The Class vs. vampire!Marinette
After Lila convinces the class that Marinette is a cruel bully who hates her, the class begins to bully Marinette. They taunt her, exclude her from class trips, etc., in order to force her to ‘be nicer’ to Lila. However, what they don’t know is that the meek and mild Marinette is secretly a powerful vampire, with many or all of the classic vampire powers ( able to enthrall/hypnotize humans, able to drink blood, able to turn to mist, able to control rats and other vermin, able to shapeshift into a wolf or a bat, etc.)
Marinette had honestly tried to befriend her human classmates, doing favors and baking treats for them because she liked them and thought they deserved it, and never once thought she was superior to them on account of her magical heritage.
But when they go too far and destroy her sketchbook, Marinette realizes they aren’t worth the effort, and decides she may as well draw on that heritage to get her revenge.
So she begins using her vampire powers to utterly destroy her ungrateful and fickle classmates, such as by hypnotizing them into doing embarrassing or scandalous things, by sending rats to chew up their nice clothes, by using her turn-to-mist powers to go into their private areas and steal their diaries, etc.
And as her classmates’ lives totally fall apart, Marinette just smiles and tells them that she’s sorry but she can’t help them salvage things… after all, they aren’t friends anymore.
* One member of the class doesn’t betray her and thus becomes Marinette’s only remaining class friend, ultimately learning about Marinette’s powers and assisting her in revenge.
* One other member of the class has some kind of magical powers of his or her own, either vampiric or something else, and thus thinks that–even if Marinette did try to get revenge over the sketchbook–Marinette could never actually do it because the classmate has powers and figures that Marinette doesn’t. When everything starts falling apart, the classmates approaches Marinette, only to learn that Marinette does indeed have magic powers and those powers far outstrip whatever the classmate had.
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Prompts that bash the class are no longer accepted, but that’s my fault for not giving it its own post.
With that in mind, the only way this prompt is allowed is if Lila is also a vampire, and the reason Marinette’s friends are all acting out of character and suddenly more cruel than she could have ever thought? Is because Lila has enthralled them and they are completely under her control.
Lila’s powers of manipulation and enchantment are so strong and so expertly woven that Marinette didn’t even pick up on it, even though her family has trained her in the uses of vampiric magic since she first started to shapeshift.
Lila is a prodigy with her natural abilities, and it’s just unfortunate for everyone involved that she’s using her talents to harm instead of help.
If you want to go more in-depth, you could deal with the fact that Lila is being abused by her mom, which is why she thinks the only way that people will ever be nice to her or care about her is if she forces them to.
(Why does Lila lie in canon? Because her mom is abusing her, and Lila is convinced that the only way anyone will pay attention to her or want to be her friend is if she comes up with these big grand stories about how awesome she is.)
So not only does Marinette have to deal with the betrayal of her friends turning on her, once Lila is somehow defeated or convinced to stop, her friends have to deal with the guilt of what they did, even though they weren’t in control of themselves. Unlike when they get Akumatized, they remember everything they did, so even though they know, logically, that it wasn’t their fault, that they weren’t in control of themselves, they still feel absolutely horrible.
And even though it wasn’t their fault, it doesn’t mean Marientte has to forgive them. Even if they weren’t in control of themselves, it doesn’t mean Marientte has to be comfortable around them anymore. She was still hurt, she still lost things, she’s not obligated to forgive and forget just because they didn’t mean to do it.
I really hate the–usually with werewolves–trope where someone loses control and attacks their friends and family and instead of the trauma of that happening ever being dealt with or acknowledge, the victims of the attack always forgive and forget immediately, like it wouldn’t be traumatizing as hell for your friend to be two seconds away from tearing your throat out with their teeth.
And that is not the same thing as blaming them or saying it’s their fault for being enthralled.
The class bullying Marinette and destroying her things is not in character, which means it’s not salt, it’s bashing, and class bashing is not allowed on this blog.
Class salt is more than welcome, as long as you are actually dealing with the things they’ve actually done wrong in the show.
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