#blueberry passion fruit 🫐🍪

[ninadove]

🫐 Blueberry passion fruit 🍪

Chapter 1: A paw in the door 🐾

He walked up to the counter, because he could not think of anything else to do. For all those times he had rehearsed their reunion, he had failed to consider the most obvious scenario: Adrien might want to run away once more.

[ninadove]

I'm a bit late to the WIP game... The Lucky Ones? 🐞🐈‍⬛

MY FRIEND YOU PICKED A RARE PROFESSOR LAYTON WIP IN A SEA OF MIRACULOUS ONES

I definitely see how the title can be confusing though! I chose it to highlight the irony of the characters’ situation — how everyone in their circle thinks them lucky for surviving a tragic accident, while in fact they are left to deal with their grief in not-so-healthy ways.

So let me spin the wheel and choose a Miraculous WIP I haven’t talked about. [Imagine some intense yet entertaining wheel-spinning here] Blueberry passion fruit! This one is actually almost done, so yay us! 🫐🍪

In a no-Miraculous AU, Adrien runs away from home and finds a job at a cat café under a false identity. Eventually, his cousin finds him, and tries to reconnect — without scaring him away again.

“Do you like working here?”

Felix could do this: he could play along with the lie, to ensure his cousin did not run away once more. He would take what he was willing to offer, even if it was just a stupid coffee.

“Are they treating you well?”

Adrien wiped his cheek against his shoulder.

“Yeah.” It was the one true thing he had said since his cousin had walked through the door. “I love it, actually.”

“I’m glad to hear it.”

He was. He really was. Felix would never force Adrien back in his cage — Hell, he would have run with him, had he been bothered to ask.

Did Adrien know that? Which answer would hurt him more?

@paracosmicat and I cried many times writing this one!

[ninadove]

🫐 Blueberry passion fruit 🍪

Chapter 2: Ellipsis ✍️

At first, he had genuinely tried to get on with his writing; but his eyes and thoughts always fled his keyboard, reaching behind the counter instead. Adrien certainly looked happier; he would not go as far as to say “happy”.

[ninadove]

Opening line patterns 📝

List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern.

Thank you for the tag, @bittersweetresilience!

Let’s proceed by order of updates (skipping Shadow Strike because my beloved @paracosmicat wrote the incipit)!

God Games ⚡️

If anyone could fend off an akuma, then surely, it had to be Felix.

So proud of this one. The entire premise is here: Felix just doesn’t get akumatised, so what’s the deal?

It’s also a testament to how strong he is in his cousin’s eyes. Fitting, as this entire fic is about Adrien learning how much Felix actually needs him.

Blueberry passion fruit 🫐🍪

Felix prayed this was not another false lead.

He loves his cousin! He’s been searching for him for so long!! He double-checks even the most improbable hints because Adrien’s absence is a gaping wound in his chest!!! I’m so normal about them.

True to Your Heart ⚔️

The wall had been Fu’s idea.

(So you know it’s a terrible one right away.)

I think there's a flaw in my code (Gasoline/Spy AU) 🔥

“You duped me.”

With this one, we begin in medias res! (That’s actually the title of the first chapter.) This entire first part focuses on the confrontation between Argos and Ryuko, and how we got to that point. Emotions are boiling over, as you can see.

Here’s to Never Growing Up 🧸

“Your niece was uncharacteristically excited tonight.”

You can immediately tell this one is going to be pure fluff! You can also infer Felix and Kagami don’t have children of their own, and they’re perfectly happy with it. Emilie could never.

All the shine of a thousand spotlights 🎼

“Did you know waltzing was once considered indecent?”

It’s about the hypocrisy of ever-changing social expectations. It’s about defiance as a form of love. It’s about holding each other tight and gently all at once. It’s about Felix infodumping, because I do it too!

Turntable 💍

“So, you like to be onstage.”

This one… The torture of your abuser holding and using your very nature against you. This first chapter is one of the darkest things I’ve ever written, but it’s always darkest before the dawn.

Escape from the city and follow the sun 🌅

Kagami only wanted one thing from that evening: to not get akumatised.

This poor sweetheart is heartbroken but trying to put up a brave face… She’s convinced her emotions are inherently monstrous… If only someone swooped in to sweep her off her feet… 🥺

Change targets 💐

“No one can know.”

This one is best explained in context:

“No one can know.”

That ship had sailed already. Knuckles white against the pedestal table, careful not to crease the napkin as another coughing fit broke her, Kagami cursed her own lack of discretion.

What she really meant was:

“My mother cannot know.”

Brave, Truthful, and Unselfish 🧸

“… And they lived happily ever after. The end.”

My favourite of the bunch! 💚💜 Fitting that it would be saved for the end.

Storyteller Felix is so dear to me, because we get to see him breaking narrative rules in his quest for freedom, love and happiness. Here, this is manifested by his starting at the end of the tale, ergo flipping the structure entirely. Iconic.

And of course, it’s foreshadowing for Emotion… All he’s ever wanted was to live happily ever after with Adrien. He’s just a child…

OK now let’s talk ✨ statistics ✨

6 of these fics start with dialogue

5+ begin in medias res (it really depends on your definition of the term)

POVs: 5 for Kagami, 3 for Felix, 1 for Adrien and 1 for Fu randomly

All of these tell us something about the characters’ psychology and emotional state. Yes even the stupid Fu one. He’s so proud of himself and does not imagine for a second this world’s Shan Yu is about to breach through his beloved wall. Pathetic.

No false modesty here: I’m really happy with all of these. I used to struggle so badly with incipits, yet here we are! 💜📝

@paracosmicat @jay--hawk @yardikins @capricious-lily @piromina you should do this too!