Iiiiiiiiii saw @creatingblackcharacters design challenge and basically bumped my plans to draw these hedgehogs human designs at the top of the list.
Bonus quick edits under the cut cause i was thinkin about like, loading screens in video games and remembered i wanted a new header for my sonic blog 😎👍
Sorry. But I actually didn't choose this. I asked a friend of mine from University, specifically one who DISPISES Miraculous, and she said "whichever one causes the most chaos." ... which didn't help so she picked Nathaniel 2 minutes later. THANKS BUDDY!
So you can't even blame me! Blame her! Not Zo, not me, her.
Anyways, here we are, time to give yall the food you want! Here is the current run down of
The Cataclysm Incident AU
The full plot of this AU so far can be found below, the plot is not set in stone and can be changed at any point due to any reason. Ok long post incoming here we go!
In this a loosly Civil war based AU, the truth has been spilled, yada yada ladybugs a liar, and now the Heroes are arguing about Ladybugs reliability and if there is a good reason for all this lying.
Chat is particularly pissed because A, his dad wasn't the hero that he was made out to be and has recived praise for nothing, B, Ladybug lied about it because it was his desire even though hecdidnt deserve it, and C, She didn't even tell Chat noir, her day one partner to defeat Hawkmoth
As the heroes are arguing, Rooster Bold says something trying to calm everyone down. Look, he's just trying to help ok. A few other heroes are also trying to calm tensions, it's just Bold has to be the catalyst here for the AU to work just trust me on this.
The wording pisses of Chat for some reason, I'm not 100% sure on what is said and why it angers Chat so feel free to make it work, and he attacks him, not realising Cataclysm is active. AND YES HE CAN DO THIS! HE DOES THIS IN CHAT BLANC HE JUST CATCHES HIMSELF BEFORE HE CATACLYSMS HAWKMOTH! BUT HERE HE DOESNT REALISE ITS HAPPENED! .... anyways.
Caprikid, being the impulsive idiot he is (affectionate), rushes forward and uses his paintbrush to throw Chat off aim. When trying to lift his Brush to complete block the actual attack, however, he's a little too slow and ends up taking the blow to the chest, as seen in the image above.
Ladybug, quietly from the crowd, summons a lucky charm knowing its the one chance they have to reverse this cus this just got extremely serious. What the item is us up for interpretation, its just needed to fix this mess in a bit.
Rooster Bold catches and holds onto the now injured and detransformed Nathaniel (because screw you my headcanon is Cataclysm can potentially rip through a hero outfit and force a detransformation).
Nathaniel is currently in a bit of shock, proccessing this right now, and Ziggy, who is now very tired, just lays in his hands while he holds her close.
Chat, meanwhile, realises what he's done and regrets it immediately. He didn't even know Cataclysm had activated. He only intended to hit Rooster Bold, not try to kill him. He doesn't know what came over him.
However, when trying to offer support, Rooster Bold threatens Chat with the sharp nib of the pen as "back off you just hurt him so youre a threat right now" type reaction. He is not happy. He's angry. Not just that Chat tried to hurt him, but hurt Caprikid.
Nathaniel, not wanting this to escalate further, headbutts Rooster Bold lightly on the chest to calm him . Get his attention off of everyone. It works, but Bold doesnt drop his guard. Rooster Bold quickly flicks the pen back into the holder, scoops up Nathaniel and legs it out of sight, making sure the firming crowd of civilians can't get a glimps of Nathaniels face.
And, of course, the heroes are left to process this. Ladybug tells them they can continue this argument another time because there are way more important things going on right now and they just dont have time for this right now and runs to catch up with Rooster Bold and Nathaniel.
Thustly, things end with the team more muddled and messy than before, some torn between hearing out things, sone torn between hatred in both actions. The heroes just really don't know how they should be feeling right now.
Meanwhile, Nathaniel is now in pain while Rooster Bold is trying so so hard to find a power that he can use to help Nathaniel. He calls Ladybug, gives their location, and she calms him, giving him an idea of what he can do. The power to numb the area of injury of anyone he touches.
Ladybug gets there and she asks how Nath is doing and Rooster Bold asks her to please hurry up with the miracle cure. After hesitating and getting a little bit scolded, she uses the miracle cure.
Bold, finally assured Nathaniel will live, detransforms and relaxes.
Orriko, after quickly checking on Ziggy, gives them a quick exposition dump that the injury may have been physically fixed with newly created cells to stop the necrosis of Cataclysm, but the pain will linger for a while due to the fact that the kadybug isnt a healing miraculous, its a creation one. It created new cells to fux the necrosis and injury, but the pain will linger for a good while considering the pure destructive power of Cataclysm. Nathaniel is gonna be out of commission for atleast a while.
Ladybug says both of them are off hero duty for the time being, so they can recover physically and mentaly respectfully, but are to keep their miraculous to care for the kwamis and eachother. She sees that as a decent enough course of action. She's not doing great herself honestly. Ladybug is tired of this shit and having mental breakdown number 4954, but sge can express that when she is back home.
Adrien is akso having a mental breakdown because he just nearly killed his friend and isincredibly guilty.
Bunnyx saw everything and is a bit sad now. She will pop in to check up on her best bud tho.
And Luka missed everything and saw it on the news, got a lore dump from Sass, and has made phone calls to try and get the full story (Juleka ranted about everything to him, He caught Marinette mid panic attack, and got Adrien to atleast stop fully blaming himself for this and to blame multiple factors)
Oh also this is also without mentioning that school is now extra tense cus the heroes all know who Caprikid is, deduced who Rooster Bold is, and now everyone's scared to talk about this so the tension at school just sky rocketed.
Um.... if anyone has any ideas on how to make this better (changes are fully welcome i will magpie them and credit you!), or if you want to add their own headcanons, or write your own Fics with this concept, let me know! I'd love to hear about it!
Anyways, I'm gonna go hide for a while, have a bonus of Rooster Bold threatening Chat Noir!
I got a fashion sketchbook (affiliate link), which is basically a sketchbook that has very, very pale lines in the shape of an exaggerated human figure that a person can then draw clothes onto without worrying about having to draw a person first.
I do wish there was some more body diversity in this, but it's got so many pages that I'looking forward to messing around with designs anyway, even if I have no idea what I'm doing and am only sort of decent at it.
Obvious first sketch was. uh. Steampunky.
(You can see those faint figural lines in a few places, most notably the bikini area.)
