chinese!marinette headcanons because only one person encouraged me to do this and that was enough for me to do it
you are all COWARDS for makingĀ āadrien teaches marinette chineseā headcanons, she speaks wenzhouhua at home and just vaguely understands mando because sabine preferred speaking her local dialect with her kids and figured she could learn mando some other time
she did not learn mando but can understand some of it. also she feels insecure about her wenzhouhua at times but. i promise u itās better than adrienās mando, which i could not understand for my life and needed subs for
going shopping at the chinese grocery store with her mom and picking out the veggies, knowing what they are but forgetting the names cuz she wasnāt taught to read chinese
SHOES OFF IN THE HOUSE, always wearing fuzzy slippers indoors. her dad forgets this rule sometimes and sabine always starts mopping and grumbling under her breath immediately afterward
i guess itās a french bakery or whatever but donāt u dare thing sabine didnāt take marinette to chinese bakeries growing up, eating egg custards and hot dog buns and pineapple cakes
her mom sent her to love boat
sabine hosts family reunions every year. the house is extremely cramped and crowded, thereās at least 70 people in inside because only half the family could make it.
āwe have two 40-year-old cousins in hong kong from your jiu jiuās first marriage, but we donāt really talk to them. i think the younger one is a singerā
that jiu jiu is currently sitting on the couch and has two six-year-olds with his second wife
thereās a mountain of shoes at the front door and finding your own pair is like playingĀ āwhereās waldoā
especially when you have a lot of cousins in your teens and twenties who all wear the exact same adidas sneakers
long before adrien marinetteās biggest crush was jay chou and she dreamed of being a S.H.E. member
sabine would not wear a qipao 24/7 HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS!!!
she dresses in ankle-length mom jeans and a blouse with the sleeves rolled halfway up and carried a gucci handbag, change my mind
she becomes friends with kagami and brings her to her house and saysĀ āoh by the way can you tell my mom youāre chinese but donāt understand or speak it? thanksā
adrien and marinette let the families meet. gabriel reaches for the bill, but itās nowhere to be found. sabine is cackling in the corner, having finally found someone who doesnāt know the bathroom trick.
she approves of the match once she finds out adrienās grades and family income because marrying smart and rich will get you places
marinetteās friends think her house is pretty chinese when they walk in with the ink paintings and scrolls. her older cousinās house on the other hand, has a those plus a shrine plus a buddha statue plus jade turtles and frogs with coins on their heads and in their mouths RESPECTIVELY plus a tape continuously playing buddhist chants.
her mom always tried to give her teachers gifts at the end of the semester and it was embarrassing because NOBODY ELSE DID IT
her friends watched anime but like⦠she grew up on the old ones like shin chan and doraemon, but the chinese dubs
speaking of which she has tapes of the three monks and tadpoles looking for their mother and nezha conquers the dragon king in her room at the moment