Unless you're really pedantic about timelines birthdays don't really matter all that much. Ages do matter, though, especially when you're talking about teenage characters. Even a two year difference can mean a gigantic gap in maturity. Even if you're willing to be a little vague with that, the characters' age relative to each other will also completely alter the dynamics. It's why I'll never get over Luka being retconned from Juleka's older brother by two years to her twin. Those are not the same thing, writers.
I still don't understand why they retconned Luka to be Juleka's twin instead of keeping him as her older brother that they had previously established. I have my suspicions that it was for the Crocoduel plot so the two would share a birthday and invoke melodrama but I don't know for certain.
Also, if Astruc didn't want to name exact days characters were born he could've settled for saying what months or what seasons they were born in if he wanted to give vague details to fans and let them guess the exact dates since he clearly doesn't care about "meaningless details" like the characters birthdays or ages by how he replied to tweets asking him about the subject.
We've been having a heatwave where I live too, I feel you. Take care of yourself.
Hope you're doing ok in the heatwave as well. I'm doing my best to take care of myself, like keeping windows and the back door open during the day (the latter only when I'm inside), having a mini fan at my desk (the cord plugs into a phone adapter for plug sockets, idk the name of the type of fan it is) and drinking a lot more than usual.
Just checked the weather app again and it's predicting 29-27° over the upcoming days so I can't tell if the heatwave is going to ease up anytime soon. Hope everyone is keeping themselves safe during the heatwave.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, anyways I spotted this bug on a wall when I went on a walk, might've been slightly smaller than my index finger but I didn't check because I didn't want to disturb it. I think it's a cricket or grasshopper but idk what exact species for certain. Photo below the read more for those who don't like seeing photos of bugs.
The heatwave is so bad where I am I'm forgetting when the last time it rained for longer than half an hour was; my memory isn't stellar but I don't think it's rained in the slightest since the month began. According to my phone's weather app we're in the 30° range of temperature, and we're only getting roughly 8 hours of night when it cools to 19° before the sun rises to make the temperature sky rocket again. It's humid heat so sweat doesn't evaporate and just sticks to the skin and clothes so it's difficult to cool down while outside.
For anyone else going through this heatwave please remember to stay hydrated.
Picture of a Ladybird I happened to spot while I was out, and it's still really hot outside even in the evening when everything's supposed to be cooling down, guess the heatwave is still going strong.
Here's some Marinette salt prompts I've had drafted for a while as I'm going through a heat wave because it's too hot to focus too long on anything else </3. These are free for anyone to use as long as it's not for AI usage.
Do NOT post my work into any AI, I DON'T consent to have any of my posts be fed to AI.
1. Prime Queen. While wondering about what Marinette's parents are talking about to keep her for so long, Alya and Manon go down to the bakery to find Tom and Sabine but no Marinette. The two adults try to hide their panic from them as they don't know why Marinette left while Alya is hurt but keeps a brave face for Manon who's confused on why Marinette isn't there.
When Marinette returns, she's scolded by her parents for ditching Alya with the babysitting she agreed to and they tell Nadia about how she left Manon alone with Alya for hours without notice or explanation as to why she left when Nadia picks Manon up. After word of how Marinette pawned her babysitting duties off onto someone else for who knows what, Marinette is never asked to babysit for anyone ever again.
(A reverse on the Alya salt trope where she pawns her babysitting duties onto Marinette when Canon proves that it's Marinette who pawns her babysitting duties onto others.)
2. Glaciator/Gigantitan/Chat Blanc etc. The Girl Squad are hanging out after Marinette left them once again for something else with a poor lie as an excuse as to why she "had" to go, which bums them out as they all go over how often Marinette either leaves early, arrives late, or doesn't even turn up to their agreed hangouts. It starts light-hearted but the mood dims as they reach the conclusion that the only times Marinette doesn't ditch them is when she warps the hangouts into "confess to Adrien" schemes.
Realising Marinette doesn't value their hangouts, they all mutually agree to stop inviting her to them. Sure, they're still civil and polite to her in school, they're just not friends anymore.
(I based this on how often Marinette ditches her friends for arbitrary and non superhero related things and how often she ropes them into Adrinette schemes she always backs out of last second, wasting everyone's time.)
3. Volpina. After getting home after her akumatization, Lila video calls Alya since she's the only classmate's number she has to apologise for lying about knowing Ladybug as she only did so to seem more impressive to gain friends quicker and is shocked when Alya forgives her so easily. Lila makes sure to be early the next day to personally apologise for the lies she told to the class and is blown away by how they still want to be her friends.
Marinette is nearly late to class and keeps glaring at Lila, which confuses her since they've never met, and she asks why everyone is so chummy with such a liar, even after she's told that Lila apologised. She brings up the interview posted on the Ladyblog where she clearly lied to which Alya reveals she never posted it and she only showed Marinette the draft the day before, which she deleted after Lila apologised for lying about meeting Ladybug.
Lila realises that the only two people who knew about the interview were Marinette and Alya. Since the only two people who believed it was posted straight to the Ladyblog and the only two people to treat her with such contempt were Marinette and Ladybug herself, Lila makes the connection that Marinette is Ladybug. She wisely keeps this information to herself for future use as the class begins.
(Inspired by how Marinette went about dealing with Lila in the worst possible way to the point she created her own worst enemy, not helped by how the narrative had to retcon Lila into being this supposed master manipulator to retroactively excuse Marinette's actions in Volpina so she could be in the "right" for yelling at Lils the way she did.)
We're going through a massive heat wave which is making me easily irritable and hard to concentrate on my usual hobbies like I usually can so I'm putting a minor pause on my Live Notes and Opinions series for now since I can't stand the thought of watching anything mlb related in this heat. I'm also putting a pause on requests because I have 24 episodes on the waiting list already. I'll only be taking requests again once I've gone through some of the recommendations. I'm sorry for the wait but I want my thoughts to be solely on the episodes without being warped by the heat. Here's an updated recommendation list for everyone:
Reflekdoll, Ephemeral, Catalyst, Mayura, Risk, Strike Back, Kuro Neko, The Kwamis Choice 2 parter, Elation, The Mime, Copycat, Derision, Simpleman, Queen Banana, Frightengale, Oni-Chan, Sublimation, Werepapas, Daddycop, Vampigami, Dark Castle, Sleeping Syren.
This is an idea from Marinette Salt prompt that I've had for days but I don't know how to express it well 😭
Basically: a fashion designer who completely disagrees with Audrey and Gabriel in terms of fashion because they don't seem to understand what it means, and she ends up throwing a bucket of cold water that Marinette needs to hear: she's a mediocre fashion designer
I think this is a decent Marinette salt prompt with a trope that's beginning to gain traction within Marinette salt which calls out how despite the show claiming Marinette is a brilliant fashion designer on par with two in universe famous designers, what's shown is passably mediocre at best. This could've been utilised in the show and have Marinette actually grow as a fashion designer as her works get better over the seasons as she gains experience and draws inspiration from her time as Ladybug but the narrative had deemed Marinette perfect from the get go so it doesn't challenge Marinette's skills so she never grows because she never has to.
The salt takes challenge Marinette as a fashion designer which could honestly go either way, with a kinder take on the trope letting Marinette be bummed that she lost a contest but determined to hone her skills so she can improve, but the saltier take being that Marinette refuses to accept that her designs aren't perfect and that someone with better designs won fairly, with some having Marinette try to sabotage the other contestants rather than accept that she still needs to grow as a designer and getting caught and banned from future contests due to her sabotage attempts.
Side note related but another missed opportunity was to have each designer focus on a different fashion style so the audience could tell who designed what at a glance. Marinette could've involved combining Chinese and French elements to show that she cherishes both sides of her family, Gabriel could've focused on haute couture and "repurposing" akuma designs, Audrey could've based her work around Art Deco and fashion based on the Roaring 20s, or something to make them stand apart from each other and explain why people might be drawn to their work. There are so many fashion styles the show could've drawn from for their characters to base their work around and they decided to focus on none of them despite the main character being an aspiring fashion designer, the deuteragonist being a fashion model, and the villain for the first five seasons being a famous fashion mogul.
Here's a link to the idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiraculousFanfiction/comments/1p5y8on/my_plans_for_derision_not_an_episode_rewrite_pitch/
This person has some cool ideas, but I can't get into their rewrite because they kept too much of the stuff that turned me off.
So uh, Cryptic Notes came out Thursday and I've been enjoying it, maybe a bit too much...
This is just from today, or part of today since I'm hopping on again later because this new mode has me in a vice grip right now. The satisfaction of running round and opening chests for treasures is so much fun. (Before anyone gets concerned, I am taking regular breaks between games, this was not done in a single session)
So uh, Cryptic Notes came out Thursday and I've been enjoying it, maybe a bit too much...
This is just from today, or part of today since I'm hopping on again later because this new mode has me in a vice grip right now. The satisfaction of running round and opening chests for treasures is so much fun. (Before anyone gets concerned, I am taking regular breaks between games, this was not done in a single session)
Has anyone been asking for Felix episode yet? You know, canon Felix debut episode where he test Adrien friends by being asshole while pretending to be him? In Adrien mom disappearance day?
He also deleted messages from Adrien classmates. Chloe ones got me bummed out that Adrien can't hear it cause it so considerate. I'm indifferent about others message but goddamn I'm really pissed when hearing Maribug confession message. Girl this ain't about you. Stfu
I've already reviewed Felix, it was one of the earlier entries and I hated that Marinette sent a love confession as her "supportive message" on the anniversary of Emilie's disappearance when she knew Adrien would be grieving, and that Tikki supported her doing so which really took me horribly off guard when I watched the episode. With hindsight of how the writers handled Felix's character, I still don't understand why they had him try to SA Ladybug by trying to forcefully kiss her when he pretended to be Adrien if they wanted to make him a hero down the line.
It can be found on my page with the "miraculous live notes and opinions" tag but it's a long scroll down since I posted my Felix review months ago.
Oblivio is actually one of the episode that Adrien salters used as an example of how terrible Adrien is, blaming him for how him and Marinette lost their memories cause he was too busy flirting with her.
Was it? I don't keep up with Adrien salt nowadays because the majority of it upsets me so I don't search for that tag on either Tumblr or in fanfiction, but it does line up with other episodes Adrien salters used to point out how terrible Adrien is and how "Marinette deserves better" which ramped up during S3-4. Actually, how many episodes do Adrien salters point towards when they want to convince others that Adrien is bad? I'm going to try and name some off the top of my head, feel free to add on because I've the feeling I'm going to miss a lot.
The obvious ones are Chameleon and Ladybug, then there's Sentibubbler when he broke the chimney, Oblivio which you stated, Glaciator was another big one when he was sad that Ladybug never arrived at the rooftop, Hack-san when he thought Scarabella had done something to Ladybug or was another Sentimonster and fought her, and Kuro Neko where he revokes his miraculous are the most obvious ones I can recall from when I saw Adrien salt/ bashing in fanfiction and the TV Tropes page on miraculous fanfiction. Again, I don't read Adrien salt so I may be wrong.
I need to get this episode that singlehandedly proves that Derision is a shitty retcon made solely to excuse Marinette's horrific actions throughout the series out of the way; it's also where Marinette blatantly disregards Kagami's boundaries as she drags her to the pool where Adrien's having a private photoshoot, which she interrupts and sabotages with her antics thus inadvertently leading to the akuma.
Other aspects introduced are the Magical Charms and the Lucky Charm suit with neither enhancing the story in any way. The Magical Charms are next to useless since they only contribute to a single minute long scene in S5 and eat up time in every episode after they're introduced. The Lucky Charm suit, while an improved design, isn't permanent and only shows up for less than three minutes per episode so we're still stuck with the shitty S1 outfit that was never good to begin with, why couldn't the Lucky Charm suit become the new permanent design?
I'm going to stop myself here before I forget to watch the on coming shitshow this episode is.
Miraculous Ladybug Season 4 Mr Pigeon 72 - Miraculous Live Notes and Opinions.
Starts with Alya watching Marinette using a cauldron to brew something while she monologues about how cool it is being Ladybug and having the kwamis and how she wants to find a way to stop Shadow Moth from creating villains in the first place.
According to the board, Lady WiFi has been akumatized four times, does that account for different forms or are the forms separated? Also, that photo of Lady WiFi shouldn't exist in universe because that was from when she had Ladybug dead to rights in the hotel kitchen. Why not use photos of the civilian identities to avoid this discrepancy?
Alya says she was akumatized as Lady WiFi 4 times but I can only recall 3 as Lady WiFi for certain, Lady Wifi, Ladybug I think, and Gang of Secrets. I don't know if she was akumatized then freed then turned into Rena Rage in Heroes' Day, and the board doesn't include Oblivio. Did the writers forget that Alya and Nino apologised for Oblivio, an apology Marinette was there for and would definitely know about?
This episode makes Gabriel into a complete idiot (if he wasn't one already) for re akumatizing Mr Pigeon of all akumas 71 times instead of going for the akumas with far more useful power sets for his goal or those who were far closer to getting the miraculous, an example I thought of was Dark Owl due to how he was so close to winning, if he managed to catch how he was given fake miraculous before sending them to Hawkmoth, he might've won by not releasing the heroes since they went back on their word to hand the miraculous over.
Tom and Sabine hear an explosion upstairs when Marinette botches whatever she was trying to make.
Alya trying to convince Marinette to take a break.
Another explosion which sends Tom and Sabine to fall to the floor. “You know she asked us not to bother her.” They should've been running up the stairs after the first explosion to check on what she was doing and if she got hurt, let alone after the second explosion.
Alya says Adrien and Kagami aren't seeing each other anymore and Marinette freaks out about it.
Marinette has no context about what happened and assumes Kagami is upset and that she must console her.
“Alya, Kagami doesn't have any friends in Paris besides me, I have to console her.” Did she not introduce her to any of her friends between here and Ikari Gozen? Does she assume Adrien never introduced her to any of his? It's a bit presumptuous to think she's still Kagami's only friend?
Alya offers to look through the notes while Marinette is out. She has to tell her that she's still transformed as Ladybug, then again that she's still in her pyjamas.
Tom gives her a basket of baked goods before she leaves after Sabine asks her about how her "science project" is doing.
Marinette calls Kagami who's completely calm and practicing swordwork with Tomoe and tells her it's not a good time but Marinette ignores her and comes anyway.
Marinette puts the basket of brioches on Tomoe's lap and Kagami asks if she remembers her.
Marinette drags Kagami away without asking whether she wants to go with her.
Marinette casually admitting she has Adrien's schedule for the next three years which he can't have told her about so she either stalked him long enough to learn it or she stole the schedule from someone who did, neither option makes Marinette look good.
“I don't want to get back together with Adrien. I was the one who decided to break up and-” Kagami explicitly tells Marinette that she ended the relationship and wants to stay separate but Marinette cuts her off and ignores everything Kagami tells her to say:
“Of course you did. You felt that somehow you weren't worthy of him, but you're wrong, Kagami, you're strong, you're perfect, he's perfect-”
“Marinette-”
“You're meant for each other, right now, I get it, it's out of sight, out of mind, but the second you lay eyes on him again, you'll both blush and stutter, talk nonsense about a big house, three kids and a hamster and everything will be wonderful.”
This monologue is just Marinette projecting her own insecurities and desires onto Kagami without any consideration for what Kagami is explicitly telling her or about her own wants. Marinette ignores everything Kagami says in order to drag her into Marinette Antics™ so she can feel better about "helping" Kagami when Kagami states she doesn't want any "help" Marinette is trying to force upon her. It comes across like Marinette wants the ego boost of appearing like a good friend to onlookers and peers while disregarding Kagami's boundaries and being a bad friend by forcing Kagami into a situation she's voiced multiple times that she doesn't want to be involved with.
Kagami has to call Marinette's phone to tell her she doesn't want to be with Adrien, and Marinette still ignores what she's telling her to her face! Marinette is such a shit friend in this episode.
Kagami makes multiple attempts to leave but Marinette keeps stopping her and plans to break into the pool, which has been closed for a private film shoot, so she can continue her Marinette Antics™.
Adrien has an entire duffel bag full of camembert for Plagg to enjoy while he's filming the advert.
Bob Roth explaining the advert idea to Gabriel on a tablet who should honestly know about this if he agreed to let Adrien be filmed for the advert.
“Those birds are not doves, they're pigeons.” I'm double checking this but according to birdlife.org.au they both belong to the same family and there aren't really any differences between them. Also, they could just edit the pigeons to be white in post production since the only difference between pigeons and doves is the colour of their feathers if it's that much of an issue.
Hold up, isn't Adrien allergic to feathers, why is Gabriel allowing him to be so close to pigeons? Fuck, he's such a shitty parent. Why couldn't they have filmed Adrien and the pigeons separately and edit it together in post production so Adrien isn't exposed to his allergen?
Is the camera man off screen because I didn't see anyone recording Adrien's dive. Also, seeing the pigeons fly over head proves my point that they could've been filmed separately.
Marinette posts that Adrien is at the pool so a horde of Adrien's fans will swarm Gorilla (who's oddly the only security for the pool) so she can drag Kagami into the pool without being stopped. Quick question, what would her plan have been if the fans got past Gorilla and disrupted the filming? Her post online would be proof enough that she incited the disruption of the private shoot and in a show where she's not a Black Hole Protagonist who can do no wrong, her involvement would be found out and she'd face appropriate consequences for sabotaging the shoot.
Gabriel asks that a rose be given to Adrien before he lands in the water by a pigeon. Gabriel's a shit father for knowingly exposing his son to his allergen all for the sake of an advert. The first take was fine enough, the rose bullshit isn't needed and I'm certain it's forced purely for the plot to work.
Marinette has a bag full of props so she can use them in her schemes to be closer to Adrien, the bag of props that only exist for this episode and never again; she drags Kagami away to change into swimsuits.
Bob blames Ramier for the bird coming back with the rose and Adrien once again saying that he's allergic to pigeon feathers. It makes me want at least one of the three to realise Gabriel likely set the filming up for failure with his request which exposed Adrien to his allergen.
Marinette once again projecting her own emotions onto Kagami instead of actually listening to her!
Adrien gets distracted by Marinette dragging Kagami around to try and get her to look into Adrien's eyes while Kagami's struggling to get out of Marinette's grip. I hate the idea that you have to look into someone's eyes to "know" you love them because I cannot stand eye contact, it makes my nerves itch and becomes a fast way to get overstimulated.
Marinette's actions sabotage the shoot which leads to Bob blaming Ramier for it, even after Adrien tries to take the blame for it.
Ramier shielding Edgar from Bob when he starts yelling.
Kagami tells Marinette that all she feels is shame because of Marinette and Marinette still tries to drag Kagami into more of her antics! If Marinette actually cared about Kagami then she'd stop her antics and let Kagami leave!
Marinette sabotages the shoot when she tries to drag Kagami to see Adrien and she trips so both her and Adrien fall off the diving board. Remember, Gabriel is seeing all of this so he knows that it's Marinette's fault that this take got ruined, but she won't face the repercussions because she's the Creator's Pet so it can't be her fault in the slightest. Marinette should've faced repercussions for breaking into a private filming event and sabotaging the shoot but since she's the Black Hole Protagonist who's not allowed to be wrong as per the narrative's demands, she gets away with all the shit she pulls with little to no regard as to who the blame of her actions gets foisted upon instead.
This. This is proof that Derision is a shitty retcon that only exists to excuse Marinette's stalking in hopes the fandom would shut up about how awful her behaviour is. She's smiling while she's falling into the pool, and she's never had issues with the pool in general before Derision invented them so it could blame other characters like Kim and Chloe for Marinette's actions so she doesn't have to take accountability for her own behaviour.
None of the adults questions why Marinette was at the pool when it was clearly closed? Of course not, that would risk Marinette being held accountable for the own choices she made.
Gabriel is an idiot for not seeing that the pigeons have grey feathers but that shouldn't matter since they can be edited to be white in post production.
Marinette's Black Hole status makes the adults into idiots who blame each other for the failed shoot instead of rightfully blaming Marinette for sabotaging so many takes when she shouldn't even be there. The narrative's refusal to hold Marinette accountable and warping the story so she can escape the consequences actively harms the writing as a whole.
Shadow Moth scene.
The fan mob is still there when Ramier leaves the pool. I'm surprised none of them thought to circle around Gorilla to get in since he's the only guard and there's an entire mob of fans.
For fucks sake, leave Kagami alone! It's obvious none of the schemes will work because she doesn't want to be there! It sucks the narrative doesn't allow Kagami to despise Marinette for putting her through the humiliation she is because the narrative refuses to let Marinette face the natural consequences of repeatedly ignoring Kagami's clearly stated boundaries so Kagami still has to view Marinette as her friend despite the shit she dragged her through, because the writers think that the only way to prove whether a character is good or not is if they like Marinette. This episode could've been about the importance of respecting people's boundaries but we can't have nice things in mlb.
Kagami gets turned into a pigeon before she can rightfully lash out at Marinette for everything she's put her through.
Ladybug transforms in a changing room stall.
Adrien gets turned into a pigeon. Yay, another episode where Adrichat gets sidelined to "prove how strong and tough the akuma is" I'm fucking thrilled /sarcasm.
Plagg tells her Chat Noir has "been feathered"
Lucky Charm scene. It's a hand drill.
Alya's in Marinette's room where pigeons flock to the windows.
Alya watches Nadia turn into a pigeon on the news.
Alya knows the code to the box where she gets the fox Miraculous after Ladybug calls her.
Rena Rouge transformation sequence.
Andre gets turned into a pigeon when he tries to flee out of the city hall. Good.
None of the pigeons go for the illusion heroes while they mock Mr Pigeon.
The illusions fade after Mr Pigeon dives into the pool after the fake miraculous.
Purification and Miracle Cure scene. Oh, we really needed to make sure Andre was ok, that was needed, can't have anyone worry that the corrupt politician and shitty father stayed a pigeon.
Shouldn't Ramier be getting some sort of help after it became obvious he was getting targeted by Hawkmoth/ Shadow Moth so often? As the show presents it, akuma victims are just left to fend for themselves with zero emotional support to help protect them in the future.
Rena Rouge has to spell out to Ladybug how her own creation powers have the power to create.
The Lucky Charm suit which sadly doesn't become permanent, I don't get why they kept the old suit after they introduced the upgrade.
The Magical Charm that serves next to no purpose in the plot.
Holy fuck, it's raining! Let's go, the show remembered other weather patterns exist.
The red car comes to pick up Kagami.
I hate how the writers frame Marinette knowing Adrien's schedule for the next three years to be a good thing.
Marinette's "quirky" stuttering when she tries to give Adrien the umbrella back.
Marinette laughing in the rain as the episode ends.
That took three hours and twenty minutes to slog through, I was begging for the episode to end at the four minute mark.
Terrible, an all around bad episode. Marinette escaped the consequences of her actions scot free. She kept Kagami's friendship despite humiliating her, she got away with sabotaging the film shoot and Mr Ramier had to shoulder the blame for her actions because the narrative refused to hold Marinette accountable, which added to his akumatization since her antics got him fired.
It didn't feel like Marinette earned the Magical Charms or the Lucky Charm suit since it was Alya who did most of the work for her and I can't appreciate Alya's contribution because the answer "use your creation powers to create" is so basic it sounds obvious. It doesn't make Alya appear smart for figuring out a complex riddle like the writers intended it to but it makes Marinette look like a fool who couldn't figure out the answer that was already written for her.
This episode should've been an episode about respecting people's boundaries and what happens if you disrespect them where Marinette loses Kagami's friendship for refusing to take her "no" as an answer at every turn.
Sorry guys, feeling like going on an anti-feligami spree today. 😔 I don't really like how the ship is in canon and I'm not really that vocal about it but today I'm feeling extra vocal about my ick about this ship.
Honestly feels like canon Feligami only exists to shut down Adrigami so Kagami can't "threaten" Adrinette by holding potential residual feelings from when they were together, not helped by how the writers are trying to make Felix a discount Adrien in the personality department when they decided to pair the two together.
They both died for this ship 💀 the ship had potential, ngl.
Felix could be her type with Adrien's face card. He could be the guy who'd happily break all the rules for her. But nah, they turned him into a whimpering puppy who's all bark and no bite. Didn't even try to help Marinette fight Gabriel or Tomoe in the S5 finale to save the two people he supposed gave a damn about.
Kagami is just as bad. She's a straightforward person who never hesitates, you think she'd be the sort to go along with the play to tell Marinette Gabriel is Hawkmoth? Do people think she'd be the sort to sit aside and go back to her guilded cage after Felix already got her out when Gabriel is out there threatening her friends? Do people think she'd be the sort to sit on Marinette's secret for most of a season without confronting her about it or at least telling her she knew?
Like, conceptually, I'm not against the ship but dammit, it needed so much more work that what canon gave it instead we got 5 Chloe bashing episodes when Felix's redemption barely had half that. If I have to call one ship in MLB hetslop despite being a romance focused show, I'd pick feligami. Really nothing tying that ship together than both being sentis.
The writers had to forcefully break both Kagami and Felix for the ship to work in the way they wanted it to work to the point they feel like completely different characters when comparing their first few episodes and what's happening now. Kagami and Felix are written to be discount Adrinette because that is the only ship the writers care about to the point they make all other ships they want us to care about be "Adrinette but to the left and less interesting so they don't upstage the perfect pair".
I completely understand why people classify Feligami as hetslop because they're only paired in universe because "they're both sentimonsters" which comes across like the lazy "she was a girl, he was a boy" mindset of choosing which characters become couples because it skips the interesting parts of both the characters realising they want to be together and intriguing plotlines once they become a couple. The way Feligami is written to suddenly be a couple decimates any chances of the audience being invested in the canon version of the ship the way the show presents it.
It also feels like the writers "paired the spares" despite how much it contradicts their previous characterizations.
Sorry guys, feeling like going on an anti-feligami spree today. 😔 I don't really like how the ship is in canon and I'm not really that vocal about it but today I'm feeling extra vocal about my ick about this ship.
Honestly feels like canon Feligami only exists to shut down Adrigami so Kagami can't "threaten" Adrinette by holding potential residual feelings from when they were together, not helped by how the writers are trying to make Felix a discount Adrien in the personality department when they decided to pair the two together.
