wow what a fantastic episode.
i love the role reversal with alya/nino and adrien/marinette. (the season started with adrien and marinette not knowing how to be a couple and second guessing everything and trying to emulate nino and alya and now towards the end of s6, we have nino lying to alya about not hating strawberry and not realizing the difference between debates and discussions and actual fighting because of his parents.) glad it ended with the honesty (a constant theme this season for obvious reasons) but the show tends to write this (mostly) super solid unrealistic teenage relationship between alya/nino so i'm always here for the few times they feel more realistic, even in very minor ways.
i also really like that they didn't sugarcoat the v real problems nino's parents had and it ended in them getting separated and that being the better solution for everyone involved, including their children. i hate when shows gloss over serious relationship issues for the sake of "keeping families together" when it's obvious every single person involved would be better off if they didn't so that was nice.
yay nino character exploration and and a very cool carapace transformation.
marinette finally getting a superhero transformation with one ponytail! she looked so cute, i'm a fan.
it was hilarious watching adrien and marinette pretend they had no clue how to be heroes and were seeing kwamis for the first time. also hilarious as hell because adrien knew marinette was lying because he knew she was multimouse and marinette knew he was lying too, since he was aspik. that part where plagg made fun of him for pretending to be scared of being a hero and called him quite the actor, i died laughing.
i am obsessed with how trionyx's hair is the most parisian fashion model-like hair adrien has ever had.
anyway it was cute seeing adrinette run around rooftops together not knowing they do it all the time, but the thing i'm left thinking about is the final scene. because it's such a character (development? evolution?) for adrichat to go from finding freedom in chat noir (again! something he started the season with in that episode when he was trying to find a passion and discovered being chat was the one thing he truly enjoyed just for him) to saying something like, he doesn't want to impose being a hero on anyone else. it's a huge change from sentiments he would have made just weeks ago, so i am curious where the thought process comes from, how it's related to his father or his personal experience being chat. that thing he said about not wanting to be a hero to nino obviously wasn't serious, but i wonder if there's a kernel of truth to it. is he concerned about other people he cares about being hunted down for their miraculous (a stand-in for the miraculous being targeted is different than a stand-in for any other hero) and being denied a normal life, which he never really had (a sentiment ladybug had always felt more strongly than him because her civilian life did not suck like his did, but i wonder if he's leaning towards feeling the same now that he's finding his footing in life outside being a hero and finally has more of a life as adrien so he doesn't really need to glorify the chat aspect of his life anymore...hmmmm....), or if it's a personal thing, that his feelings about being a hero have become more complex and double sided. (actually, i wonder if it's significant that he says this in the episode directly after heartfixer. or if it matters that in that episode, adrien saved marinette exactly as himself, no hero required. interesting coincidences that maybe mean nothing but idk if the timeline itself is insignificant.) dying to see what the show does with that scene, and if we ever clearly find out what is going on inside his head because i am soooo curious.
