#i also had to re-watch Kwamibuster to get my facts about Bananoir right

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A Very In-Depth Analysis of All 63 Miraculous Love Square Ships

Due to the absurd number of alias’ our two protags have, in actuality, it’s not a love square, its a love hexadecagon (a 16 sided polygon).

Basically, there are six categories we can organize all these ships in, and they are Adrinette, Ladynoir, Marichat, Ladrien, All At Once (also known as Post-Reveal), and Other. Once we group them together in this fashion, it’s a lot easier to comprehend.

[ID: a sixteen sided polygon. On each corner is a picture of a character’s face. In order from the top right, clockwise: Marinette, Ladybug, Lady Noire, Multimouse, Dragon Bug, Biker Bug, Princess Justice, Chat Blanc labeled ‘NT’, Chat Blanc labeled ‘AT’, Bananoir, Cardboard Noir, Snake Noir, Aspik, Mister Bug, Chat Noir, Adrien. Many lines connect these faces, in orange, pink, green, blue, grey, and purple. End description.]

Now, trying to understand this monstrosity would be next to impossible (I’m getting a headache just looking at it, and I made it!) so I’ve graciously explained below the cut.

Firstly, we’ll discuss the 16 characters included in this mess. Secondly, we’ll address and review the main four Love Square ships. Lastly, I’ll explain the Other and the All At Once ships. { For simplicity, I’ll always name a ship as (Marinette Alias) / (Adrien Alias) }

Our Characters:

Besides our classic civilians and heroes, I’ll include Princess Justice and the two forms of Chat Blanc: Alternate Timeline (AT) and Normal Timeline (NT). the Alternate will refer to the timeline only seen by Bunnyx, in which the reveal happens over the beret. The Normal will refer to the timeline in which Bunnyx takes Ladybug to Chat Blanc to fix him.

Ships List

Ladynoir:

This easily has the greatest number of ships, coming in at 24 total. These are very straight forward. Wanna spice up your Ladynoir fic? Go ham on one of these variants:

Ladybug / Chat Noir

Ladybug / Mister Bug (although impossible, but intriguing)

Ladybug / Snake Noir

Ladybug / Cardboard Noir

Ladybug / Bananoir

Ladybug / NT Chat Blanc

Lady Noire / Chat Noir (see: ladybug x mister bug)

Lady Noire / Mister Bug

Lady Noire / Cardboard Noir

Lady Noire / Bananoir

Lady Noire / NT Chat Blanc

Dragon Bug / Chat Noir

Dragon Bug / Mister Bug

Dragon Bug / Snake Noir

Dragon Bug / Cardboard Noir

Dragon Bug / Bananoir

Dragon Bug / NT Chat Blanc

Biker Bug / Chat Noir

Biker Bug / Mister Bug

Biker Bug / Snake Noir

Biker Bug / Cardboard Noir

Biker Bug / Bananoir

Biker Bug / NT Chat Blanc

Marichat:

Coming in second place for most varieties is the (maybe not so ironic anymore?) ship, Marichat, at 17 versions. This set is also really straight forward:

Marinette / Chat Noir

Marinette / Mister Bug

Marinette / Snake Noir

Marinette / Cardboard Noir

Marinette / Bananoir

Marinette / NT Chat Blanc

Multimouse / Chat Noir

Multimouse / Mister Bug

Multimouse / Snake Noir

Multimouse / Cardboard Noir

Multimouse / Bananoir

Multimouse / NT Chat Blanc

Princess Justice / Chat Noir

Princess Justice / Mister Bug

Princess Justice / Snake Noir

Princess Justice / Cardboard Noir

Princess Justice / NT Chat Blanc

Adrinette:

Our classic blush ship is nearly unique, the only ship quite like it is the hypothetical Princess Justice / Adrien. It’s an interesting ship to think about; how they might interact. This can easily veer into Ladrien territory, however. In what little we saw in canon, Marinette starts to take her earrings off immediately in the episode ‘Ladybug’. If Adrien were to connect the dots (or if she says outright, “here hawky, have my miraculous”) then it would easily become a Ladrien dynamic.

Ladrien:

With a more normal amount of ships, there are 6 (or 7, as mentioned above) combinations of these two dorks with this unique relationship:

Ladybug / Adrien

Ladybug / Aspik

Lady Noire / Adrien

Lady Noire / Aspik

Dragon Bug / Adrien

Dragon Bug / Aspik

All At Once (aka, Post-Reveal):

These ships fall into this category because both parties are aware of the other’s identities. The ships in this category are simply Alternate Timeline Chat Blanc ships:

Marinette / AT Chat Blanc

Ladybug / AT Chat Blanc

Lady Noire / AT Chat Blanc

Multimouse / AT Chat Blanc

Dragon Bug / AT Chat Blanc

Biker Bug / AT Chat Blanc

Princess Justice / AT Chat Blanc

Other:

These 7 ships are a bit more complex that the others. In this category, one (or in some cases, both!) parties are aware of the other’s identity, but the party in question does not know the other person knows their identity. Confusing, I know, but you’ll see.

Marinette / Aspik

At first glance it’s Adrinette or Marichat, but Marinette knows Aspik is Adrien, but she’s not supposed to know that. So she must pretend she doesn’t. This creates a unique dynamic.

Multimouse / Adrien

Similar to the above ship, Adrien knows it’s Marinette under the mask, but again, he isn’t supposed to know that, so he must pretend he doesn’t know, causing him to act differently then he normally would.

Multimouse / Aspik

Double trouble, since they both know but aren’t supposed to. Yikes.

Princess Justice / Aspik

Essentially the same as Mari / Aspik, she’s just akumatised.

Biker Bug / Adrien

Biker Bug / Aspik

These 2 ships are really problematic because it all dwindles down to how much media coverage the fight with Feast got. It happened at night and doesn’t seem to be mentioned by anyone in Paris ever, and the only witnesses were the late night bus driver and André Glacier.

If Feast was broadcast to the masses, then these would be Ladrien ships.

But if Feast was not broadcast, then Adrien/Aspik would have to pretend Biker Bug is just a girl in motorcycle attire until told otherwise, and therefore falls under the Other category.

Princess Justice / Bananoir

This one is classified as Other, but in reality it is a Marichat ship until otherwise proven Princess Justice is Ladybug. This could happen easily, if she were to give up her miraculous or verbally confess.

Thus concludes the 63 Ships of Marinette and Adrien.

TL;DR: Marinette and Adrien and all their alias’ create a hexadecagon of different combinations, with a total of 12 different dynamics.