Eros
What if Adrien accidentally got akumatized while chasing after Marinette...? I am really hoping someone will write a real fic on this...
The Gorilla let Adrien leave before Hawkmoth released the butterfly. Adrien has just enough time to warn Marinette and catch up to her before the butterfly does.
Note Adrien is very distraught right now. First he had his heart broken and now it feels like his life is empty because Marinette had been everything to him. Second, the love of his life is in danger. Third, he can’t save her without transforming.
Adrien runs to Marinette and pushes her out of the way (and down the stairs too ^_^’) so the akuma is absorbed into his white shirt.
Not what Gabriel had intended but he can’t back out now with witnesses and hey...he was already willing to break his son’s heart and target him as the Collector...why not akumatize him already? (Nathalie will have words with him about this.)
Meet Eros, born from Adrien’s desire to be loved. He can make people fall in love with him and obey his command with a single touch or arrow hit. Skin contact is not necessary. Adrien can spread his power to whatever object you are both touching, like the floor. So Ladybug can’t use her yo-yo because energy will spread out from the string to her hand.
Eros wears a white skirt, white cape, and large angel wings. Whether he wears a gold chest plate is up to you because I can’t decide! Eros does have a gold mask covering his whole face so you can’t see his expression or his mouth move. Anyway, he is the most beautiful akuma ever created.
Good thing Marinette is used to falling down stairs. She quickly recovers and escapes Eros.
Plagg follows Marinette, reveals himself to Ladybug only, and uses the excuse that his chosen was in the line of Fire.
Eros’ target is Marinette, oh duh. But he has enough control to not reveal her identity or his own, not yet. He wants to make Marinette fall in love with him again so she can be his princess/goddess (I’m guessing like Undine, he can turn her into a goddess but he needs to lift his mask to kiss her) and they can be together forever.
Looking at Eros, people question Marinette’s sanity for breaking up with Adrien.
As Eros searches for Marinette/Ladybug, he walks across Paris and uses his power on the Parisians, turning them into a search party/army. The victims retain their brain power, so they are not like zombies. But their only wish is to please their master.
Marinette’s parents are victims and reveal the truth. Adrien targets his house so Marinette will be allowed to be with him again. Hawkmoth orders Mayura to create Senti-Gabriel and Nathalie but she refuses and demands he free Adrien.
Adrien thinks his Father and Nathalie have fled and now the search is for 3 people.
Ladybug confronts Eros and demands he hand over his akuma (the cape) but Eros is determined to have Marinette. He can’t reach Ladybug to use his power directly and she is high above the floor, so he decides to spread his power to whatever building she is on and use his arrows. Thankfully, the yo-yo can deflect the arrows without absorbing the love energy.
Ladybug points out he already knows she loves him. Eros retorts that as long as Gabriel is around, they can never be together.
Ladybug summons her lucky charm and ends up with a throwing knife. She realizes that she has to break the akuma from a distance. But she is reluctant to risk hurting Adrien. So Ladybug leads Eros to some place where there is a giant fan. (That fan is actually an inanimate sentimonster because Mayura freaked out at the sight of a knife)
Eros can fly against the strong wind but his cape blows backward. Marinette throws the knife and it tears through the cape.
Ladybug saves the falling Agreste.
“No more evil doing for you, little Butterfly.”
Ladybug stays by Adrien’s side and assured him Marinette is safe. When Adrien expresses confusion for why she broke up with him, hoping Ladybug will tell him the reason, she points out that the news network has captured his saying that Gabriel Agreste has threatened Marinette into breaking up with him.
Adrien is outraged but the Gorilla arrives to bring him home before he can go to seek Marinette. It is just as well. “I need to have words with my Father.” (Ladybug is relieved, she had warned Adrien against seeking out Marinette when it could get him home-schooled again. But Adrien had persisted when he saw the sadness in her eyes.)
Meanwhile, Nathalie and Gabriel are arguing. She will not tolerate even this much abuse to Adrien and threatens to expose their identities to Adrien. In her weakened state and realising that yes, perhaps he had gone too far, Gabriel agrees to never let his akuma plans involve Adrien.
Then Gabriel sees the news.
Nathalie leaves him to do the clean up, she needs a break.
Gabriel publicly blames Lila Rossi. At home, Adrien confronts his Father for interfering with his love life and threatening Marinette. Gabriel apologizes but again pins the blame on Lila. He just assumed that since Adrien snuck her into the house, he put a lot of trust in her. Adrien explodes that Lila is a liar and it was a tutoring session! Gabriel apologizes again and will make amends to Marinette. Adrien is skeptical but relents that a fortnight of no modelling and an all-expense weekend trip outside of Paris with Marinette is a good apology gift. Adrien’s stony expression softens when his Father struggles to express his remorse. He still loves his jerk of a dad.
Adrien calls Marinette and they meet at the park. (It would have been ideal to meet at his house to symbolise Gabriel’s acceptance of Marinette, but Adrien wants to get out of there.)
Marinette is free to run back into a happy Adrien’s arms. Both of them cuddle and kiss at this reunion. I won’t say there is no crying on either side because both are so relieved to be together and are so blissfully in love, it is almost painful.
Adrien tells Marinette he wants to know whatever trouble she faces so they can deal with it together. (Hearing his father is forcing them to break up would have been way better than hearing her say she doesn’t love him anymore.) Marinette promises and they go on another date.
Marinette doesn’t like Gabriel but she doesn’t hate him and is willing to accept the apology gift.
Her parents are fine with it as long as Gorilla chaperones.
For the record, Eros is the Greek god of love, Son of Aphrodite. People know him better as Cupid but I did not want the imagery of a baby with wings. Eros’ Wife Psyche was originally a human princess before she became his goddess Wife. Note Psyche kind of had no choice but to marry Eros but at least they loved each other.
