabriel look like a baby, she makes him look smart because he has someone like her on his team. What I am saying with this is that Felix, will suspect/ figure out Gabriel is Hawkmoth at the en of Anti-Chat, and that he will get the peacock miraculous during “The Last attack of Shadow Moth.” Thus, setting up a villain for future seasons.

This makes Felix 3 appearances be: In episode 22 (Anti-Chat), In episode 26 (SM last attack, part 2), and during S5’s finale. Felix situation will be much like Lila’s during s1 and s2 where she was introduced at the end of the first but not used until the end of the second.

Conclusion:

Felix Graham de Vanily has the potential to be a future villain and bring the Ladynoir conflict to finally surface.

And to clarify, The Ladynoir conflict, just like this Felix theory, is not something that will, nor can get resolved in one episode. If anything the fight will be around the end of season 4, and it will get resolved during season 5.

But again, this is just a theory, and I will probably be death wrong, but who knows?

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[araminakilla]

Analysing the recent Tad 3 trailer in less words than I usually do (or at least I tried)

The setting for Tad and Mummy's reunion looks like a horror movie at first, then turns to comedy. Also rude Tad, you don't interrupt someone else's bath.

I don't know if they are in Tad's home or in another place because the room looks different and for the luchador mask, either they are in Mexico or Mummy used it to "disguise" himself to enter the apartment.

As always Mummy is eager and happy to see his buddy. Tad... not so much.

One sequence of Tad in a dark place, then we have Mummy wieldering a red lightsaber like a boss, maybe he knows how to use a sword too. Hope we get more clips of Mummy looking serious and awesome. Is just me or maybe this is foreshadowing a future "Darth Vader in the hall corridor" scene from Rogue One in the climax against his enemies? Hope that's the case.

Also Mummy is covering his mouth with one hand and I could think of many possibilities:

1. He only does it because of dramatics for the "Dark Side" stuff.

2. Same as the 1 but it ends in the revelation that his teeth are now pointy.

3. He intentionaly covers his mouth until Tad finds out what happened.

4. This scene happens after they meet the mummy girl and he's trying to protect his friends (with little to no sucess)

Sara kissing Tad. Jeff and Belzoni being in the same camp as them, perhaps this is their reunion before meeting with Mummy again.

Then we have this woman who I don't really know who she is. She can be the new villain "Karen" or just a woman who works at the mexican museum (it looks like a museum) OR Karen pretending to be someone from the museum.

Mummy playing with some rubber chickens. He's at Tad's apartment so I'm confused as if their reunion happens in Chicago or in Mexico.

Tad facepalming in Egypt (probably directed at Mummy, maybe relating to the egyptian mummy) or maybe he messed up big time and he's realizing his mistake.

Tad playing Indiana Jones and doing adventure stuff with the sarcophagus. Also it's strange that many synopsis say that he broke the coffin but it seems that he opened it just fine (disrespectfuly but still intact) also something very curious is that this is a woman's sarcophagus but it has the face of a man. Could it be her father? her husband? Or maybe she did a Hatshepsut, as that queen declared herself pharaoh, ruling as a man would for over 20 years and portraying herself in statues and paintings with a male body and false beard.

Which now that I think of that, it would contrast well with Mummy dressing up as a female sometimes. Maybe they could bond over how their respective societies made them follow the rules of their respective gender while they were more than that in life and death. That would be a neat thing to see, one can dream.

Then we have the jeep that appeared in a concept art, making its way through Egypt in the night, while the landscape looks mysterious and empty. We have Paris that also looks nice, maybe better than a certain popular anime series. Miraculous Ladybug x Tadeo Jones crossover when?

The sequence of action with Tad, Jeff and the mummies looks like a fun ride (well... not for them) and it concludes breaking a wall and falling into la Seine(?) in Paris. Hope queeny isn't mad about getting water in her bandages and dress.

Speaking of queeny, we finally hear her voice and she sounds... cute. And young, she probably died young in her early 20s (poor woman). She's dramatic, which would make sense if she was a high priest in life. Truly, I can't wait to see how those two mummies will interact. We saw Mummy interact a lot with Tad, a little with Sara, so it would be nice if he interacts with someone who may have a similar background as him (dramatic mummy coming from royalty from a culture that is long gone) and I wouldn't mind if they have a thing going on BUT not the romance disaster that happened in movie 2. Just... no. Friends or friendly rivals is fine, thank you very much.

She says "Ra, Amon" and another name I can't understand but that maybe begins with "A" so then it leads to Mummy believing she introduced herself as "Ramona", which makes me wonder... does he know about Egyptian culture? He didn't know the gods' names unless it's only for the "Ramona" joke.

Speaking of that name, I'm tired to write "Egyptian mummy/girl/woman" all the time in posts so until we get her real name I'm calling her "Ramona". Sorry girl, that's your name from now on, with ONE nameless mummy is enough.

I'm still surprised some (or all) people didn't caught the final joke as there are many saying that Ramona is the former wife, girlfriend or friend of Mummy, or her ex. Then there are those who don't understand how an Incan mummy happens to know an egyptian one given the time periods. It's a fun thing to read.

Youtuber/comment: Is she the Mummy's (ex)girlfriend?

Ramona & Mummy: NO!

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