Headcanons
It’s very specific to my own story but if it inspires you in some way, then I’m glad it came in handy
Best friends Adrien and Mari
Diana hearing tales of Ladybug or Lady Luck. Her mother not telling her that she is Lady Luck.
Marinette not minding if she died in her sleep, Alya gets very worried. “It’s peaceful, no pain, no fear, just tranquility. This just makes Alya feel more guilty for not being there.
Damian really wants to test Mari, ever since that video and since she threatened him.
after getting to know Marinette better, Damian calls her beautiful and other compliments in Arabic. like my flower, and my radiant sun.
Marinette thinks its teasing until one day she sees the way how he says it and how soft he looks. She allows herself to fall deeper in love.
She and Adrien have revealed and tried to date but both ended up not making each other happy or content.
late hour talks about things, embarrassing stuff they share and confirming each other’s disappearance for peers. Gets very complicated once JL gets in to help. Year 3 they reveal. Year 6, it ends. Hawkmoth is gone.
everyone thinks they are dating, in reality, they’re just best friends and not even Alya knows how much they’ve shared
Mayura/Natalie is showing up less and less but always makes a great senti monster when it counts
Damian keeps his guards up around Marinette and her friends when they meet as civilians
Marinette is worried that it’s another guy asking to see her throat so before Damian even speaks she threatens him to keep shut about it unless he wants a beating.
it’s said that Damian was smitten by that point.
the same issue arises when she gets another injury after her throat is no longer red and raw. The new ones are on her ribs and chest.
its date night for them and a group of guys start asking to see her ‘battle scar’ and dramatically shows them.
Because they recognize her from the news. And you know assholes.
Or or. She tells off about how this isn’t some sideshow and no matter how ugly a scar it tells their trauma and story. both at the same time.
Alya, Jason, and dick were tailing them because it’s their second date and no one has any idea where their first one was.
(Raven helped Damian set up the first one.)
They record every moment.
sometimes when its bad Mari gets claustrophobic but is very subtle about her panic. she scratches one of her main arteries that run up and down on her neck, she does it subconsciously, once one side is hurting she moves onto the other one.
Damian caught her one time and she’s like what? she pulls away and the panic sets again and she’s resisting the urge to just scratch harder, so she settles for twiddling her thumbs.
Mari has ADHD, it’s mellowed a lot since childhood. Insomnia plays in on that and she hates not moving, its hero instinct and her nature.
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Nino’s the kind to go with the flow kind but he sees this rift that Lila makes and just disappears
Alya always notices so she goes finds him
Now it’s a test to see if she doesn’t do it one day that he knows shes changed
Nino doesn’t know what to do he has to be adult about it, he tells Alya but is rejected, saying that “he just always go with the flow and sometimes he has to go with his flow
so he takes a break on Alya and says he’s going to further his career before Alya can even figure out who she is.
and Alya is just really confused because she knows who she is and is mad at Nino. Nino never felt more relieved when they finally got back together after the whole Incident ™.
Risk (the bat fam find out the hard way to never ask Mari to a game)
Bruce and Tim went head to head with Mari and almost won (After they were scared to death)
Tim was with some of Mari’s friends and it was game night, they were naive then. Tim started listing off board games and Nino tries to stop him before he says the name "ris-”
Max starts to panic, “He got to s, HE GOT TO S!!” they try to calm him down.
Mari knocks on the door once and they turn to look and It’s her and they are freaking the fuck out.
Damian says one moment they were together and then disappeared in the next.
They were on the other side of the city, it was a 40-minute drive out.
Alfred doesn’t know how she came in, neither does bruce. The cameras caught nothing; no glitches, no loops she was just found their one moment.
Nooroo is passed to Lila but they capture the peacock and its cure, but Emilie not so much. Gabrial calls his apprentice to be Natalie.
Mari asks if Lila had something to do with this.
Dami witness Maris worst and best, as both her and ladybug, vice versa
She does come to terms about how one is not without the other, she learns this from Damian “I am an Al Ghul, a Wayne and a Robin, but goddamnit Mari I’m mother fucking Damian first.”
its the first time he’s yelled at her, she takes it to heart, she was smitten
they court for the longest fucking time. Its 4 years after they unofficial court and he proposes in the middle of a fight they are both smitten for each other.
once the Adrien crush is gone she gives him all his premade presents and makes the chest her fabric chest.
D: “MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG WE LIVE IN A MANSION WHY ARE YOU EATING CEREAL OUT OF A PLASTIC TABLEWARE”
M: “YOU ATE CEREAL WITH A FORK BEFORE AND YOU DON’T SEE ME COMPLAINING”
Tim is the only one to point out what happened to the bowls, Alfred no longer questions it.
Running to where Marinette is, he exposed her. “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO THE BOWLS MARI”
Mari slurps up cereal out of plastic tableware for a long time they lock eyes. Very quietly she whispers. “Tikki” “Spots on.” And yeets outta the window.
She calls Damian later after a couple of hours. “Is it okay to come home.” Damian is cackling. “I don’t know what you did to make Tim mad but I love it.”
“At the expense of Tim, I’ll take it.” It’s the first time he’s ever remotely said the L-word.
Tim: Did you just give me your leftover food? Jason: “Yeah” T: What am I? Your second-hand bitch? J: no you’re my main bitch T: Wait then that means you have other bitches J: what you think I’m a one hoe pimp?
Mini Ladd Memes
T: “You wanna see my penis.” crouched like a gremlin and moving towards. Marinette IMMEDIATELY turning to Tim. “SVEBE!” Damian looking at the two in disgust. “Disgusting”
The two look in shock and can’t stop laughing because they have no idea if he actually knows what they're talking about but neither answers him when he asks why they laugh now.
Bruce has caught Tim and Mari going “MMMMMMMMM” and T posing to each other. Mari goes red and super embarrassed about it, Tim never lets her forget. Its called “coming out to dad” between the two.
Nino doesn’t want to touch this and he won’t.
“Leave my eight-foot-tall son alone,” Marinette says this as Tim is perched on the bat computer. They chuckle and try to get through the bit but can’t stop laughing.
“robin an actual robin, go my vegan birdy.” Drunk Mari at some point. like shes 18 and can drink
Other stuff
(shared on the maribat discord) Sometimes when Marinette picks something up, something behind her away falls onto the floor. “Mom, it happened again.” It’s the same object but somewhere else. Picks up her pencil and a random pencil rolls down to her feet.
At one point Tim dared Marinette to pick someone up from the Bat fam. Before she even attempts to pick up Damian, she asked everyone to gather. Once that was done, she let out a big “Sorry!” and picks up Damian.
Tim ate shit, the rest of batfam have no clue what happened
Tikki says its the balance from her luck from being Ladybug. She later notices that she’s not as clumsy as before, Damian says it's her confidence showing and they share a moment
Damian to Marinette at some point. “Stop taking pictures of my food Mari”