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mochinek0 · 1 year

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The Ladybug Hoodie

So....this has been on my Wattpad forever and while making my masterlists, I realized, I never put it on here. Well...now it’s here! Like I stated in a previous post, I think I’m shadowbanned. (still can’t comment or DM anyone. Honestly don’t know if I’m getting messages or not.) If by June I haven’t heard anything, I will create another account and post my fics there. I will pin my new name on this account so you know.

Marinette was excited for school today. All the late nights, finally paid off and she had made sure to set at least ten alarms so she would be up early enough to meet Alya on the steps. She couldn't wait to see her friend's reaction. Marinette threw on some new clothes just for today and made sure to complete the look with a different hairstyle.

"What do you think Tikki?"asked the budding designer.

"It looks amazing, Marinette, and I have a new place to ride in!" giggled Tikki.

Marinette smiled, but it quickly faded. "Are you sure it's okay for me to wear this?" questioned her charge.

"Absolutely!" replied the Ladybug kwami, " You're hiding in plain sight and changing your hairstyle while wearing this was a really good idea."

"Thanks, Tikki. Well, we better get goin so I'm not late." answered Marinette, opening her small bag for her kwami to make herself right at home in.

"Where is that girl?" mumbled Alya, checking the clock on her phone.

"Chill out, you know she's always running late." responded Nino.

"I know, but she said she had a surprise and promised she'd be here early." complained the red head.

"The blueberry promised she'd be early?" asked Nino.

"Blueberry?" asked Adrien, "Who's a blueberry?"

Alya rolled her eyes. "The girl who is always late to class, told me she'd be here early with---" she started , but her sudden scream of joy caught the boys off-guard. Before they could ask, she took off down the stairs.

"Ladybug?" questioned Nino, only to hear his girlfriend ask, "Girl, where did you get this? Oh, is this what you've been working on?"

"Never mind, it's just Mari." he said, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Hey, it's still our everyday ladybug." replied Adrien.

Nino put his hands up in defeat. "I swear, Alya would leave me to die, just for an interview with Ladybug." whined the DJ.

"You know she wouldn't do that." the model said, throwing his arm over his best friend, "She'd do it for an autograph."

"Hey!" he said, shrugging out of his best bud's arm, while Adrien chuckled. They noticed a crowd form around the girls and began to worry.

"Adrikins!" cried out Chloe, as she latched onto her childhood friend. "Uh, don't waste your time on her. I mean, who does that baker's daughter think she is? Moi? I mean look at her trying to gain attention! She'd do anything to be in the spotlight." commented Chloe, trying to get her crush to see reason.

Adrien slips out of his friend's grasp and replies, "Chloe, that isn't nice and Marinette isn't like that at all."

The Mayor's daughter rolls her eyes. "How childish can she get? She dresses like she should be in primary school!" she shouts.

"Marinette isn't childish!" the model defends, "She's--" Nino turns his head quickly as the girls finally move towards them and he only has one word for her "Adorable."

Chloe gasps in shock and Nino snickers at her pain. "As if anyone would be into that sorta thing!" she says, turning her nose up at the idea.

"I don't know." goads the DJ, " It looks like my boi is."

The mayor's daughter quickly turns around to see Adrien rushing over to her rival. "Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!" Chloe exclaims, stomping away.

She glances back, as the group comes together. Chloe watches as a light blush forms on Adrien's cheeks, as he talks to the little bug, and a smile she hasn't seen since before his mother's disappearance forms across his face. She looks down at the clothing that she begged her father to purchase. She couldn't be like everyone else! She couldn't be childish! She had to proudly show off that her parents were better then everyone else's and yet, now she could only frown. She looked through every magazine her mother had been in and made sure she knew how to put together a mature look that was bound to get Adrien to look at her. Now, she could see, her mother's advice wouldn't work.

‘A lady must always hold herself above the rest. A lady must be mature and graceful. A lady couldn't be average or charm people with the appearance of a child.'

Chloe couldn't be cute or girly if she tried. With her attempt at growing up to show her mother she could be a lady, she had lost her youthful glow and childish charms. Marinette always had those charms and yet, she could make Adrien smile like she never could. Silently, she headed to her first class. She couldn't allow anyone to see her tears. That would comes later that night when Jean-Luke brought her chocolate, champagne, and Mr. Cuddly.

'A lady never cries and never lets others see when she crumbles.'

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morethansalad · 1 year

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Easy Vegan Chickpea Tikka Masala

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fragileizywriting · 1 year

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[being dragged off of stage by comically long hook] no no no, hold on, wait, i promise i'm studying i promise, i just—- [scuffling back stage] just give me a second, give me a SECOND, it's really important that i talk about this because i—- [hook pulls harder] stop it stop it stop it hold ON, let me talk about this sharks and sugar + locker talk idea that i have that i want everyone to know about because it's Such a good idea i have and i think about it so often (and it will get written, because i will get to everything) STOP PULLING !!!!!!

i want to write a tiny little throwaway of little marinette playing with all the kwamis. this fits both sas and locker talk because the two girls deviate at one specific point in the timeline, but they started identically. huzzah!

LET GO hold on just give me a [struggles with hook] let me just get the microphone. hold on. got it.

ANYWAY,

little tiny marinette playing in master fu's dojo with all the kwamis. every single one is there, including plagg and tikki— they're all so excited, following her around like bees would follow a human. they're swarming, playing chase with this little tiny girl dressed in a cute cupcake pink dress and shiny mary-jane shoes and sweet little odango buns in her hair.

she asked her mom to help with the hair.

but she dressed herself. frilly socks and all.

she's 7 or 8, finally learned the secret that her (great great great great) uncle told her, much to sabine's disappointment.

she's in love with them.

she's not afraid of them, these moving, floating dolls that blink at her and nuzzle into her cheeks, all of them so excited at the prospect of a little girl being their friend.

it's been so long since they've had a little girl to dote over... and look at her! so sweet, so excited, so gentle!!

as sabine and master fu argue about something in the other room, marinette is playing with them on the mats. she teaches them how to cartwheel, how to summersault, messing up her hair and taking off her shoes so she doesn't get them dirty on the mats. they play hide and seek— she searches, of course, because she's way too big to hide under folded up cushions and there's barely anything in the room other than the racks of bamboo sticks and giant mirrors.

sabine is even more disappointed when they come back to the room and marinette's hair is completely and totally down, excitedly telling all the kwamis that they should have tea parties. she has doll furniture back at home; do they want to live in her doll house? there's a bunch of desk space back at home since she doesn't keep her homework papers after she's done, maybe they want to move in?

when master fu introduces every single one to her formally, with her sitting on her pillow with her hands tucked in even though she wants to touch the kwamis over and over again (does wayzz's shell feel hard? does plagg have fangs? does barkk actually wag his tail? why does sass look so sad?). when plagg is introduced, she cooes, laughing at how funny he is when he calls her princess.

they all call her princess afterwards.

princess, princess, princess. you're our little princess!

"you'll be the guardian of this box when it's time," master fu tells her, as tikki flits in her hands to find a comfortable resting position. marinette's palm is too small, but just big enough with both to keep her. "you'll wield tikki's power to keep it safe."

she gasps. "really?"

"yes. very much so. when you get su-han's blessing, you will be our family's ladybug, and this box will be yours to keep safe."

"do you hear that, tikki?" marinette's grin is as bright as the sun. "you and i are going to be best friends forever and ever! i'm so excited!"

#speakizys #sharks and sugar #locker talk #in locker talk tikki and plagg have gone missing which is why marinette is multimouse #in sharks and sugar... well. we all know the irony here #sass can tell the future i'm calling it now :)#i just LOVE the little tidbit of all the kwamis calling her princess in both universes #i think i got tikki to do it in the last chapter of sas i'm so happy

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opalvatter · 2 years

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Princess Justice AU

This is a ladybug episode au where instead of hawkmoth's plan being to akumatise the school, it’s to akumatise the famous Marinette Dupain Cheng that his son talks about in almost every conversation. In this au Mari is almost akumatied atleast about 7 times a day since she was threatened. Adrien is more concerned about his princess in this au than he was in Canon but Lila is more active the she was.

I probably am not going to make a part 2 to this but I might drop the full story in a week or 2.

Also here is her full akumatised version:

Like if you like!

#adrien agreste #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupen chang #princess justice #ml tikki #ml plagg #lila salt #mlb au #mlb salt #marinette sugar #adrien sugar #nino salt #alya salt #lila rossi #alya cesaire #nino lahiffe #hawkmoth #hawkmoth has a death wish

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miracuasks · 1 year

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YO GUYS IM STARTING ASKS AGAIN BECAUSE IM BORED

PLEASE ANY QUESTIONS. THEY CAN BE STUPID AND WEIRD I DO NOT CARE ANYTHING TO BE DISTRACTED FROM COLLEGE.

#adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous #ml sugar #carapace #hawkmoth #ladybug mlb #marinette and tikki #mlb tikki #queen bee #chloe bourgeois #miracuasks #miraculous asks #miraculous ladybug

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angelofthequeers · 2 years

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Free to Be You and Me: chapter 16

Chapter 15 | Chapter 17

Disclaimer: I don’t own ML.

Alya’s all jitters and fast breathing when she heads into their classroom. Her eyes flick to Adrien and Nino’s desk, spot Nino talking to Adrien and showing off his new magical charm, and then she remembers what she’d said to him before running away to detransform and she gasps and squeezes her eyes shut.

“I can’t do it,” she says. “You’re good at catastrophising, Marinette. Help me come up with an escape plan to get out of the country and change my name and look.”

Marinette snorts. “Yeah, no. Go in and face your boyfriend.”

“But he knows I used his Miraculous! I told him I wanted to see him in my colours!” Alya hides her burning face. She may not be able to see Marinette behind her, but she knows her best friend well enough to know that Marinette’s currently sporting the shark-like grin she gets before she does something like –

“Nino!”

– that.

“Alya! Babe!” Familiar arms engulf her, squeezing her tightly. Alya’s vision is blue when she opens her eyes, the same blue as Nino’s shirt, and it seems like an eternity before Nino finally lets her go and beams down at her like she’s the sun in his solar system. Her cheeks blaze even hotter. She’s been with Nino for so long, but even now, but she’s still not used to him looking at her like…that.

“I’m sorry, Nino,” she says, keenly aware that their classmates are all staring at them. Some of them are even cooing. “I’m so sorry.”

“No! Don’t apologise.” Nino kisses the top of her head. Alya sniffles and burrows back into his chest. “I’m sorry. I got nabbed by Shadowmoth for wanting to know things that weren’t my business.”

“But you were right. I was pushing you away.” Quietly, so that the rest of the class can’t hear, she adds, “I’ll tell you everything I can later. I promise. Then you’ll understand.”

“Alya, you sit with Nino for the rest of the day,” says Marinette’s voice from outside Alya’s field of view. “I think you’re two seconds from bawling your eyes out if you get two feet away from him.”

“I am not!” Alya huffs and steps away to prove her point. But then she remembers Clueseau, the too-wide grin that’s out of place on her Nino’s face, the anger and hurt from when she’d said not everything was about him, the solid weight of transforming with Wayzz, and she sniffles and pulls Nino back in.

“Point proven.” If Marinette wasn’t Ladybug, Alya wouldn’t be above throwing her best friend out the window. Actually, maybe that’s more reason to do so. Marinette can take care of herself post-defenestration.

“Shut up,” Alya mutters.

“Don’t make fun of my girl, Marinette,” Nino says. Alya’s forced to remove her face from his chest so that she doesn’t trip as he heads for Marinette’s usual seat, his arm still firmly around her.

“Right, right.” That shark-like grin is definitely still on Marinette’s face. Alya can tell. Well, that won’t do. Marinette may be Ladybug, but if she’s going to play dirty then Alya’s going to play the game right back.

“Thanks for this, girl,” Alya says to the back of Marinette’s head as she slides into her seat. “I know how much Adrien loves sitting next to his best friend.”

Marinette’s shoulders stiffen. Bingo. “Y-Yeah!” she says in a high-pitched voice. “Not at all! Definitely not a problem hahaha…”

“Is something wrong?” Adrien says, turning to Marinette. The concerned frown on his face and Marinette’s answering squeak of terror warm Alya’s heart. Who says there’s no justice in the world?

“No! No!” Marinette hastens to say. “Definitely! Not! Definitely not! Ha!”

Ms Bustier’s arrival after that puts a stop to Alya’s torment of her best friend. But if she slips Marinette a note pointedly reminding her that she’s sitting next to Ladybug’s boyfriend, and Marinette lets out a quiet little whine-sob and ends up with Adrien’s hand on her back as he tries to figure out what’s wrong? Well, she never claimed to be a saint.

The end of the day can’t come fast enough, but it also comes way too fast. Alya’s with her friends as they head out at the end of the day, until Adrien has to get into his bodyguard’s car and Marinette’s house is within eyeshot of the school, so Alya’s left alone with Nino as they walk back to her place. If Nino notices that she’s unusually quiet, he doesn’t bring it up. Alya loves him even more for it.

“Hey, sis!” Nora’s halfway out the door when Alya and Nino get there. “Dinner’s in the oven, gremlins are occupied for the next hour so get it out of your system before then, gotta go, gonna be late for wrestling!”

“Nora!” Alya screeches after her older sister. Nora just grins back at her and takes off. Groaning, Alya snatches an apple from the fruit bowl and leads Nino towards her room, sparing a moment to check on Ella and Etta in front of the TV.

“Go away!” Ella waves her hands at Alya.

“Yeah, Ladybug’s about to beat Mr Pigeon!” Etta adds.

“You’ve seen this ten times in the past week!” Alya says. The twins just shush her, so she sighs and heads to her room with Nino. At least they’re occupied. Just wait until they get over this movie phase and then nothing will calm them down.

“So,” Nino says once Alya’s bedroom door is closed. “Uh, just so you know, Sentinelle’s gonna be stuck in my brain for the rest of my life. I’ll be old and grey and all I’ll see is the hottest turtle ever hugging me.”

Alya laughs shakily. “Well, I had to do something. And Ladybug wouldn’t give me Trixx. Said something about not being in the right mindset for it.”

“I’m with her.” Nino throws himself onto Alya’s bed and crosses his legs. “Like, as hot as your suit was, you had that “gonna mess up anyone who even looks at me wrong” vibe going on.”

“Yeah, that’s exactly what I was going for,” Alya says dryly, although there might be more truth to that than she’d first thought, with how her mindset was when she was transforming. “So. Um. Ask away. I’ll try and answer if I can. Just…there’s a fair bit I can’t say, alright? And I thought the best way to not accidentally spill something was to just…not tell you at all. I’m so sorry, Nino.”

“Als, come here.” Nino holds out his arms. Making a strange sound in her throat, Alya practically hurls herself at him, and he arranges her so that she’s sprawled across his lap in his embrace. Alya sighs contentedly and nuzzles against his shirt. “I’m sorry too. I just…got scared you didn’t need me anymore. Marinette’s even weirder than normal, and Adrien’s off with the fairies, and then you…I’m sorry.”

“Quit apologising, doofus.”

“Only if you do.”

“Fine.” Alya laughs and takes a big, crunching bite of her apple. “So. What d’you want to know?”

“Marinette. Is she alright? Half the time, she’s staring off into the distance like she’s been in some war or somethin’. And then she’s back to freaking out around Adrien like nothing happened. And she hasn’t been brushing you off since the six-in-one akuma thing.”

Alya sighs. She takes another bite of her apple to try and compose her thoughts so that she can tell Nino as much of the truth as possible without betraying Marinette’s trust.

“Something…happened to Marinette,” she eventually says. “An akuma. In another timeline. Bunnyx – that Rabbit hero that showed up when Timetagger was here – she needed Marinette’s help to deal with it.”

“But why? Why Marinette? Why not any of us? Rena Rouge and Carapace would’ve been with her in a heartbeat!”

Alya’s breath hitches. Nino, always so attuned to her, instantly notices.

“Hey. Whoa.” He cards his fingers through her curls. “You don’t have to tell me the details.”

“I don’t even know all the details,” Alya says, which is the truth. She only knows the few broken words that Marinette had shared about Chat Blanc, but she still doesn’t know what actually happened in that timeline. Although, with the way Marinette had managed to get out the word “dead”, Alya has a sinking suspicion that she knows what happened to the other Ladybug if she lets herself think about it. Which is why she’s been staunchly refusing to do so since Marinette had spilled to her. “But it really messed her up. That’s why she’s been so spacey. That’s why I’ve been trying to calm her down every time she has a flashback. It took me getting akumatised and fighting Shadowmoth off for her to tell me – her best friend – so that’s why I’ve been so…secretive about her.”

“Whoa.” Nino’s quiet for a long while. Alya’s halfway through her nervous apple crunching when he speaks again. “I’m so sorry for pushing. Can’t imagine what that dudette’s been goin’ through…”

“Just…don’t be weird with her. I’ve figured out that the best way I can calm her down is to act normal. That murmuring we do is when I really need to talk her out of it or reassure her that everything’s good.”

“Right. Act normal. I can do that. Normal is my middle name.”

“Nino. We’re literally two teenagers who run around in animal suits. Normal walked out on us ages ago, babe.”

Nino laughs, which sets Alya off too, and the sound of her boyfriend’s laughter is just…musical.

“And, um, about the other secret stuff,” Alya says once they’ve finally composed themselves. “I’ve been supporting Ladybug a lot more lately. Since I proved I could fight off Shadowmoth and his akumas. She’s been stressed with the Guardian stuff, and I said I’d help her in any way I could and…I’m sorry for not telling you. I just didn’t want to betray her trust.”

“Dude,” Nino says, “all you had to say was superhero stuff. I know what Ladybug’s like with secrets. Remember how stressed she looked when she grabbed us on Heroes’ Day?”

Alya grimaces. “Yeah. No one else knows anyone else’s identity as far as I know. Except that Chat knows yours now.”

“Wait, what?”

“Yeah. You kind of…lost it when you saw me as Sentinelle. Just a heads up.”

“Great,” Nino groans. “Just had to remind Shadowmoth who I was, didn’t I?”

“Don’t worry, babe.” Alya kisses Nino on the cheek. “I’m sure Ladybug will figure out what to do about the identity thing soon.”

We need to talk.

Just four words. That’s all Marinette sends a little while after Nino heads home. But those four words are enough to make Alya’s stomach jolt. Had she done something wrong? Is Marinette realising that trusting her was wrong?

Calm down, she tells herself, already packing an overnight bag despite her trembling hands and churning stomach. Catastrophising is Marinette’s thing. Just…go see what she wants.

“Mum! I’m staying at Marinette’s tonight!” she calls as she heads for the front door. Marlena frowns at her from the kitchen.

“On a school night? Alya, you know the rule –”

“Mum, please. I…I need to see her after today. After Nino got akumatised because of me.”

It’s not a lie. Not really. Even though she and Nino are good now, have sorted everything out and are as strong as ever…she’ll probably never convince herself that it wasn’t at least partly her fault. And Marinette’s the only person she can really talk to about it. She needs Marinette as much as Marinette needs her.

“Well…” Marlena sighs. “Alright. Just this once. Are you okay?”

“As well as I can be,” Alya shrugs. “I just…need my best friend.”

Marlena’s face softens. “Just as long as you make it to school tomorrow,” she says, setting down her plate and hurrying out of the kitchen to wrap Alya in a big hug and kiss her on the head. Alya melts into her mother’s arms. “And your homework had better be done!”

“Yes, Mum,” Alya drones. “Bye, Mum. Love you, Mum.”

Marlena rolls her eyes and gives Alya a little shove towards the door. The sun’s just starting to set as Alya starts the short trek to Marinette’s place, which is a relief because Alya wouldn’t be game to walk the streets of Paris at night, superhero or not. Paris is dangerous enough during the day when akumas rampage, thank you very much. Since the bakery’s closed, Alya heads for the side entrance that leads directly up to the apartment above.

“Alya. You’re here.” Marinette yanks Alya inside just two seconds after Alya raises her fist to knock. How long had Marinette been waiting there for her? She has just enough time to wave a quick hello to Tom and Sabine in the living room before Marinette pushes her all the way through the home with super strength that’s definitely jellified Alya’s insides more than once. If she wasn’t sickeningly in love with Nino and Marinette wasn’t masking up to make out with Adrien, Alya would make it very obvious that she was available.

“So, what made you drag me here on a school night?” Alya says once they’re in Marinette’s room and the trapdoor is shut. “You’re lucky I could use my boyfriend’s akumatisation to get my mum to let me come here tonight for emotional support.”

“How’s Nino?” Marinette reaches up to toy with one of her pigtails as she sits on her chaise lounge. Alya plops down next to her and waves cheerfully at Trixx, who beams before going back to…whatever they’re doing with that deck of cards. It’s clearly annoying Wayzz and Barkk, at any rate.

“He’s fine. We’re fine.” Alya gives Marinette a quick hug. “I told him that Bunnyx took you to another timeline to help with an akuma and that’s why you’re so messed up. I was gonna say that it was just any old akuma but…”

“But he’d wonder why literally no one else remembered it,” Marinette finishes. “No, you were right to tell him that. What else did you tell him?”

“That I’ve been helping Ladybug more now since I fought off Shadowmoth. That’s it.”

Marinette stares at her silently, as though looking for something in her face. She must find whatever she’s looking for because her shoulders slump and she nods.

“Now,” Alya says, “not that I’m never happy to see my BFF, but what’s going on? What do we need to talk about? We could’ve just said that over the phone.”

Marinette looks up at Tikki, who nods. With a sigh, Marinette pushes herself to her feet and crosses over to the light pink sewing box that houses the egg-shaped Miracle Box, and a knot of apprehension starts to form in Alya’s belly. What’s going on? There’s no akuma, so why does Marinette need to grab a Miraculous?

“Alya.” Marinette sits back down next to her, one of her fists clenched tightly. “You proved to me today that you have my back. I want to prove that I have yours. And…” Her breath hitches. Alya immediately leans over and rests a hand on her knee, giving it a comforting squeeze, and Marinette gives her a small, shaky smile in response. “I need someone to help me protect Chat Noir. I was so…angry today. And terrified. And I didn’t even have the excuse of getting hit by an akuma.”

“One of these days, you’re gonna tell me what’s the deal with this Psycomedian guy,” Alya says. Marinette giggles weakly.

“I know I can’t just wrap Chat in bubble wrap,” she says. “I know he’s going to take hits for me. I know he’s going to be hurt. It’s part of the job. But…today…seeing him used against me like that…” She sniffles. Then, before Alya’s eyes, her face sets, and she straightens up and squares her shoulders. It’s like watching her transform from Marinette to Ladybug without the physical mask.

“You know I’ll always have your back,” Alya says. “Which means I’ve got Chat’s back too. Nothing like what happened today will happen to him on my watch if I can help it.”

Marinette smiles. “Alya Césaire.” She holds out her fist, now open, and Alya’s brain overloads, explodes, and shuts down in the span of about two seconds. That’s…her Miraculous! The Fox! “Here is the Miraculous of the Fox, which you’ll use for the greater good against Shadowmoth. For good, this time. No take-backsies.”

“I – what – you –” Alya tries frantically to reboot her brain, but it’s stuck in dial-up mode and all that’s buzzing in her head is white static. “But – Shadowmoth knows –”

“Yes. He does. From now on, Rena Rouge is officially retired.”

“Then what –?”

“This was all me!” Card game abandoned, Trixx whizzes over and does a loop around Alya’s head before settling in her hair. “Your costume, your identity, your everything reflects your personality! When you turned into Rena Rouge, it was pure instinct. This time, we’re gonna make a new Fox hero. One whose identity Shadowmoth doesn’t know.”

Alya blinks. “You can do that?”

“I didn’t even know that until today,” Marinette says, nervously twirling her hair. “But Wayzz and I were telling the kwamis what happened, and I mentioned that your Sentinelle suit was so different to your Rena one when I’ve had pretty much the same skin-tight suits with every Miraculous that I’ve used –”

“You’ve used more than one?” Alya blurts out. “Wait. Of course. Lady Noire. But “every Miraculous” implies more than that –?”

“Later.” Marinette continues to twirl her hair. “Tikki confirmed that your identity changes with your personality. With a bit of practice, we could totally change your suit. I’m just sorry you’d have to give up Rena Rouge…”

“Hey. Marinette. Don’t.” Alya reaches out and rests her hands on Marinette’s shoulders, half on autopilot as she continues to process the fact that she’s getting her Miraculous permanently. “Look…you’re right. It wasn’t just the transformation with the Turtle that felt different. My mind was different. I was like…no more dancing.”

Marinette’s brow furrows. “What does dancing have to do with –?”

“Later,” Alya parrots. “What I mean is…I don’t think it’ll be hard to create a new suit. Rena will always be a part of me but…I’ve changed so much since that first time you gave me the Fox. I’m different now. I’ve had to grow up. I think we’ve all had to.”

Marinette’s shoulders slump. “Yeah. I never thought my teenage years would be like this. I thought I’d just have to worry about crushes and waking up with pimples and acting like homework was the end of the world and just…normal things.”

“You’ll get that experience,” Alya says firmly. “We’ll kick Shadowmoth’s butt and then you can moon over Adrien all you want without having to worry about secret identities.”

Marinette’s face burns as scarlet as her suit. “I hate you,” she mutters. Alya grins.

“I know.” She reaches out slowly, pausing right above Marinette’s hand, asking silent permission, giving her best friend one last chance to reconsider. But Marinette just smiles and nods, so Alya scoops up the Fox Miraculous and fastens it around her neck. It takes her around ten tries since her fingers are trembling so much that it’s next to impossible to do the clasp up.

“Alright,” Marinette says. “Let’s get to work.”

“Focus on who you are now!” Tikki says.

“Okay,” Alya says like that’ll be easy. Who is she now? She’s Alya Césaire. She always has been, and she always will be. She’s Rena Rouge – except that no, she isn’t anymore. Rena Rouge no longer exists in the eyes of the public. Does she even still exist in Alya? So much has changed since her sisters were akumatised; she’s not that naïve, buzzing girl anymore, freaking out over every little thing Ladybug and trying desperately to figure out the identity of her hero.

She’s Alya Césaire. But who is Alya Césaire?

“You’re amazing, Alya,” Marinette says, as though sensing Alya’s internal struggle. “You’re so brave; so much braver than the first time I called on you. Your determination is terrifying. Your passion –”

“I don’t think I’m so passionate anymore.” When’s the last time she’d done anything major on the Ladyblog? Probably that time she ran that story on past Miraculous holders and the weird symbol on the excavated artefact. Which turned out to be a sentimonster, according to Marinette. Oops

“But you are.” Marinette tilts her head and smiles. “It’s still there, even if it’s just…muted.”

“W-What else?” Alya tries to pretend that her cheeks aren’t burning at Marinette’s praise.

“Your mind. Everyone goes on about my brain and how I can use my Lucky Charm for anything but…I told you to protect Chat Noir. And you used your Shellter to block off Clueseau’s attacks so that he couldn’t hurt Chat or you and me. I didn’t even think of that. Then you called his bluff. You’re just always two steps ahead, just like a real Fox.”

“It…just made sense.”

Marinette laughs. “Now you know what it’s like for me and my Lucky Charms.”

Alya grins back but it quickly fades. “I’m not as soft anymore. I mean, I barely handled having the weight of everything on my shoulders today as Sentinelle but…I don’t think past me would’ve coped with today. Like, at all.”

“There’s nothing wrong with being hard, little kit,” Trixx says, nuzzling into Alya’s hair. “It’s part of growing up. Just so long as you’re not so hard that you break. You roll with the punches because you’re a Fox through and through. That’s why Wayzz felt wrong for you.”

Alya looks down at the shiny fox tail resting against her chest. She takes a deep breath. She’s Alya Césaire. She’s brave. She’s loyal. She’s loving. She’s determined. She’s hard, but that’s okay, because she won’t break. Not when her friends have her back, and she has theirs.

“Trixx,” she whispers, “let’s pounce.”

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It's a big crime that no one is praising Tikki for how good she was with Marinette in Elation. How she listened to her and instead of trying to be like "Marinette what are you doing Adrien is here just be with him and end your love drama" (what Alya kept saying). Tikki was listening to her and while concerned about Ladybug and Chat Noir being in love with each other she let Marinette deal with her emotions in peace and when Marinette apologised for going out with Chat Tikki told her that everything will be ok and when Marinette cried Tikki hugged her. Marinette complained in this episode how everyone is telling her what to do but Tikki really didn't do that, she was Marinette's support and shoulder to cry on instead of criticising her. That's literally the thing Marinette needed the most and always does because everyone tells her what to do whether that advice is good or not - Su Han literally shows up to yell at her instead of trying to help her he just judges her - they always tell her what to do instead of listening to her or accepting her decisions as they are. Someone traumatised like Marinette deserves more help, not people telling her that she's wrong. Tikki lets Marinette do what she wants to do while giving her advices as she goes and when Marinette wins she's proud, when Marinette fails she's her emotional support. She's amazing ❤️❤️❤️

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MLB Season 4 Character Analysis: "Dearest Family"

Introduction

Hey everyone, I'm back with another season 4 character analysis and this time it's "Dearest Family". You may be wondering where my analysis for "Qilin" is so the answer is that it got removed for some reason and I have no idea why because I made it just like my other posts so far so until I get the answer and understand what's going on we're going to be moving on with episode 21. If you're new to this series then here I look at our favourite MLB characters in depth in every individual episode of season 4 in order to give an overall picture of the characters' journey throughout the season.

Yeah, so "Dearest Family", good episode. We see for the first time that our perfect little kwami, Tikki is not as perfect as she seems due to her obsession over sweets, Marinette trying to figure out what it all means, and her family members arguing over what's best for her. So this analysis is probably going to have the most characters POVs we've had since "Crocoduel". So let's get started.

Character POVs

Tikki

"I was afraid you would thing less of me. Because of my cravings"

For the very first time, we see Tikki have some weaknesses and some characterization. Ever since the beginning, Tikki has always just been Marinette's guide and bright-side-up to help her through difficult times but never had any character of her own. But here, we see that she has cravings for new and unique sweets that happens every few hundred years and according to Plagg, the last time it happened was when chocolate was invented and she made it rain chocolate for eight weeks.

The reason for Tikki's abnormal food cravings compared to other kwamis is due to her being the kwami of creation which makes a lot of sense. Tikki's sweet cravings seem to be so dangerous that all the other kwamis in the Miracle Box are afraid of her and that says a lot. These cravings went to the extent that she even used her power without having a holder which caused a giant galette bigger than the Earth to be made and affected the Earth's gravity but thankfully it was destroyed by Cat Noir as Astro Cat.

When Tikki saw that her cravings were taking her away from Marinette, she stopped as her worst fear, as she stated to Marinette, being afraid that her cravings would make her think less of her, came to reality which really shows how much she cares about her relationship with Marinette and shows the strength of her bond with her. When Marinette tell her that she can help her overcome her weaknesses, this is what gives her strength to try to overcome her cravings.

2. Marinette/Ladybug

"Of course not! I'll always like you, Tikki. Everyone has weaknesses, you know. Let me help you overcome yours. Just like you helped me overcome mine."

This episode is seems that the roles of Marinette and Tikki have been reversed. Tikki has always been the one to help Marinette with her problems and share wisdom on what she should do and encourage her to be better. But now Marinette is making it up to Tikki by helping her overcome her weaknesses.

When Marinette first discovered that Tikki's craving, she was in denial that Tikki had some sort of problem as she believes that she knows Tikki best even when the other kwamis warned her about Tikki's cravings. She tried to control the situation by stopping her from eating their family's galette and transforming into Ladybug to prevent her from eating more which backfired as she got the craving as well when she was transformed.

When Marinette saw that Tikki was going as far as using her power without a holder to appease her cravings, she realized her mistake and admitted that Sass was right about Tikki and she didn't know her as well as she thought and when Tikki revealed to her that the reason why she never told her about her cravings was because she believed that she would think less of her, Marinette assured her that they would work to overcome her weaknesses together just like Tikki has always helped Marinette with her weaknesses.

3. Sabine

"The person who knows best what Marinette needs is Marinette herself!"

Moving onto the family argument on what is best for Marinette, we'll start with Sabine. From her perspective, Marinette is the only person who knows what's best for her and she's old enough to do so and she is the one I most agree with.

We've seen how Marinette is good with planning and is always helping other people and coming up with great ideas, both as a civilian and as Ladybug. It's best to treat her as someone with her own individuality and her own mind and let her to make her own choices. And by the end of the episode too this is what we see them go with: letting Marinette decide what she thinks about getting a motorbike as a gift from her grandmother and decide whether she is old enough for a gift like that.

4. Tom

"I know my little girl better than anyone else and I think that bike is way too dangerous for her"

Next we have Tom, who believes that Marinette needs some like him to protect her and he believes that the motorbike that Gina got for Marinette is too dangerous for her which makes sense for his character considering the events of "Weredad", where he gets akumatized because he wants to protect her little girl, Marinette from heartbreak.

Tom cares about his daughter a lot and would go to great lengths to protect her, he even stated in "Stoneheart (Origins Part 2)" that he would protect her if Ladybug and Cat Noir failed to do so which at the time seemed like it was just a lighthearted joke but we know from "Weredad" now that it's true. By the end of this episode though, he realizes that he should let Marinette decide if the gift is best for her and their conflict is resolved.

5. Gina

"Happy Birthday, Marinetta!"

Next we have Gina, who was the one got Marinette the motorbike for her birthday which she didn't realize was just months ago due to her not spending much time with them as she travels the world on her motorbike.

The last time when she arrived to visit Marinette, she believed that Marinette was younger than she actually is due to the same problem that cause her to not realize that Marinette's birthday was months ago in this episode and it was in that episode that she realized that Marinette was no longer a little girl who ate candies and liked doing things like going to the petting zoo and going on the merry-go-round and was now a young woman who liked hanging out with her friends. So it makes sense for her now to get her a big girl gift like a motorbike and believing that Marinette is old enough for something like that. By the end of the episode though, she lets Marinette decide what she thinks and when Marinette decided that she was still to young for the bike, Gina was OK with it.

6. Rolland

"How can anyone have their head so far up in the clouds? A birthday is a birthday and a Galette's Day is a Galette's Day!"

Lastly, we have Rolland who still seems to be a little old-fashioned from "Simpleman". When Gina brings the motorbike as a gift for Marinette he believes that Marinette is not old enough to have one yet similar to Tom and believes that Marinette still requires discipline to be able to ride the bike.

This makes sense for Rolland's character as it's traditional for someone only to be able to have a motorbike when they are around 21 and before that they can't drive at all. Unlike, Tom he believes that Marinette needs someone to teach her about order and discipline before she can ride a motorbike and not someone to protect her. By the end of the episode, he realizes that he should take Marinette's choice into account and when Marinette decides that she's not old enough for the bike but instead should have a mini-scooter, he is OK with it

Conclusion

Well, that's the end of this analysis. Hope you enjoyed reading. This took a while to do with all the characters but I'm finally done. As always, let me know your thoughts on this analysis and let me know if I missed anything for any of the characters this episode. Until next time!

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