#it feels very right somehow that Cerise is secretly THAT far gone in self-loathing

[mamayura]

You know what I would respect as Cerise's motivation to get the Miraculous of Ladybug and Chat Noir?

If this girl is actually out here just fucking HATING herself. She can pretend to be whoever's she wants and try her best to make herself believe that she's the greatest ever, but deep down she feels like she could never actually LIKE herself if she can't wish for being someone else entirely.

I would respect it if that were the reason why Cerise currently may be out here playing more of a massive in scale long-game to change the world to her liking instead of actually trying to get the Miraculous, but in the end, she'd still need the wish for the last step of her plan.

First, change the world to whatever she wants as preparation and pay back and then use the wish to do the one thing she thinks she could never manage otherwise: changing herself so she doesn't hate herself anymore. Cause she most likely wouldn't even know how else to go about that. What self-loathing person does?

Knowing this show's writing, I wouldn't be surprised if her wish in the London special was something like "being someone Adrien can, will, and HAS fallen in love with for real" and that obviously would have ended the current timeline to create a new one instead (since, you know, Thomas Astruc is constantly bragging about how consistent the character's characterizations are, so I guess Cerise's crush on Adrien will stay too)

Right now I'm just really into the idea that Cerise's wish is actually incredibly tragic and that she's so awful because she has basically entirely given up on herself and is putting all her cards on the world and life she will have once she's done with all this.