#miraculous christmas special

[imthepunchlord]

One thing that has really interested me as of late has been the development of the Miraculous Shanghai special. Looking at all the old promo art, it seems to have changed a lot. For starters, it was originally called "The Chinese Legend" and was seemingly going to have Master Fu in it

(Makes me wonder if it was initially going to relate to the Order of the Guardians in some way since it doesn't give a clear location)

Also, it seems that there was going to be what appears to be a spirit dragon that looks like it would've played a major role with how often it appears in promo art

On top of that, when I went to the Wiki to get those images, I found these

And I honestly don't know what to say about them other than that the New York special influence was strong.

I could definitely see that the Shanghai Special was potentially more about the Order and Fu. Makes sense given it's related to China. And if it potentially would've been an exploration on Fu, his origins, and on the Order.

Which makes me wonder what the earlier plan was, especially as it doesn't feel like they really had sentimonsters planned from the start, and I don't know about you guys, but I didn't like Fu's origins. So I wonder if they had something else in mind and made changes. As with most of ML's concepts, those ideas were probably better.

As I do think the Chinese Special should've been the place to reveal and introduce the Zodiac Miraculous and where they came from (as it didn't make Fu look good having 16-17 Miraculous and gave out the very two HM wanted), that dragon could've been a protector of them, seeking a worthy Guardian to take on the Zodiac. Could even be the dragon kwami spiritually manifested. Which a whole Zodiac of powerful Miraculous sealed away makes more sense than the Prodigious that just has you transforming into 8 animals, which you can't even control unless you're virtuous. Very dangerous indeed.

Or that dragon it could've been a rare instance of just seeing another magical creature, work off Thomas' older claim that there was other magic out there than just Miraculous.

As for the heroes, I am kinda glad they didn't make it in. I don't like those designs. I can roll with the idea that every country/state/city could have their own hero, but they really do just roll out too much.

Speaking of Specials, I remember that, supposedly, that we were going to see the Turtle's power in the Christmas Special, and hearing that Chris Master was the original Christmas Special, I wonder if that was originally where we were supposed to see Carapace for the first time, and Nino was going to be the first temporary hero to be seen. And that would've been his time to really shine. Though it also could've been our first intro to Jade, seeing what Turtle could do in a fight, and potentially Chat's way of meeting Fu (though as Jade instead), and maybe that's the point where Fu's like, ok, I really am too old for this, you guys do temp heroes.

Either option sounds better than what we got in canon.

[bellzsad]

honestly not sure if there’s more but this is it for now!

click on this link to vote for your favorite song in the movie!!

[lawfullyneutralbee]

Ok ok I’m still watching the new miraculous movie, but I completely forgot it was a musical. Also I love the French VA’s voices are beautiful but everytime there was a singing sequences 😭

Like I listened to this

And IMMEDIATELY thought of

CHAT NOIR IS ALONE IN THE NIGHTTTT🎶

[itsawritblr]

He hasn't actually *killed* anyone, that counts, right?

Sound on

[beatrice1979a]

Starlight - Extra

Happy Holidays. Because we're still on the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany.

Claw Noir learned to catch his Shadybug.

Plagg: "At the count of three... first one to say 'Cheese' gets the whole piece."

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - extra - epiphany

Finally some kwamis that look semi decent. Need to keep practicing drawing them.

I guess this ends the festivities.

/rant starts

No more HAPPY sketches... I've been in a very sour mood since Disney+ Canada did NOT release the MLB World Paris special like in the US. So I punished myself watching horror films and binging some rando TV series that ended being freaking awesome (The Bear, my new sandwich guy). But that's not the point! I'm angry. I finally finished re-reading 1984 so I'm all dystopian-sad-apocalyptic mood. I'm going to grab those neglected november sketches for the new year.

/rant ends

[faiirygrahamdevanily]

🐞🐈‍⬛Dear Autumn @asukiess!! Already commented that the clouds above (opened up) on ao3 is THE paris special fic to me <3 an absolutely wonderful setting with amazing details and outstanding prose!!

🌧⚡️I made a moodboard + a poem dedicated to your fic! Crossposted on ao3 but placing it on tumblr as well. I hope you’ll enjoy (special thanks to @ninadove for betaing):

[sunsketch]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the best chaotic cringe duo 🎄✨🥳!

[swampythesweetsketch]

How the hell does a musical movie not intrigue me with the music but the fact that a 8+ year olds series got better fitted in a movie of under 2 hours.

[toxinellebug]

Shadybug/ClawNoir Christmas PART 4

Claw Noir returns home and de-transforms just in time to hear a knock on his bedroom door.

It’s his father, calling him down to dinner.

Adrien is hardly in the mood, but he IS hungry… He figures he can just eat quickly then rush back up to his room. He rudely grabs Plagg and stuffs the glaring kwami into a sock drawer and ordering him not to leave from that spot before he makes his way downstairs.

But what is waiting in the dining room is hardly a spread worthy of the name Le Réveillon.

Not that they usually had much of a feast (Gabriel always insisted on giving the chef Christmas off.) but microwaveable dinners from Picard? Weren’t those reserved for when Father locked himself in his office and immersed himself in finishing up projects for Fashion Week and couldn’t be bothered to waste time on a proper meal?

Embarrassed, Gabriel admits that he somehow managed to burn both the turkey AND the Haricots Verts Amandine this year… And he had a feeling that Adrien wouldn’t be in the mood for Bûche de Noël.

He’s not wrong, not that Adrien will admit as such out loud. 

Taking a seat at the table, the two of them pick at their frozen dinners, the only sounds the scraping of silver on plastic trays and “Greensleeves” over the radio.

Gabriel is the first to break the silence. 

He apologizes to Adrien for not being more considerate of his feelings; so much has changed in their lives, and he just thought… Well, Adrien’s mother always loved Christmas, he’d hoped that, perhaps, by trying to do things the way they had always done around this time of year, maybe it would bring them both some comfort. 

He didn’t stop to consider just how painful it would be trying to re-create those moments without…

-Without mom.

…Yes. 

More silence. Adrien refuses to look up. He’s angry, but he doesn’t want his father’s apology. Truthfully, he doesn’t know WHAT he wants anymore, but he does know that he DOESN’T want to cry, and if he makes eye contact with father right now he’s afraid that’s exactly what will happen.

Gabriel clears his throat awkwardly, and has a suggestion; what if they were to start a new tradition? 

Decorating trees, holly wreaths, yule logs… These are all Pagan traditions that have nothing to do with Christmas anyway. They don’t need those things.

What if, next year, they took a Holiday vacation? Somewhere tropical, no snow or carols or decorations. Adrien’s Aunt Amelie owns a Beach House- surely she would lend it to them. It would be just the two of them, they’d make a week of it and eat nothing but fruit! 

Adrien almost smiles at that but stops himself. It’s hard to imagine father taking a week off work to visit some Island. What about his winter formal collection? What about Adrien’s photoshoots? 

But… it might be nice to visit someplace with cleaner air. 

He’ll think about it.

That answer is enough to satisfy Gabriel, who places a simply wrapped gift on the table next to Adrien.

He knows Adrien really isn’t in the mood but… He REALLY wants his son to have this.

Sighing heavily, Adrien puts down his fork and tears away at the paper. It’s a book? No wait-

A photo album.

Long blonde hair, green eyes, a melancholy smile.

It’s full of pictures, some from before Adrien was even born, several he’s never even seen before! Mother looks so young, wait-

Is that his father? With a Mohawk????

This had to be photoshopped, right?

Finally daring to look up at his father, Adrien finds Gabriel loosening his bowtie, an embarrassed smile on his face as he admits he had been going through a faze at the time. Actually, it was Emelie who convinced him his hair looked atrocious.

Adrien had never heard that story before.

He wants to hear more… He’s also feeling more hungry than he thought.

Gabriel says that he can go get the cake from the fridge. Mr. Placid picked it up from that Bakery Adrien likes, “Tom and Sabine’s”, right?

The mention of the Boulangerie makes Adrien’s stomach twist in worry as he thought about that pretty dark-haired girl crying on the rooftop.

She wasn’t STILL up there, was she??? It’s freezing outside, what if she gets sick?

Marinette was definitely sick. 

Her throat was scratchy, her nose was runny, her eyes were puffy and her head STILL hurt from all that crying. 

But she was far from being miserable.

She had spent the last hour browsing the news online. Even if Enforcers prevented Parisians from going out at night, it would be foolish to believe all their antics had gone completely unnoticed. 

Noisy fleabag’s mayhem aside, surely SOMEBODY noticed a seasonally unusual appearance of red and black beetles crawling on their doors.

There was no way The Supreme could just sweep this thing under the rug, right?

Wrong.

Turns out all they needed was something even more interesting to distract the public eye, and Marinette was staring right at it:

  “Bourgeois Gala is a Hair-Raising Event”.

Someone was bound to get fired over that cheesy headline, but the photographer deserved a raise!

In the photo, a butler was trying his hardest to restrain a furious and screaming Chloe Bourgeois from strangling music icon XY.

The front of her lovely holiday gown was stained. Her eyeliner was running down her cheeks, no doubt from hysterical tears. And her head looked like someone had tried to give a Barbie Doll a buzz cut!

Apparently, during the festivities, Miss Bourgeois (daughter of Movie Director and hotel owner Andre Bourgeois and Queen of Fashion Audrey Bourgeois) had been in a rush to leave the grand ballroom and in her haste, bumped into the young musician, causing him to spill his drink and slip.

Trying to catch himself as he fell, the Pop sensation grabbed the only thing within reach; long, blonde, expertly coiffed curls.

Rather than pulling Miss Bourgeois down with him, it was abruptly revealed that those fabulous golden locks were, in fact, a wig.

It is unknown whether the girl’s lack of natural hair is the result of a medical condition or an incompetent hair stylist as the Bourgeois’ have refused to comment…

Marinette smirked.

Nearly 2 months ago, Shadybug had broke into the Le Grande Hotel in the dead of night and snuck her way into Chloe’s private bath to replace the contents of her shampoo and conditioner bottles.

That Lucky Charm Hair removal lotion was super effective.

Word was that Chloe had called in sick from school that week. When she returned there had been no commotion, no whispers or gossip. Apparently she had been able to cover up before the public discovered the truth.

At least until NOW.

First chance she got, Marinette was going to print out this photo and frame it. For now, it was going to be the new lockscreen of her phone.

The Supreme had a tight hold over the news media, and negative stories involving the rich were rare. 

Chloe was probably so humiliated right now, she’ll probably call out of school “sick” for at least a month!

It was the best Christmas present Marinette could’ve asked for.

Well worth the cold she was dealing with.

Though that was still annoying.

She cursed herself- she had to be the only one dumb enough to spend Christmas eve on a snow covered rooftop.

Alya sneezed into her asosi tea.

That’s what she gets for spending Christmas eve on a snow covered rooftop.

Her mother, after spending all of Christmas morning preparing breakfast for the guests of the Le Grande Paris Hotel, had finally come home and upon seeing Alya’s miserable state, prepared her some shrimp soup and herbal tea and was now in the process of preparing onion syrup.

It made Alya feel guilty- her mom had spent all of Christmas Eve cooking in the Hotel as well. She was finally allowed to come home and spend time with her family, and already she was cooking AGAIN instead of resting.

And what did Alya have to show for her troubles?

A few dark and blurry photos of wreaths that look different from one photo to the next after being covered with some red blur, taken with extreme zoom in and granulated.

SOMETHING went down that night, something magical. Even if she hadn’t been able to capture clear images on her phone, she had seen it with her own eyes.

Ladybugs transforming wreaths and disappearing gift boxes.

She didn’t know what it meant, but she KNOWS it’s being covered up!

(Still, that brat Chloe going bald? Hilarious.)

 Alya may not have any proof, but that wouldn’t stop her from discovering the truth… Just as soon as she got over this cold.

Merry Xmas

(Or, if you’re like Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Happy Hanukkah, OR if you’re like Nino and Alex and your family originates from the United Arab Emirates… Happy Winter Solstice! Axial tilt is the reason for the season!)

PART 3

[fabseg-creator]

Tinky Winkynos: Special Christmas 6 (Santa Claws/Miraculous)

[bluewhiteseagull]

When I first listened to "I look in people's windows", I immediately thought of Chat Noir in the Christmas Special

"I look in people's windows, like I'm some deranged weirdo. I attend Christmas parties from outside"

[nervousbelieverstarfish]

Merry Christmas Adrien

[iwasbored777]

You don't love Miraculous despite it being cringy, you either love Miraculous because it's cringy or you don't love it at all

[escaping-thoughts-reviews]

This whole scene was a trip.

[itsawritblr]

The Miraculous Ladybug Christmas Musical Special.

[adrienagresteminou]

Merry Christmas from Shadynoir!!!!

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