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[erisluna35ocblog]

Shizuke, that's not what "shipping" means...

Later on he'll ask Keagan about this and gets more than he bargained for. His bestie was dying to explain this concept.

[erisluna35ocblog]

Being a single mom of three is hard.

Especially when they either don't take their safety seriously enough, believe their powers should make them capable of handling it or worst of all, both.

Context: This is Erin Liung. For those who've read N2CatS, you may have heard of her as Blair's legal guardian/adoptive mother. The guy on the left is her biological son, Vincent. Neither have officially appeared in that fic, just cameo'd in Volpino's illusion flashbacks. Vincent does not get a Miraculous at any point so he's included here.

Edit: for further context on how Vincent counts here despite not having a Miraculous... this guy is crazy enough to run over an akuma to protect his adoptive twins (happened in the episode Ego Split). What a maniac.

[erisluna35ocblog]

Proof Blair is totally Lila's descendant:

Can't blame Marinette for being so untrusty towards her lol. Blair just exudes Lila vibes, it's ridiculous. This is how I picture her in some of the scenes for my fanfic No Two Cats are the Same at Ao3 and FFN. If people were to imagine my fic in animated format, I'd suggest picturing Blair posing similar to Lila in as many scenes as possible. She has her flair. But there's a different subtext going on despite the similar poses.

On a side note, lmao the way she looks while talking about her bug: constantly obliviously in love lololol she's a clown I'm sorry.

[erisluna35ocblog]

Character Inspirations (Part 1): Shizuke Midorikawa and Blair Crawford

This should more or less explain some things with how canon characters are gonna view my OCs. To help my OCs blend in better within the MLB AU, I chose to connect them to at least four canon characters. The bottom two I listed are the character inspirations that are meant to give them something to stand out from the OG cast.

[erisluna35ocblog]

When you broke up cause you're a superhero now, and so is your sister, and the villain is hunting you down... and your ex-girlfriend is so pissed at you she accidentally chose the most appropriate song to get to you. You'd swear to her it's not her, it's your enemies if you could but secret identity 101.

Oh, and all your friends are watching it to varying degrees of entertainment.

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Shizuke is NOT an Adrienette descendant but...

This might explain why Adrien feels more at ease around him. Shizuke reminds him of someone. He is not their descendant but I am a believer of nurture over nature: his grandmother saw Adrienette as her mentors-slash-parental-figures and she picked up some of their mannerisms. And Shizuke is a grandma's boy so... These are some of his scenes for my fanfic No Two Cats are the Same at Ao3 and FFN.

Shizuke took a little longer than Blair to draw because this guy can run through five expressions per scene if he's feeling particularly emotional, so choosing an expression took me a while. Most of those expressions included exaggerated hand movements. He inherited Marinette's rubber face and flailing arms alongside her Miraculous. Pretty sure the public are looking at their generation's Ladybug, believing he is totally related to history's legendary bug heroine but he swears he isn't. Personality-wise, he's got more in common with Adrien, hence the lack of speculation if he's related to Chat Noir.

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For context, the woman in both pics is Erin Liung. She's a friend of both the man, Noir, and the woman he's talking about, Bianca. Those two are the parents of the girl below, Blair, who's got a lot in common with her dad, like blaming their love interests for making their aro-spec hearts skip a beat. But their dead and Erin, being their bestest best friend ever, is raising their kids. Life is hard when you're the only normal one in your found family, huh Erin?

Based on this.

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The only reason N2CatS's subplot of Blair pretending to be Adrien works is because Gabriel is that neglectful towards Adrien. If it were Marinette who got yeeted to the future and Shizuke needing to pose as Marinette for a week, he'd get caught on day 1. It wouldn't just be because he lacks acting chops. If, say, its still Blair who gets thrown back to the past and has to pose as Marinette, at best, she could hide it for a day or two. Cause let's face it, Marinette's got a huge support network. One of them, especially Alya, is bound to clock either one of them as an imposter.

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Timeline for my OC's ML AU:

When it comes to timelines, I prefer to play it lose. No specific dates outside the occassional holidays and character birthdays. Just vague mentions of how it happened in a certain month or season at best. For my fic BTaL, it goes for a 13 episode structure per season, like an anime. Each episode is around 30K words, give or take 5K. I estimated the story to be about a year long. Here's the draft of how the timeline is planned with some explanations for episodes that break the order:

Origins:

Early September, tail end of summer. It's the first day of school. Kept as a separate fic in both ff.net and Ao3 as this is meant to be like a special. An outlier from the seasons.

S1 Episode Slumber:

A flashback episode that happens across October. Shizuke and Blair spent a month arguing. They were super stubborn. Mentioned All Soul's Day/Day of the Dead in one segment of the epilogue. Meant to establish that Shizublair had already been through a fair amount as partners during the 1st half of S1.

S1 proper:

January to May. Holidays that will be covered: Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Japan's Golden Week, which Shizuke's birthday (May 4) falls right in the middle of. Plenty of mentions from Shizubug how he and Blaircat have been partners for four going on five and so on months cause the dork counts the days he's together with his partner. There's also Keagan's aunt getting married to their homeroom teacher which was explicitly said was gonna happen around Spring, and a Spring Beauty Pageant and maybe April Fools gets a referrence.

S2 1st half:

Covers June for Summer Vacation. They end their school year off screen between S1 finale and S2. There's a minor timeskip of about a week or two filled in within the first episode's montage on how the team adjusted to the changes post S1 finale brought - its a slow month of just these guys adjusting to S1 finale dropping a bomb on their lives. The twins' birthday (June 13) acts as a mid season finale.

N2CatS:

Set in late June, a week after the twins' birthday. It's the future side's defining event for N2CatS - set up as the reason behind their status quo shift in this fic that's changed a lot from where I currently left BTaL off. The story is meant to be a week long but each day is packed. I'm planning to slow or speed up pacing depending on the day. Its meant to be a mini series special, and can be read as a stand alone unlike the rest of the series. The only holiday mentioned here is the completely made up Helios City Founding Day.

S2 2nd half:

Set from July to August. I'm seriously considering splitting S2 into two separate stories in ff.net while Ao3 gets a disclaimer to read N2CatS first before reading this half of the season. This half is building up to enrollment as both heroes are confronted with whether they should stay in Xyril Tech or not. The start of senior high is a metaphor for a huge turning point - them deciding to stay or not can change everything. The subplot here will also shift focus to Fiona as her arc sets up S2's finale.

S3 Episode White Knight:

Another flashback episode. Most of it is set on Keagan's Birthday (August 21), over a week before S3's debut episode starts. This episode ends with an epilogue from Keagan's perspective that goes on until a couple of weeks after Heroes Anniversary, wrapping around S3's 1st episode like canon MLB's Multiplication wrapped around Destruction and a special. This explains the shift in Keagan for S3, which happened because of the end of Fiona's arc last season, hence the weird placement. It covers the last week before the 1st day of school properly starts and all the stuff Keagan arranged leading up to it, like how everyone on the heroes team are now on the same class and why Keagan is the class president instead of Shizuke. Much like the S1 finale, S2 finale brought another huge shift in the status quo.

S3 Proper:

Starts in early September. Going full circle from Origins, it's supposed to be the first day of school but that's delayed in favor of their current heroes' anniversary. Establishes that a year has passed since the heroes came to be. The season goes from September to early December. The Day of the Dead will be covered and it'll act as the start of the countdown to the finale. It was snowing in the finale, so it was definitely winter...

Side Notes:

This fic series doesn't have a Christmas Special. I just couldn't come up with anything fun for that besides this one skit I might just draw or write as a drabble someday.

Fiona, Natalia and Damien's birthdays are skipped. Nothing major happened so let's just say they celebrated in peace. Sorry for the other half of the cast.

I keep holidays to a bare minimum or use mostly made up holidays to justify events to avoid the same timeline trap canon mlb has.

Their own take on the Paris Special (Reverse AU Crossover) is considered. I'm not sure, I like it enough as its own thing and leaving it as scattered concepts. But if it were to ever happen in the series proper, I'd place it somewhere in early S3. Its mainly to better parallel the Ladybugs and Fiona. Prime!Fiona got to temporarily be Ladybug for S2 finale 2-parter, it feels more effective if this special happened after that as the Ladybug from the other world is Reverse!Fiona. This special feels more like Shizuke's N2CatS.

I've also considered a future sequel series but ugh at this point I'd just be happy if I could finish S1 and N2CatS at all.