You and Scarlet Lady are my favorite! I wanted to know how you think Luka would function with the Ladybug miraculous?
I think he functions similarly to Marinette where they’d both make good ladybugs but in different ways. Marinette is more creative but Luka can remain calm easier. Marinette could probably figure out the lucky charms quicker, but it wouldn’t be impossible for Luka either (he was raised by a chaotic mother so I’d imagine he’s good with unpredictability).
Ideally, Luka could be Marinette’s confident starting from “Origins” and act as the ladybug in the case that Marinette gets ill to the point where it’s dangerous for her to go be Ladybug.
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Just though up something, but what if Luka being such a young mediator kind of implies that he snapped in the past? I'd would show that even the calmest people have limits and that he RESTRAINS himself in acting on his feelings because might have accidentally hurt someone before?
There are multiple theories about why Luka is the way he is and I think that most of the are very interesting~ I personally subscribe to him feeling the need to be the mature one for Juleka’s sake, though I agree that him snapping at someone could make him pull back on his emotions.
I’ve noticed that, yeah! I always imagined that Tom and Sabine get paid to go to all sorts of important events are pretty humble about it (especially around Marinette) but they just.
I don’t have any favorite moments from Tom and Sabine specifically, but my favorite of Marinette’s is when she’s assigned to design the cover for Rock Giant. I like moments like this when they’re unrelated to akuma happening (so... well, “Guitar Villain”; “Animaestro” is too connected to causing the akuma so it comes off as contrived).
In terms of headcanons, I personally feel like Tom and Sabine could splurge if they really wanted to, but they prefer a simpler life, hence why their bakery is so modest and their house seems relatively small. They’re not consciously saving their money, but they’re just happy in their life and don’t see a need to pointlessly spend. I also headcanon that the reason Marinette has so many little things in her room is because she was the one thing they’d ever thrown money at, giving her a lot of gifts on her birthday (especially on birthdays where she maybe didn’t have any friends).
Someone like Gabriel would see them as lower class, but Tom and Sabine are unquestioningly the best choices to cater for events as most guests (even rich people) will be disappointed if anyone else is paid to bring sweets instead. The combination of Tom & Sabine sweets along with that Tom & Sabine charm is nearly impossible to beat.
A sillier headcanon I have about this is that Dupains and Chengs have a history of going on to do great things. It’s not really that being a part of either family gifts descendants with talent and skill, but that they have a certain luck for getting noticed as long as they work hard on those skills except Rolland basically disowned Tom so he was rejected from the luck stat and that’s why he’s alone and grumpy and miserable.
Marinette gets doubly lucky here because she’s both a Dupain and a Cheng, like how she just so happened to get assigned with Jagged’s glasses, which eventually got her designing his album cover.
It’s a double-edged sword though, since it means more opportunities come her way than she can handle, such as getting the ladybug miraculous and still getting other things on top of that.
If it was possible, do you have any Cadmeancio x Multimouse headcanons?
me, in a mocking tone: do I have any Cadmeancio x Multimouse headcanons…
Foolish mortal, to even IMPLY that I might NOT have Lukanette.
(Cadmeancio is Fox Luka, for those unaware)
Pre-Dating/Pre-Reveal
- Multimouse is so thrilled to have Cadmeancio around since they can plan things together. His Mirages often involve creating more Multimice than there actually are, easily fooling akuma who can’t tell which ones are the real ones as they scatter.
- Cadmeancio is more than happy to let the Multimice ride him if they all need to go somewhere after using Multitude. His foxtail cape makes it easy for them to have something they can all collectively ride, making plans while he goes to their destination.
- Multimouse is fully aware that she could ride other heroes but Cadmeancio is her favorite hmm wonder why. (she felt bad about it at first until he assured her that he’s honored to be her main choice)
- Cadmeancio cares about each Multimice just as much as he’d care about them if they were still one. If he loses track of one or sees one of them get hurt, he loses his cool and starts worrying.
- During colder days, the Multimice will climb into Cadmeancio’s hood to keep warm. There aren’t many things that auto-fluster Cadmeancio, but tiny Multimice snuggling against his neck will definitely do it.
- Cadmeancio has different melodies/notes he plays loudly on the flute to alert all nearby Multimice of what’s going on if they need to be distracted by other tasks. Most foes just assume that he’s trying to use Mirage.
- If Cadmeancio’s flute goes flying off into the distance and he couldn’t see where it landed, the Multimice will split up to search for it. There’s no sight quite like a bunch of Multimice carefully carrying his flute back to him like it’s the most precious thing in the world.
Pre-Dating/Pre-Reveal But Also Luka Knows
- MARINETTE HAS HER HAIR IN DOUBLE BUNS AND LUKA IS SUFFERING.
Post-Dating/Post-Reveal
- Multiple plans of Multimouse’s have involved using her jump rope tail to tie her and Cadmeancio together in some way. Until the plan actually goes through, no one believes her when she insists that there’s no ulterior motive behind it. (Technically, it doesn’t always have to be Cadmeancio, which is a fair point, but if she’s going to tie herself to someone, why not her boyfriend??)
- Luka lost a guitar pick at home once. He didn’t consider it a big deal, but Marinette apparently saw it as a high-priority mission. Suddenly, there were Multimice everywhere, scouring the home for the missing object. Luka loves his girlfriend so much, she’s so dedicated.
- “Maybe I should pick up more instruments besides the guitar and flute.” “Hm? Why?” “I can serenade you in all languages of music that way.” “OMG LUKA DON’T. TWO IS ENOUGH.” “Not for me.” “*voice cracking* luKA–”
- On a particularly bad day for Marinette, Luka gently asked if they could trade miraculouses. She was confused, but obliged. She didn’t expect to have a bunch of little mouse Luka surrounding her a few minutes later, spouting endless compliments and giving her mini-hugs. It took mere seconds before she was blushing and giggling, and mere minutes before she’d entirely forgotten why she was upset in the first place. (She later did her best to serenade them with her flute since she had the fox now anyway, so why not? She didn’t consider herself very good at it, but they still stared at her like she was playing their favorite song.)
- Luka has walked into Marinette’s room multiple times to see her split apart as Multimouse, all of them working on a particular task that she has to take care of. However, no matter how important any of the tasks are, they’ll always combine into one so she can give him a hug and kiss to greet him.
- Occasionally, when Luka is playing guitar, Marinette will opt to transform and use Multitude so she can have as many different viewpoints as possible playing his guitar. Luka finds it very hard to keep on his calm, chill smile when there’s a Multimouse everywhere near him: on his shoulder, in his hair, in one of his pockets, and sitting in front of him like the cutest little audience member.
- While in the midst of kissing, their miraculouses got tangled together and it took a good few minutes to undo it. It keeps happening and they keep blaming Trixx for it, but Trixx will neither confirm nor deny whether a kwami can have that kind of influence or not. They don’t technically mind being forced together for the extra time but still–
Your thoughts on the show make it a more enjoyable series. I really love reading them and all the luka and Mari content. Also what do you think Luka's favorite macaroon flavor is?
Thank you so much for the compliment and also the most important question I’ve ever gotten.
I headcanon his favorite flavor as “toasted marshmallow.”
I find it strange that akumas can multiply if left unpurified. It makes Some sense, and acts as an incentive to purify them, but like. What about champions? They don't need to be purified, so presumably they can't multiply. And that feels kinda unbalanced, like the butterfly is made to be misused. I dunno, maybe this is just me? Do you have any thoughts on this? (Ps love you and your work thank you)
My only guess is that some miraculouses weren’t made with good in mind. I do headcanon that there was evil intent within the making of at least a few of them.
...That’s the only thing that makes me not constantly wonder about this stuff.
Previews fill me with trepidation brrr but I keep wondering how would you handle an akumatized Marinette or Adrien (or their hero forms) arc? What might be able to push them over the edge? How would MC Kwami take it? Do you have any headcanons or favorite fandom akuma forms for akuMarinette? How would MC akumAdrien be other than Chat Blanc?
Whoa! A lot of questions there, haha.
I keep wondering how would you handle an akumatized Marinette or Adrien (or their hero forms) arc? What might be able to push them over the edge?
[Canon Marinette]
The akumatization of normal Marinette would be a very slow process. It would be an arc where things in episodes would feel… off, but it would be hard to pinpoint exactly why.
Maybe Marinette’s friends don’t hang out with her as much, but there’s so much other stuff going on that it’s hard to notice.
Maybe Adrien continues to insist that Marinette is his friend while not actually trying to spend time with her, but he’s got such a tight schedule that it’s more easily shrugged off.
Maybe people start having Marinette stand up to people like Chloe all by herself, but Marinette is so good at it that it’s easy to presume that everyone knew that no one could do it better than Marinette.
At some point, we’d have a version of “Chameleon”, but where Lila had taken time and care to manipulate the class. Lila had shown up more frequently beforehand and was confirmed to have everyone’s phone number.
Lila knows that Marinette can’t be trusted. Lila is aware that Marinette knows that she’s full of it. She’s seen people like Marinette before and knows that there’s only one way to get rid of them; sabotaging their reputation.
Lila is careful and calculated, asking the classmates if she’d “done something wrong” to make Marinette dislike her. The class has no proof, but Lila has a lot of stories that she tries to back up using previous episodes and stories that people have told her.
And the classmates believe her, not because they like Lila more than Marinette, but because Marinette was so easy to not pay attention to. They don’t scowl or huff at Marinette, but Lila tends to call them away and make Marinette feel like something’s wrong.
The conflict would build up to the students having taken advantage of Marinette. They’re not bad people, but they saw Marinette as a happy-go-lucky girl who couldn’t say “no.” Some people were always on edge, fearing someone’s akumatization, but Marinette never seemed like someone who could be akumatized.
It was just easy to take advantage of her without meaning to. No one ever noticed that they did it because Marinette did everything she could to keep a level head and work things out. She was the mediator, the strategist, and so many other things that she just seemed incorruptible.
Besides, it’s not like Marinette’s around a lot. Marinette is always so late; they think, surely Marinette just doesn’t care. Surely Marinette just prioritizes everything evenly and doesn’t pay extra attention to people she likes.
It’s not like Marinette could have problems in her life. Her parents are “perfect” and her friends are just “so supportive all the time.” How could Marinette ever have issues?
Marinette being sent to the back was just one more example of the class seeing Marinette as someone without emotions. She was their guide and their creator, but an everyday Ladybug is apparently someone who’s never supposed to think of herself.
The loneliness would get to her. The lack of support would get to her. Lila threatening Marinette held weight and meaning because Marinette knew.
She knew right then how her friends saw her, and she was going to make every one of them realize that she’s an actual person. She was going to make everyone understand that she’s not perfect in their own twisted way and that they can’t shunt her aside just because that’s easier than putting in the effort to support her.
And as Miss Bustier begins her next class, she starts calling on students to ask them questions. Idly (and after far too long), she notices that Marinette isn’t there.
“Where’s Marinette?” she’d ask, more confused than anything else. Marinette was always absent. Surely, she’s just being forgetful, distracted, and clumsy again.
The classmates all look around. None of them had noticed that Marinette was missing.
They think, it’s not like they didn’t care that she wasn’t there! It wasn’t like they were so enamored with Lila that Marinette became meaningless. It’s Marinette’s fault. She’s always so quiet and meek (she’s not); how could anyone notice her missing?
Then, the door flies open. Papers scatter. The windows break from an unknown force.
Students nearly bolt out of their seats as they all feel a strong chill run up their spines.
There, in the doorway, stands the akumatized form of the one person no one ever thought could be corrupted: Marinette. Her eyes are wide, bright, yet somehow empty and completely devoid of emotion.
Staring ahead at nothing yet simultaneously making everyone feel stared at, Marinette speaks in monotone.
“I’m right here.”
[MC Marinette]
In the MC canon, Marinette is actually incorruptible. She doesn’t have horrific luck like the canon Marinette does and either she or someone else solves her big problems. Lila might be able to make her a bit miserable, but MC Marinette would never experience anything emotionally-destabilizing enough to warrant an akuma.
[Canon Adrien]
I’d make Adrien an akuma to teach him some sort of lesson.
The akumatization itself would probably involve Gabriel becoming desperate. He would be willing to do anything to get the miraculouses at this point.
Even if it means akumatizing his own son. After all, Adrien seems enamored with Ladybug and Gabriel figures that he or Nathalie might be able to manipulate that into something useful.
And Adrien is easy to manipulate, given how entitled he can act and how insistent he is on pursuing Ladybug romantically when she has no interest in him.
Post-deakumatization, he’d realize the disaster he almost caused (he thankfully didn’t give away his identity as Chat, convinced it would give him some sort of advantage) and would go to Ladybug as Chat to pretend like he merely had an epiphany on the matter. He’d acknowledge that he never meant for his attraction to go so far that it made her uncomfortable.
He would be vulnerable enough to properly absorb it this time when Ladybug stresses that she doesn’t want to date him (nor anyone else, for that matter) in her superhero form. It’s way too risky and Chat isn’t helping with his constant advances.
Even if Chat wants to argue, he knows he has no ground to stand on, so he agrees.
How would MC akumAdrien be other than Chat Blanc?
[MC Adrien/Chat]
I was never a fan of just making the superhero akumatizations nothing but them being inverted. I’d probably go for a combination of them being a “monster” form of whatever their miraculous represents (so, a monstrous cat for a cat miraculous user) and a trait of the person behind the mask, like Adrien’s want to not be hounded by fans and slink into the background, for example (giving him the ability to blend into shadows).
As for how it’d happen…
Chat wasn’t sure how far he’d run. He wasn’t sure when he’d started to.
All he knew was that he was following the white peacock feather wherever it was going to go. Every footstep reminded him of his mission: finding Hawk Moth. Following the feather was the best lead he’d ever had.
As the peacock floated through darkness, Chat finally realized that he was in a long dark hallway. Where was this? Was this in the mansion?
He pulled out his baton, dialing Ladybug.
No answer. While trying to keep an eye on the feather, Chat spoke “Ladybug, quick! I have a lead on the peacock, you have to–”
A light came on right as the feather passed by it. It continued flying down the hall, its pattern irregular but seeming to have a purpose.
Chat hesitantly put his baton back and walked after the feather.
Each light flicked on one-by-one as Chat continued. He was tense, ready for a supervillain to surprise him at any time.
Yet, as he stepped into the last area of darkness, his foot hit something and the light near it came on, revealing an even worse surprise.
As the peacock feather floated down to rest on the glass casing of a coffin, he saw his mother lying inside.
Chat inhaled sharply. He stumbled back, eyes widening as he stared down into the coffin.
He forgot his current state as Chat. “M-mom?” he called.
He rushed forward, banging on the casing. The feather was jostled around, but remained resting on the coffin. “Mom! Mom, are you okay? Please be okay! Answer me!”
A voice echoed through the halls, but it wasn’t the one Chat wanted. “Your mother has been in this state for quite a time, Adrien. She’s not going to answer you.”
The feather suddenly floated away, as if hit by a small gust of wind, while Chat jerked his head toward the voice.
There, standing a good distance away, was a tall, slender woman. Her long flowing blue dress almost touched the ground, but Chat noticed hints of purple. She had two weapons: a cane and a fan.
Two miraculouses? She had two of them?
Chat finally registered what she’d called him: Adrien. He looked down at himself, then remembered that he’d called Emilie “Mom”.
There was no turning back. He’d just have to take the woman’s miraculouses while he waited for Ladybug.
“Y-you!” Chat pulled out his baton, standing in front of his mother protectively. “Who are you and what did you do to my mother?”
“I’m your savior,” she spoke calmly. “And I didn’t do anything. It’s your father who’s to blame.”
“Liar!” Chat yelled.
He watched as the woman moved her fan out of the way, making Chat now able to see the peacock and butterfly brooches lined up along the center of her chest.
“I took these from him,” she said without apology. “You didn’t think it was odd that he had a book of miraculouses?”
Chat went to yell again, but the words died before he could use them.
It was odd. Of course it was odd. He thought that, but…
No…
“No!” Chat shook his head. “I don’t believe you!”
He stood there stiffly, warily, waiting for the woman to make a move.
She chuckled darkly. “You’re wondering if I only just now learned your identity. I assure you, I’ve known for a while.”
Chat hesitated, but his curiosity got the best of him. He tried to sound menacing, but his body was shaking and his voice wavered with it. “W-why didn’t you just take my ring then?”
“Because you’re useful to me,” she replied without hesitation.
As the feather returned to her, she placed it back in her fan, the cane remaining standing next to her. She raised a hand, a white butterfly coming down to rest on her palm.
Chat’s eyes widened as he watched her close her hand around the butterfly. A dark aura surrounded her hand, revealing an akuma in the butterfly’s place.
He knew who it was for.
“Y-you’ll never akumatize me!” Chat told her. “I’d never betray Ladybug!”
“You don’t have a choice.” The woman gestured behind Chat. “If you want your mother to wake up again, you’ll need to make a wish with yours and Ladybug’s miraculouses.”
For a split second, he’d considered it. “I–I’d never…I–”
Chat stared down at the floor, frustrated and upset at the sheer overload of information. He could feel his emotions getting to him. He could almost sense the akuma staring into him. “N-no. Mother…”
Ladybug. Where was his lady?
The woman held her palm out. “Fly, my akuma.”
Chat jerked his gaze back up, staggering back as the akuma came toward him. He bumped into the coffin and turned to it, seeing his mother still laying there, motionless.
He had to make a decision. It brought tears came to his eyes. “I-I’m sorry, Mom.”
He placed his baton on the ground, extending it to launch himself into the air. He flew right over the akuma, landing on the floor behind the woman as he ran off in an attempt to escape.
The woman watched without concern, the akuma putting up a fair chase. It was only a matter of time before Chat tired himself out.
The woman turned back to Emilie. “I suppose he’s going to need a hand, hm?”
She took the feather from before out of her fan, then allowed it to darken in his grasp. “You’ll want to protect your son, won’t you?”
She leaned forward, blowing her feather off her palm. It flew across the room, then trailed down and slipped through the coffin’s casing. It fluttered down to the rose attached to Emilie’s jacket, turning the rose an ugly black.
The woman smirked.
How would MC Kwami take it?
Post-deakumatization, Plagg would be livid that someone messed with his holder like that. He might even get reckless, insisting that Adrien go hide somewhere while he takes care of the mystery woman himself.
Do you have any headcanons or favorite fandom akuma forms for akuMarinette?
Just general headcanons on an akumatized Marinette?
If I were to theoretically akumatize Ladybug, I would have the akuma be in only one earring (akuma don’t go into more than one object, after all). Ladybug would then have to remove it and simultaneously drop it into her yoyo to cleanse it before fully detransforming.
She’d be a very hard supervillain to face because she’d have to willingly give up her akuma herself since only she can open her yoyo.
I also headcanon that the amount of humanity that seeps through an akumatized person depends on their will. Marinette has such a strong will that she can mentally force Hawk Moth out of her mind if there are things she doesn’t want him to see/hear. She’d try to feel out Hawk Moth to see if she can get a read on his location.
Potentially, she’d try to get Chat’s ring so Hawk Moth will meet up with her and she can double-cross him. She’d block Hawk Moth out of her mind and insist that Adrien secretly follow her so she can give him his ring back once the betrayal happens.
Essentially, akumatized Marinette is OP as heck and Hawk Moth would be an idiot to try and akumatize her.
My favorite akumanettes are the same as everyone else’s basically, but I’m also biased because my friends are very talented and I love their work most.
Zoe’s Little Devil is basically everything I ever wanted in a salty canon divergence. It’s satisfying, creative, beautifully drawn, and was timed perfectly. Zoe is incredible at design and it shows here. She never needs to write long, complex stories because her art speaks for itself and gAH, IT’S SO GOOD.
There’s also Punch’s Manynette. What’s better than one Marinette? Manynette! It’s an enjoyable ride to watch the Manynette go crazy as everyone is just like “????” and honestly, it gets to the point where you almost don’t want Manynette to get de-akumatized. (Ha, imagine that; Hawk Moth just has to give up and all the Manynette become less and less like each other as they develop. Love interests abound!)
Also admittedly a sucker for Pursecutor if for no other reason than I can appreciate a good pun with some quality trash on top.
