#off to au

[imthepunchlord]

So for the Off To series, I'm sure how much thought you've put into them, but what are the potential villain ideas for those stories? Would they be evil miraculous users or would you go for that magic vs magic you mentioned you would have liked to see? Off the top of my head I could see vampires in the Off to London story (though that could be all the Dracula stuff I've been watching talking).

A lot of this info I'm going to go ahead and share cause idk when the Off to series will come out. I haven't even started writing them, and I'd rather see Copycat, Manynette, and Dodged a Beetle done/farther along first. I also still need to sit and watch videos for the settings I'll be writing in, which I won't promise a 100% accuracy, but I am going to learn for the settings and do the best I can (which if there are any corrections to make when these fics come out, do please let me know if something needs to be changed or is wrong).

So, Off to London I haven't thought too much about aside from knowing for sure that Quantic Kids, Felix, and the waiter seen in concept art will be major characters alongside Marinette. Villains really has yet to come to mind. Vampries could work as there was a vampire villain in Pixie Girl.

But otherwise, villains have yet to really come to mind.

By default Felix will be antagonistic. There's that.

Also, some older designs that were really different than what we got will probably exist in Off to London as background classmates. One of these characters will even make an early appearance in the next chapter of Copycat.

Though, Off to Milan I had a lot more ideas for villains. I don't have a whole story planned out, but I do have some villains/antagonists.

Lila Rossi will be for sure, though probably more of a starting villain/antagonist since she is set to go to Paris after a while (towards the end of s1). As it's a given she'll be in Paris for the rest of canon, she probably won't be involved in any Miraculous or magic activity. She's just a two faced bully. She may be confirmed magical in some way and that's how she's able to lie and manipulate so easily but that's a thought for later.

Now other villains/antagonists, they exist through Pixie Girl, as she's one of the few concepts that showed off quite a bit of the cast and potential allies or threats and Off to Milan was planned to largely work off the mages we see as the antagonists.

Idk what's going to go on with them. Don't know what the goal will be. Don't even quite have down what they can do, but there are a few details I have down that are for sure:

They are a descendants of a long line of black mages, hailing from a magical clan/coven that has been kinda dying out, maaaaaybe descendants of Morgana le Fey; if so the family would definitely stick to le Fey as the surname, otherwise the surname will be related to night or darkness

The twins names are going to be Scarlet and Jasper, Scarlet is the more hotheaded of the two, very competitive and looks down on others, while Jasper is a little more toned down and sly; Scarlet is the favorite/preferred of the two, and likes combative/destructive magic, Jasper is more artistic, the dark artist, if you will; honestly these two will probably have some inspirations from Zuko and Azula

Pixie is set to have a crush on one of the two and it's enemies to lovers; initial plan is Jasper playing off that it seems Pixie had a crush on a boy and I think the initial plan was kinda another Love Square scenario between Pixie and the Wizard; but not a 100%, that's more of what I predicted, if the show ever came out.

I am pretty open on potential ships for Off to Milan, so Pixie can easily crush on Scarlet instead. Honestly, only for sure I have is Pixie crushing on one of the twins and everything else is pretty open to happen.

And that's pretty much all I got planning wise that is for sure for Off to Milan. I will say, IF the specials for Lady Lion and Lady Butterfly do come out before this fic does, then any villains introduced could wind up included.

Though it would be a little bit of a bummer cause I wanted to try and play around with these characters before they became official but given my writing progress, if it happens, not the end of the world. I'll just make the necessary adjustments and we keep on keeping on.

[imthepunchlord]

So, for the Off To series, I know you haven't started writing anything for them, but the concept is so interesting (especially with your new version of the miraculous and miracle box)! One of the main things I weirdly like about it is the character selections in both ideas. I really like how the scrapped concept characters get a chance to shine in Off to London (also, I could totally see Sebastian being mentor for the group, since he's older and probably has had his miraculous longer). While the characters from the specials and characters from potential scrapped show by Zagtoons get to shine in Off to Milan (I'm also curious to see if Jessica, Aeon, and Fei will appear).

It is very interesting a concept, especially the thought of removing Marinette from the events of ML cause she's central to the story, and it's essentially allowing her to be apart of something entirely new.

And yeah, the biggest appeal to me is exploring these concept characters, what was cut or what will be, with the latter the initial plan was doing my take before canon came. But we'll see if that happens.

Atm, there are no plans for Off to New York or Off to Shanghai, especially since I'm not interested in watching either Special and what I did see I don't really like or intrigues me, not in set up or even characters.

I will say, NY is more likely, with Zoe confirmed being from NY, giving me a decent size cast to work with. Shanghai is... harder. For the Off to series, I want an actual friend group and character dynamics to work off, the very thing this show skips over as it's romance obsessed and friendship ultimately doesn't matter.

Off to London has all the Quantic Kids + the waiter who's a struggling and tired college student. Nice cast to work off of.

Off to Milan has this friend group.

Also a good size cast. Which doesn't include the antagonists/villains.

New York at least can give me a trio of characters to work off Marinette. That's something, though I'd have to do tweaks, especially to Aeon. Idk about you guys but I didn't like learning she's a robot. I'm also unsure I'd even want Knightowl and Majestia existing as actual heroes, may rather them as comic heroes.

Shanghai though really just has Fei. I know there are like... some boys, but they didn't seem all that important and there is no spark to do something with them.

As for if Aeon, Jess, or Fei will appear, eeeeeh.... I currently don't have plans for them. What I see just doesn't intrigue me enough to include them. And atm, I just don't have any ideas for them.

[imthepunchlord]

If Marinette is unavaliable (Maybe Off to Italy or London....) when Stoneheart appears... who would be the Ladybug and Black Cat Holders?

Safest bet is Adrien and Alya.

Marinette being gone wouldn't effect Fu picking Adrien at all; honestly the most up in the air is who would be Marinette's partner if Adrien's not there. Especially as Fu picked someone after school started so who else could be out there? Or do you go a scenario of Fu doing another test before Marinette's which leads to more options.

Anyway!

Alya actually comes like, a minute behind Marinette in Origins, and mindful, we don't know which way she' s coming to school, but for the sake of this, she could've been not too far from where Marinette was, and did that test in Marinette's place.

And I'll just go ahead and assume that Alya gets Ladybug and Adrien still gets Cat. Based on what's seen of canon, Alya would be the better pick for Ladybug between the two.

And for how things go...

Well, like canon, Alya will be more focused on figuring out her name, Adrien is more goofing around and enjoying being Chat. Their partnership is far friendlier than canon and they both like to rush in so probably insta click as friends.

And that first fight between Stoneheart, Alya would listen to Tikki excitedly so she's more likely to remember what needs to be done. At most, her trying to figure out her hero name could distract her but I ultimately see her getting focused near Stoneheart and it probably goes better in canon.

And this being Alya excited about being a hero and needing to tell someone, as Marinette's not there and she doesn't move from what's Chloe's seat in canon, she tells who's behind her: Alix and Mylene, aka, your future Bee and Turtle (not sure who would be what yet).

And so you have a friend trio. Alix eggs Alya on for chaos (while occasionally being level headed), Mylene is trying to be the voice of reason and fight off panic attacks, and Alya is here to be that leader who is also the hero between them.

Adrien may or may not be aware that people know about Scarabella? If so, he may out himself to Nino so Nino's in the know. Probably future Fox.

And partnership wise, they actually may not have much issues thinking it over. Biggest reason Adrien was difficult with Alya was that he had a crush and bias for LB and make jabs at Alya for not doing as well as her. But there's no LB here, so nothing to compare Scarabella too. And when she gets bossy, he may not mind as he's cool with most people bossing him around (like Chloe). They may not be as efficient a hero duo, but they may be similar enough to get along well. Though I could also see Alya loosing patience with him goofing around here and there.

I also don't know if Adrien and Alya would even crush on each other and vice versa.

Either way, with Marinette not there, Paris will be in decent hands. Alya can be pretty sharp and effective, she just needs time to think a little more. And maybe this will force Adrien to grow and step up as a hero and be more involved in the planning as Alya's not going to have everything down plan wise like Marinette would.