Don't get me wrong I LOVE fics where Ladybug finds out Hawk Moth/Papillon's identity and come up with an elaborate plan to take him down with evidence enough to send his creepy ass to jail for 100 years
BUT
I'm STARVING for a story where she just go after him full ballistic no questions no plan just straight up burst into one of his fashion shows, draggs his ass to the walk and just punchs the miraculous out of him.
Bonus points if chaos issues and Gabriel plays the "that's illegal/circumstantial/planted evidence" card and she responds with "That's the police's problem. I have no jurisdiction on that matter. But as far as the Miraculouses goes, I'm judge, jury and executioner, and this. ends. here."
And just, you know, takes his Miraculous, goes to his house and takes the rest of the shit he stole back, and leaves the legal nightmare for the people who are actually paid to deal with that. She has more important stuff to do like wake up Emilie and convince Adrien to find a therapist
EXTRA Bonus points if Chat Noir goes ape shit together with her
Cold air slapped into Chat’s face, a chilling reminder of reality and all it bore with it. It was Chaos...that was the only way to describe it. Pure Chaos,and not the kind he was used to inflicting.No, this was beyond the nature of balance, of Yin and Yang; this was evil and cruel beyond measure. This couldn’t be real;this was a nightmare from the void itself. A nightmare pierced by those crystal eyes that he so adored. They looked sad, but not in pain, as he might have presumed.
She was in his arms, but for how long he could not guess. She was falling apart, leaves in the wind of an uncalled Autumn. Crumbling would be the right word,but it felt too serious, or maybe too honest. Ladybug, the saviour of Paris, was dying, in his arms; one hand of his was wrapped about her shoulders, the other was pressed against her stomach, the point where he had struck her.
He had struck her.
He could see it, flashes of battle, a terrible battle surging past like shreds of an old movie in one of those old theatres.He was, hollow, a shell for something foul and invoking of rage unparalleled. He gulped, an image repeating in his mind again and again, the wheel of film seemingly jammed. It was his claw, glowing in ancient energy... Cataclysm, it was Cataclysm, destroyer of cities and ancient foes, a fundamental of everything... he had... he shook his head, no, he couldn’t have! That was impossible!
Turning his head sharply, Chat cast his eyes onto those of Ladybug;she was smiling at him expectantly. But it was pained just along the edges of her lips,reminiscent of a child who was trying too hard to lie. Eyes locked with his love, Chat felt the unnatural rage within subsided, swallowed by something cold and darker than any rage; grief. Ladybug was crumbling, to dust, or sand, he couldn't tell; nor did he care too. It was spreading, slowly from her stomach where his hand still floated, his point of contact having long since evaporated.
He felt tears well up in his emerald eyes, he had attacked Ladybug, HE! Chat Noir! Her Protector! How could he have done this? Why? He loved her, more than anything else, more than the sunrise,more than the lunar light, more than the air he breathed. His breathing became uneven, random and desperate for more oxygen than it could handle. But his heart was truly ruined; it was a mess, a charging beast that desired nothing more than to cut itself in half. He heaved for a moment, once...twice, his throat was dry, raw even and his chest ached all over. His whole system wanted to give in, to collapse,but it grieved instead.
“MY LADY! MY LADY!” He screamed, his words those of a broken man and a shattered child all at once. The tears came in downpours, a rain in their own right.
“Chat?” a quiet, familiar voice whispered, the tone clearly strained. As the words reached Chat’sears, a soft touch of fabric graced his jawline; it was Ladybug’s right hand.
“My...” he began, refocusing on her before she interrupted him.
“You came... back... to me,” Ladybug managed between pained breaths, her fingers delicately gracing Chat’s jawline. “I knew you would... I knew... You’ve never let me down Chat... that’s why you're my partner in crime.”
As those words settled in his mind, Chat felt his heart collapse under the weight of the stars above,for they were the witness to his crime. Even now, with her final breaths drawing near, she was kind to him. Chat felt the streams of forbidden water cut down his checks; he couldn’t do this,say goodbye. Their story had just begun, years of saving and maybe decades of love was meant to be; should have been. He knew this, in his heart; he had always known this, that there was someone out there, someone for him. As a child he had dreamt of such a person, someone kind, compassionate and courageous. So many had told him, as the winters had passed on by, that he was a dreamer,people were imperfect, it was just how we were. But they had been wrong, they didn’t understand, it wasn't the perfection he had dreamed of, but someone who inspired the greatness in you.Ladybug, it was Ladybug he had dreamt of.
“Chat,” a voice called quietly, pulling him back from the abyss. “Thank you, for...” she coughed violently, so much so that Chat was surprised she didn’t cough up blood. “...for being my Partner, I’m gonna go now...okay, and please, no puns... you silly kitty.”
She was gone, the celestial light in her eyes died and not with a great flash as they deserved, being stars in their own right; but with fading glow more reminiscent of a desperate struggle against the inevitable. With the dying light, a surge of cold air cut at his bones and the creeping advance of destruction surged up Ladybug’s form, her now cold eyes turning to dust in an instant, his hand that had supported her back now clung to thin air and he stared at nothing but rapidly vanishing dust .Nothing Remained Nothing but her memory, a grieving, unlucky Chat and two delicate looking earrings.
The World had just lost its brightest star, Ladybug was no more.
She had flown through his grip as quickly as his time had passed in her presence
First of all you don’t have to read it or take notes of what I’m going to say. You do what you want, fanfiction isn’t meant to be accurate anyway. But I know some mlb fans do researches for their fanfictions so I thought I was gonna help (some people might already know what I’m gonna say anyway).
In France we don’t have fire escapes
We don’t have sororities or stuff like that in our universities, lmao most of them don’t even have dorms (at least mine doesn’t). But there are students associations and sometimes college sport teams but it’s nothing like in the U.S. I think
There are rarely universities dorms but we have things like student residences which are independents from the schools (I’m currently living in one and it’s pretty cool)
French college students and young adults usually don’t own trucks, (I don’t know why in every American teen movies they all have trucks) but if you want to give a cheap car to a character, choose a small car like a 3 doors car or something from an European brand (like Renault or Citroën), that’s usually what French parents give their children (french brands are cheaper obviously since they aren’t imported)
We don’t have Walmart or Target, but we have Franprix, Monoprix or Carrefour
Gallerie Lafayette is a pretty famous and dare I say expensive (but still affordable, do you know what I mean?) fashion boutique and you can buy a lot of different stuff there (clothes, underwear, bags, accessories etc…)
Underage kids don’t legally drink wine or alcohol wtf?
Paris is a pretty dirty city, like I mean obviously it’s a big city and there is a lot of pollution so keep that in mind. And peoples aren’t really nice apparently
Until this year, for the two last years of high school (première and terminale) we had what was called “filières” where basically children had to choose between following a scientific cursus (S), a literary one (L) , or an economic one (ES) (and a lot more but those three were the “general branches”)
Oh and we don’t have prom, or a ceremony at the end of high school (well, we do but it’s often to reward the best students) or stuff like that (some establishment decide to have a prom, like my junior high school, but it’s pretty rare)
At the end of High school we have an exam called the Baccalauréat (or just the bac), we all pass the french exam at the end of the penultimate year (première) + the science exam for literary and economic branches + somes orals, and we had the rest of the other tests in Terminale (philosophy, languages (orals and written exams), sport, history, and math, bio and physics for the S cursus). --> but this year (or next year i don’t remember) there wil be a reform but it seem pretty shitty and I’m not concerned anymore anyway lmao
And I’m going to get murdered for that and I don’t want to clash writers etc but I really don’t like when people put random French words in their English fanfictions? (except french words existing in the english vocabulary (like cliché, fiancé, coup d’état etc) Like you can do it, it’s fine, but… I think it’s unnecessary and it’s personally make me lose my focus when I’m reading. Maybe it’s because I’m French but I mean I would feel the same way if I was reading a book and suddenly there is a random russian word for no reason. I mean, y’all were saying that including Japanese words in Naruto fanfictions was cringe or whatever but when it’s French words it’s not? Maybe it’s a western thing.
Again I don’t want to sound mean, the last part was just my personal opinion you don’t have to acknowledge it at all lol. You do you, I do me, I just never saw someone complain about that before
I just want to help those who want to be accurate in their fanfictions (even if the show itselft isn’t “french” accurate).
I probably forgot a lot of things and made typos so feel free to add stuffs or correct me if you want
idk I really like Malediktator a lot more than Frozer? stupid ramblings under a cut
Frozer didn’t add anything new or exciting to the plot. It’s the same old rehashed thing we’ve done a thousand times already. Everything in that episode feels like it’s been done before, except this time around Marinette is being less creepy about her crush on Adrien (while Cat is acting like a brat yet again in face of Ladybug’s rejection). Kagami is interesting and I like her and Adrien - Luka still feels like a blank slate of a character who doesn’t have a lot going on. We know that he’s nice, he likes music, he’s Juleka’s brother... and that’s about it. Heck, I can’t even tell if he actually likes Marinette or if he’s extending the same big brother instincts to her.
And the akuma itself? Really disappointing tbh, the matter was solved in less than five minutes. Tho it is cool to see the power-ups come back!
Malediktator, though, now that was a substance-filled episode! Chloe acknowledging that she’s hurt someone else! Chloe changing for the better! Some substance to friggin Andre who’s been a bit of a chew toy satellite for Chloe! Pollen!! Queen Bee and Ladybug working together!!!
Yeah, there were some parts that could be improved, but like... people are imperfect. Adrien was right when he said that no one is useless, and he wasn’t trying to rain on anyone’s parade when they were throwing the party, so idk where people are getting that from. But he could also stand to acknowledge how Chloe’s hurt Marinette before. Again though, people are imperfect, and I personally feel like that adds to it.
Chloe’s changing for the better is just one of my personal favorite character arcs overall, though. Idk why but I’m a sucker for the trope of “spoiled rich brat becomes a legitimately better person after realizing their mistakes and they actively try to change”, which is fun for me to see happening in Chloe. She was such a flat character in s1 and I’m thrilled to see that she’s learning, that she has the potential to rise above her background and just grow.
ok but chat noir almost calling gabriel ‘father’ after he’s been ‘de-evilized’
your adrien is showing
granted gabriel is shitty, throwing a fake temper tantrum and lying to his god damn son about not having a backup copy of the book because ‘shit gotta keep that secret identity secret’ is absolute BULLSHIT and i literally hate him even more because of this
here’s my Miraculous Ladybug self-insert who gets akumatized out of frustration that Adrien and Marinette cannot piCK UP THE OBVIOUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM WHY THEY SO DUMB
