something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.
But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin
I like to imagine that post-reveal Marinette realizes this with dawning horror and Ladybug goes from “playfully roasting chat noir and also not really intervening when others roast him more seriously” to being “suddenly and aggressively protective of Chat Noir for reasons nobody else understands”
Chat Noirs like “I’m the sexiest coolest and most awesome cat in the entire mewniverse and everyone’s just jealous ;3c” and another hero opens their mouth to playfully retort and Ladybug snaps her head to them like “WHAT??? YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH HIM BEING THE SEXIEST COOLEST AND MOST AWESOME CAT IN THE ENTIRE MEWNIVERSE?????? DO YOU???? HUH???? BECAUSE YOURE JEALOUS???????”
