#except she’s Chloe Beau now you’re welcome :)

[honeysukel]

Au where Chloe runs away from home at 16 and gets away with it somehow?? And is reunited with The Gang 2 years later via wacky highjinx and akuma shenanigans

Chloe leaves home, taking as much money and expensive jewellery she could pawn as she possibly could so that she wouldn’t be entirely homeless on her extended surprise vacation.

Basically she has to return to Paris at 18 to acquire her legal documents and shit, but the process is tough and leads to her eventual akumatisation. She spirals into unchecked negative emotions because the govt is giving her a hard time getting the documents which really sucks since she hasn’t done anything illegal and it’s literally not her fault that they didn’t look hard enough so?? Why are you blaming her?? And also she hasn’t been in Paris for 2 years so she’s gotten used to not being under threat of akumatisation for any slightly bad emotion

It’s also difficult bc both visually and as a person she’s changed a lot so she doesn’t get recognised immediately or anything. She feels too awkward about confronting any of her old classmates at this point too bc of how she was

She gets in her own head about things, and is doing her best to redirect her frustrations and eventually finds a way to blame the whole thing on hawkmoth. After all she is very good at blaming people for things they aren’t necessarily involved in!

The miraculous’ have all been growing stronger over the course of Chloe’s indefinite surprise vacation, both the good and evil holders. Which is dangerous in many ways of course, but also beneficial to Chloe bc hawkmoth got cocky and didn’t properly check who she was angry at.

His monologue drones on about some shit on her getting revenge and she stopped paying attention halfway through. But the important part is she kinda wants to get revenge on hawkmoth rn so you know what? That’s what she gonna do.

This leads to an eventful akuma ‘fight’ for the heroes of Paris bc they’re really just trying to hold her back from low-key trying to track down and kill hawkmoth and *goddamn it Chloe this could ruin our whole operation!*

On that note, the heroes don’t recognise her either, between her unexpected reappearance, personal changes and her akumatised self, aptly named ‘Queen Karma” she’s unrecognisable. Which makes figuring out what happened kind of difficult for LB and CN

On the bright side they do find out that hawkmoth can’t undo his akuma! (At least in this au he cant, or at least under certain plot convenient circumstances he can’t)

Eventually though, LB manages to talk her down enough that they can grab and break the little ladybug pinned to her jacket where the akuma was hiding. (LB figured she might be a fan and managed to get her to calm down enough to listen to LBs plan on how She can defiantly help them right now!!)

As the akuma is purified and the civilian beneath is revealed the heroes are Shocked. They are stood silent with their mouths open for a solid minute, Chloe doesn’t notice this because she’s busy being Maybe Concussed and groggy. (While she’s changed a lot they can still recognise that it’s Chloe, having been in close contact with her for years and getting a closer look right now)

Once Chloe’s head clears, she explains her situation to Ladybug, who promises to get the government to cooperate and give her the medical records, legal docs and the paperwork for a Name Change.

Ladybug also hands Chloe a piece of paper with an address on it.

So Chloe gets the legal stuff sorted, no longer a bourgeois but rather a simple Beau. Has some shocking realisations aided by her medical records about just how sketchy her family is, and cautiously sets out to find where this mysterious address leads her.

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“Tikki, do you think that was smart?”

Marinette is pondering her Excellent Decision Making (tm) to herself and her Kwami in the reflection of her bathroom mirror later that day.

Her had was forced! Her heartstrings had been thoroughly tugged! She had promised Chloe as Ladybug that she had a friend who could help her out, of course neglecting to mention that SHE is the friend, and also not exactly thinking through that she would now have to be sharing her one bedroom apartment with the girl she (used to?) hate! Not to mention that this would make sneaking off to be Ladybug just as hard as back when she lived with her parents and oh god what would Chloe say about all the posters and magazine cutouts of various celebrity crushes all over her walls?? /Shitshitshit!!/

So anyway yeah, older!Chloenette roommate au anyone? : -)