Loneliness and Oblivion ~ Suspended Threads
After the separation from Master Fu, Marinette walks along the station platforms, just as she walked along the banks of the Seine immediately after what she believed was their first meeting. Thanks to the key, she discovers the gifts Fu has left her knowing the future.
Marinette walks along the Seine.
Marinette finds a letter intended only for her, and not for Chat Noir as well. Master Fu had identified Ladybug as his heir, but he did not need to teach Adrien the sense of loss, because Adrien had already had to deal with the pain of his mother's disappearance.
The awareness of loss.
Along with the letter, Marinette finds the gramophone, which had kept the Miracle Box, and Marianne's photo. Fu had had to give up even the most precious photo, the image of his only memory of the woman he loved, because he could not keep it with him, once his memories were lost.
The farewell gift.
If he had kept Marianne's photo, Fu would have recognized her as the woman he had apparently met by chance in front of the train. He would have guessed that Marianne had already been part of his past and therefore his declaration of love would have had a different intensity.
The erased memory.
The sacrifice of the photo had a double purpose: Fu was preparing himself to find his beloved woman and Marinette had to figure out the reason why he had left her the photo along with the letter. The woman who had read Marinette's love letter for Adrien had given her back a gift.
The unexpected gift.
"Listen to your heart" are the words that represent Marianne and Adrien's way of loving. He had pronounced those words looking at the sky: "I wasn't thinking. I was following my heart", when as Chat Noir he had chosen to respect the secret of Ladybug's identity.
Love and respect.
Although it has faded from Fu's memories, with her silence Marianne holds the secret of Ladybug's identity. Who could ever be the girl who accompanies the guardian of the Miraculouses without his memory, to reunite him with the love of his life, if not the heroine chosen by him?
Secret kept.
However, during her akumatization, Marianne had even come to doubt that Ladybug was Fu's right choice because Ladybug had sacrificed her Chat Noir. Time rewinds but turns the doubt into a silent warning: "Don't sacrifice your Chat Noir".
The silent warning.
Chat Noir is the first gift that Master Fu had chosen for Ladybug, but she had decided to emotionally sacrifice Chat Noir for the love of Adrien without knowing that by doing so, in an ironic twist, she would lose both of them. The world without Chat Noir is the world without Adrien.
Zero chance.
By imposing on herself to give up listening to her heart, Marinette finds herself experiencing everything she had always feared and tried to avoid: losing Adrien. The secret message in Marianne's photo is an enigma that Marinette was unable to solve.
The unsolved enigma.
The old black and white photo of Marianne is the one memory of Fu's first and only love. During the war, Marianne and Fu had been able to meet and fall in love because Fu had arrived in Paris and, in the aftermath of the destruction of the Guardians' Temple, was no longer a monk.
Marianne's smile.
However, Fu's youthful mistake using the Peacock Miraculous has spilled over to the brooch which, used by Émilie, plunged her into a deep sleep. All that remains to Adrien to remember his mother's smile is a digitized photo of a very young Émilie.
Émilie's smile.
For Fu and Adrien, a photograph becomes the only memory to see again the visage of a deeply loved woman. Marianne knew the secrets of the Miraculouses, Émilie had used the brooch lost by Fu. The two women have the same green eyes and the same sweet smile.
Marianne and Émilie.
The loneliness that has veiled Marianne's green eyes for years is the same loneliness in Adrien's green eyes and is also the one experienced by Émilie beside an extremely problematic man. Solitude, the film starring Émilie, is perhaps the story of their lives.
The golden cage.
In Marinette's loneliness the echo of Émilie's loneliness resounds, a story within a story, told in a black and white love film by a woman who walks alone in the rain and holds out her hand to caress it, finding refuge under her black umbrella.
A story within a story.
Adrien was an actor in the life that Émilie actually lived and a spectator of the story played by his mother in the film. When Adrien gives Marinette the black umbrella to shelter her from the rain, the suspended threads of the intertwined destinies of all of them flow into her.
Intertwined destinies.
