#I wonder what would happen if Adrien realised that both he and Plagg are essentially in the same situation: being slavebound to magic rings

[actually-factually-anonymous]

#thinking of this#and how it correlates to sentiadrien...

Yes I was going to say: with Gabriel at least we can say that he clearly has no issue with enslaving sapient beings given that he and his wife specifically wanted a magical designer baby that came with a remote-control. So really he's still consistent with how he treats Nooroo and Adrien, perhaps if Adrien's body was freely modifiable and Gabriel felt comfortable letting him on secrets then he'd have been subject to loosing the privilege of having a mouth as well.

Still, outside of transformations I don't think there's been a scene where either Marinette or Adrien outright command Tikki or Plagg. Even during the dearest family incident. It's still obnoxious that either would use the term "owner" for themselves in regards to their little friend, but on the whole they don't act like slave-owners to them.

It's still rife genuinely disturbing implications, and if there were ever a legitimate reason to burn reality and reconstruct it to one's will using The Wish: using it to remove the slave-shackles from the Kwamis and beings like them would be one of them. But....

Actually, I'm sorry. I can't finish that sentence with sincerity. I was going for "at least Adrien and Marinette don't abuse their authority". But them being the "nice" slave owners is still an absurd defense.

I do wonder about the Tikki and Marinette owner thing. Because I definitely think that the guy who made the miraculous definitely played favorites with Tikki. Maybe Tikki herself doesn't necessarily understand that she's allowed to disagree with her original orders. In a better miraculous maybe that's a plot point for Marinette. Helping Tikki understand themselves and break free from the strict unfair orders she was given.

Honestly it's just a Thing™ with all the Kwami that they're bound to follow the orders of whoever holds their Miraculous and/or the Guardians of the Order. Like there's enchantments on them where they physically have to follow orders.

Though it seems that there's a hierarchy as Adrien can't order Plagg to reveal information because Fu said not to, and the Kwami follow Su-Han's orders over Marinette's because he's a Grand Guardian or whatever.

And Canon doesn't really....

Given the direct addressing of it, such as Marinette referring to herself as Tikki's 'owner'.

It really feels like they're moralizing it in a 'It's okay when Marinette does it because she's a Good Person™ and treats the Kwami kindly! Meanwhile Gabriel is a Bad Person™ and is mean to the Kwami so it's bad!'.

But in reality both are keeping a Sapient being that they have 100% magical control over.