ive had kind of a bummer week so i started a new project to get some creative hits before going back to work on longterm projects. here's a snippet of the 1920s AU i've been playing with~
It wasn’t snowing, though it certainly felt cold enough to. Marinette pulled her collar closed against her throat and cheeks, keeping herself as snug as she could. She had some privacy in the dark alley that guarded the back entrance of the Lucky Lady, but the click of her lighter must have attracted attention from the street. She saw the white suit jacket and vest that was becoming painfully familiar approach.
Her mask was still in place, but she did not need him getting too close. She could not risk Adrien Agreste getting a decent look at Ladybug. She stepped back into the shadow of the alley, and he took the hint, coming to a stop when he was at arm’s length from her
“Pardon me, mademoiselle,” he said, voice soft enough to wring out Marinette’s heart, “but do you happen to have a light? I seem to have left mine in my coat pocket.”
He sounded like the boy who had abandoned her, not the man who had returned. His voice was gentle, uncertain. There was none of the swagger she’d seen in the young man in her shop that morning, nor the cold grin he’d sported when he’d entered the Lady Luck.
She took a drag on her cigarette to steel her nerves, then handed him her lighter. She risked a glance at his face as he lit his own cigarette, careful to keep her own face in the darkness.
“What happened to your coat?” she asked.
“I gave it to a gentleman who looked like he needed it more than I did.” The tip of his cigarette glowed orange, and he returned her lighter to her. His eyes looked warm in this dim light.
She tucked her lighter back into her coat. “And what happened to your date?”
“I called her a cab. I was hoping to chat with you before returning home.”
Marinette could not stop a sneer from crossing her face. She hoped the darkness hid that, too. “What business do you have with me?”
“I heard a rumor that if a gentleman is down on his luck, you’re the lady to see.”
“I’ve been known to reverse fortunes,” she murmured. “From toppling those on thrones to lifting up those in the gutter. You don’t strike me as a man in a gutter.”
He turned his head to blow a lungful of smoke away from her. The street lamp glinted off of his hair, creating a golden halo. “One man’s heaven,” he shrugged, and let the rest of phrase disappear behind a rueful smile.
Everything about it prickled against Marinette’s skin like a bed of needles, but she did not want to waste an opportunity here. Max had told her that they would need more information, so she was going to get it.
“What do you want me to do?”
“Only to tell you that, if you’re interested in toppling thrones, my father has staked a lot of his reputation and finances into this one sale.”
“Mayor Bourgeois is the one selling.”
Adrien shrugged and extinguished his cigarette against the wall. “I just balance the books. That’s all I can tell you.”
“How do I know you won’t use this for your own gain? You just want me to take down your father so you can take over in his place—is that it?”
The self-deprecating smile vanished. He let out a deep breath, and the warm air of his lungs collected in front of him as surely as if he had taken another drag on his cigarette. “Do it right, and there won’t be anything left for me to take over.” He tipped his hat to her. “Thanks for the light.” And he turned back to the street.
Marinette waited until he had rounded the corner and was well out of sight before snuffing out her own cigarette and hurrying back inside. She could already hear Max and Nino warning her it was a trap, but she felt recklessness curling inside her chest. She had to know what else was hidden in that art exchange, or it would burn her alive. She had to tear down Gabriel Agreste, and if Adrien came tumbling down with him, well, she wouldn’t complain about that.
There are also others who did not enter here by type — Theodore Peterson, Nick Roth, Noelle and even that baker from Deltarune. But I adore them.🥰 (and I adore Sir Pentius).
Will the Order move against past!Gabe quickly once they realise their Marinette has the Butterfly and Peacock miraculous? After all, the butterfly miraculous can be easily countered by another butterfly miraculous...
They could but where was the fun in that? The Order knows they could counter all of Titania's Champions but it would be boring, less fun, no hunt. They would rather toy with Gabriel, and let him make his little Akumas only for them to obliterate the Akumas in seconds, it makes him more mad. The Order wants to see Gabriel squirm and seethe in anger, just like Nadja Chamack he is just a toy to them, a means of entertainment. So perhaps when they get bored of him they will attack him.
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I bought another Ladynoir pair from a Korean deal to gift my friend, but his birthday is in May LOL
Andddd a pair of Japanese mochies for my other friend and her birthday is in Nov LMAO (She is still stuck in the US so our initial plan of meeting up in HCM city failed :( But well that does not stop me from buying them gifts before that haha)