#crushedme

[kisilinramblings]

Exactly!

Marinette as Ladybug does fail. For example, during Gigantitan, because LB’s plans were convulated, they didn’t work against an Akumatized litteral baby, until she took a simplier approach.

Or how about in Miraculer where Ladybug didn’t understand her own Lucky Charm at all until Queen Bee arrived and tell her about tickles? How, in that same episode, we saw LB not knowing which to prioritze amongst retreiving the Bee Miraculous from Mayura, helping out Rena Rouge and Carapace defeating Miraculer as they both have used their power and would be detransforming soon, or help and protect Chat Noir who was at his limits and couldn’t fight nor protect his Miraculous. 

In Gamer 2.0, Ladybug was losing. She was rushing it and lost several matches. Which frustrated her more and more until she couldn’t take the control again, not knowing how to play anymore. She refocused and had fun again because Chat Noir took over allowing her a break and he cheered her up. 

Actually, when you break it down, LB’s plan how to use her Lucky Charm often originate from Chat Noir’s comments and jokes. For example, in Sapotis, when the Lucky Charm was a teapot, his random comment helped her figured out what that unusual Lucky Charm was trying to tell her. Or how about Silencer when his joke actually gives an idea to a voiceless LB to summon her Lucky Charm anyway? 

In Oni-Chan, LB was about to be defeated and would have lost her Miraculous because Lila managed to fool Chat Noir and separate them. Oni-Chan snatched away LB’s Lucky Charm and used it against her. LB was all tied up and couldn’t get away. Thanksfully, Chat Noir realized his mistake in time. And the fireman’s comment mixed with all of LB’s knowledge about her opponent’s power allow her to create a plan. 

In Desperada, LB wasn’t able to defeat the supervillain at all with just Aspik’s help. And Adrien tried over 25000 times for it to succeed but it never happened and LB kept getting captured over and over again.   

In Party Crasher, LB is captured first and they would have been defeated if Master Fu didn’t handed the Monkey Miraculous. Without Roi Singe’s power, LB and CN would have lost their Miraculous and HM would have win. 

And what about Robustus, when Max saved LB and CN from having their Miraculous taken away and free them from their predicament? Or in Reverser when Alix and Nathaniel assisted Clumsy Bug and Scaredy Chat? Or in Catalyst where the citizens of Paris helped them taking care of most of the Akumatized so they could focus on defeating HM?

Basically, LB succeeds and saves the day because she has help and support from Chat, her teammates and other people such as ordinary citizens. Sure, Marinette is a very resourceful and clever person, but she still cannot do everything alone. She needs to know the more about the Akumatized and their power in order to effectively use her Lucky Charm against them. She sometimes needs to delegate tasks or have other buy her time. 

And one thing S3 develop more was seeing Marinette more and more being crushed, defeated emotionnally. For starters, in Chameleon where she couldn’t win against Lila and was almost akumatized twice in that single episode. There is also the end of Puppeteer 2, Marinette is realizing her love for Adrien is getting nowhere. That is also a failure. The Chat Blanc timeline is also another failure although only known by the viewer. In that timeline, she couldn’t save Adrien from his father (and his abuses) and everyone but Chat Blanc lost their lives. 

So, really, if there is one thing I’ve noticed in S3 is hardship will be more recurring and this was just a taste of what’s to come. And just because the episode resolved itself by the end, doesn’t mean the obstacles didn’t have their toll on the long run for the characters, LB included. 

“I really don’t get why writers just can’t let Ladybug Fail for once? She shines on every single episode even when she was Lady Noire (and i will even assume when she will get the Mouse and the Dragon), the show acts like she needs others to defeat the enemy but in reality she seems to perfectly handle the akumas by herself and uses Chat and others as tools, she is always the one who comes up with the plan and she always does the final blow, she is leaning towards the mary sue territory. and before you tell me that Ladybug is ment to be perfect in contrast to Marinette, Even Batman and Spiderman both who are the ideal alter egos (and ideal superheroes in general) have failed as much as their Civilian forms.”

[yungque801]

You left with no explanation no good bye or nothing. Just threw me away like I'm nothing. An blamed the abortion on me. I'm sick of hurting. Beating my self up. I just want you out of my head for good #stillhurt #thinkaboutyou #dreamaboutyou #crushedme #stillinpain #shutdown #missingtheolddays (at Wolverine Crossing)