Surprise Lexi!! I’m your secret santa from the Jimari Secret Santa exchange in discord!!! You asked for Fluff and I deliver :3, i hope you like your gift, im sorry for all the mistakes it has and the delay, I started strongly but Photoshop kept crashing and I started growing impatient… but is finally here!
I hope you had a lovely cristmas surrounded with your loved ones and most importantly that you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy, i wish you an amazing 2021
I’M BACK BABY! I know you’ve been waiting for this, here it is, everyone!
Part 1 Part 2
Adrien looks at his fingers, seeing strings on his fingers, confused about them.
“Don’t be bemused, it’s just the news! A new Akuma, going by the name, “Soulfinder” is walking through Paris, making everyone see Soulmate strings. Oh, it seems he has an announcement to Paris.”
Adrien looks towards the TV to see the supervillain smirking at the Camera near the Lourve.
“People of Paris, I am Soulfinder. I’ve been called crazy for years, insane because I saw that some people just aren’t meant to be together. They said I was just trying to break up all the good couples, but now you all get to see who your soulmates are! Let me explain the strings. Thumbs are like the pointer, but the thumb is your soul sibling. Those that are too close to be friends, but are not romantic. Pointers are strictly platonic. They can move to the middle finger, which is Soul enemies. The ring finger is romantic, and pinkie is the soul parent or child. It depends on your age. But be warned, if you grab your romantic soulmate string and you aren’t in the same place as them, something weird could happen. It could be you lose sight in one eye and so does your soulmate, but your soulmates would be seeing from your sightless eye. You could switch bodies with your soulmate. It’s random. Enjoy knowing who your soulmate is!” Soulfinder smiles.
Adrien looks at his finger where Plagg’s ring is residing, seeing a dark blue string on his finger.
“What do you think you’re doing, Adrien? You need to go out there and help Ladybug take down the villain!” Plagg exclaims.
Adrien protests, “But I could finally prove that Ladybug and I are soulmates!”
Plagg growls, “Didn’t you hear the Akuma? There are side effects! You could swap bodies with your soulmate, which will drive both you and them insane and you won’t be able to help Ladybug! You could lose sight in one eye, making it extremely hard to fight!”
Adrien frowns, “It’s a risk I have to take.” reaching for his string.
“Adrien, NO!”
***
Kagami frowns, quite confused at this turn of events. She ignores her romantic string, quickly realising that isn’t important, and grabs her thumb string, seeing Marinette in her mind's eye after she grabs it. But what surprises her is seeing Marinette transform into Multimouse, which Kagami approves of Ladybug’s choice, but then drops the string in shock at something else.
“What are you doing, Kagami?” Longg asks.
Kagami frowns, “I don’t care who I belong with. I care for Marinette. We need to help Ladybug. Longg, bring the storm!”
Kagami transforms into Ryuko, only to look at her hands and see her thumb and pointer strings haven’t disappeared from her sight. She looks up to see where her thumb is leading and follows it.
***
Marinette hides in an alleyway and frowns, “We have to save Liam!”
The suit appears to have been upgraded, getting more armour around the chest area, on her legs and shoulders. (I’m horrible at describing this. I just want her to have a better suit.) Ladybug then looks at her hand to realise that the pointer and thumb strings haven’t disappeared. She ignores that because she can ask Liam once he’s been de-akumatised. She throws her yoyo and swings away, looking for Soulfinder.
***
Claire and Jim jump out of a Shadow portal onto a roof. They see Soulfinder walking away from the Lourve.
“How can we do this?” Claire asks.
Jim exclaims, “Wait, look!”
Ladybug lands in front of them, quite surprised.
“How’d you get up here?” She asks.
Jim sighs, “That’s not important right now, Ladybug. What is important is that we can help!”
Ladybug pulls them out of Soulfinder’s field of vision and asks, “How can you help?”
Claire grabs Ladybug’s shoulder and answers, “I use shadow magic. I can make portals quite easily and quickly and can move shadows. Literally.”
“I’m gonna need more than your word for that.” Ladybug frowns.
Claire puts her hand to her left, opening a portal to a few feet away and sticks her hand in, causing it to come out the other side. Ladybug’s eyes widen.
“We can help!” Claire frowns.
Ladybug puts her hand to her chin in thought.
“You can’t help like this. If Hawk Moth new about your power, he’d try and take it from you, either by kidnapping or some other way. But- Of course!” Ladybug snaps her fingers. “You stay right here. I’ll be back.”
Ladybug swings away, leaving the two on the rooftop.
“Do you think we should’ve told her what weapons we prefer?” Jim asks.
Claire shrugs, “Probably.”
***
Ladybug jumps into her room and detransforms, walking over to the Miracle Box she’s hidden underneath her pillow.
“Are you sure about this, Marinette?” Tikki asks.
Marinette nods, “Trust me, Tikki. We can trust them. They offered to help, and if Hawk Moth assumes Claire’s power is from a Miraculous, she’d be so much safer than if he knew the truth.”
She opens the Miracle Box and looks at the Miraculous inside, reaching towards it, trying to figure out which to use this time.
“Of course!” Marinette exclaims as she grabs two.
She quickly transforms and runs back, hoping they’re still there. On her way, she bumps into Ryuko.
“Ladybug, do you know where the akuma is?” Ryuko asks.
Ladybug nods, “It’s in a chain bracelet. We’ll probably need some help, though.”
Ryuko nods, “I trust you to pick worthy holders. But, Ladybug, after the battle, I need to talk to you.”
***
Downstairs, Sabine and Tom look at their ring-fingers to find they are attached to each other, and they are relieved.
“At least we were meant to be together, Tom.” Sabine smiles.
Tom replies, “I couldn’t have asked for a better person to be my soulmate.”
“He’s such a sweetheart. I’m glad we’re soulmates.”
“She can kick anyone’s butt. That’s what I fell in love with.”
(I am so sorry, I had to put this in.)
***
Claire and Jim watch as Soulfinder looks at people’s worried faces as he passes by them.
“How can we turn him back to Liam?” Jim frowns.
“We can help with that.” Ladybug smiles.
The two teenagers turn to Ladybug to see Ryuko with her. She swipes her yoyo, causing it to open and a glowing white light appearing inside. Ladybug puts her hand in, pulling out a box. She holds it towards Jim.
“Jim Lake Jr, this is the Miraculous of the Tiger, which grants the power of the hunt. You will use it for the greater good. Once the mission is completed, you will return the Miraculous to me. Can I trust you, Jim?” Ladybug asks.
Jim nods, “Of course you can.”
He picks up the box and opens it, causing a small glowing orb to fly around him, giving him deja vu. When the light dies down, a small tiger-like creature appears.
“Hello, young cub, I am Roaar! I’m your kwami for today. All you have to say it Roaar, time to hunt!” Roaar smiles.
Jim smiles as he puts on the Panjas bracelet, “Roaar, time to hunt!”
Roaar goes into the Panjas bracelet. Instead of the usual feeling of Armour surrounding him, he feels fabric forming on his skin, including on his face. When it’s finished, Jim stands with a bit of dark purple in his hair, a mask with black and purple stripes on it, and a purple bodysuit with black stripes, and a tail attached to his back. Claws protrude from his fingers and two swords lay on his back. Ladybug’s face almost turns as red as her mask seeing how attractive he is. She quickly pulls out another box and holds it to Claire.
“Claire Nunez, this is the Miraculous of the Horse, which grants the power of teleportation. You will use it for the greater good. Once the job is done, you will return the miraculous to me. Can I trust you?” Ladybug asks.
Claire smirks, “Yep. Not that I needed it.”
Ladybug explains, “Yes, but Hawk Moth won’t know that. He’ll just assume you’re old enough to make more than one portal.”
Claire opens the box to reveal glasses. Another glowing orb appears, and it flies around Claire. As the light dissipates, a little horse kwami appears.
“Oh, hello. To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?” The kwami asks.
“Claire Nunez.” Claire answers.
The kwami asks, “Are you glorious and famous?”
Ladybug rolls her eyes and goes to say something when Claire answers, “I’m the daughter of a Councilwoman back in Arcadia, so I’m a little famous. What do I have to do?”
“All you have to say is, “Kaalki, full gallop!” Kaalki smiles.
Claire puts on the glasses and smirks, “Kaalki, full gallop!”
Kaalki goes into the glasses, and Claire transforms. Her white patch in her hair grows, covering all her hair, which has grown and is pulled into a high ponytail. A horseshoe appears on her waist. (If anyone can do fanart, I would love that, please. I can’t figure out how to describe her transformation.)
“You have a gaggletack?” Jim asks.
Ladybug asks, “What? It’s just a magical horseshoe. Like my yoyo. Oh, and what are your names?”
A/N: I’m baaaaack! Damn, you’ve been waiting a while, haven’t you? Admittedly, not as long as for other fics, but gah! Oh, this was fun to write. I had to make a nod towards the Gaggletacks because come on! Oh, and I have no clue for names for the heroes. I mean, Claire’s Spanish, so we can give her a Spanish name, and she can suggest something for Jim! Please, though, I need your opinions and FANART! I am terrible at drawing, and editing pictures, so I need YOURS! Please! I’m begging on my knees.
Oh, and Adrien’s soulmate, can anyone guess who it is? Dark blue because the character I picked out of nowhere seems to where that the most. Seriously, she seems like she doesn’t have any flavour in her closet. Just stripes. I apologise for giving you such heartache. And, what should happen to Adrien when he grabs the string? Blind in one eye, soulmate teleports into his room, swap bodies, what do you think should happen? I do have a plan, but if I’m given a better idea, I might do it.
I headcanon that you are a bless and sunshine to the Zutara Fandom
im just gonna be cryin in the club a while dont mind me
(also i got your other ask and im very into it but it may turn into more than a Little Drabble bc i have so many ideas for that exact AU but im just sayin watch this space -eyes emoji-)
Marinette looks at Jim suspiciously. This is her “knight in shining armour”? He doesn’t seem to look like one.
“I’ll leave you to it.” Liam smiles.
Both panic, “No! Wait!”
But the young boy has already left, closing the trapdoor.
“So... Uh... Hi?” Jim smiles nervously.
Marinette shuffles on her feet for a while until Liam pokes his head back in.
“Just tell each other how you found out about me seeing the strings!” Liam frowns and closes the door again.
Marinette nervously giggles, “So, um... you know what he can do?”
Jim nods, “Yeah... I’m still having troubles believing it. How’d you find out about him?”
Marinette explains, “He’s my classmate. He’s actually the cousin of our resident liar, but unlike her, he’s usually quiet, reserved, and always speaks the truth. He was nice on his first day and we became friends. He finally snapped one day when his cousin said something about being soulmates with someone rich and famous. I followed him, concerned, and he spilled the beans. Turns out, the guy I had a crush on wasn’t my soulmate. Took a little getting used to, but I’m finally over him.”
Jim nods, partially understanding. He clenches his hand slightly where his amulet would be comforting him if he still had it.
“So he offered to tell me who my soulmate was by grabbing my string, I let him, and his first words were, “You have a knight in shining armour for a soulmate.” I still don’t believe him.” Marinette giggles.
Jim pales at those words, “A knight in shining armour?”
Marinette nods, “He gave me the best description he could, and drew what he saw, but it wasn’t that good, so I made my own drawing of what he saw and he said that it’s more like what he saw.”
She walks over to her desk and pulls out a drawing, which then shocks Jim.
(Art not mine. Credits to whoever drew it.)
Jim gapes at the picture, it looks just like him.
“So, how’d you meet Liam?” Marinette asks.
Jim puts down the picture and sighs, “I know this is gonna sound weird, but... I quite literally met him in a dream.”
Marinette giggles, then asks, quite seriously, “How’d that happen?”
Jim tries to explain without giving away too many details about his life, “My best friend died recently.” Marinette gasps as Jim continues, “I was mourning when I fell asleep. In my dream, I saw my best friend again, just about to die again, when this girl in a spotted suit jumps in front of him, saving him. She had this... yoyo, which she spun around so fast it was like a shield... When I woke up I found out she’s Ladybug, the heroine of Paris.”
Marinette exclaims, “WHAT?!” falling off her chair, surprised out of her skin.(You just imagined it, didn’t you?)
Jim asks, “Are you alright?”
Marinette gets up quickly and panics, mumbling incoherent words while she paces around the room.
“Are you alright?” Jim repeats.
Marinette snaps back to Jim and realises he’s still in the room.
Marinette nods, “Yes... Um... your dream?”
Jim continues, “She introduced herself to me and said something about I was going to know her as something, but she was interrupted by a strange butterfly man and a woman who looked like a peacock who attacked her.”
Marinette supplies, “Hawk Moth and Mayura. Our resident supervillains.”
Jim nods, “Yep. That’s what they said. Then two more people appeared. That dragon girl who helped save people today and a cat boy.”
“Cat Noir and Ryuko.” Marinette corrects.
Jim continues, “Anyway, Cat Noir and Ryuko battle Hawk Moth, and Mayura brings down her fan to kill Ladybug, but I jumped in front to save her, only for everyone to disappear, including my best friend. That’s when your friend Liam showed up. He said something about holding a soulmate string lets him communicate with the person on the other end by a dream. He also said the heroes are my soulmates too, but platonically.”
Marinette nods, “That makes sense. But, how’d you get here so fast? He only saw you yesterday from the string.”
Jim’s face pales. He really doesn’t want to explain that.
“It’s a long story that I really don’t want to tell...” Jim sheepishly explains.
Marinette nods, “Of course.”
***
Claire frowns at Liam, who is having a panic attack while being in the same room as this girl.
“How do you know Jim?” Claire asks, suspicious.
Liam tries to figure out how to tell the dark-haired girl and keeps glancing at his right ring-finger, which is still attached to hers. He’s tried to remove it, like one would a regular string, but it’s not working. How can he tell her that Jim can only be her friend? How can he tell her that he can see strings without her thinking he’s insane? How can he talk to her now he knows that he’s actually got a romantic soulmate?
“Okay, so, I’m Liam... and... I know things I shouldn’t because I see stupid strings!” Liam blurts out.
Claire stares at him, now just confused.
“What does string have to do with any of this?” Claire asks.
Liam slams his head into the table, mentally begging Hawk Moth to send an akuma after him just to get out of this conversations. He paces, completely worried. He’s never had an attraction to anyone, and he’s intimidated by this girl that’s supposed to be his soulmate.
“I don’t know how to explain it without you attacking me...” Liam mutters, partially hoping she didn’t hear him.
Claire asks, “What are you talking about?”
Liam sighs, “Okay, look. You know how everyone has a crush on someone in school through their lives, usually on more than one kid? Or maybe a crush on a celebrity? And some kids actually become girlfriends and boyfriends with their crushes? And they break up?”
Claire nods, “Yeah... so?”
“I never had that.” Liam frowns. “I’ve never felt an attraction towards people. I’ve never had dirty thoughts. I’ve never even had a celebrity crush. I’ve had admiration for people, but romantic feelings? I don’t know what it feels like. I’ve searched so long for at least one person to make me feel romantic feelings, but all I’ve felt is nervousness. And what makes it worse? I see soulmate strings!”
Claire stares in shock, then asks, “Soulmate strings? Are you serious?”
Liam frowns, “I’m afraid so. Do you know how hard it is to watch people who aren’t soulmates look at each other and try to become a thing? It just hurts! How can someone just watch people they know don’t belong together and just shrug it off? I’ve seen it all! I’ve seen strings snap, I’ve seen strings grow stronger, I’ve seen strings move from one finger to another! It drives me insane!”
Claire puts her hand on Liam’s shoulder, trying to comfort him as she watches him have a breakdown. She’s never seen a guy actually breaking down, except maybe Jim.
“And I can’t let people know because if they know I see the strings, they’ll call me evil, possessed, a liar, trying to break up a good couple for no good reason, and if they do believe me, they’ll break down because their lover is not-... I can’t.” Liam cries.
Claire rubs his back, trying to soothe him. She was going to get mad at him, but she realises he’s just trying to do what’s best.
Claire asks, “Have you... talked to anyone about this?”
Liam asks, “How? I’m a guy, so my emotions won’t be taken seriously, I see soulmates strings, and we live in a city where everyone has to repress their emotions or turn into a supervillain! So, please, tell me, person attached to my finger, How can I talk to someone?”
Claire blinks in shock, then looks to his fingers, trying to see what he’s seeing, but fails.
“I’m attached to your finger?”
Liam pales as he realises what he said. He runs out of the bakery, terrified.
“Liam! Wait!” Claire calls after him.
Before she can run after him, a crash is heard behind her. She turns to find Marinette sprawled on the ground, Jim coming down right behind her.
“Where’s Liam?” Marinette asks.
Claire answers, “He just ran out-... We need to get him back! He could get hurt.”
Marinette’s face twists into a look of horror, “Or worse... Akumatised.”
Claire and Jim exchange glances and go to ask Marinette when she races out the bakery, following where Liam went. Claire and Jim follow her.
***
Liam runs towards the Seine and breaks down. Surprisingly, no one is there when he breaks down. He collapses to his knees and hugs himself, feeling just broken. He remembers what his parents said when they found out about his ability.
“You’re just seeing things! This strings you see are all in your head! We’re worrying about your mental health because you’re obviously not making enough effort yourself!”
He whispers, “You’re obsessed with the idea that I should be more like others... You’re so crazy about being successful, and I’m just screaming inside. Now even my Soulmate will hate me too, because I’m breaking her and Jim up...”
He doesn’t notice as a butterfly lands on his chain bracelet and absorbs into it.
“Soulfinder, I am Hawk Moth... You feel the need to help people find their soulmates, but no one will listen to you. I shall give you the power to-”
Liam growls, “SHUT UP! You won’t give me power! You’ll rob me of my strength!”
“Rob you? I give you the power to show people who their soulmates are. All you have to do is give me Ladybug’s and Cat Noir’s Miraculous. Do we have a deal?”
Liam thrashes his head a few times, trying so hard to fight, but the temptation is too strong and he caves in. The ability to finally show people what he sees, and the ability to show people the love in their lives they’re missing. To be able to push people into searching for who they should be with, meeting their platonics and true romantics... to actually find their True Love... It’s just too much to say no to.
“We have a deal, Hawk Moth.”
***
Marinette runs towards Liam, calling his name, then she sees the neon butterfly on his face.
“Liam!” Marinette gasps.
Claire and Jim show up behind her.
“What’s going on?” Jim asks.
Marinette points to Liam, who’s thrashing his head around, the butterfly on his face coming with him. He finally stops, a terrifying smirk forming on his face.
“We have a deal, Hawk Moth.” Liam smirks.
A purple smoke/fog appears all over his body and he changes into a strange costume, his normally brown hair turning pink and blue, his eyes becoming a mixture of colours. His face becoming a pale blue colour. His eyes land on Claire, Jim, and Marinette.
“Liam! What’s happened?!” Marinette asks.
Liam walks over to the trio and replies, “I’m not Liam anymore. I’m Soulfinder. You didn’t make fun of me for what I could see, Marinette. You have nothing to fear, Nettie. My own family thinks I’m insane. I’ve felt trapped for years, with chains that felt like lead... I’m finally able to do what I’ve felt the need to do for ages. I can show people the truth!”
Marinette frowns, “But you could be breaking people up who’ve led very happy lives!”
Soulfinder frowns, “It’s better they know sooner than later!”
Soulfinder’s eyes glow a golden colour, sending that light all through Paris. Marinette shields her eyes, then opens them to see the strings on her right hand. On her ring finger appears a blue/silver string connected to Jim, and Jim’s side of the string is red and black. Marinette stares at her hand to see many pale strings that appear to have snapped as they drop to the ground, but many going all directions. She looks at Jim’s and Claire’s hands to see that some of the strings on their hands are connected to hers.
“Grab your strings!” Soulfinder smirks as he leaves.
Marinette frowns, slightly confused.
Jim hesitates, “We better do what he says...”
Marinette shakes her head and runs away, causing Jim and Claire to exchange confused glances.
***
Jim watches as Marinette runs away. His string is attached to her, not Claire. So that’s why he was so hesitant to tell him what he meant.
“So we’re just meant to be friends?” Claire asks.
Jim frowns, “Seems that way.”
He looks at his string on his thumb that’s limp and a dull shade of orange. He picks it up to see Toby. He drops the string quickly. Toby wasn’t just a platonic soulmate... he was a brother to him. A soul sibling... No wonder it hurts so much... He looks at the limp, dull blue string attached to his pointer finger... It’s obviously Draal’s. He’ll look at that later. He notices that many of his middle finger’s strings are limp.
“We have to help him!” Claire frowns, determined.
Jim nods as Claire creates a shadow portal, jumping into it towards where Soulfinder is. The two just hope they can help.
A/N: Holy cow, I can’t believe how long this took. I am so sorry. Have you ever had one of those moments where you’re so amped to write something, then, halfway through, you lose the amp? Because that’s what happened to me.
Answering a question, “Was Toby one of Jim’s Soulmates? I'm guessing no, because you said the three other heroes were his platonic soulmates, and you haven't mentioned what kind of string is connected to the thumb.” Honestly, the reason is because I’m lazy, and I’m not sure what kind of Soulmates to write about. But then I thought, “Wait, there’s platonic soulmates, but what about those people that are meant to be closer than friends, but not romantic? Of course! Sibling relationships!”
It just worked. Also, when you brought that up, I noticed that there was nothing connected to the pinkie either, and I’m stumped for what to put there, then I thought, “Oh, it’s for the relationship between a soul parent and soul child. It makes sense!” So, adopting is because of the pinkie string!
Also, I thank you for putting up with my terrible writing.
Happy birthday to my dear Gladys (aka @peanutbell), is a tradition that in México, when is your lover’s birthday, you serenade it with a mariachi band, and since Miguel loves music and has his mariachi costume already, he would DEFINITELY bring a serenate to Hiro and sing to him, and he would watch through his window all flustred before coming downstairs and see him, no one can’t change my mind about that.
Im so glad we are friends Glady’s, you are such an amazing and loving and caring person and i hope our friendship lasts a lifetime, i love you <3
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