chinese!marinette headcanons because only one person encouraged me to do this and that was enough for me to do it
you are all COWARDS for making “adrien teaches marinette chinese” headcanons, she speaks wenzhouhua at home and just vaguely understands mando because sabine preferred speaking her local dialect with her kids and figured she could learn mando some other time
she did not learn mando but can understand some of it. also she feels insecure about her wenzhouhua at times but. i promise u it’s better than adrien’s mando, which i could not understand for my life and needed subs for
going shopping at the chinese grocery store with her mom and picking out the veggies, knowing what they are but forgetting the names cuz she wasn’t taught to read chinese
SHOES OFF IN THE HOUSE, always wearing fuzzy slippers indoors. her dad forgets this rule sometimes and sabine always starts mopping and grumbling under her breath immediately afterward
i guess it’s a french bakery or whatever but don’t u dare thing sabine didn’t take marinette to chinese bakeries growing up, eating egg custards and hot dog buns and pineapple cakes
her mom sent her to love boat
sabine hosts family reunions every year. the house is extremely cramped and crowded, there’s at least 70 people in inside because only half the family could make it.
“we have two 40-year-old cousins in hong kong from your jiu jiu’s first marriage, but we don’t really talk to them. i think the younger one is a singer”
that jiu jiu is currently sitting on the couch and has two six-year-olds with his second wife
there’s a mountain of shoes at the front door and finding your own pair is like playing “where’s waldo”
especially when you have a lot of cousins in your teens and twenties who all wear the exact same adidas sneakers
long before adrien marinette’s biggest crush was jay chou and she dreamed of being a S.H.E. member
sabine would not wear a qipao 24/7 HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS!!!
she dresses in ankle-length mom jeans and a blouse with the sleeves rolled halfway up and carried a gucci handbag, change my mind
she becomes friends with kagami and brings her to her house and says “oh by the way can you tell my mom you’re chinese but don’t understand or speak it? thanks”
adrien and marinette let the families meet. gabriel reaches for the bill, but it’s nowhere to be found. sabine is cackling in the corner, having finally found someone who doesn’t know the bathroom trick.
she approves of the match once she finds out adrien’s grades and family income because marrying smart and rich will get you places
marinette’s friends think her house is pretty chinese when they walk in with the ink paintings and scrolls. her older cousin’s house on the other hand, has a those plus a shrine plus a buddha statue plus jade turtles and frogs with coins on their heads and in their mouths RESPECTIVELY plus a tape continuously playing buddhist chants.
her mom always tried to give her teachers gifts at the end of the semester and it was embarrassing because NOBODY ELSE DID IT
her friends watched anime but like… she grew up on the old ones like shin chan and doraemon, but the chinese dubs
speaking of which she has tapes of the three monks and tadpoles looking for their mother and nezha conquers the dragon king in her room at the moment
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