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S1E04: Arbalest

 A giant Akuma is determined not to let his friendship slip away. Ladybug and Chat Noir bring in Carapace to help subdue Papillon's latest monster Arbalest!

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S1E03: Anachrosaur

 A T. rex in the river, a stampede of Stegosaurs, and a diplodocus under the Eiffel Tower. Ladybug and Chat Noir will need to pull out all the stops to fight off an Akuma who's 65 million years out of date!

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What would you think if Chloe and Audrey heard rumours about the way they were going to be portrayed in Astruc’s new movie, so they went back to Paris in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the movie from being completed? Then an evilized villain (maybe a wishmaker-like villain or maybe even a villain that's unrelated to the butterfly miraculous) caused Chloe and Zoe to switch bodies somehow, and nobody fully understands what's going on, so Zoe (in Chloe's body) is taken by Audrey back to New York, despite Zoe desperately trying to explain things. But Chloe enters a fugue state (heavily due to trauma caused by the neglect of her parents) and genuinely thinks she's Zoe, and is even able to recall many of the things Zoe did due to being in Zoe's body. The class thinks “Zoe's” change in behavior is due to the psychological effects of method acting, since “Zoe” is playing Chloe in Astruc's new movie, but they gradually convince “Zoe” to let them help her relearn how to be “herself” again.

Zoe is not able to gain access to Chloe's memories while in Chloe's body, because unlike Chloe, Zoe knows she's in the wrong body. In New York, Zoe is trying to get back to Paris, but when she gets there, “Zoe” thinks she’s there to try to hurt Marinette. Eventually, after listening to “Chloe”, Marinette starts to suspect that “Chloe” might be telling the truth, so she decides that she must test “Chloe” and “Zoe”. She fakes being in danger to see how they react. “Zoe” reacts slightly faster than “Chloe”, so Marinette comes to the conclusion that “Chloe” is lying and that “Chloe” has an evil and manipulative plan. Marinette thinks that “Chloe” must have picked up a few tricks from Lila, because she thinks no version of Chloe could possibly react faster than Zoe when it comes to protecting her. So Audrey takes “Zoe” back to New York again to “correct” her after “Zoe” fails to convince anyone of the truth.

10 years later, “Zoe” gets seriously injured after fighting a villain when Ladybug isn’t around, which causes “Zoe” to not have long to live. Then Ladybug accidentally stumbles upon the truth about “Zoe” while trying to help “Zoe” using magical powers. Ladybug decides that the moral thing to do is to switch Chloe and Zoe back to their original bodies. Once Zoe gets her body back, she blames Chloe for her impending death and for leaving her with 10 years of loneliness, while Chloe got off scot-free.

At first, when Chloe gets her body back, she still thinks she's Zoe, but she eventually figures out the truth by reading the journals "Chloe" kept over the 10 years of time. When Lila gets defeated, Zoe steals the Butterfly Miraculous to get her hands on Ladybug and Catnoir’s miraculouses, hoping to “make things right”. Zoe gets defeated by the heroes (including Chloe, who has gotten her memories back) and Ladybug manages to cure Zoe’s injuries.

That's a super interesting concept! Is this a fic you've been wanting to write, or a fic you'd want someone else to write for you?

Some things to think about to help flesh out the idea would be:

Why did it happen - there could be plenty of "how"s for it (ie Lucky Charm is stolen so things cannot be fixed, or a new Villain, or the Akuma is made secretly by Lila!Hawkmoth for just that purpose, or something along those lines), so it's worth thinking about how and why it targets JUST Chloe/Zoe in that way

Where in the timeline this would fall - is it from the end of S5, when Chloe has declared herself a direct enemy of Marinette/Ladybug (and if so, why would she jump at a chance to help Maribug a few years later?)

What's the nature of the injury, and how does the injury relate to them finding out the truth? What's happened in the 10 years to push Zoe (in Chloe's body) so far that she'd be willing to make a wish for it? Zoe is touted as a very "good" character so she would need to be pushed quite far to make a choice like that.

Thank you for asking my advice on the concept, if you plan to write then I hope it goes well for you! For my own story Contingency, I've written dozens of episodes over the course of 5 years which have been meticulously proofread by my peers, tweaked based on feedback, and each have been rewritten (some multiple times) since I started. I hope you can continue to follow along with Contingency and I would love to hear any feedback about it as well!

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Meet Riggly and Calla, two of the new Kwami OCs introduced in episode 2 of Miraculous: Contingency! These incredible pieces of artwork are done by izzy_wizzy_im_dead on Instagram!

Riggly, the Ferret Kwami of Excitation, is hyperactive and impulsive, but would do anything to protect the ones they love. They grant the power Watch This. When she uses Riggly’s power, Tangle leaps around in an oversized weasel-war-dance, temporarily hypnotising targets near her.

Calla, the Raven Kwami of Imitation, is cautious but confident, and is extremely loyal to her siblings and her friends. She grants the power of Mimic, allowing Korvid to create two semi-autonomous clones of herself, which obey simple instructions - usually, to clobber the nearest Akuma!

Check out Season 1 of Contingency, our new long-form Miraculous AU fanfic here to read more about them!

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S1E02: Legion

An endlessly multiplying Akuma is attacking Paris, forcing Ladybug and Chat Noir to change a decision about one of their allies' fate, so that they can work effectively as a team. But is Queen Bee the only Miraculous who can help them today?

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S1E01: The Retailer

The Retailer attacks Paris as the latest of Papillon's Akumatised monsters. This is simple enough for Ladybug and Chat Noir to deal with, but is something more complicated happening behind the scenes?

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New long-form Miraculous fanfic!

Hello Miraculers! We are excited to announce a new long-form Miraculous Ladybug AU fanfiction!

You will follow Ladybug and Chat Noir in a episodic AU continuation from just before the end of Season 3 - a world in which just Chat Blanc and Heart Hunter/Miracle Queen never happened. What starts as a small butterfly effect caused by Bunnyx's time travelling powers, may spiral into a completely new timeline with changing implications and outcomes. We welcome in new characters, explore romantic and familial relationships, and take the characters and Miraculous in a completely different direction!

Welcome to Miraculous: Contingency, a project that has spanned into a 4-season spinoff of Miraculous Ladybug. Season 1 is being released now, with a new episode every Saturday at 5pm GMT/ 9am PST. This post will be updated weekly with each S1 episode release!

Main Contingency Website

Season 1 List

S1E01: The Retailer

S1E02: Legion