#gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting

[galahadwilder]

Look I’m a huge fan of “Gabriel is completely unaware of things happening in Adrien’s life after he moves out because Adrien went No-Contact” because Fuck Gabriel™️ but please imagine the hilarity of Gabriel picking up the tabloids one morning to find out that his child has boobs now

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrien agreste #Adrienne agreste #trans adrien agreste #transfem Adrien agreste #original content #Gabriel agreste #Gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting

[burningstarfishqueen]

There are many more interesting things in Émotion’s endcard than Gabriel Agreste, but take a moment to look at his glasses.

A reflection in someone’s eyes of another’s face is common symbolism for love throughout the show. It’s always in their actual eyes, the image overlaid on their pupils and irises.

That’s how this symbolism is commonly used. It’s a nonverbal I love you.

This is very different, but far too similar not to compare them.

Gabriel’s eyes are empty. He has only disgust and frustration for Marinette. He may think he loves Adrien, but he hardly even knows him. He neglected him for months or a lifetime, depending what narrative you believe. A handful of bad breakfasts where he wastes their time together on manipulation and lies change nothing.

Why is Adrien reflected in Gabriel’s glasses? It’s a soulless mimicry of affection. It could symbolize how he abuses Adrien by twisting love itself, claiming his control as protection.

For Marinette, it’s a simple obsession. As Ladybug she’s been thwarting him since the beginning. Even without her powers she stood against him. His entire fight is focused on crushing her.

Gabriel doesn’t handle failure well. His repeated attempts to akumatize Marinette and her consistent resistance led him to develop a weird fixation on controlling her. It all comes back to control.

A reflection in someone’s eyes symbolizes their love, and that image instead at a distance in glasses represents an obsession with having them under control.

#miraculous ladybug #gabriel agreste #ml émotion #ml emotion #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #ml s5 spoilers #ml season 5

[dumbass-brunette]

So pretension…

It’s been a hot minute since I posted art but, I couldn’t not draw this scene.

Marinette is a saint, I love her 🥰

#miraculous #mlb #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #han’s ml tag #my posts #my art #my stuff #dumbass brunette #ml pretension #pretension spoilers #adrienette #marinette dupain chang #adrien ageste #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #i fucking hate that man with my entire soul

[loveisbananananas]

Love how “Marinette is invited to the Agreste’s for an approval meeting” is such a thing in fanfics and it’s usually like. They all sit down at this enormous dining table, Marinette is super nervous because Gabriel is her idol, Adrien gives her clues on how to handle herself, Gabriel is acting cold and the conversation is sparse, but in the end he is surprisingly approving of their relationship and impressed of Marinette (him plotting an evil scheme after depends on whether it’s an AU or not and how evil Gabi is written).

And then when it actually happens in 5x19, she isn’t even invited, she just invades the mansion. And Gabriel is like. Come on in little friend lol. Not you though Adrien. No pancakes for you today. Go to your room, Senti-Son. Gabriel proceeds to prepare the worst pancakes in the world and threatens to destroy Marinette’s career (she’s 14????) while mocking her designs so she basically calls him a dirty capitalist pig after running away from being forcefed disgusting pancakes and instead swears her eternal love to Adrien, insults Gabriel’s cooking skills and then just leaves while Gabe can do nothing but gape at her. Absolutely amazing behaviour from all of them would not trade it for the world

#ml #miraculous #Gabriel Agreste’s A+ parenting #bless this tag #ml pretention #pretention spoilers #ml season 5 spoilers #rest of the episode is kinda mid tho tbh #it’s mainly the Adrienfication of Felix #keeping up with the Agrestes

[gabrielagrestesaplus-moving]

I hope Gabriel tries to use five or more miraculous at once and just immediately drops.

#fu said it was dangerous to use more than one miraculous at a time #And then everyone got combos #I want that old man to go #I got this #And immediately collapse #bonus points if he goes fully comatose #gabriel agreste has no rights #gabriel agreste salt #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #fuck gabriel agreste #gabriel agreste #miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous: tales of ladybug and cat noir #tayto talks

[angstbabyjae]

Hey Gabriel. Just a thought. Maybe don’t give the entire world the ability to strip an image of your fourteen-year-old son down to his underwear. And give them the ability to make his voice say anything they want. Just a thought.

#miraculous ladybug #mlb #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #chat noir #hawk moth #shadow moth #monarch #my post

[yuttikkele]

OH I FORGOT GABRIEL SENSED ADRIEN WAS SAD WHEN HE GOT REJECTED BY MARINETTE AND HE’S ABOUT TO AKUMATIZE HIM AND THEN HE REALIZES IT’S ADRIEN AND HE GOES, “Adrien? Wait, Adrien doesn’t have an alliance ring! I better go give him one so I can give him Miraculous powers when I akumatize him. And I better pretend to be a good father even though I’m giving him a toy to distract him from the pain while I become even more distant.”

he pulled an, “all the better to akumatize you with!”

#and he tells adrien how he knows how love hurts even though adrien didn’t tell anyone why he was sad #but honestly adrien probably wouldn’t have noticed that was off either #miraculous ladybug #gabriel agreste #gabriel agreste’s A+ parenting #ack #text post

[dovelyanon]

Have you been keeping up with season five? It feels like Gabe and Adrien’s relationship has kinda gotten even more insidious with how he’s doing his manipulation schtick even more than ever. Before he was selling Adrien’s voice and body as a commodity in a technical way, using his image for his brand but now he’s literally selling digital versions of him who can say whatever you want and also be literally undressed for some kinda fashion app as shown in jubilation??? Adrien directly expressed his discomfort and Gabe’s response was nothing short of “i will go back to neglecting you unless you comply” I feel like dark angsters should be eating this up more than I’ve seen lmao

It is indeed an angst goldmine. I haven’t gotten a chance to peruse and see what other angsters are doing with Season 5 fic wise, but the angst potential is phenomenal. Gabriel has no morals and no rights.

If I have any energy left after my current fics, I might riff off the mess that is Season 5 Adrien’s life. Amazing how he manages to be both a Barbie girl and just Ken in the worst possible ways.

#adrien agreste needs a hug #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #angst for breakfast lunch and dinner

[rosie-b]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth & Nathalie Sancoeur Characters: Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Nathalie Sancoeur, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Additional Tags: minor season 5 spoilers, Crack, Gabriel Agreste’s A+ Parenting, Gabriel agreste is trying, Nathalie Sancoeur Does Not Get Paid Enough, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Ships It, accidentally, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Being an Idiot Summary:

Nathalie Sancoeur has had enough of Gabriel’s nonsense. Gabriel, feeling a bit guilty, allows his assistant to push him into spending more time with his son, only to learn a shocking secret. Adrien is in love with Ladybug! And in an even more shocking turn of events, Gabriel manages to accidentally encourage his son’s pursuit of Monarch’s biggest enemy.

 Warning: this does contain very minor spoilers for Season 5 (from Evolution, not the Bible leaks)

#gabriel agreste #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #ml fanfic #ml spoilers

[rwsdarw]

I keep changing my lineart sorry

#I’m tryna be expiermental and whatnot #anyways baby and parents slay #miraculous lb #mlb #miraculous fanart #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #emilie agreste #I don’t know what this is inspired by

[jattendschaton]

Émilie Agreste purposefully giving Adrien an allergy to feathers to make sure her son would never be able to use the peacock miraculous in the future

#miraculous ladybug #emilie agreste #adrien agreste #I'm never quite sure what I think about emilie as a parent #but clearly she was aware of gabriel's obsessive tendencies #and maybe she didnt want him to be able to force adrien #(his son who he can literally control to do anything) #to wield the peacock miraculous #hard to do much miraculous-ing when you're sneezing every two seconds ! #she trusted her husband so little she had to magically prevent him from using his son (in this specific way) #((obviously gabriel has lots of other ways of controlling his son)) #(((but this one particular way—the way that emilie is most familiar with and the way that was ultimately going to kill her— #he cant have that way. she will protect adrien at least from this. at least from what killed her))) #that or it was just for the bit #who knows

[galahadwilder]

Things I will never get tired of

Gabriel: remember you have a photoshoot at 7 am tomorrow

Adrien: that’s impressive, because I don’t work for you, haven’t for two years, am in the middle of suing you for harassment, and have a meeting at my ACTUAL job at 8. Also, how did you get this number?

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrien agreste #Gabriel agreste #Gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #original content

[burningstarfishqueen]

Something in the Miraculous movie bothered me. It took time to sort through everything, but I have it now. It’s the way the narrative handled Gabriel Agreste.

(trigger warning—discussions of abuse)

There’s a popular trope across media where an evil character carelessly hurts strangers but won’t harm their loved ones. It’s always annoyed me, but I never thought about it too much.

The show never uses that trope. Audrey’s generally nasty to everyone. She’s mean to strangers, awful to servants and staff, and abuses her husband and daughters. The closer you get, the more she hurts you.

The character I want to analyze is Gabriel Agreste. In the show, he’s a garden variety abuser. His obsession with Émilie escalated to the point where he ignored her wishes entirely, preserving her body in his basement while he fought to control death itself.

Control is the biggest factor in abuse. It’s woven all throughout his character, in every choice, every action, every word. Anytime Gabriel is onscreen with Adrien he is working manipulations to keep Adrien under his thumb.

The Butterfly is based on control. Perhaps not the powers as Nooroo wishes they were used, but the way the story presents them. Monarch sees a weakness in his victim and he takes over their mind, giving them a new name to change them into his puppet.

Gabriel started by abusing his son and trying to control his wife(it’s never made clear what Gabriel and Émilie’s relationship was like, but it wasn’t good). Terrorizing Paris was an escalation.

His love for Adrien could never stop him from hurting Chat Noir, because Gabriel’s love for Adrien isn’t enough to keep him from hurting Adrien himself.

Evil people hurt their families. Love has never stopped them. The kind of man who would terrorize a city, hurting countless strangers, would hurt his own child as well.

Statistics back up this take. There’s a reason murder investigations start with the spouse and continue through the rest of the family. The closer two people are, the more history they have. More reason to help and more reason to hurt. If someone tears down the boundaries stopping them from attacking other people, that applies to those they love just as much.

I have never met an evil person who was not hurting their family. Maybe they exist, but they’re nowhere near as common as fiction would like to believe. I guess it’s a nice fantasy.

Watching an abuse depiction I resonated with get swapped out for the fakest trope I’ve ever seen left a nasty taste in my mouth.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous movie #tw abuse #gabriel agreste #ml analysis #gabriel agreste’s a+ parenting #tw child abuse

[anna-scribbles]

they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)

#like guys. be real with me. how many options did you even try before turning to dark magic #nothing about the situation called for all that😭 #in my mind they're like 22 and 25 here which makes it all even funnier #guys please just adopt a dog or something😭 #nothing about either of you screams ready for parenthood #im so happy adrien agreste exists but the circumstances of his birth are so ridiculous #there is so much gabe and emilie couldve done besides this. they could have done anything #honestly knowing them(<-girl who believes she knows them) im not even convinced the infertility treatment wasnt working #I think they just both were so allured by the concept of a magic baby #they were like six months in and hadn't gotten pregnant yet and were like. well. I guess we're out of options! dark magic it is! #and made it everyone else's problem forever #these two wanted to be doomed by the narrative SO bad #honestly though being a 22 year old girl I kind of yet it. sometimes I see a cute baby and want one so bad maybe I too would use dark magic #maybe emilie agreste was just a girl. #anyway. sorry adrien that your parents were Like This but it is so so funny #anna rambles #ml #gabriel agreste #emilie agreste

[uptoolateart]

Okay, so what I was saying in my long Gabriel analysis rings true. (Ha ha...rings....) He changed to be accepted by Emilie's parents.

Deep down, Gabriel probably relates to Marinette. In the story Feligami tell...Marinette could easily be the poor tailor, while Adrien is the heir to the empire, ready to throw it all away for her.

At some point, Gabriel got twisted and sold out his values. It was probably a gradual process, which explains why Emilie initially fell in love with him and then stuck with him despite her unhappiness with him later.

In one of her videos for Nathalie, she said Gabriel got stuck on things. He was good enough for her but not for himself.

When he looks at Marinette, he sees a little of what he used to be. When he gives her that speech about being naive in the fashion world...he's talking about himself, once upon a time. I think he once had a dream like hers, and he let it go, focusing instead on the wealth and status he needed to be good enough for his in-laws.

Now, he envies Marinette, even if he's unaware of it. That's the only reason a grown man would be fixated on her in that way. He's treating her the way Emilie's parents treated him. He has to break her and get her out of his son's life because if he doesn't - if she achieves her dreams of marrying Adrien and becoming a designer without selling out her principles - it means he could have done this too. It will force him to reflect and take accountability for his bad decisions...and he just can't cope with that.

Similarly, when he hurls abuse at Cat Noir about what an ill-mannered child he is, and when he goes to such lengths to control Adrien...I really think he's seeing a reflection of his younger self there too.

Underneath the pancakes and bad dancing and total insanity, the man is nothing but a writhing heap of regrets and won't see that he had so many chances to do things another way.

#miraculous ladybug #mlb #ml fandom #ml gabriel #gabriel agreste's a+ parenting #gabriel agreste #ml representation #ml spoilers #ml s5 spoilers #ml s5 #ml meta #ml analysis #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #ml adrien #ml marinette #adrinette #adrienette #emilie agreste

[gabrielagrestesaplus-moving]

Okay guys, so... Here's the deal

If y'all haven't noticed the change in username, this blog is moving!

It's currently a side blog on my main, and I've been in the process of moving that for almost a month now. I finished going through all my drafts and getting everything fixed up, so as of today, I'll be moving gabrielagrestesaplusparenting over to its own blog

I got my old tag back, since I set up the blog as soon as I changed the username on this one, so you can still find me @gabrielagresteaplusparenting , and if you wanna see what I'm doing outside of Miraculous Ladybug (mostly what we do in the shadows and Ranma 1/2 rn, but that's subject to change), come say hi on my new main @laughingsapphic

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