miraculous is half my personality

23 | Christian | she/her

[bukashki]

I feel alive

[monpetitchattriste]

I can't handle this cuteness

[asukiess]

im so glad we can have family time in the kitchen in this specific spot. where nothing weird has happened.

[ozzo-the-wozzo]

My friend recreated adrien’s messages to Marinette

[l4dymarika]

People’s rooms are supposed to be a window into their minds, and I think that’s exactly what they’re trying to do this season. Adrien is lost, so his room is unfinished. Only when he figures things out and finds peace will his room be complete and exactly how he wants it. The next room design will be exactly who he is, and what he likes

[fallmyfeathers]

[buggachat]

im sorry? i dont know. im sorry

bonus:

[sparklycamembert]

how she looks at her catboy of infinite destruction when he gains the ability to destroy peoples memories after plunging the entire city into darkness (she’s very proud of him)

[aquaaquila]

I swear y'all, people really be hating on Marinette for making questionable choices as if she wants to do them and isn't dying on the inside because of the guilt of her actions and how she does everything because in every other scenario, everything goes to shit.

[kisilinramblings]

Yeah, it's not like Marinette has experienced the end of the world because of one of her mistakes and that the lesson she got from that episode was "The best kept secret are the ones you never share".

Why do you all think Marinette was asking the Bunnyxes if she has made the right call during the London Special?

Or that she had a nightmare the very next episode after trusting Alya with Trixx?

Marinette is scarred and scared. This mantra Marinette has is how she is making through it all. Keeping secrets is her sacrifice to spare her loved one but it comes at the price of isolating, burdening and burning herself with it. (See Gang of Secrets). It is a defense mechanism that has carried her so far... but it isn't healthy on the long term.

Also, Revelator sure wasn't subtle about with the moral here.

Like, they are advising Vincent, but Ladybug is also realizing that their advices apply to her too.

Marinette has to realize that Adrien isn't truly healing without knowing the truth. That was Rena Rouge's point. That one way or another, he will be hurt and she cannot always protect him from the truth and the pain. But at least, with the truth in hand, Adrien can actually start healing and grow. That is why he hasn't had new clothes yet this seasons unlike the rest of the heroes : his development is stalled, both figuratively and visually. Because of that one lie.

And no matter how mad you are about Rena having her memory wipe out of Ladybug's secret, the truth is Ladybug has to be the one to fix the problem she has caused when she covered the truth to Adrien about his father. Lying about Gabriel being a hero is also hurting Adrien. That's why we got that little discussion between Adrien and Nino at the beginning of the episode where Marinette couldn't hear it. She is unaware how her lie is truly affecting Adrien. She believes he is happier than if he had knew the truth. But in this case, she is wrong and she has to realize that.

All that to say, it will be a journey for our main character who doesn't know there is a clock ticking. That is why it is interesting. That is why it is part of the story for this new arc.

[jack-of-heartstrings]

That is why it is interesting. That is why it is part of the story for this new arc.

And the season has been screaming this every single episode (less currently to us than it should be, with the release schedule as it is, but this feels ESPECIALLY appropriate for something happening right around the halfway mark). "There's something about me that no one knows yet, because I've got a secret" isn't about being Ladybug anymore.

People wanna be like "if Marinette just made good decisions there wouldn't be any problems!" as if she hasn't been constantly punished for trusting people, constantly punished for wanting good things for herself, and constantly rewarded and validated for overly planning for everything and being absurdly mistrusting and paranoid.

Even IN THIS EPISODE, she wants to believe no normal person could be so malicious toward strangers, and she's proven brutally wrong. She lets Alya talk her into using their powers to benefit her personal life just this once when it's someone really being cruel, and it leads to him getting akumatized and utterly shattering her peace. The first person she ever trusted to know she was Ladybug learns THIS secret and is horrified, disgusted, and livid. And now any time Alya says "you can tell me anything", Marinette can no longer believe her.

She is HEARING the lesson at the end and she KNOWS she "should", but every single other factor is screaming that it's a dangerous idea. Having a character grapple between morality and safety, between peace and safety now versus making the active choice to allow misery and suffering and potentially even danger now for the sake of healing later...

AND ACTUALLY? Giving that conflict to the Creation and Order and Healing and Repair character, with the explicit bonus lesson this episode that sometimes to fix things you have to break them. That's PERFECT for this. It WILL hurt Adrien. It WILL destroy his peace and comfort. And it needs to.

And yeah, waiting is only making it worse, but she IS scarred and scared. And if protagonists always made good choices that prevented there from being any longterm problems, there wouldn't be much of a story, now, would there?

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Marinette's nightmare

[hamsternamedmarinette]

"Hey Alya, just wondering, is there anyone you REALLY HATE? Like is there someone who, if you found out they were Ladybug, you'd be BEYOND PISSED?"

[kasienda]

Alya Césaire is best girl!!

This episode was so well put together in so many ways!!

But Alya really shines!! From giving good advice (about Vincent), but still respecting her friends enough to make their own decisions (and make their own mistakes). And then showing up right after to help pick up the pieces without so much as an I told you so!

The parallel of “the best kept secret is one never told” followed by “the truth always finds a way!” as the very next line!

Of Alya’s anger! Righteous anger! And yet, she wants to talk to Marinette! She wants to understand! And that she fought for Adrien! That he deserves to know! That he literally cant heal without it here.

How honest she was with the whole “I can’t keep this secret! I won’t!”

But turning to Chat and saying “hey, it’s fine! You CAN erase my memory because Ladybug should be the one to tell this secret! Ladybug should be the one to heal this hurt!”

And how much faith she has when she lets Chat’s power hit her. There’s no fear. She trusts Marinette to eventually fix this! The lover of truth was willing to let this truth go, so that Marinette can get that chance!

And at the end of it all when she DOESN’T remember really what happened, she knows that SOMETHING did. And she’s worried for the burden Marinette is holding alone! And she wants to help.

I already said it, but Alya is best girl!

[buggachat]

well…. if ladybug can summon ladybugs to create…. does that mean chat can summon cats to destroy….

[hamsternamedmarinette]

You wouldn’t believe how far I had to scroll through Kelly’s art tag to bring back this one

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Thoughts on Revelator:

I really loved this episode (except for one part which I'll get to later lol)! I loved the focus on how shady influencers are. I hope the children watching this show fully absorb the message, particularly Alya's analysis of what influencers do. (I personally have a core memory of realizing this from the "I think Coolsville sucks" scene in Scooby Doo, so I hope this episode can be this generation's version of that lol)

The Miraculers training to resist transforming back was badass. I've been iffy in the past about this show's approach to power-ups of all kinds, but I like this approach. I like that Marinette is bringing a mindset of grit/improvement/mental training to the miraculous magic. Now if only we could bring back Su-han's resistance to akumatization lol.

I've been waiting five years for an akuma that reveals people's secrets I am LIVING

I'm also elated that they brought back Vincent!! If they're gonna have a shady influencer character, of COURSE it would be the Jagged Stone stalker with zero boundaries. And his personality was so realistic for what I imagine a gossip influencer would be like. Particularly when he was casually defending himself from Tom, Marinette, and Adrien, and when he was initially standoffish to Alya-in-disguise. Back in season 1 this show felt like it was being written by people who wanted to be trendy and relevant but had no idea what was actually trendy and relevant, whereas this episode felt very authentic to the current young generation.

Alya's reaction to The Secret!!!! was!!!!! EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! Hoooooly moly we've never seen her so angry!!!! Ohhh my goodness when she said "I'm afraid I can't keep this one [secret]" BRO I think that line alone is gonna break me out of my fanfic writing hiatus

And that brings me to the part I DIDN'T like...... The fact that they took that away! 😭 Look, I get that they probably have some plan for how The Reveal of the Secret is gonna go down, but what a glorious dynamic this could have been!!! Imagine Marinette somehow convincing Alya not to tell Adrien, at least not yet. Alya struggling and beating herself up for keeping it. Alya avoiding Marinette and Adrien, the former because she's pissed at her, the latter because it kills her to see him so oblivious. Adrien and Nino being sad and uncomfortable and wondering why. And imagine, just imagine, Alya finally deciding "ykw, screw this" and TELLING HIM. Or telling Cat Noir!!! Imagine her telling Cat Noir as Rena Rouge because she's struggling with what she should do about telling Adrien. Oh my gosh. Look at what they took from us. If you need me I'll be daydreaming and possibly drafting a 30-chapter fic of this

And last but not least

Showing a man eating a giant booger was UNNECESSARY.

[anna-scribbles]

adrien must have thought that ladybug and rena rouge were enemies as civilians or something. which, considering he knows rena is alya, like. who could ladybug’s secret identity have possibly been to make alya react like that

[noblechaton]

on this episode Ladybug must face her most dangerous enemy yet: engagement bait

[monpetitchattriste]

The interview [pt. 1],[pt.2]