Marinette and Adrien's classmates aren't nearly as bad as I thought
Marinette and Adrien's classmates aren't that good of friends, but if you compare them to the kinds of classmates you find in real life, Marinette's class, excluding Chloe, Sabrina and Lila, is more tight-knit and caring than what you see in real life.
A friend of mine helped me realize this. While we saw in Derision that fear kept the classmates from really befrienind Marinette and from coming to her defens, some still tried to be supportive of her when Chloe's back was turned. At this point in the story they still lack the courage that the influence of Ladybug and a more confident Marinette will bring them.
But its better than what my friend called the mass effect, the effect under which it is enough for the most popular or influential student in the class or school to start harassing somoene for the others students to start participating in the bullying too. Either out of fear, or because they want to feel integrated by following the movement of the herd, as foul as it is.
My friend told me that when she was in middle school, she didn't do anything to protect one of her classmate who was bullied, because she was afraid of being bullied too.
If Marinette's classmates had been less benevolent, more stupid and cowardly (and they already are in the story) they would also have participated in the bullying of Marinettes, and would not even have bothered trying to speak to her when Chloé wasn't looking.
At least in Miraculous, Chloé and Sabrina seem to be the only bullies in the class, and Kim still needed be manipulated by the Bourgeois girl for his pranking and teasing to become really harmfull. And althoug he seems to have becomea bully in season 1 with Chloé's influence, from season 2 he stopped being one.
But my friend agrees with me that that the classmates still shouldn't blindly trust Lila if they were good friends. That's why we theorized that they're afraid to speak out against Lila or doubt her, because ifby now they've gained the courage to rebel against Chloe who is always openly mean to everyone, Lil's nice girl act and the fact that she likes to play the victim must probably dissuade them from contradicting her words and her opinion. But if Marinette constantly has to pay for their fear and cowardice, if they prioritize Lila's well-being over Marinette's, then that makes them bad friends to her in my book. But they're still good ad heroic people, and that I can't deny
so,, i have ideas for a ladybug!nathaniel/nathanaël and chat!juleka AU but it’s really a strange set of kwami holders (I love it nonetheless) and the main love sq doesn’t exist for the heroes here
theres a post about a girl who secretly buys flowers for the boys in her class on Valentines day and it made me think that could be something that Chloe would do mid-/post-redemption arc
like maybe Pollen encourages her to do something nice for someone without them knowing it was her, and right around that time the school hosts a fundraiser. So she buys a flower for everyone in her class and marks it from “An Anonymous Classmate”. Valentines Day comes and that morning the flowers are delivered, everyone in class is giddy and excited and trying to figure out who sent them. Chloe’s happy her plan worked well, but didnt think to send herself one tho and she sticks out for being the only person in class who didnt get one. Marinette notices and talks to her classmates about it, and that afternoon Chloe gets a boquet of flowers, all signed from “An Anonymous Classmate”
Crackmas Day 8 || Classmates || Alya asks Marinette to meet her at the school before class starts. Little does she know, Marientte's meeting more than Alya that moring, and the whole class has a little something they want to talk to her about.
Rated G || 606 Words
Cross posted on Ao3 || FF
Prompts can be found here from @mlcrackmas
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BUG OUT!
When Alya asked Marinette to meet her an hour before class started in their classroom, she did everything in her power to achieve that. She set twenty alarms, put her phone down in her room, and told Tikki to pour a glass of water on her if neither of those things worked. After a very wet wakeup call and a giggling Tikki, Marinette was walking through the hall of her school. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d seen the school before the late bell for class had rung.
Marinette was so lost in awe of herself for actually waking up, that it took the slamming of the classroom door behind her to jolt her out of it. Spinning around, Marinette saw Kim with his arms crossed in front of the closed door. “Kim?”
Kim nodded to someone behind Marinette and she turned to see the rest of her class standing in a semi-circle. Alya stepped forward from the middle. “Hey Marinette, glad you could meet me this morning. Or, shall I say, meet us. As Alya gestured to the rest of the group, Marinette saw a range of emotions on their faces. Juleka and Rose looked like they were holding back excitement. Max looked like he was trying to calculate something that involved her. Chole was staring at her slack jawed. Chloe’s slightly awed expression would have been the most surprising of the bunch if it weren’t for Adrien, who was looking at Marinette like he was in love with her.
Marinette’s eyes flew back to her best friend, confusion evident on the bluenette’s face. “Alya, what’s going on?”
“Well bestie, a few of us were talking about Paris’s favorite superheroes the other day and we realized, you and Ladybug have never been seen together.” Alya smirked as Marinette’s eyes blew wide.
Marinette took a calming breath, her and Tikki had prepared for this if it had ever happened. Now she just had to sell it. Cocking a hip, Marinette chuckled and rolled her eyes. “Come on Alya, this was all for nothing. Remember when Alix got akumatized? Ladybug and I were both there at the same time.” When Alya deflated slightly, Marinette felt a little bad, but she had to protect her secret identity.
“But after the second Ladybug appeared, you weren’t there anymore?” Marinette’s head shot to Adrien who sighed wistfully. “Two Ladybugs, two Marinettes, what a dream.” All the classmates looked at Adrien in shock, a deep blush spreading over his face as soon as he realized he’d said that last part out loud.
The reporting hunger reignited in Alya’s eyes. “Adrien’s odd outburst aside, he is right. There were two Ladybugs but no Marinettes. Or rather, as Sunshine said, two Marinettes.”
Marinette knew there was only one way out of this. Opening her bag, she reached in for a small object. Marinette proceeded to smash said small object directly into the ground with the force of a rocket launching itself into the stratosphere. The small smoke bomb exploded in a white cloud. “BUG OUT!” The guttural screech that emanated from the petite girl echoed in the smoke-filled classroom.
All eyes turned to Marinette who was half out one of the classroom windows. Her right arm and leg were hanging outside and the left side of her body was still inside the classroom. Someone cleared their throat, making Marinette’s head jerk to look at her friends, turned audience. Adrien sighed dreamily as Marinette’s eyes met his. “Marry me.” Marinette promptly fell out the window in shock.
Everyone let out a breath of relief when they saw Ladybug swing by a moment later.
