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haunting-hufflepuffs-basement · 2 months ago

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Aiight, it's my day off, time for in depth screeching.

First of all: YES! Oh my gosh this would be so fun. At least half of that is because miraculous is kinda bad so it's very entertaining to rework, but also because the two stories mesh well.

Like, Marauders is already a story about a friend group with romance drama getting into whacky school hijinks but with magic shenanigans and a more serious spooky overarching big bad that threatens it all. And the fans have already put in the legwork to make a fairly believable cast.

I'm going to putting together my own thoughts as I type here (it's how I work things out), so if I go, "wait a second I changed my mind" a lot, that's why. The rest of this will be cut up and subsectioned to save your dashes. This is gonna be very very long.

Second of all, here's a link to a "brief" summary of Miraculous for my followers who don't know what it is. I tried my best to make it short, but I'm also a chronic rambler. I am so sorry. It's got the basic premise and also all the important characters. Also know that I'm fucking obsessed and I don't recommend it even slightly!

Part 1: What are we changing?

The first question is, how much of the ML worldbuilding are we setting on fire and rebuilding from the ground up? Because we Miraculous fans rework this shit a lot. For simplicity's sake, I want to keep as much the same as is possible, but some of it makes absolutely no sense and will have to be reworked.

So, the butterfly and peacock were still lost by the Master Fu analogue and are being used for villainy. The Ladybug and the Black Cat are still the two most important and powerful miraculous that combined can make The Wish happen and that's who the Butterfly user is after. The hypothetical show would start with everyone's relationships roughly in the same place. I would like to keep most of the miraculous powers the same, with the exception of the peacock. Any meaningful narratives surrounding marauders characters hinges on them having the free will to make the choices that they do, and the senti-babies CANNOT coexist with that. So no senti-kids, but we can keep the coven of evil asshole parents, they're just controlling and abusive instead of dabbling in magical homonculus babies. The peacock will work as it does in the earlier seasons during it's debut, so it can create controllable half-alive creatures with a level of autonomy, but they're not fully sentient and can't be real people.

The only other real difference I can think of is that whoever I make Marinette (probably Remus) will NOT be behaving the same way she does while in love simply because I don't want to write or think about her being a stalker! :)

Part 2: Who's Who and Why?

Sirius Black

The single most clear line between characters for me is Sirius=Adrien/Chat Noir and I did build the rest of my initial cast list around that.

Sirius Black and Adrien Agreste both grew up in controlling and at least kind of abusive households aligned with the villains with a lot of heavy expectations to perform placed on them. Any friends they may have had would have been similarly mired in the unhealthy and abusive worldview. They found a lot of escape and capability for rebellion in their more adventurous and risk-taking personas (Padfoot for Sirius, Chat Noir for Adrien). The influence of their friends allowed them to grow their morals, their personal opinions, and gave them the courage to stand up to and go against the abusive authority figures in their lives who were doing their best to position them as pawns for their evil plans. Particularly, they have one best friend who they're closer to than anybody else that REGULARLY encourages them to spit on their parent's wishes and be regular kids who have fun (James for Sirius, Nino for Adrien). And of course, they're both oblivious when it comes to love and a LOT of people are in love with them.

I think the parallels are almost too clear between them, and thus, I think Adrien HAS to equal Sirius. A fairly significant portion of my initial list kind of stemmed from that: James=Nino because they fulfill the same role in Sirius/Adrien's lives', Remus=Marinette because Wolfstar, Lily=Alya because best friends with Remus/Marinette and girlfriend to James/Nino (also something something about compelling narrative on who you trust), and Felix=Regulus because he's Adrien's/Sirius' asshole family who is more villain aligned than hero aligned for most of the story but eventually corrects their mistakes and does their part to take down the bad guy.

Now. The thing is. Adrien and Chloe are almost dangerously similar. Adrien is like, a couple of coughs away from being Chloe. Both of them are largely shaped by the different natures of their abuse. Chloe also has the "scorned older sibling, beloved younger sibling, but only because the younger sibling behaves and the older sibling doesn't" dynamic that Sirius has with Regulus, and they share a similar issue of having some pretty nasty behaviors when they're first encountered by other protagonists due to their abuse. A redeemed Chloe could be very similar to Sirius. But, I think Adrien's relationships to the rest of the cast map better onto Sirius' relationships than Chloe's do. And again, they are very similar.

What that means for this AU is that the Adrien allegory gets to be kind of a stuck-up asshole! MMMMM that's some good catharsis! He deserves to be a little full of himself. I think Sirius actually shares the most similarities with PV Adrien. . .who was named Felix by the fans. . . who then became an actual character that has very little in common with either version.

And of course, Sirius' aesthetics are 100% Ivan or Luka. But if I made all the 70s characters ONLY match up with their aesthetics, we'd RAPIDLY run out of characters.

With all that said, I still think I like the initial list, but it's obviously not a perfect one-to-one, and the Skittles and the bad guys are an absolute mess, so I'm going to go through each Marauders character one by one and assign them a Miraculous character.

Quick disclaimer from here on out that the only ships I'm considering for this are Jily, Wolfstar, and Rosekiller with Marylene floating as a possibility in the back of my mind. . If somebody would like a reshuffle with different ships in mind, I'll do it on request.

I may also post the first sections here separately because they are good cheat-sheets to how I view all the Maruaders characters.

Lily Evans:

So, let's go through the things I think are most important to Lily's character and see how I would slot her in:

Lily is an academic overachiever who has to struggle with untold amounts of prejudice because of how she was born. She's fairly new to this world of wizards and magic, but that's not stopping her. She generally follows the rules, but she's DEFINITELY not above breaking them for something she sees as a righteous cause. She just won't do it for fun usually.

She absolutely loves her sister, but her sister resents her because Lily is more special, more favored, more talented in ways that neither of them can control. She loves her parents, but they don't understand her fully. She never feels fully at home in either the magical or the muggle worlds because both are important parts of her.

She was very very very close with her dorky best friend, but he slowly grew into a worse and worse person until he finally directed his abuse at her and she broke away from him.

She absolutely despises James Potter for years because of his cruelty, but once he tones it down, she actually realizes she really likes him and is mad about it, but they're cute and in love.

She is close friends with Remus Lupin due to their mutual pettiness and academic interests.

Her best friends are Mary Macdonald and Marlene McKinnon, who are very different from her, but they work really well together anyway. She would do a lot for anybody she's friends with, including break the rules, get into fights, take on too much responsibility helping them out and literally die. Depending on who you are, she's also close with Alice Fortescue/Longbottom and Emmeline Vance, and Dorcas Meadowes is usually in there somewhere.

While she is friendly and kind, she has an explosive temper on her. She is very petty and mean to anyone she thinks is a bad person, and tends to trust her first impressions. She struggles admitting when someone has changed or when she is wrong.

She is an absolute prodigy at potions, which requires an impressive handle on theoretical knowledge and ungodly patience. She's also stated to be very good at charms, which requires a lot of intuition, creativity, and quick wit.

So the way she treats most of her relationships to me reads Alya. She's got Alya's insane drive, but also Alya's tendency for jumping the gun and getting too involved. She's a ride or die friend just like Alya. She puts too much stock in first impressions just like Alya (look at her behaviors with Chloe, Lila, and Marinette). I think Jily and DJWifi have similar vibes in that it took her a while to come around to James, but once she did they were basically inseperable (also really bold go-getter girl and her adoring boyfriend who is also a bold go-getter in his own way). A bit of a mess, but still more emotionally healthy than people like Remus and Sirius, and more competent in love than her useless lesbian friends Marlene and Dorcas.

I will say that her relationship with Severus reads as more Sabrina. Very close childhood friendship that turns sour due to one friend's toxic behaviors and is eventually ended.

Her relationship to her family reads Zoe. Younger sibling beloved by parental figures and older sibling who grows bitter and terrible over this, despite an initially close relationship. Although Zoe's case is a bit more complicated since at least two of her parents are abusive, one of them is absentee, and only one of them likes her and also her sister was a bitch when they met.

And her attitude towards academics and school reads Marinette soooo hard. Wound up about it, smart enough to be class rep/head girl, takes on too much responsibility, but also willing to shirk it for more important things. I think Lily is too confident to be Marinette though. A key feature of Marinette's character is that she does not believe in herself and makes bad decisions because of it. Lily doesn't have that problem. If anything, she's got the opposite where she trusts herself a little too much and will make the bad choice, although I do think they share the chronic overthinking and kind of baffling and difficult to follow creativity.

Especially where I'm leaning towards assigning James to Nino and Remus to Marinette, I think most of her relationships fit best as Alya, and her personality is most reflected by Alya, although I think there are significant shades of Marinette in her. While I can see Lily with the fox miraculous since creating illusions is frequently the work of charms and potions and requires a fair amount of quick thinking and planning, I also think the miraculous she'd work best with no regards to anybody else is The Ladybug. In an AU of an AU perhaps.

James Potter

I'm gonna come out and say it, James is a mom friend. He's an overconfident and egotistical twit, but he LOVES his friends. Boy thinks his friends are the hottest shit on the planet. If he finds out someone hurt his friends, he's pulling out the nine iron. He's constantly thinking about how to buoy his friends up and make them feel happy and loved and included. He LOVES his friends. And he loves taking care of them. He Sirius and Peter became animagi as a way to take care of Remus. He let Sirius live with him. He's constantly checking up on them and making sure they sleep and eat and shit. He is a mom friend. Sometimes to his own detriment, as he'll neglect to take care of himself. He loves hard and loud and endlessly.

He's also an ASSHOLE and I LOVE him for it! James Potter is an absolute BASTARD! He thinks that he and his friends are better than everybody else. He's naturally talented and he KNOWS it! He doesn't have to try and so he doesn't, and he FLAUNTS it. He's a jock and a sore winner. He has a tendency to forget that just because he's having fun doesn't mean everybody is, especially if it's not somebody in his inner circle. He's loud and an attention whore who loves having everyone's eyes on him. He's REALLY mean to people he doesn't like and will go out of his way to be a jerk to them. It takes a lot of soul searching and maturing and growing up and even some tragedy for him to deflate his own head and start acting with a little more empathy and kindness.

He's also jealous. A large part of his rivalry with Snape stems from his jealousy over Lily,

He's kind of entitled too. If he wants something, he believes he should get it, and his reaction to being told "no" tends to be "oh, is that a challenge?"

He's fun personified. Everything he does is usually rooted in sheer joy and the desire to make himself or someone else smile and laugh. If someone is feeling bad, his first instinct is going to be "do something to make them laugh." Life is a game to James Potter and he finds some element of joy in just about everything he does.

He's an adrenaline junkie. He gets a thrill from breaking the rules. He sees them as a challenge to his intelligence and skill, and the risk of getting caught is half the fun. He delights in doing dangerous things and is willing to take a lot of VERY big risks if he thinks it'll be entertaining. He's also got ADHD because I said so.

All this said, he's also a very moral person (kind of surprisingly given the previous paragraphs). He's got a STRONG sense of right and wrong on him for broadstrokes, and while that moral compass does have to be readjusted to include "don't randomly hex others just because," he's always had a strong sense of justice and broadstrokes kindness.

He's also got a big fat crush on a girl who can't stand him, and his love for her is a notable part of what allows him to change his behaviors.

His parents adore and spoil him, and the feeling is mutual. Their love gave him a lot of confidence in himself and taught him how to care about other people.

Due to the relationship web, the narrative role he fulfills, and the mom friend vibes, I'm inclined to assign him to Nino's role. But honestly, if we're looking at his "Jerk Jock who'll do anything for a laugh, but mellows out" personality, the character he most vibes with is Kim. Like, that is Kim's personality. Kim is an idiot and doesn't carry James' main character or ADHD energy, but they are otherwise the same person. Again, I'm not taking that route for other purposes, but this is going to be an AU where Nino and Kim basically personality swap but still fulfill their original narrative functions of "mom friend, good boyfriend, gets their bestie to rebel against their parents and helps out in fight against bad guy" and "asshole who's kinda just in the background but slowly turns from mildly antagonistic to a bro."

I think he also fits with the turtle miraculous so well because he is a protector. Some of his only lines we get in canon are him putting himself between danger and those he loves, using himself as a shield.

Remus Lupin

Hoo boy, is he gonna be a hard nut to crack. Obligatory notice that I only read half of ATYD, didn't like it, and will not be basing my Remus off of anything from there. Let's give this a go.

Remus is a person absolutely mired in self-loathing. He has been raised (correctly) believing that he is dangerous to other people and has (incorrectly) extrapolated that it means he shouldn't be around them ever and doesn't deserve connection or affection. He has been dealing with an incredibly painful and scary chronic illness since he was a very small child that puts a lot of strain and real danger on what are otherwise very loving parents trying their best.

Due to his condition, he has been forced to grow up in isolation and has never had real friends. He's spent most of his life believing that he will never get to be a full person. He'll never get to make friends or fall in love or go to school or have a job or really learn magic or even just peacefully exist in either the muggle or magical worlds because anyone who gets to close too close to him will inevitably 1) be in incredible danger and 2) inevitably come to loath and be disgusted with him.

Because of his lack of self-esteem, Remus tends to self sabotage and make bad decisions in all of his relationships. He's a man on the run from his problems constantly, all throughout canon. Now. I am a delusional sappy bitch who very much prefers to keep my Harry Potter interest and my Marauders interest firmly separated. Because then I can pretend that all the Marauders lived and happily raised Harry and Peter never betrayed anyone and the death eaters that we hyperfixated on and gave real character saw the error of their ways and got better. In my pretty sparkly delusions, Remus' friends survived and he managed to get over his myriad issues with their help and also soooo much therapy. But canon actually took away all of his existing support network and made him WORSE, so we might come back to that.

Having friends does a lot to bring Remus out of his shell, curb some of his most destructive behaviors, make him less afraid of and disgusted by himself, and allow him to grow a personality outside the context of the werewolf.

Remus is a very good student. Part of it is that fear is a powerful motivator. If he doesn't do absolutely perfect in school, then there is no way he will ever be able to have a life afterwards because it's not like he's getting in on his other merits. But part of it is that he does genuinely like learning and reading and academics. Like Lily, he feels a need to prove himself through his schoolwork, but unlike Lily it's less that it's an exciting challenge and more that he does just have a desire for knowledge. I headcanon that where Lily, Sirius, and James are all practical badasses, Remus is the one who knows the theory best. He'll spend hours just reading his textbooks by the fire to wind down, and is 100% the reason James, Sirius, and Peter pass their essays. He is the Hermoine to their Harry's and Ron's.

Remus is absolutely terrified of getting in trouble, but does actually enjoy breaking the rules. He likes the plotting aspect involved and he likes how much fun his friends have while doing it, and he, like anyone, gets a thrill from doing something he's not supposed to. I think that if he wasn't petrified of getting expelled but he also hadn't befriended James and Sirius and was left to his own devices, he would be a LOT like Lily. But unlike her, he would still break rules for fun, they would just be little subtle rules. Wandering out to snog his SO in the middle of the night. Using his prefect badge to get out of curfew. Reading books from the restricted section that he's not supposed to have. That sort of thing. I don't think he'd be a prankster at all. That facet of him was something that he only discovered because of James and Sirius.

Remus is caustic and sarcastic and petty and mean. Not outwardly though. He is PEAK "don't fuck with the quiet kid' energy. If you sat and people-watched with him, he would be constantly judging everyone and insulting them sooooo hard. He has a lot of witty, dry, biting one-liners that everybody else just has to double-take at because he's usually so polite.

He's fucking tired all the time. Chronic illnesses, constant self-loathing, and perpetual worry that every little action you take will suddenly cause people to hate you and turn on you does that to you. Being friends with people who have such big personalities also does that to you.

He is constantly baffled that he has friends. Maybe I'm projecting just a little, but he thinks all his friends are cooler than him. Not in a hero worship way, and much more in a "I suck so bad why on earth would you stick around me" way. He cares a lot about them and will do a lot for them, but a lot of it is motivated out of fear of losing them.

I'm basic basic wolfstar trash. He is soooo in love with his best friend Sirius Black because how could he not be? That's the hottest guy on campus and also the guy he spends all his time around. These bitches gay for each other is what I'm trying to say.

When I assigned the initial list, I mostly put Remus as Marinette for wolfstar reasons, but I do think I have properly convinced myself here. He is Marinette. Similar struggles with lack of confidence that cause them to be overly paranoid and make really bad decisions. Similarly rule-followers until they aren't. Similarly talented and intelligent individuals who constantly sell themselves short. Terrified of attracting the wrong kind of attention, constantly tired from the secret keeping and staying up all night, takes on too much responsibility to help their friends rooted in deep deep care and also the belief that their time isn't worth all that much and can be given out like coughdrops. Something something wolfstar, something something pals with the Alya analog.

The only thing they don't really have going for them is that she isn't really as dry and done with everyone's nonsense as Remus and he does not have her obvious ADHD and general high-strung-ness. I will also add that Marinette is less self-loathing and more lack of confidence. Remus is plenty confident in his abilities, it's his immutable self that he thinks is the problem. Marinette does actually like and trust herself, she just doubts her capabilities fairly frequently. This difference also extends to how they treat their friends as Marinette gets controlling and tries to do everything herself, while Remus tends to default to whatever other people want.

But there also really isn't another character that I think fits him better. I think the Ladybug is decently appropriate for Remus, but he doesn't quite have enough chaotic-lead-with-your-heart energy to make it work. If I didn't think the black cat was so appropriate for Sirius, I think I could give it to Remus, but I think the one that embodies him best is actually the Horse. Because Remus is always running away, one breath from bailing. The Horse would let him literally disappear if he needed to. I also think his role in canon of being a not-actually-all-knowing authority figure who isn't involved enough and is somehow still too involved in the kids' lives is similar to Bunnyx's role. And Bunnyx could also run away by getting lost in time. So Rabbit could fit too.

Oh, and wolfstar is exactly the kind of overdramatic emotionally fraught ship that would have a lovesquare. Anyway, moving on.

Peter Pettigrew

Boy howdy hey, we have another hard one! Peter. Peter my son, my child, my problematic second fav! I am a Peter Pettigrew apologist and it's about to SHOW! Before we get into this, I'm gonna have to again specify that this Marauders Peter, not HP Peter (although I'm an apologist for him too), which means he was actually, like, a part of the group that James and Sirius liked and didn't just keep around.

First and foremost, Peter HERO WORSHIPS his friends. AND HE SHOULD! What do you think the rest of us are out here doing? I know I said James thinks his friends are hot shit, but Peter would personally torture someone if his friends asked him to. AND HE DOES! Several times! I think he has a lot of trouble remembering he's a person who exists outside the context of his friends. He can get too caught up in following them and forgets to "honor himself" if you will. Basically, he's a social chameleon. He'll become whatever he needs to be most attractive to the people he follows. It's one of his survival traits. I think James may have accidentally encouraged this when they were younger, but recognized this issue and did his best to curb it as they got older. In canon at least, it didn't work. :(

Speaking of which, above all else, Peter is a survivor. It's what the rat means. When the chips are down, Peter will always make the choice that means he gets to live. Which means his morality only goes as far as his survival. There is not a thing in this world that Peter would die for. It's simply not in his nature. He's afraid of death. Not in the way Voldemort is. He'll let it come for him when he's old and it's natural. But he is afraid of a violent, scary, and premature death. You know. Just the looming existential threat that hangs over the entire series and also demonstrably a thing lots of real people struggle with.

I do believe Peter has a moral code though. He didn't join Voldemort because he thought less of muggle-borns or believed in wizard superiority or wanted the Statue of Secrecy abolished. It was a decision motivated by pure survival. He wasn't willing to die for his beliefs. He is not the kind of person who buys into "give me liberty or give me death." (excuse me for a second while I'm being very American). I think Peter's moral code outside of his survivor aspect sounds something a lot like "can't we just make it so everyone can be safe and happy?" Peter's ultimate value is safety. He wants everyone to be safe, which is why he absolutely falls apart in the face of the Wizarding War because no matter what he does, nobody will be safe.

Peter, while lacking the natural magic and academic talent his friends have, is still intelligent in his own way. He may not have the raw force of personality that James and Sirius have, but I think Peter is the real people person of the group. If you set him loose at a party, pointed at someone he'd never met before, and gave him, like, one five minute conversation, he'd be able to pull an uncomfortable amount of information from it without being suspicious. Who do they care about, what do they care about, what are they afraid of, what can he use against them, what can he use to make them like him? He just has a real sense for how people tick and intiuitvely understands them. It's one of his more Slytherin traits, and it makes him an EXCELLENT co-conspirator.

I also think he's intelligent in his ability to think forward and plan for the future. He demonstrates that ability all throughout canon in the way he seems to have a backup plan for a backup plan for a backup plan, and plans that last for more than a decade. He's the go to man for a long con or for thinking about the future.

Peter has no shame. He ain't to proud for anything and is consequently impossible to embarrass. Being blackout drunk in front of people, publicly dressing in a humiliating manner (whatever you consider that to be), saying the stupidest shit with absolutely no explanation---Peter is able to pull it all off completely unbothered simply because he doesn't think anything is beneath him. It's what makes him fun to be around at school and also slimy and pathetic as a death eater, and one of the reasons I like him so much.

Peter loves to be physically comfortable, and he loves making others feel that way too. Hedonistic is a word that some use for it, but I don't think that's really the right one. If someone he cares about is crying, he is most likely to make them something hot to drink and give them something warm and tasty to eat and wrap them up in a warm blanket and then give them a massive hug. Touch is his love language. Physical comfort frequently equates to safety, and that is the single most important thing to Peter, so he does his best to make sure he and everyone he cares about are physically taken care of.

The truth is a commodity to be bought and sold to Peter. I think it's generally assumed that characters in fiction will be honest, but that isn't really an assumption you can make with Peter due to his social chameleon aspect. He'll lie his ass off to get you to like him, but he commits to the bit and changes his whole personality and life to match the lie too. He'll lie for as long as it's feasible and even when it's not.

I think that Peter can enjoy watching his friends be mean and enjoys joining in on their meanness, but he wouldn't ever be mean if left to his own devices. He's too scared to do that. I also think he is SIGNIFICANTLY less judgemental than his friends. Peter accepts everybody as they are because nothing is beneath him, including people. He doesn't require you to change or get better, because you're still probably better than him (boy has issues). It allows him to be an extremely comforting force to a self-loather like Remus, but it also lets him casually work with a lot of actually despicable human beings.

I think that Peter is probably somewhere on the a-spec, but not 100% aroace, because you can't look me in the eye and tell me he didn't have a massive unrequited crush on James Potter. I like to think he's demiromantic and demisexual. He has to already have formed an emotional connection before romance and sex are possibilities, and even after being very close friends for a long time, it's not like that guarantees attraction. I also think he's pan.

So in the initial list I assigned him to Lila, mostly because they are both sneaky bad guys who ended up aligned with the villains. I think it still works. Bear in mind that I am also a Lila apologist (she is 14. You do not get Like That as a 14 year old without a reason).

They both are social chameleons who desperately want to be liked. They're both people that I see as aspec (My Lila is an aromantic lithsexual lesbian). They're both liars who'll side with just completely awful people if it helps their plans. They're both good at thinking ahead and pulling long cons. They both very obsessed with their People (Adrien for Lila, the marauders for Peter) and it can come off almost Yandere-esque at times (I hope I'm using that word right).

The main difference here is their attitudes. Lila is smug and confident and prideful. Lila IS too proud to beg, Peter is not in any universe. Lila also has a hard time forming genuine connections and opening up and is much more of an independent actor than Peter. Peter has had a James Potter since childhood (a.k.a. THE Extrovert) so being an asshole loner was never really an option.

TBH, I think the person who's personality he most gels with is Sabrina. I need you all to think about this critically. Someone who is almost slavishly devoted to their cooler friend and isn't too prideful for literally anything, is kind and caring in their own respect, but is mean to help them fit in, and eventually ends out turning on that friend and breaking away from them.

There's not really a traitor for me to narratively assign him to in the ML universe. You have Felix and Chloe, but they weren't ever really good guys to begin with, so I don't think their betrayals count. Lila does fit his narrative role of "someone who seems nice but isn't the best." A big problem is that permanent consequences and death aren't something ML characters really face. The powers of the Ladybug basically allow everything to be retconned to shit and back, so they never have to worry about physical injury and permanent harm the way Marauders characters do. Since this is so integral to Peter's character, I'm having a tough time assigning him an analog.

So here, I'm gonna have to pull what I'm doing with James, Nino, and Kim. He's narratively Lila, but with a more Sabrina-esque personality. But this is my most tenuous connection, and I'd love suggestions.

While I do have to suggest the mouse miraculous (multiplication) for him, I think there's on that's actually more fitting: the Rooster. I know my list up there says Fox because he's a Lila analog and also a pathological liar, I like the rooster better. Because the Rooster can give you whatever power you want, which is exactly what Peter desires.

So, just to summarize so far, in this AU, Nino's personality has been meshed with Kim's, Lila has Sabrina's personality, Adrien has PV Adrien's personality, and Lila, is part of the friend group with Adrien, Nino, Alya, and Marinette, and the unrequited crush is on Nino AND Adrien, hope this helps! I also love Peter and James being childhood friends, so our "Lila" grew up in Nino's neighborhood and they know each other. Also because we're doing Jily and Wolfstar, this means that DJWifi no longer gets to be the couple has their shit together! That's gonna have to go to Rosekiller :)! Anyway.

Mary Macdonald:

To me, Mary's most important trait is weaponized kindness. Mary is kind in a world that doesn't reward it, and continues to be kind as a massive fuck you to everybody. Think Cinderella. People hate her and attack her and tell her she doesn't belong in both the muggle and magical worlds because she's black and because she's a muggleborn. But she does the thing that pisses them off the most. She doesn't listen to them, but she is still kind to them. When they call her a mudblood and tell her she shouldn't be at Hogwarts, she'll smile at them and say "I am so sorry you were raised that way. Let me show you exactly why I belong!" when someone tells her to "go back where you came from" (I threw up in my mouth a little writing that), she'll say "I came from England. You're afraid because I am an unknown and being cruel because of it. Why don't we buy some ice cream and you can get to know me?"

Mary Macdonald is kind and forgiving because nothing annoys your enemies so much.

I think all the prejudice she's faced in her life has turned her into an activist. She pays attention to the things that are wrong in this world and makes people listen to her about them by simply refusing to leave or shut up. She's not in-your-face or loud, she simply makes herself impossible to ignore because she'll be CONSTANTLY in front of you. She won't let those problems be tucked away where it doesn't affect you because she's ALWAYS there making them seen.

Mary likes looking pretty and is really good at it. She's fat and a fashionista. She mostly does thrift fashion. She can put together a gala-worthy outfit from stuff she found at 10 different secondhand stores. She's good at recycling and fixing fabric. I think she does a lot amongst her friend group to teach them about muggle fashion and culture, and causes them to adopt it. I have a headcanon about the Gryffindors of the 70s really blending wizard and muggle culture wherever they could, partially in response to Voldemort's movement gaining more traction, but a lot because Mary made it seem SO COOL. She's also definitely a makeup whiz, but I know nothing about makeup, so sue me.

I definitely think Mary would rather go out dancing than do homework, but she does well enough in class. Her real intelligence is in sharing her passions, as previously discussed. I think Mary is also really into music, but not the punk alt scene like everybody else. She's the one introducing the group to pop music and making sure they can dance and sing to the songs that are usually played on the radio.

Everyone wants to date Mary, but in exactly the opposite way they want to date Sirius. Sirius is ridiculously hot and has a bad-boy persona, so everyone wants a one-night stand with him. Mary is pretty, but she's also so crushingly genuine and wholesome and kind in a way that makes everyone want to be her SO and have a long-term relationship and start a family and crap with her. Mary is largely uninterested.

She's trans cuz I said so. Fuck JKR <3

In the inital list, I assigned her to Mylene, and I think with the way I see them as very sweet activists, it still fits just fine. I even think Mylene's struggles with small and "stupid" fears but managing to face them with patience and work anyway could be interesting as a Mary especially where they're practically fearless about bigger things. Because she fits so well with Mylene, I think the mouse is appropriate. I think the pig is far more appropriate, but the mouse works.

Marlene McKinnon

Our lesbian punk queen, let's fucking go!

No, but Marlene is a punk. In every sense of the word. Marlene is angry and loud and bossy and non-conformist. She is the person you can trick into doing something you want by telling her she can't. She'll physically fight anybody who says shit she doesn't like. She is a very physically inclined person who revels in moving and putting force behind her movements. It's why she loves being a beater. She's got about a billion things to bitch about on any given day, and she is making it your problem. She's a butch, but she'll dress like a slutty femme just to make you feel uncomfortable. She is the biggest rule-breaker of the Valkyries and even gives the marauders a run for their money sometimes. She's blatant about it too. She's got more detentions on her record than James and Sirius simply because she makes very little effort to hide her misdeeds. She's right after all, why on earth would she? She's annoying and rude and bitchy and so unapologetically herself that it's magnetic.

When she thinks you're wrong, she's gonna tell you, with her voice and her fists. Unlike the marauders though, she's not just a jerk. Her violence is always directed at someone who does actually deserve it. She is incredibly moral and doesn't stand for people who break that code. For every time that the marauders found themselves on the wrong end of Lily's wand, there were 10 more times that they were on the wrong end of Marlene's fists. And she wins fights. Especially of the muggle variety. I think she does a lot of both jinxing and punching people.

Marlene isn't good at school. I headcanon her as dyslexic and ADHD and it's just impossible to focus in class with both of those. She spends a lot of time getting dragged through her classwork by Lily and Mary. Not that she doesn't try, but it's hard and frustrating and she's set more than one schoolbook on fire.

Marlene is a pureblood, but she LOVES muggle culture. She thinks everything she learns about muggles is fascinating. Muggle studies is her favorite class. One of her favorite bonding activities is when Mary and Lily take her to the muggle pub. It's like if Arthur Weasley was a punk lesbian teen girl.

Marlene is suuuuuuper into music and plays the electric guitar and the electric bass. A surefire way to get her to remember something is to set it to a catchy tune. She loves to scream her favorite songs at the top of her lungs.

She's kind of obsessed with Dorcas Meadowes. I'm a Marylene girly, but Marls does idolize Dorcas as a quidditch star and think she's super hot and cool. That kind of celebrity crush fades once they get to know each other and she starts getting to know Mary. . .but she still thinks Dorcas is super hot. Mary's just hotter.

I assigned Marlene as Alix or Ivan, but tbh the Ivan is just for the Marylene. Loud punk girl with dyed hair who's athletic and competitive and takes no shit is just Alix full stop. Guess we're shipping Mylene and Alix now, lol.

Alix's miraculous doesn't fit her at ALL and so it also doesn't fit Marlene at all. If I'm assigning her a miraculous it's the tiger. It's literally PUNCH!

Fuck it.

It's 2 a.m. and this is getting long. That finishes off the gryffindors. I'll finish the slytherins and talk about the broad strokes plot after I sleep. Ya'll can sit on this for a bit.

hear me out... ive said it before and ill say it again... marauders miraculous au...

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