Genuinely gotta keep reminding myself it's Mister Bug when he's got the ladybug miraculous, not Ladyboy đ¤Ś
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Genuinely gotta keep reminding myself it's Mister Bug when he's got the ladybug miraculous, not Ladyboy đ¤Ś
I'm new to the fandom so I feel like I might be making jokes that have already been laughed at. But that won't stop me from experimenting how far their stupidity and communicational skills don't go.
My lady noire redesign.
I donât think the original design was necessarily bad but I did have a few issues with it.
For one I donât love the braid instead of the belt, mostly because the belt moves like a tail on chat noir and I donât remember the braid working the same way so itâs not as expressive ( I might be wrong but I think it just hangs), and while it was kinda cute I had the idea to have like small black ribbons on her pigtails that resemble whiskers so I scrapped the braid entirely. For the tail I made a sash/belt thing instead.
Another thing I really didnât like was how she had itty bitty claws that you could barely see. I want her to have big sharp claws at least as big as chats.
As for the colors I like the green in that it is part of the black cats color scheme but I think the blue would make it more her own. Weâve also seen with kitty noir that the eyes donât necessarily need to be green. I did make a green version since I do kind of like it. I honestly donât know what I prefer.
Finally I did not like how boring and plain her suit is especially compared to chats which has all sorts of textures and details (wrist cuffs, bell, boots, belt, pockets, sectioned parts, etc)
So I added a few more details plus some interest to the mask.
I also made her top lip black, kinda Kim possible style.
Overall Iâm pretty happy with my redesign, she feels more like marinette to me.
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Is it only my impression, or in Miraculous Chat Noir is allowed to critizice Ladybug, but Ladybug is not allowed to criticize Chat Noir?
I completely agree and I think a big part of that comes down to the way the way the writers view Marinette and Adrien respectively; Marinette is supposed to learn a lesson in every episode and as sheâs always been the one actively trying to advance the love square before the writers are ready for that, she has to fail often and make a lot of mistakes that are often played for comedy by the writers and the characters around her (before weâre suddenly told weâre now making fun of her trauma which is bad but I digress) whereas Adrien has always been considered by the writers to be âperfectâ and âheâs not flawed - the world isâ, with even the characters in-universe referring to Adrien as âperfection personifiedâ and such
As a consequence, Marinette is often portrayed as in the wrong, even when the universe bends over backwards to make it so, whereas Adrien canât be criticised and thus becomes a bit of a stagnant character because perfection doesnât allow room to grow
I think that the LadyNoir dynamic does allow for playful criticism between the pair, granting us Ladybug banter such as âIâm not interested in your poetry, but I do find your foolishness incredibly powerful!â, âBecause [the Ladybug Miraculous] requires a sense of responsibility~?â, âI had it under control *smacks Chatâs head* but thanksâ, etc etc
But beyond the obviously playful banter that Chat returns in spades constantly, thereâs definitely a theme of Chat Noir consistently mucking about in battle, often leading to either himself or someone else getting incapacitated or some other reckless and/or generally unhelpful issue caused, Ladybug getting annoyed at him and Chat giving some retort to poke fun at or pacify her rather than addressing the issue at hand. I mean, the start of Reflekdoll is a perfect example; Ladybug is calling Chat Noir out on pulling a prank in the middle of battle that almost caused her Lucky Charm to fail, with Chat Noir simply joking around and calling her no fun and a stick in the mud. I get that heâs not gonna be the most responsible and focused constantly, neither of them are, theyâre fourteen. But thereâs a difference between a quick pun while fighting and a prank on your partner while sheâs already running on less than five minutes before she transforms back, trying to focus on a very serious problem and the prank being enough to put their entire mission in jeopardy. Play about and joke around all you want, we donât care if you screw around on the job, but make sure you donât actively work against said job while you do it!
And then afterwards the pair have a bit of a personality swap as well now that they swap Miraculous, with Adrien as Mister Bug being forced to step up since he now has the Miraculous that, in the nicest way possible, requires hard work and effort to use, whereas Marinette as Lady Noire is now freed from that burden and can use the comparatively simplistic power of just tapping whatever she wants to destroy and watching it happen, the most effort she has to put in with that is simply getting close enough to the desired object in order to touch it without touching anything else between activating her power and using it. So of course Mister Bug, used to slacking off and playing about, is a little overwhelmed in a situation where heâs the strategist rather than the support while Lady Noire, still a little annoyed by their earlier discussion, was happy to actively reverse the roles, taking time to play about and make quips at Mister Bugâs expense. Even making a joke that wearing the Black Cat suit/being in Chatâs role is âa lot lighter on the shouldersâ, aka making a jab at Chat never having a sense of responsibility and thus the âweight being lifted off her shouldersâ now that sheâs taking over his end of the load
The fan reactions to this episode were very telling; a lot of people were saying that Lady Noire was being rude and unhelpful and cruel to Mister Bug, which is hilarious since they actively, verbally clarified multiple times in the episode that both heroes were starting to act like each other now that the roles were reversed; Lady Noire was now âwearing the clown costumeâ and no longer a stick in the mud like Chat Noir complained about while Mister Bug âdoesnât have a sense of humourâ and is no longer playing around and not taking things seriously mid-battle like Ladybug complained about
If they were simply acting like each other, why was Lady Noire considered rude and unhelpful for joking around mid-battle whereas Chat Noir is praised for being funny and keeping Ladybug from burning herself out by providing a supposed outlet to stress? If you complain about one, you have to complain about the other, especially since Lady Noire was still helping; she kept explaining how the Lucky Charm worked even when Mister Bug ignored her to prove he knew how to do this better than an experienced, specifically-selected wielder, she helped him think through the Lucky Charm by placing herself in Mister Bugâs shoes and attempting to adapt to his own thought process rather than hers, she repeatedly defended him from attacks while he was struggling to work out the mirror and yo-yo, etc. For all her sarcasm and salty quips, there was never a point where she left Mister Bug high and dry to fend for himself or sat by watching and flirting leisurely while he did all the work
I know Iâve focused a lot on Reflekdoll here since this is the most blatant example of the issue (being that Ladybug was in the right to criticise Chat for risking the fight over a prank while Mister Bug and some viewers criticising Lady Noire for being unhelpful was not only uncalled for but incorrect) but there are certainly many other examples I can think of in which MariBug is blamed for AdriChatâs actions or AdriChat criticises MariBug without good reason or MariBug is seen as rude or otherwise in the wrong for criticising AdriChat despite having legitimate grievances or not having all the info on a situation in which said info was impossible for her to know and/or actively kept from her. Season 4 is a goldmine for this but I know I always make incredibly long rambling posts so Iâll cut things short here, if the long ramble is what people are after feel free to ask for one
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When I hear Reflekdoll
All I remember is Marinette being very ugly to Juleka and then ugly to Mr Bug/Cat Noir