“ i’m gonna do everything that you’re not supposed to do. ”
@ldybuq , 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐙 ♡ 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 , still accepting.
There’s a moment in which red meets red. where azure meets an identical shade. hesitance is a heavy weight upon her crown. pressing in from all angles as marinette runs that particular sentence through her skull once & then once more. she’s slow to act: two spotted hands reaching out, the fingers spreading as she takes in the future visage of herself. as she fully registers the meaning behind those words. & then it clicks into place & she’s moving. a simple, single step forward with a half strangled noise emanating from the confines of her throat as she catches ladybug’s hand with two of her own..
“but i thought ⸻ i mean ⸻ you can’t ⸻ can you?” didn’t changing the past ultimately unravel the future? didn’t pulling such a feat act as a catalyst of sorts? one that would upend the very fabric of time or was …… was that just another misconstrued trope from those movies her parents watched from time to time? she doesn’t know, & it leaves her feeling ungrounded & a little lost.
marinette can feel the slow fall of her shoulders. acceptance hinting at her countenance even despite the confusion that still clings to every fiber of her essence. there's a question lingering just beneath the surface. one she absolutely refuses to give a voice to because ⸻ it didn’t matter, because at the end of the day, she finds herself trusting in this version of herself. it’s a gut feeling, so, just like that, marinette pulls back. lets herself settle against the balls of her feet. only to proverbially lean into whatever just so happens to come next.
“okay ⸻ okay. what do you want me to do?”
