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xhanisai · 11 months

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20 Questions For Fic Writers

Cheers for the tag @mostmagical !!!

1 - How many works do you have on AO3?

Forty-two

2 - What's your total AO3 word count?

448,371

3 - What fandoms do you write for?

Mainly Miraculous Ladybug at the moment. I do want to write some for Soul Eater and Gintama.

4 - What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

#LetMarinetteDrinkCoffee2K19 (9918 kudos)

Bite off more than you can chew and you'll choke (6355 kudos)

Speak now, regret later (3710 kudos)

Only idiots try to woo those who are already in love with them (2958 kudos)

Without you, what is the point? (1510 kudos)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do try my best to respond. They always make me happy and I love knowing my readers' reactions and thought processes regarding the stories I wrote. If I don't reply, it's mainly because I'm overwhelmed and tired hahah! But every comment always makes my day and I do reread them.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It's probably got to be "Goodbye" is bitter. It's a SpyXFamily story and I killed off the entire Forger family. My readers' tears were a joy to drink in a mug.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

A lot of my stories surprisingly have happy endings. I think the most tooth-rotting one would be Wo Ai Ni! which is an ML fic. It's literally fluff and fluff and so much fluff and if you love seeing Adrien being a madly in love silly goof with one Marinette Dupain-Cheng and being a hot mess about it, this is for you.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Surprisingly, I haven't gotten any hate on my stories every since I started writing for ML. I did get death threats from this one buffoon over a pairing in my last fandom but I put that menace back in his place and since then he hasn't gone after anyone else in the fandom :)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

My name is MissEcchi for a reason LMAO. There's so much smut I haven't even posted publically yet because they need polishing and editing and I'm a lazy bitch. Here's a few I've written for ML (and they're all and always will be lovesquare~)

Unmasked - Identity reveal, mutual pining and some comedy.

Red - Identity reveal, vampire Chat noir (after getting zapped by an akuma).

Paperthin - Identity reveal, mariblanc!!!!!, angst, happy ending.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have ideas for many! Just haven't written them out to fruition yet unfortunately. I do have an Ouran High school x Miraculous crossover story that has been chilling in my WIP docs for years lol...

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Some dumbass kids thought they were slick when they re-uploaded my stories on wattpad. Got them taken down. I haven't checked around since then so I hope no one else has done that.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don't think so.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Plenty! Here's a few I did with @seas-of-silver

Negative!!!

Murder On The Dancefloor

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

LOVESQUARE OF COURSE. Especially mariblanc!!!!!!!

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

In my last fandom, I had a multi-chaptered fic that I haven't updated since 2018 I believe? It was my most well written story in that fandom and I did enjoy writing what I did. I don't know if I'll ever finish it because I just no longer have the same love and passion I had for it. I'd rather it's left the way it is rather than trying to give it a half-assed ending.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I've been told I'm really good at writing emotions, especially with angst and comfort. I'm a huge slut in making my favourites go through the most horrendous, traumatising experiences ever and then have them look after each other. I also think I write battle scenes decently, especially when I'm in the mood. I like to enforce how powerful the heroes can be and make the akuma battles more brutal than as showcased in canon.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Currently, I think my weakness is that I write too much. I do waffle a lot in my stories because I'm very peculiar on my pacing and trying to time things. This also makes the writing progress more complicated than it should be and it is why most of the stuff I've written haven't been published yet because the editing takes too long.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I enjoy doing that a lot! But I do try my best to make sure to not do it too much because of language barriers. So the dialogue in the other language is either mundane or something simple. I've got the advantage of having learned a few languages since childhood at home and at school.

I have spotted that some people who like to add dialogue in a different language just used Google translate which is hilarious, especially when the translation is wrong or makes no sense.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Sonic The Hedgehog...

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

It's got to be Connecting Everything (Connecting To Everywhere)! It is the story I've always wanted to write and I just love horror and supernatural. I've always wanted to read an ML horror fic where lovesquare are still miraculous weilders and everything is pretty much the same except they've gotta deal with ghosts and demons too hahaha. It is my least popular ML fic unfortunately and I do hope I can reel in more readers! It is still ongoing and ch2 is a work in progress.

Thanks again for the tag, Magical!

I tag @gale-gentlepenguin , @seas-of-silver , @lalunaoscura , @ladyofthenoodle , @theflashdriver and everyone else who wants to do it! No pressure!

#I don't know what to tag this as

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gale-gentlepenguin · 2 years

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ML Reboot: Miraculous: Heroes of Miracles: The Lovesquare (Season 4)

-Fu’s death hit Marinette and Adrien hard. Thankfully now that they had attained the butterfly miraculous, they didn’t need to worry about Akumas.

-Chat noir tells Ladybug that he knows Hawkmoth’s identity, but that Hawkmoth knows his. It’s a tough revelation. But thankfully neither of them could be akumatized now. But they needed to find the Peacock miraculous and others.

-Ladybug is actually a bit more bold with her feelings for chat noir as Ladybug (a notch lower than season 5 Ladythirst, but still apparent).

-Adrien’s feelings for Marinette have fully bloomed, especially with how she helped him deal with his father’s “disappearance”.

-ladybug and chat noir start dealing with the Zodiac agents with miraculous and things get tougher. But their training did help them, and Fu was smart enough to make a contingency.

-Fu had Wayzz kwamitoga. And he had given it to Nino after officially passing the miraculous to him. Who was told to activate should the worst happen. (This is not related to lovesquare, but important for context on some scenes)

-Nifu (Fu possessing Nino with his permission) gave Chat noir and Ladybug their final lessons to make them full fledged guardian level. He gave a warning that keeping secrets from eachother now would be a detriment. But that this was a step that they needed to be on 100% or it would end badly.

-Felix and Nino tell Adrien that he should confess to the woman he loves. Felix said Ladybug, Nino said Marinette. This causes a hilarious arguement between them.

-Alya and Kagami tell Marinette that she should confess to the guy she likes. Alya says Adrien and Kagami says chat noir. Kagami comments she initially thought Marinette was into Adrien more, but after seeing how in sync the two were, that it was clear it was Chat noir.

-After defeating horse!Chloe with her sentimonster Cerbercorn (three headed unicorn) Ladybug and Chat noir discover Shadow wing and that he is the Hawkmoth they knew.

-This is what results chat noir realizing that Shadow wing will target those in his life. The last attack was directed at Nathalie. Someone Close to Adrien, and that means a person that could be in danger is Marinette. He ponders telling Ladybug.

-Sure enough, Shadow wing decides to kidnap Marinette. Replacing her with a sentimonster shape shifter.

-The sentimonster was able to fool most people. But Adrien caught on, realizing something was off. Sure enough, he confronted her and the sentimonster attacked. Chat noir struggled fighting it because everytime he tried to attack, it shifted to Marinette’s face and voice.

-the real Marinette let herself get captured, realizing that this was a perfect chance to find the lair. Which she did. Without using her miraculous she managed to escape and fight Horse! Chloé. Tricking her into creating a portal to Paris and she escaped. Much to shadow wing’s Chagrin. And Zhi Chou’s.

Ladybug arrived and saved chat noir from the shapeshifter.

-The sentimonster leaves and Chat noir frantically tells ladybug they need to find it. It kidnapped Marinette.

-Ladybug realized earlier shadow wing kidnapped her earlier because she was “Special” to chat noir. But he couldn’t know that unless it was to his civillian self.

-Ladybug calms him down. Saying that they needed to do what Fu had advised. They needed to end the secrets.

-Chat noir commented that now was not the time, that if they were going to save her, they had to go.

-Ladybug grabbed his shoulders. “Kitty, do you trust me?”

-Chat noir felt his nerves calm. Chat noir knew ladybug always had a plan. And that as her partner he needed to trust her.

-“With my life.”

-“Then we need to know who is behind the mask.”

-“no more secrets?”

-“No more secrets.”

-They detransformed and in that moment it started to rain. (Cue in the rain theme)

-“it’s you.”

-They both felt this split in their hearts melding into one. The wall gone. And despite the tension of the situation they would be facing. They were with the person they loved.

-Adrien now understood why Ladybug wanted him to calm down. She was here, she was safe. And he hugged her. Thankful she was okay.

-They kiss.

-After having their beautiful moment, they realize, they know where the villains are. They get the back up they need. And they get ready for the final battle.

#miraculous: heroes of miracles #lovesquare #adrinette #ladynoir #Marichat #Ladrien #Gale boot #ml reboot idea #ml reboot

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literaphobe · 2 years

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Also also opinion on ongoing fics/unfinished fics? Opinion on enemies to lovers? reverse lovrsquare? Teammates to enemies to lovers? Lovers to enemies? Mcd? Chat blanc stuff? Marinette getting akumatised either as a civilian or as ladybug?

- i filter the a, c/m, l tag by completed only but i cant speak ill of unfinished fics because i myself have committed the mortal sin of Abandoning

- enemies to lovers is okay i like antagonism and bickering and shit but also it has to make Sense and im realizing by design i tend to like ships w best friends to lovers dynamics FAR more than i like ships rooted in enemies to lovers dynamic… like have u ever had a genuine enemy? idw fuck any of those bitches But i have fallen victim to feelings for people in a Best Friend position like yasssss so fucked up i would follow u to the ends of the earth if our feelings got in the way everything we built would fall apart

- reverse lovesquare’s fun!! but thats the whole point like it has to ACTUALLY reverse i want these fuckers in constant turmoil and conflict i fucking love seeing them fumble the bag and never getting any bitches

- teammates to enemies to lovers is fine i just need to find it believable and well ive read certain things that made me go Mmmm he wouldn’t do that lol and sometimes well sometimes things are a little Boring sorry at its core i prefer looking at the emotional side of things and not people just like fighting

- i HATE main character death

- chat blanc stuff is cool!! like within the show itself i WANT so badly for chat to finally find out about chat blanc so it isn’t just some huge fear ladybug has to hold onto

- eh idrc about fics where marinette gets akumatizef OH WAIT theres interesting ways to do it tho and if its interesting i find it fun

#ask #mlbposting

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peachcitt · 4 years

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yo what the FUCK is going on in the mlb fandom

#peach rambles #i was gone for like 3 or 4 hours makin a website for class and i come back to???? this????????????#first of all disclaimer i do not care what other people ship. as far as im concerned you can ship whatever you want and it’s fine by me #(i mean. the obvious pedophilia/incest is not great but you get my point)#but the fact that i have LITERALLY never heard of maribat until JUST NOW and my first exposure is Big Drama???? huh????????#also the fact that it was apparently on the top 100 ships with every side of the lovesquare except ladrien..........lmao #BUT GETTING BACK TO THE POINT what the fuck is going on?? why are maribat shippers jumpin out of the woodwork to be mean??#and by that i mean ive already seen SEVERAL posts from my mutuals talking about how they’ve been harassed/received death threats from #maribats because theyve made a couple of light hearted jokes #like. WHAT. fandoms are so weird. these characters literally are fake. please calm down❤️

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huge-enthusiast · 3 years

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Miraculous fic recomendations!!

This is just an excuse to show all my bookmarks? Yes. Yes, it is. I'm pretty sure most of this fics are really popular, but try see if you find something you didn't knew about!

All of the fics will be rated Teen and up audiences or lower. Also if I don't put the author's tumblr is because they didn't put it in the fic or/and I couldn't find it.

Pairing: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

knowing you by emsylcatac (they are not really the author of the fic but that's the account that says in the fic, the actual author doesn't have an account).

After dropping their transformations months ago, Marinette and Adrien see each other for the first time after being apart. They've both left too much unsaid and have to work to pick up the pieces of their confused hearts.

Chapters: 1/1

Post-reveal but mostly ladynoir, light angst with happy ending.

the last day on earth by Reiaji

The first time Marinette sees Chat Blanc, she's fourteen years old. The second time, fifteen—the third time, seventeen.

The closer she grows to Adrien, the harder it is to save him.

Chapters: 1/1

Post-reveal lovesquare, kinda heavy angst, hopeful ending.

tell me something i don't know by carpisuns (@carpisuns here on tumblr)

Do you think it still means something? To love someone, even if the universe said you had to?

The odds of having a soulmate are about negative one billion (or something like that). But somehow, like they always have, Marinette and Chat Noir find themselves together. They’re ready to finally tell each other everything, but it turns out that even soulmates have to keep secrets, and while their bond draws them together, duty forces them apart.

Chapters: currently 17/28 (WIPs can be exhausting but this one is 100% worth the wait!)

Mostly marichat but almost all of the lovesquare sides make an appearance, soulmates au, mostly fluff but it can get angsty if it wants to.

One Thing After Another by SKayLanphear

Marinette notices that, sometimes, Adrien acts a little out of the ordinary--like the time he stood in a cardboard box for no reason, or when he actually hissed at Nino. It's only when she starts to notice the similarities between Adrien and a certain feline that she begins to get suspicious.

Basically, Adrien acts like a cat when he probably shouldn't.

Chapters: 15/15

Mostly adrienette with one sided reveal by Marinette's side, miraculous side effects (by both sides wich is really cool!), it's fluff with a lil tiny angst for drama.

This would take some getting used to by Codango (@codango here on tumblr!)

Adrien peeked out from behind the chimney even as the magic of his own Chat Noir mask fell away.

She was still visible, her dark hair bobbing under the street lamps a couple blocks away.

“Marinette.”

Adrien blew out a confused breath. His fiery Ladybug… was the quiet little mouse who sat behind him in class?

“What. The.”

This… would take some getting used to.

Chapters: 8/8

Adrienette with one sided reveal by Adrien's part, awkward flirting, just fluff, nothing to worry about.

comfort food also by Reiaji!

In Marinette's house, cooking is a language of love, and Marinette loves Adrien more than most.

Chapters: 1/1

Adrienette with a little of ladynoir, super super fluff, a lot of insight into Marinette's chinese heritage.

The right side of his face by walkingonthestars (@hamsternamedmarinette here on tumblr!)

Marinette and Adrien are able to remain in their new seats in the back of the room at the end of Chameleon.

Chapters: 1/1

Adrienette, fluff with light angst.

it's a long way forward so trust in me by aloneintherain (@captainkirkk here on tumblr!)

“You’re not the only strong one around here, Chat,” Marinette said. She looked a little winded, but she wasn’t struggling to hold him up.

This close up, he could see the freckles on the bridge of her nose. He could see how that smug smile lit up her eyes. He could feel the strain of her arms—and wow, okay, he really wasn’t the only person around here with muscles.

Six times Marinette carried Adrien (plus one time he carried her).

Chapters: 1/1

All the sides of the lovesquare! Fluff with LOTS of mutual pining.

a fight that you were born to lose also by aloneintherain

When the prosecution starts throwing around the word victim in reference to Adrien, he has to stuff his hands under his thighs to keep himself from bolting out of the courtroom.

Adrien had felt unsafe during those last few weeks, but, until he had woken up and seen Father silhouetted in his bedroom doorway, that had only been paranoia. Father was controlling and cold, but he wasn’t hateful. Adrien was isolated. He was often hungry. And some weeks ago, when he had snuck out to visit Nino, sitting thigh-to-thigh on his bed while Adrien cried in that silent, crumbling way of his, he hadn’t argued when Nino put a hand on his shoulder and said, tentatively, That’s abuse.

But Adrien remembers being small and Father touching his hair after he’d aced another test; Father holding his scribbled drawings like they were something precious, and framing them around his office; Father, dressed as Hawkmoth, his eyes wild behind the mask, lashing his sword against Adrien’s baton; Father, collapsed against Mum, crying into her ashy hair.

Adrien finds out Gabriel is Hawkmoth, and Gabriel gets to bring his long-waited plan into action.

Chapters: 1/1

This one doesn't really focus in the ship that much as is an Adrien character study and an exploration of his relationship with his father, but they're still there so I put them here. Really heavy angst (this is one of this fics that haunt me in the middle of the night) with a happy ending. ❗TW: parental abuse, eating disorders❗

Supercut by LNC

Marinette loves her friends and Adrien can't deal.

Chapters: 1/1

Post-reveal lovesquare, again light angst, an exploration of Adrien's insecurities, Marinette Dupain-Cheng deserves the world, happy ending.

Madame Snare by jettiebettie

“Sounds like a lot of work for nothing. She should take this as a sign to have a relaxing weekend with no responsibilities.”

“It's a lot of work she put her whole heart into. It wouldn't be right for it to go to waste,” Adrien whispers to him. The look on Marinette's face is enough to cause Adrien's own heart to ache. If anyone deserves the satisfaction and pride from a job well done, it's her.

“Too bad there isn't anyone else who can walk in those death traps,” Plagg says. Adrien hums in thought, tapping his chin.

“I could.”

Chapters: 1/1

Marichat, episode-based, Chat Noir in a dress!!!, light angst but it's mostly just idiots being idiots and a lot of fun.

in the same sun by peachcitt (@peachcitt here on tumblr!)

"It’s hard to believe that I saw you last at the peak of summer, when the sun was close and warm - and so were you. It should go without saying that I miss you. I miss you something terrible."

"It’s been seven months to the day since I’ve seen you. I wish you were here more than anything else."

Two letters, signed with initials instead of names, found in Paris, France.

Chapters: 1/1

Ladynoir, just angst, that's it, written like letters. No ending, just pain.

an uncurtain discovery by Missnoodles (@ladyofthenoodle here on tumblr!)

When he returns from school on Wednesday afternoon, Adrien discovers the darkness in his own home. He struggles to come to terms with it. To his utter mortification and delight, Ladybug is nearby to rescue him.

(He does not discover that his father is supervillain. That will happen on a different Wednesday.)

Chapters: 1/1

Ladrien, it says it's crack, and don't get me wrong, is super funny, but I also found it sad as fuck?

An Open Secret by Kasienda

Adrien whirled around toward Marinette. She smiled at him.

He couldn’t smile back. He stared at her like the dumb blond model that he was often accused of being.

Something shifted in her expression. And her warm open Marinette smile transformed into Ladybug’s grin. He was looking at Ladybug right now.

He knew Ladybug’s name!

Her name was Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

And he couldn’t say anything! Not to Marinette! Not even to Plagg, who had confided two weeks prior that Master Fu was growing increasingly paranoid since the location of his home and hideout had been compromised. Their master had apparently decided that Chat Noir and Ladybug would have to give up their miraculouses if they ever discovered each other’s identities.

It wasn’t fair!

...

A fic where they both know, but can't openly talk about it.

Chapters: 4/4

Post-reveal... but is it? Mostly adrienette and ladynoir, fluff with light angst and them being absolute idiots at hiding their secret identity.

golden (like daylight) by okayanna (@anna-scribbles here on tumblr!)

Friendship, Adrien decided, shaking off the mental image of Marinette’s hurricane eyes and hesitant mouth, parted in a small, careful “o.” He had a very strong friendship with Marinette. That was all.

Adrien thinks a lot about words, love, and Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Chapters: 1 + epilogue

Adrienette but has lots of ladynoir, another Adrien character study because I hate myself, it tries to not be angst but the writing will punch you in the guts and make you cry, it's so good.

Strangers in the Bright Lights by poodles (@ladybeug here on tumblr!)

Adrien is about two drinks in when he sees a girl at the end of the bar wearing black cat ears. It's kind of weird, so he watches her, and although it's crowded he can see her face when she turns around. She’s wearing a Chat Noir mask. He takes a quick look around- nobody else is wearing a mask. Just her.

Adrien finishes his gin martini and heads over to her. He could use some company tonight anyways, he hasn’t told anyone he’s back in Paris and Nathalie won’t arrive in town for another month. And it’s been a rough day, okay? A rough move! He’s not sure he wants to be back yet, and he spent most of the day in the Agreste mansion sorting through some photographs of his father he found in the study. Maybe he wants a drink and some stranger to tell him he’s pretty! That’s not a crime, is it?

Chapters: 1/1

Adrienette but it's also ladrien??? I think??? It's super super angsty but they're both drunk the entirety of the fic so it's also really funny.

Pick-Up and Chase by also SKayLanphear

After she accidentally trips into Adrien and apologizes about "falling for him," Marinette learns that he's no match for cheesy pick-up lines--whether they were unintended or not. And while she finds it flattering that he turns into a flustered mess with only a few words, Marinette comes to regret making him uncomfortable. That is, until she learns he's Chat Noir. At which point the phrase "just deserts" becomes a permanent fixture in her everyday plans.

A story in which Adrien is flustered, Marinette is smooth as glass at dropping lines, and Chat Noir gets the romance he was always asking for--even if he doesn't quite know how to handle it.

Chapters: 10/10

Adrienette with one sided reveal by Marinette's side, it doesn't say it in the tags but I'm pretty sure the characters are much older than they actually are in the show, so much fluff and so much flirting.

Pairing: Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Nino Has Done Nothing To Deserve This by GuardianKarenTerrier (@guardiankarenterrier here in tumblr)

It's nothing, really- just an innocent comment, a joke. But when they hear it, Nino and Alya come to a realisation.

There were, in retrospect, dozens upon dozens of hints. Now that they're suddenly aware of all their friend's flimsy excuses and rushed explanations, they're not only sure how they've missed it, they're not sure how anyone else has either. They realise that it had to be magic protecting their friends- and that same magic has ceased to work on the two of them.

Well, this means they'll just have to start watching over their friends themselves.

Chapters: 7/7

This is more a found family fic than anything else, Alya and Nino are the mom friend, has light angst but it's mostly identity shenanigans in the most bizarre way. ❗TW: eating disorders❗

christmas lights by demistories

Nino checks up and down the street, checking to make sure there’s no raging akuma headed his way before he crosses quickly and ducks inside the small café. He closes the door quickly before the icy air can blow inside and tugs his beanie down over his ears. He spots Alya sitting alone in the corner.

Chapters: 1/1

Just fluff!! Really short but really sweet.

hold on, i still want you also by Missnoodles!

Written for the @thedjwifizine ! Wich I also recommend if you wanna binge a lot of djwifi fics while also looking at amazing art!!!

Five times Alya ran into her ex, and the one time he stopped being her ex.

Chapters: 1/1

Light angst with a happy ending! I don't really like the ex-lovers to lovers trope but this one is the only exception.

I will continue to expand the list in the future! But by now I hope I was helpful in the search of new fics!

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purrincess-chat · 3 years

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Hot take 1: Ladrien has the most development potential out of all 4 sides of the lovesquare and if it had been properly explored the love rivals wouldnt have been needed

The fandom isn't ready for this conversation, but BOY I am. The biggest issue I have with the introduction of the love rivals is that the big selling point of this show is the love square, and the biggest draw of the love square is that it subverts the love triangle. So, why the hell then, would they subvert a tired trope in such a huge way, and then turn around and bring that tired trope right back in two fold? It doesn't make fucking sense.

Now listen, I am unrepentant trash for the whole love square, but the Ladrien episodes are straight fire??? Every single one. Jackady? Masterpiece. Riposte? Chefs kisses. Gorizilla? We love to see it. Like are you kidding me? Everyone out here being like "Buhh, Ladrien can't speak two words around each other" and we have already established that those people are watching a different show because literally if Adrien and Ladybug teamed up, it would be over. They made the reveal a Ladrien reveal in Ephemeral for a reason because that is where the absolute POWER is.

If they decided to just double down on developing all sides of the square instead of doing rivals, we could have had so much?? Ladrien would have helped Adrinette by helping Marinette get more comfortable around Adrien. It would have helped LadyNoir because Adrien could get to know Ladybug in a different environment, so he'd feel less of a need to show out during akuma battles. Not to mention, these two would go to literal hell and back for each other. They would burn Hawkmoth's absolute shit to the ground. But that's why Ladrien is a double-edged sword. They are so powerful and that is also their weakness. Because they would burn it all for each other. They'd go too far if they thought it was for the sake of the other. The angst potential of Ladrien is through the roof. Boring? We don't know her. Ladrien could never.

The love rivals weren't necessary, and we should have just had more love square development for ALL sides. I will die on that hill.

#cat replies #asks #hot take asks #do i love kagami?#yes #but she shouldn't have been a love rival #neither should have the blue one #imagine all the content we could have had for ladrien and mc #like are you kidding me?

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sunmoonkunoichi · 3 years

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Marichat/Reverse Crush AU/How-stupidly-complex-can-we-make-the-love-square-until-its-incomprehensible AU/Or whatever the fuck you call this

It starts because Chat remembers Ladybug's voicemail asking if Marinette was "cute" way back with Evillustrator and snowballs with every dodged request for Multimouse on the grounds of "keeping her safe" since her "identity was known".

And Chat, as he's want to do, puts 2+2 together and gets fucking 23.

Now Chat thinks Ladybug is not only in love with Marinette, but has been secretly pretending to be in love with the famous oTheR BOy maybe to throw Chat off her scent, or maybe because she thinks he won't accept her, oh my god does she think he's homophobic??? What should he do???

Be a good friend and support her, that's what!

Meanwhile, Ladybug has been going through the 5-stages of grief thinking Chat has been scorned by Adrien Agreste at some point since every time she mentions the model Chat's response is increasingly hostile. At first she thought Chat hated Adrien, but all his comments seem to be critical of his inability to face conflict?? Or show his true feelings?? "Pretty boy" is said with such scorn that Ladybug (who is also the Anxiety-Catastrophic-inclining Marinette who regularly declares her own death at minor inconveniences and whenever she gets hit with her long list of secondhand embarrassments) has made up a whole backstory of how Chat is secretly bisexual and is using Ladybug to get over his horrific attempt at trying to express his feelings towards Adrien oh poor Chat she totally understands where you're coming from you poor kitty.

Cue Chat trying to wheedle out Ladybug's secret relationship with Marinette by making more comments about Multimous and how nice it was to do that mission with Marinette! Can he do it again? While also making more visits to her balcony to figure out why LB fell in love with his shy, awkward, yet brilliant classmate and oh god oh no she's actually really funny and sassy and way too cool for Chat or Adrien LB has fucking TASTE!!

(he also has been really emphasising his support for gay rights every time he hangs out with Ladybug (which isn't helping his 'secret pining bi' angle LB is frothing over) to the point where even local news outlets and the LadyBlog are debating whether Chat is queer af (which has always been a pretty firm belief in Paris, what with the leather outfit and hand gestures like ✨you know✨) or just pro-LGBT+)

On the other hand, Marinette has being trying to suss out this ""secret mean side"" of Adrien's that has made Chat into such a scorned lover, resulting in her being a little cooler to Adrien, which in turn has made her actually capable of speaking to him now he isn't some perfect figure on a pedestal.

("Plagg! Marinette frowned at me when I accidentally bumped into her today and told me to 'watch it, pretty boy' before leaving!!! She didn't stutter like usual, which I thought she did because she hated me, but what does this mean now????"

"That I'm not paid enough for this")

Except Chat has also been sniffing around her balcony a lot and she can't help but feel sorry for a fellow Adrien-Lover, so now she's been spending a lot of free nights with him and wow he's actually so sweet and shy beneath the flirty attitude and oh no he's actually kind of hot, and if Ladybug was the rebound from Adrien does that make Marinette a viable love interest??? W H A T???

This got away from me, but honestly we're at the point that it'd be so much funnier to make the lovesquare even more complex like yeah fuck it up you two dumbasses.

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miraculouscontent · 3 years

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now that I finally opened my eyes to the lovesquare salt I'm like "what's up with Nino?" bc he was the first one to have a crush with Mari but he knew her YEARS ago and it just now that it comes out? like it doesn't make sense and he just stays trapped with Alya and he's not in love anymore. in one afternoon he forgot the girl he knows from years and he's in love with the new girl. MAKE IT MADE SENSE PPL

Fuck this I think they would be cute together and it would bother the fandom so now I ship them too (at this point any other ship for Mari is better than the lovesquare)

This ask made me realize that a bunch of ships get together through “forced interactions” (i.e: something they’re forced into/can’t get out of).

Alya and Nino (”Animan”) - locked in the zoo together

Ladybug and Chat - literally have to do patrols (for extra safety) and protect everyone or Paris goes up in flames

Adrien and Marinette (”Oblivio”) - in what they think is a life-or-death situation

Honorable mention to “Miraculous New York” where the entire plan to force Marinette to confess involved locking Adrien and Marinette in a room; Aeon even makes a comment about how the feelings would intensify with them in a dangerous situation (wow, glad their feelings are going to be “developed” so organically, thanks)

If you wanted to take it a step further, Adrimi’s only known interaction pre-”Frozer” are from their fencing lessons that they both signed up/got signed up for.

So like--I guess the non-”forced interaction” ships are like... Myvan and Lukanette (not sure how/if to count the gay ships)?

#category: salt #salt: shipping #other: ask and answer

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botherkupo · 2 years

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7 days of lovesquare (day 6)

the 7 days of lovesquare is my way of saying thank you to anyone who would like to support me during this difficult time. Find out how you can help (and more info) HERE

day 6: leave a message after the beep (chapter 2)

ao3

Marinette was freaking out. She’d managed to nab Adrien’s phone, but she hadn’t been able to unlock it, and now there was an akuma who looked exactly like Chat Noir running around and causing a huge mess. Why did Hawk Moth always have to have such bad timing?

“We’ll have to be careful,” she muttered as she perched on a rooftop with Chat Noir, peering down at the police gathered below. “They still think you’re the one who stole the artwork. I don’t think they’re going to leave you alone, not until we get that guy.”

Silence.

She glanced at Chat Noir, but he was just staring ahead like a blank piece of wood. Ugh.

“Hey, focus!” she snapped, nudging his shoulder.

He blinked and shook his head, slapping his cheeks a few times. “Sorry.”

She pursed her lips. That was the other problem. Chat Noir kept drifting around in space brain land, which she did not need right now.

“Look,” she said, grabbing his shoulders and forcing him to meet her gaze. “This is a matter of life and death, okay?”

“Uh—”

“We need to get that akuma A.S.A.P, and that means I need you at the top of your game.”

His eyes widened. “Are you that worried about me?”

“Huh?”

“You said it was a matter of life and death.”

Wait, did he—

“I mean, I’m upset that this copycat is pretending to be me, but I didn’t realise it’d bother you this much.”

She closed her mouth, unable to do more than blink. It wasn’t like she could tell him that this was a matter of life and death because she had to get rid of the message saved on Adrien’s phone or she would die from mortification.

“R-right,” she said with a strained smile. “I’m really worried about you, and that’s why we need to hurry.”

He rubbed the base of his neck, a surprisingly bashful smile peeping out at the corner of his lips. Then he froze and the distant space brain expression was back, much to her irritation. Seriously, what was wrong with him today?

“Let’s think, okay?” she said, patting his shoulders to get his attention again. “There has to be a reason why this guy got akumatised to look like you and is trying to ruin your reputation.”

“I’ve been trying to figure that out, but I honestly have no idea. The only time I was transformed today was during the statue unveiling and …” His jaw dropped.

“What?” she said, leaning so close their noses almost touched. “Did you remember something?”

“The lollipop!”

Her nose scrunched. “What?”

“The guy who made our statue had a lollipop, and I saw the exact same stick in the museum where the copycat stole the art.”

“Then that means—”

“Sculpture Dude is the copycat!”

They grinned at each other and leaped into action. All she had to do now was capture that akuma and then she could go home and delete the message. Everything was going to be fine.

oOo

“No way,” Marinette breathed. She sat in her bedroom with Alya and stared at Adrien’s unlocked phone in horror. “It’s gone.”

“What?”

“The new message alert. He must have checked his phone before I stole it.”

Alya’s eyes widened. “You don’t think—”

Marinette frantically called the number to listen to his saved messages. There was still hope. Maybe he’d just glanced at the missed call message but hadn’t listened to it. The fencing lesson had still been going when she’d sneaked into the boys’ locker room, and his instructor didn’t seem the type to let students spend time on their phones.

Yes, he’d surely just glanced at it.

“You have no new messages.”

The phone slipped from Marinette’s grasp. She stared ahead, all of the colour draining from her cheeks. “Alya,” she said in a voice that sounded distant to her own ears. “This doesn’t mean what I think it does, right?”

Alya bit her lip.

“He hasn’t listened to it, right?” Marinette latched onto Alya’s arms, practically shaking her. “Right?”

“Sorry, girl.” Alya patted her on the back.

Marinette groaned and flopped onto the chaise, burying her face against the cushion. “I’m doomed.”

“Look on the bright side. You finally managed to confess to him.”

“I didn’t want to confess to him like this!” She grabbed fistfuls of her hair, rolling side to side in despair. “This is a nightmare! How am I supposed to face him now? I can’t believe I—” She surged up into a sitting position, her eyes bright. “I know! I’ll switch schools!”

“Er—”

“I’ll have to change my phone number as well, just in case he tries to contact me, but at least I can—no, wait, he knows I live above the bakery. Okay, so I’ll have to persuade my parents to move somewhere else. Somewhere where we can’t run into each other.”

“I don’t think—”

“That’s it!” Marinette jumped to her feet, hitting her fist against her palm. “China! We’ll move to China! Mum has family there, and Adrien will never be able to find me if I’m in a different country, right? All I have to do is—”

“Marinette!”

Marinette sucked in a breath, and only then did she realise she’d been waving her arms about like an overdramatic orchestra conductor.

“Take a deep breath.”

Marinette obeyed.

“Now look at me,” Alya said, grabbing her hands and forcing her to sit back on the chaise. “You are not moving to China.”

“But—”

“I know you’re embarrassed, but confessing to Adrien is not the end of the world. Besides, he hasn’t given you a reply yet. Shouldn’t you wait for that before you start plans to move countries?”

Marinette gnawed on her fingernails. “That only makes me more nervous. He knows how I feel, but he hasn’t responded at all. Don’t you think he should have called or texted or—”

Alya’s expression was flat as she picked up Adrien’s phone and waved it back and forth. “You mean with this?”

Heat burned all over Marinette’s face. “Right,” she said, wincing. “I stole his phone.”

“Uh-huh.”

Marinette groaned and hid her face against her palms. Then she stiffened. “Oh no,” she said, even as dread washed over like a slap of ice.

“What?”

“Alya, I stole his phone.”

“Yeah. I know. I’m right here, remember?”

Marinette raised her head. “No, you don’t understand. If I have his phone, that means—”

Bzz, bzz, bzz.

She shrieked and dropped the phone. On the screen, the word “Home” was written in bold letters. It was just as she had feared. Adrien had noticed his phone was gone and now he was looking for it.

“I’m so doomed,” she breathed.

#ml #adrinette #7 days of lovesquare #my writing

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fragileizywriting · 2 years

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Kwami Swap / Reverse Lovesquare AU Pairing: Ladybug!Adrien x Cat!Marinette Rating: T Words: 1,301 Warnings: Mentions of Canon-Typical Temporary Character Death, Mentions of Non-sexual Nudity

Without the noise of the tap running, the bathroom echoes into a stony silence. There’s nothing she can say in the next eight billion years that will get him to smile at her, sitting down on the bathroom tile, back against the tub like he’s part watch dog part annoyed and part too stubborn to leave her alone for a second. He’s learned his lesson today with that. He’d join her in the tub, glare at her from the other side with their knees and shins all over each other, but they’ve tried before. Adrien doesn’t fit. He’s too tall, too noodley, too lanky to fit into this tub that is nothing but decor for this apartment.

So it’s her. Alone. Wading the waters and doing her best not to sink in entirely until she disappears, which she’s desperate to try, but knows better than to do so in front of Adrien. Not now. Definitely not now. It’s up to her shoulders, the water a pale green from all the soaps she’d haphazardly run underneath the tap, foaming at the sides. She follows it with her fingers, trying to pop the bubbles, trying to collect them into mounds, trying to do anything and everything at all except listen to the quietness between them.

“Kitty—”

“I’m sorry.”

He sighs, trying again. “Kitty.”

“I didn’t mean to.”

“Why is it so loud in here, even when you’re completely quiet?” he murmurs. This gets her to stop talking, shutting her jaw with a click. She’s a listener by nature, designed with the cat miraculous to hear and follow, but she’s molded it into a hybrid situation— she— Marinette— is a talker. A biter. A fighter. A killer. Words come easy for once for a black cat Miraculous user.

But she’s exhausted. The Miraculous cure is everything it’s called— a miracle, a cure— but some things it doesn’t fix. She’s two centimeters to the left of comfortable. Her body is too small for what she’s experienced tonight. Made of starlight, tasting of ash… it’s a miracle she has her legs. Her arms. Her toes. Her fingers. She can breathe— she can see— she can talk and hold Adrien’s hand.

She sinks down into the bath until her hair starts to plume. Her hair is nothing as long as Lady Noire’s, but it’s still long enough to sway in the gentle heat of the water. Vision might be a little bit slanted, from how hot the water is, but it’s nothing compared to what happened just an hour ago.

“What would we have done if I couldn’t bring you back?” he asks, into the quiet, when she refuses to reply.

“I don’t know. Maybe get Viperion to second-chance it, go back in time and save me, or… it doesn’t even matter.” She licks her lips, gathering steam. “But I knew you could bring me back, I knew you’re capable enough to—”

“Marinette,” he murmurs again, causing her to shrink. He doesn’t call her by her first name. She’s not even sure when the last time he said it was. “That’s not something I’m ever comfortable risking.”

“But—”

“No,” he continues. All firm, all stern, all him. She shrinks harder. “I will never risk your life to win against an Akuma.”

And yet.

She saw what had happened, briefly, on the news as Adrien had pushed her into the bathroom and stripped her of her clothes when she could barely stand and was shaking from fatigue. How he’d peeled away her Miraculous, letting the hexleather dissolve away like sugar in a hotpot. She’d died. She’d completely died. He’d left the TV on before leaving the apartment, swinging through the narrow and tight alleyways that Paris offers, trying to make it to the Akuma in time before she did anything stupid.

Well.

“I’m sorry,” she offers again, when he opens and closes his palms in front of his chest, like he can’t believe his fingers exist. Paramedics arrived on the scene. Luka had been there, too, shouldering his way through the crowd while her eyes had dimmed and flickered, cradled in Mister Bug’s arms. Those very fingers are the ones that saved her. “I didn’t mean to… to hurt you like that. I didn’t want you to get hurt, Adrien—”

“So you made the choice for yourself, instead?”

“I’m not capable of being without you.”

He turns to her. Looking over her, completely ignoring her nakedness in favor of staring at her. Exhaustion under his eyes. Claustrophobia creeps into her skin with that look. “Kitty—”

“I’m not.”

He knows. Of course he knows. He has nightmares of a woman in white, of a woman with blues, of a woman that causes supernovas with her tears and screams. The way Adrien speaks of it makes it feel so intimate, yet so far away. She is her. But she isn’t. The Ragdoll. The White Lady. The Blanche. Whatever her name is, in that universe that keeps Adrien from sleeping so often, feels like a coat whenever they talk about it. It’s her. But it’s not.

So Adrien knows. Adrien knows that she’s not capable of being alone.

And yet.

“What makes you think I’m capable?” he asks her, quiet, tears in his eyes.

Noire specifically has a last-resort method before passing out. She’s caught herself doing it across the years, ever since they’d first revealed their identities with one another— ever since Adrien had come back from an alternate universe, because Bunnyx needed help— where she causes as much damage around her as possible. If she’s going down, everything will fall with her. The cement under their feet had started to crumble under the weight of her powers trying to keep her safe. Even if it was ultimately futile.

Buildings had started to level. Streets had started to turn. Cars had started to flip. People had started to run away. And she’d slipped away while in his arms.

“You saw what happened— and that was while I was dying. You saw what I did to the Louvre— could you imagine what would’ve happened if you were the one in my shoes instead? Could you imagine what I’d become if you were the one I was trying to wake up? Paris would be gone. You don’t have the problem of leveling cities when you’re desperate.”

“I— I know,” he chokes. She reaches out to him, fingers pruney and gross, brushing his hair back from his eyes. “I don’t want that to happen.”

“Viperion wouldn’t have been able to turn back time quick enough.” From what she saw on the news before being herded into the tub was Viperion talking to civilians who’d been worried, reassuring them that Lady Noire had fully recovered. He’ll show up soon, any moment know, boots slipping on Adrien’s balcony while he scrambles to make sure the two of them are fine. She can’t even muster up a weak snort at the idea.

“I don’t want to see what happens when you’re alone. Never again, Kitty.”

“Which is why I couldn’t let it be you.”

“I—”

“I won’t let anyone hurt you. No Akumas. Never. You can always save me, and I know you can. But I can’t save you. I never understand how to, so I don’t want to risk that. When there are emergencies, Adrien, you are most important. Nothing else is.” She reaches down to his chest. His polo is unbuttoned. His collarbones are showing— dark, darker, honey-colored and amber warm. He’s hotter than the tub is when she presses her pruned fingertips against him, feeling the skin like a lifeline. “I’ll do it every day. Without question. Without thinking about it. You’ve always been the most important person in my life, and that’s not about to change now.”

#sharks and sugar #fragileizysasfic #i'll be posting this on ao3 later on in the month #i'm currently hiding

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capesandshapes · 3 years

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can you do marichat as the little mermaid? maybe with chat being adrien's human form (like when he's on land)?

thanks so much!

He didn’t know how things got this complicated.

Or rather, he did, but he didn’t want to admit it. Because admitting it would be partially admitting that when his father told him not to go chasing things that weren’t within his reach, the old man actually might have been right. Never mind the fact that his father was king of the ocean and that did require a little bit of wisdom—

This was a bad idea.

Adrien would never admit it out loud, but this was a bad idea. Not the worst idea, swimming up to a sinking ship and rescuing an unconscious woman might have been that—But this was a bad idea.

Because said unconscious woman, who he may or may not have traded not only his fin but also his voice for, was already engaged. She already had someone to love, a prince from afar that she’d known since she was God knows how old, and she’d told him as much when she found him on the beach just a day later, assuming that he was a young man who had also miraculously escaped the wreckage of the ship she rode on.

She’d already told him everything; how the prince and her used to throw stones in the sea, and how the two would sit in the lounge while he’d play on his fiddle for. How the prince gifted her books about the sea and how she used to go out at night dreaming about all the creatures who didn’t exist in said book, then the prince would scoop her up in his arms and take her back to reality. She’d already told Adrien that she was nervous to be a bride, but knew she’d be okay because the prince was her friend and that was half the battle—She just needed to be sure that she was doing the right thing.

And Adrien, cursed to never speak back, had listened; referred to jokingly by the name of Chat, since he seemed to recoil whenever near water—Never mind the fact that he was actually terrified that if he stepped a single toe in the ocean his father would drag him back in.

At this point drowning seemed like a great idea. The sea witch had offered him no reprieve when she stated that he would simply remain as a human for the rest of his days if the princess never loved him, knowing that an eternity spent with your loved one just out of reach was far more painful than any death.

And now he loved her far more than before.

First he loved the princess he saw on the boat, the composed and calm girl who always seemed to know what to do. But then he met Marinette, the girl who picked him up from the ocean, the girl who hid behind the crown—now love was a tidal wave that he couldn’t get out from under. Because the girl he had seen before, the Princess, wasn’t clumsy. She didn’t snort when she laughed, she didn’t dance until she fell over—At least, it didn’t seem like she did. But now that she knew her better, it turned out that she did. It turned out that Princess Marinette was this enigma that was slowly consuming him…

And still not his. Even if his hands flexed when he saw her dancing, wishing to ask for her hand. Even if she laughed when he pulled faces and told him all about the mermaids she dreamed of.

Eventually he would have to accept that she never would be his, that she belonged to this world, to this prince, to this life that was never his.

“You’re brooding again,” she said that night, finding him on the balcony alone during yet another ball. “You miss home, don’t you?” He was always surprised how she seemed to know when he needed her, but he could never tell her that.

He could only look away and stare at the ocean.

“You know I had a dream once,” she said. “Of a boy who was handsome and elegant, who was confident yet reserved. I’m not sure, but I think he was my true love. I keep putting off this wedding because it’s all I can ever think about.”

He heard her voice grow closer yet could not bring himself to look at her. He didn’t want to hear it; he didn’t want to know about dreams that he would never be a part of.

“I think he belongs to the ocean,” she said. “I think he will never be mine. I imagined him once, when I was deep below the waves and could not breathe. I thought I heard him say my name, telling me that he’d come back for me.” She paused, her tongue running across her lips, “it was a strange dream, because he had a tail and gills, and I knew that he couldn’t be real.”

He felt her hand land on his shoulder, but he couldn’t bring himself to look up, couldn’t put on the same mask that he always did. Tonight was hard, tonight he missed home more than ever. He didn’t need to know that she thought him to be nothing more than a dream as well, not tonight.

Her hands ran across his jaw, lacing through his hair and forcing him to look at her, to take in her large, blue eyes and the way that they watered. A small prick of fear hit him, leaving him to wonder what caused such a thing.

“But sometimes I like to pretend he is,” she said, her thumb running across his temple. “Sometimes I like to pretend that silly little magical miracles happen. I just can’t prove them, or really be sure, but…” her lips reached upwards, pressing against his for a second that felt far too brief for all that he felt, “sometimes I believe it. I keep thinking that he’ll find me, just in a way that I least expect, one that I can only hope for.”

She didn’t even allow him to breathe before she moved. She didn’t even allow him to realize what had happened—

“Wait,” he said, unknowing that the words even fell from his lips. “Marinette—"

And though the prince stood in her ballroom waiting, though the waves screamed for his return, though he shouldn’t have even been there; she said, “I’m glad that it’s you.”

I'm doing Lovesquare x Fairytale requests! Send a side of the lovesquare and a fairytale in my askbox!

#marichat #lovesquare #ml fanfic #miraculous fanfiction #mlb fanfic #my fanfic #miraculous ladybug #adrien ageste #marinette dupain cheng #chat noir #requests #this turned out long #I love the little mermaid

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literaphobe · 2 years

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Alright. *rummages beneath the desk before emerging and thumping a ridiculously huge book on the table. Dust goes everywhere* what fics do you want what ratings do you want what fic length are you looking for what stories do you like opinions on aus opinions on funny crack opinions on very plotty very angsty all sides of the lovesquare or do you want 90% ladynoir do you want the ending to be happy do you want a reveal opinion on lila salt opinion on murders and graphic deaths mich what do u want

i like fics that focus on the dynamic between ladynoir bc imo they ARE the ‘best friends, inseparable partners’ part of the lovesquare like NO PART of the lovesquare BICKERS like ladynoir does and I FUCKING LOVE THAT but i’ll read other sides of the lovesquare too if i think its a good fic i love an interesting story idrc about ones that explore a lot about other characters i prefer just reading about the dynamic between our two main characters and well i have the tag filtered currently by kudos and by fics that were completed between jan 1 2020 - today 2022 aka whenever i first put the filter and i clicked on everything that’s interesting i do like ones where they r aged up bc its easier to project onto them and whenever i think about a potential fic id write id want them aged up to my age so i can Tell A Story about something im going through KFKSKDK or something ive gone through that i can hypothetically relate to etc etc etc anyway i read any rating if the ages are appropriate etc and its Well Written

AUs are okay to me but ifl i generally prefer fics set in the MLB universe bc the whole double identity lovesquare thing is the crux of why i love the characters in the first place i always love silly little stories but i will always want to get Fucked Up emotionally like yasssss put the characters through hell or pining hell like the confession scene in the bed sharing AU i read where chat confesses hes still in love w ladybug after all this time right as shes about to recklessly sleep w him but gets so shook she ends up running away instead i LOVED that um idk if ill ever feel that way reading a mlb fic again but it was a top tier experience i think it deserves to be the top of the tag even tho it was written a few months ago

ALSO im a sucker for happy endings. ifl a lot of what i read tends to end that way!! not really a fan of graphic deaths ig? unless its funny. lila exposing fics r funny but i think i only read one or two imo theres a little Too many of those… i also feel like theres a lot of marichat which is fine but i like the ladynoir route better ❤️

#ask #mlbposting

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giuliafc · 3 years

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When Magic Fails - chapter 2

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Summary: The Miraculous Cure can fix the damage caused by a specific akuma. But what happens when said damage comes after the Miraculous Cure? When the damage isn't caused by an akuma? Follow Marinette through the worst day of her life. The day where her identity, or Chat's, won't matter any more. The day when she will discover what's really important. But at what price? Lovesquare story.

Warning: VERY intense! Read previous chapter here on Tumblr

Betas: KhanOfAllOrcs, Agrestebug, Etoile-Lead-Sama, Speckleflower, AmberLambda, Anonymousfriend27 and MiniNoire

Big thanks to: Momo|MarinetteAgresteBrand and Genxha

Cover art and chapter art credit: Rosehealer02 on Deviantart.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by (c) Thomas Astruc; TS1 Bouygues, Disney Channel, Zagtoon, Toei Animation. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

oOo

Chapter 2 - Code Polkadot

It was a race against time. His ring beeped when she passed the Ministère de la Santé, and her own Miraculous beeped in front of the ambassade des Pays-Bas. People watched in horror as she jumped and zipped across the road. She could see their stares, could hear their whispers. They were probably wondering what Ladybug was doing, holding Chat Noir and running madly across the road, both covered in blood, dust and rubble. She glared at anybody that came within a glaring distance.

“WHERE’S THE HOSPITAL?” she shouted at someone who had just stopped on a bike next to her. A familiar face, but her vision was so blurred by tears and sweat that she couldn’t quite make out who the person was. She shrugged off the idea. Four different hands pointed in the same direction, immediately followed by another dozen. She attempted a grateful smile, but was certain, from the frightened reactions of the people on the road, that she had barely managed to put up a painful grimace.

She jumped across in the direction shown and immediately saw her reflection glaring at her from the windows of the building in front of her. She didn’t even stop to consider what she looked like. The words on the building's windows said Hôpital Necker, but they also mentioned "University". She looked around to find the blue "H" that clearly marked a public hospital and saw it just a few metres away, at the side of a small marble arched gate, which led into a courtyard.

She landed in front of it and burst inside; her eyes scanned the courtyard until she saw at her left a door manning the sign “Accueil”. As she walked inside and looked around, she saw lines of metallic black seats. Mothers and children moved to give her space, as well as the people queuing and standing in front of the reception check in. She heard whispers around the room, mothers consoling their children who were asking what happened to Chat Noir. Why were there so many kids? All the patients had children with them; that was weird.

“I need a doctor, quickly!” she said bluntly at the woman sitting at the check in desk. To her disappointment the receptionist was on the phone, so taken with looking at the screen in front of her that she hadn’t even glanced in her direction. Marinette’s gaze quickly ran to Chat Noir’s face. The side of his head was covered in blood, which had mixed together with the dirt and the pieces of mortar in his hair and had made a sort of paste that had glued to his and even to her own suit. Her heart raced faster in her chest. She needed to hurry.

“Have you got your child’s carnet de santé and carte mutuelle, and your carte vitale please?” came from behind the green desk the voice of said receptionist, who stretched her left hand out to her, her eyes still focused on the screen in front of her, her ear still glued to the phone receiver.

Marinette gulped. Child? She looked around again. There were plenty of colourful drawings and cartoon characters embossed on the walls of the reception desk and pictures of children with many different types of illnesses.

Oh yes. Hôpital Necker, the child hospital. That’s right. She had heard of it in the news so many times, looking for donations for their research.

“He’s not my child…” she said. If the situation hadn’t been so serious she was sure Chat would have found it funny.

The middle aged brunette in front of her took her eyes off her screen, put a thick pair of glasses on and gave her a practised look of pure boredom before her brown eyes widened. “Excuse me ma’am,” she said to the person she was talking to on the phone. “I have an emergency here. You will need to redial.” She hung up and dropped the phone receiver.

“La… Ladybug? Oh Jesus… Chat Noir? What… This is a child’s hospital Ladybug… we have adult patients, but they...they’re not our speciality...” She started stammering and paled considerably.

Marinette felt a gush of anger spreading all over her gut as she admitted it, hastily, “I’m fifteen… and I expect him to be around my age. I don’t care if it’s a hospital for children, for aliens or for wild animals. He could die if we don’t act fast. He needs help. NOW.”

People all around started whispering.

“Fifteen?”

“Oh my God.”

“They are kids.”

“Only kids.”

“Maman is Chat Noir really younger than my big brother?”

“Sure.” The woman at the desk picked up the phone and pushed a couple of buttons on it. “Dr. Richter? Yes, Sylvie here at reception. We have an emergency. Oh you know already? Good… code polkadot you say? What is it, I’ve never heard of it. Ah okay... Cool. Yes, they know. They’re 15! Yes. I hear you, yes. Crazy! I’ll tell her. Leave it to me.” She stood and ran out of the accueil’s room; Marinette could only follow. “They’re already waiting for you in front of the SUSI (2).”

Marinette paled. “But I thought this was…” she muttered, but the woman interrupted her.

“Ladybug, you’re in the wrong place. This is the reception for booked appointments and routine visits. The SUSI is over there.” She pointed to the left. “You’re probably going to be faster than the bed. It’s the other side of that rooftop.”

Marinette gave her a grateful look and a nod. “Thank you… Sylvie?”

“Good luck, Ladybug,” she said smiling warmly. “You saved my boyfriend when he was akumatised. This is the least I can do.”

Marinette nodded again and held Chat firmly, jumping on the rooftop as fast as her legs could take her. She immediately saw that three men dressed in blue were waiting at the back entrance of the next building, near what looked like a gurney and an ambulance. She jumped off right beside them.

“We’ve been waiting for you, Ladybug. Nadja Chamack rang the hospital to warn us of your arrival. Please allow me to take him,” one of the nurses said, as he tried to take Chat from her arms.

She initially resisted, but then heard Chat’s ring giving a louder beep, so she gave in. “Please, we need to hurry. One minute and our transformations will fall,” she pleaded. The man’s gaze became stern. He held Chat firmly and moved steadily towards the gurney next to him. He carefully put Chat on it and quickly pushed the gurney inside the building, trying to move it hastily to the corridor leading to a door labelled ‘PU - Urgences’ (1).

A loud beep came from her earrings, and in a flash of pink, Marinette’s transformation fell as she sped next to the nurses, not even trying to hide her face from the crowd that had gathered all around her. Her gaze stayed firmly focused on Chat and on the nurses who were putting what she thought could be an oxygen mask on his mouth and nose, taking advantage of a moment when the gurney stopped because of the crowd. She didn’t even pay any attention to Tikki, who had come out of the earrings and had looked at her worryingly before flying into her purse.

“Ew, what’s that?”

“A giant bug maman!”

“Does Ladybug keep bugs in her purse?”

“WILL YOU ALL PLEASE GO FASTER? HIS SUIT HELPS HIM, BUT THIS COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS LIFE OR HIS DEATH! HE’S ONLY GOT A FEW MORE SECONDS TO SPARE!” She could swear that she saw a few flashes and tried to cover her face as best she could. Suddenly she felt someone’s arms wrap around her as a jacket was thrown over her head.

“There’s nothing else to see people, let the gurney pass!” a male voice said. She knew that voice… where had she heard that voice before?

They went through the doors of the PU and walked hastily a little longer until the gurney stopped and moved ninety degrees. The jacket was removed from her head as she heard the zipping sound of curtains being pulled all around them. A quick glance to her surroundings made her realise that they were in a sort of cubicle, protected from the view by a set of blue paper curtains, and the doctors and nurses were surrounding Chat, plugging different cables and machines all around him.

“Where do I plug the oximeter?” one of the nurses asked. She looked very young and a bit pale. She held a sort of peg in her hands, plugged into a machine and tried to attach it to one of Chat’s cat ears. “Nope. Does he have human ears?” She moved his hair at the side of his head and Marinette heard her sighing in relief as she attached the peg to something.

“What happened to him, how did he get hurt, Miss Ladybug?” she heard a doctor ask and she suddenly looked up, realising that the man was talking to her.

“Oh… he fell off the Eiffel Tower…” she started to say. Then she heard the last beep of her partner’s ring and in a flash of green his transformation fell. As Plagg twirled out of the ring and fell with a loud sob on top of Chat’s head, Marinette couldn’t stop her gaze from following the black kwami and running straight to the blond boy laying on the bed.

The plastic mask covered almost all his face, but even with that on, there was not a chance in hell that Marinette wouldn’t recognise his blond mane, now combed neatly to the side of his head and clean from the dirt, but not from the blood that plastered the side of his face. Pale; he was as pale as a ghost. She only caught a glimpse of his face before someone’s arms wrapped around her and held her tight. But that glimpse was enough.

No.

NO!

NOO! It couldn’t be...

“Gamin? Talk to me! Are you okay?” she heard Plagg say. Then, she saw something red dashing around the room, grabbing Plagg, oblivious of his objections, and disappearing behind the curtain. “Tikki, you don’t understand! I need to tell Pigtails! He’s been poi—” the little God of destruction whimpered as he was dragged away. She wasn't sure, but she thought she had seen tears at the corner of Plagg’s electric green eyes. Even her own eyes filled with tears, her chest shaken by loud sobs.

“Mar-Ladybug, it’s okay. He will be safe,” someone said, hugging her tight, but it sounded far away, like a whisper from a different time. "Marinette can you hear me? It's me, Luka," he added in a lower tone of voice. But all Marinette could hear were the sudden angry beeps of the machines in front of her, having gone mad the second Chat's transformation fell. A horde of doctors and nurses rushed to the gurney, busying themselves with plugging in more cables and hooking up strange machines to Chat's body and face.

“Sorry, Mlle. Ladybug, can you please wait over there? We need space!” Marinette heard the voice of one of the doctors say, and she felt Luka’s arms wrapping tighter around her as he tried to move her backwards.

She resisted sternly. That face. She had just given one quick glance to that face. She had to see it again, to see that it wasn’t the face she thought. She wriggled out of Luka’s hold and jerked towards the gurney, peeking around the doctors at work and trying to give another quick look, earning quite a few glares from a couple of nurses.

The neatly combed blond mane framed the handsome face of the boy she would recognise among thousands. As pale as a ghost. His once peachy lips now dry and blue under the transparent plastic mask. His beautiful green eyes closed. Why of all people did it have to be him?

She screamed.

"It's okay, Mar-Ladybug! He will be alright!" Luka's voice said again, his arms firmly wrapped around her shoulders to stop her from lunging straight to the bedside.

"ADRIEEEEN!!!" Her heart-wrenching screams came loud and clear in between the sobs that rocked her chest and lungs.

"Marinette? What… Adrien? Oh girl you must be kidding me! Mar… La-Ladybug?" This was Alya's voice. She heard Luka shushing her, and Alya’s eyes widened, as she corrected herself. What was Alya doing here?

Suddenly, a pair of extra arms wrapped around her from her left side. Another pair from the right, in a vice grip that kept her from going to him, that kept pushing her backwards.

A female voice spoke, the masked emotions trickling in through the tremble in her voice. “You can't go over there! You'll only get in the way of the doctors working on him! Stay here!”

“ADRIE—” A hand cupped over her mouth, barely able to muffle the sounds of heartbreak seeping out of her.

"Shhhhh! Do you want everyone to know, Ma-Ladybug?" It was Kagami's voice. She nearly didn’t recognise it, as the usually confident and blunt tone of the Japanese girl was missing completely. She sounded shaken and emotionally drained. Marinette darted her gaze around to notice that Alya was standing at her right and Kagami at her left, and they were both holding her tight, supporting Luka who held her from behind.

They were all there with her. She wondered when they arrived and how they knew where they were. Nadja probably had told them where she was heading, and they were allowed through the door of the PU before detransforming, Marinette thought, but the sight of Adrien being picked up carefully by one of the nurses and transferred into a hospital bed stopped the last of her rational thoughts from coming through. New sobs shook her chest, as new tears rolled off her cheeks. She buried her face in Alya's chest not even attempting to stop sobbing desperately.

Because Chat was Adrien. And Adrien could die. And it was her fault…

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Notes:

(1) PU - Pavillon des Urgences (A&E/ER)

(2) SUSI - Service d'Urgences et de Soins Intensifs (A&E/ER, Emergency and Intensive Care department)

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Author's Note:

Hi! *Keeps hiding*

I know, I know, this is probably the most catastrophic reveal ever. Please don't hate me!

I'll cut the fluff and get straight to the point. In the next instalment of "When Magic fails", “Secrets in the Open”:

— “We will need to put stitches on this cut at the side of his head.”

— “He has the right to choose how to live his own life!”

— “Chat Noir hasn’t just been injured. He’s been poisoned. And it’s not just an average poison. It’s extremely dangerous.”

I know, I'm cruel. If you want to kill m—, I mean, if you read this and you’re not part of our wonderful Discord server already, but you enjoy reading, writing and talking about Miraculous, please join our Discord server, Miraculous Fanworks (for people on FFN, discord dot gg slash mlfanworks). See you there soon, and see you soon here with the next chapters of this story. Won’t be too long. Promise!

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fanfic writer appreciation week: day 1

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I am paraphrasing the summary for some of the fics!

If you do end up reading any of these fics and enjoy it, please leave a comment on the fic! 🌸

OTP:

Your Lucky Charm by GwennhaduBug [T, 187k words, 2 works, complete] {lovesquare centric}

For Marinette, it turns out that having a boyfriend isn't what she expected. Her Ladybug secrets are dragging her down and straining their relationship. Maybe the one upside is that her relationship gives her the confidence to really get to know Adrien- and she likes what she's getting to know. And for Adrien, he expected to feel jealous when Ladybug eventually got a boyfriend...but why did it matter that Marinette had one? It's a good thing Adrien has his lucky charm. He needs all the luck he can get.

the portrayal of french culture here is immaculate and a wonderful exploration of teenage feelings and relationships! a slow burn with loads of alyanette friendship and great characterization !!

picture me (just like this) by iridescenceoflove [ G, 4.2k words, 2/2 ] {lovesquare centric}

When Chat Noir asked Marinette for help with a gift for Ladybug, she didn't think it meant getting an impromptu peek into his camera roll.

this is just sweet and chat just loves his lady so much and marinette appreciates him so much this is just pure pre-reveal sweetness

Angst:

read the tags for all fics in this category!

From the Ashes by MiniMinou [M, 128k words, 48/48] {lovesquare centric}

Five years after Adrien left Paris, after the death of hawkmoth, to face the new magical challenge that has arisen, he is determined to amends all the broken friendships, except one. And Marinette, falls in love again with her high school crush.

Perfect for the upcoming ladynoir fallout and some really beautiful, breathtaking writing and character exploration! (ft. adrienette getting sweeter, ladynoir getting bitter, nino”chat-noir-is-an-ass”lahiffe and alya”living-her-best-life”cesaire)

I will take it / It can't go wrong. by carolinaa [T, 74k words, 3 works, incomplete] {adrien-centric, no relationships}

Be loved by his friends, or love himself, or earn his father's love. Adrien's at a point where he's pretty sure he can only have one of those three things, but he's doing his best to juggle all three of them. They aren't always compatible. He's doing his best, though.

This focuses more on Adrien’s child abuse (more severe than in canon) and his growth out of it with the support of his friends and found family. The way it presents all of the relationships is brilliant and puts me in a lot of adrien feels. I think a lot about this fic

Slce of life:

Exam Week by Word_Devourer [ G, 7k words, 5/5 ] {lovesquare-centric}

In a study room with a view, and only two tables, Marinette is hard at work on an end-of-semester project, when Adrien arrives, with some difficult exams to come. Together, they'll try to survive exam week.

there is this certain kind of intimacy in studying in a room with a stranger for a week and i love it so much. the fic puts it into words while also subtly developing their friendship and i guess it’s a niche, but this was very relaxing read!

Every Dog Has His Day by Anonymous [ T, 1.2k words, 1/1 ] {adrino centric}

“We’ve already been out here for twenty minutes and she hasn’t marked a single spot. She’s barely even sniffed anything.”

Adrien gently pulled on the leash in his hand, urging the dog forward. “We just need to keep trying. She’ll pee eventually.”

Nino tugged lightly on Adrien’s elbow. “Come on, it’s after one in the morning, I’m exhausted, and it’s raining!”

Adrien quirked an eyebrow. “It’s drizzling.”

“There is water coming from the sky in liquid form. It’s raining,” Nino huffed.

adrino go out dog walking and!!!! so cute. plotless fluff is always the best kind of fluff. plus there is a dog what more do you need. best read to have on a bad day

#yes i am a bit late big deal #luna recs #fic rec #miraculous ladybug #fanfic writer appreciation week 2021 #leaving the angst section i actually managed to rec fics with less than 100 bookmarks #the carolinaa one is. so mcuh idk there is nothing much i can say about it because there is too much to say about it

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