I just remembered a Miraculous Ladybug comic on YouTube with an AU where Stoneheart kills Chloe, and then it was like, "And there were no more akumas ever again," and it was played for laughs.
Now I'm just thinking about how that scenario would affect Cat Noir, because his mom had just gone missing without a trace not even a full year ago, and now his only friend since childhood is dead. He'd be so messed up by this, and it is so interesting to think about.
It would really mess my boy up so bad.
His childhood friend is dead, the ONE person who was there for him when his mother died. No one else is sympathetic, this time he's all alone. With no more Akumas there is no chance to be Cat Noir. There is no escape from his home. There is no escape from his father. There is no escape from those marble halls. It's entirely possible Gabriel keeps him home now, even as Gabriel spirals, too afraid to use the butterfly again but a shell of a man without his wife.
Two people children with one blow.
It gets so bad Nathalie sneaks the Peacock Miraculous from the safe. If Chloe's death caused this spiral, she need only live again. Nathalie is no stranger to cheating biological limitations.
Another point to bring up, Ivan in canon felt really bad about being the first Akumatization, to the point of feeling a lot of (irrational) guilt over it.
How do you think he'd feel if he killed someone while in that state?
and then there's André, doting father and mayor of Paris. Just because HM and the heroes are no more, doesnt mean that the establishment didnt just see these powers.
Chloe, blond, white innocent and rich. She's exact the drmographic crossection for a perpetual manhunt to find her killer.
And there is no way Noe wouldnt use his press-oligopoly to puppeteer her corpse to for public opinion as the Kingdom tries to get laws passes "regulating" the dangerous miraculous.
France would likely become the first non-super state with Sokovia accords. Chloe, who only wanted to be special and beloved would finally get her wish as a martyr to the "threat" posed by the miraculous.
Alright, now I need that fic, so I could choke with my own tears

























