The Adventures of Shady bug and Claw noir: My version continued here’s some lore
To those who remember this post I ended up finally finishing coloring it and I’ll post it next
So to give a little explanation before the Paris special was released a bunch of people thought it would be about the alternative universe characters being the complete opposite of the original. Inspired by a few of the posts I made my own headcanons.
The Paris special ended up being way different but I still enjoy my own personal AU.
In my personal AU there is Nice Chloe, Shy Luka, Mean Marinette and Adrien, Hero Gabriel, Morally gray character Nathalie, Villain Emille, Main hero Alya and Nino. And maybe a evil master fu
These are the tropes that were created to be the opposite of the original MLB characters. Since Chloe is originally a bully I made her a nice girl in this AU similar to original Adrien and actually have been friends with Marinette at one point. Nathalie was a gray characters in the original at least the original seasons as her goals changed so I decided to do the same in this one but with different purpose. Marinette and Adrien are obviously the villains in this twist scenario and like in the actual special Alya and Nino would be main character heroes since in the original they were side characters.
However I do expand in the characters beyond this trope like Marinette’s meanness comes from her Negligent/Broken Dupaincheng family and that’s why she prefers to be a loner and hates the agreste family a locally owned boutique. She bumped into Gabriel agreste once while she was in a bad mood he was very nice to her and even gave her a beautiful dress he made himself saying since he didn’t have a daughter he didn’t have anyone to give it to and would appreciate if she took it even as she denied saying it was precious. Marinette envied Adrien seeing as he had such a nice father but seemingly took him for granted.
Adrien had a twisted sense of love because of his mother Emille who ended up accidentally dying. His mother was manipulative, toxic and emotionally abusive and Adrien was forced under her regulations even if Adrien maybe subconsciously knew this was bad or wrong he still mourned her death like he mourned Gabriel’s in the London special because she was his mother. And because he was always compared to Emile and well his life was primarily dictated by her methods he grew up thinking that was love. Gabriel wasn’t able to stop this abuse outright and didn’t even know how bad it was till too late a few weeks before she died Gabriel argued with her about this. He feels guilt for having such a fight so soon before her death but her death was how Gabriel discovered Evil Master fu (it’s called something else in the actual special) and how he became a hero it was Emile’s dying gift acknowledging how her parenting style wasn’t the best.
Adrien being so used to his mother’s abuse thought love wasn’t kind and gentle hugs but shouting and indifference and bonking people on the head like Marinette does. He was attracted to her because of this and doesn’t like Gabriel’s sweet kind love feeling like it’s weird and fake.
Twist Luka is more like original Juleka in this AU he’s more shy doesn’t speak much but music is his solitude his father is still Jagged stone but him leaving his mother hurt him to the point he became less outgoing while Juleka became mean and cruel instead.
Luka is one of Marinette’s only real friends but Marinette just convinced herself that he’s just a project she’s working on because she’s bored. The project is to make him braver.
Marinette isn’t an outright bully but can be very cruel to people she doesn’t like. Kind of like Lila with elaborate schemes but not the insane lying part.
Alya and Marinette aren’t friends in this AU and Alya actually dislikes Marinette.
Alya isn’t dating Nino either since they’re supposed to be the main character super hero duo like the original ladybug and Chatnoir. Not because they’re scared necessarily it’s because well Alya is really awkward with her feelings and she knows Nino likes her but she doesn’t think this is the right time with the villain still at large. They subtly flirt though.
oh and I think I ship Luka and Adrien in this AU as seen by the art so I think Luka would be Adrien’s bi awakening and he’d slowly become used to the sweet love because of him. He’s convinced that Luka is his rival though while Luka thinks they’re friends.
Zoe and Marinette would also be enemies to lovers with Zoe being the new kid at school trying to take Marinette’s Queen Bee spot gets frequently have confrontations before they realize they have feelings for eachother when Zoe flirts with Shadybug and Marinette realizes she likes it.
This is my au so I decide to ship whatever I want with no regrets
