One thing that baffles me about the more martial arts-minded Miraculous Ladybug fanfic writers is how they utterly fail to take advantage of the location being Paris. Paris is where Savate went from a sailor’s martial art to a full street fighting system, that included multiple weapons, throws, and even Le Parkour, and then to a sport, and they still have gyms that teach the full thing, plus Parkous gyms and ones that teach La Canne (the French way to murder someone with a walking stick). It’s the martial art one would expect there... But no Savate. It doesn’t matter it was actually in the original PV (Ladybug herself uses La Savate against the Mime, and both her and Chat Noir use Parkour skills), in fanfiction no Savate. It doesn’t matter there’s a scene where it may actually have been used in the show (season 3, episode 1 “Chameleon”: the titular Akuma uses a kick that is present in both Savate, Karate, and Taekwondo), in fanction no Savate. You get Muay Thai (though this one gets a pass, given it’s already in the show thanks to Nora), you get Karate, you get Penkak Silat, but no Savate. Why?
