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Astruc writting Chloe in Season 1: A regular school bully, pretty much harmless.

Astruc writting Chloe in Season 6 probably: Chloe Bourgeois is actually the one who broke the peacock miraculous in the first place and is thus the reason why Emilie died, I mean got sick and thus caused Gabriel to siral and become Hawkmoth which of cause causedd the entire series to happen and eventually lead to Gabriel sacrificing himself to bring bakc Natalie and forced Marinette to lie to Adrien and so Chloe is actually the reason why they haven't had the reveal yet. Don't you hate her enough? Did you also know she's the reason why Juleka and Rose haven't gotten together yet, or why Rose has her illness which he can't say. Did you know that Chloe actually broke-

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A common defence I've seen in several places by Marinette Defenders to argue that Marinette is not a stalker of Adrien for her at best stalkerish behaviour such as going to Shanghai solely to follow Adrien there or enlist the unknowing assistance of Firefighters to help her break into Adrien's house, is that Adrien literally doesn't know what Marinette is doing and therefore Marinette cannot be called a stalker. Firstly that's like saying someone hasn't done anything wrong if they stole something and the victim hasn't noticed it yet. Things don't just suddenly become fine to do to someone if they don't realise what's going on.

Okay sure, some countries may have the requirement of the person noticing for it to count as stalking, but that doesn't change the fact that such behaviour is wrong, and no it is not just the actions of a awkward teenager which is another common defence. Last time I checked, most awkward teenagers don't do even half of the morally dubious at best actions Marinette undertakes in her pursuit of Adrien, such as breaking into someone's house on several occasions or lying to your parents about the purpose of a proposed trip with the sole purpose of following someone to another country.

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I haven't seen the London special—and I don't want to—but I've read the plot and something just occurred to me.

Why did Bunnyx need Ladybug's help? Why couldn't Bunnyx have figured things out and fixed the timeline herself? I know only the 14-year-old Bunnyx was left, but that gives her ample time to do SOMETHING.

According to Marinette, she believes that the Rabbit Miraculous is actually the most powerful of all the miraculouses. That means a whole lot of responsibility, which she gave to Alix when she let her keep the Rabbit Miraculous PERMANENTLY.

So, why didn't Alix just fix the timelines herself? She was the Present Alix, which means nothing has happened to her at the moment. She could've brainstormed her way into figuring out what happened, who it is, and stopped them herself.

I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like if you give someone a miraculous that YOU YOURSELF BELIEVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL MIRACULOUS, YOU'D GIVE IT TO SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY WORK BY THEMSELVES???

And it's not like I'm saying Alix can't ask for help, but it just feels like her first thought was: "I gotta get Ladybug!" And not "Oh my God, the timelines are changing, I have to figure out who it is!"

If Alix is going to run to Ladybug every time the timeline changes, why give her the responsibility of making sure nothing happens to the timeline in the first place??? If it's going to be like that, Ladybug might as well have just kept the Rabbit Miraculous herself, since it seems like she'll be the one shouldering the job anyway.

The show's obsession with making Marinette do everything herself has created massive flaws in the narrative and makes a ton of characters look bad - or at least poorly suited to their hero role - because they generally default to only doing what Marinette tells them to do. The show will even go out of its way to punish characters when they take initiative. If your name isn't Marinette, then initiative is always, always punished. And if your name is Marinette? Then it depends on the writers' mercurial whims and not anything even remotely resembling logic.

Alya suffers the the initiative = bad curse all the time like in Optigami where she decides to take the turtle to the day's fight even though she was only told to take the fox and the bee:

Rena Rouge: Mirage! (an illusion of Ladybug is created) And voila! A cool little Ladybug illusion to keep Style Queen busy while I'll… (Rena Rouge looks at the Turtle Miraculous container on the Miracle Box and takes the Miraculous) Longg: Did the guardian ask you to do that? Rena Rouge: Just a precaution.

This should have been Alya's moment to shine. A moment where she took initiative and it paid off, showing Marinette that she could trust others to make their own calls. Instead, this choice is painted as Alya being blinded by her love for Nino and leads to Shadow Moth almost getting the turtle because he just so happened to make a perfect clone of Nino and Alya unknowingly gave the clone the turtle. (Why does this show love evil twins so much? This is basically a the same plot as the season four final. Get a new gimmick! This one is just dumb.)

Even more annoyingly, the one who unmasks sentiNino isn't his girlfriend, it's Ladybug even though the thing that exposes sentiNino is something unique to Nino and Alya:

Ladybug: I guess it was only here to help repair everything. (looks confused when she sees her compact mirror) (Sentinino gives Alya a simple hi-five) (Ladybug remembers Alya and Nino's special hi-five in a flashback) Ladybug: (looks at both of them with curious look) We're gonna have to be a lot more careful now. Shadow Moth knows the identities of some of the people I have given a miraculous and apparently he's decided to use this information. (looks at Sentinino) Isn't that right, Shadow Moth? (Alya becomes shocked, and Sentinino panicks as he got exposed) Ladybug: I'm sorry Alya, you better move away from him. This isn't Nino, it's a Sentimonster. Alya: Huh? (gasps)

It's Alya and Nino's special handshake!!! Alya should be the one to figure it out, not Ladybug!!! Writers, stop this! Let Marinette have competent allies! She's not suddenly less cool if other people are useful! Also, stop making love a bad thing! Alya and Marinette both suffer every time they're open with their love interest and I hate it. Whatever happened to romantic love being a good thing?

Anyway, all of the Optigami nonsense leads to an ending that makes zero sense:

Alya: Shadow Moth almost unmasked you because of me. I should have never taken the Turtle Miraculous. Marinette: It's true, you did make a mistake, and that's why I'm gonna have to make a difficult decision. The most important thing is to learn from our mistakes. And today, I learned that I need an ally who can replace me in case something happens to me one day. (hands Alya the Fox Miraculous) From now on, you will keep the Miraculous of the Fox with you, and I'm gonna tell you everything I know.

This ending does not fit the episode in the slightest. Why does Alya's failure make her promotion material? How was the turtle even a failure when it would have been fine if that was really Nino? How was anyone supposed to tell that wasn't Nino when the peacock is so stupidly overpowered? It's so dumb!

This episode should have been Alya earning her promotion by being awesome, taking initiative, and noticing things Marinette didn't. What is the point of having a reporter who never notices things? Why does Marinette decide to give Alya secret knowledge and a full-time miraculous in an episode that was all about Shadow Moth almost winning because he knows the temp heroes' identities? Why does nothing about this show make sense? Writers, what are you doing???

The saddest thing about this Marinette-first approach is that it's not even making Marinette look good. This goes beyond the asinine "Marinette must always be wrong" rule. The problem here is that the narrative has made many of the secondary characters feel incredibly important. As a result, the audience naturally expects those characters to have important roles. When those character are then denied the roles that they should have, the audience gets angry and the anger usually gets directed at Marinette. For many viewers, it feels like she's hogging the spotlight and denying herself help even thought those things are poorly thought-out choices made by the writers and not intentional flaws that are meant to be part of Marinette's character.

I know one person whose favorite character is Alix, Alya is one of mine, and a huge portion of the fandom loves Adrien. All characters who should have been allowed to shine, but who got shoved to the side in favor of Marinette. The casual watcher is not going to blame the writing for that. They're going to get mad at Marinette because she's basically the avatar of the bad writing, forced to do the most asinine things so that she maintains the spotlight even if it's slowly killing her character while making every other character look pathetic and/or ineffectual.

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Claude: "Allying with the Empire and killing Rhea is the best way to end this war quickly while keeping Leicester safe and independent" Also Claude: "Edelgard won't stop her war until all of Fodlan is united under her banner. I know that, Holst knows that, we all know that"

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i haven't watched MHA in its entirety so correct me if I'm wrong but bakugou started off as a good example of how privilege can turn people into absolute assholes.

because bakugou didn't have a tragic backstory, he didn't have abusive parents or a dead lover or a torturous childhood. he was in fact the "gifted child", praised at every turn for having such a cool quirk and told repeatedly that he would have a great future. his parents seem decent enough and there is no inkling of trauma there, only a man who was praised by everyone to the point that he developed an inflated ego.

this was, in theory, a really good base for a character. it shows how privileged people often take their position for granted and feel threatened when minorities actually start to stand up for themselves or gain attention (see: cishet people complaining about not getting a "straight pride month").

but then, the story ruined it by coddling bakugou and never having him learn his lesson. i don't care that he apologized to midoriya in the manga, the fact that it took so long for him to do that is bad enough. and the fact that none of the teachers stopped bakugou from bullying his classmates, especially midoriya, and he apparently goes back to acting like an asshole after the apology.. yeah. yikes.

you had the opportunity to create a really interesting character and address some important social issues, but you completely ignored it in favor of fanservice.

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Honestly in my opinion, the whole silent protagonist thing for Link doesn't add anything. I'm not expecting Link to start speaking essays worth of voice acted dialogue or anything like that, but I would like more individuality from him so that he feels like an actual character.

Honestly I wish they would give up on the idea of trying to make Link 'relatable' and just make him into an actual character. Felt like we were kind of moving in that direction with WW/TP/SS Links which were very expressive but then BOTW/TOTK decided to make him as bland as possible.

idk about you but if I watched my bff/maybe girlfriend turn into a dragon in front of me, I would be on my knees sobbing, not staring straight ahead like :|

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Good points from the both of you.

In Full Disclosure even after completing the game, I didn't really understand why people were saying that Hyrule under Rauru gave off imperialistic vibes until I decided to rewatch the Ganondorf meeting Rauru scene where it all clicked into place.

I am not above admitting that sometimes I wander out of my little hole to see what other people are discussing in LoZ fandom because I get bored and I like to add unnecessary spice to my life. Anyways, on my most recent foray, I read a very interesting take, with OP being frustrated with those who would view Rauru as a villain and Ganondorf as a misunderstood hero. It started out fine, with the argument that any story that has a monarchy will have imperialism built in because we inherently understand monarchies to be imperialistic. They also argued that there is some grounds for critique in the games given that the Gerudo are often framed as enemies while Hylian monarchy is good. However, they then argued that it is not correct to to think that Rauru is an imperialist, or that Sonia and Rauru's idea of a kingdom is propaganda because it is not true for the context of the story. To assign any suspicion to Rauru's actions as a imperialist and a colonizer would mean that the writers put it in there intentionally, and that is assigning credit to the writers for writing something that they never intended. Thus, in the context of the story, you must accept that Rauru is wholly good, and instead turn your critique to the writers who wrote the story from the perspective that heavenly-ordained divine right to rule is a good thing. So uh. How do we critique the writers. Do we attack them personally, or should we critique that the story tries to explain that Rauru is a good imperialist while literally doing very little to justify his entitlement to the position of king of Hyrule? Maybe we should critique that the story is insisting that Ganondorf is evil, but does very little narrative work in making his evil something believable, especially when Rauru is insisting that he join his kingdom (or else)? Like I understand the argument of not assigning intention where it is not due, but if you want to argue that monarchy stories are based in the real life context of imperialism then you can't demand that people suspend their belief about everything that makes imperialism shitty and oppressive just because this fictional story decided that imperialism is good.

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Marinette after seeing a girl with a prosthetic arm asking for a selfie with Adrien:

Brilliantly done

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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

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“I am Nooroo, the kwami of Transformation, I am all that changes and all that will remain, I am all you will be in the end.”

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Sooo I round across this cool concept art of an unused kwami design. And… well- I had to make some art.

It’s called Null, the kwami of nothingness, with an ambition to “Return the world back to nothingness”. I decided that the power it would have would be called “Void”, allowing its users to make any one thing disappear permanently. I figured Null would be the universe’s counterbalance to the kwami of reality, Gimmi.

I’ve seen some theories floating around that Null might be appearing in season 6, I feel like that could be pretty interesting, depending on how it’s handled.

Side note: making Marinette recognizable when you get rid of her bangs is harder than I thought it would be- hopefully y’all can tell it’s her, haha. The working name I have going for her is Lady Cipher

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Kinda sorta a continuation of this post

I’ve seen theories of Lila running into Null in season 6, and I just kinda wanted to make my own design before a canon one potentially comes out.

I picked the name Nessuna for her (I actually have a name in mind this time, lol). It means “nobody” in Italian. Since Lila/Cerise has so many identities, I thought it would be funny if in her form while using Null, the kwami of nothingness, she was just essentially named “nonentity”. Also, it alludes to the Odyssey with that one story where Odysseus tricks a cyclops by claiming to be “nobody”. It just makes my nerd brain happy.

I strayed a bit away from miraculous design conventions with this one- hopefully it’s still recognizable as Lila (I always worry about that with my design work it seems).

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ochako hero costume redesign

version with notes under the cut

(ignore the messy handwriting)

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Marinette and Negligence

The recent leaks for Season 6 are pretty interesting with Marinette's return to chronic stalker behaviour, aren't they? When I first saw the leaks showing how Marinette caused caused severe damage to Sublime's prosthetic legs, one of my first reactions was this is a open and shut negilgence case, so I decided to explain how the events in the leak amount to negilgence by Marinette's actions. Keep in mind, I'm not an expert in French Tort law.

For those who are unaware, Negiligence is an legal tort under civil law where an individual who will be called the defendant causes harm to another individual who will be called the plaintfif by either recklessly acting when harm can be reasonably expected, or failing to act when one would be reasonably be expected to act. In order for the legal representation of the plaintiff to prove negilgence in a civil case and get damages from the defendant, the following four elements are required to be proven; Duty which means did the defendant owe the plaintiff a duty of care, Breach which means did the defendant breach the duty of care through their reckless actions or lack thereof, Damages which means was the plaintiff actually harmed by the breach of the duty of care by the defendant, and finally causation which means could the defendant's actions or failure to act be reasonably construed to lead to the plaintiff's harm.

The first element, Duty is easy enough to prove, because Marinette entered the sporting venue that Sublime was running in, therefore Marinette has a duty of care towards Sublime.

The seond element, Breach, is also easy enough to prove because Marinette pretending to be an akumatised villain and then recklessly answered her own false alarm as Ladybug, which clearly is a breach of her duty of care towards Sublime, though the latter isn't likely to be proven without Marinette's identity being revealed to the court.

The third element, Damages, Marinette's actions resulted in the serious damage to Sublime's prosthetic legs which most likely will require replacements, which from my research according to https://livingwithamplitude.com/amputee-running-blade-levitate-affordable-lasse-madsen typically costs at least 19392.00 Euros, which means there is plenty of damage done by Marinette's actions.

The Fourth and final element, Causation, Marinette's actions in pretending to be a soap based akumatised villain spreading soap around in the bathroom which stuck to Sublime's prosthetics was responsible for the damage, and I would think that someone slipping is a reasonably predictable outcome of playing around with soap, which is further worsened by Marinette's decision to answer her own false alarm as Ladybug, which is clear to see why that is a bad idea.

So in summary, Marinette's reckless actions in pretending to be a soap based akumatised supervillain which resulted in the damage to Sublime's prosthetic legs fulifil all four elements of negilgence and therefore Sublime would have a very strong case against Marinette if she chose to, and Marinette would have to pay at least 19392.00 Euros, and that's not even accounting for legal fees and other damages that the court might award Sublime. Ironically enough, the court or whoever is in charge of determining damages is likely to want to make an example out of Marinette because her actions make light of actual supervillains who are very much active. Reminder, I am not an expert in French Tort Law. Edit: Added details about how the court might want to make an example of Marinette, and added in disclaimers about my legal knowledge.

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Hi there, sorry for the late reblog.

I've never really felt like Zelda's sacrifice in Tears of the Kingdom was OOC, and I don't really understand why people would try to argue that, especially when the narrative left her no other option.

My issue with Zelda's sacrifice in Tears of the Kingdom which is more of a symptom of the greater issue where TOTK's plot feels like a repeat of Breath of the Wild's with names moved around, is that her sacrifice doesn't hit hard because we already know that Zelda is willing to sacrifice herself for the good of Hyrule because she already did so in Breath of the Wild. The effectiveness of the trope of a character being willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good drops drastically when it is used more then once.

I do think it's strange when ppl call Zelda's decision to turn into a dragon 'out of character'. I think it's a deeply unsatisfying progression of her arc, but also entirely in character for her.

Zelda's main point of confluct in BOTW was being unable to awaken her powers, and the resulting tension between herself and her role as the princess. This conflict resolves by having her awaken her powers under a moment of extreme stress, in a desire to save Link. This end to her arc is, to me, nonsensical and unsatisfying, but nevertheless, BOTW concludes with Zelda ultimately fulfilling her duty. After awakening her powers, she sacrifices herself and uses her power to suppress Calamity Ganon, hoping to stave him off until Link returns to fight him. And it works.

So, in TOTK, why would it be OOC for her to swallow the secret stone? Of course she'd choose to sacrifice herself, using her power to ensure Link can return to fight Ganon. It worked the last time.

It's not satisfying to see the narrative reward her self sacrificial tendencies and frame them as the correct choice, but Zelda jumping to self sacrifice and believing it to be her destiny seems very in character to me. Because BOTW very much reinforced this conclusion.

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