#for some reason I'm fixated on how good Adrien looked in that jacket

[lycorogue]

Random Miraculous Ladybug dream highlights before it completely vanishes from my memory....

first thing I remember in the dream is Ladybug kidnapping Sabrina and taking her to one of those tropey wooden abandoned warehouse offices or something that movies tend to use for start-up fashion designer studios or something. Sabrina was brainwashed or whatever, and through the ✨Magic of Fashion✨ Ladybug is able to cure her. Sabrina asks about Chat Noir, and, on cue, someone knocks on the door. Ladybug turns, and my brain must have forgotten Sabrina was there, because she vanishes without anyone noticing.... feels on brand....

The person at the door is Chat Noir, but he's expecting to find Marinette there since this is apparently her fashion studio???? So Ladybug transforms back before letting him in. Chat Noir quickly dashes in with a preteen kid dressed as a monk sprinting in behind him before they close the door and tell Marinette to hide (we never figure out why. I don't recall them being attacked). Marinette is confused and wondering what is going on, so the monk opens up a Miracle Box that resembles the one Fu had. Out pops a mouse kwami that doesn't look like Mullo, and I even recall thinking "Oh, that's not Mullo..." but then the monk and Chat Noir still introduce Marinette to "Mullo"??? And Chat Noir says he needs Multimouse back (but doesn't explain why or why Ladybug isn't involved in this decision or anything). The pre-teen monk doesn't look like the young version of Fu and no one mentions him by name. So I'm not sure if he's SUPPOSED to be a time displaced Fu, or some random other monk from The Order of the Guardians who just so happens to have a sort of clone of Fu's Miracle Box????

Cut to earlier in the day when Adrien's father comes to meet him. SURPRISE! Turns out Gabriel isn't Adrien's father! My brain didn't sort out WHO Gabriel is instead: uncle, kidnapper, grandfather??? Adrien's actual dad - according to my dream - is still that generic Rich White Guy, but at least this time he's like a RomCom Love Interest Rich Dude... heart of gold but somehow forced to be distant??? Like, he had just escaped captivity himself, or something???? My brain didn't quite sort it out. I just got A Vibe (TM).

I don't recall what prefaced this bit or how Adrien was convinced or whatever, but I guess his dad (according to my dream) knew he was Chat Noir, and told him that. Feeling relieved that he didn't have to hide it, he confirmed his dad's suspicions by transforming into Chat Noir. Thing is, he did so on camera???? So he kind of announced to all of Paris that Adrien Agreste is Chat Noir???? (He could also now power-up to the point that he can transform into an actual panther a la Animan???)

We then jump back to Adrien and Marinette, who are now running around incognito. But it looks more like they're running around a city in the US than Paris... they end up hiding in a Best Buy parking lot or something???? Adrien is wearing one of those jackets with a hoodie liner, and the hood up to try to hide who he is. (Note: Adrien looks good in one of these jackets, and I wish I was a good enough artist to properly draw this look....) It was hard for me to tell via my dream if Marinette knew Adrien was Chat Noir (either via that televised reveal with his dad or via him just telling her personally). She did know he needed to hide from the public though.... Also, pre-teen monk wasn't with them, but Mullo still was????

Then the dream shifted to me on a walk with my sister-in-law and talking about the Miraculous season finale (which is apparently what the start of my dream was supposed to be?). I walked my sister-in-law home (which, by the way, was NOT her home or even her neighborhood IRL, but the place looked real swank in my dream, so I hope I manifest that for her...), and chatted with my niece and nephew about Miraculous as well.

Then I actually woke up.