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Have some unbiased opinions. Just going to post stuff I found interesting. 

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Lets talk about who Lila could really be.

Now that we know those three other women we saw might have never been Lila's real mothers, there is a far more concerning matter to consider now, and that's her connection to Tomoe. In "Yaksi Gozen", Lila appeared and immediately called Tomoe "mother", then kissed her on the cheek as a child would with their parent. We don't know if Tomoe is just another woman Lila's pretending to be her mother, but despite the mystery, looking back on past seasons, Lila always had a deeper connection to Tomoe.

( Lila lied to a deaf woman about being her long lost daughter in "Revelation", and if Lila lied to that lady then this means the other two woman we saw were just as fooled by Lila into believing she was their child.)

(Lila calls Tomoe "mother")

We first saw Lila and Tomoe together on screen in "Multiplication" when Lila was taken to the Tsurugi company to be scanned as an avatar for the alliance rings, but when the rings went public and Adrien and Lila were welcomed on stage by Gabriel to join him, Lila did not stand by Gabriel's side. Instead, she stood alongside Tomoe, as if hinting to us who it was she was always siding with.

Sure enough, at the start of "Yaksi Gozen", its revealed that Tomoe and Lila were in cahoots with each other behind Gabriel's back from the very beginning and that in the season 5 finale, Lila knew when to head over to the Agreste mansion to take the butterfly miraculous because Tomoe called her at the exact moment Gabriel decided to betray the plan and instead fight Ladybug.

However, even though Lila and Tomoe were working together throughout Gabriel's time as Monarch, they might have known about each other for far longer.

Lila's connection to the Tsurugi's only grew even further in "Vampigami". After Lila's failed plan to reveal to Tomoe that Marinette was Ladybug, we see Lila enter a very lavish red car that turns out to be Tatsu, the software programmed into the Tsurugi family vehicles that can only recognize the voice commands of the Tsurugi family members. Tatsu abided by Lila's order to take her "Home", but if "Home" is wherever she can live without a disguise then the only people who know of where Lila is living her real life are Tatsu and Tomoe. It would have been a scandal if anyone saw someone other than Tomoe and Kagami being driven by Tatsu, and even more concerning to Kagami if she ever found out Lila could command Tatsu, but Lila seems to take very good caution to be sure she boards Tatsu when no one is around, and Kagami is so far completely oblivious to Tomoe and Lila's connection.

Even though Lila lies a lot about doing extraordinary things all around the world, her words to Adrien in 'Oni-Chan" about having lived in Japan for a few years might have held some truth. Lila might have made her first appearance in "Volpina" but who knows how long shes actually lived in Paris, let alone how long she's been living as her alternate persona "Lila", an identity she quickly tossed in the trash the moment it was no longer useful to her in "Confrontation".

The only characters in the show who moved abruptly from japan to Paris were Tomoe and Kagami, so what are the odds Lila moved to Paris along with them because unbeknownst to everyone and the audience, except Tomoe, Lila was not the long lost child of a deaf woman, or the child of a woman from an embassy or a fashion magazine employee from Audrey's company, but a long forgotten child of the Tsurugi family the entire time.

Lila being a Tsurugi sounds crazy, especially considering that if Tomoe is actually Lila's mother, then it would mean Kagami and Lila are sisters. Sure, Lila might have only attempted to befriend Kagami in her plans to use her, but there was one instance in "Perfection" when Lila said something to Kagami that she never said to anyone. When Kagami called Lila to accept her offer of friendship at the end of "Perfection", Lila specified that she viewed Kagami as a "sister".

While we took her words as just another lie to manipulate Kagami, Lila herself might not have been kidding around, they likely really did have a family connection that only Lila was aware of. When Lila did call Tomoe "mother" in "Yaksi Gozen", Tomoe did not deny Lila's words, let alone question it, because odds are, it was true. Lila potentially being Tomoe's daughter would bring a whole other meaning to Tomoe's determination to have a perfect child who could uphold the family name.

Tomoe has a lot of determination to ensure the family name is upheld to perfection, so much in fact that she was willing to use the peacock miraculous to create a child from the emotion of perfection to insure she had an heiress she could literally control to reach those expectations, that child being Kagami. Tomoe birthed Kagami like any child, but with Lila now in the mix of things, Kagami might not have been the only child she gave birth to.

Of course Tomoe made it very clear she only used the peacock to bring Kagami to life and after losing her eyes in the process, she vowed never to use that miraculous again. So for Tomoe to have had another child aside from Kagami would mean she would have had a lover at some point in the past, maybe even a forbidden romance with someone who was not part of her strict prestigious world? Gabriel and Emelie, Adrien and Marinette, Kagami and Felix have their forbidden romances, so it could be Tomoe had her own at some point in the past.

Unlike Tomoe's father who was a world champion in fencing, her mother lived a far more humble life running a simple dorayaki shop among the public, and if Kagami had more freedom during her time there to befriend Kazuno, interacting with him and then feel her feelings for him grow into love, then whose to say Tomoe didn't also meet someone in her youth during times she was with her mother at the shop. However, in "Yaksi Gozen" Tomoe said that she had been disappointed by men her entire life, and in "Ikari Gozen" Tomoe explained that she believed friendships would only prove disappointing, but such a way of thinking must have been because Tomoe herself experienced a failed friendship turned to romance that left her feeling betrayed, convincing her that no friendships were worth trusting and no love was worth believing in if two people were not the epidemy of perfection and above all, easy to control.

Seeing as Gabriel and Emil saw it easier to use money and threats as their solution to a problem, especially towards putting an end to the suitors they deemed unfit to marry their children, Tomoe might have had her own experience in the past with her own father and whoever it was she loved. However, unlike Emelie and Gabriel, Marinette and Adrien, and Kagami and Felix who chose to always love their partners and not give into money and status, Tomoe might not have been so lucky.

(When Johnny said he and Gabrielle didn't want Emil's money 16 year ago, that money must have had something to do with Gabriel being in a relationship with Emelie. Emil offered money to end the relationship between their children.)

(In "Pretension" Gabriel offered Marinette everything she could ever wish for, including a successful career as a fashion designer, in exchange for her breaking up with Adrien. But if she refused, he'd be willing to leave her living a life with nothing.)

Had Tomoe faced a failed relationship she once truly believed in, then that situation alone could have left a potential child born out of wedlock to be cast into the shadows and forgotten, rather than be brought into the spotlight for risk of it bringing shame to the family name, that child being Lila. When Lila pointed out how painful it must have been for Tomoe to feel her "favorite daughter" escape from her grasps, it was odd considering Kagami was supposed to be an only child, so who else would be there for Kagami to be compared to so she could be labeled the favorite, unless it was Lila. If Kagami really was the favorite child in the family, then her relationship to Lila is that much more crazy now because while Kagami stayed in the spotlight, Lila was forced to be forgotten, remaining in the shadows where she could only pass the time pretending to be someone else's daughters as she watched the sister who didn't know she existed be given everything she felt should have been rightfully hers, from being heiress to the Tsurugi family, recognized as daughter to Tomoe, to dating the boy(Adrien) she sought after, to being presented as a treasure at the diamonds dance where everyone deemed themselves too valuable to be lumped together with the rest of the crowd who didn't shine like they did. But again, lets just wait and see what the show has to say.

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Baby Cat Noir destroying everything he gets his little hands on, ironic considering babies and toddlers are really just naturally born little tornadoes of chaos who can't help but destroy whatever their tiny little hands touch.

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Oh great, now I'm going to have to live knowing that Marinette likely got her pixie cut to remember and honor her energetic and outgoing grandma after she died!

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The last sit down. No one thinks they have to face it, but like it or not, it happens. I’m glad this ep. didn’t hold back with the reality of death and how we want a loved one to always be around, but they can’t.(Yes I cried! Darn ep. tore me up beginning to end!!)

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How did Lila pull off an akumatization in "Vampigami" in a theater full of people? Either she's so good at hiding in plain sight that no one noticed her transforming or she had someone else use the butterfly miraculous while she focused on watching Marinette.

Lila didn't leave the theater room either, she stayed in her seat to be sure she didn't miss seeing Marinette transforming in the bathroom. It was only after Marinette left the bathroom did Lila evacuate the building to continue following her.

But what's also odd is the way we never see the butterfly holder utter another world or suggestion throughout the fight after Prem is akumatized. Even when the butterfly symbol appears on Vampigami mid fight, no word is spoken.

At first it seemed like some antikumas were going to be fired through Vampigami, but we don't see them shoot out of the butterfly symbol the way we normally see it when it appears, and whenever they do, it normally catches the akumatized villains off guard because they don't know what they are seeing fly out in front of their faces.

Instead, it looked like Vampigami was only meant to make it seem like he was going to blow them, but Vampigami does not have that kind of power, only Lila does, and we normally see Lila as a dark figure blow her antikumas as part of her way of helping in a fight, but we never see Lila appear in such a form with Vampigami, as if she was never with Vampigami to begin with.

Just noticed that’s one of Vampigami’s clones. If their mannerisms of blowing the antikuma is hinting Lila got cloned in the fight, then who’s using the butterfly miraculous? Those clones are supposed to be under Vampigamis control.

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She was so close! but then that frog just had to be there, reminding her of the last happy memories Adrien had of his father, his family, reminding her that if she tells him the truth, she would leave him with nothing, nothing but pain in every memory he had left.

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Nothing like living your best life being emotionally wrecked by a French show about a bug and a cat.

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The struggle in knowing you need to end the lie wrecking your life and the love someone has, but no matter how much you want to, you just can't get the words to come out. And the only one truly benefiting from your silence, is the dead man who hurt both of you.

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Lets talk about what Adrien is doing.

When Adrien talks about Gabriel to his therapist in "Lady Chaos", he has this pause like he's expecting a negative response from Dr. Psiquat for thinking so ill of his father, as even she knows Gabriel is viewed a hero, but thankfully Psiquat is shown to be very professional and reminds Adrien she is there to listen to him on anything he has to say, allowing Adrien to feel comfortable enough to be more honest than when he is with others outside the office, which is the whole point of therapy, to be able to talk about things you can't normally talk about with others and make sense of that mess, and in Adrien's case, its how he can't view his dad under the same glorified light as the rest of the population of Paris, because it doesn't make sense to him that the same cruel man he grew up with suddenly became a good man, and a hero at that.

From Adrien's point of view alone, no matter who he turns to, everyone can only say positive things about Gabriel, but he for one knows now first hand that his father was a bad person. In fact, its revealed that as Cat Noir, Adrien expressed just how much he hates and rejects the fact that his father is viewed as a hero, by destroying the statue made in his honor.

Now, Dr. Psiquat notices that to Adrien, his dad is like a picture on a jigsaw puzzle, one Adrien cant make sense of because he is missing pieces, once he finds those missing pieces he will be able to assemble a picture of Gabriel that makes sense to him. Adrien decides to try and find those missing pieces so he can put together a picture of who Gabriel really was by interviewing people who knew Gabriel as part of a documentary. But something Adrien says is odd, he happily tells Nino and Marinette in "Lady Chaos" that his intentions for the documentary he's making about Gabriel is to hopefully see his dad in the same light everyone else sees him in, a kind altruistic man who was a hero. Something feels off.

Adrien, the boy who refuses to see Gabriel the same way everyone else does, wants to now try and see his dad as the hero everyone else thinks he is? Strange, even more so since we have seen Adrien try to deny Gabriel's heroic glory before, but it didn't go so well.

In "Mister Agreste", when Adrien came face to face with the possibility of an even bigger Gabriel statue being built to replace the one he destroyed as Cat Noir, Adrien tried to get everyone in the room to understand that his dad is being viewed far greater than he really was and should not be honored with such a giant statue, but no matter how he tried to explain things to others about just how cruel Gabriel really was, those words only ended up being ignored. Instead, the cruel truths Adrien shared about Gabriel were taken as something completely different than what he was trying to say. We have seen Marinette try and avoid any negative words about Gabriel in an effort to steer Adrien away from viewing his father negatively, believing he would benefit more from thinking Gabriel was not a complete monster, but we see that even when Adrien tries to tell other people who idolized or were associated with Gabriel, like that sculptor Theo in "Mister Agreste", the same result still occurs with or without Marinette's intervention.

Everyone heard Adrien say that Gabriel was as dry and rigid as the pancakes he cooked, but rather than accept Adrien's word, Mrs. Bustier believed it meant Adrien still needed time to grieve and was not ready yet to decide on a new statue, while Theo decided to instead believe Adrien's words revealed Gabriel was a good cook, a clear sign to him that Gabriel was a model father, something Adrien never said to begin with. In hindsight, Adrien wants to know he is not alone on the matter of knowing his father was a bad person, but ever since word spread about the "hero Gabriel" and him having now lost both his parents, Adrien had begun facing something that tends to happen when a person is suddenly faced with a severe tragic loss, a line of pity .

Adrien understands people are trying to be sympathetic towards him and his loss, but the way they are doing it by only focusing and constantly reminding him of the hero they think his dad was and how proud they think he should feel to have been his son, has Adrien feeling powerless, patronized, and isolated rather than supported.

Based on Theo's reaction alone in "Mister Agreste", its obvious the public that continues to idolize Gabriel do not want to hear Adrien of all people going against Gabriel's heroic title, they want Adrien to live up to the expectations they have of him so he can fit into his title as "the son of the hero, and will not hesitate to reprimand him if he fails to do so or just flat out ignore his word, they don't want to listen to him to understand from his point of view why he cannot idolize his dad despite having actually grown up experiencing a side of his father no one faced, and rather than be left to decide on his own how he wants to move past his grief and come to terms with his loss, people are choosing to decide it for him, trying to rescue him at every turn, offering a solution rather than leaving him the chance to handle a situation on his own and accept his choices. All of this has made Adrien wonder if he is alone on the matters of disagreeing about Gabriel and whether or not it means he should consider himself a bad son for not believing his dad was a hero like everyone else has, but regardless, he cannot bring himself to just simply forget about the harm his father did to all of them.

Marinette may be trying to convince the people who knew Gabriel's cruelty to only say good things about him, but she cannot erase what Adrien has already seen. He's seen how Marinette, Nathalie, Amelie etc. expressed their anger and frustration over Gabriel and his cruel ways, he's seen how he wronged them, so to see them now disregard everything they once knew and experienced in favor of a heroic version of Gabriel that he feels does not exist, might be leading Adrien to realize he cannot rely on other peoples word about his father anymore if they are only telling him what they and Marinette think will make him feel better.

Adrien is not an idiot, in "Mister Agrete", we learned that Adrien could sense long ago that Ladybug was not telling him everything that happened to Gabriel in the final fight, so far that has not changed.

If he could figure that out about Ladybug, then he must have noticed that everyone who is closest to him is only saying nice things about Gabriel just to try and make him feel better. Even in "Lady Chaos", when he talked to illusion Ladybug as part of his documentary about Gabriel, what he hears from illusion Ladybug(who's really Alya talking) is no different than what he's heard everyone else say.

Every person he's interviewed has said the same kind things about his dad, that he may not have made all the right decisions but he was ready to do anything out of love and that by the end of the day, Gabriel was a man who still loved his son. With no real difference in everyone's words about Gabriel, I do wonder if maybe Adrien has another reason for why he wanted to do the documentary. Is this documentary really just about him wanting to try and see Gabriel the same way other people do? or is he trying to fully lay out one version of the story on Gabriel before figuring out what pieces don't fit in the picture. But let’s just wait and see what the show has to say.

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Amelie saying Kagami is Felix’s fiancé is expected, this is Amelie we’re talking about, they’re not actually in an arranged marriage, Amelie just sees Kagami as someone whom Félix could actually have a happy future with and we know those two want a future together.

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So Amelie and Felix will now live in Paris and are preparing for the day Ladybug's lie about Gabriel falls apart. Interesting! Also finally! At least someone is planning ahead!

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Pollen being fully up for a vigilante life was funny, but its totally up her alley what with her being the kwami who embodies the concept of "Action". Only other kwami who would be up for being a vigilante is Plagg, who ironically also chose Zoe to be his holder.

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Glad Zoe still wants to be Fury, but is figuring out when she can and can't intervene and what the limits are in terms of how she can take action against those who avoid consequence. At most she wont act if the public is learning to find their own solutions.

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love this shot. As heroes,they must use education and defense to fight, but Zoe has seen such methods fail to stop those with unchecked power. Zoe understands Fury's methods are flawed, but so are Ladybug's. Zoe stands alone, choosing to disagree with Ladybug.

very interesting to see two heroes with different views on how to deal with problems. Ladybug prefers a reactive approach, reacting to problems after they happen. Zoe wants a proactive approach, wanting to take action against problems before they can happen. Now, how will Ladybug question her reactive approach the day she learns about the Kingdom, a ruling class that is actively dismantling everything people like Ladybug believe in on a world scale level, before they have a chance to react?

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"A Fairy Good Night" was so cute! I loved learning the hearts were part of Max's tactile stimming and how he always keeps them in his pocket to touch whenever he feels overwhelmed. It's very important and a big help to have something like that on hand at any age.

There's different ways to tactile stim, and as someone with ADHD I personally tactile stim with my body by repeatedly tapping the distal phalanx points of my fingers together, both on my hands and on any surface I can find in a room that's unfamiliar to me, I like the vibrations.

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Just realized Lila has not once said her villain name to any of her akumatized victims, the heroes don't know either, and I just know she's just waiting to make a dramatic introduction at the end of the season ain't she.

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Oh no, it gets worse. This may be just Ray and his goons disguised as Marinette and Nino to cause drama,but it was revealed back in “Animan” that the real Nino did fall in love with Marinette before Alya, and Alya and Adrien know Nino had a thing for Marinette too.

Nino and Adrien are no doubt loyal, but because they are not aware that is Ray and his friends in disguise, it’s gonna be a shock to them no matter what.