“If the world comes crumbling down, I’m not going to stick around to pull you from the rubble.”
“That’s fine, Ladybug. I wouldn’t have it any other way.” With a quick wink, he flipped himself off of the Eiffel Tower, laughing the whole way down. It was riskier with all the rain and lighting in the background. A thunderstorm.
“Stop doing that, Chat Noir! And wait up!”
“Don’t worry M’Lady! And how else would I be able to say I fell off the tower?”
“Chat Noir!”
Feeling something wet slip down her cheek, Marinette was brought out of her stupor. To think that night was less than a week ago made her heart ache. He was her best friend, and partner in (fighting) crime. It just wasn’t supposed to end that way, with something as simple as a mugging gone wrong.
Having made their way to New Jersey, it was supposed to be a quick little thing, he said, now he was never coming back.
But Marinette would have to go.
Looking for the missing miraculous of destruction.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste were the picture of young love. They were inseparable most ever since realizing the true depth of their feelings for eachother. Being together, they had shared countless memories, laughs, and adventures. Despite it having only been a year since making the claim of boyfriend and girlfriend, their feelings for each other blossomed into something more. They were the perfect couple, and their love for each other only grew stronger with each passing day.
Marinette, with her bright smile and bubbly personality, was the light of Adrien's life. She brought joy and happiness wherever she went, and Adrien was forever grateful to have her by his side. Adrien, with his dashing good looks and charming smile, was the dream boy of every girl in school. But to Marinette, he was the only one who truly mattered.
The two of them spent their days in class together, and later exploring the streets of Paris, fighting akumas (they were still unaware of just who they were partnered with, but was glad to be able to run off without any inquiry).
Life wasn’t the best, but it was good.
-
It had been a beautiful summer day in Paris, the kind of day that made you feel like anything was possible. Marinette and Adrien were just lying there, taking in one another’s company.
But then, something changed.
Gabriel, Adrien's father, had never been much of a presence in their love life- or even ist Adrien’s life after his mother’s passing. He had always been cold and distant, so Marinette and Adrien had always believed that he was just busy with work, and left him out of their thoughts. They tried once upon a time, but it only brought more disappointment. They believed it would get better with time- his own time.
But that day, Gabriel chose to reveal the truth.
Calling the bodyguard to pick up his son, he banned Marinette from entering the home. Not wasting any more time on her, he patiently waited for his son to arrive, so he could explain just what he had been planning, and Adrien would either play along, or be pulled out all together.
He had been watching Adrien's feelings for Marinette, making his own plans and judgements from afar. He had been planning a game, a game of control and manipulation, and Marinette and Adrien were just pawns in his goal to get back what he lost.
Adrien was devastated. He had always looked up to his father, always believed that he was a good man. But now, he saw the truth. His father was a monster, a manipulative and evil man who had been using him and all of Paris to fulfill his own twisted desires.
Adrien had accepted his mother’s death a long time ago, knowing she would have wished for them to move on. To not be stuck needlessly in the past of something that wasn't coming back. But Gabriel thought the opposite, and was working to bring her back.
Gabriel had said he wanted a powerful akuma- that he wanted Marinette. That he had bee aware of her and her emotional range since the first akuma was released, and thought he was going to win it all in his first debut of Scarlet Moth, but had to pull back because of Nathalie- and things had finally begun to make sense.
The similarities in Nathalie’s and his mother’s condition had nothing to do with a simple coincidence, just the fact that they originated from the same thing, a broken miraculous.
But even with all of what his father had just told him flowing through his head, he was thinking of Marinette. He didn’t want to break her heart, nor did he want to drag her into all of this.
And then there would be Ladybug. There was no doubt that Adrien would be out under further surveillance, so there was a high chance that his secret escapades as Chat Noir would be found out. He would need to give up Play before that happened.
Setting his mind to what he needed to do, Adrien stood.
-
Marinette was heartbroken. She had given her heart to Adrien, and she had believed that they had a future together. But now, she saw that it was all a lie. Adrien was being pulled away from her, forced to choose between his father and her.
The two of them fought, their voices raised in anger and pain.
He just couldn’t tell her what exactly was going on, saying that it was a choice between her and his own family, voice raw filled with an emotion she couldn’t place.
In the end, Adrien chose his father. He had no real choice but to choose the man who was always behind him, even though he knew that he was a monster. Marinette was left alone, her heart shattered into a million pieces. She knew that she would never be able to love again, not after what she believed was so real had turned out like this.
some of y’all with printed copies of fanfiction are going to die someday and your books will end up at the secondhand book shop and someone is just going to innocently pick up blorbo/shitto enemies to lovers and when i think of it this way let’s keep printing fanfiction
Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💖
Oh, thank you @Cait! (It's been three days since I got this, but I only just noticed because I have the flu 😭).
❤️ Asimov's Integral
🧡 Distress Signals
💛 Home
💚 When it Rains
💜 Two Birds on a Wire
I will tag: @the-red-butterfly, @sunflowersandink, @aknifespoint, @theogygiaisland, @tabletoptime !
Thank you for all being willing volunteers sacrifices!
@theogygiaisland I thought I answered this in discord so I wouldn't get tagged >.<
I write crossover fics (DCxMLB aka. Maribat) so... sorry in advance if it's not your thing... you can just ignore me (just no hate - I don't hate on your interests).
Save Myself - Tim gets tired of being ignored all the time and leaves (Timari; hurt/comfort)
Hoodwinked - Halloween hijinks based on the movie format in Hoodwinked! (Daminette; just because writing it was a *pain* without making it repetitive)
A Rough Day - Tim has a bad day and contemplates something drastic - this one may as well be just DC because of the extremely brief appearance of any MLB characters (Timari if you blink; angst, M, trigger warnings)
Maribat On Ice - *skating* (Jasonette; enemies to lovers)
Damsel in Distress - Attraction to black cats seems to run in the family (Timari; enemies and lovers)
Dick's Case - horrible, horrible pickup lines which was just fun to write even if its not my best (Dickinette)
Ironically, none of those are my most popular fic.
Unfortunately pretty much none of my pure batman stuff really counts as a 'fic', they're usually analyses or headcanons.
So... Maribat:
Wings And Halos (Timari ghoulhunting AU) - Easily the fic I had the most fun writing. Mythology is one of my passions and writing magic/magic systems is genuinely my favorite thing to do.
Stalker X Stalker (Timari, the title sums it up pretty well) - The only fic I've ever written with no Overarching Plot. I just had fun with it, and therefore it's one of my favorites. The degradation kink joke is where I peaked btw I will never be funnier than I was in that moment. And I'm okay with that.
Another One?! (Adrienette raising the batkids) - One of my two kid fics. Not the one people like most, funnily enough, but this is about which ones I like so... this one. Again, magic systems are very fun and the quiet theme of generational trauma and attempting to overcome it will always
Canary (Timari, enemies to lovers) - Heist stories are my favorite things to read/watch, so I decided to take a crack at it myself. I also love some identity shenanigans, which this fic has plenty of.
Soulmarks (Timari soulmate AU but it's angsty) - I'm pretty proud of the improvements I made to the AO3 version. Also, it apparently converted someone that had previously hated Maribat, and I think that's funny so it automatically jumps up a few spaces.
Me and Izzy 🤝 having our most popular fics not being in the top five
Don't know a lot of authors, unfortunately, and Izzy got most of them... so...
Thank you for the tag @olivia-anderson-fanfic, @the-alice-of-hearts, @the-coffee-fandom, and @verymuchimmortalcat 💕
Ok, so this actually took some time for me to actually distinguish between the fics I like, and then the fics the people like. Anyways here ya go!
1) Among the Ways of the World - I enjoyed writing this fic and it isn’t something that I think is full of a bunch of problems when I go back to read it. Writing Daminette (in my opinion) is one the easiest pairings for me. While there are only five chapters posted, there are more written, awaiting for the next civil war to be brought upon us <3
2) Through the Ages - This was my first time really having Cass play apart in the entirety of a fic. I enjoy reading as well as writing gen/platonic relationships, so this definitely wasn’t a struggle. I myself like the amount of “cute” “fluffy” stuff that was thrown in there with the rest, and idk, I think it fits well.
3) Plausible Deniability - While it may not be as funny or “crack” filled as some other works, I think I did a pretty decent job on getting some funny elements in there, and I hope you think so too.
4) Dubious Plausibility - Same reasons as above, along with the word count. I like the word count very much.
5) A Waistcoat You Say? - This fic is purely MLB, and it actually kinda follows cannon. Maybe that’s why it’s so hard for me to continue, as I’m not one of those people that make things follow time lines and such (can you blame me?) but I’m try to make this as realistic as possible.
Tagging:
@thedragonbug @pl-panda @shamrockace @the-witches-you-couldnt-burn @oxicleanonyagirl and @marauderundercover sorry for any retags!
✨Rules: We’re snooping in your playlist! Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs and then choose 10 people.✨
I was tagged by: @ghostbusters-lover-for-life
Songs:
1) Yellow - Coldplay
2) Somebody you love - Lewis Capaldi
3) Lime - Drew Hersch
4) Just Say When - Nothing More
5) Girl Next Door - Saving Jane
6) Shafted - Heymonday
7) The way we were - Stateside
8) Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo
9) You and I - PVRIS
10) Fools - Lauren Aquilina
I tag: @attackplatypus @littlehalfangel @literaturelocker @l1ghtn1ng24 @narnianwanderer @flowersandrage @lydiaisstilessanchor @sassymox @kalliravenne @captainkillion Do it if you want, no pressure.
2. Palm reader remix - DREAMERS, Big boi, Upsahl, All time low
3. Regular (korean ver.) - NCT
4. Beautiful - Monsta X
5. Uptown Funk - Meek Mill, Aneul AA, Fabolous
6. Licht an! Licht an! - Jan Böhmermann
7. Congratulations (final ver.) - Day6
8. Fear - X ambassadors, imagine dragons
9. Beautiful liar - VIXX LR
10. Ride or die - XYLØ
Give it a try if you want? @before-it-kills-me @birdwafflecereal @moon-diner @night-scroller @thegoliathbeetle @highonchocolate @hishoukoku @bokutoswh0re @flykiwiflyaway @ignite-the-moonlight
8. My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Fall Out Boy
9. Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
10. Irresistible - Fall Out Boy
Tagging: @the-elevator-not-worthy, @m3owww, @savagenutella46, @elliebelliegirl, @peppersonironi, @moonlitceleste, @charme-de-malchan, @liquid-luck-00, @astrynyx, and @anyone else who wants to do it :D
@nightlychaotic @peterxwade24 @queen-o-leen @ultimatetornshipper @coolkid-mcgee @verymuchimmortalcat @the-alice-of-hearts @kairosaly @jumpingjoy82 @jinx-jade and @anyone else who wants to do it
When you go from posting something for a pretty popular fandom, to something that most people don’t even know about, you realize how much you appreciate the validation given.
“You heard me. You’re no better, forcing yourself on her. Neither of you understand the word ‘no.’”
“I- that- I regret that. I was angry and desperate. I was trying to get back a family heirloom. I was hoping to convince her – before she punched me.” He added bitterly, “Working with Hawkmoth after that was stupid.”
HI HELLO to the approximate three people who will see this post: i know i’ve been gone for forever but in approximately two weeks i will hopefully start writing again!! i have long-determined plans i would like to carry out so if all goes well i will start posting soon :D
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