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hawkmoth getting so annoyed with a literal baby when he's akumatizing one is so funny because that man is a father, he has dealt with a baby before
and then i remembered adrien is a sentimonster and gabriel and emilie probably skipped the baby nonsense to make him talk early
Inktober 2025
26 - puzzling (sì di nuovo)
Mi fa sempre crepare dal ridere questo episodio 🤣🍼👶
I genuinely constantly wonder what was going through Gabriel's head when he akumatised baby August into Gigantitan because I mean the first time was by accident but then he goes with it and sees that his just an out of control gaint but then he willingly does it again? Like what was the purpose of it it's not like he was going to be able to take their miraculous
Favorite Season 2 Akuma
Riposte
Sapotis
Zombizou
Reverser
Sandboy
Frightningale
Malediktator
Anansi
Captain Hardrock
Gigantitan
The Collector
Other-No answer
Rewatching the Gigantitan episode and like yes, Marinette and Alya have come up with a plan so Marinette and Adrien have a romantic ride after his photoshoot at the Trocadero and yes, it means for them to wait for Adrien without him knowing they are there and make sure his bodyguard is away. And yes, the plan involves Mylène, Alix, Rose and Juleka who are all onboard with it.
But it is the little things in the narrative
It's Mylène asking why do they need a plan to begin with and why can Marinette not simply ask Adrien out directly.
It's the codenames which are already causing confusion when they are merely explaining the plan.
It's Alix - the aromatic of the group - who finds Marinette knows a bit too much details about Adrien's habits and finds it creepy while Rose - whose full name is literally a pun about having rose-colored glasses - finds it "so romantic".
It's also Alix who brings back Marinette to reality by mimicking her saying gibberish to Adrien. Much too everyone's laughter and Alya adding that yes, it is how it goes normally.
And you know how when characters establish a very elaborate plan and everything in that plan will go wrong? That episode does that. We can think of the no-parking panel that is actually made of metal because Marinette wanted it to be authentic but it came with the big downside that it is really heavy and not only the hand cart gets one of its wheel stuck, one of the girls has to leave her post to help the other carry it and make it stand.
It's Juleka and Mylène switching role in a hurry because the police officer is about to leave.
It's the flower codenames that still causes confusion, so Rose gives the signal too soon to the rickshaw rider and has to run after him almost causing an accident too.
It's Marinette who is willing to risk being seen - despite Alya's warnings - because she cannot ignore a struggling mother carrying a young toddler in a stroller if she can help it.
It's how Placide, the bodyguard, is affected by the girls' plan which caused him a lot of frustration alongside a lot of worries because he left his charge unattended which almost cause him to be akumatized (something that none of the girls actually thought about). Thanksfully, just the sight of Adrien being safe is enough to relieve him, but the Akuma now went straight to the nearby crying toddler.
It's the Akumatized's fight that complement the day lesson and that teach Ladybug that overcomplicated plans aren't as effective and can cause more damage than necessary.
It's Marinette applying what she has learned. She put a stop to the plan and just try what Mylène first suggested : simply ask Adrien out.
And things starts smoothly. Marinette still uses a false pretext to explain why she is here, but she manages to talk to Adrien.
However, she doesn't get to finish what she was about to ask him because Adrien's bodyguard grew impatient and honked. Marinette, in a hurry, grabs Adrien by the arms starts say gibberish again. And Adrien clearly doesn't know how to react at that moment.
And after hearing another honk, she lets go, tells Adrien that what she was about to say wasn't important and that he shouldn't kept his bodyguard waiting.
Despite this, Adrien - in his kindness - offers her to ride her home, only for Marinette herself to get scared, refuses his offer and say she'll get a "coleslaw" instead.
So after all that planning and daydreaming about the ride that was explain to us at the beginning of the episode, with who does Marinette ride the rickshaw at the very end of the episode?
With her friends.
Not her crush.
And you can see this pattern in other episodes as well. Like Troublemaker, Backwarder or Chat Blanc for example.
Character development at its finest, Adrien’s degrading self confidence.
Tales of Bloody Bug and Chat Noir - Chapter 30 - Gigantitan
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Alix looked out at the Louvre from her bedroom window. A large portion of it was closed off by the request of Gabriel Agreste for a photo shoot for a new, upcoming line. She watched as a few people went in and out until Adrien arrived with Kagami beside him. She waited until there was a knock at her door. She turned as Alim stepped inside.
“You’re all set. I’ve had the section Tikki showed me sectioned off separate from where the photoshoot is happening.”
Alix smiled and hugged Alim. “Thanks, Dad. Did you let people know too?”
“Yup. You won’t have to worry about anyone bothering you.”
Alix grinned, threw on her hoodie, and ran out to the Louvre. She ran through the museum to the statue of Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices. She inspected the base of the statue when she found an odd symbol. She pressed her kwatagama against it. The room darkened and she was surrounded by red portraits of past ladybug holders. She marveled at all of them until she saw one that was distorted with no clear display.
“That one,” Tikki said, pointing to the distorted portrait.
Alix reached out and touched the anomaly. The other portraits vanished as a red silhouette of an adult woman materialized. She watched in awe as the light faded to reveal an older version of her suited up in a ladybug-themed roller derby outfit. The older Alix’s eyes fluttered open and she smiled.
“Hello, Mini Me.”
“No way. You… you’re… you’re me!”
“Almost. I’m from a timeline that no longer exists.”
“What? How is that possible?”
The older Alix let out a breath and took a seat. “It’s quite a tale. Come, sit, and I’ll share the events that brought you here.”
“What do you mean?”
“See, this timeline, you as the ladybug holder, it’s because of me.”
“How?”
“Come and I’ll tell you everything.”
~~
Adrien took a seat as a breather. He looked around at the empty corridors with each end guarded by Kagami and Gorilla. He sighed and took a breath. A creeping sensation crawled up him the entire time he had been out. He had tried to shake it, but it never let up.
“Adrien, why don’t you take ten and stretch your legs while we set up?” Vincent offered.
Adrien nodded and waved down Kagami. “Let’s go on a walk.”
Kagami nodded and accompanied Adrien as they walked around the desolate museum. They encountered a few others in other areas. Adrien hoped that would help his unease, but it grew as they walked around.
“Adrien, are you ok? You seem unwell.”
“It’s… well, it’s something. I just feel… uneasy. Like something is coming.”
“Noted. And, in the future, you’ll do well to let me know these things sooner.”
Adrien nodded. They continued their walk around when a chill came over him. He turned and Kagami was gone. His eyes widened as he turned around in search of her when Marinette appeared beside him. Panic shocked him as he jumped back.
“Marinette. You scared me.”
“S-sorry. I… I hope you don’t mind, but I was hoping we could… you know… talk?”
“I… I don’t know. I really should be getting back to the photoshoot. Besides, I should find Kagami and-.”
Marinette paled as she took a step closer to Adrien. “Please, Adrien, give me a chance. I…!”
“Get away from him!” Kagami roared.
Adrien turned as Kagami charged in, tossing Alya into a wall. He moved closer to Kagami when Alya jumped up and tackled Kagami.
“No! You stay away from him! You’re ruining this for Marinette!” Alya howled.
“She has no right to be near him. Not when he belongs to me!” Kagami yelled.
“What?” Adrien gasped.
“You’re wrong! He belongs to Marinette!” Alya countered.
Adrien’s jaw dropped as he stepped back.
“Wait, Adrien! I promise it’s not what it sounds like!” Marinette pleaded.
Adrien shook his head and ran. Plagg poked out from his jacket.
“Plagg, I don’t know what to do. I can’t-!”
“Do you know where the statue of Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices is?” Plagg asked.
“What? I mean, yes.”
“Go there. Now.”
Adrien nodded and headed for the statue.
~~
Alix let out a breath as she took in the story the older Alix told her. “That’s… I’m sorry that happened. But, with this wish, you made this timeline?”
“Something like that. I wanted whatever led to the events of Chat Blanc to never occur. I thought so long as I was one of the holders, I could stop it. And here you are, as the ladybug. Though I do worry with my timeline being remembered if something will happen.”
“Tikki said something would. That a condition would be unmet that would need to be fulfilled later. That it was worth the risk because she trusts me, and she wanted me to find a new guiding light in… you.”
“Did she? She’s a sweetheart, isn’t she?”
“And a bit of a nag. Almost like… like a mother.”
The older Alix smiled. “It almost sounds like you need not look far for your guiding light.”
“What do you mean?”
“Come on, what’s the fun if I tell you? Besides, I don’t think I can be much. We don’t seem too different. You and I. Us.”
“Maybe not, but we’re also different. You survived an apocalypse while I’m bitching and moaning about my dying mother leaving me. Seems incredibly different circumstances, no?”
The older Alix chuckled. “Alright, I’ll give you that. Maybe I can help then, though I’m not sure how.”
“Well, how did you do it? How did you survive for so long given everything? You could have given up at any point, but you didn’t. How?”
“Hope.”
“Hope?”
“Yes. You’re right in a lot of things. I had no reason to keep going. I lost everything. My home, my friends, my family, and my future. I lived just to survive, nothing more. By that reasoning, I should have given up, but I couldn’t. Not so long as there was hope. Hope and a single fool fighting for the impossible. After all, no cause is lost so long as there is still one fool willing to fight for it.”
“What if all hope is gone? What then?”
The older Alix chuckled. “Hope is never gone. You simply need to remind yourself what’s worth living for, but also what’s worth dying for.”
“What about with me? I… I had hoped to see my mother again in death that I nearly left my friends and family. I… I also can’t deny a part of me still wants to find her, but… you know.”
“And is our mom your only reason for living?”
“No! I have my friends, family, and myself.”
“Then why do you want to give up just to see one person when you have so many more worth living for?”
“Because… because I miss her. I feel like she left me too soon. When I needed her most. I know people come in and out of our lives, that death is a natural thing, but it doesn’t ease the pain. I don’t even understand how you managed seeing Dad and Jalil’s deaths, including your own.”
“Because I redirected that grief to help me drive forward. I could have laid down and died like you, but I couldn’t. I knew I could set everything right, but not just for the living, but the dead too. I carried their burdens with me, using them to remind myself what I could save. In your case, I would use it to remind myself why I still live. You say you feel like Mom abandoned you, yes?”
“I do.”
“Then redirect it. Use that feeling to push you forward to be there for those in your life. Your friends and family. Always be there for them when they need you, just as Mom was once in life. Let your strength come from your defiance, just as I did. Accept the outcome but defy fate the outcome it desires. Create the outcome you want through your defiance.”
Alix knotted her brows in thought when she saw Adrien stumble into the room. He took several deep breaths when he spotted her. He broke down in tears as he tackled her.
“Alix! Oh, thank goodness you’re here! I need your help. Please!”
Alix furrowed her brows and opened her mouth when Marinette, Alya, and Kagami ran into the room after Adrien.
“Great, you’re here,” Alya hissed.
“What the hell is going on?” Alix demanded.
“Nothing. Stand aside,” Kagami ordered.
Alix sneered. She pushed past Adrien and stood against Kagami. “Never. You have no power over me, bitch.”
The older Alix whooped and hollered. “Ata girl! You got it! Show them they can’t oppose such defiance. Protect the one you care about!”
Alix’s eyes widened slightly before she smirked. “I would sooner like to know what the hell happened that Adrien is running from you.”
“I was doing my job of protecting him. Nothing more,” Kagami reflected.
“I don’t believe you. Adrien wouldn’t have ran unless something happened. So, I’ll ask again. What did you do?”
“Yeah, cunt ass bitch! What the fuck did you do?” the older Alix yelled.
Alix grimaced, aware that none of them could see the older her besides her and Tikki. Though she did admire her older self’s energy.
“Fine. If you must know, I told them to stay away from Adrien because he is mine. Our parents have arranged our betrothals,” Kagami admitted.
“What?” Adrien, Marinette, and Alya yelled.
“Oh, that’s fucked. You aren’t going to let this stand, are you?” the older Alix asked.
Alix shook her head. “No, I’m not. Neither of your parents have any right to arrange such things without your consent. And I know damn well Adrien had no idea.”
“That doesn’t matter. We owe-.”
“You owe nothing! Who fucking cares what your parents want or what they did. This is your life, not your parent’s. You should live it as you want, not how they dictate.”
“My mother gave up everything to raise me. The least I can do is this,” Kagami countered.
“I’m sorry, but how the fuck is your mother being the leader of cutting-edge technology and CEO of her own fucking company her giving up everything to raise you. Seems very far from giving up everything to me.”
Kagami snarled. “I don’t expect from French, wanna-be punk girl to understand how things are with my family. I am from a family of samurai women. We follow orders because we choose to. And I’m choosing to bring face to my family by following my mother’s orders. What are you doing that remotely brings face to your muddled, watered down bloodline of a family?”
Alix considered as she glanced back at Adrien and her older self. She felt doubt cross her, but it faded when she saw them. Adrien, who counted on her, and her older self, who was the embodiment of defiant will, but also her mother. Without even remembering their mother, they were so much alike. A pang of guilt and regret hit her heart, before a fire was lit.
Alix turned and decked Kagami in the jaw. “That. That is what I’m doing to bring ‘face’ to my family. We don’t bow to fucking overlords who think they rule the world. We don’t bend our knees to corrupt shitheads that think they know better. We rise and fight against assholes like you. My mother used to when she was alive, and I will always do it. For her, for those I love, and myself!”
Kagami glared daggers at Alix. “You’re going to regret this, crossing paths with me. All your talk of chaos and purposeless fighting with be for nothing. You will bow to my will, and that of my mother’s. Just you wait and see.”
“You’re wrong. I know what I fight for… and what’s dying for. Do you?”
Kagami opened her mouth, then shut it before she stormed off.
Alix snorted and turned to Alya and Marinette. “As for you two, stay away from Adrien. Marinette, he’s already told you he’s not interested.”
“No, he didn’t. He-!” Alya started.
“No, I did. I very much told her and Lila that I’m not interested,” Adrien butted in.
Alya furrowed her brows and turned to Marinette. “He did? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Uh. Well, because… because it wasn’t, uh, important?” Marinette attempted.
Alya shook her head and grabbed Marinette’s wrist. “That’s it. We’re leaving.”
“But-!”
Alya dragged Marinette away before she could get another word out. Alix sighed and turned back to Adrien and her older self. Adrien approached her and sang his praises, but her focus was on her older self.
“You did good. I’m proud of us, you, me? Ah, forget it. I’m proud.”
Alix smiled. “Thank you.”
“Uh, for what?” Adrien asked.
“Not you. The other me.”
“Other you?”
“Yeah. You can’t see her. Only I can. Tikki brought her back so we could meet, and I couldn’t be happier.”
“Oh? What’s she doing?”
“She’s showing me how to be the best version of myself.”
“Nah. I’m showing you the person you always have been. You said it all yourself. Now let’s see you practice what you preach, bitch. Once you do, you’ll be where you need to be. After that little display, I can say you’re well on your way,” the older Alix reassured.
Alix smiled, but it faded when screams tore through the air. She hid in the corner and transformed before she headed out to the source. She stopped dead when she saw a giant baby in a neon onesie.
“What the hell is that?” Bloody Bug asked.
“Seriously? Hawkmoth brought this back?” the older Alix asked.
“He used this before?”
“Yeah. I remember the thing just wanted a damn lollipop, and that my Ladybug-,” the older Alix started.
Bloody Bug’s eyes widened as she used her Lucky Charm to create a massive lollipop. She held it up and gave it to the baby. It gleefully took it while she looked it over for the Akuma. She eyed the bracelet, broke it, and released the Akuma. She caught it, purified it, and let it go. The giant baby reverted to a normal sized one as she grabbed the lollipop. She threw it up and used her Miraculous power.
“That was so much simpler than what my Ladybug did. Fuck this! How the hell was Marinette more worthy than us?” the older Alix complained.
“Wait, what?”
The older Alix opened her mouth as light particles flew up from her body. “I’m sorry. Time’s up. For now, I hope.”
Bloody Bug nodded. “See you soon.”
The older Alix bowed her head as she vanished.
Bloody Bug sighed. She turned to the baby as its mother came back for it. She headed back to the room with the statue and de-transformed. She didn’t see Adrien, though she assumed he returned to his photoshoot.
“So, what did you think?” Tikki asked.
“That was… amazing. Did you see how cool she was? Or, well, me? And the fact that she went through all that and never gave up. Not like I did. But I’ll be better now. That I can promise.”
“I’m glad she was able to help you. But now that you have, be prepared for the worst to come.”
“I’m ready. I know what I must be, though it won’t be easy, but I’m not alone. Right?”
Tikki giggled and nuzzled Alix. “We’ll be here at your side. Always.”
Alix smiled and cradled Tikki. “Then let’s face the future together, always. Now, let’s go check on Adrien, and piss off that bitch ass puppet.”
“I don’t know, Alix. Do you really want to make her angrier than she already is?”
“I will, for Adrien because he’s worth fighting for to see him happy.”
Tikki smiled. “Then let’s go.”
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