I wanted to share this analysis of the episode Silencer made by the Italian group “Gli Ambrogisti Anonimi”. I truly agree with it so I decided with them to translate it and share it on Tumblr. What do you think?
Have they gone crazy? What happened to Marinette? Has she forgotten the great love for Adrien opting in favor of Luka?
Well no! Calm down! There is an explanation for everything!
The episode Silencer made us understand so many things without betraying the personality of the characters, but taking a step forward in the plot instead.
1. First, we see Bob Roth, an unscrupulous manager. He is a mean person! He achieved success stealing other people’s work and teaching the same to his son.
2. Wait, what? Is XY his son??? Surprise!!!
3. Bob and XY have no ideas for the DJ’s next album, so they decide to hold a contest for up-and-coming bands in order to steal their ideas. Don’t! What horrible people!
4. Marinette and her friends, the Kitty Section, decide to participate: she will make the costumes and they will make music.
5. Wait a minute, was not Adrien part of the Kitty Section? Where is he? I think that in order to give Luka some space Gabriel locked him up at home, otherwise Marinette wouldn’t have seen Luka at all.
6. It seems that Luka and Marinette have seen each other off-screen several times, but they didn’t show it to us, perhaps because it was not important. Now she often blushes in front of him and he looks at her intensely. Indeed, he is really in love with her!
8. The costumes made by Marinette recall a mix between the musical Cats and Kiss.
9. Rose singing is wonderful!
10. Everything goes well, the video is ready, they participate, but Bob and his son steal their song and their costumes, and Marinette and Kitty Section run to the studios for an explanation.
11. The animations of the episodes are becoming more and more beautiful!
12. Bodyguards have been fooled by the oldest joke in the world.
13. Luka and Marinette sneak into the studios and Marinette wants to report Bob Roth, but he threatens her telling that, if she does, he will make sure he will never let her make a costume again and he will destroy Kitty Section’s musical career.
14. Here we can see how pure and wonderful Luka is: he can’t stand Bob threatening Marinette, hurting the girl he loves. Indeed, first he thinks about Marinette and then about his music and Kitty Section! And that’s why Hawk Moth akumizes him in Silencer.
15. Ok, Silencer’s design is pretty cool and so is his power, but the fact he talks with his “duckbill” hands is pretty funny. Ahahahahah!
16. An important thing happens: while he is akumized in Silencer, Luka declares himself to Marinette.
Now let me make you think about this: why didn’t Luka declare himself before? It is clear that he is in love with Marinette, and she looks at him and blushes, so that is a sign that she likes him as well.
Simply: because he knows that Marinette doesn’t love him.
In Frozer Luka saw that Marinette loves Adrien, in fact at the end of the episode he invites her to go to him. This means that, despite his feelings, Luka understood that there is no place for him in the heart of Marinette and decides to stand aside. He respects her feelings.
Now that he is akumized, however, he has no restraint, he is in the grip of anger, so he tells her clearly what he feels for her and, boys, it was a sweet declaration!
17. Before transforming herself, even Marinette is not sure if that was a true declaration. Indeed, she thinks it may be an effect of the akuma.
18. Ladybug goes into action and defends Bob Roth, even if he doesn’t deserve it. But, you know, Ladybug is a true heroine, she is correct, loyal and honest, and she always does the right thing: shortly after transforming, in fact, she tells to Silencer that forcing Bob to tell the truth would be revenge, not justice. It’s really true: Ladybug always does the right thing.
19. I still think that Bob is a bad person and, because of him, Silencer manages to steal Ladybug’s voice! How will she fight now?
20. And here finally Adrien comes on stage. Did you notice? If Adrien had been there right away, Marinette would have looked only at him and Luka wouldn’t have had his space. It was right instead that he wasn’t there, because Luka needed his space in order to show what a beautiful character he is; also because, I believe, he will be very important to make Adrien understand how much he cares about Marinette, and perhaps also to make Marinette get over her shyness with Adrien.
21. Am I wrong or Chat Noir is doing more jokes than usual?
22. But he spells “I love you” to his Lady. How can you not love him? Even when he has little space, he is always wonderful!
23. After stealing other voices, Silencer captures Bob Roth and tries to make him admit what he has done live on television, but Ladybug and Chat Noir also have a plan.
24. Ladybug’s plan is brilliant, she manages to make Silencer say with her voice “Lucky Charm” in order to evoke it and it is… a vacuum cleaner.
25. Who you gonna call? Ladybug!
26. Ladybug not only recovers her voice and fixes everything, but without any constraint she gets a confession from Bob Roth who, to save his face, recognizes Kitty Section’s talent and says that they will have a disc of their own!
27. Ladybug says goodbye to HER Chaton. HER. And he sighs in love, while Paris (and I) cheer for him.
28. And now the most important scene, pay attention: before Luka takes the stage, Marinette has doubts about Luka’s declaration and asks him if what he said under the influence of the akuma was true.
Luka doesn’t even remember it.
The first thing he thinks is that he told her something bad, so he immediately wants to fix it and, since it wouldn’t be fair to betray his feelings for her, he repeats the declaration and then leaves.
Marinette blushes, glad that those words were true, but says nothing.
As we said, Luka is a pure character (Hawk Moth himself said it), mature and sensitive. In Frozer he saw with his own eyes that Marinette is in love with Adrien and, despite his feelings for her, he stepped aside and told her to go to him.
Luka respects Marinette’s feelings.
For this reason, it is not his intention to declare himself to her.
Luka is not flirting with Marinette.
He loves her, he’s not able to do anything else but love her, because you can’t rule the heart, so he often looks at her while he plays, but he also knows that she loves Adrien.
The first time Luka declares himself to Marinette is when he is akumized, so he is prey to negative feelings and he has no restraint.
The second time he does it only AFTER Marinette asks him for a confirmation.
Since he fears he could have told her something bad, first, he apologizes. Afterwards, he repeats the same words of the first declaration, a sign that the feelings for her are sincere, because he doesn’t want her to think wrong, but the opposite.
Luka cannot betray himself and what he feels for Marinette, so it is right for her to know what he thinks about her, what he feels for her, but he also knows that she loves Adrien, so he leaves, not waiting for an answer.
The episode ends up like that on purpose.
Let’s see about Marinette.
Marinette likes Luka: he is a mature, sweet and sensitive boy. He fascinates her, so she blushes every time he looks at her or during the declaration (everyone would blush in front of such a beautiful and sincere declaration). But Marinette doesn’t love Luka, she loves Adrien.
For the first time, Marinette receives a true declaration of love for her as Marinette, not as Ladybug, moreover from a cute and charming boy like Luka: it’s obvious she blushes!
As we saw in Weredad, Marinette divides herself from Ladybug, in fact she becomes jealous of herself when she thinks that Chat Noir has forgotten his feelings for Ladybug after Marinette’s declaration. Tikki also points out that she has no reason to be jealous because she IS Ladybug. Nevertheless, she still keeps dividing herself from her alter ego.
Therefore, a declaration made to her as Marinette excites her even more.
However, she only wanted a confirmation if what Luka said was true or not.
And when Luka involuntarily repeats the same words to her, she blushes.
Who wouldn’t be flattered by such a declaration?
But if Marinette loved Luka, if she felt something profound for Luka, she would have immediately given him an answer. She didn’t, instead.
She didn’t say anything. She just wanted a confirmation.
Because she knows the answer and Luka knows it too: Luka likes her, but she doesn’t love him. Her head and her heart are for Adrien.
29. Now, we said it: maybe Marinette can be confused about love, but we know for sure that she is an honest person, someone who always does the right thing.
Would it be right to reciprocate Luka’s deep and pure feelings, even if in her heart there is Adrien? Absolutely not!
Marinette cares about Luka, she would never toy with him.
Reciprocating his feelings only means toying with him, because she always thinks about Adrien, and she would never do such a thing, just like she didn’t want to toy with Chat Noir in Glaciator.
Therefore, even if she likes Luka, I really think she’ll say no to him. She’ll never be able to be with him until she loves Adrien.
Not to mention that there is also Chat Noir next to her and she will notice him too, sooner or later.
30. I really believe that Luka will help Adrien wake up a little.
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