#he confides in chloe who doesn't exactly believe him only because emilie was so different from her own mother

[aloeverified]

au where emilie doesn't "go missing." gabriel fully believes in his plan to bring her back with the black cat and ladybug miraculous, so he doesn't want to fill out a police report and label her as missing as it would both put more attention on him as well as make it more difficult to explain her disappearance when he brought her back.

instead, he stages a tour for her. she's taking a break from her acting career to focus on the gabriel brand, traveling the world to learn about different cultures and their clothing for a new line they'll be releasing.

the press is excited, conspiring and making predictions about which countries will be included. many people wonder why emilie decided to make such a stark career change so suddenly, but no one really questions it as suspicious.

except for adrien.

adrien, who has seen his mother less and less over the past few months. adrien, who has been nervous to speak to his father ever since his irritation has spiked. adrien, who can't remember the last time he had a meal with both of his parents. adrien, whose only friend is chloe.

he begins to think. all the times his mother left for months to film a new movie, his father burying himself in his work for days on end, adrien being left in the care of his parent's assistants while they filled their schedules as much as possible — keeping busy and far away from one another.

he wonders if he's just be oblivious this entire time, if his family has been drifting apart and he's been forced into photo shoots and advertisements as a way to keep him distracted from it all. he notices the way his father looks longingly each time they pass a portrait of his mother, as though he's lost something, and the way natalie's eyes soften when she notices as well.

he stops asking his father why he didn't tell him about the new line. he stops asking his father why he can't call his mother, why she won't call him either. when he comes across his father sitting at his desk, holding his wedding ring is hand and looking at a framed photo of their family, he stops asking questions all together.

adrien doesn't know much, but he has a strong feeling his mother isn't coming back.

[im-simply-miraculous]

Miraculous Chara

An idea dump for my Miraculous Ladybug Shugo Chara au

(Forgive me for not putting this under a read more, I don't think I can on mobile.)

This au does not replace the the SC characters with ML characters; Marinette is not Amu and Adrien is not Tadase or Ikuto. Basically everything is the same except instead of gaining their powers from a miraculous and the kwamis, they have charas.

Tikki was born from Marinette's desire to be more confident and strong, from her creativity and selflessness. Plagg was born from Adrien's desire to be independent and free, to destroy the invisible cage around him. Their charas were born on the same day, so origins plays out basically the same. Master Fu, instead of handing out the miraculous', gave them the Humpty lock and Dumpty key. Beyond that, he's simply a wise old dude who once had a chara and has a role similar Tsukasa in that he offers guidance and advice to the new 'guardians'; he doesn't have wayzz, his chara went away long ago.

The whole thing about keeping their identities hidden is something I was debating, but I think they'd find out pretty quick after seeing each other's charas at school, since they wouldn't feel much need to hide considering most people can't see them. So the love square is a bit different: Marinette still crushes hard on Adrien and Adrien still crushes hard on Ladybug (or rather, Lucky Ladybug, is her full transformation name), but it's sort of like Tadase's crush on amulet heart, there's some kind of disconnect in this poor fool's head that separates Marinette and Ladybug and it takes a while before he realizes what he's doing. Marinette knows about his crush on Ladybug but Adrien doesn't realize Marinette is crushing on him. Knowing he's crushing on her would be self, she doesn't say anything about her crush, as she wants the relationships to be real and not feel like he's with her for only one aspect; so she decides to work toward her would be self and only tell him when he closes that gap for himself.

Hawkmoth is searching for the embryo in order to bring back Emilie. In their youth, they both had charas, but they of course disappeared once they grew up and realized their would be self's.

Years later though, Emilie still missed her chara dearly, and at a time when she felt lost, she enlisted Gabriel's help to find a way to draw their charas back out. They eventually found an old ritual and attempted it, but it failed. Emilie's heart egg was still drawn out, but it was dull and cracked, and she fell into her comma upon it's exit.

Gabriel, heart broken, desperately kept researching to find a way to help her. He knew of the embryo already, and decided it was the only way. Soon he found out what they did wrong and again performed the ritual, on himself this time. Nooroo was successfully drawn out, but he was still damaged by Gabriel's twisted heart, his egg dull and the poor chara very weak.

Gabriel started character transforming and pulling out X eggs from vulnerable people to make them help him find the embryo. After he saw Ladybug and Chat Noir, he thinks they may be the key to finding the embryo. The akuma's are the result of forced character transformations with X eggs.

The rest of team miraculous aren't given their powers by Marinette, they one by one hatch their own heart's eggs.

Alya is first. Her egg is born because of Lila. Lila's purpose in the story isn't to cause a frankly ridiculous conflict and be Marinette's enemy (although, she may later on come back with her own chara to try and find the embryo for herself). The liar still comes to class and briefly has everyone fooled, though not to the extend they shun Marinette. Alya wants so bad to believe her because knowing such an interesting person could be great for her career, and she does for a bit ignore Marinette's pleading, however after a day or so, she sees the cracks. Lila's new purpose is to make Alya face the fact that she is not yet the reporter she though she was, believing someone so easily. Alya has an internal crisis from which Trixx is born from her desire to see through the lies of the world, to be cunning and on top of every situation. With Trixx's and Marinette's help, Alya outs Lila.

Nino is next, I don't have as much of an arc figured out for how he gets Wayzz, maybe it's also caused by Lila, but basically, Wayzz chara is born from his desire to protect his friends. I have a bit of a dilemma here, Wayzz is not exactly what I picture as Nino's would be self. I don't want to change Wayzz completely and make him a tiny dj, so maybe Wayzz also represents Nino wanting to be taken more seriously and to be wiser of the world, to take things slow and not rush life.

Chloe hatches her heart egg sometime after Alya and Nino. Pollen is Chloe's desire to better herself. She still sees herself as a queen, but she doesn't want to be an evil queen; she wants to be a kind and honest queen, one her subjects can depend upon and feel safe with. She'd never admit this though lol. Pollen encourages her to better herself and be nicer to people, and thanks to her chara and Marinette, she does actually start to noticably change.

As for Luka, Kagami, and other future miraculous holders, I don't have as much worked out for them since we don't know much about those Kwamis. I'll update later on them. I can say that Luka's chara is probably born in part from his love of music, and Kagami's has something to do with her serious nature and strength but also how restrained she feels.

This is just a basic info dump, I'm open to questions about this au~