#the dingo files

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FIC: Dance with Me (MLB; Lukanette)

Rating: Teen & Up

Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Dingo King (OC); Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Dingo King & Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Dingo King/Brielle Girard

Summary: Marinette was hoping to dance with Luka at the spring dance.  The only problem?  She…doesn’t actually know how to dance.  Good thing Dingo’s always willing to help out a friend in need.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: I had this mental image of Marinette in pajamas & heels, and the next thing I knew…Idk the past few weeks have been super stressful & I needed something short, sweet, and silly.  😂

“Dance with Me”

“You want me to what now?”

Her face was burning.  It had to be – she could feel the heat flushing her cheeks.  She pressed her lips together and looked away.  Her hands clenched at her sides, clenching and unclenching to dispel some of her nervous energy.  Dingo was still staring at her through those tacky orange shades he had worn that day, his eyes wide and eyebrows high on his forehead.  She blinked quickly – once, twice – when she felt tears pricking at the corners of her eyes.

She hated this.

Asking anyone for help, but especially asking Dingo for help.

She was Ladybug, for Pete’s sake!  She should be able to do anything on her own, and yet…

“Teach me to dance,” she huffed, because that was the one thing she couldn’t learn on her own.  Two weeks of bruises and failed YouTube lessons (and a Miracle Box full of kwamis snickering every time she tripped over her rug or bumped into her desk or decapitated her mannequin) had proven that.  He blinked and lifted his shades to squint at her.

“…o…k…?” he said slowly.  She pushed out a breath and rolled her eyes.

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FIC: That Time with the Worm (MLB/Dingo File)

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Characters/Pairings: Dingo King (OC), Luka Couffaine

Summary: Luka’s only known Dingo about a month, maybe two, when he realizes…he might be stuck with this guy. That time with the worm kinda cemented it.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: Pre-series/Luka and Dingo in collège. I’ve been hitting a bit of an Angst Wall with Winter’s Fury (I need Luka to kick some ass, not Grief Coma), so I needed something fun and silly to shake it off. I bet y’all are expecting a story about tequila and drunken shenanigans, what with a title like that. You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you? 😂 (Bloods found this post on Tumblr ages ago, and there are things people show me that just scream “DINGO”. I have 35 Dingo File WIPs that are basically just Crazy Shit we’ve found that make Luka groan and say, “Fucking Dingo.” 😂)

“That Time with the Worm”

Luka didn’t know how he had ended up in this situation.

…actually, that was a lie. He knew exactlyhow he had ended up in this situation.

(In the future, he would become very well acquainted with the feeling currently surging through him, and he would harken back to this exact moment, sitting in Mendeleiev’s biology lab, and go, “…yep, that was it. Fucking Dingo.”)

It was a matter of pride, really. Or stubbornness. Or a healthy (well, ok, not really healthy) mix of both. Somewhere in his ancestry, he was sure there was a disgruntled old pirate going off about losing to a King.

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WIPWed: Festering Edition: 6/2/21: Adrien is (Still) a Fkin Idiot

@bloody-no-kissu @livrever @ladycat1 it's not a WIP it's just truth c'mon 😂

Dingo File time! So I don't actually have anything written for these yet beyond notes, but the gist:

"Adrien is a Fkin Idiot" (another DQ - are you keeping count ma'am 😂) finds Luka at a party after Dingo convinces him to go out, because Luka's been mopey about Marinette lately (this is pre-relationship, when she's still crushing on Adrien) and Dingo's convinced he just needs a fun night out. Proceeds to get Luka drunk, and then Marinette shows up - oops. She comes up to say hi, and Luka just grabs her, kisses her stupid, and declares "Adrien Agreste is a fucking idiot." before passing out. Juleka, of course, has recorded the whole thing.

"Adrien is Still a Fkin Idiot" is set a few weeks later. Luka's been avoiding Marinette bc he's horrified by what happened. Somehow, Adrien has not found out about the video/Party Incident and has invited Luka over for another Guy's Day. Luka is finding it more and more difficult to be around Adrien without going Full Pirate, so he invites Dingo along to act as a buffer (which lbr is not the best idea come on son). Dingo has never met Adrien before, but he's also frustrated as hell with this guy bc he's blocking his ship, dammit. So he starts pranking the room (messing up the Wall of DVDs, loosening a rock on the rock wall, leaving hidden messages, etc.). Nino, also frustrated with how dumb his best bro is being, gladly helps.

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FIC: Lil Drummer Bois (MLB, Dingo File, Lukanette)

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Characters/Pairings: Dingo King (OC), Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Summary: It’s time for the annual Winter Showcase at Sant-Saëns, but Dingo’s not exactly happy with the arrangement he and Luka have been assigned. Luka just wants to pass the term without getting expelled.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: I think I stress!wrote this in like an hour, then edited it sprint-style just to get it done/out. I needed some stupid, silly fluff. 😂 I’m in charge of the Christmas music at work, because otherwise we’re stuck listening to a twenty-minute CD of “Frosty The Snowman” being sung for five and unders for eight hours straight. 🙃 (…my taste is a little…eclectic? You go from John Denver’s “Jingle Bells” (nice, mellow, children’s choir in the background) to Red Handed Denial’s “Last Christmas” (Lauren Babic screamo) & get stylistic whiplash. 😂) Audio A does the best version of “Little Drummer Boy” you will ever hear and I will not accept criticisms. 😝

“Lil Drummer Bois”

“Have you seen this shit?”

Luka looked up as the practice room door was kicked open. Dingo stood there, waving a fistful of sheet music at him. Luka, who assumed Dingo had finally gotten their assignment for the annual Winter Showcase from Huré, looked back at his own music and tried not to roll his eyes. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. It was a perfectly normal Christmas song for a perfectly normal Christmas program – sorry, Winter Showcase. That would comprise a big part of their grade for this term. That he really needed to do well in, thanks to his recent…distractions.

(Technically, his teachers couldn’t fault him. Creatively…they understood the artistic spirit, but when you’d been stuck on a single song for almost a year and couldn’t produce anything new for their classes, they tended to frown. And give poor marks. And jeopardize his standing as a top student at the school.)

“It’s fine,” he said, scribbling a note in the corner. Dingo scoffed, slapping his own music down on the table.

“It’s shit, is what it is,” he said.

“It’s traditional,” Luka countered.

“It’s boring,” Dingo bit back.

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FIClet: Vibe Check (MLB/Dingo File)

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Characters/Pairings: Juleka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine, Perry “Dingo” King (OC), Rose Lavillant; minor JuleRose & future Lukanette sprinkles

Summary: Dingo’s having a bad day and being annoying because of it. Boat Kids have Ways of dealing with Bad Moods.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: There was this post on Tumblr and I needed a palate cleanser? An after-dinner mint. Goofball trash with my favorite bois. (I literally wrote & edited this in an hour and a half don’t expect much here. xD)

“Vibe Check”

Dingo was in a Mood.

He had been in a Mood most of the day.

It had started well before he’d arrived at Françoise Dupont that morning: he had grumbled out a G’mornin to Luka and Brielle around a half-eaten, soggy croissant as he dropped into the chair across from Brielle, barely making it to homeroom before Mendeleiev herself walked in. His alarm hadn’t gone off, and he’d barely had time to grab the croissant as he’d run out the door, and then on his way some jerk on a Vespa had flown past him through a muddy puddle and that was the reason he smelled like sewage, thanks, Bri, shut up now. He’d fallen asleep barely five minutes into Mendeleiev’s lecture and had landed extra homework and detention to boot. Lunch hadn’t really worked out for him, either, as the bakery across the street had suffered from a burst pipe or faulty oven or something and had to shut down early in the day for repairs (and he had been banned from the Canteen after the Chicken Incident). He’d barely made it through the afternoon after Luka had smuggled out an extra sandwich for him, and then…

Well.

Luka wasn’t really sure.

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FIClet: Vibe Check: Still Vibin' (MLB/Dingo File/Lukanette)

Notes: …this wasn’t supposed to happen, but then Quick & Min said something and here we are. Another "wrote & edited in about an hour" ficlet. 😂 Now with 100% more Lukanette!

“Vibe Check”

A Continuation: Still Vibin’

A few years later, same crew, same boat, one new addition…

“…you’re grumpy today,” Luka observed, smiling when all Marinette could do was scowl at him. The smile grew maybe a bit more when she tore the page she’d been working on for the better part of twenty minutes out of her sketchbook, crumpled it up, and chucked it at his head. He caught the paper easily, which only made her scowl deepen. She huffed out a little breath and bent back over her sketchbook, steadfastly ignoring him.

Across the deck, Dingo caught his eye from where he was sitting behind the drum set they kept on stage. He’d been goofing off with Ivan, showing the younger drummer something he’d been working on in class, and only half-paying attention to them, but he had caught that latest interaction. A truly demonic smirk curled his lips as he bent his head forward, the pineapple-shaped shades Rose had found him as a gag gift slipping down his nose so gleaming eyes could lock on his friend.

Do it, Lu, those eyes seemed to say. You know you want to.

Because Marinette had been in a Mood all day.

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FIC: Dingo Files: I Hate My Best Friend (MLB/Lukanette)

Rating: M / PG-16 / Older Teen

Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Luka Couffaine & Dingo King (off-screen)

Summary: Luka shows up on Marinette’s balcony a little drunk at three AM with some Choice Things to say about his best friend.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: Let’s say this is set during Mari’s last year at Sant-Saëns/between lycée and uni, so ages are 19/21.  Quick was secretly breeding plunnies in an underground lair somewhere and just chucked ‘em at me this week I swear.  xD  She linked me to this standup clip, and I was ONE LINE in when brain went: “…this is a drunken 2 AM rant from Luka about Dingus.”  And really all the LBSCers are just a giant group of enablers (I love you all~), and one thing led to another, and…yeah I’m just gonna dump this here and get back to that Loop that got sidetracked by all this.  xD  (It’s still a Dingo File even if Dingo’s only there in spirit.)

Cam Bertrand – “Don’t Take a Bullet for Your Dumb Friend” (yes some dialogue was lovingly stolen er reappropriated)

“I Hate My Best Friend”

Marinette woke up at three AM to the sound of a flower pot falling over.  The crash came from above her head, followed by muffled grumbles, a quieter thud, and a few more muted crashes.  She groaned and blindly groped for her phone, not fully registering the disturbance at first, but seeing the time glaring back at her from the screen kick-started her brain.  She looked at Tikki, suddenly wide-awake and acutely aware of the fact that somebody was on her balcony at three o’clock in the morning, but before either could do anything other than stare in bewildered horror at the other there was a quiet knock. 

There was only one person Marinette knew who would – could – reach her balcony at three o’clock in the morning.  Or at any time, really, without accessing it from her bedroom.

She was going to fucking kill Chat.

“Mari?” Luka’s voice called in a wavery, whispered shout.

…ok. Make that two people.

She was going to fucking kill her boyfriend.

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FIC: Hi, I’m Dingo (MLB)

Title: “Hi, I’m Dingo”

Author: Veritas Found

Rating: T / PG-13 / Teen

Characters/Pairings: Perry “Dingo” King (OC), Brielle Girard (OC), Luka Couffaine, Juleka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Dingo King & Luka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Summary: Luka is sick, and his friends are just trying to make sure he’s ok. (Or: the first time Marinette actually met Dingo King.)

Author’s Notes/Warnings: I BSed this in the hour before my last class started Thursday night because I’m officially one of those writers who lets her OCs do whatever the hell they want.  I’ve stopped fighting Dingo.  (Or: “Oh God what has my dumbass son done now?”)

“Hi, I’m Dingo”

It was a bright, sunny afternoon in the city of Paris.  Along the Seine, two teenagers – a boy with a bright, lime green mohawk and a girl with straight brown hair that reached mid-back – were standing outside the madhouseboat known as the Liberty.

“Dingo,” Brielle said firmly, glancing at her friend, “I need you to repeat what I just said.”

Dingo rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest.  She couldn’t see his eyes behind his shades, but the set of his face let her know he was glaring, and she knew it was directed at her, even if he was staring up at the boat their mutual friend called home.  She would even go as far as to say he was pouting, because Dingo was nothing but a five-year-old in a seventeen-year-old’s body.  Which, really, was exactly why she needed to confirm he had heard (and understood) what she had just said.