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She had to accept Felix won

Ladybug was understandably very angry when Felix resurfaced in "Emotion" at the Diamond's Dance, seeing as she and Cat Noir have been searching for him ever since he handed over all the miraculous in the miracle box to Monarch back in "Strike Back".

Losing all the miraculous to Monarch was a major blow for Ladybug, the sacrifices alone she had to make to ensure the safety of the magical jewels took its toll on her the more they grew over time, leaving her no other choice but to even sacrifice her own relationships(temporarily) as well as her own peace of mind. No one understood just how hard she worked to keep Monarch from taking the jewels from her, even spending many sleepless nights creating plans to prevent a future possibility. However, the one thing she never considered, was someone other than Monarch, Felix, taking all the miraculous.

("Kuro Neko" and "Destruction", we are shown that Marinette would spend many sleepless nights crafting plans to ensure the safety of the miraculous)

It was only natural for Ladybug to assume Felix was working alongside Monarch, given he had previously attempted to form an alliance with him back in "Felix", rather than side with the heroes. But through every encounter they had with Felix, his motives have always remained a great mystery, including too Adrien, who grew up with Felix.

(Of course Felix worked alone and never planned to work alongside Monarch, he was merely a crucial part to his plans of obtaining the peacock miraculous(more here). )

Ordinarily, Ladybug was used to taking the time to understand her enemies, it was because of this level of understanding she developed over people like Monarch and his akumatized villains, that allowed her to figure out their next move and plan ahead. Although Ladybug believed Felix was no different than Monarch if he resorted to manipulating, deceiving and leaving others to suffer the consequences of his decisions, she could never truly understand who Felix was. She couldn't plan ahead and figure out what his next move would be, leaving her to only wonder why he did everything he did despite them posing no actual threat to him.

( Ladybug could not understand Felix.)

Felix said he had plans to create a free world where no one would be excluded like he was, where no one would fall under anyone's control and be forced to abide by what others thought was right and wrong.

Of course listening to Felix's reasoning for wanting a free world was the last thing Ladybug ever wanted to do, he was after all, the one who made her lose everything, not just the kwamis and the miraculous, but faith in herself, along with the faith many people had in her. After losing all the miraculous to Monarch, Ladybug could not trust herself to be the guardian and the protector she promised to be for all those in Paris back in "Origins part 2". Worse yet, some citizens did not hesitate to proclaim to the world how much they believed Ladybug was not capable of being their protector, preferring to focus on the consequences of Monarch obtaining so much power from her one mistake, rather than look back on everything else she had done for the public that proved she was fit to be their hero.

(In "Determination, Ladybug was hesitant on making choices amidst a fight, believing there was reason to doubt herself and whether or not she could make the right choices.)

Such a defeat from Monarch and such cruel words from the public, left Ladybug in a constant state of indecision, wondering if her choices over a matter would truly solve a problem or just make things worse, just as much as it did when she believed it was the correct choice to trust who she thought was Adrien (who was really Felix) with the dog miraculous back in "Strike Back".

Of course Cat Noir was there by her side to help her remember what she was capable of, but that level of doubt she had over herself was not something she could ever truly stray away from, because unlike most people, her decisions decided the safety of millions. Facing Felix in "Emotion" gave her the opportunity to finally confront the person who left her with so much loss, but amidst being consumed by her own emotions, angered at everything Felix had done, she forgot that what she was searching for in a fight was not revenge, but a solution.

To Ladybug, the solution seemed obvious: use whatever her lucky charm gave her to help piece together a way to win against Felix, allowing her to take back the peacock miraculous and in turn undue everything he had done. But when the time came for her to rely on her abilities and use her powers of creation to find the solution that would lead the way to the victory she hoped to obtain, to her surprise, her powers gave her nothing.

In all her time as a hero, Ladybug had never been in a battle where her powers of creation left her nothing, she had never been in a situation where she could not do anything to piece together a way to solve a problem that at times even seemed hopeless to solve.

Every problem has a solution, those words always resonated within Ladybug and everyone that knew her, but by being faced with a problem she had no chance of taking action against, left her realizing something she never thought to consider, which was that there was a solution to the problem in front of her, it just wasn't what she was hoping for. Her lucky charm gave her nothing, because that was exactly what she needed to do, nothing.

(Ladybug understand what the lucky charm was trying to tell her)

Alya always said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing. To save the day against evil, Ladybug felt it was only right to do anything and everything she could to win for the sake of others. Doing nothing was never something she thought she would ever have to do, but she had to, because as much as she wanted to believe Felix was the evil one who needed to be stopped, to know that the only solution was nothing, left her wondering if she even knew what winning actually meant, now that her own plans of winning against Felix were not going to turn out the way she had hoped. As much as Ladybug wanted to win, it became abundantly clear she was NOT the one who was meant to stop Felix.

It pained Ladybug to admit it, but she had to accept she could not win against him, she could not take back the peacock miraculous and she could not undue what he had done, but she could still accomplish what she knew she could, and that was find a solution. After her lucky charm told her to do nothing, Ladybug could only focus on one thing and one thing only, Felix. Felix wasn't just the cause of the problem, he was also the solution.

(The only one who could put a stop to Felix and everything he had unleashed onto the world, was Felix. )

Despite learning about his intentions to create a free world, Ladybug still couldn't understand why he wanted such a world due to one very crucial piece of information she did not yet know about him, and that was the fact that Felix was a senti human born from the power of the peacock miraculous, who had spent a lifetime being denied the freedom to live and make his own choices on what he wanted to do in his life.

Felix spoke of freedom and how much he wanted his new world to revolve around being freed from the control of others, but if freedom was all he wanted, then that's all Ladybug could leave him with. Ladybug had to leave Felix the freedom to decide if he wanted to stop himself, and if winning wasn't what she thought it would be, then chances are, it wouldn't be for Felix either, and it wasn't.

(Ladybug leaves Felix with the freedom to make his own choice.)

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Winning wasn't what Felix hoped it would be.

Even though Felix didn't get the ladybug and cat miraculous in "Emotion", he still accomplished what he set out to do, he defeated the heroes and used his own power to transform the world into what he wanted it to be, regardless of not getting a wish from the miraculous. Felix got what he wanted, only to realize he became everything he hated.

Felix's goals have always revolved around the peacock miraculous, however, the deeper he got in his mission to obtain the very jewel that controlled his entire existence, the more he uncovered secrets that left him resentful towards the people in his life and the world around him.

Felix resented Gabriel for not only keeping secrets he and his mom had a right to know (more here), but for also making the careless decision to entrust the peacocks power to his father, Colt, of all people.

It was no coincidence Felix looked like Adrien, and with Colt's death having been revealed in "Felix", it was obvious his death was a direct result using the peacock miraculous to bring to life a son that looked like Gabriel's. Anyone who used the peacock's power in its broken state was doomed to die from it. The jewel alone remained within the Agreste family, no one but the people closest to them would know about its power, Colt being one of them. Unfortunately, for much of Felix's life, people thought his dad was keeping him out of trouble, meaning that before Colt's death, Felix was well known for being a very obedient son, but this was far from the truth.

Felix's lack of grief over Colt's death implied he had a deep hatred for his dad and for good reason, Colt possessed the ring that contained Felix's amok, but he abused the power he had over Felix and Felix knew Gabriel was the same way towards Adrien, worse yet, he later learned it was the same for Kagami and her family (more here).

With Colt gone, and his fathers ring now in his possession, Felix was shown to be willing to be extremely defiant to those around him after years of being restrained by his father from being who he wanted to be, leaving him willing to do anything he could if it meant he could get what he wanted, regardless of the consequences it would bring onto others.

Kagami and Adrien also had a strong desire to break away from their parents control, but were more secretive about wanting to do so, because unlike Felix, the fear of disappointing their parents expectations was still there to keep them in line. However, this didn't stop Felix from attempting to make the two question how unnatural it was for them to obey.

(Back in "Felix", Felix questions Adrien's willingness to obey all of Gabriel's orders.)

(In "Emotion", Felix questioned Kagami if she was truly as free as she claimed, she wasn't.)

Felix might have been freed from his fathers control, and later became successful in re-obtaining the peacock miraculous, but there were still obstacles preventing him from obtaining what he believed was a true sense of freedom in the world, not just for himself but for everyone he felt never had the right to take control of their own lives. With the threat of people like Colt still present in the world, such as Gabriel and Tomoe, Felix was convinced he alone had to bear the responsibility of freeing anyone who was still under the control of others. But as it turns out, Felix's desire for freedom ran a lot deeper than anyone realized.

In "Emotion", when Marinette told Felix how unsettling it was to see everyone at the Diamonds Dance look at her like she was some kind of monster who was unfit to live among them, a nerve was struck, enough to make Felix drop his Adrien act at the dance.

Felix knew the feeling Marinette was experiencing, because he had experienced it every day of his life. Felix might have been created from the peacock's power to be just as human as everyone else, but the look on his face as he heard Marinette talk about how the people of high status within the room felt they were entitled to decided who should and shouldn't be a monster among them, brought him back to the one person who made him feel like he would forever be excluded from humanity, his father.

To know the kind of control another person could have over another living being, especially a senti like him, was enough to leave Felix with the conclusion that if he couldn't be part of the world without being looked at as a monster, then perhaps it was the world that had to be transformed to be fit for those who had just as much right to decide their own future, without fear of being looked at as a thing that needed to be controlled and wiped from existence by those who felt they were entitled to do so.

Felix did some terrible things to get to where he needed to be in "Emotion", but regardless of what he did, he truly believed that everything he did to create a free world, he did for the sake of the people he cared about. However, his hopes and dreams quickly turned into delusions blinding him from seeing that he was destroying everything he swore to bring everyone in his life.

Regardless of how unhappy Kagami and Adrien were over Felix's plans to wipe out everyone, including the people they loved, who stood in his way of creating his ideal world for them, Felix genuinely thought they would come around to seeing the good in his gift to them. For the first time in their entire lives, they were free, and anyone who posed a threat to control them again, friends and family alike, were now gone. If they needed something or someone to feel happy in their new world, he could easily give it to them, like Marinette, who proved to Felix she only wanted to support Adrien's efforts in deciding what was best for himself and had no intentions of controlling him like Gabriel did. However, what changed everything Felix believed was well within his control, was Marinette's disappearance.

Felix was successful in his plans, but the one thing that made it all come crashing down, was fear over his own power. To Felix, people like Gabriel, Tomoe and Colt were the real monsters of the world who had to disappear, but as Felix panicked in "Emotion" the more he believed he couldn't bring back Marinette, he grew terrified the more he realized he really did do the one thing only a monster like his father would do, he misused his power and snapped another living being out of existence in a fit of anger, with no way of bringing them back. In an instant, Felix realized he really was becoming no different than Monarch( Gabriel), than Tomoe, and to his horror, his own father.

In the midst of believing he was not in control of himself and the immense power he had, power that allowed him to decide who could and couldn't exist, Felix thought back to what he told Ladybug, he said there was no price too high for him to pay in his pursuit of a free world, as he had nothing left to lose, but he did.

It was easy enough to disregard anyone who posed a sense of authority against him, but there was Adrien and Kagami, the two people in his life who shared his struggle as a sentibeing, calling him the monster among them, desperate to stop his plans.

Felix won, but now, in order to keep that victory, he would have to be willing to snap away the very people in his life he wanted to help, just as he did with the rest of humanity in Paris, but was he willing to do it? No, he wasn't.

(Felix explains that he never meant to hurt Adrien and Kagami, he only wanted to give them what he felt they had a right to have, a life where they were free to decide their own future)

Ladybug said winning isn't always what you think it is. Felix wanted a world where no one would be controlled, and he got it, but now, it was he who was in control of everyone else, deciding who could and couldn't exist in the world depending on whether or not they would stand against him, stand against what he believed was right and wrong.

(Felix made everyone who fought against him disappear with the snap of his fingers the moment the light of his red moon touched them)

Felix had hoped that in his world, no one would be excluded like he was, everyone would be free and happy and accepted now that the people who excluded them were gone. But now, everyone would only be as happy and free as he would let them, anyone else he believed was unfit to be part of his world, were in the end excluded, regardless of posing no actual harm to him or the people he cared about.

Felix wanted everyone in his world to be free to decide their own future. However, by denying Adrien and Kagami their choice to live a future alongside the people they cared about, people like Marinette, it was he who was now keeping everyone from living the life they wanted to choose for themselves, just as his father once did to him.

And rather than create his senti brethren out of a greater sense of compassion towards them, he created his first sister, the red moon, out of a deep rooted hatred for others, just like his father did when he used the peacocks power to create him(more later). Everything Felix did, he thought he did for the sake of freedom, but amidst all that he planned, it felt more and more like Felix found himself doing everything he could for the sake of finally being the one who was in control, after a lifetime of being someone else's puppet.

Felix said he wanted everyone to be free to decide their own future, to be free to be who they wanted to be, but out of everything he ever wanted to be, he never wanted to believe he was a monster. Felix told Ladybug there was no price too high for him in his pursuit of creating a free world, but if the price of that free word meant he had to be every bit the monster his father was, someone he likely swore never to become, then he would rather give up the world he won, and he did.

(Felix returns all of humanity and snaps the red moon out of existence, giving up on creating a free world and choosing to risk returning to a life in a world where he could lose his freedom all over again. Winning was not worth become the monster his father was. )

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Gabriel was a monster to them now.

When Felix brought up ending Gabriel's reign of controlling other people, he mentions his mother as well as himself as part of the list of people Gabriel was turning into what he wanted them to be, and no wonder. Aside from hiding the existence of the peacock miraculous from Felix, the very jewel that controlled Felix's entire existence in the world, Gabriel was deliberately trying to make sure Felix and Amelie remained as naïve as possible, unaware of his true nature and the secrets he hid from them.

Ever since Amelie's first introduction in "Felix" it was obvious she had a lot of love and care for Emelie's family, wanting to be there for them even in their darkest times, but Gabriel for one could not care any less for Amelie.

Amelie may be Emelie's only sister, but Gabriel viewed her and the rest of her family as more of a nuisance. He hated Colt, Felix's dad, to the point of not attending his funeral, hated Felix for everything he did that led up to their confrontation in "Strike Back", where Felix threatening to expose his secrets if he didn't give up the peacock miraculous. And while Amelie made past efforts to keep their families close by visiting, Gabriel for one disliked having her around.

(Back in "Felix", Amelie planned a surprise visit to the Agreste' mansion, hoping they could all be together on the anniversary of Emelie's disappearance, something Adrien greatly appreciated, but not Gabriel.)

Aside from her timely visits, it was Amelie's willingness to confront Gabriel’s lack of attention over important matters within their families that only ever wound up clashing with Gabriel's secrets, such as the subject of returning his and Emelie's wedding rings, the very items containing Adrien's amok, but were rings that were still very important to her too as they were originally part of the Graham De Vanily family, not the Agreste's.

In "Emotion", Amelie did eventually questioned why Gabriel had become so cruel after Emelie disappeared, but she never imagined he actually cared so little about her and Felix.

When Felix set out his plan in "Emotion" to create a world free of anyone like Gabriel who would control others, it's shown at the end of the episode that he wanted his mom to open her eyes and realize that the people she thought were her family and friends, were all just monsters.

Back in "Multiplication", when it was shown that Amelie was secretly hiding Felix at home after the events of "Strike back", Amelie never told anyone that Felix was never missing, and yet despite the heroes questioning and regardless of his actions in "Emotion", Amelie never saw Felix as the bad guy, partly because she was his mom, but also because she had a great deal of trust in knowing that whatever her son was doing, he had his reasons for doing it.

Of course, Felix's past actions would not be easily forgiven by the heroes, he still had to face the consequences when the time came for him to return to the public eye, but Felix's willingness to reveal his identity as Argos to his mom, likely meant that Amelie was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and trust her son on the matters of questioning who she was committing her life to.

When Amelie showed up to the Diamonds Dance, Amelie pointed out that a search had taken place for Felix after he went "missing", but despite her hopes, Gabriel and the rest of his friends never reached out to her to offer a helping hand. It's unknown how much Felix told Amelie about what happened in "Risk" and "Strike back", but regardless, Amelie got the point of why her son wanted her to question Gabriel's lack of effort in helping her. Amelie made a lot of effort to show she still cared for Gabriel and Adrien, even after Emilie disappeared, but it was Gabriel's, and the rest of his club members, lack of compassion towards her struggles in "loosing" her son that finally made her realize she had wasted much of her life caring about members of a high society who never cared about her.

Felix's decision to show his mom the reality of her connections, and thereby ending them, might have been crushing for his mom, but odds are, the final straw Felix had in continuing to stand by and watch his mom waste her love on people who did not deserve it, was the secret hiding under the Agreste mansion, Emelie.

(The shock of finding Emelie's body under the Agreste mansion, was enough to nearly make Felix blow his cover when he was pretending to be Adrien in "Risk")

In "Risk", Felix found Gabriel's secret underground lair, the very place Emelie's body was being contained, but at the time, Felix was only searching for the peacock miraculous, he never imagined Gabriel was secretly hiding Emelie's body under his mansion, and this was of course extremely horrifying to discover, because he and his mom thought Emelie just straight up disappeared one day, that no one, not even Gabriel, knew what happened to her. Adrien, Gabriel and Nathalie went through their own grief after Emelie was no longer able to be part of their lives, but for Amelie, that grief would have been just as terrible to bare when she found out she had lost her only sister. Much like Adrien, Amelie had to live with knowing that she had to accept that Emelie was just gone, she would never know what happened to her, and Felix was there by his mom's side when it all happened. It doesn't seem like Felix told his mom the truth about Emelie, but given the severity of it all, he didn't want her to suffer anymore grief over the truth about his aunt.

Felix holds a great deal of respect for his aunt Emelie and obviously would have had his share of grief when he thought she was gone forever, but to know that Gabriel hid the truth behind Emelie's disappearance from his mom, along with everyone else, never giving her the chance she needed to know what really happened to her only sister and say goodbye before she finally succumbed to her illness, must have infuriated Felix.

But to know that Gabriel would even go as far as making threats to get rid of him and leave his mom to suffer the loss of another loved one ("Gabriel Agreste"), all to obtain the ring that controls Adrien, and dissuade him from further pursuing his secret as Shadow Moth, only further convinced Felix that Gabriel was the one who had to disappear, before he made things any worse for his mom, himself and Adrien.

(In "Gabriel Agreste", Gabriel spoke through his sentiGabriel to threaten Felix. In this moment, Gabriel was no longer an ordinary uncle to Felix, he was a monster)

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Kagami couldn't break away.

Knowing now that Kagami was a senti all along, who's amok Felix could sense was also tied to her own family's ring, makes the conversation they had later on during the Diamonds dance all the more important about Kagami and how she had lived her life, unaware of the true level of control her mother had over her growing up. 

(As holder of the peacock miraculous, Felix can sense amoks in his civilian form, Nathalie experienced this as well back in "Feast" when she sensed the amok of the petrified Feast senti at the museum.)

Seeing as it took Felix years before he finally realized his life was tied to the ring his father wore and how that same ring was being used to control him, its no wonder Felix looked so troubled as he stared at Kagami's ring all the while he heard her talk about how people in her family choose to obey orders, he knew Kagami was not aware that her choice to obey, was never her choice to begin with.

In "Protection", Tomoe said she deemed Kagami so perfect, she didn't need to control her, basically revealing that she only gave Kagami the ring that contained her amok, because Kagami was conditioned to obey even without the ring in her mothers possession. This is of course saddening for Kagami, because for much of her life, she did not wield the ring containing her amok, Tomoe did. Tomoe had already made it very obvious throughout the series that she had ensured Kagami would not stray from the path in life that was already decided for her, she was conditioned to never do anything without her mothers permission even after being given the ring that could directly control her.

There was never any need for Tomoe to believe Kagami would stray away from her mothers expectations, because Kagami was well aware she needed to uphold her title as the perfect daughter and only heiress to the Tsurugi family, one her mother would approve of to carry on their family legacy.

( Tomoe is not afraid to show her immense disapproval over Kagami's sense of free will)

Kagami never questioned her willingness to obey the orders her mother gave her over the years, because her mother made it seem like she was entirely in control of deciding for herself if she wanted to abide by the orders given to her, because doing so meant she was just carrying on the traditions their ancestors expected their descendants to uphold, but such tradition only wound up pressuring Kagami to stray away from a life she wanted to choose for herself.

Although Kagami had gradually begun to realize that her family's way of life was making her miserable and that the beliefs she was expected to carry on were not very morally correct, she had yet to talk to her mother about her disapproval over much of what their family stood for. The few times Kagami had talked to her mother, only ever wound up leaving her too timid to directly question her mothers authority, but left her thinking nonetheless how much her mother's words felt wrong to abide by. Kagami is normally not afraid to speak her mind to others, but in her mothers presence, that courage falls silent the moment she is at risk of facing the consequence of her mothers disappointment.

(When Kagami tried to talk to Tomoe over the matters of making new friends in "Ikari Gozen", Kagami said nothing over her mothers final word that friendships would only prove to be disappointing later, words she held onto and even believed were true for a moment when she thought Marinette never actually consider her a friend in "Perfection")

( When Kagami tried to explain her reasoning for not getting back together with Adrien in "Protection", Kagami remained silent as her mother instructed her to end her friendship with Marinette in order to take Adrien back, words she was not willing to obey due to her love and respect for Marinette, but later became willing to consider when Lila convinced her Marinette manipulated her so as to steal Adrien from her.)

Kagami was not yet made aware that she was a senti who could be controlled through her family's ring, but seeing as Kagami is at times willing to take delight in disobeying her mother, so she could do the little things she wanted to do in secret, even showing delight over Felix's(disguised as Adrien) suggestion to leave the Diamonds dance, despite the possibility of it angering her mother and Gabriel, makes it obvious there has always been a part of Kagami that wanted to break away from everything her mother continued to use against her to keep her under control, she just didn't know how to do it without her mother enforcing the idea that she had brought shame onto their family name by choosing her own feelings.

Kagami would often times find herself lying to her mom to obtain brief moments of freedom, but it was that one conversation with Felix(disguised as Adrien) in "Emotion", that finally made her realize that as much as she talked about not letting others pull the strings of their lives, it was she who was not yet willing to accept that she was not as in control of her own life as she wanted to believe.

(Back in "Risk", Kagami was angered over Adrien continuing to let others control his life, doing everything others told him to do without question, like a puppet, and not taking the risk to put an end to it all by cutting his strings and taking back control of his own life, all the while not yet realizing that she was living the same struggle with her mother. Kagami wanted to cut her own strings, but couldn't.)

(Even without the ring, Tomoe is able to keep a strong level of control over Kagami by enforcing the traditions of their family.)

Despite having the free will to choose when and where she could pretend to be her mom's puppet, to be the perfectly obedient daughter her mom expected her to be, Tomoe's sense of control still loomed over Kagami no matter where she was or what she wanted to do.

(As excited as Kagami was over the idea of leaving the dance with Adrien(Felix), Kagami realizes that displeasing her mother was all she could prioritize, proving to Felix, as well as herself, that she was not as free to make her own choices as she claimed)

The only time Kagami felt some sense of freedom in making her own decisions, was when she knew her mother was not around. Of course this never meant she wanted her mother to quite literally disappear off the face of the earth as part of Felix's plan to free her and Adrien from their parents control, through the use of a red moon that would allow Felix to make anyone disappear, but she did have to face the reality that she needed to confront her mother if she ever wanted to break away from such control.

Kagami was already well aware of how disapproving her mom would be over hearing her daughter go against everything that was expected of her and was raised to believe, but if fulfilling her mothers expectations meant she had to give up the freedom of experiencing what little happiness she had in her life while living in Paris, then she had to try to take the risk of changing things.

(Kagami decides to follow Marinette and Adrien's choice to confront Gabriel, and decides to confront her mother about the level of control she has over her life, knowing fully well it would not be an easy task, but was something she had to try and do for herself if she was ever to regain some level of freedom in deciding her own future just like Felix said)