If you planned to use zoe and noe how do you foreshadow them? Personally I would made the wrong names Chloe got called by be them but do you have any other ideas?And how do you use Kingdom stuff in this?
I just think miraculous need villain variety considering it planned for 8-14 seasons but Kingdom just doesn't feel like proper Rouge Gallery.
Ah, speaking for Rouge Gallery do you have idea for it? Like I don't know if others have asking this before but how would you made RG fit for Miraculous, both for the more episodic types and serialize type because my ideal ml would be technically episodic but have serial elements.
For those who aren't following canon, Noe is - sigh - Chloe's newly introduced older brother. As far as I'm aware, his intro is similar to Zoe's in that the show does not treat his existence as a surprise to Chloe. She has seemingly always known about him or learned about him off screen. Context clues imply that he's at least a decade older than his sisters. He's also the one child Audrey actually likes. He's introduced to the audience because he's taking Gabriel's place in the secret organization The Kingdom. For the curious, this is what Noe looks like:
[Image description: Noe Luxus]
I cannot bring myself to care about this character. In part because I don't know what the writers want to do with him so I don't know why I should care about him and in part because I am very sick of the writers obsession with developing Chloe's family when they don't want Chloe to be narratively important. It's weird. Chloe is the only siblings that has been here since season one. Zoe and Noe are extremely late-game additions. That means that Chloe is the character that viewers are attached to. When you introduce new characters and tie them to her, people expect that to matter for her otherwise why are you tying all these characters to Chloe?
The way Zoe is written, they should have just made her a random new girl. She should not have been Chloe's sister and I'm expecting the same to be true for Noe which makes his tie to Chloe more annoying than interesting. Stop giving Chloe attention if you don't want to develop her!
If I was going to use these characters and keep their ties to Chloe, step one would be deciding what I wanted to do with Chloe's character and why I wanted to give her all these half siblings. If I didn't want to do anything with Chloe or her familial relationships, then I'd either nix the family ties or introduce the extended family early on so that Chloe didn't feel like the special one by order of her being the established character.
To give an example of what I mean, think about Juleka and Luka. Luka is introduced early in season two and Juleka isn't given any special attention in season one, so Juleka having a brother doesn't feel like a big dramatic reveal that should impact Juleka's character. Luka is his own character first and Juleka's brother second. That would not be true if Luka was suddenly introduced in season six as we see with all the parents that have been introduced in season six. All of those characters were introduced in order to develop their kids because the kids are the established, known characters who the audience already cares about.
At this point, introducing an established character's parent or sibling for a plot that has nothing to do with the established character is a bizarre choice, but that seems to be what canon is doing with Noe. Probably because the writers really like their never-been-shared backstory for Audrey, Andre, Emilie, and Gabriel making this yet another kill your darlings situations. The writers darlings are the parents, but the audience doesn't care about them. The audience cares about Chloe. Develop her into more than a petty brat or stop giving her narratively important family members!
I don't have any ideas for Chloe that require her to have siblings and I don't find Zoe or Noe interesting so I'd cut both of them. Miraculous already has more characters than it knows what to do with. It doesn't need more unless they add something unique to the cast and I don't see what Zoe and Noe have to offer that we can't get from existing characters. Like why couldn't Audrey take Gabriel's place in The Kingdom? She's a rich, established fashionista, a perfect replacement for Gabriel. Giving her yet another kid to do it in her place is just weird.
I'm not opposed to the idea of Miraculous having a rouges' gallery, but that's not what The Kingdom is. A rogues' gallery requires the gallery to be full of active participants who are all doing their own thing. Unique villains for our heroes to fight. The Kingdom is a single nebulous shadow organization that doesn't seem to do anything. It's just vaguely connected to the villains we already know and has the same basic goal as Gabriel which makes its introduction underwhelming. More of the same instead of something new.
If I were to give the show a rouges' gallery, I would have introduced it back in season one by making the world of Miraculous more magical. Miraculous are no longer the only source of magic. Instead, Paris is full of magic and the show would be a mix of trying to take down the big bad and dealing with more mundane magical threats. Introducing a rouges gallery six seasons in just makes everyone ask where they've been for the past five seasons which is why the writers are limited in what they can do with The Kingdom.
I do think they could have gotten around this by having The Kingdom be a separate organization that had nothing to do with Gabriel and that only got involved in Paris after Gabriel made his wish, revealing the power of the miraculous to the world at large. Prior to the wish, all the general public knew was that Hawkmoth/Monarch/etc wanted the miraculous because reasons. Now that their power is out in the open, it makes sense for them to attract new big bads and you can make it feel like the miraculous should stay active by showing that the new big bads would be hurting people no matter what, the miraculous just let them get on Ladybug and Chat Noir's radar so they can stop the various big bads.
