#Ml Strike Back

[belowthesurface]

more of this au (miraculous transformations make a trans holder their preferred gender even if they dont know yet, adrien and felix are transfem)

Bonus

[monpetitchattriste]

For personal reasons

[purplecatghostposts]

Ladybug/Pegabug in Strike Back 🤝 Pegasus in Miracle Queen

Teleporting Sentis into the sun

[familyagrestefanblog]

I think I'm soon gonna upload an explanation for why I say that in my opinion Marinette in the original french version of the season 4 finale obviously referred to ALYA having "abandoned her" when she said this:

Cause in my opinion the season 4 finale makes that more than obvious and it's wild to me that people claim she's referring to Fu as if that isn't some wildly out of pocket victim-blaming that has barely anything to do with what happened on-screen.

And no, this is not me salting on Alya. I'm mostly on Alya's side here. And I still wouldn't even call this Marinette salt either because all I'm doing is not blatantly ignoring what's on-screen in their conversation where Alya renounces the Fox miraculous:

Like, it's THERE. Marinette feels betrayed by Alya leaving 'despite' Marinette having voiced her forgiveness. It's on-screen, I don't have to ignore that just because yall rather wanna put it on Fu so you don't have to acknowledge that Marinette has actual flaws that are ugly and shouldn't be swept under the rug.

So yeah, I'll upload an analysis post on that soon. I brought it up here and there and I want to give the proper explanation for why.

[nemaliwrites]

what we want / what we need

[official-vampire-business]

have some frame redraws in these trying times (mr pigeon & strike back)

[wildtornado-o]

Flairmidable redeisgn I did for fun! I like his cannon design but it feels a little blank to me lol

Kept his thigh high boots those are like, a staple to me. Also kept his fluffier hair bcs I think its cute and works well with the dog theme

[trashart00]

Tried to make one of those hidden wallpapers

[feather-of-argos]

Flairmidable: *dejectedly watching strikeback fall into the sun*

Ladybug: They died of natural causes

Flairmidable: You dropped them into the sun!

Ladybug: Gravity is natural

[genderqueeradrien]

& never wonder if the same pressure would've pulled you under

surface pressure + marinette in risk, strike back, and gang of secrets

[karlrose]

He knows that his decision to have Felix face his father for him led to Ladybug giving him a miraculous, thinking he was Adrien. He knows that having this miraculous is what allowed him to gain access to the other miraculous. Ladybug, His Lady, had a panic attack in his room and a complete emotional breakdown on his bathroom floor while he listened from the other side of the door. Don't try to tell me he's not still carrying that with him.

[belowthesurface]

[mrplushgore]

Season 4 finale went kinda hard, huh?

[thesamestarlight]

was scrolling through my ml spoilers posts (looking for my spoiler announcement post but couldn’t find it rip) and man i forgot how funny the fandom was right after strike back. SO FUNNY. the comics, man. SO, SO FUNNY.

[nothingtherefornow]

That does explain why Marinette was more relaxed about dating Adrien in the Chat Blanc Timeline, than she is after Transmission.

SPOILER WARNING ABOUT DERISION

Even her trauma from her past declaration of love reciprocated only by a cruel prank probably didn't seem to affect her in the chat Blanc timeline for many reasons, the first being that in that timeline Marinette wasn't as self doubting and insecure as she became between season 4 and 5, she wasn't as afraid to fail or to have her trust abused because of her love like she was after Strike Back. The second reason is that in the Chat Blanc tmeline, Adrien went to Marinette to tell her he loved her too, and I think such a gesture from him helped Marinette being more faithfull and confident in dating him.

Also the thing about trauma is that the most devastating effects don't necessarily manifest everytime or just right after the traumatic experience. Itcan be triggered by a specific context or situation. And Marinette was more in condition to have her trauma being triggered in Derision than she was in Season 3.

END OF SPOILER WARNING

I'm telling all of that because I've seen some fans questioning Marinette's behaviors and reactions in season 5 when dating Adrien while she seemed more comfortable in the alternative timelines of Chat Blanc and Ephemeral. And sure maybe there's some inconsistencies I may have not realized, but I think that episodes like Strike Back and Elation really made Marinette more scared than ever of how her love could affect her judgement and thinking, and also more scared than she was before about how her love could be used against her.

late-S3 Marinette is way more chill about dating Adrien than mid-S5 Marinette is

of course, late-S3 Marinette has lived through none of the Chat Blanc, Miracle Queen, and Strike Back attacks, and "Jubilation" didn't help either

[pendwelling]

🍓🌕

(A precious existence who cannot be mine.)