#buuuuut I'm side eyeing lukanette

[zoe-oneesama]

I was wondering if you ever thought that lukkanette would be a healthier realtionship that adrienette marrinette has idolised Adrien for so long and placed him on a pedestal but Luka isn't he's shown to imdidatly care for marrinette and prioritise her and they are given a less idol and more friend based realtionship I love all the ships in ml but even then lukkanette is a not ever gonna happen but almost purely based in cannon ship

At the current place that the series is at, I do find it healthier, but it has nothing to do with Marinette or idolization. It’s because of Adrien. Plus you can read about my absolute deep contempt for the concept of “pedestals” that this fandom has invented 

Adrien is the unhealthy one who isn’t changing, imo. Just look at their reactions to rejection. When Marinette finds out that Adrien likes Kagami, she puts her feelings aside to help him because it’s what he wants, it’ll make him happy, and she respects his choice even if it hurts. She lets a few snarky comments slide out but she’s trying to put his feelings before hers because she loves him and wants him to be happy.

When Ladybug doesn’t show up to a date she didn’t even agree to, he throws a fit mid akuma attack and is cold to Ladybug. Ladybug is the one to apologize and in return gets a weak “me too” kind of sorry. She explains she’s in love with someone else, and it SEEMS like he accepts her friendship and respects her decision. Until Frozer. Where he has amnesia and does the exact same thing. Hits on her, gets rejected, and blames Ladybug for him being hurt. He puts his feelings before hers despite the fact he’s supposed to be in love with her and should respect her decision.

But Adrien is never meant to feel bad about how he acts, the focus is on how bad he feels because he isn’t loved in return. So they give him a sympathy girlfriend and set him up with Kagami.

Yet even this ended up showing how bad Adrien is with relationships. Here he is with a girl who made no secret she’s interested in him and whom he believes he is also interested in, and yet he invites others on his date without asking her, lies about why his female friend is date crashing, ignores Kagami multiple times for his female friend, and then ditches her at the rink when an akuma attacks (I’ll admit he can’t help that last one since he’s a hero but Kagami doesn’t know that). And then to round it all off he tells his date Thanks that was fun but I think I’m still in love with that other girl so basically you have no shot.

Honestly Kagami should’ve shut her car door on his hand for wasting her goddamn time.

Adrien isn’t ready for a relationship with ANYONE until he learns to be more intuitive. Some of that is him not understanding social norms, but most of it comes from him being impulsive and not thinking about how he effects others. He’s too wrapped up in his own drama to consider how Kagami would feel about being surprised with two strangers on their date or how Ladybug would feel when her partner would abandon her mid battle because she couldn’t accept his rose, even after she explained she was in love with someone else.

It’s such a confusing concept for me because when it comes to people taking advantage of him, like Gabriel or Chloe or Lila, he’s a doormat who not only won’t speak up for himself but also won’t speak up for others and he needs to be more selfish. But when it comes to the people that care about him and actually like him, like Marinette or Kagami or Plagg, he walks all over their feelings because he’s TOO selfish. So until he figures out a way to balance this out, I don’t think he’s ready for a relationship with anyone, and I don’t like the idea that he should be rewarded for his crummy behavior with a girlfriend.

Luka is not fleshed out. He’s like 1/3 of a character. But he’s the only one in the entirety of the show that has never come down on Marinette or criticized her having feelings or tried to shame her in anyway. He’s intuitive to her feelings, he immediately noticed when Marinette was upset when he teased her for stuttering and tried to cheer her up again. Some of him thinking she’s amazing is off (she can’t actually pick locks but you know…secret identities) but he sees how brave she is and appreciates her. There’s a lot of potential and I don’t see the flags I see with Adrien or even Kagami.

And I’m sorry but after Chameleon and how little credit even her own best friend gives her, I am dehydrated for Marinette Support and if Mr. Guitar Man is the only source of water that’s not laced with SALT I’mma go for that Oasis right thar.