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Off-topic, you ever get into Monster High, or Ever After High? Both seem like they'd be right up your alley. (Well, the newer, Nickelodeon show for Monster High, maybe. They're a bit better at having an actual plot.)

You'd think it would be especially given how I joke that my Monster AU is basically Monster High but somehow I dodged them.

Most things I know I think I'd roll with but I would like. Adjust some things in MH to work better with actual monster lore. Like I get what they're going for but also come on give me some more morbidity

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Concept: while Kwami are invisible on camera, their voices CAN be picked up by certain kinds of audio recording equipment. Some of these are very cheap to get. Plagg manages to grab both 1 such device, & a cheap phone, & proceeds to start prank calling Gabe everytime he's a dick to Adrien. Gabe eventually tries to find out who the hell is doing this, but decides this guy must be a master of tech, because it always looks like the calls are coming from his own house.

BEAUTIFUL

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Public Divorce: Lila's most popular story was about shoes. Specifically, why exactly Alix used a shoe's sole in all her worst insults.

oh?

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Oh, oh, better idea! Hawk Moth manages to grab both the earrings & the ring, but Adrien yoinks them when he's tossed aside. Ghost!Emilie puts her hand on the Cat ring, it makes her visible. Puts her hand on the earrings, they make her tangible. As long as she is gripping both securely, her spirit has a corporeal presence. On the downside, her hands have to be fists the whole time. On the upside, considering her current plan for Gabe, it shouldn’t be that much of a hindrance.

GET HIS ASS

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When Ghost Emilie gets her body back, she keeps running into things and saying things she shouldn't (especially to Audrey), forgetting that she is in fact physical and can be heard again

ha!

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Ok, question. When they announced Caline Bustier had a wife, did anyone else think it was Dimitra Mendeileve? Because that’s what I thought. That they were married, but no one really figured it out because the two try to stay professional at work.

HONESTLY LIKE

If you were gonna tell me any previously established character was Bustier's wife I would've guessed Mendelieve. Like come on.

Actually as a side note ML kinda has a habit of just. Introducing new characters they clearly spend time on and should focus on but just..... don't

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Like, I have this crystal clear scene - Adrien: "I-I don't-! Father! How could yo-!" / HM: *tosses Adrien aside* / Ghost!Emilie: *runs to check on her son, pleading with him to get up, even though he can't hear her* / Ladybug: "Why are you doing this!?" / HM: "CAUSE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN MY LIFE NEEDS MY HELP!" / Ghost!Emilie: "THIS IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF HELPING, YOU ASS!" / Everyone: *stares in shock* / Ghost!Emilie: *looks down to see her hand on the Cat Ring* "…huh."

BEAUTIFUL

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Honestly, I just like the idea of Emilie's Soul Ghost for 2 reasons. 1) the hilarity of any scene with Hawk Moth, "I must save Emilie, this is the only thing I can do", just imagining his wife in the background going "NO, IT FUCKING ISN'T!" 2) the point where Emilie comes back, & it takes her a while to get used interacting with people again, cause she just spent 2 or 3 years as a disembodied consciousness.

beautiful.

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Public Divorce AU- Ladybug: "Uh, who are you??" / Queen Bee: "Oh, yeah, this is for you." *hands Ladybug a note & returns to kicking the crap out of Homewrecker* / Note: Ladybug, I wish to apologize to you & Chat Noir for not heeding your concerns. Chloé will indeed try to attack her parents when they are Akumatized, regardless of her own safety, & has also shown a surprising amount of protective instinct. I have therefore taken Chat Noir's suggestion, & gifted her the Bee.

Beautiful/

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Public Divorce: Got a few things.

Chloè does Savate to vent.

André is still a member of the Council of Paris due his party still getting the majority of the votes, he was just caught flat footed when the Council elected someone else.

Hawk Moth issued a public apology to Chloè. He's TRYING to not Akumatize her parents so often, but they're so angry at each other they often hijack his Akuma.

One fact Lila doesn't tell is that Italians pick up Roman numerals before Arabics from sheer exposure. It just never occurs to her that things are different in France until someone is surprised at how easily she reads them.

Chloè gets a Miraculous first, as Master Fu himself decided she needed a way to take her frustration out on her parents and giving her the Miraculous when they got Akumatized was a way for her to just beat them up and get away with it.

Lila also gets a Miraculous for her cunning and heroism in recognizing the Miraculous Book and getting it to Ladybug. It took her weeks to confess the truth to Ladybug, but by then she had already proven herself.

After the Fashion Show, people start to find Andrè somewhat more sympathetic as Audrey got Akumatized on live TV for getting placed on the second row. Also, Hawk Moth gave her a literal chicken suit and the power to fire rubber chicken.

Zoè stopped getting bullied quite early after Ray used her mother's divorce for it on internet: Chloè flew to New York, Savated him, and left him in front of the lockers in a copy of the most ridiculous get up Hawk had inflicted to Andrè and with a warning to not bully Zoè Lee "or the one isn't getting away so easy". The school is still trying to find out how the culprit evaded the cameras (Markov).

Beautiful.

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For the Public Divorce AU, I can provide all sort of facts about Italy. A few examples:

Standard Italian is literally a memetic mutation. During the Risorgimento (the period in which Italian unification happened), intellectuals from all around were discussing what of the many languages spoken in the peninsula should be used by the unified state, with the big contenders being Romanesco (a dialect of Tuscan spoken in Rome, INfamous for the amount of vulgarities), Dante's "Italian" (Florentine dialect of Tuscan of the early 14th century, used by intellectuals because of the popularity of the Divine Comedy), or an artificial language built from all the others, and suddenly Alessandro Manzoni (native language: Lombard) published the final version of The Betrothed in MODERN Florentine, and the sheer popularity of the novel meant that Standard Italian HAD to be Florentine.

Italians being Italians, getting Rome as a capital was a requirement for the creation of united Italy (it's an Italian thing, can't really explain)... But Pope Pius IX prevented that for over twenty years because any peaceful unification would have forced him to recognize the King of Italy as a political equal, so after the capital was finally taken every city had the street to the main church renamed after September 20, the date the Italian army did the deed, out of sheer pettiness.

Speaking of Pius IX, Bismarck wanted to offer him asylum in Germany because he expected that having him around would push German Catholic to become Protestants (he was Luteran), but his Kaiser didn't want him around.

There's a restaurant in Rome where the gimmick is that the staff insults you and generally shows off the vulgarity of Rome's dialect and traditional songs. You have to reserve a table to eat there because of the gimmick and excellent cooking.

Because Rome and Paris are twin cities, Parisians can enter Rome's museums for free and skip the line, and Romans can enter Paris' museums skipping the line.

Remember Asterix, and the whole "Undefeatable Little Village" thing? The Romans did it first, as during the Second Punic War their fortress of Cremona on the Po river resisted a siege by GAULS allied with Hannibal for over twenty years until Roman reinforcements destroyed the Gauls under Cremona's walls.

No, not EVERYTHING in Italy is linked to Rome in some way. Turin's Egyptian Museum was started by local intellectuals, for example. And it's too big to visit all in one go, you need at least two visits.

Oh dope

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Actually, wait I take it back. Gabe is pissed, yeah, but Nathalie. Nathalie, the ex-treasure hunter, the 1 who probably tracked down the book in the first place. Who probably has a lot of pride & other more complicated feelings about her old job, & the things she found. Gabe is pissed, but Nathalie is LIVID. Gabe & the Gorilla have to hold her back from storming out to find Lila & kick her ass.

YEAH

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See, now I'm imagining HC after the Lila tries to get Mari expelled & they all learn about everything she did. Adrien: "Father, I know it won't make much difference, but I found out what happened to your book!" / Gabe: "Ah. Yes, your friend was quite embarrassed, I saw no reason-" / Adrien: "Oh, no, Marinette didn’t take it! She just rescued it after Lila threw it in the trash!" / Gabe: "…" / Adrien: "…Father?" / Gabe: "She. Threw a priceless. 1-of-kind book. In the TRASH!?!??!"

He's just so upset about it!

And like granted Lila had no way to know it's true nature

BUT ALSO

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Like, I'm not entirely sure why Marinette doesn’t tell Gabriel more or less exactly what happened?? I mean, I get that her more important goal is "get Adrien back in school", & contrite fan/friend who didn’t think something through is fine, I guess. But I would be "also, if it’s stained or something, this girl threw it in the trash." Like. I know Marinette isn’t aware, but Gabe is wearing the emotion-sensing brooch, he'd know she was telling the truth.

Honestly there's literally no reason like.

/maybe/ you could argue she's feeling guilty for how she handled Lila(the whole screaming at her as Ladybug thing) and decided to help her get in less trouble?

But then she's nowhere near as generous with Lila anytime else so who knows.

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Friends, we are stuck in the Anxious Energy From Nowhere(TM) tonight! But anyway, rewatching old ML, had a thought. I'm assuming he doesn’t know, but how do you think Gabriel would've reacted if he found out Lila actually stole the Grimoire & then chucked it in the trash? Like. I don’t know if she meant to go get it later, but that’s what she does. She grabs the book, buys the necklace, then chucks the book - a clearly old, probably important, antique tome - in the nearest trash can.

Probably big mad like GIRL???

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I mean. HC & LL are alternate timelines (I think??) so you could have it be different in each 1. HC: Mrs. Kubdel goes on a mental health retreat, meets someone, has a whirlwind romance that turns into a solid relationship, & just. Doesn’t go home. LL: Mrs. Kubdel dies on said mental health retreat, & due to a mixup at the hospital, gets misidentified. Alix only finds out years later by accident.

They're alternate Timelines but pretty much everything up to Origins is the same is the thing with them

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Do we ever find out what happened to Alix's mom? Or is it 1 of those things we never get an answer to? Like, Alix could use Fluff to go look & see what happened, but she doesn’t?

Alix is tempted to use Fluff to figure it out but part of the reason Alix was chosen for the Rabbit is that she can resist that temptation.

As for finding out....... This is one of those plots where I keep putting it off because I have both Hero Chat and Lady Luck. If I do it in one fic I can't exactly do it in the other with the same effect as I'd be repeating the whole thing, ya know?

Theoretically I want her to come back and be like "hey no idea if you want me in your lives at all totally understandable if not but I think you deserve to at least know why I disappeared"

which naturally has complicated emotions and leads to Akumatization