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the-delta-42 · 5 months
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Hindsight - Chapter 2
Hindsight
Chapter 2
Marinette tried not to itch the gauze that covered her ears, everything was muffled, although her phone had practically blown up with texts, mostly from her friends, some from her teachers and a few from some people she’d never met before. Adrien sat not too far away from her, his leg bouncing.
“Can you please stop that?” Asked Marinette, her voice raised so she could hear herself speak.
“Oh, sorry.” Said Adrien, getting to his feet.
“You don’t have to hang around, Adrien,” Said Marinette, putting her phone down, “my parents are coming to pick me up, they haven’t yet because the Bakery’s been flooded with the press.”
Adrien looked down, before glancing towards the door. He could see Gorilla’s shadow over the window, his bodyguard had taken to preventing any unwanted persons into the room. Which included the multiple journalists that were crowded outside the hospital.
“Are you sure you want me to go, Marinette?” Asked Adrien, hesitantly.
Marinette looked out the window, there was a practical sea of people outside.
“Adrien, I’ll be fine.” Promised Marinette, smiling at the model.
Adrien looked like he didn’t believe her, but got up and headed for the door anyway, “If you need anything, just call me.”
Marinette hummed and nodded, looking down at her phone. Gorilla guiding him towards the car as soon as they were out of the building. Marinette dropped her phone on the bed and popped her mouth, before following it up with a series of noises as she shuffled around.
“Why can’t I transform again?” Marinette asked Tikki, as the Kwami devoured a cookie.
“Because,” Tikki hiccupped, “when your ear was ripped off, your body entered a state of shock and still needs time to recover.”
Marinette frowned, “And you’re not using this as an excuse to eat as many cookies as you want without getting in trouble?”
Tikki froze and glanced at the pile of cookies behind her, “Noooo…”
Marinette hummed and looked out the window and saw her parents van pull up, “You better eat fast, because we’ll be leaving soon.”
Tikki looked at the window and then at the pile of cookies. Marinette heard a loud, sucking sound, before she pivoted and saw Tikki seemingly passed out next to where the pile of cookies sat.
“Okay, didn’t expect that.” Said Marinette, as her mother entered the room.
“Marinette!” Cried Sabine, before grabbing Marinette and pulling her into a bone crushing embrace.
“Maman, can’t breathe.” Gasped Marinette, as her mother smothered her.
“Why didn’t you say anything? What were you thinking? How long have you been doing this?” Demanded Sabine, unconsciously tightening her grip on Marinette.
“Sabine,” Said Tom, entering the room, “she needs to breathe.”
Sabine loosened her grip, allowing Marinette to suck in a large gulp of air.
“Thank you.” Whispered Marinette, as she regained her breath.
Tom spotted Tikki, sleeping on the table, “Is this the mouse we’ve gained?”
Marinette nodded, as Tom picked Tikki up and gently placed her in his pocket.
“Be careful with her, she just Kirby-ed a plate of cookies.” Warned Marinette, stretching her arms, “I’m actually amazed that Hawkmoth hasn’t tried to make an appearance.”
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“What do you mean I can’t bail her out?” Demanded Gabriel, as the Duty Sergeant idly looked at him.
“National Intelligence don’t want anyone to speak to her until they’ve questioned her.” She said, in her bored tone.
“I have work that needs to be done.” Snarled Gabriel, trying to intimidate the woman.
“Then hire someone else.” Retorted the sergeant, “We can’t release a domestic terrorist because you don’t have anyone to schedule your meetings.”
Gabriel puffed up and demanded, “Do you know who I am?!”
The Sergeant looked at him, before grabbing her radio. Gabriel smirked, satisfied that he’d get what he wanted. Then the sergeant spoke, “Chief, can you come to the front desk? There’s a guy who doesn’t know who he is.”
The Sergeant gave Gabriel a smug smile and rested her chin on her fist.
Gabriel spun on his heel and stormed out of the Police station, not noticing a journalist that had been listening to him demanding Nathalie be released.
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Marinette blew air through her teeth and spun around in her chair, while all her friends stared at her.
“I’m bored.” Whined Marinette, getting a wince from everyone.
“You’re not supposed to do anything that could further damage your ears.” As soon as Nino said that, Marinette perked up.
“Mullo!” Yelled Marinette, summoning the Mouse Kwami and reached out for the necklace.
Ivan quickly grabbed Marinette around the middle as the petite girl tried to reach for the miraculous. Alya’s phone beeped, alerting her to a new news headline.
“I don’t believe this!” Exclaimed Alya, drawing everyone’s attention, “The press found out about Marinette’s expulsion, and Damocles is saying Marinette attacked people!”
Everyone froze, before a rock sailed through Marinette’s bedroom window.
“They’re saying that Marinette carried out an unprovoked attack on a fellow student and was expelled on the spot.” Stated Alya, venom dripping from her words, “I’m going to kill that fat bastard!”
Nino looked over Alya’s shoulder, “It also say that there is no evidence to support or contradict those claims and the expulsion was illegal because Marinette didn’t receive a hearing.”
“Damocles is performing a smear campaign to cover up his own failings.” Snarled Alya, while Alix picked up the rock and threw it back out the window.
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Damocles tried not to squirm as the two inspectors stared at him.
“You… refused to investigate the claims Mlle Dupain-Cheng was making, because you saw Mlle Rossi sitting at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Was Mlle Rossi harmed in any way? Did she have any visible bruises or marks?”
“W-well, no, but-” The female inspector cut him off.
“You were granted several thousand euros to refurbish the school and its contents, and yet, this is the only room that has been visibly altered.” She said, her voice cold, “It is well known that you have an…unusual hobby. There have been concerns about you embezzling funds. As well as accusations of unfair dismissal and blatant favouritism towards the wealthier students.”
“I-well-erm-you see-” Damocles was interrupted again.
“M. Damocles, you’ve shown us evidence that you are both inefficient and incompetent in your job.” Warned the male inspector, “Now, you will tell us everything, the whole truth and then we will decide your next course of action.”
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Marinette’s leg bounced as M. Coleman read the article. The principal looked up at Marinette, before running a hand over his face.
“If I’d known the severity of your situation, I wouldn’t’ve accepted you,” Began Coleman, making Marinette wilt, “You were expelled under dubious circumstances at best, with no evidence supporting the course of action, and you’ve been bearing a burden that you shouldn’t have to.”
“S-sir, what does that mean?” Asked Marinette, quietly.
“It means, Mlle Dupain-Cheng, that Hector Damocles made a catastrophic mistake and has no way of recovering from it.” Clarified Coleman, before glancing at the clock of the wall, “Class will be starting soon, I suggest you head there now.”
Marinette silently nodded and hurried out of the room, leaving Coleman to his thoughts. Arthur glanced at his phone, before frowning and picking up the receiver and dialling a number.
“Michael,” Started Arthur, “I need a favour.”
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a-flaming-idiot · 2 months
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Thinking about how when Shadybug and Claw Noir are evil, they can be redeemed since they're traumatized kids being manipulated by an adult taking advantage of them. When Lila and Chloe are evil, they're irredeemable monsters who know exactly what they're doing and deserve what's coming to them.
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andraedevane · 16 days
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I'm gonna say it: Miraculous Ladybug is one of the most toxic fandoms related to the ships and that's a fact. Don't try to tell me I'm wrong.
I saw a lot of pins in Pinterest of Adrigami, Lukadrien, Kagaminette and more ships with comments like "Wtf is this?", "Disgusting", "The only good ship in MLB is Adrinette", "Marinette only deserves to end with Adrien".
Are. You. Serious?
People can ship whatever they want, and if someone ships Lilanette, Chloénette, Alyanette, Ninonette or another ship it's up to them. You don't have to say they're mentally ill for not shipping Adrinette. Just because a ship is canon doesn't mean everyone has to like it. And if you don't like Lilanette, Chloénette, Alyanette or any ship involving Marinette and a classmate of her, just ignore it. Don't watch posts of that ship or read fics just to say you hate it. Because if you do that, don't complain when people decide to do the same with Adrinette.
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malepresentingleg · 11 months
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"You two are super cute but also super annoying!" Rose, representing the audience's voice :')
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xhanisai · 2 years
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I usually don’t like talking about fandom salt in public because I like to keep my social media places free of negativity but right now I feel like this needs to be said.
I’m mixed race with Chinese and Tibetan roots who lives in Europe. People like me rarely get any positive reputation in animation or film and in real life, we’re often mocked by other people including our families. So seeing and knowing Marinette being mixed race too and also European? I’m so happy to find such an amazing and wonderful character as someone I can relate with.
And then I see entitled non-mixed race people (especially from America surprise surprise) bitching about how she’s not Chinese enough. How they don’t find her relatable. How she would have been better written if the creative team had a Chinese woman with them.
Of course you won’t find her relatable. She’s MIXED RACE. Not 100% Chinese. You people don’t realise it but you’re invalidating mixed race people with thoughtless rants and declarations like that. Comparing Marinette to fully Chinese characters isn’t fair at all. She shouldn’t have to have stereotypical facial features or habits or life style just to prove she is half Chinese.
Just stop being such little bitches for fucks sake.
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logically-asexual · 6 months
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so these frames gave the idea that there was some love triangle going on there (mostly because of nathalie’s shocked face in the second memory) while there actually wasn’t, because we later find that gabriel and emilie were already together then and not only falling in love. but here’s how i make sense of them:
in my head the timeline is that gabriel got together with emilie when they were like in their early 20’s. emilie left her family and gabriel began his business soon after and then they decided to have a child at around 25, but they couldn’t so they began their hunt a few years after. maybe gabriel is like 30.
this is when they meet nathalie who despite being very young is super talented and knows a lot so she’s perfect for the job and she’s like 21-23.
and the thing about this age is that. you’re kind of swinging back and forth between feeling like a teenager and feeling like an adult. so, like a teenager, you can still get these kind of naive crushes on older people, which aren’t actually love but infatuation, but as an adult, you start seeing these older people more as your peers, actually, so things can get confusing.
so this is what happens to nathalie when she feels attracted to gabriel. and sometimes her subconscious forgets that this isn’t college anymore, where someone having a girlfriend/boyfriend didn’t mean they couldn’t be available at some point later. she has to actively remind herself that she can’t have hope because he is married.
but she’s a romantic and one day there’s this moment when it’s just the two of them and they work so well together and rational thought goes out the window for a while because there’s a connection. and in her heart something shifts and for a moment it gets convinced that it’s possible, she and gabriel. but soon enough it all comes crashing down when they come back and she’s like oh right. emilie exists. and we’re adults. and they’re a literal married couple.
but still that little thing that shifted that day perseveres, even as she grows up and matures. her feelings that began as simply idolizing gabriel evolve to the constant background love she has no option but getting used to. and then they resurface when she’s helping him get the miraculous, when she can’t dismiss them as a childish admiration anymore.
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“Oh!” Chat Noir’s eyes grew very wide, watching with a little less trepidation at the familiar sight and far more amusement, as he his eyes darted over to meet the blue eyes of his very lovely companion. “However did we get trapped in here again?”
For her part, Marinette just snorted as Chat Noir proceed to curl up next to her and make himself very comfortable. “At least he isn’t trying to sink us both to the bottom of the Seine this time.”
Chat simply winked at her. “I bet I could handle it, now.”
Evillustrator just gaped at the sight of Marinette’s arm now draping over the heroes’ shoulder, through the very see-through box he had drawn to trap them both. Reverser stood at his side, just facepalming. “I really need to work on my aim. I wanted to reverse Marinette’s feelings for Adrien!”
Evillustrator shook his head. “I never thought Chat Noir would take a hit for anyone but Ladybug...”
Then again, Chat Noir looked very comfortable, happily curling up beside Marinette, half sprawled across her lap.
Reverser just shouted. “You know you’re not actually locked in, right?”
Marinette just shrugged, fondly pressing her hand to Chat Noir’s cheek before letting her lips press to the tip of his nose once again. “Cats are very fond of boxes.”
Chat smirked up at her. “Among other things.”
Evillustrator looked increasingly torn before Monarch’s wings lit up a mask over his face. “We’re just going to go and draw out Ladybug.”
As Chat Noir’s grin only widened at the pun, Marinette shouted. “Would you mind making the box opaque before you go?”
Shuddering, Evillustrator compiled before he and Reverser raced off to the Paris
After a few stolen moments of cuddles at kisses, they both sighed, relishing a rare attack where they weren’t forced to race all over Paris... 
“How long do you figure we have until they start looking for Adrien?” Chat whispered.
Marinette sighed, leaning her head against his chest. Her dismay quickly turned into amusement as she started to plan. “Well, since they haven’t found Ladybug yet... maybe she will be very nice and pick Adrien up from his balcony.”
In one self-assured move, Chat summoned his Cataclysm once the magic box was no more. “Promises, promises.” He grinned, deploying his baton to the shore to save them both the indignity of another dip in the Seine.
As neither one was willing to let go, even though they were both back of solid ground, Chat Noir catapulted them both up to race the rooftops as his ring started to protest with increasing frequency.
“Think Adrien will still be hiding in the showers?” Marinette whispered into his ear. 
Chuckling, he set her down. “I think if you’re very Lucky, you might just find out.”
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iwasbored777 · 1 year
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I'm thinking about Alya when she was convincing Marinette to give Lila a chance by only calling Lila "nice" while Adrien defended Marinette from Kagami's accusations by mentioning good stuff Marinette has done and even used the "unlike Lila Marinette's actions prove it". I like that "I don't know her well enough but she seems nice" vs "I know her well enough and I know she's a good person" thingy they put here with Adrien saying "if I have to choose I'm gonna go with the person I know better". From the start Adrien was never so enamored with Lila like the rest of the class, so he didn't have a change of heart, he is naturally rather there for actions over words. Which is also how he fell for Ladybug in the first place.
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username8746489 · 1 year
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*Softly removing the classmates away from the salt fandom* They don't deserve you
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pandaofsecrets · 4 months
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What's in a Name? — Miraculous Ladybug
3. COUFFAINE & TSURUGI
3.1. Couffaine
Couffaine: together with the last sound of Luka, Juleka, and Anarka's names, it's a pun on "acouphène", the French word for "tinnitus". Might also be derived from "Couffé", the name of a commune in the department of Loire-Atlantique, in the region of Brittany.
Juleka: most likely a variant of "Julika", which is itself a Hungarian and South Slavic diminutive of "Julia". This is probably why the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian dubs all changed the character's name to the standard form "Julija".
Luka: from the Latin name "Lucas", which might ultimately be derived from "lucere" (Latin for "to shine") or "leukos" (Greek for "white"). Is a very popular name in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, and is also a noun meaning "port, harbor" in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. The Russian dub changed it to "Luke" for some reason.
Anarka: from the word "anarchy". Is two letters off from the Hungarian name "Aranka", which means "golden".
Jagged Stone: in reference to Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.
Penny Rolling: also in reference to The Rolling Stones.
3.2. Tsurugi
Tsurugi: the Japanese name for a double-edged sword, as opposed to a single-edged sword like a katana. Is probably in reference to Kusanagi no Tsurugi, one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan.
Kagami: "mirror", in japanese. Is probably a reference to Yata no Kagami, another one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan. The name was changed in the Italian, Latin Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese dubs because it was too close to a rude word in those languages. The Brazilian Portuguese dub changed it to Kyoko, the Latin Spanish one to Agami, and the Italian one to Katami.
Tomoe: from the name of a swirl-like symbol commonly used in Japanese heraldry, similar in shape to a magatama. Is in reference to Tomoe Gozen, and probably also to Yasakani no Magatama, the third and last of the Japanese Imperial Regalia.
Tatsu: "dragon", in Japanese.
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kammit-02 · 1 year
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here’s ur 2nd best catgirl ok bye
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Hedgehog Dilemma
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taviokapudding · 7 months
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Miraculous Ladybug depicted the baby emo/goth/punk experience accurately
Only 5% of baby emos/goths/punks pre-2015 looked good; everyone else didn't because they were kiddos at the time or couldn't fully commit for financial/social reasons as adults
I look at Marinette in her lil emo pigtails and see myself in 2007 in middle school doing the same shit with clip on hair extensions and side parted bangs
And Chat Noir is giving Jack Septiceye x Dan Howell tbh, it's terrible but I remember that shade of green hair being popular.
I love how horrendously yet awfully accurate it is to being an alt-dressing middle schooler. Also idk if it's explicitly goth, emo, or punk which is also very spot on to the baby's first time dressing alternative- you may modify your appearance and get accessories but still wear some of your old clothes as you figure out whar sub genre of alt you like the most
I keep seeing people assume some of the color combos are possibly bad design or animation errors and no, I remember pre-2015 tumblr, it's pretty accurate.
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corvuseschorus · 8 months
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So are we just going to ignore the fact that quantum masking (according to the New York special) doesn’t exist for robots? Are we just going to ignore the fact that Markov canonically knows the identities of Ladybug, Chat Noir and all the other heroes???
That’s all fine and dandy until you realize he should, in theory, also know who Hawk Moth is, AND there isn’t any excuse that I’m aware of to explain why he hasn’t told someone or why he wouldn’t know.
Has he not seen Hawk Moth? Surely the only news station in Paris got footage of him at least once.
Does he need to see him in person?? Okay, but I thought quantum masking doesn’t work on robots with consciousness. Does it just decide to work when its being recorded???
Same goes with his voice— Paris has heard Hawk Moth’s voice on quite a few occasions (I’m not even counting citizens being akumatized). Are you telling me Markov hasn’t been present for any of them????
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nothingtherefornow · 1 year
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Marinette and Adrien's classmates aren't nearly as bad as I thought
Marinette and Adrien's classmates aren't that good of friends, but if you compare them to the kinds of classmates you find in real life, Marinette's class, excluding Chloe, Sabrina and Lila, is more tight-knit and caring than what you see in real life.
A friend of mine helped me realize this. While we saw in Derision that fear kept the classmates from really befrienind Marinette and from coming to her defens, some still tried to be supportive of her when Chloe's back was turned. At this point in the story they still lack the courage that the influence of Ladybug and a more confident Marinette will bring them.
But its better than what my friend called the mass effect, the effect under which it is enough for the most popular or influential student in the class or school to start harassing somoene for the others students to start participating in the bullying too. Either out of fear, or because they want to feel integrated by following the movement of the herd, as foul as it is.
My friend told me that when she was in middle school, she didn't do anything to protect one of her classmate who was bullied, because she was afraid of being bullied too.
If Marinette's classmates had been less benevolent, more stupid and cowardly (and they already are in the story) they would also have participated in the bullying of Marinettes, and would not even have bothered trying to speak to her when Chloé wasn't looking.
At least in Miraculous, Chloé and Sabrina seem to be the only bullies in the class, and Kim still needed be manipulated by the Bourgeois girl for his pranking and teasing to become really harmfull. And althoug he seems to have becomea bully in season 1 with Chloé's influence, from season 2 he stopped being one.
But my friend agrees with me that that the classmates still shouldn't blindly trust Lila if they were good friends. That's why we theorized that they're afraid to speak out against Lila or doubt her, because ifby now they've gained the courage to rebel against Chloe who is always openly mean to everyone, Lil's nice girl act and the fact that she likes to play the victim must probably dissuade them from contradicting her words and her opinion. But if Marinette constantly has to pay for their fear and cowardice, if they prioritize Lila's well-being over Marinette's, then that makes them bad friends to her in my book. But they're still good ad heroic people, and that I can't deny
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fabizetha · 2 years
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Thinking about the idea of no one knowing Ladybug's identity and one day Ladybug and Chat Noir somehow reveal to each other and, in other people's eyes, Marinette one day was this mess when trying to speak to her crush and literally overnight she and Adrien became BBF and it looks more like Marinette doesn't have a crush on him anymore but he does for her, like, what the real f-ck happened?? And a few weeks later they started dating??
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