#miraculous London

[thelilyknight]

“and what would you have sacrificed?”

“myself.”

[lexel05]

New art ispired from the London Special!

[miraculoud]

which one????

[the-bluespirit]

[xelinue]

Special is sad but still these too are so funny to me lol

[turimoalin]

Marinette: Adrien won't have anyone to take care of him if you are gone.

Me:

[verabraun-art]

Bugnoir redraw

[felinetteagain]

They just wanted to protect him, but they hurt him, they both lie to spare his feelings, thereby further alienating him from themselves.

Argos (Felix): I’m sorry, Adrien 🥺

Ladybug (Marinette): I’m sorry, Adrien 🥺

[sizzleissues]

Do you think Adrien felt his father die, a firm invisible hand suddenly lifted off his shoulder? Crescent shaped scars left behind on his skin. Do you think he felt relieved when Ladybug told him the news that he'd died before quickly filling with immense guilt? His father had saved the world, and done everything to protect him. How dare he feel relieved. How dare he have hated him so much. Every time his father had brushed him off, had yelled and degraded him, made him feel trapped and isolated was all for him. What hell must his father have been living in, controlled by Monarch's threats against his own son's life. All he'd done was make it harder, push against the orders his father gave to keep him safe. Maybe if he'd been better, kept his head down, never asked to go to school, to have friends. Maybe then his father wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself.

Do you think deep down, behind the grief and the guilt and the shame, he is the happiest he's ever been?

[kiichikonoes]

i want you only

[hisuianserperior]

Mama Nathalie being hugged by her kids

Facts are being spit here

[yokonette]

💛

[lunameimei]

shhh...

(click on the art 🤫)

SPOILER!

[fortuna-et-cataclysmos]

On grief and guilt of Adrien in the season finale

Just taking a moment to rethink the events of the season 5 finale and the London special from Adrien's perspective.

You are locked in a cell in a different city while your partner fights your nemesis. You send your Miraculous to Ladybug and sit out the final fight. Then Ladybug comes to your cell and tells you that your father sacrificed himself because she, by herself, wasn't enough to beat the Monarch. Your father dies a hero, but well, he has still died, and unbeknownst to LITERALLY ANYONE (as far as you know), no one knows that you're actually Chat Noir, yes, the one with superpowers and could have saved his father if only he were there during the final battle.

He's blaming himself so much for his father's death. Imagine being LITERALLY THE ONLY PERSON who could have fought alongside Ladybug at that definitive battle, and not being there. Because you just weren't good enough to get out of the cell.

The final scene of the London special hits hard:

Ladybug: (Do you know what it is like keeping) a secret so heavy that you really want to share it now, right now, because it is too hard and you want to cry and you need someone to console you? Chat Noir: Yes. Yes, I'm familiar.

What you think his secret is?

Realistically, if he really wanted to tell Ladybug his father died, he could; he could tell her that he has lost someone really close to him, and that would have been enough to protect his identity while getting his partner's support and consolation.

The reason why he can't tell is because his secret is the guilt. The guilt of knowing that he is responsible for his father's death. But of course, he can't tell that to Ladybug, because then, he would need to reveal his identity.

If only, if only he knew that his father wasn't the hero everyone was making him out to be. If only he knew that he needn't to feel guilty for missing out the battle, because he had already lost his father the day he'd lost his mother.

Truth is, grief was unescapable for Adrien. He had already grieved his mother, and he would eventually grieve the loss of his father, literally or metaphorically, the moment Gabriel Agreste decided to use the Butterfly miraculous to bring back his wife.

But by hiding the truth about Gabriel, Ladybug is adding guilt to the mix. Because now, Adrien has not only lost his father, but he also thinks that he is the one responsible for it. While it was ENTIRELY Gabriel's own actions that brought his demise. And neither Ladybug, nor Chat Noir, could have prevented that. They couldn't have made him unevil.

So ironically, by trying to protect him from pain, Ladybug is inflicting more pain on Adrien. Except that it is not only in the form of grief, but also guilt.

This is not to diss on Ladybug; she is doing her best with the information available for her. But it certainly isn't the best for Adrien.

[miraclechatbug]

I'm just obsessed with the way Adrien hugs Marinette. Like he puts his hand over her head. Cradles her head. And that just feels so affectionate, so sweet to me. I've had one hug like that all my life, and I will never forget it because of how comforting it felt to me, so safe and warm. So sweet.

[xelinue]

Okay girlieeee