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Miraculous Fandom Stats
Ao3 Wrap Up 2023
I don’t know if anyone has done this, I hope I don’t step on anyone’s toes. Here a wrap up for 2023 for Miraculous Ladybug!
This study only assesses the fanfics posted by the last update, so if there was an older fic that was from 2021 that was updated in 2023, this would be captured by this study.
📈 The data presented here is a snapshot of the Fandom on: 05 Jan 2024
🖤 Works posted to Ao3 in 2023
In 2023 there were 10,515 fanfics posted (including crossovers and all languages). The median word count per fanfic was 2,268 words. In general, each fic received 5 comments, 561 hits and 36 kudos (median).
A majority of fanfics were not crossovers (Fig 1). The peak of Ao3 posts for Miraculous Ladybug was in 2021 with a total of 11,350 fanfics. Fanfics with crossovers have had a steady rise in popularity from 2018 with a peak of 2,609 in 2021.
Fig 1. A total number of fanfics posted to Ao3 in 2023 for the Miraculous Ladybug fandom without crossovers (blue line) and with crossovers (dotted line).
Note that this analysis will excludes crossovers (a separate analysis to come!).
Fig 2. Total number of completed fanfics (red) and incomplete fanfics (pink) posted to Ao3 in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom for 2023 (excluding crossovers).
Fig 3. Total number of words per fic published or updated in 2023. The median word count per fanfic in 2023 was 2,268 words.
The most frequently used tags for 2023 were (in descending order):
Fluff (1495)
Angst (1040)
Identity Reveal (982)
Aged-Up Characters (968)
Alternate Universe (732)
Hurt/Comfort (700)
Adrien Needs a Hug (510)
🏆 Highlights in 2023 include
Miraculous Ladybug Season 5 Finale, s05e26, Re-Creation (Part 2) (First Airdate: July 01, 2023) [2]
Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie (Released: July 05, 2023) [3]
Miraculous Paris Special (Preview Screening: October 15, 2023) [4]
🖤 Most Tagged Side of the Lovesquare in 2023
Fig 4. Percentage of fanfics tagged with different sides of the Lovesquare.
Note that these are only taking into account fics that use this tag. There may be fanfics that have sides of the Lovesquare that are not indicated. This analysis also includes tags for Marichat May, Ladrien July etc.
Adrinette (34.5%; 737 fics)
LadyNoir (32%; 677 fics)
MariChat (23.5%; 501 fics)
Ladrien (10%; 213 fics)
🖤 Top 10 Characters Pairings on Ao3 (excluding Lovesquare)
Alya/Nino (927 fics)
Luka/Marinette (734 fics)
Juleka/Rose (405 fics)
Nathaniel / Marc (337 fics)
Felix / Marinette (317 fics)
Gabriel / Nathalie (286 fics)
Adrien / Luka (269 fics)
Felix / Kagami (183 fics)
Adrien / Kagami (159 fics)
Kagami / Marinette (158 fics)
There was a large shift in a number of pairings, in particular there was a dramatic increase in the number of fics tagged with Felix Fathom / Kagami Tsurugi (see below the cut for Season 5 spoilers). Other notable mentions are also Marinette Dupain-Cheng / Zoe Lee with a 2.5 fold increase in fanfics posted in 2023 (63 in total) compared to 2022 (26 in total).
🖤 Conclusions
It’s been a big year, and one that is controversial in many ways. I was just curious to see if there’s a decrease in activity since the season 5 finale, but it looks like the fanfiction writing is going strong. But are fans tuning out? Or are we trying to create more fix-it fics? (I will delve into that in a different post, since this was quite labour intensive).
There have been some interesting changes in relationship tags as well as tags for Sentimonsters (below the cut).
Methodology, References and Season 5 Spoilers below the cut:
Warning: Season 5 spoilers below:
🖤 2023 was also the year Feligami became official
This has lead to a dramatic increase in fanfics for the power couple.
Fig 5. The total number of fanfics posted on Ao3 for Felix / Kagami, represented per month saw a dramatic increase since the release of Season 5 in 2023 (blue). In contrast, I have plotted the total number of fanfics per month 2022 (red).
💔 2023 was also when the sentimonster theory was confirmed
Fig 6. Fanfiction that have used tags for Sentimonsters since 2018. Note that this is not a cumulative plot and that the numbers are individual works from each year tagged for Sentimonster.
In 2023, there were 192 works that tagged for Sentimonster Adrien, and 95 for Sentimonster Felix and 34 for Sentimonster Kagami. Recent usage for the tag 'Adrien is not a Sentimonster' was also observed (21 cases).
Please don’t be mad at me. I’m just a stats hamster.
Methodology
Filtering
The analyses start from Sep 05, 2012 when the first promotional video (PV) for Miraculous Ladybug was publicly leaked [1].
Since the website is very active, the information may change as this data is best considered to be a snapshot of the fanfics posted at this point in time. Also note that the filter is also for last update, and not first posted, so that older fics may be captured in later datasets. But for the purposes of this study, I am assuming that if the author is updating, then they are still active in the fandom.
To get an idea on what was posted to Ao3 this year, I have filtered for last published date 01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023. Note that while there was only an option for selecting by Last Post Date, which meant that works originally posted earlier (pre-2023) would still be captured if it was updated within the bounds of these dates.
Furthermore, it is also possible to backdate works on Ao3 which may also give false results. However, it may be likely that if this did happen it would only be a small percentage of fanworks. As such the data is an approximation of fandom activity during 2023.
Relationship Tags
I have followed the Ao3 rules so that / are taken to mean romantic relations and & for platonic relationships. In this analysis, I have combined the numbers for Felix (PV), Felix Graham de Vanily and Felix Fathom.
References
[1] Miraculous PV (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Ladybug_PV)
[2] Miraculous Ladybug Re-Creation (s05e25) World Premiere (Switzerland) (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Re-creation_(The_Final_Day_-_Part_2)#google_vignette)
[3] Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10364034/releaseinfo/)
[4] Miraculous Paris Special (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Paris)
#miraculous ladybug#fandom stats#ao3 stats#miraculous fanfic#miraculous fandom#miraculous fanworks#hamster stats#2023#miraculous season 5#Feligami is the new black#There may be Sentimonsters too
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L'âge de L'amour Masterpost
This is the masterpost for last years MariChat May story, L'âge de L'amour, that I promised to make, but never got around to, then forgot about. Sorry.
A series of short chapters which deals with Marinette and Chat bonding over ending up in the public eye and realising how comfortable they are with one another.
Read on AO3 (Link to a post with the link. Want this masterpost to stay within tag searches)
Ch 1: You carried me bridal-style in one akuma attack and now Paris ship us together (Day 6)
Ch 2: Mari protects Chat (Day 7)
Ch 3: Touch Starved (Day 12)
Ch 4: Cuddles + petting + nuzzles (Day 16)
Ch 5: Nightmares (Day 13)
Ch 6: Kitty Kisses (Day 8)
Ch 7: Are you…doodling Chat Noir??? (Day 11)
Ch 8: Belt Tail (Day 9)
Ch 9: Catnip (Day 10)
Ch 10: Heartbeat (Day 17)
Ch 11: Ridiculous Romantic Gestures (Day 15)
Ch 12: I made you a mask to wear out of the suit (Day 19)
Ch 13: The Real MariChat aka Mari and Plagg interactions (Day 22)
Ch 14: “Can I pick princess?” (Day 2)
Ch 15: I told you it was a bad idea to do that (Day 14)
Ch 16: I thought I lost you (Day 20)
Ch 17: Finale
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Marichat May 19
(The Lost Episodes continue! This one I stopped writing because I wasn’t sure if it counted. I’ve decided it counts.)
I Made You a Mask
Chat Noir landed on Marinette’s bed and looked around quickly.
Deserted. Perfect.
His ring gave another frantic beep. He took a deep breath and allowed the transformation to drop. Plagg flew up to his face, unamused.
“Your house is literally a block away,” the kwami reminded him.
Adrien looked away. “It’s a big block,” he reasoned. “I didn’t know if I’d make it on time.”
“Uh huh. And the idea of seeing your girlfriend again—”
“She’s not my girlfriend.”
“—instead of being chewed out by your father for not practicing your piano again… was just a happy coincidence?” Plagg said, giving him a sideways stare.
“You got it!” Adrien said cheerfully, shooting his kwami some finger guns. He flopped back onto the bed, relaxing for a moment and letting the familiar scent of this place wash over him. His eyes happened to fall on the pictures Marinette had. “I don’t know why he even bothers to have me play anymore,” he muttered, frowning at the Gabriel ads. “It’s not like he ever comes to my recitals.”
There was a bang down below, and Adrien sat up straight, looking down in horror as Marinette came up into her room.
He dove under the blankets.
“Plagg,” he hissed, “claws—”
“Cheese, kid,” Plagg deadpanned, reminding Adrien that they’d used Cataclysm in the battle they’d just gotten back from. Adrien dug around in his jacket. Blast. He was all out of his emergency supply!
“Chat, is that you?” Marinette called.
Adrien winced. “Um, yeah!”
“You sound weird. Is everything okay?”
Crap. Crap. Crap! Her voice was getting closer! “Everything’s fine!”
“You’d better not have my yarn collection under there with you,” she warned. Judging from her voice, she was on the stairs to her bed, if not closer.
“Nope! Just me!” he said, trying to laugh. He felt the blanket move. “No, don’t!” he yelped, pulling the covers tighter around himself.
“I knew it!” Marinette cried, exasperation running through her voice as she pulled on the blanket again. “You do have something you’re not supposed to! What is it? My yarn? My diary? I swear to God, if you’re trying to read my diary, Chat—"
“I’m not!” he yowled, perfectly aware that his bad track record was not working in his favor as she tugged harder. “I’m—”
His throat closed on the words. His mind spun. If he told her he wasn’t transformed right now, what would she do?! Would she still pull the covers off?! Her best friend was Alya; surely she’d want to know who he was too, right?!
And when she found out who he really was… ohhhh, she’d hate him!!
Panicked, he could only squeak and growl as they continued to fight over the blankets. It was turning into an all-out wrestling match! He had to think of something! Something to distract her! Something! ANYTHING!
Marinette, realizing that she wasn’t going to be able to pull the blankets up, suddenly switched tactics and dove underneath them.
With him.
“Gotcha, kit—!”
Adrien panicked and pounced, throwing her down onto the bed. Then, before she could look up at him, one of his hands quickly covered her eyes while the other pinned her hands above her head.
Crap! She was still trying to fight him!!
“Don’t you dare tickle me, you—!"
With one part of his brain in full panic mode (DISTRACT HER! DISTRACT HER! DISTRACT HER!!) and the other trying to find a way to keep her immobile (HOLY CRAP, SHE’S STRONG! WHY IS FIGHTING SO HARD?!) he did the first thing that came to mind.
He covered her lips with his.
Marinette froze beneath him.
And he froze above her. Knowing perfectly well how bad this looked.
Here he was—without his catsuit—pinning his classmate to her bed—kissing her on the mouth—both of them breathing heavily—please nobody come through that door, this looks really bad—and… OH MAN, HOW LONG HAD HE BEEN KISSING HER NOW?!
He quickly broke the kiss, shifting his weight so he could get up off her. He still didn’t dare take his hand away from her eyes.
“You,” Marinette gasped, freeing one arm and trying to force his hand away from her face, “have about two seconds to explain yourself before I knee you below the belt, buster!”
“Sorry,” he panted, his face now brighter than Ladybug’s costume. “I just—”
“Chat,” she said, her voice suddenly calm. “Are your hands touching me?” Her own fingers were tracing the skin of his hand as he continued to pin her down.
“I can explain—”
“Not your gloves?”
“Umm…”
“Oh my God,” she groaned, going limp beneath him. “You’re not transformed right now, are you.”
“Please don’t peek,” he begged. “I just… kinda panicked.”
“I’ll say,” she muttered. “Let me go, please. I promise I won’t peek.” He hesitated, wondering if Plagg would be able to suddenly, miraculously transform him right now. “Chat, I’m serious. I don’t want to know your identity. I even made you a mask for this very situation.”
He blinked. “Really?!” he asked incredulously, finally sitting up.
True to her word, Marinette’s eyes remained closed.
“Yes, really, you silly cat,” she teased, still not moving. “Now, go hide under my blankets again so I can grab it for you.”
He obeyed, feeling a bit foolish. And now that his mind was clear, he wanted to kick himself. Of course he could trust Marinette! Why had he ever doubted her?! He’d even offered to reveal himself before, and she’d turned him down! Geez, he got stupid when he panicked! A few moments later, he heard, “Hand out, kitty!” and stuck his hand out to feel her press a small mask into it.
Relief washed over him as he put it on. She truly was super-amazing. He poked his head out of the blanket, but kept it wrapped around himself.
“Thanks, princess,” he chirped, trying to get some the Chat Noir swagger back into his voice. She’d said he sounded funny earlier… it was probably the lack of magic.
“What are you still doing in that blanket?” she asked, looking amused.
“I’m a purrito.”
“Chat…”
“You might recognize my clothes,” he explained with a wry grin. Gabriel exclusives… he’d be surprised if she didn’t recognize them, actually. Especially with her attention to detail.
To his surprise, she groaned and hit her head with her hand. “Did you basically just tell me I know you as a civilian?” she asked, sounding exasperated again.
He swallowed. Oops.
“I umm… I can neither confirm nor deny that you and I could have, but maybe haven’t, though it’s not for certain, possibly have not seen each other sometime throughout the day,” he said, giving her an innocent grin.
She gave him a deadpan stare. “So… yes, then.”
He licked his lips nervously. “Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to, princess,” he reminded her.
She shook her head at him and turned away to go back down the stairs. “Where’s your kwami? Let’s fill him up so you can get your dirty shoes off my bed.”
“My shoes aren’t—! Wait,” Adrien said, staring at her. “How do you know what a kwami is?”
She went pale.
“Ah-Alya?!” she laughed nervously. “She—uh, posted an exclusive interview about Rena Rouge last month!”
“Really?” he said, raising an eyebrow. “I didn’t see that one. And I have the Ladyblog as my homepage.”
“Oh? Really? Maybe she forgot to post it, silly girl!” Marinette said, smiling a bit too widely to be believable. “She sometimes lets me look at stuff before she posts it, so that must be where I saw it, yeah!” She laughed again. Adrien scowled. While it was (sorta) believable… why was she acting so nervous?
“Well, I’ll go get you some cheese!” she said, taking off downstairs again.
And how had she known Plagg liked cheese?? His kwami floated up beside him, grinning. Adrien narrowed his eyes. Before he could say anything, Plagg made a motion like he was zipping his lips shut and dove after Marinette.
“Hey, Princess! You got any camembert?!”
And Adrien was left alone with his spinning thoughts.
...WaRC
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This was for Marichat May Day 8 Kitty Kisses
Two ways of doing that, right?
#miraculous ladybug#marichat#marinette dupain-cheng#chat noir#marichat may 2018#my art#pictures arts#animation#my animation
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Marichat May Day 11 - “Are you Doodling Chat Noir?”
AO3 | <<Day 10 Day 11 Day 12>>
“Are you drawing Chat Noir?” the flowery voice floated over his shoulder and Adrien found himself slamming his hands over his sketch in a nervous reaction, his brain immediately associating anything with ‘Chat Noir’ as the uttermost secret and demanding he protect it.
Rose’s friendly laughter caused his muscles to untense and his brain to remind him that he was supposed to be drawing in Art Class; there was nothing suspicious about the action aside from his suspect drawing talent. He sighed a little and loosened his grasp on the sketch trying to calm down his pounding heart.
“Sorry Adrien! I didn’t mean to startle you.” Rose smiled still craning over his shoulder to look at the drawing. “It’s just that, if it is Chat, we have a ‘Chat Noir Support’ wall and I thought you might like to add it?”
She gestured behind them to the far wall of the classroom where Adrien could just make out a Large Green poster board, a red one beside it and both teaming with art work.
“A Chat Noir Wall?” he responded dazed at the idea and pleasantly confused that someone had decided to make a whole wall of Art in support of him; Chat him!
“Yup! It was Marinette’s idea, we have a Ladybug one as well and when the walls are full we’re going to scrap book the art and gift it too them! It’s this semesters project in Art Group.” Rose’s expression had lit up at his interest, her voice babbling away as Adrien stood and began to approach the wall in a haze. A funny feeling of excitement growing in his gut.
Adrien nodded pleasantly she spoke, politeness ingrained, but he didn’t really respond instead trying to take in the art before him as fast as possible not wanting to miss a single piece. Both boards were almost fully covered in artwork but Chat’s seemed to contain many more sketches, lots of smaller ones filling the broad space rather than just the large finished art pieces. He smiled at some of the goofier images; Chat playing with Yarn, Chat dangling upside from a lamp post, Chibi Chat sat in a Box, they went on and on and each one was just as much as a gift as the one before.
His eyes eventually found a sketch of Chat in repose; it was Chat’s profile sketched from behind, he was leaning on a balcony fence glancing backwards at the artist, the Paris skyline making his expression glow and making the small smile on his lips visible to all. It was completely pencil but somehow the soft light was practically glowing; it was stunning, and it was also somewhat familiar.
“Rose, who drew this one?” His voice sounded far away to his own ears as he asked.
She squealed and gestured to a tiny initial in the corner “Oh that’s one of my favourites, isn’t it so romantic? It’s one of Marinette’s, you can see her signature on the bottom here!”
Rose went on to gesture at another of her favourites on the Ladybug wall but Adrien wasn’t listening any more, his heart beat pounding so loudly in his ears it drowned out everything else. Marinette had drawn him, Chat him, and it was aweing. He could practically feel the warmth expressed in the sketch, the tone inviting him in and promising him cuddles over movies, chattering over nothing and everything, playfights over the last sweet treat and sleepy comfort in the dark of night. His heart swelled as he touched the little signature and Adrien suddenly felt much more exposed than any Photo had ever left him, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. How could it be when it was Marinette he was sharing this feeling with?
His eyes flickered away from the artwork and his growing blush firmly settled in as Adrien suddenly caught just how many little ‘MDC’s were scribbled across the other image too; all kinds of them from the goofy sketches to the detailed masterpieces, there were even fashion designs thrown in. Marinette’s work must have provided at least half of the pieces on the wall and Adrien was thrilled, the warmth of the gesture spreading down to his toes; Marinette thought about him, Marinette thought about him in her spare time and drew him, Marinette cared about him enough to doodle him on a regular bases, Marinette thought about him so often that he inspired her fashion designs, Marinette who cared enough to not only put up a wall about him but to fill at least half of it with art! Marinette who was warm, wonderful, bright and kind, Marinette who offered him companionship for nothing in return, Marinette his best friend, Marinette who he was totally falling in love with-
“Oh!” the breathy happy sigh escaped his smiling lips.
Side note: Set before day 10 time wise!
Also yup still going, day 12 will be up tomorrow!
#Marichat may 2018#day 11#marichat#miraculous ladybug#adrien#chat noir#adrientte#marinette#rose lavillant#fluff#so fluffy#tooth rotting fluff#im not sorry#in this house we love and respect marinette dupain-cheng#my drabbles
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Marichat May - Day 1 - You’re Injured. Please Stay the Night. Please.
What better way to start a new month!
#Marichat may 2018#marichat#marichat may#chat noir#marinette#miraculous ladybug#miraculess#my art#fire star animations#candasaurus
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[ Marichat May ] | Day 1—”You’re injured, please stay the night. Please.”
Better late than never??
DO NOT REPOST //
#Miraculous Ladybug#Marichat May 2018#Marichat#Chat Noir#Marinette#sketches#not sure how many I'll get to#but I'll try#bc I am le tired™#also not sure how practical it is for him to stay the night OR if they could get injured buT OH weLL too bad
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Day 11 - Are you drawing Chat Noir???
hmm check and mate.
instagram | ko-fi
alternative panel:
#miraculous ladybug#marichat#marichat may 2018#adrienette#marinette dupain-cheng#adrien agreste#chat noir#marichat may#ml comic#ml fanart#idk how the EF to tag this wow#miraculous ladybug fanart#sorry this is very scribbly#doodle tag#my art
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😘😻
I’ll be posting this on my Instagram @OhSweetSweetie too!
#sweet art post#Miraculous Ladybug#Marinette Dupain-Cheng#chat noir#adrien agreste#marichat#miraculous sweetiebug#marichat may 2018#marichat may
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Stay the night
#marichat may#marichat#ml#miraculous ladybug#marinette cheng#chat noir#marichat may 2018#fanart#digital art#gif#my art
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Page 03-21
Original story by Sairenhaira and Kurohaha
Miraculous Ladybug copyright to Thomas Austruc and Zagtoon
03-20 ----- 03-22
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MariChat May Day6: You carried me bridal-style in one akuma attack and now Paris ships us together
I fell into an artist block and I am so much behind now ;( Fighting it off with a sketchy MariChat.
#marichat may 2018#marichat#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#marichat may#chat noir#adrien agreste#ml marinette#marinette dupain-cheng#tales of ladybug and cat noir
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Idk if I’ll get though the whole month but here we are
Idea cred : @cotton-candy-planet 😂
#muii art#marichat may 2018#marichat May#muii sketches#marinette dupen chang#ml#miraculous ladybug#ladybug and chat noir#chat noir#cat noir#your injured please stay the night#day 1
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Marichat May 25
(What do you mean, it’s January? Fine, we’ll just call these the “lost episodes.” Enjoy some Marichat!)
Chat Noir Merch
“Princess! Princess! Look at what I found!!” Chat exclaimed, bouncing down to her room, his arms full of bags.
Marinette sighed. “Why do you keep calling me that, Chat?” she asked. “I’m not a princess; my family isn’t even rich! I’m just a baker’s daughter!”
You. Are. Not!” Chat said, sounding scandalized. “You are the best baker’s daughter, which makes you Baking Royalty here in Paris. Nay, all of France!” he declared, making grand sweeping motions.
Marinette shook her head, unable to stop smiling at his antics.
“And,” he added, putting his bags down and starting to dig through them. “You live at the top of a tower, complete with balcony. Therefore: princess.”
Well, who could argue with that logic?
“And!” he added again, holding up a finger before she could stop him, “We met when an evil villain fell in love with you and I had to save you from his evil clutches.”
Uh huh. Like she hadn’t pretty much saved herself that night…. Marinette rolled her eyes.
“And look at this! Now you can wear your gallant knight’s colors!” he said proudly, taking a shirt out of the bag.
She burst out laughing. It was a black, oversized shirt with neon-green letters that proudly proclaimed: LITTER-ALLY PURR-FECT.
And he had more. Bags of them. Some even had his picture on them, while they said things like: HISS-TERICAL CAT-TITUDE and FELINE FINE.
“Oh my God, Chat,” Marinette said, shaking with laughter. “I know you didn’t raid that little boot-legger’s stand who started selling superhero merchandise!!”
“I bought one of everything that was good!” he said, nodding eagerly while sporting some cat-themed sunglasses. “Look! Look! Now I have six ears!!” He tapped his human ears, the cat ears on his head, and then the two tiny points on the sunglasses shaped like cat ears.
Marinette giggled. Then she finally got up. She had to see what else was in those bags. Each new item had her laughing. T-shirts, plushies, action figures— Her eyes fell on the biggest bag and she reached for it.
“A body pillow? Really, Chat?” she said, raising an eyebrow at Ladybug’s face spread all over said pillow.
He quickly snatched it away from her. “It’s for cuddling!” he insisted, shoving it back in the bag and refusing to look at her. “I don’t know what your lecherous teenage mind is thinking about!”
Marinette giggled. She was so teasing him for that later! But she was already digging for more.
“Boxers!” she exclaimed, holding them away from herself with two fingers. Chat quickly snatched them, a flush spreading over his face when he realized she’d already seen the Ladybug spots all over them.
He bit his lip and tried to laugh it off. “I got some for you too!” he said hopefully, holding up another pair, this time with Chat Noir paws on it.
She couldn’t breathe anymore, she was laughing so hard. “I’m not—wearing those!” she wheezed.
“You sure? They’re really soft!” he teased, pushing the shorts closer and closer to her face.
“Get it away!” she howled, grabbing a smaller pillow from the bags and whacking him upside the head with it. Belatedly, she realized it was a Chat Noir-themed pillow, so she had essentially just—
“Did you just hit me with my own face?!”
“Maybe,” she said in a small voice, curling into a defensive position and giving him a challenging grin. He grinned back and dug around in another bag, producing his own little pillow, this time with Ladybug’s face on it.
“You may disrespect me,” he declared. “But not even you can take on… MY LADY! HYAH!!!” He sprang at her, attacking her with the pillow. She wheezed with laughter, trying to defend herself with the tiny Chat Noir pillow, and gave as good as she got.
Suddenly, both pillows exploded into a cloud of feathers. She and Chat stared dumbly at each other for a moment.
“Geez, what cheap pieces of—ACHOO!!” Chat said, raising his hand to his face in an effort not to breathe the feathers. Too late, though. His eyes were already watering. “ACHOO!! ACHOO!!” He backed away, but his sneezing was obviously only getting worse.
“Get downstairs,” Marinette ordered, taking control of the situation as usual. “Ask my mom for some antihistamines or something, and stay down there until I say it’s clear.”
“But, princess—”
“Go! I’ll clean this up!”
Chat opened his mouth to argue, but was seized by another sneezing fit. Shooting her a look of regret, he pulled up the trapdoor and fled downstairs.
She shook her head as she cleaned up the mess of feathers (ugh, these were so cheap and—eew, they stuck everywhere!! What the heck? Were they super old or something?). She was going to have to take these pillows and re-stuff them with cotton fluff or poly-fil. That stupid vendor had probably prattled on about how they were stuffed with high-quality down, and Chat hadn’t even thought twice.
Her silly cat, she thought fondly, gathering up the excessive merchandise. It hadn’t escaped her notice; he had twice as much Ladybug stuff as his own. Ah, well. Who was she to judge somebody for having a crush? She thought, glancing at her photos of Adrien. An idea struck her, and she finished cleaning up with a light heart.
Chat was nursing a cup of tea and her mom was just leaving when Marinette finally came downstairs.
“Hello, dear,” Sabine waved. “I need to go check on your father downstairs. You two don’t have too much fun now!” Marinette shook her head at her mother and turned back to Chat.
“I am so sorry!” he said immediately, before she could even open her mouth. Marinette giggled.
“It’s fine, Chat Noir,” she assured him. “But no more going to cheap tourist vendors, ok? If you wanted Chat Noir and Ladybug dolls, I could’ve made you some myself.”
“You mean, like the ones Puppeteer got a hold of?” he asked slowly.
Marinette blinked. “Yeah. Oh, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to bring up bad memories—”
“No!” he said quickly, eyes wide. “I would love a pair of those dolls! Umm… if it’s not too much trouble…?”
“Not at all. And I’ll remember your feather allergy and stuff them with something else,” she teased.
He laughed awkwardly. Then frowned. “Wait. How did you know I had a feather allergy?”
Marinette felt the color drain from her face. “Uhhh—the Ladyblog! That Alya! She posts everything!” she said, trying to laugh it off.
“Right….”
Chat still looked thoughtful, so she decided to distract him.
“However, I do require payment for my services!” she said. He looked at her, surprised.
“Yeah, of course—”
“You have to take a picture with me!”
“Huh?” Now the superhero looked dumbfounded.
“For my wall,” she explained. “I have pictures of all my friends on my wall, so I need a picture with you.”
“Really?!”
Was it just her, or were his eyes going misty?
“Yeah. C’mon, let’s take it on my balcony, so we can get a backdrop of Paris at night!” she said, grabbing his hand.
Marinette swore she heard him sniffle before he eagerly followed her upstairs. She had no idea what had him so upset, so she decided to try to lighten the mood by teasing him some more while they were passing through her bedroom.
“You know,” she drawled, reaching for the bag with the Ladybug body pillow, “you could take a picture with this, and it’ll be just like—”
“Knock it off!” he pouted, a smile tugging on his lips. He turned away from her in a huff, and caught sight of her walls. She felt a chill go through her when he turned back towards her. His grin was positively wicked. “Pictures of all your friends, huh?” he said slowly.
Uh oh. She could see where this was going.
“Well, this Adrien Agreste must be a really good friend,” Chat teased, waggling his eyebrows at her.
“Stop it!” she said, that particular phrase reminding her of Adrien’s continued obliviousness. Of course, that was partially her fault, for not being able to talk to him….
“Ok, truce,” she said. “You don’t tease me about my crush and I won’t tease you about yours. Deal?”
Chat blinked at her in shock. “Crush?!” he repeated.
“Yes, kitty. Crush. The one you confessed to me awhile ago, remember? The giant monster ice cream man?” she said, rolling her eyes. “Well, you: Ladybug. Me: Adrien.”
His eyes were now as round as saucers.
“Oh. OH,” he said, as the concept finally seemed to penetrate his head. He stared at her in disbelief. “But you—”
“And you can’t tell anyone!” she demanded. “Swear to it. Both of us! We’ll keep this secret ‘til the end!” She stuck out her hand. Still staring at her in a daze, he shook it, sealing their bargain.
“Now, let’s go take this picture!” Marinette said, heading up to the balcony. Hopefully, if she had a few pictures of him on her walls, Chat Noir wouldn’t tease her too much about Adrien.
She didn’t notice his thoughtful gaze after her.
...WaRC
#marichat may 2018#marichat may#marichat#chat noir#marinette dupain cheng#chat noir merch#i am so late it's not even funny#but better late than never#right?
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Marichat May Day 10 - Catnip
AO3 | <<Day 9 Day 10 Day 11>>
Between the kitten kisses, yarn wars and the flicking tail Marinette had obviously worked out that Chat Noir had some cat like tendencies. At first it was just another of Chat’s quirks but her typical inquisitiveness meant she just had to know how many tendencies; how cat like was he? Did he like fish? Cat toys? Laser pens? Did his ears twitch too? What was the most cat like thing he did? Since Chat was as curious as his name sake they’d ended up compiling a list of things to test between them that, at his suggestion, Marinette was to implement them as a surprise. Chat believing his ‘human brain’ sometimes needed to be caught off guard for the ‘cat senses’ to kick in.
She’d decided that tonight was the perfect time to use one of her planned surprises for the Cat Nip test. Chat would often pop by to steal a snack on the way to solo patrol, so she’d pre-emptively lined her balcony with Cat nip potted plants, tossing a bunch of catnip sprayed yarn balls around the patio too, just for good measure. Satisfied she’d settled into her deck chair with a plate of macaroons for him and waited, her phone ready and open on the camera app; she was at least hoping he’d roll around a little like the cute tiger video she’d watched online, it was going to be adorable she was sure!
Marinette had been so eager in her plan that she’d set up just a little early and by the time he finally arrived she was sat with her eyes closed, just about to doze off. He landed almost silently on the railings, the sound of a potted plant teetering slightly in its saucer was the only thing tipping her off to his arrival. She waited stock still for his reaction, not even daring to peak as the corner of her lips twitched in anticipation. But only a sniffle broke the silence. The lack of reaction caused her to finally open her eyes, finding Chat immediately as he prodded the nearest plant seemingly unaffected.
“Princess is this Catnip?” he took another sniff of the plant before sneezing loudly, his nose screwed up in response.
She nodded with a pout, closing her still open camera app and pushing the plate of sweets across the table towards him. “Guess that was a bust?”
“You know I heard it’s genetic, guess this kitten is immune!” he smiled proudly as he crossed the balcony standing in front of her chair and popping the first macaroon into his mouth. Devouring it with a lazy ease.
“Yeah, I guess.” she sounded slightly disappointed. Marinette had been looking forward to teasing her Cat friend. In the name of science of course…
Chat just seemed to beam harder at her pout, leaning over her still seated form with a curiously perked eyebrow, pressing so far into her personal space that she could practically feel the body heat radiating off him as one arm lazily braced his weight at the side of her head.
“You’re better than Catnip anyway.” he whispered somewhat smugly.
Before Marinette could even react to his proximity properly, her heart having stuttered to a pause, a warm, soft, sweet scented, kiss was placed at the corner of her mouth. Her entire face turning scarlet, as her eyes shot wide.
Chat just chuckled pulling back, snatching another macaroon before dashing for the railings again, flashing a small wave and a wink in goodbye.
Marinette’s silent shock finally broke at his departure and she stumbled out of the chair to dash after him, fingers gingerly touching the spot he kissed as she moved.
“W-Wait! Chat what does that mean?!” she called from the edge of her balcony, practically dangling over the railings from chasing him.
Her only response was a bright laugh as he leapt away, her cheeks still burning.
Side note: This is set after the day 1-9 prompts. (At this point Chat has realised his attraction to Mari and realised she likes him back, even if she hasn't quite figured it out for herself!)
Also yes I'm still writing these, i promise i'm not going to skip a single prompt! I have them all blocked out, its just sadly finding the time to write them!! so bare with me!
#Marichat may 2018#day 10#marichat#mircaulous ladybug#marinette#chat noir#dorks#fluff#tooth rotting fluff#catnip#my drabbles
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