So! Here’s my art for my AU I talked about (Like once) with a “villain” Marinette.
It was a bit of a lie. She’s not going to really be a villain, or rather, she’s going to still go back to the past (for reason stated above) and become more of a morally light grey hero.
She’s done taking crap, from anyone, and she will not hesitate to call people out. In this Marinette is in Lycee (Her second year.) before she travels back, and that’s when she steals the box (She gives it back to Fu, but she does it to prove a point to him after handing out the kwami swapped miraculous to her past self and past Adrien.)
She’s still sweet though, to people she cares about when they aren’t being dumb (Fu occasionally, her babes, Adrien + P!Marinette, Luka.)
She switches the kwamis since she knows how it played out before with no mentor (which she does become one, just isn’t taking chances) and the miraculous she had. She chooses to make things different since her Chat (Who she misses dearly, she just didn’t know what else to do. Her life was going to hell, Lila was being Lila, and her friends only believed her word about half the time and her parents were starting to get suspicious.) did well as M. Beetle, and she did well as Lady Noire.
For her design, I wanted to go a route that obviously looks like an older Marinette, a Marinette who’s more guarded and a bit bitter about being forced to be the guardian and being roped into a tangle of misery.
I gave her the jacket, modeled off of a varsity one (I will be making mods to it later, but currently this is what I got.) I gave her glasses instead of a mask (Though I might change that as well, or at least shape of glasses.) the fluff on her boots is a hit or miss (If you guys like it I’ll probably keep it, if not, I’ll scrap. I can swing either way. Same with popped collar, I can make it fluff or I can make it something else.)
I changed the weapon to a hammer for the reason in a earlier design post (Though in the story I’ll probably keep the canon weapon, I just wanted to make a look here.) I’ll also probably be changing her dye job to blond just so she matches better with the miraculous (Or make it blue since there’s both Lukanette and Adrientte since there’s past Mari and future Mari shenanigans.)
Marinette also lives with Fu, learning his trade (It relaxes her because designing started to feel like a chore when she had to design for friends a bit too much. She did it willingly, but it slowly ate away at her creativity. She only designs for fun and doesn’t make anything. It’s more of “How can I modify my current/bought clothes into something more my style.)
I’ll be back sometime soon with Adribug and Marikitty designs (In this same type of look.) Go ahead and criticize the heck out of this, I know I got a few things wonky (forehead hair is not a strong suit of mine, but damn if slicked back hair isn’t.)
