There’s a lot of talk about that right now and I don’t know why (I haven’t seen Megaleech yet and the few GIFs I’ve seen don’t hint in that direction for me). Personally, I don’t like that theory. Not so much because it’s implausible (so are garbage rockets yet they’re canon) or obviously never going to happen (neither is Adrigaminette yet I won’t stop shipping that), but I just think it doesn’t work thematically and makes the story weaker overall.
I know others have made that point before and argue about Adrien’s autonomy and human status, but I don’t think that’s really the most relevant point; Adrien has literally never been human (being a fictional character and all) and yet we still can relate to him.
For me the issue is more deeper than that. As a general rule, in Miraculous Ladybug, conflict and drama derives strictly from normal human things. The supernatural side of the show empowers humans for good or evil and generates CGI fight sequences, but in the end, they’re still fighting for very human things.
Gabriel is using emotional manipulation because he wants power and influence. Marinette and Adrien want to help people and don’t like bullies. Ladybug and Chat Noir have their ups and downs, but they’re based on trust, loyalty, lies, fear and love and so on.
Note also how Kwamis have only very limited agency. They’re here to be sounding boards for our heroes, and sometimes friends who are a good or bad influence, but they don’t really do a lot of magic outside the superhero things. Similar things go for Markov, whose conflict is not really about being a robot - Hawkmoth immediately declares that Markov is human enough, and that’s that. His conflict is about being kept from his friend.
In this show, nobody is a tortured soul because they’re a vampire. None of them have seen things beyond the imagining of humankind. All of their problems are fundamentally real and relatable.
The only huge exception to this is the secrecy rule (and the associated memory loss for Fu, but he doesn’t really matter that much except that he leaves Marinette behind). That is clearly a key conceit of the show, and even that is a rule humans made up.
So if a main character is a sentimonster, that throws this out of the window. Suddenly a huge part of the drama of the show is because one of them is a magical alien who must follow magical alien rules. It’s no longer a story about normal teenagers dealing with exaggerated versions of normal teenage problems, but one about its own magical conflicts. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing; as @hamsternamedmarinette keeps pointing out, the theory fits in well within the world of Buffy, an overall very good show that definitely does have structural similarities to Miraculous Ladybug. But Buffy has always had drama caused solely by the supernatural side of things, right from the start, and in general is way more metaphorical about what it wants to say.
For Miraculous Ladybug, Sentimonster Adrien is just a really weird tonal shift that doesn’t fit in my opinion.
That doesn’t mean anybody who enjoys it needs to stop that, of course not. I just felt like screaming about it into the void, and well, you chose to follow this blog, that’s on you.
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