some of you have been curious about the AU I posted about with feralnette, so here’s some details:
her new attitude and actions are a direct result of realizing Hawkmoth is closing in on her identity faster than she’s closing in on his, and Lila’s totally messed up her social network. between being ladybug, the guardian, and her school’s ‘everyday ladybug,’ Marinette realizes she has to give up one of these responsibilities to literally keep paris safe, so she plays things tactically.
if she can convince everyone around her that she’s only dedicated to her studies, no longer has an interest in keeping stable relationships, and that she wants to be alone, even letting herself cut loose and act on impulses she would usually hold back on, then Hawkmoth - apart of everybody - would be convinced she’s not Ladybug and her identity along with her actual loved ones, are safe.
it works pretty well, at the sacrifice that Marinette doesn’t exactly have stable friendships anymore and Lila’s more easily manipulated her outbursts to her own advantage - but Marinette is at the point that she doesn’t actually care about Lila. She’s busy. She has studies, both magical and practical, to work on, villains to fight, and between being responsible for a classroom and being responsible for the lives of Paris… she can’t keep trying to debunk Lila’s tall tales. She doesn’t have the time or energy to waste on people who WANT to believe what she says.
Everyone thinks on some aspect Lila’s won, but Lila herself is leery… there’s something incredibly certain and determined in Marinette’s gaze, as though everything she does is on purpose, like a pre-determined chess move…
The only person so far actually interested in getting to know her as she is, not as she’s displaying or projecting herself as, is (insert trope) Felix, the transfer student.
He’s got a mask of his own, and realizing Marinette is under such stress that she seems to have a totally different persona in school than at home, he’s a bit determined to get to the bottom of her mystery… or at least get close enough to peek at her fashion ideas lmao
EDIT: if you wanna write something for this GO FOR IT LMAO like all I have are vague ideas I do NOT have the time to play with, consider it a playground and go wild y’all













