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smuchshypush · 1 year ago
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jagalart · 6 months ago
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Dancer
Painting for the wonderful @GraveyDTrain as gift for a friend, thank you again for trusting me with this <3
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belovedrm · 1 year ago
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The unnecessary lack of personal stakes of Marinette Dupain-Cheng in the Agreste Arc
Inspired by a recent post by @starguardianniom, with half pinched again from my own reblog:
Marinette has zero personal stakes in the main conflict of her show, except that she happened to be the first girl who helped Fu across the road, and was thus chosen to wear the earrings. She doesn't even really seem to have any reason to be Ladybug aside from the basic "I can't sit back and do nothing" she stated in Origins. So a sense of responsibility conferred by being the bearer of the earrings, and an ostensible general desire to do good.
This would be fine, except that Adrien very much did have a reason to continue being Chat Noir. Plagg's Miraculous is the source of his freedom, and a new identity of his own making separate from the carefully curated child of Gabriel Agreste. Most importantly he had so much personal connection to the core plot that his narrative potential dwarfed Marinette's beyond compare.
His mere existence is the very axis of the plot, putting it in motion by the apparent desire for a designer child seeming being the very reason Gabriel and Emile sought the Miraculous all those years ago, and the consequences of his creation being the very reason that Gabriel devolves into magical terrorism. Hawkmoth being his father whom Adrien clearly cares for and whose goal of restoring his much mourned mother setup a truly impressive case for split loyalties for when Adrien (seemingly) inevitably learnt of his father's identity and true goal:
I made a comparison before between Avatar and Miraculous where Avatar won without question. Allow me to balance the scales here: the setup for Adrien potentially turning on Ladybug, or having to sacrifice his familial bonds for the sake of justice outweighed Zuko's own setup for choosing his ''honour"/loyalty to his family over his burgeoning sense of justice.
In potential at least. Rest assured that Zuko's character arc still far eclipses anything Adrien was ever allowed.
But the point I'm trying to make here is that in the very story that bears her name, Ladybug's only reason to be involved comes from the fact that she happens to have Tikki's Miraculous. She has no personal investment in the fate of Hawkmoth than other citizen of Paris, she certainly has no conflicting loyalties.
She doesn't even have a personal reason to continue being Ladybug. You can draw a parallel if you like with one of her ostensible inspirations Peter Parker, who learnt the price of personal inaction in a harsh and unforgiving manner that selflessly drives him to protect others. You can say that the Stoneheart incident fulfills a similar role.
But here's the thing: Peter Parker is Spiderman thanks to his radioactive blood. Ladybug is whoever wears Tikki's Miraculous. If Peter retires, he takes his powers away from the protection of New York. If Marinette gives up her Miraculous, a new Ladybug will arise in her place within a day. There's no need for her to be Ladybug, to take on that responsibility, and until the season three finale there's no personal stake for her to be the girl under the mask any more than any other Parisian citizen.
And that means that Marinette isn't the heart of her own story. In Avatar, it's Aang's quest to defeat the Fire Lord because it has to be him that restores balance. In Star Wars, it's Luke whose connection with Vader that has to restore Anakin's better nature. In just about any series there is a pressing need and personal stakes for the protagonist to be that The Protagonist of that story, that make that story their story.
But the setup here has all the pathos and personal stakes placed upon Adrien. Marinette is the centerpiece of the show, but Adrien's handed all of the narrative potential even as the writers let it go to waste.
It's like preparing a finely seasoned meal, then leaving it to rot as you serve plain vegetables. There's just no reason to have the vegetables when the fine meal is ready for consumption: and if that's a problem? If the plain vegetables were always meant to be the centrepiece? Then you should have seasoned the vegetables and made something delectable with them.
Because the saddest apart about Marinette having or actual ties or pathos to the Agreste Arc is that once upon a time that was not the case.
In previous Miraculous proposals, before the PV, Marinette Cheng was at least as part of the main story as Felix/Adrien was. There were various versions of how the story would go, with one echoing Cardcaptor's plot, and the later proposals looking more like what we got in the final product.
But all had Marinette having a personal stake in the story. In the Cardcaptor-esque plot, Marinette was Fu's granddaughter (or granddaughter figure), and Fu was the caretaker of the The Orb. A crystal that contained all the "fairies" (beings that served both the roles Kwamis and Akumas would later take). The story kicked off because Marinette brought her crush Felix into her Grandfather's store and accidentally broke The Orb, shattering it and allowing the Fairies to escape across Paris and empower countless people- heroes and villains both.
It was her mission to retrieve the Fairies, because she was the one who had released them. She was Fu's granddaughter and it was her responsibility to clean up her mess. It was her story, and Felix/Adrien was the one with less direct connection.
Later proposals ditched The Orb as the Kwamis were developed, but up until the most recent and final versions of the story Marinette retained Fu as either her blood Grandfather outright or at least a mentor so close from her childhood that she thought of him as a Grandfather. She also was usually being trained to be a Guardian or something like it herself from childhood.
She wasn't just a girl Fu found on the side of the road. She had as much connection to the Guardians and their world as Felix/Adrien did to Papillion. It even added a certain Montague-Capulet tragic element to the romance, since if Felix/Adrien and Marinette ever got together it would mean one having to choose between their partner and their family.
But for some reason, in the final product Marinette was stripped of all pre-series personal connections to the Miraculous.
The question is why? Was there really so great a need for Martinette to be "a girl like any other" that all of the plot relevance needed to be stripped out of her and added to Adrien, only to then completely ignore all that potential pathos by sidelining Adrien at every turn?
Because if you weren't going to do anything with Adrien, then all you've done is needlessly undermine Marinette's potential as a character.
Seriously, if you had given me the backstory of these two characters and asked which one was the main character: there would have been no chance I would have selected Marinette. Because all the writers have given her backstory is side-character material, whereas Adrien's very existence, as well as his relationship to his family and the Miraculous is at the heart of the story.
And I doubt there would be many others who would think otherwise.
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diplomagics · 11 months ago
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Congrats! It's a Lake House!
Comes in two versions: land or water
Grab the Simple Heels plugin to use it while roleplaying
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weiszklee · 1 year ago
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I'm sorry but the image in my mind of someone typing their name and address in an online form in order to register with a group explicitly aimed at overthrowing the German government and reinstating the monarchy is infinitely funny to me.
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suddencolds · 5 months ago
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do you ever look at a character and know immediately and irrevocably that you want to write them w the kink
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computers-best-friend · 2 months ago
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Little art I did of ghostface today!! Basically just wanted to paint some blood splatters lol
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fishpea · 1 year ago
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this picture is so scary I’m gonna puke
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bachibabe · 5 months ago
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wind breaker host club au
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fellicyamayseptianageiger2 · 4 months ago
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famouscrusadetimemachine · 4 months ago
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https-murdock · 1 month ago
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ask night on wednesday <3 still in a shitty place mentally & my relationship is also getting on my nervesss so still quiet!! but i shall be back to writing fics soon! hope everyone is doing well <3
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feroluce · 6 months ago
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Kill yourself :)
You know you want to do it
^Cocolia's ghost seething and failing to get Gepard and Serval to stop making out on her grave
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articskele · 3 months ago
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ROM MY FRIEND ROM :D
#she's so cool :D#she doesn't attack until you attack her first so someone made an ambience video of her just chillin!#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mLGWy8WrA0#<- this one!#the music is trying so hard to make her menacing but she's just swaying back and forth like :::::o#i'm thinking in my funny reverse isekai'd micolash au artic is just going about her nightly routine#when she sees one of rom's spiders just. in the tub. and the lights aren't on but there's a little nightlight thingy plugged in#so its dark eyes are shining in the dim light and artic's internally freaking the fuck out as she sloooowly backs away and shuts the door#and goes to lightly shake micolash awake like “mico. mic. wake the fuck up why is there a spider in the bathroom”#he's like “...whuh? take care of it yourself.....” and artic's like “dude this thing is huge and it's covered in eyes and-”#and he suddenly gets up like “ROM???????”#and thus artic is out in the yard at midnight watching this guy hug a giant spider creature wondering how she got in this situation lmaoooo#but it isn't long until she and rom are buddies too ouo#i imagine rom can switch between her human and spider forms? and her human form has those glowy flowers in her hair!#also i'm picturing beast mom seeing rom for the first time and being like “stay back” assuming she's a threat#but this little shapeshifter beast artic is like “rom!!!!!” and runs to hug the big spooky spider friend ouo#and it takes her a second to find a spot to hug bc she doesn't wanna poke any of rom's eyes lol#silly self-indulgent tag#blood buddies
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nico-the-overlord · 2 years ago
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☆ BLOG INFO ☆
Hi, my name is Nicolas!
This blog is centered around fandoms I´m in, although I will reblog a bunch of random stuff since it´s my main blog
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Fandoms:
I´m currently mostly into Sanders Sides, Gravity Falls, The World of Mr.Plant, AJR, The Amazing Digital Circus
Other stuff I like include Steven Universe, The Owl House, Hamilton, Heathers, Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Welcome Home, Puppet History (Watcher), Heartstopper (webtoon and show), Angel Hare, Indigo Park, and BURNER (Object Show), various YouTubers and other musicals, ect.
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Tags I use:
#nico rambles : tag I used for talking
#polls and #poll : any polls I decide to make (polls will be both fandom related and unrelated)
#asks : any asks I receive
I try to tag all reblogs with fandom and character tags when applicable, being that this is a multifandom blog
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Extra info:
@art-nico is my art blog (old art tag #nico’s art on this blog)
I have an AO3 if you’d like to check out some of my writing attempts!
I run @twomp-confessions and @sanderssides-confessions and @gangle-cult if you’d like to check those out!
My blog is also currently Onceler themed due to this post reaching 10k so just fyi this blog isn’t an actual serious fan page
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Anyways hope you have a good day! Thanks for reading, have a cookie> 🍪
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