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Other random question, how did Adrien become the Guardian in the Ozybath AU?

Master Fu still went out to choose people off the street to get miraculouses, but he just so happened to give the Ladybug to Adrien (otherwise it happened the same way), and the Cat to Claudia. Claudia's interaction with him was something along the lines of standing up against (read: cussing out) a bus ticket collector who was harassing Fu. After all, a holder needs to be willing to take action and fight for what's right, don't they? ...The excessive multi-lingual cursing is just a necessary evil, you see.... (Does this mean they use them...? No. At first neither of them can be convinced to wear them at all, because that's a lot of pressure they didn't sign up for and they are very busy people!) Anyway, very early on after the miraculouses are handed out, Hawkmoth finds Fu himself and, for lack of a better word, nukes the shit out of him, meaning the previous guardian A. is dead, and B. was unable to pass on any knowledge to Adrien/Ozymandias himself before the 'being dead' stuff.

It's only after saving the miracle box at the last minute (through Tikki's guidance) that Adrien finally decides to use the damn thing. Knowing that in time, he too will die or lose his memories from this line of work, Adrien dubs himself Ozymandias, shepherd of the arcane and great king of an empire that shall soon be naught but dust and forgotten knowledge. A lack of any outside support from The Order (which doesn't know he exists) or Master Fu (who is, again, dead) is what leads Ozymandias to be so attached to the grimoire—He usually either has it around to take notes on akumas (which is fundamentally useless but he doesn't know that) or to translate it from Old Chinese to French using what knowledge he does know of Chinese.

Sabbath, of course, isn't all too interested in the "wide-spread implications of the responsibility thrust upon us" that Oz Is obsessing over (which he mostly does because he's never been given enough agency to be in charge of anything, especially not this), so Sabbath serves as a way to ground Ozymandias, in addition to being the one who does all of the actual fighting. She gets on his nerves often with her middle-school-boy flavor of crude humor, but regardless they still have that sort of early-Ladynoir-staple closeness that comes with being the only two superheroes in the city. It's not as if Ozymandias ever tries to keep any information from her, mostly because he tends to do his translations/fieldwork when they're together on patrol.