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I finished the show 😝

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sayeon lee and trust as a substitute for love

in hand jumper, sayeon uses trust as a substitution for love.

sayeon lee has never experienced mutual unconditional love. no one truly knew her for who she was as the daughter of a criminal aberrant. the closest she ever got was jaeil, who died. her sister’s love is (arguably) unreciprocated. thus, she doesn’t acknowledge the love she feels for other people (like all her other emotions). sayeon is a utilitarian. trust is directly tied to her ability to manipulate, by extension, mission success. so, it is the only form of affection that she allows herself to have.

additionally, sayeon doesn’t trust people easily. she is a logical person who questions and criticizes everything. in the corps, blind faith could mean death. as a leader, trust is indicative of power and skill, both things sayeon aspires for. sayeon understands the weight trust carries in the aberrant corps, where the survival rate is minimal.

so, she searches for affection through the trust placed on her by other people.

this emphasis on trust is paralleled with love. when sayeon learns her teammates trust her, she starts smiling and blushing, which is a stereotypically romantic reaction. she searches and even craves for trust in the same way many people want affection. in missions, she tries to be as efficient and successful as possible to gain trust. she constantly wonders if characters like min and ryujin trust her. like love, trust needs to be earned. her journey towards gaining trust mirrors a journey towards genuine relationships, albeit a more twisted, complicated version.

but the most compelling parallel is that sayeon lee does not want characters to be forced to trust her. instead, she hopes they will trust her out of their own volition. as ryujin says: “you want me to choose you all on your own”. even absent the obvious romantic undertones, the treatment of trust as something that cannot be forced mirrors the nature of love. in the same way true love is mutual, sayeon wants trust to be real and reciprocated.

through the parallelism of trust and love, sleepacross delves into complex and ambiguous relationships, which allows her to further explore themes of moral grayness. but more than that, she explores how a person’s psyche can be impacted by trauma, and thus, inability to acknowledge love.

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Hi there. How's everything going with you? Do you accept Request or Art trades?

Hihi! I'm doing great thanks for asking 🤗. Yeah I think I'll do art requests as long as they relate to my interests on this blog (which is mainly my miraculous au).

I only ask that the requests are SFW and don't expect the same amount of effort for every piece 🙏

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I haven't finished the show yet no spoilers 🙊

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2nd redesign! With a slight artstyle change 🙈. I'm trying to make things easier for myself

[janekimms]

I don’t draw Samin enough, I’m gonna change that starting now ☝️

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Nested AU Chat Noir ^^

I need to draw everyone in full-body so I have something to reference. But it's also so hard trying to make interesting designs while also keeping in mind I'd have to constantly draw them in comics 😭

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bottoms (2023) and nerdy prudes must die (also 2023) are siblings in my mind

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LITERALLY THEM 🔥🔥 PEAK FICTION 🗣🔥🔥🔥

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So I noticed you said reverse adrienette, but not really. I’m curious to see how that works out, like Marinette being “He doesn’t love me yet” because of the whole future thing, and Adrien is just “There’s no way she could ever love me” and it’s just … yeah

Anyway the au looks awesome! Keep up the good work

Firstly, thank you so much 🫶🫶! Honestly I didn't expect my silly au would even reach many people, so I'm beyond delighted to know yall like it!

-first few days in this universe vs now-

(Warning: I'm a yapper)

I should also admit I haven't watched the new season and was barely paying attention past season 4. I originally wrote in my notes that "Original Marinette" meant right after season 3. I only changed it on the whim to some time during season 5 (before Marinette learns Adrien's a sentibeing and his dad is Monarch) because I thought it'd be funny if Marinette was actively sabotaging her chances ONCE AGAIN because of her overthinking, overthinking from trying NOT to mess up their relationship.

(ANYWAY)

Due to craazy circumstances (not my fault btw) (lie) Adrien is extra angsty. This also plays a big part in why his self-esteem is so low he doesn't do much about his feelings for Marinette. CHAT NOIR on the other hand, that's a different story. It's getting closer to Adrien that makes Marinette realize this isn't HER Adrien.

It's not that Marinette doesn't like Adrien if he's going through something different. It's just a bit weird for her to actively pursue him since this isn't her Adrien. This isn't her life.

She can't help but still like him, but you know.

Thanks for the ask!

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We really need more fan content where Adrien thinks of himself as the most boring person alive despite being rich and famous while seeing Marinette (as well as the rest of his friends) as the most impressive and awesome people on Earth.

EXACTLYYYYYY!

Adrien is socially stunted, has fragile self-esteem, and all his "hobbies" are things his father pressures him to do.

I made this really quickly, I just got so excited 🙈 Thanks for the ask!

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“It’s fine! I’m alright!”

I like to think about different versions of characters: someones they could have grown into, if the situation was different. I even made a whole AU about it :)

The Rose we see in the Everyone Swap AU is compassionate, optimistic and terminally ill. She wants to help others. She has the ability to do so, because she has magical powers. She is overjoyed and sometimes doesn’t see the limits. Limits see her, though.

When we didn’t yet have information from canon on what Rose’s illness actually was, I decided for myself that in my au, she would have cystic fibrosis. I thought of changing it to cancer when it got revealed that she has cancer in canon, but decided against it. Thoughts on that under the cut, they turned out to be a bit heavy.

I’m also trying to find outfits I like for my versions of characters to wear. I’m not very successful. This one suits the position of main character, but it’s not cutesy enough for Rose. At the same time, I don’t want my main character to be TOO cutesy. I thought the hoodie string bow and a softer color palette would do the job, but I was clearly wrong. Something needs to be changed. Maybe a bigger bow?

I grew attached to the air of living in the moment cystic fibrosis, as an illness with a date of death removed in time, gave to the character of Rose. I also grew attached to the fact that in “developed countries”, people with CF live to see their 40s. It makes me both hopeful and sad (my country is not one of the “developed”. But France is, so in the au we get to do a little of escapism). I don’t know anyone with CF, except from the girl whose blog I used to be subscribed to when I still had instagram, who is probably dead by now. But sometimes I think about it.

It is important to me that in post-canon Rose dies. It won’t happen immediately after the credits roll, but the miraculous overuse will worsen her condition and she will die a little before her 40s. I like the air of “the death will come some distant tomorrow, but it’s not tomorrow yet”. I think it gives the story its shape. Sad things happen, we learn to live with them, we learn that happy things are not less important when sad things are happening.

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!NESTED AU!

That's right, reverse adrienette except not. Adrien falls for Marinette instead since her Ladybug-ness shines much more as a civilian now.

Marinette, being her usual overthinking self, can't just pursue Adrien again OBVIOUSLY. She has to slowly build a close friendship first while also trying to figure out how her universe's Adrien fell for her in the first place!

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Old Nested AU thing. You can tell because Ladybug has her original little cape thing rather than my new design ☝️

Idk gang this design is easier to draw but I feel like her new design better fits her "do the job well but not so well you have millions of eyes looking to you for answers- and also don't let Chat Noir fall in love with you this time" vibe

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"Heehee I get to be a normal girl again" -Marinette

Marinette gets a second chance and she decides she's experienced her fair share of carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders 😁👍

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Hihi! Yet another miraculous au ik 😝 Artstyle inspired by Paperteeth (peak)! This is a test-comic so I'll be adjusting things, but I like how fast I can color in this style.

This is the summary in my notes: Kwamis can sense their original owners reincarnated. Thats how fu knows who to give the miraculous to. Instead of ladybug being the leader, she's simply part of a team. One thing though: marinette knows she's in the wrong universe. Suddenly, it's the first day of school again and she's no longer guardian. But instead of questioning it, a little voice in her head tells her, "it's not your problem anymore."

TL;DR: Miraculous team au I can project my headcanons onto, but also the original Marinette is there and she knows she's in the wrong universe. An au NESTED within an au.

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This is kinda canon if you think about it

Og picture and post

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Beautiful trans girl vs patron saint of workaholism