(before the canon one comes out, if it's actually Marinette...)
Which Color Variation Do You Like The Most? (There's more if you scroll a bit)
"LadyChaos Vs ChatBlanc 2.0"(coz yes)
"Lady Chaos Vs The Miraculers"
Various Poses:
Lady Chaos:
Really hoping "Lady Chaos" is indeed Marinette/Ladybug getting akumatized!
None of the heroes have been successfully akumatized so far, but Mari might be an exception due to the position she's currently in (the Lie, Cerise spying on her, the council, her insecurities with herself and her relationship, s5 finale trauma, etc..)
Also this is the best time so far for her to be akumatized as ChatNoir has Memory Erasing Powers, Unlimited Cataclysms (we saw in "Dearest Family" that the Cat Miraculous is ment to keep the Ladybug's creation in check) and the fact there's an entire team of heroes ready to help with the fight... 👀
Initial design before I tweaked some details:
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Design:
For the Design I took inspiration from ShadyBug, AntiBug, ViperBug and LadyFly! With a bit of Dark Cupid/Humor vibes too
The hair strands near her ears are supposed to look like insect mandibles when seen from a certain perspective and she has the anime tufts of hair, on top of her head, that look like antennas/devil horns. Her mask is shaped similar to Shadybug's and it has red stripes under the eyes that vaguely remind of tears. She's also supposed to have black lipstick but I'm not good at drawing lips so just use your imagination✨️
The wings are foldable under the Elytra (the ladybug shell on her back) and she can pose them like a cape behind her. They are also slightly transparent/see-through and they can work like her Astro Powerup to fly her to Space.
Her YoYo has blades that can retract and come out, like Shadybug's YoYo. It also has all the hidden powers from the old Concept Arts unlocked.
I was a bit unsure about giving her BugNoire's pupil shape instead of empty white eyes. On traditional she looks better without pupils, but if I had to imagine it in canon I'd give her pupils to allow more expressions, or at least tell where she's looking, since her face in this form is " -_- " 24/7h, and BugNoire's eyes have that 'inhuman' vibe, without being too complex!
I kept the design mostly simple because I wanted to make a design that could actually appear in canon, if I make it too complicated It's more likely it'll be way off. The wings are already a stretch and I added the Exoskeleton Spikes cuz otherwise it's just normal Ladybug but with wings lol
Possible Color Palettes (Idk which one I like more)
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Behaviour and Powers:
I'm thinking Mentally she could be like Ryukomori (From 'Perfection' s5), where she's just looking for some peace and she has a blocked out vision of people around her. But unlike the cloud akuma, she can see people, just maybe she sees them as an illusion of enemies, so she attacks/runs away from them, even her team who's trying to save her. She has a neutral/tired face all the time (maybe like the 'Dead-Inside' one she had in the London Special?) and only talks inside her head, she only hears her own thoughts.
Or maybe she still partially has control of her mind, like Chat Blanc (half concious), but she can't control her body at all, cuz Crysalis is fully puppeting her. So she's aware of all the harm she's causing, but she can't do anything about it, so she can only cry and scream (But I like the "Emotionless" concept more).
Her Powers of Creation are amplified so much she creates stuff unrestricted and without actual control on the objects themselves, so much they sometimes come out deformed or duplicated or she creates extra objects around her (Like Tikki created copies of the Eiffel Tower when she used the LuckyCharm in "Deflagration" s5)
Also, now that we saw what an "Urestricted Lucky Charm" looks like, there's more proof that a rogue akumatized Ladybug might Actually start duplicating and over-creating stuff, while Chat will be the only one who can breach through whatever outter shell she might lock herself behind, due to her powers being out of control💥
Another thing she might do, in fact, is shielding herself under multiple layers of stuff she creates around her, she might just start generating walls/cocoons/shells around her to protect herself from all the illusions she's seeing, while ChatNoir is the one with the power to break through each one of those layers, so he can reach her.
She created a ton of Moons to obscure the Sun (opposite to Chat Blanc's broken Moon) and the Earth grew giant rocky formations, like immense mountains that look like thorns /growths, with copies of cities, buildings, etc..
Honestly if she does ever get actually akumatized there's GOTTA be a reference to Chat Blanc with the Moons, especially since all the Yin-Yang stuff they got going on between them.
Lady Chaos in the core of the Cocoon she Created around herself and some other poses, with retracted wings and Akuma control mask:
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Plot (?):
I feel like, for this episode, the Secret will come out in the worst way possible, which will lead to giant issues with both Adrien, Chat Noir, her Identity, the Council, Lila, the Miraculers, Tomoe and everything all at once.
Present Chat Noir (and the Miraculers?) gets called by Bunnix to fight LadyChaos, that will be akumatized in the near future(?) kinda like Ladybug did when she fought ChatBlanc. Or maybe it just happens and at the end of the ep we discovered Bunnix interveined or something.
[And then in the Season 6 Finale/Season 7 the secret comes out again, but in a softer way, so the characters reactions won't blow up as much as they did in LadyChaos]
The heroes are in a weird position cuz, in one hand, they're mad at her for lying to the world, but on the other hand they still love and admire her for everything else she did for them and the city before the final battle and every day.. Especially Alya, who knows the person behind the mask. While she's very conflicted (like in 'Revelator'), she can't help but still love her best friend, she'll try to do anything to de-akumatize her and later interview her privately about her reasonings for her choices.
The Akuma'll probably have something to do with her Earrings, since both Luka and Alix have tried to ask her to have them (Luka asked for them in "MrAgreste" -ep9- after she told him about the secret, Alix jokingly asked for them in "Dark Castle" -ep10- when Mari told her she was sorry for having her stay stuck in the Burrow due to her failure to retreive the Butterfly Miraculous)
You know.. since season 3-4 they've been cataclysming Miraculouses when the heroes get akumatized to free the butterfly, right?? (Queen Wasp, SentiCarapace, etc..)
And that to break a Powered Miraculous you NEED to cataclysm it?
What if Chat Noir gets sent to fight Lady Chaos, because he's the only one who can stop her and he defeats her by cataclysming her earrings, where the akuma is hidden??
He also brings a jar or some cointainer like they did in 'Representation' to capture the akuma until she can purify it later! (the episode might be structured like a reversed 'ChatBlanc' where Adrien is taken in the Burrow, fights LadyChaos but doesn't discover her identity or the reason she got akumatized; it's still gonna be a "what if", but he remembers the fight like Maribug remembers Chat Blanc)
For ChatBlanc the akuma was luckly in the bell, that way she could break it normally, but for Lady Chaos it might be in the earrings, so the Cataclysm is a need! 👀
But, actually, after I thought about it a bit more, I don't REALLY think the akuma's gonna be in the earrings, cuz even if Chat captures the akuma with a jar/container after he cataclysms her Miraculous... how will she purify it after being de-akumatized...? can she do the Miraculous Ladybug like that?? Does she detransform in front of him? (He might go around the corner to avoid seeing her detransform, it's not a huge issue but still..)
Anyway, even if the akuma isn't in the earrings, he's needed anyway because she has the power of Creation, so his Destruction is required to stop her, by destroying her unlimited creation powers with his Cataclysms.
Maybe he unlocks a new power or uses the Miraculous ChatNoir to do something different from deleting memories?? If the episode doesn't involve Time Traveling instead, will he delete everybody's memories of that day, including his own?
Does the Miraculous ChatNoir even work on himself? So far it seems he's mostly immune/resistant to his own Cataclysms thanks for his Miraculous (he survived the Self-Destruction Cataclysm Beam that shattered the Moon in Chat Blanc, he tanked like 6 Cataclysms from Miraculer, ClawNoir tanked ChatNoir's Cataclysm on his chest) He might actually remember this one...
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In this Artwork I drew the Miraculers Team Fighting against her:
Pigella and PurpleTigress running in to help RoosterBold and Caprikid who tried to block Lady Chaos's wing, but got hit by it instead.
Minotaurox is holding onto the other wing, Vesperia has fallen on the ground and Multimouse is trying to help while using her Multiplication power.
Rena Rouge and Ryuko are holding LadyChaos's arm and body as she pins Chat Noir to a wall, who she's more directly and actively targeting as he has the power to Destroy her Creations.... I guess? (And cuz she wants his Miraculous for the reasons we already know -Crysalis wants it... and/or she wants to make a Wish like Chat Blanc wanted to do since he was already alone, Hawky was dead-) And she's summoning a deformed pointy object to try stab him with, as a Lucky Charm..
Far away, Carapace is protecting MissHound and KingMonkey with his Shellter from the falling shards, Pegasus is teleporting them away with his Voyage instead.
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Honestly, If it wasn't for the fact "LadyChaos" is listed as episode 22, I would've been more like "Nah, it probably ain't Marinette/Ladybug, 'Lady' can litterally be anyone, I don't think it's gonna be her", but since it IS indeed ep22 (just like Chat Blanc and Ephemeral) I'm like "👁,👁"
Apart from Fan Designs, Theories and AUs, can't wait to see what this season has in store for us! I hope we get more episodes in January!❤️🐞🐈⬛
I just remembered a project I worked on for a while in like 2021 (maybe 2020) and it had a LOT of akumatized marinette's
That was the idea behind the whole thing but man I did one by one and found some of the most obscure akumatized marinette au's
Sooooo I'm dragging these drawings up from the ashes and maybe it'll be a nice surprise for some of y'all to see
yall got ✨fanart✨
and possibly reminded of miraculous ladybug HA
usually these were done on different canvas's (that were like 250x250) and then just... copied onto a larger canvas??? Mistakes were made and I was insane
A handful of these akumanette's were actually made by me cause apparently... roughly 18 other marinette's wasn't enough
Click for quality and this is a long post
First of all, shoutouts to my own akuma abominations creations.
First image, the ladybug with the red long hair? yeah the idea was the akuma bug seen in canon in like, s2 (also shown next to her) but updated for the new look in s4. Vry original we'll give it a 6/10
I don't remember too much for the middle one that is slightly dimmer. Though I do remember that was the kind of IDEA behind her. She's also holding a knife cause of course. Why have magical powers to kill people when you can harness the power of K N I F E 7/10
I remember a little more about the jester marinette in the back. She had a whole thing with medieval research, jester research, and she also wanted to stab Lila cause everyone wanted to stab lila at the time. 9/10 cause I had a fun time with her
Then the robinhood poster mari was a robin hood akuma mari. 3/10 not original
NEXT
Slightly canon to downright canon
Ladyblanc was a popular akumanette idea so slightly canon, I didn't base it off of anyone's au
Ladybug and Marinette are there because what's the fun of a crossover if the og doesn't get to panic along with the rest of them????
Last image, not talking about persecuter, we'll get to her in a bit. I just thought it would be funny at the time if I included Chloe and Antibug cause... haha
Antibug is kinda an akumatized lb rip off soooo
OTHER'S AU'S
what you've been waiting for
Thank god I kept track of credit (pats past me on the back)
First of all, at the very front we got @zoe-oneesama 's devil au that made an updated appearance in her scarlet lady au, love to see it
You'll also notice little devil bug on lb's knee in the sketch
Alopeka is to the left of Devil au, by @piearsonist
hi betcha you never would have guessed you got FANARTED HA
This is a post that explains that akumatized marinette, and you'll find more if you go to her page
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Princess justice at the right by @kibouwmlb (also, hello hi, surprise) and honestly it is SUCH a pretty design OMYWORD I love the watercolors
Twiddling her thumbs, minding her business. Remember the release of Descendants 3? Yeah, Queen of Mean baby. And MORE by @shiinaeu hi you are a legend to me
This was so fun to draw at the time and I was experimenting in ways I hadn't before. Peak youtube miraculous ladybug fixation meeting art interest. First one of the characters I did fun fact
@edendaphne betcha you didn't expect fanart of that one scorpion akumanette well THINK AGAIN (also, crazy that this was around when I did your dtiys I just realized, huh)
ANd then slightly more obscure, though the post does have 173 ish notes so, is @skullqueensart 's akumanette right here
Why does akumanette have sunken cheeks here? I have no clue honestly. Take it up with me from 3 years ago and maybe you'll get answers who knows. She's also just... chilling. Looking at nothing. Into the abyss.
Not now chloe's, we are discussing persecutor now.
Love the story idea honestly and the akuma design is so god tier AKUMA that oof @yiprincessart I love it
Oh uh, and chloe will be fine
:)
CAN👏I👏 TALK👏 ABOUT👏 HER
She is the moment, she is beauty, she is grace
@artist-from-outersp-ace I love her. She looks so SO pretty!! At the time I loved your artstyle and I still do!! Too bad at the time I didn't know that Tumblr works by reblogging. I will be amending that.
I also remember being SO frustrated when drawing her that I didn't get a timelapse saved in time to show the drawing process :(
But I did love figuring out folds in the dress and the coloring process! Figuring out how to replicate elements in your art!
srs guys. Look at the RUFFLES
Alright, we are all agreeing to be accomplices and bystanders to Akuma jester marinette's NOT MURDER murder of Lila in the background? Okay good.
@lunian I have fanart for you~
And when I tell you I struggled with her design, I STRUGGLED. I ended up satisfied in the end but the curls bro, we lost the curls
But I do love her concepts and powers and I did back then too
And next to her, Okay, I never fully finished, mostly because I couldn't figure out how to get the hand to work with the tray balance thingie
@ladybub made this Lady Justice design and I WILL BE THERE when the comic updates. Or... if they aren't able to continue the comic that's also fine too <3 Life happens
Still love this au and the unique way for Marinette to get akumatized! Me and my sister bonded over our love over it!
I think this might be the first akumanette that isn't on tumblr to my knowledge. They are on Instagram tho @stivenwithani
Anyway I really liked the concept and the design just, reeked, of akuma that I included her
Okay more that I didn't really finish
We got another Princess/Lady Justice akuma idea at the left. Which I never kept track of the credit DANG IT I WAS DOING SO WELL
I'll update if I find the credit but man the OG did really well with the art.
And I have this akumanette comforting Lacrima from... a very graphic and whump fanfic Longest Night, read the tags
Anyway, Lacrima needs all the love she can get (also, funny enough, is the oldest out of this "gathering" of akumanette's)
It's not finished but hey @p-artsypants I gave angst ridden Lady Lacrima friends and fanart so.... yay...
AND THEN THE LAST ONE
was victim to so much reposting I could never find credit for it- UNTIL NOW
but the artist unfortunately deactivated their blog so that explains why I couldn't find their username all that time ago
It was a cool idea and I always love when creators take inspiration from how similar Marinette's name is to another word for a kind of puppet "Marionette"
But before I forget, I'll end this post on one of my akumanette's that I tried to squeeze in but never got to. But I did make more art for and I remember the story!
I remember having a background planned but I never really got around to it. Basically the story was that marinette got akumatized but managed to take off her earrings in time. I think the reason for her akumatization was connected to figuring out the secrets that Emilie had been hiding with the peacock miraculous (BEFORE we knew that adrien was a sentimonster).
Tikki had to bring the earrings to Chat Noir and he had to find someone that looked ENOUGH like Ladybug that Hawkmoth wouldn't notice as much that Ladybug wasn't actually there. Enter Mireille cause at the time a few people were pointing out how similar she looked to the dupain chengs.
Akumanette's powers had something to do with casting depression? I think? In the form of dragons? Oh, Also she travels by walking on the dragons so thats cool
I don't remember everything but I did have a lot planned for her.
This used to be my most liked (and probably the only) post on tumblr before the account revival... it was a fan akumatised Marinette cause I thought everyone else's versions were boring--