[givecatboysmilk]

intro post!!

alec, they/them, 20

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[sabertoothwalrus]

so how quickly do you think it'll take them to figure it out lol

[anna-scribbles]

lil animation practice

[saytr]

Made a comic from my "incorrect quotes" post (which got an insane amount of likes).

[galahadwilder]

Ladybug: ah yes, Chat Noir, my favorite person in the world. I must greet him in a manner that shows my appreciation and love for him

Ladybug: sup nerd

[adrienscroissantx]

okay but if Ladybug's been flirting with Alya

what is the gang of secrets reveal like 10 seconds after the camera cuts out

[hanpancakes]

Late contribution but I loved this episode like. A lot. I love luka I love the jokes. Might literally be my favorite episode it has it all

[dahlwatchesmiraculous]

okay but

the fact that adrien says “our future” to plagg really shows that Adrien has no intention of giving up his miraculous!! EVEN if he feels like ladybug doesn’t need him, he won’t give it up, unless she specifically asks him to. He wants to have a future with plagg in it, so methinks any ladynoir confrontation wouldn’t go as far as him willingly giving up his miraculous

[sabertoothwalrus]

I hope we get to see Luka goin thru it

[skintyfiia]

The knitting fairy!!

[kisilinramblings]

The ending scenes of Wishmaker had a lot of development and foreshadowing. 

On the positive note, both Adrien and Marinette are moving on. The theme of the future isn’t as scary for them anymore. They feel ready to tackle it on even though they were so lost at the beginning of the episode.

Adrien (as he is looking a picture of him with his mom) : I may not remember my childhood dream, but that’s okay. It’s time to focus on the future and find my inner music like Luka said.

Adrien steps forward and while he accepts part of his past, he decides that what matters is what is ahead of him. He sets himself in a quest to find himself. Which contrasts with his scene with Kagami inside the art club at the beginning of Lies where he thought he knew himself.

Kagami : These are all modeling poses. Try something that is more natural, more you.

Adrien : What about meow! Err.. I mean, now.

Kagami : No. You are not at all natural. 

Adrien : Yes, I am. I promise. This is the real me.

Kagami : No! It’s you when you are being silly.

Adrien : What if I’m being silly I’m really me?

Adrien has arrived at a point where he is questionning where he stands. He said so at the beginning of the episode. Both about his civilian and superhero sides of him.

Plagg : Don’t you want to continue to model?

Adrien : I don’t think so, Plagg. I’m doing it now because my father asked me to and I realize now I don’t know what else I want to do. I’ve never asked myself that question…

Plagg : What do you think of Chat Noir as a career?

Adrien : Well, since Ladybug keeps giving Miraculous out to other Holders, one day, she’ll probably won’t need me anymore.

Adrien realizes his life and role is either controlled or dependant of others because he personnally don’t know what he wants for himself. And this is one of the reasons that lead for Chat Blanc’s akumatization to turn awry. Because he was torn and lost. Because the two most important people of his life were trying to influence him in opposite direction when he was in an extreme vulnerable mental state that didn’t allow him to think for himself.  And because he lost control of himself, his powers went out of control too.

And in that timeline, because he was living a dream, CB!Adrien had never mentally prepared himself to find his own voice before the reality punch him in the face.

Now, it is too early to say that Chat Blanc has been fully avoided, because there is still a lot of work to do, but after Wishmaker (along with Optigami, Sentibubbler and Rocketear), Adrien is on the right path to find his voice and find what he truly wants for himself.

As for Marinette…

Marinette (facing the choices ahead of her) : You know what? I’ve decided I’ll do it all! I’ll be Ladybug. I’ll design clothes, jewelry, furnitures, space rockets! I’ll be Luka’s best friend and I will love Adrien!

Fluff : But how are you going to do it at the same time?

The choice of Fluff in this particular scene is very clever. 

Fluff is the Kwami of Evolution and is heavily associated to time. Their Miraculous is a watch and their superpower allows their holder to time-travel.

But there is more to that. It is a recall to Timetagger. To a discussion Ladybug had with Bunnyx. 

Bunnyx : You can always count on Ladybug. With her around, every problem has a solution. 

Ladybug : How I ever get to be like that.

Bunnyx : By growing up, Minibug.

This was how Marinette was. Unsure, overhelmed. But look at her now. 

Marinette : I don’t know how yet, but yes, I can do this!

She is boasting with confidence. She is accepting herself how she is. She is most probably chasing two hares at the same time, but she also accepts she will drop it sometimes too. She is confident she can rebound. But while I love how determined she is and isn’t scared of the unknown variables (for now), I cannot help but notice she appears to have forgotten something.

In her enumeration, she forgets to count Chat Noir, her partner. I am a bit worry about this. Being Ladybug means many things to her, but I’m afraid she is solely focusing on the duty of her job and doesn’t realize she is lacking on the human relationship aspect of her job with her partner. 

I mean, it’s great that Marinette loves herself now and feels she can face anything now. It’s a great step she has accomplished since the end of S3 and the show is not subtil about it at all xD Like…

Right after she has come to her conclusions, we get Fabulous Alec appearing on screen with the moral.

Alec : And now we are going to love one another, starting with everyone loving themselves! Because how are you going to love other people if you don’t love yourself?

And both Marinette and Adrien have accomplished that. They have evolved for the selves they were back at the end of Truth and Lies. But now, Adrien needs to build himself enough to face his father, but also to find his place in Ladybug’s team. And Marinette needs to have some important discussions with her partner.

And this is summed up in the ending card

Fabulous Alec is the manifestation of self-love and he reaches everyone with his light, shielding them from Shadow Moth. There are also music notes that creates a barrier. Because Luka’s music allegories have made an impact on both Marinette and Adrien. 

Marinette has her music note and it is as if she owns it. Adrien doesn’t have any note nearby him because he has just begun his personal quest.

We see Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting together while being watched over by Luka who now knows both superherores’ secret identity.

Also, please note where Adrien is place in the picture. He is at the bottom right. But it also feels like Adrien is leaving the frame completely. And to be himself, he may need to continue to distance himself in the process. But it also place him in the complete opposite direction where Shadow Moth is. Adrien is heading in a different direction that Shadow Moth AKA Gabriel AKA his father might want him to stay. 

As for Marinette/Ladybug, she is not noticing the growing distance occuring.

[glumby]

[peachcitt]

maybe im reading too much into it but uh

what’s going on here

like???

their eyes are obviously different colors????

is that on purpose??????

[peachcitt]

in honor of a lot of people freaking out in the notes of this post, here’s a compilation of everyone’s theories on what the heck is going on:

animation/studio mistake. a different team made the art, and the animation team somehow switched the eye colors. a simple miscommunication error!

babies don’t see colors right. in the early months of life, babies can mess up/switch around colors. adrien’s memory is just flawed because he was a baby!

wishmaker was stretching. adrien obviously didn’t remember, and wishmaker’s influence on him caused the already faded memory to distort. it’s the akuma’s fault!

adrien is a sentimonster. see below.

@zivazivc’s pinocchio au is canon. the switching/fading eye colors is almost exactly like the au in which prolonged peacock miraculous use caused emilie’s life energy to drain. zivazivc is a prophet!

the agreste family has already made a wish using the miraculous. somehow, the agrestes managed to make a wish, but that wish caused emilie to slip into a coma, and the switching eye colors may be proof of that. adrien was doomed from the start!

body switching part 1. it’s actually emilie in gabriel’s body, and the real gabriel agreste is in a coma in emilie agreste’s body. eyes are the window to the soul!

body switching 2 electric boogaloo. somewhere along the line, amelie graham de vanily and emilie agreste switched places, perhaps multiple times. emilie is the one that actually has blue eyes, félix’s dead father is the man with green eyes, and amelie is working behind the scenes on something big. the agreste/graham de vanily family is jacked up for reals!

as of right now, that’s all the theories ive seen. man are we all having normal feelings about this!

[infinitysgrace]

Just to put all my thoughts in one spot, and to give some people some peace of mind about Luka knowing: 

I said this in my Lukadrien post, but Luka represents someone that understands that the world hasn’t exactly always been fair to him specifically or to others for that matter, and he understands that better than either Marinette or Adrien do. He has a clear view of what he wants and processes the things he doesn’t quite understand through music. It’s just how he communicates with and understands the world and the problems it throws his way.

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[miraculouslycool]

One of the coolest parts of this episode was Ladybug deducing that Chat wanted to be a fireman or a magician.

She thinks he wanted to be a fireman because she knows he's definitely the kind to put his life in actual risk to save lives and help other people. That interpretation of hers was very accurate considering Adrien does often put his life on the line if it meant saving the people he cares about.

She also suggested that he could want to be a magician because she also knows that he is a very goofy and silly guy and that a circus would be his natural habitat for Chat Noir - the embodiment of jokes and fun.

This time she is kind of right for the wrong reasons, Adrien's constantly manipulating his own image and mindset to hide away from people ie., his (nearly magical) ability to bottle up his emotions and successfully fool everyone around him into thinking he is fine.

Ladybug gave Chat Noir the highest compliment she possibly could and also correctly guessed who he really is, even if her interpretation was very wrong. She was that close to an epiphany.

[biggestcringefailure]

BESTIE BAE MARINETTE WHY WOULD YOU WANT OT BE A KNITTING FAIRY <3

[givecatboysmilk]

cus knitting fairies are cool as hell, next question?

[crazy-kangaroo]

While everyone obsesses over this picture, bringing up sentí!Adrien theory (which I absolutely adore, but my expectations of MLB writers are too low to believe they could've done smth like that)

I wanna talk about an established way a person can change their eye colour:

I find it interesting that Luka's blue eyes change into exact same schade we've seen Emilie have in the photo.