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sketch of marinette and adrien
watching the world cup go mexico 🇲🇽!!! I would also like to post more of my miraculous designs soon
The most annoying thing about Miraculous writing and Thomas Astruc is that they make seasons that are saturated with filler episodes, complain about not having time to explore things and then tell you on Twitter or Bluesky vital information that should have been told in the episodes (and that a casual watcher or someone who doesn't want to enter the pits of hell that is Twitter such as me, could even not run into.)
The first 3 seasons don't really have this problem, because the only arc that was going on was Chloé's redemption arc and it went pretty smoothly apart from the finale where she gets replaced by whatever that thing is. And Fu's backstory was revealed too, and it was even done nicely, they first teasered it in S1, then in Sandboy we learn that one of his mistakes led to the temple being destroyed, and at last in Feast we get the full story (even if I think that he should have died in the S3 finale, but that's a writing choice I can get behind). The only bad thing about those seasons was Lila, we still don't know anything about her, what she wants, what her relationship is with Tomoe, why the fuck characters lose any kind of characterization around her and believe the worst lies I've ever heard of, but that could have been fixed giving her more screen time. Even the new miraculers were a good addition, their powers (except for King Monkey) were balanced, and they were given reasons to have miraculous: either to save themselves (Ryuko, Viperion, King Monkey) or somebody they care about (Rena Rouge, Carapace, Pegasus) with Chloe being an outlier and having found the Bee miraculous by chance (and getting to keep it after helping with Malediktor).
There are 19 miraculous, with Ladybug, Black Cat, Fox, Turtle, Dragon, Snake, Butterfly, Peacock, Horse, Monkey and Bunny not being handed out in this season. That makes 11 holders already introduced (or more precisely not to introduce this season) and 8 more to go (and to introduce in s4 because in s5 they can't give them the miraculous since Monarch has them)
Season 4 had
Truth
Lies
Gang Of Secrets
Mr Pigeon 72
Gabriel Agreste
Sentibubbler
Wishmaker
Risk
Strike back
9 episodes I can remember had any relevancy towards the plot (I didn't count Dearest Family because Hawkmoth could have used any other episode to break the magical charms). There are 26-9=17 episodes to actually flesh out these other 8 heroes. Let's make it 10 because they had to introduce Z*é and giving her a miraculous in the same episode she debuts is indeed a bad idea. Instead, we had
Sole Crusher (introducing Z*é)
Queen Banana (Vesperia)
Mega Leech (Polymouse)
Guiltrip (Pigella)
Crocoduel (Purple Tigress)
Penalteam (Caprikid, Rooster Bold, Minotaurox, Miss Hound)
... Why are there 6 out of the 10 episodes they needed? Oh, because they gave 4 FUCKING HEROES THE SAME EPISODE TO DEBUT IN? AND THEY AREN'T EVEN INVOLVED PERSONALLY IN THE SITUATION APART FROM MISS HOUND? good, alright, then I hope these 11 episodes are at least important to some degree. Let's see.
Psychomedian (shit episode, useless, introduces an annoying character that should be important since he knows Gabriel since he was Gabriel Grassette but we never see him again. The episode is unfunny and they give the whole fight to Ladybug despite her being affected by the villain. Filler)
Furious Fu (introduces another useless character. Wether Su Han is in the story or not, it changes nothing because he is in so little episodes, that we have seen him for a total of 3 iirc. He brings up a fair point of Ladybug breaking the rules of the Guardians but he doesn't give us any lore about them)
Optigami (actually enjoyable, shows some good thinking from Hawkmoth and (mainly) Nathalie, but sidelines Chat Noir again. Which should be a theme of this season but they never actually resolve it.)
Sentibubbler (also enjoyable, if Rena hiding wasn't completely useless it would also be important for the plot, but she gets discovered in 3 episodes and she doesn't really play a big part. Wether she stays hidden or not, nothing changes from the actual plot)
Glaciator 2 (Marichat episode? What even happens in this one? Gonna rewatch it real quick...
... Literally nothing changes, nothing happens. I get why I forgot this episode, it's pure fan service with no consequences on the plot. The buttercup dialogue lasts for a third of the episode)
Hack-San (useless, Scarabella is ugly as fuck, what the hell is that yo-yo placement? Small Marcaniel moment but if I didn't care about them I wouldn't care about the episode)
Rocketear (I started to hate Nino. Pointless jealousy plot point, nothing changes, Alya already tells Nino she is still Rena, making Sentibubbler basically useless)
Wishmaker (they didn't know what to do with Luka since he's not a love interest anymore so they set him up to be put away in Brazil so they don't have to worry about him. If he wasn't in Brazil now, it wouldn't change much. And they could have just used the excuse of Jagged traveling the world with his son to make him go away, make it reversible if they ever came up with something and give him something to do while he is away)
Simpleman (iirc the favorite episode of TA. Do I even need to say anything about this one? So boring and useless that when I rewatch the series I don't even rewatch it. Nothing happens at all, it's unfunny, the kids are annoying, Roland is a useless character, and it's so so so so so BORING)
Qilin (bad analogy for police brutality. Bad animation. Bad plot. Nothing happens in the plot. Cool to see Sabine akumatized and they even got the mythology right for this Chinese character. Too bad the Qilin doesn't have those powers as far as I know, which my knowledge is pretty limited on the matter so help me with this one. Still a bad episode)
Dearest Family (kinda fucks up the timeline, Gabriel breaks the Magical Charms but he could have done that any other episode. Yet another episode where nothing changes)
Ephemeral (worse Chat Blanc (not that Chat Blanc was that great to begin with), one of those episodes where everything happens but it gets erased one way or another. They already did that with Oblivio and Chat Blanc so why do it again? Pure fan service)
Kuro Neko (chat gets offended for not being called like the other heroes I guess? Anyways, you guessed it, nothing really changes. This should resolve the arc of Adrien feeling excluded from the team by... Making Cat Walker too attractive for Ladybug to focus? And so she realized Chat Noir is irreplaceable? Yeah, sure. Their dynamic shatters just for this episode and they go back to normal at the end, just like in Glaciator 2)
Out of these 11, 2 were somewhat good imo, but they brought nothing important to the plot. Su Han could have been a great character but we see him 3 times. Luka learning the identities is underused. Shadow Moth breaking the magical charms makes Mr Pigeon 72 useless, and they didn't even wait a season to break them, they lasted 17~ episodes in production order and who knows how many in release order.
So the writers have no problems wasting almost half a season with unimportant shit and then they cry about not having enough time for the plot. They could have done a lot for the Agreste arc in this season. They could have at least given an episode each for every new miraculer. But they chose to put Simpleman instead. And then they never explain anything in the series because they thought it was so obvious. It happened off-camera. I fucked your mom off-camera, what about it?
This is probably my worst paced post yet. Not sorry about that.
Marinette's Fashion Sketchbook: Espionage
Excerpt:
Adrien walked across the street, hands in his pockets, glancing over his shoulder imperceptibly as the club ahead of him swung with psychedelia and colored lighting. The line into the club was long, wrapping around the block, even with the hour so late, but Adrien passed right by the bouncer, who didn’t give him so much of a glance.
The music became near deafening as he stepped through the beaded curtain and onto the dance floor. He was surrounded by people swinging their hips and singing along to the Yardbirds and the Beatles. He swept past them with grace, heading straight for the bar. He was invisible, though he shouldn’t have been. His crisp, black suit and bowtie certainly didn’t blend in with the crowd of gogo boots, mini skirts, and bright florals, but Adrien didn’t want to be seen. So he wasn’t.
He walked up to the bar and took his stance. His eyes swept across all the exits, searching for someone in particular.
“You want something to drink?” asked the barkeep, but Adrien just shook his head and waved his hand away. He was here to meet an informant: A courier from the same agency he worked for. Félix Fathom, the head of the SIS had reached out with a coded message from the courier only a couple of days ago; he’d found something big. He was supposed to be here.
Adrien’s eyes kept sweeping, maintaining his nonchalance, although wondering privately if he’d gotten something wrong. His eyes caught on a young woman openly staring at him. She was a dancer for the club, with short dark hair and dressed in the same bright pink mini dress with feathered sleeves the rest of the roving hired dancers were wearing, but she wasn’t moving. She was looking at him with a very strange expression indeed. Adrien grew uncomfortable, broke eye contact, and tried to inch his way further down the bar.
That was when he saw a man. For a moment, he thought he might have been the courier he was expecting to see, until he spotted another man at the exit across from him. And another near where he’d entered the bar. He was surrounded. And they were clearly looking for him.
They were coming closer, their eyes on him like predators. His hair raised on the back of his neck as he deliberately tried to appear as though he hadn’t noticed them. Subtly, he reached into his jacket, resting his hand on the welrod, a pistol with an integrated pistol, when he was grabbed by the lapels. How could he disarm them here? This was public; he couldn’t very well shoot up the place.
“Hey, handsome,” it was the girl. The dancer who had been staring at him. She’d pressed herself close, up on her tiptoes to peer at him eye-to-eye. “Why are you standing all by your lonesome? Come dance with me.” She didn’t wait for an answer, dragging him onto the dancefloor with her. They were quickly surrounded by everyone else dancing around, bumping into them, pressing them even closer together.
“I have to go—” He began, gently removing her hands from his chest. Where were they? He had to get out, now.
“I saw them too,” she whispered. He blinked at her, surprised. She’d lost the flirtatious and sultry look of before and swiveled around, keeping an eye on the strange men around them, dancing in rhythm and keeping him hidden. “Keep down and follow me.”
She ducked down, below the sea of partygoers, and wiggled through as they pressed in on them like crushing waves. The music roared in Adrien’s ears as they passed the speakers. He looked behind them, watching as the men realized he had disappeared. The young woman dragged him forward into a hidden series of backstage hallways.
“In here,” she whispered, pushing him through a door and following behind, snapping the door shut and locking it.
It was a tiny room, both walls covered in racks of identical clothing, themed for the club. Several vanities were pressed together at the far end of the room, covered in glitter, makeup, and other beauty supplies. The young woman ran forward to a vanity, where a name, MARINETTE, was written in dry-erase marker across the top of the mirror.
She opened a drawer and rooted around in it, searching for something.
“You’re looking for that man, aren’t you?” she asked, glancing at him. “You’re dressed exactly like him.”
“You shouldn’t be helping me,” he said, slowly. “You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into.”
“Are you a spy?” she asked, raising an eyebrow. He narrowed his eyes. “I’m not, so don’t worry yourself. But… I had to help you… After what happened to the other one.” She swallowed and continued searching for whatever it was she was looking for.
“How do you know who I’m looking for?” Adrien asked, trying not to reveal too much. She already knew things she shouldn’t, and she was in serious danger now that she’d helped him escape those other men. They’d seen her. He glanced back at the door as his mind ran through the list of agencies they could be working for and how they’d known he’d be here. Had they sent a false message to Félix? Had they been tricked?
“He was here a week ago,” she replied, snatching something silver out of her drawer and standing straight. “He left this.”
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well you guys like an au with gabe being morally gray character ? Like he’s not really evil but he’s not a good guy by any means? Like I like my au gabe but he lowkey feels like an oc
how can you not be romantic about baseball etc etc
Cat noir feels guilty leaving ladybug alone to fight hawkmoth and I think that’s why he doesn’t want have a back up holder, he doesn’t want to leave another person he cares about to deal with being a hero bc he can’t help.
And I think if/when Adrien finds out that Marinette was the one who got hurt because he wasn’t there, that she was tormented and haunted by a secret she kept while trying to protect him, I think it will destroy him
Adrien and marinette both try to protect each other to the point of self destruction, and I think that rather than feel betrayed by marinette keeping the secret he’ll feel like he failed her by again not being there to protect her from his father.
Adrien isn’t blind he sees how desperately marinette wants to tell him and cat noir knows that ladybug hates the feeling of having to keep secrets.
He also saw how devastated marinette was at the idea of hurting him, enough to turn into heartfixer
But
Season 6 has made a big point of saying that Adrien hates when marinette isn’t honest with him
They’ve purposely steered Adrien to be a character that hates being lied to so I’m scared that they probably will make Adrien get angry that they kept the secret
I feel like season 5 Adrien would of forgave maribug for lying but I understand that he is a traumatized 14 year old so I can understand that he has probably changed and that to forgive marinette on the spot would take a level of emotional intelligence unreasonable to expect of him at this time
I would love to see the show go a different direction than the civil war angst some people expect but know that the cards aren’t in my favor.
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