#and she was like Gabriel

[cococookiedraws]

le gasp

[rwsdarw]

got sick recently so here sillies

[sillysiluriforme]

Would it not be so very funny if while Nathalie and Gabriel were looking for cures all around the world Emilie got closure in almost all her personal relationships. All the loose ends tied up. Her parents, her friends, her sister, Adrien… She prepares a million videos for her loved ones to watch when she’s gone. Even plans her own funeral !

And then they never bury her. She doesn’t officially dies, they don’t let her, she’s just missing, even after Gabriel makes his wish. No one will ever know what really happened to her. It’s like she slipped through the cracks.

[bigfatbreak]

dad villain au: did emilie just. not consider at all that adrien was literally dying at the time. wow

she's in the habit of deciding when Adrien's suffering is acceptable, and if it is, she'll just fix it later.

[superkitty21]

Anne Rice will write the most loving, nuanced, sympathetic portrayal of a complex messy character and you'll find out she hated them. Like what the hell.

[anna-scribbles]

i feel like if Nathalie had told gabe that he was acting like Emilie's father (Lord dickface) he might've changed his ways the last couple of weeks(probably just crash out more tbh)

see that is totally possible except I really think that gabe lowkey idolized that man. like a reverence borne from humiliation. okay hold on i actually have a lot to say

like, I think that when gabe and emilie came crawling back to the graham de vanily's begging for help, emilie's father just completely humiliated gabriel. made it clear that he would never see him as anything other than a poor dressmaker unwelcome in their family and unworthy of his daughter. and ever since then, gabriel just had this deep insecurity festering inside him. he spent the rest of his life trying to claw his way up in status and wealth and respect.

and when emilie would complain about her parents, gabriel would agree and comfort her. but deep down, he didn't hate emil like emilie did. he respected him. he envied him. he wanted to be powerful like that. he wanted to be so important that no one could make him feel like a poor stupid dressmaker ever again.

I think that if nathalie had brought up emilie's father there at the end, it might've even had the opposite effect. that comparison might've bolstered his ego, made him even more confident in his decisions. he was the man of the house, the one calling the shots. no one could look down on him ever again.

and of course, this bled in obvious ways into gabriel's relationship with adrien. gabriel was obsessed with power and control, and dealt with his deep insecurity by elevating himself in importance above everyone else in his life. one of the most accessible ways for him to feel powerful and important was to exert control over adrien. and in many ways, this was gabriel re-enacting his own dynamic with emil, but giving himself the upper hand this time.

but it never worked. none of gabriel's power plays ever actually healed his insecurity about where he came from. he never, ever received emil's approval. all he ever did was drive himself insane and hurt everyone around him in the process.

[oxygen-stealer]

Kinda messy Mirage doodle. I think she also deserves to be covered in blood from time to time

[valentinafoxr]

man, what really gets me about this is that Emilie promises that they'll stay home together at some point and she is right. In the end, they're all staying home -- Adrien locked in his room, Gabriel in his office and her conserved in the basement.

[zoe-oneesama]

1. I really just don’t like how you shit on Chloe in your Au considering that she is technically the Main character now because of her having the ladybug earrings.

2. As for unlikable characters exist. Yeah they do but they usually don’t have a really good back story.

Thomas give her a sad backstory, took that away and made her worse ??? It makes no sense. Especially if it was supposed to be a unlikable character. her backstory isn’t an excuse for her actions but yall hate her for the actions and at the same time don’t want her to change.

(Not only that but he ended replacing her with a very boring and rushed character like Zoé.)

Basically what I’m saying it’s just weird for yall to hate a character that much.

I think it's really weird for y'all to be so defensive of a fictional person, yet here we are.

Perhaps you were mislead because her "hero" form was the title of the AU, but uh, Scarlet Lady was never about Chloe. That's why she didn't, like, grow or anything and why we left her several times to focus on Adrien and Marinette. Having the Ladybug Earrings does not automatically make someone the main character, she's the tritagonist at best. And canonically, she's just a side character with too much screen time.

But even if she was the main character, so what? Scarlet Lady's tone is comical, it was never going to go deep (except in the Finale, kinda) and Chloe was never going to get the 5 Hour Youtube Essay Deep Cut in Comic Form about the Wonderful Person She Had the Potential to Become that viewers like you seem to be craving so badly.

And we fundamentally disagree about Chloe's backstory. It's not a good backstory, it's pretty basic, not even entirely unique to Chloe in the very story it's stuck in, and removing it changes nothing about her or her personality and motivations in the long run. It's used as a weak excuse that's only brought up at random to the point where even canon doesn't buy it anymore.

Though I'm not sure why you think that unlikeable characters can't have sympathetic backstories, the point is usually that despite going through the worst and despite the fact that it's entirely possible if things were different for them that the character could've been someone entirely different (and therefore "likeable"), none of those things erase the things they've done or make them more likeable. It just makes them kinda sad on top of it.

But that doesn't really apply to Chloe since taking out her garbage birth giver still leaves her with Andre who did a good job ruining her all on his own.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, but to wrap it up, sorry you don't like how I do things around here, no one's keeping you here if you don't wanna be faced with it or whatever.

[mooingwithmidnight]

When I criticize TV shows for re-framing not showing physical sapphic intimacy as some deep and meaningful message vs. the repackaged purity culture that it is- just know I am NEVER. EVER. speaking about Xena

[coffeebanana]

having thoughts about the marinette and nathalie hug because like.

my god.

marinette's just had her world turned inside out

she's just a kid and how's she supposed to carry all this alone and what is she supposed to do and what does she tell adrien?

and then, suddenly, there's someone there to share the burden. an adult. someone who has a reputation for getting things done

so maybe, just this once, everything doesn't have to balance on marinette's shoulders alone

but it's nathalie--who, sure, adrien obviously cares about. but not someone marinette's at all close to. certainly not someone she probably thinks of as warm or parental or even very trustworthy. maybe marinette's even started to put the pieces together--if gabriel was monarch, then mayura must have been...??

those doubts seem insignificant when she actually sees nathalie

the last time marinette saw her, she was dying. and now marinette knows what gabriel wished for--at least some of it. she knows he did one good thing in the end. that he finally, to some degree, put adrien first

then another horrible truth dawns on marinette: nathalie doesn't know--of course she was aware gabriel was dying, but she still doesn't know he's dead

marinette's probably already thought up a hundred different ways she might break the news to adrien--even if she discarded them all just as quickly. she hasn't thought at all about breaking the news to nathalie

what's she supposed to say? however complicated things were in the end, gabriel was obviously someone nathalie cared about

marinette struggles to find the words, but nathalie just knows. she already suspected, because how would she be here if gabriel was as well? and now the truth's written all over marinette's face

it's not just marinette who needs that hug--though nathalie would probably never admit it, which is why it's marinette who's running to her

how many weeks has adrien been gushing to nathalie about marinette? about how she's so creative and strong and compassionate and full of love

and in that moment, nathalie understands

[sillysiluriforme]

Why does Gabriel hate Dorothea Sancoeur so much in her AU?

Ah that’s simple, same reason as why Adrien is all Emilie !! He has a profound unshakable sense of shame that he makes everyone’s problem. It’s not her he hates it’s himself.

[bigfatbreak]

What does Tom think of Emilie after meeting her?

the only Agreste he's not massively disappointed with is Adrien himself. It's a good thing that's the only one he plans on sparing.

[jay-wasstuff]

Every person's reaction to the H*nd H*lding being different is funny asf

[anna-scribbles]

they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)

[asubakaa]

The Collins!