#protective ladybug

[ladynoir123]

Adrien is like - What????

[mikauzoran]

Lady Noir: Righteous Fury – “I’m only here to establish an alibi.” (One-Shot)

Read it on AO3: Lady Noir: Righteous Fury – “I’m only here to establish an alibi.”

Summary: Incensed at Gabriel’s treatment of Adrien, Ladybug rants at Chat Noir…and gets a big surprise.

Pairing: Ladybug/Chat Noir

Rating: T

[savsanerd]

“Don’t talk to me or my Kitty ever again”

[guardiankarenterrier]

For the ask game, Z with Plagg, Adrien and another kwami of your choosing, and it’s when Adrien’s cat traits start talking in a physical aspect? Cat eyes, claws in human form, fangs in human form and the slight sensation that he may grow tail and ears? Perhaps master fu asking Plagg why he allows it?

He doesn't even register that anything's strange at first. He spends more time transformed than not, whenever he can get away with it. He's long since gotten used to the feeling of his ears swivelling, his tail flicking.

It takes him far too long to realise that he shouldn't be feeling his ears or his tail right now.

He assumes at first that it's only phantom sensations. That happens sometimes, when he's stayed transformed for most of a day (or overnight, or- he stays transformed a lot. Whenever he can get away with it). There's usually a span of time after where he still moves like he's transformed until he has to consciously readjust.

He knows Ladybug feels something similar, although without the ears and tail.

The ears and tail that Adrien, somehow, still has.

continue on ao3

[pandawritespoorly]

IFD 2020

Author’s Note: Here's something for IFD 2020. A commenter on With Time said I should write something when I brought it up. I wrote it quick and I haven't really reread it so I hope you enjoy!

Summary: An Akuma attack brings Ladybug and Chat Noir to the... AO3 Work Search page?

This akuma was… slightly different. It had only one goal: show Ladybug and Chat Noir ‘all their fans’.

Whatever that meant.

It only went after them. If a stray projectile went towards a civilian, then it would disappear before they were hit.

Inevitably, they were hit, appearing in an empty room that reminded Chat of pixelator. There was a large screen in front of them, a little taller than the teens. A gray rectangle with several search bars took up most of it. Being the nerds they were, they both recognized it.

“Hey, that’s the AO3 work search page!” Chat says first.

“Yeah…” Ladybug approaches cautiously. She puts her hand out, touching the screen and trying to scroll. Sure enough, the page moves, and they both watch as she goes through the page.

The ‘Fandoms’ bar is filled in, and the way it’s grayed out makes them guess they can’t change it.

“‘Miraculous Ladybug’?” Ladybug reads. “I know people write fanfics about us, but isn’t under like ‘Miraculous Heroes’ or something?”

“It’s actually, ‘Heroes of Paris’,” Chat corrects. Ladybug raises an eyebrow, and he blushes a little. “It’s not like I go above the T rating!”

Ladybug’s face goes red. “Oh, Kwami, I hadn’t even thought of that.” She hurriedly selects the ‘General Audiences’ rating. “Let’s think of the children.”

Chat nods, hitting ‘No Archive Warnings Apply’ and ‘Gen’ for her.

“I’m assuming the akuma just wants us to read some fanfics right?”

“Probably.” Chat shrugs. At the ‘Characters’ bar, Chat types in her name quickly using a keyboard that appears on the screen.

He’s focused on the keyboard, and doesn’t notice how Ladybug stares in shock at the suggested names.

“H-How?”

“You good, Bug?” Chat glances back at his partner, whose mouth is hanging open in surprise.

She doesn’t respond. He glances at the screen and sees the results.

“Oh.”

 Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Ladybug

Master Fu (Miraculous Ladybug)

Wayzz (Miraculous Ladybug)

Nooroo (Miraculous Ladybug)

 It went on for a few more lines, but Chat didn’t read all of it. He and Ladybug just stare for a few quiet moments.

“E-Even if they f-figured out… my identity… the Kwamis, and Master Fu….” Ladybug manages, doing her best to stay calm. “Do they know yours?”

“Do you want to know?”

She laughs, a hysterical edge to her voice. “I-I mean, why not?! At this point does secrecy even matter?! This-”

Chat cuts her off, putting a gentle hand on her shoulder. “Maybe you should sit down.” She nods, sitting on the ground of their empty white whatever-this-is.

Typing in his hero name, Chat sees that, yes, his identity is right there.

 Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir

 “S-so. Adrien, huh?” Ladybug (Marinette), asks, oddly calm.

“Yep.”

“Maybe we should talk a-about this l-later.”

He nods, and she finally approaches the screen again. She hesitates, then types in the first word she thinks of into a different bar.

 Akuma Attack

Akuma Possession

Akumatized Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir

Akumatized Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Original Akuma

Akumatized Main Character(s)

Akuma Battle

 “Oh gosh, people want to see us akumatized? That would be a disaster!” Ladybug exclaims.

“Makes for a good story, I guess.” Chat types in a new word.

 Plagg Is So Done (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg is a Little Shit (Miraculous Ladybug)

Protective Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Supportive Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Cares (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Appreciation Week

Plagg Being Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Is a Troll (Miraculous Ladybug)

Parent Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Cheesy Enough For Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Poor Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Swears (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Loves Cheese (Miraculous Ladybug)

Unhelpful Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug)

Plagg Swears (Miraculous Ladybug)

Minor Plagg/Tikki

Plagg Ships It (Miraculous Ladybug)

 “Yeah, that sounds about right,” Chat grumbles.

Ladybug laughs. “Are two of them really about cheese?”

“I’m surprised it’s only two. I smell like camembert 24/7 for only two tags.”

“I think he sounds like a sweetheart.”

“Of course you do.”

She rolls her eyes, typing in her own Kwami’s name. A lot are similar to Plagg’s, but there are a few notable ones.

 Cat Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)

Human Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)

Cats Plagg and Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)

Dog Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug)

 “I’m sorry what?” Ladybug frowns. “Do they not know she’s a ladybug?”

“They’re probably for AUs.”

She frowns, still not convinced. Chat decides to leave her to her gumbling, and types something else. Eventually they’re both distracted by looking through the tags for both of their best friends.

“What’s with them both being matchmakers? I’ve never noticed either of them getting any couple together?” Chat questions.

Ladybug coughs, choking on air. He looks at her in concern and she waves him off, recovering and hurriedly typing in her parent’s names.

“‘Sabine Cheng and Tom Dupain Know’? Know what, that I’m Ladybug?”

“I guess so?”

“Well I don’t think that they actually know. I hope.” Ladybug crosses her arms.

Chat looks slightly panicked. “Oh you don’t think my Father knows, do you?” He’s already typing it in.

 Hawk Moth is Gabriel Agreste

 He stares blankly, frozen.

“No.”

Looking to comfort him, Ladybug scans the suggestions quickly. “Well, hey, look this one says he isn’t Hawkmoth!”

They both know it’s weak, especially given that just about every tag lists him as the villain they’d been fighting with this whole time.

Chat hasn’t moved, and Ladybug goes to the ‘Character’ bar, looking to get some final clarification.

 Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth

 “No,” Chat whispers, shaking.

“Oh, Kitty. I’m so sorry.” Ladybug turns to him, worried.

“It’s n-not y-your fault.”

She opens up her arms, and he collapses into the hug.

She’s still holding him when the white fades away, and they’re back in Paris as if no time has passed.

Ladybug gently extracts herself from Chat, whispering for him to just take a moment to rest, and faces the akuma.

“Find anything interesting?” It chirps, looking far too proud of itself.

She doesn’t respond. This is the akuma that forced her partner to find out the worst possible thing in an awful way.

It’s going down.

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Author’s Note: Wow, today is not a good day for Adriens written by me, huh? Maybe I can post something else soon that's fluffier. Just need to get that ending worked out.

[guardiankarenterrier]

L and dragonbug/chat noir? (bonus points for drgaonbug being flirty and chat noir being very flustered)

(L is stolen kiss)

After Hero's Day, Ladybug and Chat Noir had mostly gone back to their routines. That's their plan after Miracle Queen, too.

It doesn't work for very long.

It doesn't work for much longer than about half a day.

Hawkmoth very obviously has plans of his own.

Adrien already hasn't slept well in a long time, but over the past week he's barely had time to sleep at all. He definitely hasn't made it through an entire class, because if he isn't off trapped in a battle somewhere he's struggling to keep his eyes open and his battered attention on the lesson instead of on any hint of another akuma. It's only the fact that no one else is making it through their classes uninterrupted either that's saving his grades.

It feels like they can barely finish one fight before the next one's already on them.

Sometimes he thinks that's true, although by now the fights and akuma and amok are all blurring together anyway. He's still faintly fairly sure that sometimes the amok are attacking them right as Ladybug's cleansing the akuma, and that sometimes there's another akuma alert before they've finished with the amok, and when he asks her Ladybug confirms that she thinks so too.

The amok and akuma have so often been simultaneous before now.  These staggered attacks are just as deliberate as their back to back (to back to back) battles with M. Ramier were in the past.

They can't keep fighting like this forever. Hawkmoth and Mayura don't have to show up to these battles in person, and even if they did they'd be able to switch off- Ladybug and Chat Noir have to be there, and their enemies know it.  

Adrien wants to reassure Ladybug that it's really her they need, that if something happens to him she'll be okay without him, but he doesn't want it to come across as his being unwilling to help because that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Besides, not only has Plagg been very vocal about how neither of them will, in fact, 'be okay' if anything happens to Adrien, Tikki has actually shown up and promised him the same thing. Adrien hadn't known that Tikki could be terrifying, but the little kwami had been very, very insistent- and very precise about her meaning.

"I would never want her to have to do this alone," Adrien had told his partner's kwami, as he tried not to look around too much in case Ladybug was nearby and untransformed.

"She won't be able to do this without you," Tikki had emphasized, flickering up to press hard against his shoulder on 'you.' "You, Chat, she needs you specifically, not anyone else.  You are not replaceable; you can't just mean that you'd find her other allies, Chat. It has to be you."

Adrien still has trouble believing that, no matter how often he hears it. But hearing it from Ladybug's kwami- Ladybug's kwami, who knows Ladybug better than anyone, who knows him like his partner knows him, his partner who knows him better than anyone else ever has or ever could except for his own kwami-

Adrien knows he'd stared at Tikki in a daze at first, fighting back the pleased rumble that wanted to roll through more out of habit than an actual desire to stop it. He doubts Tikki would have minded any more than Plagg does.

"It has to be you," Tikki had repeated, softly, lighting on his shoulder and then nuzzling against his neck in a way that really had drawn a full-throated purr out of him.  "You're her partner."

(continue on ao3 )   (☕)

[guardiankarenterrier]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"Have you ever thought about-" Ladybug starts, and then cuts herself off immediately.

Chat Noir looks up at her, tilting his head and feeling his eyes slide shut as she ruffles his hair with one hand. He's not sure how he's ended up mostly in her lap but he is most definitely not going to complain about it.

But she had a question, even if she hadn't finished it.  He suppresses his purring long enough to ask, "Thought about what, LB?"

Her hand stills. "How are we going to- to have lives and jobs and careers, if we still have to vanish every time there's an akuma?"

[guardiankarenterrier]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Eventually, Gabriel Agreste pushes too far.

Eventually, Adrien disappears.

Slowly, Ladybug notices that first, Chat Noir never used to be around so much, and second, there's definitely something wrong with him.