#gabemilie

[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 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

[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.

[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.)

[yipyipyehaw]

My exact confusion…like coparenting after gabemilie crumbles? Platonic besties who both feel fiercely bout their senti child?

no bc if u have seen the finale leaks u know what we are talking about and 😭😭 the way next season we are probably going to see emilie and nathalie co-parenting while being…. besties? like im so curious of how it will be played out bc 100% they are not gonna make them a canon couple bc . Its miraculous ladybug

[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]

Miraculous Masterpost

Because I did not expect to write about this series as much as I did, so now my Random Ramblings Masterpost looks like a never-ending shopping list, and we can’t have that.

Generic 🦋

Miraculous’ philosophy of consent: all’s fair in love and plot [S5 E19]

A word on show-don’t-tell (Get it? A word? On show-don’t-tell? I’ll see myself out —) [S5 E18]

London Callin’ (Maybe) (We’re not sure) [S5 E24]

The Shadow Weaver-ification of Gabriel Agreste — Part 1 [S5 E26]

The Shadow Weaver-ification of Gabriel Agreste — Part 2 [S5 E26]

The Shadow Weaver-ification of Gabriel Agreste — Part 3 [S5 E26]

I love the Sentimonster Theory Canon and you can pry out of my cold, dead hands [S5 E26]

Felix Graham de Vanily / Argos 🦚

"Duusu, spread my feathers!" — A queer reading of the Sentimonster theory [S4 E26]

Felix is a little b*tch (affectionate) [S4 E26]

Taking risks in Strikeback (Get it? Risk? Strikeback?) [S4 E26]

On the beef between Felix and Chloé [S5 E18]

Felix’s masterplan was brilliant, actually [S5 E18]

Leave my fucking child alone — Part I: "There’s only one thing worse than Gabriel —" [S5 E18]

Leave my fucking child alone — Part II: A very chill rant about Adrien’s amok [S5 E18]

Reminder that yes, Colt SUCKS, but he’s not the only one [S5 E24]

On cracked rings and broken chains [S5 E24]

Surviving child abuse through humour [S5 E24]

Badass in the arena [S5 E24]

TRANSMASC. FELIX. PROPAGANDA. [S5 E24]

Plushie Parallels [S5 E24]

Felix is a ray of fucking sunshine [S5 E24]

On Felix’s wish [S5 E26]

Kagami Tsurugi / Ryuko 🐉

To wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve [S5 E18]

Cutting off contact(s) [S5 E19]

Thinking about Kagami Tsurugi ❤️ [S5 E24]

On Kagami and the cousins’ silly antics [S5 E26]

Feligami 🦚🐉

On Feligami and the (absence of) masks [S5 E18]

Beware of first impressions [S5 E18]

Feligami Fastburn my beloved [S5 E19]

Feligami Flexes [S5 E19]

It’s the way they hold hands, your honour [S5 E19]

Some Ship Bingo Ramblings [S5 E19]

Incoherent screaming over Kagami’s amok [S5 E19]

Feligami / Gabemilie parallels [S5 E19]

Pretension 🥺💜❤️ [S5 E19]

On Flairyuko and chokers [S5 E19]

The quickest prison break ever [S5 E24]

You come to MY post, you disrespect MY blorbos — [S5 E24]

A word on jealousy [S5 E24]

Finding beauty in the monstruous [S5 E24]

Feligami’s couple cosplays [S5 E24]

A word on monsters [S5 E24]

Feligami Writing Guide [S5 E24]

From queer neurodivergent child abuse survivors to lovers [S5 E24]

Draw me like one of your British boys [S5 E26]

Felix doesn’t get the monopoly of the heart eyes [S5 E26]

On defying the narrative [S5 E24]

Ryukomori x Argos… Argomori? [S5 E24]

*Fireflies from Owl City starts playing* [S5 E26]

The Marigami-to-Feligami pipeline [London]

Beauty and the Beast AU

Felix’s fanfictions

Coup de foudre

Adrien Agreste / Chat Noir 🐈‍⬛

Remember kids: necromancy bad — [S5 E26]

On the S6 Redesigns Dread™ [S5 E26]

Graham de Family 💍

Flairmidable’s formidable costume [S4 E26]

Transmasc Felix Propaganda [S5 E18]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part I: NEWSFLASH, ASSHOLES!!!!! Felix has cared about Adrien the entire goddamn time [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part II: The Path to Isolation [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part III: L’Enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part IV: Sun and rain [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part V: Sun and moon [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part VI: Mirror, mirror [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part V: First draft [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part VI: Everything I did… [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part VII: Reclaiming your image [S5 E24]

The Senticousins Agenda — Part VIII: Blue roses

#LetAmelieStabABitch2023 [S5 E24]

On Felix, Emilie and Solitude [S5 E24]

On Felix, Emilie and loneliness [S5 E24]

All I’m saying is, Emilie should have been a lesbian [S5 E24]

Some thoughts on Sentisouls [S5 E24]

Adrien is a disappointment to his entire lineage (and we love him for it) [S5 E24]

Hands again! [S5 E24]

Let’s play Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise! [S5 E26]

A word on accents and guillotines (with a title like that how can you NOT want to click)

Aroace Adrien and Demiromantic Felix propaganda

Marinette Dupain Cheng / Ladybug 🐞

Do NOT talk shit about Marinette [S5 E26]

In defense of Ladybug’s suit [Paris]

On Marinette and second chances [London]

Kind of an accidental Lilanette post [London]

Love Square ❤️

Queer coding! Queer coding everywhere!

Chloé Bourgeois / Queen Bee 🐝

Can a bee change her stripes? [S5 E18]

That one time I accidentally made myself a Chlolila shipper [S5 E22]

Lila 🐛

London special takeaways

Master Fu 🗝️

Ah yes, the good old cycle of abuse and neglect

Lukadrien 🐈‍⬛🐍

A word on… Swear words

[yunyin]

Post Dark Cupid Drabble ft. Gabriel

A kiss. He’d been undone by a kiss, like a fairy-tale curse. How childish, and ironic, when everything he did was to revive his beloved.

At the end of the elevator ride, Gabriel de-transformed, crossing the bridge to where his wife slept.

Her coffin opened with a gentle whoosh of displaced air. Her face was serene as always, golden hair in a graceful curl over her shoulder. Like a true Sleeping Beauty, she was the image of loveliness. More than a princess. A queen.

Foolish… but if love truly could conquer all…

He bent down to kiss her, doing his best to stifle the eddies of hope within him. Her lips are warm but unmoving. Still but for her faint, regular breathing and her life support giving the occasional gentle beep.

No change.

He should know better than to hope in the stories of children.

[uptoolateart]

How the Heart Learns to Beat Again - 12

PREVIEW:

Unable to get comfortable, Nathalie shifted position on the armchair she’d dragged beside Emilie’s bed.

No – Emilie and Gabriel’s bed. A four-poster affair, like something out of a fairytale. And lying in that bed, with the extravagant silk duvet drawn up to her collarbone, was Emilie herself.  Like Sleeping Beauty, she lay on her back, long golden hair spilling out around her head. She was paler than usual, with patches of colour staining her cheeks. But her breath was steady, and her eyelids were still, like her mind was at peace.

Magic. It was magic that had done this to her. Like Princess Aurora touching that enchanted spindle, Emilie had used the peacock miraculous and fainted into a dead sleep.

What if she never wakes up?

Nathalie scowled at herself. What a stupid idea. This wasn’t a fairytale. Emilie had just weakened a little after channelling the magic of the brooch. There was always a price to pay for such wishes. This was Emilie’s. It would pass. It would pass.

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...