#future adrien

[sunripeneddragonfruit]

Hair holds memories

And that's why Marinette has short hair when she's older. She doesn't want to remember all the horrific things she's been through.

Hair holds memories

And that's why Adrien grows his out when he's older. He's finally found memories he wants to keep with people who care about him.

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Art for @nolawombat’s AMAZING fic, “In Time We’ll See”. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend.

P.S. I’m sorry for my terrible watermarks everywhere. I worked really really hard on this and I don’t want it to get stolen or anything.

Drawing Process

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Future Tense Adrien: What if it wasn't quite so easy to entirely rid others of their memories? The human brain has been compared to a computer & even if you delete something from 1, it isn't really gone. That information, that data, is still there, (play Psychonauts & some Persona) it's out there & still burned to the hard drive of your mind; your subconcious. They can be suppressed, but not removed or destroyed. The only ways to get rid of them would mean reducing a person to a vegetable. Next.

Continuation of Future Adrien: The more Adrien oblivios people, the more those people would unconsciously fear him, instinctively becoming nervous & drawning away from both him & Mari. So, what if Mari realizes that people are acting weird. As time passes even SHE starts feeling nervous around her boyfriend. She never mentions anything to Adrien or ANYONE, but it’s always there in the back of her mind. Their relationship becomes a game of pai sho. Adrien forgot just how much Mari hates liars…

It would depend on who he oblivios and how the process works. If he can’t just erase the memories completely, I could see him “storing” them somewhere safe so they still technically exist but are inaccessible to the people they belong to.

The thing is, that’s a last resort in the first place. He uses all other means to keep people unsuspecting of him. Because really, who would ever think Adrien Agreste, the Sunshine Child, would have such a darker side? There would be a few who never fully lose suspicions of him, but they could be dealt with easily enough. Either paid off or gaslighted into thinking they imagined it. And failing that, the Miraculous worked just as well.

Depending on who it is, some people suddenly obtain a large monetary sum and a strange urge to move away from Paris. It’s the one time and they never come up again.

Others, like Alya or Chloe, would a bit more difficult. Of course he’s not just just going to get rid of them—they’re his friends. Even Chloe. Which was why he had Chloe leave with her mom after dropping a few “suggestions” in Audrey’s head about spending more time with her daughter and showing her the business in New York.

Alya, he would try to make too busy to bother with him. A journalist’s job is one that spans stories and regions. Alya wouldn’t have the time to keep bothering him.

And Marinette…he doesn’t want her to fear him. Never her. And he would of course try to avoid using his power on her if he can help it.

But sometimes she gets too curious. Tikki feels a strange pull and Marinette as Ladybug feels the need to follow. Sometimes there’s a memory of something happening with Adrien. Sometimes there’s a niggling that she needs to check Gabriel’s old office in the Agreste mansion or that she needs to find an old observatory on the property.

Sometimes, Ladybug keeps finding herself approaching this place she doesn’t remember ever going but still feels is so familiar. And in dreams or nightmares, she enters only for everything to go black.

And a voice apologizing to her.

Sometimes Ladybug fights.

Sometimes she cries.

But every time, she’s Ladybug.

Until finally…

“This is happening a bit too often, My Lady. I’m sorry, but I think it’s time for you to put away childish things.”

And when she wakes up, she’s home.

Just like always.

Her room feels empty.

Her ears are bare and cold.

She’s alone.

She feels like she wants to call out to someone. Like there’s supposed to be someone else with her.

Part of her feels worried. Like there’s someone she needs to check on.

But that’s silly.

There’s no one there. It’s only herself.

Just like always…

Right?

And when she turns and goes back to sleep, she doesn’t think about a small missing companion with big blue eyes.

[sunripeneddragonfruit]

Ladybugs and gentle cats, may I present to you

Gender at its finest

I am a *sucker* for Future!Adrien exploring how he presents himself as him

Growing his hair out

DYING his hair (my personal favourite being a stripe of green and pink for him and Marinette)

Wearing skirts and obnoxious cardigans

Clashing patterns and prints?

He loves them!

Colours that don't match?

Instant yes

Make up?

Rare to spot him without at least some eyeliner

You're telling me he wouldn't timidly ask marinette to make him a skirt to bake in, scared of her thinking he's weird only for her to drag him into her sewing room and pulling out rolls out patterned fabrics and asking his top 5 favourites so she can make him 5 to see if he likes wearing them

He wears patterns and clashing colours and obnoxious mixes because

Well

He can

And he can do what he wants

And he wears a feyline shirt because he's a SUPPORTIVE DAD AND MENTOR OKAY

HES NOT HIS FATHER

HES LIKE TOM

also the green and pink stripes in his hair matches Hugo's (who will be introduced later in the fic)

He knows damn well that he's gender and he loves it

He paints his nails every nihht

Also he works as a baker, he took up the dupain-cheng bakery while Mari works as a designer

[sunripeneddragonfruit]

Thinking about the aftermath of Maneki-Neko....

Turns out, welding the two most powerful miraculous in existence paired with the mental strain of fighting the hardest, most dangerous and most PERSONAL Akuma without anyone to help (because they all got NERFED, this is the chapters where she gives out all the miraculous because she's so *desperate* but they all end up failing because the Akuma is so fucking badass)

[nobodyfamousposts]

Can we have some more future Adrien head canons? Also, how would this Adrien treat Marinette?

Future Tense Adrien is terrifying, even mores than Hive Adrien.

He’s a yandere, but not in the more commonly known sense. He will never hurt Marinette. Ever. But he will gladly take out anything he deems may be a threat to her or to his place in her life.

He knows Marinette well from their time together and from all the people who knew her. So he knows more than enough to be whatever she would want and all the ways to make her happy. He knows why she fell in love with him and everything he needs to keep her wanting to be with him.

What he wants is to keep Marinette safe, happy, and above all UNAWARE. He wants her to love him, after all. And for them to have the happy life his original future denied them.

Thus he treats her well. Is kind and cheerful in all the ways she loves about him in canon. Starts going out of his way to take more time to spend with her. He opens up to her (to an extent) about issues, particularly with his dad and how alone he feels—everything possible to garner her sympathy and build her trust in him. Whatever suspicions she has can be eased. And since this is a time when she’s still hopelessly in love with him, he can use that to endear himself to her all the more.

Of course, he’ll have to deal with other “obstacles”. His father is one.

Fu is going to be another—he can’t have the Guardian figuring out what he’s done and trying to stop him, after all. Adrien knows where he lives and is going to pay him a visit soon enough. In the aftermath, he’ll leave with the Miraculous Box. It’d be all the better to have all of the Miraculous in one place with one family, after all. And he can better protect them than anyone since he knows how to use them all—and knows how to act without getting caught.

He’ll have the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous as well. He’d no doubt use the Butterfly to send out a couple of akumas here and there to keep up the pretense of Hawk Moth still being around so no one realizes the convenience of Hawk Moth’s disappearance and Gabriel Agreste’s “heart attack”. It will also be a way to keep the Ladybug and Chat Noir duo going for a bit longer.

If he has to, there may be a Miraculous with an ability to affect people’s minds. Or alternatively, he could make an akuma to do so. Thus any incriminating memories or suspicions people have of him suddenly “go away”.

Nathalie no longer recalls being an accomplice to Hawk Moth’s schemes. His father, he leaves alone since he’s harmless now, and there’s the added assurance that if Gabriel DID try to reveal anything, people would simply write him off as being ill, possibly even delusional as a result of a psychotic break.

As for Marinette…Adrien still adores her and it shows. He would be the doting and affectionate boyfriend, and eventually husband. She’ll be happy and safe. And above all, she’ll be his just as much as he’s always been hers.

And once he has her, he’ll keep her that way.

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If for some reason marinette found out about future tense adrien and about all the stuff he had done in order to protect her how would she react and would she confront him about it? Or do you think he would tell her on his own eventually?

He would never tell her. Ever.

Marinette would not be okay with a yandere future Adrien taking over the genuinely sweet and kind Adrien of the present that she loves. She would hopefully be smart about it and not confront him outright. If she manages to find out that he’s Chat Noir, she’d turn to his kwami for info. Plagg would certainly try to leave her hints.

The first few times, she may try to confront him directly. Either in a fight or in an attempt to convince him he doesn’t need to do this. These attempts will go poorly. Adrien wants to protect her. Even from the knowledge of himself.