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kasienda · 1 year

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You Don’t Have to Pretend with Me

“Can I talk to you?”

Carapace sighed at the question. “Yeah, of course.” And he obediently followed Ladybug.

“What do you have against Chat Noir?”

“Nothing!” he denied.

She gave him a flat disbelieving look.

“He has something against me!” Carapace insisted.

“Nino, I don’t get it. You’re one of the most chill, accepting guys I know. And Chat is the sweetest! I need both of you on the team. I literally don’t have anyone else I trust to replace either of you. I need you to get along. You think you can do that?”

Nino felt like he was being chastised by his mother for not getting along with his little brother.

He nodded. “Yeah, I will try.”

It shouldn’t be that hard. Nino didn’t not like Chat Noir. He thought the dude was cool and hilarious. His sense of humor reminded him of Adrien. Things hadn’t always been tense between them. When they fought back to back during Heroes’ Day, it had felt like they were brothers.

But it was clear to him that Chat Noir wasn’t his biggest fan. The other hero had been welcoming and kind to Rena Rouge on day one, to the point of borderline flirting (and Nino wasn’t a huge fan of that even now), while he had always been somewhat aloof with Carapace.

Then there was the whole Chat Noir is stealing my girl thing. And even though he knew that wasn’t what happened, it was hard to just let go of all those feelings, especially since Chat Noir had been acting differently around him after Rocketear. And maybe he had a right to be after Nino's akuma had thrown him into a van, but it wasn’t like Chat Noir knew that Nino and Carapace were the same person, so why had he started avoiding Carapace?

With all of that, it was easy to snap at the other hero.

...

Adrien couldn’t figure out why things between Adrien and Nino had always been so easy when things between Chat Noir and Carapace felt so hard.

Like, he knew he was different as Chat, but he was far less different as Adrien with Nino than anyone else. Or he had been before Rocketear.

And now? Now, he had no idea how he was supposed to act. Had no idea what Nino wanted from Chat Noir, but it was very clear he wasn’t measuring up.

Had Nino just taken pity on him that first day of school? Maybe Adrien was irritating all the time and Nino was just too kind to show it. Did Nino actually like him at all?

“Dude, you okay?” Nino interrupted his musings.

Adrien started and looked up into warm concerned golden eyes, and sucked in a breath.

That had to be sincere, right? Nino wasn’t pretending to care. He wouldn’t have asked if he didn’t care.

“Mec! What’s wrong?” Nino asked again.

“Nothing!” Adrien lied, pasting on a bright smile.

Nino frowned. “This is clearly not nothing.”

“I…” Adrien didn’t know how to talk about any of this.

“I don’t mean to pressure you,” Nino backpedaled immediately. “If you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to. I just…” Nino pursed his lips before pinning him with a look Adrien didn’t know how to interpret. “You don’t have to pretend. Not with me. Not ever.”

Adrien nodded, but he couldn’t be reassured. Because he knew Nino was wrong.

He had to pretend when he was Chat Noir.

And he knew that he wasn’t being completely fair, that Nino thought he was two different people.

But the hurt was still there, and Adrien didn’t know how to erase those feelings when he was hanging out with Nino.

And since he couldn’t explain any of it without revealing secrets he wasn’t allowed to share, he didn’t know how to stop pretending. That’s just what he did.

…

Nino watched as Adrien walked away. He didn’t know what he was doing wrong, but Adrien was distant. He wasn’t talking to him anymore. Not about school or home. Not even about stupid stuff like the latest anime he was obsessed with. And to make it worse, Adrien gave him more and more false platitudes and fake smiles.

Adrien was treating him the same way he treated Chloe. With polite indifference.

Nino couldn’t help but wonder what he had done wrong.

Nino kept trying though. He sent Adrien a bunch of cat memes, tried to invite him out to lunch, shared some of the music that he was working on, and he had asked what was wrong so many times, Nino suspected they were both sick of hearing it.

But Nino couldn’t give up.

Because what if this had nothing to do with Nino at all?! What if something horrible had happened to Adrien and he was just like this with everyone now?

He’d have to watch Adrien the next time he was around Marinette to check, but in the meantime, Nino wanted to break something.

And unfortunately for probably everyone, it was Chat Noir who happened to cross his path first.

…

It took Chat about a moment after Carapace had snapped at him to find his voice. And if it had been anyone else, anyone besides Nino, he probably could have taken it in stride. But it was Nino and Adrien was tired of pretending everything was okay.

“What the hell is your problem? What did I ever do to you? Why do you hate me?” he demanded.

Carapace froze, his eyes wide and startled. “I don’t know!”

“You don’t know why you hate me?” Chat repeated in disbelief. That seemed kinda shallow for Nino.

“No! That’s not what I meant. I don’t know what my problem is. I swear I don’t actually hate you, dude.”

“You don’t?” Chat wasn’t sure he believed it.

Carapace slid to the ground and buried his head in his knees. He wasn’t shaking, so Chat didn’t think he was crying. At least, not yet.

“Are you okay?” Chat asked, falling into an awkward crouch near Carapace’s huddled form, but not anywhere as close that Nino would think he was pushing into his space.

Carapace shook his head, finally looking up. “I’m really angry.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know. I pride myself on being totally chill. A completely low maintenance dude. But lately, it seems like everyone is mad at me. And I don’t know why. And I don’t know how to fix any of it!”

“Who’s mad at you?”

“Who isn’t?!” Carapace snapped.

Chat was silent.

Carapace sighed and looked back at him. “Sorry. I don’t mean to unload on you. You probably don’t care about my problems. I know I’ve been a jerk to you. You’re just… larger than life, ya know? Doesn’t seem like anything can hurt you. And I…” he trailed off, not sure what he was saying.

“You’re jealous of me?”

Carapace shook his head. “No, that’s not it. It’s more like, I have to be strong for everyone. And you, you seem like you can take anything that life throws at you.”

“I’m your scapegoat,” Chat realized out loud. The tension in his body faded and he slowly took a seat next to Carapace. Closer than Chat probably would have, but not as close as Adrien wanted to. “Someone who can handle you lashing out at them.”

“Dude! I’m sorry! That’s so messed up. I didn’t even realize I was doing it. But yeah, I think that’s what I’ve been doing. With Alya, I didn’t want to be mad at her. It was easy to be mad at you instead - some anonymous hero who never seemed to like me anyway.”

“What made you think I didn’t like you?”

“You referred to me as the turtle when we met.”

“What?”

“When Rena joined the team, you were excited. You said her name and flirted with her.”

“I didn’t flirt with her!” Chat objected.

Carapace arched an eyebrow at him.

“I was just… trying to be charming. How do you know about it anyway?” Chat shook his head before the question was finished. “Right. You guys are dating.”

“Dated.”

Chat stopped breathing. “Y-You broke up?”

Carapace shrugged. “Yeah, it’s probably my fault. I guess I’m not good at this whole communication thing. I guess when I’m upset I just put my head in my shell and pretend it’s not happening.”

Chat swallowed hard and looked away. “How long ago?”

“About a month.”

“A month?!” Chat hissed. “Why didn’t… I mean, have you talked about this with anyone?”

Carapace shook his head. “There’s no one to talk to.”

“There’s no one?” The heavy sadness struck him in the chest harder than any hit he had ever taken. He had been so busy feeling hurt, he hadn’t realized Nino was hurting too.

“I’ve been pretty lonely most of my life,” Carapace said. “I was friendly with everyone, but I was never good at making friends.”

Chat drank in every word. This was all news to him.

“I thought that was changing. I made this really great friend at the beginning of last year and then there was Alya. And it just felt like everything was right. And then she broke up with me. And my best friend…” he trailed off. He didn’t even know what happened with Adrien.

“Yeah?”

Carapace shrugged. “I don’t know! He just clammed up one day. Started pasting on fake smiles the way he does for everyone else. He won’t tell me anything. And I’m scared he’s mad at me, but I don’t know what I did! And if he’s not mad at me, I’m terrified something happened to him and if he’s not talking to me, he’s not talking to anyone.”

To Chat’s horror, Nino started crying.

“I just love the dude so much,” his voice cracked. “I feel like I lost him too and honestly, that has hurt more than losing Al- I mean Rena. Fuck! I totally blew my identity this conversation, didn’t I?”

Chat burst into laughter. “If it makes you feel better, I already knew.”

Carapace’s face fell. “Oh. Is that… is that why you’ve been weird with me since Rocketear?”

“Sort’ve,” Chat hedged. It was really more complicated than a jealous Rocketear trying to thrash Chat Noir into tiny pieces.

“I’m really sorry for that whole mess.”

Chat shrugged. “Don’t worry about it. Like I said at the time, we all have doubts.”

“Even you,” Carapace echoed.

Chat shifted uncomfortably, not wanting to talk about that particular bit of vulnerability.

Carapace was kind enough not to push. Chat shouldn’t have been surprised. Nino had always been great at respecting Adrien’s boundaries. But somehow, he was.

“Well, I guess I should thank you,” Carapace said.

Chat swung his head toward Carapace. “For what?!”

Carapace shrugged again. “I don’t know. Listening? Taking my crap? Just… I don’t know… being real with me? I promise I’ll try not to unload all my baggage onto you anymore, cat dude. Just because you can take it doesn’t mean you should have to. I’m really sorry.”

“It’s okay,” Chat said.

“It really isn’t.”

This time Chat shrugged. “But in a way I feel flattered?”

“Huh?”

“Don’t get me wrong. I hate the unsolicited crit and the snapping turtle attitude. The total lack of grace or understanding when I’m late or can’t make it when you know I can’t explain anything—“

Carapace groaned, burying his face into his hands.

Chat laughed.

“But I am flattered that you could just be your raw unfiltered self around me when you couldn’t be that around anyone else. I don’t have very much of that in my life either.”

Carapace shot back up, his eyes wide behind his goggles. “What do you mean?”

“Just that I can’t afford to be myself most of the time in my civilian life. Partially because of my… umm… parents, and partly because I have to hide my identity. And I did have one friend,” Chat looked up at him then, “that I felt pretty comfortable around, but that’s been rocky lately, too.”

Carapace nodded. “I’m sorry, man. All of that is rough. What happened with your friend?”

“He doesn’t know about this half of me and it’s caused some issues. I’ve tried to pretend that everything is fine, but… I think I might have lost my best friend, too.” Chat admitted, glancing at him carefully.

Carapace nodded solemnly. “I’m sorry. I definitely know how that feels.”

“Maybe I’ll try talking to him again,” Chat said.

“Too bad you can’t just tell him who you are.”

Chat bit his lip. He wasn’t supposed to, and he definitely knew better than to ask for permission, but… Ladybug had told someone her identity. Would it really be so bad if he told Nino?

“Maybe you should try again with your friend, too,” he said.

Carapace sighed and looked up at the sky. “I don’t think I’ll ever stop trying with him, but I doubt it’ll go any different. My friend… he’s not allowed a lot of boundaries in his life. He’s scared to set them. And like, so when he does, I can’t push back. If I do, he’ll cave, like, immediately. And I’m supposed to be chill and laid back. He’s not supposed to have to try with me.”

Chat was stared at him, more than a little floored, but also a little upset at this new context.

“What?”

“Nothing. I’m just… that’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself.”

“I love him.”

“Even so, you’re only human. Maybe he needs to remember that, too. And maybe he wants you to be able to be totally yourself when you’re around him, too.”

…

Nino was waiting on the sidewalk outside the school building. Adrien’s car would pull up in exactly four minutes - the same time it did every school morning. Other people arrived and chatted with one another as they moved up the stairs. But Nino could barely pay attention to any of it, his eyes on the road waiting for the familiar white vehicle to pull up.

He tapped his toe into the ground, and he tried to keep his hands in his pockets to look more casual, but they wouldn’t stay there as he kept fidgeting.

Why was he so nervous? This was Adrien. His best friend might not be talking to him, but he would still hear him out and he was always insanely patient.

When the car finally pulled up, Nino’s heart seemed to rise up into his throat and his palms were wet with sweat. He really shouldn’t be this nervous. Adrien was going to step out of the car and give him a polite and distant smile, and then start walking beside him as they headed to home room.

Only, that’s not what happened at all. Adrien stepped out of the car, but when he did he was beaming a megawatt smile brighter than the sun. When he walked up to Nino, he offered his fist and Nino had to scramble to meet it to play out their old secret handshake that they haven’t done… in weeks!

It felt good. Like so good, and Nino laughed more in relief than anything else. Had he just imagined the last few weeks of distance and cold shoulders?

He almost didn’t want to bring anything up, not wanting to upset this return to joyous normalcy. But at the same time Nino was so confused, and he needed to understand because if he did do something wrong, he needed to understand what happened so he wouldn’t do it again.

“Hey, dude? Can we talk before we go to class?”

Adrien nodded. “I think it’s long overdue.”

And Nino was thrown and relieved all over again that Adrien wasn’t denying that there was something worthy of talking about.

Adrien led them to a storage closet where he jiggled the handle very precisely and the normally locked door just fell open.

Clearly, Adrien had used this space before.

“Dude! Did you just break us into a closet?”

“Shh!“ And Adrien yanked him inside.

Two minutes later they were sitting side by side on upside down plastic buckets in the overcrowded closet.

“So what do you want to talk about?”

Nino clutched his own shoulder, and shot a glance at Adrien who was still smiling patiently at him. This felt like such a stupid question.

“Are we okay?” Nino made himself ask.

“We’re okay on my end,” Adrien said. “Are we okay on yours?”

“Yes!” Nino assured rapidly, but Adrien raised his eyebrows as if he didn’t actually believe him. And Nino wilted. “Actually, no.”

Adrien nodded like he was expecting it. Adrien knew something was off - he still wasn’t denying everything was fine.

“Go on.”

“You’ve felt really far away recently, dude. Except for today. I feel like I keep reaching out and I keep asking what’s up, but you never tell me, which is fine if it’s other stuff. You don’t have to tell me stuff. I just… you’ve been so distant, and it feels like you’re lying. Not that I’m accusing you of lying! I just… i just feel like I did something wrong. And I… I miss you.”

Adrien put a hand on his shoulder. “I’m sorry. I didn’t want to be far away and distant. I didn’t want to lie. I literally couldn’t explain what was wrong and I probably still shouldn’t.”

Nino held his breath.

“I was distant because of how you treated me.”

Nino was super confused. And it must have shown on his face because Adrien instantly held his hands up.

“No wait. Let me explain.”

Nino nodded.

“You’ve always said that I didn’t have to pretend with you, but it really really felt like that wasn’t the case.”

“Dude! I’ve always tried to just be chill and to respect your boundaries.”

“And you did… when you knew I was Adrien.”

“When I knew you were Adrien?” Nino repeated slowly, every muscle in his body was suddenly pulled tight. “There was a time when I didn’t know you were Adrien?”

This was sounding too familiar, but Nino couldn’t pinpoint why. And if the dread pooling in his gut was anything to go by, he didn’t want to.

“More than one time.”

Nino’s gut twisted further in on itself. “When?”

“When I was Chat Noir.”

Nino literally couldn’t breathe. His eyes were hot and his throat was caving in. And holy fuck.

He rolled forward, burying his face into his knees, as he tried to hold back the torrents that wanted to break forth.

He didn’t succeed. He shook like a musician just before going on stage for his first gig. But the wailing was so much worse than that.

Adrien was talking, but Nino couldn’t hear him, his mind too busy reviewing everything he had ever said about Chat Noir to Adrien, everything he had said and done to Chat Noir, who was apparently his best friend.

Adrien who was so good at taking heat and never saying anything because at home saying something always made everything worse.

Nino had always aspired to be an escape, a safe place for Adrien. And Nino had been betraying that every time he had used Chat Noir as a punching bag to lash out at when things weren’t going well for him.

“Nino!” Adrien’s hands were on his face and his shoulders, pulling him in. And Nino let him, feeling limp like a rag doll. “It’s okay now!”

Nino shook his head violently. It didn’t feel okay. Not remotely. “Dude! I’m… I’m so sorry,” he choked out.

“You already apologized,” Adrien reminded him gently.

This was why Adrien had been so happy to see him this morning. Carapace and Chat Noir had talked things out. “I know, but it feels so much worse now.”

Adrien nodded. “Yeah, it felt worse to me too. But Nino, you didn’t know.”

Nino only cried harder. “You weren’t supposed to tell me, were you?”

“Hey! This was your idea! When Ladybug finds out I’m compromised, I’m definitely throwing you under the bus.”

Nino laughed through his tears. “I’m fine with that. I would deserve it after… everything.”

“Nino, I was joking.”

“I wasn’t.”

Adrien sighed. “So, are we okay?”

Nino nodded rapidly. “If you think we’re okay, we’re definitely okay.”

“I’m uh… sorry about Alya.”

“That wasn’t your fault, dude! It wasn’t Adrien’s or Chat Noir’s.”

“I meant more that I made you feel like you couldn’t talk to me about it?”

Nino nodded. “It’s fine. I’m… not totally okay, especially when it felt like I had lost you, too. But,” and Nino pulled off what had to be the most watery smile, “I think I will get there. Thank you.”

“I love you, too, you know.”

“What?”

“You told me as Chat that you loved me as Adrien.”

Heat burned in Nino’s neck and ears. “I did say that. I didn’t know I was telling you though.”

“I know, but that’s how I knew you meant it, and weren’t just saying it to be nice to the awkward loner kid who needs friends.”

“Dude, before you joined our class, I was the awkward loner kid who needed friends!”

Adrien smiled. “But I never knew that either until you told Chat.”

“Gah! This is so confusing!” Nino complained.

Adrien grinned. “But it’s awesome, right?”

Nino mirrored the expression. “Hell yeah! Definitely awesome!”

And they stood and immediately pulled each other into a hug. And if they had been twenty minutes late to class, no one said anything.

…

“What the hell happened?!” Ladybug demanded of her earpiece.

Rena Furtive chuckled into her ear. “You’re the one that yelled at them. I thought you wanted them to get along?”

“I did! I do! But now-” She gestured to the two boys laughing their heads off as they kept trying to outdo each other with increasingly complicated stunts that they failed more than half of the time. “Now, they’re just being stupid.”

Rena Furtive laughed again. “I, for one, am glad to see Carapace so happy again. A mopey turtle is just wrong.”

And Ladybug softened. “Yeah, you’re right. A pouty kitty wasn't fun either. I’m glad they’ve bounced back.”

“Yeah, me too.”

“Now, can you please go in there and show them how it’s done since I can’t? They’re embarrassing us!”

Ladybug laughed before launching herself towards the new tight-knit duo she had on her team.

“You guys, dating or something?” she asked, as she landed next to them.

Chat Noir and Carapace shared a look. It felt like they were having a whole conversation with just their eyes, and they suddenly both grinned and nodded at one another in agreement.

“Guys are allowed to have emotionally close friends, bugaboo!” Chat told her.

“Doesn’t mean anything is romantic or sexual,” Carapace added.

Ladybug held up her hands in surrender. “I’m not judging either way. Just happy that you’re finally getting along!”

#miraculous ladybug fanfiction #platonic adrino #caranoir enemies to friends #healing friendship #post rocketear #talking it out #one shot #adrien agreste #nino lahiffe #my own content #you don't have to pretend with me

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mari-monsta · 2 months

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Adrien, winking and making a heart with his hands: I just wanted to make sure you're not in love with me because that would be pretty embarrassing. Cringe.

Alya, making a heart back and booping him on the nose: God no. Being in love with you would be cringe af. I'm not a cheater nerdboy.

Adrien, giggling and blowing her a kiss: Good because that would've been really gross for everyone involved im sure glad we avoided that one

Marinette: do they know how insane they look right now

Nino: they have no idea

#TELL ME this isnt how rocketear went #guys tell me to go to bed im making absolutely in comprehensible text posts #I JUST.#HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO FLIRT TH A. T MUCH WHILE YOU ARE ACTUALLY TURNING SOMEONE DOWN

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tizzymcwizzy · 1 year

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HEY YOU!! I HAVEN'T POSTED FIC IN A WHILE BUT I JUST REMEMBERED I HAD THIS FINISHED ONE SHOT FROM A YEAR AGO I FORGOT ABOUT

here's the link to read it on ao3

it's a post rocketear 5.8k one shot with an original character akuma that's just a vessel for me to do some Adrien character exploration

also some art for it from a year ago

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character-fan19 · 9 days

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Master Post

Yeah, so I've decided to make a master post to compile all of my analyses in one post to make it easier for anyone new to my blog to find all my analysis posts.

MLB Season 4 Character Analysis

Truth

Lies

Gang of Secrets

Mr. Pigeon 72

Psycomedian

Furious Fu

Sole Crusher

Queen Banana

Gabriel Agreste

Mega Leech

Guiltrip

Crocoduel

Optigami

Sentibubbler

Glaciator 2

Hack-San

Rocketear

Wishmaker

Simpleman

Qilin

Dearest Family

Ephemeral

Kuro Neko

Penalteam

Shadow Moth's Final Attack (Risk & Strikeback)

Love Square Screen Time

Season 1

Season 2

Miraculous Shanghai

Season 3

Miraculous New York

Season 4

Season 5

Miraculous Paris

Love Square Screen Time Records

Optimizing Viewing Experience for Love Square Shippers

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ladyofthenoodle · 1 year

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why alya's s5 position on ladynoir makes sense

even though she's wrong

many people (me) were initially taken aback by alya's insistence that marinette is in love with adrien and not chat noir, when previous seasons had repeatedly shown us that she is an avid ladynoir shipper

however, upon reflection, season 4 actually set this up perfectly

we start with the aftermath of gang of secrets, when a post-lukanette breakup marinette insists she must be alone forever and that she's over adrien, despite evidence to the contrary - a pattern marinette will repeat at the beginning of season 5. alya has seen this behavior before.

she has a front row seat to the adrinette show every single weekday whether she likes it or not (luckily she does). she ended up being right about marinette not being over adrien in mister pigeon 72, so naturally she's not going to believe marinette this time either.

however, despite her supporting adrinette, we season that alya is still on team ladynoir as late as glaciator 2. i don't know that it really occurred to her until that moment that adrinette and ladynoir were competing ships. she knew marinette was ladybug, yes, but i don't know that it really hit her until then that it meant ladynoir and adrinette couldn't both happen. of course, she chooses to support what marinette wants, and commits to team adrinette.

the other crucial development here is rocketear, when alya realizes that secrets aren't sustainable in her own relationship and tells nino the truth. this is called back in her argument with marinette, so we know this is definitely influencing her opinion. marinette insists that she's not alya and she can be with chat noir and not want to reveal their identities, but alya is not convinced (rightly so, if we consider ephemeral, where marinette does eventually reveal herself, and also the fact that marinette told alya in the first place).

alya likely also was witness to several lectures about secret identities from tikki and marinette herself throughout season 4. we don't see every conversation they have on screen, but it's pretty clear alya has taken it to heart by elation

and i think this is why alya remains team adrinette even post-passion when marinette switches to team ladynoir. in season 4, alya had been willing to accept marinette's wishes in terms of who she ended up with, but in the process, she internalized all the reasons marinette gave for why ladynoir couldn't happen. she also experienced first hand the problems with keeping identities from your boyfriend. so by the time marinette is ready to acknowledge her feelings for chat noir, alya's already fully accepted ladynoir cannot happen.

and, well, she still has to witness this nonsense every day

#miraculous ladybug #elation #using my noodle

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howhow326 · 8 months

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Nino salt prompt: What if Rocketear had consequences

Basically, everything that happens in Rocketear happens the exact same way (Nino assuming the worst of Alya, Nino assuming Chat Noir is Ariana Grande, Nino breaking Ladybug's AND Alya's trust at the same time by revealing his/Alya's identity to Adrien, Nino slut shaming Adrien to his face on accident) except the very end of the episode, where Alya tells Nino she is now Rena Furtive.

Instead, Alya tries to reassure Nino that she will always love him no matter what, while lightly asking him "hey, you followed me to my house without permission and took a video of me without my knowledge, wtf?!"

Nino then proceeds to show his ass like usual ("I needed to protect you from that homewreaker!" "I'm your boyfriend so it's perfectly okay for me to stalk you!!").

Alya really dosen't like this side of Nino, so she asks if their relationship can go on break for a bit (and Nino tries to manipulate her more with his "you don't love me!!!" Shtick)

The next day at school, Adrien pulls Alya aside and jokingly asks her "hey, are you Rena Rouge haha lol".

Alya is horrified.

Adrien then gives Alya the full story: Nino wanted to convince Adrien that Chat Nior had seduced Alya and revealed their identities as proof that Alya was only now kerping secrets. Adrien wanted to forget he heard anything, but he decided to ask Alya anyway because he knew what Nino had done wasn't right.

Alya is now infuriated. She can't believe Nino had the gall to be upset about her secrets only for him to go behind her back and violate her privacy this way. Especially since what Nino just did puts his identity at risk!

Alya thanks Adrien for being honest with her. After school, she marches straight to Marinette's house and tells her everything. Alya thought her best friend would be even angrier than she had been.

Marinette is heartbroken when she hears the scoop. How could someone she trusts do that, especially after what happened with Chloe. Marinette decides that Nino news a new secret identity since Carapace has been compromised, but Alya orders her to cut him loose. Nino can't be trusted.

When Ladybug pulls Nino aside and tells him he can't be Carapace anymore because he revealed his identity, the only thing he feels is surpise. The boy really didn't think this was a possibility.

The realization eventually sets in and he gets akumatized. He becomes Shell Shocker and goes after Adrien for "ruining his relationships!" Adrien tries to encourage Nino to give up the akuma, but then Nino reveals he willingly accepted Hawkmoths deal... this is who he really is.

Ladybug, whith some assistance from Rena Furtive, takes him down. Nino tries to play it off, "oh uh, i was akumatized??? Thanks for saving me Ladybug!" But Adrien shuts him down right quick, "He's lying! He willingly accepted the akuma just to get back at his girlfriend!" Adrien calling him out like that takes Nino by surpise, but it's the least of his worries.

Alya secretly recorded the whole fight and posted it onto the Ladyblog. Everybody in Paris now knows who Nino truly is. All of his friendships are destroyed; Marinette and Adrien cut him off for good; and Alya finnaly dumps him. His family decides to leave Paris for his own good.

At the airport, Nino has a chance encounter with Chloe. "Well well well, if it isn't the loser who got exposed for working with Hawkmoth! Even when I did that fashion victim a favor, I made sure that nobody in Paris could see I made a deal with him. You're ridiculous, Lahiffe, utterly ridiculous!"

"Sh-shut up Chloe!" Nino stutters out.

"Waaa, shut up! God, even your insults are basic, bitch. Well, before you go, I have a new scoop for you Nino... News flash! Alya dosen't love you anymore, and it's all your fault!!! It's hilarious, utterly hilarious!"

When Nino finnaly gets to his new bedroom, he cries himself to sleep realizing that he ruined his own life because didn't think there would be consequences...

Edit: optional shipping: Nino x Lila, Alya x Marinette, Alya x Adrien, Marinette x Alya x Adrien

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Plagg to Tikki: ‘We’ll see each other again. You know that you and I are one.’

I loved this line so much, for so many reasons - too many, really, to sum up in a simple Tumblr post, but I’m gonna try!

Let’s start with the ‘you know that you and I are one’ part. This is clearly a yin-yang thing. Creation and destruction are not separate; they are parts of a whole and cannot exist without each other. They define each other.

The two halves of the yin-yang symbol are often defined as masculine and feminine aspects or energies. Keep in mind this is not the same as male and female bodies; it is something much deeper and more subtle, particularly as both energies are said to be contained and expressed within each and every one of us. ‘Male’ and ‘female’ are merely words commonly used to express such concepts as the active and passive, day and night, the conscious and unconscious, and so forth.

Each half of the yin-yang contains a dot of the 'opposite' colour, to signify that the masculine contains aspects of the feminine, and vice versa. They are not opposites; they complement, contain and need each other to form a whole. The goal in life, according to so many eastern belief systems, not to mention western magical systems including alchemy, is to tap into the yin and yang within the self and achieve a perfect harmonious balance between the two sides. If you’re following my Miraculous tart card paintings, you’ll notice this is a feature of just about every card meaning.

Plagg and Tikki represent these ideas. One cannot exist without the other. How can you create if there is no prior destruction? And what is there to destroy without creation? Therefore, Plagg has this faith that he and Tikki will be reunited because he understands the nature of the universe.

As the embodiment of the power of destruction, Plagg is usually seen as a selfish, apathetic, giant stomach. This makes sense to me, because destruction is a kind of devouring process.

However, in this scene in ‘Deflagration’, he had one of his rare moments of sensitivity, highlighting that yin-yang concept once again. Remember in ‘Dearest Family’ when he said there’s a reason there’s also a kwami of destruction, after Tikki caused so much damage with unchecked creation? Creation is not good and destruction is not bad. It’s all about balance and context.

What was really interesting was that when Monarch got both miraculous in ‘Deflagration’, Plagg was the one with the instant plan. He knew the solution was self-sacrifice - again, you would go there, if you were destruction. And he’s not technically alive, so he can’t truly be annihilated. As long as there is creation, there is destruction. When he cataclysmed the ring, he must have simply returned to his energetic non-personified state.

However, his unhesitating self-sacrifice paralleled all the times Adrien has sacrificed himself. Usually, this has been as Cat Noir, although in ‘Gorizilla’ he made a major leap of faith as Adrien. Plagg’s words to Tikki could have been spoken as Adrien / Cat Noir, expressing that unwavering conviction that Ladybug will bring him back. Tikki’s worries could have been Ladybug’s.

We are often told Plagg is rubbing off on Adrien, e.g. in ‘Rocketear’. So, it’s tempting to say this is why Cat has these suicidal moments. But as already noted, he made that jump in ‘Gorizilla’ as Adrien. He was clearly chosen for his particular miraculous because he already embodies these qualities in some way. In this world or another, he will gladly go down firmly believing that he and Ladybug will be reunited in some way.

In other words...when Plagg immediately leapt to the self-sacrifice solution...was this an instance of Adrien rubbing off on him, rather than the other way round?

Also - it implies that Adrien and Marinette, or at least their souls or however you want to view this, are truly destined to be together, because they are two halves of a whole, just as their powers are. The red string of fate binds them together.

Not gonna lie - there is so much more I want to say about this, but it all feels like it’s there on the tip of my mind and I’m struggling to find the words for it because it’s so subtle. But there’s my stab in the dark at trying to pin down what I have been thinking of that scene ever since it first aired. It was a beautiful moment amid the chaos.

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im-up-to-shenanigans · 26 days

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Glass Threads or Frost Work

A few weeks after Rocketear picks a fight with Chat Noir, Nino notices something is wrong with the cat hero.

Meanwhile, Adrien has been pulling away at school.

aka the post-Rocketear fic I wanted to see in canon.

Actual footage of me writing and uploading this:

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Anne-Jeanne Theoxanne du Bocquale is a time traveling adopted daughter of Lukadrien Adrienette

This is the first of my crack theories I've decided to tackle, is very much a major crack theory.

I have no actual proof of anything, except that:

According to this now deleted interview that can be read via Internet Archive, Wilfried Pain tells a fan that there would be a new character from the future.

The Fandom Wiki seems to think this interview is discussing season 5, but after some back and forth with a mutual, we've come to the conclusion that it's actually discussing season 4, which just so happens to be the season that Anne-Jeanne is introduced.

I've seen multiple posts of people noticing that she has quite a bit more detail than you'd expect for a small side character. She doesn't look out of place at all next to our main girl Maribug, which you can't say for a lot of the designs of minor characters.

She was slotted to be a teacher to the kids in season 5, but apparently that was scrapped. Perhaps she'll be a teacher in the new school for season 6?

As for being Lukadrien's Adrienette's daughter...

The fandom wiki claims that the vision of a T-Rex Ladybug sees in the Burrow during Chat Blanc is foreshadowing of Anne-Jeanne's existence. I'm a bit skeptical on this, but Anne-Jeanne would have needed to somehow get DNA in order to bring the T-Rexes back to life, and in Time Tagger adult Bunnyx has a pet T-Rex named Denver.

Anne-Jeane is officially introduced in season 4's Hack-San, an episode that irrevocably fractures the LadyNoir partnership.

She shows up again in Rocketear, another episode that kicks LadyNoir while it's down. (After wrangling her T-Rexes, she says she's not really sure what to do with them, and wonders if it was really a good idea to bring them back to life... Kind of an ominous statement for a show where the deuteragonist is a boy born of magic, and whose creation caused the events of literally everything in the show.)

She has a short mention in Jubilation, where her T-Rex pigeon hybrids escape and go on a rampage. Nadja Chamack asks if she has gone too far with her science creations? Another ominous statement.

It's important to note, that Ladybug accidentally wears her friend's Alliance ring while capturing the hybrid dinosaurs, and thus, gets her friend who has been pretending to be Ladybug in hot water for possibly actually being Ladybug. It's interesting that Monarque doesn't even know Socqueline was impersonating a hero, he just sees her name in the Alliance alerts and goes after her. Of course Maribug thinks it's because she's been cosplaying being a hero and Monarque found out!

Anyway, I want to make a point that the dream sequence in Jubilation is very odd. It doesn't read to me as anything other than a child's idea of what love and marriage is. For one, both French citizens and foreigners need an entire forest of identification documentation, and they need to be married at a town hall in order to be legally binding. Only then can a religious ceremony take place. Obviously Ladybug and Chat Noir cannot do that, so they are only symbolically married at a church. The babies the couple are, for lack of better words, in possession of are inanimate dolls. There's a strange haze around the entirety of the dream sequence, just like the strange haze of the season 5 finale.

One of these days I'll do a line by line rundown of the Jubilation dream sequence, but that isn't the point I'm trying to make here. The point is this: the juxtaposition of Anne-Jeanne, the actual future daughter being the catalyst for whatever the hell Jubilation was, would be *chefs kiss* excellent storytelling.

FINALLY we have the final episode of season 5: Re-Creation. Anne-Jeanne makes a cameo in an interview where she gives an ominous message:

"We all remember the worldwide nightmare epidemic followed by the victory of Ladybug over Monarch...and how the swarm of magic ladybugs swarmed the planet to repair everything and free us. This even raised global awareness. We humans have accomplished incredible things throughout history. But still, we often fall victim to our emotions, because no one teaches us how to understand or deal with them... If we don't listen to what our fears, sadness or anger are trying to tell us—

Alya turns off the monitor, and the audience doesn't hear the lesson Anne-Jeanne is trying to convey. Gabemoth had taken advantage of negative emotions in order to akumatize his victims. Presumably, future Lilamoth will do the same.

The Paris special made it very clear that our universe Adrien is just distracting himself from his grief. Bottling up and ignoring doesn't do any good. He can avoid his hurt all he wants, but it's not getting to the core issue. He needs to address his emotions in order to heal.

More propaganda!

Anne-Jeanne's dress has moonflowers on it! Guess who loves flowers and has a lot of baggage concerning the moon! Yes, that's right, our boy Adrichat! Once again, Adrien being represented by the moon is a post for another day, BUT I DIGRESS.

Plagg is the reason the dinosaurs are extinct, and has a very particular grudge against T-Rexes in particular. Well, AnneJeanne brought the T-Rexes back to life!

More of a "Lukadrien's daughter headcanon", but I think Anne-Jeanne would be using a fake name if she's actually time traveling. I like the name Aurora because Luka's hero name Viperion is based off of Hyperion, the father of the dawn who was named Eos. Eos' Roman name is Aurora. Funnily enough, I checked the Luka Couffaine tag tonight and someone else thought his daughter would be named Aurora. I promise it was just a coincidence we both came up with this name! It also sticks to the Couffaine naming tradition of ending in "A", so it's still a pun on the French acouphène :D

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immaturityofthomasastruc · 2 years

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Unpopular opinion: The narrative favors MARINETTE over everyone else, so get over yourselves if you think Adrien is being coddled or everyone else is not punished enough.

If it seems like she's being blamed for shit she didn't do, that's the narrative forcing the plot to center around her instead of someone else. If she does something that actually warrants punishment like stalking Adrien or leading Luka on, it gets brushed to the side. If she goes out of her way to snoop somewhere she doesn't belong like say, the Agreste Mansion, that's the narrative shoehorning her in instead of giving screentime to characters who needed it more like everyone who was already at the exclusive party (not just Adrien, but Kagami and Chloe too. Them along with Felix were in the same room and it's a waste the narrative didn't do shit with it). Marinette always "learns" the lesson of the day because she's the PROTAGONIST. If someone else were to learn their lesson, that's taking away from Marinette and the show doesn't allow that. If people like Chat Noir or Alya or Fu seem incompetent, it's because they needed to nerf everyone else to make Marinette shine because this is supposed to be her show and Marinette needs to be the most powerful piece in the board. If it seems like Adrien is doing nothing, it's because the show doesn't know what to do with him outside of being Marinette's trophy. He has to be "perfect" if he's gonna be a good prize, so the narrative pretends he is and ignores his less than pleasant sides. His actions ultimately don't matter. He can save the world from a giant pastry and it's just gonna be a footnote in the episode. He can "get away" with shit cause the spotlight refuses to hang around him long enough for it to bite him in the ass. He has no real power within the narrative. Everyone else has even less than him. They matter less than him. It's why the narrative doesnt say shit about your saint Luka for lying to Marinette's face about him knowing her secret identity.

It's always Marinette who has development and agency and power and can make a difference. She's not the martyr you like to paint her as. She has everything, the good, the bad and the ugly.

(The post this anon is referring to)

Okay, I will once again admit that I really phrased my response to that ask in a terrible way, and once again, I apologize for that bad take saying he was worse than Chloe and Lila combined, but I still stand by my claim that the show doesn’t call Adrien out for the things that he does compared to Marinette getting punished or blamed for every little thing she does.

Are you really going to ignore every single terrible thing Adrien has done while acting like Marinette is the real bad guy here? If not, here’s a recap of the things Adrien did in Season 4 alone...

He actively slacked off on his duties and got excited at the idea of someone almost getting akumatized, in addition to disregarding the responsibilities Ladybug now has as Guardian (Lies)

He repeatedly disobeyed orders for petty and selfish reasons (Lies, Sentibubbler, Wishmaker, Strikeback)

He refused to understand the boundaries Ladybug placed regarding their relationship (Glaciator 2)

He almost harmed innocent people, intentionally and unintentionally (Hack-San, Rocketear)

He got himself captured or brainwashed by an Akuma (Mr. Pigeon 72, Mega Lech, Guiltrip, Ephemeral, Penalteam)

He literally gave up being a superhero and left Ladybug to deal with the fallout (Kuro Neko)

He talked shit about her behind her back because he was left out of certain discussions and plans like the identities of the temp heroes, but as soon as she had no other allies, he acted like he always cared about Ladybug’s best interests. Oh yeah, and before that, he even whined about Ladybug not always trusting him WHILE SHE WAS HAVING A FUCKING PANIC ATTACK, FULLY AWARE SHE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS CAT NOIR. (Strikeback)

And here’s all the stuff Marinette has had to go through in Season 4...

She wasn’t able to enjoy her relationship with Luka thanks to the growing amount of responsibilities in her superhero life (Truth)

She was yelled at by another Guardian who did nothing to actually help her (Furious Fu, Ephemeral)

She was shamed by Mylene for not doing enough to help the environment because I guess saving lives as Ladybug didn’t count (Mega Leech)

She had to deal with nightmares about losing to Shadowmoth (Sentibubbler)

She blamed herself for her mother getting arrested by a bunch of aggressive cops (Qilin)

She was influenced by her Kwami’s severe case of the munchies that she couldn’t control at all (Dearest Family)

She worked herself ragged trying to find a replacement for Cat Noir after being left high and dry by him (Kuro Neko)

And after learning her best friend went behind her back to not lose her boyfriend (Rocketear) she lost all of the Miraculous, and by extension, all of her other allies after being stabbed in the back by someone she thought she could trust while simultaneously being shamed for not trusting people, and need I mention the panic attack again? (Strikeback)

That’s not even getting into the routine stress of always needing to save the day while Cat Noir either slacks off in battle or sacrifices himself on a whim because he thinks her angry face is cute (Lies), or the fact that once she retires as Guardian, she’ll lose all of her memories relating to the Miraculous and her life as Ladybug (Miracle Queen).

After all that, you think Adrien has it harder? Adrien, the person who routinely screws around while lives are at risk, never takes responsibility for his actions, and will threaten to quit if he doesn’t get exactly what he wants, if he isn’t throwing hissy fits first? You think he has it harder than Marinette?

I get I said something stupid about how bad I think Adrien is, but you can’t act like he’s entirely blameless in this situation.

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sunfoxfic · 2 years

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Post-Rocketear

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mlwritersguild · 1 year

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Bros Before Heroes

Bros Before Heroes by deinde prandium

Nino has some rather distressing news to share with his best friend concerning his crush...and a certain superhero.

(or, Rocketear 2)

Words: 1619, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Nino Lahiffe, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir

Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Nino Lahiffe, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Additional Tags: Humor, Episode: s04 Larme Ultime | Rocketear, Post-Elation, Marichat | Adrien Agreste as Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Rocketear 2, general silliness, Nino Lahiffe Is So Done, he's just looking after his bro

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43349511

#ML Writers Guild #Deinde Prandium #Writer Spotlight #♥#LoveSquare #⚤#R:General #MLB

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kasienda · 2 years

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All the Fic Kasienda has Written!

There’s a lot of it apparently, and it’s really quite neat to see it all in one place, and I think this will help keep my fic posts far more organized!

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Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug

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Right Behind You (In Progress) Adrino, Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Fluff w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 63k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | … | 26 |

Aftermath (In Progress) Adrinette, Dark, Angst to Fluff w/ Happy Ending, Rated M, 18k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | … | 10

Bend the World Around It (In Progress) Ladynoir, Hurt/Comfort, Longing, Happy Ending Rated T, 2.7k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Not Part of the Plan (In Progress) Established Ladynoir, Unplanned Teen Pregnancy, Sex Positive Rated T, 30k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |

Yin and Yang (In Progress) PRPR Love Square, Body Swap, Light Angst, Rated T, 16k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | … | 13

Celebrity Status (In Progress) Ladrien, Light Angst/Hurt/Comfort, Silliness, Happy Ending Rated T, 8.6k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ... | 12 |

The Untold Story of DJWifi (In Progress) DJWiFi, Fluff and Angst, Rated T, 5k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | … | 14

Love Remains Ladynoir, Amnesia, Marinette Gave up the Guadianship Rated T, 14k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |

Would Trust You with Anything Adrino, Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending Rated T, 24k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |

Kisses in the Rain Adrinette, Angst with sweetness and happy ending, Rated T, 4k words 1 | 2 | 3

Restorative Justice Core Five Friendship, Chloe POV, Chloe Redemption, Minor Love Square, Therapy Fic, Rated T, 32k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Rite of Passage Love Square, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 11k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Best Friends and Boyfriends Adrino, Fluff, Rated T, 21k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

The Five Minute Adventures of Snake Noir Platonic Adrino, Love Square, Minor DJWifi, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 40k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

Let Yourself Be Happy Ladrien, Fluff, Wholesome Smut (I swear that’s accurate!), Underage, Rated E, 20k words 1 | 2

An Open Secret PRPR Love Square, Mutual Pining, Fluff w/ Light Angst, Rated T, 19k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Last Wishes Love Square, Major Character Death, Angst, Rated T, 11k words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Confessions to a Statue Adrinette, Fluff w/ Light Angst, Rated T, 6.8k words 1 | 2 | 3

Oneshots & Reveals

Rings True (Ao3) Ladynoir/Ladrien Reveal, Post S5, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 5.6k words

Spin the Bottle (Ao3) Core Four OT4, Kisses and Confessions, Polyamory, Rated T, 9.5k words

Just an Ordinary Girl (Ao3) Marichat, Square Dance Remix, Rated T, 2.5k words

Representation (Ao3) Rewrite of 5x23, Marichat Reveal, hurt/comfort, Rated T, 2.8k words

You Don’t Have to Pretend with Me (Ao3) Platonic Adrino, CaraNoir enemies to friends, Rated T, 3.8k words

No Regrets (Ao3) Ladynoir Smut, Temporary Character Death, Rated E, 4.5k words

Displaced (Ao3) Post Reveal Ladrien, Only One Bed, Family Fluff, Rated G, 850 words

Meddlesome Friends (Ao3) Ladynoir talking season 4 out, Rated T, 6k words

Don’t You Know People Care About You? (Ao3) Adrino, Kiss, Rated T, 1.3k words

How Far We’ve Come (Ao3) Adrien Agreste Character Study, Introspective, Rated T, 2.9k words

When You Lose Someone (Let Them Go) (Ao3) Love Square Break Up, Angst, Rated T, 5.7k words

Rocketear (Ao3) Platonic Adrino Identity Reveal, Hurt/Comfort, Rated T, 6.6k words

An Unintended Confession (Ao3) Adrinette Identity Reveal, Hurt/Comfort, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 5.1k

A Gift of Responsibility (Ao3) Marichat Identity Reveal, Angst w/ Open Ending, Rated T, 2.1k words

Just an Ordinary (Bad) Day (Ao3) Ladynoir Identity Reveal, Hurt/Comfort w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 6.8k words

New York (Ao3) Ladynoir Identity Reveal, Realization of Feelings/Confession, Rated T, 11.1k

Instagram (Ao3) Ladrien Identity Reveal, Fluff, Rated T, 5.0k words

Stutters (Ao3) Marichat Identity Reveal, Fluff, Rated T, 4.1k words

Superhero Survey (Ao3) Adrinette Identity Reveal, Fluff, Rated T, 2.3k words

Locked in a Closet based on MissNoodle’s Me, My Best Friend, and Her Cat Multichat/Adrinette Identity Reveal, Fluff, Rated T, 1.3k words

Angry Hour based on komorebirei‘s Sad Hour PRPR Love Square, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 2.2k words

I Needed You and You Weren’t There based on MissNoodle’s “gave my blood sweat and tears for this.” Love Square, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 1.8k words

Fic Rec Lists

My Lists of Recommended Adrino Fics because Rarepairs are Hard to Find and I’m Obsessed with Adrino. Part 1 | Part 2

Miraculous Long Fic Recs for those that need novel length stories. Link

Fandom: Sailor Moon

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Coming of Age (In Progress - on hiatus) Chibiusa Grows Up, UsaMamo Established Relationship, Family, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Loosely based on Black Moon Arc, Technically a Sequel to Going it Alone, Rated T, 15.4k+ words Status: I don’t work on this one often, but I still absolutely love it. I joke about needing a five year old role-model to write Chibiusa. My daughter is three at the moment…

Invisible Wounds (In Progress - on hiatus) AmiZoi, Epidemic, Past Life Baggage, Medical Drama, Rated T, 43k+ words Status: I struggle to work on this one because my writing has changed and it’s about an epidemic that I started before the pandemic started…

A Craving For Chocolate Milkshakes UsaMamo, Mind Reading, Dramedy, Humor, Rated T, 28k words

Anything to Protect You UsaMamo, Fake Dating, Stalker, Hurt/Comfort, Rated T, 33k words

Going it Alone UsaMamo, Nonconsensual Elements, Loosely Based on Doom Tree Arc, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Underage, Rated M, 81k words

Once Upon a Dream UsaMamo, Romance, Loosely Based on Dark Kingdom Arc, Rated T, 49k words

Nightmares UsaMamo, Romance, Loosely Based on Break Up Arc, Sequel to Once Upon a Dream, Rated T, 37k words

The Tsukino Family Reveals (Actively In Progress) Family Feels, Each chapter kinda stands alone, Rated G, 10.5k+ words 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Status: Both Parts are outlined and have snippets of scenes.

One Shots

One-shot Reveals UsaMamo, Variety of genres, Rated G and T, 26.7k words total 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

The Sol of the System Serenity x Endymion, Silver Millennium, First Meeting, Open Ending, Rated T, 6.2k words

Box of Chocolates UsaMamo, Fluff, Rated G, 860 words

Date Night UsaMamo, Fluff, Rated G, 1.2k words

Long Distance Relationship UsaMamo, Established Relationship, Mutual Pining, Rated T, 4.6k words

Happy Birthday UsaMamo, Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery, Rated T, 2.9k words

Fight and Make Up UsaMamo, Angst w/ Happy Ending, Rated T, 2.4k words

Rainbow UsaMamo, Fluff, Rated G, 544 words

Fandom: Chrono Trigger

Fighting Fate Chrono Trigger Novelization, My Earliest Writing (watch me improve chapter by chapter), Rated T, Word Count - 203k

#Kasienda Master Post #My Own Content #Fan Fiction #Miraculous Ladybug #Sailor Moon #Chrono Trigger

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princess-of-the-corner · 9 months

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Honestly surprised, no one seemingly got mad at Nino for doing that in Illusions, since Alya made it clear she didn't want him to reveal her identity

Yeah it's.

It's kind of one of those things where their identities are unfortunately linked. So even if Nino is having a Bad Time™ and wants to confess to being Carapace, even if he doesn't mention Alya/Rena at all, whoever he tells would connect the dots because Carapace is dating Rena and Nino is dating Alya and obvs he isn't cheating on her.

Again, he wasn't fully thinking straight in Rocketear, so I don't fully blame him for that move. I side eye it a little, but breakdown mode does shit to a man.

I think the best course of action post-Rocketear would've been for him to tell Alya 'okay so during my breakdown I told Adrien' and have her deal with that situation. Which may also include telling Ladybug(either having Nino do it when he gets the chance, and/or letting Alya do it because she knows Mari's identity and all).

Later when we get to Illusion where Mari and Adrien are dating, Nino could've pulled Alya aside first and said 'Hey, 3/4 of this friendgroup knows, I don't want Adrien to have to keep secrets from his girlfriend especially secrets that aren't his in the first place. I feel okay letting Mari in on the secret because she's very trustworthy, are you okay with this?" . And ALya has to pretend like she isn't about to scream that Mari is Ladybug and already fucking knows.

And then skip ahead to Strikeback and......

Yeah no 'Rena Furtive' is still so fucking useless as a Thing™ because no one should believe for a second that Ladybug is actually doing a 'oh the villain knows your identity you have to be benched' when she's broken that rule for literally over half of the Team.

(When I say Rena Furtive is useless I don't mean Alya/Rena is useless, I mean her changing her costume/name and going stealth mode).

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wilygryphon · 1 year

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My Miraculous Ladybug Rewrite - Season 4

This would be very similar and very different compared to canon's Season 4. Right out of the gate, we have: Ladybug and Chat Noir know each other's identity since the Season 3 finale, and they are dating; they are also dating Kagami, but she doesn't know their identities; Chloé is still a friend and a part of Team Miraculous. Many episodes are the same or very similar to canon, while others are completely replaced due to a different direction of the plot or personal taste (Rocketear, I'm looking at you, or rather not), and it also has a very different ending. And no Sentikids (except Félix). I'll probably go into further detail on him in another post.

Episodes: 501: Canary- Gabriel fixes the Peacock Miraculous and combines it with the Butterfly Miraculous to become Shadow Moth. Jagged Stone overhears Chloé talking with Sabrina about her theory that he and Luka might be related. He confronts Anarka over it and is Akumatized into Canary, with the power to force people to tell the truth ("Sing like a canary"), and aided by an immobilizing Sentimonster called Spotlight.

502: Lies- Kagami becomes upset that Marinette and Adrien are keeping things from her and bailing on their dates and is Akumatized into Lies as a result. Ultimately unable to reconcile their unwillingness to trust her completely, she breaks up with her partners.

503: Gang of Secrets- Marinette struggles with her responsibilities, and Adrien tries to convince her to let others share the burden. The Girl Squad tries to reach out to Marinette, only to be rejected, and are Akumatized as a result. Marinette tells Alya her secret identity.

504: Mr. Pigeon 72- With Alya's help, Ladybug figures out how to create magical charms that can protect someone from Akumatization. After Mr. Ramier's seventy-second Akumatization, she gives him the first charm. Chat Noir learns that Ladybug has shared her secret with Alya, and Alya learns that Chat Noir is Adrien but also realizes why Kagami broke up with them.

505: Psycomedian- Marinette takes Adrien to see Harry Clown's comedy show, thinking he would like it, but finds out that it was her who had made him laugh earlier.

506: Furious Fu- The Celestial Guardian Su-Han appears and demands that Marinette relinquish the Miracle Box to him, but she and Adrien stand up to him. After he causes Master Fu to be Akumatized and the hero duo save his bacon, Su-Han reconsiders and allows them to keep their Miraculouses and the Miracle Box. He stays in Paris to become acquainted with the modern world and to watch over the heroes.

507: Broken Bonds- Chloé's half-sister comes to Paris to stay with her mother's other family, but everyone is shocked to discover that she even exists. Chloé introduces Zoé to her classmates, who eagerly welcome her. Saddened that Audrey lied about the Bourgeois knowing about her and ashamed of the awkwardness and tension that formed around the family, Zoé is Akumatized.

508: Wardrobe- Chloé becomes insecure as her friends quickly bond with her newfound half-sister. Chloé gets into a fight with her mother, who is Akumatized and provided with a Sentimonster called Wardrobe. Since Chloé is quickly taken out, Ladybug gives the Bee Miraculous to Zoé so she can help out. Chloé effectively disowns Audrey as her mother, and André files for divorce.

509: Gabriel Agreste- Gabriel holds a gala and invites Marinette, Kagami, Chloé, Zoé, and Félix. Félix seeks proof that Gabriel is Shadow Moth while Gabriel attempts to take his wedding back from Félix, creating a Sentimonster of himself and Akumatizing it into The Collector. Chloé and Zoé bond while awkward tension brews between Marinette, Adrien, and Kagami.

510: Reigncloud- Mylène leads the class in protesting against Project Oxygen, and André, who had naïvely advocated for the environment-wrecking project, is Akumatized into Malediktator and provided with a Sentimonster called Reigncloud that splits him into thousands of tiny copies to take control of the people of Paris. Ladybug chooses Mylène to wield the Mouse Miraculous as Petite Souris.

511: Guiltrip- The class learns that Rose had cancer as a child and that there is a chance it could come back. Feeling guilty for leaking this information and affecting how everyone treats Rose, Juleka is Akumatized into Reflekta and lets herself be sucked into the Sentimonster Guiltrip, which threatens to pull everyone into a black hole of depression. Ladybug chooses Rose to wield the Pig Miraculous as Pigella.

512: Crocoduel- Jagged Stone visits to bond with his son on Luka's birthday. Jagged's presence makes Juleka think about and miss her deceased dad. Jagged and Anarka argue about the former's efforts to become a part of their son's life and both are Akumatized, clashing with each other in the sky above Paris. Ladybug recruits Juleka to wield the Tiger Miraculous as Purple Tigress.

513: Optigami- Shadow Moth and Nathalie had a Sentimonster spying on the heroes whose identities have been revealed by Miracle Queen for weeks. Gabriel lures the heroes to a fashion award show and Akumatizes Audrey to take them out so he can replace one with a Sentimonster and hide Nathalie's spy Sentimonster in a Miraculous in order to discover Ladybug's identity. Marinette makes Alya the permanent holder of the Fox Miraculous.

514: Sentibubbler- Shadow Moth holds the Césaires, as well as Marinette and Nino, hostage to force Alya to betray Ladybug and Chat Noir. As she currently has the Fox Miraculous at all times, she instead turns the tables and ensures the rescue of her loved ones.

515: Pixelator 2- (Taking the place of Glaciator 2) After a team-up, Ryuko asks Ladybug and Chat Noir out on a date. They ultimately determine that the duo cannot date her as Shadow Moth would target her to hurt them. In the meantime, Present!Alix Kubdel makes her first onscreen appearance as Bunnyx alongside the team in the opening mission, while Alya has taken on a secret observer role as Rena Furtive.

516: Hack-San- Having to leave town for the weekend, Marinette gives the Ladybug Miraculous to Alya, who calls herself Scarabella. Shadow Moth uses a Sentimonster to infect Markov so he can Akumatize him into Robostus and keep him loyal.

517: Lockup- Sabrina puts too much pressure on herself to help people, so Marinette and Zoé suggest that she take a mental health day. Roger has an overload of his obsession with upholding the law and is Akumatized and provided with a Sentimonster called Lockup that captures civilians and heroes that he deems to be "lawbreakers". Ladybug recruits Sabrina to wield the Dog Miraculous as Miss Hound.

518: Slander- (Replaces Rocketear) Zoé auditions for the Ladybug and Chat Noir movie sequel casting, but upon learning how the writing treats Queen Bee, she quits and enlists her friends to make their own film. A former victim of Chloé's bullying is enraged that his peers would make a film to "glorify" her and is Akumatized into a villain who fans the fires of rage in the people around him. Ladybug and Chat Noir recruit Nathaniel and Marc to wield the Rooster and Goat Miraculouses as Falun Feather and Capricorn.

519: Wishmaker- Marinette and Adrien evaluate their dreams for the future. Alec Cataldi faces the fact that he built a career out of tormenting others in response to being bullied as a kid and breaks down, becoming Akumatized. He vows to turn over a new leaf afterward. Luka discovers Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities.

520: Theatrickster- (Replaces Simpleman) A student who writes her own play wants the theater instructor to put it up for the school to perform, but is turned down, and she is Akumatized into a villain who mind controls anyone who enters the auditorium into part of the cast and crew or audience members. Ladybug recruits Ivan to wield the Ox Miraculous as Minotaurox.

521: Qilin- Due to a misunderstanding (and a ticket collector's bigotry), Sabine is wrongfully arrested, and as a result is Akumatized. Roger learns that strictly following the letter of the law does not always align with what is right.

522: Dearest Family- Tikki gets an insatiable craving for the King's Day galettes that Tom and Rolland make. Marinette's parents and grandparents argue over Gina wanting to give Marinette a motorcycle, and all four are Akumatized. Sabine's Magical Charm limits the effect on her, so she keeps control of her thoughts and fights to protect Marinette.

523: Safari- (Replaces Ephemeral) Shadow Moth sets a trap for Ladybug and Chat Noir, Akumatizing Nathalie into the hunter Safari and providing her with a Sentimonster copy of Stormy Weather. Sentiweather leads the duo to Shadow Moth, and the ensuing confrontation leads to the heroes and villain learning each other's secret identities. Ladybug and Chat Noir reveal Shadow Moth's identity on the news, and all three (plus Marinette's family) are forced into hiding.

524: Riposte 2- (Replaces Kuro Neko) Realizing that Ladybug and Chat Noir are in love with Kagami, Shadow Moth has Lila set her up for Akumatization to lure the heroes out. After Deakumatizing her, Ladybug and Chat Noir reveal their identities to Kagami. She forgives them and they get back together.

525: Queen Aurum- (Replaces Penalteam) Chloé discovers that Zoé is Vesperia. Fearing that she is being replaced on both friend and hero fronts, she is made vulnerable to Akumatization and Shadow Moth's attempts at corrupting her, gaining the power to transform those she hits into golden copies of herself, the transformed heroes retaining their Miraculouses. Zoé surrendering and offering the Bee Miraculous to Chloé makes the latter realize that her sister would never replace her and she restores everyone and rejects the Akuma.

526: Replicator - The Final Akuma Part One: (Replaces Risk) Allies use the locations of Akumatizations to narrow down Shadow Moth's new hideout. Félix cuts a deal with Gabriel, offering to become a powerful Akuma to capture the Miraculouses for him in exchange for the Peacock Miraculous. As Replicator, Félix creates copies of just about every past Akuma under his control and forms an army to battle the full Miraculous Team.

527: Shadow Moth - The Final Akuma Part Two: (Replaces Strikeback) The Season Finale. The full Team Miraculous, aided by groups of civilians, battles against Replicator and his army of Akuma Replicants. Ladybug and Chat Noir allow themselves to be petrified and brought to Shadow Moth so that Rena Furtive and Viperion can track where Shadow Moth is hiding and Viperion can reset to report this to the team. The heroes engage in a final showdown with Shadow Moth, defeating him and reclaiming both of his Miraculouses.

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