Dating Nozaki was… exactly what Sakura imagined, actually.
It had been his idea and, for a brief moment, she thought that Nozaki really liked her.
Of course, it was for his manga.
But the part of the dating itself… it was nice. Not so different from their day-to-day; they hanged out, they had dates, and Nozaki bought her bentos and they had lunch together in the school. Only now Nozaki called her his girlfriend, which made Sakura's heart race each time.
Most of that ended up in Let's Love! —Sakura usually as Suzuki and Nozaki as Mamiko—, but she was used to it by now.
And then…
"I think it's time for Suzuki and Mamiko to kiss."
Sakura raised her head from the beta with wide eyes.
"What?"
"They've been together for a while, I think that the fans are getting impatient for a kiss."
"Oh. Yes, probably."
"I don't know how to do it."
What did he mean? That he didn't have experience? He didn't have experience in romance and that never stopped him from writing shoujo manga.
"What do you mean?"
"What would make them kiss? A near-death experience?"
Sakura shook her head slowly. "No, I don't think it should be after a huge thing. Not rivals or fights, and absolutely not near-death experience. Let them just have a cute date and then kiss."
Nozaki took notes of everything she said, and then looked at her.
"Okay. Then why do they kiss?"
"Nozaki-kun, usually when people are dating they want to kiss each other, they don't need a reason."
So, I wanted to cover in slightly more detail why I tend to think that Chloe is a genuinely skilled fighter and why I feel it is supported by at least the first three seasons of canon materials in MLB.
1: As Anti Bug, Chloe was able to combat, match and then quickly overcome Adrien in closed quarters combat. One could claim this was him holding back due to friendship but that'd be even more of a HC and he looks pretty comfy.
One could claim it was just because he needed to be in peril for the story but the fact is that still means he lost the fight.
2: In Maledikator Chloe demonstrated strong martial art based kick forms, which by itself is fairly minor but these things add up.
3: During Heroes Day, Chloe does demonstrably better than the other two reserve heroes and is even able to cover for them wen they are unable to fight.
She also l lasts even after they begin turning and needed to be ambushed to be removed from the fight.
4: During Miracular, Chloe has a one on one fight with Mayura in which she does very well and given Mayura is one of the top fighters in the setting I feel that says a lot.
5: This is also where she expressly demonstrated Street Savate style martial arts moves which no other character does. This indicates its a Chloe thing not a Miraculous user thing.
6: This last bit is more of a HC than the above, but it does feel worth keeping in mind both Adrien & Felix were expected to learn a martial art. So it seems like this may well have been normalized among them and so would not be particularly unusual.
Conclusion: Ultimately, Chloe shows herself to be very good fighter.
What's more, she does so with enough frequency and in unique enough circumstances and ways that it does not feel like animators just being careless or having fun. Otherwise we'd see more of this from others. The fact that Chloe stands out here is notable and as whether one takes her as knowing a specific martial art or not is besides the point that Chloe is evidently very tasty in a fight.
I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.
Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.
Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.
It can not always be about your preferred topic.
You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
it's actually so amazing she helped save the lives of the honorable men who did not wish to fight, while killing the most vile men, that is so fucking based
If you are a cis white woman who considers yourself an ally of the trans community, your job is to go on every news program, podcast, anything and sob your eyes out over the horrific treatment of trans women and especially trans women of color because your tears are the only ones the patriarchy even pretends to care about
I have seen a criminally-low amount of appreciation for the best character in phm: Carl. he's a straight-talkin' security guy with a sense of humour. he's Grace's scientist-minder and biggest enabler. Mr 'we don't have a budget... but hey the sun is dying money'll be worthless if this fails anyway so have at it'. he's bowling with tape and tinfoil in a home depot. he's rocking the sunglasses. he's buying 40 packs of skittles and handing them out to everybody in the building. he's with the government. all of them. he's the layman to Grace's scientist who can provide the outside perspective he needs to solve the astrophage conundrum. he's "Carl, are you sitting?" / "No, I'm standing like a grown man." / "We're fathers." / "Now I'm sitting." he is one of the characters of all time
