hi hi hi, i love love LOVE your work, especially your liladrien ones and also your portrayal of rich life (?) idk how to explain it, but like. you write chloè, adrien and lila in such a way that im in love w them, and they’re such brats but i love them for it even more. i’m also a fan of how critical you are of marinette!!! (ive reread bluebell eyes so many times omg). that’s not to say i don’t like your adrienette stories!!! i liked miraculous academy de la francouis dupont, and princess charm school so so SO much as well, i just prefer lilaidrien!!
i have two questions: (a) what are your favourite fics in the MLB community, and (b) could we have a peek into what you’re currently writing??
The ‘rich life’ may be better described as high society. I mean, Miraculous loves to talk about art and the finer things in life, so I figured I might as well do their vision justice and introduce them to haute couture, jet-setting, and diamonds. And, realistically, a teen supermodel, the daughter of the Mayor of Paris, the glove-trotting accessory to an Italian ambassador must be a spoiled if cultured bunch. Adrien is definitely the sweet grape of the group, Chloé and Lila are sour. Ambitious women who know what they want are vicious.
Marinette is such a cute girl and extremely intriguing, it’s just a complete shame that canon refuses to acknowledge how truly pathetic and unbecoming she is, sometimes. I’m not condescending her for that, I think it’s good for a protagonist to have such obivious and unaesthetic flaws, but, again, my annoyance stems from the fact that both Astruc & Co and the most feverish of Marinette supporters like to pretend she’s justified in everything she does. She’s Little Miss Slyboots regarding romance because of what Kim did to her; she’s filled with anxiety because she loves her friends and she cares that much; she’s awkward and flustered because Chloé’s bullying has shred her self-esteem down to the bone.
Maybe she just sucks; in that inherent, piteous way that’s entirely to do with her psyche and nothing to blame external factors about.
I still like Marinette – hence some of my more positive stories about her, that capitalise on her need to grow and gain self-confidence – but considering how pro-Marinette the rest of the fandom is, I feel like I need to step on the other side of the see-saw more just to balance the scales a bit.
(^That sentence is growing less relevant as of right now, with twenty-four episodes of Season 6 released. Anti-Marinette sentiment has never been as strong as of this moment but the point remains.)
I prefer Liladrien, too. Adrienette used to be my OTP and I wrote all my stories based around them back then, but as time passed, I realised that Liladrien is far more exciting and exotic for me. The sweetness of Adrienette can be bland sometimes, as demonstrated by their extremely vanilla and gushy shows of PDA in Season 6 (you’re the Sweetheart Royalty of François Dupont, we get it; we don’t need a literal monologue and montage about it). What I like about Lila is how direct she is. She doesn’t fluff around, she doesn’t beat the bush for five whole seasons. If she was the Ladybug Miraculous Holder, the entire series could’ve been finished within three seasons.
1. What are your favourite fics in the MLB community?
I have two fics that I really, really like; and I never saved them, so they're gone into the wind, never to be seen again unless I manage to locate them. One of them is basically a social media AU that explores the Internet of Miraculous' Paris with shockingly realistic commentary. The other concerns the Miraculous Paris TV special and the live of alternate Marinette. If I find either of those stories again, I will be sharing them.
2. Could we have a peek into what you’re currently writing?
Sure! From: diamond life, lover boy
It’s torture, this sweetness, it’s suffocating. Adrien thinks he might drown in all this honey.
That’s why, despite his aversion to modelling, to the star industry, to any of his father’s old business partners that have been repeatedly and futilely hunting him down – Nathalie snipes them like how Safari once shot her prey – Adrien said yes when an unknown, foreign investor reached out of the blue and asked for a private meeting. Adrien has never heard of them before, Luxus Corps is a relatively new conglomerate, established within the last five years, but it already has its fingers in the fields of energy development and luxury goods, alongside talent management. Adrien predicts that they want to scoop up what remains of the once-mighty Agreste empire. The power dynamics in the upper echelons of society ripples like waves, heritage and blue blood aren’t enough to keep one in power. As the current Bourbon lineage mourns, some of their fellow aristocrats have been forced to employment due to their lack of funds. The man that can’t keep up today is the sucker tomorrow. It’s perfect, the right mixture of the lifestyle he grew up in and unknown faces. Adrien needs this, some form of humiliation and condescension, like how a beaten dog would wander back to its master just for the familiarity of the touch.
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