Lilanette Week 2026, Monday: Undercover
Welcome to Lilanette Week 2026! Over the course of this week I'll be posting art related to the prompts, but with a twist: all art will either be canon or semi-canon to my AU fic Two Bees in a Pod! For today's prompt, I decided to draw Marinette and Lila working "undercover" as their superhero personas, Volpina and Ladybug. This specific mission doesn't happen in the fic; let's say it's an incident that occurred in one of the alternate timelines Bunnyx saw in the Burrow Room.
One of the things I hate the most about canon is that Ladybug's costume isn't very ladybuglike, not to mention pretty bland-looking. So I redesigned it so she'd look more like a ladybug, have more ladybug powers (flight, superhuman strength, the ability to make blood-bombs), and look more interesting. Here's the full color version for reference:
In this AU Lila isn't a villain, she's firmly on the heroes' side, more on how this happened in a future comic. When it came time to choosing a champion for the Fox, I naturally went with Lila. (Don't worry about Alya, she got the Goat in this AU.) I decided that for the side view the tips of her ears would be black when viewed from behind, and her eyes got more foxlike as well:
Did I have to call the villain Genericman? No. Is it funny? Yes. Are you allowed to use Genericman for your own purposes? If you credit me, yes. The use of a villain also let me show my redesign for the Hawk Moth Communication Visor, which is shaped like a hawk moth since this Hawk Moth is based on an actual hawk moth to avoid the incredible taxonomic confusion of the canon Buttermothfuck Brooch. All akumatized items in the fic have some purple in their designs, even if it's not immediately visible, and many are somewhat luminescent.
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