#peacock!chloe

[nionom-art]

Have you yet made a design for Chloe if she was a holder of the peacock miraculous, whether she uses it for good and for evil?

Well…. I have now >:)

I have one with glitter and one without. Which do you guys prefer?

Kwami Swap Master Post

[zoe-oneesama]

Your Feelings Are Not a Burden.

Bonus Teenage Peachicks:

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[sethezh14]

Chloe the peacock from memory

[imthepunchlord]

Miracurse: Fowl Play is About

Ao3

Chloe’s wondrous day started when Adrien approached her and said, “I have a gift for you.” 

She was over the moon to hear that. 

Her dear Adrikins got her a gift! 

Suck it, Marinette! Suck it, Adrien's fangirls! 

He got HER a gift! 

No one else! 

This just proves that Chloe was his favorite, as she should be. 

And as delighted as she was, when Adrien presented her with a blue peacock pin, Chloe faltered. 

Adrien’s smile was expectant, looking happy, until she wasn’t taking it right away. “Do you not like it?” Adrien asked. 

“No! No, it’s just… Do you have something in yellow?” 

“Nope. Only this one.” After a moment of consideration, Adrien tried to appeal to her, offering, “It’ll go with your eyes.” 

“Thanks, Adrien,” she said through her teeth, taking it reluctantly. It was semi worth it to see Adrien’s beam, but that offered smile she had fell when he turned and walked away, leaving her with the blue pin. 

It didn’t have ANY yellow on it. Like, ok, yeah, maybe the blue would go with her eyes, but red gems on all nine feathers? Or where are those more… pink? 

Chloe stuck her tongue out at it. Between the blue and the pink, this should be more Marinette’s thing? But as Adrien gifted this to Chloe, there was NO WAY Chloe was going to pass it off to another. Especially her! This was hers! Hers and hers alone! 

But, she couldn’t be seen in public wearing this. This blue and pink against her yellow jacket? No way. Matching with her eyes wasn’t enough. This, she’ll humor Adrien and put it on at home. Try it there, and then it can sit in her closet and gather dust. Maybe she can give it to one of her and Adrien's future kids. 

Satisfied with her plan, she stuffed it deep in her bag and headed for the first period. It was a shame she couldn’t go and shove this gift in Marinette’s face, but it is what it is. At least she got to enjoy the fact that Adrien was thinking of her. 

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In front of her mirror, Chloe hesitated. 

She wasn’t wearing the pin yet, it was just held over her jacket, with Chloe doing a little double take just to see it against her jacket and to be sure. And gosh, it clashed with her so much. And the worse fact? No matter how long she looked at it, it matched with Marinette so much more and Chloe hated it.

The blue of the pin matched with her hair, when that dark hair would shine blue in certain lighting. And the gems on this pin were more pink! And it matched the pink of Marinette’s stupid pink pants! And those stupid pink flowers that she has on her shirt! 

It was like a… reverse color coordination or whatever. Marinette did wear a lot more pink than blue, but it was undeniable that she did have those two colors as this pin did. It was almost like this pin had been made for her. 

Did Adrien have this made? 

Was he thinking of Marinette? 

If it was more for her, why didn’t he have this pin be more yellow? Was it really intended for Marinette? Did she upset him so Chloe was getting this out of spite of her? 

If so, Chloe didn’t know if she should be smug or irritated. 

Irritation won, and just to be spiteful to the Marinette color coded pin, she put it on. Adrien gave it to her. She was the one wearing it now, not Marinette. 

Only, as soon as the pin was in place, Chloe’s world seemed to turn on an axis and she felt dizzy and she felt disjointed. Shaking her head, she groaned as she grabbed her forehead. What had happened?

“Give it a few moments, you’ll get used to it,” Chloe heard her own voice say, startling her. She jerked up, looking up to see herself staring down at her with a gentle smile, though her eyes were pink instead of blue. 

Chloe drew away in alarm, gaping. “Wha—  what?!”

Her body just smiled, watching Chloe freak out before her. 

“Wha-what is this?!” Chloe demanded. “Who are you! Some cheap copycat!” 

“Chloe” chuckled. “Oh no, this is actually your body. It’s as true as can be.”

“My body?!” Chloe shrieked. Chloe paused then. If this was her body and something was in her body, then what was she? Chloe whipped towards her mirror and gasped. She wasn’t herself. She was some freaky looking toy that looked a little familiar but Chloe couldn’t entirely place what.

But she was light blue, had dark blue eyes against a black sclera, had white marks around her eyes, a yellow diamond on her forehead, and five long peacock-like tail feathers that had yellow and white eyespots on them. She had no idea what she was and she didn’t like it. She was so small. So alien. And just so…. Blue.

Chloe rounded on the body stealer, demanding, “I don’t know what you are! But you’ll give my body back this instant!”

“Ah, I can’t do that,” “Chloe” said, shaking her head. “You see, you are under the miraculous curse.”

Chloe frowned at that. Miraculous? Like, Ladybug and Chat Noir? “Did they curse me?!” she demanded. 

“No. I did.” 

“How?! Why?!” 

“I am Duusu, and is my miraculous,” the body stealer revealed, lightly tapping the pin, which was now a platinum peacock with a gold tail and white diamond eyespots. “When you put it on, I got to see how terrible a person you were, and the miraculous cursed you instantly. You are now stuck as a kwami while I reside in your body.”

“That’s unfair!” Chloe snarled. “This is an attack! How dare you!” 

“This is punishment,” Duusu said. “You are a terrible person. You’ve hurt people for your own amusement and gain. This is why you were transformed immediately.”

“Ridiculous!” Chloe spat. “Change me back!”

“Only you can change yourself back,” Duusu said. 

“How?!”

“Redeem yourself,” Duusu answered. “Make it up to those you’ve hurt the most.” Duusu then paused and frowned thoughtfully. “But that’s a lot of people. Not even I know where you’d start.”

Chloe stared at her, trying to sort out Duusu’s words. “What do you mean make it up to?”

“Help out who you’ve hurt. Make an effort to be better. You don’t even need forgiveness, you just need an effort to be better.” 

Chloe scoffed, “I don’t need forgiveness! Everyone loves me!” 

“Marinette doesn’t,” Duusu revealed. 

“Marinette’s stupid! And poor!” 

Duusu hummed. “She’s decently wealthy. You don’t live across Notre Dame or own a whole building on a poor budget.”

“How would you know that?” Chloe asked, narrowing her eyes at her body. 

“I have your memories,” Duusu revealed, “it allows me to live your life and be a better you, until you improve anyway.” 

Chloe gasped. “You wouldn’t! You can’t do that!”

“I am and I will,” Duusu said, immediately going for Chloe’s phone. “And I’m going to start with the mess that is you and Sabrina. You two have a very messed up relationship.”

“Don’t you dare mess up my slave!” Chloe cried out. 

“See, that can’t fly anymore,” Duusu said, calling Sabrina. As Chloe moved to demand that she stop, a finger was pressed to her lips, silencing her. In a perfect Chloe fashion, Duusu said into the phone, “Hey, Sabrina. You got my homework sheet, right? Did you do it yet?” 

“No,” Chloe breathed.

“Don’t work on it. Give it to me tomorrow. I want to do my own homework.” 

“No!” 

Duusu scoffed loudly. “No! This isn’t punishment, geez, get over yourself Sabrina. I just want to prove my own brilliance, I can do that much, can’t I?” Duusu paused, listening to Sabrina’s stammer, quick to flatter and promise. “I’m glad you see it my way. See you tomorrow.”

Duusu barely ended the call when Chloe shrieked, “You can’t make my body do homework! That’s peasant work!” 

“It’s part of your current education system; does that mean you think yourself beneath an education? You do know that you need a good education if you want to get into politics and be the next mayor. You can’t always buy your way through school. And Sabrina won’t always be by your side.” 

Duusu moved away from Chloe before the girl turned kwami could respond. Growling, she followed, snapping, “You can’t pretend to be me! You even have pink eyes! People will see straight through you!”

“Good thing you always wear sunglasses,” Duusu said, flashing her a grin as she brought them down. 

“Bustier won’t allow it!”

“Bustier is your biggest enabler. She’ll allow it.”

Growling, she darted in front of Duusu’s face, tail feathers spread out angrily. “Fine! Who do I go to first to start helping them so I can get my body and life back?!”

Humming, Duusu answered, “I guess that’s who you hurt the most.”

“Fine. I’ll go to Sabrina.” She’ll help Chloe too. Maybe the key is getting that pin back. 

“Hm. Not sure Sabrina is the right choice,” Duusu murmured, more to herself. “You have twisted things up a lot, but she doesn’t regard herself as being hurt by you too often.”

“Who would you recommend,” Chloe snapped, crossing her arms unhappily. 

“Probably Marinette.”

“No!”

‘You were very close to breaking her. And that hurt has lingered despite her newfound courage. Mindful, yuo do have a whole class to choose from, but Marinette was your main target. She’d be the one you’d have to make it up to most.” 

“No way am I ever going to help her!” 

“Then pick one of your classmates, or help the city. You purposely upsetting people led to akumas, which did hurt the city.”

“How can I help the city like this?!” Chloe gestured to this tiny weirdo body. 

Duusu just gave her a secretive smile. “I’m not under obligation to explain how a kwami body works and what comes with it. You’ll have to figure that out on your own. I’m just here to tell you why you’re punished and what you can do to get out of it.” 

“How helpful,” Chloe grumbled. 

“I always try to be!” Duusu chirped, her smile irritating Chloe all the more.

This was so unfair!

Utterly ridiculous!

[generalluxun]

In light Adrien & Chloe musings, I love to think that if they both met in super hero disguises, or even on opposing sides but were unaware of each others identities that they'd kind of just...

Naturally vibe the way people who have known each other forever do. Like Adrien and Chloe both snarking at Hawk Moth in the Heroes Day thing but jacked up to 11.

Like imagine Chloe screwing around in the manor during Bubbler & finding the peacock is tracked down by Gabriel & he explains his motives & convinces her to work with him. Obscuring the fact the Peacock will kill her cos in his mind once he gets his wish she'll be fine.

Cue her villainous debut & she & Chat have ham to ham combat

Peahen: Oh so you wish to strike the Lady Peahen!? Chat: I don't see a lady standing before me but a villain!

Peahen: Hah, a scoundrel through and through for all women are queens! Chat: I have but only one queen and her name is Ladybug!

Peahen: Well even a stopped watch can get it right I suppose.

Ladybug: (Currently fighting an Akuma) Fight already!

Chat: Sorry my lady! Peahen: Sorry Ladybug! Both: Have at thee!

Sounds like a bit of fun silliness laid over a really dark undernarrative ^^

[syndianites]

I desperately want to know more about your Peacock!Chloe AU

The Miracle Queen one, right?

Thank you for your patience on the ask, I alway forget about my inbox!

So the idea behind it is that Hawkmoth wants to see if the effects of a damaged miraculous are counteracted by being akumatized (with the idea that the miraculous would leech power from the akumatization instead of the person)

So he decides to give Chloe the Peacock instead of the Bee. She turns into Mayura and being akumatized increases the affect of the miraculous’ damage rather than negate it, which manifests in amoks draining people of their energy.

Chloe, of course, doesn’t care enough to stop or notice that it’s also taking a toll on /her/ too. Her first amok comes from her emotions and is made from the miracle box itself, which is a being that hunts down people who have used miraculous in the past. Using it, she chases down people and makes amoks out of the emotions of different holders, which incapacitates them as they can’t stand the drain from the Peacock without wearing a miraculous to protect them.

The Miracle Queen episode essentially goes the same except for two things: The identities of the other holders aren’t revealed (and Chloe can only vaguely recall who some of them might be, since her mind was put under a lot of stress from the akuma and peacock combined) and Hawkmoth DOESNT get the peacock back- but neither does Ladybug.

Rather, when Ladybug is made the guardian the amok in the miracle box breaks due to it changing, but it isn’t purified. Because the amok breaks it causes backlash in the already broken peacock and causes it to freak out. The akuma is spat out of it, almost completely drained of energy, and the miraculous starts to burn Chloe. Without the akuma, the drain is suddenly unbearable and Chloe rips the miraculous off without thinking, throwing it away blindly.

It ends of in the river, before it warps the water around it and seems to vanish.

Hawkmoth is defeated, Fu has amnesia, and Ladybug is staring down an exhausted Chloe.

Canon proceeds as normal except Chloe is withdrawn and distant. She still lashes out at people but it lacks heat, just a cold, icy sort of flare.

When Chloe snaps it’s like a sheet of ice encases her body. She feels numb and empty and hardly recognizes herself in the mirror. It isn’t until she runs off and tries her best to disappear that she realizes she can only see herself as Mayura, the failed Queen in Blue. So she dyed her hair and cuts it short. Changes her meager wardrobe to a sea of purples, greens, and blues.

She WANTS to be Mayura again even though she knows it will just hurt her more.

She still has a faint bond to the miraculous, can taste the emotions of others as she walks by them. So she begins her search for the peacock, often seen skulking alongside the Seine.

Her eventual turn around and ‘redemption’ would come as she pieces through dreams she has of the Miracle Queen event. She would come face to face with herself and realize she doesn’t really want to be /Mayura/ but someone new. Slowly, she starts to see Duusu in her dreams and connects to the maddened Kwami over time. It isn’t until she comes to terms with who she was, what she’s done, and how she wants to atone and be someone better that she wakes with the miraculous in her hands. It reacted to her emotion and returned.

Still damaged, but safe.

And, of course, what better way to atone than to fight hawkmoth? Every akuma attack she sends out amoks to help. Ladybug tries to figure out where they are coming from and who is sending them, but Chloe is still MIA and there’s no other leads. Instead, she pleads with the amoks- in hopes to get through to the Peacock wielder- that the miraculous is broken and is dangerous.

Chloe never responds.

But she also isn’t Mayura anymore. She takes on a new name- Lapis Royale

[brightideas]

"Plagg." Adrien asked.

Plagg couldn't be bothered to speak after eating a slice from a wheel of camembert cheese Adrien had given him. His mouth was full. In polite society, speaking when your mouth was full was something no one should ever attempt. Adrien always told him "you kwamis are really out of touch with mankind sometimes. Our etiquette has improved since the birth of the universe. Your table manners could use a tune up, Plagg."

After he swallowed another mouthful Plagg answered. "what is it?"

"Father isn't himself," Adrien said.

"I'm sure your dad's okay," Plagg said, trying to provide his own rational conclusion. "his schedule is really full."

Plagg only wished he could say the same for the empty pit that he called a stomach.

"Yes, that is true father is always busy," Adrien agreed. "you don't think it would have anything to do with-" his train of thought soon came to a grinding halt. He suddenly became tight lipped when he began thinking about the mysterious new acquaintance he met from a nearly a week ago.

"What is it?" Plagg yelled. He flew over to Adrien wondering what he meant. "is it Le Paon?" he questioned. "your gonna say Le Paon aren't you," for once he anticipated Adrien's response. "your dad's been glued to his smartphone over some new superhero?" he threw head back then laughed. "that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of! He's an adult, he has better things to do with his time!"

"It's the way he talks about Le Paon," Adrien admitted. "it's not the same way he discusses Chat Noir or even Ladybug," he exclaimed, trying to hide the alarm in his voice. "we only met her once and now her social media account has blown up overnight and for some reason it's making father uncomfortable."

Plagg paused a few seconds then replied. "it's just nerves."

"It can't be."

Earlier during the day

The change Duusu provided was not immediate.

"What am I feeling? Why am I feeling sad all of a sudden?" Chloe asked, Duusu trying to describe what she meant. "I can feel all of them, laughing, crying, screaming I can't tune them out," she gave a shuddering breath. "all of them are loud and most of them are in pain."

The kwami of emotion supplied his own thoughtful answer.

"I'd say most of those feelings belong to your own classmates," despite Duusu's power by measure. Chloe was still far too inexperienced to read the emotion of every Parisian outside of her own public school. "remember what you said about Jeluka a few hours ago?"

"Yeah, what about it?" Chloe said, angrily.

"Maybe you should apologize for hurting her feelings." Duusu gently suggested.

It was ridiculous, utterly ridiculous! Chloe yelled in her loudest most obnoxious voice.

She refused to acknowledge Jeluka's feelings ever mattered.

"It's those feelings of anger, bitterness, and hostility that keep making your classmates attractive targets," Duusu explained. "Hawkmoth is just going to find more reasons to akumatize them again if you keep saying mean things to them."

"So what?" Chloe growled.

"If it would help clear your own conscience you might be able to stop crying in your sleep at night." Duusu said, in a rushed breathe.

Chloe said nothing as she quietly mulled over Duusu's words.

"You may not know it, Chloe but when your in a deep sleep at home you never really stop feeling. Sometimes you feel a lot of bad emotions you pick up from other people in Paris. Do you know what happens when your dad sees you crying in your sleep during the middle of the night? He pulls up a chair to sit beside your bed. He feels sad too, did you know that? He holds your hand, he gives it a gentle squeeze. He brushes the wet bangs away from your forehead while he tries to figure out what went wrong. Maybe you could start showing your classmates this kind of compassion."

After the numb shock slowly subsided Chloe obediently followed Duusu's advice.

Chloe required baby steps.

Apologizing to Jeluka meant that to Duusu Chloe was going to begin practicing humility.

Chapter 2

"You did the right thing," Duusu, informed Chloe. "apologizing for bad behavior is always the right thing to do."

"Whatever, it's not like it really mattered," Chloe said, feeling disgusted by the thought.

"That's the whole point of apologizing to someone when you done something wrong," Duusu exclaimed, he smacked his forehead with the palm of his head. "you aren't supposed to be mean to them again," he let out an exasperated sigh. "Jeluka must know you're going to improve your bad behavior and what about Ladybug?" he quickly added.

"What about Ladybug?" Chloe said, she gave Duusu an incredulous expression.

"Who's side are you on?" Duusu questioned. "it's-it's-as if-," he sputtered, as though he was testing the words on the tip of his tongue. "as if you enjoy contributing to Hawkmoth's ideals!" he told Chloe.

"I am not," Chloe said, through clenched teeth.

"You lack self-awareness," Duusu shouted. "we are not in tune with one another! This isn't a power struggle! We both play important roles, we must work together for the greater good! You must accept responsibility and promise change, you must promise me change!"

"I guess so," Chloe said, her tone of voice was bitter.

"You're lonely because of your hatred," Duusu said, lowering his voice to a soft whisper. "don't you want to make new friends?" Duusu noticed Chloe's lips were compressed together. She refrained from responding. "I have given you my powers, Chloe. You may not understand these emotions your feeling right now. But I'm hoping it will help you reform and Ladybug who've you sworn your allegiance will be proud of you for serving underneath the kwami of creation."

"Okay," Chloe said, pointing a finger towards Duusu's face. "maybe- just maybe- you are right about something. Maybe," she bit the bottom of her quivering lip then said. "maybe I should start acting a little more nicer."

"Perhaps," Duusu said. "or are you uncertain this is how you should be conducting yourself?" he inquired.

Chloe made a nervous expression.

"I should become the better version of myself," she exhaled a long winded wheeze. "is that what you wanna hear," Chloe trilled. "I should be just like that ditzy klutz Marinette but if acted like her then I wouldn't be me!"

"Then you should be yourself. You should follow the example Marinette has set."

"Do I have to?"

Chapter 3

Gabriel was self-absorbed.

It was his assistant Nathalie who found him quietly reading Le Paon's status updates inside of his art studio. It would be far too easy to retrieve the broken miraculous now Chloe had found a brand new accessory to add to her wardrobe.

Gabriel glanced up from his smartphone. "Nathalie," he said, acknowledging her presence. "I suppose you must be wondering what course of action I plan on taking now that we both know who stolen our good friend Duusu."

"I assume you will acquire Chloe's miraculous within a day," Nathalie surmised.

"No," Gabriel said, a soft chuckle rolled off of his tongue. "I've come up with another plan," Nathalie's eyes slowly widened in disbelief. It was obvious her employer carefully weighed his options. "instead of taking back the miraculous I'm going to let Chloe keep it for a while."

"We can't afford another casualty!" Nathalie said, raising her voice.

A long soft hum escaped Gabriel's lips.

"I'm not finished," he said, explaining what he had in mind. "attrition. The exhaustion will set in her bones. Unexplainable fatigue. Fainting spells is how Chloe will help us seize Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous."

"She's far too young to wield a broken miraculous," Nathalie said, she clutched the tablet she was holding tightly to her chest. "at least Emilie was a full grown woman. Chloe won't be able to stay in transformation if she ever exhausted her powers," she felt unsettled. "you'd be doing Chloe a favor by taking back the miraculous. All you'll be doing is putting Chloe and Andre through unnecessary pain."

"Which is why I want Chloe to work along with us," Gabriel said, calmly. "Le Paon will be left relatively unharmed from the safety of my observatory. Chloe idolizes Ladybug there's no way I'll lose seizing her magical earrings this time."

"And what if Chloe collapses before we're able to mend the broken miraculous."

"That won't happen again."

[bugaboosandbees]

Rally to the Queen

Okay. I know that I shouldn’t be starting anything else new, and I definitely won’t start actually writing this until I finish with my Reine Ruse AU, but I ended up getting so attached to my Bee!Kagami design (and so salty about Onichan!Kagami) that I ended up with a whole slew of headcanons about a post-Riposte Bee!Kagami Kagaminette AU.

I call it Rally to the Queen.

Here’s what goes down.

This takes place immediately after Riposte.

Marinette still feels really bad about judging the point wrong. She talks to Adrien to ask how Kagami is doing. He says that he thinks that she’s okay now, but Kagami was totally exhibiting some behaviors that he recognized as the son of a largely absent parent with absurd standards. He doesn’t have the time he’d like to have to check in on Kagami, so he also tells Marinette that it sounded like Kagami was under a lot of pressure at home and was afraid of her mother judging her for losing the fight.

Marinette, of course, feels terrible and her patented Dupain-Cheng-family we-must-adopt-everyone genes kick in, so she decides to track down Kagami’s home address to apologize formally and to make sure that Kagami’s mom knows what really went down.

When she gets there, she’s flustered and awkward as usual but good-hearted and although Kagami’s mom initially is not thrilled about the weird intrusion, she doesn’t hate Marinette.

Since she’s there, she and Kagami end up chatting either that day or some other time. Marinette mentions that she’s looking forward to trying out for the fencing team again the following year to learn aside Adrien and Kagami.

Kagami realizes that she took the only spot on the team. She’s not the sort to feel bad about this and wouldn’t normally, but Marinette was being so kind and she’d actually tried to stand up to her mother for her, so she offers to give her fencing lessons. (Maybe she covers it up as extra practice for her as she’s not really much of a touchy-feely person.)

Anyway, Marinette starts going to Kagami’s house once a week for fencing practice. She always brings fresh baked goods. I don’t think Kagami has many friends, especially with how intense we’ve seen her family to be and being so new to Paris, so she might not really know how to deal with Marinette’s brand of friendship at first.

They become really good friends. I actually think they really would if they spent any sort of time together in canon without misunderstandings and Adrien and sometimes somewhat suspect writing in the way. They are both determined, powerful young women with hearts of steel and an unstoppable drive towards something that they’re very passionate about. They’re both straightforward and value honesty and dislike liars. They would be an UNSTOPPABLE team.

I don’t think Sapotis happens in this AU. There’s no salt against Alya here, but I think it would be reasonable for Marinette avoid giving a miraculous to her best friend no matter how much she’d like to share being superheroes with her. This is because Alya is shown in season one especially to be very adamant about revealing Ladybug’s identity. This was even the main goal of her akumatized form, Lady Wifi. Marinette loves Alya deeply, but I think that there would be reasonable doubt there about whether or not Alya would be able to keep her own secret or if she would use her position as a sometimes-superhero to discover more about Ladybug. We’ve seen in canon that Marinette obviously hates lying to her best friend, so I think it’s reasonable to think that she wouldn’t manufacture a situation where she had to do so even more.

Also, even though Anasai technically took place before Queen’s Battle, just go with me here and assume it didn’t and that Style Queen was the first akuma that Ladybug needed help with. We know that she picked the Bee miraculous in Style Queen and, as Marinette is good friends with Kagami already in this AU, she definitely sees how much this miraculous would play to her friend’s strengths. They also fence together all the time, so Marinette knows how Kagami fights and wouldn’t have to learn a new teammate’s style in the middle of an already complicated fight. Since Kagami isn’t Alya, she wouldn’t already be at the Effiel tower and wouldn’t be turned to glitter by Style Queen, so Marinette would be able to safely get the Bee miraculous to her.

Ladybug and Mitsubachi are a deadly combination. Style Queen never stood a chance. Everything goes pretty smoothly and Ladybug is able to get the Bee miraculous back from Kagami without incident. (That being said, Marinette is a flustered bi mess and totally fumbled once or twice in the fight because damn, Kagami makes a deadly and attractive superhero.)

And because I’m a sucker for redeeming Chloe I am physically incapable of leaving her out of this AU. Oops, lol. Without Queen Bee, the Queen’s Battle arc would definitely have some pretty substantial changes. Chloe’s mom would still be being pretty awful and Chloe wouldn’t have gotten her hands on the Bee miraculous. She’d still have to be upset enough to get akumatized over her mom (so Gabe wouldn’t give up being Hawkmoth (also, he’d have only just learned that the Guardian was in Paris so that might be another incentive)) but she wouldn’t become Queen Wasp because she was never Queen Bee in the first place.

Instead, she becomes a different sort of version of @imthepunchlord ‘s Princess Amour akumanette concept. She just really wants to be loved. Maybe instead of having a Chat Noir “knight” as the akumanette had, some ladybug merch of her’s would hold the akuma and turn into a version of Ladybug that would help and protect and validate Chloe as her knight. After LB beats this akuma, she has an honest talk with Chloe that night because she could see that Chloe was really struggling and, despite their very checkered past couldn’t help but wanting to help.

Ladybug gives Chloe some advice and Chloe does her level best to live up to it in her day to day life. It’s a long hard road and it doesn’t come easily, but every once in awhile Ladybug will drop by and knowing that her heroine is proud of her gives Chloe the push she needs to change for the better.

I should also mention that I’m switching the places of the fox and peacock miraculouses in this AU. If we’re still working with the headcanon that Mr. and Mrs. Agreste used the miraculouses that Gabe has, it makes sense that they’d have the butterfly because everything we’ve been lead to believe indicates that it was a good fit for Mrs. Agreste. That being said, what we know of the Peacock makes no effing sense for Gabe. He’s creative, crafty, and not above playing dirty. That man is a fox through and through, you can’t change my mind. Therefore, Fu has the peacock and the fox is the damaged miraculous sitting in the Agreste safe.

This is relevant, I promise.

So, Ladybug and Chat Noir have worked with Mitsubachi quite a few times. She fits pretty effortlessly into the team dynamic but is definitely with Ladybug in taking the job super seriously and not always being down with Chat’s attitude.

Kagami and Marinette are still hanging out. Kagami is falling for Marinette and Marinette is falling for Kagami, but Marinette had confided in Kagami earlier about her crush on Adrien, so Kagami thinks that Mari is still in love with Adrien and Marinette doesn’t think Kagami would be interested in her, so there’s an awful lot of mutual pining going on.

Hawkmoth is escalating and Fu approves of Kagami after testing her himself, so she gets the Bee miraculous on a permanent basis.

With the extra help, it’s a while before Ladybug’s lucky charm calls for another hero, but, when it does, she needs the peacock. Maybe she was going for Alya with this one, but, being the Ladyblogger, Alya has already gotten herself into the conflict and trapped by the akuma. As she’s looking around, Ladybug spots (lol, get it?) Chloe trying to get Sabrina and some other people to safety, consequently getting trapped or something. She goes to save Chloe, and when Chloe thanks her, she starts to wonder. Chloe has taken a good, hard look at herself and really improved in the past few months. She’s not perfect yet, but no one is. And, you know what? Getting the Ladybug miraculous went a long way towards making her a better Marinette. Mind made up, she offers the Peacock to Chloe and a new hero appears. (I’m thinking of naming Chloe’s peacock form Tirisi or Vindex -- Greek or Latin for (roughly) defender/protector/champion. See my rant on why the peacock miraculous’ powers make sense for my reasoning.)

Chloe gives the miraculous back when Ladybug asks and keeps working to improve herself so that her heroine might someday trust her again. (She loved being able to have the power and agency to connect with and help others -- she really loved feeling strong enough to save others and is starting to feel more confident that she can save herself.) She doesn’t spill her identity and becomes a reliable second-string hero when Ladybug’s lucky charm demands her presence.

Eventually turtle!Sabrina will also come into this AU because she really, really deserves her own character development. (And @mystery-vixen ‘ s design and art and @pyrepyro ‘s art for Turtle!Sabrina is the cutest shit I’ve ever seen in my life.) Maybe it’s some sort of Anasasi situation where Chloe’s in trouble and Sabrina is doing her level best to rescue her as a civilian, idk. (For turtle!Sabrina I was thinking Bouclier or Jadeite, unless you guys have ideas?)

Anyway, eventually, everyone has their miraculouses permanently. (This probably happens after Gabe and Natalie break out the fox.) Endgame is Kagaminette and Chlobrina, two sets of deadly wlw protecting Paris along with the bi disaster Chat Noir who is 100% willing to THROW THE FUCK DOWN with anyone who doesn’t respect the ladies of the superhero team. Chat Noir totally gets along with the whole squad, by the way. Between the four of them, the ladies are great friends and life coaches to our cat boi and help him work through what unhealthy attitudes he has in a respectful and caring way. They adopt him and are always hugging Chat or even just lightly resting a hand on his shoulder since they discovered he was touch-starved. (Especially Ladybug and Tirisi. All four would cut a bitch for that boy, but they’re the most touchy-feely.)

(Eventually snake!Luka joins the squad and he and Chat Noir get together and it’s just a giant group of badass queer superheroes kicking ass and protecting Paris.)

They eventually beat Hawkmoth and Adrien and Luka become the next Guardians (They’d do a great job, fight me). Marinette and Kagami are too busy for that anyway. They got married and Marinette started the world’s most successful fashion line while Kagami set some sort of ridiculous record for the number of gold medals a single person can win in fencing. Chloe and Sabrina get married and (because of Chloe) end up adopting a ridiculous amount of kids that they care for and love unconditionally.

Happily Ever After and The End. :)

Thanks for listening to my rant!