Things you can do with Adrien/Kagami post-relationship
As a follow up on my things you can do with Adrien/Marinette post-relationship post, and to give fanfic writers free ideas, here are some things you can do with them post relationship.
One of the things I hated about Season 4 is that it only gave Lukanette and Adrigami a montage. I am not a shiper of either of them, but come on. Not showing them was a missed oppurtunity. So, it is the duty of fanfic authors to do so.
1. Adrien knows Kagami is Ryuko and Kagami does not know that. Have Adrien reveal that he knows about Ryuko, and examine the fallout. (My personal favorite reason for this is to give an excuse as to why he avoids Kagami during an akuma fight, so Ladybug will give her a chance to fight, but there are so many possibilities.)
2. Adrien has issues with consent and boundaries, and Kagami is very assertive. Adrien seems to prefer slow and steady with an emphasis on romance and sentimentatlity, while Kagami likes to be passionate and hates hesitation. These drastic differences in preferred relationship speeds could provide a lot of drama about dates, how they express their affection towards each other, and add tension to their relationship. Especially since unlike Marinette, Adrien can’t fool Kagami. She knows when he’s upset, and she’d probably interpret his reluctance at moving at Kagami’s speed with a disinterest in her. So she’d likely confront him, and Adrien would either have to confront his fear of voicing his objections or losing Kagami.
3. Adrien gets depression in Season 4 because he feels as though he’s not needed. Kagami comes from Japan, a culture that heavily stigmatizes mental illness- and I doubt her mom is willing to teach her daughter to overcome those biases, with the type of woman she is. How will Kagami take his depression? How will she react?
She seems like a fixer. What would her attempts be? Kagami herself struggles with several of the same things that Adrien does: loneliness, a need to fulfill extremely high expectations, similiar parents. Would that help her empathize or would that drive her to struggle more with Adrien’s condition as she doesn’t feel depression? Would Adrien’s depression pull her down as well? After all, like Adrien, Kagami has very few protective factors. Her family isn’t very supportive; she has few friends, and she’s only been in Paris for a little while, so she may be feeling extra isolated and without roots.
4. Kagami isn’t free from depression. As I mentioned before, like Adrien, her protection factors for it are low and limited. If Kagami starts suffering from depression, how will Adrien react? He’s very empathetic so he’d probably understand immediately, but that stuff can be hard to deal with? Would he be patient and stay by her side, helping her get out of it step by step? Or would he try, and upon a series of failures, feel useless and hopeless? Would he like being the strong one in the relationship? And if he is, would he go the route he has with Ladybug and never reveal his insecurities and weak points?
5. Fluffy stuff. Adrien and Kagami bonding over romantic manga and fencing. They seem to enjoy that stuff (Chat Noir is a romantic, and his first choice of a movie to watch with Ladybug is a rom-com. While Kagami doesn’t typically partake in a lot of romance, she did read a romantic manga, even if unknowingly.) It’s a good way to bond.
6. Adrien loves Kagami’s art (or at the very least he’s rightfully impressed), so he could model. While this is covered in Lies, you could show it in more progressive steps, as Kagami and Adrien discuss how they see Adrien as he poses, with Adrien trying so hard to please her, and Kagami getting more and more frustrated with not seeing the real Adrien. What will happen after several attempts? Will Adrien finally confess his identity crisis? And if he does, how will Kagami react? Will she act like she knows who he is, or will she help him figure out for himself?
7. Adrien and Kagami are both skilled fencers who must compete sometimes. How will these competitions affect their relationships? After all, Kagami will likely accept nothing less than Adrien’s best, but Chat Noir struggles with fighting Ladybug (Gamer 2.0). Will he struggle fighting with Kagami or will he fight harder, as that’s a way for them to bond?
8. Kagami likes to encourage Adrien’s more impulsive, selfish side. How will that change Adrien? How will Kagami react upon seeing his darker traits like his jealousy and pettiness? Will she be pleased or realize that the Adrien isn’t who she thought he was?
9. It’s strongly implied that Gabriel and Tomoe want Adrien and Kagami to be together. What if their relationship is akin to an arranged marriage? What happens if the two find out? Will it hurt the relationship? Will they both have the same struggles with that information or will one of them take it harder than the other? And if they don’t care, will people around them care if they find out?
10. Relating to the arranged marriage idea above, if both Kagami and Adrien are senti-monsters, will that lead to them questioning whether or not their love is real? Will that matter to them? Will they break up over it, or decide regardless of if it’s their choice, they still love each other, and they want to stay together? How will anyone else around them react?
11. Both Kagami and Adrien are weathy, upperclass kids who aer taught really bad habits by their parent. What will they struggle with? Are they the same things? If they become independent, are there any skills their parent didn’t teach them that they struggle with?
12. If Tomoe lost her sight to a genetic issue and Kagami is human, how will she and Adrien handle her upcoming blindness? It isn’t Adrien’s first go round with a disability, what with his mom and all, but I doubt he’ll be keenly aware of every accommodation and mess up somewhere. Will Kagami appreciate his relaxed demeanor about it, and if she does, will that make her more easily overlook his mistake or cause her feelings of betrayal to sting worse?
13. If both Kagami and Adrien are senti-monsters, what about children? If two sentimonsters make a baby, will it too be a senti-monster? If it is, what about it’s amok? Or will it be human? Will they be able to concieve at all? What will Adrien and Kagami’s concerns about the baby be? What do they think will happen about pregnancy? If they think they can’t concieve, will they use protection? If they think the baby will be a senti-monster, will they avoid it? Will they adopt to raise a baby?
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👌 with Grace? The fact he can't feel would make her wary... But I mean if he's willing to let her vent to him, she'll give him tons of negative emotions to feed on while also getting them off her chest lmao
Mun: He alreayd can hear all your doubts and sadness along with many others X//d He's a bit of a jerk and wouldn't listen but he'd make it worse if you let him. He's not a good therapist Xd but will act like one if it means you come out worse for wear. He will break a person if he finds the right spot for it.
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One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".
The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.
He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.
So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.
Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.
It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.
How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.
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Hate (affectionate) how it's made so clear from the very beginning of part 1 just how loved Paul is by his family and household. Both his parents, Duncan, Gurney, Thufir, even Dr Yueh all clearly care so deeply for this kid, and we're shown that time and time again.
Cut to the end of part two, and almost every one of those people is gone. The only ones who remain are a weird, came-back-wrong version of Jessica, and Gurney who has gone from mentor to worshipper. Paul goes from someone deeply loved and valued for who he is by a small but caring group of people - to someone followed and worshipped and feared by thousands. They're obsessed with him in a way, as a leader and "messiah", but nobody loves him.
The only one remaining who loves him for who he is is Chani, who leaves him because in the end that love isn't enough to bring who he is back.
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The Ghoul sewing Lucy's finger onto his hand... right after she gave him the meds he needs to not turn Feral... aka after he's shown kindness, maybe for the first time in decades, a century, more... after he's going through flashbacks of his pre-war life... after we see how sweet his daughter was...
Is it a fucked up way for him to a) remember a moment of kindness and quite literally embody it, and, b) a way for a dad to carry something of his daughter that he's proud of (ie the moment Lucy showed she had what it took to survive)
You cannot tell me Cooper isn't gonna become Lucy's new dad.
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if you see a male character kiss a male character, you assume they are gay.
if you see a female character kiss a female character, you assume they are a lesbian.
if you hear a character say they don't feel like their gender, you assume they are trans.
so why do a-spec characters have to jump through so many loops?
a character saying they've never had a crush or don't want a relationship or that they don't understand romantic love is so often ignored or used as fodder for other queer or autistic headcanons (reinforcing stereotypes that aroace people are secretly gay or always autistic)
why is it that our stories are always "up to interpretation"? why do we have to wait for the words aromantic or asexual to be said to be taken seriously? why is it that even when characters say they don't want relationships, fans will scream and cry about sex/romance favourable aspecs and qprs?
when it comes to gay and trans characters, even the likes of bisexual lighting is often treated as though it canonises their sexuality. for aroace characters, even the most explicit coding possible is swept under the rug in favour of other "interpretations"
i'm so tired of fighting for representation just to have it ignored and minimised by fans. let characters be aroace. please.
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