Are you willing to say anything else about Isafrin and Marigami?
Thank you for asking this Iām a little insane
Marigami and Isafrin parallels donāt seem that obvious outside of the basic stuff (Marinette and Isabeau being into designing clothes and Kagami n Siffrin having trouble expressing their emotions clearly) but I feel like theres a lot there people wouldnāt think about at first!!!!
( !! Some of these may lean into headcanon territory !! )
( !! Itās been awhile since I replayed ISAT, I may get story beats incorrect !! )
( !! ISAT AND MLB SPOILERS BTW LOL !! )
I easily do think that Marinette is pretty strong and would absolutely be a defender if she was inside the ISAT universe, sheās spent a year or two in canon just fighting and while do I think her miraculous absolutely does strengthen her I feel like she would learn a lot from her time as Ladybug and apply it into her everyday.
I also feel like Marinette and Isabeau are very similar in their feeling of not being good enough or their worry of āonce people see the real me, theyāll reject meā
Marinette struggles during the entirety of Miraculous with feelings of inadequacy, that she isnāt the best Ladybug she can be. She hits a new low when she loses the Miraculous, feeling like she proved Hawkmoth right, that sheāll never be enough. But with the support of her teammates she realizes that she can move on and fix her mistakes!! She gets the Miraculouses back and gains a new feeling of confidence knowing that she preserved during the toughest time and won, saving the Kwamis
While Isabeaus struggles with identity are more everyday, it still correlates. Isabeau feels like he isnāt completely and utterly him, that heās hiding himself away and putting on a mask that hides that heās also a nerd and heās interested in so many things and wants to share that interest!! He wants to change and drop the facade of him being dumb!! He can be a nock and a jerd and itās okay because the party loves him!!!!
They both deal with a feeling of emptiness, inadequacy, and that theyāre shallow in a way. But then, they persevere!! They change!! They accept that part of themselves, the part that makes mistakes and the part thats still so shy and nerdy instead of burying it deeper and deeper. They choose to breathe and to live and to love themselves because their friends love them.
Ultimately, Marinette is still keeping a major secret currently in canon, but sheās grown so much due to her change. The support from her friends and the feeling of knowing that they love her and that Paris trusts her fills her with the same wholeness thatā knowing the party loves him and accepts him no matter whatā fills Isabeau!!
And on the topic of the party loving Isabeau, they both love their respective āpeopleā so much!! Seeing Siffrin run around and help everybody, Isabeau didnāt immediately think of problems he had!!! He thought āwow, siffrins so nice! i should do something nice for them!!ā in the same way Marinette helps others. Theyāre both full of so much love and it bursts out of their seams!!!! Marinette adores her friends so much and does anything to help them in the show. She can be selfish at times but overall has peoples best interest in minds. Isabeau adores the party so much and thought of them as family for awhile before they even all talked about it!! They love their friends and theyāre both full of so much whimsy and joy.
Kagami and Siffrin are very similar in a plethora of ways I find incredibly interesting and I want to put them both under microscopes and dissect them,,auguugh
In the episode where Marinette and Kagami are paired together in the challenge to race to Adrien, Marinette initially has the impression that Kagami is cold-hearted, mysterious, and rude due to their past interactions and her overall jealousy of how close she was to Adrien at the time. But over the course of the episode Marinette slowly begins to realize that Kagami is actually just a very socially and emotionally stunted person. She has a hard time expressing her joy, her smile looking awkward and forced whenever she tries. Sheās blunt and hard to read giving off the aloof tone that Marinette took and ran with when they first met, but thatās anything but true!!!
Kagami is so so sweet and genuinely just wants to make connections with people even if shes terrible at it, she wants friends and people that love her because sheās been so isolated. During the episode Kagami finally gives Marinette a true smile, a genuine one while theyāre justā¦ having fun. Itās all Kagami ever dreamed of and from then out they become friends.
Siffrin can often seem mysterious or cold and similarly to Marinette, Mirabelle found them very unreadable but instead of rude, described them as coolā. So many secrets she wanted to dig her teeth into but didnāt want to seem rude by asking!!!! But overtime, Siffrins true personality shown through. Theyāre reliable and so very selfless as much as they want to convince themself that theyāre selfish and just, well, emotionally and sociallt stunted!! They donāt remember much from the Island and very clearly isnāt used to a lot of things yet. They flinch away at touch because it startles them and struggles with communcation. Siffrin wants a connection with people so so badly but just has a horrible time trying to convey that, just like Kagami!!!!!
Itās late and Iāve yapped enough and its so cold outside my fingers hurt JSJSJ Thank you for reading to my slop I wonder if theres any fandom overlap??????
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