#Marinette dupain cheng

[that-one-fandom-girl]

Ohhh, it’s soooo cooooooollll!!!!!! I would love to read a ballet fic, where maybe everything’s the same, except maybe Ladybug and Adrien have to perform in the ballet for whatever reason (most likely for duty), and Marinette and Cat Noir just do it to get closer to their love. 😍

This is absolutely gorgeous! I love it so much!! 🐞🐈‍⬛😍🥰

pas de deux

[ehlihr]

Quick portraits of my friends :)

[mari-monsta]

I just realized we can do a poll for this. I've been wondering this since the episode came out.

[marichat-purrainrot]

doodle dump #5 be upon ye !!

Ladybug Slips Up

On a serious note

Love the good old switcheroo (there are more but i reached the photo limit)

[spotsandsilliness]

It was the biggest ml win we've had in a while

Safe to say the episode “Elation” left me a squealing mess. Can’t believe Marichat got to be the first ship to get a real kiss in the show!!

So I drew them cuties to celebrate a bit 💙

[hailstorm-studios]

Power alterations

Ladybug miraculous - provides the holder with "dumb luck" basically rendering them invincible

Black Cat miraculous - provides the holder with 9 lives, so, if crushed or smashed etc, the user's body will be reformed to it's previous condition

[bubsmiraculousau]

My au's Marinette! If I end up actually committing to making a comic of it I would probably have the characters change clothes every day... making my characters have distinct personal styles and making new outfits for them fills me with joy lol

(ngl the reason I made her hair more purple toned is because of Kae Serinuma from Kiss Him Not Me lmao a little behind the scenes)

I've organized all the (many) characters I want to be used so far, I will probably add more later but I've got to work my way through making basic reference pages for them all... I still have no idea what I'm supposed to do with Lila... I've figured out Zoe and Felix but she's still a mystery to me lol

[scanlans-and-shorthalts]

Lonely kitty

[fuzzychildchopshop]

coffee

morning coffee

[redtippedfox]

I feel like Tikki should have been written to be chaotic, and crazy meaning Marinette would have to be the more responsible one because of her kwami.

For example have Tikki not understand that stealing is bad. In Copycat Tikki could have stolen Adriens phone to erase the voice message because she didn’t want to see Marinette embarrassed.

Rather than Tikki being the voice of reason make her a bit more chaotic, give her silly antics.

Marinette: “Tikki what do you want to eat?”

Tikki: “Hawkmoth’s soul.”

Marinette: “…you can have a bagel.”

Any way thanks for coming to my late night ted talk.

[just-another-oikawa-kinnie]

saw this and had to do it with my favs, the idea is that they both are in love with Luka and trying using the fact that theyre in disguise to flirt with confidence, except, bonus points, he knows their identities and is really confused because they're dating???

[spotsandsilliness]

this is exactly how it happened

Adrien: The moon looks beautiful, doesn’t it?

Kagami, looking at Adrien: Yeah… but do you know what’s more beautiful?

Kagami and Adrien in unison: *sighs* Marinette

[akumanette]

Postcard from the 2023 GraffArt collaboration in Japan

[marichat-purrainrot]

some silly switcheroo doodles succeeding doodle dump #5

[generalluxun]

I'm still trying to get my head around Chat Noir's complete sidelining not just in the finale, but pretty much the entirety of the show. Based on some of the tweets I've seen, Thomas Astruc is pretty hostile to the suggestion that Chat should have more of a share of the narrative.

So... why? Why make his family, his very existence, the fulcrum on which the show turns? If you want to be the show to only be about Marinette, with Adrien as a side character and "just" a love interest, then MAKE the show only about Marinette. Don't make the main plot about Adrien, and wonder why people are confused when he's not more involved in the main plot. It's such a self-inflicted wound.

Heck, the least they could have done was give Marinette SOME personal stake in her conflict with Hawkmoth, even if it's as uncomplicated as making Marinette a paragon-type superhero like Superman or Captain American who takes her duty to the people of Paris very seriously and feels deeply about the hurt Hawkmoth's is putting them through. But most of Marinette's personal conflicts are about romance or school dynamics. The closest any of her conflicts come to her actual enmity with Hawkmoth are those that deal with the stress of being a superhero/Guardian, in which Hawkmoth doesn't really feature as a person who is her mortal enemy but as an impersonal cause for the stress she's in.

While the finale tries to summon some emotional weight to Marinette's situation, the final fight, at least on Ladybug's end, feels less like the culmination of an epic rivalry and more like a contractual obligation Marinette needs to meet as Gabriel's assigned nemesis.

I mean, the unsatisfying but true answer is twofold:

1)TA never wanted Ladybug to have a partner. That was a requirement in order to get producers lined up to hand over money. It should be understood that I am NOT trashing the producers for this. It is their money. If you want to pursue your purely artistic goal then you secure other funding or self fund. If you want to get something MADE then you have to make what people want to pay to have made. A portion of the friction here comes from the fact that I don't think TA ever stopped fighting for his original version of the show, and that version conflicts directly with the version he was paid to write for.

2)In the context of the above- Adrien is a TROPHY. Gabriel is the DRAGON, and his home life is the TOWER that the KNIGHT Marinette must rescue him from. If Adrien were a side-character he wouldn't be much of a trophy, investment wise. Is it good to make a character purely a trophy? No. It's not good when it is done ot female characters, it's not good when it's done to male ones either. (Or intersex, enby, nongendered, etc) We've moved past the kind of storytelling TA is selling in his vision of ML. It feels like something out of the early 00's, which when you consider where he started his work, makes a lot of sense.

Should they have connected Marinette to Gabriel more? Absolutely! They both do fashion! SHE could have had an internship right along with Lila. Can you imagine the rivalry there? Can you imagine the conflicts with Gabriel?

At the VERY least they should have let Marinette actually track down abriel. Let her put all her planning and analysis to good use! Instead they just had Felix do it all and then some blind luck at the end. That's LAME, that's cheating Marinette out of a well deserved culmination story beat.

Punching has never been what Ladybug was about, so a final fight could never be a satisfying climax no matter how 'epic' it was.