-Adrien does totally fall for Marinette, but he is totally cautious about it. She is a nice girl, and he was a punk.
-Adrien having a penchant for vintage clothes.
-Chloé doesn't have a crush on Adrien, sure he is hot, but he is poor. So no.
-Ladybug and Chat noir have a Batman/ Catwoman dynamic or a Spiderman/ Black cat dynamic. Ladybug sees the good in Chat noir and is trying to get him on the good side. Chat noir prefers to do his own thing. But will do good when he feels like it.
-Adrien has a lot more time to hang out with people when he isn't working at the Dupain Bakery, so him and Nino get to hang out a lot.
If you’re wondering why he has a paw print on his back, I got this Kinder Surprise egg with Adrien in it, and he happens to wear a black jacket with a paw print on the back so I thought it fit pretty well with this AU
He’s so punk that he doesn’t even care that by having it on his back, it shows he’s clearly Chat Noir, that’s how bad ass he is. He already knows everyone’s stupid af that it doesn’t even affect anything.
(sorry the picture’s a bit blurry, also this paw print’s clearly better but you get the idea :p)
Adrien’s relationship with his dad isn't too (terribly) bad to begin with (really). I mean... Bad is when the kid starts to skip out on the scheduled father-son meals that Gabriel actually decides to attend. Adrien just leaves a note with Nathalie explaining where he is & what he’s doing (usually studying) along with a request to not be disturbed. Gabriel doesn’t let it show, but getting brushed off by his son really STUNG.
Whenever an assigned father-son meal comes around, unlike before his punkification, Adrien gets super depressed because of it despite being the one to make the decision to skip out. The reason being that he's innately aware that their relationship has deteriorated so badly & to such a distressing degree, that not even he himself is willing put in the effort to try anymore & that… that hurts… more than any missed meal… or broken promise... or threat to remove him from public school... or degradation of his friends... because that means that... that Adrien doesn’t care anymore. At least, not enough to actually do anything about it... but at the same time, he WANTS to care… he just can’t anymore. It hurts too much to be the only one putting any effort into rebuilding even a semblance of a father-son relationship.
He’d been putting in so much effort before. THROWING HIMSELF into being the perfect, most well-behaved son possible & hoping against all hope that it would… what? Convince his father to let him in? Be a part of each other's lives again? Try to help each other through the loss of his mother?
Obviously, that was all just the pipedream of an optimistic child searching for comfort in a dark place. It didn’t work, so might as well find his own way out & just live his life the way he wants to from now on.
Fath- Gabriel just has to figure out how to navigate his way blind like Adrien... or reach out for his son's waiting hand. For that connection that they both desperately needed.
like, what if Hawk Moth didn’t become active until a couple years later? And if Adrien was denied the chance to go to public school?
HEADCANON TIME
Adrien, so sheltered and lacking the freedom that going to school and being Chat Noir gives him, eventually *GASP* rebels against his father.
Featuring Adrien, A Little Punk Shit Who Pretends to Be a Bad Boy (but he’s still so soft and smol on the inside like-). He quits modeling and does literally whatever he can to get his dad’s attention. And he gets a bajillion times the media attention because what’s even more interesting than our sweet, perfect, golden boy is an ex-sweet, perfect, golden boy that is now so flirtatious and always gets caught sneaking into places he shouldn’t and secretly wears eyeliner to look like Jagged Stone even though his perfect hair still makes him look like he belongs in One Direction just-
After Adrien becomes a Sassy Lil’ Shit™ Daddy Agreste is like, “FINE. YOU GOING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS THE LEAST OF MY PROBLEMS.”
The Gum Incident™ happens and Marinette’s just pissed like “This wannabe edgemaster is sticking gum on my fucking seat wtf”
Adrien tries diffusing the situation by flirting and she is not. having. it.
It’s now Kwami time, and while Adrien is still one of the Chosen Ones™, he is now too all over the place to be Chat Noir so GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
KWAMI SWAP AU
Let’s just take a second to image how sweet Tikki would be to our attention-starved sunshine boy just UGH
And Marinette would so sass Plagg times infinity compared to Adrien let’s be real.
And being Ladybug, Adrien realizes that he forgot what it was like to be admired and praised. So in superhero form he’s so genuine and sunshine-y like our canon Adrien because that’s what he thinks Paris neEDS FROM HIM
SKJDSFLBKHVNLKDMDFGK,ASFJFGHSADGHLFD
MARINETTE FALLS SO IN LOVE BUT SHE GETS FLUSTERED AND IS PRETTY MUCH TRIPPING OVER HER OWN TAIL MID-ACTION
Meanwhile at school, Marinette is able to see through Adrien’s suave bullshit and is like “what are you doing? you’re pretty much a legit teddy bear?”
And instead of treating him like an idol or some sexy bad boy, she teases him and makes jokes about him being a homeschool kid that’s never left his bedroom
REVERSE UMBRELLA SCENE
Now Adrien is all flustered because being friends with her is so easy and she makes him feel warm and fuzzy inside and AW SHIT HE’S IN LOVE
THAT’S RIGHT, THIS IS ALSO A REVERSE CRUSH AU
ALL THE FEELINGS. ADRIEN WEARING ALL BLACK AND TRYING TO BE EDGY BY ACTING COOL AND FLIRTATIOUS. MARINETTE STRUGGLING TO FIGHT CRIME WITH HER CRUSH.
Pllease god, give me some Punkdrien!!! It’s so good!!!!!
(I got you covered)
-Punkdrien listening to more rock music and has Nino help him get a list of Rebellious music
-Marinette becomes Adrien’s punk designer, since his father would never be okay with it.
-Punkdrien slowly falling more for Marinette. (And may or may not be doing this to impress her a bit, since another punk aesthetic boy caught her attention)
-Chloé and Lila are both super put off by Adrien’s new look and want him to go back, the rest of the class thinks he looks awesome.
-Adrien totally trying out temporary tattoo and pretending they are real to spite his father.
-Marinette, Nathanael and Alix spent hours working on a fake body tattoo. Marinette nearly fainted twice.
Challenge time! Reblog and headcanon the first au that you find when you search ml au on Tumblr!
Rebel Adrien au
(I avoided all the posts that were mine. But I did do Punk!Adrien)
- Adrien totally asking Marinette to help him dress like a bad boy. “I want to look like a rebel. Can you design my new duds?”
-Marinette more then happily accepts.
-She made him a cool looking leather jacket (Similar to Chat noir, He paid for all the materials) Some sick ripped jeans. (She made the rips from a pair he bought)
-Adrien also getting sick shades and leather fingerless gloves. (He doesn’t wear this all the time, this was just to make him be a rebel. The rest of the time he looks more punk then usual
-Adrien has chat noir green tipped hair and its styled back. His father absolutely hates this new rebellious phase, (But admits the outfit is very well designed.)
-”Knock this off at once… but first, where did you get that jacket. I don’t think any of my competitors can make a jacket like that.” “Marinette made it for me, the friend that won your fashion contest.” “Oh, well she does very good work… but I am still very angry.”
-Adrien trying to act like a rebel, but is still a sweet heart. Marinette practically gushing about how cool he is.
-Alix totally helps him be a rebel, having him help her with her graffiti art.
-Mylene and Ivan have Adrien join their protests.
-Luka and him practicing in their band.
-Rebel Adrien sneaking out to hang with his friends.
Punk Adrien gives me life!!!! I love it so much! I would like to think that Gorilla might (silently of course) approve of this change, Natalie to her self does, but can’t say much bc of Gabriel.
-Gorrilla’s main job is to protect Adrien. Yes, I do believe he wants Adrien to be happy. But this rebellious phase likely makes his job 100X harder.
-Adrien realizes this, and decides to make a compromise. He will tell Gorilla where he is headed, but to not come until a certain time.
-Nathalie is a mixed bag when it comes to this, since she does care for Adrien, and wants him to be happy, but Gabriel is getting driven nuts by this rebellious behavior. So Nathalie has to play it carefully.
