I’m freaking tired of people keep saying that Marinette doesn’t have any personality outside of “stalking/obsessing over Adrien”.
First of all, Marinette is NOT a stalker. That shit needs to die right now. Sure, I can understand why it may seem a little weird, but a stalker is a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention. This is a pattern of unwanted behavior, directed at a specific person, which causes that person to change their routine or feel afraid, nervous or in danger.
Marinette doesn’t passes Adrien’s boundaries. She doesn’t make him feel creeped out or unsafe. If she did, Adrien knows, and she still continues to pressure him, THEN that’s being a stalker. She has shown before that she has everyone’s schedules and I just believe that her “obsession with Adrien” is nothing more than a teenage girl fawning over her crush. And also, the posters of Adrien on her wall? He’s a model! What teenage girl doesn’t have pictures of their favourite models, idols, boy bands, and stars?
And finally second, Marinette’s a sweet, kind, nice and strong person who is always willing to help others. Sure she messes up, but who doesn’t in this show? She’s literally 14 years old (13 at the start of the series). And at least she always makes an effort to apologize to whoever she has hurt. Sure she’s a little “bitchy” to Chat Noir, but people act like that Chat Noir’s prefect when he messes up too just as much as Ladybug does.
I’m not saying those things aren’t wrong and should be excused, but people act like that she’s the only one who has done them. In fact, it seems like Marinette is often blame for things that’s out of her control. We have people who constantly wishes for Chloe of all people to be the protagonist of MLB just because she has a bad background, despite her being a spoiled entitled rich girl who’s also an bully, but the minute Marinette messes up, then she’s a bad protagonist???
People have the right to dislike characters, but if your going to dislike someone, do it for the right reasons and not because you fail to see the subtext and context of the situations. Marinette’s a flawed protagonist, not a terrible one. And if she really is a bad or/and badly written protagonist, then blame that on Thomas and the writers, not her.
