post-Representation reveal for @ladyofthenoodle and @asukiess <3
Time stops when Chat Noir plummets from Marinette’s skylight. She stops in her tracks and stares at him, eyes blown wide behind the polka-dotted mask that sits snug over the mascara streaks on her face.
Her heart skips to her throat, because she doesn’t understand. She doesn’t understand what Chat Noir is doing at Marinette’s right now, in this break of dawn, when she was just about to head out to purify the Akuma he and Alya captured. He has even left her a voicemail to cheer her up—he always had an innate talent to know when she needed some cheering up—and he sounded so calm and collected then—
Face buried in her mattress, he sniffles now.
And Marinette knows that her identity is at stake here, that she’s incapable of explaining away Ladybug’s puffy eyes staring at him from the end of Marinette’s bed, but Chat Noir’s crying. He came to her because something so devastating happened to him that he’s crying.
If there’s one thing Marinette knows, it’s that they have sacrificed enough. She gave up love and gave up her friends for the mighty cause, and in the end, it was her friends and their love that saved the world.
She won’t give up her partner.
Never again.
She reaches out, stroking her fingers through his hair gently.
“Marinette, I need to tell you that—” he starts, then looks up and his eyes go wide.
She smiles down at him. “It’s okay, Chaton. I’m here for you.”
His bottom lip trembles, and several beats pass until he finds the voice to whisper, “I love you, Marinette. I’ll never let anyone separate us.”
And maybe that should feel like a surprise. Maybe his arms around her and his lips on hers should wreck her world. Maybe, once, they would have.
Now, they feel like a small sound of ‘oh’ at the back of her mind.
Of course, it’s him.
Of course, he’s hers.
Of course, it’s them until the end of the world.
She cups his face and smooths the messy hair out of his eyes, kissing away the tears spilling over his black mask. “I love you, too, Adrien. I’ll never let anyone hurt you ever again.”
And if he cries harder and buries his face in the crook of her neck, that’s alright too. She hugs him, rubbing his back and peppering kisses all over his face—his nose, his forehead, his crown and his little cat ears—and holds him until he needs her to.
She would be his Atlas and hold him until the end of the world, but slowly, his breathing calms and Adrien draws away, wiping at his eye with the palm of his hand.
“I need to— I’ll need to go back,” he stutters over a swallow.
Marinette shakes her head firmly and holds him tighter. “You are not going back.”
His face softens. “My lady,” he begs, and she thinks her heart might give in from the way he says her name alone. “You know I have to before he discovers I’m missing, otherwise—”
She cuts him off with a kiss before he gets to finish that train of thought. It’s an option she isn’t willing to entertain.
“Your cousin owes me big time. You are not going back. Never ever,” she confirms.
If the surprised fervour and gratitude he dives back in for a kiss with is of any indication, he believes her.
Marinette isn’t delusional enough to think Félix would do her a solid as an apology for his theater kid nonsense, but she suspects a chance to be closer to Kagami in place of Adrien will do it.
She laces her fingers with Adrien’s, as if gluing them together, but he doesn’t seem to mind. She smiles against his lips with confidence only his support can grant her. “Okay, Chaton. Here’s the plan.”
when you’re overwhelmed in public so you put on your headphones and play music that is straight up screaming in your ears to the point where lyrics are barely able to be made out
One of my favorite parts about season 3 of the Animaniacs reboot was how they turned up Pinky's queer factor from 10 to 100. They just fully embraced the "Pinky is gay" angle and I thank them from it heavily. I mean, I kinda knew that Pinky had something going on before this but season 3 just fully convinced me. Just his mannerisms and the way he interacted with Brain felt different and more strongly hinted of his queer nature. Brinky is canon to me, at least on Pinky's end. Honestly, I loved it so much for that fact and how they weren't trying to hide Pinky's more LGBTQ+ characteristics this season. Brain was kinda the same thing too, where they basically just said, "fine, we'll make Brain gay too." Just a small detail I noticed from this season!
Part two of our meeting some other stuffed animals, now meeting the three mice my mom made and using some of their cool playsets! Expect to see at least one more of these at some point. Excuse the day late-ness, I fully forgot to do this yesterday.
First off, we got some little guys on a super neat plane, the white mouse(they don't have names yet, I'll update this when they do) standing off to the side. Axo is on the bottom of the left side of the wings, Cosmic looks like they're trying to get up onto the right side of the wing, Isolotl and Ace are ontop of the wings, and Squishy is just visible on the back of the plane near the tailfin.
Extra shots of the plane, one of the plane from the top, showing that Kitsune is in the little cockpit, and then one directly from the front, with all isopods in the same position and the mouse just moved slightly forward to stay in frame.
Some individual little camping activities, Cosmic trying to roast a tiny marshmallow on a stick over an equally itty bitty fire, and then Squishy and Kitsune in a little canoe, and Ace peeping out of the window of the tent.
Looks like we got another little mouse joining us! A little grey mouse to go with the white one! It's a little scene around the campfire, the white mouse with a guitar, Squishy with the marshmallow stick, and everyone else just hanging out around the fire. Next to the white mouse is Kitsune, then Axo, Cosmic, Isolotl, Ace, then Squishy and the grey mouse, then back to white. A sleeping bag is just visible in the corner, with the tent and the canoe in the background.
All the isopods hiding out in the tent for the night! They're a little scared of things coming along to eat them, they are awfully small after all.
Looks like Isolotl and Axo are being little weirdos, with Isolotl sitting ontop of the poor mouse just trying to sleep in their sleeping bag. Axo is propped up against the side, maybe they want up too? Too bad they can't both fit up there.
Isolotl once more being a little weirdo and watching the grey mouse sleep in their little suitcase, while Axo, Ace, and Cosmic hang out in the pocket actually meant for clothes.