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So I was inspired to make this from this ask: https://www.tumblr.com/princess-of-the-corner/774407894641901568/cursed-thought-if-we-go-with-pokemon-style?source=share

For those who don't know, Ghostinette refers to an AU where the "prank" pulled in the flashback of the episode "Derision" actually resulted in Marinette's death, with her ghost haunting Chloe. It's not very fleshed out since it's a bit dark for Corner's tastes most of the time (fair), but it comes up every now and then.

Sea Angels were the first thing to come to mind when I read "Water/Ghost" because of a video I watched the other day that pointed out the Animal Crossing Sea Butterfly was closer to a Sea Angel, and angels are associated with heaven AKA the afterlife.

I made the wings a dark blue to represent her hair, which is more evident if you realize the second smaller pair of wings are placed to resemble Mari's pigtails. The more feathered look of the wings is to connect the design more to angels. I put the stalks on the Sea Angel's head over the eyes on Marispec's core to hint at the goggles Mari was wearing during the incident, and make a pair of faux angry eyes to cover its look of concern.

The name comes from Marinette, Marine, Spector, and Respect, although I admit I wasn't really sure how to implement that last one. I heard it in the name and wanted to keep it

Marispec

The Sea Angel Pokémon

Water/Ghost

Marispec are thought to be the souls of people whose death were the result of a watery betrayal. They tend to follow people hiding a guilty conscience. Whether this is to try to comfort them or to make the person join them is unclear. Trainers that befriend a Marispec may be offered jewelry it’s made.

@adrianxxiii @princess-of-the-corner

Transparent version under the cut

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Marispec

The Sea Angel Pokémon

Water/Ghost

Marispec are thought to be the souls of people whose death were the result of a watery betrayal. They tend to follow people hiding a guilty conscience. Whether this is to try to comfort them or to make the person join them is unclear. Trainers that befriend a Marispec may be offered jewelry it’s made.

@adrianxxiii @princess-of-the-corner

Transparent version under the cut

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me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

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I think Jagged dropping in and being too excited to see Mari again for anyone to actually get him up to speed before he sees her.

Like, Jagged and Penny drop by the bakery shortly before classes let out for lunch in order to surprise her. While he’s raving about what he plans on commissioning (it’s a good idea to keep the parents involved when working with minors), Tom and Sabine keep trying to interrupt him and going unnoticed. Penny realizes something’s up and get Jagged to listen, but by that point it’s too late; Marinette’s walking through the door

Amnesia Ghost:

Alya: Wait, has anyone told Mari about Jagged? or vice versa?

Juleka: what do you mea-?

Marinette, slamming open the door: WHY DOES A ROCKSTAR HAVE MY PHONE NUMBER!?!?!?!

What's funnier Jagged calling or him dropping in and having no idea so Mari's just ??????

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Oneshot Concept - The Chloe & Adrien - Childhood Friends Special

I wish there'd been a comedy episode centered on Adrien & Chloe's friendship & seeing other facets of them and the relationship.

It opens with Adrien being super drowsy at school as he had to wake up extremely early to finish a report because he won't be able to work on it over the weekend due to his jammed schedule.

He is barely keeping his head up & the others think its ridiculous, including a grouchy Chloe who storms up and promises to "Deal with this nonsense."

While the others fret over Adrien and muse ideas, one can see Chloe talking animatedly in the background, at times seemingly threatening her phone before suddenly shifting into pure professionalism and strutting back over.

Adrien has the weekend off, but cannot go out on Saturday because if he is sooo tired, he must need to stay home.

Adrien's only question is if he can sleep in to which she says yes and gets a drowsy thank you. Chloe adds she'll swing by after ten so Gabriel can't pull a fast one on them which receives a thumbs up as Adrien's head rests on his arms and she leaves.

Alya muses on how spending a day with Chloe is probably more tiring, Marinette is shifting into panic mode & Nino notes Adrien's already fallen asleep.

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At night, Marinette is seen sort of shaking off Tikki's advice that there are facets to even people one reasonably dislikes that you may not know & that presumably someone as nice as Adrien has some reason for sticking out his friendship with Chloe, but it largely falls on deaf ears.

The next day, Alya struts into her families store to 'steal her' because she & Nino figured she'd be stressing & needs time to relax with ice cream. Marinette muses on how Adrien & Chloe are probably dining on lobster and grapes & other fancy things on a super romantic date.

Cut to the Agreste manor & after Chloe enters his room Chloe reveals her purse is full of chocolate bars and other such things with both chanting "Hide the snacks, hide the snacks" with Plagg in the background doing the same as they begin racing around the room hiding snacks. Adrien revealing he's made new secret compartments, again Plagg in the background looking smug, & Chloe wondering where the wealthy would be without such things.

"Probably jail" says Adrien, Chloe agrees & they laugh.

On the way to ice cream, Alya shares what is meant to be an exaggerated jokey idea of what she thinks Adrien's day will be like, namely doing Chloe's make up and acting like her butler, shown in a comedic animation. Then it cuts to the actual scene of Chloe asking Adrien how he feels, revealing he has no had his face painted in elaborate, beastly fashion and he smirks like Chat Noir, "I feel ferocious, roar!"

Finally at the ice cream parlor, Nino has arrived and joins in on the speculation, though his is mildly more forgiving, suggesting Chloe is just incompetent at being a child cos she always tries to act grown up. With him thinking she'll want to watch an opera but not understand it or try a wine tasting with grape juice.

We cut to the manor zooming away from a film called "The Hyena Queen" to Chloe, also face painted, dangling off the rock climbing wall with a malevolent Adrien murmuring, "Long live the queen" before knocking her of the wall and she falls dramatically to the cushions below. Then he remembers how sad the next scene is & Chloe's frantically running for the remote, "I'll skip it, I'll skip it!"

Marinette counters that she thinks Chloe is probably going to use this time to brainwash Adrien and turn him against them.

Cut to them playing foosball & Adrien noting he wishes Chloe would be nicer to their classmates, or at least his friends. She counters, she almost but doesn't wish he were more ruthless & unforgiving, cos he wouldn't be Adrien if he were like her.

Things hang in awkward silence before their game picks up again.

Alya & Nino find it unrealistic, if only cos they doubt Adrien would listen & Marinette agrees and offers to get them some drinks still stressed but calming down. But she's cornered by a fan of Adrien's who asks if all the horrible things they said about the girl were accurate & Marinette goes on a bit of a ramble about her issues with Chloe before calming down and noting she may be exaggerating and feels better to get it off her chest.

Unfortunately, the fan is no longer listening and is holding an Adrien figurine as a butterfly emerges on her face & she swears, "My dear Adrien, I won't let that horrible girl torment you a moment longer!"

Cut back to Chloe strutting back into the room & dusting off her hands. Adrien asking how it went, as he could hear shouting from the other side of the house. Chloe waves him off, claiming to know how to talk to his father. Adrien wishes he could do the same, but also that it didn't necessitate arguments and asks what the damage is.

Chloe waves him off, reiterating its for the best he's not like his heartless father. Adrien counters, asking if she really wants to discuss heartless parents. She does a 180 and in a very tight, forced voice says, "I take it back Adrien, he's not heartless, and I am sure he will soon sell the company, let you retire from modelling and move you both into a townhouse… thing, and start coaching a soccer team to spend time with you!"

She adds an unconvincing smile that has Adrien cackling.

Meanwhile we cut back to Marinette fighting "Fan Queen" & talking herself out of using it as a chance to see Adrien, but she takes long enough that the Akuma does start approaching the house

"My darling Adrien, I am here to save you!"

Chloe & Adrien are enraptured in a very intense game of "Who can balance more stupid stuff on their head" Chloe is currently winning due to ballet & gymnastics training, but notes Adrien is doing better than he ever has before. He muses he must have been a cat in his last life.

Then Fan Queen kicks in the window and stops dead in her tracks as the pair stare at her, but also refuse to break their contest; its mostly Chloe.

Fan Queen is confused, Ladybug is confused, Adrien & Chloe fall over when she arrives and start trying to look cool and or getting fannish with her, but they keep stumbling over each others lines and poses getting increasingly embarrassed as they start squabbling over it.

Fan Queen just mutters, "Oh you're actually just a dork aren't you Adrien?" which just sort of nets an awkward shrug as Chloe makes some snippy comments about falling for magazine covers.

Just as Fan Queen seems to be getting upset, Ladybug snags the Akumatized item and the fight is over in short order, with her leaving the now very confused Akuma victim to the effuse praise of the pair.

After leaving she muses on what the heck she stumbled into there & if maybe Tikki was right.

Cut back & Chloe is asking Adrien if he's OK as that was his 'first' Akuma attack where he was the target. He waves it off, saying it was scary, but he figured as she wasn't scared he didn't need to be.

There's a brief moment where we see a sort of high speed flashback to several times Akuma have tried to kill her, but just as Adrien starts looking worried she forces a smirk and proclaims, of course she wasn't afraid, she is Chloe, and Ladybug adored her, so nothing bad could ever happen to her.

She's fine, really, pinky promise.

At night Marinette muses that maybe Tikki was right & that there's sides to people that can be unexpected, such as a cool charming guy getting flustered, or a normally mean person showing they can be a good friend.

As Tikki begins to narrate about how people often wear masks to be liked or get by in a difficult situation, we see Adrien waving Chloe off from his window, as the narration continues, talking about trust and the unique ways people can be there for each other as we see Adrien's dinner & then cut to him eating a chocolate bar.

She continues, that for other people they may not wear a mask to be liked but instead fiercer and more dangerous than they are, & we see Chloe moving through the hotel, eying everyone suspiciously even as she looks confident, members of the press obviously spying on her.

Before finally capping off on a moral about how even Marinette wears such masks, with how she is so easily able to express her worries and fears as herself, but as Ladybug she stays cool, calm and collected, which Marinette agrees with, adding a literal mask makes it easier to be who she wants to be.

The screen is divided into three, showing Adrien sneaking out as Chat, Marinette not wearing a mask, but very clearly carrying herself like Ladybug and a shot of Chloe putting on her Ladybug mask and looking wistful.

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I would say it is weird that people think Midoriya is childishly naive when his very first phrase of the story is "not all men are created equal", when the first chapter has Midoriya going about how he was deluding himself, when he talks again and again how lucky and blessed he is, but we have already concluded Horikoshi needs some sledgehammers.

But yeah, people seem to look down in a way at empathy, when having empathy despite everything Midoriya has gone through shows his strength. He could have easily just have given up, but that isn't who Midoriya is.

I've touched on it before, and others have gone into far more detail about it, both in other media and in general, but there's a deceptively cruel undercurrent throughout an alarmingly vast percentage of media. A single, insidious idea that has been reused and recycled and repeated.

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

Think about that for a moment. Really, think about it. Why does the villain have to die? Think about all the works out there about the cycle of revenge. Think about all the works out there about how you should be kind to one another. Hell, just pick a Disney film. No matter how Heroic the hero. No matter how central mercy is to the theme. And yet.

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

Sometimes they dress it up fancy. A Villain rejects the offered hand only to accidentally kill themselves, as in Tarzan or countless others. Or their own scheme ends up killing them without the Hero doing it. Sometimes it is the hero, by some accident.

And it makes sense, right? The villains do horrible, awful things, and many of them show no signs of remorse or even stopping. Taking them out is for the best, right?

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

Why.

How can they not choke on the hypocrisy. How can they stand there and tell us that love and compassion and understanding will lead Darth Vader from the Dark Side but the Emperor needs a one-way trip down the reactor chute?

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

It's much cleaner, as a narrative. When the noble hero slays the evil king, there's never any depiction of the inevitable succession crisis that would ensue. Imagine having to... reform? From the worst possible version of yourself, a character in blood stepped in so far that, should they wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er? Having to try and do better? Even if they could never atone? Even if it could never be made right? But yet. But yet. You still have to live and do better?

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

Why?

I know. Help us all do I know that there are people out there that will not change. Are staunchly against changing. Would die before they ever had a second thought about their actions. But. But. They are still, first and foremost, people.

And yet.

THE VILLAIN MUST DIE

WHY?

This world has no end of fools who mistake weakness for strength and boast their foolishness from the rooftops. People who think that kindness is a weakness and compassion a curse.

I can't help but wonder what this world could be if we all held each other with a bit more empathy.

Since recorded history began, people have sold their hearts for power. This weakness should not be celebrated. Power means nothing.

Midoriya's empathy is his greatest strength. It's the thing that makes him a Hero.

And I'm glad that there's been a trend lately in Shonen Jump towards empathic protagonists. The Promised Neverland. Demon Slayer. Dr. Stone. My Hero Academia. All of these works can't help but wonder what this world could be.

How are we meant to make the world better if we can't imagine a better world? How are we meant to dedicate our lives, knowing that perhaps that kind world is far away from here, that we may have to miss it because it's far beyond our years, if we think it's impossible?

WHY DOES THE VILLAIN HAVE TO DIE?

WHY IS IT EASIER TO SEE THE ENEMY THAN A PERSON?

WHO ARE YOU LETTING CONVINCE YOU THAT DEATH CAN BE DESERVED?

People act this way about Midoriya because that's how we are trained to experience media. He is, by the nature of his kindness, a subversion of expectations. The idea of treating the enemy like a person, understanding why they act the way they do, why they want to hurt, that's... difficult. It can be hard to remember in the face of human cruelty and depravity. But you must. If you can't understand then you can't prevent it. Yes, there are people who must be stopped. Yes, characters in fiction reflect this fact.

Even so.

To say that the villain must die, that is a justification of violence that has been used by real humans to cause real harm.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

As I said above, media has shifted recently. It's small, and I doubt it will be mainstream anytime soon, but the shift is there. Not just in shonen, but other places as well.

"We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it."

-Wonder Woman, Gail Simone

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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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@princess-of-the-corner Your recent discussions reminded me of an idea I had and so I had to share!

Chloe pulling Marinette's pigtails cos tat's how she thinks romance works is hilarious and sad, also reminds me of an idea I had ages ago.

Marinette was having a fantastic day, well sort of. Lila was in class today and thus irritating her by mere proxy, but she wasn't in the lunch hall right now and so Marinette had some peace.

But more importantly she had Adrien sitting right across from her!!

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng!" Chloe's sharp, shrill voice called out.

'Of course something would have to ruin this.'

Sighing, Marinette accepted a pat on the back from Alya and a cringing, apologetic smile from Nino & Adrien as she turned to face the blonde.

"What is it Chloe?"

"What is it Chloe? That's it? Where's the anger, the dread, the stiff upper lip? Oh I know," Chloe leaned down prodding Marinette's chest, "They're all being reserved for that new girl, Rossi."

Alya had to interrupt there, "Lila's not really that new she's been in our class for like, three months."

Chloe looked at Alya like she had shared the least interesting fact in the wold and returned focus to Marinette.

"So, what do you have to say for yourself?"

Marinette usually knew what to say to Chloe, at least when Chloe's combativeness made sense. This however was... Confusing.

"I ... Don't have anything to say?" She finally ventured, hoping an irate Chloe would spill more details and finally give her the context to form a suitable strategy.

Instead Chloe looked offended, hand over her heart and another to her head as she gasped as if stabbed.

"Really? You don' have anything to say!?"

Marinette just shrugged, somehow making Chloe's face turn pink with unspent fury as she built herself up to a true and mighty rant.

"I put a LOT of work into this relationship Marinette, and do I get ay appreciation for it, any loyalty? No. None evidently, because you go and drop me for that world wandering strumpet!"

Marinette blinked rapidly as she tried to make that incomprehensible mess of ideas make sense. "I-" Marinette stilled as Chloe's hand shot out holding a slip of paper.

"But, I am not a monster, and I'm willing to admit, maybe I've been a bit negligent in my own right thanks to my work as Queen Bee. Sabrina can confirm."

The redhead popped up, sporting a new fancy hat, to say, "I Akumatized over it!"

"So," Chloe continued, "I can let bygones be bygones, provided we attend counseling. I won't have my rival wandering off into some pointless blood feud with whatever woman comes by with a sharp smirk and a nice pair of legs. If this relationship means anything to you Marinette, I expect to see you there. On time too!"

With that Chloe deposited the slip of paper, which Marinette belated realized was for a couples councilor, on the table and stalked off.

Marinette turned back to the table, three sets of eyes as wide as saucers looking between her and the paper in obvious confusion.

Marinette only wished she had some kind of answer for them!

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How about a Frozen Legacy snippet?

The ground rattles as frozen winds batter them, piercing through Izuku’s costume and chilling him to the bone. Both of them instinctively shield their faces. Izuku squints through the windstorm for their target, and his stomach drops when he sees her.

Preserve strides towards them almost casually, each step freezing over the ground behind her. It’s as if half the city is made of ice. Worse, her skin is already blue. Izuku swallows. She’s not holding back on them.

“Why should I care about collateral damage?” Preserve says. “This is my domain, Heroes. What are you going to do about it?”

“Kacchan,” Izuku says.

“Shut it,” Kacchan hisses back. “I’m not accepting anything less than total victory.”

“But—”

“Heroes don’t have the luxury of losing, Deku!” Kacchan says nothing else, igniting his Quirk and taking off like a rocket towards Preserve. He whips around for a right hook when a colossal fist of ice bursts from a frozen wall and slams into him, pinning him to the ground under its palm.

“Predictable,” Preserve says, not even sparing him a glance. She steps past Kacchan’s pinned form towards Izuku. “What are you going to do, Midoriya? Twenty-five minutes to go. Care to dance?”

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now yall know what time it is

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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✨Au ✨ Moms are sisters

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Comic based off of @musashi’s video essay on Franziska!!

I’ve watched it three times and cried really bad on my first watch, so safe to say, this video has affected me. So I wanted to draw something that paid tribute to it!!! It was definitely a challenge trying to get all the descriptive metaphorical writing into a visual medium, but I hope I did it a justice!!

Please go watch the video!

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Feel free to ask me about my OCs. give me a reason to actually write my thoughts about them down.

Main group (centered in the banner): Kanaya Wells, Ashley Lily, Daisy Summers, Mimi Kalili

Others in banner: Robyn "Li'l Robby" Sarsa - Maria Wells - Astrid - Queen Lucaisy Penny Kalili - Pilith - Gwenifer Rabbit - Riley Inocye