#and honestly i didn't mind some of the negative takes on my post about post-s5 positivity if they were worded nicely

[coffeebanana]

from now on if you're going to reply to my speculation posts with negativity you're getting blocked because i don't have time for the salt i just want to enjoy my silly little show (affectionate)

[woodsbeyond1]

Loose Ends (or post S5 finale thoughts)

Listen I'm late to the party but I had to wait until all the episodes were out so I can watch them in order (which proved very helpful in understanding this rollercoaster of a season) so here goes nothing. This is mainly to untangle my feelings towards this season and its finale. I feel Confused. Here are some loose ends that make me feel ICKY and that I sincerely hope will be addressed in S6, but before that I'd like to address one thing:

Listen, I have no problems with Chat Noir not being there in the last fight; Adrien made a decision that was both understandable (because he is plagued with a terrifying nightmare that paralyzes him so he refused to turn into the monster in his nightmare) and right (because how many times do we need it to be proven that Adrien + Knowing his father is Monarch = the apocalypse? how many times did the timeline got reset for that reason?). Let's acknowledge what has been repeatedly thrown in our faces this season; Chat Noir's control over his emotions (esp when in suit) is unstable, which leads him to use his cataclysms immaturely (example: with Dark Humor after he knew what Kim did to Marinette/// with Darker Owl when he took away the dreams of the ladynoir family /// With Nightormentor! Even though he knew it was his own father! yet he was about to cataclysm him). You know what I count as character development?? It's Adrien realizing that he's too angry to be Chat Noir at the moment. It's him acknowledging the instability of his feelings and doing something about it. All the time, since the frozer episode where Chat refused to cooperate in battle because LB rejected him, it's been known that Adrien/CN needs to work on controlling his emotions, and when the moment came to make a decision, he made the right one. So no, a single answer doesn't fit every equation, and the battle between LB and Monarch certainly didn't need CN presence. Here are the loose ends tho:

Will Ladybug tell Chat Noir the truth about the battle with Monarch? I can predict that the writers will want to delay that as much as they can to protect the whole "Adrien's happiness depends on that knowledge" concept, but fixing that side of the equation fucks up the ladynoir side; a new, unresolved conflict from s3 and s4 will reappear: why is LB hiding secrets from her partner? how will CN react to it? Will CN's feelings finally be acknowledged instead of brushed aside for the sake of maintaining the peace? Or will he finally break as he realizes the two most important people in his life (Marinette and Ladybug) have kept secrets from him, just like his father? Will Marinette/Ladybug finally learn from this if it ever happens? Will addressing and prioritizing Adrien's/Chat Noirs feelings be the first step to finally have Adrien untangle his emotional conflicts that make him act rashly when experiencing intense emotions? I have so many questions and I am excited to see how this one plays out. The Ladynoir Conflict continues everyone.

this one is short: I don't feel comfortable knowing the miraculouses are distributed like that. It makes me even more paranoid, specifically because the butterfly miraculous is still lost, so people are very much still vulnerable to their negative emotions, and it would only take some inconvenience to akumatize a miraculous holder and retrieve their miraculous (esp that they're all KIDS mind you) also felix??? hold on he needs a separate paragraph-

Will the mess of a character that is Felix and his questionable actions in s4 finale be addressed anytime soon? Yknow, the one who traded Adrien's amok for the peacock miraculous, the one who gave Monarch all the miraculouses, the one who needs therapy desperately, the one who, yes, is a victim in many ways, and has good intentions but questionable methods of acting upon them. Oh also the fact that he knew who Monarch was yet never told LB until at the end of the season. Honestly, LB needs to have a talk with him (and that talk shouldn't end with Felix keeping the peacock miraculous because he has done so much trouble that should've taken away the right to keep it, despite his backstory. He caused so much trouble and for selfish reasons (reminds you of someone?) and if he doesn't learn the consequences of his actions, from this age at least, he'll turn into a Monarch whenever he wants something bad enough. I think that is a conflict that needs to be addressed and no, he should not be on the same team as LB. ***I'll add more as I try to process the finale holy sh- One final thing I'd like to add though: Miraculous Ladybug has changed in so many ways, for the best, and while there are some things that absolutely doesn't make sense till now (like, what was the point of the 1-ep long marichat relationship that switched to adrinette in the span of, well, an episode?) but there is no doubt that a great deal happened that never crossed our minds as a fandom. Even now, we struggle to predict what's gonna happen in s6 because the ending was something we never imagined. Yet I want to remind you, that it was the same for us after s4 finale, and the writers delivered an outstanding season, with lots of delicious plot. This season was a breath of fresh air, and it made me feel like the writers finally acknowledged the presence of the grown up side of the fandom by giving us material to haunt us in our nightmares <3 But fr, I'm confused yet hopeful that the writers know what they're doing, and if there happened to be some inconsistencies (like felix snapping that senti projector without any guilt unlike with the red moon, wtf was that about) I believe old fans of this show have accepted that this show isn't perfect, and they have learned to genuinely enjoy the good aspects of it (and pretend the weird stuff doesn't exist for the sake of our sanity). So yeah, have faith, don't expect too much though, and remember to enjoy <3 that's the whole point of watching the show anyway