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[buggachat]

inspired by the stardew valley file @megatraven and I made where we're... well.......

[dailymlgifs]

GRIFFE NOIRE

[bugsandboos]

do people not realize that gabriel agreste's writing is not bad just because of the season 5 finale? that his writing was intentional?

gabriel was portrayed as a hero not because it's "correct" but purely because it's wrong. the viewers know it's wrong, and that conflict sets up the plot for the following season because it's a show that needs to continue???

imagine plagg withholding the truth from adrien. imagine how marinette and adrien's relationship will change with such a big secret between them. imagine ladybug possibly telling chat noir the truth. imagine ladrien scenes.

c'mon y'all. don't assume this is the end of the gabriel storyline because it. is. not.

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

Do you think that Marinette ever looks into her partners eyes, and is sure that, for a second, the green flashed into a soulless blue, and her stomach turns?

Do you think that Adrien ever flinches when someone close to him yells, terrified that they'll become a villain that he'll be forced to fight, a force he'll be required to destroy?

Do you think that Marinette ever looks over her shoulder in public compulsively, afraid and paranoid that she's being observed by an enemy priming itself for attack?

Do you think that Adrien wakes up from a nightmare and sheds a tear for the children he had for too short and lost too soon?

Do you think that Marinette ever catches herself paying attention to, and involving herself in, the issues and lives of complete strangers, that she feels it is her responsibility to keep feeling good

Do you think that Adrien ever feels a physical weight on his hand from all the destruction he has caused? and actual feeling of his hand getting heavier from the burden of disaster?

Do you think that the heroes of Paris ever feel a bit of guilt or a bit of worry any time they feel an emotion too strongly? That they are incapable and unworthy of feelings that could cause the decimation of their city?

[anastuffsstuffs]

has anyone realised that one day miraculous will... end?

there will be a reveal, adrien and marinette will be together, there will be an enourmous finale and then it is over

I just did. I'm not well

[carpetbug]

ziggy zig zag

[chickensoup1025]

doN'T DO THAT

[justasunflowerseed]

is it just me or does it make no narrative sense for Kagami to be a sentimonster? the entire plot around the peacock miraculous is layers upon layers of family drama being all "we gave life to our kids by any means necessary and it killed the person we loved the most and now we see them as objects to be used and they have to fight the narrative to gain their freedom" and then there's just this one daughter of a blind woman just standing there like "oh uh and me too also, apparently, I found out last week from a guy in a peacock costume and now were dating". the only reason they made her a sentimonster is so she could make out with Felix, that's it.

now, I don't hate having another sentimonster in the show, if they introduced Kagami's mom earlier and integrated Kagami into the plot as more of a bootleg Marinette (cuz be real, same shade of hair, red clothes, Asian, she was designed to be another Marinette visually and her role is almost exclusively a love interest) it could've worked, but she showed up out of nowhere in season 3 and we didn't get any hints of her being a sentimonster until season 5. so the way the show is written now, it feels like a cheap excuse to pair her with an Adrien clone.

but... there's another character that's around Adrien and Felix's age, who's parents were shown to know Gabriel all the way back in season one, who's already an established character and is also Adrien's childhood friend.

yeah that's right, I'm talking about Chloe.

imagine, Audrey wants an heir but doesn't want to get pregnant, so Gabe gives her the peacock and tells her there's a price to pay, she's like "yeah whatever" and makes a minion employee use it and get pregnant for her. when the kid is born she decides that she's too ✨ fabulous ✨ to raise a baby and leaves the responsibility to André, and leaves to New York with the amok.

André raises Chloe and takes good care of her, until she gets old enough for Audrey to care about her existence again, then she comes back once ever few years, orders her around with the amok to be a bad bitch and order others around, and leaves again after like a couple if days.

Chloe ends up having to appease her mother and be like her. without the amok, André do anything about it except try to still be a good dad, so he ends up doing appeasing her every whim. he might not even know she's a sentimonster and sees her as a miracle child who's simply easily influenced by her mother.

BUT, that would require actually giving Chloe a proper redemption arc, which Thomas can't physically do since he has PTSD from mean girls or something.

[anxresi]

So, it turns out Chloe IS going to return for S6... this hot off the press from her voice actor... (actually from back in Jan, but who's counting?)

...So why, my dears, couldn't I give a damn?

Probably because, as arguably the writers had no idea what to do with her in S4 and S5 other than strip her of all personality, agency & likability, what's the point in her still remaining?

*She's not going to be a hero again, Manbaby Astruc has made this PERFECTLY clear thankyouverymuch. IMHO, she's far more useful as a tool for him to take out his warped misogynist humiliations on, apparently. Why he doesn't just buy himself a blonde mannequin, call it 'Chloe' then beat it with a wooden stick whilst shouting various profanities within the privacy of his own bedroom, IDK. Maybe it's good therapy for him to expose his weird hang-ups in front of a mass audience? Hey, if it works for him... good for you, buddy! I just wish the rest of us didn't have to suffer to aid his treatment.

*As a villain, Chloe's threat level is arguably less than 0%. She is now written to be dumb as a post, no-one trusts or likes her and everything she says and does seems more cartoonishly infantile with every tortuous appearance since S3. The ONLY time she posed any vague threat is during her massively overhyped team-up with Lila where basically she was little more than a pawn to the Mary Sue Of All Lying B*tches... and those two episodes where she took over Paris as Mayor with a bunch of robots were undebately the most stupid ones of S5. Which if you've seen the competition, you KNOW that's some achievement.

*My prediction is: They're gonna rehash the same tiresome schik we saw before she got on that plane at the end of S5... perhaps they'll give us a one episode Hope Spot upon her unexpected arrival back where it looks like she's changed after attending a 'tough school' in New York/London but OH MY WORD WHAT A SURPRISE it turns out to all have been a ruse to become Queen Bee again. YAWN. She'll move straight back into her old room... Andre and Audrey will reconnect... and it'll be like nothing ever happened. In case you hadn't noticed, this show handles plot continuity or character development about as well as Marinette keeps her distance from her crushes.

*'But where does that leave Zoe?' You might ask, to which I can only respond with a succinct 'If you had the Hubble Space Telescope on full power, you still wouldn't be able to locate how little I care about that particular subject.' Maybe she'll carry on as Vesperia. Maybe she'll get a girlfriend. Maybe she'll do something halfway interesting, and give the viewership a heart attack out of sheer shock value alone. It doesn't matter to me one jot... less because I curse the ground this insipid plot device masquerading as a serious character walks on, but simply because I have no faith in the utterly abysmal writing this show has displayed for years and years now. Chloe could take over the lead role in a SHOCKING twist, they could change the name to Miraculous Queen and I STlLL wouldn't give it a second glance. The fish rots from the head-up, guys.

(Okay, so that's a bit of a lie. I would probably sneak a peek at ONE episode out of sheer curiosity, but you and I both know with HIM in charge the standard won't improve one iota. Plus, it isn't gonna happen anyway... so why am I tying myself in knots speculating about an impossible scenario?)

Anyway, I've nattered on for too long. I'll just leave you by answering Selah's somewhat disingenuous last question there about 'your favorite Chloe line of season 5'.

This implies we were watching 'Chloe'. As far as I was concerned, we weren't. Not the Chloe I fangirled for in the very beginning and got me involved in the show in the first place because I could relate so much. Not the Chloe who got so many other fans emotionally invested in her personal and familial struggles, before her character was comprehensively trashed by a ruinous creator with a grudge.

So in answer to your question Ms Victor, none. Because it simply wasn't Chloe.

[unfortunately-a-miraculous-fan]

[buggachat]

NO CANON DYNAMIC YET. QUICK, THROW OUT HYPOTHETICALS

[hamsternamedmarinette]

And once again the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls

(Part 2)

[anna-scribbles]

mentally i’m here

[marimbles]

kiss kiss fall in love