OKAY BUT NO in full honesty... when it comes to how Adrien sees Marinette, the thing he seems to find most endearing, most charming, most funny, most loveable about her is her absolute unhinged cringe and awkwardness.
And that is like my FAVORITE thing. That’s what makes me giggle and blush the most about them lmao
The trait that the fanbase sometimes criticizes her for, the trait that she feels self conscious about, the trait that has caused her to often be perceived as awkward, weird, and strange... that’s the trait that Adrien is so captivated by and I cannot tell you how much I just love that ADFJKJFF...how much I love them!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Good morning! I'm alive, as you may have guessed; writing is slow, still, as I'm picking up both longer days and been placed on a new research project, but I've been getting both my requests ready to be queued up and writing the two long-fics for you all.
For your patience, have a pair of snippets, both from my latest long-fic.
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He plasters on his most charming smile; is just about to steel himself when a sharp hoy! catches his ear. He startles, badly enough to slam his elbow into the wall, and hisses to himself- great first impressions, great first impressions-
“The fuck are you doing here,” snaps the same voice, and Chase glances up into possibly the most vivid green eyes he’s ever seen in his life. His brain stalls for a moment out of sheer mortification. “We’ve got a permit, you can fuck right off if you’re here on trespassing complaints.”
Fortunately for Chase, his mouth has never needed his brain to run.
“Pest control,” he says, cheerfully. “I was told there are- five other pests here, and to catch ‘em before they disappeared back into the walls. Also, I feel like I should be offended, do I look like a cop?”
Dark-and-stormy’s expression grows even more thunderous, which is impressive, because Chase was already sort of wondering if his face had stuck that way after a particularly unfortunate childhood incident.
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“They never do, if they’re hired in,” says another voice from behind him; Chase startles, nearly knocking the tripod next to him over, and grabs madly for it.
He bobbles the thing a few times, steadying it. There’s a faint snicker to his side; he maturely ignores them, and turns to look up-
And up, and up.
Chase isn’t a tall dude. He knows this. He’s average, maybe a bit on the shorter end, but he’s got presence enough to make up for that; it’s all in how you carry yourself, anyways.
This guy looks like he should be stooping to step in the van. Chase eyeballs him for a moment longer.
“You must get a lot of questions about the weather.”
“All the time,” Jackie says, cheerfully. “We’ve joked that he should get a degree in meteorology.”
“Go big or go home on that student debt,” snipes dark-and-stormy. Which, yikes, Chase can sympathize, university is not getting cheaper, but also reminds him-
“More of you just keep filing in,” he points out, cheerfully, “and I’ll admit, I’ve just been coming up with various very entertaining names to refer to you, but I really think knowing your names would save time for everybody.”
Long-hair-and-petty raises an eyebrow. “Entertaining names.”
It’s not so much a question as a statement, flatter than the soda that- oh, shit, Chase left his soda in the car. Gods damn it all. He wiggles his eyebrows right back.
“Thinkin’ I should’ve named you ratboy, for your impassioned defense of the little guys.”
His expression does several revolutions through what Chase feels safe in identifying as astonishment and lands on a face Chase only sees before someone tries to deck him. He surreptitiously checks the distance between them; he’s got a tripod, he’s fairly sure he can trip the newly christened rat attorney up.
Me: I'd like to see the boys overcome their unhealthy tendencies and learn to be better from it so they can have healthier relationships with MC and each other--
I think the funniest thing about Adrien to me is that it's been confirmed (by himself in Origins and Plagg in Oblivio) that he canonly smells like camembert all the time.
But it's also confirmed that he smells like cologne (as Marinette states when he hugs her in the NY special).
So this boy literally pours on Adrien the Fragrance to mask the smell of stinky cheese and that is just so funny to me
okay now I grew up with these big, end of the show “OH MY GOD THEY FINALLY STOPPED BEING IDIOTS!! THEY ARE FINALLY TOGETHER!!” romantic climaxes with Kim and Ron, Raven and Eddie (even though that went differently than expected lol), Keeley and Phil, Lizzie and Gordo, Mose and Ned, Yumi and Ulrich... it’s a trope I always enjoy and have gotten used to in the media I personally consume.
But for some reason canon Adrienette just hits SO DIFFERENT?? Like these others shows were just as predictable and you knew it was bound to eventually happen somehow, at some point, just like with ML, and it’s always an emotional rush when it happens... but it’s a whole other level with Mari and Adrien.
Like I cannot express how exciting this is. My brain cannot comprehend what is even happening.
Maybe it’s because we had to wait almost a decade for this romantic shift (and with the other shows it happened by like seasons 2-4?) but IDK MAN! I can’t believe this is real. I can’t believe Adrien knows. He knows that she loves him, he knows that she’s always loved him, he loves her and she knows it, they are canonly dating, spending their time together and working toward deepening their relationship and I
