Alya, Chloé, Sabrina, Lila, and probably Adrien, who didn't get akumatized when Marinette was expelled, seeing Marinette reach for her earrings during what they know to be Hawk Moth's monologue about how he wants Ladybug's miraculous
i’m starting to fear that the writiers might make adrien a sentimonster because it’s a popular fandom thing rathen than because they planned it
if they had the Ladybug episode (and all the other episodes with sentimonsters) could’ve been handled better
it would be interesting to see Adrien/Chat Noir have problems differentiating between regular sentient beings like humans and animals and kwamis and sentimonsters, and not be able to recognize them because they’re not as foreign to him as they would be to the rest of paris
on the other hand he could’ve been shown emotionally bonding and being genteler with sentimonsters, as if forming some kind of kinship and this could’ve been juxtaposed with ladybug’s “they’re sentimonsters made by hawkmoth and wreack havoc on our city, we need to defeat them” type of work-first atittude (which she did not have in the Ladybug episode (or any other), but it would’ve been interesting and would’ve highlighted Adrichat’s relationship with sentiumonsters well)
adding it in or building it from now on just seems like a waste of potential that the past episodes had to lay the groundwork
i keep bringing up the ladybug episode because it would’ve been perfect for this theory. imagine, char noir, unaware he is a sentimonster, meeting with a sentimonster ladybug and not being able to tell them apart, the real ladybug assumes his feelings for her are clouding his judgement but for chat noir, both ladybugs are equally real.chat’s distress at sentibug’s fate, him having to chose the real one between them, not being able to point the gun (figuratevely) at either. him and ladybug both thinking it’s because he is in love with ladybug so much he can’t thinks straight but for chat noir it doesn’t feel right.
then we have an episode where he can’t recognise an obvious sentimonster, like reflekdoll, and so one until ladybug realizes his weakness is sentimonsters in general - and so does hawkmoth.
Okay. Here is the Ladybug-episode-divergence Princess Justice fic that I promised!
I’m still a bit sick, but I wanted to get something out before the end of the weekend. I eventually decided to just split this monster into parts. It should be two or three parts long, depending on what people want to see.
As per usual, if you’d like to be tagged, shoot me a note/message/ask!
Thank you all for reading, and I hope you enjoy!
Marinette
“Princess Justice, I am Scarlet Moth.”
No, no, no, NO! This couldn’t be happening. She could feel him seeping into her mind like a puddle of oil, turning her already turbulent emotions up to 11 until she wanted to scream and cry and shout and punch something all at the same time.
“--nette! Marinette!”
She dimly realized that she’d sunk to her knees, hands were clamped tightly over her ears. She felt a light pressure on her shoulders and forced her eyes open, trying her best to shove Hawkmoth’s voice to the back of her mind. Adrien. Because of course it was him kneeling before her, hands on her shoulders and emerald eyes looking so concerned.
“Marinette, don’t listen to him! You can fight it. You’re the strongest person that I know. Please, Marinette!” He looked close to tears.
She tried her best to focus on him, to calm down, assure herself that there was some way to fix this -- to prove that she hadn’t… And then she saw Lila over his shoulder, smirking victoriously and the rage and sadness broke through the walls she’d tried to build in her mind. Not yet -- she frantically scrambled to get her earrings off -- she couldn’t let them --
She pressed them into Adrien’s hand and shoved him away from her as the darkness overtook her vision.
“Yes, Scarlet Moth.”
Adrien
No! Adrien pressed himself up against the lockers behind him as the bubbling red cloud swept over Marinette’s hunched form. When it cleared, his friend was gone -- in her place stood an imposing lady in red. Her pigtails had grown longer and darker and moved through the air like pools of negative space. She was blindfolded with fabric as red as blood and held a wickedly sharp sword in one hand and a set of scales in the other. Her head tilted in his direction and something that almost passed for a smile twisted her lips.
“Thank you for trying Adrien, but I am Princess Justice now, and I will have my vengeance.” The armored heels of her boots clicked across the locker room floor as she followed the other akumas out, no doubt starting to hunt for Lila who had slipped out of the room sometime after she had succumbed to Hawkmoth’s control.
For a second he couldn’t move, couldn’t think. He was going to have to fight Marinette. He wasn’t sure if he could -- and there was another army of akumas and how was he --
“Adrien!”
He sharply shook his head and looked forward. Chloe and Alya were looking at him with concern.
“Come on,” Chloe said. “We should get to my hotel. Ladybug will be looking for me and it will be safer for you guys there too. Sabrina ran ahead to tell Daddy what’s going on so he won’t be stupid and get akumatized again like last time.”
“I… err…” He couldn’t go with her -- his Lady would need him. His Princess already needed him. “I should get home. Father worries if I’m not safe during attacks and I don’t have my phone, so I can’t tell him I’ll be somewhere else.” Did that sound good enough?
Chloe looked at him doubtfully, but before she could speak again, Alya cut in.
“Right before she was akumatized, Marinette gave you something. Why would she do that?”
Adrien suddenly took notice of his right hand, still wrapped into a fist around something that was pressing uncomfortably into his palm. He loosened his fingers to reveal a pair of very familiar earrings, and his heart stopped.
A bright light emanated from the earrings in his palm and all three teens covered their eyes. When it dimmed, Tikki was floating in the air above his palm, looking absolutely distraught. She immediately flew towards him and hugged his neck as best as she could with her small arms, without seeming to notice the two other girls in the room, eyes blown wide as the recognized what was obviously a Ladybug-themed kwami that had appeared out of Marinette’s earrings.
Their shock was only exacerbated when a dark shape flew out of Adrien’s jacket towards Tikki as if yanked by a magnet, wrapping small arms around her and starting to purr.
Adrien closed his eyes, counted to ten, and opened them again, staring determinedly at Chloe and Alya, both of whom he had never actually seen at a loss for words. If the situation had been less grim, it might have been funny.
“You can’t tell anyone,” he said with all the seriousness he could muster even as he raised a hand to comfort the two kwamis curled up in the crook of his neck. He couldn’t process right now. He’d think about everything that had occurred in the last two minutes later, but if he tried to think about it now, he’d shut down and he couldn’t do that. He looked down at Plagg wrapping himself around Tikki as if physically trying to hold her together.
“Plagg?” he questioned softly. His normally caustic kwami looked at him with sad green eyes that already knew what he was going to say. “I think we need to find the Guardian.”
Alya
Marinette was Ladybug. Ever since a kwami -- Ladybug’s kwami -- had materialized out of her best friend’s earrings, Alya felt as though her world had been turned on its head. Everything suddenly made absolutely no sense, and yet more sense than it ever had before. Of course, Ladybug wouldn’t choose someone she hardly knew to wield a miraculous. That would be too unpredictable a situation and Ladybug, above all else, was a strategist. It explained how Marinette had been able to get her an interview with Ladybug, and how she always seemed to disappear when an akuma attacked. It explained -- no.
“Lila’s a liar! I saw Ladybug call her out!”
“A good journalist always checks her sources.”
“It was Lila! Lila framed me!”
“Don’t jump to conclusions.”
Alya saw red. She dug her nails into her palms, focusing on the dull pain as she counted backward from ten. No. She had already failed Marinette -- her best friend, her hero -- once. She wouldn’t fail her again by getting akumatized. She looked up at Adrien. He looked just as shaken as she felt.
“You two need to hide,” he eventually said. “I need to go and find the Guardian -- tell him what happened and -- I don’t know. Hopefully, he’ll know what to do.”
Alya bristled at the thought of being sidelined when her best friend was hurt and when it was partially her fault -- but before she could speak, Chloe scoffed and cut in.
“Please, Adrikins. There’s an actual army of akumas loose in the city. You’re going to need all the backup you can get to even reach the guardian. I’m coming with you, and I guess Cesiare can too.” Alya saw a strange, determined glint in the blonde’s eyes. Huh. Perhaps being Queen Bee had been good for her.
“But --”
“No.” This time it was Alya’s turn. “Even if it’s supposed to be a secret, it doesn’t matter at this point. If we don’t fix this, Hawkmoth wins. You need all the help you can get.”
Adrien glanced down at the Plagg and received a hesitant nod. He took a deep breath. “Alright, let’s go.”
Chloe
Dupain-Cheng was Ladybug. Scarlet Moth was back, he’d unleashed another army of akumas, and Ladybug was one of them. Hell if Chloe knew how to unpack all of that at the moment. Fortunately, growing up as the daughter of Audrey Bourgeois had taught her to compartmentalize. That was good. It looked like Adrien -- Chat Noir -- and Cesiare were having trouble right now. She could have an existential crisis about bullying the idol that had trusted her with superpowers later.
“Alright. Now, where is this Guardian? We need to come up with a plan to get to wherever he is without getting hit or captured by any akumas. We don’t know exactly who has been akumatized yet, but we should probably assume that everyone we don’t run into in person is an active akuma. We’ll have to get there as civilians, but that could work to our advantage -- we’ll be less of a target.” The steadiness in her voice surprised her. It appeared to surprise Adrien and Cesaire as well. Cesaire looked a bit sour that Chloe had said something before she had, but Adrien appeared happy that someone else was willing to take charge.
Adrien softly grabbed Tikki and Plagg and deposited them in his hair, mussing it around them to hide them. “I don’t know where the guardian is, so you’re going to have to guide us.”
“Alright, kid.” She heard Plagg say. “Let’s go.”
The three teens moved cautiously toward the locker room door. Just before they reached it, it slammed open from the outside. Chloe quickly positioned herself in front of Adrien, noting with pleasure that Cesaire had done the same. It appeared that the Ladyblogger wasn’t totally incompetent. Admittedly, she wasn’t sure what they could do against and akuma, but they could at least hopefully provide enough of a distraction that Adrien could get away.
“Dudes! Zombizou, Princess Fragrance, and Reflecta bused into the classroom and everyone got akumatized?! What happened?” The newcomer looked around. “Where’s Lila? And Marinette?”
The tension drained from her form -- it was just Lahiffe.
Cesaire relaxed out of her own fighting stance and gave her boyfriend a long look. “A lot happened. We’ll fill you in on the way.”
The “way” turned out to be a winding path through at least two arrondissements, ending at a movie theatre of all places. They’d stuck to small alleys as much as possible, moving as quietly as possible to avoid the scarlet akumas they occasionally saw nearby and overhead. Chloe wasn’t the only one who had let out a quiet curse when the group had seen Dark Cupid flying above them. She remembered how Dark Cupid had almost caused Hawkmoth’s victory on Heroes’ Day. Even if they made it to the Guardian, they’d have to be careful.
It came as no surprise that the movie theatre that the kwamis had led them to was deserted. In unspoken agreement, the group moved as far from the glass front doors as possible once inside. They couldn’t chance a passing akuma seeing them.
“Master? Master?” Adrien whisper-hissed as loudly as he dared into the empty lobby. When a familiar Hawaiian shirt moved out from behind the central kiosk, he nearly fainted from relief.
For her part, Chloe was less than impressed. The so-called “Guardian of the Miraculous” was four-foot-nothing, looked like a strong wind would blow him over, and had the most atrocious fashion sense she’d ever seen outside an akuma. This impression was not improved when the old man fixed Adrien with a disapproving glare.
“Adrien, you know well that the miraculous are supposed to be kept secret. What is the meaning of this?”
Chloe could see the way he deflated, all too similar to the way he did when scolded by his asshole-emotionally-manipulative father. Oh hell no, no on her watch.
“Excuse me, Monsieur Guardian,” She cut across the old man before he could continue to badger Adrien. “He didn’t exactly have much of a choice. Have you looked outside lately? Thanks to a more startling than usual display of complete incompetence by several adults and what I can only assume is another Heroes’ Day-esque scheme of Hawkmoth’s, Ladybug has been akuamtized. We were there when it happened, and with an entire army of akumas loose in the city, we sure as hell weren’t going to let Paris’ only hope walk here alone.” Her arms were crossed over her chest and she leveled her very best Audrey Bourgeois glare at the small man.
He blanched, and Chloe used the opportunity to edge a bit more protectively in front of Adrien.
“Ladybug? Akumatized?” His frown grew deeper, and Chloe’s anger spiked again.
“If you’re going to try to blame her for this, don’t even fucking bother. I’ve literally never seen anyone with a more valid reason to be akumatized. She was framed, discredited, and expelled from school in the span of about five minutes. In case it escaped your notice, she’s fucking fifteen. She’s allowed to have feelings.” She was aware of Adrien, as well as Cesaire and Lahiffe openly gaping at her back. She was a bit surprised at her vehement defense of Dupain-Cheng… Marinette, herself. She didn’t quite know how she felt about everything yet, but she figured that if the girl she’d bullied for years could trust her with literal superpowers on a repeat basis, she could defend her against a man that she could already tell had a severe holier-than-thou complex.
“Now,” she continued, “are you going to help us fix this mess, or are you going to continue blaming two people who’ve done nothing to cause it?”
Adrien
Ever since he’d seen Tikki emerge from Marinette’s earrings, he’d been in shock. His Lady was his Princess, and he’d failed both sides of her. She’d been akumatized because he’d been too naive to see that Lila’s lies were hurting the most important person in his life. He… he wasn’t sure that he could fight her. He hadn’t expected Chloe to step up and take charge so effectively, but he’d been more relieved than he’d like to admit that he could stand back, listen to Plagg’s quiet, reassuring murmurs in his ear, and try to forget that because of his own negligence he’d have to fight his Lady. Maybe it was cowardly, but he just couldn’t -- When Master Fu looked at him with such disapproval, he could feel his breath start to come faster and faster. Oh God, he’d failed. He was a terrible excuse for a Black Cat, and Master Fu was going to take his miraculous back --
The almost panic-attack was cut off by a sharp pressure on his arm. He looked down to see Plagg staring up at him with concern and shook himself out of whatever state he’d been in, just in time to hear Chloe’s impassioned defense of his Lady.
No sooner than she had finished speaking, Plagg cleared his throat, drawing attention to himself. “She’s right, you know. You may be the Guardian, but don’t forget that you never finished your formal training.” The Black Cat kwami spoke with an unusually cold and serious tone. “I shouldn’t need to remind you that you’re not infallible. I will not let another set of chosen be destroyed because you refused to believe that someone could know better than you. Bring my chosen the miracle box.”
Master Fu opened and closed his mouth several times, unsure of how to respond. He looked to a turtle kwami who had emerged to perch on his shoulder, but the kwami merely averted their eyes. Deflating, Master Fu turned around and pulled the box out from a compartment underneath the kiosk. As he opened it and presented it to Adrien, Plagg cut in once more.
“And, so help me, if anything happens to Tikki’s bug because of this…” He let the sentence hang, staring at Fu in a way that made Adrien want to step back.
Master Fu paled but looked at Adrien. “Adrien Agreste,” his voice shook only slightly. “Your mission to protect Paris has never been more dire. You must choose allies that you can trust to fight beside you. After the battle is done, you must return the miraculous for safekeeping.”
He stared at the box laid out before him -- unimaginable power glinting up at him in the form of seemingly innocuous jewelry. Was this how Ladybug -- Marinette -- felt every time she had to find allies for them? He’d once envied her the Guardian’s secrets, but standing here before the box, he took it all back. What if he chose wrong? He didn’t know who any of the other heroes were besides Luka and Kagami and --
“I --” he paused, voice cracking. “I don’t know who the other heroes are, Master. What if I choose wrong --”
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Alya and Nino step up beside him, matching gentle smiles on their faces.
“Rena Rouge and Carapace reporting for duty.” They said together.
Adrien felt himself melt in relief. He gently lifted the fox miraculous out of the box and placed it in Alya’s hands. She fastened it around her neck as Master Fu handed the bracelet that had been around his wrist to Nino.
Adrien grabbed the Bee comb and looked back and Chloe, who was staring at her feet.
“I can’t.” She whispered.
Alya bristled. “After all this, you don’t want to help her?”
Chloe looked up to reveal eyes glistening with tears. “You all saw Dark Cupid out there! Hawkmoth knows that I’m Queen Bee. If I come, I’ll be more of a liability than a help.”
Adrien looked down at the comb in his hand. She was right, but then who --?
Master Fu cleared his throat. “If I may make a suggestion,” he said tentatively. “Miss. Bourgeois is correct that it is too risky for her to again become the Bee. However, if my memory serves me, there is another hero that can no longer wield her miraculous for the same reason. Judging by her earlier behavior, I believe that Miss. Bourgeois would be an excellent match for Longg, while the girl who was Ruukyo would suit Pollen quite well.”
Chloe looked shocked, but Adrien grinned widely, grabbing the Dragon choker and handing it to Chloe. As soon as her hands touched it, a brilliant light burst from it, and a dragonlike kwami -- Longg -- appeared. He stared at Chloe appraisingly for a moment and grinned approvingly.
“Yes,” he said, practically purring, “This one suits me quite nicely. A leader wise enough to know when it is practical to step back. I will enjoy guiding you to greatness, fledgling.”
Adrien turned back to the miraculous box as Chloe properly met her kwami while Alya and Nino got re-acquainted with theirs. He grabbed the Bee’s comb and the Snake’s bracelet from the box before closing it, a new wellspring of confidence running through him.
He had a team of people he trusted at his back. They would succeed. They had to.
Alya
Alya never thought she’d see the day that she’d feel reassured by the presence of Chloe Bourgeois, but in light of everything else that had happened in the past half an hour, she supposed it might be the least strange thing that had happened that day. She was impressed by how the other girl had handled the Guardian (boy if she hadn’t wanted to give him a piece of her mind as well) and she certainly didn’t expect Chloe to turn down being Queen Bee. When she heard the blonde’s reasoning, she was even more surprised.
While the Guardian suggested a bit of a miraculous swap, she leaned towards Nino, grabbing his hand gently to draw his attention away from Wayzz.
“Yeah, babe?”
She looked into his eyes. “We can’t make the same mistake that we made on Heroes’ Day, Nino. If one of us gets hit, the other needs to stay focused on the mission, okay?” For a moment, it looked like he was going to argue, but she cut him off. “Please, Nino. I -- I already messed up so bad. I need to know that even if I’m out of commission, you’ll protect her. Okay?”
The fight left him, and he sobered. “Alright Al. I promise.”
Grateful that she had secured his promise, she turned her attention back to the room. Chloe was quietly talking with a small red dragon kwami, and Adrien had the Bee comb and another miraculous she didn’t recognize in his hands.
“Alright,” he spoke. She was grateful that it looked like he’d gotten some of his confidence back. They’d all been pretty shaken to see Marinette akumatized, but she was his partner, and he’d taken it the worst of them all. “I need the three of you to find Marinette. Figure out where she is, and keep her distracted. I’m going to go get some more help.” He paused. “Be careful. She might not have her earrings right now, but she’s still Ladybug. She’s the best of all of us -- this won’t be easy.”
“You can count on us,” said Chloe. Alya and Nino nodded, and Adrien flashed them a grin.
“Plagg, claws out!” he was out the door of the movie theatre in a flash of green light.
Alya looked to her right at Nino and to her left at Chloe. An unspoken understanding passed between the three teens. “Let’s go,” she said.
So here it is, time for me to pull myself together and post all my thoughts and feelings on the new episode into one big long post.
So my overall feelings?
I am upset
Not because it was a bad episode- it was amazing, literally so good- nope, it’s because of Nathalie- but I’ll get into that in a moment. I’m gonna put a read-more here cause this is gonna probably be really long- and could very well be a recap of the whole ep with my commentary.
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First off, when Plagg seemed not to like Adrien’s birthday present for Marinette, he seemed so concerned (these screenshots aren’t going to be very good quality because I REALLY don’t feel like going through all the trouble of making them look nice & take hours on one post)
Look at the little bean! SO concerned. It’s perfect Honeybun, she’ll love it.
Then onto the next scene...
Even during meals, they sit so far away from each other. Why? I’ve often wondered what the point of such a long table with so many chairs could be, especially in a house that’s so big yet so empty. I suppose that it could do well for meetings, but still, this is a family meal, not a company get-together or business meeting with people you have to impress. They have to practically yell at each other to be heard.
Also, look at this
He basically asked Nathalie for approval. “Should I let him?” “Yes sir, I would.” “Very well, Adrien.”
Also, the fact that Gabriel and Lila have the same meeting place each time. He isn’t just driving by hoping to catch her, they have a time and place set up. And the idea that Marinette is a bad influence? Preposterous! But of course, this is Lila.
Screw Lila.
“You work to hard, sir”
Yes Nathalie, I’m sure you know what working to hard feels like. You’re not exactly relaxing, yourself.
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Next scene!
Ms. Bustier: Marinette, would you bring your school bag to me please, I need to check something
Okay so first off, you’re going off of an anonymous tip that one of your best and most well-behaved students (Aside from being late quite often) is a thief and a cheat? And secondly, you really think that she is SO STUPID that if she had taken them knowingly, she wouldn’t have maybe removed them from her bag? Third, why did Marinette not FIND them in her bag before school started, take them out, and maybe call Alya or something.
“That’s impossible Marinette, Lila got the worst grade in the class” not impossible if she stole them after the test- also, way to be subtle on grades. I thought teachers were supposed to keep that stuff relatively undercover.
And Adrien really said “Marinette Rights”
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So.
There’s no sound of crashing.
Lila just yells “Ready?” in the most mischievous voice she can
Then she starts screaming
And no one stopped to think “Hey, not only is Marinette really not known to assault people, but we didn’t hear a single thud that would have sounded like someone falling down the stairs preceding her screams.”
“She keeps calling me a liar, getting the others to gang up against me...” SINCE. WHEN?
Also.
“Oh...I have proof”
How would she have known that the proof was in Marinette’s locker? And again, if she knew, why would she be surprised to find the pendant in Marinette’s locker??
UGH.
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Now we get to the part that started lil miss me to get so upset.
“Are you ready, Nathalie?”
“More than ever.”
She just bounces out from behind him, ready as she’ll ever be.
Look at her
Then she goes on to call him the Almighty Scarlet Moth and I just smh
Awww. She looks like she’s ready to punch those butterflies in the face. You punch those akumas.
Varity Queen? Princess Justice? Oh yeah. I wanna see those.
And now to the scene that hurt me
“What’s wrong?!”
“Nothing, everything's fine! Keep going..”
She was so ready to just fall down and choke while he continued his fight and she would have still loved him if he hadn’t stopped to help her
But this seen makes it so clear
he loves her too
Even if it’s just as a friend and assistant, he loves her. And it just...the voice acting, her voice actor was so good, it physically hurts me to watch that scene. 15/10.
And Tikki yelling at Marinette...well not really yelling...but holy crap, there is a lot riding on this 14 year old girls shoulders when it comes to her own emotions. She’s still learning what some of them are, puberty is far from over with her, so now she just has the added pressure of not being able to feel the natural emotions that occur with hormone fluctuations and righteous anger from being falsely accused without having to be fearful of Hawkmoth’s akuma.
But on the bright side, Alya FINALLY believes Marinette! She may have her flaws and push Mari a bit to much IMO when it comes to Adrien but hey, when it comes right down to it, she’ll stick it out with her pals. A true friend.
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Is that the same doctor we saw at Master Fu’s?
And despite her state, still the only thing she’s thinking about is him, his goals, what he wants- and he’s not even thinking about that right now.
He looks so distraught too. He needs her. But she’s just so laser focused on one thing that she’s not thinking about the other possibilities. Mark my words, her persistence is what’s going to drive him to stop being Hawkmoth.
“I don’t care, Gabriel. I want to help you.” I swear, I’m gonna start crying again. She’s telling him how she feels when she says stuff like that! It’s loud and clear. If he hasn’t seen it by now, when it’s more obvious than Marinette could ever hope to be- then literally nothing but her straight up saying the words “I’m in love with you” is gonna make it click. He has to know!
“Not at that cost! Never at that cost again...” then it cuts to his family portrait.
Why, pray tell, does it cut to his family portrait? Of all things. Why did it cut to anything at all? They didn’t need to go to the trouble of creating a whole new picture to cut to if they didn’t NEED to. It’s saying something. And Im pretty sure that its that he’s not willing to give up Nathalie, not even for Emilie.
I would also like to point out that in that picture, he is wearing blue- but now, he primarily wears red. What is a combination of blue and red? Purple. The color of Nathalie’s suit.
Hmm...
Nathalie: Shh
Me: *handing Nooroo pots and pans*
She’s so desperate to help him- and look at how she treats Duusu. She isn’t being cruel. Duusu just told her “No, you should be resting” and she’s just like “Yeah, but what if I didn’t?” not “Don’t tell me what to do!” or any crap like that. Instead she stops and explains herself. And then Duusu...
No, not it’s not romantic. It’s twisted. I love Gabriel and Nathalie as a pair, but this isn’t a romantic gesture. Nathalie is losing herself in her desperation to help him, get the miraculous, end it once and for all, and her desires to please Gabriel even if it means that he’s not going to want her in the end. She is fighting a losing battle, no matter what happens, she’s going to get the short end of the stick- and it just breaks my heart that she is so willing to throw her life away when there are other ways she could be assisting him that don’t include her deteriortating. That’s why I cried so much during this ep- she wants to prove a point by using this miraculous when it isn’t necessary. And that is why I officially HATE seeing Mayura- because each time she transforms she’s one step closer to falling down and not getting back up.
Also, I thought this scene was super interesting. That’s how she creates a sentimonster? That is so cool.
Moving on, when Adrien pulls out his phone
“I am Mayura, and I’m about to annihilate Ladybug, Mwahahaha!” Points for subtlety, Hon. XD
She’s so cute
“I’ve always gone out of my way to hide my true feelings for you but I just can’t do it anymore” possible foreshadowing? Hmmm?? “Your feelings for me haven’t changed and mine are growing stronger every day” I can’t help but think she was speaking from her own heart in some of that.
And our poor little kitty
So desperate for love, he refuses to believe that
Ladybug wasn’t actually moving on
“She’s so perfect” “I’m nowhere near as perfect as her.”
Also “Senticharm!” *gets big gun blaster thing*
“Lucky Charm!” *gets fork*
Seriously Gabriel and Nathalie belong together at this rate.
“Nathalie?!”
“Nooroo why didn’t you wake me up?” “I couldnt bring myself to you were sleeping so peacefully” because “Im scared of you and Nathalie told me to Shh” wasn’t the right response.
She gets tired even when using the miraculous
And she still goes out in the field
Heeeerrres Hawky!
Legit tho, this is what an anon was talking about earlier from the Gabenath ask meme I did a while back. I said that what I look forin a fanfic would include Hawkmoth needing to save Mayura on the battlefield. And it JUST became canon. Lord have mercy, I think I’ve died XD
Also
“You’re the real monster!”
“Oh, that...you’ll find out very soon” He doesn’t even care tho. Like, where’s all his givacraps fly off to? Oh yeah that’s right they’re akumatizing people, they just keep flying away.
He is huge compared to them. And just going to town trying to whap this 14 year old girl into oblivion. Boy.
“All I need to do is wait a few minutes until you two turn back into regular kids, so fragile, so easy to break” Absolutely no filter. Do you think that’s going to make you seem less like a villain? We don’t say stuff like that! You can’t just take that back! I swear, if you have a redemption arc it had better be Paarthurnax/Zuko-level convincing because there are very few people willing to forgive you after you say things like that with no remorse.
“Release her”
You can’t tell me he doesn’t love her- he sucks at it, but he does. Im really hoping he’ll learn from this mistake and never ask her to use the peacock miraculous again- if she uses it, it has to be on her.
“Don’t mind me” Babe if he doesn’t mind you and you’re discovered then it’s just a hop skip and jump from Hawkmoth being Gabriel Agreste,
He’s carrying her again
Idk if I should focus on how little Nathalie seems to care about how much danger she put herself in or the fact that we have a Gabriel booty close-up
He’s reprimanding her, she starts coughing, her glasses fall off, and he immediately softens up.
Look at that soft look. And the music that’s playing in the background? It’s so...sad..and enhances the way he’s looking at her.
And now.....Adrien
As soon as the adults leave, he growls and the music gets more aggressive. Intimidating.
He is ticked. “Because we’re friends aren’t we?” that was just laced with venom and malice. They say demons run when a good man goes to war.
Well Adrien’s started packing. Lila better watch her step.
And in the end, she basically outed herself as a pathological liar. She admitted it, though she likely didn’t word it that way.
Well, that’s all I have to say. Remember, God made you special and he loves you very much. *veggie tales theme starts playing*
