#this adrien plotline coupled with the tragic swan lake ending just reads like foreshadowing for adrien making a terrible mistake sometime

[ladybeug]

so, swan lake themed miraculous ladybug episode -

There’s a ballet dancer, and she thinks she’s the best ballet dancer in paris, and she tries out for swan lake because she wants to be odette. She is not cast as odette, and she’s so angry that she gets akumatized about it. 

While that’s happening, there’s a loosely swan-lake themed plotline where adrien sees a girl he thinks is ladybug - but he’s not sure. she’s got black pigtails and everything and he risks being late to class in order to follow her down a couple streets, trying to get a good look, to see if she’s ladybug. he eventually has to go to class but it’s bothering him that he wasn’t SURE if it was ladybug. He wonders if they’re not soul mates bc he can’t recognize ladybug on the street, or something. 

Class is interrupted for an akuma attack. The akuma is the black swan, who dances around paris terrorizing everyone and insisting she’s the best ballet dancer in paris: 

She challenges everyone to a dance, and magics them into compliance, and then insists that she’s a better dancer than them. Once she’s established she’s a better dancer, she announces that they can’t dance the role of odette, and instead she magically casts them as minor roles in swan lake. like, the cignettes, or the national dancers, or something. They have to go around dancing like their role. (Chloe gets recast as a jester, and she does very funny jumps and leaps and hates it) 

Enter ladybug and chat noir: they see people dancing and leap into action! chat noir goes in for a pretty simple strike but as soon as he gets within like, 10 feet of the black swan, she challenges him to dance and he’s like, ‘no way!’ but she says ‘then why are you already on pointe’ and he looks down and he is indeed already on his tip toes, ready to dance, so he tip-toes away from her as fast as possible to avoid confrontation and casting. 

ladybug and chat noir can’t fight her because they can’t get close enough without being invited to dance. Ladybug casts lucky charm to help and her lucky item is a macaron. Indeed, the solution is to feed the kwamis magical ballet themed kwami transformers, or whatever that stuff is. yknow like in frozer. They turn into ballet dancers, with magical ballet outfits, that look like odette and siegfried. i drew ladybug’s but chat noir’s came out bad. please someone else draw it. hes gotta be wearing tights and a little prince jacket... anyways,  ladybug -

(bonus: ladybug concept sketch:)

As ballet dancers, chat noir and ladybug challenge the black swan to a dance. They do the pas de deux from act 2 across the rooftops, and kick black swan’s ass. I don’t know how but i imagine them doing this thing where odette falls backwards and siegfried has to move to catch her. But off of buildings. And still with the grace and control of ballet dancers. 

Black swan is forced to admit that..... she is NOT the best ballet dancer. She surrenders, and ladybug is able to break her akumatized ballet slippers and free her. 

Chat noir, overcome with the romance of their dance, gets all starry-eyed at ladybug. She is like okay... see you later then.... and he says ‘yeah... <3<3<3...’ and when he transforms back he talks to plagg all dreamy-eyed about how the girl he saw earlier wasn’t ladybug because when he meets ladybug there will be no doubt he’ll recognize her instantly. 

plagg is like sure buddy. sure. 

end episode.