Picture this
Miraculous Holders gain the ability to talk to their patron animal. Ladybugs don’t have a whole lot to say, so Marinette doesn’t really use it, but cats… Adrien spends SO MUCH TIME talking to cats, and they give him advice (not always good advice) and stuff. And then one day a teeny little calico comes to Chat Noir, shaky and hungry but says she has a human kitten at home who is scared and hurting and he needs a hero. Picture Chat Noir with a veritable army of feline spies around Paris, reporting things back to him and coming to him for help. “Chat Noir, help me find a safe place for my kittens.” “Chat Noir, my human’s mate strikes her.” “Chat Noir, my human is old and sad and alone, how can I help him?” And as Adrien or Chat Noir, he does what he can, because being a hero is about more than the big things. Picture this.
Really cool, but hey, what do you mean ladybugs don’t have much to say? Imagine Marinette taking care of her garden, and ladybugs around her talking about how tasty the nectar coming from her flowers is. Imagine them moaning with sudden cravings of aphids, and protecting Marinette’s flowers because she is one of them and that’s her territory. It must be protected. Then, as they see that Marinette is a hero and protects all Paris, imagine swarms of ladybugs spreading to all the houses of Paris, making sure that those strange ladybugs that can’t fly but can change colors are safe and sound. Marinette is reluctant at first, but as time went on, little ladybugs come to her, whispering about the problems their “strange ladybug” had. And when she manages to stop an akuma possession because of it, she accepts their help. Now, imagine swarms of ladybugs chasing an akuma because “that weird butterfly is hurting our strange ladybugs. I knew we couldn’t trust in butterflies. Too pretty for their own good.”, and making possessing a human way more difficult, so the Akuma rates drop. And imagine them refusing to enter diapause in winter because they have a mission, and Marinette triest to talk them out of it, but the ladybugs refuse to listen because “you aren’t entering diapause for the sake of your mission, why would we?” Yes. Chat and Ladybug would have the best vigilance system in the whole world.
This is especially hilarious to me because in my Zoology course my professor called ladybugs ‘the wolves of the insect world’. Because ants will keep aphids like we keep sheep, but our wolves aren’t 20 times our size and can decimate a ‘flock’ in mere moments. And now I’m picturing shockingly bloodthirsty ladybugs talking to Marinette. “No, I’m not going to rip her head off and eat it.” -Why not?- “… Because that would be rude.” -The yellow one was rude first.- “Yeah, well, I’m not going to sink to her level.” -Spoilsport.-
