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comics-and-fanworks · 2 years

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ML Career Choice AU

Disclaimer: My problem with ML is with the writers and their decisions, not really any one specific character. Am I salty towards some characters? Yes, but it’s mostly due to how they’re written. Also I am not an Engineer, I don’t know all of the proper terms.

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Marinette is prepared for almost everything, but she was not expecting this. Lila had decided to rub salt into the wound and began lying about her to Gabriel. Adrien (who was frustrated with Marinette’s refusal to take his “high road” advice and upset she’s discovered her backbone) was easily convinced to back up Lila’s claims. He thought that once Marinette learned her lesson, he could convince his father that it was all just a big misunderstanding. What he did not account for was that Gabriel would blacklist Marinette from the fashion industry! Lila of course, bragged to anyone who would listen, but Adrien was going through some mixed emotions. On one hand he was horrified at his father’s over reaction, on the other hand he thought this was surely the thing that would finally convince Marinette to listen to him and go back to being a doormat! He couldn’t understand why Plagg was so upset at him though, everything would work out in the end.

Needless to say Marinette was devastated, and ended up missing a few days of school. Everything she had worked for was gone, and there was nothing she could do to get it back. Her parents tried everything to comfort their daughter, and one day while bringing her something to eat, Tom stepped into one of the traps she’d rigged to protect the Miracle Box. Instead of being angry, Tom and Sabine were amazed. They assumed the trap was meant to keep her classmates out of her room (who had been rejoicing over their daughter’s misery. They saw texts between the kids suggesting they were going to destroy her work), and praised Marinette’s skill and creativity. Tom made a comment as he was being removed from the trap, “You know Mari, you could be an engineer. With your creativity, the sky’s the limit!”

Turns out those were the magic words. Tom and Sabine saw the fire slowly begin to ignite in their daughter’s eyes again, and made a silent promise to do everything they could to make sure at least one of her dreams came true. As time went on they happily bought her books, sent her to talks, and did everything they could to help her learn as much as she could. Coincidentally Ladybug happened to reach out to her about finding ways to akuma-proof structures. Marinette was determined to succeed, and her classmates, Lila, and Adrien would not stop her.

Many years had passed, and Marinette was a highly sought after engineer. She was 25 and had practically redesigned all of Paris by now. She was credited with creating the first akuma-proof buildings, which made dealing with Hawkmoth and his akumas much easier to deal with. Considering Chat Noir would only show up to flirt, and most of the time he didn’t show up at all. Occasionally she still had to deal with Adrien trying to convince her to apologize to Lila for being such a ‘cruel bully.’ He promised that if she did he’d convince his father to either remove her from the blacklist, or secretly hire her. While she still designed for a few loyal clients (like Jagged and Clara) she had no desire to enter fashion. If they’d believe she was the devil based on lies from Adrien, Gabriel, and Lila, then they weren’t worth her time.

One day she gets an angry text from Adrien’s newest number of the week accusing her of exposing Lila. She asks, “What do you mean? I’m in America helping design a new Wayne Enterprises building.” Turns out someone else put two and two together and called out Lila, and everything spiraled from there. What Lila, Adrien, and Gabriel did to her was exposed too, and Gabriel quickly sent Adrien to America to smooth things over with Marinette (he was banking on the fact she used to have a crush on his son). Adrien arrives in Gotham and barges into a café Marinette was spotted at, shouting something along the lines of “Come back Mari I know you love me! Surely you’ll forgive us and come back and help save the company. Engineering isn’t what you’re supposed to do, fashion is!”

What he was not expecting was the confused looks he got from Marinette and the man she was with. While the various Gothamites were recording the drama and announcing to the world that their talented engineer could also design clothes, Marinette just sighed and said,

“Used to love you Adrien. Past tense. I’ve moved onto bigger and better things. I rebuilt most of Paris, I invented akuma-proof materials for building. Gabriel, the man and the company, are the least of my concerns. I won’t forgive you, because I don’t have to, and you’re actions prove to me that I shouldn’t because it shows you haven’t changed.”

The man sitting with her got up to approach Adrien, who proceeded to try and intimidate the dark haired stranger. “Who the hell do you think you are and what have you been telling her?” Adrien yelled at the man. The man with the midnight black hair and blue eyes just smirked at the disgraced model.

“I didn’t tell Little Ms. Magic anything, she’s got a brilliant mind and enough confidence to last two lifetimes, I’m just here to keep her company. Oh by the way, my name’s Jason, Jason Todd Wayne, and I’m her Fiancé.”

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Let me know if there are any problems and feel free use this if you’d like!

#marinette deserves better #marinette dupen chang #minor class salt #lila salt #adrien salt #gabriel salt #tom and sabine sugar #maribat #jasonette

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dark-frosted-heart · 5 months

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Beauty and the Beast’s Christmas - Sariel Noir

Christmas collection story

As usual, can’t guarantee 100% accuracy on this

It was just Sariel and I, alone together in a peaceful snowy white world.

On Christmas night, we came to a snow field to watch shooting stars.

Sitting on a quilt spread on the ground, we gazed up at the night sky glittering with stars that looked like they were about to fall any minute.

Emma: There's so many stars...it's really beautiful.

Sariel: Because of all the lights, it's difficult to see them clearly at court or in town.

Emma: I hope I get to see a shooting star.

While I was reading a book about constellations, Sariel had told me that there was a chance to see shooting stars during this time of the year when the sky's clear...

(I was so happy when you invited me out to go see them with you on Christmas)

I held out a bottle of alcohol that I had secretly hidden in the basket to Sariel.

Emma: Here's a small Christmas gift from me to you.

Sariel: Hehe, you're very transparent.

Emma: Did I really give it away?

Sariel: Yes. Even before we left court, I noticed you acting somewhat absent-minded and restless.

Emma: I can't hide anything from you, Sariel... I found this drink in town. I heard it's pretty rare and hope that it suits your palate.

Sariel: Thank you. Let's drink it together later. I have a present for you as well. Will you accept it?

Sariel smiled, his dark purple eyes narrowing, as he handed me a rectangular package from within his coat.

Emma: Thank you!

My heart pounded as I unwrapped his present and found that it contained a clear glass pen...

The delicate craftsmanship could be seen when held up against the lantern light. I was captivated by its beauty.

Emma: I've never seen a pen made from glass before...It's as sparkly as the stars in the sky tonight.

Sariel: I thought such an elegant tool would suit you so I had one made especially for you by a craftsman I know well.

Emma: Thank you so much. I'll cherish it forever.

Sariel gently caresses my cheek, lifted from happiness, with his fingers.

Then he took out two glasses and poured the alcohol before handing one with swishing light purple liquid to me.

Sariel: Now then, let's enjoy my present. Spending Christmas with you.

Emma: Sariel...

Sariel and I clinked our glasses and downed our drinks. The mellow sweetness slides down my throat with a hint of a burn.

Emma: It's really delicious.

Sariel: I agree. And it warms the body.

Emma: Achoo

I was about to reply when the cold air stung my nose and made me sneeze.

Sariel: Oh, are you cold?

Emma: A little...

Even my warm clothes and the alcohol couldn't defend me from the freezing cold, so I snuggled into my blanket.

Sariel: My, that's not good.

Sariel takes a drink from his glass before suddenly capturing my lips...

His tongue parts my lips and the alcohol flows in.

Emma: Nn...

Sariel: How are you now? Are you feeling a little warmer?

Emma: Y-yes...Um, I'm fine now.

(It wasn't just my throat, but my whole body heated up instantly...)

Sariel: Are you still cold here?

As he holds me down while nibbling my ear, Sariel's scent mixed with the alcohol hits my nose.

His tongue travels down my neck and my hips buck in response.

As he kisses my neck repeatedly, a tingling sensation forms in the pit of my stomach from the ticklish, tantalizing stimulation.

Sariel: You can see the night sky clearly from your current position. Are there shooting stars?

Emma: I don't...know...

I should be able to see the endlessly starry sky when I look over Sariel's shoulder, but I'm struggling to keep my eyes open because of the repeated sweet and tantalizing sensations.

Sariel: We came to look at shooting stars, so keep your eyes on the sky okay? I'll watch over you.

(I'm embarrassed, but my body's at its limit and Sariel seems to be enjoying my reaction...)

(I don't think I can wait for shooting stars anymore...so...)

Emma: Right now...I want Sariel more than shooting stars.

Sariel smiled and gently stroked my hair, as if he'd been waiting to hear those words.

Sariel: Then shall we return to court?

After being thoroughly exhausted from our lovemaking, I started dozing off in a comfortable weariness when Sariel gently puts his lips to my ear.

Sariel: I've had an invaluable Christmas... Let's go see shooting stars together again.

(Okay...promise...)

I answered in my mind and drifted off into a happy holy night dream.

#ikemen prince #ikepri #ikepri jp #ikepri translations #sariel noir #ikepri sariel #ikepri summary

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kavaeric · 1 year

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Run of "Yinmai Cinematic" commissions from 2022. Commentary on each piece (yes, each) below.

I learned that I really, really liked comms where I was tasked to tell a story in a single still composition. The Yinmai series of commissions was an experiment in limiting/directing the prompts to suit this desire: the composition is inherently limited with the anamorphic-esque crop, which means having a typical character-on-white-background comm isn't really possible. The space around a character becomes exaggerated and emphasised, and so by nature this comm style forces you to engage in visual storytelling.

Luckily, I seem to have really good clients who know how to rise to the occasion. I actually had a contingency tier for Yinmai, where I would accept avatar/portrait comms for those not interested in the whole cinematic affair—no one took me up on it.

In order of appearance:

AstroVernox

She commissioned me years ago, before she came out as trans. I think her initial prompt was actually a more mundane scene of being in a cupola, but to work with the drama of yinmai we agreed to adjust it, as well as making a bit of a reference to her transition.

Noir

A fun experiment in quads composition, where the negative space around the subject is further exaggerated and creates a strong sense of empathy. Good for a bit of horror.

Flake (Light Era diagetic)

Ditto as above. One of the two trial comms before I opened publicly. The character of theirs is Trellis, and they included a Dropbox folder of inspiration images; one of them was of the hydroponics scene from the film Sunshine. I incorporated that into this.

Fosh (Light Era diagetic)

She wanted a piece about being out in the field in the Olympic forests. I had a lot of fun with the trees and the colour in the sky makes it really stand out amongst this set.

Taky (no social media) (Light Era diagetic)

They requested them as a Wintertide Adept, which got me a bit hesitant since I never liked to romanticise the military aspect of Light Era too much, but I read their prompt further and they requested a more sombre mood of anticipation, maybe dread. A great example of a client understanding the assignment, if you will. I thought about showing the feeling of isolation by strategically placing the window frame to separate him and the rest of the group in the background.

Forth & Hydrophagist

The other trial comm of this series. The dramatic nature of Yinmai means it's predisposed to show character at a moment of weakness or emotional vulnerability. It makes me more comfortable portraying military themes as it moves it away from ideas of dominance or strength.

Ashii (Light Era diagetic)

Much the same as above, but taken to a larger scale—a little more chaotic, a little more frantic. Playing with depth was very fun. This one is the most popular piece of the series, apparently.

Panzica

Prompt was making a call under the feeling of uncertainty, if I recall correctly. I sneakily referenced a police interrogation room for the environment. The worm's eye view works for the idea, but I feel like I could have executed the anatomy better.

Phenokage

The prompt was of their character, Trouble, whose backstory is a lot of them learning how to deal with being turned into a macro; feelings of being out of place and learning to cope felt resonant as someone of Asian descent living in a foreign country. I felt like I could evoke this feeling by trapping her between a building and the cage-like railings of an expressway headed in the wrong direction.

#artwork commentary #artwork backlog #furry #anthro #furry art #artwork commission #yinmai #light era #kouwa #cinematic #science fiction #scifi #artwork

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halfagone · 11 months

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Awww, that was adorable! Danny struggling not coo at how adorable the two were being was great, lol.

I think I have one final addition to this AU that I only thought of because of the detail of Danny being a former (and probably the greatest) peacock holder. This is also a bit self indulgent, but imagine that Ladybug and Chat Noir somehow manage to lure out Mayura, and then they make a comment about saying something like “Oh, you should be more worried about him then us”. As they say this, they look towards the sky as a green beam of energy descends onto the ground as if a god was coming down to the mortal place, only to reveal a pissed off Danny. Naturally, he easily kicks her ass, and for the first time Ladybug and Chat Noir see how scary Danny can be. What do you think?

Honestly, I really like the idea of Danny beating Mayura even without really flashy powers. >:3 Just good old intangibility, invisibility, and fists. But I can imagine he gives her a warning shot. ;3

I won't write out the build-up, since you have it in hand, but I can write the action sequence!:

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Mayura hadn't expected it to be a trap. Ladybug and Chat Noir tried not to retreat if they could help it, but their limited timers made it a necessity more often than not, although the two young heroes typically found ways to make up for lost ground. This time was different. Truthfully, the last few months had been different.

Whereas they had once been untrained, now they were more refined, quicker to respond, more willing to take... harsher methods. No one was ever severely harmed while doing so- as expected, they were still naive children at the end of the day- but they pushed limits that had once been left untouched and Mayura had few theories for what could have caused such a change.

Gabriel believed that the Guardian had taken them into their instruction, but Natalie didn't think so. After all, where was all this months ago, at the start of the hero careers? Where was all this when they had been new on their feet and fresh-faced to the battle? But whatever the cause may be, Ladybug and Chat Noir had become a more formidable foe these past few months and Gabriel was starting to feel irritated.

It was why Natalie was out here now, as Mayura. She tried not to use the Peacock Miraculous if she could help it, but so long as they wrapped this up quickly, efficiently, then they could concern themselves with the consequences later (as per usual).

She hadn't expected any more company.

She certainly hadn't expected the energy beam from the sky.

Mayura jumped over to another rooftop to escape the blast, crouching to offset the force of her jump. Suddenly, Chat Noir's remark made much more sense because she was faced with the furious face of the strange being that had flitted through Paris' streets all those months ago.

So this was their helper? That could be the only explanation-

Mayura threw herself out of the way of another fist, which missed her by a hair's breath. But her opponent didn't hold back, and Mayura became intimately aware of how unmatched she was. She could handle Ladybug and Chat Noir fairly well, they tended to hold back when they dealt with Akuma and that carried over to facing other threats. But this one?

He was faster than her, and he fought with a vicious edge she was in no way prepared for. She could barely dodge, but quite frankly, she was afraid to find out what would happen if she actually got hit.

She didn't have to wait long, because a fist collided with her stomach and sent her tumbling to the ground. Her only saving grace was the sentimonster she created to deter her opponent.

Mayura used that to give herself some breathing room, to wrap her mind around her next move of attack. She should retreat, most likely, but she was sure this one would follow her. And she couldn't imagine she would have as easy a time throwing them off her tracks. Not if they were always this fast.

She looked on in what could only be described as horror as her enemy sheared straight through the sentimonster with smoking green fists and glowing green eyes and she knew she was done.

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Phantom could actually be pretty terrifying. Adrien had already kind of known this, of course, but seeing how easily he trounced Mayura made it a little more real. Mayura was a tricky one to handle usually, she was clever, and dare Adrien say more creative than Hawkmoth. But Phantom didn't care about any of that. He just pushed and pushed and Mayura fell.

Honestly, Adrien thought it might be better if she just didn't get up. Yielding would be better than facing Phantom's fury any further.

Adrien shivered. He couldn't tell if it was from fear, awe, or anticipation.

Phantom was awesome. He was like a real life anime protagonist. He wanted to be Phantom when he grew up.

#halfagone replies #dp x mlb #this was a lot more funny #than i thought it would be #XDD #at the end at least #mayura is in for a world of pain

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ijustliketoreadstuff · 2 years

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Why they don’t use the powerups more often.

Ever since we found out that Ladybug and cat noir could use powerups, people have begun to wonder why they don’t use them more often in fights, well, the answer is quite simple really , its not just because its a power which needs to saved for special occasions, but because they don’t have very many to eat to use, let alone share with the other heroes, on a regular bases and unfortunately they can’t just easily make more potions to mix in with the macaroons and cheese, because they don’t know the ingredients!

When master Fu translated parts of the Grimoire which specified the list of ingredients to make the potions, people forget that all the info he translated was in his tablet, but when Hawkmoth finally tracked down master Fu in “Heart Hunter” he not only took the miracle box, but the tablet as well!

And without the Tablet, Marinette was left with no other choice but to use what little she had learned from Fu to decipher the grimoire all over again. Marinette was barely learning how to decipher and translate the grimoire before master Fu lost his memory, and even though she doesn’t have his tablet of what was already translated, she did have the printed copy of the grimoire from her lessons with Fu.

Fu translated enough of the grimoire to uncover the recipes for the powerup potions, however, even he needed to figure out just what each ingredient was, the ingredients in the book have never been straight forward,

“A branch from the Dragon kings garden, that’s seaweed”

“Secret kept in a shell, that’s an oyster pearl”

‘“Dust from the sky, now precious, will fix the wings of the injured animal"

And so in “Mr. pigeon 72″ when Ladybug is seen going full blown chemist mode, mixing the various ingredients in a pot, we see that she wasn’t just trying to figure out a way to stop Hawkmoth from akumatizing people, she was trying to figure out how to translate the grimoire pages and recreate the potions Fu gave her and Cat Noir, but figuring out the translations, the ingredients and the right ratios proved to be far more complicated that expected, resulting in explosion after explosion in her room after each failed mixture.

Fu didn’t give Marinette the information in his tablet because he was still in the process of teaching her how to understand the writing and because he never imagined the possibility of being left with no other choice but to pass on the box to Marinette before Hawkmoth could take advantage of all the miraculous.

Hawkmoth has not used any potions to his advantage because it is he and Nooro who need to take them, not his akumatized villains. Using the powerups would mean that he would need to expose himself out in the open to use the power to fight Ladybug and Cat Noir, and he alone can not risk being out in the open for to long because he prioritized working in the shadows and using others to preserve his own identity.

She couldn’t ask Su-Han for help either because Marinette very quickly realized that he would be actively judging her to determine if she was fit to be a guardian and this alone would leave to more complications as she realized he was to set in his old ways and would be difficult to persuade in understanding that being a guardian should not be strictly by the book and that she was still fit to be guardian even if she didn’t understand the grimoire yet.

Marinette and Adrien have a very limited supply of the potions master Fu gave to them before he lost his memory, and until Marinette can retranslate the grimoire pages and figure out just what in the world the ingredients really are and how to mix them properly, she and Cat Noir need to be very cautious about when they should use the macaroon and cheese powerups they have now, which is why we never see them use the powerups more often even in situations like in “Crocodule” when Ladybug had Cat Noir launch her and Purple Tigress into the air with his staff . If there’s another way to do something without the use of the powerups, then they will do so to save it for another day.

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cierv-o-robot-o · 7 months

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WHICH episodes (mainline + spinoff) are your favorite i'd love to know

I don't know about favorites but these are the ones I rewatch the most out of each season :) :

S1: Rainy day daydream, Evicted, and What have you done

S2: It came from the nightosphere, The eyes , The limit

S3: Dad’s dungeon, The New frontier, Marceline’s closet, Memory of a memory, Hitman, The creeps, From bad to worse

S4: Return to the nightosphere, Daddy’s little Monster, BMO noire, King worm, Beyond this earthly realm , Lady & Pebbles, Who would win

S5: A glitch is a glitch, One last job, Simon & Marcy, Wizards only fools, Red starved, Shh!, The sky witch, The box prince, Candy streets, Be more

S6: The pajama war, Is that you, Jermaine, The tower, Joshua and Margaret investigations, Ocarina, Princess day, Astral plane, Jake the brick, The comet

S7: All of stakes, Varmints, President porpoise is missing, The thin yellow line, Mama said, Football, A king’s ransom, Crossover, Hall of egress, Flute spell

S8: The music hole, Broke his crown, Daddy-Daughter card wars, Wheels, Don’t look, and all of Islands but specially “A Mysterious Island” and “Min & Marty”

S9: Elements part 4: Cloudy, Ketchup, Whispers

S10: The first investigation, The wild hunt, Marcy & Hudson, Always Bmo closing, Blenananas

Together Again is absolutely my favorite one out of distant lands but it destroyed me so much I've only seen it once lmao and I still don't have any favorite episodes from Fionna and Cake I'm gonna have to rewatch it

#adventure time #Ray answers #long post #mucho texto #the list was gonna be even longer but I left out some episodes to make it. shorter

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logically-asexual · 8 months

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Ladybird

summary:

Cat Noir faces Dream Fairy, an villain that puts sleeping children into a spell so they won’t wake up. Ladybug can’t help him so he has to find someone he trusts to take her place in this battle. If you follow me you can guess who it will be.

Could happen during season 4.

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leave a comment if you want!! just no season 5 spoilers please, i’ve only seen the first half ^-^

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word count: 3,613

Cat Noir smiled as he felt the fresh night air of Paris against his face. It was late and everyone else was asleep, his suit blended into the sky, and no one would tell him what to do. He knew he shouldn’t use his powers for personal reasons, but he hadn’t been able to get any sleep, only tossing and turning in bed for hours. Besides, he had agreed with Ladybug that they would patrol the city once per day, and nobody specified it had to be during daylight hours.

He was about to break his record of leaping over four buildings in one jump when a flashing light in the distance caught his attention, followed by the sound of loud cackling. His expression dropped. So there would be work to do, after all.

He used the repeating flashes to track the villain and follow after them. Once he was close enough, he heard her yell “None of you little brats will be able to interrupt my sleep ever again!” as she shot bright rays of light into every window along the street.

He was able to tackle the person (an exhausted mother, maybe?) while she was distracted, crashing both of them into the sidewalk.

The villain, dressed in an extravagant costume that reminded him of Maleficient, recovered from the hit quickly. “Cat Noir!” she scowled, “You know what time it is? Children like you shouldn’t be roaming the streets! But don’t worry, Dream Fairy will fix that soon.”

She pointed her staff at him, which had a green glowing orb at the end. He managed to move out of the way before the magic shot got him. The akuma was surely in that staff, but he needed to wait for Ladybug to destroy it so she could capture and de-evilize it before it flew away. Deciding to stall her as he waited for his partner, he jumped away and ran through the city, the witch close behind him.

He landed on a windowsill and tried to call Ladybug, but she wouldn’t pick up. While he was distracted, it was the villain’s turn to crash into him and send them both falling into the house. He found himself in the middle of his own foyer.

“I smell a little brat lives here!” Dream Fairy turned towards his, well, Adrien’s bedroom door at the top of the stairs. “But he’s not asleep like he should…”

Cat Noir tried to get a hold of her staff, but she was too quick. On the corner of his vision he saw Nathalie struggling with the crutches to run out of her room.

He shielded himself from the rays of light with his own staff, and said “Don’t worry ma’am! I’ve got everything under control!”

Ironically, at that same moment the villain slipped away and made a run for Adrien’s bedroom, only to be faced with Nathalie now blocking the way and swiftly evading every attack, even with her limited mobility.

Cat Noir distracted the woman again and attempted to lead her out of the house. The battle continued, until Tikki was suddenly next to his face holding Ladybug’s earrings. He kept sparring with the villain as he spoke to her.

“Tikki? What’s going on? Where’s Ladybug?”

“We have a problem! My owner is asleep and I couldn’t wake her up! She seems to be under some spell. I tried to find someone else to use her powers today but all our other allies were the same!”

“We need Ladybug to capture the akuma,” he said between strikes, “there’s no way I’m making it without her!”

Wearing the earrings himself wasn’t even an option, he had no experience wearing two miraculous at once, let alone the most powerful ones! He leaped away right before being hit with a magical ray, which gave way for the villain to run back towards the stairs.

Nathalie, still guarding the bedroom door, didn’t waste any time punching Dream Fairy right on the nose, knocking her out. Cat Noir looked at her in awe. He had an idea.

He grabbed Nathalie’s hand and pulled her into her bedroom, with Tikki following after him.

“Nathalie, right? I need your help.”

“Wait—“ she tried to get back out, but Cat Noir stopped her, saying that he had already made sure Adrien would be safe. He was touched by her worry and her eagerness to protect him, but he had no time to waste.

“Nathalie Sancoeur, here’s the miraculous of the ladybug, which grants the power of creation. You will use it for the greater good.” He held eye contact with her and noticed that her stare grew panicked while he spoke. “Once the—“

“Me? No, you don’t want me, I can’t even walk properly!”

“Don’t worry! The suit enhances all physical abilities! And I saw you fighting just now, you’re awesome already! I need someone strong, intelligent, and trustworthy, and—“

“No,” she interrupted, “you don’t want to trust me.”

Nathalie couldn’t believe she was this situation. She knew Gabriel would want her to take this opportunity and finally get what they were both after this whole time. The jewels he so desperately wanted were right in front of her, being handed to her on a silver platter, and she, of all people, would be the one giving them to him. Everything in her knew that she should take advantage of this, even if she had to defeat Gabriel’s akumatized villain first, but there was a voice in the back of her head that forced her to hesitate, only made louder by the kind look on the superhero’s wide green eyes.

“You’re Gabriel Agreste’s executive assistant, right? If he relies on you for his work then you must deserve this honor. You are the most trustworthy person I kno— I mean— here!”

Cat Noir smiled at her, and something in his eyes reminded him of when Adrien was little, begging for her not to tell his mom that he had stolen a cookie from the kitchen, not afraid, but hopeful, because he knew she would cave in eventually. She always did, as she did now.

She would end up disappointing the boy either way, sooner or later. Might as well get something out of it.

She took the pair of earrings, switched them with her own, and attentively listened when Cat Noir explained the basic information about her powers, all of which Nathalie was already aware of, but he didn’t know that. Soon, they were ready.

“Tikki, spots on!”

Her glasses and crutches were gone, leaving only a magic suit and mask behind. Her suit wasn’t very different from the girl’s apart from the fact that the colors on Nathalie’s were inverted. Her hair didn’t change a lot either, with her bun now higher up and two red strands of hair hanging loose next to either side of her face.

“A pleasure to meet you…” Cat Noir waited.

“Ladybird,” she completed. The word felt foreign on her mouth, but it was all that came to mind.

Cat Noir opened the door for her and led the way to the villain, who was now standing from the place on the floor where they had left her.

It took a few minutes to get the hang of her weapon. She was skilled when it came to self defense, but her aim had never been great. She found that her power and her enhanced vision improved it somewhat, once she got familiar with the shape and mass of the object she was throwing. She was able to use it to block the rays from hitting Cat Noir and to distract Dream Fairy, who had forgotten about Adrien and was now giving them her full attention.

Cat Noir insisted on being the one at the front, leading the battle while she supported him any way she could. They knew they had to get to the staff, but Dream Fairy was too agile and avoided them with ease.

Growing frustrated, Cat Noir suggested for her to summon the lucky charm. She followed his instruction and stepped away to call the power. In her hands now was a… a DVD copy of Solitude, with Emilie on the cover. Was this some kind of joke?

The black cat struggled defending himself while she stared at the movie. She remembered that Gabriel had his own copy in the safe behind his wife’s portrait, which gave her an idea. She called for the villain’s attention offering her the miraculous and ran into Gabriel’s office.

Dream Fairy ran after her, trying to hit her with her staff but missing every attempt. Nathalie walked backwards into the room until she was in position right next to the painting.

“Cat Noir, your cataclysm!” As she spoke, the villain attempted to take her apparent distraction as a chance to strike, but was met with a perfectly-timed hit in the face with the frame of the painting. She stumbled backwards before Nathalie slid the DVD case across the floor so the woman slipped on it. “Now!”

In the fall, Dream Fairy let go of her staff, which Cat Noir was able to get mid-air and destroy. As always, the dark butterfly flew out of the object. Nathalie went through the famous following motions, de-evelizing the creature. Then, she picked up the movie and threw it upwards and said, “Miraculous Ladybird!”

Swarms of ladybugs flew all around them, fixing the broken window, the dented frame of the portrait, and the staff, now turned into a flashlight. The disoriented woman who used to be Dream Fairy tried to stand up, but soon lost balance and dropped back to the floor, sleeping peacefully at last.

Ladybird felt relief for the poor woman, who must have been awake for one-too-many nights in a row. Her attention then was brought back to Cat Noir, who was holding up a closed fist at her, offering the victory gesture the heroes always did. She looked down at his hand, the ring on his finger was blinking.

Through his shared vision with the akuma, Gabriel knew that Cat Noir and someone had just defeated his villain in his office before losing contact with them, so he would probably wait a while to come out, to avoid being discovered. Nathalie was on her own. It was now or never.

“Sorry,” she muttered. In a blink, with a flick of her wrist the yo-yo flew around Cat Noir and immobilized him. All tied up, he lost balance and fell over with a soft thud. His alarmed eyes shifted from side to side, but he didn’t get enough time to figure out how to escape before she took the ring from him.

Ladybird took the ring from his hand and wore it in her own, ignoring the green light of his transformation on the edges of her vision. Still looking down at the miraculous, she took a deep breath. She would be clear with the wish, making sure the life that would be taken in exchange wouldn’t be anyone else’s but her own.

“Tikki, Plagg, unif—“

“Nathalie, no!” the boy interrupted.

She finally looked up gasped, stumbling a few steps back. The world froze for a moment, the air in the room suddenly cold enough to make her body tremble as she saw who was laying on the floor in front of her.

“Adrien,” she barely whispered.

“Wh— Why are you doing this?” He appeared to be on the verge of tears, a state she would probably share soon, not yet believing this was real.

“That's… that’s impossible.” Her head turned between him, Emily’s portrait, and the ring on her finger. Not enough air was getting into her lungs, maybe she had hit her head and she was currently the one on the floor and this was all her imagination, product of a concussion. Maybe she had dreamed this entire night and the sound of her alarm clock would wake her up at any moment.

A part of her brain registered a shift in the air behind her. Then, two hands yanking away her earrings fully brought her back to reality. Every last drop of strength left her body along with the magical suit, causing her knees to buckle and she came crashing down. It was as if the exhaustion and pain she had avoided during the fight had accumulated and now she had to take it all back.

Nathalie couldn’t make out the fuming words of the girl who must have been the actual owner of the ladybug miraculous. She could see she was wearing a gray and white costume and sunglasses as she put on her earrings. She argued with the ladybug kwami, and Adrien chimed in a few times. It surprised her to see him standing up, before her mind caught up with the fact that her powers were gone, and so was the yo-yo and the string that had been restraining him.

Nathalie tried to discern more details of the situation but her vision was fogging up and she felt like everything was crumbling around her. She was about to lose consciousness when a bright light forced her back. Ladybug left through the portal she had just opened carrying the de-akumatized person as Adrien ran to Nathalie’s side.

He helped her sit up and explained what he had discussed with the superheroine. She couldn’t understand much of what he said at the beginning, but slowly she was able to take in less shallow breaths and comprehend more of his speech. She gathered some general ideas. He had said that he didn’t tell Ladybug everything that had happened to protect his identity, and that he had asked her to leave them alone and let Adrien and Cat Noir manage things.

Then, she realized he was asking her a question. She blinked at him for a couple seconds before registering the words. “Yeah, I’m fine,” she answered. She tried to give him proof of her statement and managed to stand up, but she couldn’t bring herself to take a step forward. The shaking of her legs convinced her that she would fall if she tried. “You should get back to bed.”

“Wait.” He moved to stand in front of her, as if he would be the only thing blocking her from leaving the room. “Please tell me, why did you do that?”

She bit her lip. She was in no condition, physical or mental, to have this conversation. What could she say that would reveal just enough to satisfy his curiosity, and not too much to raise any more questions?

A part of the truth should be good enough. “I wanted to make a wish.”

“You know about the wish?”

She swallowed. “Uh, yes. I’ve seen the news, I’ve heard about it.”

The sadness in Adrien’s eyes pierced into her own. This shouldn’t be happening. She should be the one protecting him. Still, his voice was full of kindness. “I know it sounds like an easy solution to any problem, but it’s more complicated than that. The balance of the universe has to be maintained, which means every wish comes with a price. If you wanted to cure your illness someone else would have to fall ill in your place, and that’s… well… it’s not fair.”

Nathalie knew about the price of the wish. He was right. Things were more complicated than they appeared, but she couldn’t explain the real reason why to Adrien. It was neither the moment nor the place. It wasn’t even a job for her to do, it was his father’s. “That’s… not what I wanted,” she muttered. It bothered her that he could think she would do something so selfish.

“It’s okay, I didn’t know that at the beginning either. Now you know you see, it’s better this way.”

As offensive as it was, she would have to let him believe that he guessed the wish she intended to make correctly, and hopefully he would forgive her and not interrogate further.

Adrien smiled at her, and she couldn’t help but smile back, until he extended his hand to her and she remembered today’s discovery.

The ring was in its disguised form, all silver, just like Adrien had worn it the entire time. As she took it off and held it between her index and thumb, it turned back to black and the green paw appeared in the center. She should have known it, and yet not even now could she fully believe it.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you,” he said, “I do think you’re the most trustworthy person in the world, but we had to keep our identities a secret from everyone. You’re… not going to tell father, are you?”

Memories came to her of all those moments when both Mayura and Hawkmoth had faced the heroes. Focused on their goals and thinking of the superheroes as nothing but obstacles to them, it was easy to attack with no restraint or care for the children behind the masks. Now everything was different. It had been Adrien, all this time. The girl behind the red spotted mask might be infuriating, but she was someone’s daughter, too. Why had it taken all this for her to actually acknowledge it? Was ruining these children’s lives really worth it?

All her experiences up until this point were altered under this new perspective. She wondered if Gabriel would feel the same if he knew. Would he stop if he did? “I… don’t think I can lie to your father.” She had to tell him. What if Hawkmoth chose to fight in person again? What was Nathalie supposed to do then? She closed her fist around the ring. “I also don’t think I could stand to keep watching you get hurt.”

Adrien went on a long speech defending himself, arguing that the suit made him nearly invulnerable, that he and Ladybug always had each other’s backs and always came up with a solution, that he was never more worried about the akumatized villains injuring him than he was about Hawkmoth harming his victims as they were used for his nefarious purposes.

If only he knew, Nathalie thought. If only he knew why his father was doing this. But, as usual, it wasn’t her place to speak, so she just frowned at him, not yet persuaded.

“Please,” he was now begging, “if my father finds out he will never let me out of the house again! I don’t want to be a prisoner for the rest of my life! It’ll be even worse than before I went to school.” He grabbed her from both arms, almost pouting. “I know what I’m doing, just trust me. You don’t have to lie to him, you just have to keep doing everything the same way you did up until today. Please!”

As he dragged on the last word and looked up at her with the same puppy eyes that had convinced her to take the magical earrings earlier, she felt once again cornered. No truth was more universal than the fact that when an Agreste wanted something from her, they would get it. She simply sighed and handed over the ring back to him.

He immediately squeezed the air out of her in a hug, which she returned to the best of her ability. She had promised Emilie that she would protect Adrien, but she never expected that to be such a difficult task. However, that didn’t mean that she would simply give up.

After a minute the boy pulled away. She had been leaning some of her weight on him, so he noticed her effort to stay upright after losing his support. He called for his transformation with a wide smile. Looking into those green eyes now, she couldn’t believe she ever thought they belonged to anyone else but Emilie’s son. He held an arm around her, and carried her back to her bedroom.

Cat Noir thanked her and hugged her one last time before leaving to find Ladybug and explain his version of what had happened earlier. Luckily, all the girl knew was that her kwami had left with the earrings to find a temporal holder and she figured out she would find them at the Agreste Mansion once she followed the villain’s signs of destruction on the streets. She probably assumed Cat Noir had hidden once Nathalie had taken his ring and the secret of his identity was safe.

Nathalie watched from her window as the boy jumped from one rooftop to another, disappearing into the night. Before bed she would delete the footage from the cameras in the house, then she would sleep, and then… that was to be determined.

She would have to think carefully about what she would do about Gabriel now. Adrien didn’t know the scope of the burden he had put on her. She didn’t know how the man would react if he found that his son was Cat Noir, but she was sure that if Gabriel ever found out that she had known Cat Noir’s identity and hadn’t told him, he would be furious. If she was honest, sometimes Nathalie was just as scared of him as Adrien was.

Unfortunately, she had no choice now. The matter was delicate so her actions should be the same. She would have to thread carefully until she could find a solution that hopefully didn’t end with Gabriel losing his mind, Adrien getting hurt, and her being fired. For now, she’d have to act natural, while she pretended her world hadn’t been shattered around her and completely differently rebuilt in a single night.

#miraculous #miraculous ladybug #nathalie sancoeur #adrien agreste #chat noir #cat noir #why do people spell it the french way when it’s literally Cat in the show #mlb #lunas writing

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theparkerpapers · 1 year

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“Our contract with the audience is to bring them something they’ve never seen before,” writer-producer Christopher Miller tells Empire in the world-exclusive new Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse issue. And they’re going all-out to make sure they deliver on that promise – creating a follow-up that spans five different universes. “The first film was about bringing characters into Miles’ dimension,” Miller explains. “This is about Miles heading off into others.”

While Into The Spider-Verse gave us brief glimpses of the worlds inhabited by Peter B. Parker, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker and more, the sequel will spend real time in a bunch of dizzying dimensions. “Each world is a robust place,” says Joaquim Dos Santos, who directs alongside Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson. “We’ve essentially made five films in one.” There’s Gwen’s Earth-65, with its distinctive watercolor palette; the India-inspired Mumbattan (see the exclusive image above, plus Empire’s subscriber cover); Nueva York, the home of Oscar Isaac’s Spider-Man 2099, aka Miguel O’Hara; the punky New London, inhabited by Daniel Kaluuya’s Spider-Punk; plus a secretive fifth dimension that’s being kept tightly under wraps for now. “It goes hard,” promises writer-producer Phil Lord. “The visuals will be jaw-dropping.”

That sense of escalation in the film’s ambition is echoed by Miles Morales himself, Shameik Moore. “I will say that this story tops the first one,” he teases. “If the sky was the limit last time, the sky is now the floor. We’re stepping on it and looking at Jupiter!” Sometimes, shooting for the moon just isn’t enough.

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Is Set Across Five New Universes: ‘We’ve Essentially Made Five Films In One’ – Exclusive Image

#Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

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SEGA has made you an official and you’re able to rectify or create things within canon as you see fit. What are the first five things you do as the new Head Honcho? (The sky is the limit here, gimme like your biggest ideas)

OHHHHHHHHHH YEAH BABY. if there’s no limit here….

i have many thoughts on how the sega handles sonic comics. idw is fine but not ideal. my IDEAL version would be to have two split runs (if archie can have a million i can have two). one focuses on the in between of canon- what is blaze doing in her dimension? what is silver doing in the future? how is gemerl doing? how did sonic have all the chaos emeralds before sonic unleashed? it’s just supposed to expand the world of the games without necessarily adapting them. the second series focuses on the what ifs- what if Maria lived? what if sonic died in sa2 instead of shadow? what if eggman found tails first? etc, etc, etc. just fun little ideas of where things could have gone really, really wrong.

make a chaotix game! i think i’ve mentioned it before but the premise would be for them to find mighty and ray :0. i really think they’re under utilized and a puzzle/noir game would be super fun!

look if they’re gonna make racing games bring back the fucking babylon rogues. they were MADE to be Sonic’s racing rivals (at least with vehicles)

honestly? retire shadow. he’s lived a good life but he doesn’t have a reason to be Sonic’s antagonistic, edgy rival, which they realllllly want him to be. have him move in with the chaotix and help on small time adventures, to honor maria but also ensure his own happiness. or he can go on a world adventure to better understand himself and the humanity he once despised. we keep him in our back pocket, but we stop shoving him into things and roles he has no reason to be apart of.

can we PLEASE bring back hyper sonic for the love of GOD can we bring back hyper sonic . the new lore sonic frontiers is bringing around is the perfect opportunity to bring it back.

#6. ban all romances ever. no more. die.#7. nuke the sonic movies and start fresh #master emerald brothel #thanks for the ask!#idw SORT of does what I want with comics but not really #it focuses way too much on original characters and stories #i just. can’t give a shit about Belle or tangle. whisper was cool tho.#i don’t mind original characters but i want them contained to a single story (like merlina/sharah) or just like.#reoccurring unimportant background characters.#idk #anyway

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angelbymadonna · 8 months

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Knife-ish: Miraculous Holder of the Electric Eel! Power of Fact-Check!

[ID in alt text]

She's a human lie detector! They tend to get hung up on technicalities!

Fifteen year old Sasha Blue, she/they, was a normal-ish girl-ish with a normal-ish life until one day a fishing hook earring was bestowed upon her by the guardian of the Miraculous!

Eelec, the kwami of Veracity, explained that Sasha was now a hero of Paris! Ish... they still had to maintain their life as a high school student, volleyball player, amatuer chef, and devoted wikipedia editor AND be available on demand when Ladybug calls. But there's no better honor, and after Sasha's little brother became akumatized, it became clear to them that heroes were needed- especially to unmask the truth behind Paris' most mysterious villain.

(also yes the skin-tight suit covers everything below the neck like the other heroes. This would probably be super fuckin uncomfortable if the suit was real clothes and not kwami magic.)

Visit Knife-ish's kwami @eelec-knife-fish-kwami

[the "kwami of fact-check" is a fandom rp in-joke btw- but feel free to keep the bit going!]

Sasha wears tunnels in her stretched ears. the fish hook is attached to a ring they put through the right ear tunnel. It glows blue like her lightning, and has yellow sparks emitting that become fewer in number if their suit is about to disappear- five sparks for five minutes after they use her powers.

Their weapon is an electric spear, which simply has a constant energy stream via MagicTM and isn't limited use like her powers are.

Sasha's right leg is amputated below the knee, and they walk using a can or crutches. If she must walk a great distance while in her superhero form, part of her spear handle can separate through the middle, visually similar to Chat Noir's catphone, to create a handle. This, however, is less common for superheroes than simply launching oneself into the sky, which is also assissted by the weapons' features, and following Ladybug. If Knife-ish is using their spear cane, they hold it in their left hand, on the same side as their non-amputated leg. In the above image, she is using their right hand, but this is both a compositional choice and due to the fact they are using it as a weapon in the frame. If you have better information or any reason that I should change how Sasha gets around, I will always be happy to receive it in my askbox or messages.

#artist song #miraculous oc #knife-ish #my ocs #my oc art #my art #kwami of fact-check #kwami of veracity #id in alt text #sasha blue

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pearl484-blog · 7 months

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Butterfly!Adrien

We made a reply to a post discussing Butterfly!Adrien. We decided to post it separately.

We really like the idea of Butterfly!Adrien and have 3 private stories about it because it allows one thing. It takes advantage of Adrien's empathy and lets us use it to rip him apart.

One is Greyling, a vampiric Butterfly!Adrien who feeds off the akumas he and his father create. As such, he must feed off an akuma at least once a week or suffer a nasty withdrawal.

He knows what he's doing is awful and tries to be the voice of reason with akumas, limiting their collateral damage whenever possible and attempting to "train" the Black Cat and Ladybug, knowing his defeat will likely mean his slow death. He cannot stop himself, but he hopes they can.

Examples of limiting the akuma include: Bubbler: holding a party using the entire class for Adrien and merely THREATENING to send the adilts sky high. Making a deal that if you see Gabriel, sure, go nuts. Calling the media on the party. (Problem: It's Adrien's party. How is he going to keep the Bubbler in check AND attend? Unsolved issue)

Mr. Pigeon: Using the pigeons to provide bird musicals, raising pigeon awareness. He'll stay indoors for this one, thanks.

Copycat: How about, instead of robbing the museum, we do interviews on the Ladyblog about you acting like a jerk and trash talking Ladybug? Once its on the internet, it's forever! (Problem: Chat is not Adrien. Why is there Copycat?)

Rogercop: Introduce maximum punishment sentances. Oh, this guy's a handful.

Etc

As you can tell, there were main problems secret identity wise. I also struggled with a replacement Chat Noir and setting up a straightforward arc covering the vampirism and Adrien's decision to risk death or a life worse than death to get away from Gabriel and Nathalie, despite being complicit in their crimes and benefitting from them by feeding off akumas. I especially wanted to explore Adrien as an abuse victim while he was dependent on Gabriel's crimes as he could not satiate his magical hunger completely by himself. He's not strong enough to keep up that rate.

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Agreste/Ephemeral: Post season 3: Adrien discovers his father's secret identity and is locked away from the rest of the world and slowly psychically taken apart using sentimonsters to try to get him on their side. After Gabriel realizes that Adrien is Chat Noir, he steals his memories to try to sift for them and find clues about Ladybug and where Chat Noir's missing Miraculous is (he flushed it down the toilet) After being stripped of his memories, morality, love for Ladybug, etc.

Nooroo manipulates him to start sneaking away from Gabriel and try to slowly piece himself back together using excess energy drawn from akumas.

While he's away, he meets Nino, whom he's drawn to despite not recognizing him. He decides that Nino will be one of his next akumas, only to be disappointed when Nino rejects his gifts and tries to convince him that it's a bad thing, and he needs to betray Hawk Moth.

Nino, meanwhile has been grieving Adrien and is shocked when he finds a Butterfly named Agreste is stalking him. And it's completely obvious it's Adrien. Adrien is so badly broken he doesn't really understand secret identities very well and sucks at hiding it.

Agreste is under the belief that helping akumas is good. He's giving them magic so they can fix their problems. Ladybug and her group of heroes just keep attacking them and trying to take axay their power before they can fix things.

Hawkmoth, under this system, is forced to reduce casualties and collateral damage and Agreste frequently targets people with more "sympathic" motives.

For example, he wants to help Nino find his missing friend because that makes Nino very sad. But Nino has annoyingly great emotional control because he stubbornly gets it under control everytime Agreste appears to offer it to him.

Agreste creates the Gang of Secrets (new name pending) because he understands that their friend is sad and parties make people happy. Yet he frequently misses important information and flips when Lady Wifi recognizes him as Adrien while the two are picking up pizzas together and she tries to unmask him and reveal the truth. He mistakes her as a rabid fangirl trying to kidnap him and tries to kick her out.

At first, Nino and Agreste keep their relationship secret. Agreste trying to tempt Nino to accept his akuma and find his friend, looking after his newest pet project as he's clearly determined to sabotage himself.

Nino is determined to gain Adrien's trust again and get him to betray Hawk Moth and Mayura, who Adrien will do anything to protect as they're all he has.

Alya starts getting secretive because she remembers enough from her akumatization to know she found Adrien, but something went wrong, but its hazy and the investigation into Adrien's disappearance keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Nino, not knowing anything since Alya doesn't want him to do anything rash for his best bro and Gabriel may have possibly killed Émilie, gets suspicious of Alya’s withdrawal and mentions it to Agreste.

Agreste follows her and discovers "she's cheating on Nino" and tells Nino after he "took care of it". Nino doesn't want to know what Agreste did, but in all actuality, he just stole her Miraculous so she couldn't see her side piece anymore, some hero Turtle or whatever.

Nino tries to confront Alya, and gets akumatized. Afterwards, Agreste is jealous because he let Hawk Moth akumatize him and is upset, going to confront Nino that night and discovering he's back with Alya.

Nino tries to introduce Agreste, but Adrien cuts him off, saying his name is Ephemeral. He worls for Hawk Moth and Alya needs to go, home wrecker. Revealing that on some level he knew what he was doing when he introduced himself as Agreste.

Ephemeral rushes off and akumatizes Max to help him with a project so Agreste can take his mind off things and focus on the feeling of satisfaction through their connection.

Max, taking advantage of Markov being there recording, gets Ephemeral to admit that he's having trouble with one of his friends. The only person he felt he could be himself around. He admits that Ephemeral is the name his father gave him, but it doesn't really feel right. Something feels off, like it's missing, like it was taken from him.

He's scared and angry and hurt because no one's listening to him. No one wants to. He's afraid if he keeps pushing, he'll lose something else.

Ephemeral remembers that he didn't used to be like this. But sometimes, he's afraid those memories are just some stupid fantasy he's creating to escape from reality.

Max tries to comfort him.

Something something something

The team breaks into Gabriel’s quarters and find the missing pieces of Adrien handing them back to him.

Problems include what happened to Plagg and the Black Cat Ring and why does no one immediately suspect Gabriel is Hawk Moth, especially once Agreste/Ephemeral really starts moving around?

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Luna Moth: Adrien Agreste is desperate to please his father, Hawk Moth. Unbeknownst to him, he's not an accomplice. He's a hostage.

This is a work in progress which will be posted eventually

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Feel free to take these ideas and use them as inspiration for your own fics, but do not use them for AI. Ephemeral/Agreste and Greyling are all but abandoned.

Luna Moth is proving to be a fight, but seriously, the initial description is cool enough and vague enough that you'll never get what I'm doing.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous lb #adrien agreste #fanfic #fanfiction #my fanfic #Fan fic ideas #butterfly miraculous #butterfly adrien agreste

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Homework and Attendance Due 10/3 by 10 PM.

Homework:

I was born on April 25th, and I am a Taurus. My birthday buddies include Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, which suits me well because I love The Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, and Home Alone. : )

Taurus is an earth sign associated with the color green and pink. "Taurus’ power colors are green and pink. Green is a calming and grounding color, while pink is associated with warmth and affection. Together, these colors express the qualities of Taurus that make them so dependable. Green is a color of growth and stability, symbolizing Taurus’ ability to stay focused and reach their goals. Pink is a color of love and compassion, representing Taurus’ ability to be supportive and understanding."-Horoscope.com Animal: My zodiac sign animal is the bull. It represents strength, dependability, loyalty, hard work, and gentleness with equal parts assertiveness. I learned we are a work hard, play hard sign, which is true as I love a productive work day, a challenging workout, and a glass of Pinot Noir. : )

I learned that Taurus is ruled under the planet of Venus and according to Bustle "Venus, the brightest planet in the sky, was first observed by telescope in 1610 by astronomer Galileo Galilei. His observations of Venus helped bring about the understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, not the other way around. In Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, which is similar in astrology, where the planet rules over relationships, both romantic and platonic. “[Venus] urges us to unite and harmonize with others and maintain loyalties,” says Stardust." I strongly believe in loyalty and building meaningful relationships. Having been with my partner for 13 years, I appreciate the beauty of growing old together while still loving and accepting each other as we evolve and mature. The romantic cheeseball in me loves reality shows such as Love is Blind and The Bachelor, and I strongly appreciate beauty and aesthetics. Even as a child, I enjoyed collecting visually appealing items such as rocks. As an adult, my interests have expanded to collect things like tarot decks, hand written cards, organic perfumes, comfy pajamas, and lip liners lol. (Venus is depicted in this piece as a golden and brown orb-like shape)

To celebrate the beauty of spring and the joys of spending time outdoors, I added leaves, tree images, and a lily to my design. Every day at lunchtime, I take my dogs for a walk on a trail with the most trees in my town. I have discovered that including a wooded experience in your daily routine can have numerous benefits, such as reducing stress and anxiety, lowering blood pressure, and improving overall mood.

Attendance:

"Recently it was revealed that products for women, from clothes to bike helmets to incontinence pads, routinely cost more than products for men and boys that are practically identical. " "The phenomenon has come to be known as the "pink tax." - Pg 117, The Secret Lives of Color

In this passage discussing the "pink tax," it is noted that a pack of disposable razors marketed toward men in blue costs $1.85, while the same style marketed toward women in pink costs $1.93. As I read through this, memories of my high school days working at Walgreens came back to me. Toiletries surrounded me, and I realized that women's razors cost more and had dull and low-quality blades. Hence, I switched to using men's razors.

In the 2010s, I felt limited to buying products that were marketed exclusively towards women. I appreciate how your generation prioritizes gender inclusivity, as it has had a beneficial impact on me as a millennial. Nowadays, people are moving towards buying products based on their effectiveness, without being constrained by societal gender norms.

I found a Woman's Day article released in 2015, a little bit ago, but not too long ago, titled, "9 Everyday Items That Are More Expensive for Women." It states, "Women spend $1,400 more than men per year for common items because of gender-based pricing." The list includes razors, underwear, tools, fragrances, shaving cream, long-sleeve t-shirts, body wash, socks, and deodorant. Fast forward to 2023, I can see why gender-neutral clothing is booming right now!!!!

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