#like I'm going to ignore Marinette gaslighting Adrien into not questioning his abusive father

[sairenharia]

A lot of Chloe fans are against Trump and his supporters. If Astruc made Chloe canonically a Trump supporter on the show itself, would you still say that Chloe was unfairly treated by the narrative? That Andre was wrong to disown Chloe? Would you give up on writing stories that are sympathetic towards Chloe? Would you ignore it and pretend it's not canon? Would you become a Chloe salter?

I can't see Astruc making Chloe a serial killer in future episodes, but I can see him making her a Trump supporter out of sheer pettiness.

Personally, I wouldn't care if Chloe ends up being pro-Trump or anti-Trump, but I think a lot of people would.

I would ignore canon because straight up, Chloe would not be a Trump supporter because he's a fugly old man. Like literally take out everything else about him, zero context, she looks at that man's face, she would go 'ew' and straight up yeet it.

Also it would be a hella weird thing to bring up in canon. Like there's character assassination, but Astruc is in France and this show is set in France and literally why would Chloe give a single shit about American politics? She's a rich white teenager girl. Even without the character development I give her in stories, she straight up would just not care about him. Because that is Chloe's biggest flaw. She is quite self centered, which means unless it effects her, she isn't likely to give it much attention. And if she's in France, she has even more reason not to care because she wouldn't be thinking about how American politics affect the world, she would think that's America, and they're just doing whatever, and we're not going to be in America longer than an episode.

Audrey may work in the US, but she works internationally. She doesn't want tariffs. Tariffs interfere with things SHE wants because terrible woman she may be, she actually cares A TON about fashion and the harder it is to get materials, the harder it is to get what she wants and a lot of clothing stuff is international. So that avenue doesn't work for Chloe.

Literally the only thing about Trump that Chloe would probably care about is his going against women's healthcare because she's a woman and Chloe does actually really support women being strong and independent in concept. I also rather suspect Chloe as a person has a ZERO TOLERANCE policy when it comes to creeps because Chloe is very pretty and does not put up with bullshit and even with her terrible personality, she's absolutely been hit on a creep once or twice before. So between him doing policies that do negatively impact her AND he's a known rapist, that is against him.

So between the amount of fucks Chloe simply does not give about things, to one of her few core values, to that man being fugly as hell, it makes zero sense for her to support that man.

In short, it would be such a fucking weird writing choice that would only happen because Astruc is trolling and unlikely to get aired because Zag wouldn't want to deal with politics like that, because Zag wants to sell shit in America for the next four years, and it would just be another thing that makes zero fucking sense for Chloe to be doing.

Her character assassination was terrible, but when you talk about things making sense, Chloe going downhill DOES make sense. This is a thing that could realistically happen. Her doing a coup doesn't because there is A CHAIN OF COMMAND in government and one of the simpler upsets is suddenly no mayor because you do account for the head of a city simply dying. People being terrible to her and victim blaming her also makes sense.

The PROBLEM with Chloe's supposed damnation arc is not only is it BAD WRITING, its actually AN EXTREMELY FUCKING DANGEROUS MESSAGE to send to children and it makes everyone else in the narrative a worse person for it.

Chloe is an example of a child abused lashes out to make others feel that hurt. She is basically what Akuma's are, but the REAL WORLD version of it. She's hurt. She's TRAPPED. She lashes out. She desperately needs help to get out of the situation and support to change.

The narrative not only does not do this, it shows her being manipulated and groomed to be even worse, and then says SHE IS AN IRREDEEMABLE MONSTER as everyone uses her.

This tells every. Single. Child. In her situation, every single child who lashes out and many, many, MANY abused kids do lash out, and has told them its your fault that your family treats you like this, its your fault you're miserable, you cannot change, you do not deserve help or a second chance if you can't be entirely different from small scrap of aid of one time positive reinforcement while those who are around you constantly are telling you to be worse.

Chloe could have been a story of hope, of healing, or getting better, and they told all those children they're monsters instead, and all the good people around her CELEBRATED her being trapped in an even more abusive and terrible situation.

Ultimately, Chloe getting worse is not without some basis in reality.

Its just a fucking awful thing to do in a kid's cartoon.

But being a Trump supporter? Chloe gain literally jack squat from Trump's existence, that's not character assassination, that's just straight up ignoring even Chloe's worst traits. Girl is selfish. She ain't giving people the time of day if she doesn't get anything from it when she's at her worst.