Is it's no trouble, what's your redesign/rewrite for Zoe? I read that while Chloe was getting the dragon miraculous, Zoe would be Season 4-5 Chloe. And I hate Zoe and like seeing her trashed as well as like reading rewrites. So I'm curious.
At first it was 1000% purely because I was being spiteful 🤣 but then I realized it's pretty thematically genius to what they og writers were going for. Zoé was made to be the antithesis of Chloe, so she will still be that. But the thing is; because my Chloe is becoming a better person, that means Zoé will only become a worse one.
I'm really just kinda throwing it in the creators faces. Yolo ✌️
She's introduced because after Nathaniel publicly shames Audrie, Audrie decides to stay in Paris to try and save face. She stays at the hotel and hangs around the same rooms as Chloe purely so any lingering paparazzi will snap pictures that look like she's reconciling their relationship. Which is not actually happening, it's purely for show. But because she's officially moved back to Paris for this, that means Zoé has to come too.
I rewrote it so Zoé is actually 2 years older than Chloe and Audrie broke up with Zoé's dad not long after she was born. Her dad is a well known actor but he's not in the picture nor has custody, so she HAS to come to Paris now. And the reason she was raised in New York at all is because Audrie is originally from the USA.
But that's also the thing that separates Zoé from Chloe, while André was a piss poor father that took no accountability for anything, he did still love Chloe in his own way that Chloe recognizes. Zoé's dad don't give a £ü¢€, so she ended up being raised purely on wait-staff that appealed to her every whim and showed no love. So there is also a logical explanation as to why she is worse than Chloe. Along with being older, so this personality has cemented further than Chloe's.
Trying not to spoil anything too much but her character will take a very similar direction to Chloe in the Scarlet Lady AU, in terms of where she ends up.
As for design; I decided to do a complete overhaul.
She's basically an entirely different character anyway.
Her canon design was chemically produced to look "nice" and "good," it's annoying af.
I do also understand that canon Zoé has fans, especially after she started her supposed vigilante arc. So I figure changing Zoé to look completely different works as a nice middle ground so any Zoé fans that come across my AU can still enjoy the story while not feeling peeved about what I did to their favorite character. Pretend this is a wholly separate, new character.
(Yeah I just draw all the characters off center. Just in case I add more details later, like backpacks and such.)
The EPITOME of what Chloe used to be. Further symbolized by the fact that I used season 6 Chloe's face for her.
Taking after Audrie with a very similar black and white jump suit style. Inspired from the Clonika design from the Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx game and then the fit is also taken straight from this. I originally made her hair brown to follow the 'lovers color pallet rule' (Marinette & Adrien's color pallets being inverted & etc.) bc I was thinking about giving her an equally evil love interest but then I realized that character added literally nothing for the overall story or even to the potential relationship with Zoé, so I dropped it. I then tried to change her hair back to blond but it either legitimately doesn't look nearly as stylish blond or I just grew fond of the dim brown.
It's also hard to see because of the sunglasses but her eyes are also brown. Though they're a much more rich, light brown.
The brown hair and eyes do kinda help showcase that she's Chloe's half sister, anyway. So... £ü¢€ it, I'mma just keep them brown. Lol.
