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immaturityofthomasastruc · 2 years ago

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IOTA Reviews: Migration

You know, for a while, I thought Luka was one of the smartest characters in the show, and the fact that he's hightailing it out of Paris in this episode only continues to prove my point.

Let's get into the thirteenth episode of Miraculous Ladybug's fifth season: Migration

We start off with Marinette running over to the Liberty (with her friends laughing behind her back like the supportive people they are) and tries to talk with Luka about her relationship with Adrien once they're in private. Luka is pretty supportive, and it's a nice scene. Marinette then bumps into Adrien, who also wants to talk with Luka, and while the two try to get unstuck, we get a nice visual of Luka seeing the two as Ladybug and Cat Noir, which is there to remind the audience that he's known who both of them are ever since “Wishmaker”.

Adrien then talks to Luka about how he's worried something is keeping Marinette from being honest about her feelings. Luka gives him some advice on how just because he doesn't know everything about Marinette, it doesn't make her feelings for him less valid, and vice versa.

After Adrien leaves, we get an appearance from everyone's favorite deadbeat dad, Jagged Stone. He asks Luka how he can be a better father like he didn't miss years of child support, but all Luka really says is that he needs to spend time with his damn family. Of course, what I like about this scene is that it avoids the usual narrative pitfall of trying to say that Jagged and Anarka, Luka's mom, should get back together, and instead shows Jagged developing feelings for his agent, Penny.

Speaking of, after Jagged leaves, Penny comes in to come to Luka for advice. Okay, is Luka just the Dr. Phil of this show's universe? Penny talks to Luka about her sudden feelings for Jagged Stone.

Penny: No, I don't know why I'm in love with your father. He's disorganized, childish, selfish, and musically speaking, he's no David Bowie. Truth be told, your dad's a walking disaster. So why do I love him?

Luka: Does he make you happy, Penny?

Penny: Yeah. I just can't figure out why!

It's almost like this show will randomly pair people up at the drop of a hat. But hey, at least Luka hasn't asked if Kagami is single yet.

Before Penny leaves, Bob Roth, Jagged's producer, demands to know where he is, as he needs to record a new album. Bob learns that Jagged had children with Anarka (ignoring the potential scandal it could create), so Anarka promptly throws him out of the boat in a scene that I'm pretty sure is meant to be a reference to that one running gag from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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Either way, Jazz's scream was funnier.

Kitty Section then practices their latest song about how you don't have to be rich, because even the songs in this show aren't exactly subtle with their messages. Bob somehow gets back on the Liberty completely dry, and offers the band a contract.

Bob: How would you like to sign a contract with me?

Luka: Actually, Bob, you already offered to sign us... Marinette: And you never followed up. Did you forget?

Bob: Huh? Uh... of course! I remember! I was just waiting for the right reason—uh, I mean, the right time! I was waiting for the right time to have you guys sign the contract!

My God, even the characters in this show want to forget it used to have good episodes.

Anarka throws Bob off again, where she and Luka talk about how everyone deserves a second chance and that change is possible.

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Yeah, funny how that message almost never came up with Chloe, Lila, and Felix last season, isn't it? And given that they're going to use Bob as an example of this lesson, I don't think it's going to be a positive one. So right after Luka generously decided to give Bob a second chance, Bob offers them a new contract to sign... and as soon as he does, he screws them all over thanks to a lot of fine print they didn't stop to read.

Ivan: He can fire us whenever he wants?

Bob: Yep, and I just did, by the way.

Rose: The name Kitty Section belongs to him?!

Bob: Yep. It’s ugly, but it’s mine. Marinette: He owns everything you’ve made and will make over the next thousand years!? Bob: Gotta cover all bases.

Zoe: Marinette's costumes, the music video Nino shot, the website Mylene runs...

Bob: All mine!

Adrien: And you can’t even start another band together?

Bob: Course not, that’d be unfair competition! EVERYTHING belongs to me! Everything you are, everything you say, everything that’s in your hearts belongs to me!

See, kids? This is why you should never trust bad people. It doesn't matter if they say they want to improve. They just want to trick you and ruin your life, so if you're ever wronged by anyone, that person is never able to redeem themselves, especially if they're rich. As we all know, rich people are far worse than insane supervillains who want to rewrite reality. Just ask the biggest monster in the show, Chloe Bourgeois.

So yeah, Luka's optimism being taken advantage of is enough to attract the attention of Monarch, who attempts to akumatize him into Silencer again. Monarch realizes that Luka knows Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities (why he didn't think to look into it, given Viperion's powers, is left unanswered), and angrily smashes his guitar to free himself of Monarch's influence.

So not only did he stop himself from getting akumatized, he's also one step closer to becoming a true rock star.

Somehow, Bob thinks only keeping Luka on board would mean he wouldn't hate him, but Luka isn't buying it. Bob is shocked that Luka wouldn't want to work for an asshole like him as Luka tears the contract in half, but Bob has backups. Monarch decides to settle on Bob instead, akumatizing him into Gold Record.

Gold Record's design is... okay. It's still better than Sole Destroyer, and it's definitely better than Moolak. The gold coloring looks nice, and the euro symbol on the record is a nice visual. His powers are pretty much just a combination of Pixelator, the Collector, and Truth's powers, transforming people into records who sing their true feelings while using the Horse Miraculous' Voyage to throw the records into space. Nothing too original there, but it's a good metaphor for sleazy music producers, and it works for this story.

Rose and Anarka are the first of Gold Record's victims, and in a hurry, Luka lets Adrien know he knows he's Cat Noir, giving him a place to hide. Just as Juleka is hit by Gold Record, Ladybug and Cat Noir arrive on the scene. While Cat Noir holds off Gold Record, Ladybug tries to come up with a plan.

Ladybug summons her Lucky Charm, getting a knitting needle. She realizes her plan will need to involve using Luka as bait. Luka is forced to reveal that he knows who Ladybug and Cat Noir are, and what will happen if Gold Record gets him, setting up a tough choice that will force Ladybug to rethink her plan... and then the next scene happens, where Luka lets himself get hit, where Ladybug manages send Gold Record's record flying with a makeshift bow and arrow created from the knitting needle and a nearby fiddle, which Cat Noir immediately Cataclysms.

Ladybug de-evilizes the Akuma, uses Miraculous Ladybug to fix the damage, and gives Bob Roth a Magical Charm that even he knows is useless at this point. Ladybug and Cat Noir decide to call it a day and let Anarka throw Bob Roth out again.

Luka reveals that he knows Ladybug and Cat Noir's identities (because once again, sharing that information with your friends is totally fine for some reason), and that he can't stay in Paris. After revealing that he had Fang eat all of Bob's contracts so Luka isn't bound by them anymore, Jagged offers to take Luka around the world to finally make up for years of absence while Luka makes Juleka the new leader of Kitty Section. And so the episode ends with the Couffaine family sharing a hug while Luka gives one last look to his friends Marinette and Adrien.

This episode was just average, all things considered. The plot and the lesson it was setting out to teach, while not terrible, felt a little tacked on. It was if the writers were trying to acknowledge the stuff that happened with Chloe and wanted to show an example of redemption arc done right in the case of Jagged. It falls flat because once again, more focus is given to showing how easy it is to be screwed over trusting someone than showing the benefits to trusting someone, especially since Bob is already an outlandish villain we already have a lot of reasons to hate.

I'm also mixed on the handling of Luka here. While I'm glad Marinette isn't being forced to learn a lesson here, I don't get why Luka had to be the one to be taken advantage of. He's already aware of how easy it is for Monarch to learn his secrets, so it feels weird that he lets himself and his friends get taken advantage of so easily. Outside of the scene with Ladybug's Lucky Charm, I don't get why he needed to tell the others the stuff he knew. I can sort of see why he'd tell Adrien, but why would he think telling his friends he knows who Ladybug and Cat Noir are wouldn't endanger them too?

Speaking of that, despite being established for almost an entire season, we really don't see enough of Marinette and Adrien reacting to Luka revealing that he knows who they are. Marinette only gets a few lines, and Adrien doesn't even get to say anything. While I am glad that Marinette and Adrien aren't dominating the plot for once, it feels weird that we don't get to see their reactions to something so shocking, especially with how often the identity rule has been enforced.

On the other hand, the writing is still handled a lot better than usual. I like how Monarch chooses to change his strategy to focus on Luka halfway through the episode, and the idea of the risk using Luka for Ladybug's plan brings is an interesting one, even if they don't really go anywhere with it. The running gag with Bob constantly getting thrown off the Liberty is a funny one, and it proves you can actually write slapstick that doesn't involve humiliating Marinette. Who knew?

As a whole, while I think this is the best episode of the season so far, this episode still has its fair share of problems.

THE BIGGEST IDIOT OF THE EPISODE IS... LUKA

Not counting the time Marinette got the award in my review of the Shanghai Special, we have the first character this season to get the Biggest Idiot Award twice. For someone who is usually smarter than the other characters, Luka made quite a few bad choices this episode. He decided to trust Bob Roth after he screwed him and his friends over in “Silencer”, he didn't think to read the contract he was offered, and after being endangered by what Monarch knows now, he decided to tell his friends and family that he knows who Ladybug and Cat Noir are, potentially putting them all in danger too. Yeah, the next few episodes will probably just ignore it, but there's always a chance Monarch could try another Optigami, even if he doesn't have the Peacock Miraculous anymore.

And with that, I'm officially done with the first half of Season 5. What do I think of it? Well, I think Immortan Joe said it best:

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Yeah, this season was pretty boring, all things considered. To be perfectly honest, I struggled here more than I did last season because I wasn't sure what to say about half of the episodes I watched. There was almost nothing of substance these past thirteen episodes, and I could barely say anything other than “this episode is okay” or “this episode is bad”. Whenever I had ideas, they were usually extensions to things I've already talked about, like the Marinette angst, the historical and cultural inaccuracies, and the villains genuinely being incompetent. If you showed someone a few episodes of Season 1 and this season, outside of Monarch's new appearance, it'd be pretty hard for them to tell the difference.

But hey, maybe things will pick up in the second half of the season. Hell, maybe the next episode will be even better than this one, and... huh. Does anyone else hear an ominous whistling in the background?

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artzychic27 · 1 year ago

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Hello. I ❤️ your blog especially your science kids. May I see where one of them calls Marinette out like how Quagmire does it. Sorry for the awkwardness. This is my first time typing to somebody. 😊😊

Yes, honey! Yes! I have been waiting for this!

Simon, my favorite Irish tech geek, take the stand!

Marinette: Well, you don't need to look for somebody new. I'll hang out with you guys.

Marc: Yeah, you know, I don't think that's gonna work out, Marinette, 'cause of the whole Simon thing.

Marinette: What Simon thing?

Marc: Oh, you know, just that he hates you.

Marinette: Simon hates me?

Marc: Hates you.

Marinette: I... I don't get it. Why... why wouldn't Simon like me?

Marc: Because he thinks you're annoying. Like people who never shut up about their pets.

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Marinette: Hey, Simon, what a coincidence. You and me just runnin' into each other. How, how ya doin'?

Simon: Fine.

Marinette: So… *Noticed Simon’s aunt at the checkout* Is that your mom? She’s beautiful.

Simon: That's my aunt, Marinette. My mother is dead to me, as is my father, and I hope they rot in their prison cells.

Marinette: Oh, God. I'm... I'm really sorry.

Simon: I got a cousin who beat her husband. Wanna ask me about her, too?

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Alya: Hey, what are you getting all dressed up for?

Marinette: I'm treating Simon to a night out.

Alix: Really? I thought he hated you. How'd you convince him to go?

Marinette: I tricked him. Sent him a phony card. He thinks he's going on a romantic date with Denise.

Myléne: But instead, you're going to show up.

Marinette: You got it.

Rose: Yikes.

Juleka: That's a recipe for disappointment.

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Marinette: I'll bet you got... how do those things work?

Simon: What? My music videos? How does a music video work?

Marinette: Yeah.

Simon: … You want me to sit here and explain to you how a music video works?

Marinette: I don't know. Yeah.

Simon: You want to maybe just go?

Marinette: Simon, come on, I'm really trying hard here.

Simon: Who asked you to try hard?

Marinette: Nobody, but all... I'm trying to establish a friendship with you. All I've done is try to be nice to you, and you still don't like me. How can you not like me?!

Simon: … Okay. I'll tell you…. You are the worst person I know. You simped after Adrien while you were dating Luka and while Adrien was dating Kagami. The guy was writing you a song, gave you his favorite guitar pick, gave you free therapy, and that was how you repaid him? And to add insult to injury, you rubbed your love for Adrien right in his face. And you're so insensitive. You basically tried to kick Luka out of Kitty Section and make Adrien the lead guitarist? What the fuck? And what really bothers me, is you pretend you're this perfect girl who can do no wrong when all you are is a hypocrite, liar, and a word that’d make the Priest blush. Yeah, I lie; who hasn’t? At least I come clean about it in the end. I don't go on about how I hate liars and then stalk Lila trying to lie her way into Adrien’s pants, and then brag about how I’m some perfect angel trying to look out for everyone. You’re not a perfect angel. You’re a spoiled little, manipulative brat. You use those stupid dough eyes, tears, and sob stories about how much you love Adrien to get people to go along with your stupid plans. God, you make me sick! And you only delude yourself by thinking you're the greatest thing since slice bread, when you’re honestly just as bad as Chloé and Lila. Actually, you know, I should have known Denise didn't write me that note. Yeah, they actually have the guts to say things to my face without stammering like you do around Adrien when you’ve known the guy for almost a year! And I think what I hate most about you is your hypocrisy when it comes to Adrien’s love life, how he "deserves better," how Chloé is a spoiled brat only after Adrien for his looks, how Kagami is too controlling. Well, what have you done to prove that you’re not like them? I’ve only heard you obsess over his looks and “perfection.” Never heard you once talk about interests that Gabriel doesn’t force on him. You wanna get to know the guy? Talk to him! And, by the way, knowing Lila is a liar doesn't make you Jesus Christ. Yeah, I know about the Lila situation! And I don’t care! You wanna basically ruin your relationships with your friends by screaming in their faces, “Lila’s a liar!! Believe me, because I’m better than her!” Go ahead! Who the hell are you to act as if though you were in the right? Your impulsiveness in trying to expose her got you expelled, which isn't nearly as bad as how you treated your parents! Did you ever pay them back for what was meant to be a family trip to Shanghai? But you know what? I could forgive all of that, all of it… If you weren't such a bore. That's the worst of it, Marinette. You're just a sad, pathetic bore… *Sighs* Well, see ya, Marinette. Thanks for the fucking steak. *Leaves*

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb oc #Marinette salt #marinette dupain cheng #answered ask #ask me stuff #family guy

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raayllum · 3 months ago

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Hearing that you hate the miraculous movie too makes me so relieved tbh. I don’t understand at all why some people think it’s better than the show?? Like yes I have a lot of problems with the show’s writing, but the movie is actively worse. Every character (except maybe gabriel?) is just so flat and uninteresting compared to their show counterparts, and i feel like the origins episodes just blow the movie’s “superhero origin” parts out of the water in almost every way.

I liked a few scenes (like the abandoned theatre song number) and that’s it. It doesn’t make sense to me why some fans think it’s a genuinely good story (because it has an actual ending instead of dragging too long?? that’s such a low bar).

Anyway rant over, thank you for reading.

Yeah, a lot of the writing seemed Very tell not show even in dialogue (which is also a strength of musicals, where you can get away with more tell but you still should ideally have some show) and the pacing / editing was... not good? Everything felt very unfocused. Which I appreciate they were trying to do a Lot in 2.5 hours... but like, why were Marinette and Alya not friends before the start but Adrien and Nino were? Feels like that should be flipped not only given what the movie does take from show canon but also in terms of characterization (Adrien shutting people out not just as a defense mechanism but also because of lack of opportunity / Chloe is the person he could rely on and that's not gonna hold water)

Even movie!Gabriel just feels like milquetoast Viren without having the understanding or execution that makes Viren work in the variety of ways he does. I also really didn't like how I felt like this version of Adrien/Chat was a Nice Guy™ in ways (as far as I know, I stopped fully watching MLB like 14 eps into season 1 and then just never got back to it) never was in show canon.

Like pacing seems to be a big issue for both the show (too slow, maintains status quo, retcons character development) and the movie (too fast, weak / less effective characterization, nothing gets time to breathe) just in different ways. The movie may 'fix' issues that fans have with the show (Adrien finds out about Hawkmoth quickly, a reveal sticks & holds with the two leads who get together) but it has its own problems. The fact that a few youtubers who Hate arc 2 of TDP (including s5 and s6, which is not the fandom norm at all) but love MLB movie makes me think that a Lot of it just comes down to "I like stories where flashier/bigger things are happening, and don't like set up or character studies writing" and... Touché, it just doesn't work for me at all.

#ml critical #thanks for asking #non tdp #ml movie critical #hopefully im tagging right but if i'm not just let me know #mlb critical

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bbutterflies · 1 year ago

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major thank you to everyone who’s been so excited for my (second) fake dating adrino fic!! chapter 1 is up now on ao3 go read it it's so fun!

Everything I’ve wanted

Summary:

Nino really didn't mean to get himself tangled up in the life of someone like Adrien Agreste. But it was kind of hard to say no to dating him, even if it was all fake, when he learned that Adrien was more than just a hot model. He was funny and kind and patient and a great listener – but definitely nothing more than a fake boyfriend.

Excerpt below the cut!

Nino was kind of regretting coming to this bar. It had just opened and it had seemed cool at first, but the music sucked and he was bored. He’d only had one drink and was already debating just calling it a night as he waited at the bar for another drink. This bar was weird, anyway. Some kind of rich, exclusive-type deal, he was pretty sure? He’d been excited at the idea of going out and trying something new. He usually did with Alya and Marinette, but they’d both moved to New York for work months ago, and as happy as he was for them, he was lonely without them. He’d made the impulse decision on his night off to come here.

He wished he hadn’t now, after waiting outside of this bar for an hour and paying an insane cover to get in and now being bored and hating the music. He’d finish this drink he was waiting for, he decided, and then probably just head home.

The last thing he expected was for someone – a blond, green-eyed, drop-dead gorgeous someone – to come up to him. “I need a huge favor.”

Nino stared back at him. “Who are you?”

The man grinned, eyes shining. “Someone who’s about to be incredibly grateful for your help. Do you see that girl behind me who’s, like, definitely staring at me right now?”

Nino looked over his shoulder, and there definitely was a girl watching them. “Yeah?”

“I’m trying to be nice, but I’m not into her, and she won’t leave me alone. I may have told her you were my boyfriend. And she didn’t believe me.”

Nino snorted. The entire idea that this hot stranger was his boyfriend was laughable – Nino had barely even started coming out as bi, let alone flirting with boys enough to get a boyfriend. And this guy was definitely out of his league. “Well, because you’re a liar.”

“I happen to be a very famous liar and I promise I’ll make it worth your time if you play along.” He clasped his hands in front of his chest. “Please?”

Nino leaned on the bar. “Yeah? What do I get out of it?”

The man shrugged. “A kiss, maybe. If you want it.”

“Tempting,” Nino said, and he was only half joking. This guy was cute. The bartender was back with his drink, and, well, he had an idea. “You buy the rest of my drinks tonight.”

“Done.”

“Well then, babe,” Nino said, holding out the glass. “Here you go.”

“For me? You shouldn’t have.” He glanced at it. “Like, really, you shouldn’t have. What is that?”

“Um. Alcohol?”

He stuck out his tongue. “I mean, I’ll obviously cover your tab, but that looks disgusting.”

“You don’t even know what it is.”

“Yeah, I’m getting something else.”

Nino watched him flag down the bartender and order himself a drink (some stupid seltzer that totally made sense for him to drink). “Do I at least get to know my boyfriend’s name?” he asked when the man turned back to him, drink in hand.

“Adrien.”

“That’s a lot of syllables.”

“Excuse me? It’s not that long.”

Nino shrugged. “You need a good nickname. I’ll come up with something.”

“Mm-hm. Do I get to know your name?”

“You should’ve asked before you asked me out. Honestly, I’m not convinced this isn’t some super convoluted pick up line.”

“While I would absolutely use a pick up line as complicated as this, it’s unfortunately real. That girl seriously won’t leave me alone.” Adrien stole a glance over his shoulder and turned around quickly when he realized she was still staring. “Like, really? How has she not figured out I’m not interested?”

“You don’t like girls?”

“I just don’t like her, really. And she’s just so drunk. It felt weird.”

“Well, I appreciate you not flirting with girls at bars,” Nino joked.

Adrien blinked back at him. “What?”

“Because we’re dating?” Nino explained, giving Adrien a playful shove. “C’mon, Dri, you gotta keep up.”

#everything I’ve wanted #it’s gonna be SO fun and silly guys I promise you’re gonna like it!#also very gay I’m kinda going overboard this time it’s simply what the fic is asking for I’m just following the whims of the google doc #miraculous ladybug #adrino #adrien agreste #nino lahiffe #my writing #my art

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sweetgaleria · 1 year ago

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Just watched the ladybug movie with a friend and i want to share my thoughts

Things that i liked: -chat noir calling ladybug a watermelon -their miraculous glowing when they need each other (or when there's an akuma? idk, the movie didn't make it super clear) -ladynoir practicing fighting together!! It was so cute! I wish the show had more moments of them just being silly and hanging out outside of battles -Sabine, Gabriel and Nathalie's models looked great -the times careless whisper started playing made me laugh so hard -Marinette's dress was super pretty -I like it that their magical outfits weren't indestructible -them being literally stronger together was cool -The final scene when she takes his mask and puts it on her face to say she's ladybug

What I didn't like -the movie felt like a bunch of scenes glued together by spit and a half assed prayer -why was everything happening all the time with no explanation -the characters barely had time to connect to make their relationships feel genuine -that made all the important scenes have no emotional impact for me, I only cared about the characters because I already knew them from the show -this is just my personal taste but their designs/models were so... round? idk, I didn't like it that much, they looked kinda weird to me -"the power of love" being important out of nowhere?? -a lot of things just started happening without rhyme or reason, the movie didn't explain their powers at all and also -WHERE'S THE LUCKY CHARM -also the dialogs felt so out of place? Marinette asking her mom at the start how should she go after her dreams just felt like it was put there to make marinette sing -oh and this movie had the audacity of being a musical and having zero good songs -also I understood that she's insecure from the first song, didn't really need the other 3 -how Marinette went from "I'm too scared and I can't be a super hero" to "this guy sucks and I can beat his ass" in 0.5 seconds -why was plagg like that -also why was adrien chosen to be chat noir here? did plagg just fly inside the first house he deemed worthy of his presence? first place he could find cheese? where's his moment of selflessness? -Ladybug had no importance for the plot. at all basically. If all it took for Gabriel to quit being hawkmoth was realizing he was hurting his son.... what is left for her to do? -after god knows how many songs about believing in herself, her final battle she still felt too weak to fight and she still wasn't important for it - did i already say that the scenes had no emotional impact? -her speech to paris at the end just fell flat -again, ladybug had basically no importance in this movie

In the end the movie looked nice and it was fun to watch with a friend but I, personally, didn't think it was good. Had some nice things in there but that was it for me

#miraculous movie #miraculous awakening spoilers #miraculous movie spoilers #spoilers #honestly the best part of the movie was seeing ladynoir again #but i feel like i only care about them because i know them from the show

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katanasonata · 1 year ago

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MY THOUGHTS ON THE MIRACULOUS LADYBUG MOVIE

Note: i didn't finish watching s5 before watching this - should i be concerned?

[ANIMATION ✅]

absolutely stunning, jaw dropping, amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, everything i ever wanted

i love how their eyes are so shiny

adrien looks like a baby

THE KWAMIS ARE SO SMOOTH? their skin IDK they're so pleasing to look at

Im sorry but did you notice Nathalie's eyebrows literally appear and then disappear in one scene

[CUTE ✅]

r o m a n c e

rivals -> lovers (ish)

i want to hug all of them

[ADRIEN ANGST✅]

actually sad boi

my guy had EMOTIONS, he was so MOODY

careless whisper

P I A N O

also GABRIEL ajdkddjjdkd he was a smidge more likeable here

[CAT NOIR✅]

his personality was something i really liked here

took on some more leadership, had more of a rival role

more charming frfr

[MUSIC ✅]

some of these songs actually SLAPPED

will be listening to chat noir's solo on repeat

only thing that was kinda weird was how Marinette's VA and Vocalist were two diff people with very diff voices but whatever, still good

[LADYNOIR TEAM DYNAMIC✅]

Felt more balanced, I really liked the push and pull of both of them, especially how they were more like rivals in this depiction (can u tell i like my rivals to lovers)

Both were sort of equal here compared to the show, whereas in the show Ladybug is oftentimes the one who can do everything without Cat Noir, it was nice to see more CN appreciation <3

[CRINGE😐]

Careless Whisper

Sometimes they'd start singing out of nowhere and I'd cringe inside but then the song is actually good??? so...idk at this point

[STORYLINE 😐]

um okay where do i even start

to save one person is to save the world? UM...okay...good quote if you don't think about it too much...or at all

marinette solved all her problems and fixed all her character flaws by singing one song

like, it was mildly engaging, but i kinda got whiplash with how fast the plot progressed, like i was watching the world collapse in front of me in a matter of seconds - not sure what went wrong, but it just left me wanting more and feeling like there could be gaps filled

anyways, what can i expect for a movie that has to cram an entire origin story and final battle in 1.5 hours

ended in a way that made me happy tho :)

FINAL THOUGHTS

it was fine... animation & music was solid, but the plot felt kinda mid to me...TBH EVERYTHING IS MID COMPARED TO SEASON FIVE

so yeah, hope y'all enjoy the movie, it blessed my eyes - may it bless yours~

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug awakening #netflix #miraculous #my thoughts

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miraculouswolf99 · 10 months ago

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Miraculous Dueling- Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Let's Duel

Adrien's thoughts on his first class at the duel academy were that he had really loved it. He was well aware of the fact that he was behind when it came to some of the newer parts of the game. Even before his mom had vanished, he had never been allowed to go out and duel others nor was he ever allowed to go to any dueling tournaments. Those restrictions only got more intense after his mom disappeared.

So, when his teacher, Ms.Bustier, started to teach them, he had been very excited to learn. Especially since while he knew about and was able to use fusion and ritual summoning, the newer summoning techniques were really things that he wanted to learn about. He already knew that Lyon used gate summoning while Vallia uses XYZ summoning.

He did not know much about synchro, XYZ, gate, link, or pendulum summoning. At least, he didn't know until the end of his first class.

Synchro is when two or more monsters are used to combine their levels into the level of the synchro monster that is being summoned. And one of those monsters needs to be a tuner monster for the synchro to actually be possible. XYZ is when two monsters of the same level were combined to summon the monster. Those monsters would become overlay units that would be used to activate the monster's special abilities. Pendulum summoning is when two pendulum monsters are placed on either side of the duel disk and would then be considered spell cards that would be used to summon multiple monsters at once. Pendulum monsters are monster cards with gem-like symbols on them with numbers that tell the levels of the monsters that would be allowed to summon, which would be any monster with a level that is between the numbers of the two used pendulum monsters. Link summoning is when one or more monsters are used to call a monster with the same number of links as the number of monsters used with their special abilities sometimes depending on the number of links they have. And gate summoning is when two monsters that are the same type, such as two light monsters or two warrior monsters, are used to become the "keys" to open up the "gate" for the monster. The monsters would become similar to overlay units and pendulum cards where they would remain the "keys" and could be used to call the monster over and over again unless they were destroyed.

He thought that all of them were amazing, even when he wanted to stick with his fusion summoning. He knew about that already and even when fusion, advance, and ritual summoning were the three oldest summoning techniques, they were still all very good techniques as well.

Fusion summoning was when two or more monsters were brought together through the use of a spell, special ability, or trap in order to fuse them together into a whole new monster. Advance summoning was when one or more lower-level monsters would be sacrificed or tributed in order to summon a higher-level monster with levels five and six needing one tribute while levels seven through nine needed two and ten through twelve needed three. And ritual summoning was when a spell or trap ritual card was used in order to sacrifice monsters to equal the level of the monster that was going to be summoned. Though, ritual and advance summoned monsters were kept in the regular deck unlike how the other monsters were kept in the extra deck.

And during class, he actually did get to talk with Nino a little when he was able to. Nino turned out to be a very nice guy with a deep love of music. Not only did he duel, but he also wanted to become either a professional DJ or a film director in the future. Adrien was really starting to like Nino since he seemed like such a nice, relaxed, and fun guy. Though, he would not tell his father about it since there was no way his father would approve of someone that wanted to be a DJ one day.

Nino also gave him a low-down on the rest of their classmates since he did not know any of them other than Lyon, Vallia, and Chloe. And Adrien had to admit that there were certainly a lot of colorful characters in his class.

Starting with the girls, there were Marinette, Alya, Juleka, Alix, Rose, Mylene, and Sabrina. Marinette is a fashion design hopeful that is actually a big fan of Adrien's father. Alya wants to be a reporter and even has a blog all about her reporting on up-and-coming duelists. Juleka was a quiet and shy girl but is actually a very skilled duelist. Alix is an athletic girl that is about as tomboy as a girl can get. Rose is the class sweetheart that never wants to see the bad in anyone. Mylene wants to be an actress and was actually very skilled for her age. And Sabrina was basically just Chloe's minion that did anything that Chloe says no matter what.

With the guys, there were Kim, Nathanial, Max, and Ivan. Kim was another of the class athletes that is known for having a really good heart while also being a bit oblivious at times. Nathaniel is an artist that loves to draw duel monsters and he dreams of being a card designer one day. Max is the class geek and he uses a lot of math to help him predict how duels will go. Ivan is a quiet guy that looks like he could be a WWE Superstar but is actually about as harmless as a guy can be.

Adrien also learned what most of the class seemed to think about Chloe, Lyon, and Vallia. In all honesty, they thought that Vallia was a very nice girl that was really quiet at times and was the only one that seemed to be able to "control" her brother. They even called her the Flower Princess since she always had flowers in her hair. That was the complete opposite of Lyon as Nino told him that most of them see Lyon as the cold and serious Ice Prince. It seemed that other than his sister, Lyon only really talks to Juleka, Kim, and Nathaniel from their class. Chloe probably was who Adrien learned was hated by everyone. Not even just in their class, but in the entire school. Nino tells Adrien that they all knew that Chloe was nothing but a bullying brat that gets away with everything she does because she is the daughter of the mayor.

Even when Adrien told Nino that Chloe was his childhood friend, he had only patted the blond and said that he would have better friends soon. Adrien just thought that Chloe needed to have a friend around and then maybe the others could see that she was not that bad. After all, she never was mean to him, so maybe that would help her get along with others.

Little did he know that if others heard him say things like that, they would have all facepalmed. Adrien was definitely a little too much of a little ball of sunshine for some people.

After a few more classes came the time that Adrien knew he would enjoy the most. Duel Practice class. Well, it was not really a class as it was more just the time every day that was used to have the students practice their dueling together. But, it was called a class anyway.

Adrien had no idea about what other decks were going to be used by the others, so it was going to be a very interesting class. He could hardly contain his excitement.

"You definitely have a great love of dueling, don't you, Adrien," Nino chuckled at his new friend's excitement.

"I can't help it," Adrien was practically vibrating in excitement. "I have not seen this much live dueling in a long time."

"You are going to love this class," Nino chuckled.

"It has been the one that I have been looking forward to all day," Adrien's grin was brighter than the sun.

All of the students made their way to the courtyard as they got their duel disks from their lockers in order for them to duel each other. From what Adrien could see, there was a lot of talking between the students that went to different classes. They all wanted to test their skills on those that were outside of their friend group.

"So, is there anyone that you want to duel first, dude," Nino asked the blond.

"I think that I should watch a duel before I take part in one," Adrien rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "I may be rusty."

"Well, lucky for you that duels usually start off right away around here," Nino says.

And Nino turned out to be right. It seemed that Chloe did not take too kindly to being called out by Lyon earlier. She obviously wanted to duel him again.

"This is seriously getting old, Chloe," Lyon crossed his arms as he looked at her. "You have never beat me before and you won't beat me now."

"You only got lucky all those times," Chloe yelled at him. "And I will be the one to beat you when your luck runs out!"

Lyon just rolled his eyes as he activated his duel disk. Chloe also activated hers as well.

Adrien wondered what their desks would be. Usually, a duelist's duel disk would reveal the type of deck that they would use, but others simply just used a style that they liked. Since it has been a long time since he had seen any public duels since he usually just watched professional tournaments on TV, he was really curious and excited about this duel. And even when Chloe was his childhood friend, he had no idea what her deck would be.

Lyon and Chloe were the first two to step onto the duel field. They stood on opposite ends of it as they prepared to duel.

"This is really starting to get old," Vallia actually looked bored.

"Two people can only duel so many times before it starts getting predictable," Nathaniel says.

"It must be boring at this point since Alya is not even bothering to film it for her duelist blog anymore," Kim pointed out.

True to what the athlete had said, the reporter hopeful was on her phone, but she was not filming the duel about to happen at all.

"Do they really duel that often," Adrien asked them as he and Nino joined them.

"To no fault on Lyon's end since all he does is beat her and Chloe never accepts it whenever she loses," Vallia tells him. "She always accuses others of either cheating or just being lucky whenever she loses."

"Really annoying," Kim added.

Their attention then went back to the duel. The two duelists drew their five-card hands as they gained their 4000 life points. Their duel disk hologram systems activated.

"Let's duel," they both said.

"Ladies first, peasant," Chloe insulted Lyon while drawing her first card from her deck. "Let me start off your destruction with this precious crystal. Gem-Knight Garnet in attack mode."

On her field appeared a knight completely covered in bright red armor. Its fists were blazing with fire, making the garnet gem on its chest glow even brighter. Red eyes shined through the eye holes in its helmet. It got into a battle stance with its 1900 attack points.

Adrien remembered the Gem-Knights being one of the options that had been offered to him when he wanted to use a fusion deck. He actually thought that it was a good deck for Chloe since she always loved crystals and jewels. She owns more jewelry than anyone else that he had ever met. Except for Chloe's own mother, the famous Style Queen.

"Same move as always," Vallia yawned. "Does she ever get tired of trying to go full-offense and then leaving herself with weaker monsters for later?"

"At least it is always entertaining to see Lyon defeat her without even actually using his full skill-set," Juleka giggled.

Adrien was really starting to understand more about the class dynamics and where everyone has formed their own groups within the class. He would need to spend more time with them to try and see where he belonged. He just hoped that was actually possible since there is no doubt that his father will have him do a lot of photoshoots whenever he could to make up for the ones that he can not do while at school. But, it was worth it to actually be able to go to the duel academy.

"With Garnet on the field, I will let you admire its beauty while I end my turn with two facedown cards," Chloe said.

She placed down two facedowns. Facedown cards were when a duelist would place a spell or trap card onto the field in a face-down position in order to use them at a later time during the duel to use against their opponent. If the card's rules allowed it, then the trap or spell could even be used during their opponent's turn.

"At least you finally stopped talking," Lyon drew a card from his deck. "And I think that I will start my turn by activating a spell card. Gardener's Choice. This spell allows me to choose a level four or below plant-type monster from my deck and add it to my hand."

A card stuck out of his deck from its place in his duel disk's deck holder. Lyon then took the card and added it to his hand.

"Plant cards," Adrien could admit that he was a little shocked.

Nino chuckled. "Yeah. No one would ever guess that he would use a plant deck since he is known as the Ice Prince."

"So, does that mean Vallia is the one that uses ice cards," Adrien laughed a little as he made the joke.

"Actually, my deck is called the Sky Spirit deck," Vallia tells him. "It's based on birds, harpies, and other wind monsters."

"Cool," Adrien was definitely now interested in seeing Vallia duel.

"You talk a big game, but you will see why things are called a force of nature and not a force of crystals," Lyon says. "I summon Floral-Beast Euphorbia Elephant in attack mode."

Lyon's deck was showing how it was made of the fusion of plants and animals. Onto his field appeared an elephant with a floral twist. It was similar to a real elephant, but it looked like it was made out of gray wood with a floral necklace of the reddish-pink flowers. It also had a vine-like tail with the same flower at the tip of its tail. There were also flowers around all of its ankles and well as a giant one at the end of its trunk. It also showed why the flower was also known as the Mexican Fireplant when it tooted its trunk and shot a fireblast into the air to show off its 1800 attack points.

"It seems that I was right when I declared when we first met that you are as dumb as you look," Chloe taunted him. "My Garnet will destroy that eye-sore."

"You really should learn some patience," Lyon said as he took the card from his hand that he had brought from his deck with his spell. "Because I have a plant-type monster on my field, I can summon Floral-Beast Honeysuckle Hummingbird to the field."

His newest monster flew onto the field with elegance and grace. It was a giant hummingbird with bright blue feathers and a white feathered belly. It had honeysuckle flowers all down its back as well as wrapped around its ankles and around its neck like a necklace. It floated next to the elephant monster as it gained a blue outline since it was in defense mode. It had 1500 defense points.

"You still can't beat me with those monsters," Chloe laughed tauntingly.

"I activate Euphorbia Elephant's special ability," Lyon ignored what Chloe was saying. "When another Floral-Beast is special summoned to the field, it gains its attack points for the rest of the turn."

Red energy flowed from the hummingbird to the elephant. Honeysuckle had 1000 attack points, and that now made Euphorbia 2800 attack points strong. Lyon ordered the attack on Garnet and his elephant charged at it. Garnet was unable to defend itself as it was lifted into the air by the elephant's trunk. The monster shattered into golden shards as Chloe's life points dropped to 3100.

"You got lucky," Chloe shouted.

"And you are hurting my ears," Lyon stated. "I end my turn with a facedown."

His elephant's attack points returned to normal as Chloe drew her own card. Adrien was definitely really intrigued by the duel. Lyon was certainly proving that he was really good with his cards.

"Your brother is really good," he tells Vallia.

"This is not even the best that he can do," Vallia smirked. "He could have placed Honeysuckle in attack mode and dealt extra damage after Euphorbia destroyed Garnet. But, he chose not to in order to give himself some defense as well as offense."

"Even when he's beaten her multiple times as you have told me, he does not underestimate her," Adrien realizes.

Vallia nodded. "Lyon takes every duel seriously no matter the opponent that he has."

Chloe was really looking angry as she wanted to defeat Lyon so badly. She looked at the cards in her hand and actually smirked. She obviously had a plan.

"Let's see how you handle this precious crystal," she continued to smirk. "Gem-Knight Alexandrite."

Another knight appeared on her field. This one had white armor, but with several rainbow-colored gemstones on its knees, elbows, back of hands, shoulder, and a giant gemstone on its chest. It held a sword as it had 1800 attack points.

"This strategy again," Lyon muttered to himself as he rolled his eyes. "This is seriously getting old."

"But this gem won't be sticking around for long," Chloe says. "Because by using its special ability, I can sacrifice it to summon any normal-type gem monster from my deck. And I think that Gem-Knight Crystal will do nicely."

Alexandrite shattered, but its pieces were put back together onto a different monster that Chloe called from her deck. This one was twice the size of her precious two knights as well as a lot more decorated as well. It had shared of clear crystals on its shoulders and on either side of its hips. The rest of it was a tan-colored armor right out of Camelot. It had 2450 attack points.

"At least her cards are pretty," Adrien heard their classmate Rose say.

"That's the only thing actually pretty about Chloe," their classmate Alix laughed at her insult.

"Now, attack that ridiculous bird of his," Chloe ordered her knight.

Crystal started to charge at Honeysuckle Hummingbird.

"Why go after the card in defense mode when she could actually do some damage by attacking Lyon's elephant," Adrien was confused.

"Even Chloe can come up with strategies sometimes," Nino tells him.

"And I think that I will make this duel a lot more interesting by playing my trap card, Strike Slash," Chloe played one of her facedown cards. "This not only increases my monster's attack by 700 points but also allows me to deal damage even when your monster is in defense mode."

Her knight charged at Lyon's hummingbird as it went up to 3150 attack points. The plant monster tried to fly away, but was grabbed by the knight and then slammed into the ground. The hummingbird shattered when it hit the ground. Lyon's life points dropped down to 2350 points.

"Now that was a major hit," Adrien said. "But... is Lyon even phased at all?"

Lyon really was just standing there. He did not look like he was worried at all even after losing one of his monsters and taking a big hit like that. And yet he looked as cool as a cucumber.

"He is the Ice Prince," Nino said.

Adrien did not like that Lyon was basically known as being only the Ice Prince to some of their classmates. Lyon was really nice, but he obviously saw something up with the rest of their classmates since he only talked with his sister, Juleka, Nathaniel, and Kim. He was so confused about how to deal with social things. He had been away from kids his age other than Chloe for so long that he really was clueless. He liked Lyon, but Nino had been so nice to him. His brain hurt trying to figure everything out.

Back at the duel, Chloe was looking smug since she landed such a big hit.

"That should take you down a peg or two," she laughed. "I'll end my turn with a facedown. You're move, loser."

The ending of her turn made Gem-Knight Crystal's attack points return to normal.

"Do you ever shut up," Lyon asked her as he drew his next card.

That only caused Chloe to glare at him some more.

"Just make your move already so that I can beat you," she was obviously annoyed.

"Whatever," Lyon said, basically ignoring her. "My garden has a lot more dangers in it than you think. And while I do thank my Euphorbia Elephant for its help, I now have to sacrifice it in order to call upon an even more dangerous flower."

His elephant shattered as he took another card from his hand to place on his duel disk.

"Wow," Adrien gasped when he saw it.

"I advance summon Floral-Beast Evening Primerose Bald Eagle," Lyon called.

The elephant was exchanged for another bird plant monster. This one was twice the size of his Honeysuckle Hummingbird. A giant-sized bald eagle with the primroses lining the top of its wings as well as having a giant one at the base of its neck as if it was the pendant of a necklace. Its talons were also like giant thorns. And almost every time that it flapped its wings, it seemed to scatter flower petals everywhere. It let out its eagle shriek as it glared at Chloe and Gem-Knight Crystal with its 2000 attack points.

"I always have liked that monster," Vallia smiled.

"I activate Evening Primerose's special ability," Lyon says. "When he is first summoned, I can banish another Floral-Beast monster from my graveyard to double its attack points until my next turn. I choose to banish Euphorbia Elephant."

He took the card out of his graveyard and put it in his pocket since monsters and cards taken out of play like that would not be used again unless another ability brought them back into play. When Lyon did that, what seemed to be the spirit of his Elephant went into the flower around Primerose's neck and then his eagle's attack points went up to 4000. It was definitely enough to beat Chloe's Gem-Knight.

With a wave of his arm, he commanded his monster to attack Chloe's knight. Gem-Knight Crystal tried to defend itself, but the eagle's strength was too much for it. With a difference of 1550 attack points, Evening Primerose Bald Eagle used its thorn-like talons to destroy the knight. It shattered as Chloe's life points dropped down to 1550, literally cutting her life points in half.

Lyon then ended his turn with another facedown card. He was still as cool as ice, something that Adrien really liked. He was not sure if he would ever be this calm when he would finally get a chance to duel. especially since while Lyon was currently in the lead, his 2350 life points were only 800 points ahead of Chloe's 1550.

"He is very good," Adrien says to Vallia. "But Chloe does seem to be putting up a good fight as well."

"That may seem what it looks like, but Lyon could have beat her at any point," Vallia tells him. "And this is not overconfidence in my brother, but the knowledge that I have of his deck."

"Plant cards are very powerful in the right hands," Adrien said. "There is that legendary plant duelist in Japan, Akiza, that used to be known as the Black Rose."

"Not just that," Vallia says. "Lyon's deck is very rare and very powerful. The fact that Chloe has made it this far in the duel is because Lyon has allowed her to. He could have used Hummingbird and Elephant to gate summon a powerful monster before and yet he didn't. He also has had a facedown card since his first turn that he also has not used. Chloe may think that she has an upper hand since it is now her turn, but Lyon's garden has a lot more thorns in it."

Adrien really did have a lot to learn as he looked at the duel again. And not just about the game, but about his new friends as well. He was getting more and more curious by the second.

Chloe drew her next card and she had a smirk on her face.

"You're going down, you wannabe prince," she said. "I activate the spell card Gem-Knight Fusion."

Adrien's eyes widened as he also smiled. He was finally getting to see some special summoning happen. While he had chosen a fusion deck as well, it was not like he had actually dueled anyone, yet.

"Anyone want to bet what she is going to try this time," he heard Kim ask the others. "I think she is going to try for Master Diamond again."

"I bet it will be Lady Brilliant Diamond," Nathaniel guessed.

"Maybe she will try and use both again," Juleka said.

"This really is getting old," Vallia says. "I am going to have to teach Lyon how to say 'no' to a duel."

"Or, one of us is just going to have to challenge him before Chloe gets the chance to do so," Kim stated.

"Either way, we really need to stop Chloe from continuing to annoy Lyon like this," Vallia said.

"With this card, I am going to fuse three of my precious crystals together," Chloe says, taking the remaining three cards in her hands. "I fuse Gem-Knights Sapphire, Obsidian, and Sardonyx. Bringing them together to form an even more powerful monster."

The three knights appeared over the field on Chloe's side. Sapphire was a female-looking knight with light blue armor that had a giant sapphire gem on its chest. Obsidian was a shorter knight with black armor and a giant obsidian gem on its chest. And Sardonyx was a muscled-looking knight carrying a wreaking ball-like weapon with maroon armor and a sardonyx gem on its chest.

A swirl of blue and orange light appeared around them as the three knights all joined hands. They turned into a white light that joined in with the blue and orange light.

"Amazing," Adrien was impressed by the effects.

"I fusion summon, Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond," Chloe called her next monster.

A more elegant knight then appeared on the field. It was a large female knight with silver armor with select rainbow diamonds around the armor. It also had on a short red cape attached to its shoulders. There were also three large diamonds on its chest. It held a sword with its 3400 attack points.

"I knew it," Nathaniel shook his head.

"Good thing that I did not bet money on Master Diamond," Kim chuckled.

"And since I sent Gem-Knight Obsidian to the graveyard from my hand, that activated its special ability," Chloe says. "I can now take a normal-type Gem monster from my graveyard and special summon it to the field. So, let's have Garnet come back to help show you your place, loser."

The knight of fire soon rejoined the duel. Its fists still blazed with its 1900 attack points.

"Are you sure that Lyon is not in trouble," Adrien asked Vallia, concerned for Lyon's chances in the duel.

"While I am sure that Lyon would appreciate you being concerned for him, he can handle himself," Vallia tells Adrien.

"We will help get you up to speed on who is skilled and who is not, blondie," Kim placed one of his arms around Adrien's shoulders.

Adrien could not help but smile since Kim, even from the small amount of time that he knew him, always just seemed to be happy and energetic. His happiness was infectious.

"I also activate Brilliant Diamond's special ability," Chloe says. "Where she allows me to fusion summon using only one monster. And I think that Garnet will be the perfect crystal to help Brilliant Diamond take you down."

Brilliant Diamond moved its hands closer together and more diamonds came out of the ones on its chest. Garnet and the diamonds floated up into the air and another swirl of blue and orange light appeared.

"She thinks that she can beat me, but she refuses to grow as a duelist," Lyon thought to himself. "She is not going to get very far in the dueling world if she continues to believe that her style is perfect and never does anything to improve it."

"I fusion summon, Gem-Knight Ruby," Chloe called her next monster.

Another red knight appeared. This one was the same size as Brilliant Diamon, but was more muscled and had deep red armor with some gold details as well. It also had a long blue cape rather than Brilliant Diamond's short red cape. It held an ax with a long handle to show off its 2500 attack points.

"I guess there's a reason why Chloe always needs Sabrina to do her math homework for her," Alix snickered.

While Chloe looked very irritated and angry over Alix's comments, she tried to focus on the duel. She was clearly planning on insulting Alix later for the pink-haired girl's comments.

"You won't be so high and mighty after I take you down," she glared at Lyon. "I play my trap Call of the Haunted. With this card, I can bring back any monster from my Graveyard. So, if you thought that you were done with Garnet, you were mistaken."

The knight once again appeared on her field. But as Adrien looked at Lyon, he was shocked that he was still as calm as he was. He knew that Evening Primerose's attack points were higher than all the monsters' on Chloe's field, but it was still three monsters against his single one. Plus, even with the two facedown cards on Lyon's field, Chloe had another facedown as well. He really wished he knew more about his classmates to know if he should actually be worried about who would win and who would lose.

Plus, even though Chloe was his friend, he was actually cheering for Lyon on the inside. The way that Lyon was able to keep his cool so easily was something Adrien knew that he could never do. He would have been freaking out if he was in Lyon's position.

"I wonder if she will ever try anything new," Lyon was seriously annoyed with Chloe thinking that she could beat him with the same strategies over and over again.

"Let's see how tough you are when I activate Gem-Knight Ruby's special ability," Chloe smirked. "By sending Garnet back to the graveyard, my Ruby gains all of its attack points. And that will be enough to take out your weak flower and then have Brilliant Diamon finish you off for good."

Ruby looked at Garnet and the knight almost seemed to be frightened as its bigger comrade took its ax and brought it down onto it. Garnet turned into red energy and was absorbed by the ax. Ruby's attack points went up to 4400. Just enough to defeat Lyon's Floral Beast. But yet even then, Lyon did not look as if he was phased in the least.

But at the same time, there was a hint of annoyance in his eyes when Chloe so easily sacrificed her Gem-Knight the way that she did. How she did not care at all instead of respecting her card. Lyon actually looked annoyed with her over that.

"A duelist needs to respect ALL of their cards," Lyon thought as he narrowed his eyes a little at Chloe. "They are not just tools to use."

"Time for your luck to run out," Chloe smirked. "Take down that bird, Gem-Knight Ruby."

Her knight charged across the field toward Lyon's monster. Adrien did not want to see, yet he also could not look away. Chloe's monster jumped into the air and brought down its ax onto Evening Primerose. There was a burst of light as the eagle shattered. No one could see anything because of the light. Chloe did look smug as Lyon went down to 1950 life points.

"She is going to be in for a surprise," Adrien heard Vallia say.

"Huh," Adrien was surprised by her.

He only got a smirk in response from the human version of a flower.

Chloe still looked smug. "I told you that you were a loser and now I get to show everyone how much of a loser you are."

"You really need to wait for the smoke to clear before you think that you have won," Lyon said.

Chloe and Adrien were both confused. At least, they were confused until the light finally died down and it was revealed what was on Lyon's field. There was a glowing trap card on his field and there were three new monsters as well. Even if they were a lot smaller than his usual Floral Beast cards.

The three of them were little kittens but actually were more like little lion cubs since they had manes made out of giant sunflower petals. Each of them also had sunflowers at the ends of their cute tails while also having sunflower petals around each of their ankles as well. They all were sitting on the field with blue outlines around them with their zero defense points.

"WHAT," Chloe obviously did not see that coming. "You were supposed to lose like the pathetic loser that you are!"

"You have never beat me before and that will not happen now," Lyon tells her. "As for what has happened, I activated my trap card. Flower Pollen activates whenever a Floral-Beast monster that is level five or higher is destroyed. And when it happens, three Floral Tokens appear on the field. And as long as they are on the field, you can not target any other monsters that I bring out."

Tokens are different types of monsters than regular monster cards. Tokens were summoned through the use of a card effect rather than them being actual monster cards that could be summoned normally. The most common tokens were the Sheep Tokens from the Scapegoat spell card. But, a lot of cards have their own token monsters that could be summoned.

"Woah," Adrien gasped. "He really is good."

"Told you," Vallia smirked.

Chloe basically snarled at him. "I WILL take you down, you utterly ridiculous loser! Brilliant Diamond, get rid of one of those ugly things."

The tall knight ran across the field but stopped just short of stepping on one of the Floral Tokens. It was actually funny to watch as the monster itself looked conflicted about actually attacking the adorable creature in front of it. But, the knight ended up just flicking it in the forehead with one of its fingers and the token monster shattered. Chloe ended her turn after that.

Lyon drew his card and then got a look in his eyes. And out of all the looks that Adrien knew from watching professional duelists on TV, it would be how that look was one where they decided to end the duel in that turn.

"I would say that this was a nice duel, but I would be lying," Lyon said. "It's time to end this."

Chloe laughed to taunt him.

"As if you can actually win when all you have are two stupid cats while I have my beautiful crystals," she flicked her ponytail as she looked smug.

The "I'm going to win in this turn" look only got more intense in Lyon's eyes.

"Two plant-type monsters are all I need," he said. "I use my two Floral Tokens to become the keys to open the gate."

"I've never seen a gate summon before," Adrien was excited.

"Then you, blondie, are in for a treat," Kim tells him.

The two tokens on Lyon's field floated up. Both of them soon turned into golden keys while a golden gate rose up behind Lyon. The two keys went into the gate's keyholes.

"Danger blooms in my garden and gives definition to the phrase 'force of nature," Lyon calls his monster. "The Floral-Beasts never let anyone stand in their way of victory. I call a creature to aid me in this fight. I gate summon Floral-Beast Black-Eyed Susan Black Bear."

The keys inside of the gate turned and unlocked it. The gate opened and out came Lyon's monster. It was a giant black bear with emerald eyes and very sharp teeth. It had a chain made out of vines around its neck with a black-eyed susan as the pendant of the chain. Other flowers were also around its chest and back as if it was like armor. It also had thorn-like claws with its 2300 attack points.

The two keys came out of the gate before the gate vanished. The keys floated above the bear monster. It was how gate summoning worked. The keys would be like a combination of an XYZ monster's overlay units and the pendulum cards that are placed in the pendulum zone in order to summon monsters. The keys would stay on the field until they were destroyed by another card effect. And until the keys were destroyed, the monster that they were used to summon would return to the extra deck to be summoned over and over again until the keys were no longer able to call it. If the keys were destroyed before the monster, that would be when the gate monster would be sent to the graveyard.

"Gate summoning is so cool," Adrien was amazed.

"Lyon always has been a master at it for a long time," Vallia giggled.

"If you think that you can beat me with an eye-sore like that, then you are definitely the loser that I know you are," Chloe taunted Lyon.

"Never underestimate a plant, Chloe," Lyon smirks. "You never know if it has any thorns. Such as my Black-Eyed Susan Black Bear's special ability. When you have two attack-position monsters with attack points stronger than itself, then it can pass right by them and attack you directly."

"WHAT," Chloe did not like the sound of that.

"Attack her and end this, my friend," Lyon commanded his bear.

The Floral-Beast charged across the field to attack Chloe. It pushed past both of her knights, knocking them to the ground as it did. It raised one of its paws and slashed it down at Chloe. She was knocked onto her butt by the energy that was used for the attack. Her life points went down to zero, making Lyon the winner.

"Never doubt Lyon when it comes to his dueling, Adrien," Vallia tells the blond. "He is the best in our class."

Adrien was definitely looking forward to spending more time in his new school.

#miraculous #miraculous fandom #original character #ml salt #miraculous ladybug #lila salt #original heroes #original miraculous #chloe salt #crossovers are the best #miraculous yugioh crossover #yugioh #marinette salt #miraculous dueling

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kumalimited · 2 years ago

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Miraculous Ladybug - Awakening : a review (spoilers without context)

(Made with love by someone who went to the world premiere - seen with the French dub)

The good

Nice animation

Nice OST (excluding the musical part)

Paris being a bit more like real life Paris (we love good metro representation ok)

LADYNOIR MY BELOVED I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD

George Michael royalties draining the film budget

DJwifi shenanigans all over again

The meh

Supporting characters of the show being in the background but kinda absent

Adrien being a loner for some reason

The pacing of it all is a bit all over the place even though they had 20 more minutes than the two Origins episodes

Stuff that is both bad but also makes it a must-watch

Plagg making fart jokes

Tikki rapping

Gabriel's Abba era hair

Gabriel Winx wings

Gabriel detaining random criminals in some dungeon under his house in the catacombs and criminals being casually ok with it as well as with doing a musical number with the guy detaining them

Zag making the deliberate choice to replace the "Ma Lady" surname by "Watermelon" for some reason

Adrien missing the goddamn apocalypse caused by his father due to ugly crying to Careless Whisper

The ending is a remake of Star Wars episode III last fight

Parisians being super casual abt the fact that the Seine became LAVA and that their flats won't be restored through magical ladybugs for some reason

Astruc is barely mentioned in the credits meaning that he was barely involved in its development and it shows

Stuff that is really bad imo

The SONGS.

No really the songs are bad

i mean music is dope, lyrics are very bad

Zag wanted his own Disney musical except he cannot write lyrics to save his life and has no idea how to pace a musical number to make it interesting

i.e Marinette has three "who am I, how can I become who I really be" songs when all of her internal conflict is due to her falling randomly at times, which makes a very poor (but also the only one) character arc

i.e there are seven songs in an one hour and a half long movie

i.e those songs stop the action to make us listen to lame ass lyrics (at least in French)

if i took a shot each time a song by Marinette mentioned "être moi" (being me) or each time Ladybug and Chat Noir repeated "Plus forts ensemble" (stronger together) I'd be in ER

because the original show didn't have any catchphrase at all isn't it

since the songs are stopping the movie every time they happen, there's no time for character development so

no umbrella scene

no Adrien character development whatsoever

no justification for Marinette preferring Adrien to Chat Noir

no justification of why Adrien was chosen as a holder

TL DR : A very nice musical fanfic that I'll enjoy making fun of for the years to come

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous awakening #miraculous movie #miraculous movie spoilers #miraculous spoilers

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pearl484-blog · 1 year ago

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A World a Little Less Lonely

Adrien Agreste loves the Ladyblog, and he loves the Ladyblogger, Alya even more. She's the best: insightful, smart, clever, and most important of all, she's Nino's girlfriend. The problem is, she doesn't like him.

My entry for Adrien AUGreste 2023: Friends

Ao3 link. Series link.

It was no secret that Adrien loved Nino. Maybe not in the same way that he loved Ladybug. Adrien was pretty sure he’d never love anyone the same way he loved Ladybug, but Nino was his best friend . Sometimes, Nino felt like he was his only friend.

Which was crazy because he had Chloe…who sometimes got too busy hanging out with Sabrina to really want to spend time with Adrien. Or Marinette…who may or may not hate him. He wasn’t really sure about that one. Sometimes they would be fine together and have a great time, or other times she would suddenly get really scared of him and start saying a bunch of weird stuff like she was afraid he was about to eat her or something. Adrien supposed he had the guys, but if he was being honest, they really only hung out with him if it was a group outing…

Well, it didn’t matter. What mattered was that today, he and Nino were listening to some of Nino’s remixes together, just the two of them. It was nice, just being with Nino and knowing that he wanted to be with Adrien and only Adrien.

Adrien knew , in the same way he knew that Ladybug would always save the day, that if he ever said something or if he wanted to talk, Nino would pause the music and just…listen. Like Adrien mattered, like he really cared. It didn’t matter how emotional Adrien was or how crazy he was acting, Nino always had his back and he always had this way of making Adrien feel like he wasn’t crazy or out of control.

If Father had hurt Adrien’s feelings, Nino would say he was being unfair and way too hard on his best bro. If Adrien’s schedule was getting way too full, Nino would say that it was unreasonable and remind Adrien that he was a good kid, the best kid that Adrien knew. He told Adrien that he was responsible, even when Adrien knew he wasn’t being a good son. He told Adrien that he was good, even when he felt miserable. He told Adrien that he deserved to be happy, even when Adrien just felt so hollow, like he’d been eaten alive, and the thing was, when Nino said that stuff, a part of Adrien believed him.

Yes, Nino had an unreasonable hatred of Father. Yes, Nino didn’t quite understand all the things you had to do to be the face of the Agreste brand, to deserve that honor. But Nino made Adrien feel like it didn’t matter. Like the only thing that mattered about Adrien wasn’t his reputation, or his skills, or his smarts. It was just Adrien, and Nino loved him.

God, it was almost painful how much Nino loved Adrien, and all the ways he’d show Adrien. He’d show Adrien all of his movies. He’d tell Adrien all of the stuff that happened in his crazy, loving home. He’d tell Adrien all his little secrets, and when it was just him and Adrien, it was just him and Adrien. Nino never ignored him or kept on doing what he was doing without at least trying to let Adrien feel included.

Sometimes, though, it made Adrien feel a little guilty. Especially when Nino invited Adrien out on his dates with Alya.

Now, don’t get Adrien wrong. He loved Alya. You didn’t get to be the Ladyblog’s #1 fan without at least liking the Ladyblogger herself at least a little. He especially loved watching Alya and Nino get along. They were so adorably cute and in sync, and Adrien could only wish that one day, he and Ladybug would be this endearing if they got together.

It was just, he felt selfish. He knew Nino was only inviting him along because he liked the Ladyblog so much, and Alya was his girlfriend. Plus, Nino always wanted to include Adrien in his plans, but Adrien knew he was a third wheel, and well, he was pretty sure Alya didn’t like him.

Nino always insisted that she did, that it was Alya who was asking Nino to invite him to all sorts of things, but, if Adrien was being completely honest, he didn’t believe a word of that.

For starters, everytime that “Alya” invited Adrien, she would bring along Marinette or get super anxious whenever Marinette wasn’t around. It didn't matter what kind of outing it was or how late Marinette was, Alya always made them wait. Which, yeah, fine, Alya was just being a good friend, and Marinette did always struggle with her schedule. Except, Alya always kinda ignored Adrien whenever it was just the three of them, preferring to flirt with Nino constantly, and whenever Marinette was there, she always tried to get the two of them to talk to each other.

Now, Adrien knew that Marinette was Alya’s friend, and Alya had every right to flirt with, cuddle, and otherwise hang out with her boyfriend on their dates while leaving the non-lovebirds to hang out. He was fine with that, but Adrien wasn’t stupid.

Every time Adrien tried to bring up something on the Ladyblog to try to talk with Alya about, she always tried to get Marinette to answer him. Every. Single. Time. Marinette didn’t even like the Ladyblog that much! She only ever read the articles about Ladybug, Chat Noir, and their fights because she still had a massive crush on Chat Noir.

Which Adrien was not judging her on. He knew how hard it was to get over an unrequited crush. Both as the object of many of those crushes and his affections towards Ladybug.

But Adrien was very freaking certain that Marinette did not give a hoot about debating Adrien on the Ladyblog’s most recent post about the possible link between wish granting carp and Ladybugs. No. There was only one possible explanation. Alya was totally using Marinette as a social buffer. Probably to avoid making Nino sad when he asked if he could invite Adrien on outings.

Of course, that left Adrien in a pickle. On one hand, he was definitely interrupting a lot of date nights between Alya and Nino, which Adrien was sure violated several rules in the bro code, but Nino was the one inviting him, not Adrien. Adrien knew he was just being nice and thoughtful and caring, and Adrien could never turn down an opportunity to hang out with his best bro. He just couldn’t . Plus, if he did, he might hurt Nino’s feelings or worse, leave Marinette hanging. Still, if things kept going the way things always did, Alya would just keep resenting him more and more, and that drove Adrien crazy.

Then, one day, something unexpected happened. For some reason, both Adrien and Alya had arrived at their hang out, a nice little coffee shop before either Nino or Marinette. Together they went to a table for 4 to hold their missing’s friends’ seats while they waited.

They waited in silence for one minute. Then two. So, Adrien, deciding to finally get the chance to talk with the Ladyblogger herself, sans the costume, asked her opinion about one of her earliest articles: “A History of Ladybugs in Folklore Throughout the Ages”. It was a bit Euro-centric and had a lot of the flaws from her early work, but it had been fascinating, and Adrien wondered if she would ever revisit it.

Alya had hemmed and hawed before saying that she was kinda meh about it, but she thought that Marinette might have some pretty good thoughts about it. Marinette was very thoughtful and super interested in all that stuff and blah blah blah. Lies, lies, lies. At the same time that Alya was talking, she started texting on her phone, not even bothering to hide the fact that she was panic-texting Marinette asking where she was.

Finally, Adrien had enough. “Why don’t you like me?” he asked, quietly. “Did I say something wrong? Did I do something?” He froze as he realized something. “Are my comments too wordy?”

That got Alya’s attention. She put her phone down as she looked at Adrien, cocking her head and putting her hand on her hip. Her look of confusion almost seemed believable.

“Wait, what?” she asked. “Why would you think I don’t like you?”

Adrien gave her a small shrug. It was best not to start out by actually accusing someone. That just burned bridges, but it was usually a good strategy to start off being as quiet and meek as possible. People tended to like that. They liked to stay in conversations where they were the confident ones.

“You never really want to talk to me,” Adrien told her quietly, trying not to be overheard by one of the patrons. The last thing he’d want is a scene.

Alya rolled her eyes. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Of course I like talking to you. I’m talking to you now, aren’t I?”

Adrien knew he shouldn’t push it. This was Nino’s girlfriend. Whether Adrien wanted to admit it or not, she had been awfully generous in letting Adrien tag along on as many of her and Nino’s dates as she did. He was Adrien Agreste, the face of the Agreste brand, and he knew better than to let his insecurities get the better of him. Even if they were whispering at him that he needed to fix this, he needed to patch this up to get it under control. She was only a little cranky because he was a third wheel. That was all. He didn’t need to poke at it.

“You always want me to talk to Marinette instead,” Adrien told her, unable to stop himself from this inevitable train crash. Well great. Adrien must’ve been spending too much time as Chat Noir lately. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound.

“Even if I’m trying to talk to you about the Ladyblog,” he told her, holding firm, “there’s always something more important or some reason that I absolutely need to talk to Marinette instead.” He tightened his hands, feeling the bite of his fingernails digging into his palm as he dug deep for courage. “I know that it's probably annoying, having me tag along on so many dates. I get that. I can talk to Nino for you, if that’s a problem, have him stop inviting me so much so you guys can have your alone time.”

“What?” Alya said a little too loudly, drawing the attention of all the patrons around her. “No no no. I like you being here. I like you coming to these things. That’s why I keep asking Nino to invite you to these things. Didn’t he tell you that?”

Adrien blinked. “Wait, so Nino wasn’t lying about that? I thought he was pressuring you into letting me do this with you or something.”

Alya snorted. “Come on. You’ve met Nino. Do you really think that I would let him push me around? Trust me, if I didn’t want you here, you wouldn’t be here. End of story.”

Adrien thought about that for a moment, trying to understand what was going on, before he gave up, and asked, “Then why don’t you ever want to talk to me?”

Alya sighed in frustration. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you. It’s-” Alya groaned. “Look, it’s complicated, but really, part of it is that I think that you and Marinette, you two have a lot in common, and I was hoping that if you two got to know each other…”

Suddenly, Adrien had a realization. “Oh, you’re trying to make sure that Marinette and I become friends?”

Alya’s smile tightened. “Yeah, something like that,” she gritted out.

Adrien nodded sympathetically. It was no secret among the class that Marinette had social anxiety, and while it wasn’t as bad as Juleka’s, Adrien knew that she struggled with talking to people often. Then he realizes something. If Alya’s trying to help Marinette make friends with Adrien, does that mean that Nino’s trying to help Adrien extend out his own friend group?

“Is Nino helping you?” Adrien asks, even though he already knows the answer, because Nino’s just a good friend like that.

“Yeah,” Alya admits. “Nino’s helping me.”

“Nino’s the best,” Adrien tells Alya, as if she had somehow managed not to understand just how kind and awesome and amazing Nino was, as if anyone could miss how lucky they were to know Nino, his Father excluded of course.

“Of course he is,” Alya says, and the look in her eyes lets Adrien know that he’s found the one person in the world who might love Nino more than he does. As she leans in close like she’s whispering a secret, she asks, “Did he tell you about the special mixtape he made me?”

It doesn’t take long for a conversation to follow after that. Both of them trade stories about all the little ways Nino shows he cares and trade all the funny stories they have, and it’s not about the Ladyblog, but in a way it's something better, something kinder. Nino may have only intended to help Marinette and Adrien be friends, but Adrien thinks it's kinda poetic how he brought Alya and him together too.

It’s nice, Adrien thinks, to have a world that’s a little less lonely.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous lb #fanfic #adrien agreste #fanfiction #adrienaugust #my fic #nino lahiffe #alya cesaire

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boom-fanfic-a-latta · 2 years ago

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Meeting the Team (Team Dad Cinnabar AU)

Inspired by @hailfire17's Cinnabar AU

When the disguised Gabriel Agreste had approached Chloé Bourgeois in the aftermath of her outburst to her mother, he’d been prepared for several responses to his offer. From an outright rejection, to suspicious curiosity, to immediate agreement.

He most definitely had NOT expected her to size him up, nod, and start dragging him along to another room in Le Hotel de Grand Paris.

And he was not at all prepared for when she flung open the door to reveal a collection of half-a-dozen teenagers, and for her to declare to them “Everyone, we have an actual mentor now!”, a statement which drew the room’s full attention.

“…Chloé, what the hell?!” a very familiar redhead in a red-and-black suit exclaimed in disbelief. “Half of us are transformed right now, you can’t just—”

“What do you mean, ‘an actual mentor’?” the even MORE familiar blonde boy beside her interrupted, and Gabriel had to fight to not give himself away and demand to know what on earth his SON was doing in here playing video games with LADY ROSE.

“Everyone, this is—actually I’m not sure what his name is yet, he never mentioned it, but he’s claiming to be a former superhero and was offering to train me. I figured it would be Nice of me to extend the invitation to the whole team.”

Gabriel was absolutely speechless, attempting to process what the Bourgeois girl had just said.

The whole team?

What did she mean, “the whole team”?!

“…Wait, so not just the guardian’s weird ‘doesn’t actually tell us anything’ teaching?” an unfamiliar, short-haired brunette asked, looking interested. “Well, sign me up!”

“I agree with Lyle.” Ryuko, the Dragon of Tokyo, got up from the beanbag where she had been sitting, inspecting the man. “A more active teacher would be beneficial for us all—even with my own prior experience in heroism.”

“Guys, will you keep it down? I’m watching something!” The ginger boy looked up from his computer just long enough to shoot the room a glare, before going right back to what he’d been doing.

“Okay—seriously, Derek, just stop,” Lady Rose grumbled. “None of us care about those stupid Minecraft videos you’re obsessed with! You can watch them when we AREN’T with the team!”

“Lily, shut up! You’re one to talk—”

“Look, the majority of us actually LIKE Vocaloid!”

“Sorry about those two, they’re siblings. They get like this a lot.” Adrien shook his head. “I think becoming heroes made both their self-control worse, but then again, I only met Lily AFTER she’d become the new Ladybug, so who knows.”

“LOOK JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE IT DOESN’T MEAN I HAVE TO STOP LISTENING TO IT!”

“Lily! Chill! You too, Derek. We don’t want another LynelMaster.”

“Honestly, though, I’d pay a lot to see Lily commit arson again,” the pink-haired rabbit hero Bunnix admitted from where she was lying on the couch. “I wish one of us had filmed that.”

…Dear goodness, what had he gotten himself into.

Chloé groaned. “Will everyone please pay attention?” she said with a huff, clapping her hands. Turning to the man, she sighed, rolling her eyes. “I only just joined this utterly insane group yesterday, but I’ve already seen enough to know that we desperately need adult supervision.”

Gabriel had barely been there five minutes, and had already come to the same conclusion.

“I can believe that,” he replied, shaking his head. “What I can’t believe is that these are the heroes who have been defending Paris for the past few months…”

“It’s very hard to take in, yes. Honestly, I nearly had an existential crisis yesterday learning that Lady Rose is the same girl who keeps asking me for Vocaloid music recommendations in class. But that’s nothing compared to the one I had after learning Adrien was Chat Noir—”

Chloé kept talking, but Gabriel heard none of it after the absolute bombshell she had just dropped.

Adrien.

His son.

Was CHAT NOIR?!

If the disaster that was Style Queen hadn’t already made him swear off being Hawk Moth anymore, this revelation would have done so in a heartbeat.

He’d been fighting against his own son.

For MONTHS.

…He needed to sit down.

“—thing I will admit is that Lyle coming out suddenly felt a lot less out of nowhere once I learned they were Piccola Volpe—wait, where are you going?”

Gabriel managed to keep his composure as he strode across the room to an empty armchair, before immediately collapsing into it, holding his head in his hands.

“You…you’re all just children,” he finally managed to breathe out. “The heroes of Paris. Are all teenagers. Who in the world ever thought it was okay to give this responsibility to actual CHILDREN?!”

He couldn’t believe it.

All this time, he’d assumed they were in Lycee at the LEAST, and more likely even older than that.

But no.

These were Collège students. 13, maybe 14 at the most. And the boy at the computer looked even YOUNGER, maybe 11 or so.

He had been fighting.

Children.

And one of them was his son.

Forget trying to train a new Hawk Moth to take his place.

These children needed an adult.

And apparently, the burden of being that adult had now unwittingly fallen on him.

Him, the supervillain that had been terrorizing them.

Most likely the least qualified person alive to take care of them.

Gabriel Agreste had most definitely not signed up for this.

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artzychic27 · 1 year ago

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Akuma Class getting kidnapped, inspired by this video

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Marinette: You think you’re scaring me? I face Akumas on a weekly basis, so you ain’t got shit on me! Oh, you’re pulling out a knife now? See my face? You bitches don’t scare me.

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Adrien: Wait, I gotta pee! Can we stop for a moment? These are nice seats and I don’t wanna mess them up. Also, can we get McDonalds? I haven’t eaten since breakfast. Can I get a Happy Meal?! Wait… Never mind, I don’t have to pee.

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Alya: These ropes are too tight! I can’t text on my phone because you guys tied these ropes too tight and they’re cutting off my blood flow! If my hands shrivel up and fall on the floor, it’s on your because you won’t let me text freely.

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Nino: Yo, this music sucks, you got bad taste. At least let me wear my headphones. Why do you want me seeing and listening to my surroundings? What kind of kidnappers are you? Did you even think this through?

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Chloé: After this, I’ll be the kidnapper, because I’m rating this one star. The car is so last year, there’s a stain on the seat, and this music is dreadful. Oh, now you’re pulling out your knife? Did you at least clean it? Ugh, I’ll probably get tetanus or something.

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Sabrina: This car is kind of dirty; how often do you wash it? And those windows are so smudged, so how do you see anything out of them? That’s really dangerous, you know. Also, I noticed one of your tires is a little flat, so you might wanna get that checked out. Can we stop by an auto shop?

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Nathaniel: I’ve only been here for like three minutes, and you kidnappers smell like sweaty feet standing on a moldy-ass bath mat, and I’m gonna throw up all over the seats and floor, and it’s gonna look like that scene from The Exorcist unless you roll down the window and let me throw up outside.

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Alix: *Kicking the kidnapper’s seat* Untighten the ropes. Do it now! Do it now! I can keep doing this because my tiny body is filled with white hot energy! Untighten my ropes! Now! Now! Now! I had coffee earlier! Now!

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Kim: *Breaks free of his ropes* LATER, BEYOTCH! *Opens the door and rolls out* JUMPING NOW!

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Max: Look, kidnap and stab me if you must, but you must now this kidnapping is one of the worst ever. Also, that euro you took out of my pocket is mine, and I would like it back, please and thank you.

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Rose: Hey! You said this was a candy truck! Where’s the candy? I’m suspicious! I’m calling the police! Gimme your phone!

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Juleka: Can you guys adjust your mirrors a bit? I can see your faces, and I don’t feel like getting car sick.

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Myléne: I refuse to get in that van, not only because it’s guzzling gas, but for the fact that there is a hideous stain on that shaggy floor, and I like these pants, thank you.

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Ivan: I am very mad at you guys, right now. As you were shoving me in your car, you hit my head up against the roof of the car, and it still hurts, and if I get a concussion and pass out, that is all on you.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #crack #akuma class #incorrect quotes #no one asked for this #Youtube

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milarqui · 2 years ago

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Scarlet Lady: Guitar Villain

Directory | Pixelator

Jagged finished his solo, sliding on his knees, and strummed the last note in the latest song he had come up with.

“Whaddya think, perfect for the album, eh, Bob? Totally killer?”

“What would be really killer would be a duet with XY!”

Ugh.

Jagged stood up again and adjusted his Eiffel Sunglasses – he had barely taken them off since the issue with Pixelator got resolved – to glare at his manager.

“You kidding me?! I'm not singing with some kid who doesn't even shave yet!”

Nevermind that his music was the most simple and un-rock-n-roll thing in the world of music.

But, for some reason, Bob liked the boy.

“That 'kid' is number 1 on the sales chart!” Bob exclaimed.

“Bob, what would a duet between Jagged and XY even sound like?” Penny, ever the magnificent, interrupted. “They're not even the same music genre!”

“Oh, it'll be fine after you modernize your music, find a new style, and change everything about yourself.”

“FUCK OFF.”

Seriously, what the hell did this guy think? That he was gonna fold like paper?

“Are these album covers part of your 'modernization'?” he asked, disgusted. “They look like perfume ads, blegh!”

Piss on that. And on his ideas. If he wanted a perfume ad on a cover, then he'd better slam it on that sell-out.

“Bob, me and Jagged want to commission the collége student who made his glasses: Marinette,” Penny intervened once more. He could kiss her – she was always the best with this diplomacy stuff. “She's talented, gets his tastes, and is in our target demographic.”

“A collége student?! You can't be–!”

He made a subtle sign.

And Fang 'casually' passed by Bob's side and growled rather menacingly.

He grinned; it had taken a while to get Fang to do that on command, but it had been totally worth it.

“AH, I mean, fine! But think about the duet!”

Yeah, piss on that.

Why the hell did he keep this idiot as his manager, again?

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“Adrien, Mlle. Bourgeois requests your presence,” Nathalie suddenly announced. “For a 'surprise'.”

“Eh?! Uh...” It wasn't that he hated Chloé, but... as of late, he wasn't exactly keen on being alone with her.

Alright, he really disliked the idea. Lately, Chloé had become clingier, more irritating... she even tried to ruin any attempt he made to be with Marinette, like at the zoo (granted, Animan would have ruined it anyway, but still...).

“Ah, well, I would but, uh, I should really go over my Chinese and–”

“Adrien. You're always asking for more time with your friends and now that I offer you the opportunity you refuse?”

Yeah, because every other time I ask is to be with Nino, Marinette and Alya!

“Ah, I just meant –”

“Also, your father already accepted, so play nice.”

…

Dammit, père.

The one time he could have used his negative...

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“Adrichou secured!” Chloé declared, and Tikki resigned herself to having to deal with whatever harebrained scheme she had come up with this time.

“Why'd you call Adrien?”

“So he can meet Jagged Stone, of course!”

He had met him last week, right?

She would have voiced the thought, but Chloé interrupted by shoving her hand almost into her face.

“Rule of the Bourgeois number 148: have a best friend to pamper! Preferably a rich one.”

That explained a lot about the family.

“But his daddy might stop Adrien from seeing me, which is why it's good to have a back up.”

She would have liked to point out that it was likelier that Adrien's father would force him to see Chloé, but chose to concentrate on the most immediate problem.

“'Back up'?”

“Rule 72: all guys have to be crazy about you,” Chloé replied, filling up an order for a pizza with no sauce, no cheese, and gluten-free crust – and requested the pizzeria to send their cutest delivery guy. Tikki did not mention that every guy that knew Chloé ranged from growing disinterest (Adrien) to wouldn't-spit-on-her-if-she-were-on-fire (all her other classmates). “And I know just the guy!”

----

“So, you're in, yes or no?”

“You want me to create Jagged Stone's new album cover?!”

Marinette was shocked. Jagged Stone's manager had come to make her an offer she would have never considered possible.

“Requested by Jagged Stone himself! He wants you to take us in a new direction!”

“A 'new direction'?”

There was something weird in that comment.

“Here, I brought you a visual reference,” Roth said, pulling out something from his pocket.

“Oh, thank–!” She saw what was on that object and her enthusiasm dried up. “You...”

This... this didn't look like what Jagged Stone normally had in his album covers. This looked more like something XY did.

“... um, this looks a little–”

“It's what Jagged Stone wants,” Roth interrupted her.

“Are you sur–”

“What Jagged Stone wants.”

She gave the man a weird look, but with her parents' permission she went upstairs to her room, to begin working on it.

“Ugh, why does Jagged Stone want to change to this?!” she exclaimed. “It's cold, soulless, repetitive, banal. The opposite of Jagged's style and mine. But it's what I was asked to do...”

“What do your parents do with bad requests?” Pollen asked.

“My parents?”

“Mhmm!”

“Well, sometimes they give a sample of what the customer asked for just to prove how awful it is. Sometimes it makes the customer realize how bad it is.”

“Oh!”

She put her hands together as in prayer and leaned into them.

“But sometimes it makes them like it more!”

“Oh.”

----

Entering the hotel's foyer, he walked up to the desk and showed the pizza box to the receptionist.

“Pizza for Mlle. Bourgeois: Penthouse suite,” he said in a bored tone: the sooner he got out of here, the better.

“Merci,” the receptionist replied, smiling, taking the box and leaving to drop it with the client.

“Luka?”

At the sound of the voice, he turned, smiling.

“Marinette!”

“What are you doing here?” Marinette asked.

“The Grande Paris Princess ordered a pizza,” he said, rolling his eyes.

“Whaaa? Chloé did?” Her face of confusion was cute, and her confusion was understandable.

“She prepaid, so it's legit,” he reassured her. “What are you doing here?”

“I have a meeting with Jagged Stone.”

He felt his jaw drop.

“Jagged Stone?!”

His favorite singer in the world? Also his dad, not that that had much of an impact in his normal life. Marinette was going to meet him?

Marinette explained how she had been requested to design the new album cover and showed it to him.

It was... unsuitable, to say the least. Marinette clearly had a deft hand, but not even she could have avoided this disaster.

“I see why you're worried,” he pointed out.

“Right?! It's... a perfume ad!”

“This 'image change' sounds sketchy. Maybe wait to hear out Jagged Stone,” he suggested. If what he had heard of Jagged Stone's manager was right...

“Okay...”

Marinette didn't look very convinced, but he knew what he could do to cheer her up a bit.

“Hey, this is my last stop. I'll give you a ride home and we can talk about it after?”

“I'll take you up on that. Thanks, Luka!” she replied, smiling.

“No problem...”

As Marinette made her way to the elevator, he quickly began to pull on his pizza delivery shirt.

Gotta get out of this lame uniform, quick!

----

Unbeknownst by Luka, Marinette was looking a tad too intently as he took off the shirt... and couldn't help but blush as she saw what he was hiding underneath.

“Ma'am, the elevator's closing,” the bellboy reminded her, and she woke up, mentally hitting herself for drifting from her Chat.

The encounter with Luka, however, had not been enough to shake off her nerves, as she showed Jagged Stone what she had created.

The man scoffed.

“How did someone as talented as you make this?”

“Um, well, M. Roth said–”

“Marinette designed what the kids want!” the manager interrupted her again. “It's exactly the direction we need.”

Jagged Stone sighed.

“Ah, I see what happened here,” he said, directing a brief glare at the older man before taking her hand. “Forget Bob, Marinette. Do it in my style, in our style!”

“Jagged, I said–”

The manager's new interruption was, itself, interrupted by Fang's angry growl.

“AHH!” Roth screeched, jumping away, while Penny giggled.

“Do your best, Marinette!”

“Y-Yes!” she replied, still overwhelmed.

----

The elevator dinged, and he turned to it as the doors opened. Marinette had been done fast with Jagged Stone!

“Marine–” The girl coming out was, most definitely, not Marinette. “Oh.”

“Mon Chouka! Here you are!”

He blinked.

“Hah?!”

Sadly, his shock gave Bourgeois the time she needed to affix herself to his arm like a limpet to a boat's hull.

“What are you doing?! Why are you calling me that?!” he asked, holding himself from swatting at the girl like he would swat flies in summer.

“I knew they'd send you, mon Chouka!” she replied, clearly not understanding the concept of 'personal space' or 'you're not welcome here' as she hugged his arm. Then she turned to look at the entrance. “Oh, there's Adrien! Adrichou~!”

“Luka?” Adrien Agreste said, surprised.

In that moment, he understood.

“Oh, God, no.”

As if a pit had opened beneath his feet.

For some reason, this bully in the form of a girl was interested in him.

And, unlike with Marinette, he felt like this was a horrible punishment.

Today, the gods of music weren't with him, it seemed.

----

“Tonight, XY will give a live concert from the top of the Eiffel Tower,” the news anchor said, with a photograph of that sell-out's latest album on her right. “M. XY had this to say about beating Jagged Stone in sales.”

“King of Rock? More like King of the dinosaurs! He's a has-been!”

“Why you filthy little... perfume ad!” he growled. Realizing where the sell-out was, he walked up to the window and saw him standing there, in front of the door.

“Hey, Ragged Stone, if you wanna hear today's music, come to my concert! Just don't forget your hearing aid!”

That did it. He threw his tablet and grinned savagely as he saw it hit the sell-out straight in the noggin.

“STOP TRASH TALKING OUTSIDE MY HOTEL!” he shouted.

----

When the elevator door opened, Marinette became witness to a horrible sight.

“QUIT IT ALREADY!”

“Chloé, leave Luka alone!”

“But Super Chloé has a super surprise for you!”

The world's eyesore manhandling Adrien and Luka.

“What's... going on here?” she asked, confused. Luka immediately extended a hand towards her, looking as if she were his personal savior.

“Marinette, help!” Luka begged.

Alright, mark that as a definite.

“Marinette!” Adrien exclaimed, much happier than Luka.

Chloé was not happy at all, which was always nice. At least, she finally dropped Luka's arm – she saw him trying to either massage some blood back into circulation or brushing it as if it were dirty, she wasn't sure – and walked up to her.

“I didn't invite you to meet Jagged Stone! Get out of my hotel!” Chloé yelled, poking her in the chest, and she glared back.

“It's a good thing I don't need your invite to meet him,” she fired.

“Aw, ladies, don't fight over Guitar Villain!”

And there, standing on the entrance stairs, were Jagged Stone and Fang.

Or, rather, their Akumatized forms, with Jagged resembling a heavy metal band singer, and Fang now looking like a dragon.

“Jagged Stone?!” Luka exclaimed.

Marinette was much less pleased.

“What the heck, you were fine a minute ago!”

The Akuma ignored her, as he began to play his guitar.

“I'll never duet with XY because soon he won't be singing at all! Rock'n'RIP, Baby!”

His guitar suddenly shot some kind of sound blast, and Adrien grabbed Chloé and Luka, who grabbed Marinette.

“LOOK OUT!” Adrien shouted, kneeling and bringing the others down with him, dodging the blast by centimeters.

----

“Eek!” Chloé shrieked as the elevator door behind her opened. “Luka, Adrien, get me out of here!”

The two boys glanced at each other, gave a minute nod, and roughly shoved the girl into the elevator with blank faces.

“Wha–!” she screamed, before Luka 'helpfully' pressed one of the buttons, making the door close. “Hey! That's not what I meant!”

“At least now you can transform...?” Tikki pointed out.

----

“Soon there will only be fans of Guitar Villain!” Jagged shouted as he led Akumatized Fang outside the hotel, and Marinette knew she had to act soon.

I have to get away to transform!

But, as long as Luka and Adrien were with her, she would be unable to do it. He turned to Adrien.

“Adrien, try to flag down Chat Noir!”

“Okay!” he agreed, rushing away.

----

She didn't know that he needed to transform as well.

----

She turned to look at Luka.

“Luka, I'll try to find Marigold!”

“Alright!” he replied.

And then he grabbed her hand.

“C'mon, we'll cover more ground on my bike!”

What.

As Luka started to pull her towards the exit, she began to panic.

Wait, that's not part of the plan!

As both of them rushed outside, they saw that Chat Noir had already arrived. Marinette pulled out her cellphone (mostly because she knew Alya would kill her if she didn't get it) as Chat Noir and Guitar Villain began to trade insults.

“He even goes hard as an Akuma,” Luka said. “A dragon, wicked.”

“Hey Ragged Stone, your screeching's making my ears bleed!” Scarlet shouted, finally showing up.

“It's Guitar Villain, Scarlet Brat! Shocking Rift!”

A wave of sound suddenly hit Scarlet in the stomach, making her fly away.

“Oof!” she complained, as Guitar Villain turned away.

“You're wasting my time, I've got a concert to get to!”

“Hey, don't blow me off!” Scarlet yelled.

Nobody cared.

“You two should go home,” Chat Noir said, and Marinette began to sweat.

“Yeah...”

“Alley Cat!” Scarlet yelled. “Hurry up and call Bumbling Bug, my XY is in danger!”

“Yeah, yeah,” Chat Noir huffed. “You would be an XY fan.”

No surprises there, Marinette thought as Chat Noir made the call. She couldn't hear it, but she knew what it would say.

“Marigold here, leave a message!”

“Here, Marinette,” Luka said, putting a helmet on her head.

“Huh,” Chat Noir mumbled, hanging up. “Weird, she's not picking up.”

Maybe she would if her friends weren't too sweet to leave her to transform!

----

Théo could easily recognize an Akuma. They wore garish clothes and makeup, looked like they'd been brought from some kind of hell, and they were prone to threaten people.

“Where's XY?!” the latest Akuma – riding a dragon, no less! – demanded out loud.

“A-At the TV station, doing his interview! I'm just here to set up the concert!”

“ARGH!” And then the Akuma prepared his guitar. “Rock'n'RIP, baby!”

While the Akuma was speaking, something tied to a rope snagged him and pulled him out of the way.

“Whoa!”

“Ugh, you again?!” the Akuma said as Chat Noir (and Scarlet Lady) brought him to safety. “I'm outta here! To the TV station, Fang!”

The Akuma flew off, and he did what he had to do.

“Oh, thank you for saving me, Chat Noir!”

Yeah, maybe Scarlet Lady had tossed the yo-yo, but he knew damn well who really called the shots here.

“EXCUSE YOU!” Scarlet Lady yelled, but he ignored her.

“No problem, Théo!” Chat Noir thanked him.

----

They had finally arrived home, and her parents had insisted on giving Luka enough boxes of pastries for a week or two. Now that he had tied them all to the bag in the back of the bike, he turned to her.

“Thanks for the ride, Luka!”

“Thank your parents for all the pastries!” Luka replied. “I'll text you after I check on Maman and Juleka.”

She had to cut that off quickly!

“A-Ah, um, my phone died so I might take a while to respond!” she said – it wasn't much of a lie, she really needed to start charging it if she didn't want to run out.

“Haha! I'm sure Alya appreciates it. See you!”

She waved goodbye at him until she was certain he was no longer looking, and then she rushed into the boulangerie.

“Pollen, omigod, Buzz On!”

“Buzz On, yay!”

----

As the assistant got done telling Alec what was going on, he turned to his interviewee of the afternoon.

“Ah, so, M. XY, turns out that Scarlet Lady says we're in danger, so we're gonna have to cut this short.”

“Who?”

… Did he not know about Paris' heroes?

“S-Scarlet Lady...?”

“Oh, yeah, the bug lady.”

----

Chat Noir watched as Alec Cataldi escorted XY outside the building, while Scar just... stalked.

“It's just a safety precaution, M. XY,” Alec stated.

“I'll get you to a safe place, XY!” Scar exclaimed.

He felt a bit sorry for the singer – he had been at that side of her attention.

Just in time, he heard the air parting in a way he was familiar with, and turned to the right to see Marigold swinging until she landed next to him.

“Sorry, sorry!” Marigold begged, her hands put together. “It was hard to get away!”

“I've been there before!” Chat Noir replied – she probably had been with her friends when the alert sounded out.

“Took you long enough, newbee!” Scar shouted.

“Uh, look, I'll just skip the concert so I'm not attacked by 'killer guitar solos', LOL,” XY said in that pretentious tone of his. “Live concerts are lame anyway, just leave it to special effects.”

“YOINK!”

It looked like this Akuma liked to be timed, because he jumped in just as XY finished speaking and dragged him away flying.

“AH!” the younger singer yelled.

“XY!”

“Aw, I just got here!” Marigold complained, as the three of them ran after the Akuma.

----

As they climbed up the Tour Eiffel (how many times had they fought an Akuma here already?), they could hear the Akuma and his target yelling from the top of the tower.

“I believe you called me Ragged Stone?! King of the dinosaurs?! A HAS-BEEN?!” Guitar Villain shouted as he forced a tied-up XY to walk the plank, while the draconized Fang flew around.

“I-I was joking!” XY replied, a tad desperate. “Please, M. Guitar Villain! We could do a duet together! In your style!”

“TOO LATE! I'll show you killer music! Seismic Solo!”

The sudden chord of struendous music shook up the entire tower – including the part where the three heroes were as they moved up. Marigold and Chat Noir flapped their arms in an attempt to not lose their balance, while Scarlet Lady just gripped one of the steel beams.

“H-Hurry up, sidekicks! XY is going to fall!” the latter shrieked above Guitar Villain's 'music'.

“D-Did you forget the dragon guarding the tower?” Chat Noir shouted back.

“So deal with him, too!”

“And what does that leave for you?” Marigold asked, angry.

“Obviously, it leaves me to suck up to XY!”

“What?”

----

Marigold noticed that the dragon had seen them, and was ready to dive against them, to either eat or capture them.

She had better things to do, though, and this was still Fang, so she knew how to stop him. The moment he approached, she swung from her perch and threw her top so the rope would twist around his mouth – and allow her to jump on his head.

“MARIGOLD!” Chat Noir shouted: she could see that he and Scarlet were hanging from his staff, hooked between crisscrossed beams.

“There, there, nice dragon!” she calmed Fang as she forced him in the right direction. “Let's go get our kitty!”

----

“Whoa...” he said. If his heart didn't belong to Marinette already...

“Show off,” Scar muttered, the hypocrite.

Marigold guided Fang to fly between beams and below them both, and with perfect timing he shrunk his staff, allowing him to drop right behind Marigold.

“You're awesome,” he said, awed, as he squeezed her shoulders, and she gave him a smug smile.

“GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!” Scar yelled.

Nobody cared.

As Marigold made a pass above the platform, he and Scar jumped down as Guitar Villain aimed at Marigold.

“Hold still and get off my dragon!” the Akuma screamed, while Marigold stuck her tongue at him.

“Now, Scar,” he ordered.

“Lucky Charm.”

The ladybugs flew out of the yo-yo, and formed a large spray can that fell on Scar's hand.

“Extreme holding spray? But my hair is already perfect,” Scar asked, confused.

“Oh! I have an idea!”

“AH!” Scar yelled, shocked at Marigold's sudden reappearance, while he became concerned with something else.

“What happened to the dragon?!”

“Um...” Marigold mumbled. “I took care of it, that's the part that matters!”

----

Marigold grabbed the can and ran at Guitar Villain, who was swinging his head to the beat of his own music.

“Too bad the heroes are gonna miss the finale!Seismic Solo!”

Before he could fire his attack, though, Marigold fired the spray, timing it so most of it would be over his face.

“Yoink!” she said, grinning, as she pulled the guitar out of his hands and dropped it to the ground.

“Agh! I can't see!” the Akuma yelled: with most of his long hair now fixed in front of his face, it blocked his line of sight.

“Um, hey, help me please!” XY begged, and Marigold threw her top once more, tying the rope around him.

“I gotchu!” she said, pulling him towards her with just the force she needed to make him land on top of the guitar that was holding the butterfly.

“Ow!”

“Thanks for your assist!”

“Watch how you treat my XY, Marimold!” Scarlet shouted.

----

After Scar purified the butterfly and Jagged Stone recovered from his foray into unwilling villainy, there was one thing he and Marigold had left to do.

“Bien Joué!” they said, bumping their fists with a smile.

“Aw, geez, what did I do to deserve all this?” XY asked.

“Oh, my poor XY! I'm so sorry for how my lackies treated you!” Scar simpered in front of XY. “I'll make it up to you, promise!”

“Huh?!” XY did seem to have the proper reaction to Scar's abhorrent admiration, which was to keep away from her. “This dude's crazy! You're crazy! I'm going home!”

“Oh!” Scar, once again, showed her complete inability to read the room. “I can take you down!”

“I'm taking the elevator, you freak!” XY yelled, running for the elevator before Scar could try to 'help' him.

It felt a bit awkward.

----

As she saw Scarlet leave with a pout for not being allowed to hold XY, it triggered something.

GAH! That reminds me, I have work to do! And homework! And I have to text Luka! And figure out a cover story! AHHHHH!

Behind her, her Chat Noir and Jagged ignored her freakout while the latter signed an autograph.

----

The next day, Marinette brought the cover she had worked during the morning, and this time Jagged smiled.

“Aw, yeah! That's the shi–!”

“JAGGED! Language!” Penny warned him, as he held the cover closer.

“And... is that leather and sweat?!” he asked, surprised.

“Ah, yes! I made a scented sticker!”

“Crazy. Awesome. Perfect.”

“Not perfect!” Roth yelled. “It's not what I–”

“Then I'm out,” Jagged interrupted.

“What?!”

“I'm sure another record company will take number 2 in sales,” the rocker taunted. Marinette watched everything with a bit of awkwardness.

Why didn't you threaten this in the first place? she pondered.

But, well, it had been a success!

----

As the elevator door opened, Joanne saw the young lady that had come by the previous day waiting to enter. She nodded at her – client or not, if she was here then she had to be important – and left, while the young lady entered and pushed the button for the entrance floor. She breathed for a moment, ready to continue her job –

“WOHOO! I can't believe it!”

“Wohoo!”

Good Lord, they nearly gave her a heart attack! (And who was that second voice, anyway?!)

----

Next day, she brought her copy of the new cover – signed by Jagged Stone! – to school, and showed it off to Alya.

“Congrats, girl! And thanks for the footage!” Alya said, smiling.

“Hee, hee!” she giggled, still giddy about her success.

“Um, hey, Marinette?”

“Hey, Adrien!” she said, turning to her friend, who was blushing a bit and holding a magazine with Jagged Stone in the cover.

“I saw you made Jagged Stone's album cover.” He pulled out a pen. “Could I... get your autograph?”

She blushed, feeling her jaw drop.

“M–Me?!”

Before she could react, Lila and Sabrina jumped between them both.

“Ooo, me too, me too!” Lila exclaimed.

“Hey!” Adrien complained as he was pushed back by the girls.

“What was Jagged Stone like?!” Sabrina asked, her eyes wide and luminous.

That seemed to attract everyone else's attention, and soon poor Adrien was forced away as their classmates crowded around Marinette.

“Will you sign my magazine?!” Rose asked.

“I can say I knew you 'back then'!” Kim shouted.

Marinette felt embarrassed for the attention she was suddenly getting.

“G-Guys!”

----

Chloé growled as she bit into her copy of the magazine she had bought. Instead of her XY – who had been really confused the previous day, what with him running away from her – it had Jagged Stone and his new album on it.

And the worst of it was, the only reason Ragged Stone had met Maribrat was last week's work experience day! She should have sent her to garbage disposal with Césaire!

“You got your lunch?”

“Yeah, hold on.”

She turned – and there he was! Along with his sister – which was a surprise, because she didn't know how someone as cute and cool as him was related to her – he was pushing his bike.

“Wanna say hi?”

“Sure, I got time.”

Oh, he was here to meet her!

Just what the doctor ordered!

----

“Mon Chouka, you came to see me!”

He turned to look at her. Who was running at him with her arms wide open.

“Wait until you hear about my morning–”

No.

Nope.

Fuck nope.

He extended his arm and grabbed her face to keep her as far away from him as possible.

Fortunately, the other person he had come to speak with came out.

“Marinette! Congrats on the album!” he greeted her, smiling, even as he struggled with her.

“Ah–!” she tried to speak, but he kept gripping her without a care for what she had to say.

“'Mon Chouka'?” Juleka asked, clearly about to laugh at him.

“Don't you fucking dare,” he told her. He knew she was going to hold it over his head for a long time, but at least he could keep her from mocking him in front of everyone else.

----

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