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[mlwritersguild]

MWG 2022 WRAPPED LIST - PART FIFTEEN

We kicked it off nicely with character study fics last time, so now it’s time to talk about our favourite minor characters more specifically as well.

To recap, our January event, as usual, was to recommend and review our favorite fics that we read in 2022! To make things a little bit more interesting and fun, we treated it a bit like an awards ceremony or spotify wrapped. If you know the tumblr accounts of any authors on AO3 that were mentioned but not tagged, please tag them!

Continuing with our rec lists, here's part fifteen, the MWG nominations for best appearance by a tertiary character!

Temporary Place to Stay by walkingonthestars

adrien agreste & caline bustier // post-hm defeat // good teacher caline bustier // angst with a happy ending 

What To Do When Your Superhero Has the Flu by Ronoken

caline bustier & marinette dupain cheng & chloe bourgeois // ladybug!caline bustier // identity reveal // humour

for the sake of niceties by @theriveroflight​

caline bustier & hot dog dan // caline bustier & ms. mendeleiev // single parents // canon divergence // friendship

Come What May by @fettuccinewrites

ls // nominated for oc (philippe) // enemies to lovers // no powers au // slow burn // aged up characters

See you tomorrow for part 16.

[chocostrwberry]

Some concepts for my au!!

Lila if she unified all the miraculous and became like a monster abomination as her body slowly started to die as a grand attempt to destroy the miraculous and Paris in the process

And Marinette who unifies the cat and ladybug miraculous to stop her!!

I don’t have names for these forms yet so suggestions are appreciated! :D

[grilledcheese-savage]

Opposites Detract AU part 2

I left some things out but here’s a clearer picture of what the rest of the story would have been like.

Pls read the og post right here

https://www.tumblr.com/grilledcheese-savage/763805500110487552/new-au-idea-opposites-detract-i-came-up-with-this

For some reason it won’t let me link it normally

Ok so as you can see in the picture, Marinette is Multimouse… but is that all she is?

For the first “season” or less, she is a civilian. She is free to live her life normally without having to take any unnecessary risks. Until she runs into this old man (master fu) and helps him out. I always thought this would be during feast or a situation like that, where either he’s in turtle hero form and she acts as a shield for him, or helps him like the first episode as a civilian. Either way, Master fu remembers this. He tests her more than he did chat noir and la coccinelle because it turned out pretty poor last time. He has paranoia. But Marinette is a pure soul so he leads her to his shop and reveals the miraculous to her eventually, UNBEKNOWNST TO CHAT NOIR AND LA COCCINELLE. Because while he was hoping the next guardian would have been ladybug, he needed a person he could truely trust. And that turned out to be Marinette. She becomes the guardian for the same reasons in the original, it becomes to dangerous for him to continue and he loses his memory. But Marinette continues to work in his shop (a cover for guardian duties).

Lila and Adrien also “work” at his antique shop but neither of them know she’s the new guardian (yet) I’m not sure if they’d find out immediately after master fu has to quit, or Marinette keeps up the charade a little longer. I think it’s more fun to imagine her knowing more than she let on.

When she meets master fu at first and starts training under him, she doesn’t get to keep a miraculous. She works under a lot more conditions than the others do since her job keeping secrets is incredibly important and fu still struggles to trust her. Eventually she proves herself of course, but the pressure of being guardian is so much to handle.

Adrien was going to be a guardian at first since he gained more of Fu’s trust than Lila, but since he has the Kwami of destruction, just like that other guardian man that I can’t remember the name of, they all have some kind of bias against them. He couldn’t trust him not to take the miraculous of the ladybug and grant a wish, even if he kept that from him. He also just doesn’t get along with La coccinelle at all, so he couldn’t have someone with a bias be guardian (he’s hypocritical).

More about Adrien: As cat noir he doesn’t get to be his flirtatious persona he originally has, instead he takes on a more serious altruistic approach since he is pretty hated unanimously by the public. His persona becomes more of a lie, as he tries to undo all of the hatred that came from the destruction of Paris that first day. Think of goro akechi in persona 5; he learns to distain his constant visual presence, the fact on and off the job he is constantly being watched. There’s not a moment that either one of his selves is on tv. And because he’s being filmed there are quick moments the news capture of him being kind to the public and turning around with a resentful face on. He doesn’t totally get to enjoy his freedom as chat noir since the police always try to capture him. But they fail to, and there’s a still a small few of fans of theirs that defend them.

Basically he gets cancelled a lot. 😅

La coccinelle is allowed to pick a miraculous to help her ONE TIME by Master fu, and she picked Chloe Bougeious with the bee miraculous. Chloe accepted and caused a lot of mayhem. Which was fixed. But after that was when he met Marinette and started planning defense and strategy with her. So the next time they needed help, he sent Marinette as multimouse which pissed Lila off because it made her think master fu still didn’t believe she could handle it. When really it was a mix of both not trusting her, and the fact that Marinette was prepared for a lot longer then she was.

This makes lila have a one-sided beef with multimouse, even though she’s secretly her civilian crush Marinette. Love square? Ehh. What Lila doesn’t realize is behind the scenes Marinette doesn’t hold any ill-will for Coccinelle. In fact, she defends her to master fu and convinces him to give Lila more freedom more often. But of course, doesn’t know this. And the unspoken beef continues.

Now, for Kagami and Luka’s place in this story.

While Marinette is a civilian she meets Luka and they become friends very quickly. Same with Adrien and kagami. But at this point in time, Adrien doesn’t really have a crush on kagami, since the slippery slope of coincidences caused Adrien to have a crush on Marinette first. Kagami however seems to be the only one who sees this darkness brewing in Adrien (emo I know, but I digress) Kagami, does in fact, gain a crush on Adrien because she thinks he’s like her- lost in this world, without a lot of friends to help.

Luka and Marinette however, still get together but after Marinette becomes a guardian. They don’t last very long because of this, because her constant work between the bakery, the antique shop, guardianship etc. makes her late to everything they plan to do together. Luka ends things believing that Marinette only likes him as a friend and that’s why she puts work ahead of him everytime. This breaks Marinette’s heart, even though she understands, so she accidentally ends up saying in front of Adrien that she’s not dating anymore, and is focusing on her career. Marinette is oblivious to the fact that both lila and Adrien have a crush on her.

Marinette sees that Luka is responsible and puts his feelings aside for the greater good and chooses him to have the snake miraculous part time. When she is multimouse, she’s pretty awkward around him since things left off kind of sad, but since Superion doesn’t know that Marinette is multimouse, he just assumes she’s shy or doesn’t like him. This is obviously not true. In fact, Luka becomes the more “chat noir” type in this, teasing the group and very lightly flirting with her. BECAUSE IT WOULD BE FUNNY AND UNPREDICTABLE. I see him being very suave with his harp. Like every musician is lol.

Kagami and Adrien don’t work out either, because deep down, even if he is getting more resentful of being pushed around and molded into a person he doesn’t know, he still is naturally kind hearted and knows that his resentment won’t last….. hopefully. And Kagami only has that, and fencing in common with him, at least in this universe so they stay friends. Plus she meets Felix anyways.

Speaking of Felix. He.. generally stays the same? Here’s the difference, when he say them on the news on day he judged them. Then when he saw/ met more of chat noir, he started to believe that they were like him and saw the world the same way as he did and starts to commit similar atrocities in the show with the peacock miraculous in hopes that since they were the same, they’d leave him be.

Since chat noir is growing increasingly disdainful, he more or less does want to leave him alone, but the part of him that knows it’s his duty wins every time since he is , still, a little more responsible in this than the show.

Also a reminder, Adrien doesn’t start out like this, he’s still the show’s version at the beginning, he just changes with every situation they find themselves in. So when Felix eventually comes to meet him, he assumes Adrien is the same as always- a goody two shoes who does what he’s told. That couldn’t be further from the truth 😂

Adrien is similar to Felix but still mostly tries to act like his old self, since it’s easier and gets him places. But when Felix comes over and is cold, Adrien gets frustrated and his resentful, chat noir self comes to life. Felix was so stunned by the slip up that he just, shut up. And left. Very confused.

Anyways I have many different ways of imagining Felix seeing the more contemptuous Adrien. He becomes much more interested in him. He wants to learn more, because maybe he’s not alone.

Idk what do you guys think? Should Adrien be the guardian? What would Alya’s role be? Pls reblog more ideas and add on to the AU!

Thanks!

[unluckycryptid]

Rise of Red Power Rangers AU

i'm known for being a huge power rangers fan around my friends/coworkers so ofc i'm doing a power rangers au for any fandom i'm apart of.

Alright Rise of Red Power Rangers AU

Red -> Red ranger (obviously)

Chloe -> Blue ranger (again, this is obvious)

Ella -> Green ranger

Bridget -> Pink ranger (obvious)

(Chris) Charming -> Yellow ranger

Special Ranger: Silver ranger -> Chad?

Notes:

Let's go with a Knights of the Round Table theme except we can call it Knights of Auradon

This is gonna be SPD inspired origin (but I'm borrowing other elements from other series)

Chloe expected to be lead ranger (even though her whole color palette is blue) bc she'd be a legacy ranger from her parents being the previous power rangers.

Queen Cinderella and King Charming are separate from Ella and Charming. Cinderella -> Cindy (former blue ranger) and King Charming -> Reginald Charming (former red ranger)

Red and Bridget are from the enemy camp of the Queen of Hearts and get the chance to escape with the help of the Sorcerer's Cookbook that they stole from the Queen of Hearts. However, during their escape, the Cookbook gets damaged, scattering all of its pages all throughout Auradon.

Chloe, Charming, and Ella have all been rangers in training and are finally allowed to see if they are worthy of their morphers.

Their morphers are Swords-in-a-Stone (kind of like Lost Galaxy), but they don't know their colors until they morph.

Luckily, all 3 are deemed worthy of their swords and are immediately sent into the field to capture intruders from Wonderland which are Red and Bridget.

When they morph for the first time, Chloe is shocked she's blue ranger but they still manage to apprehend Red and Bridget and bring them back to base.

Base is at Cinderellasburg estate in Auradon

Chloe's parents (and Charming's aunt/uncle) are the mentors of the group.

Cindy goes to talk to Red and Bridget about the Queen of Hearts, revealing they used to share a past and tries to convince them to help Auradon since they put up quite a fight with the rangers in training.

Bridget immediately takes her up on the offer, becoming the Pink ranger.

Red initially declines the offer since the Queen of Hearts is her mom and she doesn't want anything to do with her, much less fight her.

Meanwhile, Chloe goes to her dad, asking why he thinks she didn't get red ranger. King Reginald tells her that he suspects that her views on the world are too black and white and that she doesn't always see the full picture before rushing into the field with her sword.

Chloe, Ella, Charming, and Bridget are sent out in the field when the Queen sends out a monster from wonderland accompanied by tons of card soldiers and the Ace the Royal Guard.

Back at base, Red is walking around the grounds of the Cinderellasburg estate and comes across some of the background tech team composed of Faye and Zellie who somehow convince her that joining the team is what Red wants in order to prevent other people from getting hurt by her mother.

Red joins the team mid-fight when it seems like they're losing to both the monster and Ace. It is revealed that Ace and Red were really close friends in Wonderland but Ace saw Red's running away as a betrayal. Red morphs into the red ranger and reveals that all the duels the two had in the past, she let him win for his own pride.

After injuring Ace and destroying the Monster of the Week, the team celebrates, but Chloe still holds a grudge against Red being team leader.

It doesn't help when Red is in charge of training drills and puts the team through hell. She ends up getting a lesson in leadership and does all the drills herself later on.

Uliana, Hook, and Morgie are either part of the comedic relief where they're always up to something and always end up needing rescuing OR they're part of the Queen of Hearts Royal Council and become some of the villains for the rangers to defeat closer to the finale.

The main motivation for the Queen of Hearts to attack Auradon and the rangers is to get back scattered remains of the Sorcerer's Cookbook.

Chad has a guest role and serves as the temporary Silver ranger

When not in use, the team uses some magical bracelets to summon their sword morphers which are stored on the magical stone.

Their morph call would be like Mystic Force where they point their swords to the sky and say something like "For the Honor of the Kingdom!" (she-ra inspired, sue me)

Throughout their run, Red and Chloe constantly butt heads with Red going for more unconventional means while Chloe wants to follow the rules. Most of the time, they end up having to compromise. Also, they're roommates

While Bridget and Ella are also opposite personalities, they end up hitting it off fairly well.

Charming is getting into some hijinks and Bridget senses the tension between him and Ella (who often scolds him) and is often trying to do matchmaking between the two or causing ruckus in the kitchen.

Ella and Chloe have a more sisterly bond, with Chloe often going to Ella about her arguments with Red.

Red and Bridget are cousins and Bridget often gets Red's side of the argument that Chloe probably told Ella about so when Ella and Bridget get back to their shared room, they're just rolling their eyes at the two other rangers.

Chloe gets along with Bridget due to their bubbly personalities, while Ella and Red get along from their shared motherly trauma (Ella lived with her stepmother before becoming a ranger).

Chloe and Charming are the best swordspersons on the team, often dueling each other with their matches ended up tied.

Charming teaches Red how to skateboard.

Bridget and Charming are often trying to get Ella to relax and join them in some silly little activity.

Red learns motherly love from Cindy

Anyway, Red and Chloe eventually learn to work together and learn a lot about each other. That's when the romance begins >:)

Finale: The gang is invited to Castlecoming at Auradon's Grand Castle.

Red and Chloe go together and they're about to confess their feelings when the Queen of Hearts makes an appearance for the first time. With the shock, she kidnaps Cindy releases her army of cards on Auradon and the Cinderellasburg estate.

Red consoles Chloe who is already thinking the worst, and she is backed up by the other members of the team who promise to get Cindy back whatever it takes.

Against King Reginald's orders, the rangers go off and enter Wonderland.

Chad stays back to help fend off the card soldiers with the other Knights of Cinderellasburg.

Red and Bridget have to lead the team through the treacherous terrain of Wonderland but they make it and manage to sneak into the castle.

They split up: Ella, Bridget, and Charming go off to rescue Cindy. Meanwhile, Chloe and Red go to confront the Queen of Hearts.

Red tries to compromise with her mom, saying that there's gotta be another way, but she ends up initiating the first attack.

Chloe and Red end up fighting the Queen of Hearts and they're doing really well until the Queen of Hearts manages to temporarily get the upper hand. She goes to strike down Red, but Chloe steps in front of her and takes the blow.

Red rises up and takes Chloe's sword, and along with her own sword, finally goes full out against her mom.

She gets to defeat her mom and knocks her out but discovers that the army of the Queen is still not defeated and is being fueled by the Sorcerer's Cookbook which has a strong protective spell around it that even the Queen of Hearts can't stop.

The other rangers come back with Cindy and Cindy tells them there is one last option, which is to combine all of their swords into one sword. However, there's a catch: the sword can only be wielded by one person and there's a chance of them getting destroyed by its power, plus destroying the cookbook would unleash even more energy, essentially giving the wielder of the sword a death sentence.

Red steps up, saying that she'll do it, and rebukes Cindy's offer to do it since Red promised Chloe she would get her mother back. Reluctantly, they all merge their swords (Cindy is able to wield Chloe's sword since she's still unconscious and since Cindy was the former blue ranger) and Red wields the Five Sword. She manages to strike the protective shield of the cookbook and stabs the Cookbook and is holding on as a great power is about to take her out.

At the last minute, the Queen of Hearts wakes up from being unconscious and sees that Red is about to die from both wielding the sword and destroying the cookbook. She steps up, takes the sword from Red and shoves her back to the other rangers.

Finally, with a bright light, the Cookbook is destroyed, along with the Queen of Hearts to Red's dismay.

Chloe is still out and Red doesn't know what to do until Cindy suggests a True Love's Kiss.

It works and when Chloe finally comes to, she asks what happens and Red says that her mom is gone, but they won. Chloe only puts a hand on the other girl's cheek, consoling her but relieved that they won.

Time Skip: Without the Queen of Hearts, Red has claim to Wonderland's throne. She and Chloe are now a couple, currently running Wonderland. The rest of the team gets relocated to Wonderland as they have a new mission: help Red and Chloe rebuild Wonderland and join it with the United States of Auradon.

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

“Mind if I sketch?”

Adrien blinked, glancing up at her. “Not at all. We’ve probably both watched this more than once.”

She smiled, her pencil expertly flying across the page.

She hunched over the book but the tension in her shoulders practically melted as soon as his fingers pressed slightly on her skin.

Adrien sat up, dying to see how her sketch came together. She wasn’t exactly hiding the sketchbook, but his father had always been a little fretful about letting anyone see a sketch in progress. “Wouldn’t it help to have it paused?”

“Not with the TV screen so small. Stills can provide a lot of detail, but,” Marinette confided absently, as she continued to sketch, “I want to see how the fabric would move.”

For one tense moment, Adrien’s breath caught in his throat as the flash of a few spots caught his eye.

Why would Marinette care how the fabric moved on Ladybug? Unless…

Unless.

Unless she was making a dress herself. 

Or thinking about it very seriously.

Suddenly, Adrien needed to know. His mind raced, struggling to remember every little detail he could about what Marinette had mentioned about her friend who made her dress on their first date.

She had been a little protective about those details. Of course, she had also been pretending to be Kagami… 

Thanks to the amazing @xhanisai I now how more lovely art commissioned for The Rules of Engagement!

[celestiall0tus]

Bloody Bug Kwami Factory Reset - New Concepts, Powers, and More

Alright, with the reset chapter 68 of Bloody Bug, there has been a major change with the kwamis. I will still detail it in the story, however I will also put it here as a reference to fall back onto for those that like this stuff when it comes to my AUs (looks over at the Holder Powers master list). Alright, let's crack into this.

The Reset:

For those that haven't caught up, or haven't read it but are just here, the kwamis were reset to their original states when they were created by the Mage. It was discovered the Order had put limitations on the kwamis because they believed them too dangerous to leave as is and changed them. However, with the help of Tikki, Adrien, and Kagami, the kwamis have been returned to that state. With this comes some other big changes.

What was Lost:

The protections and limitations the Order of Guardians had created are gone. This means the following:

There is no safeguard to protect a holder's identity

There are no safeguards to keep a holder from using their powers as many times as they want, much like Shadybug and Claw Noir. However, unlike them, the holder isn't damaged, but like in Paradise AU, they lose lifeforce. It grows from seconds, to minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and finally years. This can be offset by the tier system that remains in place.

Kwamis are no longer subservient to humanity. They cannot be ordered to do anything, cannot be commanded so easily, and can straight up refuse to comply.

Kwamis can choose their own holders, for better or worse. In some cases, a kwami can override a person's consent and take them as their holder regardless, leading to its own consequences. They aren't bound to the holder either and may leave whenever they please.

The kwamis now embody their original concepts or the full range of their concepts. As such, many of their personalities and other aspects will be far different from canon.

Bad things don't happen when kwamis use their powers without holders.

What was Gained:

With the kwamis returned and fully embodying their concepts, the tiers of holders have been expanded with their new abilities. However, as it was stated, the higher up they are in these tiers, the less human the holders become and the harder it is for them to exist without kwamis, and for the kwamis to let them go. This was seen a little with Mayura and how inhuman she was, but will be driven home soon.

Kwamis have gained the ability to shapeshift, be it into their animals or humans. How they look as either is purely cosmetic to them. Their memories and experiences have been returned, including the ones that had belong to Velze. They are once again able to speak freely of him.

Now, the tiers reworked with the changes:

Tier 1: Baseline Holder. These are the very basic, very human of the holders. They still don't retain any special abilities and can only use their one power about once before they start drawing on their own lifeforce.

Tier 2: Enlightened Holder. These are the holders capable of 2-4 kwami unifications. They also gain another power, another use of their powers (2 max), and have a couple of passive abilities related to their kwami's animal.

Tier 3: Awakened Holder. These are the holders capable of amalgamation unifications/Velze unifications/5 kwami unifications. They also gain a couple of passives related to their kwami's concept along with another power, plus two more charges (making it up to 4 charges total). This is when holders have their strength, speed, and agility boosted in and out of transformations.

Tier 4: Mythic Holder. These are the holders that are capable of fusing with kwamis, allowing them access to primal forms. They gain a pair of passives related to both animal and concept. And gain another boost to strength, speed, and agility in and out of transformations.

Tier 5: Ascended Holders. These are the holders that are more kwami than human. They experience a small fraction of human needs such as hunger and sleep (Ie they get hungry about once a day, and need only sleep for 4 hours max). Their powers and charges are maxed out at 6 and they no longer need to speak to use their powers. They are deadly to holders lower than them with their attributes maxed out, in and out of transformations, making them closer to demigods. Paled in comparison to only one tier.

Tier 6: Mantle. The final and deadliest of tiers. No elixir exists to elevate a holder to this state. A holder must have a perfect bond with a kwami, then ingest the kwami. If they survive the process, they become the kwami, giving them access to all powers, near unlimited uses, disease immunity, can transform at will, and shapeshifting. However, the holder becomes their kwami's personality, relationships, and more (ie Duusu's Mantle becoming more emotional and sensitive, Tikki and Plagg's Mantles taking on their more romantic bond, etc). In addition, if there are other Mantles, they are able to fuse with other kwamis or Mantles. The only death for a Mantle is another Mantle, old age, or overusing powers.

Now the biggest of them...

Holders, their powers and weapons:

Let's get this started. You'll get the activation phrase, powers (listed by tiers), tools/weapon, and whatever else I may forget to mention. I will also only be doing the holders that have made it to this point. Sorry to Badb, Porcelet, Fennec, and Bomb Bee.

We start with the leading lady herself, Bloody Bug. Let's crack into this:

Concept: Creation

Tool/Weapon: Yo-yo

Transformation phrase: Tikki, spots on

Power phrases: Create (Object Creation), Form (Matter Creation), Walk (Construct Creation)

Tier 1: Power allows her to create objects.

Tier 2: Passives gained are walking on walls and ceilings (like spiderman) and hovering (which she does with her "skates"). Power gained is Construct Creation.

Tier 3: Passives gained are passive creative aura and Recreation. Power gained is Matter Creation.

Tier 4: Passives gained are Advantage Creation and Flight.

Next, the leading guy, Chat Noir.

Concept: Destruction

Tool/Weapon: Staff

Transformation phrase: Plagg, Claws Out

Power phrases: Cataclysm (Object Destruction), Ruin (Irreversible Destruction), Erase (Erasure)

Tier 1: Power allows him to destroy objects.

Tier 2: Passives gained are night vision and scale vertical surfaces. Power gained is Erasure.

Tier 3: Passives gained are passive destructive aura and destabilization. Power gained is Irreversible Destruction.

Tier 4: Passives gained are Decay and Claw Damage.

Chloe Bourgeois as Gallic Chick

Concept: Ambition

Tool/Weapon: Feather Pen

Transformation phrase: Orikko, Sunrise

Power phrases: Sublimation (Power Choice), Read (Attack Predication)

Tier 1: Power allows her access to any power to achieve her goals not governed by another kwami.

Tier 2: Passives gained are rooster crow that can be heard for miles and rooster spurs. Power gained is Attack Prediction.

Mylene Haprele as Hydra

Concept: Nature

Tool/Weapon: Sword and Shield

Transformation phrase: Longg, Ascension

Power phrases: Nature (Nature Manipulation), Water (Water Manipulation)

Tier 1: Power is nature manipulation.

Tier 2: Passives gained are breathe underwater and frightening roar. Power gained is water manipulation.

Max Kante as Apollo

Concept: Augmentation

Tool/Weapon: Grimoire

Transformation phrase: Mullo, Get Squeaky

Power phrases: Strengthen (Physical Augmentation), Boost (Power Augmentation)

Tier 1: Power allows him to enhance the physical capabilities of a single target.

Tier 2: Passives gained are enhanced hearing and able to scale surfaces quickly. Power gained is Power Augmentation.

Le Chien Kim as Minotaur

Concept: Willpower

Tool/Weapon: Warhammer

Transformation phrase: Stompp, Charge Ahead

Power phrases: Superior (Superiority), Unyielding (Power Invulnerability)

Tier 1: Power is Power Invulnerability.

Tier 2: Passives gained he has a higher pain tolerance (allowing him to take more hits) and can do a bull charge that cannot be interrupted. Power gained allows him to become greater than his opponent.

Marc Anciel as Ouroboros.

Concept: Clairvoyance

Tool/Weapon: Crystal Ball

Transformation phrase: Sass, Scales Slither

Power phrases: Foresee (Prophecy), Overlap (Astral Vision)

Tier 1: Power is Prophecy.

Tier 2: Passives gained are infrared vision at night and can glide. Power gained is Astral Vision.

Rose Lavillant as Pom Pom

Concept: Protection

Tool/Weapon: Throwing Knives

Transformation phrase: Barkk, Let's Play

Power phrases: Safeguard (Defense Augmentation), Break (Defense Weakening)

Tier 1: Power is Defense Augmentation.

Tier 2: Passives gained are enhanced smell and enhanced hearing. Power gained allows her to weaken defenses.

Ivan Bruel as Crimson Tiger

Concept: Power

Tool/Weapon: Gauntlets

Transformation phrase: Roarr, Stripes On

Power phrases: Clout (Super Punch), Copy (Power Mimicry)

Tier 1: Power is Clout.

Tier 2: Passives gained are night vision and claw damage. Power gained is Power Mimicry.

Kagami Tsurugi as Serow

Concept: Devotion

Tool/Weapon: Prayer Beads

Transformation phrase: Ziggy, Bleat it

Power phrases: Obey (Command)

Tier 1: Power is Command

Marinette Dupain-Cheng as Ao

Concept: Philosophy

Tool/Weapon: Shield

Transformation phrase: Wayzz, shell on

Power phrases: Judgement (Character Judgement Mastery)

Tier 1: Power is Character Judgement Mastery.

Nino Lahiffe with the Bee, and I like @nocturnal-notes suggestion of Killer Bee, so we going with that.

Concept: Life

Tool/Weapon: Spinning Top

Transformation phrase: Pollen, Buzz On

Power phrases: Sting (Heal)

Tier 1: Power is Healing.

Zoe Lee as Rascal

Concept: Deception

Tool/Weapon: Flute

Transformation phrase: Trixx, Let's Pounce

Power phrases: Mirage (Illusions), Trick (Subliminal Messaging)

Tier 1: Power is Illusions

Tier 2: Passives gained are enhanced hearing and night vision. Power gained is Subliminal Messaging.

Felix Graham de Vanily as Llameri

Concept: Space

Tool/Weapon: TBA

Transformation phrase: Kaalki, full gallop

Power phrases: Voyage (Teleportation), Defy (Gravity Defiance)

Tier 1: Power is teleportation

Tier 2: Passives gained are enhanced hearing and night vision. Power gained is Gravity Defiance.

Now for the Villains, starting with Luka Couffaine with the Peacock (Name TBA)

Concept: Emotion

Tool/Weapon: Fan

Transformation phrase: Duusu, Spread my Feathers

Tier 1: Power allows him to induce/create emotions in others.

Tier 2: Passives gained are a spectral tail to distract opponents and powerful kicks. Power gained is Emotion Constructs.

Tier 3: Passives gained are emotion reading and behavior manipulation. Power gained is Emotion Augmentation.

Tier 4: Passives gained are emotion locking and glide.

Tier 5: Powers gained are Emotional Healing, Emotion Separation, Emotion Restoration

Last (for now) LIla Rossi as Chrysalis.

Concept: Transformation

Tool/Weapon: Cane

Transformation phrase: Nooroo, wings rise

Tier 1: Power allows her to transform objects.

Tier 2: Passives gained are able to create a chrysalis as a shield and walking along surfaces (like Bloody Bug). Power gained is form manipulation.

Tier 3: Passives gained are energy conversion and reshape. Power gained is Restoration.

Tier 4: Passives gained are remolding and flight.

Tier 5: Powers gained are Amalgamation, Overhaul, Petrification

Alright, that should be everything. There are two holders to be added, but they'll be added once I have their designs done and posted. Anyway, enjoy this for the time being.

[tumblingxelian]

Tiger!Chloe (Thematic & Visual Language)

I finally figured out why I like Chloe with the Tiger Miraculous so much as a concept, beyond the rule of cool angle.

See, there were some design elements in making Chloe Queen Bee that mattered in serving to set her up as a distaff counterpart to Marinette. One who could be her rival, her ally, her opposite and equal.

The main one being that she shared a tool type with Ladybug. Both had a toy that could be used as a whip, bind and means of travel. The Tigers Bola has the same visual benefit, while adding a sub textual layer that Chloe is more offence oriented.

The other is more blunt but still very present, namely there's the classic stripes contrasting spots angle, which also came with the Bee & is present with the tiger.

But, there's an added boon to the tiger too!

Namely, it gives Chloe similar coding to Adrien! After all, Tiger & Cat are both felines, both their powers are primarily released via hand strikes. Both are violent and destructive powers. It shows how the both in many ways come from a similar place, are made of similar stuff but are at the same time, very different.

Basically, it doubles the visual themes and story telling one can do.

I dunno, I just think that its neat.

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Crossover or miraculous au where gatlon city gets the miraculous wouldn't leave me and between Maggie getting the ladybug and the cat miraculous, she 100% would have the cat. Though if we're being honest she'd also 100% be stealing that jewelry and finding out about what comes along with em ltr haha

Out of all the miraculous she probably wouldn't CHOOSE the cat, given I think the fox or dog would be more helpful, but I do get a kick out of thinking what her interactions with Plagg might be

[festering-bacteria]

Lila, Felicity (Felix, she’s transfem in my au), & Sabrina! (Ik Volpina isn’t an actual miraculous user but it’s the closest I had to one at least until chrysalis’ design is revealed 💋)

[gaussiansphere]

Debutante

Simulacrums of Luck Day 5: Contortion

I’ll see if I can fill out the rest of these as I get the time, but I had another concept strike me for today. Poor Chloe’s butler, whatever your name might really be...

Gabriel Agreste hasn’t taken off his gloves all night.

It is customary to remove them for a handshake, particularly when one greets the host or hostess. Such a norm goes unsaid in polite society, and Gabriel Agreste is nothing but a creature of polite society. At least, it seems he would very much like to let himself and everyone around him believe so.

And yet, the gloves stayed on the whole night. Even as he entered, taking Miss. Bourgeois by the hand and pressing thin, cracked lips to the skin just beyond the knuckles, he did so with a hand sheathed in white satin. When he smiled at her, it was crooked, teeth somehow out of their proper place.

“Jean-Luc, more champagne!” She called for him in a tone just half a pitch too high. Her posture was bent and shaky in a way her mother, had she been here today, would never have tolerated. The first thing he did, as he carried the tray atop his right hand, was sneak a glimpse at her nose. Her upper lip was, surprisingly, bereft of any trace of powder or water. And yet she was shaking. She disguised it, certainly—one hand laid on the arm of a mostly balding general, the other arm interlocked with Gabriel Agreste, and yet she was still shaking.

As he attended the party, he was sure to attend to the needs of all the guests, with particular interest in Miss. Bourgeois and her friends, and very particular interest, now, in the affairs of another of their guests, who was here making his first prolonged public appearance in what might have been months.

It was here that he noticed something quite peculiar. 

She had not left his side all night.

[wisteriasymphony]

Miraculous Mortality - Transmutation

CW: gun, body horror, blood and pus and ickiness :( also like. toxic yaoi vibes i guess

It had taken hours to find a suitable shelter—Hours that Jaqueline arguably did not have. Every bandage she once had was now coated with blood and pus, and the boils on her arm just continued to grow and burst and multiply like they fed off of her. Damn that Helix Vert—She could admit he'd pulled a fast one on her, but that was the last time she'd ever let that slimy bastard get that close.

Jaqueline huddled up against a wall, letting herself sink to the floor. She'd lost control over her good arm, too, making everything even harder. Her satchel needed to be opened with the same hand that held her gun, and that hand also had to—It was annoying, in short. If she had any bullets left before recharging, Jaqueline would track that bastard down and make sure to pay him back double for the mess she'd been put through.

Jaqueline fiddled with her revolver, sticking it to her jaw.

"Amalgam."

Jaqueline felt the path of the bullet through her skull, the feeling just as painful as always was. But it made watching her targets writhe in pain all the better, as she knew what it felt like when the copper shrapnel burned through flesh and spread a fire like no other through every nerve. She'd be catatonic for the next few minutes, and then just in debilitating pain for another hour—that was what made shelter so invaluable. If she'd dealt with it in the middle of a horde, she'd be dead meat. And if she was dead meat while the infection was still in her... that bastard Helix would have a carte blanche to her skillset. And there was no way in hell Jaqueline would let anyone take her gun, cause she was sure it was all she needed to be the last woman standing.

Her infected arm began to spasm, dripping pus onto the dirt and gravel as the infection was burned out. And it was never exactly pretty either—The boils and open wounds would suddenly explode in number, her arm splitting apart at the seams and spraying viscera everywhere. Jaqueline threw her head back against the wall, grinding her teeth from the pain. She'd get Helix good for this, she swore it. Tie him up with his own string, force him to grovel at her feet before she stamped his head through the ground with her boot. And if he didn't beg for mercy, she'd find a way to make him—stick her revolver against his head and force his brain to rewire. Imagination was the limit to Amalgam, and Jaqueline chose Iciss because she was as creative as she could be cruel.

The infection was nearly staved off—only mere remnants of the poison remained in the greenish-yellow tint of her veins. Through her grunting and panting, Jaqueline forced a smile; She could only imagine the look on Helix Vert's face when he realized just how easy it was to ruin his 'hard work'. It wouldn't be so easy the other way around, now would it?

Jaqueline's arm buzzed as she finally regained feeling in it. Still, she couldn't bring herself to move it, stretch the fingers that were seconds away from rotting off at one point—All she could do was lie there, drained and nauseous, until the pain fully subsided. It'd be a damn shame if she got jumped again, cause then she'd just have to fight through it instead of giving herself the luxury of a nice rest. But no matter what she put her body through, Jaqueline's spirit would never weaken or waver. She would never die.

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big thanks to...

@bakawitch (Creator of Miraculous Mortality AU)

@nocturnal-notes (Contributor for Beetum/Helix Vert/ I thought you would want to see this anyways :3 )

and whatever lovely individual contribued to Iciss hm i wonder who that could be guess we'll never know

[chocostrwberry]

In chocoau! I really like the idea that Chat Noir is Ladybug’s protector.

He’s there to make sure she’s safe and can protect Paris, or is just the one she can rely on and fall on when she makes a mistake. It would give Adrien a sense of purpose and the chance to prove to himself (and unconsciously Marinette) that he can be a kind person. So even though Chat Noir doesn’t have a crush on Ladybug, he’s always willing to listen to her and do as she asks just because that’s his role as the Cat miraculous holder. Maybe that’s also why he calls her “my lady”, because he sees himself as her knight!!

She trusts him to be there for her, and he trusts her to take down the akuma.

(This would also reflect in Plagg and Tikki. When Tikki gets kidnapped or is in trouble and Plagg sees, he never hesitates to help her even though it might expose himself or the other kwamis.)

[msweebyness]

Clairvoyant Cousins AU- New Idea!!! (Dupain-Cheng/Anciel Cousins)

New AU idea from ya girl! Enjoy! @imsparky2002 @artzychic27

So I was always a huge fan of American Dragon: Jake Long, and the Oracle Twins, Sara and Kara, were my favorite characters. So I thought of this. (Sara-Marinette, Kara-Marc)

Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Marc Anciel, paternal cousins, were born on the same night at the exact same time, under the light of a full harvest moon.

This would be an unusual event already, but things really became strange once the two were able to talk…

Marinette and Marc would tell their family, neighbors, strangers that things were going to happen to them…and they did. Unfailingly, if Marinette told you that you would fall down the stairs and sprain your ankle, or Marc said you were going to find something you lost, it would always happen. Every time.

It was pretty obvious by the time they were seven that they had the power to see the future, but there was an odd twist. Marinette could only foresee negative events, while Marc only saw positive ones.

Yet somehow, Marinette was a bright little ray of sunshine, while Marc spoke in a passive monotone and rarely showed emotion. (Their styles reflect their personalities, Mari is pastel goth and Marc is our emo son)

Despite their differing personalities, Marinette and Marc were always inseparable, the best of friends. They understood each other in ways that other people didn’t and confided everything to one another.

It would be a fair statement that they weren’t exactly…popular. Despite being friendly and cordial to most people who approached them, many were put off by Marinette cheerfully asking if they’d like to know their exact time and cause of death, followed by Marc flatly informing them what they were getting for their birthday that year. They quickly gained reputations as “freaks”, with a large portion of the school avoiding them like the plague.

Despite this, they managed to find friends in their respective classes, with the exception of Chloe for Marinette, one of the cousins’ most persistent tormentors.

Marinette adopted her positive outlook as a way to cope with the constant influx of depressing and horrific visions her “gift” gives her, trying to find solace in the small joys of life while being plagued with images of death, loss and despair.

Marc’s seeming inability to express happiness developed over time as he struggled to enjoy the good events in life when he could always anticipate them. There was no such thing as the joy of the unexpected for him, and he knew that negative events were always sure to follow. He was called “ungrateful”, “apathetic” and “cold” for this.

As Marinette grew older, the more she saw how people reacted to her visions, the more she began to internalize her trauma from them, hold everything in and constantly keep a smile on her face. It didn’t help when this mentality was drilled into her by, AHEM, certain people (“Marinette, you don’t want to make other people scared and sad, do you?” “Why would you want to hurt people, telling them about your visions?” “It’s best if you don’t tell anyone, you’ll only make things worse.”) This led her to double down on a toxic positivity mindset and attempt to act like she was as happy as could be, despite her inner turmoil.

Marc would try to encourage her to seek help, to talk to him or to anyone about the trauma induced by her visions but she was so entrenched in seeing herself as a burden that she would only give him a broken smile and assure him all was well.

When the two were thirteen, Marinette suffered her first public…break. She had had them in the privacy of her home before but never in the company of those outside her family. An overwhelming influx of terrible and disheartening visions about the friends she had come to care for so much sent her into a spiral of panic, and all she could do was scream and cry, completely unresponsive, horrifying her classmates.

Having heard the commotion, Marc had come (his classmates following) to see what was going on. He acted quickly, picking Marinette up and whispering to her in soft Italian, a lullaby her papa would use to calm her. He told everyone firmly that he was taking her home, and no one dared to argue after the piercing death glare he gave Bustier.

He almost slapped Lila the next day when she implied Marinette faked her attacks for attention. (He will shiv anyone who messes with her, and vice versa)

So here’s this! Leave thoughts in the comments and reblogs!

[weaverofink]

Deity!tikki AU where the miraculous gets damaged somehow and the enchantment keeping the god within trapped and docile breaks, and Marinette has to contend with a very angry creation god that wants to annihilate the order of guardians

Bonus: my initial sketch of deity!tikki

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

The Rules of Engagement - Master Post

Fic is now complete!

Summary:  When tragedy sends Adrien Agreste racing back to Paris to run his father’s fashion house, Marinette doesn’t expect much from her very new, very rich boss. At least not until she is set up on a blind date with a very familiar face.

Much to her surprise, Adrien Agreste was hiding far more secrets behind his stoic business-like mask of temporary CEO. Maybe as many secrets as she had been trying to hide for years.

As they grow closer, Marinette fears her mask isn’t nearly as foolproof. Day after day, it gets harder for her to keep all her secrets well hidden from the surprisingly sweet man who insisted on staying by her side as often as possible.

Only she couldn’t afford to fail. Not when her biggest secret could spell the end of the job she’d dreamed about for years.

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Holders Powers Master List

Decided to make this as I feel it'll be important. Here I will provide all the links to prior posts that are from asks regarding the powers of the holders and I thoroughly explained the use of the powers across the AUs that I work on.

So, here is the list (please note that the list will be updated with the links as they come out):

Ladybug of Creation

Black Cat of Destruction

Bee of Devotion

Spider of Betrayal

Mouse of Perception

Pig of Ignorance

Fox of Deception

Lynx of Honesty

Dog of Love

Rooster of Animosity

Bat of Fear

Tiger of Valor

Ant of Drudgery

Goat of Revelry

Monkey of Joy

Raven of Sorrow

Wolf/Deer of Intuition

Owl of Knowledge

Ox of Determination

Koala of Lethargy

Horse/Wolf/White Cat of Freedom

Rabbit of Connection

Peacock of Beauty

Butterfly of Transformation

Snake of Life

Dragon of Nature

Turtle of Protection

Cicada of Reality

Chameleon of Imagination

Swan of Soul

Cow of Body

Robin of Genesis

Dove of Destiny

Dolphin of Memory

Seal of Oblivion

Shark of Time

Bear of Space

Baku of Dreams

Bloody Bug Kwami Factory Reset