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After being struck, Chat Noir freezes. His mind goes blank, like a computer undergoing a hard reset, and methodically deleting every emotion like a piece of data.

His confident attitude? Delete.

His underlying grief for his mother? Delete.

His love for Ladybug? Delete.

When he came to his senses, he only needed to ask himself two things:

Who am I? I am Chat Noir.

What am I doing? I am protecting the city from an akuma.

His gaze finds said akuma a few buildings away, firing its beamlike projectiles at civilians. His target. Chat then does something he had never done before,

He activates Cataclysm without uttering a word.

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Ladybug gripping his wrist with tears in her eyes. Begging him to not do it and standing in front of the beaten shaken akuma, even though they are the target they’re human. And he’s just staring at her robotically and says “let me go ladybug I can’t waste my power on you. Move aside” and she’s praying this worked like last time and they kiss and Chat is fUcking smacked with his emotions and they live happily ever after okay OKAY

Ladybug used LIP SMASH!!

LIP SMASH!! was effective.

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But. What if the kiss doesn’t work? The kiss only worked because love conquers hate, and Chat was filled with hate. There’s no emotions here; no hate for Ladybug’s kiss to conquer. It doesn’t work.

Oooh! I didn’t think of that! ehehe!

Her lips remained on his for approximately sixteen seconds. In those sixteen seconds, he decided it would be ineffective to move. She still had a hand on his wrist, and there was a high probability of him being unable to use Cataclysm effectively until she relinquished him. She did, after all, match him in strength and agility. Therefore it was most effective to wait until she released him of her own accord. There was a strong possibility of her keeping her hold on him if he ended her ‘kiss of life’ prematurely.

It was a simple strategy that kept him motionless. He waited those sixteen seconds until her lips detached from his face.

Ladybug, against his calculations, did not release him when she detached from him. Her fingers were still closed on his wrist and seemed to tighten.

It was illogical.

“Release me,” ordered Chat.

“No,” choked out Ladybug. Though why she was choking was beyond him. There was nothing to choke on. “You’ll hurt him.”

“I will retrieve the akuma,” corrected Chat.

“You’ll still hurt him!” said Ladybug. “If you want to get to him, then you’ll have to fight me first!”

Chat did not need any more prompting. The logical course of action to keep Ladybug functioning in order to repair damages after the fight and remain favorable in the public eye was appearing more and more risky. The risk now outweighed the reward.

He twisted his wrist around, unsurprised when Ladybug’s immediate response was to tighten her hold on him. He quickly jerked his wrist in another direction and raised his leg to kick.

Ladybug seemed to have expected him to hold back. He did not.

His boot connected with her side and he felt her fingers slip off his wrist as she was launched into the air. Based on a swift estimation he had calculated based on his knowledge in physics, Chat guessed she would be in the air for four more seconds at the least and fourteen at the most.

He turned his attention to the akuma, who stood there and sized him up.

The akuma had logic on his side, but Chat knew it was a fallacy. A diversion of faux logic that only those with no knowledge of the subject would fall into easily. It was based on a power play that simply did not apply to him.

The akuma had no physical prowess, a trait which Chat had in abundance. Chat also possessed the powers of entropy and mass destruction.

The akuma nodded his head.

“It is pointless to continue this. Remove the item,” stated Chat. His hand flexed. A power play. It was a hesitant theory that Hawkmoth required emotion in order to maintain control over his victims. Even a person with no fear would recognize the gap in strength and ability. A completely logical person would comply.

“I refuse,” stated the akuma.

Theory proven. The akuma was not completely logical. Chat would have to fight to remove the akumatized object.

Chat gave no verbal warning, such a thing would be pointless. His hand moved forward in empty air. Even death could be reversed by Ladybug’s Lucky Charm. No one would suffer needlessly and the event could be ended quickly.

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The akuma burns to ashes with one touch from cataclysm, and Ladybug purifies the butterfly that was ripped away. Miraculous Cure fixes all damage… except for the akumatized victim itself. The effect of Cataclysm on a person does not reverse.

The ladybugs skittered carefully over every person affected. Shouts of horror and indignation filled the city.

And then Ladybug had to watch them descend on her partner.

Before the cleanse, he had been standing with cool green eyes that showed no remorse. His ears had been lifeless and his tail had lain limply against him. He had seen no reason to run, no reason to feel sorry.

The ladybugs had not even completed their cure when his eyes lit up with curiosity and confusion. His ears twitched and his tail curled around him. A frown, different from the lifeless expression of earlier, marred his features.

“LB?” questioned Chat. “What just happened?”

Indignation filled her. Rage. Hurt. Betrayal. How dare he. After everything he had done, how dare he?

“Ladybug?”

The girl blinked, and suddenly she remembered. His confusion was genuine. He never remembered after akuma possession. He never knew what he had done.

Grief washed over her anger, dousing the fire in ice-cold waters of realization. Someone would have to tell him. He couldn’t not know.

She had to tell him.

“My Lady? Please don’t cry…”

Why did she have to tell him?

“Shhh, everything’s going to be okay. What happened? Did I do something? I’m sorry…”

A broken voice came mangled from her throat. This boy never meant to hurt anyone. Never. And yet…

“Ladybug, please don’t cry.”

And yet…

“Shhh, Bugaboo, shh–”

His soothing actions were interrupted by a scream. She could feel Chat’s jerking reaction to the sudden noise just as she could feel him turn to see what the commotion was about.

“Ch-Chat,” tried the girl. “Chat, p-please don’t look.”

“Ladybug, what?”

Other voices began to join the first. The murmurings grew louder.

“Please… it wasn’t your fault, please…”

“Ladybug, I don’t understand…”

She could feel him turn. He was going to see!

“Don’t!” she cried. Just as the mob began to find their voices.

Some screamed.

Some sobbed.

Some were silent.

But one was louder than the others.

“Murderer!”

And Ladybug wept.

And what if they get him arrested and revealed to be Adrien? Or reveal him themselves when they refuse to let him go as his transformation drops?

What if Gabriel realizes the lasting effect his Akumas could have when he sees his son dragged away by a mob that isn’t going to let him free anytime soon?

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Adrien’s arrested, and there are no more akumas. Gabriel’s too busy trying to figure out a way to get Adrien out of this. On the other hand, the lack of akumas is fueling Paris into creating theories about Hawk Moth and Chat Noir being in league.

But what of Ladybug? How would she react to all this?

She’s completely heartbroken and possibly one of Adrien’s main visitors. She visits her partner as often as possible, but only in costume. She wishes she could reveal who she is like he’s revealed to her, but with police around at all times it’s too much of a risk.

She likely visits the Agreste house as Marinette as well with pastries from the bakery in attempts to try and console, but after a few visits she finds herself blocked from coming in by Mr. Agreste’s request. He would rather be left alone entirely and her attempts to help are only a harsh reminder.

Nino consistently needs consoling as well, but even Alya struggles to get through to him. Marinette isn’t as close to him but tries as often as possible to distract him too.

She continues to try and help everyone through it, constantly ignoring her own needs. After all, the longer she ignores it and helps everyone else instead, the longer she doesn’t have to feel the pain.

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THIS POST BLEW UP AND I LOVE IT

also, i just really want to see lb and hawkmoth have to team up in this somewhere, as a means to rescue adrien. like, begrudgingly, and they just fight the whole time lol.

also if this happened, it would totally blow up conspiracy theories about all the miraculous users having been working together all along??????

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This post got big while I wasn’t looking holy shit. But I am not done here yet:

^^^ THIS FUCKER THO:

There was nothing left.

Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Gabriel’s attempts to pick up the broken pieces of his life only lead to breaking the rest. Trying to press fate and use magic selfishly was always bound to end badly. Nooroo had even warned him. Yet here he was, lost and broken.

The one who had tried to help him glue to pieces back together in her own gentle yet stubborn way was dead. His son was beyond broken and locked away. He shouldn’t have continued to turn to his dark magical attempts when the very solution had been right in front of him. Her gentle touches and words behind closed doors should have been enough. Her attempts to fix the broken relationship between him and Adrien should have been considered the icing on the cake.

But he’d never quite been able to see that what was right in front of him was enough to be grateful for. He needed perfection. He needed everything to be absolutely perfect or else it wasn’t enough. Nathalie was amazing through all of this and he still had his son, but without his wife he felt like his life was still in shambles, even if it was slowly coming back together.

And he’d ruined even that with his hunt for perfection.

After this, perhaps he should leave magic be. Perhaps he should stop trying to use magic selfishly when that obviously didn’t end well. Perhaps he should stop seeking out quick fixes to impossible ends and move on using what he normally could to try and make his life and his son’s life something workable. He could even use his money and loopholes in the law to make it work but that just wouldn’t be enough.

It wouldn’t be perfect.

So here he was, transformed and standing atop a building, waiting for the inevitable flash of red once Ladybug would enter his proximity.

“I have a solution that could benefit both of us, Ladybug. We can bring the akuma back to life and free your partner…We’ll just need his ring.”

This is so fluffernuttin’ exciting!!

Now here’s the really fun question:

If they do, in fact, work together and use the miraculous to try and revive the dead….can they revive them all or will they be limited to just one?

And if it’s the second one…which one will they bring back? Nathalie, in order to fix the situation and work with what they have?

Or Mama Agreste?

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OH BUT HEY WHAT IF

What if

Ladybug says hell no to Hawky because:

fuck you this all your fault

Like? No? I’m not just going to throw in my hat with you

literally anyone but you

fuck you

there a million ways this could go wrong

necromancy oh no no

BUT BUT BUT

Now he’s given her an idea. She still has the ring. She’s been holding onto it for safe keeping, unable to return it to Fu because of her own feelings…and because Plagg stubbornly refuses to abandon his boy. She won’t rely on Hawkmoth for help–after all the wild theories about them all being in league, she will not let them be proven true–and she knows Fu will try and stop her because, honestly, this is probably the stupidest thing she’s ever done, but Adrien is innocent and the legal system is slowly but surely failing him thanks to public outcry. His father’s influence can only stretch so far and her words have fallen on deaf ears.

Plagg agrees with her. He’s the kwami of Destruction, of course he agrees with her. Adrien is not his first Cat to be imprisoned or even wrongly imprisoned and there had never been a Ladybug who hadn’t at least tried to free their partner. Tikki is cautious. She knows as well as Marinette does what this will do to Ladybug’s reputation. Never again will she be a true hero, no matter what she does. But at the end of the day, Miraculous wielders aren’t super heroes. They’re people given great power for a purpose and expected to carry it out, no matter what happens, for the good of the world.

A system that would imprison a child for a crime he was forced to commit and has no memory of can’t be relied on. If she sits back and lets things unfold, she will lose him. Possibly forever.

So, for the first time in her life, Ladybug decides to stand against the Law. She puts on her Chaotic Neutral hat and decides to get Adrien out and her Chat Noir back.