#((New headcanon that Luka just realized that Chat isn't needed (after whatever happened during his brief Viperion screentime in ''Risk''))

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I've seen several takes now how Luka is a horrible person because in the finale he didn't step in when Adrien needed to leave for his trip since he knows that would mean chat wouldn't be around anymore and generally that he didn't help adrien at all thi s season which... first of all how was Luka supposed to know, was it announced on tv bc I don't remember anything like that? But more importantly it just irks me the wrong way how people make "being nice/helpful to Adrien" the standard for "being a good person"?

Even if Luka did tell them he knows their identities, he would still rather comfort Marinette than Adrien for obvious reasons. Luka has seen first hand how stessed out Marinette was because of her hero duties (and he doesn't know that she has a confidant to "help" her) while he had one conversation with Adrien how he doesn't know what he wants to do later in life (which is not a conversation about hero stress). Adrien never gave him the vibe that the hero work is stressful because Chat noir literally never looks stressed out, so why would Luka assume anything else? Also Luka is wayyyy closer with Marinette than with Adrien, so of course he would go to her first.

And another thing, what exactly is Luka even supposed to do? Kidnap Adrien? Smack Gabriel with his guitar? Luka doesn't have the power to prevent Adrien from leaving or protect him from Gabriel (also that is clearly Marinette's job because her protecting/saving him is SuPeR rOmAnTiC)

Idk it just feels like another dumb argument to salt on Luka although his behavior makes sense

lol, that logic. Adrien basically had - what? a few hours before he left? - and people are complaining that Luka didn’t do anything??

Also, of course, now that Luka knows Chat’s identity, the stans expect Luka to drop everything for him. Yeah, it was on TV, but Luka’s life doesn’t revolve around Adrien (so he genuinely could’ve not even seen/heard about it) nor does everything revolve around Adrien? I know that’s a novel concept but still. :P Anyway, it was Chat’s fault in the first place that Luka knows and now Adrien should be rewarded for it?

Never mind that Adrien hasn’t done a thing for Luka as a friend (he pushed Luka out of the way in “Desperada” I guess, and going off of love square stan logic, Luka owes Adrien his life now maybe?). Never mind that Luka has a life of his own, like a part-time job and school that he has to think about. Never mind that he was apparently so conveniently “unavailable” that he wasn’t there to be called upon when Ladybug went to get a bunch of heroes, meaning he was likely busy enough that he couldn’t have helped Adrien.

Though, the funniest part of that argument is that it hinges on the idea that Luka would think that Chat wouldn’t tell Ladybug that he was leaving and thus they wouldn’t have a plan for it. I mean, we know Chat didn’t tell, but in the realm of canon where they teach everyone else that the love square is so perfect and “made for each other” (plus how they hide Chat’s wrongdoings like the New York special, since that would’ve been a concern of Luka’s if he’d known it was Chat’s fault but Chat never had to admit guilt to Paris itself), wouldn’t Luka naturally think that Chat told Ladybug and they worked something out if Adrien was going to be leaving for literal months?

Point being, Luka doesn’t owe Adrien anything and Luka doesn’t have the sort of power to prevent Adrien from leaving anyway, as you said. This is even excluding the fact that Marinette had tried to save Adrien after realizing that he didn’t want to go, and not only did the first attempt fail despite her being Ladybug at the time, but the second went disastrously despite all of her good, logical reasoning for it. As far as I’m concerned, the further away from Adrien Luka is, the better off he’s going to be.

Then again, I dunno what else I expect from being around someone wielding the power of destroying everyone else’s lives, whether indirectly or otherwise destruction.