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finallyaniguana · 5 years ago

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Watch The Eyes: Paris [8]

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The next day at school was like every other. Marinette arrived only a few minutes before Mlle Bustier took roll, breathing heavily.

Alya shook her head at her best friend.

"At least you're on time," she sighed.

On the other side of the room, Lila was spewing lies as usual. She had failed to make good on her promise to turned all Marinette's against her, but she was still going strong with her tall tales.

"I really hope we win that trip to Gotham. It would mean so much to me! I have such good memories there," Lila was saying.

"Oh, yeah? Do tell," Alix requested, expression a careful neutral.

"Well... it's a bit of a secret. But, I can trust you all, right?" Lila giggled. "Okay, I'll let you in!"

Chloe was rolling her eyes next to Adrien. She caught his eye and shook her head.

That caught Marinette's interest.

'Is that secret that you've been lying to everyone and will now be moving to Gotham, never to be seen again?' she thought sarcastically.

"Bruce Wayne's youngest son, Damain, is actually my soulmate," she claimed.

Adrien raised his eyebrows incredulously from the front row. If she has a soulmate thats 'oh-so important to her', then why has she been hanging all over him?

"We decided to wait until after we graduated to be together of course. So we could find ourselves before really turning to each other," she went on.

Adrien slumped down. He may never be safe from her fawning.

Rose sighed, almost literal hearts in her eyes.

"That's soooooooo romantic! How did you guys meet?" she begged to know.

Lila pretended to be resistant to sharing her little story before sitting up straighter, gaining energy from everyone's attention like a sadistic leech.

"Well, when we were seven, my mother was stationed in the US. In Gotham. We met in the hotel lobby. While my mom and Mr. Wayne talked, of course he insisted I call him Bruce after, since we're practically family now, I spent time with his son. When I looked into his eyes for the first time... it was like a whole new world opened up," she forced a dreamy sigh.

Marinette had no idea how everyone was falling for this. She and Adrien made peripheral eye contact. He wiggled his eyebrows at her. She held back her laughter.

"I didn't even realize I was missing a color, but now I know I will never look at blue the same way again."

'You would have never looked at blue in the first place.'

Of course, Bruce Wayne kept a private household. No public pictures of the children still living with him. There was no way to prove that. Bruce Wayne had blue eyes and so did his first ward, Dick Grayson, judging by the tabloid pictures of the time (Marinette had done a bit of research on the family before even considering applying for this trip).

Mylene spoke next, "Do you have any pictures together? I bet you were so cute!"

Lila dramatically draped herself over the back of her bench.

"Sadly I can't show you. We made an agreement not to share photos of each other. Wouldn't want to paparazzi catching on, now would we?" she smiled, sugary sweet.

"You have to tell us about him!" Rose interjected.

Lila turned back to the petite blonde before looking off into the distance like she was having a dramatic flashback.

'I wonder if she's visualizing the lie.'

"He's just soooo sweet and affectionate! He's always holding my hand and writing me sweet notes and-"

At last Mlle Bustier entered the room, saving Marinette and Adrien from busting their sides from holding in laughter and Chloe from yacking up her gourmet breakfast from the front row.

"Class!" she buzzed with excitement. "I have a very important announcement to make!"

The hum of small voices quieted.

"I know you've all been anxiously awaiting news about the Wayne scholarship trip application! I can finally tell you the winning class. Thanks to the hard work of our class president," she gave Marinette a dazzling smile. "We have been selected to go on the trip to Gotham! We will be put up in a hotel, given a tour of Wayne Enterprises, and given an opportunity to sit in on Gotham Academy classes!"

The class practically exploded with sound. Alya grabbed her friends shoulder, shaking her.

"Girl! You did it! Oh my god, you did it!"

Marinette was practically glowing with praise over the next few hours.

After class that day everyone was congratulating her on her essay skills. Max even asked her for a copy to read on the plane. She happily told him she would print him a copy and bring it to him at the airport before their flight.

"Isn't this wonderful, Lila? You can finally go back to Gotham! Ooooooh! Maybe your soulmate could take you out for a super romantic dinner!" Rose squealed.

Lila was hiding her pained look. She honestly hadn't expected Marinette to win this competition. Now she just had to pray they didn't run into the subject of her lies because that would send her delicate house of cards crashing down.

"Well, I'm just lucky to have a soulmate. I know there are some people out there," she made eye contact with Marinette across the room. "that weren't meant to have a match."

Adrien scoffed next to her. He looked at Marinette with a slight annoyed look. He'd always hated it when Lila used that to try and make his Lady feel inferior. Marinette learned quickly to brush off the hurt after years of dealing with Chloe's bullshit. Not that Chloe hadn't made an effort. All it took was an ultra liar to see how bad it was to be a target.

Almost everyone in the class had a mark or some form of palpable sign that signified their other half was out there, if they hadn't already met their soulmate. Marinette and Lila were the only two in the class that had no sign (that she knew of) at all. Until now. Her soulmate was out there. He might have a tendency to fight superheroes in caves at six in the morning... but he was hers. Whoever he was.

They were set to fly out in two weeks. Two stressful, jam packed weeks. Principle Damocles had been in to give them a presentation on what he expected behavior wise and to congratulate them. Mlle. Bustier had been in contact with the Wayne representative and he had sent them a list of things to bring and what not to bring. They also received a base schedule so parents would have a general idea of where their children were during the day. Despite the stress, the time flew by.

All the preparations were being made, belongings packed.

The main issue for Adrien and Marinette was figuring out to get back to Paris if the need arises. Akuma attacks had declined over the last few years so it would most likely be okay. But to be safe, the two heroes went to see the Guardian. He provided them the horse miraculous for quick travel if they needed to be in Paris quickly.

They argued for over a half of an hour trying to decide who would hold onto Kaalki while in Gotham. Eventually they decided that Ladybug should hold onto it since she had the best strategies if needed in a pinch.

All three of them thought it would be quite unlikely that Hawkmoth would attack Paris while they were away. He had severely limited his activity to almost once a month. They weren't sure what the change was, but they were grateful nonetheless.

Everything was ready.

"Are you sure you have everything, sweetie?" her mother asked.

Her papa looked at her with admiration.

"I'm so proud of you, baby," he gushed.

"Yes, I'm sure. I must have double checked like a million times. I have my luggage, my carry on with my sketchbook, my phone," 'the horse miraculous,' "and Mlle Bustier has the plane tickets. That should be everything." She smiled at her parents.

"What about your dress base for the Wayne Gala?" her father reminded.

She lightly patted her red roller suitcase. She intended to buy fabrics in Gotham with her free time and finish it there. She was going to the gala in an MDC original, as was Alya. Marinette had already been making a gown for Alya to wear (and a tie and pocket square for Nino, if need be), just in case she was invited to any events due to her aspirations in reporting. She had also been intending to invite her best friend to the next event she attended with Jagged Stone. Marinette knew Alya would flip at the opportunity. She put the finishing touches on Alya's floor length gown last week, spending the following week doing as much as possible for hers so it could be done in time for the Gala.

They handed off a box of macarons to her to share with her classmates before boarding the plane. She popped the lid. They were based off Gotham's heroes. Her smiled tightened.

She thought back to her conversation with Alya.

"Alya. There are heroes in the US, right?" she asked, eyes serious and spine straight.

Her auburn hair whipped around and smacked herself in the face. She grinned really wide, not even noticing Marinette's out of character demeanor.

"Yeah! Alot of the Justice League has home cities in the US. Superman in Metropolis, The Flash in Central City, Green Arrow in Starling City, Green Lantern in Coast City! And of course! Batman is Gotham's Dark Knight. I could go on. What do you want to know?"

"Um..." she tried to broach the subject without being suspicious. "I saw a picture of a hero I didn't recognize. So, I assumed you would be able to tell me who he was."

Alya spread her hands out.

"You came to the right superhero fanatic! Show me."

"Oh, well I didn't save the photo... I saw it on a blog post on my desktop," she lied, wincing, the strange standoffish energy fading.

"That's okay. Describe him. I'm sure I can figure it out."

Marinette thought back to the man she met through her soulmates perspective.

"Black hair I think. Black suit and domino mask. Blue symbol thing on his lightweight armor chest plate? Staff? Like Chat Noir's I think... but not magic. His suit was built for agility not power," she provided.

The blogger thought for a moment. Her eyes lit up as she fell on an answer.

"That sounds like Nightwing. No superpowers but still really good. One of Batman's partners. Started out in Gotham but has been spotted pretty frequently in Blüdhaven. Were you doing more research on Gotham when you saw the picture?"

Nightwing...

"Are you sure, Alya?"

Her best friend smiled smugly at her. She whipped her phone out if her pocket and quickly typed something in. She flipped it around and showed her the search results. There he was.

"That's definitely him! Nightwing..." she trailed off.

"Yeah, girl. I know my stuff," Alya bragged.

"Okay, you said he was just one of Batman's partners. He has more?"

Alya huffed and blew a piece of stray hair out of her face.

"So, this was all pretty hush hush since Batman's clearly a very private person but there has been a couple different sidekicks and partners to cycle through, at least from what I can gather from different media sources. So there was the first Robin, then I think there was a second one... but... he fell off the radar. Since then there's been two more Robin's. You can tell because the costume changes every few years. There's also a few Batgirls out there."

"Okay... would you say any of them were... our age?" Marinette asked.

Alya looked at her friend, a strange smile on her face.

"The current Robin is probably pretty close. Why? You trying to talk to a superhero, girl?"

She back pedaled.

"No, no, no! I was just asking because of Ladybug and Chat Noir! So, they look our age! I just wanted to know if anyone in Gotham was too," she managed to come up with.

Alya looked like she was about to continue questioning her about why she wanted to know.

"You sure do know alot about superheroes... what do you do in your free time?" she tried for a humor redirection.

"Like you haven't had an obsession before. *cough* Adrien *cough*," she shot back.

"Um, no fair? I thought he was my soulmate so give me a break! And, in my defense he kind of is," she pouted.

"Oh, please. You did not think he was your soulmate. You wanted him to be your soulmate. Big difference."

She'd told Adrien about the switching, but not the circumstance. She had to figure out who he was before it got dangerous.

She shut the box again and smiled up at her parents.

"I'll call every night," she promised.

Just then, Adrien walked in. He was giving her a ride to the airport.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yes! I'm ready!"

She kissed both her parents on the cheek before collecting the rest of her things and following Adrien out the door.

"I'll text you when we're boarding! I love you!"

They waved at her until she got into the car and drove away.

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migleefulmoments · 6 years ago

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The whole "His team is stopping/forcing him" trope is proof they have no concept of the entertainment industry. Darren's team consists of manager-publicist-stylist, none of which would have a job with him if he wasn't actively engaged in that type of work. They make and project his celebrity branding, not him as a person per se. Darren owns TSG, his team have nothing to do with promoting it or making it successful, that's on Darren, Mia and staff. Anything personal in on Darren, NOT his team.

You’re spot on. What gets me is that DARREN is the BOSS. He hires his team- his manager, PR, stylist, agent, lawyers, accountants etc to work FOR him, to promote his business which is his own skills as an actor, singing, writer, performer, and host. But he also does a lot of producing and that is something that takes a lot of time and isn’t Instagram worthy. His team works WITH him on those projects as well. Ricky is a co-producer for Elsie every year.

The point is that his team doesn’t own him, the team isn't the central figure and Darren simply hired to work for them. Darren is the CEO and Head of Human Resources for Darren Criss Inc. From various articles I have read, he also does a lot of the secretarial and assistant work himself. All the departments at Darren Criss Inc. report to Darren Criss. Full Stop. The team is put in place to advise him on the various areas in which they are experts, they don’t have a master plan and pull Darren’s puppet strings.

The ccers have a trope about Ricky having Darren’s Power of Attorney (POA) which he misuses. They claim that Ricky signs contracts for shows and #ads that are harmful to Darren’s career. Because -once again -an unreachable contract is involved, Darren is “forced” to fulfill the contracts for whatever work Ricky can find that both hurts Darren and gives Ricky great work. Their main complaint is that the work is far beneath his 4x-award-winning skills. In other words, Ricky is forcing Darren to do projects that are far OFF of the yellow brick road to the A-list. Why you might ask, would Ricky do this when his income is dependent on Darren being successful? The ccers claim that he does this both out of spite-you know just to terrorize Darren- and his own short-sighted greed. He’s aiming for “all the money he can get” from Darren AND as the same time trying to ruin Darren before Darren fires him. But lawyer Abby knows this isn’t how POAs work. It’s either a gross mischaracterization or an outright lie. Google it for yourself. A POA holder MUST do what is in the best interest of the person who gave the power. This isn’t ambiguous. You aren’t allowed to just wreck havoc on someone’s life because they trusted you with their POA. Ricky has Darren’s POA for Darren’s convenience- so that Ricky can sign contracts and make deals without Darren having to be present to sign, but make no mistake, Darren is making the final decision.

The other trope that makes me shake my head is the idea that Ricky is “forcing” Darren to do #Ads so that Ricky can get paid. Is Darren so stupid that he gave his manager a bigger cut of his income than he gave himself? Cuz that would make him a spineless twit. Come on, we all know that Darren is making the more money than Ricky is. I don’t actually believe all of the #ads are ads. Some are just people promoting their products they worked with Darren on the wedding- most makers and small businesses do that now -like it’s a “thing” on Facebook and Instagram. Some are just # because it’s nice to link things that you love and some are ads. Who cares? It’s income. It’s his prerogative to support brands he loves.

Darren isn’t a feckless idiot who can’t get his own life under control. In their haste to effort to rewrite history to delete all things Darren says that do not support crisscolfer, they have created a character who looks nothing like the Darren Criss we all see OR the Darren Criss they pretend to see. It’s like they can’t put the entire picture together. Just a few nice comments about Darren from today:

RE: His “bar baby” and a place he described as a long dream of theirs , and where his friends and interviewers have referred to “Darren’s bar” .

klainecentric

I’ve always said, that place is just place for their own personal piss up, drug sniffing, vagina rubbing strip joint use. Just a place as a hang out for them and their “friends” and maybe on the odd occasion look like she has a job at her one convenience but never actually work, just drink what little if any profit they make which will be nil……and stand around a piano, block the view from patrons who pay to get in and torture them with whatever song she may screech out…my bet it’ll be “what’s up”…I could go on but its just too infuriating. Rant over.

About the CHARITY fundraiser Darren attended

ajw720

Compare videos from last night to videos of Wednesday night. Granted on Wednesday the entertainment sucked and on Thursday there was talent, but still, it is all about D bringing the people.

It totally erased for me that he went to a cool event. The event was chosen over We Day as it was a better opportunity to market the strip joint. Plain and simple. There is NOTHING i can enjoy about D and 2019. It is an utter shitshow and even the few good things are absolutely connected to bad starting with awards season.

ajw720 (about a photo of Darren on the red carpet with Bob Saget aka no Mia in sight)

An angel got her wings again:)

leka-1998

Of course, the man who swept award season should absolutely continue to be the piano man for a bar he doesn’t own and she got bored with a long time ago. At some point you should admit you failed. No matter how much D promotes this place, 1) it should be shut down by the department of health and 2) nobody cares about the place if he isn’t there.

Anonymous asked:

Thank god his I'm straighter than straight mate Ben is there 😒

I laughed when I saw the pic. BF and his wife are absolutely being pushed as the straight friends.

Wonder if they too went to the strip joint after.

emmywinnercriss

Remember when Computer Games had a club and you would get exclusive BTS for being in the club?

Yeah, what happened?

ajw720

Apparently nothing.

ajw720

Looks like a fun event. Still a one off thing. That’s the pattern.

And ofc he ended the night at the strip joint. So clearly the price of doing something semi fit him his promo for that place.

klainecentric

Can we just stop with all this BS now, I’m so sick of waking up in the morning and seeing “if it’s even possible” more crap involving this sham relationshit, and that whore house of a strip bar, I feel like I can safely say D’s career is almost officially up the shitter. Maybe not quite there yet but it’s heading there real fast. I can no longer scroll through SM without it being flooded with this sham. No where is safe that is a place to just revel in the joy that is just D and his talent. Looks like team shit is getting what they want…..to leech, to hog and to ruin a man’s career as it was getting off the ground. Bravo.

That is just one post from last night and the rest from today. They hate Darren and can’t see through their bullshit clearly enough to realize it. The fandom has no where to go but down into hell even farther. They are so caught up in anger, hate, misogyny there is no redemption. They even made fun of Ashley Weston for having an allergic reaction to something.

If they are ACTIVELY and aggressively stalking Mia on social media, they gonna find her. They are want to be filled with hate.

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