#marinette x duke

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Bathroom Matchmaking

Meet Cute Monday 36

36 as I missed a number due to a typo (facepalm! Oh well, maybe not as far into 52 as I thought but hay ho, I’ll get there helps when I keep finding WIPs I’d forgotten I started). This one is definitely not based on a smidgin of reality whatsoever, not a pinch of truth in this at all.

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Duke stood awkwardly outside the bathrooms waiting for Mar’i to finish up washing her hands so they could go back to the table and the rest of the family. He was starting to regret eating quickly as he nervously shifted his weight hoping his niece would speed up so he wouldn’t look like a creeper lurking outside the woman’s bathroom. Duke groaned as he heard the little girls voice raise in excited chatter wondering what on earth she could be doing in there and why Dick hadn’t taught Mar’i about stranger danger.

After what felt like forever, his delightfully frustrating but cute niece burst through the doors and beamed innocently up at him with her toothy grin.

“You sorted now, little Nightlight? Clean hands sorted to go get grubby again?”

“Uncle DuuuuuuukE!”

Duke chuckled at her elongated whine and went to ruffle her already messy hair before turning to hold her hand and lead the way back to the table where the questionable sanity of the rest of the Waynes sat.

“No! Wait!! Uncle Duke!! The toilets are really really pretty here. Do you think we could Grampa to decorate my bathroom like this.”

Before Duke could do anything his little niece with her stupidly strong strength pulled him and opened the bathroom door and to practically drag him into the ‘forbidden room’. His eyes opened wide in panic before he squeezed them tight as his ears were filled with a loud startled shriek.

“I’m sorry, so so sorry Miss! Mar’i sweetheart, you can’t just drag me in bathrooms. Especially ladies' ones. Which is occupied. I’m sorry miss! I promise I’m not a creep!!”

Duke tried to ease his hand out of Mar’i’s in hope that she would let him escape the embarrassment that was occurring. His ears were burning with the awkwardness that was being inflicted onto him.

“But Uncle Duke you’ve not seen how pretty the walls are.”

“Nope! Nuh-uh Mari! You’ll have to show Aunt Cass or Auntie Steph instead!”

The little girl reluctantly let him go as Duke darted out the bathroom at haste.

Marinette had just left Uncle Jagged at the table to go freshen up between courses. This was their last evening in Jagged’s home city, and he wanted to show it off to her. She was smiling to herself as she exited the bathroom stall as small child probably 8 or 9 came into the bathroom and started chatting merrily to her.

“You have blue hair too! Coooool!”

“Hmm sort of, it’s really black but the lights make it seem blue. Your hair is very pretty and cool, the light makes it shimmer a beautiful blue especially at the ends.”

“My mummy has even longer hair.”

“Does she now?”

“Yup! One day mines going to be as long as... as... Rapunzel's. And I’m going to have lots of flowers in it too and maybe let it float. Can yours float?”

“... not that I’m aware of. If it gets static, some of it can float then.”

“But not all of it? On its own?”

Her cheerful demeanour reminded Marinette of what Manon was like all those years ago. Marinette was focussed so much on the child she didn’t notice that she managed to drench her top with the water she was washing her hands with until it was too late.

Marinette paused to look around the luxurious bathroom and saw it was just her and the little girl. If she waited for the girl to leave, she’d be able to dry her top, so it’d look like the disaster never occurred. Slowing her hand washing down Marinette waited while the child told Marinette about her being at the restaurant with her uncle’s, aunt’s and grandad and took to drying her hands. Marinette chatted calmly along showing interest in her chitter despite wishing the girl would hurry up.

Finally, the girl finished and waved at Marinette and exited the bathroom, Marinette whipped her top off quickly and held in under the hand dryer, praying that it would be gentle enough on the material or at least dry the top off enough that the water mark was less noticeable.

She focused on the top that initially Marinette didn’t notice that the door opened until she heard the familiar little voice talking to someone else. Glancing up she saw a man and shrieked in surprise, moving her top to try cover herself up. Her cheeks burned with the thought she has indecently exposed herself to the pair. Drying the top was a bad idea.

The man instantly squeezed his eyes shut and seemed to be pulling himself backwards trying to escape the girls grasp.

“I’m sorry, so so sorry Miss! Mar’i sweetheart, you can’t just drag me in bathrooms. Especially ladies' ones. Which is occupied. I’m sorry miss! I promise I’m not a creep!!”

“But Uncle Duke you’ve not seen how pretty the walls are.”

“Nope! Nuh-uh Mari! You’ll have to show Aunt Cass or Auntie Steph instead!”

As soon as the door shut behind him Marinette shoved her top on and tried to take some deep cooling breaths to repel some of the heat that graced her cheeks. She really wasn’t expecting that to occur.

“You have a pretty tattoo Miss. My Uncle Roy has lots of them, but they aren’t like that.”

“Thank you. They represent a huge part of my life, but errr... are you ok? Did you need to escape that man?”

“Oh no! He really is my Uncle Duke. I wanted to show him the bathroom as it’s really pretty. I like the flowers and birds on the wall. The mirrors are nice too. I want to get my Grampa to decorate the one at home like this, but I needed to show someone what I want.”

Marinette sent a strained smile to her, feeling awkward at being exposed, unintentionally, but still slightly uncomfortable with everything that had just happened.

“That’s... nice. Well, I hope you get to show maybe one of your aunt’s next time like your uncle suggested. Bye!”

Marinette darted out the room leaving the girl only to bump into a wall of muscle which had arms that wrapped around her to keep her up right. Slowly stepping back ensuring she didn’t fall backwards, she looked up into the amber eyes of Duke(?), if she heard correctly, whose ears were turning as pink as her cheeks by the moment.

Duke looked down in at the woman in his arms who’d expectedly crashed into him as a blush grew on his face.

“I... errr... Sorry about earlier. I wasn’t expecting Mar’i to drag me into the bathroom.”

“It’s ok. I should have thought about someone walking in and not be as silly to ummm, put myself on display.”

“You weren’t on display, as soon as I realised it wasn’t empty, I closed my eyes. I saw nothing. I swear.”

The woman sent him a small smile. She seemed sweet and just as uncomfortable as he was by the whole thing. His eyes followed her hand as it tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear she peered up into his eyes. Duke tried to explain why he was still lurking in the hall feeling more embarrassed by the moment.

“I... err... I guarded the door as well. I didn’t want you to have to go through that all gain.”

“Thank you, that’s... really sweet of you. It was my own fault... but thank you for being so chivalrous in protecting what’s left of my dignity further.”

“No sweat, Ms...”

“Marinette, but my friends call me Mari.”

“WE HAVE THE SAME NAMES!!! UNCLE DUKE!!! WE HAVE TO TAKE HER BACK TO GRAMPA SO HE CAN MAKE HER MY TWIN!!!”

Both Duke and Marinette winced at the volume of Mar’i announcing her arrival, jumping apart further. Marinette stood floundering as to what to do, Duke crounched to try and hush Mar'i.

“Mar’i no! We’re not pulling a Bruce. She isn’t up for adoption and can’t be stolen.”

“Why not?”

“It doesn’t work that way.”

“It does for Grampa though.”

“...Errr... She has parents?”

“What about Steph and Cass? Uncle Tim and Uncle Jay had them too.”

Duke looked up at Marinette and mouthed ‘sorry’ to her and nodded for her to escape. She really didn’t need to be dragged into Wayne brand of chaos. He really needed to talk to Dick about Mar’i’s unique views of talking to strangers and claiming family... Bruce was a no go, he started this whole mess.

Marinette nodded with an amused look on her face.

“Thank you for the offer, Mar’i but I’m here with my own uncle and he’d be very upset if I didn’t get back to him. It would make him sad, like your family would be if you were suddenly taken away.”

“Oh... I hadn’t thought of that.”

Duke sighed in relief and awe at how the situation seemed to defuse so quickly with how Marinette kindly refused (sensibly) Mar’i’s ‘offer’ and avoided a tantrum with tears. Standing up he grabbed his troublemaking niece by the hand and smiled to Marinette.

“Thank you Marinette. See ya, now come along Mar’i I’m sure Dick and Bruce will be worrying why we’ve taken so long.”

The trio walked toward the main restaurant again and departed ways to head towards their respective tables. As Duke guided Mar’i over to their family she piped up a little too loudly, obviously having mused over Duke and Marinettes words.

“Uncle Duke. You could marry her instead of Grampa adopting Mari. That way we can still be twins.”

Duke groaned and heard Marinette snort in the distance, there was no hope that she hadn’t heard. And given the eyes of the Waynes staring at him, he had a feeling that meddling was around the corner.

This was a serious issue living in a bunch of nosy interfering meddling siblings, a family of detectives.

#maribat rarepair #maribat #dc x mlb #mlb x dc #maribat au #ml x dc #dc x ml #meet cute #meet cute monday #duke x marinette #marinette x duke #Dukette? #name twins

[the-coffee-fandom]

Batkids fighting over who’s the coolest

Jason: I’m clearly the coolest. The calendar literally spells my name I’m so cool

Marinette: *rolls her eyes* No it doesn’t

Jason: Go check

Duke: *scribbles down the first letter of each month*

JFMAMJJASOND

Mari: Oh my gosh it does

Jason: *taking immense pride over winning an insignificant argument* Beat that

#maribat #mlb x dc #fanfiction #dc x mlb #maribat marinette dupain cheng #maribat jason todd #maribat duke thomas #writing #writing stuff #incorrect quotes #Jason is the coolest #because his name is in the months #don’t take this away from him

[goggles-mcgee]

Wish Me Away: Hold Me Close & Hold Me Near

Beginning              Last Chapter

Summary:

*waves* Hi

Bruce muses on his new life despite it only being a couple days since the family welcomed Marietta into it.

Nothing could have prepared Bruce for life with a baby, two days had passed and it felt like his life had been completely flipped on its head. She required a lot of attention and physical affection. The attention he had no problem with, it was the physical affection he was terrified of. Marietta was such a tiny little thing, she was so fragile that Bruce was so scared that the slightest wrong move from him could hurt her. Yet, sometimes the physical affection came so easily to him, so easily he felt like he was robbed of this time he could have had with Damian and found himself wishing Talia had told him about his son sooner. When she smiled up at him when he tried to feed her, it was almost instinctual to give her a kiss on the head, or when she babbled and held out a hand to him, he was compelled to coo and let her grab at his fingers. Hugging her is what scared him most, she was so small, so warm, and he had never understood what all those people said about the smell of a baby but he got it, and hugging her brought him such a feeling of joy and love that he couldn’t even put it into words. Bruce just felt scared of hugging her too tight because of all the new feelings of love that filled him. 

Once she had fallen asleep her first night in the Manor, at her new home, he had been entirely too frightened to sleep in his large bed with her, but he and the boys made a pretty sturdy wall of pillows all around her as he stayed up to study. He bought parenting books, so many parenting books, from baby meal cookbooks, to psychology. He wanted to know anything and everything he had to about taking care of a one year old. And from the many boxes that arrived at the house he deduced he wasn’t the only one. The manor now looked like a bomb went off in it, one that filled the place with bassinets, diapers, baby food and snacks and so many freaking toys. Most of which came surprisingly from Alfred, Bruce had wanted to laugh but Alfred had basically said he had no room to talk. He was right. Bruce had kind of gone overboard when buying her clothes, it’s not fair that tiny versions of clothes were so cute and apparently brought him more joy than his own. 

Cassandra had helped him choose a lot of the clothing as well, it warmed his heart the way she immediately took to being an older sister. The way she held Marietta and the way she hugged her was something that Bruce loved to see, because he could tell just how precious the baby was to Cass. He had many pictures on his phone of the two twirling in the dance room he had built for Cass. It was wonderful and Cass looked at Marietta with so much love, the excitement in her eyes was plain to see as well, though so was the fear, Bruce expected it was much like his own but something stronger. Cass feared hurting her new sister much the same way that Damian was, but whereas Cass spent as much time with Marietta as she could, it seemed like Damian was avoiding the baby. It didn’t take the ‘world’s greatest detective’ to figure out that Damian was frustrated at no longer being the youngest. Bruce wasn’t worried though, when Damian did interact with Marietta, he saw how gentle the boy was with her, even if he scolded her for drooling on him or not paying attention to what he was saying. He tended to hold her and tell her about their siblings and why they annoyed him that day, or classmates, or even just random people that he had a rough interaction with. It was an odd thing to bond over but Bruce was just happy Damian was trying. 

Tim adored her as well, he read all the books Bruce bought and all the ones he himself bought. Within a night, the Manor had been baby-proofed and monitors had been added everywhere. It was like he was waiting to be a doting older brother, Bruce of course knew he and Damian got off the wrong foot and were better but he also knew they would never be as close as Tim and Dick, Tim and Jason or Dick and Damian. It was like a worse Jason and Dick situation when they were younger, both bitter for different reasons and both took it out on one another. There was no doubt in Bruce’s mind that both Tim and Damian loved each other, it was just a strained kind of love. Tim took her everywhere with him if he could, as did Jason, both bought baby carriers to strap to themselves and it was hard not to laugh when Bruce realized they had bought a Red Robin carrier and a Red Hood carrier respectively. Tim liked to take her down to the cave and work on whatever case he was trying to solve or tinker with whatever tech he and Lucius Fox were working on. He said he liked asking her questions and hearing her babble like she was giving feedback. Of course Alfred and Bruce made sure the boy baby-proofed the cave as well and made sure she had her own activities to do besides giving her older brother feedback on his projects. To the surprise of no one, Tim even set her up a little play-pen in the Cave, which maybe wasn’t the best thing but it still tugged at Bruce’s heartstrings to see. 

Jason loved Marietta. It was honestly amazing to see just how fast the man adjusted to being a doting big brother. Of course Bruce already knew Jason was great with kids and with his younger siblings but it was another thing to witness it, especially with someone as young as Marietta. Jason loved to feed her which was always an interesting thing to witness, but boy was he good at it, she never complained when he fed her. He also read to her everyday even if he couldn’t be there physically, he would video-call, though his reading choices varied from the Well Loved Tales books he scored at a garage sale to classics he had in his room or brought from his apartment. It was entertaining to watch him read things like Cinderella to her and then go from that to reading her Pride and Prejudice. He made sure to get books with pictures for her and if they didn’t have pictures he would show her pictures he found on the internet to show her who he thought a character looked like, or an object in one of his classic books that he couldn’t describe. It was awfully endearing and Bruce and Alfred made sure to take as many pictures of the two as they could. Nap times they would often find the two together with Jason sprawled out on a couch, the floor, a chaise or bed with Marietta snuggled on his chest. It was those times that Bruce envied Jason. 

Dick was also one that adjusted to having another younger sibling surprisingly fast, even if said younger sibling was younger than any of them have dealt with before. He never complained about changing her diaper, he just laughed and said they would have to get on top of potty training but only when she felt like it. He was incredibly gentle with her and patient and tried his best to help Damian get more comfortable with her. He was also the one who could get her to stop crying the fastest out of all of them, well second to Alfred. It was impressive, and yet it was another thing that Bruce found himself jealous of. He was the parent and he felt like he should be able to soothe her cries easily, but the truth was, he had no idea what he was doing. Sure, he had a lot of children, but he had not had any of them when they were babies, this was a whole different playing field and it hurt him that he wasn’t excelling at it. Of course, Bruce wanted to be the best father he could be, and he would admit that he, like his children, wanted to be Marietta’s favorite person. Both Dick and Jason would put her in the middle of them and coo at her and see who she would waddle or crawl too, they said it was a competition to see who her favorite was but most of the time she just laughed at them and would end up falling back on her bottom if she was standing. Damian found this highly amusing every time it happened and Bruce suspected so did Alfred. 

Duke was a little like Babs in the sense that he adored Marietta, but she made him nervous. He never held her long unless he was sitting down because he feared dropping her, if she was asleep that fear tripled because he said she was just dead-weight and would fall no problem. Though, he liked working on his homework with her and telling her about school. Sometimes he brought out her crayons and coloring books but that was rare since Marietta hadn’t yet grasped the concept that the canyons were only for her coloring books. Alfred lectured all of them about watching her during ‘coloring time’ after she found out that crayons work just as good on walls as they did on paper. Though Duke was nervous around her, Marietta always managed to get him to relax around her after enough time passed and the boy would play games with her, though the games mainly consisted of peek-a-boo and making silly faces at her. She loved it though and it seemed like no one could make her laugh more than Duke and his silly faces. Every time he made her laugh or giggle, Duke looked like he had just won an award or something and would give her the brightest smile in response. Of course he and Alfred had many videos and pictures of the two already. 

Babs hadn’t met little Marietta face to face yet but she had seen the little one over the Batcave’s computer and she had looked smitten. She also promised to visit them soon, probably within the week which was great. Alfred had been wanting the young woman to visit the Manor more often, so her visit was more than welcome. Especially since it seemed like Marietta took a shine to her, even if it was just over video. Babs took to face-calling whoever she knew was in the Manor so she could see Marietta and hear her babble at her nonsensically with some actual words thrown in here and there. Though she hadn’t met the little one properly, Babs did send gifts that she ordered online and she sent everyone books on childcare. Bruce didn’t have the heart to tell her he had already bought the book she had got for him, he had just thanked her and used the new copy to take notes in. She seemed excited to hold Marietta and Bruce could honestly say he understood that feeling now, before he hadn’t, not really, but now it was like all he wanted to do was hold his daughter and show her to everyone. Thank goodness he had such good self-restraint. They, as a family, decided they wouldn’t go public with Marietta until Selina came back from Central City; she was setting up another animal shelter/rescue center after the success of the one in Gotham, then the one in Metropolis. This was her baby, her project, she was very hands on with everything that came with the business. Bruce felt so proud of her and he was also extremely happy his influence was good for something like this. When it got out that Bruce Wayne was investing in the Kyle Animal Rescue & Shelter Centers, many of Gotham’s elite followed. Though she wouldn’t admit it, he knew that Selina was grateful.

Stephanie had the habit of carrying Marietta everywhere she went when she was at the Manor, which considering the baby had only been there for about two days, meant Steph had been there everyday now. When she walked into a room and saw Marietta she would scoop her up and give the little one a shower of kisses which resulted in the most delightful giggles. Though Steph also had the habit of just…sniffing Marietta, when they asked her about it she just shrugged and said she loved the smell of babies. Which, fair, but she did it so obviously and made such a spectacle of sniffing the newest Wayne that you couldn’t help but laugh. It always made Marietta laugh as well so it was a welcome habit. Steph was also someone who liked feeding Marietta which Bruce could not understand as it was a time that he saw his baby daughter be truly stubborn, worthy of the Wayne name, which was something his mother would tease him with whenever he was stubborn. But like Jason, Steph could get the baby to eat whatever Alfred served for their meals. She said she liked to see the faces Marietta made when eating and she just liked to see just how messy the baby could get. Which was, astoundingly, a lot. She had many baths that she thankfully enjoyed. 

Damian was complicated. There were moments he seemed to crave Marietta’s attention and other’s where he would avoid her altogether if he could. From what Tim, Alfred and the books told him, Damian felt ‘threatened’ as he was no longer the ‘baby’ of the family. The wording was ridiculous but maybe fitting for the situation. Damian was a child who adored having Bruce’s attention and Dick’s attention the most, though he would sooner play nice with all the kids at Brentwood Academy than admit it. When he held her, he no longer held her like a bomb about to go off, but he cradled her like one wrong touch and he’d break her. There were times that Bruce had walked past a room to see Damian hugging the little one to him with his eyes closed and hands shaking, it always felt wrong to intrude so Bruce would just continue to walk past. The boy also introduced his younger sister to all his animals, even Goliath who lived in the Wayne Farm. Damian built his own underground Cave beneath the farm to hide Goliath if the need arose, he called it the Underground BatFarm after Dick called it that once. So they all just referred to it as the BatFarm. Damian had simultaneously been overjoyed and annoyed that all his animal friends seemed to take a shine to the newest addition to the family. 

Alfred was in love. Plain and simple. He doted on the baby so much that Bruce often wondered if the Butler/Grandpa/Adopted Dad ever did that to him when his parents introduced the two when he was born. He always served her food first at meals, he gave her treats when he thought no one was looking and if the boys weren’t around he took to carrying Marietta in his own carrier. It was always quite the sight when Alfred would walk into a room with a baby strapped to his chest. Though in a weird way, Bruce was getting used to it. What he couldn’t get used to just yet were the tiny creatures that called themselves Kwami. They stuck around Marietta like glue. They never left her alone, not even when she slept. It was very disconcerting to wake up and see two creatures sleeping on the pillow next to you  first thing in the morning. Even if a family member was just going to change her diaper real quick, they followed. Their import on cheese increased an unhealthy amount and really Bruce had no way how they would explain those finances away if anyone bothered to look. At least Alfred usually baked biscuits. So there was no shortage of Tikki. Plagg was insatiable. 

Even now, Bruce watched as the little black cat Kwami absolutely inhaled a wheel of brie. “You keep eating like that and we’ll run out of cheese before you know it.”

“Eh, you’re rich.”

Jason’s cackle was welcome but also Bruce felt like this was a serious matter so he did not appreciate being laughed at. “It’s true, Bruce. You are a very~ rich man.”

“That doesn’t mean that Plagg should demolish our entire cheese supply and have us order more in less than a week. It could be considered suspicious and we are trying to lay low.” He reasoned.

“I mean, it could be suspicious, or people think you’re on some weird new cheese diet and you accidentally start a trend again.” Tim piped up from his position on the floor where he kept pressing buttons on one of Mari’s toys which made her coo from her spot on her mat. 

“Oh man, please not another ‘Bruce Wayne Original Trend.’ The amount of people I saw wearing their shirts backwards in Blüdhaven after his last ‘trend,’ is more than enough for me.” Dick complained from where he was laying on the floor tossing one of Marietta’s toy balls up and down.

“Father was very tired that day.” Damian defended, he was sketching something from his favorite spot in the windowsill. They were all relaxing in his office despite the fact he told them he had paperwork to do. “Though he should have had more decorum and noticed his mistake.”

So much for defending him.

“You humans are so weird with your clothes.” Plagg sighed loudly.

“You act like we never wore clothing once upon a time, Plagg.” Tikki teased.

That had Tim’s attention. He loved learning more about the beings that came as an added…bonus with their newest Wayne. “You guys wore clothes?”

“Well, duh! We weren’t always this adorable you know?” Plagg replied.

“Wait. You guys really weren’t always this itty-bitty?” Jason asked. 

“We did mention we were basically revered as Gods in the past. Can you see these forms being worshipped?” Tikki fired back. When she got no reply, she looked unbelievably smug. “Before we were bound to the Miraculi, we tended to use a more human-like form. Hence the clothing. Though even that form was not our true form.”

“It’s been ages since we got to be in our true forms.” Plagg said wistfully. 

“What are your true forms?” Tim asked with a twinkle in his eye.

Tikki chuckled softly. “They are…well, they are hard to explain. But it is because the ‘First Guardian-”

“The ‘Betrayer’!” Plagg interrupted with a shout.

“He saw our true forms, and I guess that’s what pushed him to create the ritual that bound us. He called us monsters. Creatures living amongst man. Honestly he just raved at us how he couldn’t believe that we tried to take advantage of the folk who worshipped us and that he was doing them a favor by binding us.” Tikki explained.

“Crazy loon.” Plagg scoffed. 

Bruce shared eye contact with all his sons who looked just as disturbed at the information as him. Their true forms scared a man so deeply that he went to such lengths. He felt bad for the Kwami but he also could understand the man’s need for protection even if it was unwarranted. Bruce was always prepared, no matter the circumstances, but now it felt like he would never truly be prepared with the Kwami living with his family. They were truly neutral beings, and it was interesting to have them in the Manor,  but when he and Jason got into another argument about the no-killing rule, Plagg and Tikki had looked at him like he was the wrong one. Or more accurately, like they couldn’t understand why he was arguing about it with his son. It was an issue, but not more so than the two beings announcing their plans about Paris.

“So today’s the day.” Jason brought up as casually as he could, which wasn’t as casual as the young man would have liked. 

Plagg nodded. “It is.” 

Bruce sighed.

“Oh Bruce, I know how you feel about it, but really it isn’t your place to tell us we can’t spread Karma across Paris. It has already been enacted and They have given their permission to all of us Kwami of the Miracle Box of Fortune & Fate.” Tikki explained once more, she wasn’t being condescending and yet Bruce still felt like she was. 

“And I told you, I don’t understand that.”

“You don’t have to understand it. Just let it be.” She replied.

“Or better yet ignore it.” Plagg gave his two-cents. 

“I can’t just ignore it. You told us you will be going to Paris to punish them!” He argued as softly as he could, not wanting to disturb Marietta who was still distracted by her noisy shiny toy. 

“Not all, only those who deserve it and though Paris will no longer be protected by us, it doesn’t mean forever but they need to know. Which is why the announcement is also needed.” She argued back, though she didn’t even look affected by his words and that made his hackles rise more. 

“Look. I know your whole ‘job’ is ‘justice,’ and that’s great.” Plagg interjected. “But justice is up to the interpreter and this, Karma, that’s our justice. That’s how we deal with offenses and crimes against us. You don’t have to understand it, but for your sake and Marietta’s sake, don’t try to stop us or talk us out of it anymore.”

“Are you threatening me?” Bruce growled which made Marietta whine.

“Bruce.” Alfred warned. “Calm yourself. You’re scaring the baby.”

Bruce cleared his throat and looked over at his daughter who was looking at him with her big doe-eyes filled with tears. “I’m sorry Baby, nothing’s wrong. We’re just talking Sweetheart.” 

“Master Bruce, I understand your feelings on the matter but at the end of the day this is their business and if you ever feel the need, I’m sure Paris would appreciate vigilante help if they ever need it.” Alfred said as he set down some tea for Bruce on his desk. And like every time Alfred was the voice of reason, Bruce felt the fight leave him. 

“I apologize.” He said after a while.

“Sooooo, how are you going to make the announcement if you guys can’t be caught on camera?” Dick asked to break the tension. 

“They have kindly lent me some of their power and my old power so I can retain my old human form.” Tikki explained. “If the announcement goes on longer than I can hold the form then Trixx can cast an illusion of my human form. Before the announcement though we will be going and giving out Karma to a select few.”

“I thought you were…uh, doing the Karma thing after the whole announcement.” Jason said.

“Oh, we are, but there are a couple of people who will get their Karma before the announcement.” Plagg said with a smile that shouldn’t look so frightening on such a tiny face and yet it was. 

Quiet covered the family yet again until Damian spoke up from his spot, “Well, happy hunting.”

The two smiles shared between the Kwami somehow dwarfed the one Plagg had made just before and Bruce felt a shiver run down his spine. He sent a silent prayer out for Paris. 

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Gabriel sat at his place at the head of the table and watched as his wife talked with Adrien and for the first time in a long time he felt completely at ease. His heart still raced when he acknowledged the fact he had no idea where Nathalie was and he didn’t know what to say when Emilie asked him where she was. Right now she believed that Nathalie was visiting her sister but the truth was he had no idea and it scared him. After The Wish, she and Dupain-Cheng disappeared without a trace. He didn’t understand where they were and his son’s complaints and worry over the girl were getting on his nerves. Neither had their Miraculous so Adrien complained about not being to check on her the ‘Chat Noir’ way, they figured that was their price for The Wish. Though it saddened him, Gabriel was willing to leave the Miraculous behind in exchange for his wife who was a bit different now that she was back but he just chalked it up to her being confused at being awake once more. 

He impulsively reached out and took her hand in his. Emilie gave him a small smile back in return and he tried his best not to frown. She should be happier, she was finally reunited with her husband, he would think she would be overjoyed. “Adrien. I…called your school and told them you won’t be there today. We will be spending the day as a family.”

“Okay Father.” Adrien responded promptly. 

Emilie looked as though she was going to respond but before she did the doors to the dining room blew open, they nearly came off the hinges. All three family members turned to look in shock and just to see what or who came through in such a fashion. Gabriel opened his mouth to shout at the insolence of it all but his voice caught in his throat when he saw four very familiar Kwami fly in. He tried to get out of his seat but found he couldn’t and from the looks of it, neither could Adrien or Emilie. It made Gabriel struggle against whatever bound him to his seat more. He tried to yell, to shout, but found he had no voice at the moment. Emilie looked so scared and there was nothing he could do about it. The Kwami flew until they were all floating above the middle of the table so all three Agrestes could see them. The red one, Tikki glared at Gabriel so fiercely that if looks could kill, he was sure he would be six-feet deep at the moment. 

“Hello Gabriel. Let’s talk.”

Next Chapter

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[ggomos-maribat]

[38/?]

BDBWM Day 25 | Little Mari + Twin AU

original prompt | complete masterlist

Okay this is how it’s gonna go: the parts for the angst week of BDBWM will be up after the ones for the final week because the angst week will be containing parts that will affect the plot and continuity of Fox DCW So that means we’re starting off this week with Little/Older Mari and next week will be Forgotten/Lost :D

Adrien is beyond jittery. And he’s stressed. And his scalp is hurting because Damian is pulling at his hair at the back. 

Adjusting a tiny Marinette in his arms, he rings the doorbell. To his relief, Alfred answers. 

“Hey, Alfred.” He waves sheepishly. “So . . . remember when my friends and I sometimes help Ladybug in experimenting guardian potions?” 

The butler raises a skeptic eyebrow.

“Yeahhh, so this happened. Just an unexpected side effect. It will wear out soon, don’t worry. They’re about the same age right now? Not sure.” Adrien hurriedly shoves the toddlers towards Alfred. 

“Oh dear, I must order some diapers and baby food.” 

“Yup! And a lot of tissues and wipes. Thanks Alfred, bye!” Adrien practically runs back to the manor’s front steps, glad to finally escape the terrible two. 

---

“Alfred . . . what?” Bruce stares dumbfoundedly at the two children in Alfred’s arms. 

“Master Bruce, it seems like Miss Marinette and Master Damian have been caught in Ladybug’s magic during their stay in France.” 

Little do they know that she still has the consciousness of her real age, just not the physical capabilities.

Marinette squirms a little. “Dada?” 

 Her father looks like he’s about to cry.  She huffs. Just because we weren’t with Dad yet when we were toddlers . . . 

“The supplies!” Bruce starts to get alarmed. “What do we do? How do they get turned back? Do we have to buy baby food?” 

“Master Adrien did say the effect will wear out but I’m afraid he did not specify how long.” 

Baby Damian’s glare intensifies. 

---

“Ow, hey—careful, Baby Bird.” Dick holds the struggling toddler in his arms carefully. “Alfred? Have you seen Mari—” 

He gasps out loud, spotting the tiny girl perched high up on the chandelier. Marinette giggles and swings around, making Dick’s soul migrate out of his body. “Marinette!” He screeches. “What the fu—dge! How did you get up there?” 

The menace crawls to the dangerous edge, and Dick immediately hands Damian off to Alfred, who has an amused look on his face. 

“Don’t look at me like that, Alfie! I knew how to get down when I was a kid,” Dick groans. He raises his arms, looking up at his little sister. “Mari! Don’t move from there, okay? I’ll come get you!” 

Marinette crawls more, tipping the chandelier a little. 

“Nononononono! Mari, stay there!” 

---

Jason is facing one of the most threatening enemies of his life. 

He holds the fresh new diaper in one hand as he and Damian are locked in a stand-off. And somehow, the kid managed to get his hands on the katanas and one of his guns. 

“Demon Spawn,” he says threateningly. “We just need to change your diaper.” 

Damian spits out a string of garbled words which sound as threatening. He waves his swords in front of Jason before lunging, nearly slashing his leg. 

“Fuck! Damian!” Jason scolds angrily. 

“Language!” Tim calls out from the other room. 

“They’re not actually babies!” Jason yells back. 

At that moment, Marinette rushes into the room, holding Jason’s other gun. He pales in a millisecond, and attempts to chase her but she giggles and runs around to escape his clutches. 

---

Tim stares down at his mug, slowly registering that its contents were not in fact coffee, but warm milk. Then, he slowly looks at baby Marinette, who’s drinking out of her sippy cup.

“Wait, wait!” He reaches for her drink to see that it is his coffee. “Bruce is going to kill me! You can’t drink that, Mari!” 

“Cowwffeee,” Marinette whines, sticking her tongue out.

“No coffee! You were supposed to drink this milk!” 

Marinette gulps down more of her coffee in response. Tim wrestles it out of her grip, unfortunately drawing out a wail and a full sobs from the girl. 

Bruce walks into the kitchen just in time. Marinette runs to her father and wraps her little arms around his leg. “Dada!” she cries. “Tim thiefyyy!” 

---

“You’re so cute!” Stephanie coos at a preening Marinette. “Bruce, are you taking them to work?” 

Bruce nods, putting his suit jacket on. “No one’s available to babysit today, so I will be taking both of them.” 

“Okay, wait here.” Stephanie runs off with the two children for a few minutes. When they come back, Marinette and Damian are dressed in miniature business suits, complete with ties and tiny briefcases. 

Bruce gets into a Mother Hen mode and fusses over them, smoothing the wrinkles on the fabric and getting a sword out of Damian’s grasp. Stephanie adoringly takes pictures, ‘aww’ing every other minute.

The board meeting becomes quite eventful. Marinette is on her father’s lap, scribbling on a document with crayons and markers. Sometimes, she opts to take the marker and draw over Bruce’s face as he’s talking to the other members. The other meeting attendees can’t say a word against it because Bruce is the CEO after all. He’s come up with the alibi that the children are his niece and nephew he’s stuck taking care of. 

She glances over at Tim, who had Damian on his lap. He looks about half dead. Damian has been trying to clobber him for the past hour or so, picking up pens, paperweights, a mug, and even document folders to hit him. Now that there is no makeshift weapon at Damian’s disposal, he’s now attempting to bite Tim’s arm. 

“We have to take away funds from the designs partnership to increase funding for other sectors,” one of the board members says. 

Marinette stops and slams her fist on the table, scowling. “Booshit!” 

Bruce raises a judgmental eyebrow. “The financial reports from that project have been flawless. They’re operating at a smaller budget than the other lavish partnerships we have.” 

“But Mr. Wayne—” 

“You heard her. We are not touching the funds for that partnership.”  

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[queenkaiju]

Signal, Joke, Epic Fail, Dare

Maribat March - Prompts 2, 7, 12, 13

~

He couldn't believe they were doing this. Running around Gotham in uniform, attempting to escape punishment. Now, Duke wasn't a coward by any means, but sometimes, when your insane siblings rope you into pranking THE Justice League, you had to… retreat for a bit in order to figure out how to escape THE Batman (who also happens to be your parental guardian).

See, Dick thought that Bruce's various pups could use some bonding, and unfortunately, the only thing they all had in common is chaos. And that chaos led to the decision of pranking the Justice League. As they all had clearance to the zeta tube as past Robins (and Batgirls), when the JL goes to see who did it, they'd come up with an army of Robins. So, they gathered toilet paper, Silly String and eggs. Tim and Babs tag-teamed the JL servers and put 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on loop on all the screens. Damian snuck through the vents, replacing all the training weaponry with foam ones and releasing rats he'd found (Dick wasn't too keen on that idea seeing as they were Gotham rats, but Damian was participating! He couldn't tell him no… besides, they're superheroes, if they let a couple of mutated rats defeat them, then it was just sad). Dick had helped the others with their ideas, while Cass stood watch.

Duke was slightly more hesitant than his brethren, it is the Justice League after all, but then they ganged up on him with a double-dog dare, and he wound up helping Jason, Stephanie and Marinette desecrate the Watchtower halls.

They managed to complete their individual tasks without anyone noticing, thanks to the fact that it was Guy on monitor duty, snoring like a freight train. (He wound up with a dick drawn on his face, it was too perfect.)

The next day, B was coming back from an off-world mission, and Duke was getting more and more nervous with every passing minute. He'd had fun while they were doing it, but as Bruce got closer and closer to home, his anxiety sent him into over-thinking over-drive. It didn't help that everyone who'd participated had fled to their individual hideaways, probably for several days, except for Damian - as he lives in the Manor and is quite proud of the prank and unafraid of punishment - and Marinette who was freaking out just as much as Duke was.

They were working out their nervousness in a spar, attempting to quiet their minds. They'd been doing quite well too, until the zeta announced Batman's arrival.

"Alfred." His gruff voice filled the cavern, freezing Duke and Marinette in their boots. "Gather everyone, and I mean everyone."

They shared a look before taking off as fast as they could. Marinette made it out before he did, not having to put her outfit on piece by piece, but he still made it in record time.

Of course, he ran right into Bruce himself, making eye contact for a brief moment before he got on his bike and escaping as soon as he could. He knew the Bat glare was scary, but having it trained on him for the first time made him wonder if their little joke was actually a success. He was going to kill Dick when it was safe to come out of hiding.

~

The inspiration stick abandoned me for a while, but it came back and walloped me over the head :)

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[disaster-biraven]

Irides on Tile - Marinette x your choice Hanahaki Drabble

This is sort of a think piece on how hanahaki might work.

~

Irises littered the bathroom floor as Marinette sat in the empty tub. It had been a week since she could no longer be the Ladybug Holder. Turns out that having the Miraculous of Creation and Hanahaki at the same time is not a good combination. Marinette was coughing up petals at the rate of someone who had it for months instead of weeks.

A distraught Tikki had all but begged Marinette to save herself, that she couldn’t help anyone if she worked herself to death. It took longer than she’d like to admit, to listen to what Tikki was saying. But after each fight, Marinette would be glued to the sink as Irises struggled to escape, as the cure was not meant to be cast with flowers in the lungs.

After a painful goodbye to Chat and leaving the earrings with Kagami, Marinette found herself mourning the loss of Tikki. One of her closest friends and confidant, was gone. The Hanahaki won’t progress as fast, but it still grows.

The thing about hanahaki is it's a cruel disease, as if inflicting a slow and painful death steeped in unrequited love wasn’t enough; every time she saw the person of her affection, the vines expanded in her lungs, growing and digging deeper. At the same time Marinette’s heart would swell with affection and longing. This caused the butterflies in her stomach to riot, protesting the silence, begging to confess. As she talked to him, holding back coughs and petals, her body was at war with itself and the vines holding her lungs hostage. When she finally escaped, she was left to cough up the petals, blossoms when she was further along.

It’s cruel because it makes it seem like a hopeless situation. Either confess and be rejected or succumb to the disease. It forces any thought of reciprocation out of the mind.

The lungs will be in constant pain, as the plants take over. As the disease progressed Marinette constantly found herself short of breath as the lungs struggled to inhale. The petals and blooms that come up are the body’s warning system, chopping off the heads as they grow back too fast to cough up.

Any thoughts will further the disease, and God forbid having to spend any time in their presence. As Marinette tries to decide whether or not to confess or suffer in silence, the Hanahaki will affect the mind. As it gains more control of the lungs it also takes over the mind. It causes a spiral. There is no way that he could return feelings in Marinette’s mind.

Marinette knew there were ways to overcome the disease. A surgery that removes the entire plant, but along with it the ability to love. As well as the memories of the person she loved. It is not a path many go down willingly, only if rejected or the person they fell in love with is already in a relationship. Even then many are reluctant to lose the ability to love their parents, friends, and the world. Like Marinette.

author's note: If you liked this please consider checking out my other works on ao3!

https://archiveofourown.org/users/disaster_biraven/works

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[kleenex-tissues]

Yours Truly (13)

AO3 here

Ch. 13: Even Heroes Make Stupid Choices

After spending so many years protecting Gotham, Bruce Wayne has learned a few lessons to say the least.

Poison Ivy will always take a break during a fight to gush about Harley.

Arkham is a good place to send Rogues, so long as they actually feel like extending their stay.

Always wear extra padding in the Batman costume so that no one knows both of your identities have the same ass shape.

Do NOT make out with anyone on the roofs unless you want Barbara to set a picture of it as the batcomputer’s screen saver.

When one of your kids shows up to their patrol shift in a sparkly hot pink version of their suit, it’s better that you don’t ask questions.

Duke was flaming red under his glittering suit. Thankfully, the impossible-to-miss shine of the costume kept attention directed away from the small bit of visible skin on his face. He tried to stick with day-time patrols, where his sole presence was enough to prevent any major crime. However, not even the petty thieves could keep from bursting into laughter when they saw him.

One guy laughed so hard that he dropped his bag of stolen money on the ground and burst a lung. It was an awkward trip to the hospital for both of them, to say the least.

Realistically, he knew that he should have seen this coming. After walking in on Damian sending emails to the pen pal he had supposedly deemed ‘unbecoming of his status as heir,’ he had the bright idea to check it again.

It wasn’t easy to break into the email account. It took a long call to Barbara and a few promises to convince her to figure out how to get through Damian’s authentication walls. Duke needed to see what was going on with his little brother, even if it was at risk of punishment and/or death. It was a coin flip of how Damian would react when he found out.

This is how Duke Thomas came to learn that Damian was head over heels for a girl he had never met. In an act of possible self-sacrifice, he found out her last name and followed her on Instagram. You know, the smart choice.

Marinette was way too good for Damian. Quite frankly, Duke couldn’t find anything wrong with the girl. They bonded quickly after he explained who he was and gave some definitive proof, taking the time to send memes and share embarrassing tidbits about Damian, of course. She was sunshine incarnate, and there was no way Duke wasn’t going to try and convince her to marry Damian. She had to be part of this family.

Damian needed someone too good for him. Someone who could heal his inner darkness and tame the hyperactive assassin that still lived within him. Damian Wayne needed Marinette Dupain-Cheng, whether he wanted to admit it or not.

Sadly, secrets don’t last long in this house. It was entirely Duke’s own fault; he knew that, but all he wanted to do was get a snack from the pantry. He didn’t mean to leave his phone unlocked on the coffee table, and he certainly didn’t expect Damian to snoop through it. But it was only a matter of time before the teen learned of his deception.

Duke had barely made it one step into the room before Damian was tackling him and his chip bag was flying through the air. If Damian didn’t kill him first, he did Alfred would for the mess. There was no way he was making it out of this manor alive.

Fists were thrown and legs flung meticulously at vital spots. Duke was confident in his ability to hold his own for a while, but Damian had stamina like no other in the house. This confrontation would not end in his favor. Duke tried to pull himself out of the way of another fist by grabbing onto the doorway and using the momentum of his clothing against the hardwood to speed him along.

It was these battles, more so than the ones on the streets of Gotham, that his foresight came most in handy for. Using his knowledge of what would happen, he made the maneuver smoothly and efficiently. He just had to make it to Dick’s room, and he would survive. He had never been more glad in his life that Dick was spending a week at the manor.

Just as quickly, Duke was on his feet and racing up the stairs. Four doors, that’s all he had to pass to get to the end of the hallway and burst through his brother’s room.

One door. Damian was gaining on him. He didn’t need his foresight to feel the breathing down his neck.

Two doors. Duke felt his speed failing him, but he pushed onwards. He just needed to get to the one room Damian wouldn’t dare touch.

Three doors down, one left to go. It was a race against a fast-footed ex-assassin. Quite frankly, Duke was a little impressed with himself.

Last door. The home stretch! Duke was just a few feet away! He extended his arm to reach the knob and turn it, but just as the tips of his fingers touched the cool brass, Damian lunged.

The door felt a lot harder against his head than he would’ve imagined. Stars were clouding his vision, and a dull ache reverberated against the expanse of his brain. Duke was faintly aware of Damian trying to pull him back to the floor as he reached once more for the doorknob. He was finally on the doorstep of freedom when the wood swung away and Dick stared down at the two.

“Help me,” Duke whispered, losing his unsteady footing and slamming into Dick’s chest. Thankfully, warm hands grabbed him, and he was once more on his feet.

Damian practically growled. “Grayson, this is none of your concern. If you would place Thomas in my arms, we will be off shortly.”

Dick lifted an eyebrow in response. He didn’t seem convinced.

“It seems it just might be my business, little wing. Why else would Duke fall face-first into my bedroom door?”

Duke took the chance to hide behind Dick, in the safety of the room. He wasn’t taking any chances. Knowing that he could easily deter Damian with a distraction, he mentally apologized to Dick before blurting, “Damian’s emailing Marinette, and he didn’t want me to tell you!”

The heartbroken gasp that came from Dick’s mouth almost shattered their eardrums. Tears started to form in his eyes as he scrunched his face up into the classic ‘how could you lie to me like that?’ pose he had mastered. Perks of being the first Robin. How else would he have gotten away with as much as he did?

Damian stepped back in shock, his face going as white as a sheet. He felt fear very little in his life, but the second Dick began crying, they all knew that Bruce could appear behind them within minutes. He had a second sense when it came to his first child. No one ever made Dick cry and go away with it.

“It’s not what it sounds like, I swear,” Damian stuttered. “I was going to tell you! I just wanted to teach you a lesson about meddling! That’s all!”

Oh no. The tears were falling now. Damian needed to escape while he had the chance. Looking towards the nearest window, he pulled it open, punched out the screen, and jumped into the garden below.

As he picked a leaf from his hair and climbed out of the bush he landed in, he heard his father’s voice echoing through the open window.

“Dick! What’s wrong? Is everything alright?”

Damian was sprinting across the yard now, unsure of where he planned to go. Wherever he ended up, he would bide his time. Duke will rue the day he decided to message his Marinette.

His? No, now’s not the time to think about this. He needed to embarrass Duke as much as he embarrassed him. He would hit him where it truly hurt – his public image. Cue, Duke’s very unfortunate suit redesign.

Unknown Number – 10m ago

Hey, this is Mari! Here’s my number :)

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[redtippedfox]

I’ve already done Dark!God Adrien.

Characters are Aged Up!

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[jasontoddssuper]

If i'm being completely honest,i'm really sad that i can't enjoy Maribat and Dp x Dc.I was a Miraculous Ladybug kid and a Danny Phantom one too and DC is one of my biggest special interests and i absolutely agree that Marinette deserves a million times better than what she's given in canon,especially because i relate to her so much(like how i'm biracial),and i have a general spinterest in superheroes so i deeply wish i could join in on the fun.I even love a few of the ships,i think Tim and Marinette is a perfect fit!

But even if it didn't frustrate me greatly that these fans don't even read comics,i can't look past how much they normalize racism and harmful relathionships.Marinette and Danny got picked up as Batkids because of having blue eyes to delibaretly erase Duke and Cass,Alya gets bashed all the time and Marinette gets excotified(?)and infantalized,there's shipping adults with minors left and right and ofc even more in///cest between adoptive family members than before.Maribat and Dc x Dp could've been great but as always awful people have to ruin good things

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[bee-a-garbage-shipper]

*MariBat meaning Non Polyamory Marinette x BatFam Member Ships

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[ive-tumbled-down-a-rabbit-hole]

Flossing

Meet Cute Monday 42

Tag Team Tournament Day 2

Prompt: "so you kissed them , and then you…" "ran away"

For Leo - you mentioned the original concept ages ago and I've finally finished writing it. Must have sat about for at least 2 months half written. 😘❤️

Plus a prompt to finish it properly.

(No hitchhiker links despite it being number 42)

Masterlist

MCM Masterlist

…………………………………….

Duke stared at his siblings scattered around his dorm room. They'd been slowly making their appearance one or two at a time since lunchtime, all claiming they wanted to escape Bruce for some reason and 'his' dorm was the perfect escape. Dick and Jason had magiced up some beer from somewhere, Jason encouraging the under age drinking while Dick shushing him trying to put a stop to the encouragement. Cass, Steph and Tim were playing an elaborate card game which made no sense and the rules seemed to change every few turns when Dick said something or a keyword, it confused him. Damian had also surprisingly turned up with a hamster stolen from somewhere and was cooing over it, giving dark looks to anyone who came close.

How they fit, Duke couldn't tell and what Bruce did was still a mystery so he sighed and just sat on his bed watching the carnage in his tiny room at University of Metropolis.

"Soooo… why didn't you hide at a safe house or as you're at Metropolis with Kon and Jon?"

"Well Dukey, we don't want Bruce to find all our safe houses and the Kents have a Clark. Who for some reason likes the Old Bat."

Steph parroted to Duke while her eyes completely focused on what Cass was about to do with her card.

"Ignore Blondie! We wanted to see our baby bro! To celebrate how you may also have made your next steps in escaping B's child trap. First acting in day time, now in Supes city. Soon you'll have flown the lofty nest."

"He didn't even have to die."

"Shut it Dickwad. That doesn't even stop the Old man."

Errrr… Duke still wasn't sure how to respond to Jason at times. It kinda made sense, choosing Metropolis was a compromise he had had with Bruce and his bizarre helicoptering and distant parenting style. He was safe as Clark did (far to regularly for his liking) check-in on him. But it was a new city with a very weird feeling. There was much too much light and sunshine, and that was something coming from a light based meta. Never mind, Supes sorted the villains out and he finally had the opportunity to study (when not repeatedly bumping into the cutie he'd encountered on campus which occasionally distracts him) uninterrupted by disaster drama that followed the Wayne's.

Sighing and deciding to ignore the headache his older siblings were implying, Duke squeezed himself next to Tim.

"Deal me in the next round… and can you explain the rules?"

Cass nodded at Duke with a wild gleam of mischief in her eyes as Tim started to explain the complex nonsensical logic and aim of the game. Duke already regretted it. He was certain to lose unless he had… assisted help.

As the evening wore on and the chaos expanded and games got… more edge… bite… dangerous (?) the Wayne's and Wayne adjecents (depending on whose view point) got more lovely and outlandish.

"Bet I can!"

"Nah, you'll lose your nerve."

"I won't."

"Sure, sure, whatever."

"Give it here and I'll prove it!"

Duke snatched the tooth floss from Steph's hands who stuck her tongue out at him as he rolled his eyes. Maybe all the sugary snacks wasn't a good idea as he felt the sugar high he was on flow through him. Pulsing and giving him that invincible feel that often came when Bruce praised him or he got Alfred's special smile. Meh! Never mind. With Steph's chants and Dicks hollars and Jason's hoots he wasn't going to back down now.

Tim inspected the floss knot he'd tidied to his room's miniature balcony (if you could really call it that even) while Damian watched impassively. Cass came up and gave him a good luck hug. Or he hoped it was a good luck hug and not a goodbye baby brother as he falls to his doom. Bats can't die right?? They always seem to come back if they do.

"Stay safe little brother."

Duke nodded with a serious expression. He was doing this for his team. His own honour. To show Steph that it could be done! Once Tim had given the knots and everything his approval he handed Duke the tooth floss and stepped back.

"All set and ready to abseil."

Climbing over the balcony rails Duke gave a small wave to his siblings. This was madness but he wasn't backing down now.

"See you on the other side!"

Duke started to make his way down the building's side.

He passed the floor below him.

He passed the next.

The floss seemed to be straining a little more than he was expecting… or was expecting but had hoped wouldn't happen.

He regretted this so much. Living on the 5th perhaps was not the best of ideas now.

Actively using his meta abilities he could see the floss snapping moments in the future. Darting his eyes to the next floor down he was relieved, though a little paranoid, seeing a balcony covered in plants and climbers. Maneuvering around Duke aimed his descent towards the slightly softer and more easily to hold balcony.

Seconds later, the floss broke as he predicted. He could hear his siblings shout as Duke fell but saved himself on the tiny (made even tinier with all the plant pots and greenery) balcony with a loud thud.

Lights inside the room burst on and the doors opened with a spiked baseball, much like Harley's appearing in his face. Duke hadn't even had the chance to look up and he focused on the makeshift weapon wavering too near for comfort.

Plants and a baseball bat were a bad sign. Had Harley and Ivy really escaped Gotham? Is his small little resident in Metropolis really the home to Gotham Rogues hiding away from the Bats while they plot their demise??

Duke gulped and slowly raised his eyes up the baseball bat to the owner of the weapon before gasping in relief.

And embarrassment.

Of all the people.

Why??

Kill him now!

Perhaps Harley and Ivy were a better option after all.

Before him stood the cutie, with the light haloing her casting her shadow onto him, who he may have a small, not so large, tiny crush.

The woman who distracts him in the library with just a small scent of her floral perfume. The woman who he keeps an eye out for, whose dark hair shimmers blue when the sun hits it, as she walks through the university courtyard. The woman who gives him heart attacks when he witnesses her coffee order when he encounters her in his favourite coffee shop.

And she didn't look happy.

In fact she looked ferocious. A Valkyrie ready for war.

Nothing like the sweet clumsy cutie he bumps into.

She shifted her weight casting the light onto Dukes face causing him to squint at her.

"I'm sorry… I errr… I didn't mean to crash into your plants but my… string… broke and well, it was this or the ground."

"String?"

Her voice had a soft accent intriguing Duke further. He'd not heard it when she ordered her coffee.

"My… siblings and I are… were playing games. I was dared to abseil down the building."

Her face constricted into a puzzled frown as she tilted her head before moving her bat away from Duke. Her eyes suddenly widened in shock or recognition.

"Coffee guy!"

"Ummm… I usually go by Duke."

"Marinette."

Her accent was still there but less pronounced as she offered him her hand to stand up.

"I really am sorry about crushing your plants."

Duke took the proffered hand and ended up standing far closer than he was expecting. She filled his senses as the pair stood in the minute space of the balcony's doorway. His hand was still in hers. The vat still in her others his traitorous mind supplied.

"It's too dark to see the damage really. I'll check on them in the morning. Most of them are hardy plants anyway and more than likely have seen worse over the years."

Marinette took a step to move away back into the apartment leaving Duke missing the warmth of her nearness. He stepped in following her. Reluctant, despite his embarrassment, to miss this opportunity.

"I guess you'll want to take the more traditional way back to your siblings."

Her smile was filled with mirth and eyes twinkled with hidden meanings, enrapturing Duke further. Despite the unconventional meeting she didn't seem too upset about a crash-landed balcony visit. Almost as if this was not an unfamiliar event to occur. Duke followed her into the apartment nodding with agreement to her statement.

"Yeah… they'll probably be worried."

"At least you aren't a dead body on the ground so that'll hopefully reassure them a bit."

"Hmmm…" Duke thought of Dick's over the top protective-ness. Jason, and Tim he supposed, paranoia. All his siblings tended to jump to dramatic conclusions when worried. "Probably not. I should… I should really go. Thank you, or well, thank you for having a nearby balcony to save me. I really thought the string would hold at least another floor, or two, maybe."

"It's ok. Just buy me my coffee as a thanks."

Duke could hear the joking in her tone but he was willing to do so. Not just for a reason to talk to her again. As they reached the door, Duke felt a sense of bravery flood through him. He'd survived his siblings all evening. He survived a near (unvillianess) death AND he got to talk to his crush… and learn her name.

Marinette looked up at Duke as he paused by the door turning back to her. With that confidence… or was it the adrenaline that was still flowing through him, Duke impulsively leant down and kissed Marinette's cheek. They both froze in surprise.

"I, yeah, oh god! See you around."

Duke bolted.

In the stairwell he collided into the frantic looking Jason.

"You're alive!!!"

"What? Yes. I'm alive. I kissed her!"

"What?!"

"I kissed her, Jason!!!"

"So… you kissed her and then…"

"... I ran away…"

"Yeah, Right, nope! I'm not equipped to deal with this. We're going back upstairs now. Goldie and Blondie and deal with this nonsense. And ya going tell us how ya not dead or kidnapped."

"I kissed her and ran away… I'm going to owe her two coffees now."

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[the-coffee-fandom]

Hi hi!

So there’s a whole thing within the Maribat community where people believe there’s only one discord server when that’s simply just not true!

There are many and I’ve come to share one with an amazing community of people, centered around the fandom, has competent and wonderful people in charge, and is a safe place for everyone to enjoy!

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Come plot cursed fics in the general chat or share pictures of awesome cake designs in an authors channel you own and have full freedom over! We have school help and some events- one’s coming up to! And random movie nights that have just absolutely golden commentary. Writing bots to make and encourage you to write, and so many super talented writers!

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[sickz6mbie]

NIGHTMARE ⴵ

GENERAL MASTERLIST

Remember to give credits for the scps.

Full movies/shows

65 (2023)

Bones and All

Crimson Peak

Don't Open Till Christmas

Krampus

Midnight Mass

MTV: DOWNTOWN

Pierrot le fou

Prada x Elle: mini movies

Raw (2016)

Red Eye

Saturday the 14th

Supernatural - Bitten full episode

The faculty

Tron: Legacy

Characters

Angela Mason - Supernatural

Anna - Mange (2012)

Ava Wilson - Supernatural

Bela Talbot - Supernatural

Caroline Munro in DOTC

Castor Zuse - Tron: Legacy

Courtney Cox in Shameless

Crystal Romanowski - Small engine repair

Debbie Hyatt - Saturday the 14th

Del Luccetti - Wayne

Duke Orsino (funny/clumsy scenes) - she's the man

Emily - Cherry (2021)

Gina - MTV Downtown

Gretta James - Begin Again

Gwen Stacy (most scenes) - Spider-Man 3

Inès Kami - Disparu à Jamais

Jack - Rachel, Jack & Ashley Too

Jennifer - My First Mister

Junior - Junior (2011)

Justine (blood, crazy, sad scenes) - Grave/Raw (2016)

Justine - Titane

Karen Page (young scenes) - Daredevil

Katrina Clark - Me before you

Kelly Baker in DOTC

Kelly Keefe - Shameless

Koa - 65 (2023)

Lisa & Jackson - Red Eye

Lisa Reisert - Red Eye

Lucille Sharpe - Crimson Peak

Magda - Warning (2021)

Maren Yearly's outfits - Bones and All

Marinette Pichon - Marinette (2023)

Mia - Fish Tank

Monique Valentine - she's the man

Olivia Taylor - Wilderness

Oswald Cobblepot (season 5 scenes) - Gotham

Pamela Barnes - Supernatural

Penelope Lockhart - Seeking a friend for the end of the world

Regina George verse (all Reginas) - Mean Girl movies

Ruth C. - Never let me go

Sidonie - Madame Claude (2021)

Sophie (all scenes) - Aftersun

Sophie - Silent Night (2021)

Tommy D. - Never let me go

Veronica Miller - The last song

Viola & Olivia - she's the man

Violet Mulligan - Begin Again

Yolanda - Saturday the 14th

Yvonne - She's the Man

Other scenes

Bodies Bodies Bodies clips for intos

Crimson Peak aesthetic scenes

Crowley's mommy issues - Supernatural

Dean being sassy

Don't Open Till Christmas aesthetic scenes

Krampus aesthetic scenes

Saturday the 14th aesthetic scenes

The faculty aesthetic scenes

Tron: Legacy aesthetic scenes

Celebrities

Avantika Vandanapu - photopack & scenepack

Chloë Sevigny - photopack & scenepack

Dolly Parton - photopack & scenepack

Gabbriette Bechtel - photopack & scenepack

Jessica Chastain - photopack & scenepack

Other ressources

Caroline themed audiopack

CC/Theme tutorial

Characters cards (MTV Downtown)

Editing terms

Mega tuto pack

Panning tutorial

Prequel filter

#scenepacks #scene pack #edit resources

[ggomos-maribat]

[12/?]

original prompt | complete masterlist

Before the next family game night starts, Marinette strolls into the room carrying gift bags of different sizes. She greets the three early occupants inside.

"What are those?" Stephanie cranes her neck to get a better look.

"I had extra time so I decided to make these." Marinette let Duke help her setting the bags down at the foot of the couch. Cass peeks into one of the bags curiously.

"Vigilante-themed gifts." Marinette beams. "Since everyone's been so excited talking about their favorite vigilantes lately."

Stephanie laughs nervously. "Yeah, excited."

Marinette digs into a bright purple bag, fishing out a custom-made purse that's an obvious nod to Spoiler's theme. Steph gasps and gives her a bone-crushing hug.

The other gifts follow. She made a baggy graphic tee with an intricate artwork of Orphan for Cass. For Duke, she painted a pair of white Nikes to depict the Signal's colors.

"What did you get the others?" Duke asks, holding his shoes to his chest.

Marinette smirks. "You'll see."

---

The boys are quick to ask for their gifts when they arrived for game night. Dick receives a special lucky charm from her, which has a tiny trapeze trinket and a Nightwing bead.

"Extra luck when you need it," Marinette says to him. Dick wears it around his wrist immediately, swearing to keep it safe.

Jason's gift is the most intricate: an embroidered and studded leather jacket with Red Hood designs at the back and around the sleeves.

"Maybe Red Hood will like it if you ever meet him in person." Marinette steps back after confirming that it's a snug fit.

Jason clears his throat, choking up. "Ye--yeah he'll love this."

For Tim, she has crocheted two small ducks, one dressed as Red Robin and another as Tim in his office suit. Tim the Duck even has a coffee mug on its back. Marinette added metal rings so they double as keychains.

"My babies." Tim nods his approval and tucks them in his hoodie pocket.

----

Damian is the last one to receive his gift.

Marinette gently pulls out a picture frame from a box. "I didn't actually make this one," she explains, "but I got it commissioned instead. Since you have a massive crush on Robin---"

"---a what---"

"I had it made to suit your taste!"

She presents it to her brother: on the frame is a semi-realistic painting of Damian and Robin, where the latter is carried bridal style in the former's arms. Their gazes are locked in a romantic haze.

Marinette bounces on her heels. "And if you take the picture out there's a reader x Robin fanfiction at the back! Don't worry, it's a G.N. reader."

Damian stares down at the picture, speechless.

Her face falls. "Don't you like it?"

"I---I appreciate it," he manages to utter behind gritted teeth.

"I'm glad!" She nudges him on the side teasingly. "Don't be too embarrassed, Dames. It's okay to have a crush. You two look great together!"

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[intercoursefluids]

Hi! I love, love, love, your work! Holy shit! You gotta be the only one that I know of that does Adribat related stuff without being a Adrien Salter. Jesus, I could literally kiss right now if I could. But I had saw that you had this sleeping schedule, so I understand if you don't get this right away.

But I was wondering if I could get a Tim x Adrien story? With a side of childhood friends to lovers? Like Tim and Adri met at one of the Drakes Parties when they were younger? But also I want a side of relationship reveal, but with Class Field Trip to Gotham City salt. Also, also Tim and Adrien already know each other identities. BAMF bottom Adrien(not enough of those)

Basically all of Lila's lying, Tim x Adrien's relationship, is revealed at one of the Wayne Gala's. Could the only person that knows of the relationship be Chloe? I live for Adrien and Chloe sibling dynamic.

Thanks and please get a proper rest! I don't want you overworking yourself.

Hi, I'm glad that you enjoy my writing but I need to let you know, before you read this, that I *hate* this prompt.

There is nothing actually wrong with it, I just could not get it to work for me, this is the best I could come up with and I do not like how it came out but I refuse to leave you hanging so...

*Throws fic to you and hopes for the best*

If someone else wants to take a crack at this be my guest

Adrien sighed, slinking away from the group of his classmates and friends to go hide near the snack table.

Lila was back at it, complaining and bragging about any and everything, and she wouldn’t stop touching him!

It was so! Annoying!

Sure he was used to it but that didn’t make it any better, especially when it was her.

If Marinette or Kagami had been there they would have separated them (Kagami) or caused a distraction so he could slip away (Marinette), but no, neither of them were there because Kagami was a thief and stole his friend to introduce her to her family in Japan, ensuring that she wouldn’t be here during the schools ‘educational’ end of year trip to Gotham.

Add on to the fact that Chloe was running late and couldn’t ‘bitch her way into getting Lila to leave him alone’, her words not his.

The only plus side to this trip was-

“Adrien! There you are, I’ve been looking for you everywhere! Come on, I want to introduce you to my family.”

-Seeing Tim Drake Drake-Wayne again.

Adrien smiled, hugging his friend tightly.

“Tim! I haven’t seen you in so long! I’ve missed you!”

Tim paused, tightly hugging Adrien back before pulling away with a huge smile.

“I missed you too, where’s Chloe? I thought you two went everywhere together?”

Adrien sighed, running a hand through his hair and messing it up some.

“She’s running late, something about her hair being too frizzy to be seen in public, I think.”

Tim’s smile turned soft, reaching up with one hand to try and fix Adrien’s hair as he used the other to lace their hands together.

“That sounds like her now, are you ready to finally meet the rest of my family?”

Adrien nodded his head rapidly, squeezing Tim’s hand in his own as he started to lead him away.

“Yes I am, you talk about them all the time when we email each other.”

Tim carefully led them through crowds, turning back to smile at him as they came into view.

“Remember, Damian will bite you so don’t touch him without permission and Jason and Steph’s love languages are bullying, they probably won’t be genuinely mean so don’t worry too much-”

“-Cass doesn’t like to talk much, Dick loves puns, and if we start acting out Duke will pretend he doesn’t know us even though he is the one who started the fight, I know, I know. It’ll be fine, let's go.”

Tim takes a deep breath, squeezing Adrien’s hand and shooting him a look that was probably supposed to be reassuring as opposed to the grimace it looked like.

Marching over to his family, Adrien catches the tail end of an argument over someone named Jerry (?) before Tim interrupted them.

“Guys, this is Adrien, my- friend.”

Adrien barely even notices Tim’s stumble over the word ‘friend’ before he gets pulled into a headlock with his hair being violently ruffled.

“Why do you look so stuffy, blondie? This is supposed to be a party!”

Adrien laughs as his hair is messed up, again.

A grin covers his face as Tim pulls him away from his brother with a yelp, wrapping him in his arms and holding him away from them.

“I didn’t bring him over here for you to torment him!”

The one who had been ruffling his hair, Jason if he had to guess based off the white streak in his hair, laughs, pulling Tim into a side hug and shaking him as Adrien is stolen away again.

“So, you are the friend Tim was telling me about, nice to meet you. I’m Stephanie but everyone calls me Steph.”

Adrien smiled at her, shaking her hand.

“Adrien, I don’t really have a nickname but my friends like to come up with names on the fly so feel free to do the same-”

“Adrien! There you are~ We lost you for a minute there.”

Lila's voice is like nails on a chalkboard and Adrien can’t hold back the grimace and glare that momentarily cover his face.

“Damnit. Hi Lila, I was just meeting one of my friends' family.”

Adrien forces a smile on his face, struggling not to cringe away when she comes up and tucks her hand into his elbow, digging her nails into his skin.

“Oh, hello everyone! My name is Lila, Adrien and I are friends, you could say.”

She ends her sentence with a giggle and Adrien doesn’t even bother hiding the small glare on his face this time.

“That's right. We are friends. By the way, I’m pretty sure Alya is looking for you, you should go see what she needs him?”

Adrien’s annoyance is obvious to anyone who looks at him, emphasized by how he makes sure there is no misunderstanding about his relationship with Lila.

Lila glares at him before covering it up and smiling sweetly at Tim’s family.

“Adrien’s right, I really should be getting back. Come find us when you are done here, okay Adrien?”

Adrien was barely able to force out something that sounded vaguely like an agreement out through his clenched teeth as she walked away.

Adrien shook his arm off, rubbing the sore spots from where her nails dug in before his arm was snatched back up.

Adrien looked up, staring at Tim as he gently but firmly started to roll up his sleeve, looking at the little marks left by Lila’s nails.

“Adrien… This isn’t okay.”

Tim runs his thumb over the little marks, brow furrowed as he slowly looks up to meet Adrien’s eyes.

“It’s fine, I'm used to it. People touch me all the time while I’m modeling, it’s not that big of a deal, honestly.”

Tim presses his lips into a thin line, turning to address his family as he laces their hands together.

“We’ll be back soon. If anybody asks, I was feeling sick and needed some air.”

Jason gives him a thumbs up, him and Steph glaring in the direction Lila walked off.

Leading Adrien back through the crowd they head for the stairs, going into a room resembling a study.

Tim pulls Adrien into a hug, squeezing him tightly against him.

Adrien melts into the hug, squeezing him back as Tim runs a hand up and down his back.

“Adrien, she is hurting you. I cannot let her keep doing that. I care about you far too much to just stand by while she hurts you.”

The tension in the air was thick, making Adrien shift from foot to foot as Tim stared at him, holding him down with just his gaze.

“Well, when you say it like that it sounds like you’re in love with me of something, haha…”

Adrien tries to joke, ignoring how it feels more like a dig at himself and his feelings for Tim when he doesn’t laugh with him.

Instead Tim blushes, brightly.

Looking away from Adrien and clearing his throat, a slightly panicked look taking over his face.

Adrien stops laughing, opting to stare at Tim with his mouth wide open.

“Wait, are you?!”

Tim coughs again, turning to face Adrien again.

“Well, while this isn’t how I had planned it, I was going to tell you tonight. I completely understand if you don’t want to be friends anymore or if you are uncomfortable being around me now, I’m not going to force you to stay-”

Adrien rushed forward, grabbing Tim’s hands and holding them to his chest.

“No no no, I like you too! I wasn’t going to say anything but I have feelings for you too!”

Tim’s face gets redder as he looks at anything other than Adrien.

“Good, um, that- that’s great. Do you… Want to be my boyfriend?”

Adrien smiles so hard his cheeks hurt, lacing their fingers together and nodding quickly.

“Yes, yes I want to be your boyfriend.”

Adrien lunges forward, planting a kiss on Tim’s cheek, blushing when Tim tilts his head so kisses his lips instead.

“Well, now that you are officially mine, you can tell ‘Lila’ to fuck off whenever she touches you. Better yet, I’ll do it for you.”

Tim leads him out of the room, still holding his hand.

As they reach the rest of the party, Adrien spots Tim’s family, they are looking up at the two and money is changing hands.

Adrien tugs back on Tim’s hand, causing him to pause and look towards him.

“Maybe just wait for Lila to come up to us again? I don’t really want to cause a scene right now.”

Tim sighed before agreeing, leading him back over to his family where they proceeded to spend most of the Gala.

At some point Chloe had finally joined them, from there she had immediately started embarrassing Adrien with how he and Tim had met as well as several different stories about some of his most embarrassing moments.

Chloe had moved onto thinly veiled stories from Adrien’s times as Chat Noir, causing him and Tim to share a meaningful look as Tim already knew the truth about him being a hero and vice versa.

(When Tim had made his plan to become Robin he had immediately told Adrien about it and when Adrien had first gotten his miraculous he had told Tim about it to get some advice.)

In the middle of Chloe telling everyone how he had fallen into the pool on her roof, Lila came back.

Looping her hand through Adrien’s arm already had him on edge, but when she did the same to Tim, he was pissed.

Adrien quickly removed her hands from both of them, pulling Tim to his other side as he glared at Lila.

“First of all, stop touching me, it makes me want to claw my skin off everytime you touch me. Second of all, do not to Tim. If you put your hands on him one more time I will out you as the lying, two faced snake you are.”

Adrien’s voice doesn’t rise over a harsh whisper but the message is plenty clear to everyone who heard it.

Unfortunately, Lila has always been too cocky for her own good.

“Adrien, I know you aren’t talking to me like that. All I have to do is have a little chat with your father and you will be ripped away from all of our little friends faster than you can say “Sorry”, and let's not forget what I will do to your little friends Marinette and Kagami. I can and will ruin yours and their lives if you don’t apologize to me.”

Adrien goes to reply when Tim holds him back, a loud, deep voice filling the air beside them.

“Is that so, Mademoiselle Rossi?”

Both teens turn to see Bruce Wayne standing beside them, looking absolutely pissed. Not to mention that all of Tim’s siblings have their phones out and are likely recording.

“I had planned to speak with you tonight on several matters but I suppose now is as good a time as any.”

Lila pales, eyes wide as she stares at one of the men she had been lying about the entire trip.

“My children have alerted me to the fact that you have been lying about me and my family since before you even got to Gotham, as well as several other celebrities I have already alerted.”

“I must say, I am severely disappointed to find that not only do you have a problem with lying, but you are also threatening my son’s boyfriend. Come with me, we are calling your mother.”

As Bruce walks away, Lila trailing after him, Chloe’s phone abrupts into loud, hysterical laughter, startling everyone standing too close.

It takes a second but Adrien is able to recognize the sound of Marinette’s voice with Kagami trying to get her to calm down in the background.

Adrien raises an eyebrow at her and Chloe looks back unapologetically.

“What? Mari had a right to hear Liar-la get exposed and you know it.”

Adrien sighs, hugging Tim as he tries to block out the sounds of everyone around them gossiping about what just happened.

… As well as the sounds of Marinette cackling like a mix of a supervillain and a witch emanating from Chloe’s phone.

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[sachsoup]

my casting for a heathers x miraculous ladybug au except i didn't think much of yet

Chloe Bourgeois - Heather Chandler (I can totally see Chloe say, "did you eat a tumor for breakfast, heather.")

Lila Rossi - Heather Duke (idk, i just feel like it fits her to unofficially take Chloe/HC's place/throne)

Sabrina Raincomprix - Heather McNamara (idk why)

Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Veronica Sawyer (both are quite blue)

Felix Graham de Vanily - Jason Dean/JD (kinda fits i guess idk?)

idk everything else haha

#miraculous au #miraculous fandom #miraculous ladybug #miraculous lb #felinette #felix graham de vanily #marinette dupen chang #heathers