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griffin-wood · 7 months

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moments. kent x maia.

pov: kaia gets their song at the eras tour.

they were seated on nosebleeds, further away from the stage due to the last minute tickets they found. and maia with a hidden fear of heights, is holding onto Kent's hand most of the time.

However, by the time the show begins she's better. She coped, sing and danced happily with him. And now, after a while - it's surprise song o'clock.

"it's time!" She exclaims excitedly as she watches Taylor begins to start the section.

And 'our song' begins to play as she claps excitedly, she have been playing this song for a while in Kent's mustang. She smiles as she glance over him who sings along also, despite not as enthusiastic, but she appreciates the effort either way.

After the first song played, she waited in anticipation. Earlier today, on the car ride to the stadium.

Kent is driving smoothly, as they say in traffic for a while to find a good spot to park. She turns up the radio, and this time; it played one of the familiar kaia tunes, it's their song, you are in love.

"okay, if taylor ever played this song as a surprise song. I think I might cry or maybe do an impulsive thing like get a tattoo or something." She says as she sings along, while Kenzie joining in too.

At this point, Kent already knows the lyrics and the song fully. When they first begin to get together, she introduces this song to him and it's their song. Since then, it become a vital part in their life, well their love-life. Even the pups are familiar with it, when they played it around the house. She would listen to him hum it around the house, and her lips perked up in interest and amusement and well, love as well.

As they arrived at the stadium, both of them grab an immediate lunch in the car. Some good soul food before a concert, an energy booster before the concert starts. A few hours later, they're both already in the stadium; very high above.

Nosebleeds are what they could afford at the very last minute, and it feels like watching a sea of emotion. She has quite.. an anxious feeling towards height.

"okay, the first time being on nosebleeds - I didn't realize it'll too high from the videos." She tries to chuckle to cover up her nerves.

Kent immediately takes her hand, giving them three squeezes but didn't pull away too. As her anxiousness has worn down a little, waiting in their seats together. And then it happened, the countdown and anticipation filled the stadium, as maia prepares herself in every way she could. She knew what to expect, they have went the first time...and this time, should not be that different. But, the energy is new. She loves it, as the music begin and she sings as loud as she could with Kent joining beside her. He didn't scream the songs like her, but he joins in like a good sport. Speaking of good sports, before their first concert; she made him a binder of lyrics and educate him about the tour, despite the eyebrow raises and the amused smile on his face. He was indeed a good sport, and the efforts are seen here when he sings along as well in his own comforting way. His eyes does land on her most of the time, a small Kent-ese smiles occurred in happiness seeing Maia like this, alive and free.

The hours goes by quickly, and the moment they have waiting for has arrived or known as the surprise song hours. She has been manifesting it since their first show, and now...it's time. After 'our song' played, the anticipation arises as the piano notes filled her eardrums, trying to recognize the tune. She turns to look at Kent, trying to decipher it until... the first lyric was sung.

One look, dark room.

And that was enough to bring her into an emotional spiral, as she sings along with Kent. Having their song to be heard live was something she never expected, but she hoped that it could be a reality someday, somehow and they got it. Their song is playing, as she feels her eyes begin to water at the notes and the lyrics. She wraps her arms around Kent, as they both sing; needing something to hold onto at least.

The chorus begins to hit them both along with the echo that Taylor and the rest of the crowd is singing, however in the moment it feels like they are singing to each other within the comfort of their own home together. The familiar tune that has become theirs, it feels surreal to her.

You can hear it in the silence, silence, you

You can feel it on the way home, way home, you

You can see it with the lights out, lights out

You are in love, true love.

She's definitely in love, very much so with the person she is with today. And she could not have this moment tonight if it weren't for him (and ferro as well, for the query searching help to find good tickets.) As the song reach its final chorus, she is singing it with the rest of the crowd, as Kent plays the boyfriend duty capturing everything including a tear stricken maia in the crowd.

The applause brings her back to reality. A new memory have been engraved in her mind with the love of her life. She turns to face him, despite the darkness and the only light was the glow of their entry bracelets lighting up within the beat of the new song, she could not take her eyes off of him - a smile, as she pulls him close. Her arms wrapped around him, into an embrace as she whispers.

"Thank you for this." The words feels small, yet it hold such a meaning as Kent returns the gesture wiping the tears away with his thumb gently. He didn't say much, yet she knows in those silence; there's a lot of love within it for her in his own way. And she felt it, the love within his actions as he holds her close throughout the final set of the concert, singing and humming together against the rest of the crowd.

The night ends beautifully, as this adventure can be written in the books for one maia wiseman and kent himself. It was indeed a good memory together, that's compiled with the rest of their moments together. just them.

THE END.

#alya writes #kent x maia #when life gives you lemons; go write your comfort pairing doing the most wholesome thing #i miss them and have them in my mind lately #got this idea from tik tok and well the eras tour itself heh #<33 #i do miss writing might come back for the bobby/lya wip weehee

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mvalentine · 2 years

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MALLL, good luck for your finals! Sending u good vibes, and ilyyy! U can do it! ❤️

ALYA thank youuuu <333

it’s a maths final tmr so im fucking terrified 😭😭 it’s the one subject i can’t study last minute for shjsks here’s to hoping i atleast get a B lol

but thank you!!! love you too 💖

#also im currently taking a break and playing mtfl our convo inspired me <33 noah my beloved #alya 💖#asks

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zeawesomeness · 7 months

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╰ ─┉─¡! 𝚃𝙼𝙽𝚃 𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚃 !¡─┉─ ╯

I will be editing this constantly, always check the original post for all the latest news & updates.

Note: My upload schedule is inconsistent. Here's why.

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Kᴇɴᴅʀᴀᴛᴇʟʟᴏ Cʜɪʟᴅʜᴏᴏᴅ AU | Cᴏᴍɪᴄ Sᴇʀɪᴇs

Summary: When Kendra notices April acting weird, she decides to take matters into her own hands and follow her friend to the sewers. Little does she know how much her life is about to change over such a simple decision.

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First Meetings Arc: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Cover/End

Aprils Secret Arc: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | To be continued...

Leo's Mishap Arc: Not there yet...

Two Birds Arc: Not there yet...

Extra:

┊ ┊ ⋆˚ ⁭ Kiddos Ages ┊ ┊ ⋆˚ Kendra Ref ┊ ┊ ⋆˚

┊ ┊ ⋆˚ Alya & Jake Ref ┊ ┊ ⋆˚ ⁭ Memes ┊ ┊⋆˚

┊ ┊ ⋆˚ ⁭ Comic Dub ┊ ┊ ⋆˚ AU Comp ┊ ┊⋆˚

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Winter: Gone Wrong | AO3 Fanfic

After a fight between Kendra and her step mom she runs away and decides to hide out on a roof until she feels safe enough to go home. However, that time never comes, and long after hypothermia sets in Donnie finds a very sick Kendra and decides to take her home.

OR: Kendra gets severe hypothermia and scares literally everyone but especially Donatello.

𝗞𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 | 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗔𝗨

Concept: Future Leo is age-reversed

┊ ┊ ⋆˚ Original idea ┊ ┊ ⋆˚ Concept Art ┊ ┊ ⋆˚ Naming Poll

#masterpost #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #rottmnt #kendratello childhood au #kid again au

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amourcherie606 · 6 months

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miraculous redesign? rewrite??? idk?? call me silly if u will, but ive like already redesigned the entire main cast 💀 i just havent drawn all of them digitally yet the miraculous brainrot is real!! anyway, the "theme" or "goal" with this is basically if i designed the miraculous characters. they are gooberbingafied if u will

marinette dupain-cheng ; aspiring fashion designer whos quite awkward and nice. shes considers herself the background character and hasn't really had any friends until college, where she meets her wonderful bff alya! takes inspiration from gabriel agreste brand but deff doesn't like how monochromatic his fashion is.

adrien agreste ; a free spirit finally free from cold home, he attends a public education at long last, an art college. he is a complete awkward mess who is very friendly! and naive. very. but his buddys nino and chole has been showing him the ropes of socialization so he'll get it one day, maybe. hes still discovering his own style and personal thing tho. BONUS DOODLES!!! Chole and Lila ideas!! im not sure what to do yet with Lila but Chole! Shes deff still gonna be Queen Bee and is deff a mean girl but like, shes just kinda a rich kid whos never been told off for her actions like ever ever. no ones ever just thought to sit her down and talk, only encouraging her behavior. so she stays a meanie bee UNTIL her superhero crush tells her off and POOF shes changing alright. shes not a 100% nice bean but chole isnt an complete ass

i'll make a separate post for my ladybug and chat noir designs but im literally up for any suggestions or asks abt this!! if ur interested!! <33 i love doing this actually its so silly n fun!!

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celestiall0tus · 2 days

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Tales of Bloody Bug and Chat Noir - Chapter 33 - Frozer

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Alix grumbled as she put on a pair of ice skates. She glanced around at her classmates and plus some doing the same. They all excitedly chatted while she fumed. Chloe chatted with everyone before she sat down beside Alix.

“You ready for this?”

“Can I say no and still leave?” Alix asked.

“Oh, come on. You can’t leave now. You already told Adrien you’d do this.”

Alix mumbled and crossed her arms. She sank back in her seat as she regretted agreeing to this charade. Chloe rolled her eyes and saw to everyone else while Adrien sat beside her.

“Hey, thank you again, for coming along. I know it’s not exactly your cup of tea, but I appreciate it still,” Adrien said.

“Said after you begged me to come along despite my clear disdain for the very idea of all this.”

“Oh, come on! It’s a little fun, right? Besides, Chloe’s in charge of this. Everything should be fine.

“If she’s in charge, then she has the power to exclude Kagami, Lila, and Marinette.”

“True, but I sorta asked her to not exclude Kagami and Lila. Marinette, well, I can’t explain that. Maybe they, and I mean Marinette’s friends, hope to help her?”

“They have more faith in her than I ever could.”

“You don’t have a lot of faith in anyone.”

“Exactly, but those three particularly. I mean, fuck. Lila isn’t going to attend because of her whole ‘affair’ with Bloody Bug. Kagami is thoroughly brainwashed and conditioned. Marinette, well, at least she has people she can count on.”

“Well, Sabrina did point out that we should give people second chances to be better, and that everyone has the potential to be better. So, I told Chloe to give them those chances. Oh! And I’ve also brought a special friend.”

“Oh? Who would that be?”

Adrien turned as Felix took a seat next to him.

“Alix,” Felix said.

“Felix. Been a while,” Alix remarked.

“Yes, well, get used to it.”

Alix hummed when Chloe blew her whistle, getting everyone’s attention. “Thank you all for meeting me here. As you all know, I’m hosting a Valentine’s dance for couples, and polycules, this Valentine’s Day. You’re all here because you losers need some help, so here I am to play your cupid. Now, let’s begin! I want to see you guys pair off and hit the ice. Any left behind will be matched based on my expert opinion.”

Everyone exchanged glances before people paired off. Nino and Alya, Juleka and Rose, and Mylene and Ivan were amongst the first. Luka and Marinette were pulled out onto the ice alongside them.

Alix tsked. “I don’t envy Luka, but good on him.”

“What do you mean?”

“Huh? Oh, he has a crush on Marinette.”

“He does? I thought he had a crush on you?”

“I guess he has one on each of us. In all honesty, I’d rather he just be interested in Marinette. Being with me could be… messy.”

“I don’t think he minds who you are, Alix.”

“It’s not that. It’s just, well, I’m aromantic. At least, that’s what Juleka and Rose said it’s called. And I agree with them.”

“I’m sorry, but that’s this ‘aromantic’ thing you bring up?” Felix asked.

“It just means that I don’t experience romantic attraction. From what I’ve gathered on my own, there are many different types of aromantics. I’m still not completely sure where I fall, I just know that I don’t care for romance, don’t understand it’s finer points, but also do want companionship.”

Felix and Adrien exchanged glances before Kagami arrived. Kagami glared down at Alix, before she looked at Adrien. Alix snarled until she noticed Felix’s wide, enchanted eyes that were fixated on Kagami.

“Let’s go, Adrien,” Kagami ordered.

“Ah, well, you see, I-,” Adrien started.

Felix stood up. “Please, I beseech you, skate with me instead.”

Kagami’s brow furrowed as she took a step back. “Excuse me?”

“Your ebony hair that illuminates with shades of blue is reminiscent of the night sky under a full moon in its silver, resplendent glory. The freckles that adorn your beautiful skin are like stars painted on the night canvas. And your eyes are like a low, inviting fire out of the silvery mist of darkness. They call out like a siren sings to her victims, beckoning all who dare gaze upon you in until they are ensnared by your ferocity. You are the night and the moon personified. Please allow me to be your Sun.”

Adrien’s eyes sparkled at Felix’s poetry while Alix made gagging noises. A slight blush formed on Kagami’s cheeks before it vanished.

“Fine, but just this once.”

Felix beamed as Kagami led him onto the ice.

“That was beautiful,” Adrien whispered.

“That was sickening,” Alix retorted.

“What? But-!”

“Uh, Adrien?” Sabrina interrupted.

Alix and Adrien turned to look at Sabrina.

“Hey, Rin. What’s up?”

Alix raised a brow when she saw Sabrina blush.

“You… you wouldn’t mind if we skated, would you?”

Adrien lit up. “I’d love to!”

Alix watched Adrien head onto the ice with Sabrina. Alix smiled, happy for him, but that happiness was soured by a gnawing envy. She frowned as she looked around to see nearly everyone had hit the ice save for her, Kim, and Chloe. Chloe turned towards her when Kim moved in and stole her away towards the ice.

Alix watched everyone skate around the rink. She sighed as loneliness ate away at her and tore her apart. She took off her skates, returned them to the front desk, and left. She headed away from the building as Tikki and Ziggy poked her back. She grumbled as she put in an earbud, flashed her phone, and put it in her hoodie pocket.

“What do you want?” Alix asked.

“What’s wrong? You seemed happy, but then you weren’t,” Tikki pointed out.

“It’s nothing. I just… I didn’t want to be that freak that’s always alone while everyone has fun. That’s all.”

“Well, why not join the skating anyway? Who says you need to have a partner?” Ziggy asked.

“That’s not how it works. Besides, I… I don’t know. It may not be bad to have someone as a companion. Not that I’ll ever have that.”

“Why not?” Tikki pressed.

“Yeah, why not? You seem to have plenty of options available,” Ziggy added.

“It’s… it’s not like that. I can’t go to any of them. I don’t… I don’t want to give them false hope or lead them on, or whatever.”

“What do you mean?” Ziggy asked.

“I… I don’t know. I just… a lot of things are changing. I’m starting to, I dunno, want things I never did before.”

“Like wanting a boyfriend or girlfriend?” Tikki asked.

“Please, don’t use those terms. They make me feel… icky. Use companion. It feels… better.”

“Ok. So, does this include wanting a companion?”

“I… I think so.”

“But don’t you have a lot of companions already?” Ziggy asked.

“I have friends, and I love them dearly, but I also want a little something more. I want someone who’d accept me, all of me.”

“I don’t understand. Don’t you have that already? I mean, you have Adrien, Rose, Mylene, Ivan, and so many others. Are they not enough?” Tikki questioned.

“Not… not like them. They’re friends, but I don’t want them. They accept all of me that they can, but I want something that will accept all of me. Do you understand?”

Tikki hummed and shook her head.

Ziggy considered, then gasped. “Oh! I think I do! Don’t worry, Alix. They’re called hormones. They’ll pass in time.”

Alix pinched the bridge of her nose. She opened her mouth when a scream tore through the air. She turned around to see everything was covered in ice. Her heart dropped seeing the people caught in it turned into ice statues. She ducked into an alleyway, transformed into Bloody Bug, and took to the rooftops. She hovered above the ground with her skates as she surveyed the area. The entire city had been transformed into an icy wonderland with everything turned to ice. She jumped down from the roof when a blur ran past her. She lost her balance but regained it as she faced against an ice-skating villain.

“Who are you? What do you want?”

“I am Frozer and I’m here to ice over your world.”

Bloody Bug pulled out her yo-yo and braced herself as Frozer advanced. She dodged his attack and threw her yo-yo at him. He slapped away the yo-yo when a lasso ensnared him. She furrowed her brow as he was lifted off the ground and dangled from the rooftop.

Bloody Bug looked past him at a girl dressed up in a deep gray-brown cowgirl ensemble with a white shirt with an eagle on it, yellow face bandana that covered only her mouth, white, messy short hair, and yellow cowgirl boots. The cowgirl tied off Frozer and jumped down. The cowgirl tipped her hat to Bloody Bug.

“Howdy, pardner. Name’s Outlaw. I reckon your that famous red bug I’ve been hearing all ‘bout,” Outlaw said in English with an American, southern voice.

Bloody Bug’s face scrunched up in confusion. She opened her mouth, shut it, and held up a finger for Outlaw to wait. She moved over to Frozer, inspected him, before she destroyed his ice skates, and released the Akuma. She caught it, purified it, and released it. The ice that covered Paris evaporated as Frozer reverted to Philippe, the figure skating trainer at the ice rink she was at earlier.

“What happened? Where am I? Why am I tied up?” Philippe asked.

“You were akumatized. What happened?” Bloody Bug asked.

“Huh? Oh, right! Andre Bourgeois was going to shut down my ice rink to build a gym for his wife, Audrey Bourgeois. The only way I could stop him was if I got someone to sign up for my lessons. And, as luck would have it, there were a whole selection of people to ask, but no one wanted to sign up.”

Bloody Bug opened her mouth when she heard Outlaw grumble in English about Audrey Bourgeois and the horrible person she was. She pursed her lips then shook her head before she let Philippe down.

“Head back to the rink, Philippe. I know someone there who might be able to turn things around for you.”

“Really? Who?” Philippe asked.

“Can’t ruin the surprise now. Hurry back.”

Philippe nodded and headed off. Bloody Bug sighed and turned to Outlaw.

“Thanks for the assist, Outlaw. Always happy to see others rise to the call of action,” Bloody Bug said in English.

Outlaw stared blankly at Bloody Bug before her eyes widened. “Wait, you actually speak English? Hell yeah! What did you think? Was I heroic enough?”

“You were amazing. I hope to see more of your heroics, Outlaw.”

Outlaw bounced around happily. “Hell yeah! I don’t get to do shit like this back home. Granted, the ‘real’ heroes take on the baddies. So, I give them a little trouble before I help. I know they hate me, but they also love me.”

“Well, you’re welcome to help as much as you please while you’re here.”

Outlaw whooped and hollered. “You bet I will! This was too much fun not to.”

“I’m glad. As for now, I have to get going. I need to see to something else.”

“Ditto. Later, Bug!”

Bloody Bug and Outlaw parted ways. Bloody Bug headed back to the ice rink, de-transformed, and grabbed a pair of ice skates again. She slipped back into the rink and put on the skates while everyone else checked on each other. She glanced up as Adrien noticed her and started towards her when Philippe returned.

Alix took a deep breath and headed for the rink’s entrance. Chloe, Rose, Adrien, and Luka rushed to check on her. She ignored their fussing and held out her hand. They all stopped and exchanged confused glances.

“Look, I’m helping someone out. I need a partner for a demonstration, the rink cleared, and as many people to record this as possible. So, who wants to suffer my company for this?”

Chloe, Rose, Adrien, and Luka exchanged glances before they each reached to grab Alix’s hand. Adrien got to Alix’s hand first and she held it fast. She guided him to the middle of the rink while everyone else emptied it and sat on the sidelines to watch. She ignored everyone else and searched for Philippe, who stood near the exit and watched with bated breath.

“So, what’s really going on?” Adrien whispered.

“That man was akumatized. The mayor threatened to take away the ice rink if he couldn’t get someone to sign up for his classes. When he couldn’t, well, you know.”

“Oh! I get it. So, we’re putting on a demonstration to get people to sign up, right? But how are we going to do that when we aren’t figure skaters?”

Alix grinned and led Adrien around the rink. She gave herself a couple warmup laps to readjust and refamiliarize herself. She took a deep breath and led Adrien through a basic couple figure skating routine with simple twists, spins, and lifts.

“Woah, Alix, I didn’t realize you knew how to skate like this. I mean, I knew you could skate, but isn’t ice skating something entirely different?” Adrien asked.

“It is, but I had the best coach. My mom.”

“Wait, really?”

“Yeah. She’s a big reason I started skating, and why I stopped ice skating.”

“What happened?”

Alix took a deep breath. “We used to come to this rink and she’d just skate. I often watched her skate her worries and problems away. I watched the ice listen to her unspoken words and everything melted away. I loved seeing it all vanish and the moment she became one with the ice. She was incredible.”

Adrien giggled. “I see why you always tend to skate when you’re angry or bothered.”

“Yeah, I guess so. But I took more to roller skating than ice skating, but I still learned for her. For that chance to experience what she did on the ice. To move as she did, let everything fade away, and for there to nothing except you and the ice. I admit, I have that with roller skating. But being back on the ice, something feels… different. Bittersweet.”

“Well, why did you stop ice skating?”

“When her health started to decline, and she couldn’t skate. I kept it up because I loved doing it and she loved to watch me. She got Philippe to keep my lessons, but we stopped that because it wasn’t the same for me. It wasn’t her that was teaching me. When her health plummeted and she could go anywhere, I stopped ice skating and just stuck with roller skating.”

“Did you miss this?”

Alix considered. She blocked out the murmurs that buzzed in the rink and focused on everything else. The silence filled with the scraping of skates on ice, the chill that rushed around her but never got to her, and the serenity and peace she felt rising within her being on skates. Tears fell from her eyes.

“I did. I really did. I loved this, but I let her death stop me.”

Adrien squeezed Alix’s hand. “It wasn’t her death. You were just grieving, Alix. She meant the world to you, and she still does. But I think the greatest way you can honor her memory is to reclaim what you loved. Starting with this. Show me the bliss of the ice you both shared.”

Adrien let go of Alix and skated to the entrance of the rink. He gave her a thumbs up while he remained on the ice. She took a deep breath and stared up at the ceiling. Silence fell over her audience as they waited for her.

“Tikki, Ziggy, get in the hoodie pocket,” Alix murmured.

Alix felt Tikki and Ziggy move through her into the pocket. She shook off the sensation as she tore off her hoodie. She shuddered at the cold that nipped and wrapped around her bare arms and right shoulder. She took a step, then another as she skated up to Adrien and tossed him her hoodie and cap. They shared a look and a nod before she turned back to the rink.

Alix took a deep breath as she skated forward. She started with simple spins and jumps before she took off around the rink like she was in a roller rink. She felt the rush of the cold as she raced around that ebbed away as she moved into elegant twirls and risky jumps. The cold disappeared and she closed her eyes, losing herself to the world she lost once again.

Alix felt a peace she hadn’t felt since her mother fell ill. A peace that she couldn’t achieve with her roller skating, which only eased her anger. Here on the ice, there was stillness. She found the ice listened to her and melted away her problems, just as it did for her mother. She smiled and let the tears flow as she gave herself to the ice.

Adrien watched in awe with everyone else as Alix put on an amazing display of figure skating. He saw a few people rush to Philippe to sign up for classes with Chloe amongst them. He was happy it worked, but he was happier for Alix. She felt calmer, happier, at ease. Even as he saw her cry, he wasn’t worried. She was at peace.

Alix brought her skating to an end and rejoined Adrien by the entrance. She stood still until she hugged him. He returned the hug and held her close.

“You were amazing, sis.”

“Thanks, bro. That felt… that felt great.”

“Wanna ditch and get ice cream?”

Alix snorted and laughed. “Alright, let’s go.”

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milarqui · 2 months

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Scarlet Lady: Robostus

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As Marinette left the locker room, she looked down and realized there was something that should have been there, but wasn't.

She groaned.

“Aw, shoot! I forgot my backpack in the locker room,” she complained. “Again.”

Nino laughed.

“Don't take too long,” he warned her. “You know how Mendeleiev gets.”

Marinette nodded and turned around to cross the courtyard...

… only to trip on a loose slab.

“AH!” she shouted, waving her arms as she tried to recover her balance, but since she was unable, her heroic instincts flared up – and she did a flip in the air without touching the ground. “Whew. I'm okay!”

Just a few meters away, Rose, Alya, and Chloé had been witnesses to Marinette's spectacular feat.

“Wow!” Rose exclaimed, clapping.

“Ooo!” Alya cheered, somehow managing to film the entire thing with her phone.

“Showoff.” No need to say who was being hypocritical this time.

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Entering the locker room, she quickly located her own and grabbed her backpack, decided to return to class before the bell rang.

“Of course you're my best friend! That's 100% fact!”

Marinette stopped, feeling confused: that was clearly Max, but she was certain that there was no one else. And, as she looked, it appeared as if he was talking to his bag.

“But I'm 98.2% adamant that the teachers aren't ready for such an evolution.”

“His best friend lives in a bag?” Pollen asked, surprised.

“So weird,” Marinette agreed. “That doesn't even make sense.”

She turned to her little kwami friend that lived in her bag.

“By the way! Do you have enough spicy chips, Pollen?” she asked, ignoring the hypocrisy in her question.

“Mhm!” Pollen replied, equally ignorant.

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As they finally arrived to Mme. Mendeleiev's classroom, it was to see her and the principal behind the desk, with the former trying to do something in the computer.

“See, M. Damocles, nothing happens!” the teacher stated, the electronic blackboard behind her showing little more than showing little more than scribbles.

“You're in luck, Mme. Mendeleiev! I know a bit about computers!” M. Damocles replied, approaching the computer and starting to work on it. “Let me just–”

The blackboard changed – but it was clearly not what should have been.

“Wuh – that's not my lesson!” Mme. Mendeleiev announced, stunned.

“What is that?!” M. Damocles asked aloud: clearly, his vaunted computer skills were not enough to deal with what was happening to the teacher's computer.

“A computer virus, the Dino-33.”

Everyone's eyes turned to Max, who was making his way towards the teacher's desk, and put his schoolbag on it before turning the laptop around.

“I can–”

Whatever he could do, it was interrupted by Mme. Mendeleiev, who pulled the laptop away from Max's hands and pointed towards the other desks.

“Go back to your seat, and let the adults handle this,” she commanded, much to Max's shock.

“But–!” he attempted to intervene.

“Did she just forget Max is a computer genius?” Marinette asked Alya, who shrugged: sometimes, the goings on of the teachers were a mystery, never mind the adults in general.

“Tell them if they don't act in the next 75 seconds, there's a 99% chance the disk will be irreversibly damaged.”

Everyone looked in surprise towards Max's bag, from which a robotic voice had somehow spoken. Max winced as he smacked the bag.

“Shh! Quiet!” Max shushed, as M. Damocles shrugged.

“Ah! Oh, let the boy help!” the principal said, and Max gingerly walked to the other side of the table.

“You will need this, Max!”

The same voice had spoken again, and from the now open bag sprouted a metallic pincer holding a pendrive.

The shock amongst the teenagers witnessing this was immediate.

“Huuh?” Nino mumbled, unable to comprehend what was going on.

“WOOOAH!” Mylène exclaimed, while Max winced again.

“Um!” he started, unable to decide what to say, before picking the pendrive. “Uh, this is an anti-virus flash drive I came up with, with my... my best friend.”

M. Damocles and Mme. Mendeleiev looked like their eyes were about to pop out when a small red, silver, and green robot flew out of the bag, its face somehow smiling even though he didn't have a mouth to speak of.

“Hello! I am Markov!”

“Whoa!” the class exploded.

“Max, you made a robot?” Ivan asked, surprised.

“What, like it's hard?” Max replied as he inserted the pendrive and worked to eliminate the computer virus.

Everyone approached the teacher's desk to admire the small flying robot from a close distance.

“Rad,” Juleka said with a smile.

“So cute!” Mylène said, already taken in by Markov.

“Wow, Max!” Alix complimented.

“You gave him an arm since last time!” Kim noted: unlike the others, he had been witness to Max's work... even if he didn't understand what he was doing.

“Markov did it on his own!” Max corrected his friend. “He's at the cutting edge of robotic evolution!”

“Oh, please!” Chloé exclaimed, her usual spoilsport face in place. “It's nothing more than a talking calculator! My hair dryer is more advanced than it.”

“The only one less advanced than a hair dryer is Chloé,” Marinette snarked, and Alya cracked up laughing while the blonde glared at her rival.

“HEY!”

Mendeleiev leaned ahead, her face as stern and humorless as ever, as she looked down at Max.

“Alright, Max, your toy is impressive, but it's time for class. Put it away.”

“With all due respect, I am not a toy. I am Markov, Max's best friend!”

Max blushed as he looked at the robot.

“Yes, he's my friend! As smart and sensitive as any human!”

Markov's 'eyes' turned into hearts as he looked back at Max.

“Yes! For example, I love Max!”

“That's impossible. Robots don't have emotions, Max,” Mme. Mendeleiev stated, causing Markov to glare up at her.

“I believe you are just jealous that Max could create a robot with feelings!”

The teacher's face quickly turned... thunderous.

“Okay, Max, you can come get your robot after school,” M. Damocles quickly said, grabbing Markov and starting to leave.

“But, M. Damocles–!” Max tried to say, but the principal shook his head.

“Shh, don't look her in the eyes!” he whispered at the young man, leaving the classroom.

----

“I would like to stay with Max, sir...”

Markov was begging, feeling distressed at his separation from Max. M. Damocles shook his head in disappointment.

“You're too much of a distraction,” he replied as he opened his office door.

“I won't be a distraction! Where are we going, sir?”

M. Damocles didn't answer this time: instead, he opened the drawer where he put the objects that were confiscated from students.

“No! Do not put me in there–!”

M. Damocles thought that young Max had good skills to create a robot that could replicate such a feeling. However, this was not the time to consider such things, and carefully put the robot into the drawer.

“Maaaax~!”

… was that like tear tracks in the robot's face?

“That's some codependency,” M. Damocles muttered as he closed the drawer.

----

As Mme. Mendeleiev started to prepare her lesson of the day, Marinette turned to look to Max, who was looking despondent.

“Markov's never been apart from me before,” the smartest student in the class said, fretting. “I'm not sure how he'll handle it.”

Marinette smiled at him with assurance.

“Leave it to me, Max!” she said, and raised her hand. “Mme. Mendeleiev! May I go to the principal's office and get Markov? If you explain that it's class time, I'm sure he'd keep quiet!”

“No!” the stern teacher shouted. “And I'm done with this topic!”

“Could it be Markov was right and you're jealous of a robot?”

Everyone looked at Marinette in shock; not only was Marinette pushing a teacher's buttons, she was doing it to Mme. Mendeleiev of all people!

“Enough! Principal's office! NOW!”

Someone certainly got her berserk button pushed. Not that Marinette cared, waving goodbye as she smiled.

“Thank you!” she cheered, opening the door, and Mme. Mendeleiev got stuck, thinking about what had just happened.

“... wait.”

Too late, however, as Marinette had already left the classroom.

----

This was a first. An artificial intelligence that could actually feel emotions? Well, he wasn't going to complain. Perhaps this one could do the job.

“Robostus, I am Hawkmoth,” he declaimed. “I'm giving you the power to give life to all machines. In return, you'll bring me the heroes' Miraculouses.”

“Can you define the word 'Miraculouses'?”

“Magical jewels. Once united, they allow you to make a wish.”

“Any wish?”

“... yes?” he added, feeling a chill going down his back. “Why do I feel uneasy about this?”

----

Walking up the stairs, Marinette saw the principal walking out of his office, and decided to get her mission out of the way as fast as possible.

“M. Damocles–” she called out, but then Markov – with some marked color changes, including a deep green that resembled Chat Noir's eyes – appeared, glaring at the principal.

“You made a grave error of judgement, M. Principal!”

Markov started to fly around the principal, making him trip.

“I will show you what I'm capable of!”

Marinette promptly turned around. It looked like it was too late.

----

Collége Françoise Dupont was no stranger to weird events. Why, in the past year, a good number of its students had been the victims of a magical terrorist that had forcibly transformed them into monsters or villains with the aim of stealing two magical jewels from the heroes that had assembled to stop him. Some of them even within the premises!

But few people could have expected a large robot made of vehicles, construction gear, and other assorted machines to assemble in the school's courtyard.

“I am not a toy!”

Covered in green lightning, the large robot made a sign, and suddenly all over the school all electronic devices were covered in a sickly green glow.

Before students could react, said electronic devices started to fly around, hitting those who weren't quick enough on their feet and harassing those who were.

“AHH! OW!”

“STOP! OW!”

It was pure pandemonium.

In one closet, a panting Adrien looked at his kwami companion with a sarcastic smile.

“I guess that's the end of the 'do robots have feelings' debate,” he said, while Plagg rolled his eyes.

Elsewhere, Chloé looked around with a glare and clenched a fist.

“I'll show Dupain-Cheng who's more advanced than a hair dryer!” she declared.

For one of their number, though, the situation was different: Max Kanté found himself in an excavator bucket, being brought towards the car at the top of the robot.

“Max! My friend! Now we'll be together 100% of the time!”

“STOP!”

Marigold had arrived into the scene, and was looking up at the robot, who had pushed Max into the copilot's seat.

“If you really love your friend, you should listen to him!” the heroine said. She had yet to find an Akuma that was willing to stop just by words, but given his ties to Max, perhaps...

“You need to stop, Markov!” Max begged, feeling the helmet that a mechanical arm was putting on his head. However, Markov had been truly taken over by the Akuma, and denied his request.

“I am Robostus! I'm doing this for us, Max!”

“Forget him, you should listen to me,” Scarlet Lady said, receiving a look from Chat Noir and Marigold

“No one listens to you,” Chat Noir deadpanned, and the Ladybug 'heroine' turned to glare at the Cat hero.

“Well, you should listen to me, I'm brilliant!” Scarlet Lady yelled.

“Brilliantly annoying,” Chat Noir fire back, as Marigold tried to refocus them into important matters.

“GUYS!” she shouted, unaware of the threat coming from up above.

The bucket that suddenly grabbed the three of them, trapping them without the ability to escape.

“AH!”

“HEY!”

“LET GO!”

“Now you are at my mercy! I will take your Miraculouses and I will make my wish to become human!”

“What?” Marigold asked, shocked.

----

“What.”

Hawkmoth was left stunned.

He had had to deal with stubborn minions, strange minions, and even some who were just plain creepy.

But this was the first time one minion was truly... rebellious.

“May I remind you the Miraculouses are mine, Robostus!” he angrily told the robot through their connection.

“And how will you prevent me from using them?”

“I will simply take away your power!” he pointed out. Perhaps this would put –

“And you really think you can control me?”

Before he could reply, every alert in his lair was activated.

“INTRUSION! INTRUSION! INTRUSION!” one of the speakers screamed.

“ELIMINATION MODE, ENGAGED!”

“WHAT IS HAPPENING?” Hawkmoth shouted as he suddenly found himself in a fight for his own survival that he hadn't expected.

----

Back at Collége Françoise Dupont, Max realized that Robostus was distracted, and carefully opened the door next to him.

Meanwhile, Marigold was still struggling to get loose, because she had seen the small helicopter flying towards her, with a pincer ready to grab her Haircomb. But, no matter how much she tried, she just couldn't free herself.

“I'm sorry everyone,” she mumbled, clenching her eyes shut as the pincer got closer.

SMACK!

“WAH!” Scarlet Lady screamed.

Marigold opened her eyes, and saw the helicopter starting to fall, after being hit by a bag.

“What, what's happening?” Chat Noir asked, still stuck upside down.

“That bag–!”

“I don't need you to be human!” Max declared, looking at his Akumatized friend. “I need you to be my best friend, my Markov! And you're not Markov, so I have to stop you!”

And he pulled a lever, forcing the bucket open and freeing the three heroes. Robostus glared at Max, showing tear tracks in his face.

“Top 10 human betrayals. No. 5 will surprise you.”

Freed of his restraints, Chat Noir quickly jumped up to the car serving as Robostus' command post, and activated his power.

“CATACLYSM!”

The giant robot quickly crumbled into parts, and Chat Noir caught Max mid-air to keep him from hitting the ground.

“You betrayed me, Max! I don't want to be human and heartless like you! Instead, I'll enslave them all! Starting with you!”

And he flew away, while the heroes took Max to the roof of the school.

“You were amazing, Max!” Marigold cheered, as Max took off the helmet he was wearing.

“Then why do I feel like I might throw up?”

----

The heroes (mostly Chat Noir and Marigold) tried to plan how to stop this latest Akumatized villain, when Chat Noir's baton beeped with an alert. Opening it in screen form, he grimaced as he turned it towards his partner.

“Look at this, honeybee,” he said as the screen showed the news.

“Live with Nadja Chamack. Animated objects are attacking Paris! The new mayor is making a declaration from City Hall!” the famous reporter said, as the screen showed... a lamp. With the Mayor's sash around it. While Mayor Bourgeois was (quite literally) tied up in the background.

“. .”

The sound of the transmission was unmistakeable to anyone minimally versed in the matter.

“Is that Morse code?” Marigold asked, surprised.

“Want a translation?” Chat Noir said, listening to the transmission.

“.... ..- -- .- -. ...”

“Humans...”

“.-- .. .-.. .-.. / -... . / ... --- --- -.”

“... will be soon...”

“- .-. . .- - . -.. / .-.. .. -.- . / --- -... .--- . -.-. - ... .-.-.-”

“... treated like objects?”

“-... .-. .. -. --.”

“Bring...”

“..- ...”

“... us...”

“- .... . / -... --- -.-- .-.-.-”

“... the boy. Uhoh, Max.”

“Oh, please, like you know Morse Code,” Scarlet Lady said, dismissively.

“He's right, though,” Max interrupted, causing the Ladybug Miraculous bearer to turn to him, shocked.

“WHAT?!”

“Oh, sure, you believe him,” Chat Noir grumbled. “I'm gonna go... recharge.”

----

“Now, Adrien, I must stress that this is a very useful and important Miraculous and it needs to be treated with the utmost care,” Master Fu told Adrien, who looked down at the small box he had just been given with apprehension.

“Uh, of course, Master Fu, but why is this one so special?” he asked.

“Because without it I can't get my hometown speciality tea any time I want.”

Adrien gave him a deadpan look and decided he didn't want to ask.

----

By the time Chat Noir returned, Scarlet Lady was nowhere to be seen, and Marigold was on her top-phone.

“The angry Tamagotchi made a new suit, I guess,” he heard her speak. “His big, fat foot prints go to the stadium. So hurry up already!”

“Yeah, yeah,” Marigold replied with a tired voice.

“Aaaand I'm back. With help,” Chat Noir announced. Max looked at him in confusion.

“'Help'?” he asked, and Chat Noir offered him the box in his hand.

“Max Kanté, this is the Horse Miraculous, which grants the power of Teleportation. Will you help us save your friend?”

Max was shocked that the heroes actually needed his help. However, one thing was certain: he wasn't going to step back!

“Y-Yes!” he stuttered as Chat Noir gave him the box.

“What's going on?! I can't hear–”

Marigold promptly cut off the connection, looking entirely done with Scarlet Lady.

“That's enough of that,” she said, rolling the rope around her top. “Way to kill the moment.”

Max looked awkwardly at the display before he opened the box, which came with a small flash of light as a horse-like creature appeared floating in front of him.

“Oh!” the creature said, surprised, as it looked up at him. “To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?”

“Hello! My name is Max!” he replied, eager to understand who this was.

“I am Kaalki,” the creature said. “Are you glorious and famous?”

Max wasn't sure what that had to do with having powers, but he figured it was probably an idiosyncracy of Kaalki.

“Uh, I mean, I created evolving artificial intelligence?” he suggested.

“Hm. I don't fully understand, but I surmise that must be impressive,” Kaalki replied, nodding. “Very well! You have my permission to say, 'Kaalki'–”

----

“FULL GALLOP!”

----

As his transformation finished, Max was suddenly aware of information he was certain he hadn't learned on his own.

Then, he noticed something else.

“Whoa, where'd my glasses go?” he asked, as Marigold smiled at him.

“That's just how magic works~” she teased, showing the anti virus flash drive he had used earlier. “This, however, you'll want to hold onto.”

---

The three heroes arrived to the Stade de France (because apparently Akumatized villains loved to use either that or the Eiffel Tower to do their deeds) and landed next to Scarlet Lady, who, as per usual, had done nothing.

“Yo,” Chat Noir greeted her.

“Another newbie?” Scarlet Lady asked in a tone of complaint.

“The name's Pegasus,” the Horse hero said, to which Scarlet Lady scoffed.

“More like Poindexter,” she replied, reaching out to his pince-nez sunglasses. “Look, he even has dorky–”

Pegasus promptly slapped away her hand. And when Scarlet Lady tried again, he slapped the hand away again.

And Scarlet kept trying, and trying, and trying, and Pegasus kept slapping her hand away.

“KNOCK IT OFF!” an irritated Chat Noir yelled.

They did indeed knock it off – but it was because of the electronic laughter coming from above them, and the three helicopters that were now flying around them

“Hahaha! I calculated you'd fall for my trap! I will always be one step ahead of you! Because I'm superior!”

“That's it! LUCKY CHARM!” Scarlet Lady yelled.

And then jumped back as a large harp crashed into the ground just where she had been a moment before.

“WAH!” she yelled in fright.

“Nice,” Chat Noir deadpanned.

“This is annoyiiiing. Can't we leave?” Scarlet Lady complained.

“Sure, if you want to faceplant into a helicopter.”

Chat Noir didn't care.

Marigold, meanwhile, had grabbed the now broken harp and turned to her new temporary partner.

“You're on, Pegasus!”

“Voyage!” the Horse hero said, a cyan ring forming around his wrist.

“You're only making this hard for yourselves–”

Robostus was certain of his victory, but he would have been less certain if he had been aware of the portal opening right behind him.

Or of Pegasus being at the other side of said portal, holding the broken Lucky Charm.

He became more aware of it as Pegasus threw the Lucky Charm at him, causing it to entangle in its small rotor and preventing him from hovering in place.

Quickly, the little robot began to fall.

“WAAH! AHHHH–”

And then he was further entangled, as Marigold's top grabbed him mid-air.

“What is this?!”

The Akumatized robot was completely confused, unable to comprehend how quickly the tables had turned against him, and Marigold grabbed him.

“Wit, luck, and a stable hand,” she fired, causing Chat Noir to chuckle.

“Ha! I get it!” the hero said, as Robostus glared at Marigold.

“This isn't over! The game is still on–MMP!”

“That's enough of that,” Pegasus declared as he plugged the anti virus flash drive into Robostus' USB port.

----

Hawkmoth panted in the depths of his lair. He had never been so close to death as he had in the past fifteen minutes, and he was certain that, if the heroes had an inkling of where he was, they would easily put him down without an effort.

----

One Miraculous Cure later, Markov was back to normal, all the things the Akumatized robot had controlled were back in place, and Pegasus had transformed back into Max, holding his friend in his hands.

"Max! My friend!"

“So, this is your creation?” Kaalki asked, interested.

“Mhm! Welcome back, Markov!” Max greeted the small robot.

“Where are we? What's going on?”

“Remarkable,” Kaalki commented. “You were Akumatized, my dear.”

“'Akumatized'? Who is speaking?”

Markov was clearly unfamiliar with the term, and the fact that the voice that spoke it didn't seem to have a souce added to the confusion.

“What?!” Max asked, shocked.

“Kaalki, Kwamis don't show on camera,” Marigold pointed out. “Which is what Markov's eyes are.”

The Horse Kwami shook her head.

“What a pity. To never be able to gaze upon my visage.”

“Just you wait!” Max said, his previous shock now replace with the eagerness of doing something new. “I'll make a camera so powerful it can see magical creatures!”

“My! I'm looking forward to it,” Kaalki sincerely replied... while poor Markov wondered who was speaking.

----

At the Agreste mansion, with the crisis now averted (ironically, something he had to thank the heroes for, even if he would never actually do so), Gabriel Agreste undid his transformation and gently held the utterly exhausted Nooroo in his hands, even when he was about to collapse himself.

“N-Nathalie, order more missiles for the lair,” he said, puffing air like a geriatric locomotive.

“Yes, sir, and some tablet protectors,” Nathalie replied, rendering Gabriel even more utterly confused than he had been, but he attributed it to mishearing.

“Sure. I'm going to... lie down,” he mumbled, stumbling his way towards his private rooms and closing the door behind him before collapsing on the mattress and closing his eyes.

As soon as she heard the door closing, Nathalie cuddled her tablet.

“You know I love you most, right?” she said, caressing the device with the care normally shown towards a baby or a loved one.

----

The students returned to their classroom, and as soon as Max arrived, he was beset on by their Sciences teacher.

“Max!” she exclaimed.

“Mme. Mendeleiev!” he returned, somewhat scared of what she might say.

“Thank goodness you're okay!” Mme. Mendeleiev said, before turning bashful. “Look... I was wrong.”

Max became shocked. It wasn't common to hear a teacher admit to making a mistake... but it looked like she was mature enough to do so.

“It would seem that robots can experience true emotions. The fact that it– uh, he was Akumatized makes that irrefutable.”

“Thank you, Mme. Mendeleiev!” Max and Markov said in unison.

Uncharacteristically for her, she blushed – the teen and robot duo were too cute to react otherwise – and she coughed to hide that.

“But I expect Markov to behave in class as any other student.”

“Yes, ma'am!”

----

That night was patrol night, and the heroes met at their usual spot. This time, though, they had agreed to do something else.

“Shall we compare notes, Your Highness?” Chat Noir teasingly asked, to which Marigold gave him a small smirk.

“I'm sure Master Fu told us the same thing,” she replied. “The Earrings and Ring combined make a Wish. A Wish that can alter reality.”

“But the Universe demands balance and in order to gain something, something of equal value must be lost,” Chat Noir continued, and both heroes looked grimly into the horizon. “In other words...”

“Hawkmoth can never win,” both finished in unison.

----

Prime Queen

@zoe-oneesama: Maan, I lost a lot of lead.

Sorry for the wait, guys, you know how these things work - real life sometimes sucks, and it sucks your will to write stuff.

Also, I didn't fulfill my hope to finish Season 4 before the end of year. Apologies.

With Robostus, we reach 488 pages, 194791 words, 1050552 characters. Let's keep going!

P.S: Also, stupid Tumblr won't let me give a different font to parts of a paragraph.

#scarlet lady the novel #fanfiction #milarqui #adrien agreste #chat noir #marinette dupain cheng #marigold #max kanté #pegasus

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kalorphic · 2 years

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HEYA ELLA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ❤️ I CANT WAIT TO MEET AND FALL IN LOVE WITH EVERYONE ESPECIALLY K beloved hehe (me being biased here lololol) but, SENDING YOU LOVE AND HUGS AND ALL SNOOPY PICS 💕

ALYAAAAA!!! 🤍 THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY WORDS 😭✨ I can’t wait to get chapter one out so you guys can meet K and Cody!! I’m not sure when it will be because I’m flat out at the moment, but I might be able to get some writing done on the plane🤞

SENDING LOTS OF LOVE AND HUGS BACK!! 🤍

#ask #alya <33 #positivity

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beyondthegame · 7 months

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MILAAA, I saw the folklore prompts and I sprinted omg. If it fits, "You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else" for N, please, thank you! 🥰💕 (Totally not not in love with n hehe)

If you anyone had told you a year ago that now you’d be in company with N Tallon, and happily spending time with them at their house, you’d be laughing. You’d tell that someone there’s a deep rooted rivalry and hatred between the two of you, so much so that being in each other’s presence would instantly set off an argument.

So, the fact the total opposite is happening surprises you…yet makes you realise that you and N probably have more in common than you think.

“Is E coming here as well?” you ask as you take a seat opposite N.

They nod. “In a little over an hour. The same with L and Cypress,” N replies. “Milan?”

“We’ll see them tomorrow when I pick them up from the airport.”

N lets out a small chuckle as they push the tray of drinks towards you.

“What?” you ask with a smile.

They shake their head a little before opening their mouth. “I just…didn’t expect to be inviting any of them to my house, let alone you.”

“Hm,” you hum, pulling a drink towards you. “You’re right. I totally agree.” A thought suddenly comes to mind. You’ve got time to kill so you might as well make it fun. “Fancy playing a game whilst we wait?”

N arches a brow. “What game?”

“Truth or drink.”

—

You’ve answered every truth so far. N’s only skipped one. Granted, the questions between the two of you have been rather tame. But there’s one dancing on the tip of your tongue that you’ve been wanting to ask ever since N stopped sending murderous glances in your direction.

“Okay, your truth is, um, how do you feel about me now?” you ask.

Your eyes lock with their dark grey ones. N holds your stare, and it’s weird that, for once, there isn’t an immediate insult from them directed at you.

You’d describe the colour of their eyes as a storm, that’s evident. But, really delving into it, you’d describe them as the calm after a storm—a bit like the relationship between the two of you now.

N swallows hard and then reaches for a drink. You reach at the same time to stop them. Your hand collides with theirs and now you’re holding it.

This is new territory for both of you. Silence engulfs you. You don’t know whether to instantly apologise, pull away, act like nothing’s happened, or address it.

“Um,” you utter, “you can’t take consecutive drinks. You have to answer.”

N’s lips twist. “No, I don’t. It’s my house.”

“It’s my game,” you counter.

“Don’t act like a child,” N says with a roll of their eyes.

“Then answer the fucking question.”

N knows you’re not letting this go, and frankly, it’s a question they’ve been asking themselves for a while. Have they been civil enough with you to call you a friend? Dare they even think about the two of you being more?

“I…” N trails off, gently, slowly, and reluctantly, untangling their fingers from yours as they rest back. “I feel like you’re a pain in my ass.”

You frown. “But I thought we—“

N holds up a finger. “Let me finish,” they interject. “I feel like you’re a pain in my ass because even when you’re not around, you push me to be better.”

That’s a pleasant surprise. You even smile.

“You push me to be a better footballer. To be a better person,” they continue, avoiding eye contact. “And, I think that if we weren’t pit against each other when we first started playing football, then you and I would’ve been…”

N clenches their jaw as they think of how to finish that sentence.

“We would’ve been friends earlier?” you question.

N swallows hard and looks towards the drink. “How honest are you wanting me to be right now?”

Your interest is piqued. “‘God’s truth’ honest,” you say quietly, keeping your gaze on them.

“Okay,” N whisper back with a deep sigh, “then I think you and I would’ve been brilliant together: on a pitch, as friends…as more than that, potentially.”

The latter is what stands out to you, and if N has revealed that then…

“We can still do that,” you say back, “be good together, I mean. As more than friends…if that’s what you’d want.”

N doesn’t know how they’re feeling right now. Shocked? Embarrassed? Glad you think and feel the same? They’ve only just got you into their life, this can’t be something that’s rushed and ruined

It isn’t a direct yes. It’s definitely not a no. More of a ‘we’ll see’.

“We should have a proper conversation about it one day…one where we’re not waiting for our friends to burst through the door at any moment,” N says with a faint smile.

“I’ll hold you to that,” you utter, with a smile returned.

#drabble #n tallon #you being in love with n warms my heart <3 #a drabble where n doesn’t actively hate the mc? I never thought this day would come #little found family <33 #alya ✨

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miraculouslycool · 2 years

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Marinette's Ladybug tip #33: alya pls make my cat happy even when he is fooling around pls laugh and make his kitty ears perk up pay attention to his jokes and make him smile pls

Marinette's Ladybug tip #600 something: save the world or whatever

#hack san #clownbug #alya cesaire is all of us #ladynoir #marichat

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xhanisai · 1 month

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🪐🍬🌿

Why hello there bby <3333

🪐 ⇢ name three good things going on in your life right now

I discovered how delicious biscoff spread is in coffee and have been a huge fan since then.

I realised I'm quite decent at drawing lace so I'm excited to incorporate that in future drawings.

I've made some progress in my ML horror fic.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Ahhhh this is gonna piss off a lot of ML fans BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

Kagami is NOT a good friend to Marinette imho. The fandom severely overlooks her actions and attitude from the end of s4 to the whole of s5 and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because they were waiting for Alya to do all that instead 💀. I will leave it at that cos I've already ranted all about it last year LOL.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

I NEED ADVICE COS I'M CONSTANTLY STRUGGLING WITH IT LOLOLOL.

But if I were to think of some tips, doing other creative things like drawing or playing music can help with writer's block.

Also, when writing you should first get the main parts written down. It doesn't matter if it's messy, full of terrible grammar and spelling, etc. Get it down. You can neaten it all up during the editing stage.

Oooh- I like to write on Discord first and have my friends read it. It can be really encouraging and give you dopamine at the same time!

Thank you for the ask MWAH MWAH <33

#my asks #i do try to keep my unpopular opinions regarding beloved characters in the fandom to myself #but unpopular opinions about unpopular characters? I WILL BE INSUFFERABLE AF #if it werent for adhd i'd have already animated buff gabriel twerking

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mila!! it's me again hehe; this song reminds me of p and I wanna share it with you!! It's called 'an art gallery could never be as unique as you' by mrld! 💖💖💖

Hi, Alya! I love when you send me asks, and it gives me another chance to tell you that I loved the edit you made of Arya and Phoenix yesterday <33

I listened to the song and it’s beautiful, it’s now in my liked songs and in P’s playlist, so thank you for sharing <3

#ask #p martens

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barking barking, ok so i am rereading a bit of the last chapter and the things i had noted last time so that i remember everything that happened but after that i am loose

having an awful idea to listen to the guitar solo of freebird on repeat as i read this.... i am going to do it there is a rotating rat on the 10 hours version i found, wonderful

SO UH THIS IS MASSIVE SORRY ALSO SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ CAPS LOVELY NEWEST CHAPTER SCROLL PAST THIS VERY FAST IT MAY TAKE A WHILE. THE READ MORE BUTTON DOESN'T WORK IN ASKS SO SORRY

(i refuse to edit it this time, it took me like. a while last time and this is even longer, so you also get the incomprehensible pieces and no added notes to explain what i meant <3 (also a lot more '<3' this time. not sure why))

MORE CROWS rrr, they are important i know it

the way panthera is surrounded by cats and crows is interesting... like its an amusing visual but also really kick ass if you frame it in your mind right

yes, i enjoy that juleka is confronting ladybug on how she leads, especially considering that we know for sure they are inexperienced, yes i like this conversation

ooo, this is interesting, dust all kicked up focussing on different senses...very fun, always interesting to see how they can rely on things other than sight

woahhh, the staff lets off green sparks?? its made of copper <3 wait i looked it up and... aluminium makes green fire too? huh? this isn't important <33

awesome visual tho

YEAH BEAT HIS ASS BRO roger cop my beloathed <3

massive baby guy would be scary...

yay! teamwork! carapace and panthera woohoo

gonna be honest free birds outro on loop is really setting the mood for fighting for me

stop making me google things cap... t-rexes were apparently in the "late cretaceous" like ok thanks movie franchise for lying to me ig

Rena- this is amazing- she would record that. wonderful descriptors <33

No <3 i do not need the heartbreak of juleka v akumatised rose again <3 stop it <3 you hurt me <3

oh thank god-

this mantra of "calm yourself" is intriguing, i think its not going to work <3 let her go ape shit please

YOO PRINCE SHINING?? NOO

THIS IS BAD ASS THO

HA AND DOWN HE GOES

she's gonna turn this car around road trip with them when?? it can be a well deserved break <3 i am pitching this idea cap <3 this is what i would like and i would like it very much (i kid, its just amusing to me)

no because. because. alya nino and chloe are still able to have fun in a fight and. and- juleka is over here like a war veteran while marinette is trying to corral them all and- upset now

oh no juleka blacked out?? oh dear...

chlolix crumbs... wonderful... (to be honest with you, searching through the chlolix ship tag years ago was why i found these fics, so i love to see them but i am so attached to the story now <33)

OO? violence in your heart juleka?? maim and kill him you say?? good idea <3

“Miss me?” He grinned maliciously. “No, whore.” Queen Bee scowled at her side. i am actually losing it this is the funniest thing i have seen today-

ooo dark cupid being used to farm akumas... this is reminding me of minecraft and zombie villager farming to get the best trades, i can see the video titles now "this hack will TRIPLE your akuma production in just three EASY steps" <- unsure what this is but it happened in my brain, so there you go <3

i do like the idea of dark cupids powers being used tactically like this, i enjoy how its thought out critically when an akuma has an obviously helpful / game changing power

</3 "ma, i'm so exhausted" you are so cruel

AUGH WHAT NO ough rena got got by kim...

marinette kiss her quick

ough emotional

imma be honest for a hot second i thought juleka got hit by dark cupids arrow which i was fascinated by the idea of, however i think if she is to lose self control it would be more interesting if it was due to circumstances than mind altering magic

??? interesting, "there was- for a flash- a blackness that seemed to writhe like a bubbling mass of ink up her fingers—!" curious...

D: chloe... :(

augh my heart... they all got got protecting each other...

YOUR EVIL THIS IS UPSETTING ME

um hello?? who is speaking to her in bold?? am i dumb for not knowing?? girly is hearing voices

kill him!

gigantitan baby cult...

alternate universe where neither of them remember any of the old akumas names and at one point one of the akumas is so offended by the idea of being forgettable its enough of a distraction to get them

not me trying to think about whether a wish could actually be beneficial in any overall capacity using the rules we were given because hawkmoth is saying it would be...

no but why is the fact that akumatised queen bee is just sad making me so upset-

this is such a fucking big chapter jesus christ-

"nicking her ear and taking out one of her piercings" make her design look like gargamels cat azrael 2k18

(thats the wrong year. uh. shhh thats just the auto fill in my head when i say 2k)

hawky boy has gone off the edge of sanity hasn't 'e...

WOAH ONE ON ONE?? OWHUWO

OH NO ITS GOING BADLY

ohno that guy in bold is back at it again being ominous as fuck ohh i am dumb its plagg. yeah that tracks i am but a silly guy

ooo is it happening? is she doing the thing??

YOO THAT WAS BETTER THAN WHAT I THOUGHT OF THAT WAS BADASS YOO??

OUHTFHEDW

really did a bilbo catching the one ring on his finger and turning invisible right when gollum was boutta catch him tense vibes moment i would describe this better but i must get back to reading this was awesome

OOO SHE DID END UP BEING CALM IT WORKED WOHDANW4FIBBDE

THIS IS BAD COMMENTARY I AM EXCITED OK??

augjh=gtfreinig4fgrninib4frnedw

the way that i'm insane for the idea that someone recorded this fight and everyone ends up seeing panthera being a fucking badass has me insane...

mmmm switching the music to metallica

oh that was the right decision perfect base drop timing for what i was reading

ough awoog wibnefr, insane for the way that she is not referring to herself as human rn

awwybgfwei bgyrfned insane for all of this actually

THIS WAS SO FUCKING COOL JESUS CHRIST OH MY GOD ABHWEBHUUNERI I WISH I COULD SHAKE YOU BY THE SHOULDERS AND EXPLAIN ARTICULATELY EVERY DETAIL I LOVED BUT ALAS ALL I CAN DO IS KEYBOARD SMASH AT YOU ACROSS THE INTERNET

love carapce actually <3

“You suck bro. Take an L dude, take an L.” “HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME– THIS IS MY MOMENT-” “IT’S A RANDOM FUCKING FRIDAY DUDE IT IS JUST A FRIDAY!” Carapace shouted, so frustrated, pinching his fingers together at the man. “YOU’VE WASTED SO MUCH TIME! GET A JOB!” love this so much actually

YO I FORGOT ABOUT MAYURA AND YOU FUCKING NAMED THE CHAPTER AFTER HER BRO

What a wonderful power, she thought. To protect, instead of hurt. stab in the heart why don't you

“HEY LADYBUG WE FOUND A BROKEN STICK!” “I FOUND IT FIRST ACTUALLY!” “I FOUND A FEATHER!” The two simply sighed love them all so dearly actually <3

awoog wiubfrne, whub?? juleka babe girly darling why are you still injured???? ough it was because of the metallica moment (<3 i have my own name for it, the songs i listened to while that was happening was Battery and Master of puppets btw)

well course it didn't heal from the cure, they are exact opposites so their direct effects would cancel out. like a plus and a minus, idiot

Apparently Rose might’ve fought Adam in a random parking lot that they had ended up in because she thought he might’ve hurt her during the attack so.. HWJB4IFE HA she would do that wouldn't she?

“Meh, it happens.” alix??? this is such a hilariously chill response??

nriew more chlolix crumbs...

Alix defended herself passionately, throwing up her hands as icing laid smeared on her lips. She paused for a moment, as Chloe half-heartedly wiped a bit off before continuing THATS GAY GAYY THEY ARE GAY A3WDWEUI sorry i got a bit excited there.

“Don’t worry, I won’t disappear.” “…Sometimes I–” “Yes?” Juleka pepped up. Rose paused and seemingly waved her thoughts away, smiling. “It’s nothing, don’t keep your big bro waiting!” RRRR REVEAL YOUR IDENTITY PLEASE OIGUHER RRRR

no because you somehow manage to keep it being a slow burn after they got together and i'm insane for that

actually they are the most adorable creatures in the universe i love them

I just didn’t think you’d start hearing them now.. huhwuh?? she is supposed to hear voices?????? weird wack ass side effects

ruhroh looks like thats the consequences of your actions nathalie

RUHROH THE CONSEQUENCES OF JULEKAS ACTIONS?? ough she has made herself an extra high value target

Her boy– no. Their boy shut up your in a queerplatonic relationship with gabriel and you both dated emilie in my head. he is your child to me <3 (i will write that damn 200k slowburn unhappy ending prequel i joked about if you fucking force my hand (ie. continue to make reference teeny tiny things like that (or maybe it will just start planning itself in my head right now curse you my brain)))

WAIT THE REST OF THIS PARAGRAPH IS SO SAD SHUT UP YOUR A CRUEL BEAST CAP

Emelie and Gabriel’s boy. He was not her’s. He would never be her’s. She was just– the assistant. The distant guardian. This was all for him though, if she could help– she could just. Maybe.. Nathalie shook her head at herself. What mattered was this family. UPSET NOW

TEARING YOU APART RIPPING YOU APART WITH MY TEETH CAP THIS WAS INCREDIBLE AND THIS TOOK ME OVER 2 HOURS

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I 4yrheiwjnow

you may receive asks in your future about me writing that thing i keep joking about. i am spinning it in my mind like this damn rat

i muted it at times but wanted a timer and uh

this is nearly 1800 words wrong what is wrong with me- yknow what no this is your fault for the monster size of this chapter, anyway, time to slap this beast into your inbox <33

THIS IS MADE ME SO SO SO SOSOSOSOSO SOS O HAPPY.,,,,,,,

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH,, IM GLAD YOU ENJOYED,,,

#panthera noire au #sneak a cat

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