#kagami tsurgi

[ladyfreya123]

Biker AU. Chapter 3. Part 7.

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Chapter 3: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Bonus | Part 8 | Part 9

[purrincesslexy]

Warning: I am not trying to contradict you or anything! Just adding my opinion to your post and it turned out into some longrambling, sorry hehe

I just watched the episodes so i probably missed all the theories, but I don't think that Felix's trying to manipulate her seeing that's the one thing he hates, he's a confrontational person. I very much agree with your last paragraph, actually 👀

The way he reacted the first time he saw Kagami's ring, and how he got angry when he heard the way Tomoe speak to her and took her away (okay, kidnapped her) and how he puts her in the same bag as himself and Adrien.. I think it means she's also a sentimonster/controlled by a ring, and he gave her the power to keep control of herself by giving her her ring back?

I don't think he was aware of Kagami's existence before though, he met her during the Diamond Party or whatever it's called, and she's the "not-so-bad person" he discovered that he mentioned to his mom at the end of Pretention.

Also. The way he genuinely freaked out when Marinette disappeared, and he couldn't make her reappear again, so he freed everyone and apologized to both Adrien and Kagami because he knows that they care about her; I think he's genuine with people like him who don't have freedom, like him.

And she's the first one to whom he mentioned his dad and how horrible he was apparently.

I didn't expect it ever to happen, but I really liked their interactions and i kinda low-key ship them too 😂 And I think that just like Kagami didn't know how to make friends (just like back when she tried to become friends with Marinette but kept being misunderstood), Felix doesn't know how to interact with people and just works on instincts to protect himself because he's been isolated his whole life, and Kagami recognized the similarities between them. Which is probably why she was willing to trust him so fast.

I also loved what they did with Felix's body language in Pretension. He was the last one I was willing to trust, but his behaviour with Kagami- and towards Marinette- gave me some hope.

Also, the fact that Ladybug still decided to trust him after his ultimate betrayal at the end of s4? 👀 i think that's gonna give something good.

So, all in all, I'm rather hopeful with the situation

(and I'd be glad if Kagami could find someone to her tastes and who understands her- but only IF he gets his redemption with everyone first)

Again, this is just my opinion and my feelings, I'm not trying to pretend this is the absolute truth or anything, sorry if it comes out this way, i haven't written in English in a while and i feel like my sentences can come out as forceful or rude, sorry 👉🏻👈🏻

So…what are Felix’s intentions?

I really hope Felix’s feelings for Kagami are genuine, and that the ring he gave her isn’t being used to manipulate her in any sort of way. Especially since Kagami doesn’t deserve to feel manipulated and heartbroken again.

I know I personally love Felix as a character just because he’s so interesting. But, I do get suspicious of him at times because he has hurt people to get what he wants.

However…I think I’m starting to figure him out a bit.

It seems like he’s looking out for himself and the people he genuinely cares about, but only him and them. Yes, in his debut episode he hurt Adrien. But, I feel he realized he does care about Adrien, after Adrien told him what he did was unacceptable. Notice how from then on, he pretended to be Adrien both for Adrien’s own sake and his own personal reasons, without the intent of hurting Adrien. He tried to encourage Adrien to stand up to his father.

I think he feels that need to look out for Adrien because they’re both senti-beings (it’s pretty much confirmed at this point). He’s shown sympathy multiple times for senti-beings and making it known he doesn’t like the term “senti-monster.”

The one thing that kinda throws me was him making the exchange of almost all the other miraculous for the peacock miraculous with Gabriel. The only reason I can think of is that he didn’t think Gabriel would be smart enough to even use all those miraculous to gain the ladybug and black cat ones (which he’d be right about, if that’s the case). Or, maybe he figured he’d visit Paris quickly enough to stop him in his tracks.

It seems Felix means to keep the very few people he cares about safe and content, but tends to go about it in pretty unethical and risky ways that end up harming them. He did seem genuinely upset after realizing he might’ve taken away Adrien and Kagami’s loved ones, enough to cry and snap everything back to normal.

Anyhow, I’m hoping Felix really does see the error of his ways and is more careful in how he uses his powers. And, of course, I hope he loves Kagami and wants to keep her away from her evil, controlling mother, like he says (I lowkey actually ship them now). A character arc could be happening soon.

[bi4bibracket]

(Cue collective sigh of relief that the bracket is COHERENT this time)

Ta-da! The bracket! Ships were matched up randomly, and assuming life doesn’t get in the way polls will begin soon!

TEAM ONE

Momo Yaoyorozu/Kyōka Jirō (my hero academia) vs Emma swan/Regina mills (once upon a time)

Catra/Adora (she-ra and the princesses of power) vs Kara/Lena (supergirl)

alphys/undyne (undertale) vs Tsuyu Asui/Ochako Uraraka (my hero academia)

ruby/sapphire (Steven universe) vs rose/kanaya (homestuck)

Caitlyn Kiramman/Violet (arcane) vs the mane 6 (my little pony)

Harley Quinn/Pamela Isley (dc comics) vs Homura/Madoka (madoka magica)

Carmen Sandiego/Julia Argent (Carmen Sandiego) vs An Shiraishi/Kohane Azusawa (project SEKAI)

ava Silva/Beatrice (warrior nun) vs Sea fairy cookie/moonlight cookie (cookie run kingdom)

TEAM TWO

Luz noceda/Amity blight (the owl house) vs raine whispers/eda clawthorne (the owl house)

Jean gunnhildr/Lisa minci (Genshin impact) vs Marinette dupain-Cheng/Kagami Tsurgi (miraculous ladybug)

Korra/Asami (legend of korra) vs vee/Masha (the owl house)

robin Buckley/Nancy wheeler (stranger things) vs Charlie Morningstar/vaggie (hazbin hotel)

Yang xiao long/Blake belladonna (RWBY) vs marceline abadeer/princess bubblegum (adventure time)

sasha/Anne/Marcy (Amphibia) vs Jane “eleven” hopper/Max mayfield (stranger things)

Wednesday Addams/Enid Sinclair (Wednesday) vs sunset shimmer/twilight sparkle (equestria girls)

General Yunan/lady Olivia (Amphibia) vs Ellie Williams/Riley Abel (the last of us)

Whew! There it is, the official lineup. Get ready to FIGHT!

[arty-shadow-morningstar]

Graveyard Siblings (12)

[Masterlist]

(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 8) (Part 9) (Part 10) (Part 11) (Here)  (Part 13: The END)

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Gabriel sat and stared at the white walls of the interrogation room as the French police investigated the murder of one Maria Todd-Wayne.

MT’s personal assistant, Tam Fox, had received a distress signal from her employer that she had on her since she was from Gotham and had experience various dangerous situation.

Tam went to see what the situation was only to find a bloodied Gabriel Agreste laughing over Maria’s corpse.

According to the Police, evidence and the cameras in the mansion (although the footage was a little finicky like something else was interfering with it.) had shown Gabriel panicking after accidentally pushing his assistant, Natalie Sancouer down the stairs where she had hit her head hard and fell unconscious.

Maria, who had scheduled a meeting with Gabriel to negotiate selling his company to her (which he remembered turning it down after she revealed who she was), walked in on the man while he was trying to move the body elsewhere. He attacked her, thinking she witnessed the fall and to silence her so she wouldn’t report him.

Natalie is currently in a hospital but doctors are baffled and unable to wake her up from her coma.

Although he no longer has a team of lawyers working for him, he managed to hire one of them with what little fortune he had left who had straight out told him that pleading guilty would be the best option.

He had killed Maria Todd-Wayne, MT, one of the world’s greatest and beloved designers since Edna Mode, and one of Bruce Wayne’s children. She also had a lot of celebrity friends like Luka Couffaine, Jagged Stone, Kagami Tsurgi, Felix Culpa and a few superheros like the Bat clan of Gotham, Wonder Woman, Superman.

All of them were calling for his head on a pike, none more so than the Wayne family who were using every resource at their disposal to drag the Gabriel name through mud and destroy whatever is left of what he had dedicated his entire life to built.

So even if by some totally impossible miracle he manages to get off his sentence (through bribery), there will be mobs out for his blood. Jail is the safest option.

—---

It was not the end of it. The entirety of Paris rear its head when the police uncovered evidence of his time moonlighting as Hawkmoth.

(When in reality, Tim and Barbara dug up many deleted files of his activity as Hawkmoth and left many tracks for the police to follow. There was a few planted physical evidence that Nooroo helped make it look as authentic as possible. Everything Gabriel had tried to cover up, the Bats made sure every dirty laundry of his was there for everyone to see. They are the night. They are vengeance and all that.)

Someone leaked the fake ‘journals’ Gabriel had apparently kept to keep track of akumas and their progress against the heroes. The last page had a paragraph where ‘Hawkmoth’ revealed Ladybug’s identity as Marinette Dupain-Cheng, one of Adrien’s classmates.

(No one ever managed to figure out who had leaked it. Meanwhile, a rich blonde who smiled at her phone before muttering to herself about how ridiculous and utterly ridiculous that she had no black dress that was appropriate for a funeral.)

Paris was horrified to find out that Gabriel had managed to turn Chat Noir against Ladybug and kill her and later, making her death to be a suicide and covering up her death by bribing some officers so the truth wouldn’t be revealed.

The city of Love mourned for their fallen heroine, who fought for them and was finally receiving the justice she deserved a few years too late. But better late than never.

There were memorials for Marinette Dupain-Cheng and lots of people visit her grave to leave flowers and gifts.

Nobody seemed to connect the dots on how similar the long dead Marinette Dupain-Cheng and the recently deceased Maria Todd looked.

Of course, this wouldn’t be a salt fic if Lila and everyone else get dragged along for fun. In HM’s journals, he mentioned getting the help of Lila Rossi (lots of emphasis on the name and many details so there is no doubt that he is talking about another Lila Rossi) for his plan to akumatise Miss Dupain-Cheng which many people now know was Ladybug.

Gina decides it was a good time to drop (a pre-approved) ‘Diary of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Everyday Ladybug’ containing entries from Marinette’s diaries with a few things redacted for her privacy (plus Miraculous secrets). And all proceeds from the sales of the books going to the Marinette Foundation to help teens in need (set up with help from Wayne Enterprises).

People paled in fear at how close their heroine nearly succumbed to akumatisation many times as she was bullied and isolated.

The book showed how Ladybug was, under her mask, just human. A normal girl with dreams and a crush who wanted to do good for the world. A girl who was also severely bullied and isolated and received no help from the adult figures in her life and only had a few friends who tried their best to support her.

Lila and the akuma class were glared at and everyone whispered of every horrible thing each of them did.

The akuma class’s parents cried and yelled about how their kids turned out like this, and that they had taught them how to be better as they waved Marinette’s book in their hands.

Lila was last seen by everyone to be dragged out of the school by police officers and to be put on trial for aiding Hawkmoth as an accomplice.

Francoise Dupont was investigated and authorities were horrified at how deep the corruption was. Caline Bustier was fired without question and same with M. Damocles. The entire school was reformed and policies were implemented so nothing like what Ladybug had gone through would happen again.

The Dupain-Cheng bakery shut down and moved away from Paris after how many people tried to ask them insensitive questions about Marinette forcefully or vandalising the place for how they had mistreated Marinette.

The lawyer Gabriel had hired quit, regardless of how much Gabriel offered. Which was not very much to be honest. He had nothing now.

Gabriel was charged with a lot of things, his actions as Hawkmoth were at the top of the list and the murder of Maria Todd was second.

He was sentenced to serving a lifetime in a maximum security prison, somewhere cold and where he would have to do a lot of labour.

Natalie will never again wake up from the coma but she was also charged with being an accomplice.

Meanwhile, Emilie moved to London to be closer to her sister after hiding in the States with Adrien as she waited for Gabriel to meet his doom. (Gotham was considered but dropped in favour of the less gloomy Metropolis.)

Adrien gets some backlash for his actions as Chat Noir and his inaction as Adrien to stop Lila from bullying her. If he ever steps into Paris again, people threaten to hunt him down with pitchforks.

A few wanted Emilie to also get arrested but many were sympathetic towards her as she was mostly unaware of how she became cured and she later revealed that she was trying to get away from Gabriel once she found out that he was Hawkmoth.

Chloe did get some haters for her bullying but most of Paris forgave her due to her redemption arc and being friends with Marinette near the end of her life.

It helped that she also had the many charities and non-profit organisations she set up over the years with a few of them in honour of Marinette.

—---

Across the globe, the Waynes buried another family in the Manor plot.

Jason had insisted on holding off burying the body for a month in case she gets resurrected again and with magic you can never tell so the rest of them complied with his request.

After the one month period ended, they finally held the funeral that Maria had planned.

Jason for a long time stood in front of the grave, desperately hoping for his little sister to dig herself off like she did many years ago when they first met.

After hours had passed and nothing happened, he finally let go and mourned.

The following week, Gotham noticed Red Hood being more violent than usual and that none of the other Bats restrained him.

—---

Someplace far away, where it is nowhere and everywhere, where the laws of the universe were made and none of them apply, Marinette opened her eyes.

—----

In Tibet, Guardians tend to their business when an unsettling feeling enters everyone.

Days ago, the Order had come knocking in Gotham for the Miraculouses under Maria’s care. The Bats had handed them over without much resistance except Batman warning them that they would take them back if they were ever found used for evil.

Su-Han went to check on the Miracle Box.

Kwamis’ powers were usually unpredictable especially when they are emotional, with Tikki’s chosen recently deceased, she had retreated into a shell of herself as she grieved. Many other kwamis were in a similar state but Tikki was understandably hit the hardest.

As soon as he got within a few feet of the Box however, it opened and a huge beam of light came out. From within, nineteen balls of lights in different colours emerged and took on an almost humanoid shape with their respective animal characteristics.

The Kwamis were freed.

Soon after, other Boxes in the Temple and all over the world opened with all of the kwamis being freed. Most of them didn’t hesitate to vanish into their home realm where they were from.

Back in the temple, after other kwamis had vanished, only Tikki and Plagg had remained.

“Guardian.” Plagg said the title with mockery. The only Guardian who was ever worthy of that title was Marinette and she had earned it with her kindness. “I think you are wondering what the hell is happening.”

“I demand that you tell me what you are doing right this instant.”

For the first time in a while, Tikki finally spoke.

She told them about how Marinette before she died had managed to find out about the origins of the Miraculous and how Kwamis were not meant to be tied down to the physical plane for this long. 

This was the other imbalance that the Universe brought her back to fix. She had performed the ritual using her blood and soul to slowly destroy the binds tying the kwamis to their Miraculous.

It also meant that Marinette gave up her chance at paradise or reincarnation to give the kwamis their freedom.

“Do not retaliate by attacking the Bats and their chosen city. They didn’t know nor took any part in it. Marinette made sure of that. There will be consequences if you touch them.”

With that, Tikki and Plagg left the mortal plane.

“Sugarcube, just to check. The ritual protection spell we set for Gotham is still in place, right? The one which we changed one of the conditions to as long as they set foot with no intent of harm.”

“Of course, Stinky Sock.”

“Cool, just checking. Because you conveniently left that part out.”

“I gave them a warning. It’s their wish if they choose to ignore it.”

“I think I am rubbing off on you.” Plagg cackled, just thinking about the chaos that would be unleashed if the Order tried to get to the Bats.

Tikki ignored him and instead went faster.

Plagg easily caught up to her, “Looks like someone is eager to see Pigtails again.” He tried to lighten up the tense atmosphere Tikki was giving off.

“It’s not that. I have a feeling that They have more plans for her.” Tikki replied worriedly.

“Pigtails can’t catch a break and such is the fate of the Marked. If it wasn’t for that ‘man’, ” Plagg spat the word out like it was a curse, “this would have never happened.”

“The ones with the Mark are bound to serve Them. Those are the rules. I can only hope that I can give her the peace she deserved with my testimony.”

“And mine too. It is partly my fault that she ended up this way. I should have done better.”

“Plagg, it’s not your fault. You know that.”

“If I had reined in my holder-”

“The blame lies on the man who chose our holders and the man who chose to abuse Nooroo for his selfish desire.”

—---

Marinette looked around her surroundings. Everything was dark but somehow she could still see.

And she sensed many presences surrounding her.

“Who are you?” She asked.

WE ARE THE ONES WHO GAVE YOU THE TASK OF RIGHTING THE WRONG.

The voice was disembodied like many voices speaking over each other and yet somewhat in harmony. It sounded like wind chimes and also the loudest roar of thunder. The voice did not speak nor was it heard. Instead it was like the words washed over her like an ocean wave.

“Okay. So what now?”

YOU WILL BE SENTENCE-

“Stop.” Two figures appeared in front of Marinette. Both of them shielded Marinette from the other presences. “We demand a re-trial.”

There was a slight familiarity from them. One was a tall woman who was all red, from her hair to her clothes to her skin. They were all a varying shade of red with black spots dotting her body. She also had translucent wings on her back which fluttered.

The other figure was of a man who was all black like the woman from his body to his clothes. Marinette could make out cat ears on the top of his head and a tail lazily poked out from his back. The only colour he had other than black was two neon green eyes that held a mischievous glint.

“Tikki? Plagg?” Marinette asked.

“Hiya, Pigtails.”

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(Part 13: The END)

Note: This story is nearing its end. Thank you to everyone for being patient. I will try my best to give a satisfactory sent-off.

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UPDATE!!!

The 2 most perfect couples! Starring Adrien Agreste and Kagami Tsurgi. On the other hand comes Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Luka Couffaine.

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Taking Flight - Chapter 10 - Ikari Gozen

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Kagami Tsurgi for the majority of her life was alone. Her mother for some reason insisted that she does not need anyone, and that friends would be who would hold her down the most. Kagami wasn’t fully isolated of course, her mother would bring her to important events and meetings, she would spend her time with tutors or at tournaments.

Much like at the beginning of the week, her mother had her date with Adrien canceled so Kagami could join her in a sudden meeting. Unlike Adrien, Kagami was more emersed in her mother’s company and the workings of it. She had been raised in her mother’s technology industry, across the Americas and Japan. At the beginning of the year, her mother had decided they would head to Europe as they weren’t as expanded in that area of the world.

For some reason her mother had decided that they would start in Paris, France of all places. She had said it was to ensure her connection in the country, to remind her business partners she was not someone to underestimate. At least that’s what her mother relaid to her.

Kagami knew she couldn’t underestimate her mother either. Underestimating is far worse than overestimating, you mustn’t think lower of yourself but you also mustn’t treat any obstacle any less than yourself. Fighting head-on, being tactical, without anyone to hold you down. At least that’s what she had been taught, that no matter what others would hold her down. She held that teaching close, she hadn’t been trained and taught for no reason.

But she couldn’t help but disagree with her mother and her tutor's teachings.

She had seen people work together and make it work, and she had seen some shows and movies. While they may be fictional they must hold some truth, some truth of their world, of how humans work. Which is why it’s 100% okay that she just recorded her mother’s voice, because she is young. Young people make mistakes all the time, her mother had said so herself!

With her two-hour timer set, she murmured to herself, “Let’s play.”

With one turn of a handle, I can raise the level. Read the message, Kagami scoffed as the riddle wasn’t even hard, “Child’s play. Tatsu, take me to Canal Saint-Martin.”

“Voice recognition failed,” Tatsu recited. Kagami frowned, it was worth a shot, good thing she is smarter than Mother thinks.

“Tatsu-”

“Take me to Canal Saint-Martin,” Kagami finished the command.

“Hai, Tsurugisan,” Tatsu said before changing course.

-•-

“Oh no,” Marinette’s voice on the verge of a whimper as she looked up at the bridge.

"What is it Marinette?" Tikki's voice squeaked. "An Akuma?"

"No," Marinette swallows. "Worse, so much worse." Marinette's voice became strangled, she sits down on the bench behind her for a moment. Taking deep breaths.

"Well, what is it then Marinette?" Tikki asks fighting the urge to fly out of Marinette's bag.

"It's Kagami, she can't be my new friend. Nope," Marinette suddenly gets up, pacing in front of the bench. "Just no. There's no way she can be my new friend. She's brilliant, strong, cute! Oh my gosh, this can't be happening."

"And what does that have to do with the game?"

"She's Adrien's girlfriend! They know each other very well from what Adrien has said, he talks about all of us to her! I'll embarrass myself in front of her and then she'll tell Adrien how weird I am and their parents how unsuitable I am as a friend for Adrien. Then M. Agreste will ban me from being his friend and blacklist me so I never work in fashion ever," Marinette was left breathless and she dropped down to the ground and held her head in her hands.

"This can't happen. We can't be partners!" Marinette whined.

•

Kagami stood on the bridge, watching from afar. She recognized the girl, from fencing practice and pictures Adrien had shown her of the panicky girl and talked about her. She was quite...strange in person. She paced back and forth in front of a bench she had previously sat on.

"She's so weird," Kagami spoke out with a confused frown. The girl squat down and put her head in her hands, "Well fate has put her in my path. I wanted to make friends, she just so happened to be Adrien's most cherished friend."

Kagami took a deep breath before her lips formed a thin line, "If I don't succeed with Adrien's quirky friend our relationship with become strained or worse end." Kagami looked at the girl again before performing a sure nod, "He did say she becomes very nervous around people. So I shall wait here until she is ready for interaction."

•

Tikki frowned at her bug, she carefully floated out of Marinette's bag. She put herself above her legs but right under her face.

"Marinette that isn't fair to Kagami. You barely know her, you should give her a chance. Not to mention she can't complete the game without you!"

"She could probably complete it on her own somehow. She's so smart, I'd just slow her down I bet," Marinette mopped with her hands on her forehead. Then her eyes widened at an idea before she cringed, "Oh Kwami no. That's terrible, we know better than that Marinette."

Tikki frowned in confusion as the girl spoke to herself, "What is Marinette?"

"I just," Marinette worried on her lip. "I had a thought, that if I went with her I could slow her down, and then Adrien wouldn't fall more in love with her than he probably already is. But it's terrible, I'm dating Luka!"

Marinette groaned with tightly shut eyes and faced the sky, "I'm a terrible friend and girlfriend."

"You know it's wrong, right?" Tikki asked.

Marinette looked back down at Tikki, "Well of course I do."

"Are you planning on acting on it?" Tikki pressed.

"No-no! It's a terrible idea, especially to do. Even if I wanted to," Marinette looked down at her Kwami in horror.

"Then you're not a bad person Marinette. You recognize it's a bad idea, and you don't plan on acting on it. Also, it's just that, an idea, a thought. It doesn't necessarily mean you're terrible," Tikki explained. Marinette looked away before a smile came on her face and she nodded.

"You're right, it's just a thought, not a plan. It doesn't mean I have to do it," Marinette stood up with determination and Tikki zipped into her purse again. She nodded to Tikki before running up the bridge to finally see Kagami.

“Hey um, hi uh, sorry for making you wait!” Marinette smiled at Kagami. “Sorry for keeping you waiting. This is amazing that we were paired for this, has to be fate.” Marinette let out a nervous laugh at the end.

“You didn’t look very pleased to see me, but I’m assuming it was your anxieties. Adrien has mentioned that you’re usually nervous a majority of the time and that you have anxiety.” Kagami stated as she looked Marinette over with an analytical eye.

Marinette shifted under the Japanese girl’s gaze, “I, um…uh, sorry, I mean I-” Kagami’s eyes widened panic coming upon her, she must be making the girl uncomfortable. Their phones dinged but that wasn’t important right now. She must secure their further mutualness, otherwise, this would have all been for nothing.

“Do not worry I forgive you. I know that not all feelings or actions can be completely controlled, so I do not hold it against you. I do not wish to make you uncomfortable, if I do please tell me.” Kagami expressed with a bow.

Marinette blinked before her face became warm, “Oh. Oh-oh, thank you. I will let you know if you make me uncomfortable. I really appreciate that.” Marinette gave a small smile, it made Kagami hold herself taller. Wasn’t a perfect start, but a success nonetheless. “And! And I mean, uh, the same goes for you.” Marinette’s smile never faltered, Kagami nodded to her in affirmation.

“Now onto the game,” Kagami redirected them. “To get closer to your goal-”

“You must explore further and deeper,” Marinette finished out loud. Marinette gasped and at the same time they spoke, “The banks of the Seine.” Marinette more with excitement and Kagami softly as if speaking to herself. They made eye contact, Marinette giggled while Kagami gave a small smile.

“That must be where our next clue is,” Marinette said.

“We'll probably have to fish for our new clue. Let’s hurry if we want to win.” Kagami nodded at Marinette.

•

Marinette didn’t want to be rude and just message her best friend in front of Kagami. This was supposed to be about the two of them becoming friends, that was one of the whole points of this activity.

Marinette opened the video message Alya had sent to her.

“Hey girl! I sure hope your partner's as cool as mine; meet Wayhem! You'd better hurry up if you wanna get to Adrien before we do, 'cause we've already solved our first riddle!” Alya bragged white showing Wayhem in the frame the entire time. He grinned behind Alya with a peace sign.

Marinette sighed before pressing record, “Hey Alya! My partner is Kagami, I can’t believe it. I’m super nervous about this, because you know, she’s Adrien’s girlfriend. I’m scared I’ll do something wrong and she’ll tell Adrien and I won’t be his friend anymore. Anyway, go for it! From what I can tell Kagami wouldn’t like it if she was just handed the win, also I really don’t want to third wheel them if we win, so give it your all.”

Marinette replayed it, she frowned. Maybe I should send something else.

“That seems fine Marinette,” Tikki said from her bag. Marinette looked down at her little friend, Tikki gave a comforting squeeze. Marinette smiled and pressed send, she didn’t like lairs or lying. She tried to avoid it so why lie about how she felt? Well she did it a lot but this was different, this was Alya.

“Marinette?” Kagami called for her from Pont des Arts.

“I’m here! Sorry, just needed a moment.” Marinette rubbed the back of her neck with a nervous laugh.

Kagami studied her for a moment, she frowned as she watched her rub her neck. Perhaps she was too intimidating to Marinette, how can she make this better? She wants her to be comfortable, relaxed with her. Maybe there was nothing she could do, but she could try. No, there was no try, only dos. She will do everything she can to get Marinette to be comfortable with her. A Tsurugi is always sure, and always does perfect.

“Well I am glad you’re better now,” Kagami internally winced at the structure of her sentence. That sounds insensitive. “We were right, there is a fishing rod with a magnet attached to it. Do you know how to fish effectively?”

Marinette seemed to perk up, “Yes! I’ve gone fishing with extended family before. Might not be perfect, I certainly wasn’t the best but I should be good enough!”

“Okay then you fish,” Kagami put the fishing rod in Marinette’s face. Marinette blinked before taking the rod from her. Too close, Kagami scolded herself.

Some seconds went by as Marinette reeled in items and Kagami inspected them. This won’t do, she wants to make friends so she needs to practice. According to Adrien, Marinette was great at becoming friends with people. She’s the perfect person to practice on even if she would already become her friend despite her errors.

Kagami opened her phone discreetly and opened her extra app. Kagami tensed as it made an opening the app sound. Marinette glanced at her as she reeled in another item, a whistle.

“Probably not the clue,” Kagami took it in her free hand and tossed it in the cardboard box. Marinette returned to fishing, if they weren’t right next to each other Kagami would have sighed in relief. She tapped the “Interesting Get To Know Questions” folder.

Question 1: Do you prefer to be called by your whole name, or a nickname?

Simple enough, she thought to herself.

“Do you prefer to be called by your whole name, or a nickname?” Kagami asked Marinette. When Marinette gave her a weird look she showed her a quick and, if Kagami was honest, an uncomfortable smile.

“Uh– by… my… whole name…?” Marinette didn’t look or sound sure whatsoever, she pulled in a rusty pan. Kagami tried not to frown at Marinette, but she did frown at the pan. She took it and tossed it in the box.

“Thank you, Marinette.” Kagami almost bows but stops herself, she doesn’t need to do this continuously. It’s for gratitude, but outside of Japan, it might be weird to the Parisian native. But she could compliment her! Compliments are great for “breaking the ice” as they refer to awkward tension. “Uh– Your hair is… very shiny.”

“Ehm… thank you…? Your hair is not… too bad, either…” They both smile awkwardly at each other. Kagami holds in a sigh, this isn’t going as smoothly as she wanted it to. She looks down at her phone and goes to the “Topic Suggestion” folder. She skims through them as fast as she can and spots two.

Topic 23: Something culturally or modernly significant to your homes.

Topic 28: What are your blood types?

“What is your blood type?” Kagami tries to smile again. It still feels weird, perhaps she needs to widen her smile? Like when she’s going against a lightweight opponent. Of which Marinette could be categorized as if she were in fencing.

“My blood type? I don't… know… Are you messing with me?” Marinette’s voice sounded so anxious and confused. No, this is not good. We need calm, we need smooth conversing with each other.

“No, not at all. Everyone in Japan knows their blood type. It tells you who you are. Mine is O, which means I'm independent, optimistic, strong-willed, and intuitive.” Kagami didn’t feel like all of that was actually true, she didn’t feel like an optimistic person. She truly was more of a realist. Kagami looked at her phone again, this wasn’t going well.

Topic 32: Seasons

Of course!

“What’s your favorite season?” Kagami smiled at Marinette. This smile still felt off. Was she doing it right?

“Summer, 'cause it's nice and hot. Or spring,” Marinette gasped, “'cause that's when nature awakens. Or maybe the fall; the colors are so gorgeous that time of the year. But then again; winter inspires me so much.” Marinette smiled with pure joy.

Kagami frowned, “You're indecisive, scatterbrained, irresponsible. You have a split personality: typical AB.” Her eyes widened, that must have been rude. Kagami quickly smiled before looking at her phone again, she switched to “Their Character” folder.

“Let's say you found out about some special chocolate ice cream; you really want to try it, but someone else gets there first. Do you, A, steal it from them? B, get another type of chocolate ice cream, even if it's not as good? Or, C, never eat chocolate ice cream ever again?” Kagami gave a strained smile after she finished stating the question. This didn’t feel like a good conversation if she was being honest.

“Uh– I guess I'd try another flavor?” Marinette said. That was actually a great answer, not any she had listed though, not really at least. Kagami hummed as she thought about the answer, it certainly solved the problem without any lasting negative impacts. Kagami looked down at her phone- No. She doesn’t need to rely on this app she can do this herself, and she’s read enough and knows enough of these questions to continue on.

Kagami faced Marinette as she reeled in something else, “Would you like to get some orange juice with me?”

Marinette’s eyes widened in excitement, “Yeah! Sure, it'd be a lot more fun than this boring treasure hunt.” Marinette admitted with her face becoming a little red with embarrassment. She brought the item over the railing to Kagami.

“It’s the clue! You’ve done a great job Marinette,” Kagami said with a light smile and gave Marinette an (awkward) pat on the back. “Congratulations. First, we win, then we get orange juice to celebrate.”

Marinette's smile widened with excitement as they got to figuring out their clue.

-•-

Marinette was exhausted from running with Kagami, despite being Ladybug. Speaking of which she was surprised no one had been Akumatized today, someone might after they don’t win, there was no doubt about it. But they were so close to finishing, Marinette just knew it. Alya hadn’t messaged her since she sent her video. She could have been preparing what to say, but Alya was just as impulsive as Marinette. And if she wasn’t writing it down, Alya’s filter went out the window.

Kagami pulled up her phone and read aloud their next instructions, “Trust challenge: Exchange unlocked phones. Separate and take a selfie in front of different monuments using each other's phones. Then regroup and take a selfie together like the true friends you've become. Once we've received the selfies, we'll send you a final text revealing where Adrien Agreste is hiding.”

Kagami extended her phone out to Marinette in full confidence her other hand laid outstretched for Marinette’s, but Alya hadn’t responded to her yet. To her message or updated her on her progress. Marinette looked between her phone and Kagami’s hand.

Oh what the heck, it’ll only take a few minutes.

Marinette finally hands over her open phone to Kagami.

“You really are an indecisive girl,” Kagami states. “We'll meet back here; we're going to win!” Kagami declared before running off.

Marinette honestly didn’t care about winning or losing now, she really did enjoy hanging out with the girl even with their weird and awkward moments. They made it work even with the struggles.

Marinette sighed and looked down at Kagami’s phone. That was strange, her home screen didn’t have any app and she had a plain background. Marinette swiped down, her lock screen was also blank and she had a timer going. 45:38. Marinette swiped side to side, finding a folder of utilities, default apps. The bottom had the calling and messaging app. Marinette swiped to the right again to find one app, MakeFriendzEazy.

“Huh,” Marinette looked at it and bit her lip. This was not helping her phone holding track record. She felt Tikki push against her leg but ignored her. She opened the app, and it had folders, icebreakers, topics, advice, and much more.

“Oh,” the word came out of her mouth quietly. Marinette exited the app and tapped the messages app to find only messages from the contest. She left that one as Tikki flew out and glared at her.

“Marinette she put her trust in you giving you her phone. And you’re snooping,” the Kwami scolded her.

“She kept looking at her phone while we were playing, and her phone is so empty. Tikki look, she has a tip app for making friends,” Marinette said showing her. Marinette looked at the phone again, she frowned at it and tapped the calling app. She gasped, “She only has her mom. Not even Adrien, and that’s her boyfriend.”

Tikki looked at the screen with a matching frown, “She just wants friends. She was trying to be your friend Marinette.”

“And I snuck through her phone,” Marinette whined. “I’m a terrible friend, we’re probably not even going to be friends after this. Oh no,” Marinette straightened up.

“What?”

“Alya could reply at any moment! And if she does while Kagami has my phone then she might see her reply or my message. I need to hurry.” Marinette takes off running.

•

Kagami frowns at the photo she took, she doesn’t like her smile. It looks too forced, her last smiles at Marinette didn’t hurt her face like this one or her ones from earlier. Maybe she should just pretend Marinette is with her, yeah that might work.

As Kagami tries to retake the photo but a message pops up, and for some reason takes up a lot of the screen. She tries to swipe it away but it won’t go, she huffs in frustration. She tries to swipe it away again only for her to accidentally press it, and the message starts to play. A deeply tanned-skinned girl with auburn hair takes up the screen.

"Hey girl! Sorry, I've been running around with Wayhem. Also, I'm sorry you're stuck with Kagami, we're almost done so you might not have the third wheel her and Adrien. Just hang in there and I'll catch you later!"

Kagami’s heart drops to her stomach. She clenches her fist before taking a deep breath, she wouldn’t be the Akuma of the day. She was better than this, and maybe her mother was right. She didn’t need friends, she blinks back tears. Instead of trying to perfect her smile, she took a selfie with a blank expression, it’s no use if she was only seen as a nuisance.

•

Marinette sprints to where they had last been together at and waves at Kagami. Marinette opens her mouth to speak but Kagami speaks first.

“ I guess I'm not worthy of our friendship; our blood types must be too incompatible,” Kagami avoids looking Marinette in the eyes.

Marinette opened her mouth again but Kagami’s phone started to ring, Kagami reached out for it but Marinette answered it instead of handing it over to her.

“Hello?”

“Kagami, where are you? You were supposed to wait for me at home,” Tomoe Tsurgi’s commanding voice came through. Kagami could even hear her mother, she was very upset. Kagami shook her head at Marinette but Marinette wasn’t looking at her but more over her as she decided to respond, “Hello ma'am, I'm not Kagami, actually.”

“Who are you?! Where's my daughter?!” Kagami’s eyes widened at her mother's voice, she tried to gestured for Marinette to hand her phone but Marinette put a hand up to Kagami and straightened her back.

“Kagami? I'm a friend of Kagami's, I'm right here with her. I'll put her on the phone if you would like,” though Marinette didn’t have any intent to. As she was more curious as about this woman, Kagami was obviously restricted, just on different levels than Adrien.

“Kagami doesn't have any friends. Why do you have her phone?” Marinette frowned at this, is this really how she treats her daughter? Just like Gabriel, how many other kids were stuck like this? This wasn’t fair to isolate your child in any form, all it does is leave them stunted in so many areas. Why hasn’t someone done anything about this!

“Oh, I can assure you, I am Kagami's friend. I am also Adrien's friend, and we are all participating in a game about friendship. Where making new friends is the main goal but I digress.” Marinette stated with a scowl on her face.

Kagami stopped trying to get her phone and looked at Marinette. Maybe she had misunderstood, it was only one half of the conversation, simply Marinette’s friend responding to her. Marinette’s friend in the video may have different views of Kagami than Marinette does.

“A game?! But I forbade her to!” Tomoe shouted.

Marinette’s eyes widened, she didn’t want Kagami to be in so much trouble. But… lies. Marinette internally sighed, lies, lies, and more lies. When does she get to stop lying?

“Did I say game? Oh no, I meant a grab… to grab– to grab some orange juice. I invited Kagami over to grab some orange juice with me. She'll be back home soon, I promise,” Marinette stated covering over her mistake. Kagami smiled at Marinette. Marinette smiled back at Kagami as she continued, “I'll even walk her home myself, as I am her friend.”

“Stop fooling around, young lady, and put my daughter through. As I stated before she does not have friends and I can assure you she will not be enjoying any glasses of–”

Marinette frowned, what kind of mother was she? She was just as bad as Gabriel had to be.

“Ma'am, please don't punish your daughter. Ma'am? Hello?” Marinette’s frows came down.

“With pleasure, Hawk Moth.”

Marinette felt a chill go through her, No. She looked at Kagami as the call ended and grabbed her by the shoulders.

“I’m so sorry Kagami, I shouldn’t have done that! I tried to smooth things over with her but now she’s Akumatized! You need to go hide!” Marinette said in a rush. Behind them a thud went off and the ground shook, they lost their footing. Each shake worse than the last, Marinette fell down. Kagami tried to help her up but the source of the earthquakes came next to them.

“Kagami! You disobeyed me! You will never go out again!” The Akumatized Tomoe Tsurgi grabbed Kagami and dropped her down her mouth. Kagami’s screams could be heard until she closed her giant mouth.

Marinette’s eyes welled with tears, “This is all my fault. Oh no, Kagami, Kagami is stuck in her mom. I caused this.”

Tikki cut her off, “It's never too late to make things right, Marinette.”

“Yea-yeah,” Marinette’s voice cracked, she sniffed. Now wasn’t the time to cry, she couldn’t be Marinette. Kagami needed Ladybug, the city needs its’ hero, “Spots on.”

Soon Chat Noir showed up when Tomoe makes her big declaration, “You'll never catch me! I'm lkari Gozen. As elusive as the wind, as powerful as the flood, as swift as lightning! Try as you might, but your jewels will be mine!”

Ladybug got thrown into a tree before falling out of it. She put her hand on her back and she stretched, because surely that wasn't gonna be a pain later. She groaned as Chat made his way to her.

“I see you've already made a new buddy for friendship day, m'lady.” Chat Noir teased leaning against his staff.

“Yeah, no, I don't think she likes me all that much.” the red and black heroine frowned at her partner. She straightened up and faced Ikari Gozen, “We're coming, Kagami.”

Chat’s blood ran cold, he looked over at the Akuma, “Kagami?”

“Our new friend here has imprisoned her own daughter as a punishment,” bitterness dripped from her voice. She clenched her yo-yo, she was really getting sick of all these rich parents and locking their kids away. “Lucky Charm.”

Came down was a plastic-looking sword, but the cross guard looked of that as a dragon head breathing fire molded into a blade. It reminded Ladybug of that one show Chris loved to watch when she babysat him. The pommel had symbols, that of a lightning bolt, water, and what she could assume was air. Ladybug’s eyes widened, Of course, thank you Tikki!

“I don't think that thing will do us any good, she doesn't seem the type to play,” Chat said with a perplexed look at the item.

“Oh trust me Chaton this toy isn't for anyone, but I do have an idea for a new playmate,” Ladybug smirked at him. Chat looked at her, her eyes didn't hold the same confidence as her stance. She was unsure, she wanted him to tell her it was okay, they had a mission and they do need help.

Chat Noir nodded, “I’ve always wanted someone to properly spar my staff with.”

Oh the way her whole being seemed to light up made Chat Noir feel warm before she swung off to get help. Chat shook his head before looking at Ikari Gozen, “Time to keep you in one place.”

Chat extended himself onto a rooftop yelling at Ikari Gozen, while a few buildings off from where they had been together Ladybug hid in an alleyway and destransformed. The Lucky Charm disappeared along with her transformation, it was so weird that the hinting for help Lucky Charms went away, well they usually did.

Marinette gave Tikki a cookie, “I guess it’s time for a new trick.” Marinette gave Tikki a nervous smile.

“I’m sure it’ll work just fine, like when you were giving the papers out. Except focus on which specific thing you want to come through.” Tikki said finishing her cookie. Marinette nodded, “Focus.”

She called the transformation back on and grabbed her yo-yo and opened it. “Focus,” she murmured to herself before reaching in. She pulled out a choker necklace, and she gasped before letting out a squeal and dancing in a circle. “I did it, I did it, I did it!”

Ladybug stopped dancing and took a deep breath, now time to get themselves a dragon. She swung herself back over to the scene, Chat fighting Ikari Gozen.

“I know what’s like to be put in a cat kennel, it’s not pleasant!” Chat Noir yelled just before Ikari Gozen flung him down the street.

Ladybug winced as Chat landed in the street, his suit making it so there was a sizable and fairly noticeable strip of blacktop missing. That was gonna hurt later, Ladybug vaguely thought as she ran across rooftops before swinging down to Chat.

“I guess cats really don’t land on their feet,” Ladybug raised an eyebrow at her partner. Chat Noir rolled his eyes before noticing Ladybug’s neck.

“Where’s our friend?”

“Oh she’s here, we just need to get her present. After all, friends give each other presents. So, Luck Charm!”

Came down was a box of bath bombs, both the heroes gave it a look of confusion.

“A box of bath bombs,” it was Chat’s turn to raise an eyebrow at his partner. Ladybug ignored him and looked around, Ikari Gozen was headed for them, taking her time it seemed as if neither hero was moving. Ladybug caught saught of a scooter's storage compartment, Chat Noir, and the bath bombs.

“Oh you’ve got a plan don’t you?” Chat Noir asked looking at her, “You’ve got that glint in your eye.”

“Yes I do,” Ladybug grabbed the scooter storage compartment. “Longg come out.”

Longg floated from hiding behind Ladybug. “Yes Guardian,” the dragon Kwami bowed.

Ladybug explained the plan quickly, before taking off the choker and handing the compartment to Chat Noir. They nodded to each other. Chat successfully got the thing down Ikari Gozen’s mouth.

“Great job chaton, now we wait for Longg to explain the plan to her and we defeat the Akuma. I hope it works.”

“I’m sure it will, you’ve never failed Buggaboo,” Chat Noir winked at her. But right after he said that Ikari Gozen took steps back almost falling, and went into a coughing fit, what looked to be steam coming out. A dragon-themed hero, who of which could be Kagami, materialized in front of them.

“See, Mother? I can be as elusive as the wind!” Kagami held herself high, she glared at Ikari Gozen. Kagami turned to face the duo behind her, “Thank you for the Miraculous, Ladybug. Nice to meet you, Cat Noir. I am Ryuko.”

Both heroes eyes widened at Kag- Ryuko.

“What are you doing? This wasn't the plan!” Ladybug cried. She only had four minutes left now, Kagami had used Wind. Kagami is very independent, her mother had raised her as such, and that was very clear. Ladybug swallowed and took control of her breathing, she needs to remain calm they can still do this.

“What plan?” Was all Ryuko said.

This can’t be happening. It just can’t be.

“Kagami! You've disobeyed me yet again! First for that stupid game for friends, and then this time with the complicity of these so-called heroes.” Ikari Gozen growled, “You will learn your lesson!”

She brought her bokken up and brought it down on the heroes. All of the heroes jumped out of the way, the bokken crushed through the concrete. Ikari Gozen cried out in frustration.

“Ryuko, the plan! Surely Longg must have told you about the plan?!” Ladybug yelled from across the street.

Ryuko ignored Ladybug instead taking to confronting her mother, “What’s so wrong with having friends!”

“They ask but don’t return,” Ikari Gozen swiped her bokken at Chat Noir clasping the top of a building. “The moment you don’t benefit them they leave!” She yelled as she brought her weapon down the building Ryuko stood on. Chat Noir jumped on top of her as she yelled, “Friends abandon you! They all leave, they will leave you, just like they left me after the crash.”

She reached back and grabbed Chat Noir and held him up, “They left me when I needed them, left me to raise an infant blind!”

“What,” Ryuko’s stance faltered, her voice barely audible.

Ikari Gozen shoved Chat Noir down her throat, both of the heroines cried, “No!”

Chat fell into a seat, and a seat belt clicked in place, “No siree, Cataclysm!” He eroded the seat belt only for many more seat belts to grab and hold him down, “No, no, no. Not again.”

Outside Ryuko and Ladybug hid from Ikari Gozen.

Ryuko bowed her head in shame, “My apologies Ladybug, I acted hastily and failed you. I am not worthy to fight beside you.”

Ladybug lifted Ryuko’s face so she was looking at her, “You made a mistake, or act before we think. I do that every day in and out of the mask, it has cost me a lot on both sides, but that isn’t a reason to stop fighting.” Ryuko stared at Ladybug in awe, she was far more astonishing in person.

“You’re the only one who can help me right now, you have the skill. It’s the reason I choose you, and why I have given you the tools to help me. But we need to work together, as a team and we don’t have much time so here's the plan.”

•

Chat Noir fought against his restraints but it was no use, his chest went in and out heavily. He looked up, “Hurry up before I transform back.”

The Universe must have taken pity on him because no sooner than a second later did Ryuko dropdown.

“Thank Kwami!”

“Hold your breath, and aim for bokken,” Ryuko reached down for the box of bath bombs.

“You're a fast learner,” Chat Noir grinned, trying his best to hide his nervousness.

“I’ve had many great teachers,” she admitted with a small smile before calling for water. Chat did as he was told, holding his breath and when they made it out, reached for the bokken. Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around it and yanked, breaking the item, an Akuma floating out.

“No more evil-doing for you!” Ladybug captured it before turning to Ryuko who handed her what was left of her Lucky Charm, the box. She tossed it up, calling for her cure.

“What's happened to me? Where is Kagami?” Tomoe asked moving her bokken around in front of her.

“Your daughter is nearby, ma'am. She'll be here soon.” Ryuko said after she put a hand on the woman's shoulder, “Your car is to your right.”

“Thank you,” Tomoe said stiffly before turning to her car and stepping in.

Ryuko turned to see Chat Noir and Ladybug with their fists facing each other but also her way, leaving a space for her. Her stomach welled and twirled with warmth, Ryuko smiled and added her fist and in unison, “Pound it!”

•

“Thank you for waiting a moment Kagami,” Ladybug started upon landing, “I hope you understand I can not give you this Miraculous again.”

“I understand, I was an inadequate team member.” Kagami hung her head.

“Actually you were quite the opposite,” Ladybug said, Kagami looked at her with confusion. “You fought well and hard, but the reason I can't give you this Miraculous again is because Hawkmoth knows your identity. He can see and hear through the person he has Akumatized, and with that it means not only are you but your friends and family are put in danger.”

Kagami thought about that, it makes sense, complete sense, no wonder Ladybug was in so much distress. Kagami frowned, “I don't have many friends.”

“Well it's not important to have lots of friends, what matters are the ones you do have are true friends. Thank you for your help, bug out,” and with that Ladybug left Kagami.

Kagami finally left the alley and made her way to her mother’s car, oh was she gonna get an earful. The right back passenger door was open, with her mother waiting. Kagami took a deep breath.

“Well? What do you have to say for yourself?”

“I'm sorry I wasn't truthful with you, Mother. But, I really wanted to try and make a friend.” Kagami admitted truthfully.

“You already have Adrien,” Tomoe said after a pause.

“It's not the same,” Kagami looked away, disputing her mother being blind, not even having her. But those words held true, Adrien had been her friend and now they were dating.

“I understand that you want to make friends, but friendships can prove disappointing sometimes. If not, a distraction can be a reliability, and you may be stretched by them.” Tomoe at the beginning sounding firm but slowly trailed to a person mourning. Tomoe sighed after a moment, “Be home in time for dinner. Tatsu, take me home.”

“Hai, Tsurugisan,” Tatsu said closing the door and rolling off.

•

Kagami walked up the bridge, her stomach tight.

“The game is over. We lost.'' She couldn't look Marinette in the eyes as she showed her a photo of Alya and Wayhem with the weather girls, Adrien, and Adrien’s bodyguard.

“No,” Marinette started firmly. “We won the right to get orange juice together,” she said with confidence before closing in on herself again. “If you still want to, that is. Nothing can stop us now.” Marinette gave Kagami a timid smile. Kagami looked at the girl in awe, her lips slightly parted.

“I'm correct, I misjudged you Marinette. I'm glad we somehow got paired, I see now why Adrien regards you as one of his dearest friends,” Kagami gave a light smile at Marinette. “And yes, I would still like to join you for orange juice. I just have to be home in time for dinner.”

Marinette lit up, her already big eyes widening with a dazzling smile to go with. Marinette hooked her arm around Kagami’s and started talking with an animated face.

Yes, Kagami had made the right choice, even if she didn't win. She got herself her first real friend.

-

September 28, 2019

[thatforgottenbasilisk]

kagami tsurgi is a lesbian. to me <3

[amethyst-luvvvvvs-star]

Santa Claws: Ladybug looks for her crush, Adrien, when he runs away from home for Christmas.  

Volpina: Lila Rossi, a new student, claims to be friends with Ladybug to win Adrien. Ladybug exposes Lila, who is then akumatized into Volpina.  

Anansi: Nora, Alya's overprotective sister, is akumatized into Anansi, a spider-like villain. Ladybug gives the turtle miraculous to Nino, who becomes Carapace, and they defeat Anansi.  

Prime Queen: Nadia Chamack is akumatized into Prime Queen.  

Befana: Marinette's grandmother is akumatized.  

Riposte: Kagami tsurgi a fencer is akumatized into Riposte.  

Robostus: A small robot named Markov is akumatized into Robostus, a villain who can bring inanimate objects to life.  

Reverser: Marc is akumatized into Reverser and is determined to get revenge.  

sighhhhhh i always have to do the hard work dont i babeee

To save the future, Marinette, now Chronobug, must team up with Bunnyx to solve the mystery of who discovered Ladybug's secret identity. Because this person also managed to get hold of the Ladybug Miraculous, and all those in the Miracle Box.

G-G-GIULPPP I HAVE GOOD GRADES IN ALL MY CLASSES MINUS SCIENCEEE ERMMM I HAVE A C- IN THAT CLASSS UNHHHHHH I HAD AN A- LAST QUARTER ERMMMM SHHHH I HOPE MY MOM DOESNT SEE THATTT

[sugarshackpeasant]

my miraculous ladybug headcanons

marinette: she/they, demigirl, bisexual

adrien: he/they, demiboy, bisexual

alya: any pronouns, nonbinary, bisexual

nino: he/him, biromantic, asexual

juleka: they/she, demigirl, lesbian

kim: he/him, pansexual

alix: any pronouns, gender fluid, aromantic (being aromantic is canon), asexual

zoe: she/xe, demigirl, lesbian

luka: he/they, nonbinary, bisexual

kagami: she/they/xe, nonbinary, lesbian

max: he/him, panromantic, asexual (being asexual is canon)

rose: she/her, lesbian

mylene: she/her, queer

ivan: he/him, omnisexual

nathaniel: he/him, bisexual

marc: he/she/they, genderfluid, gay

[ehud1564]

Kagami "I threatened two super villains without hesitation" Tsurgi

[pearl484-blog]

Personally, I don't think Pinocchio angst would work well with Adrien. He's also been very accepting of sapient beings as soon as he knows they're sapient.

Perhaps with Kagami or Felix, but as there are 3 of them, perhaps different angles of angst. Say, Ladybug (or Felix. He does seem to have a varying level of attachment to them) is horrified at the murder of sentimonsters, but Adrien knew all along they were sentient. He's known since sentibug. He is just of the mindset, "it was them or us. I chose us."

Ladybug is horrified by the implications as Adrien is a senti-monster, but Adrien simply replies we all make choices at the end and we have to live with them. 5hen at the end of the episode, we see some small gesture that shows that he keeps a reminder of the sentimonsters they killed. Framing it so that it's clear it's not for fun. It's a sad thing. Grief over a lost life? Guilt? Shame? Not clear, but Adrien has made his choice.

We can have Felix go through Pinocchio angst. What measure is a man? Is he a murderer for dismissing sentimonsters to use his powers. When are they people? When are they worthwhile?

Then, let's go with Kagami. Fiercely independant, this revelation that she might not have always had free will, that she might ve been molded shakes her, but Tomoe points out is that not what a parent does? Mold their child to their expectations?

Kagami trained and she grew hard, strong, worthy of the Tsurgi name. What difference does it make what tools were used to forge her? Make it creepy, but affirming, this is her worldview after all. She thinks it is reasonable. That children must be controlled and shaped one way or another.

Kagami snaps. This is no way to treat your child and Tomoe scolds her, destroys her self esteem and demands the ring back. Now, Kagami. Don't make her take it from you.

I just realized we could have had probably a better explanation for the Sentimonster stuff had the show not waste our time with so many Chloe salt episodes or just didn't have episodes that don't add or change anything to the plot within the last two seasons.

Like no offense to Zoe I like her heck I even plan on using her in my own fics but she could have been replaced with Aurora leaving one episode free for Sentimonster stuff in S4

Then there's the bucket load of Chloe's salt episodes in S5 plus Kwami's Choice that honestly could have been removed, and nothing of the plot would have changed.

Kwami's Choice 1&2

Derision

Adoration

Confrontation

Collusion

Revolution

Of course while a few Lila episodes get taken out in the process which could and would affect her involvement in the finale the show could have allow Lila to get the access codes to the Agreste mansion during retaliation which would have actually solved said problem caused by the removal.

Tldr: the show could have got rid of Eight Episodes to better expand upon the Sentimonster retcon/add-on if the writers so desperately wanted it

[twin-books]

Lila and Kagami 👀

Someone already asked about Lila, so I’ll just talk about Kagami here so I can do Lila there, if that’s alright! Thank you for the ask! ^^ Now Kagami... Well, I believe I said my feelings on love rivals when speaking of Luka. Usually they are a waste and just a distraction for the plot, a manufactured way to cause tension.  When I saw Kagami I expected what we got from Lila, Chloe, and/or Wayhem. Instead, I came out of her debute rather surprised. I wouldn’t say I liked her at first because it took me some time to fully understand her and grasp the idea that wow... love rivals can be good. I was excited at the prospect of Adrien having a crush on this strong girl who only seemed to have respect for him. I found her refreshing and she reminds me a lot of my father. Hard time understanding emotions, a bit cold at first, but focused and always able to spot the inefficiencies and make them efficient. I found the way she spoke about her family also a nice refresher because she wasn’t doing it because they were abusive like poor Adrien’s side, but because failure was a weakness in her family. It is a bit of a toxic way of thinking but this is what some people genuinely believe. She seemed to believe it herself. If I may side track for a second... It reminded me of the show NCIS. There’s this character named Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He started out like Kagami but almost more... adult, you could say. And he always had these rules. But one of the rules was “Never apologize”. To him, that was showing weakness. Apologizing was a weakness. He eventually grows in character but that’s just what it reminds me of. It isn’t a good way of thinking but it doesn’t mean the people who think it are evil.  As I was saying, Kagami had far more character than Luka. I could tell that her original purpose wasn’t just to be someone else Adrien was interested in unlike with Luka and Marinette. Then... then Frozer... It quite literally shattered my heart seeing Kagami just be another girl crushing on Adrien but I at least thought she respected him enough compared to two of the other girls that liked him, to not treat him as a possession but as a partner, a equal. Her character wasn’t completely gone at least, because she had enough character to begin with that it would be entirely obvious if any of it went missing. Like, again, how she suddenly loved Adrien. I kind of liked how she gave Marinette some tough advice not to hesitate. I know that seemed to upset other people but obviously Alya’s loving way of handling it as a close friend, wasn’t getting to her so Kagami did it her way. Unfortnately, that didn’t work either, but it was a nice effort.  All in all, she was more dull but still... nice. It wasn’t like with Luka where my love just kind of died there. I still had hope. Maybe she would be interested in Adrien for a while and realize that he’s better as a friend or just not worth the emotional effort because she kept failing. That was a big part of her character after all, not wanting to fail. Next episode, Animatestro, she treated Adrien like an object for a second just to screw with Chloe and Marinette. I wasn’t happy. They were trying to make me hate Kagami and Adrien together, they were trying to show me “see? Kagami isn’t right for him at all” but all it showed me was they would do anything to prove Marinette was number 1 for Adrien even if it meant ruining a good character and that hurt me. She wasn’t observant like she was in previous episodes. She was completely distracted by Adrien like Adrien was her whole world which could have been cute had it fit her character. My father loves my mother with all his heart but he is always observing his surroundings even with her (though lately, as he’s grown older I think there’s been less focus). He’s always making sure some part of him is paying attention in case there’s any danger and he tried to teach me to do the same. I just don’t have his same ability to focus on so many things.  Kagami was like that. Frozer it was apparent she could focus on her amazing iceskating skills while getting the ice instructor to back off and while being able to recognize Adrien had strong feelings for Marinette, while also giving him attention. She did that all at once.  Animastro all her focus was stuck on Adrien which was not only unlike her but absolutely annoying. We get it, she likes Adrien. Not mention it was subtly hinted at this episode that her mother may have a slight bit of Gabe with her and that made me upset.  Now, I haven’t watched Ryuko’s debute in full but I know Kagami’s mother was shown to be slightly toxic and that kind of ruined me. Also, Kagami seemed mellowed down but I liked that she made friends with Marinette. I thought that would be a good idea. Plus, I kind of ship them, so that helps. XD Oni-chan she had next to no character other than “I love Adrien” though it was pretty cool that her akuma could pick up on Lila’s lies and even added a thing to help others notice though it failed to help.  It’s disheartening seeing this. It hurts watching her character just disappear for the sake of “plot”. Kagami is a character who means a lot to me because finally there was someone semi-like my dad represented in media. I had never seen it before. And then, they kind of gave up on this lovely complex character. That hurt. I love Kagami but I love her mostly in her debute. Each time she showed up after something of her character was taken away (though I have a feeling I would like Ryuko’s debute based on what people have told me about how she acted). I don’t think they can fix what they damaged but here’s hoping... she doesn’t lose any more. send me a 👀 + an ml character and I’ll say my honest opinion about that character

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[khunned]

We’ve heard of this...

But what about, this...

[crash-er-comics]

The 3 most HOTTEST miraculous characters! 1. Adrien Agreste 2. Kagami Tsurgi 3. Luka Couffaine

[bubsgirl291]

My Kagami Sim

So I have decided to create Kagami Tsurgi in the sims, and I have made her shirt along with her skirt as well!

So, without further ado, here is her info (CC, creation video):

Hair Mesh by KiaraZurk: {◈}

The Hair Recolor, Top (My new mesh), and Skirt (My new mesh) {SimFileShare}: {◈}