why the fuck are you reacting like this is some big reveal
like the bitch you gave him the miraculous
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why the fuck are you reacting like this is some big reveal
like the bitch you gave him the miraculous
"Akumatized Us"🦋
Ephemeral is in the background cuz he said he's waiting for Ladybug's turn. He claims he feels lonely cuz he's the only bald one of the trio!😭 In the meantime, Heartfixer is scratching the crazy white kitty's chin (it's an instinctive reflex to pet her cat).
"Adriakumas: ChatBlanc & My Ephemeral Redesign"
"Akumanettes: Heartfixer & My LB Akuma Design" (who needs a new name)
In the 1st artwork, Chat Blanc's design is different cuz it's my "2.0" look (which keeps changing every time), It's like if he ever comes back a second time, but in the canon timeline. I love the og design so much, drawing him like this here is mostly a choice, as a way to distinguish him from Chat Noir! (since I don't color my traditional artworks). Drew him with the canon design in the other art since there I used my Ephemeral Redesign instead!✨️
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THEORY / ANALYSIS TIME!
CHATBLANC RETURN OR LADYBUG AKUMA?
Idk if yall've heard the theory that everything that happened in the ChatBlanc Alt Timeline is supposed to happen in the Canon Timeline, but differently and at different times in a different order?
I've made a list of stuff that happened in the episode since I've first heard of it a good while ago [List is written below, keep reading⬇️] and then I started writing down/add all the things that did, in fact, happen in "canon" afterwards in some way (been working on it for months and still editing it whenever I notice stuff as the new episodes come out).
I have to say right now we're way over 90% match and the biggest thing left is an Identity Reveal! (both between the heroes and also with the villain)
Notes about ephemeral because I’m rewatching all of mlb
I thought I was good at being in denial however I will never reach Marinette’s level of denial, it’s actually funny because Adrien on the other hand constantly labels Marinette as Ladybug (our every day ladybug, you get to be my ladybug etc)
This boy has never used his room (zoo cage for a teenage boy) till this day, just letting his identity be known was already a happy life moment for him
Plagg is waiting in anticipation for Marinette to tell him her identity
Adrien has never had this much fun in his life
I feel like Adrien no longer wants to be a model but specifically just not a model for his dad, if Marinette in the future asks him to model her clothes he’d do so as Chat Noir and Adrien so most of Paris will probably be covered in Adrien and Chat Noir pictures anyways
The umbrella parallel had me sobbing
I lied, everything about this episode had me sobbing, I love them both so much
I was waving my middle finger in front of the screen at any Gabriel appearance as if that was going to fix anything
Meow meow, MEOW MEOW
The end card is actually really pretty
Ohhh I get it. This episode is the excuse for Luka to not tell any of them the identity of the other, because now he knows the danger... Yeah ok, I get it, I get it
CLIP OF ADRIEN FIGURING THE LOVE SQUARE OUT TO PREPARE YALL FOR EPHEMERAL
So the highlights of Ephemeral:
Ladybug: relies on Luka to go back in time
Alix:
Okay. Let's talk a bit about Chat Noir, shall we?
MLB fandom got so fucking toxic right now. Just why? Those two idiots will get together anyway so why so much hate rn?
And i should stay quiet. I know. But I want to show how I see stuff, because it just pains me to see how people are lashing out on either Marinette or Adrien. (And tbh I love seeing both of them suffer. Even tho Adrien is my fav character lmao)
A little bit about Chat in former Season's.
To understand why Adrien is renouncing his ring we should look at Adrien as a whole character and everything that was happening before s4e23.
So, Adrien is a 14yo child, closed up in his room for basically 90% of his life. His father is neglecting him emotionally and the schedule of this boy is full most of the time. Plus he is famous and he didn't asked for it.
Then, when his mother 'disappears' (I'm sure that he is sure that she is dead.) he rebels and goes to public school. Thats the time when he gets his miraculous and a floating stomach of a kwami called Plagg. He can get out of the prison of a mansion and actually fight real supervillans. He can use magic etc etc.
No wonder boy was excited. He gained new experience and not just any experience but extreme one!
He meets Ladybug and falls in love with her creativeness and confidence. (He didn't fall in love at first sight, he fell in love with her when she called out Hawkmoth) They work together perfectly for who knows how long. (The time in this show isn't exactly specified so \_('-')_/) He is used to work with her as duo. Even in Hero's Day he says: "Then let's get back to what's always worked - a duo! You and me against the world, M'lady!"
He isn't against the idea of more heroes, but he is most comfortable with their duo as it's the oldest what they have.
First doubts. Nearly ring renounce.
We have Syren. Adrien is left out from knowing about the guardian of the miraculous and he feels like more and more secrets are between him and Ladybug. Only she knows the identities of other heroes, and only she can go and give them out? Why? Does she not trust him?
The person i hate most in this show is probably Fu and Gabe. But I will talk about Fu later in this post.
Let's get back to Syren.
Adrien knows that Plagg knows something. AND ACTUALLY HE COULD COMMAND PLAGG TO TELL HIM BUT HE DIDN'T. Why am I highlighting this? Because Adrien still gives Plagg a way to be himself, freedom of choice and doing as he pleases. Yes he tries to convince him or rather bully him into speaking, but he still gives him a choice of refusing.
Why Adrien threatened to take off his miraculous instead of commanding his kwami into telling him? Because he still respects Plagg. Like genuinely. Why he made a threat overally? He was desperate. Desperate to be in the circle of people who 'know'.
Why Fu didn't want to tell CN about himself? Is it because if CN gets akumatised his identity is screwd? Isn't it the same risk with Marinette? Why should Chat wait for right time to get to know shit?
New York Special. First actual renounce.
In NY special, Chat actually renounces his ring, leaving it with Ladybug. Why?
After going to NY without informing LB about that, they are fighting a supervillan in NY while in Paris there is a sentimonster. Ladybug is frustrated and disappointed in Chat. And by that he is tabbed right where it hurts the most.
Let's thank Gabe here. Whenever Gabriel is disappointed in his son he gives him the worst possible punishment. For example, when Adrien lost the Grimoire, Gabriel put him out of school, knowing that this is what would hurt him the most. He didn't care that Adrien genuinely didn't know how important that was and that he just wanted to know more about HIS OWN FUCKING FATHER. He just hit him were it hurt most.
So when he sees how LB is disappointed in him, he overreacts. And other heroes like Owl, who said that LB is there only to fix his messes, didn't help his mental state either after he accidentally killed their robo-friend.
He gets so warped in his mind, that he has done something wrong that he overreacts by renouncing his ring. He tries to prevent making mistakes by running away. It's the safest option in his mind. No one will get disappointed in him if he won't be cat noir. No one will get hurt because of him (killed or badly injured) if he won't be cat noir.
Kuro Neko. The second renouncement of black cat ring and Ladybug's guardianship.
So now that we know a little bit more about Adrien, let's acrually talk about Kuro Neko renouncement, his s4 relationship with Ladybug and how her guardianship impacted it.
Ladybug got hell lots of pressure, thanks to Fu. There was so much of it that she just snapped and the next thing we know: she reveals her identity to Alya! Yeey, sun and rainbows. She is fine! Or is she?
Obviously, she is not. Whole that pressure is still at the back of her head, slowly waiting at the right moment to strike. So she confides in Alya a lot. They talk about superhero stuff a lot, just like they can talk about rl stuff like crushes or homework. And it works for her. For a time.
We don't know yet what happened exactly that she lashed out at Chat Noir. There has to be another thing that allowed the pressure to get in place at the front of her mind.
But we will get to that in a moment.
Marinette started to unknowingly to herself replace Chat with Alya. Before Chat was the only one who knew how it is to try and keep both covilian and superhero lives apart, secret and what a burden that is. Now she also have Alya. And when she feels most burned up, who will she rather go? To someone she doesn't know face of but was there from the beginning or to someone who she knows personally best, trusts and who helps her all the time in her civilian life? (I'm not telling she doesn't trust Chat noir, it's just that she is much closer to Alya than to Chat overall)
Chat is left out much more, she doesn't talk with him much. In Hack-San she made a huge mistake by not telling him that she gives lb miraculous to someone else. Yes, they talk and 'work it out', but is it fixed actually? Do you really think that one talk is able to fix everything?
She promises him that she won't abandon him. And yes, she isn't abandoning him. She is pushing him away. (I will repeat it again, she doesn't even know that) Getting back dk Adrien, one talk in this regard isn't going to fix a slowly growing insecurities in him. He has insecurities?
Yes he has insecurities. Throughout whole s4 we see little Chat Noir. He didn't got to battle in time during Optigami, he hardly does anything in battles like in crocoduel. Hell, in Ephemeral she actually is able to defeat villain without him, although then he is glad because he couldn't be there for her and he doesn't think about it much at that time.
In Rocketear his insecurities grow more as he learns that Nino and Alya knows each other identities. He doesn't give a fuck that they are the ones who are superheroes. He cares that they know. And that ladybug allowed them to get to know them. (Let's add to that whole shit Nino talked about his superhero self. And although partly true (Adrien needs to stop being pushy like in Glaciator 2) I can guess it could hurt him somewhere deep down. His pride or sth)
So then we have Ephemeral. Whole episode was absolutely shit, no logic and huge disappointment but we still have few info there.
Mostly, how LB is treating him. Because she isn't treating him like her equal. Fuck, why did she make whole that complicated plan to get to know his identity? She could have asked him and tell him that SuHan is making problems. (Although old guardian has a point but with those two of course it won't work because it's either both of them or none. And we can see how well it works for them when only she knows!)
And then when they come back from space and hacking stelite (shouldn't she call Max for that? It would be more believable), she brushes him off when he wants to know what was that all about. She won't tell him shit.
No wonder he feels left out. No wonder he won't tell her how he feels when his trust in her is strained. No wonder that all that bottled up hurt explodes at somepoint.
So what will happen in Kuro Neko?
We will see at Monday! But. I do have a guess.
Adrien sees that Ladybug is well without him. All the hurt from whole s4 is coming to him. So he decides to see what will she say if he won't show up. After few times we see what is in trailer. Ladybug calling him a partner like very one else. (And yes, some people are laughing that she basically called him just a friend, like he has called Marinette thousands of times but here it hits at least slightly different. Because she basically degrades him to any hero for a timebeing, to someone who is lower than her.)
Hearing that he decides to talk with her. Finally. He wants to hear if she really meant that. He sees when whole group of heroes are making big pound it and then comes to them. She decides to talk with him 1on1. They try to talk, but it doesn't go in the right way. Then another attack happens.
So Chat proposes her to help so they can talk some more and work this out. But she hears more thing from her other heroes and suddenly lashes at him.
That's a breaking point for Adrien. He decides to renounce Plagg and this time he doesn't even give him a chance of speaking in that matter. (He is so hurt that he runs away. Just like in NY special but he tries to protect himself from more pain)
Okey, I wanted also to talk about Black Cat miraculous here and my thought's about holders of it but it would get too long so I will just make another post about that.
Please remember it's just my opinion, you don't have to agree with that. If you want to discuss with me, feel free! As long as it will stay constructive and respectful to other person. :) Have a nice day/night folks!