#hitting him full blast with silly-little-guy-ification beam

[soullessjack]

idk maybe it’s because I’m 20 and normal but i rlly don’t understand this over-sexualized characterization of cat noir/adrien (especially because he’s a tenth grade child and in a better world that would be the end of it) but also because in reality he’s literally just some super isolated sheltered kid with extremely limited self expression granted to him who’s just happy to be included or be a Good Friend™️ and clearly indulges in his cat noir persona as a way to show his actual personality and express himself in a way that he normally wouldn’t be allowed to or thinks wouldn’t be well received by his friends.

he doesn’t have a public image or any high expectations to meet as cat noir (and nobody believes that The Real 𝓐𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷 𝓐𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮 is actually silly and socially awkward) so he gets to be more mischievous and pushy and rude and actually in charge of what he wants to do for once when he’s Cat. he gets to have actual fun with it and not only does he try and get ladybug to have fun too but even in his transformation sequence he’s doing those stupid little air claws and getting silly with it.

this was longer than i meant for it to be but what I’m getting at is that he’s a silly weird teenager and he’d probably wear a tail belt if he wasn’t a public fashion figure with a borderline authoritarian father