āOh,ā she hears Chat say. His hands tighten imperceptibly around her own. āOh.ā
Heart pounding, Marinette keeps her eyes squeezed tightly shut. She hears Plagg say something to Tikki and her little kwami giggle something back in response. Thereās a whoosh, indicating that theyāve sped off somewhere, either to confer in private or to avoid whatās about to be an incredibly charged conversation between their holders.
Chat cups her face in one hand. Itās free from its clawed leather glove-proof that Chat is a person. A real, flesh and blood boy underneath the suit. A person. And isnāt that a strange idea that should be. Her partner, her best friend, both to Ladybug and Marinette, an actual real person.
His thumb glides along her cheekbone, softly running over a cut he finds there. āMarinette,ā he says softly. āOpen your eyes.ā
Marinette inhales shakily and buries her face in Chatās chest. His hand drops from her face and instead he wraps his arms around her tightly. Heās wearing a cotton shirt- soft, like itās old and been broken down by fabric softener over the years. It smells like a floral blend and...cheese, she thinks? She chalks that one down to Plagg.
āI promise Iām not that ugly,ā Chat consoles, patting her on the back.
Marinette makes a sound in his chest thatās supposed to be a laugh, but comes out more mournful than she intends. āItāll change everything,ā she mumbles.
āNot a thing,ā he promises like he means it. Like he can keep it. āIt doesnāt change anything for me. Please look at me?ā
Marinette reaches up, feeling his face with one hand until her fingers trace the outline of his lips. She follows them, dragging the taller boy down into a kiss. Chat makes a surprised noise in his throat. Marinette tries to pour every last bit of emotion she has into it: her desperation, her fear, her cautious excitement. She eventually pulls away, ever so slightly, just enough that when she finally opens her eyes, a pair of familiar green one flood her vision.
Marinette blinks, trying to focus. Chat has real eyes, she thinks and then feels dumb for thinking that. Theyāre still a vivid green, still bright and playful, but the catlike pupil has been traded out for a round, human pair of eyes. A very, very familiar pair of eyes that glitter across from her in Biology.
āOh,ā Marinette says.
āHi,ā Adrien Agreste says, almost shyly. He takes her hands in his again, just as before when they de-transformed.
āOh,ā Marinette says again, and then bursts into tears.
Adrien, appropriately, freaks out. āOh-oh shit-Marinette donāt-donāt cry-donāt be sad-ā
āIām not sad!ā she wails, throwing her arms over his shoulders again. āOr disappointed,ā she mumbles into his neck. āIām just happy.ā
Her partner lets out a breath, tension dissolving from his shoulders. āAh.ā His arms wrap around her tightly, pulling her closer into the hug. He buries his nose in her hair. āYeah.ā
Marinette hugs her partner, her classmate, her crush, her best friend and thinks oh. She tucks her head under his chin and thinks this makes sense.
Then,
āWeāre both idiots-ā
āAlya is never going to let me hear the end of this-ā
āNino is going to kill me-ā
They both dissolve into helpless laughter. Adrien- Chat looks like sunshine personified as the sun streaks through his blond hair and catches on the golden flecks in his green eyes. Yeah, Marinette thinks, a small smile on her lips. Everythingās about to change.
Lol I donāt watch new episodes right when they come out so my jokes and points about them are always at least a day late. Thanks for putting up with me guys<3
This kind of stuff pisses me off. Fans complain abt how repetitive the show can be and how they want more plot development but when there is they complain bc a certain ship or character wasnāt showcased in that one episode. Weāve only seen a few episodes of the 4th season and they are mostly out of order. Weāve mostly seen episodes where the plot is developing really fast for Marinette and her role as guardian. We havenāt seen the other half of the season. We donāt know whatās going to happen so before fans complain they should wait until the entire season is out and then make a judgement call.
So based on the tweets from Miraculous Mexico, it seems that Chat being sidelined isn't actually leading to anything and his story is just being with the Agrestes. She also pretty much confirmed Ladybug doesn't want to tell Chat her identity due to Chat Blanc
I think I know what tweet youāre talking about, but just in case Iāll cover two tweets that come to mind. And no matter which one it is, I donāt really take it that way at all!
(Post under cut because this is a long one lmao)
The translation of the first tweet and the question it was in response to reads as such:
āa doubt feri! Will Ladybug and chat no longer be a duo? I mean ... now that alya has the miraculous forever ... now, when there is an akuma, will the three always be there? if yes, I cry :(ā
āThey will always be a duo, it is just people jumping into tragedy at the slightest change, as usual xDā
āSerious question for you to realize how unfounded your fears are.... Did you see Alya help in Furious Fu? And in Guiltrip? And in Sole Crusher and in Queen Banana? XD And who was in the 4 despite of his duration on stage? Yes. Cat Noir. :3ā
āPeople forget that Marinette was touched by what happened in Chat Blanc. She doesn't know how it happened, but she was left with the idea that they should NEVER know their identities. Alya fills a gap that Chat can't (help her as a civilian too or if something happens to her) but Chat will always be # 1.ā
Feriās response to the question does NOT say that Chat isnāt intentionally being sidelined, it is rather a reassurance that him and Ladybug are still a duo and will not become a team with Rena. In fact, Feri acknowledges Chat Noirās minimized run time with the phrase ādespite his duration on stageā. So I donāt think this tweet is saying that Chat being sidelined wont lead to anything, and is rather just reassuring he will always be there, that RENA ROUGE IS NOT REPLACING HIM, and that he and ladybug will still primarily work as a duo.
As for the 2nd tweet you may be talking about, which Iām going to assume IS the one that youāre talking about, it translates as:
āIt is difficult to explain. While Ladybug is the focus for her role as guardian now, Adrien is an important part of the overall plot. Anything that involves the Agrestes will involve Adrien, but his story is subtle. You have to catch the clues.ā
āHis story is subtle, you have to catch the cluesā
If anything in this season is going to lead to Adrien boiling over in frustration, I take this tweet as saying that the factors that lead to this breakdown wont be explicitly made clear to us right away. And Feri is right, itās not explicit!
Everything the fandom notices in regards to Adrienās isolation this season is subtle, is in clues: Us getting less and less transformations on his behalf, the sad look on his face that he hid from ladybug after he wasnāt needed in Optigami, the visual isolation of him being in a cage in Sole Crusher, him not joining Marinette on the walk because of his father, alongside many, many more examples. None of these can be considered āexplicitā, and yet the fandom picks up on these. His story is being told to us subtlety.
But yeah, I hope what I said made sense! Iāve seen a lot of people saying Feriās tweets disprove peopleās theories that Adrien/Chatās isolation is intentional, but I really really donāt think thatās the case!
And yes, Iām REALLY glad we finally have official confirmation that MARINETTE IS STILL AFFECTED BY CHAT BLANC!!!! GUYSSSS WHY ARENT MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?
Anyway yeah, thatās all! Hope I gave ya the far fetched clownery you wanted anon š¤”
Also now I'm in fear that I may have opened a pandora box by translating those tweets bc those were really the most representative, but in general when you go through the replies you can see that indeed they are a reassurance that even though Chat is being sidelined for the moment, this is not meant to last.
And even more so, they're a reassurance that Alya is not there to take Chat's spotlight, but rather offer them a helping hand.
Everyone, remember that at the end of the day this isolation going on WILL NOT LAST and, say it with me:
ALYA WILL NOT REPLACE CHAT NOIR
Just like Mariās breakdown didnāt last and hit resolved with the help of growth, her friends, and her kitty cat, neither will Adrienās struggle, and I think thatās the beauty of Feriās tweets :)
#okay#so in one little exchange#edmund shuts down mirazās attempt to patronize him#corrects his knowledge#states that he is king and thus mirazās equal#makes a witty joke about his title of the Just that sails right over mirazās head#humbly affirms peterās higher authority#and finishes off by making miraz look like an idiot#in under a minute he reverses and takes control of the entire discussion#as easily and casually as if heās having a chat with reepicheep#lewis says that he was the diplomat-king#and my headcanon is that he was head of narnian espionage as well#because look at this boy#how he dances with words#how he masters men three times his age#and tell me he wouldnāt be absolutely LETHAL
Sorry it's a day late! I had to wake up early today for a conference, and I procrastinated too much last night oops. Anyway, this idea was again from @orcarriagesthatwork, thank you!
This is about Adrien mistaking his flirting tendencies with Mari to be signs of friendship. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it! I'll be working on today's prompt but it might be late, I'm not sure,,,
everything that happened in chat blanc, or at least the part where adrien says
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MAKES LOVE EATER ALL THE MORE AHDIDJSLLS
THE
THE THE THE THE THE
the misDIRECTION
how adrien is always making eyes whenever mari and kagami are in the same frame !!!!
and then whenever they're not !!!!!
He's!!!!!!
The boy's smitten!!!!!!!!
im calling SUPER foreshadowing and im willing to bet Adrien is going to fall for Mari first and then I hope he starts visiting her as Chat Noir and then That'll be when Marichat takes Ladrien's place, only now instead of it being two pedestal celebrity crushes, it'll be mutual friends-to-lovers im VIBRATING
Okay, Iām calling it, there is DEFINITELY a secret evil society in Miraculous Ladybug!
When the news showed that the monastery in Tibet was back b/c of Ladybug, WHO DO THEY SHOW FIRST?? Not Marinette, or Master Fu, or anyone else, but Gabriel and Nathalie:
Which wouldnāt otherwise be too suspicious, but who else is shown?
Kagamiās mom? Who, granted, we all thought might be have been a little bit suspicious in Animaestro. But they ALSO show:
Audrey Bougeoise!!
Now, why them? Why are Audrey and Mrs. Tsurugi shown, when they had no part to play in the episode otherwise? Why are they both shown right after Gabriel and Nathalie? Why is this news so important to them?
Iāll tell you why - they are all part of some mysterious society that has been trying to get the miraculous! (plus maybe some other evil plan idk)
Iāve heard theories before that Emilie and Gabriel were part of some evil society, and raised Adrien to take their place. (Why else would he be learning Chinese, fencing, karate?) I always thought that maybe this theory was a little far fetched, but now Iām not so sure! What do you guys think? (Also, maybe the sentimonster!Adrien theory ties into this?)
In terms of production order, this was supposed to fall after the not yet aired Kwami Buster (14)ā¦but before:
Gamer 2.0 (16)
Stormy Weather 2 (17)
Ikari Gozen (18) - Technically Not yet airedĀ (though SD Comicon aired a preview)
Timetagger (19)
Party Crasher (20)
Puppeteer 2 (21)
Chat Blanc (22) - Not yet aired
Felix (23) - Not yet aired
Ladybug (24)
Finale Part 1: Loveater (25) - Not yet aired
Finale Part 2: Miracle Queen (26) - Not yet aired
All we do know for sure?Ā Something very big is about to go down with Master Fu, to lead into what we saw of him in Party Crasher and Ikari Gozen.Ā Ā
By synopsis, it seems that Master Fu takes Ladybugās miraculous away for safekeeping.Ā And outside of that?Ā This one might be a real emotional roller coaster.
I have so, so many questions going into Feast:Ā Ā Will he take Chat Noirās away at the same time?Ā Will we see Aspik again?Ā Or another possible version ofĀ āChatā with a new Miraculous?
WILL WE SEE CANON MOUSECHAT?
From the Leaks, we still have yet to see:
Jade Turtle (Probably in Feast)
Multimouse (Probably in Feast)
Fusion:Ā Ā Multimouse + Fox (Uncertainā¦perhaps Chat Blanc or Felix?)
Fusion:Ā Dragon Bug (Finale Likely)
Fusion:Ā Snek Snake Noir (Finale Likely)
The all too likely appearance of one fluffy pink and white dressā¦? (Though that might not be this season?)
In other wordsā¦Buckle up:Ā Iām not sure how weāre all supposed to survive the rest of this seasonā¦
I saw someone on Twitter say that Luka and marinette were soulmates, and all I could think was do you know anything about this show? Have you watched the non-Luka episodes????
Iām not dumping on him, Iām commenting on people who call them soulmates when the show is based on the love square...he (and Kagami) provides an opportunity for the main characters to grow into themselves, heās not there to be Marinetteās true love.
