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imthepunchlord · 2 months
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One thing that has really interested me as of late has been the development of the Miraculous Shanghai special. Looking at all the old promo art, it seems to have changed a lot. For starters, it was originally called "The Chinese Legend" and was seemingly going to have Master Fu in it
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(Makes me wonder if it was initially going to relate to the Order of the Guardians in some way since it doesn't give a clear location)
Also, it seems that there was going to be what appears to be a spirit dragon that looks like it would've played a major role with how often it appears in promo art
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On top of that, when I went to the Wiki to get those images, I found these
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And I honestly don't know what to say about them other than that the New York special influence was strong.
I could definitely see that the Shanghai Special was potentially more about the Order and Fu. Makes sense given it's related to China. And if it potentially would've been an exploration on Fu, his origins, and on the Order.
Which makes me wonder what the earlier plan was, especially as it doesn't feel like they really had sentimonsters planned from the start, and I don't know about you guys, but I didn't like Fu's origins. So I wonder if they had something else in mind and made changes. As with most of ML's concepts, those ideas were probably better.
As I do think the Chinese Special should've been the place to reveal and introduce the Zodiac Miraculous and where they came from (as it didn't make Fu look good having 16-17 Miraculous and gave out the very two HM wanted), that dragon could've been a protector of them, seeking a worthy Guardian to take on the Zodiac. Could even be the dragon kwami spiritually manifested. Which a whole Zodiac of powerful Miraculous sealed away makes more sense than the Prodigious that just has you transforming into 8 animals, which you can't even control unless you're virtuous. Very dangerous indeed.
Or that dragon it could've been a rare instance of just seeing another magical creature, work off Thomas' older claim that there was other magic out there than just Miraculous.
As for the heroes, I am kinda glad they didn't make it in. I don't like those designs. I can roll with the idea that every country/state/city could have their own hero, but they really do just roll out too much.
Speaking of Specials, I remember that, supposedly, that we were going to see the Turtle's power in the Christmas Special, and hearing that Chris Master was the original Christmas Special, I wonder if that was originally where we were supposed to see Carapace for the first time, and Nino was going to be the first temporary hero to be seen. And that would've been his time to really shine. Though it also could've been our first intro to Jade, seeing what Turtle could do in a fight, and potentially Chat's way of meeting Fu (though as Jade instead), and maybe that's the point where Fu's like, ok, I really am too old for this, you guys do temp heroes.
Either option sounds better than what we got in canon.
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thimbleb3rries · 6 months
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Trying something a little different and posting a design/redesign!
This was inspired by the Miraculous Paris special but not made for the special, ya know? Like not with any lore in mind. she's just dressed a little edgier :)
I absolutely love character design and putting outfits together so I find this kinda thing so fun! I've never actually done it with an existing character but rather OCs instead so this is very experimental and messy haha
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lostuntothisworld · 2 months
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Okay so I think it's time for another spaghetti theory:
Lilamoth isn't collecting moms. She's collecting sisters (or siblings)
Let me explain my thought process here. So a big complaint the fandom has is that we don't have a proper rogue gallery for villains. It's just the butterfly, and nothing else. It worked for early seasons, but things might be getting stale for some folks.
Enter new characters connected to Lilamoth somehow.
So she has 3 moms so far (that we know about.) All but one have something in common: dark hair and blue eyes.
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From left to right we have Mrs. Rossi (red), Mrs. Bianca (white), and her third mother who is deaf could possibly be Mrs. Verdi (green).
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Then we have this fourth lady that we see Lilamoth watching on her phone in the season 5 finale. I would NOT be surprised if Odille is going to be her 4th mom. Dark hair and blue eyes, and she is also disabled, just like her third mom.
(And I would not be surprised if we find out her surname is Nero (black), or Viola (violet). More on that aspect of this crack theory in a bit...)
Anyway, back to the concept of a rogues gallery. In the finale we see Lila in a disguise that 's VERY reminiscent of one of her moms:
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Certainly she can't expect to disguise herself as a woman in her 30's-40's, and especially not with glasses and bangs. But she can pass reasonably as a teenage girl with a dark bob and glasses. You know, a sister.
So we know a certain main character whose name is in the title and wears red with black polkadots has dark hair and blue eyes. We don't know Lilamoth's motivations and and end goal, but we can surmise that she wants to take the place of Marinette.
(And I KNOW I've seen at least one other person theorize this, and I cannot find the post(s) so if you can find it please let me know so I can link it here!)
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The pictures we see is one of Marinette with her classmates on the Liberty where Zoe is accepted in the friend group, Marinette with her parents, 3 pictures of Marinette with Kagami, and one picture of Marinette with Luka.
It's interesting to note that there isn't a picture of Marinette and Adrien together shown to the audience. You'd think they'd emphasize that, but no, it's mostly Kagami. I know it's because it's because the episode focuses on Kagami, but still. Other than her, it's just Marinette's parents, Zoe and Luka (Luka! Marinette's ex!) showcased in the closeup screenshot.
I got sidetracked! Anyway, I think other than similar coloring (and color-themed surnames haha) Lilamoth is trying to find other teenagers who are willing to join forces with her. She probably will get her hands on some Miraculous for them, somehow. But I don't think the new jewels will be from the Chinese box.
Here's where things start REALLY going off the rails with this theory:
All of Lilamoth's rogue gallery of villains are her adopted sisters (or siblings) and they are all Luka's exes. He's got a type for Italians with dark hair and blue eyes...
Going back to the surnames, all the surnames have something in common: they share the colors of all of Adrien's various transformations over the course of the series so far:
Rossi: Mister Bug
Bianca: Chat Blanc
Verdi: Aspik
We're just missing Chat Noir (could possibly will be the surname Nero, as it's Italian)
and Ephemeral (it's interesting to note that the surname Lee in Chinese can mean plum, which of course, is purple)
So naturally, my crack theory circles back to Lukadrien is endgame.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
{{{{{{Edit as of April 3, 2024.}}}}}
I will NOT be surprised if this girl with black hair in an extremely recognizable style is a disguise of another sister.
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Is Lilamoth collecting blackmail to manipulate them later? She's very obviously walking disguised in areas where there would be lots of cameras (The inside of the Agreste mansion, and the hotel).
(Edit as of April 27, 2024!)
Now we know the synopsis of the London Special, I believe the disguises are to hide Lilamoth's tracks because she knows Maribug's identity. Bonus points if these girls were previous Ladybugs in past time lines that Lilamoth stole the identities of...
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Did anybody else realize that Miraculous had two specials where at one point Adrien teaches Marinette Chinese stuff? Like I know these are meant to be cute Adrienette moments, but if marinette wanted to learn Chinese, couldn’t she use the internet or ask her mom?
No, the white guy still learning Chinese himself needs to teach the biracial girl about her own culture's language.
I don't know why people have problems with the depiction of race in this show.
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vampyrsutton · 1 year
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Lukanette~Panties&Lingerie
Summary:
Marinette is making a new fashion line inspired by Paris' Heroes with a special line of lingerie to match. She gives Luka a sneak peek.
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Lingerie, Kinktober, Kinktober 2021, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Penis In Vagina Sex, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, they deserve better, post-identity reveal, Post-Hawk Moth Defeat, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Deserves Better, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Deserves Happiness, Luka Couffaine Loves Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Deserves Better, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Has Me Salty, Not Canon Compliant, Snake Luka Couffaine | Viperion, Snake Tongue, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, no one is straight, Miraculous Ladybug Salt, Sex Toys Under Clothing
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Now for the one I am most reluctant to put on this hellsite because I've heard the anti horror stories. Antis? Treat this like an early 2000s yaoi. Don't like? Don't read!
They both deserve so much better than how cannon is treating them. 
I am not straight. I do not know how to write straight sex. This was an adventure.
They are adults, and also I like the idea of them getting some of the traits from their animal the longer they wear their miraculous so :)
“How are you so talented?” Luka smiles at Marinette as he hands her back the few designs he’s been permitted to look at.
Marinette’s cheeks darken as she bumps him with her shoulder. “They’re just drafts for the Hero series.”
“And they’re only the drafts?” He looks at he in awe making her giggle.
“I’m thinking of trying a special sub-line this time, too.” She hums, a dash of mischief in her voice as she pulls a few new ones from the folder as well.
Luka tilts his head at the look in her eyes but takes the papers to look at and almost chokes on his spit. In his hands are sketches for what appears to be a his and hers lingerie line of what will probably be all the heroes who have worked alongside Ladybug, and he suddenly understands why Marinette spent so much time having him, Ivan, Mylene, and Alix transform through whatever miraculous hadn’t been used by the opposite sex. She must have been seeing how they would manifest between the different styles, sexes, and body types.
Help in his hands were the designs for what looked like the mouse, the fox, and the dragon. Each was in the colors of the appropriate kwami with their accent colors appearing like they will have a shimmer to them. He looked over the lacey hood and rope...whip?...the tail of the mouse, the obvious fox play aspects in orange, and the elegant Chinese inspiration for the dragon until something occurred to him and his head snaps up to look at Mari.
“Is there a snake design?” He asks wide-eyed, suddenly realizing that was the exact reason for her behavior as he sees the smug look on her face. His mind races through possibilities of how Sass’s colors will play with her eyes and flops back against the couch with a groan. “Please tell me you already have a test run made.”
“Hmm. Maybe.” Marinette smirks, slipping the designs back in her portfolio carefully. “Guess you’ll just have to wait and see.”
Luka sighs dramatically, sinking further into the couch. “How did I get such a talented, pretty, and beyond amazing girlfriend?” He asks, just to see the pink dust her cheeks at the praise. Even after all these years of him desperately trying to fix the damage her so-called friends caused, she still can’t handle genuine compliments. At least she’s stopped denying them.
“Flattery will get you nowhere this time.” Marinette giggles as she flops equally dramatically across his lap. “At least not any faster anyway.”
“So you do have one ready?” He hums with a smug eyebrow raise.
“Well of course I’m going to use my favorite hero for my pitch to the boss.” She smiles slyly, playing with a button on his shirt. “By the look of things, it might be done by Friday.”
Luka’s eyes lit up at her hidden meaning. “Just in time for date night?”
“Might be literally just in time if the dark teal shimmer lace doesn’t stop catching.” She pouts, looking at the bangle around his wrist in annoyance. “Would be a great time for someone to let me borrow him for Second Chance, but nOooo. Someone is too attached to their holder.”
“Itsss not my fault he’sss the besst holder I’ve had sssince the American Revolution,” Sass smirks from where he has landed on Luka’s shoulder. “And while you’re a fantassstic Ladybug and an amazing Guardian, you put too much on yourssself which is not a good thing for timeliness. Even if itsss jussst fussssy fabric.”
Marinette pouts up at the small snake, trying to use her puppy eyes. 
“Thossse only work on Luka.” The snake snickers as he flies out of range of the pillow thrown at him in embarrassment. 
“Sssshush you! They do not!” Luka huffs at his kwami while trying to ignore the hiss that slipped out even as his ears turn pink. 
Marinette and Sass look at each other before looking back to the guitar player with deadpan expressions. 
“What?” Luka sighs, knowing he’s already about to get tag teamed. 
“Hey, Marinette? Remember that one egg disssh?” Sass hisses.
“The kind of smelly one that tastes really good, but someone won’t let in the house?” Marinette hums innocently. “Yeah, I remember.”
“I sssudenly got a craving for it and had to ussse Sssecond Chanccce too many timesss today. Think we can have it tonight?” Sass sighs with dramatics more befitting of Plagg than the snake.
“That sounds like a wonderful idea!” Marinette grins before looking at Luka with her earlier puppy eyes. “Pleeeease, Luka?”
“Absolutely not, Marinette!” Tikki scolds as she zips into the room. “It took all weekend to get rid of that smell last time!”
“Tikki’s right. It does smell really ba-” Luka started to try but saw the girl’s lip wobble as she clasped her hands together. “Mari…”
“Please, Luka?” She pouts.
“Come on, Luka! Be strong!” Tikki tries to help despite knowing they’ve already lost.
“Mari, come on. Those won’t work…Not the whimper.” He sighs, letting his head flop back on the couch again. “What happened to the shy awkward girl on that boat all those years ago?” 
“She got the world’s best boyfriend who showed her her worth?” 
Luka sighs again. “I’ll open the windows…” He relents, ignoring Tikki’s groan and Mari and Sass’ celebration. 
“I told you, Luka,” Sass smirks, ducking behind Marinette before the next pillow could get him. 
“Ssshush you.” Luka hisses despite smiling fondly at the two. “Menacesss. The both of you.”
Marinette giggles, giving him a quick kiss on the lips before pulling him up from the couch with her. “Come on, help me cook.”
Luka just smiles, letting himself be pulled to the kitchen as Tikki, Sass, and the non-permanent Kwamis zip around to open windows.  
I ended up smelling foul the rest of the night, but the happy hums from Marinette and Sass were worth it.
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“Mari~!” Luka calls from the entrance. “We’re gonna be late for the reservation! Should I cancel and we go to a cafe instead, or are you almost ready?” He had gotten used to changing plans a while ago when he found out she was Ladybug and they decided to try again so it didn’t really bother him.
“Coming! Coming!” Mari yells, jumping down the two entrance steps and struggling into her flats. “Sorry, the clasp broke on my purse and a certain dragon stole my spares because they looked like treasure.” She huffs, calling the dragon out despite knowing he’s across town with Kagami and probably did it the last time they visited. “Let’s go.” She smiles. 
Luka chuckles at the kwami’s antics, offering his arm as he opened the door. “Find a substitute?” 
“Yeah, luckily the Chat purse matches well enough with the teals of my dress.” She smiles, taking his arm as they leave the apartment. “Guessing you got us in at the hotel?” 
“Mhmm.” Luka nods as he opens his jacket for Sass to fly into the pocket. “The fame has its perks, but it’s also nice that Chloe finally calmed down after she went away to college.”
“You’re telling me. She spoils Sabrina rotten now that they’re together. I thought the poor girl was going to combust.” Marinette giggles as they leave the building, hand in hand.
“Still wild to think that all those years, she was just pulling on your pigtails. You seriously had everyone in your class enamored with you didn’t you?”
Marinette flushes at the reminder, hiding her face in her coat. “Oh shush, Mr. Chat Noir’s Bi-Awakening.”
It was Luka’s turn to flush now as he laughed. “Fair enough. Probably would have asked to go for it if his two sides weren’t so horrible to you.” He smiles lovingly down at her.
“He’s in therapy after the Hawkmoth stuff so maybe one day.” She giggles, hip bumping him. “As long as you let me show Kagami how Adrien should have treated her.” 
Luka chuckles at the mischief in her eyes. “I almost feel sorry for my fellow reptile if you get ahold of her. I thought you already started on her?”
Marinette slumps, pouting. “We’re still working on the being emotionally stunted. What’s with rich parents messing up their kids so much?” 
Luka shrugs with a frown. “Almost glad it took my dad 16 years and me getting akumatized again to show up if that’s the result.”
Marinette frowns up at him, bumping their shoulders. “At least he’s trying now?” 
Luka smiles at her, bumping her back. “Yeah. It still feels like babysitting when we hang out, but it’s nice to see him and Juleka finally bonding now that Roaar’s helping her. Good choice as always by the way.” 
Marinette beams up at him, and his smile turns fond as they enter the restaurant and get seated. As they separate to go to their separate seats across from each other, however, Luka finally realizes Marinette had slipped something into his hand while they were walking. His brow furrows as he looks at her, only to be met with her mischievous look from behind her menu.
“Uh, Mari, what is thi- Oh.” He turns the small rectangle in his hand as he begins to question her before he finally sees the brand name on what he realizes is a remote and it finally clicks what he’s holding. He looks back up at her with a smirk. “Are you sure you shouldn’t be the one with the fox?” 
“Nah, Nathaniel is doing much better with it than I ever could.” She giggles, waving him off. “Though Trix and Marc are probably going to be the death of him.”
“Probably.” He hums in agreeance as he slips the remote into his lap so she can’t see it. “So how is your new pitch going?” 
“Almost done.” She sighs, looking through the menu. “I got the one project done today finally.” She hides the smirk behind the menu as she watches the meaning click and his head snap up to look at her. “I’m wearing it now.”
Luka’s eyes spark in interest as he looks her over. “Oh?”
“Mhmm. Looks kind of like your original suit if it was lacey and showed off assets.” Marinette hums.
Luka groans under his breath while giving up on the menu. He’ll just end up ordering the same thing as a few months ago anyway. “What day is your meeting again?”
“Monday, so it needs to stay in one piece.” She warns, looking at him mischievously. “But it is washing machine safe.”
“Perfect.” He smiles before pressing the remote in his lap.
Marinette slaps a hand over her mouth to hide her squeak as she pretends to glare at him. “Getting right into it, huh?” 
“How can I not when you’ve given me such a nice new toy?” He smiles at her innocently. “Don’t worry, I’ll behave when the waiter comes...As long as you do that is.” 
His smile may look innocent, but the tilt of his head and the look in his eye sends a shiver down her spine as she suddenly feels like a mouse cornered by the snake. Marinette squirms in her seat with the toy not being the only thing getting to her. “And if I don’t?” She squeaks.
He just smiles as suddenly the vibration between her legs shoots to the max setting for about three seconds before dropping back down to a 2. It’s enough to make her have to cover her mouth though as she leans her head on the table. 
“Understood?” He asks, brushing her bangs from her face when she looks up at him with a pout.
“I made a mistake didn’t I?” 
“Maybe.” He chuckles before smiling at the waiter who comes to take their order. 
The night continues with them laughing and teasing each other as they talk and each; only broken up occasionally when Luka sends the remote back to 10 for a few seconds before bringing it back down to the next highest setting.
By the time they leave the restaurant, the toy buzzing away inside Marinette is at a 7, and her legs feel ready to give out on her as she clings to Luka’s arm on the way back.
“Evil.” She pouts up at him as he holds the door open to their apartment building. She barely hides her moan as she enters the building and Luka raises it again in retaliation.
“Maybe a little.” He hums as they go up the stairs. “You did start it though.”
Marinette huffs, unable to deny it as she stumbles on the stairs a little. 
Luka just chuckles at her pout, ruffling her hair a little as he unlocks the door and opens it for her. 
What he forgot during his teasing, however, is that he just so happens to be dating Ladybug who despite her small, clumsy frame, is a lot stronger than she looks.
Marinette smiles, accepting his act of chivalry, but ass shoon as she’s over the threshold, it’s his turn to yelp as she pulls him inside and pins him against the door.
“I keep forgetting you can kick my ass.” Luka groans as he thumps his head against the door behind him. “Fuck it’s hot.”
“One of these days you’ll learn.” She hums as she starts manhandling him out of his coat despite the still very present size difference. 
“Nah, the surprise is half the fun,” Luka smirks as he helps her get his coat off to let Sass out before picking her up so her legs can wrap around his hips as he carries her further into the apartment. 
Marinette moans at his own little display of strength and is delighted to find him just as affected when she starts grinding herself against his front, causing him to almost stumble.
“Mariii~” Luka groans as he catches his footing and hurries the rest of the way to the room before she can do something else. 
“Luka, please. Bend me over the counter for all I care, just get inside me now.” She moans in his ear before continuing to kiss and suck at his neck. 
“Shit, Mari, you’re gonna kill me.” He moans before kicking open the door and dropping her on the bed. “Come on and show me the pretty lingerie you worked so hard on while I get out of these skinny jeans you insist I wear every date night.” 
Marinette whines at being put down but hurries out of the coat on Viperion inspired dress to reveal her masterpiece underneath. 
Luka’s breath hitched as he took in the sight before him. The sight of aqua lace dancing around her shoulders in a much daintier version of his shoulder pads and coming to rest in a point between her breast. The sight of that aqua connecting at her sides to the shimmering teal that she had fought so hard with to apparently craft the underwire before snaking down her sides and leaving her belly exposed. This teal then melted back into the aqua to create the panties which, now that he looked closely, had an open crotch. He groaned at the outfit, finally kicking his pants off and throwing his shirt somewhere before he crowded her into the bed.
“Do you have any idea what you do to me, Mari?” He whispered as he trailed his fingers along the lace at her sides. ‘Open back, too.’
Marinette smirked a little as she palmed at the erection hanging between his legs hand his head dropped into her shoulder with a low moan. “I have an idea.”
“Which one of us was the evil one again?” He chuckles as he nips at the spot behind her ear that makes her gasp and squeeze him.
“Ah! Um, I think it’s a tie by now.” She says in a breathy giggle, moaning when his fingers travel between the open crotch.
“Any specific reason for this design choice?” Luka hums as he starts kissing down her body.
“Mmnm uh remember that one time we did it transformed, and turns out more than just your mouth turned reptilian?” Marinette blushes even as she tilts he head to give him more room. 
“So these are like an inside joke? Others will just think it’s to tease, but you’ll know it’s from when I made you cry on my cocks?” He smirks and lets a finger slip inside. “God, you’re already soaked.”
“LUkaaa~!” She moans, trying to grind herself down on his finger.
“Shh, I’ve got you, Mari.” He chuckles as he dips the finger in and out while moving his head down to her exposed breast and sucking one of the pretty pink buds into his mouth.
“MmNm! More~! Please, Luka! Even one more!” She whines as she tries to get him deeper before moaning loudly as he sucks on her nipple.”AHh! Luka!”
“Mmm.” He smirks as he sucks and licks at the bud in his mouth. Suddenly he’s a little less annoyed at how long extended use of the snake miraculous has made his tongue as he flicks the forked tip before wrapping it around the nipple in his mouth and sucking hard, pulling the most beautiful notes from his Marinette’s mouth. 
“Oh gods, your tongue!” Marinette moans, fingers latching into his hair to pull him closer. She’s so distracted that she doesn’t even realize he’s slipped a second finger in to retrieve the egg until she’s practically screaming when he starts teasing her clit with it. “Luka! Luka, please! More! I need more, please!” She whimpers as she grinds down on the egg sending electricity up her spine. 
Luka hums around the bud in his mouth before switching to the other one and bringing the still buzzing egg to the one he just left and causing Marinette to arch off the bed.
“LukAaa~!” She whines, wiggling to either escape or get more, she doesn’t even know.
After a few moments of enjoying the small windows she left him at the top of the garment, he moves his face down to enjoy the main one. As he settles between her thighs, he makes sure to make eye contact before letting his tongue lull out to its full past chin-length. 
“Thanksss for the dessssert.” He smirks before his tongue disappears inside her and she screams.
“LUKA~! AhHhhh~! Your tongue! Please, Luka! Gods! AhhhHhh~!” Marinette moans as her hands twist into his hair to bring him closer as he eats her out like a starving man.
He’s now beyond grateful for the long tongue as he presses it against her G-Spot while assaulting every last spot that makes her thighs tremble and clamp around his head like she plans to crush it. ‘God, I love her muscles.’ He moans into her, making her moan louder. 
Within minutes he has her begging like she’ll die if she doesn’t get to cum soon, and all it takes is another flick of his tongue against her G-Spot and the egg being pressed to her clit, and she’s cumming hard across his face, clinging to his hair like she plans to drown him. 
He would die happy even if she did. 
She continues to grind against his face as she rides out her orgasm, before deflating into the mattress as a broken mess.
“You good, Mari?” Luka asks as he licks his face clean.
“Remind me to buy Sass more eggs for gifting you with that.” Marinette chuckles, shaking as she tries to sit up only to collapse once more with a pout. “I wanted you in me though…”
“I mean, that can still be arranged.” Luka laughs, gesturing to his still hard dick.
Mari licks her lips before making grabby hands at him. “Put me on your lap, and fuck me like you did in that alley after patrol last week.” She demands.
Luka groans but, after rolling a condom on, quickly moves to obey, pulling her into his arms as he kneels on the bed. “As you wish.”
Marinette wraps her arms around his neck and buries her head in his shoulder. “I’m more than ready.” 
Luka chuckles at her eagerness as he eases her onto him, reveling in her quiet moan even though he’s in a similar state, moaning low as he’s swallowed by her tight heat. Once she’s fully seated, he stays still, trying to let her adjust, but Marinette apparently has other plans as she tries to bounce herself on his cock.
“Shit.” He curses as his head falls forward. “Now. Gotcha.” He huffs out a laugh before planting his feet more firmly and thrusting into her.
She lets out a squeak at the sudden action, but it quickly turns into more moans and pleas as he starts up the brutal pace he knows she craves. 
“Why have the muscles if you’re not gonna use them. ” She had once said when he had tried to be gentle. The only times he managed to get away with that without being flipped on his back and rode within an inch of his life was whenever he had her tied up. 
He’d be lying if he tried to say he wasn’t into it though.
“LUKAAAAA~!” Mari moaned in his ear as she clawed at his back, desperately trying to meet his thrusts.
“Gods, I love your sounds.” Luka groans as he snaps his hips harder and faster, changing the angle enough for him to tilt her back a bit and attack her chest again with his tongue.
“LukA~! Gods, please! More! Faster! AHhNngh~!” She cried out as she gripped his hair for leverage.
Luka hummed around the sensitive bud in his mouth, before licking a stripe up to her mouth and dominating a kiss with ease.
Marinette whined as she tasted herself on his tongue and her legs trembled again as another orgasm approached and she clawed at his shoulders once more in a warning.
Luka is by no means far behind, desperately holding back his own orgasm to let her cum again, but he doesn’t have to wait very long as soon enough her walls are clamping around him like a vice and milking him into the condom.
Marinette shudders as her second orgasm wracks through her body, moaning loudly as she feels his hips still and warmth fill the condom. 
Soon enough, Luka is pulling out and tossing the tied-off condom into the nearby wastebasket so he can collapse onto the bed and pull Mari onto his chest. 
“How are you so perfect?” Luka whispers into her hair as he spoils her with kisses.
“I could ask the same about you?” Marinette hums as she curls into his chest. 
“I guess you just bring out the best in me.” 
She wants to argue that he was like that before they even met, but she knows it will just end with her as red as a tomato if she tries to out compliment him.
“And you with me.” She smiles, kissing his chest. “I love you, Luka.”
“I love you, too. My perfect melody.”
It’s not long before they drift off to sleep, cuddled close, and with love-struck smiles on their faces. 
Yeah, it was perfect.
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thatskyafro · 9 months
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Lost Miraculouses: The Wuji Miraculous
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Miraculous: Wuji Miraculous
Resemblance: a bird.
Power: -
Miracle box origination: Chinese
Current Owner: Shiyun " Shi" Su-Han
The Wuji Miraculous is a choker that, whenever Taaiji wears it, turns the user into a bird-like themed superhero.
To activate the choker, the user must speak the transformation phrase: Ensoul. To deactivate it, the user must speak the de-transformation phrase: Becloud.
Appearance:
In charged mode, it appears to be a choker, with a string dangling below the main garter, with 5 gold pieces alinged vertically and in symmetry.
In camoflauged mode (Shi), it appears to be a choker with a silver circle dangling from it.
Powers and Abilities:
As per many miraculouses seen within the show, the Wuji Miraculous grants its holder a bird-like themed costume that they truly desire as well as incredible superhuman powers of strength, speed, agility, and endurance. Its signature weapon is its cards, where it can be also used as a communicator and a rebreather.
Its special superpower is called Variation, where the user uses specialised cards within a range of specific miraculous heroes that coencide with their abilities. If used by a child however, the max cards used would be up to five, when all used up the user then detransforms. The used cards can still be used again, but the recharge takes around 2 days for it to recover.
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Origins:
This is inspired by the idea of Wuji itself, Wuji (無極) is a state of emptiness or simply a single point in space. There is no discrimination and there are no polarities (or poles), and the idea of nothingness neither it being a concept or not.
Orikko mentions that when a kwami is created, it can be onky created when there is a new idea that has been formed. In this case however, nothingness was debated as not to be an idea or has been, leading confusion to all.
Taaiji, the kwami, is no stranger to evil. Most kwamis align with good and rightcusness, but in his case, most goodness are best dumped away than evilness.
The Weji Miraculous' purpose is ,by the majority, is spreading evil. It was created by a sole selfish mage that wanted his own powers for himself. Luckily, the order of the guardians had taken it away and sealed it for years to come, not until it reached to Shi, becoming its new holder.
Extras: sketches of Shi's costume:
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Feel free to ask away for any clarifications lol
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chikorra · 6 months
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[WIP Kwami OC sheet - Tarii] Except for the Kwami Bird design, the holder's costume and power is not yet official. Btw for anyone wondering I used Marinette to demonstrate the costume when she uses this Miraculous.
*Name: Tarii - from the bird's family name: Sagittariidae. According to Wiki, Secretary Bird is also the only kind of bird that belongs to this family branch) *Animal: Secretary Bird *Concept: Resolution / Resolute Attitude
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*Miraculous Accessory:
Camouflage Mode: A signing pen (or any other kind of pen depending on the holders' time, age, hobby, major, and more, such as a pencil, ballpoint pen, mechanical pen, ink pen, feather pen, etc.)
Full charged/ Transformation form: SB Feather Pen - When the holder is transformed, their cos will be hunter-like, and the feather pen could be used for decoration purposes on many parts of the cos or simply used to keep the hair in place like a Chinese hair brooch. (I am still playing around with the ideas)
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*Holders' Weapon: A Bow (Its scientific name - Sagittarius means Archer, soooo.. That's why xD)
*Holders' Ability: Shooting light arrows - Unlimited Ammo - Normal attack: 1 shot at a time - AOE - Special attack: 3 shots at a time - Teenage ver can only use this special atk once; it takes a long time to charge and requires staying still; only adults can use this many times and can move but slowly while using it.
*Miraculous Power: Enlighten - Blind the enemies temporarily (by arrows' bright light) - Stun the enemies by making them lost in their own positive thoughts encouraged by the power (that everything has its own solution) - Bonus on Ally: Enhance their will (For e.g: When their lives are at stake and they are about to give up(?)) -> This power can boost their will to keep going no matter the physical and mental conditions. This power is quite dark, so I am still thinking about it... =PLEASE DO NOT COPY MY IDEA + DESIGN - THANK YOU=
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aryxchse · 8 months
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adrien agreste headcanons
a/n: i just wrote whatever camed to my mind, also this takes place after gabriels death cause i dont want him
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- he watches k-drama
- he started with the c-dramas to study chinese, but he got addicted and started watching k-dramas too
- his favorite is twenty five twenty one, since it's all about fencing
- thinks cat woman was one of the black cat miraculous holders
- when the house is empty, he transformes into chat and just walks around the house by using his cat-like abilities
- he geniunely likes eating, specially when he's chat noir
- his little secret dream was to become a florist but never told anyone, even marinette
- this boy sure knows everything about flowers
- has a really good fashion sense and helps nino pick his special-occasion clothes
- he thinks hes hot while hes bleeding (he is)
- couldn't tie shoes until he was 13
- for a homeschooled, never-got-out kid he curses really well and is a secret bully to the people he hates
- for some reason, he felt really comfortable when he found out luka knew his identity, took the weight of his shoulders fr
- he chills around the paris SO OFTEN!! you can see chat noir just walking around on the roofs anytime of the day
- he just really appreciates his country since he never got the chance to explore it
- mamas boy
- listens to any kinds of music but jazz is his favorite
- he got sick from people calling him dumb-blonde so he dyed his hair black one day and he actually looked so GOOD with it
- he told ladybug that he really liked adrien agreste with a black hair and that he inspired him to do it too (lucky for him she believed)
- among us fan
- live laugh love adrien
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aguinhaac · 8 months
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Well, the new ecological miracle episode has just been released, you know what that means~
Today we will be reviewing the shortest miraculous special until now, Miraculous season 5 episode Action.
Let’s see what they did with the episode with the concept of one of the few kwamis I still like.
We start the episode with Marinette and Adrien driving to Luka’s boat house, and we know the episode is good when the animation looks like this
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They didn’t even try.
Nino calls them in because he has some important news which is that people were throwing trash in the sena river and it was going to the ocean.
Nino: if no one handle the plastic problem, who will?
the show spent 1:14 minutes without throwing the lesson in our face, that’s a record!
And really, I really don't like it when people have an eco episode and just have the main characters, I think it's much better to have the main characters help the background characters protest, clean up, plant a fucking tree, or whatever whatever they're doing, it helps the scene feel more organic, when it's just a bunch of teenagers doing something, it looks like the characters are just Mary Sues because, you know how many environmental groups? Very little, so yeah, a bunch of kids would be able to get the whole fucking town to participate.
Well, anyways let's give a look at the group's plan.
WTF-
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THEY CONVERTED THE HOUSE BOAT INTO AN ECOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT PLAN? HOW? WHERE DID THEY GET THE MONEY TO DO IT? AND WHAT ABOUT THAT THERES PEOPLE LIVING THERE? THOSE THINGS ARE NOISY, HOW IS ANYONE GOING TO SLEEP? AND WHAT IF IT IS TOO HEAVY FOR THE BOAT? IT WILL SINK AND YOUR FRIEND JULEKA WILL BE HOMELESS, actually, DID LUKA’S MOM AGREED WITH IT? IS THIS EVEN LEGAL
AND I’M NOT EVEN GONNA MENSION HOW THE FUCK DID THEY BUILD THIS.
Well, they teach the little kids that plastic doesn’t decompose easily and there I already saw the thing was for little babies that don’t know the basic and I lost all hope this episode would be at least decent.
the boat starts to shake and they go to check what is happening and we find out that a large increase of plastic coming from… fans vending machines….. so, people can cool off…. Ugh, first of all, who buys fans that aren’t for decoration? people to buy AIR CONDITIONERS OR FANS (the not Chinese one) did Astruc ever used a Chinese fan? Those things the more you shake it, the more your arm hurts, second, really? Vending machines? The problem isn’t people putting plastic on everything even if they don’t need to, and after that not discarding it properly, the biggest problem with plastic in the ocean is fans? And third aren’t fans made out of like paper? Or like this super light material? There are some fans made out of plastic but this looks like a paper fan.
How much do you bet they just put that the biggest treat is vending machines so they cannot work at all on how to resolve the conflict and make an ending that doesn’t make sense?
Well because there was too much plastic everyone evacuates and the ship explodes… yes. the ship fucking exploded.
So Juleka IS homeless now, all plastic does to a ship is making it get stuck, and showed to us What overheated was the engine, so what caused the boat to explode and what caused it to clog, SO WHO'S FAULT IS THAT? WHO’S FAULT IS IT THAT JULEKA IS NOW HOMELESS HUH? WHO’S FAULT IS THAT?
Juleka and Anarka just accept they don’t have a home now and Nino tells Adrien to talk tp his dad.
Adrien: you know how my father is, he won’t listen!
Marinette: what if we try to resolve this another way? By going to the root of the problem,
Ok that was kinda creepy, Marinette what are you doing to do? MARINETTE WHAT WILL YOU DO TO THE VENDING MACHINES? MARINETTE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
All joke’s aside, Marinette asks her dad if she and her friends can pick up the bakery supplements which he says yes so, they rush their way to there.
They get the boxes and Marinette asks if they can see the new character they made for the special only and after that will be forgotten even if he could be important, you know? As always, his name is plastic king but I’ll just call him “the boss”
The guy then shows they were the boss lives and- Marinette is gonna break into his house huh? At this point I’m not even surprised.
Nino makes everyone disguise themselves but they are immediately discovered, but Marinette uses her main protagonist powers and they’re able to pass the staff.
So, they reach the boss
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Bro looks like that one villain from the Gnomeu & Julieta movie
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Well, they make a little presentation about plastic which really, it's short but I really liked it they didn't demonize plastic, but instead said that plastic IS important for our society and that we shouldn't just stop producing it, instead they say that people buy thing and throw them away right after, putting the blame not in the company but in the people, which surprised me, EXPECIALY for a miraculous, I actually think that's the better portrait of taking care of our planet In a kids show I've ever seen.
The boss explains that this of people buying and throwing it away so they can buy more is design like that and nothings gonna change, RIGHT BEFORE SHOWING ALL WE HAVE IS MADE OF PLASTIC DEMONIZING IT AGAIN AND MAKE MY COMPLIMENT USELESS, CONGLATULATIONS SHOW
The group then fuck off out of the guy’s office and Marinette has the idea to go talk to the mayor, how did Marinette without Zoe’s help was able to have a face to face with the mayor I don’t know but oh well.
Andre: But Parisians love the fans my young friend, remove the vending machines installed by the hall across Paris
Marinette: Would make it possible to reduce pollution
Andre: But it would be very damaging to my image
That’s the character that in the end of season 5 we were supposed to be rutting for, and being happy he was able to stay with the nice daughter and his dream job, THIS GUY.
Adrien demonizes plastic to his dad but without success he fucks off.
Marinette then tries to ask Nadja to talk about it in her program but apparently the boss controls the tv channel, and it’s kinda of a bad choice to make a character you’re gonna throw away later such an important person.
We than have a time skip where everyone is now in…. Luka’s boat house….
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For the miraculous theorist, I think we can safely conclude, Anarka is fucking rich.
Anyways the group + the people from the around the world special proceed to help max HACK NADJA TV PROGRAM.
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WTF? WHY? ARE IN THAT “Just Stop Oil” ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST GROUP? Is the show really influencing that these crazy people are doing the right thing? THEY HACKED A GOD DAMMIT TV SHOW, JUST MAKE THE CHARACTERS THINK THERE’S NO HOPE LEFT, BUT THEM THEY ENTER IN A NOT CRAZY ACTIVIST GROUP AND THE MESANGE WOULD BE DELIVERDED, DON’T GIVE FUEL TO THESE PEOPLE!
We than have one of the most nonsensical scenes of this show. Don’t believe in me? Let me show you.
Firstly, Nino is pointing a camera at the group which means he is doing a live
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But we have video of the boat they’re in, underwater shot (which is just the most beautiful water I've ever seen) UK (probably) shot. Japan and NY shots.
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Throwing away a perfectly good fan that could be reused when the whole special is LITTEREALY ABOUT RECYCLING
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This thing being a worldwide thing but Marinette and Adrien don’t know about them.
The fact that even after being haked the tv show the executives said to Nadja say good things about those idiots.
“nAtUrAlLy I WaS nOt aWaRe oF tHiS, BuT aS sOoN aS i WaS InFoRmEd I hAd EvErY MoRtAl FaN mAcHinE ReMoVeD fRoM PaRiS”
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DO YOU SEE MY POINT?
Anyways we see a scene of the boss screaming to Gabriel on his alliance ring that he lied and that Gabriel knew the fans were polluted, again, Gabriel is a character we were supposed to like in the end of season 5.
Well, the boss gets mad and monarch Akumatizes him into king of plastic.
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First of all, this doesn't look like plastic, it looks like he's made of candy, THOSE THINGS ON HIS SHOULDERS ARE JELLY BEANS AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE, I can understand why his skin is pink, his logo is basically just pink, but why black? It doesn't feel like plastic either, and what's with his feet? He has these blisters that look like he's having an allergic reaction or something, and why is his weapon a sword? I understood that when Karami and Tomoe's weapons were a sword, they were linked to swordsmanship, but why is his weapon a sword? Let's be real, the producers just gave him a sword to make him look cool, ok for the things I liked, I liked his crown. It's shaped like a king's chess crown, the design is creative and I liked the look of its lower parts like the lower parts of a doll.
Well, I think I will give him A 5.8/10 I don't know if just making him a gigant version of his logo would be better, no I was just kidding- it's just a joke- please don't do that PLEASE NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Monarch gives him the bee powers and KOP (plastic king) rushes to paralyze the mayor and we see what his powers are about, he turns people into plastic, ok that's actually a good power, it kind of reminds me of the villains from season 2, do you remember season two? When was the show good? And did we have character development? I miss that too.
He transforms the police in plastic and decides to go to the Agreste mansion.
Marinette and Adrien while Adrien was teaching Marinette how to say hi in mandarin, like the language her mom is fluent, and that Sabrine would teach her how to say at least a “Hello”? anyways they both see the Akuma so Adrien leaves her house and they both transform.
KOP transforms the gorilla in plastic so the writers can have the heroes know his powers and that he’s dangerous just for the heroes to not care about that and attack him without thinking twice, but relax guys he just throws them, phew for a moment I thought they wouldn’t do it.
He transforms chat’s staff and well-done king. He doesn’t deserve his staff, or his powers, OR HIS STANS, THAT REFERENCE WAS HORRIBLE I SHOULD JUST SHUT UP.
Ladybug: you’re the tycoon who makes all these polluting fans! The king of plastic, aren’t you?
Chat: the king of pollution you mean.
KOP: miss information, plastic is fantastic!
Ladybug: fantastic would be you ending your reign and all the pollution you’re causing!
Ugh, another show to demonize plastic, actually I think I didn’t said what demonizing plastic is, demonize plastic is put all the fault of plastic pollution in the plastic bottle or the company that made it, and say that the companies should be ashamed of that and they should stop producing plastic, first, we NEED plastic, it became an essential part of our lives, the computer the miraculous teem made this episode is made of plastic, the tv the mlb fans watch It is made out of plastic, everyone has multiple things made out of plastic, the problem isn’t making plastic, the problem is and not recycling it, and not re-using it. and is it the company fault? Me and my family used to travel a lot, and every time we got thirsty, we would buy a water bottle just so when runned out, they threw it away and buy another one, and then I ask you, who fault? The companies or my family’s? but shows tend to just throw all the blame at the companies and forget that we are the ones using it once and throwing it away, but really, I knew since the beginning of the episode they would demonize plastic.
Well KOP go to Luka’s boat house to take revenge on the kids, but ladyboob and cat noar show up to stop him, ladybug then activates her lucky charm which is a plastic bag.
They realize that the plastic bag can’t be turned into plastic because it is already made of plastic so ladybug comes up with a plan.
Alya tells the group to turn on the boat plastic collector system, so chat noir cataclysms the engine, which makes the boat explode in trash again, how many times is Juleka gonna get homeless in one episode?
Well, KOP Drowns in the most beautiful trash I've ever seen and that the MLB producers totally didn't just download from the internet.
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Ladybug breaks the sword and purify the Akuma.
The boss: what am I doing here? This is disgusting, aren’t you gonna help me?
Ladybug: this is exactually what millions of sea animals are going through around the world.
Chat noir: and they don’t always have a super hero to offer a helping hand and save them.
The boss: you just covered me in a pile of trash woman, its not my fucking fault people are throwing trash at the sea I just sell plastic, Jesus Christ could you help me I can’t fucking move.
I wish he said it, ok here’s what he actually said.
The boss: ok maybe plastic isn’t always so fantastic.
Aaaaand they rushed the conclusion so that everything would end up in a happy ending, I warned ya.
Ladybug gives him a magical charm so he can remember he got one of the most rushed character developments in history.
We have a scene showing that now everything’s ok, everyone is using the kids’ ideas and tomorrow everyone will forget about recycling and everything will go back to how it was. And that’s where the episode ends.
Ok this episode is not very good.. it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen still it isn’t good, there’s a lot of conveniences, the animation is worst than usual, even if I liked the villain, I must say his powers were used billions of times, I liked they give more screen time to the fight though.
The episode was generic and I’m almost sure they made the episode just for 1: people go “oh they are so nice!” so they can cover up the racist (intentional or not) in the show. and 2: for sell merch of Marinette’s water bottle for 65 bucks each.
The message was very over the top, and they didn’t do much to try make something original out of it, they just made a check list with every single trope they use in cartoons ecological episodes and made it, and it looks like they didn’t care to much about logic, that thing in Lukas’s boat house was totally illegal and dangerous, the group just found the boss office because a random dude that worked for him showed them without thinking twice, they can just get into places they shouldn’t be able to and it doesn’t even make sense, they resolve all their problems via hacking a channel network, which doesn’t make sense and even if they were able to do it there are billions of tv ads about recycling and they never get attention, I know it’s a kid show but couldn’t they make the characters say “this fight won’t be easy, but we are gonna fight for a better world, are you with us?” it would be better in my opinion.
The characters literally hacked a network, break into a dude’s office and there’s just no consequences, I know it was for a good cause but still. it looks like the writers knew it was a filler episode and didn’t care about researching any of it, if they did, they would know that MOST BAKERIES USE PAPER BAGS, OR THAT FANS AREN’T MADE OF PLASTIC, OR THAT YOU CAN’T DO A LIVE SHOWING ANOTHER CONTRY IN REAL TIME.
Over all if you enter in this side this episode because a mess, but if you just watch the episode, it isn’t too bad.
And a fun fact this episode was made without Astruc, “but AC, if you think the episode was shitty why does it matter to you?” well my dear summer child, let me tell you, first of, I always thought if the miraculous team could do an episode without Astruc telling them what to do it would be just the best episode of mlb, and after the awakening movie that theory just confirmed itself from me, but no, it wasn’t, not even close.
And because I loved that they didn’t use Chloe in the episode, I bet all my life savings that if Astruc worked on the production Chloe would appear and say something like “ WhO EvEn cArEs AbOuT nAtUrE?” or make Andre seem a nice guy who just wants the best for his city and that totally wasn’t corrupt, so at least that a good thing about this episode.
Anyways I’ll give this episode a 6/10. Thank you for reading until the end, hope I’ll see you in the next post.
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imthepunchlord · 3 months
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I could think of one way miraculous tied to multiple cultures and it involves taking some stuff from specials and tweaking the preexisting lore (which given the preexisting lore is already bad or non-existent isn't that big of a deal). Since the special confimed the existence of things similar to miraculous, maybe the mage referenced in the comics was the one responsible for creating specifically the Chinese miraculous. Maybe mages from other continents created their own versions of the miraculous. Since kwamis (and other being similar to kwamis like Renglings) exist long before the miraculous maybe and likely have been all over the earth, they could have communicated with these mages telepathically or through dreams (which could be how the mage found out about the kwamis in the first place) to help them find a way to the mortal plane.
Yeah something like that would work. Especially as it is baffling that one mage made hundreds of Miraculous for all over the world and they can, largely, work off various different cultures and views on animals.
So there being different people making stuff I like a lot more. Even so as my ideas for lore changes and plausible reasons on how Miraculous came to be, my core idea is multiple people from different lands coming together to craft them, as humanity is threatened by the magic of the world.
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Miraculous World - Shanghai
Now you may note, this one's a little different than usual, it's less of a pilot special and more of a 'episode Zero'
a preview of what's to come
We open on an aether, a magic type void. 
There are gentle sparks of light, not quite stars, pink in color. And the gentle, sweet trilling voice of a Kwami drifts through the aether. 
“Do you know that feeling, when you’ve only just awoken? When you haven’t opened your eyes yet and the world around you is soft? When you know you could just roll over and curl up deeper into your bed and fall right back asleep? That feeling that doesn’t feel like it truly has a name? That blend of comfort and serenity and sleep and contentment?”
Those pink sparks coalesced together until they were in the rough approximation of a Kwami, one with big ears and wings. “That’s me with you as you drift between sleeping and wake. I am called Tranqii in this era. I am the embodiment of sleep.”
Tranqii in this light approximation remains curled up and clearly at peace. “I knew there were others like me-” there are all around Tranqii explosions of sparks in different colors, red and green and blue and purple and yellow and a million more, one for every Kwami we’ve ever seen and then more. None of them seemed to disturb Tranqii in their slumber. “I knew they were all having fun, living their lives in the physical. Enjoying being awake. But I'd never really felt the urge to join them.”
But then there’s a flicker, purple sparks turning into a deep violet and a similar experience happening to blue sparks. And Tranqii opens their eyes when light brown sparks erupt in front of their face 
The scene then rapidly shifts to a room we saw only very briefly in the Shanghai special oh so long ago, a young chinese woman with her hair in a ponytail is huffing and fussing over a wristband she was trying to make JUST right. And over her shoulder is a Korean woman with a round face. A-Fei and Yun Eun-Ji look over the work that A-Fei had settled on, A-Fei leans over to consult the large tome of Miraculous that was resting nearby once again, and tranqii’s voice came out dubbed over the scene.
 “But then, even the soundest sleepers are awoken when they are truly needed.”
Cue Intro, rather than the more simple miraculous world theme we’re instead greeted by an edgier ‘Batman beyond’ vibe type intro, of Yun Eun-Ji, A-Fei, and Sun Min standing against unrelenting odds, notable faces of the old order we actually know are seen, Wu Lian is seen with the scorpion Medallion along her neck, and Zhao Kai is spotted, much more serious than we used to see him, and running along with them is a familiar face of a certain New Old Order Member that got away. But the intro ends on the three young heroes standing atop the temple they hold down’s roof, gazing out at Shanghai, which they seem to be at the outskirts of, able to see the city but not fully interact with it. 
But that’s just the intro, when we fully return back to the story we return to A-Fei talking with her parents, a conspicuous bracelet cuff around her wrist. 
“-I just think it would be good for me to spend some time away from home.” She reasoned, but her mother sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. “Sweetheart, you’re always proposing these things and never following through! I just worry we’re going to force some poor monks to escort you back home because you lost your nerve studying under them ‘for practical college credit’” She sighed and folded her arms, leaning against the counter she’d been chopping vegetables on. 
“Frankly, it sounds more like you’re doing this so you can avoid helping me out at dinner.” A Fei sighed, from where she was currently sat peeling carrots, her mother continued to look skeptical. 
“I’m… I'm not doing it alone, mother. I’m going to have other students there with me.”
“And Who might those students be?”
“Well there’s this Korean Girl, her names’ Yun Eun-Ji, and there’s Sun Min he’s-”
“A boy?” Her mother turned sharply to her and A-Fei groans. “And What, I’m guessing you’ll all be in the same room too? And not to question it?”
“Mother, I won't be trying to SLEEP with him!” A-Fei shrilled, scandalized. But her mother scoffs, unaffected by her denial.
“What about him? And this Korean girl as well? Even if he’s not after you, you’re MUCH too young to be finding a sock laying next to your door.” “Oh Heavens above…” A-Fei sighs, letting her carrot fall into the pile of skins for a moment before reaching back in to retrieve it. “Mother, if you can’t trust me on my own then why are you letting me go to college at all?” That gives her mother pause, and A-Fei takes the opportunity. 
“Look, give me just this weekend, just this weekend to test things out, and we’ll see what happens. If you think I'll flake you’ll be able to tell by Monday. And if I won’t then…?”
Her mother thinks for a moment, and sighs. 
“Fine. the weekend. But you’d better actually DO the work they tell you do. Listen to the lessons they teach. And 我的女孩?” She reaches over to gently cup A-fei’s cheek-
Before pulling her hand into a playful pinch to it. “Your mother will KNOW if you try to cheat your way out of doing any work, Lazy girl.” A-Fei whines and squirms out of her mother’s grasp, their relationship is a little strained, but still loving it would seem. 
We follow A-Fei for a little longer, she finishes setting up lunch with her mother, some really tasty looking bowls of noodles (insert anime food joke here) and the family table is lively as everyone chatters about the goings on of the world. Cousin Xiuying went to Japan recently. And she didn’t stop over on a plane layover to say hi? The comings and goings of average family life, and other such trivial but hearty things. Until they’re finished and one of A-Fei’s friends we saw briefly back in the Shanghai special rolls up. And She’s just barely able to get out of doing the dishes since She’d helped cook, saddling her Dad with them instead as she gets to roll off. Her mother shouting behind her that she’d better be back before dinner and she’s able to ride off on the back of one of her friends’ bike. From here we see a bit more of the life of A-Fei, how her friends aren’t any particular niche, they hang out at the arcade and the skate park with equal ease. One boy, now dubbed as Yuan Zhong, is a part time lion dancer for parades and such, and hates it since he’s always the butt of the lion. Another (known to be Liang Jiao) delivers pharmaceuticals for his family’s home remedies business, and the third (Xie Kang) is unemployed, and the designated rich boy of the group (despite being barely upper middle class) as he buys bubble tea for everyone. The boys comment that it’s been awhile since she’s hung out with them, she’s been ‘so preoccupied’ with her ‘project’
A-Fei brushes it off, but then Yuan leans in and asks if it has anything to do with that cute girl she’s been hanging around lately. Xie adding on that the boy was cuter, and maybe she could hook them up? A-Fei rolls her eyes and insults the lot of them for being gross.
“They’re just people I'm working on the same project with, you bunch of freaks…”
“Lot of effort to put into project partners-” Liang Jiao brings up, pulling out his phone and idly tapping on it. “Didn’t you guys go out of town for something last year? That’s what we were covering for you for, right?”
“Hey yeah it’s been like a year hasn’t it?!” Yuan brings up, scandalized. “And we still haven’t officially MET them?! FeiFei this is OUTRAGEOUS.”
“You guys wouldn’t even LIKE each other! Sun Min is Soooo boring! And Yun Eun-ji’s a jerk anyway!” She scoffed. And the boys all look unimpressed at her. 
“Sounds like something someone who doesn’t want us to know about her extremely cool friends would say.” Xie huffs and looks away in upset. 
A-Fei sighs, but just as she does so her phone chimes, she looks down at it and lets out a surprised ’eep!’ “Sorry guys, I think I have to go!” “Yeah yeah, back to that ‘project’ we’re not even allowed to know what it is.”
“I Signed an NDA Yuan!” Yuan is unmoved.
But A-Fei sighs and looks around for a moment. “Fine- I’ll… I’ll see if I can arrange something for all of us to do so you can meet them okay?”
The three boys all look between each other before as one, nodding. And A-fei sighs. “Alright. Thanks.”
But just like that she turned and ran off. 
“Oh she’s definitely ‘with’ one of them.”
“No doubt, no doubt.”
But we clip back to A-Fei quickly, the girl ducking into an alley and opening her jacket to reveal for the first time, Tranqii. Asleep in a pocket in the inside of her jacket and snoring blissfully. 
“Tranqii, it’s time to wake up.”
“Mmmm no.” the Kwami grunted, turning over in the pocket so they weren’t facing her. A-Fei sighs and pulls from her bag a pouch happily labeled ‘health friendly roasted crickets’
She shook them around a little and Tranqii turns, squinted big black eyes at the bag of crickets, then back at her. “I’m starting to think you might play dirty…” the little bat huffed, and A-Fei laughed.
“Tranqii, Transform me!”
We watch A-Fei dart across the rooftops of Shanghai, a little clumsier than expected, but in her defense, she’s very new at this. Every so often she hits a fire escape and has to scramble up to avoid falling down the side of the building, people inside nearly seeing her before she darts out of the way. 
She’s very much keeping her presence a secret, not just her identity. And for a time all it seems she’s doing is simply enjoying the world around her. She seems to be delighting in it. Eventually she stops at a random rooftop, sighing and leaning back in position slightly. Here we get the best look at her current uniform, it’s not very different at all compared to the one we saw when she made her first appearance, just a few small details being changed, such as the pink accent color being in some different places but otherwise unchanged. The least interesting take of anyone so far. 
But as she’s simply enjoying the scenery, one of the fake bat ears on her head twitches, and sure enough as seen from behind her a shadowy figure is seen crouching low in the shade of the roof entrance. A-Fei doesn’t seem to notice at first, the figure creeps closer and closer, dropping low as if to pounce
Without warning we cut to the figure’s POV, slowly creeping closer and closer, trying very hard to not make a sound, when an orange glove seems about to reach out to grab her and-
“Don’t even try it.” she turns her head and makes eye contact, where we switch back to 3rd person camera. 
Sun Min stumbles back in surprise, but laughs, he’s transformed much like her, but his costume is much different than we saw him last, much more black than before, as if he were trying to create a sort of ‘stealth mode’ with his look. 
“You’re a real pain in my neck aren’t you Mister Lion?”
Sun Min laughed and plopped down beside her. “You know we have like ‘hero names’ right?”
“You do in Paris, but what’s the point in having them here? NORMAL criminals don’t know who we even are, why should we be concerned about those ‘Old Order’ clowns?” “Because you just fought in a war with them like a year ago and you nearly died several times?” Sun Min laughed as if it was all a joke, A-Fei didn’t laugh back, she just looked perturbed. She huffed and puffed and Sun Min sighed. “Look… Yun Eun-Ji and I only like, JUST finished making sure there weren’t any more magical booby traps on the old temple, but now that they’ve taken some time to lay low this is the EXACT sort of time where my old masters would try to pull something. Because they know we won’t expect it. Or if we do then we won’t think they’ll do it NOW.” He sighed.
“And that’s why we’re moving my training up?”
“And that’s why we’re moving your training up.”
She sighed and leaned forward a bit, bracing her chin on her arm, and arm on her knee. “And I don’t suppose that you have anything in your spellbooks that can make my family and friends STOP asking questions because people are starting to grow sick of me hiding things and flaking out at everything, my mother almost didn’t let me sign off on this at all because she thinks I drop things willy-nilly now…!”
Sun Min sighed. “I’ll… I’ll talk to her.” But A-Fei turned back to him, expression suddenly grave. “What?”
“But don’t like- I was being facetious, don’t actually do anything to my mom’s brain.” Sun Min laughed and was clearly more at ease than before. 
“I won’t do any magic that will mess with your mothers faculties or subvert her free will. Okay?”
A-Fei sighs. “Okay.” But like that, they were both standing, stretching, and she took out her bolos, and he took out his knuckle dusters and they began training. 
What follows is a simple sort of sparring scene where Sin Min clearly has A-Fei outpaced and outclassed, but they’re both clearly still having fun, laughing and lightly shoving and all that good stuff. 
As they’re both training and enjoying themselves, there’s another set of eyes on the two of them. But these ones remain in the shadows until-
A teal ninetails whips out and catches Sun Min’s leg, tripping him up at the exact right time for A-Fei to land a blow to the solar plexus.
“Always expect the unexpected!” A cheerful voice responds, and a-Fei turns and grins when she spots the girl. 
“Yun Eun-Ji!” She chirped darting over and giving the girl a hug. “I was worried I'd have to wait a WHOLE nother week to see you!”
“Such a tragedy!” The octopus wielder laughed as She let go of her ninetails and let the lion wielder struggle in it for a little longer. “So what did your mother say about staying at the temple with us?”
“She said she’d give it the weekend and see if I'm full of shit or not.” Yun Eun-Ji narrowed her eyes at her, oddly serious for a moment. 
“Are you?”
A-Fei looks shocked for a moment, before laughing and pushing her arm. Yun Eun ji Laughs too and the tension is broken. 
“You’re such a jerk!”
“So are you!” They simply shove each other back and forth a few more times before Sun Min pops his head back up and rolls his eyes very dramatically.
 “Come on ladies, let's not make a scene in front of the lion. A-Fei did you want to see what we’ve been up to in the temple or what?”
A-Fei looks over, surprised, and sure enough one rooftop race later they’ve arrived far out of town, to the more grassy surroundings. 
The kids have all detransformed, and roll up on a motorcycle driven by Sun Min, the other two girls piled onto the back, and they roll up to an otherwise perfectly normal looking buddhist temple, albeit one that looked like it had been abandoned for some time. 
And as we pull up on the kids they continue a conversation. “Well the ACTUAL buddhists left ages ago once a big enough city had popped up right next to their damn temple, So for centuries it was exclusively an Order of Miracles Temple putting on the facade of Buddhism.” He takes off his helmet and is notably the only one wearing one, parking his bike and hanging his helmet on the handlebars. 
“And as we know other than the ‘not getting involved with the world around us’ part there wasn’t actually much in common between the two.” 
“Yeah the edifice complex of ‘we’re better than these whimps that didn’t do this’ thing runs DEEP.” Yun Eun-ji adds on. “‘S part of why they stayed in Shanghai, literally JUST so it could be more of a practice to look down on people than they were before.”
“Or at least that’s how Yun Eun-Ji interpreted the stories.”
“And I was RIGHT”
“Being right about our teachers being screwball crazy and being right about every elder in the order ever being sociopathic god complex loonies are two very different things.”
But Sun Min throws open the doors, and, well… the place looks like an abandoned buddhist temple. 
Except for when Sun Min leans over on the inside of the gate and presses a sigil of the old order on the wall. Wherein the magic of the place LIGHTS the whole temple up, It’s a beautiful display of color and light as they dance about the realm before them. A-Fei gasps.
“No way… this is AMAZING!”
“Less amazing when it’s five am and the sun hasn’t risen yet and that's the only reason the lanterns are on…” Sun Min comments and Yun Eun-Ji elbows him in the gut. 
A-Fei looks nervous then. “We’re not… actually gonna wake up at five…?”
“Of course not, that was sleep deprivation to rob us of our common sense. We’ll start at Six.”
A-Fei looks at the two of them, unsure if she should be relieved or not.
For a time we see a bit more training, Yun Eun-Ji and Sun Min really putting A-Fei through the paces, transformed for a while, and then A-Fei’s transformation drops with Tranqii yawning and saying they’re tired. They crunch down happily on their crickets as they watch A-Fei get her butt kicked.
We hear their voiceover once more.
“It’s an odd thing, living in the physical. There are many good things, like crickets. But bad things, like being tired. But…” 
A-Fei looked back at them for a moment and smiled, waving, before getting a boot to the face. “It’s good, I think.”
But as we begin to pan out, we see shadows in the background, hiding in the trees, and in the passing of a leaf across the screen, they’re gone. 
“I think my time in the physical world will be a very interesting one indeed.”
Fin
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Unforgotten - ML Oblivio AU
When the Miraculous Cure restores everyone's memories, Ladybug and Chat Noir realize that their post-amnesia memories from the past hour were not erased. As such, they remember each other’s identities, falling in love without preconceived notions and baggage, and their kiss.
How things change from then on:
Ladybug panics and stammers as she tries to process the revelation. Chat is calmer as he processes what happened, but seeing his partner devolve into nervous stammering and gibberish makes him connect "Oh, yeah, this is definitely Marinette." When they get back onto the bus, they sit together rather than Mari + Alya and Adrien + Nino, and they talk things out (and then meet back up in costume later to go into what they couldn't say around their classmates).
They start dating, in and out of costume. They tell Alya and Nino that they had gotten stuck together and were both hit by Oblivio and so hit it off with a fresh start. They have a similar explanation prepared to share in a Ladyblog interview for their superhero identities. Needless to say, Alya and Nino are proud that their joint Akumatization at least brought this to fruition.
Realizing they have to do it sooner or later, Marinette and Adrien visit Master Fu to tell him that they still know each other’s identities, and plead with him not to take away their Miraculouses.  Fu agrees, admitting that he never had any intention of enforcing the rule.  The Kwamis are very relieved to be able to move forward without having to deal with the “love square” nonsense.
When faced with Desperada, Ladybug gives the Snake Miraculous to Luka immediately. Marinette and Adrien also realize that while they are dating each other now, they still care deeply about Luka and Kagami, respectively.
Startrain is pretty much the same (they don't need to excuse their presence from each other, though). However, when Lila tries to intrude on Marinette and Adrien napping together, Alya takes note, as she is trying to come between the couple, and starts to consider that Lila may not be the total saint she thought she was.
Ladybug and Cat do not have to throw each other off of the trail of their identities, but they do have to come up with a way to distract Ms. Mendeleiev and Hawk Moth from realizing that they attend Collège Françoise Dupont.
Marinette texts Adrien and tells him about the Sentimonster at the museum. Bouncing back and forth, they realize that Hawk Moth and Mayura might know about it, and they expect the villains to try to make use of it rather than trust it will remain dormant. They set a trap for Mayura, recruiting the other heroes for the fight. The Sentimonster is still freed, but Ladybug prevents Hawk Moth from Akumatizing it. They fail to capture Mayura, but they are able to destroy the Sentimonster and restore everything it consumed. Master Fu does not try to take the Miraculouses back and flee, and Hawk Moth does not learn what he looks like. In the meantime, recruiting Chloé along with the other heroes builds her faith in Ladybug back up as she realizes that Ladybug still has faith in her, making her betrayal less likely to happen.
Since the Shanghai special does not have a set point in time, I'll put it at the beginning of a stretch of episodes in which the cast does not attend school (from Ikari Gozen to Puppeteer 2), as it is said to be at the start of break. In this chapter, Marinette genuinely has an interest in exploring her cultural background and Chinese heritage when she volunteers to visit her great-uncle for his birthday, rather than wanting to stalk Adrien. It happens that Adrien is in Shanghai at the same time and she plans to surprise him while out searching for ingredients, but then she is pickpocketed.
Without their romantic rivalry, Marinette is eager to get to know Kagami better, and she does not try to sabotage her during the Friendship Game. However, tensions still arise as she is confused and put off by Kagami's strange behavior (due to not knowing how to make friends). Either Kagami finds out about Marinette's video chats with Alya addressing the confusion and becoming upset, or she is not nearly Akumatized at all (either way, Tomoe is still Akumatized and Kagami becomes Ryuko).
After meeting Bunnyx and learning that they will still have threats to face in the future, Cat reflects on what Tom Dupain said about how he could retire after defeating Hawk Moth, and he talks to Ladybug about how he does not want to quit being a superhero.  Ladybug agrees.
I would have Puppeteer 2 be the recap episode of the season rather than Stormy Weather 2. The wax museum would be a good setting for the cast to reflect on past adventures and character development.
Miracle Queen does not happen.  Marinette does not suffer from confusion about her love life and watching Adrien and Kagami grow closer, so she brings Chloé the Bee Miraculous to help against Heart Hunter.  She also remembers to change back to Marinette when she heads to find Master Fu (she is in the subway when she gets the Lucky Charm, so she just finds a place to change back and heads to the park without either Hawk Moth or Mayura even beginning to pursue her.  Chloé does not betray Ladybug and Cat Noir, and Hawk Moth and Mayura do not capture Master Fu, so Fu does not (yet) pass on the role of Guardian and Hawk Moth does not learn the identities of the other heroes.
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I think the issue with Marinette's race really came to head in the Shanghai special. She apparently has never gone to China once with her family. I know they said "oh we were saving this money" but like the Dupain-Cheng's are not broke despite what Chloe says. If you can afford an entire building in Paris, you can afford plane tickets. So for the first time Marinette finally goes...to chase her crush...I mean to uh see her great uncle. Like she's going to her moms home country, a country that has strong ties to the Miraculous, and it's for a boy. If my parents did have money problems, that would be a sincere waste of their money.
The fact that it was to chase after Adrien was annoying, I would've preferred if it'd sincerely been in order to visit her Uncle. I wouldn't necessarily consider it unrealistic or anything, that seems like a teenage thing to do. I would've preferred if she'd gone in order to find out about the Chinese Miracle Box, that would probably have been the most solid reason for her to go, especially considering how risky leaving Paris unprotected is.
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You know, I feel like every season 2 was the most epic season since it did a lot of pay off and showcased a lot of things fans speculated and wanted
Super hero Chloe,Alya and Nino, new miraculous users, Hawkmoths identity, Gabriel showing he cares for Adrien (gorizilla) The peacock miraculous, Nathalie love for Gabriel, akumatized miraculous users, a army of Akumas, the power ups and Master Fu identity
And most of it very well executed.
Season 3 gave fusions, master Fu backstory, chat blanc and Felix
However season 2 was kinda flawed (fusions not creating a new power by fusing the miraculous, master fu backstory being a bit underwhelming like he’s entire character and Felix which is a completely different Can of worms and Cat blanc which is a Can but of snakes)
It felt like they threw the biggest things they’ve been building up and anticipating since the beginning in season 2 and now they are just reusing stuff trying to make it work (new heroes, more fusions, more Felix, plot twist which do no good and should have stayed has headcanons/theory’s and a copy of chat blanc) but kinda killed off the magic of if
And the only thing left they had was new miraculous users, but like Syndrome said “if everyone is super, nobody is” specially if everyone is just another tool for Ladybug to use
Now I just see every new big thing has something boring and pathetic, wanna talk about how disappointing strike back (the character) was? I thought we would see a end game villain and the defeat of Gabriel by how the episode was titled, now if Gabriel is ever defeated I’ll won’t feel nothing
Just like how many will feel if Chloe is redeemed, the reveal is done, Lila is exposed, when Emily wakes up and Etc etc etc
They put most of the big concepts and popular thing of the fandom in season 2 and now I just feel like they’ve run out of ideas that won’t break the status quo or fall apart because of the show previous mistakes. They wrote themselves into a corner they can easily break but refuse to do so
I think the problem is more that the show keeps introducing more plotlines and concepts instead of resolving the ones they already introduced.
Instead of just focusing on Chloe as an antagonist full-time, they introduced Lila, then teased a redemption arc for Chloe that went nowhere, leaving us stuck with two antagonists who are pretty much the same character.
Instead of having Hawkmoth lose at the end of Season 2 and have someone like Mayura take over as the main villain, they kept Hawkmoth around while benching Mayura at the end of Season 3, and almost everyone agrees that Gabriel has long overstayed his welcome at the main antagonist of the series.
Instead of delving more into the lore of the Miraculous or the Order of the Guardians, they introduced twelve more Miraculous themed after the Chinese Zodiac that add nothing to the plot other than to introduce more heroes for the hell of it.
Instead of having Adrien actively rebel against his father, they introduced Felix, who is aware of how shady Gabriel is and helps forward the plot in ways that conveniently leave Adrien out of it.
It really feels like the show is more focused on quantity over quality at this point.
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ML Meta Theory: Chinese legend “Butterfly Lovers”
I just realized that I never got around to talk about the Chinese legend 梁山伯與祝英臺 (Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai) - or the title its mostly referred to in English: Butterfly Lovers – and that I think its quite possible that this tragic tale is the reason why the Butterfly Miraculous specifically is the villain in Miraculous and Marientte’s and Adrien’s love story, even though Butterflies aren’t exactly that special of animals in Chinese cultures.
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(Statue: Liangzhu Culture Park)
Disclaimer: As per usual, I’m of no country of the Asien continent and I also have no family roots there I’m taking this from. I’m one person who is very interested in culture and literature and research is all I can do in this regard at the moment.
So if my post contains false information, misrepresentations or other points, please let me now.
Butterfly Lovers was selected as one of China's Four Great Folktales by the "Folklore Movement" in the 1920s and I’ve gotta be honest, this is such a spot on “civilian Ml-Love-Square” way for a romantic couple to tragically never reach each other and then die in the end, I would find it surprising if it didn’t at least have SOME influence on the show.
Cause the Love Square WOULD
Zhu Yingtai is the ninth child and only daughter of the wealthy Zhu family of Shangyu, Zhejiang. Although women are traditionally discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu manages to convince her father to allow her to attend classes in disguise as a man. During her journey to Hangzhou, she meets Liang Shanbo, a scholar from Kuaiji. They chat and feel a strong affinity for each other at their first meeting. Hence, they gather some soil as incense and take an oath of fraternity in the pavilion of a wooden bridge.
They study together for the next three years in school and Zhu gradually falls in love with Liang. Although Liang equals Zhu in their studies, he is still a bookworm and fails to notice the feminine characteristics exhibited by his classmate.
One day, Zhu receives a letter from her father, asking her to return home as soon as possible. Zhu has no choice but to pack her belongings immediately and bid Liang farewell. However, in her heart, she has already confessed her love for Liang and is determined to be with him for all eternity. Before her departure, she reveals her true identity to the headmaster's wife and asks her to pass a jade pendant to Liang as a betrothal gift.
Liang accompanies his "sworn brother" for 18 miles to see her off. During the journey, Zhu hints to Liang that she is actually a woman. For example, she compares them to a pair of mandarin ducks (a symbol of lovers in Chinese culture), but Liang does not catch her hints and does not even have the slightest suspicion that his companion is a woman in disguise. Zhu finally comes up with an idea and tells Liang that she will act as a matchmaker for him and Zhu's "sister". Before they part, Zhu reminds Liang to visit her residence later so he can propose to marry her "sister". Liang and Zhu reluctantly part ways at the Changting pavilion.
Months later, when Liang visits Zhu, he discovers that she is actually a woman. They are devoted to and passionate about each other and they make a vow to the effect of "till death do us part". The joy of their reunion is short-lived as Zhu's parents have already arranged for her to marry a wealthy merchant, Ma Wencai. Liang is heartbroken when he hears the news and his health gradually deteriorates until he becomes critically ill. He dies in office later as a county magistrate.
On the day of Zhu's marriage to Ma, strong winds prevent the wedding procession from escorting the bride beyond Liang's grave, which lies along the journey. Zhu leaves the procession to pay her respects at Liang's grave. She descends in bitter despair and begs for the grave to open up. Suddenly, the grave opens with a clap of thunder. Without further hesitation, Zhu throws herself into the grave to join Liang. Their spirits emerge in the form of a pair of butterflies and fly away together, never to be separated again.
The Love Square WOULD!
Switch their roles out at several points and you do have a pretty strong Love-square tragic love story and I simply found that way too fitting to be a mere coincidence.
Again, it’s one of China's Four Great Folktales and the Butterfly has always seemed like an odd choice for the villain of this show, which does intergrade a lot of references in the narrative and characters to for example the Chinese numbers and the Zodiac system, their meanings and relations (Post here)
So this doesn’t seem that far-fetched at all, and in my opinion it just FEELS extremely right for Le Papillion’s/ Hawkmoth’s role in the show without making him culturally inappropriate since Gabriel is a white man, terrorist and child abuser. He, as the villain, is the narrative manifestation of “Butterfly Lovers” but without having him as an actual PERSON be its embodiment.
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This is kind of just random thoughts and feelings but thinking about it I want to say that I really do feel like miraculous’ handling of marinette as a mixed race Asian character has improved over the seasons and I am a lot more fond of it now that I was previously.
Early on in the show I felt like the writing was alienating marinette as much as possible from her cultural heritage and portraying her as more of an “outsider” to it rather than someone who has GROWN UP with it as a constant part of her life. Now it’s not that I don’t think there are mixed kids out there who have this experience, this is not what I want to portray with this rant, nor do I want to invalidate anyone’s lived experience. But I do believe that having marinette appear entirely ignorant to not only her mothers maiden language but also largely the culture in Kung food was incredibly alienating and uncomfortable to watch. Having adrien, her white love interest, explaining to her not only the most simplistic language elements but also simple cultural ones that she likely WOULD be familiar with just through merely being close with her mother, is incredibly hard to watch for me.
I am NOT saying I do not think it was realistic for marinette not to speak Chinese. Many kids from all kinds of backgrounds are not fluent in their parents native languages for a variety of reasons. But I do feel it unrealistic for her to not pick up some simple vocabulary and cultural elements even without realizing just simply because of having her mother be a big influence on her life. We’ve seen later on that Sabine regularly partakes in many cultural practices all the time and the evidence of this is not only all over their family home but also marinettes own ROOM. Realistically, marinette is more familiar with Chinese culture than adrien will likely ever be just purely as a result of having it in her home.
NOW for my original point to this rant, I actually feel like this attitude towards marinettes culture and the handling of it in the show has actually improved significantly. While I do personally wish her motivation for visiting in the Shanghai special was not so tied to only adriens involvement, I’m really happy to see her learn more about her family and be able to appreciate those ties she has.
But the main episode that I want to praise is Qilin. This is the episode we really get to know more about Sabine as a character and as a result, the way Chinese culture impacts her identity and as a result, Marinette’s. Now there’s definitely arguments to be made regarding whether or not some of this was stereotypical or overly simplistic, but I really don’t have much to say about that myself not being Chinese, and personally don’t take any major issue with anything depicted. What I DO want to praise is them showing how her mothers value of Chinese culture impacts their home’s daily life and routines. Most of all, despite it being offscreen, the implement of something as simple as sharing with us that Marinette regularly goes out to get dim sum with her mother is always really heart warming to me. It may not seem like much but to me at least, casually having Asian food and hobbies be more common in my life than my peers is a really relatable experience to me. Just simple things like getting dim sum often or going to the Asian supermarket are the small ways that I feel like being Asian impacts my life all the time in very small relatively inconsequential ways, and I really loved seeing marinette getting some of this background depth to her life.
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