#ml miraculer

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knock knock trick or treat

UH UM OH NO *shoves my piles of félix out of sight* how about some custom flavor djwifi for ladyofthenoodle

thank you to @lesbitorte for providing the song 💕

(halloween ask game)

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I'm wheezing bc of Sabrina here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 she was a third wheel for these two even back then in season 3

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A Theory about Akumas (and Princess Justice)

So I noticed something about akumas, specifically their powers and their intended targets vs. affected targets.

I’ve compiled every instance I can remember of an akuma infecting someone other than its intended target:

1. Chameleon

2. Zombizou

3. Startrain

4. Miraculer

Let’s break down what happened to see what these instances have in common.

1. Chameleon:

In this episode, Lila convinces everyone in the class to switch their seats around so she can sit with Adrien in the very front, while Marinette is kicked to the very back. After Lila threatens her, and turns her classmates and friends against her, Hawk Moth sends out an akuma to evilize Marinette. The akuma comes close to infecting her in the classroom, but when Marinette becomes distracted by classwork, the akuma hover around, waiting for her emotions to come back. Once Lila threatens her in the bathroom, the akuma comes back to once again try to akumatize her, but she fights it off. The akuma ends up crossing the path of Lila, who uses it to her advantage and has it akumatize her through her earring. Her powers in this episode gave her the ability to steal someone’s physical form transitively through kissing them.

2. Zombizou:

In this episode, it is Ms. Bustier’s birthday. The whole class has brought gifts for her except for Chloe, who is implied to have forgotten. Chloe ends up sabotaging part of Marinette’s gift for Ms. Bustier— a make-up bag. Ms. Bustier opens Marinette’s gift in front of the class to reveal the sabotaged gift, and Marinette becomes upset, which leads Ms. Bustier to bring Marinette out into the hallway to talk about how being a good example for kids like Chloe is key, which calms her down. However, the akuma was already sent out, and so it lingers over Marinette and Ms. Bustier until Ms. Bustier is afraid enough for it to infect her. She then becomes Zombizou, and her powers are that she can make people into zombies by kissing them, likewise those zombies can infect other people the same way.

3. Startrain

In this episode, the class is taking a field trip to London on the new Startrain train that is operated by none other than Max’s mom. Roger is driving Sabrina— who is constantly being spammed by Chloe with remarks to hurry up— to the trains station, but he keeps encountering people breaking laws whom are getting away with it because he is off-duty. An akuma is sent out to evilize him, but the akuma becomes trapped in Sabrina’s luggage full of items Chloe may need, and Roger successfully drops off Sabrina and gets back to giving people tickets. The akuma remains in the luggage on the Startrain until Sabrina opens the bag and the akuma infects Max’s mom. Her power as Startrain is to control the train— meaning she can control its location and its interior capabilities— and to use the train to whatever she sees fit.

4. Miraculer -

In this episode, Chloe is standing by for Ladybug to give her the bee miraculous once more so she can fight villains again, and becomes disappointed when she doesn’t turn up. Sabrina, meanwhile, is trying to make Chloe feel better, and asks her if she wants to play “heroes”. Chloe flips out on Sabrina, scaring her away. Now alone, an akuma is sent to Chloe to evilize her and infects a photo of her and Ladybug, but Chloe effectively resists the akuma and it reroutes to successfully infect Sabrina. Sabrina’s powers as Miraculer are that she can steal the powers of any miraculous she can obtain and she can switch between them as she pleases.

Now for what they have in common. Note how in the first two examples, Chameleon and Zombizou, both of their powers are transmitted through kissing. The common factor is that they were both intended for Marinette.

For Miraculer, the miraculous power-stealing ability could have made sense for Chloe, too, because of how desperate she was to have a miraculous once again. For Startrain, the ability to punish people through the controlling of a mode of transportation could have easily been applied to Roger, who desired to punish the ill-doers he saw and who was within his own police car at the time.

The conclusion I reached here was this: An akuma is sent out with powers based on the emotions of the intended target, not whoever ended up as the recipient. Most of the time, the intended target ends up being the recipient of the akuma. But in those episodes mentioned, the two were different.

The assumption that an akuma can be sent out with specific powers in mind (based on the specific emotions/desires of the intended target) can also be seen in Catalyst, when Hawk Moth effortlessly gives Nathalie the specific powers he needs in order to become Scarlet Moth, just as they had planned. Knowledge that an akuma can have specific powers assigned to it based on its intended recipient was what made that plan work. If Hawk Moth had not known what kind of powers the akuma would give Nathalie, then that plan would not have been able to work. Her powers were to give Hawk Moth the ability to become Scarlet Moth because that was her strongest desire, and that’s why the plan worked.

(The akuma’s powers have been shown to be directly related to the desires of its intended recipient before, too. This is because, firstly, this can be seen in every akuma. In Timebreaker, Alix wished for her pocketwatch to be fixed, and so her powers granted her the ability to do that. In Malediktator, Andre Bourgeois wanted to be seen as powerful and worthy to Chloe, so his powers made him an all-powerful dicatator. In Mr. Pigeon, Mr. Ramier wanted justice for the pigeons, and his powers allowed him to make pigeons essentially rule the world. Each power the villain ended up with not only could’ve been applied to its original target, but the powers could be seen in what the targets wanted. )

To summarize:

Chloe wanted her miraculous, but more specifically, the powers her miraculous gave her. She was desperate enough to get her miraculous back that she tried the stupid dance and chant that Lila (who she didn’t even know) had told her would summon Ladybug. This is why Miraculer’s powers being to steal the powers of the miraculous and use them for herself makes total sense for if Chloe were to have been akumatized isntead.

Roger wanted to have control again, to be able to punish the people he saw breaking the law, but was confined by his duty to Sabrina. The fact that he was in his police car made it even worse, because it was almost a taunting of the power he had but the inability to carry out any of that power due to obligation. Therefore, his power being to control and punish, especially through his vehicle, makes sense.

And, finally, the most interesting one, since she has yet to be akumatized. In both Chameleon and Zombizou, Marinette wanted to remain in the safe, loving space of her classroom friend group but was attacked and made to feel hated instead of loved, so it makes sense that her power would’ve been spreading evil or growing her own power transitively through a kiss. This is why I believe when Marinette gets akumatized at some point (likely, as teased, into Princess Justice), her power will affect people through kissing them, just like Chameleon and Zombizou.

this might be a stretch but??? I feel like it makes sense????? I think I’m onto something here

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ok but let’s admit chloe rejecting hawkmoth from akumatizing her is some major character development

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Is this “playing Super Penguino”

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I’m back on this bullshit

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Me, @Hawkmoth this episode when he told Miraculer to go to Chloe instead of taking Chat’s miraculous while he was down

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Thoughts on Miracle Queen

Warning: Spoilers!

So the English Dub is up on YouTube. Now I can write this!

Marinette's monologue is beautiful. It's the continuation of the second part. The English Sub did not capture it, but the Dub made me understand the speaking in the background.

Chloé, now Miracle Queen, stings everyone at their happiest moments and moments of joy (well, almost everyone)

Kim is just so adorable with him returning to Ondine pretending to be a seal.

When the scene goes back to Marinette, the English Sub said the following: "Then there's me. Am I in love with Luka?" But the English Dub was the continuation of the monologue with the explanation over how difficult the journey is to get to that point of joy after loss.

Both Adrien and Marinette were hesitant over being with Kagami and Luka respectively, with Adrien backing away from Kagami from kissing him and Luka sensing that there was something wrong when Marinette wanted to hear the song. Yet both protected them from the Wasps.

I swear, the scene in the Seine was very emotional. Especially since Ladybug initiates a hug with Chat Noir after she breaks down blaming herself for what I like to call "Doomsday". More on this later on.

Chat is aware that merging Miraculous is very dangerous due to the amount of power one holds. See peoples! They are equals and Chat knows stuff too!

Going back to Chloé, how dare she call each Miraculous weilder pathetic! They are all very capable and just because she hates them as civilians, that doesn't make them any less capable!

Master Fu is still alive, but imprisoned! At least he's alive?

Hawkmoth tries to get everyone to go against Ladybug by blaming their doomsday on her. Sir, don't you think she's dealt with enough???

Battle of the Miraculous commences, with their prime target initially to get the Snake Miraculous. Once they do, Chat gets it and becomes Snake Noir (and Ladybug became Dragon Bug as she activated the Dragon Miraculous).

I don't know why (it might be the memes), but I found Snake Noir being launched into the Sun by Pegasus very funny. Like dang Pegasus! There's no need for sending people to the sun!

Using King Monkey's Uproar, they make Miracle Queen's powers go awry so they could take her down.

But Hawkmoth has another akuma with the same power. And Chloé was excited to grab it. This is a problem for two reasons: 1) Chloé's development has come to a halt and landed on a "begin from start" square. So all that development went to the garbage and the hope that she was being a double agent to help Ladybug in the end was crushed, and 2) for Hawkmoth, Chloé cannot be akumatized as she is happy to receive it. This shocks Ladybug (who captured the second akuma) and Chat Noir for obvious reasons.

Chloé wears all the Miraculous, with Ladybug being worried over how she'll handle that many Miraculous. But this is what happens: the Kwamis were like "Nope. You're rude since you are asking us to transform you when you don't know our names and without saying please". KWAMI RIGHTS!

For those who were like "Chloé didn't faint when she wore all of the Miraculous unlike Marinette", I have news for you. Marinette wore virtually all the Miraculous that were in the Miracle Box. Chloé wore over 7 less than Marinette. So haters be hating. Fight me!

Cornered, Ladybug uses Lucky Charm, but there was only a key chain. Not able to see the solution in which they do not lose, she breaks down once again, blaming herself.

Now this time, Master Fu tells Ladybug that even though she's made mistakes, she would make a great Guardian as she's a great Ladybug.

Say what???? Yeah, Marinette (under Ladybug) becomes the new guardian of the Miraculous! I have mixed feelings, the Kwamis are sad to see Master Fu go, and Hawkmoth is in shock and disappointed. This is explained later on.

Chloé is upset for obvious reasons and since she couldn't escape, she literally throws all the Miraculous to the ground and revokes her loyalty to Ladybug, vowing to run away to New York with Audrey. Good luck with that Chloé. Why? Because Audrey and Andre got back together and Audrey is staying in Paris, which means problems for Chloé as she cannot save face and run away. It's funny how she demands them to start fighting again.

So Master Fu survived the blow from Hawkmoth's sentimonster, but doesn't remember about Ladybug and Chat Noir.

So Wayzz tells Ladybug that once a Guardian passes over the Miracle Box, they lose their memories to protect the identities of the wielders. This is problematic for many reasons. This means Master Fu can no longer provide support to Marinette or Adrien over being superheroes and give them his wisdom since he doesn't even know about them. And its especially devastating to Marinette because she lost a friend who guided her and when she passes the guardianship over to someone else, she will lose her memories for the same reason. And don't get me started on the theories that people have of the show because of this detail.

Miraculous Ladybug did not restore his memories, but was a clue as to what Master Fu wanted before he lost his memories.

So Marinette's monologue was actually her reading the letter out loud as Master Fu explains loss and how to overcome it.

Marianne is still alive! I'm sorry for my original post that said that I thought she died. I interpreted loss as in death in that part of the monologue. And Master Fu can finally be with her! He deserves it even though it means we might never see him again. Foreshadowing from "Backwarder".

Marinette and Adrien have a regular conversation, but Adrien goes to Kagami for Icecream and Marinette looks sad before going to Luka, where she hears the tune.

So...the Love Square is somewhat dead. I wanna cry. I say somewhat because who actually knows? Season 4 might revive a side of the Square (or whatever shape it has become).

To go back to Marinette blaming herself, I can relate in some way. Just like her breakdown at the end of "Loveater" (aka "Heart Hunter"), I relate in the level in which I feel like I am at fault for everything that happened, which is added on by others blaming me for what happens. Marinette is relatable in so many ways (aside from the superhero thing unless you happen to be a superhero, which is unlikely) and it just hurts to see her go through so much.

Now thanks to the English Dub, I was able to see something that I haven't seen while watching the episode, but had definitely seen on Tumblr: Gabriel and the Peacock Miraculous! So Nathalie got the decoded Book and Gabriel had finally fixed the Peacock Miraculous. This is absolutely terrifying because he and Nathalie had become more powerful. The ominous music gives us a vibe that we should be wary about.

Overall, this episode was good. Sure, I am not happy with the ending, but it doesn't mean that I hate the episode. I am not happy that Master Fu has gone away, Chloé's character development has been completely discarded, the identities of the other Miraculous users were revealed, the Love Square being squashed (for now?), and Hawkmoth being more powerful. But hey, we have at least 2 more seasons, so why not? Nothing is set in stone yet!

Well, this was fun. Now that season 3 is over, this is the last review for the next few months or so. So yeah, see you all next fall. This is the 934 signing out from Miraculous Thoughts posts!