Gabriel Agreste Is, And Always Has Been, Abusive Towards Adrien
(some of these are probably out of order, iāve said before i havenāt been able to rewatch the show in a while so i donāt remember details that arenāt brought up a lot sksk I have really been wanting to rewatch and make a full, detailed list of all the times Gabrielās a bastard, but with uh certain posts I saw today itās justā¦really irritated me so here we are :) )
idk some of yāall can genuinely be out there believing wholeheartedly that Gabriel is a good person, let alone a good father.
Like yall really donāt understand abuse and it really fucking shows.Ā
Even before knowing heās Hawkmoth, heās still not a good father. Adrien barely sees and when he does Gabriel is almost always cold and distant towards him. Heās neglectful towards his son, whoās just lost his other parent, from the very beginning.Ā
He refuses to let Adrien go to public school so much that Adrien tries to sneak out and enroll himself.Ā
He refuses to allow Nino to throw Adrien a birthday party, because why??? heās a dick. thatās why. (and knowing heās Hawkmoth, itās likely he did this just to create an akuma in the end, he literally purposefully upset his sonās new friend so he could brainwash and control him, great dude.)
also Adrien tells NinoĀ āHe always forgets my birthdayā mind you, pretty sure this is the first year since Emilieās disappearedā¦
that means this isnāt aĀ āawe Gabrielās just mourning his wife, heās trying his best but heās sad :(((Ā āĀ
He also couldnāt even bother to
2. couldnāt even leave his office to give his son a stolen present.
Also himĀ ābuying him pensā for his birthday in some dubs?? isnāt any better..literally at all.Ā
He didnāt show up to Parent day, despite it being very obviously important to Adrien. Didnāt even bother picking up the damned phone and telling him heās not coming.
He allowed Adrien to be captured by Pixelator
Guilt trips his son over losing his book.
while being extremely cold and not even looking at him during the scene, evenĀ
while Adrien is trying to explain why he took it (after his father asked)
āIā¦I just wanted to know what you were hiding that was so important. I was intending to give it back to you, I swear, but then⦠I lost it.āĀ
also note Adrienās body language in this scene.
āI have to apologize for my son. Heās like his mother, too overly dramaticāĀ
- Gabriel to Ladybug in Simon Says
said the man whoās guilt tripping and telling his son he can no longer trust him over accidentally losing a fucking book.Ā
gonna quote something from this perfect analysis about some of these scenes
āAdrienās literal FREEDOM is being threatened by his own father because he lost a book. I donāt even need to explain how extreme that is and how manipulative that is.āĀ
He broke a picture Adrien drew he was a little, despite not actually being upset or mad at all, and was simply trying to make Adrien feel guilty over him being akumatized. He purposefully destroyed a drawing a 3-6 year old Adrien probably gave him.Ā
And mind you, all of this is while heās got a digital copy of the book, he did all of this to his son knowing he didnāt actually lose anything, but paper.Ā
Also was trying to capture Adrien in the episode after he was akumatized, cause thatās not gonna traumatize a child at all right?
He went after Adrien himself, heās not being mind controlled by Hawkmoth. He purposefully went after his own child to scare him into obedience, because he took a book.Ā
He made his son believe that heās the reason his father got akumatized, Adrien blames himself for this and itās not real. Gabriel wasnāt angry. Heās clearly not losing control of his emotions.Ā
(i know its a meme, but i dont feel like trying to find that single pic when the rest are still completely accurate sksk)Ā
he just yeeted the photo like it was nothing, but it clearly was something to Adrien.Ā
Akumatized Gorilla and..literally everything from that episode.
@wecathaā sums it up well on this postĀ and i donāt think i could do better summing it all up sksks (also i realize a lot of these links are just to @buggachatā blog, i just went through their Gabriel Agreste tag to find moments i couldnāt remember skskks)Ā
Akumatized Kagami into Riposte, knowing fully well her target was Adrien.Ā
If Adrien wasnāt Chat Noir, he would have died in this scene.Ā
He had no intention of allowing Ladybug to use her cure, he didnāt have a safety net. Adrien was 100% going to die from this and Gabriel had no reason to believe, in his own littleĀ āIām gonna winā mind, that Adrien would come back from this.Ā
Gabriel Agreste was 100% willing and ready to let his son be murdered in order to get the miraculous.Ā
Gabriel should be in jail for attempted murder dont @ me
āI will show you what a man who has nothing to lose can do!ā
He didnāt care Style Queen turned him into a gold statue.Ā
Akumatized Manon, knowing damn well Adrien was in the building with her.
Wax Hawkmoth attacked Adrien and would have caused serious damage if Ladybug hadnāt grabbed him.
He didnāt really care he sent his own flesh and blood into FUCKING SPACE
He was going to tell his son that heās Hawkmoth, a terrorist whoās caused most of his friends and loved ones to have PTSD, on the 1st anniversary of his motherās disappearance.Ā
He got mad at his son for telling him heād be okay with him moving on from his mother and being happy.Ā
This is 100% NOT how a caring, but mourning parent would treat/talk to their child when telling them theyād be okay if they moved on. I know the English version is a bitā¦eh softer? but you cannot listen to the French Dub and tell me Gabriel doesnāt sound mad af, if my parent talked to me like that Iād probably have panic attack and need to go to the hospitial.Ā
1. Blackmailed Adrienās girlfriend, who he was so openly and very obviously in love with and who made him very happy, into breaking up with him.Ā
He threatened to take Adrien out of school, in turn isolating him from his friends and from public in general.Ā
This is a common thing for Gabriel, holding school and the idea of it being taken from him as a bargaining chip to keep Adrien from acting out or stepping out of line.Ā
2. Had his sonās heart broken so he could akumatize the girl heās in love withĀ
3. When this fails because he transformed and thus Gabriel found out his son is Chat Noir, there was not a single ounce ofĀ āoh shit..maybe iāve fucked up.ā orĀ āoh maybe I should stop???āĀ
All Gabriel saw from this was an opportunity to get a bigger, and stronger akuma.Ā
4. Reveals Emilieās body in a coffin in their basement to his son, whoās believed sheās dead (or disappeared but lets be real, Iām sure heād rather believe sheās gone because she has to be, rather than she left him alone on purpose.)Ā
5. Does this to upset Adrien, he does all of this to break his spirit and his strength so he wonāt disobey him.Ā
When Adrien charges at him, but stops to ask why, to beg him for an answer, he hits him.Ā
(Would like to remind you that Gabriel in no way, shape or form attempted to convince Adrien to join him. His one and only plan was to akuma his son.)Ā
6. He Physically Abuses Him
He hits him once, to knock him into the air and then againĀ (yall see how hard Chat hit the tower right? likeā¦if he wasnāt suited up heād have died/seriously injuried from that hit/the fall)
When Adrien lands he literally started crawling away from him in fear.Ā
This is it, if youāre so unable to comprehend and understand emotional and mental abuse and neglect, this is the moment for you. This is them painting out very clearly that Gabriel is abusive.Ā
Striking your child is abuse.Ā
He hits him so hard he flies through the ceiling and then he hits him againĀ like heās hitting a fucking baseball, so hard that he bounces off the Eiffel Tower.Ā
You cannot say this isnāt abuse. He is knowingly hitting his child, thatās abuse.Ā
7. Gabriel akumatizes his son, while he begs him to stop.Ā
8. He tries to make, and command Chat Blanc to murder the girl heās in love with.Ā
+ 1 good thing Gabriel did.Ā He died