#character: Bunnyx

[a-chlolix-blog]

Can we talk about how these two sisters are when it comes to certain super heroines?!

Chloé's over here not throwing a single insult at Bunnyx despite KNOWING she's Alix...

Then you got Zoé/Kitty Noire flirting Scarabella ON LIVE TELEVISION!

[adventuremaker21]

Multiversal Meetup

Hey @falgardien, I am your secret Santa from @mlsecretsanta. I hope you are doing well and I hope you enjoy this short story!

characters: Shadybug, Claw Noir, Bunnix, Mister Bug, Ladynoire, and a surprise Theme: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort

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While exploring the vast timelines inside the burrow, Bunnix was assisting two formiliar friends, but they weren't quite the same as she had once known them. These two had troubled pasts and were very rough around the edges. They were known as Shadybug and Claw Noir, and all they wanna do was go home. 

"We've been traveling these times for what seems like forever,” Shadybug said with a raised tone.

“Hey, don’t yell at me,” Bunnix yelled back. “It’s not my fault that my Ladybug just gave me this thing and decided to dump me here until further notice like I did something wrong.” 

As they were looking through all the timelines, Claw Noir found one that looked more peaceful than his own. His and Shadybug's timeline was full of despair and was ruled by a mysterious person known as the Supreme. But this one here was peaceful with beautiful blue skies, happy people, and nothing to fear. 

"What about this timeline?" Claw Noir said as they both saw what he was looking at. 

"It looks peaceful," Shadybug said, admiring its beauty. 

"It looks like it's not your timeline," Bunnix said as she grew more annoyed with these two's antics. "Let's just keep going until we find your RIGHT timeline." Bunnix was expecting there to be some groaning or backtalk from the two but never received any. This worried Bunnix as she looked around, but saw that they were both gone into the new timeline. 

"Oh hell no," Bunnyx got really mad about that and stormed into the window, chasing the two multiversal hooligans. 

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Inside the new timeline, both Shaydbug and Claw Noir were leaping from rooftop to rooftop, enjoying this new freedom of there. This new timeline currently has an evening sky, so nobody would see them hopping around much, which made for their freedom to have no witnesses. 

"Finally, we're no longer in the burrow!" Claw Noir said as he was laughing happily. 

"And no more short rabbit girl bullying us every chance she got," Shadybug said as she ran with Claw Noir. As she did, she joined him in laughing happily. It’s been a few days? Weeks? Months? It was a while since both she and Claw Noir were accidentally trapped in the Burrow, and despite the best efforts of Bunnix, the so-called “guardian of time”, they did not find their way back and have been trapped there for who knows how long. It was just exiting to finally run on solid ground again instead of hovering and floating inside the burrow. Traveling through all of time and finding different time differences to find their way back to the proper timeline. 

“WHOO, FREEDOM!!” Claw Noir yelled in happiness as both him and Shadybug were hauled into their place by another ladybug and black cat duo but with differences. 

“Either these are some impressive cosplays, or we might be dealing with some doppelgänger akumas,” the male ladybug hero said. 

“Just what I needed, another Copycat,” The female black cat heroine said. 

“The hell?” Shadybug said as she got a good look at them both. “The fuck are you two supposed to be?”

“You don’t know us? Seriously?” The female black cat heroine said. “I’m Lady Noire, and this is my partner Mister Bug.”

“A pleasure to make your acquaintance, as long as you are not an Akuma or a Sentimonster,” Mister Bug respectfully said. “We swore to keep this beautiful city clean from Featherman and the Lepidopterist.”

“And we should give a rats ass about them why?” Shadybug asked.

“If you ask me, I think all of you sound ridiculous,” Claw Noir added on. “I mean… Featherman?”

“Featherman gave us a lot of trouble in the past, as he created these awful sentimonsters that terrorized the city, usually as assistants for the Lepidaopterist’s akumas,” Mister Bug explained as it slowly clicked together. “Wait, you two aren’t exactly from here, are you?”

“No shit, Sherlock,” Claw Noir said as he huffed. “We’re from another timeline.”

As the two of them heard that, Shadybug and Claw Noir expected the two prudes to be surprised and be scared at the fact that all of this is happening, but what instead happened shocked even the two guests.

They understood what was going on.

“Is your rabbit user nearby? I wanna see if this is legit or not,” Mister Bug said as he’s kind of exited to meet another rabbit user.

“Wait, you know about the rabbit fiascos?” Shadybug asked in shock.

“Yeah. Our rabbit heroine, Foo Foo, did say that multiversal traveling is possible thanks to another rabbit figuring that out by pure accident,” Lady Noire said. “It’s quite a long story.”

“Yeah, I bet it is,” Shadybug replied to lady noire. “But what’s with those outfits? You look like me but with the Black Cat miraculous.”

“And you look like me with the ladybug miraculous,” Claw Noir said, pointing at Mister Bug.

“I know we may be different than the other timelines, but this is what we were gifted by the Guardian to fight off the Lepidopterist and her partner Featherman,” Mister Bug explained. “It may be odd to you, but not to here.”

“And we even have a few other Allie’s here as well,” Lady Noire happily replied. “Including a fox, a bee, and a turtle.”

“Now that’s something we don’t have from our timeline,” Shadybug said, noticing the detail. “In almost every timeline, there’s always a full team of heroes that comes to save the day. Sometimes known as the Miraculous team, sometimes the Miracle Force. Heck, we once saw one of them called the Protectors.”

“Oh, I love those guys!” Mister Bug said as his eyes lit up. “We’ve never met, but we saw their work through Foo Foo’s burrow that once, right Lady Noire?”

“Oh yea, I remember now!” Lady Noire said as she laughed. “Those guys were fun, and make us want to do a full team. Sadly we can’t because our guardian is too scared to let any Miraculouses fall in the villains hands.”

“That’s usually how it goes,” Shadybug said as she looked down, remembering the mistakes she and her partner/boyfriend made while serving under their timeline’s Supreme. She liked it at first as she got to let loose her anger, but over time, it wasn’t fun anymore. But she and her partner were committed to stopping the Supreme and trying to find as many friends as possible to help them. As she was thinking, they all suddenly heard screaming from a distance as the four of them saw a gigantic flock of pigeons in the sky, and they were all being controlled by one older woman, and next to her, was some sort of mutant pigeon centaur hybrid.

"i didnt know you guys had a Monsieur Pigeon in this timeline," Claw Noire asked, surprised at the sudden akuma attack.

"She goes by Madame Pigeon in ours," Lady Noire replied, informing the new duo. "And it looks like Featherman gave her a friend."

"So, what do you two say in doing a team-up?" Mister Bug asked the new duo. Both Shadybug and Claw Noir smirked in unison as they readied themselves.

"Fuck yeah, let's do it," They both said as the four of them leaped into action.

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Roughly 20 minutes later, Bunnix was still searching for the two runaways when she heard a loud crash nearby.

"An akuma attack? In this timeline? Or is it them causing mayhem?" Bunnix asked herself as she kept leaping from roof to roof, hoping to find the answer, but then saw a few swarms of ladybugs clearing the debris nearby. She knew this was the work of a ladybug's Miracle Cure. Finally, she landed down to street level where she saw Shadybug and Claw Noir fistbumping the timeline's version of the red and black duo.

"POUND IT!" All 4 of them happily said as Bunnix drew to the conclusion that the four of them handled the Akuma all by themselves. Bunnix can't help herself from smiling at how far the two corrupted heroes have come.

"There you two are," Bunnix said as she interrupted their victory. "I was wondering where you two went." As she said that, Shadybug and Claw Noir jumped in surprise as they saw Bunnix smiling at them. They did not know if it was a genuine smile or a plan of something sinister smile, and that was scaring them. While Mister Bug and Lady Noire saw this, they noticed the hair on top of the rabbit hero's hair and knew exactly who she was underneath.

"And you must be their rabbit hero," Mister Bug said as he came to introduce himself. "I'm Mister Bug, and this here's my partner-slash-girlfriend, Lady Noire."

"The name's Bunnix and I'm not exactly their rabbit. I'm just helping them get home because it's my responsibility," Bunnix said as she introduced herself. "Thanks for keeping an eye out on these knuckleheads for me."

"It's no problem, really," Lady Noire said. "In fact, we actually had a great time defeating an akuma together."

"I was the one who did a lucky charm and everything," Shadybug said with a proud expression on her face.

"Yeah, and we would never had this fun if someone wasn't a bit hellbent on keeping us in the burrow," Claw Noir said as he was still mad at her.

"I really didint know where you two were supposed to go, honest," Bunnix said as she was trying to defend herself. "But... I'll give it more of a try. Heck, I could even call in a favor of another rabbit user or two to help out." As she said that, another burrow opened up to showcase two more rabbit users. One was short and had blonde hair, and the other was tall with orange hair, glasses, and very stern.

"Foo Foo!" Mister Bug and Lady Noire said in happiness.

"Hoppu Bunny?" Bunnix said, shocked by this.

"Did somebody want to call in a favor?" Foo Foo asked. "Because I'd be down to help.

"And we already know where these two are supposed to go as well!" Hoppy Bunny said, giving Shadybug and Claw Noir the good news.

"About fucking time!" Claw Noir said as he cheered. He then turned to face Mister Bug and Lady Noire. "Thanks for the fight, guys. I actually needed to get some stress out."

"Yeah, same here!" Shadbug said as she shook Lady Noire's hands. "If you ever need help, call us and We'll be there to help with a rabbit's help."

"And you can count on me," Lady Noire said, saying her goodbyes. As she did that, all 3 of the rabbits, plus Shadybug and Claw Noire left in a borrow while waving at the two domestic heroes.

[kupo-theincendiary]

bunnyx redesign/sketches

[miraculous-magicalconnections]

"Fluff, transformez-moi!"

Aka my redesign of Bunnyx

Bunnyx, now Lapin Opportun (Timely Rabbit in French), is definitely one of my favorite of my hero designs so far

Alix's hair in both color and shape doesn't work very well so I decided to use a similar style they have in canon for Lapin, resulting in this messy look that that blends into their rabbit ears

Their suit is a light blue similar to canon, however they also have a shawl over their shoulders, and a few different details like the stripe on their waist to break up all the blue

(While not visible in this, the blue reaches their elbows before turning to white. They also have a white rabbit tail and the pockets are hidden along the white detail along their waist)

Their a bit shorter while transformed, being one of the shortest heroes (being tied with two others) and they use She/They pronouns while transformed

[lea-panthera]

Starting a new fic!

Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home:

Three years ago, Marinette Dupain-Cheng died, leaving Paris in a state of grief and mourning.

Now, seventeen-year-old Marie Danielle Chen tries to lead a normal life in bustling New York City and leave her past behind her. But it's not so easy.

When a new supervillain emerges in Paris, Marie must travel back to her home to stop them, all while lying to her friends and family about who she really is.

Takes place after Season 5. I do not own the characters of Miraculous Ladybug.

Check it out here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61548493?view_full_work=true

[pyrusinc]

the scales of time, more than anything else, must remain balanced.

[sleepyhead-poll]

ROUND 1C, MATCH 1 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Emilie:

[No Propaganda Submitted]

Bunnyx:

Slept for thousands of years in a sarcophagus. I don’t remember exactly why she had to do that, but she woke up well rested and having to pee. The long nap negatively affected her memory and sounds pretty traumatic but she just brushed it off.

[floofysmallbob]

hello yes I’m not much of a miraculous fan anymore but I do enjoy a good miraculous fic every now and then, and one of the things I can never find is zoé/alix content. I don’t know why I started shipping them, but they’re adorable. I’ve found a total of two posts on here, and one video on YouTube, and there are no posts on ao3. at this point I don’t know if there are more than like three other zoalix shippers out there.

[plumsaffron]

Each time I see a post questioning or speculating if Lila Rossi is an adult to make it so called realistic. My desire to bless your mouths with Spades grows.

Just because what you can't fathom because it appears improbable does not mean it's impossible. One just really just needs intel and know what they are doing.

But very well this is what you're asking for with your stupid theories.

It will be just like that ship people drew of many times called Gabinette or Gabrienette Maribriel. So I guess Cerise would become shippable with every adult then (even master fu).

Farewell to your Liladrien Nataniel and Lila Lilanette Chlolila Lilagami Liluka Maxssi etc then. Oh the devastation. And like what even makes you want to really think like that. GEZZ?

I wonder if that would possibly grant a excuse to make some people no longer hold back on what they desire to draw or animate of Iris Verdi or Volpina or Hoaxer.

A fan of Lila ceased her life because worthless maggots harassed and drove her there because they hated the existence of Rossi.

Yes, speculate the worst so scums and indirectly some of the accursed parts of miraculous fandom can have a one up on the deceased.

Ah number 2 on my list of fandoms I despise a lot.

[sexlapis]

[◉°] … TOJI AND Y/N BEING A COUPLE FOR 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT (PART 5) … 899k views

꩜ : actor!toji x gn!reader

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 (they are actress!reader)

sfw for the most part, fluff, crack, peeping toms & perverts (toji deals w them <3), cute babies, use of y/n

⤷ the way tojiyn is just real at this point…

a/n: thank you so much for 3000 followers that is literally crazy! thank you all sm for enjoying and supporting my fanfics🩷🩷. as a gift u all get more actor toji. i just missed him <33

_____= your name

masterlists

from the actor![character] series:

actor!toji masterlist

actor!nanami & actress!yn being a couple

actor!levi & gn!reader being a couple

taglist: @okayiamkassandra | @tiredslepz | @hayatslife | @shxyxyxxxx | @snowprincesa1 | @laylasbunbunny | @mimiemie | @ncentic | @rosesored | @imover-18 | @gintokhi | @suzuperstarr | @lostgxrlblog | @jallie10 | @nnsav | @bunnyx-sakura | @bubbabobabubbles | @ladytamayolover | @keiva1000 | @morgyyyyyyy | @studiecoherence | @earth2fae | @ce-namonreads | @ib4ryuguji | @hisjaegerist | @basiloverthyme | @sweet-kiwi | @sayitowshi | @iovemytoru | @thecompletechaosmaster | @sugutoad | @inumakiiz | @uzxotic | @1meshugge1 | @kunikuzushisbeloved

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꩜ first clip

posted on toji’s (mostly inactive) instagram, a clip of you with a little baby no more than a year old standing on your lap. you make funny, expressive faces as she giggles and mumbles in an adorable, pure manner. the pinnacle of innocence.

“look at that! who’s that, baby?” you ask the baby, referring to the person behind the camera.

you turn her around, making her look up. she points, her face beaming with a toothless smile.

“ahh!” she squeaks.

you giggle.“it’s toji!”

a huff is heard from behind the camera and a big hand comes and strokes the baby’s chubby cheeks. “hi princess.”

the clip ends there, but the reaction from the internet only begins.

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@ynb11111gestfan

a baby??? wtf did i miss???!:!:!

@justalurkeracx0unt

YOU GUYS ADOPTED?????????

@gojosbl!ndfold

which one of you gave birth

@tojizbigfatbreederballzinmymouf

girldad toji? my biggest dreams have come true💕💕

⤷ @herbigdoeeyesss

YOUR NAME?????

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it’s safe to say, everyone was confused about who this random baby was. so, you were the one to clear things up by posting a video on your story;

“i’m sorry for the confusion guys. yes, me and toji had a baby. toji had a very long labour and he worked so hard and gave birth to a little baby girl <3”

well, that cleared things up.

꩜ second clip

toji walks out of a elevator and is…carrying you in his arms. bridal style. with your bodyguards following close behind (not that you need bodyguards when toji is with you).

the man holding the camera asks toji, “why are you carrying them?”

instead, you respond with a shrug, “my feet hurt.”

toji doesn’t even react. he just walks down the corridor, carrying you like he does it every day.

꩜ third clip

shortly after you began filming for a minor role in a popular television series, there are rumours floating around of toji allegedly physically assaulting one of the members of staff on set.

of course, everyone has all kinds of theories of what happened, but many people are not surprised because, well…it’s toji. they are not shocked by this type of behaviour coming from him.

but then, all is revealed by TMZ in a short youtube video, being a oh so nosy individuals they are:

“we got leaked information about what happened on that set. apparently, the staff member had been secretly recording y/n in their caravan, even when they were getting dressed! disgusting, i know. it’s said that toji spotted them and ‘took’ matters into his own hands. and by that, i mean throwing hands. toji is now being accused of assault by said staff member. in my eyes,” the reporter throws his hands up, shrugging, “that freak got what was coming!”

after that, people are on toji’s side, praising him for what he did. but enough people believed his actions to be extreme and overly violent.

so he releases an apology for his actions in a video, in which it is very clear that he had just woken up and he was still in bed:

“hey everyone. i know just about everyone’s heard of what happened. i would just like everyone to know that…i don’t care,” he chuckles, “i really don’t give a shit. i would do it again if it had to. that piece of shit deserved what he got. i’m only sorry for not breaking his other arm.”

꩜ fourth clip

you and toji are on the red carpet in paris, being interviewed about an awards show and your time in the country.

“so, have you two seen any of the sights and attractions in paris?”

“uhhhmm, no not so much. we really wanted to but we’ve just been uhh, really, really-” you pause for a moment, a second too long as you look at toji, who is staring at you. even from this angle, toji is seen to be smirking and he winks at you.

you blink rapidly and turn back to the interviewer. “busy. yeah, we’ve been really busy.”

“that’s one way to put it.” toji chimes in.

a tojiyn truther favourite.

꩜ fifth clip

you and toji, wanting to raise money for charity, decided ti participate in the bake-off, a televised baking competition.

“okay!” you start, excited.

the excitement doesn’t last very long.

“what even is this [BLEEP]?”

“toji! don’t swear! they have to bleep that out!”

off you and toji go, baking in such a disorderly and chaotic fashion, even the other participants are looking at you sideways.

multiple bleeps are edited in due to toji’s creative language.

“phew!” you breathe out. “i think we’re making good time-”

“ten minutes left!” the host calls out.

“ten minutes!?” toji shouts.

“what? ten? we haven’t even started the buttercream yet! the cake hasn’t even cooled down! what!”

“move,” toji moves into your space, snatching the whisk and bowl of ingredients from you hands and begins stirring like an absolute mad man, “you cool off that [BLEEP] cake, i’ll make this! [BLEEP].”

you dash toward the window, plain cake in hand, and simply…stick the cake out of the window, hoping it will call down faster.

toji and you are stared at in complete and utter confusion.

after sloppily applying the buttercream to the cake, along with the toppings, you and toji are done just in time.

it is your time to present.

you and toji walk to the front, placing the cake in front of the hosts.

“hm,” the woman said, “presentation is messy.”

you and toji glance at each other.

they take a bite.

“oh,” the male judge hums, “not bad.”

“i think it’s quite tasty!” a judge with a british accent compliments. “well done to the both of you.

you and toji cheer silently and high five.

you both came in third place in that round.

go figure.

꩜ sixth clip

you and the cast members of “jujutsu kaisen” are at comic con for a fan Q&A. the place is packed full of fans!

“i…i have a ques-question for _____. I-” his voice cracks wildly and he clears his throat, causing a few giggles in the crowd.

he continues. “i-what-why-what-what do-how-” he sighs and covers his face with embarrassment.

a wave of laughter goes through the crowd, mocking the poor boy even further.

“it’s okay,” you coo to the fan, “i don’t bite.”

the audience laughs some more.

and the toji interrupts with his own comment of, “they sure do.”

you gasp. your head whips towards toji and the crowd erupts with laughter, whistles and hoots of teasing and encouragement.

the fan, now beet red, covers his face again. “oh my god.”

“great! toji look what you did!” you shout. “you broke him!”

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a/n: new actor toji take it or leave it

[iridescentoracle]

okay so i know i disagree with the Entire Rest Of The Fandom Except Nyquildriver, Apparently, on a lot of stuff, but this does still feel a bit like sacrilege to say, but i’ve been thinking it for over a year now:

i do love the concept and a lot of the individual bits are great, but honestly i didn’t think chat blanc was like, super well-written—the concept is great but the execution was lacking—but not for the reasons i’ve seen anyone else argue. the problems i’ve seen other people have with chat blanc were all down to characterization (of marinette and/or of her parents, mostly) and that all worked totally fine for me.

the problem i have with chat blanc is the way the time travel/flashbacks are handled—having bunnyx frantically flipping back and forth between the chat blanc/ladybug conflict & the how-we-got-here just feels contrived, like if the solution here is having ladybug deakumatize chat blanc then why does it matter what happened, why are you so desperate to find the answers, and if it does matter that much and bunnyx does need to know, then… why doesn’t she do anything with the information

but then there’s also all this focus on “oh she has to find the akuma so she can fix everything!!!!” but surprise that didn’t fix everything and actually now you have to go back in time and avert this whole timeline so actually you could’ve dipped on the fight ten minutes ago and gone back to erase the name as soon as you found out he knows who you are and everything that’s happened since was totally pointless

and while i think that could have been done well—you thought everything was fixed but SURPRISE OH NO—it actually just felt anticlimactic? and the “actually this whole fight was pointless bc she’s erasing this bit of the timeline” could’ve been really poignant—she knows she should just leave and fix things before the timestream breaks down but she can’t bear to leave chat noir like this even in a future she wants to prevent from happening in the first place—but again, as it stood it just felt pointless

like, the problem with how marinette is written in this episode isn’t about characterization, it’s about agency. between dropping off the hat and erasing her name, nothing she does actually matters or drives the plot, and basically ditto bunnyx; she’s great in theory but doesn’t actually do anything that like, a random time portal marinette accidentally trips through couldn’t have done.

and i feel like i’m making it sound like i don’t like the episode, and that’s not even true!! i cannot possibly overstate how much i love the idea of it, i’m all about time travel and alternate timelines if they’re handled well, and i have happily eaten up every temporary identity reveal the show has given us and hoped for more! to borrow a description from nyquildriver,

it honestly does feel like all its impact on the story is to give marinette some PTSD "gotcha, can't fall in love with chat noir, okay"

and i am just fine with the actual plot impact going forward being "marinette has PTSD around the idea of falling in love with chat noir now," [kicks a non-trivial amount of my ao3 history under the bed], so at the end of the day i’m still really grateful that chat blanc is an episode that exists, but i’ve never been able to watch it without thinking the whole time that they had all the pieces of a top-tier episode and put them together clunkily enough it’s actually just kind of okay.

which is WILD because holy shit what a concept. like even from years in the future when we’re a couple episodes from the end of season five i still can’t believe that’s actually a real episode they gave us. i wish it were more than the sum of its parts but what parts

[a-chlolix-blog]

Alix wearing glasses and a scarf-like accessory like Alim and Jalil when she's older is such a nice touch.

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

About Alix and the time travel stuff, after the s4 finale people were like „but Bunnyx didn‘t show up to fix it so it was supposed to happen!“ and I was like ????? The narrative the writers created (by accident I assume) sets Bunnyx up to be almost god-like, she can just decide what is okay to happen and what isn‘t.

That is a completely accurate assessment of the way Bunnyx has been set up. She is God. If events happen, then they were meant to happen because God didn't stop it.

This is why you have to make extremely hard rules around time travel and use it as little as possible. It's a god-tier power and needs to be treated as such.

My two cents is this: the time traveler should have kicked off Fu going to Paris and that's about it. They should not be messing around in the main story line. They're a prologue character and a what if character. Nothing more, nothing less. Or you have to make Alix the main character and have everything be about messing with time. That could work, too.

[kasienda]

Why I love Marinette Dupain Cheng

So, I just watched the London Special and I have feelings!!

I want to preface this by saying that I very much didn't resonate with the second half of season five for a lot of different reasons, but that the special really worked for me, gave me what I needed to get to a place to be excited about the potential of season six.

Marinette is a 14 year old superhero who is fundamentally a good person. She tries to do right by others, and when she realizes that she's done harm she genuinely tries to fix it. Now, her character is often portrayed as someone with ADHD. She is subject to tunnel vision, hyperfixating, anxiety spirals, and not always being great at taking other perspectives into account. She's never been good at anticipating how her actions and choices might hurt someone else.

And I LOVE that about her!!!

You know who else is not great about taking other people's perspectives? Fourteen year olds!! Developmentally, they're LEARNING THIS AT THIS AGE!! They're also LEARNING to make decisions and accept responsibility. And they are NOT good at it!! Take it from someone who works with fifteen years olds DAILY!! Even the most "good" well behaved teenager does and says thoughtless harmful things that hurt others sometimes in excruciating ways. And you ask them, "What were you thinking?" after it's blown up in their face and the answer is ALWAYS, "I don't know" OR "I wasn't thinking."

Developmentally, middle school is about fitting in. It is not easy for kids at this age to stand up for what is right, to make decisions that are healthy, to communicate in healthy ways. Marinette's whole character is about learning to do that! And to showcase that you have to show her making mistakes, sometimes even big ones, and learning to take responsibility for those choices.

Marinette salt hurts me so much because the salt seems to paint her at this malicious manipulative girl who wants to control Adrien and the world on whole. That she's malicious in the choices that she's made.

Meanwhile, the narrative is not framing her as in the right when she makes these choices. Kagami told her she disagreed in almost the first scene. Nathalie told her it was time to tell the truth. Throughout the whole special, it's obvious how much the choice she made is weighing on her, how much she's wondering if this was right. She seems to know on some level that it isn't.

THAT IS SO RELATABLE!!!

Have you ever lied to a friend or to your parents? And then, realized huh, I probably shouldn't have done that, but now you're in too deep and don't know how to take it back? Have you ever NOT told someone about a hard truth about themselves or about you because you didn't want to hurt their feelings, and then have to watch as they get hurt or rejected again and again because they just don't realize what the problem is??? Or confronted with someone around you who has lost a lot and just not sure at all what to do in the face of all that? And then to be given the choice to maybe ease the hurt of that loss with a lie? You think you WOULDN'T at least CONSIDER doing that for someone you love??

Do I think it will bite her in the butt? YES!! AND I AM HERE TO SEE IT!

Nathalie tells Marinette they should tell the truth. And Marinette's like, "but you'll go to jail." And Nathalie nods, accepting this. "But then Adrien will be alone." And Nathalie responds with "he'll have you."

DO YOU KNOW HOW TERRIFYING THAT WOULD BE TO HER??

If she does tell the truth, Adrien DOES lose Nathalie. That would hurt him too. Adrien DOES have to deal with the backlash of being Hawkmoth's son both inside his own head and with the world at large. And maybe in the long term, that would be the better choice. But how many of us choose what's better in the long term??? (THE ANSWER HERE IS ALMOST ZERO! I DON'T CARE HOW OLD YOU ARE!)

Bunnyx tells her there will consequences good and bad to every decision she makes. And what matters is how she faces the consequences. How she tries to take responsibility for them in the future.

Marinette is not trying to hurt Adrien here. She's not trying to manipulate or control him. It also doesn't mean she thinks what Gabriel did was right or that she condones his actions. It certainly doesn't mean she's okay with abuse. Everyone saying that she is has the benefit of the global perspective of knowing everything in the show! Marinette does NOT have that perspective.

Does that mean she isn't causing harm? No! She IS probably causing harm here. As so many of us do unintentionally, or sometimes even knowing that we're doing it because doing something else feels impossible to face in that moment.

And when the truth comes out, and I do think Gabriel's identity will come out (I'm less confident about the senti reveal, but that's more because they're literally not allowed to say the words), Adrien is going to have a LOT to work through. But the thing about Adrien, that all of his defenders seem to misunderstand, is that HE IS FORGIVING! If she explains it all to him, he will be angry and maybe hurt, but he is also going to be the first to understand. He's been the one right there next to her with a front row seat to all the pressures she had to face often completely on her own. I think she will be way more angry and hard on herself than he will be on her. That's kinda who his character is. He's NOT VENGEFUL.

This whole show from the beginning has been about characters making mistakes, sometimes learning from them, and being forgiven for them!! And it's the FORGIVENESS AND UNDERSTANDING given to each other after the fact that has brought the characters together time and time again. Watch origins and look at the class dynamic. Then watch guilt trip. The class has come together in a way they absolutely were not in the beginning! Because they have gotten to know each other and forgave each other. Watch Alya apologize to Marinette for telling Nino about still being the fox, and watch Marinette smile and say she knows what it feels like to need to share your secret with your best friend! Watch Ladybug ask Chat Noir if he understands the weight of a secret, and have him dryly agree that he is familiar with the feeling.

They are all flawed characters who make mistakes, who do things that hurt each other even when they're are trying SO HARD to do the opposite, and that's why I love them!!

I like characters making mistakes! I like there to be conflict in my stories.

And what I love about miraculous is that so far, the resolution to conflicts has always been one of listening to each other, and coming to a place of understanding and forgiveness.

[verabraun-art]

Alright, who snatched the Miraculouses and wished for a new animation style in the next season? ⠀ ‼️ SPOILER ALERT ⬇️ ⠀ But seriously, I’m really going to miss SAMG. The animation in the special was amazing—textures, effects, movement—everything was on point and beyond impressive! ⠀ The storyline was pretty solid too. Even though it was a time-travel episode, it felt logical. Lila’s new look? Stunning. Granny Alix? Absolutely adorable. And you know what? The yellow suit wasn’t bad at all, especially with the design nods and that final fight scene giving off serious Miles vs. Spot vibes. The music was incredible too, like something straight out of Inception. Oh, and Ladynoir, hugging with the Eiffel Tower in the background—that's exactly what we've been waiting for! Speaking of Ladynoir…

I had a feeling Marinette wouldn’t tell Adrien the truth, but I really wanted her to confess to Chat Noir! That would’ve been the kind of drama I’d be totally hooked on in the upcoming season—I’d even forgive the new animation! After 10 years, don’t we deserve at least a half-reveal? If she’d told him as Marinette, not Ladybug, wouldn’t Chat have understood? The fact that she said nothing to him made me question her character development. I mean, she gave Bunnyx’s Miraculous to Chat at the start of S5, and now everything’s back to square one? So yeah, looks like jealousy and spying are going to be real in S 6… Oh no, please! ⠀ But these thoughts on Ladynoir are probably just wishful thinking—Chat Noir will likely stay a secondary character. My biggest disappointment in the special is…

is what Marinette wrote in the notebook. ‘Ladybug = Gabriel Agreste’? Seriously? You could’ve written a fake name to throw Lila off, or even used Alya to create a fake Ladybug and set up a trap! Or written, ‘Ladybug knows who took the Miraculous.’ You could’ve even given a fake address to lead the villain into an ambush. So many ways to mess with the new villain and drive the plot forward for Season 6! It was so frustrating that Marinette didn’t take advantage of that moment. ⠀ Writing scripts for long-running shows is definitely no easy task. I’m just holding out hope that the story isn’t going the way we expect because they’ve got something bigger planned. As a special, it felt weaker than the previous ones, but if this had been a double episode and the Season 5 finale, I would’ve loved it!

[ladymiraclewings]

The characters from the Miraculous Worlds, Fei, Jess, Aeon and the United Heroez made their official appearance in the main series during the finale.

So good to see them again, and same thing for Bunnyx