#Rooster Bold

[buggachat]

yet another successful day for Team Miraculous. let's wrap it up, gang. what would paris do without us

[zoe-oneesama]

Make Your Own Rules!

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[immaturityofthomasastruc]

Unpopular Opinion: I'm starting to think that Nathaniel and Marc were only used for pandering (Yes I know that word has been thrown around a lot, but hear me out). Looking back, I don't remember what their relationship was about. It was just "Oh they draw and write? Okay let's pair them up!" Afterwards, they just....vanished.

At least with JuleRose they were hints that they were a couple, even if they had given out subtle hints that lead to them being beaten around the bush, but it was at least believable.

I have no idea what was the appeal of Nathaniel and Marc except for just...queerbaiting? Hell, Zoenette was more potential than them.

What also doesn't help that Astruc ended up cutting ties with the friend he based Marc off

Well, according to Hope Morphin themself, that's not exactly an innaccurate assessment.

Of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with shipping Marcnath, but given the reason Hope claims Marc was introduced, it does feel like he was only introduced to appease certain fans. But then again, at least the fans treat Marcnath with more respect than Astruc's team does.

[rusik-usik-art]

Sunrise! ☀ (2022)

[aganyan]

An fan akuma for Rooster Bold! Harbinger!!

And Harpy akuma for our boy!

He was inspired in the Bearded vulture!

Its a very cool bird where the most notecing thing is the reddish feathers and that his diet its mostly of bones!

Harbinger's powers consists in being able to steal peoples last akuma's powers by bitting them (having to touch the bones)

Example: if he noms noms on Alya's bones, he gets the powers of Ladywifi

He can only have an power bite per bite

Besides having powers relating to predators, like enhanced vision and sense of smell, speed, etc, and of course, he can fly

He has a similiar personality to Reverser, but he's quieter and sligthly more agressive (but he can be a cuddle bug with Nath)

Also

Round

(additions with the help of @username8746489 and @dragonchris )

[bat-in-the-machine]

So I keep seeing this thing where Maribat writers are like "we need to come up with a reason the JL never interfered with the Paris situation, and one of the most common is "Whoever was manning the phones at the Watchtower dismissed them as a crank caller."

Usually, it's Green Lantern. Most often, it's the second Green Lantern, Hal Jordan (bet y'all didn't realize there was a prior GL, huh? His weakness was wood instead of the color yellow and his ring was actually magic instead of being alien tech.), sometimes the writer is reasonable and it's Guy Gardner, the asshole fratbro of GLs... Every once in a while, it's Booster Gold, and this is the thing.

Booster Gold is from the future. Not only is he from the future, he's a superhero fan. He's the fucking Midoriya Izuku of the DCU. I guaranfuckingtee Booster Gold knows ALL ABOUT the magic heroes who took on a magical terrorist as teenagers.

In the story I'm writing (and all future Maribat stuff I might write) HE NAMED HIMSELF AFTER ROOSTER BOLD. HE IS A FAN.

[darisuma]

😈💋

[coffbeanie]

Marc ancielllll my baby im a mom actually this is my child

Anyways if season 6 doesnt give me more rooster bold content i WILL riot pllllssss

[artzychic27]

This might sound stupid, but imagine if there was a Queen Wasp au but with Rooster Bold being Akumatized.

How can I turn this into Marinette/Ladybug bashing?…

… Oh! I know!

So Queen Bee crashes the train, but get this! Marc and his little brother, Kiran were on it!

Kiran is badly injured, and not only does Marc blame Chloé, but he also blames Ladybug for losing the damn Miraculous

After rushing Kiran to the nearest hospital, Marc’s in the waiting room when he spots Ladybug out the window. She lets herself in and gives this spiel about putting together a small team of heroes to stop Chloé before she does some real damage, and Marc just snaps

When she offers him the Rooster Miraculous, she slaps it out of her hand and lays it into her, telling her that it’s her fault Kiran is in the hospital because she lost the Bee Miraculous, and now Queen Bee is going to hurt more people to prove her heroism

Then he goes on about all the other crap she’s pulled as a hero, and he REALLY lets her have it when she mentions that she could have killed hundreds of people with that stunt she pulled with the Mime

Anyway, an Akuma slips into the room and infects the Miraculous, and since Marc was the last one who touched it after slapping it out of Ladybug’s hand, he gets Akumatized

He becomes Harbinger, and seeks to find and take all the active Miraculous to ensure no one like Ladybug is wielding one

His quill turns into a feather-shaped sword and he has unlimited use of Sublimation.

Or… Rather than this taking place in place of Queen Wasp, it happens during Season 4 with more heroes

Ladybug messes up in some way and people get hurt because of her incredibly rash decisions she never learns from, and Marc is pissed because Kiran and/or Nathaniel are people who got hurt

Cue Harbinger

His quill sword is like Katana’s katana, only he steals the powers of any Miraculous user, allowing him to use those powers without the damn rules getting in the way

[dragonchris]

It's Inktober Time again Babiiiii

Just like last year, I'm repurposing the NathMarc November prompts.

Day 1: Initiation

[kuraidesuraven16]

Caprikid doesn’t want to fight him cause he knows his identity and he didn’t like the idea of fighting his boyfriend. In the midst of almost getting his miraculous taken by Talon he tells him that even though he doesn’t know what caused him to get akumatized and that they all, himself and their friends rather hero or civilian haven’t stopped looking for him. The conversation slightly reaches as Talon is frozen in place by surprise, that is until the new hawk moth (Lila) starts to yell and demand him to take his miraculous while throwing insults at him left and right. This causes Talon to stand up off of Capri kid, while stepping a few feet back away from him as he’s held his head in pain. Capri kid watches in worry noticing the butterfly symbol on his face and the other heroes finally show up. Ladybug asked him about the situation Capri kid could only respond with “I don’t know, he’s either fighting her control or she’s hurting him but one thing for sure I want to help him.” He says as he runs to Talon. restrained him from attacking, reaching for his miraculous or from hurting himself. Capri kid reassures “Rooster bold if you can hear me then know that it’s okay we don’t want to fight you, we care and are worried about you. Whatever is troubling you, we can do it together.” moving his hands from gripping his wrist tightly to the akumatized hero grunted in pain. “you can resist her power.” Talon turned his head away from him as he spoke “I-I can’t I’m not strong enough.” Capri kid’s face softened and saddened to hear his partner’s voice shaken with pain and fear, releasing the tight grip to place a soft gentle touch on Talon’s arm and the other hand on his cheek. “Oh my poor sunshine, know that you are not alone in this battle, I will fight right beside you and give you courage and support if needed. You are much stronger than you’d ever imagine. I know it, fight her control I know you can do it Rooster bold.”

Talon’s design is the opposite of Rooster bold’s sun rise themed outfit, mixed with some ideas I got from the people on the NathMarc discord.

Please do NOT Use or Repost my art without credit or permission.

[sillygoofylittleartist]

Rooster bold redesign. I have conflicting feelings about the canon design because it has a lot of really clever details that fit the rooster motif but it also looks goofy to me. I feel like it would look better in a 2D art style but idk. I think the boots are amazing so I definitely kept those with no changes. I personally think the rooster miraculous is the most powerful versatile one. Like the only limits are your own creativity I don’t know how any villain is going to feel like an actual threat when lady bug has the rooster, bee, and ox miraculous on her side so that will be interesting to see.

[havingastroke24-7]

Imagine Rooster Bold and Chat Noir being besties. I think they would be besties. Rooster Bold would show one ounce of kindness to Chat and he would just decide that Bold is the favorite now sorry LB.

Actually though like imagine Rooster Bold noticing that Chat feels left out (because he IS) and specifically trying to ask Chat for leadership when he could ask LB. Chat has no clue how to handle this but he's just happy to be included lmao

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

Hope Morphin Q&A

About a few months ago, I got a message from a surprising source: @hmrphin/Hope Morphin.

In case you don't know, Hope Morphin is a model and makeup artist who the character of Marc was based on. I also made a post about how their friendship with Astruc had ended thanks to the Rising Sun Flag controversy, which they had actually read one day. We talked a little, and they told me to message them on their Instagram to confirm that this is the real Hope.

They said they'd be down to answer some questions, I came up with a few, and I got their permission to post this on my account. So, without further ado, as Sid the Science Kid once said, let's go get some answers.

Question: When did you and Thomas first get to know each other, and how?

Answer: It was years ago, when the series premiered on TFOU. There were a lot of people complaining on twitter that the characters of the show were in 3D instead of in 2D, and I answered one of Thomas' tweets saying that characters' butts looked better in 3D rather than in 2D (yeah, I had a terrible sense of humor back then, glad I don't do that anymore) and he answered "yeah we could say that lol". Then, it became a running gag between us on the web, and we met for the first time at a french convention called Japan Tours, the 2015 one. So yeah, I think it was when I was... 20/21 years old, something like that.

Question: It's okay. We've all been cringe at some point in their lives. Did you two meet up again after the convention?

Answer: Yup. In fact, after the convention, he sent me a friend request on Facebook. Then, we chatted for a bit and he asked me if I wanted to be a model for him, and I met him for the second time during that model session.

Question: How did Thomas approach you about creating a character in his show based on you?

Answer: So, it was after I modeled for him. It happened after S1 has ended, so when we were chatting, he asked me which one was my favorite character. I answered Nathaniel, because at this time I felt quite close to this one (we love the angsty artist boy lmao). He told me that he didn't understand people liking Nath because he found it was a very empty character aha, but then he told me that they were searching for inspiration to create a boyfriend for him. He told me he wanted the persons to be happy that he got a boyfriend and that they would “stop bothering him with Nathaniel”, and as he wanted to take inspiration on someone looking androgynous he thought I was a good inspiration, so I accepted.

Question: Interesting story. Didn't know Nathaniel was so popular before Season 2. Did you have any input in the creation of Marc in terms of stuff like his design or personality?

Answer: Yeah he rather was, I remember a lot of people wanted to see more of him ehe. Not at all, I even though that he was joking on the moment, then one day he sent me Marc's characters sheet. I had the same haircut back in the day. Also, I was always wearing armor rings and I was wearing those kind of rings when I had this conversation with him, and he told me that Marc was going to have one of those as his miraculous. I was also still writing a lot back in the days, so I guess he still did took some stuff there and there in my personality to create him.

Question: You mean this design?

Answer: Yup! I was wearing only black sooo yeah the red and rainbow wasn't in my wardrobe aha.

Question: Do you know why they made the design rainbow themed?

Answer: Nah, he didn't told me :/ My guess is to make him more LGBT+ themed...

Question: Okay, sorry. Next question: What are your thoughts on Marc as a character? What do you think of his relationship with Nathaniel and his respective villain and hero forms, Reverser and Rooster Bold?

Answer: To be honest, when he first appeared, I really liked him. I thought he had a lot of potential as a character, his villain form was really cool and I really liked the ideas behind him, and I liked the relationship that he got with Nathaniel, from enemies to associates ehe. But after that... meh. There wasn't nothing much on the LGBT+ relationship with Nathaniel (we had to wait until the end of season 5 to see them hold hands... wow), and I didn't really find myself anymore in his character. I liked the design of his hero form and I liked the concept of his power, but like the other heroes that appeared during this episode, we didn't see Rooster Bold that much and I think that doesn't really make him feel appealing. I have the feeling that Marc and many other side characters could be way more develop in very cool subthemes but this is never really done in the series. Instead, now, they are just the characters getting out a whiteboard and giving terrible ideas to Marinette for her to date Adrien =="

Question: Just for fun, do you have any personal headcanons for Marc?

Answer: Well of course ehe, I have ton of those :D

Mmmh... For example, I think he is a dog person, that he's also fond of fashion such as Marinette but that he just don't have the patience to learn how to draw and how to design clothes... Also have the headcanon that him and Nath often meet at one of their places to do some little workshops together to work on their series and on tons of other projects :D

Got also tons of headcanon for future!Marc, such as him being a model for lgbt+ brands and Nath designing his clothes, I would love to see this shy patootie being at the front of the spotlight ehe, full of confidence and all :D There's tons of ideas to have with this character, I remember when I saw lots of artists drawing him with alternate clothes back in the day, such as shishitsunari or hazy (will try to find them back but it's been a while lol). I wish those clothing styles would be canon, with Marc rocking those kind of genderless clothes.

Links to fanart of Marc with different outfits: (https://www.deviantart.com/hazydayclouds/art/72918-756895643) and (https://ladyofacat.tumblr.com/post/176231424098/rises-from-the-underworld-marc-is-perfect-i-want)

Question: This one's a little tough, so if you don't want to answer, that's perfectly fine. What exactly went down before Thomas blocked you? Did you have any conversation online or in real life regarding the use of the Rising Sun Flag in "Ephemeral", or did Thomas just block you with no warning?

Answer: Honestly ? Blocked me without any warning. We were talking less and less, and, since I have affective dependancy, I had the feeling that I said / done something wrong. He was often answering only when I was defending him on social medias during these times. But we didn't have any harsh conversation from what I recall. So, I did the tweet about ephemeral, pointing out the use of the rising sun flag, and, well, maybe he had a plugin on twitter that blocked everyone using the term "flag", and maybe it blocked me automatically. The thing is : he has my number, he has my address (well, my old address now, lol). He had many ways to tell me this was a misunderstanding and that he didn't want to block me. He didn't call me, didn't send me any text after that to talk about it, so he clearly didn't want to make anything to sort out the problem. To this day, he still hasn't send me any message to talk about it. He commented on some of my facebook posts I did last year (I posted some makeups I did for my school) just saying it was cool, so... Yeah, not the type of friend I want to keep. I still have him as a friend on FB if I ever get the guts to try to send him a message to tell him everything that was wrong towards me and towards other people, but I clearly have other things to deal with lately.

Question: So he blocked you and didn't say anything else?

Answer: Yup, exactly, blocked me and didn't say anything else :/ After years of supporting him lmao.

Question: I'm really sorry to hear that. And you still haven't heard from him after all this time?

Answer: Well, apart from some comments he made on my facebook posts (I posted my makeup from my makeup school and he commented "very nice!") nothing at all. But honestly I'm not too bothered by that. I heard new stuff that he did prior and I really don't think it's a good idea that I interact with him again. I keep him in my facebook friends because maybe one day I'll send him a message to try to confront him, telling him that he had a very terrible behavior towards me and other people... But not today, I have other stuff to deal with.

Question: Despite everything that's happened between you and Thomas, do you still keep up with Miraculous Ladybug? If so, what do you think of it?

Answer:

Well, I've kept up with it because I still have lots of friends who are watching it (for example Octolady, Kogenta and Candy...), and they help me keep a little hype.

So I watched the episodes... There are some stuff that I like. There's good LGBT+ representation, and I like seeing an international known cartoon doing that (especially a french one since we have lots of far-right rising lately).

But honestly, I don't have the same hype as before. At the beginning, I was hyped because S1 looked awesome and had lots of cool fights, lots of wholesome characters and all, but the animation problems and differences are really making me bothered. Also, I have the feeling there's a lot of characters who could be more elaborated and who aren't, and... That's kinda sad, because there's a lot of topics that could be explored thanks to them and not just brushed off in one episode.

Plus, to be honest, I didn't really like the ending of S5. And I don't like the idea of it going on for seasons and seasons and seasons, milked until there's nothing more for it. The fewer the better in my mind...

I also seen the movie and didn't really liked it. Too much fanservice and didn't really made sense. The animation was nice, though.

Honestly, I love the writing team, they are wholesome people and they are doing their best for this show, but people like Thomas and Zag are the kind of people I don't want to support anymore. So yeah... To sum it up : still watching it from afar to see if nice stuff is happening, been pleased with some little stuff, displeased with a lot more, but I don't think I'll keep watching it both because I'm not that hyped up anymore and because I don't want to support anymore these 2 people. I supported Thomas too much before, was too attached to him and was a terrible person towards fans who didn't deserved it because I was too blind, so yeah, won't happen anymore.

Still, I'm glad there's still some people who are fans of Marc and who felt helped thanks to this character. I really hope he will have a better representation in the future (clear relationship with Nath, maybe even some trans / non-binary representation ?) in order to inspire young people.

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I'd like to personally thank Hope for being willing to answer my questions, and I highly reccommend giving their Instagram a follow.

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Proud boyfriend! 💫

[mexicancat-girl]

My entry for the 2024 @marcnathzine!

I had a ton of fun with this piece! I really got out of my comfort zone with the dynamic pose and the colors. Who knew teaching color theory classes could help with coloring artwork? Wack.