Why Adrien treats Marinette so special ...
I believe that Adrien treats Marinette a lot differently than his other friends. He seems to always want to impress her and doesn’t want her to not like him.
One of the reasons I believe he treats her this way is because of his first impression on her. When Marinette first met Adrien, she believed that he was trying to prank her by putting gum on her seat. She was visibly mad at him and we all know that Adrien was just trying to remove it. I think he pushes himself harder with Marinette because he feels bad for what happened and wants her to know that he is not that type of person to treat people badly.
Another reason is because Marinette reminds Adrien of Ladybug. He told her that she was “ our everyday ladybug” in heroes day part 2”. He is in love with ladybug and I’m sure he can tell that they look similar. They both have the dark hair and blue bell eyes. ( not to mention they are the same height, have the same voice, and the same hairstyle lol) They also share some of the same characteristics. I also believe that because she reminds him of Ladybug he feels the need to protect her. He protects Marinette a lot of time in civilian form and as chat noir a lot. For example in puppeteer when he was fighting the Hawkmoth wax figure and in “ Catalyst” when he covered Marinette because the scarlet akumas were coming over the school.
Marinette has helped Adrien alot. She helped him with relationship advice and helped him get away from his crazy fans so he could go to the movies. Adrien has also helped Marinette in the past too. For example, with her uncle in the Kung Food episode. He probably admires that about her because she is always willing to help anyone.
Marinette has given Adrien multiple gifts. She gave him her lucky charm, a Santa hat for Christmas, and a special macaroon. He obviously cares about the lucky charm she gave him. I think that the lucky charm also reminds him of the similarities between Ladybug and Marinette. If I’m not mistaken, the present Marinette gave him for Christmas was the only gift he got. He got gifts after he was “found” but I think Marinette was the only one who got him something before everything that happened. (: I believe gift giving is Marinettes love language :)
He has gotten a lot of compliments from Marinette. She called him handsome, awesome, amazing, etc. In Style Queen she also told him that he had his catwalk down. That particular compliment shocked him of course because he is chat noir 😂. The compliments give him a little head booster and cause him to be more comfortable around her.
I also think that he just enjoys teasing her. He always does something that will get a goofy reaction from Marinette. He doesn’t do that with other people only with her and I think he just likes to see her act crazy.
AND in the origins episode during the umbrella scene. The first time I seen Adrien laugh uncontrollably was when Marinette accidentally closed the umbrella on her head. I don’t know if he was laughing at her or because he thought it was cute but I think that Marinette and plagg are the main two people that cheer him up. He also went to Marinette as chat noir so she could cheer him up after being stood up. ( even though he ended up cheering her up instead)
