#gabemilie

[farancia]

Girls will draw you in with their surreal allure then make you do an excavation in Tibet

[ninadove]

Textposts for the normal, healthy, totally frequentable adults with no secret agenda haha what are you talking about —

Bonus:

[nemaliwrites]

was thinking about that gabriel/emilie pygmalion AU in my drafts and i was like 'oh this'll be easy bc obviously we know which one's pygmalion and which one's galatea!!'

but....do we?

imagine this. imagine that you are a boy, wanting more out of life. you hate your name, your job, your family. you hate yourself.

and along comes a girl. she shows you that there is more to life, as long as you're by her side. so, you break yourself down and build yourself up anew. you change your name, your job, your family. you change yourself.

are you pygmalion, then, or galatea? are you the creator or the creation? which one are you truly in love with: her or yourself when you're with her?

imagine this, now. imagine that you are a girl, wanting nothing more out of life. you love your name, your job, your family. you love yourself.

and along comes a boy. he shows you that your love can extend past yourself, that it can be used to shape another. to mold them to your exact liking.

but as you mold, you yourself are molded. he dresses you in his clothes, hangs paintings of you in the house he has chosen - your likeness, forever imprisoned in the four walls of a frame. he changes you: your belly swollen with a child, hands adorned with a ring.

have you changed yourself? or has he changed you?

which of you is the sculpture, frozen in place? able to do nothing but conform to the other's will?

and which of you is the artist, imposing yourself on your creation?

melded together as you are, maybe both. maybe neither.

[uptoolateart]

How the Heart Learns to Break Again

Chapter 4 Preview:

Emilie’s fists clenched on top of the duvet. ‘Gabriel, we’ve been over this. We have no idea where those other miraculous are. And even if you managed to find them and make the wish –’

‘I know, I know. Magic for magic, like you keep reminding me.’

‘I keep telling you because you won’t listen. You don’t get something for nothing, Gabriel. There is always a price to pay.’

‘We don’t know that, Emilie. Not for sure. All of this is – it’s an experiment. Nothing is certain.’

‘That’s exactly my point!’ Emilie let out a noise of irritation, and she turned to Nathalie. ‘Nathalie, help me, please. Tell him it’s not worth the risk.’

Nathalie blinked at her, any response trapped in her throat. On the other side of the bed, Gabriel was now watching her too, no doubt expecting her to say something that would support his view.

Expecting her to agree with his plan.

Her stomach twisted, words and broken phrases echoing in her mind.

Cat and ladybug.

Magic for magic.

A price….

Read at Ao3

[luvnaria]

Adrien

This has probably been done before i just wanted to draw Mama Ag-REST You know she and daughter-in-law got their priorities straight. Dont ask me why Gabriel isnt wearing his glasses. Idk.

[wisteriasymphony]

i agree with emilie being a typical boy mom jocasta complex style shes been the centre of attention her entire life i dont think she would be okay with having a mini me daughter at all 😭 she definitely enabled gabriels rapunzelment and child modelling i hate headcanons where she is a good person fr 😔 also what does this say about nathalie and her being/wanting to be romantically involved with that couple 😭

i mean... it says bad things? even if she didn't encourage it or just did the bare minimum to scold emilie for being inappropriately close with her son... it says bad things, dude. why are you so invested in the worst couple of blondes to grace the planet?? were there no other options??

or, we could go the route that nathalie was also groomed/manipulated into it. we don't exactly know how old she was when she met the agrestes, she could've been just starting out as a plucky archeologist when these kind and wealthy benefactors introduced themselves into her life via tomoe. and emilie's cult of personality with gabriel's coolheadedness and determined nature might've just drawn her in.

^ of course, this works better for situations where Mayura was never a thing. and there's also arguments that both of these options can coexist. yikes all around regardless

[bittersweetresilience]

miraculous masterpost 🦚

writing

sentitwin soulmate au (Félix and Adrien are soulmates. Amélie and Emilie used to be just as close. On hiatus.) ghost félix au (Félix just wanted it to stop hurting. On hiatus.) sentitwin omori au (Adrien wakes up. Emilie is home. On hiatus.)

never been in love (Félix comes to terms with being aromantic.) metempsychosis (Félix is in a time loop.) i've drowned and dreamt this (Adrien has a problem.) no one listens to the dead (Félix and Adrien switch places.) oh, no, not again (For Félix, time travel is a dangerous thing.) band-aid (Adrien helps Félix through a panic attack.) for what we've done (During Emotion, Marinette chooses differently.) garden of dreams (Adrien takes care of Félix when he dissociates.) i want to hold the hand inside you (Félix gives Marinette his ring.) loose leaves (Marinette shares a morning with Félix and Kagami.) come alive when the light dies (Ladybug remembers Patte de Velours in the Burrow.) in certain light, i can plainly see (Félix lets Marinette kiss his hand.) handle with care (Félix takes Adrien to meet his horse.) aftertaste (Ladybug brings Adrien to a picnic date.)

better left unsaid (Snake Noir visits Félix after Réplique.) brave, truthful, and unselfish (Five times Félix lied to Adrien.) ephialtes / reverie (Félix survives the night of the Diamonds' Dance.) sleep (Runaway Chat Noir and Félix have a conversation.)

and a couple others i haven't made posts for which you can find here!

analysis

why félix makes me insane why i read félix as aromantic why félix would go by his father's last name random félix defenses in my stash timeline of félix events

félix and flairmidable as pandora's myth félix as a classical or method actor sentitwin sun and moon symbolism

sentitwin soulmate au meta / more / more

every scene where the miraculous theme song plays in minor definitely not every scene where in the rain plays

parallels between marinette, adrien, gabriel, and émilie parallels between exaltation and chat blanc parallels between gabemilie and feligami

french history and gabriel's color palette plikki at the end of the world

adrien agreste and borderline personality disorder

webweaves

félix fathom amélie graham de vanily felinette / more / more philosophy / more the whiteness of the whale hearth and thirteen paris special chat blanc twins / more feligami ladyvelours team is a four letter word

amvs

how far we've come / miraculous ladybug i could fight on a wall / ladynoir end credits / felinette emperor's new clothes / félix fathom i can't decide / félix fathom this side of paradise / ladrien savior / ladyblanc tightrope / djwifi are you bored yet? / kuro neko way down we go / félix fathom

playlists

émilie agreste kitty section

gifs

sentitwins felinette / more / more / more feligami / more félix fathom the wish

fic recs

félix sentitwins feligami ladynoir

other

miraculous frozen au miraculous infinity train au

murder at the graham de vanily dinner party birds of a feather

as time goes by podfic

thirteen poem félix poem

in the rain a capella

[asukiess]

wish I didn’t think about these things but “diamonds on the soles of her shoes” by Paul Simon is gabemilie and “hell and you” by amigo the devil is gabenath. anywayyyyyyyy.

[wisteriasymphony]

Oh, I can answer this one! I'll take the bait! It comes down to a few things. First of all, her portrayal in canon as a one-dimensional "perfect dead wife/mother" conflicts with elements of Adrien's oh-so-tragic life. She's only been dead for a year, so elements like Adrien not being allowed to attend school with his peers or being pressured into working as a model are just as much on her as they are on Gabriel! Not to mention his lonely upbringing, lack of friends, and missed birthdays.

Of course, Adrien's positive view of his mother in no way conflicts with this reading of her. Childrens' relationships with their abusers can be incredibly complex, and it's entirely possible that Adrien was willing to forgive or ignore all of Emilie's harmful actions simply because making peace would have made his day-to-day life easier. Emilie was likely a much warmer, more affectionate parent even while isolating him from the rest of the world, hence why she's looked on so favorably—How is Adrien supposed to know that this is the bare minimum, when it's all he's known his entire life?

Emilie as a devouring mother versus Gabriel as a distant father also serves as great contrast. One parent "loves too much", the other "loves too little". (Furthermore, I like to take this in conjunction with the "Adrien is a copy of Emilie" readings to also bring up the contrast of exploiting Adrien for ego versus exploiting Adrien for profit.)

"But Wisteria," you say to yourself and the computer screen, "Why couldn't Emilie just be powerless to stop all of Gabriel's evil horrible actions? Maybe she wanted to let him go to school and didn't, or she wished she could reason to her husband about giving Adrien freedom but decided it was better to keep her son safe?" The issue is, lovely reader, that Amelie already fulfills that, and the two sisters are presented as opposites as of Representation. I have my own very small gripes about how Felix's backstory has so many elements that I was hoping to get out of Adrien, but I can admit that the two families are going to be different. To set up Emilie as this more rebellious sister with utopian dreams of love and freedom only to say she was powerless in stopping her husband from controlling every aspect of her son's life...? That's glaringly inconsistent. We have to remember that she had half of Adrien's amok. If she was against using it entirely, she could've easily convinced her devoted husband to take his half off and to store both halves somewhere safe.

The Agreste household falls into its own sort of Epicurean Paradox:

Emilie and Gabriel were genuinely in love with each other.

2. Emilie was a good parent to Adrien before her death.

3. Adrien's childhood is and was abusive.

If 1 and 2 are true, 3 would not be (ex: the amok dilemma I just outlined). However, we have evidence that 3 is true. Over the course of the show, Adrien's home life was elevated from just standard cartoon strict parenting to Gabriel being obviously neglectful, controlling, and in some episodes physically abusive.

So, either 1 cannot be true, and Emilie and Gabriel were not genuinely in love with each other (to the extent that Gabriel would not listen to Emilie's worries about her son, that is. I have no doubt that a million arguments can be made about them having something imperfect and codependent going on), or 2 cannot be true, and Emilie was complicit in or actively encouraged Adrien's isolation and neglect. And there's a lot more wiggle room to claim the latter!

Not to mention expanding Emilie beyond just the perfect dead wife trope gives her more depth as a character. Making her an imperfect parent isn't meant to overwrite any of the rose-tinted depictions of her we see in the show—Instead, it works in tandem with it! A seemingly perfect Madonna after her death, her flaws airbrushed away by the family that worships her even if the effects of her actions seep through the cracks now and then. Now that's compelling.

Also, making the poor little white guy suffer is incredible catharsis. Never forget the power of whump and angst, kids. It makes his theoretical triumph over escaping his family that much sweeter.

As I will also add, I do think none of this is inherently tied to sentibeingdom. I could talk more about my own readings and headcanons about Emilie's egotism specifically, but those could just as easily be fueled by a son that inexplicably resembles her in every way than a magical slave child creature, with Emilie's egotistical actions being supported more by what she does with her little mini-me rather than her actively making a mini-me. (Model Emilie should've been canon, yo. Adrien being forced into his mother's profession to be just like her is a great explanation for why he is where he is, and it only heightens the parallels between Gabemilie and Adrienette.) So I do think there is validity in criticizing that aspect of his character writing! Especially when the execution of the child abuse metaphor is muddied so much by also making the child abuse metaphor part of your disposable monsters-of-the-week without proper care being put into the transition from "thing you can throw into the sun without anyone batting an eye" to "living, sapient organism that deserves a chance at life too".

Tell me, do you actually like Adrien and Felix not being born the normal way, or are you just willing to accept it? I, for one, thought that was the biggest mistake since undoing Chloe's character growth, maybe even worse.

super unpopular opinion but im a huge fan of the idea. i think mainly because im obsessed with narcissistic emilie(thanks wisteria) and her creating a carbon copy of herself because she was so selfish, and that leading to her undoing, is such a cool idea.

not to mention all of the potential that comes with chat noir being a sentibeing. i mean every third fic goes into it, but hawk moth discovering him and forcing him to keep it from ladybug? i eat that up.

basically anything that adds interesting tension without taking me completely out of it, i don’t mind. the canon is already a shitshow, might as well give the talented fanfic writers more interesting concepts to work with

[princess-of-the-corner]

It suddenly strikes me that ML using Colt to make Gabemilie look good by comparison is essentially like being asked to pick whether Mother Gothel from Tangled or Judge Frollo from HoND is the worse parent.

Mmmmmmmmmm

You know what good point.

(also brb just gonna. Blast the HoND soundtrack.)

[alto-tenure]

so Marinette and Gabriel have a lot of narrative parallels and I think they're really neat and not analysed enough, so here it is!

this post will discuss these parallels! first, what they are, and second what they mean for the show.

(there will also be some discussion of adrien and emilie and nathalie in the contexts of their relationships.)

so! let's get started.

Gabriel and Marinette have quite a bit in common. They're both fashion designers - they're good at it at least in-universe (even if that isn't easily backed up by the models). They're also both considered the "leader" of the pair they work in with the Miraculous, with the partner they work with being more than a sidekick (even though Gabriel wouldn't admit that, I do believe that without Nathalie he'd be absolutely screwed). They're both more prone to unifying the Miraculous. They both have more knowledge of the Guardians than anyone else they work with.

I'd like to raise, even, that Marinette could become Gabriel; however, the point of setting these parallels up in the first place is that she will subvert that.

Another parallel can be found in their relationships.

We don't have much to go on in terms of Gabriel's backstory, but what we do know is that he started out Not Rich (though what exactly "not rich" means hasn't been specified yet) and rose in status with the help of mentor figure Audrey and marrying Emilie, who is old money.

Marinette is also not particularly rich. Her family has real estate in a good neighborhood of France and they seem to be comfortable, so I would probably say somewhere around upper middle class, but not rich like the Agrestes or the Bourgeois family.

Now, if we expand the comparison, Gabriel is set up to be in a couple episodes Marinette's version of Audrey. He has some interest in her designs, though what he's more interested in is Adrien's relationship with her.

We don't know a lot about Emilie. Yet. I have no doubt we will eventually. But what little we do know is enough to draw the necessarily parallels for this. Adrien and Emilie were both born into wealth. They look very similar, but beyond the superficial we only have what Adrien says about her.

I feel obliged to note that Adrien is perhaps not the most reliable narrator. Both him and Gabriel idolize her, and Adrien is only marginally more reliable in my opinion.

Kindness is a quality Adrien posesses in spades, and he describes Emilie as caring when she is spoken of.

Whether she really is remains to be seen.

Yet this itself is a form of the subversion of the parallels between Adrien/Marinette and Emilie/Gabriel; Emilie is told as kind while Adrien is shown as such.

There are a few directions this could go, but here's what I think.

Instead of the lower-class character joining the upper-class because of their relationship, it will be Adrien that joins Marinette in a less rich lifestyle.

The point of these parallels is to convey the idea that Gabriel and Marinette are kindred spirits, in some ways, but Gabriel took the wrong fork in the road and now he's a supervillain.

It can be used to elicit sympathy - or simply to elicit feelings of "do better, you could have been so much greater."

I think the show will lean more towards the second.

[ninadove]

— Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo [Ch. 17]

For Feligami February 2025 — Day 20: Disobedience! 💜🦚❤️🐉

Alt text under the cut!

Line 1:

🇫🇷 — Qu’eussiez-vous donc fait libre ?

🇬🇧 “What would you not have accomplished, had you only been free?”

Line 2:

🇫🇷 — Rien, peut-être: ce trop plein de mon cerveau se fût évaporé en futilités.

🇬🇧 “Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would have, in a state of freedom, evaporated in a thousand follies;

-> Emilie frolicking (black and white)

-> The twins holding their newborns (darkened)

-> Gabemilie on their bed (black and white)

Line 3:

🇫🇷 Il faut le malheur pour creuser certaines mines mystérieuses cachées dans l’intelligence humaine ;

🇬🇧 misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.

-> Young Amelie reads a book (black and white)

-> Felix and Amelie join hands (darkened)

-> Colt balls his fist around Amelie’s baby bump (black and white)

Line 4:

🇫🇷 il faut la pression pour faire éclater la poudre.

🇬🇧 Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.

-> Gabriel threatens to snap Felix away (black and white)

-> Felix tells Shadow Moth to fuck off (darkened)

-> An akuma nestles in Felix’s fake ring (black and white)

Line 5:

🇫🇷 La captivité a réuni sur un seul point toutes mes facultés flottantes çà et là ; elles se sont heurtées dans un espace étroit ;

🇬🇧 Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus, and knocked thoughts against each other;

-> Felix’s amok breaks (black and white)

-> Felix opens his eyes after the amok incident (darkened)

-> Felix’s torn-up rabbit plushie (black and white)

Line 6:

🇫🇷 et, vous le savez, du choc des nuages résulte l’électricité,

🇬🇧 and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced —

-> Strikeback and its clones fall into the sun (black and white)

-> Flairmidable fetches Ladybug’s yoyo (darkened)

-> Shadow Moth addresses the city of Paris (black and white)

Line 7:

🇫🇷 de l’électricité l’éclair,

🇬🇧 from electricity, lightning,

-> Felix holds Kagami’s hand during the dance (black and white)

-> Felix breaks his fan to protect Kagami (darkened)

-> Argos prepares to snap Red Moon away (black and white)

Line 8:

🇫🇷 de l’éclair la lumière.

🇬🇧 from light, illumination.”

-> Kagami giggles after Argos draws a heart on her window (brightly coloured)

-> Felix puts his mask on, preparing to tell his story (brightly coloured)

-> After the play, Argos and Kagami kiss in front of the sunrise (GIF, brightly coloured)

[uptoolateart]

How the Heart Learns to Beat Again - 15

PREVIEW:

‘What’s on your mind?’ Emilie’s voice was soft and strained.

Nathalie froze, uncertain how to answer. How much honesty was appropriate? ‘…I was thinking about Colt.’

Gabriel laughed, a strange sound after the events of the day. ‘No wonder you look so disgusted.’

Emilie frowned at him before returning her attention to Nathalie. ‘You’ve really connected with my sister, haven’t you.’ There was something underlying her words. Some other meaning that was hard to place.

Nathalie shifted in place. ‘I think we could be good friends.’

Emilie’s mouth turned up at the corners, a small smile forming. ‘I can’t tell you how glad I am to hear that. She needs friends.’

Silence fell over them like a shroud.

Unsure what to do with her limbs, Nathalie sat down on the bed, a careful distance from Gabriel. Yet even with that space between them, she could feel his presence. Heat radiated from him, warming her body.

Emilie sighed. ‘I’ve been thinking…. We should tell Colt and Amelie about the peacock.’

Nathalie’s mouth fell open.

So did Gabriel’s. ‘What?’

Read at Ao3

[goofygoldengirl]

Oooh Gabriel is promising to get the miraculouses for Emilie and nathalie. Bring on the torn confessions of love to both of them! Give me some drama boy!

[felixciavvv]

“You gave her your sweater,

it’s just polyester,

but you like her better,

I wish I were Heather...”

Sad quote, I know, but I’m addicted to that song...