#Miraculous fanfic for nano 2020

[lemuriancutie]

Another Miraculous Update

So here we are (at the time of my writing this, not publishing this) at the tail end of day 8, and not only am I doing well, I’m a full week ahead of where I need to be for the 50k word count, having just hit 25k!

So, while I have just hit 25k words, and could therefore be halfway through my story, if I had to guess I’d say I’m actually closer to being almost a fourth of the way through. Maybe. If I’m lucky.

I have covered most of the important plot points that I wanted to put in to establish the ways that this AU is different from the Canon storyline. So while that sounds like all stuff I’d have put in at the very start (and to some degree it is) keep in mind that it’s enough initially to establish the concept, and trickle out such backstory throughout the story rather than begin with the info dump from hell. So I’ve actually been doing that, so I’m maybe farther than that would imply. Maybe I’m even farther than I think?

I am trying to use the canon characters as much as possible, as I believe I said in one of my pre-November posts, and that’s been working out so far. However, I was kind of hoping to have introduced more of the characters from canon by now and shown where they are. For example, I do have plans for Juleka and Rose. I said before November even started that they were one ship I could promise you to be in the story and not be undone by the end of it. However, I’ve yet to really introduce either of them.

But, just for a bit of a preview so that if some of you are hoping a favorite character makes it into my story, I’ll go ahead and let you all know some of the characters that have gotten into the story already.

Chloé and Marinette are obvious, and while Chloé is not (at least at present) in possession of a miraculous, really the two of them are my undisputed main characters. I’ve also introduced Tikki of course, since Marinette is still Ladybug. But, as far as more secondary characters go, I’ve at least briefly introduced Alya, Mylène, Alix, Adrien, Gabriel, Nathalie, Jagged Stone, and Penny. There are more, but I need to keep some secrets.

I do have, so far, exactly one named OC, but you don’t need to worry about that character being some kind of replacement main character or anything like that. She’s currently only 3 years old, so barring some kind of time-travel shenanigans or magical aging or a huge time skip (none of which do I have any intent of doing) she’s not likely to have much of a role beyond maybe being akumatized once or something.

Another thing of note is that I just finished my first explicit scene. When I put the story on AO3 it will certainly have at least an M rating, but I might go E. If the scene I just wrote gets included it will be E, without doubt. However, scenes that push it over the edge might get cut, edited to be less explicit, or put aside and released as an E rated aside, with authors notes in the main story telling you ‘if you want to read the scene in it’s entirety go to chapter x of the side stories’ and a similar note in the side stories saying when in the main story that scene takes place. Anyway, I’m not entirely decided yet. But the scene in question is a Chloenette scene, so if you like that then look forward to it probably being included entirely either in the main story or side story.

With that said, I don’t really have much more that I want to update here, or even could without giving away story points I’m hoping to keep secret until you can read it in the story itself. Wish me luck with the rest of the month/story, and look forward to my next update.

[authorlmfletcher]

A Million Words in 2020

Holy moly 2020. It’s a little unreal to look at that number isn’t it? It seems too futuristic to me. We don’t even have flying cars!

I’ve been looking over my 2019 and I have to say, despite the fact that I started off the year with extreme mental burnout that took me a good six months to start functioning again, it ended up being a really pretty good year. 

I started writing again - something I haven’t really done in so so long. Can you believe that between my fanfiction stories and my NaNo work I churned out over 300,000 words in 2019? What!? 

Here are the four main stories that I worked on this year: 

After taking Ladybug's earrings and trying to get his ring, the Akuma threw herself at the dark portal, pulling Chat into the void along with her. His body hit hard ground with a grunt. Eyes wide with surprise, he stared at the girl who had thrown herself at him so recklessly in the middle of the battle. Marinette? And where were they? A #MariChatMay Adventure. 

Ao3 and FFnet.

Suddenly, his eyes slammed open and she threw herself backwards, crashing onto the floor with a startled gasp. Her blue eyes locked with his green ones and she couldn’t move. Those emerald eyes that once looked at her with love now rent through her soul with more malice and hate than she could even fathom. It tore her in two. He let out a low and rumbling growl.

Hands grabbed her and started dragging her to the door, pulling her away from the wild beast in the room.

“MOVE!” yelled a voice, half dragging her scrambling body to her feet. She made herself obey. She willed herself through that door and listened to them slam it behind her. Then she broke.

Ao3 or FFnet.

Adrien & Marinette have lived a miraculous life together. Marinette is reminded of that when, post-Adrien’s death, she finds his journal - a series of memoirs about his life. For Adrien AUG-reste Month.

Ao3 or FFnet

Every year, the village chooses a young woman to give to the God of Fire as a bride to appease him, so he won’t destroy their land. Somehow, she was sent to the God of Mischief instead, who has no idea why this random (very pretty) girl just showed up on his doorstep. How could he pass up such an opportunity? (Based on an AU idea from @sidsinning on Tumblr) - IN PROGRESS

Ao3 or FFnet

Plus a whole bunch of other projects where I teamed up with my Miraculous Writing (s)Quad in various formations. Honestly, this is one of the biggest rewards of the year - finding a team of likeminded friends who encourage each other in our writing adventures, no matter what stage we are out. Shout out to @livrever​, @epcot97​, and DearestMrIcarus for chatting all day long and both keeping me on task and completely derailing my tasks at the same time! <3 ;) 

So, now we’re at 2020. And, because what’s life without big goals, I’ve decided to be CRAZY. Crazy, I tell you. 

I decided to join a challenge to write a million words in 2020. 

ONE MILLION WORDS! 

(See? Crazy!). It won’t just be fiction stuff that I’m counting, but non-fiction projects that I’ve been wanting to accomplish for a long time, and blog posts (not Tumblr ones though). I have no idea if it will be possible to accomplish or not, but what’s the harm in trying? 

Here’s to an awesome 2020. 

Time to get caught up on the fanfics I was reading writing something, I guess, right?

Happy New Year! :) 

[lemuriancutie]

Miraculous Established Chloenette AU for nanowrimo

In case you didn’t see my post yesterday, I’m planning on writing Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction for National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo or just nano for short) this November. My goal will be a story 50k words or more written just during November. I will not immediately be posting chapters to my ao3 account, since the goal is to write, not necessarily to write well. I plan on editing my story afterwards and hopefully posting chapters during the month of February, 2021. But what I REALLY want to talk about here is what my story is actually going to be about!

So pretty much since Day 1 of watching Miraculous I’ve been Chloenette trash. I can’t help it! The enemies to lovers trope is a weakness of mine, and the more I sympathized with Chloé as we saw glimpses of her backstory and why she became who she is in the show the more I wanted to see her end up happy! Plus, I’m all about that femslash. I admit that, especially as of the end of Season 3 things don’t look great, but I’m still holding out hope. But, while a would enjoy writing a good canon compliant redemption story for Chloé, I had an idea for an AU a while back that I’m going to be exploring.

Basically it’s the same world as the one we know from the show, and everything was the same up until shortly before the start of the show. On Marinette’s first day of school that year she did not meet Master Fu. Ivan did not become Stoneheart. No one was akumatized. Things went on without superheroes and supervillains for a number of years.

Now, where my story actually starts, Marinette is attending university, and she and Chloé have been dating for a while. She comes into her apartment one day and Chloé is there, having let herself in with her copy of the key. This is normal for them. But then Chloé asks what’s in the fancy box. Marinette is confused until she sees a fancy wooden box on her table. She opens it and out comes Tikki, who’s somewhat mortified that the newly chosen Ladybug wasn’t alone when she opened the box, but at this point it’s too late to be concerned about that because she can sense the miraculous of the butterfly being misused for evil and someone is about to be akumatized!

This AU sees Marinette and Chloé in an established relationship (how they started dating and how Chloé developed in the intervening years will be revealed in the story), and Marinette becoming Ladybug when a fair bit older, with Chloé knowing her secret identity from day 1 (so none of that “hiding my identity from my significant other” drama). Furthermore, it’s not just that things waited a few extra years before kicking off. There are reasons why Gabriel Agreste didn’t become Hawkmoth in this version while Marinette was still in collège, and reasons why things have finally started to happen.

There are, of course, plenty of other changes too. After all, everyone is at least four years older than they are when the show starts (still not 100% decided how long after this takes place, but at least four years). Characters from the class are now working on higher education or starting careers. They’re all different from the versions of them that we know, but still hopefully close enough that it feels true to their characters and not like I’m just sticking canon names on OCs. I am also going to try to stick as much as possible to characters who do already exist in canon. Definitely all of my most important characters are already from canon, but may not be filling the kind of role you would expect them to.

This story will largely be a fluffy and self-indulgent work to show Marinette and Chloé being adorable girlfriends, but I do hope it will have enough plot, drama, intrigue, and action to keep others invested in it. The only ships I know for sure at this point I’m going to include (and can mention without giving anything away) are Chloé/Marinette and Juleka/Rose. I may decide during my prep this month on other ships that will be there at the start, and either now or as I write it I may decide on other ships to develop throughout the story. Some ships that you see may or may not be end game, but I promise that the Chloenette and Julerose are. That’s not to say those couples won’t face problems, but if you want to read it because of either of those ships you don’t need to worry about me pulling the rug out from under you and ruining those.

I also will not engage in character bashing. Yes, Marinette is with Chloé rather than Adrian, but that’s not because he was secretly a jerk, or evil, or anything like that. He’s a very nice, talented, young man and he will be playing an important role in my story. Chloé has been thoroughly redeemed from her bullying ways (though she’s still sassy and sarcastic). Even Lila, while I won’t be ignoring the kind of character she was and I’m not (currently) intending to give her a redemption arc, that’s more just because I don’t have plans with her rather than any intent to bash. If she does become important in the story she will be dealt with as a very flawed, but still very human character, and redemption or not I won’t be bashing her character. (I’m just not a fan of character bashing, especially since whoever you bash is probably someone’s favorite character.)

You may discover one or more characters serving as villains who weren’t villains before, but trust me when I say they all have their motives and reasons and even if they never get redeemed no one has been made a villain just because I don’t like that character.

That’s all that I can really say now. Partially because I am still in the planning stages of this story, and partially because I don’t want to give everything away. I hope Miraculous fans out there take interest. I’d love to hear your thoughts on what I’ve said so far. Excited? Worried? Anything you want to talk about, be it suggestions, hopes, fears, or just encouragement I welcome.

[lemuriancutie]

Nano 2020 Winner!

I won nano! I passed that magical 50,000 word goal! I haven’t finished my story quite yet, but I’m very close.

The scene I won on is one of the last few scenes in the story. I may finish the story this month if I feel up for writing, or I might take a break for just a day or two before finishing. Either way I do want to finish soon so that I have the full rough draft to work on editing during February, while still taking January and most of December off (at least off from this story).

I knew for a long time the basics of what would need to be accomplished during the climax of my story, but had no idea how that would go and what shape that might take. It made me worry that I might have a very lackluster climax. Fortunately for me, heading into the end has helped clarify things and it’s very exciting and interesting (at least to my mind).

So I have to finish up my climactic ending and then do another scene or two of resolution that should all be pretty quick to do. I hope folks will enjoy my story when I release in on AO3 a few months from now, and look forward to getting feedback once people can actually read it!