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WAS I ASLEEP? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ANOTHER EPISODE IS OUT? I DONT REMEMBER THERE BEING ANOTHER ONE

marinette and adrien being in a relationship is so funny because both of them will want to help anyone in distress and neither will back down so they’ll both hold some random struggling person’s hand and run away?? but then marinette will be like OH FUCK. right im the guy who fixes the distress!! guess i gotta make a shitty excuse and fuck off!! and then adrien is like oh now that my beautiful girlfriend has left my field of vision im remembering IM A SUPERHERO AND NEED TO FIX THIS LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION!! i sure hope my girlfriend doesn’t get attacked while she’s purchasing 16 apples from the fishmonger and retrieving 27 balls of yarn she’s suddenly misplaced. meanwhile the person they were previously consoling is like what the fuck they both just ditched me after insisting they wanted to make me feel better what is their damn problem

It's so baffling to me that people will blame marinette for literally anything. At the beginning of the episode we see her talking about Sabrina and how happy she is that she's changed and is now helping people. And then she shifts her focus to her planned date with Adrien for most of the episode.

But GOD FORBID, she asks ONE QUESTION, in a not sweet saccharine princess tone, because she is CONFUSED, and lacking CRITICAL INFORMATION, which is what the ENTIRE EPISODE BUILD TOWARDS, and she's suddenly "mean" and "a bully" and "ruined this season".

Like. Some people make it so blatantly obvious that they just look for reasons to shit on a fictional 14 year old girl due to her simply existing. C'mon.

I know this comic was very much about Marc and Nath and I very much don't want to take that away from them, but I definitely see the parallels between Rain-Piercer & Sun-heart and Ladybug & Chat Noir.

Maybe it's obvious, but I enjoy analyzing it!

Sun-Heart clearly parallels Adrien/Chat. Blonde/golden hair, the whole 'Sunshine' aspect? AdriChat's bright and sunny disposition?

Then we have Rain-Piercer. Dark hair, more concerned about the consequences of them revealing? And the reference to all of the rain symbolism between Adrienette/LadyNoir?

Lets' break it down:

So this could be taken one of 2 ways:

1) This might be referring to the final battle with Monarch. It's showing us that this could have happened between then and now, That LB and CN discussed revealing after Monarch was defeated. Though since we know they didn't reveal, I'd say it's more likely it's a potential hint to the future--

2) Lila/New Butterfly is the "Deep Darkness" (Though it could also refer to the council stuff) And this is foreshadowing what could happen once they defeat her.

Now they realize that if they reveal, they would have to give everything up. Stop being LB and CN? Maybe even never see each other again if their only connection remains their time as heroes.

Chat is ready to reveal but Ladybug warns him the consequences of revealing their identities.

If Chat Noir reveals himself to Ladybug, then he won't be allowed to be Chat Noir any more.

I'm guessing the Great-Rain is referencing the Celestial Guardian, or maybe the order of the Guardians or something. Maybe even Ladybug herself, as she's the current Guardian. Considering her parallel's name here is Rain-Piercer and the authority in this story is 'the Great Rain' it could very well be that they mean 'Ladybug' and 'Ladybug as Guardian'.

And the sacred armor is obviously the Miraculous.

But Chat is ready to reveal. He's waited so long. He wants this. Like it says, He'd rather lose his powers than his partner, who's always been by his side.

Now we have Ladybug, convinced by Chat that she wants this too. She decides to go through with it. Renounce her burden (With a passion!)

Interestingly enough, this time it says 'powers of the Great-Sun...' which... they just said it was the Great-Rain, so I'm wondering if this is a mistake, or intentional? I'd have to really listen to the french to pick out exactly what's said. Maybe 'Great-Sun' is intentional and means something. I'll come back to this if I figure it out!

And then of course, we get the happy ending and the much-awaited reveal and kiss! So Chat Noir and Ladybug reveal, and they have their beautiful moment!

But.

This is the re-written version.

In their original draft, they both gave up their powers to be together. Nathaniel thought it was unfair that they should lose everything and not have their happy ending.

This is something fans have been discussing for ages. And there's the whole possibility of Ladybug losing her memories if she renounces her Guardianship, which has also been hinted at in this season already.

So Nathaniel changed the ending to ensure they got to keep their powers and have their happy ending.

So is Nathaniel a parallel to the writers themselves? Changing the lore to ensure that Ladybug and Chat Noir can continue their journey even after an identity reveal?

So then this leaves the question of which version we're going to get by the end? Is this their way of showing us that they can continue the show for 12 seasons AND still give us the big reveal?

I mean, how do you continue a show like this for so many seasons and keep the fandom on the line for that long with no reveal? This could be their way of introducing the idea that the story CAN continue post-reveal!

That's just my thoughts on the matter anyway! I hope you enjoyed my breakdown!

I heard both. Brain needle

First there was Yanny Vs. Laurel, now there’s Brainstorm Vs. Green Needle.

So Climatiqueen just premiered and I have to say...

Aurore's character is the perfect example of how a returning antagonist should be handled, don't recycle them for the sake of recycling them, continue to build on what we know of THEM, because that's what makes them unique, if you don't do so, then there's no reason as to why any other character wasn't in their place.

For example, in this episode the writers used the established foundation Stormy Weather gave them about Aurore's interests to fit the theme of discovering your passion (and to possibly lay the groundwork of foreshadowing Ladybug's reputation downfall, as It's honestly very suspicious the social media theme was the focus of two episodes in such a short amount of time). Thanks to that, we now know that Aurore wanted to win the role as climate presentator in 'Stormy Weather' because meteorology was her passion, and not solely because of popularity as we previously thought (though that did play a role as well, as this episode proves), adding layers to her character in a way that feels justified as they are relevant to the story we're being told (unlike other instances where they can feel like an unnecessary info dump because of bad timing, like Gabriel's backstory, or so I've been told, I haven't followed Miraculous since early S3 lol).

I'm a sucker for little continuity details like that because it helps cement the idea that the world is alive, and it makes me appreciate the analytical labor writers go through in order to do help this illusion remain believable.

marinette plays over every scenario in her head. who can she tell? who will she hurt by saying the truth, and who will she hurt more by not saying anything at all? can’t tell alya. she already knows so much, and her lips can only stay sealed up to a point. can’t tell chat noir. she knows him too well, he’d want the world to know the truth too, wouldn’t he? and she can’t reveal everything plus also ask him to pretty please keep mum about this, hawkmoth’s son is the love of my life and the world will tear him to shreds if they know. and she can’t tell adrien either, right? he’s the one person she was instructed not to tell at all cost, and he’d want to tell everyone too, wouldn’t care that everyone would hate him, but she does. she wants him to be safe. she wants him to be happy. she wants him to be unburdened by the title of ‘supervillain’s son’, because surely ‘both my parents are dead’ is more than enough to bear. but then the guilt that should’ve been hers and hers only seeps into him, and sinks its teeth into him, and she can’t pull it out. she hears his random remarks and asides that reek of deep sadness, regret. how can someone be a hero if they weren’t even a decent person for most of their days? it’s a terrible thing to have to reconcile, let alone for one’s father. and then there’s the stench of putrid pancakes, wafting through those long corridors of that too big, too lonely house, every time marinette creeps in, like she still doesn’t belong there. and then there’s the letters. the little tokens of control, hidden anywhere and everywhere, physically inescapable. it’s like a treasure hunt that will go on forever until adrien finds out. how long will it last? how long will adrien frown and avert his gaze every time someone praises his godforsaken father? how many times must marinette be the only person in the room who sees it?

This is a something me and a friend did; she came up w/ the backstory, and I was the one to write the actual story. /When Georgica turned sixteen, he was allowed to finally drive. The thing is, he was not taught beforehand. You might be thinking, "How the diddly-darn heck was he allowed to drive when he did not know how?" Well the answer is simple, he lives in IGof4tropilos, on street IDGAF(I Don't Give A Flip-flop). Anyways... One day as he, the 'beautiful' Georgica, was backing out of the driveway, he ran into the trashcan which sent him flying all the way across town onto street Oopsie. In case you're curious of what kind of trashcan he hit that somehow made him fly, it was imported from Japan, manufactured in a trampoline factory. He was paralyzed from the waist down, so he was then put in a wheelchair(oh, dear). Your think it's horrible, but Georgica loved it! Whenever someone wasn't nice to him, he could run over their foot! It continued the same. Then one day, he had to go to court; reason being, he ran over someone's figure(don't ask, I was there and I don't even understand how it happened). Georgia took his $5(I don't even know at this point) and went off. He told the truth as the other person was making stuff about how she couldn't read(she was reading that off from her paper btw). Georgia lost the case, but he still won because he lost his sanity along with the case and ran over the judge with his wheelchair. It was a good end of the day for Georgica(at the mental hospital). The End\ She said that I should make a Webtoon bc she thought it was so funny, I might post this drawing I actually have for this

*screams at the top of my lungs in agreement*

MLB Revelator episode rant (spoiler warning)

I've read lots of opinions about who's right when it came to Marinette's secret about Gabriel being Monarch. There are people who defend Alya and there are people who defend Marinette. When it comes to me. I honestly can't blame neither of them. I can't blame Marinette for keeping this secret. I can't blame Alya for getting mad at her. But you know who I can blame? GABRIEL FUCKING AGRESTE. He was a fucking dick to his very end. I don't even know if the show truly wanted him to be a sympathetic villain or not, because most of the time he wasn't even nice to his own son and he had like... one... two, sympathetic moments? While 95% of the time he was busy terrorising Paris, innocent people and traumatizing literal children. HIS SON INCLUDED. What he asked Marinette, before taking that wish, was literally so cruel and selfish. He asked her to lie. He MANIPULATED her into lying. Lying that he, a TERRORIST, was a damn HERO. She's a kid for god's sake. And he was a grown ass man-

I would unironically love this. A Miraculous version and a non-fandom one (obvi with it's own dark story)

Miraculous Ladybug Dating Sim where you play as Marinette as she tries to build a romantic relationship with Adrien

It starts off all cute and sweet as Marinette tries to max her skills and social links to increase her chances of passing skill checks or learning important information about Adrien and his life so she can keep increasing that heart meter

But stuff starts getting weird

And the decisions start getting harder

And Marinette/the player starts to realise that there's a lot of stuff being learned that Adrien doesn't know

The choices become less about what would make Adrien happy and keep those hearts filling up, and more about what will keep him safe

Cause it turns out his family has done some really fucked up shit and he's none the wiser

And the game just keeps going, becoming less of a sugary sweet dating sim and more of a psycological horror

A "good ending" is no longer possible, so it all becomes about keeping the game going. Because if a slip is made, if Adrien finds out the truth, if the game ends - then what happens to Adrien? Does he disappear if the screen fades to black? Can he be saved if the game file is reset? Or will it be permanently game over?