Drabble: Night’s Noir
An Adrien x Dick (Adrick?) life swap AU
It begins with Bruce who starts off as a hero seeking to revive his parents. Slowly he becomes villainous and tries to get the miraculous wish, the more people he comes to care for the more options he has for sacrifices.
Btw all the batboys are still adopted and have their backstories mostly the same
Bruce’s hero decay truly starts after Jason’s death
All of Gotham’s “villains” are akuma (Joker, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, ect)
Dick is ladybug ofc
I’m thinking maybe lone ladybug who uses circus costumes to disguise his other friends who are helping him (no chat noir)
Also I’m say that the miraculous isn’t the butterfly/moth miraculous but the bat miraculous
It functions the same as normal but the description changes slightly
It creates an echo chamber for bad thought that transforms the victim into its worst self
Bruce is the Villain Batman
Ok over to the Agreste’s
EMILLIE IS BATMAN welllllll she’s called Monarch (butterfly babe :p )
She ends up using the Lazarus pit
And Adrien and Gabriel discover her identity
They decide to help her
Adrien becomes her sidekick / partner
While Gabriel embraces his want to be a recluse and does computers, basically he becomes oracle
And Emilie still works as model and actress and everyone is just "no way she wouldn't have time" Her twin sister helps
Agender Felix who goes "well, there aren't rll girls in the family if there is a batgirl people won't think that hard"
Gabriel sighs and uses this as a chance to add more protection to felix’s torso (aka fake breasts)
How they meet
So Adrien and Mari meet like in canon
It’s always been Marinette’s dream to create a fashion empire in Paris
She wins a Wayne Enterprise competition and travels over there with Adrien (Emilie and Gabriel made him take a break)
#GoodAgresteParents
The vacation didn't last long, they thought Gotham was bad with Dark Cupid, Pixelator, Simon Says, Darkblade and others. But oh God Paris was so much worse
Mari is a Gotham Vigilante who has helped out the Agreste fam before, she specifically loved dealing with magic
Even if all odds are against her she takes pride in punching the magical bastard in their face
Adrien did not appreciate Marinette’s ego
Mari somehow gets targeted by an Akuma (the akumatised person is hunting her) and Adrien becomes ‘Black Cat’ (he knows the name isn’t creative, he was 13 and tired AF and panicked when the media cornered him)
He seeks out Paris’ heroes and helps them
Dick on instinct calls him ‘Chat Noir’, Adrien likes that
They manage to save Mari and De-evilise the akuma
Mari speaks her mind on the situation
She asks Dick why he doesn’t use the other miraculous, her logic is ‘if there’s one I’m sure there are others’.
He goes back to his ‘Master Fu’ (uhhhhh Alfred? Actually no Alfred will probably be the Natalie of this AU)
He finds out his ‘Master Fu’ is missing
He takes the miraculous box and hands out the miraculous to his trusted friends
He finds Mari and Adrien joking about on a rooftop
He admits to them he has been feeling numb lately and misses joking about like they do (the Wayne fam has a lot of unprocessed trauma and it’s become even worse when when akumations began to happen)
Fun fact: Bruce has weaponised his own children before, since they all have black hair, blueish eyes and roughly the same body shape they swap the miraculouses between them
Marinette leaves Adrien and Dick to talk
They begin to flirt
And Dick has never felt so safe
Adrien tells Dick about his vigilante family in Gotham and how they can help
They are connected to the Justice League but Dick refuses their help
He asks them to only monitor the situation and not participate
Adrien leaves saying “I’m fine having more stakeout dates with you.”
OR ORRR
“I’d be glad to continue observing that ass”