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Tales of Bloody Bug and Chat Noir - Chapter 31 - Captain Hardrock

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Alix leaned back in her desk chair as she worked on her assignments. She glanced up at the time, mindful of it for when she needed to head to Jagged Stone’s concert tonight. She sighed and took deep breaths when her phone rang. She picked it up to a video call with Rose and Juleka. Both Rose and Juleka were decked out in Jagged Stone merch.

“Well, this is a surprise. Heading to the concert tonight?” Alix asked.

“Yup. We called to see if we all wanted to go together?” Rose asked.

“We?” Alix echoed.

“Yeah. Didn’t you get a ticket too?”

“Uh, no.”

“What? But you looked relieved when you and Adrien took your stockings. I thought for sure you got one.”

“Yeah, sorry, but I didn’t.”

“Oh! I’m so sorry. I should have asked instead of assuming. I-!” Rose started.

“Rose, it’s all good. I don’t mind. Besides, it’s probably best that I don’t go. A Christmas party is one thing. A stadium full of smelly strangers is another.”

“Hey, check out Luka,” Juleka interrupted.

Alix tilted her head as Juleka turned the camera around to him. The tips of his hair were dyed a teal-ish blue and messed up akin to Jagged Stone’s hair. His usual black hoodie replaced with a blue zip-up with a jean jacket over it.

Alix whistled. “Looking good, Luka.”

Luka’s eyes widened as he blushed.

“Make sure to get lots of pictures.”

“Oh, you bet. There’s no way we aren’t. It’s a Jagged Stone concert after-,” Juleka started.

Juleka and Luka’s mom, Anarka stormed into view. “What is this mutiny I hear? A Jagged Stone concert? None of my crew shall pay that wretch a visit. Do we have an accord, mates?”

“Fuck! Run, Luka!” Juleka yelled.

Alix raised a brow while Juleka’s screen blacked out and she heard muffled yells and breathing.

“I hope they didn’t forget their tickets,” Alix remarked.

“Oh, they’re good. Juleka knew something like this would happen, so they had me hold onto the tickets.”

“So, what is the deal? Why does their mom not want them to see Jagged Stone’s concert? I thought she was the ‘do whatever you want’ type of mom.”

“I’m not sure. As long as I’ve known, Anarka hates Jagged Stone with a fiery passion. I just don’t know why. You should have seen this one time when a Jagged Stone song came on the radio and Anarka threw the boombox into the Seine.”

Alix grimaced. She pulled up her messages and warned Adrien of a potential Akuma that may come from Anarka if they see Juleka and Luka at the concert.

“Well, I think you need to come to the rescue there, Rose, so I’ll let you go.”

“Ok. I’ll be sure to get lots of pictures. Oh! And a souvenir. What size do you wear?”

“You’re asking me that like we’re not the same size?”

“Well, you are, uh, muscle-y? Uh, you know. You’re built, not like me.”

“Right. See about an oversized shirt if you must. I’d rather have it to sleep in.”

“You got it! Talk to after the concert.”

Alix hung up and smiled. “Alright, Tikki, Ziggy, we have a concert to attend. Tikki, spots on.”

Tikki disappeared into the earrings and transformed Alix into Bloody Bug. Bloody Bug headed out to the concert. She met up with Chat Noir, Gallic Chick, Porcelet, and Carapace atop the stadium.

“What’s up, dudes? Who’s ready to rock n’ rule?” Carapace asked.

“You three head down. We likely have an Akuma coming here shortly,” Bloody Bug instructed.

“Then shouldn’t we all wait?” Porcelet asked.

“Nah. I don’t expect this to take long. Besides, we don’t want to rise suspicion.”

“How about this then. You go down and I’ll stay up here with Porcelet?” Chat Noir offered.

“Are you sure?” Bloody Bug asked.

“Yeah. I know the fans are just dying to see me, but they want to see their Bug more. Besides, I can handle this with Porcelet.”

Porcelet gasped and beamed. “Really?”

“Of course. We’re just as-.”

Chat Noir was just off by cannon fire that hit the stadium. Screams erupted from the civilians in line. They looked out on the horizon as a flying ship approached with Anarka dressed up like a pirate captain. Bloody Bug snorted and took out her yo-yo.

“Looks like she’s here sooner than expected. How about we start the pre-show here?”

Bloody Bug and Chat Noir leapt from the stadium to the ship’s deck, followed by Carapace, Gallic Chick, and Porcelet.

“Seize them!” Captain Hardrock commanded.

Chains shot out to capture the heroes but were deflected as Carapace put a shield around them.

Captain Hardrock laughed. “You aren’t going anywhere now, heroes. Trapped by your own doings.”

“That’s where you’re utterly wrong. Allow me, Bloody Bug,” Gallic Chick said.

Gallic Chick used Sublimation and used the power of chaos to create a field around herself. Captain Hardrock ordered the ship to seize them, but the chains that entered the field froze midair.

“Woah! How did you think of this one?” Chat Noir asked.

“Porcelet showed me some crazy villain that could use chaos to do things like this. Seemed useful enough,” Gallic Chick answered.

“What are we waiting for? Take the ship! Throw the captain overboard!” Bloody Bug yelled.

Carapace dismissed his shield as they followed Gallic Chick up to the helm. Bloody Bug used her Lucky Charm to create a pirate cutlass as she took on Captain Hardrock with Chat Noir. They dueled the captain while Porcelet, Gallic Chick, and Carapace destroyed parts of the ship in search of the Akuma. Gallic Chick destroyed the compass and released the Akuma. Bloody Bug glanced over, then kicked Captain Hardrock into the ship.

“Cat, take the captain overboard! This ship’s about to go down.”

Chat Noir grabbed Captain Hardrock and jumped off the ship. Gallic Chick, Porcelet, and Carapace followed suit. Bloody Bug caught the Akuma before she jumped. She purified and released the Akuma before she used her Miraculous power, relocating Liberty back to the Seine. They landed outside the main entrance of the stadium. Everyone cheered for them while Bloody Bug and Chat Noir spoke with Anarka.

“What happened? How did I get here?” Anarka asked.

“You were akumatized. Probably the most fun we’ve had with an Akuma yet,” Bloody Bug commented.

“Why were you akumatized?” Chat Noir asked.

“Because my sweet little scallywags ran off to see that horrible Jagged Stone’s concert. And they know we’re not to speak or think about him under my roof.”

“But why? What do you have against Jagged Stone?” Bloody Bug asked.

“It’s… it’s a long tale, lass. But I cannot let Jagged see them. I cannot let them near him. Please, you have to get them out.”

“Tell ya what, captain. Give us the names and what they looked like, and we’ll keep them busy. After all, it’s not just Jagged Stone they’d be meeting tonight, but all their heroes,” Bloody Bug offered.

Anarka grumbled, then sighed. “Alright, lass. Their names be Luka and Juleka Couffaine. Juleka will look like me with her sweet round face, raven black hair with dyed purple tips, and with her grandmother’s piercing amber eyes. Luka… Luka won’t look like Juleka or me. His face is more angular, serene blue eyes, and raven black hair with blue dyed tips.”

“Got it. We’ll find them and keep them from Jagged. You have my word, captain.”

“Thank you, lass.”

Bloody Bug nodded and headed off. She, Gallic Chick, and Carapace disappeared to recharge their kwamis while Chat Noir and Porcelet headed inside. Bloody Bug, Gallic Chick, and Carapace regrouped and slipped in backstage, meeting up with Jagged Stone, Chat Noir, and Procelet.

“There she is! Bloody Bug! Welcome to the concert of the century by yours truly. You ready to rock n’ roll?” Jagged Stone asked.

“Ready as I can be. Let’s rock Paris to its core.”

Jagged Stone whooped and hollered as everyone got into position. Bloody Bug looked out at the crowd from the rafters with the others. She looked down at the VIP section, recognizing Rose, Juleka, Luka, Alya, Lila, and Marinette. She tilted her head seeing Alya standing away from Marinette. She wondered if what happened at the Louvre had caused a rift between them.

Bloody Bug was pulled from her thoughts as the concert began. She jumped down with her team as the first song started. The crowd roared with cheers and praises as their heroes took the stage. Chat Noir smiled and nudged her, motioning to the audience. She smiled as she threw her yo-yo onto the rafters and swung around the concert. She high fived the concert goers, did aerial tricks, and landed in the crowd randomly.

Bloody Bug soaked in the praise and admiration from everyone. She enjoyed the rush and pure, unfiltered joy it filled her with. She took to the air again when a shadow backstage caught her eye. She pulled herself to the ceiling and stared at it. She struggled to focus on it when glowing, fuchsia dots lined the blue shadow. She tilted her head as a fan unfurled with the same fuchsia dots along it, staring back at her like a million eyes. She closed her eyes and shook her head, then opened them again, but the shadow and the fuchsia eyes were gone.

“Bug. What’s wrong?” Chat Noir yelled.

Bloody Bug glanced over to see Chat Noir beside her with his claws dug into the ceiling. She hummed as she glanced back at where the shadow once stood. She looked around to find an explanation, but nothing could explain away what she saw.

“Bug?” Chat Noir asked.

“I saw something. I don’t know what it was, but it felt… unsettling. Like it was watching me.”

“What do I look out for?”

“Look for shadows moving. If you see any hint of blue or fuchsia, get me immediately and we’ll pursue it together.”

Chat Noir nodded and fell back to the crowd. Bloody Bug took a breath before she joined him. They continued the theatrics for the rest of the concert while they kept an eye out for the mysterious shadow. The shadow didn’t make a reappearance even as the concert came to a close. Bloody Bug furrowed her brows in though when Chat Noir nudged her.

“You ok?”

“No. I saw something, and that something never showed back up.”

“What are you thinking?”

“Step lightly moving forward. Who or whatever that was meant for that encounter. That, I’m sure.”

“Will do. For now, we have a meet and greet to attend to.”

Bloody Bug sighed and followed Chat Noir backstage where Jagged Stone, their team, and the VIP ticket winners waited for them. She took a deep breath and forced a smile as she was separated from her team. She was pushed onto a seat next to Jagged Stone as people swarmed them.

“Bloody Bug! I’m Alya Cesaire. I was hoping now you would answer some questions for the Ladyblog.”

“Uh, sure?”

Alya beamed. “Tell me, had you and Chat Noir met prior to your first meeting with Stoneheart?”

“Uh, no. Not at all.”

“What about the others? Gallic Chick? Porcelet? Carapace?”

“Sorta? I knew of them. I guess.”

“And what made you put together a team?”

“It was a decision made by Chat Noir and I. We were just two people, and we can’t be everywhere all at once. It made sense to put together a team of people we trust.”

“Was this idea pushed further along with incidents like, I don’t know, when Volpina and Heart’s Design kidnapped Adrien Agreste?”

Bloody Bug stiffened. She glanced around the room. First at Marinette, who flinched and retreated to the back. Second to Lila, who tensed up and stared at Bloody Bug with wide eyes. Lastly to Chat Noir, whose attention turned fully to her and Alya.

“It was one of many instances.”

“And, if I may be so bold, what happened exactly that day? Why did the villains steal Adrien Agreste? Did they do anything to him?”

Bloody Bug narrowed her eyes. “Something happened, yes. However, I will not share private information like that if it is within my power. If you want information like that, you’ll need to convince the victim to share the accounts of what happened. And with that, this charade ends.”

“No need for it to continue. I have everything I need,” Alya said as she shot a glare at Marinette.

“Well, that’s weird. Anyway, who’s next?” Jagged Stone asked.

A few concert goers approached Jagged Stone while Rose, Luka, and Juleka approached Bloody Bug. Rose squealed and tackled Bloody Bug.

“It’s so good to see you again, Bloody Bug! And under better circumstances too!”

Bloody Bug grimaced and patted Rose’s head. “Yes, very, but off. I’m not the hugging type. You want that, go tackle Porcelet or Cat. Maybe if you’re lucky, you can get the cat to purr.”

Rose’s eyes widened. “Chat Noir can purr? Seriously?”

“Go find out.”

Rose gasped and tackled Chat Noir. Juleka flinched and rushed after Rose. Bloody Bug snickered as Luka stepped up.

“Uh, Bloody Bug? Do you… do you remember me?”

“Your face is familiar. Would you be that kid that was Silencer? Luka?”

Luka ducked his head down, took a breath, then raised it high and nodded.

“I thought that was you. You did something different with your hair since then, haven’t you?”

“Oh, yeah. Just today, actually. It was Jules idea. I don’t know if I’ll keep it yet.”

“I hope you do. It looks good on you. Suits you both.”

Luka blushed as he ruffled his hair. “Oh! Uh, thanks. And, well, thank you for everything else.”

“What everything else?”

“It’s… a little embarrassing, but you’ve inspired me. After that whole incident and that talk, I’ve done my best to be more like you.”

“Like me?”

“Yeah! You’re so strong and fierce, but even you have your own demons to fight. Despite them, you still hold your head high and live to the fullest. At least, from what we’ve all seen. It’s very… inspiring. You’re inspiring.”

Bloody Bug smiled and messed up Luka’s hair. “Just be the best you that you can be and don’t forget to live for the here and now. If we get stuck in the past, we can’t live for the here and we certainly can’t see our future.”

“I’ll keep doing my best.”

“Good. Now go sit with your sister and the cat.”

“What? But I was hoping to speak with Jagged.”

“Yeah, well, your mother was akumatized because you two came here. And I made a promise that you two wouldn’t meet with Jagged to keep the peace.”

“But-!” Luka started.

“Ah, let them have this. I can handle any woman,” Jagged Stone boasted.

Bloody Bug rolled her eyes. “Sure, you can, but I’m not about to have Anarka-.”

Jagged Stone squeaked, jumped out of his seat, and cowered. “Anarka? She’s here? In Paris?”

“Uh, yeah? She’s our mom,” Juleka commented.

“Hold up. You and the boy here, your mother is Anarka? Anarka Couffaine?”

Juleka nodded.

Jagged Stone pursed his lips. He looked up as he counted on his fingers and went over different thoughts in his head.

“You ok, Jagged?” Porcelet asked.

“Huh? Oh, yeah. Uh, girl, I have one last question for you.”

“I’m waiting.”

“Would you and that boy’s birthday be roughly, what was it now, early March? Where you’ll be fifteen, yeah?”

“Uh, yeah. How’d you-?”

“Marvelous. Alright, back to the groupies!”

Bloody Bug raised a brow as Jagged Stone returned to the other fans. She looked away as she remembered Anarka’s hatred for Jagged Stone, Jagged Stone knowing Luka and Juleka birthdays and age, and, looking at the two of them and from what Anarka said, seeing an eerie resemblance between Luka and Jagged. Her eyes widened as everything clicked.

“Oh. That makes so much sense,” Bloody Bug muttered.

“Bloody Bug?” Lila said.

Bloody Bug broke from her thoughts and looked at Lila. “Yes?”

“You wouldn’t mind if I get some pictures with my best friend, would you?”

Bloody Bug rolled her eyes. “Alright. Let’s get this over with.”

Lila beamed as she pulled Bloody Bug close for pictures. Bloody Bug moved through the motions until Lila kissed her cheek. Bloody Bug’s eyes widened as Lila stepped away.

“Thank you, Bugaboo.”

Bloody Bug furrowed her brow as unease brewed in her. Something would come of this.

“Uh, Bloody Bug? I have a question for you,” Marinette said.

“Alright. Out with it.”

Marinette pulled out a folded note and handed it to Bloody Bug. Bloody Bug took and read the contents. She raised a brow as she read that Marinette wanted to talk with her, alone, in a few nights time. She groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose.

“Fine.”

Marinette gasped and hugged Bloody Bug. “Thank you.”

Bloody Bug grimaced as she patted Marinette’s head. “Now, go.”

Marinette nodded and moved to speak with Jagged Stone.

Bloody Bug sighed and looked at the time. She whined seeing she had another hour of the meet and greet. She shut off her brain and moved on autopilot through the rest of the night. She said her good-byes once they were finished and headed home. She de-transformed and collapsed onto her bed.

“I don’t ever want to do something like that again,” Alix groaned.

“Well, hopefully you won’t have to,” Tikki reassured.

“Fingers crossed, but I have to ask. Did you see what I did? That shadow?”

Tikki nodded.

“What was that?”

“I’m not sure, but I have a feeling it might have been the peacock.”

Alix gasped. “The peacock? What was it doing there? What did it want? Who has it?”

Tikki shrugged. “It went missing with the butterfly brooch, so we don’t know. I know Master has been looking for it. And apparently Adrien’s cousin.”

“Well, someone has it, and they can’t be up to anything good to be lurking in shadows.”

“I agree. You both should be careful,” Ziggy butted in.

Alix nodded. “We will, but we’ll have to also see what their true intentions are.”

“Oh, what do you think they are?” Ziggy asked.

“I’m not sure, but only time will tell now.”

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luka-candids · 2 years

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Power Couple pt 2 Electric Buggablue

#lukanette #lukabug #viperbug #miraculous ladybug #penalteam #wishmaker #luka couffaine #captain hardrock #desperada #heart hunter #truth #miracle queen

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how-many-stars-can-you-count · 2 years

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#my moodboards #pirates #pirates aesthetic #dark aesthetic #French revolution #anarka couffaine #luka couffaine #miraculous #ml #miraculous ladybug #miraculous season 2 #miraculous season 3 #miraculous season 4 #miraculous season 5 #miraculous moodboard #captain hardrock #moodboards #moodboard #aesthetic

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Grab a dictionary, flip to a random page and point, use that word to create a scene using Denis, Moolak, Captain Hardrock, Ladybee, and Gabi Grassette

#Denis Damocles #Bob Roth #Anarka Couffaine #Marinette Dupain Cheng #Gabriel Agreste #Moolak #Captain Hardrock #Ladybee #Gabi Grassette #fic prompt

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flightfoot · 2 years

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Rewatched Captain Hardrock and it feels like they just had Roger be there because the complaints about the noise are completely reasonable. Like if anyone else told Anarka that she’s too loud she comes off as the bad guy. The English dub says one chord measured 160 decibels. 150 shatters your eardrum and close to 200 is fatal. Maybe that’s the real reason Juleka mumbles, she just can’t hear.

Yeah I always thought that was a very reasonable complaint. Really, Anarka was the unreasonable one there.

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milarqui · 1 year

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Scarlet Lady: Captain Hardrock

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“Hey, Nino, where's your boy?” Alya asked as Nino adjusted the loudspeakers.

Kitty Section – the group their classmates had formed – was going to play as part of the city-wide concert Paris was going to enjoy today, and they had been invited on board of the Liberty, Juleka's mother's house-boat, where the group would be at. And, currently, they were helping organize everything so it would make for an awesome concert.

“He had something to do with his pops, he's coming after,” he said, testing the connections were alright. Alya winked at Marinette while doing a fist pump.

“That's great news, huh, Marinette?”

“Yeah!” the girl replied, smiling. “It's always great when Adrien can hang out with his friends!”

She walked away, picking up stuff while humming a melody, ignorant of the look Alya was giving her.

This girl's level of denial is amazing.

Suddenly, the box Marinette was holding to act as an improvised bin was taken off her hands.

“What are you doing, buccaneer?” Anarka, Juleka's mother, said, grinning.

“Oh, uh, cleaning?” she said. While the place was nowhere close to a pigsty, it was absurdly disorganized and could use a dusting or two.

“Ha! We don't clean here! Didn't ya hear from Juleka?” Anarka said, throwing the box in such a way that everything Marinette had collected became spread around the deck. “We keep it lively here! Everything goes on the Liberty!”

“Bonjour!”

Marinette gritted her teeth. Even here, she couldn't get rid of that.

“A princess is coming aboard!”

“Chloé?!” Marinette exclaimed, groaning.

“Aw, what?!” Nino complained.

Juleka walked up to her mother and pointed at Chloé.

“Everything goes on the Liberty except her,” she said, and Anarka nodded. She had heard enough of what the rich girl had done to her daughter, and there were limits on what she'd allow.

“Ugh, no red carpet?” Chloé complained as Ivan confronted her.

“Chloé, what are you doing here?”

“I'm here to see Adrien, obviously!”

“Huh? How'd you know about that?!”

“I heard he was coming and decided to grace your pitifully small concert. Aren't I the nicest?”

Ivan didn't bother with answering, knowing that the truth would come in by one ear and out of the other.

Instead, he grabbed her by her arms, effortlessly lifted her, put her back on the dock, and with Juleka and Mylène, pulled the plank.

“HEY!” Chloé shouted, as her plans were so easily foiled.

----

Since they had time to kill, Anarka decided to instruct the neophytes in the art of sailing (mostly Alya and Marinette, since Nino was still busy with the sound system) about some of the things that helped her run her house-boat.

“See, mateys, never put metal next to the compass, ya hear?” she said, holding a metal statue of a hand throwing the horns, and putting it closer to the compass. “The metal attracts the needle, like a magnet.”

“Whoa, it's going totally crazy!” Alya noted, picking the hand from Anarka and seeing the compass needle turning every which way around. She gave a knowing grin at Marinette. “Remind you of anyone in particular? Maybe a blonde someone??”

“You mean you and Nino?” Marinette innocently replied, and Alya began to blush heavily as this particular attempt to poke fun at her friend backfired. “Wait, neither of you are blonde.”

“No!”

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“Those idiots are gonna regret kicking out a VIP like me!”

Why couldn't she just grab the earrings and leave?

“Chloé, you weren't invited! Let it go!”

Seriously, what was the use of being the voice of reason for a girl that refused to listen?

“Oh! Yoo-hoo, officer! I want to file a complaint!”

And, as luck would have it, it had to be the one officer that would likely take Chloé at face value.

Tikki prepared herself. Someone was going to get akumatized out of this.

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Adrien played the last notes of the song, feeling his father's piercing glare behind him.

“Let's stop here,” Gabriel said, and he began to stand up when his father's next words cut through him. “Practice more and play it for me later.”

“But père! My friends' concert! You promised!”

Seriously, what was the use of Gabriel promising anything when he would just as easily break that promise without a thought?

“Not after that poor performance,” Gabriel replied, and Adrien felt ready to call BS on that. “You need focus.”

Gabriel left the room, followed by Nathalie, and Adrien remained sitting, crushed by yet another broken promise and losing the chance to be with his friends for his free time. With no one else in sight, Plagg slowly came out of his hideaway and floated towards Adrien.

“Hey, kid, don't take it too hard, K?” he said, in an uncharacteristically mollyfying tone; after everything he had seen Gabriel do, he knew Adrien wasn't going to take it well.

Much to his surprise, Adrien didn't answer, which left him worried.

“Are you okay?” he asked, approaching him further – until he saw Adrien was checking something in his phone.

“What do you think, pink dye or blue dye this time?” Adrien seriously asked. Plagg felt a bit weirded out by the question.

Well, at least he wasn't moping about it...

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Nino's phone sounded out and he quickly picked up: by the melody, it was likely Adrien.

“Hey, man, what's up?” he asked, and Marinette and Alya turned to look at their friend, waiting for news on when he would arrive –

“Oh, no way, really?” Nino said, his upbeat expression turning sour. The girls knew what it meant. “Your pops is hella harsh.”

Nino listened a bit more.

“My favorite color? Why do you need to know my favorite color?” he asked. And he was as mystified by the request as the girls... before he listened to Adrien's answer.

Which made him turn in shock and alarm.

“ADRIEN, PUT THE CREDIT CARD DOWN!”

Whatever it was that Adrien wanted to do, Nino convinced him to, at least, hold off on it for a while before he did something drastic, much to the girls' relief, before Anarka came by again.

“Marinette, right?” she said, and Marinette nodded.

“Yes, uh, captain?”

“Since I relieved you of cleaning duties, would you go to Luka's cabin and tell him we're waiting for him for the rehearsal?”

“Sure!”

Anarka gave her directions to Juleka's brother's room – which, given that they were still in a house-boat, wasn't that hard – and off she went, knocking on the door before carefully opening it.

“Hm?” she mumbled, noticing there was someone meditating on the bed.

Oh! A cute boy...

She may love Chat Noir, but that didn't mean she was blind to anyone else's looks.

Then the cute boy – who had to be Luka – opened his eyes and smiled.

Gah! Cute boy looking at me!

And thus began one of the problems she'd always hated.

“Ma-Ma-Marinette!” she tried to present herself. “Uhhh, your mother told me to tell you to join the blood-GROUP!”

WHY AM I LIKE THIS? she thought, blushing heavily. The moment she calmed down, though, she was able to look down and away. What a great first impression, Marinette.

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Being interrupted in his meditation by a pretty girl was not what he expected to end up with, much less his sister's friend that had helped her with the photos. Seeing her blush and shake her arms around was somehow a great combination of cute and funny, but it was clear that she didn't think the same, because she now looked unhappy.

“The group is waiting for you,” she managed to say. He thought he'd try to break the ice with a small joke.

“Hi, Ma-Ma-Marinette!” he replied – and immediately realized he had screwed up.

AHH! he thought. Instead of laughing, Marinette now looked even unhappier than earlier. You made her sad, fix it, quick!

Quickly looking around, he picked up his guitar and pick and showed them to his guest.

“Sorry, I communicate better with this. Wanna hear?”

“Okay...” she replied. Alright, he had a chance to fix it, he couldn't waste it!

----

As the last notes of the song Luka had chosen vanished, she felt her mood rise in happiness. He was an artist with his guitar!

“That's amazing,” she praised. “How'd you do that?”

“Music is clearer than words,” he replied, smiling, as he began to stand up from the bed. She looked around, and noticed a familiar poster.

“And you like Jagged Stone?”

“He's my favorite singer.”

“Mine too!”

Smiling, Luka gave her the pick he had just used to play his song.

“You can keep that if you want. I have plenty.”

Marinette admired the object in her hand. It was a simple pick: triangular, plastic, with a drawing that resembled Jagged Stone. But Marinette knew that it hid that, much like her own needles, it could create works of art in the right hands.

“Oh! Thanks!”

“Let's go join the 'blood', funny girl,” Luka said, opening the door, and Marinette felt her heart doing a skip... before she began to slap her face.

What are you doing?! she thought. Your heart belongs to Chat Noir!

She knew Pollen was looking at her with bemusement, but it wasn't as if she could explain what was going on to her!

----

“This year for the Music Festival, the City of Paris has organized a whole series of free concerts with great stars in prestigious places!” Nadja Chamack happily proclaimed in her news cast. “You'd have to be a complete loser to miss it!”

Adrien felt like punching the TV screen, but instead he chose to hit his table in annoyance.

“Why do you mock me, Nadja?!” he called the reporter out, even if he knew she couldn't hear him.

“Hey, at least you can watch online!” Plagg tried to console him, but Adrien wasn't going to take it.

“I only cared about my friends' concert, Plagg. I'd sneak out if Père wasn't gonna check on me later,” he replied, annoyed with his kwami partner.

“Is that all? Then I'll give you a private concert!”

Plagg cleared his throat and –

“CHEEEESE! You astound me!”

Adrien quickly covered his ears. He really understood now why Plagg was the Kwami of Destruction. He was destroying his ear drums, his brain, and the good name of music itself with this outright abomination against nature he was belting out. He didn't even have the decency to speak of something nice!

He wasn't one to scream imprecations. The one time he had told his father (through Nathalie) to fuck off was one of the few times he had.

But here and now? It deserved the cluster bomb of unprintable words that poured out of his mouth.

----

As she saw her brother coming out from under the deck, and into the stage, she could tell he had had a life-changing experience. The fact that he was blushing like mad made it obvious what it was.

“You met Marinette, didn't you, Luka?” she teased her elder (by just a few minutes) brother, who looked away, still embarrassed.

“Shut up.”

----

Alya watched as Marinette coming from the cabins' section, and noticed how intent her best friend seemed in looking at the stage.

“Whatcha lookin' at?” she asked, looking in the same direction as her, and realizing someone new standing with the others. Quite the nice-looking boy, if she had to say it.

“Hm? Oh, was I staring?” Marinette said, shaken out of her stupor.

“Is that Luka?” She gave Marinette a teasing look. “Is your compass moving towards a new statue?”

“Whaaat?” Marinette waved her away. “No! That's not – I just think he's cool! And nice. And so mature! He's really got it together.”

----

Meanwhile, on the stage, someone had not got it together yet.

She's looking at you, keep it cool man! Ahhhhhhhhh!

Fortunately, by the time the sound was on, and his mother picked up a microphone to act as MC, he was able to redirect his nervous energy towards what it really mattered right now.

Which was giving an awesome concert.

“Alright, First Mate Luka! Whenever you're ready!” his mother announced, and he readied his second pick of the day. He had to begin this in the most awesome of ways if he wanted to impress Marinette! He brought it down –

“STOP RIGHT THERE!”

– and he stopped.

“Huh?!”

Everyone looked to the dock, where a police officer they were quite familiar with stood, showing his badge and speaking through a loudspeaker.

“Mme. Anarka, we've received a noise complaint!” Officer Roger Raincomprix shouted, leaving everyone dumbfounded – particularly since they had not even played a single note.

“A noise complaint?! From who!?” Anarka demanded.

“Yoo-hoo!” Chloé called out from the police car.

“Oh C'MON!” everyone who had had the displeasure of knowing the rich girl yelled in unison.

----

As Anarka turned to the intrusion, the officer continued to speak.

“Mlle. Bourgeois has been traumatized by your playing!” the man yelled, and her daughter's bully hid her false tears behind her hands.

“It's true! They deliberately tried to deafen me with their music!”

“ARE YOU AN IDIOT?! We haven't even played yet!” Anarka shouted back through her ship's bullhorns.

“I have a witness, Madame!” Raincomprix said. And that really irked her.

“Ha! I knew you were a landlubber, but I didn't know you were a bootlicker too!”

She knew she had hit a nerve when the officer cast away the loudspeaker.

“Oh, you wanna go there?!”

“Bring it, you scally wag!” she dared the man, who immediately pulled out his ticket book.

“No authorization to dock here, no concert! And the mess! And the decorations!” He began to write down. “A ticket for your attitude, for provocation, for my sea sickness, and cuz I can!”

He realized too late that he would be unable to actually hand the tickets over, given that the plank was now missing. So, he resorted to folding them into planes and throwing them at Anarka, who surprisingly waited for them to reach her before balling them up, throwing them away... and exploding.

“YOU BILGE RAT SCUM!”

“And one for name calling!”

Then a black butterfly landed on her ship's binnacle.

----

He had to admit that this was... strange.

He prided himself in ensuring everything remained organized and in place, as it was the only way to make sure all worked as expected.

It was one of the reasons why he disliked the heroes – they threw off his plans to succeed.

And no, he wasn't a control freak like that employee of his had once said when he thought he was away. He was lucky he was only fired for putting two mannequins for that expo in the wrong order. That would teach him for misrepresenting his boss!

But now... he was in the hands of a woman that thought herself an anarchist – and actually followed on it with her children! He had even akumatized one of them. It was a wonder they weren't a wild bunch.

Well, he could roll with it.

“Captain Hardrock, I'll give you an indestructible ship to blast your music for all to hear!”

“Oh, yeah, that's a way better plan! I was just not gonna pay the tickets.”

Given what he had learned, he seriously doubted she would have had paid the tickets, anyway.

----

She smirked at the losers in the boat. They thought they were smart for pushing her out of the ship? Well, now they would learn to respect their betters!

“Bet you wish you'd let me on now~!” she sing-sang.

“BOOOOO!” Césaire, Couffain and Lahiffe booed. Ugh, seriously, here she was, lowering her standards to raise theirs, and that was how they thanked her?

Then her eyes turned to the guy next to Couffaine.

Whoa, wait, who's that?! He's cute! Dresses like trash, though.

“Who's that?” the cute boy asked, pointing at her.

“You know, her,” Couffaine said.

Yes! Try not to swoon from my name alone! she giddily thought; she knew all boys were in love with her, they just needed to meet her to prove it!

“Chloé Bourgeois.”

Immediately, the cute boy's face turned into something that, if she didn't know better, she would say was disgust. Which, in the Chloé equivalent of a Central Processing Unit, was something that could not be processed.

“Oh, her,” he said, and the Chloé Processing Unit was unable to register the fact that he sounded like he disliked her, since it was impossible.

“What's that look for?!” she asked.

The sorry excuse for a boat suddenly began to shake and transform into something like a ship from those pirate movies she saw. She barely remembered them, 'cause the only good thing about them was the cute boy that was the hero, but she did remember him piloting a ship like the one that now held the losers.

“Oh no!” Dupain-Cheng said, as the cute boy looked to the back of the ship.

“Maman?!”

She looked to the back, and saw a woman wearing some atrocious get-up that she wouldn't get caught in dead, along with make up that made her look like a clown and hair that looked like it was one of those characters in that super-boring thing she saw Adrien watching one day before she got him to change the channel.

“Your mother has set sail, cut-throats! I am Captain Hardrock! There'll be only one concert in Paris!” She began to turn that wheel-thing, and the boat began to move. “Next stop, Jagged Stone and the Eiffel Tower!”

“Chloé, that means your father is in danger!” Tikki said, popping out from her bag.

“Meh, just his lame orchestra.” Seriously, why did Tikki care about that? It wasn't made of important people, after all.

“What about that XY guy you like so much?” Tikki asked.

She panicked.

“Oh no, not XY!”

She couldn't allow this Akuma to hurt her favorite singer!

----

“To your instruments, sailors! Blast the decibels!” Captain Hardrock declared, but her children and the rest of Kitty Section laid down their instruments and looked at the Akuma.

“Maman, no,” Luka declared, trying to get her to stand down. Unfortunately, Akumas were not known for peacefully standing down.

“A mutiny, is it?!” She waved her spyglass, and suddenly chains flew out from somewhere in the ship. “Liberty! Capture these rats and send them down the hold!”

One chain went around Ivan and Mylène, who were face to face.

“OUCH!”

“Are you okay, Ivan?”

Another, around Juleka and Rose, with the former hugging the latter from behind.

“JULEKA!”

“It'll be okay, Rose.”

The third, around Marinette and Luka, who were (fortunately for their sanity) back-to-back, although that didn't keep them from blushing.

“Omigosh I'm so sorry!” Marinette babbled.

The last chain went for Nino and Alya, who were placed in a 'compromising' position.

“I'm not touching I swear!” Nino said, looking everywhere but the girl that was now 'trapped' between his legs.

Quickly, the deck below them disappeared, causing them to land in the cabins that had been turned into jails.

----

“Paris is once again under threat of attack,” Nadja Chamack said, matter-of-factly, as the title under her stated No Fun Allowed.

Finally! An excuse to get out! Not the one he wanted, of course, but it still worked out the same!

“Woohoo! Plagg, I'm ungrounding us!”

“Wohoo,” Plagg repeated: he was still salty about Adrien's complete lack of enthusiasm over his cheese song. But he still complied when Adrien called out the magic words, and Chat Noir jumped out of the window, using his baton to quickly reach his target in one of the Seine's docks.

“I can even check in on my friends–” he thought, but then an unwelcome sight showed up next to him.

“SCAR?!”

“There you are, alley-cat!”

“Good feeling gone,” Chat Noir complained.

----

In the jail that was also Luka's room, Marinette and Luka were struggling to get out of the chains trapping them together, unsuccessfully, as they were too tight to slip out of.

Marinette noticed, from the corner of her eye, Pollen slipping out of her purse and opening the lock with a bit of magic, causing the chain to fall from around them.

“Wow! How'd you do that?” Luka asked, surprised.

“It was–” Pollen began to speak, only for Marinette to quickly grab and muffle her, to avoid her from blowing up her secret identity. She then cleared her throat, in an attempt to mask the error.

“Erm, with this!” she said, showing the pick Luka had given her earlier.

“You're amazing, Marinette!” he said, standing up and opening one of the windows. Before they could jump, though, heavy steps sounded near the door. “Here she comes!”

And he waved her towards the bed.

Marinette jumped under just as a boot opened the door, followed by the Akuma.

“Traitorous knaves!” Captain Hardrock declared, aiming her sword at Luka. “Capture him.”

Under the bed, Marinette silently bid Pollen not to make a noise, which the kwami fortunately understood, knowing that they were in a pickle.

“That girl... she won't be able to go far,” the Akuma said, before dragging Luka away.

As soon as she was certain she was on the clear, Marinette transformed, and Marigold jumped out of the window, giving a way round to mask where she was actually coming from.

She really didn't want to give Hawkmoth ideas about her identity!

----

Atop the Liberty's deck, things weren't going very fine for the heroes, as they were unable to get closer to the Akuma without her using her power.

“Capture them!” she ordered, and chains flew at the two. Chat Noir was able to deflect them by twirling his baton, but Scarlet Lady, less skilled, quickly got her arms trapped.

“Hey!” she shouted.

“HA!” Marigold shouted, and a strike of her spinning top broke the chains holding Scarlet Lady.

“Marigold! You made it!” Chat Noir exclaimed, relieved.

“Haha! It's harder to sneak away than I thought!” Marigold said, scratching the back of her head.

“Ha! That just proves how much of a new-bee you are!” Scarlet Lady laughed, but Marigold glared back at her.

“Must be easy for you since you don't have friends,” she retorted.

Further discussions had to be put on hold when Captain Hardrock interrupted with a repetition.

“Capture them!”

Deflecting the chains, Chat Noir turned to Marigold.

“Got an idea where the Akuma is?!”

“Somewhere on the barge!” She had not been looking when the Akuma landed, but it was likely somewhere near the wheel.

“Then I can settle this with a Cat–”

“NO!” Marigold shouted, using her spinning top to catch Chat Noir's arm. “She has hostages! They could drown if you sink the ship!”

Chat Noir gulped at how close he had been to make a mistake.

“Oh! Good catch!”

“So? The cleansing spell will bring them back,” Scarlet Lady said. She said it in such a nonchalant tone that Marigold (who had known what little regard she had for other people's lives when The Gamer attacked) was shocked.

“Huh?!”

“Good lord, Scar, no,” Chat Noir said, disgusted.

The group split off: Chat Noir went up to distract the Akuma, while Marigold (and Scarlet Lady) went down to free the hostages.

----

Chat Noir put all his fencing skills into fighting Captain Hardrock. It was a bit hard, as most of his training was about dodging and thrusting, and this required more like parrying and slashing, but he was doing fine.

“Scally wag! Landlubber! Bilge rat!” Captain Hardrock insulted.

“That's bilge cat to you!” If she was going to insult him, at least she should use the proper insults!

----

“Scarlet Lady!” Rose and Alya exclaimed, as Marigold tensed her string.

“Let's get you out of here!”

With quick swings of her weapon, the chains holding the teens were broken down, and they stretched out a bit before they got ready to leave.

But Luka had something else to do, and picked Marigold's hand.

“Marigold! Is Marinette okay?!”

“She's okay! She's the one who warned me!” the heroine said, and Luka smiled.

“Wow, that girl is brave...”

Someone else in the room didn't share that appreciation.

Why's he so focused on Clumsinette?! Scarlet Lady thought. She knew what she could do, though! The cute boy would drop the new-bee like a hot potato when he saw this!

“Scarlet Lady will save the day with Lucky Charm!”

“Yay!” Césaire said. At least she had good taste.

Then the Lucky Charm landed on her hand.

“Eh? What's this?”

It looked like the thing the Akuma had used on her, but it was still a mystery.

“Well, save us, hero,” Marigold said, scornfully.

Scarlet Lady was about to make a retort, but suddenly two objects fell from atop.

Chat Noir's baton in its split form.

“Hoho! Your Miraculous will be my war treasure, minou!”

Marigold quickly jumped on the ropes to climb up.

“Chat Noir!”

“That idiot!” Scarlet Lady said, not caring much about him.

The two heroes left behind Chat Noir's baton... which Luka picked up.

“Guys, follow my lead.”

----

Marigold managed to force Captain Hardrock to step away from Chat Noir and freed him, but they still had to deal with the Akuma.

“HAHAHA! Liberty! Onward to City Hall!”

“Oh nooo, not the lame orchestra,” Scar said, once more showing her lack of care for anyone that wasn't herself.

Suddenly, the boat began to lurch.

“Whoa–! What?!” Captain Hardrock exclaimed. Then she looked, and there, at port, the group of 'mutineers' were forcing a large pole into the bottom of the river. “You–! Mutinous scallywags!”

The 'mutinous scallywags' were Kitty Section, along with Mylène, Alya, and Nino, who had managed to enlarge Chat Noir's baton to make it drag along the riverbed, but they had soon noticed a problem: Chat Noir's baton might be nigh-unbreakable, but that didn't make them nigh-unbreakable. It was taking the effort of all seven of them just to keep the thing in place.

“We're gonna be so sore tomorrow!” Luka declared as everyone put their all into forcing the ship to run aground.

“Stop redirecting my ship!” Captain Hardrock shouted, brandishing her large sword and jumping to slash them. “Haaaa! HRK!”

The change of sound was because Marigold and Chat Noir had grabbed the Lucky Charm and jumped so as to drag the Akuma towards the most obvious place for the butterfly to be: the binnacle.

“An opening!” both heroes shouted at the same time, dragging the Akuma away as fast as possible until it slammed into the binnacle.

Unfortunately, they had been going so fast that, while they did manage to chain Captain Hardrock up, they also crashed into each other.

Marigold internally complained: she wanted to get closer to Chat Noir, but not like that!

As for the Black Cat Hero, he attempted to make a sense of where he was until he touched the closest metallic surface.

“C-Cataclysm,” he said, destroying the binnacle and freeing the blasted butterfly.

Fortunately, Scar was actually able to do her job and purified the butterfly before using the Miraculous Cure.

Of course, that was more than enough to set off her hateful side.

“Your hero has once saved the day!” she declared, even though she hadn't even tried to fight the Akuma.

“Uh, didn't we save the day?” Nino pointed out, and Scar glared down at him.

“NO!”

Ignoring the usual, Chat Noir approached Marigold, smiling.

“That makes three Akumas now, right?”

Marigold looked at him, wondering what was going on... until he rose a fist.

“Bien Joué, partner,” he said, and Marigold felt like she had received every Christmas present she wanted for the next decade right now. But, instead of jumping in joy that Chat Noir was finally warming up to her, she mirrored his move.

“Bien Joué!”

And they bumped fists for the first time as Heroes.

----

Adrien managed to return home just a few minutes before his father arrived to his room.

He wasn't sure why the man was so intent on putting up some impossible standards, but, well, he could try.

“Play, Adrien,” Gabriel ordered, and he had an idea.

“Actually, Père, I was hoping we could play together?”

“Together?”

Was he wrong, or was there a tone of something weird in his voice?

“You know, since I can't go to my friends' concert,” he reminded his father.

Gabriel adjusted his glasses as he sat next to him.

“T-That won't be necessary, you may go to your friends' concert,” he decided.

Adrien quickly cheered.

“Really?!” He hugged his father. “Thank you, Père!”

----

Gabriel knew he had very different intentions to what his son thought.

He can't know I haven't played in ten years!

----

After Luka played a few notes, Officer Roger checked the sound level meter he had been assigned for this task.

“Well, it's a few decibels above the limit...”

Chloé was smirking, certain that she would get her way once more.

“But, what the heck, it's the music festival!” the officer said, putting the device in his pocket, much to everyone's joy.

“WHAT?!”

Well, not everyone's joy.

“They're breaking the rules!” Chloé yelled. “Do I need to call my Daddy?”

“Funny you mention that,” Officer Roger Raincomprix said, leaning down to give the spoiled brat a very nasty smile. “My daughter and I looked into it and turns out the Mayor doesn't actually have the kind of jurisdiction to fire me!”

Chloé sweated. So much for her plan.

And, for once, she understood she had lost this round, and beat it back to her home.

Much to Adrien's luck, as he arrived just a few minutes later.

“Hi, everyone!” he greeted as he stepped into the Liberty.

“Adrien!” Nino cheered, and Adrien's eyes went to the deck – and one of the instruments.

“Whoa! An original ZX20.4?! Sick!” he said, approaching the electronic keyboard with awe.

“You can play that, dude?” Nino asked.

“For sure!” He had played on one like this several times, and he had trained to play the piano for long.

“Then welcome to the band, Adrien!”

“Thanks!” he told the unknown boy. Then he asked the question. “What band?”

----

The concert was in full swing, and Kitty Section was now playing what they hoped would be their first hit.

“I Love Unicorns!” Rose sang, surprisingly intense for such a sweet girl. “Almost as much as my girlfriend!”

And she pointed at Juleka, who stopped playing her bass as she turned to look at Rose, both blushing and horrified.

“That's right, Paris, France! I have a super hot gothic girlfriend!” Rose continued, even as Juleka tried to beg her not to put her in the spotlight.

She had picked the bass precisely to stay out of it!

----

The crowd formed in and around the Liberty cheered as Luka's guitar strummed the last notes of the song, and the band bowed to their grateful public.

“That's a wrap!” Luka announced, and Adrien jumped off the stage to meet his favorite fan.

“Marinette!” he said, happy that she had been there to watch.

“Hey!” she greeted him, smiling. “That looked like fun!”

“Yeah, it was great!” he replied, sitting next to her. “I've never gotten to play with others before! Did I look alright?”

Marinette giggled.

“Yeah, super cool!”

“Really?!”

He couldn't think of higher praise.

With the post-concert party going on, Marinette apologized so she could check on the girls, and he kept looking after her, until Luka approached him.

“You know Marinette?” he asked.

“Yeah! She's awesome, right?”

“Oh yeah, really sharp too.”

“Exactly!” Luka did know how wonderful Marinette was!

“Really quick on her feet.”

“You wouldn't believe the plans she thinks up!”

“Very cute too.”

“Gorgeo–”

Wait.

He turned to glare at the sudden rival that had sprung out of nowhere.

What do you think you're doing? he asked with his eyes.

Luka just smiled back at him.

The gauntlet has been thrown.

----

After a long day, Marinette was finally back at home, and she admired the photo that was the jewel of her small collage, hanging next to the mysterious pendant she had received for her birthday.

“I feel so guilty for getting caught in Luka! Forgive me, Chaton!” she said, caressing the photo of her Chat Noir sticking his tongue out.

“You have no reason to feel guilty about liking multiple people!” Pollen cheered from her sit at her knees.

“Really?” Was she blushing? Yeah, she was blushing.

“Of course! It's natural! Queens often have many consorts!”

“Huh?!”

Wait, consorts? As in plural? More than one?

“You have your chivalrous knight to fight for you, and your lovely bard to sing your praises!” Pollen continued, ignoring her meltdown. “And a romantic prince to–”

“You lost me at consort!”

----

Syren

@zoe-oneesama Hawkmoth thinks he's the orchestra director, but he can't play a note worth a damn!

OK, sorry for the wait. I've been visiting family this past week, and having times to sit down and write were not easy to find. But, well, here we are, with Luka's debut.

Next chapter, we'll have what @msweebyness has been waiting for: the first part of the Kim/Ondine pairing's day in the limelight. Hope it's fun!

#scarlet lady the novel #milarqui #fanfiction #long post #scarlet lady #captain hardrock #marinette dupain cheng #marigold #adrien agreste #chat noir #chatgold finally sails

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fuzzybluebirdgalaxy · 2 years

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Which ML Akumas would make great Cuphead bosses?

-Those marked with a plane (✈️) would be plane-style bosses-

Well, to be honest, all the Akumas would qualify as Cuphead bosses, so the ones that can be fought in a Cuphead-style boss battle, but aren’t limited to, are:

✈️ Sandboy

Timebreaker

Refleckta

The Bubbler / Rockettear [Bubbler shifts into Rockettear in the last phase]

✈️ Crocoduel [Guitar Villain and Captain Hardrock, boss fight where they’re actually against each other]

Dearest Family [Qilin, Weredad, Befana and Bakerix]

Desperada

✈️ Reverser Horrificator

Stormy Weather

Animan

The Pharaoh

✈️ Mr Pigeon

Lady Wifi

✈️ Rogercop [with the flying cop car and everything]

Antibug

Rena Rage + Shell Shock

✈️ Kuro Neko [not an Akuma, but you know what I mean]

Silencer

So what do you guys think? How do you think their battles would play out? What would their game over quotes be? Let me know in the reblogs!

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rainbow-arrow · 2 years

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honestly did not expect a season five episode so soon to jump to my favorites (it’s because luka’s there we all know it), but determination is def up there

#let's go #it had luka and kagami #and like #the Right about of the lovesquare #good bit of fighting and drama #for perspective my favorite episodes include:#wishmaker party crasher silencer truth #wow sense a theme #captain hardrock #that's another good one #(they're all luka-featured episodes)

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bittersweetresilience · 7 months

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adrien, émilie, home

miraculous ladybug / @anna-scribbles / orbital departure / golden (like daylight) / hearth / thirteen

dedicated to all my brainworms about this family. please read every fic @asukiess and @anna-scribbles have ever written and weep.

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perrypixel · 2 years

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sad sunshine boy (x)

#miraculous ladybug #mledit #adrien agreste #miraculous #miraculousedit #dailymlgifs #ml 2x12 #ep: captain hardrock #this is still a pain in the ass to color #p: mygifs #myedit #i made this thinking this was my first gifset ever but it wasn't #so posting it anyways

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zoe-oneesama · 1 year

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Scarlet Lady AU Chapters Master Post - Season 3

Scarlet Lady Season 3

Episode 21 - Vanisher

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Episode 22 - Riposte

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Episode 23 - Captain Hardrock

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Episode 24 - Syren

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Episode 25 - Dark Cupid

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Intermission

1 2

Episode 26 - Animan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Episode 27 - Puppeteer

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Episode 28 - Pixelator

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Episode 29 - Guitar Villain

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Episode 30 - Princess Fragrance

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Season 1 Master Post

Season 2 Master Post

Season 4 Master Post

Season 5 Master Post

#scarlet lady chapter master post #season 3 master post

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coralpaperthoughts · 2 months

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Luka is obviously introduced earlier in this au than he is in canon, duhh otherwise this won't really work

but Adrien doesn't meet Luka (in civilian form) until later on during Captain Hardrock - yk, when Adrien trips over that keyboard and Lula helps him up while giving him heart eyes and Adrien blushes coz he just met his prince charming? (but let's say this episode happens earlier than it did in canon)

this is the moment that Luka and Adrien's friendship (and crushes) start to form and grow as civilians rather than just as superheroes

before this Adrien was absolutely smitten over the Ladybug Miraculous holder as he is normally (in canon): constantly flirting, very touchy, will follow Scarletbug to hell and back - he even still goes as far as sacrificing himself all the time knowing that Scarlet will bring him back

but now he's met Luka and, oh those blue ocean eyes are so so familiar but so fresh and new at the same time

he swoons, in the exact same way that Marinette swooned for Scarletbug (in strong muscular arms) and Luka falls for Adrien the exact same way that he fell for Marinette (holding the cutest little damsel in distress in his arms)

(also, side note, Adrien wasn't there to witness Scarletbug and Kitty Noire meeting, so he doesn't have the slightest idea abt the similarities and he can't correlate Scarletbug to Luka)

also Luka hears sm about Adrien from Juleka and Rose (coz yk I have to slip in Julerose) and he knows all about how sweet and innocent The Adrien Agreste really is, and he can't help falling in love with that cute impish smile

Adrien acts like a lost puppy. He follows Luka around all the time during hang outs or band practice (because ofc he joins the band and ofc Nathalie helps Adrien convince Gabriel to let him join officially so that I can actually get my Lukadrien crumbs, also the Liberty has just turned into the gang hang out spot outside of school for the whole friendship group because I say so but I digress)

Adrien is basically Luka's puppy at this point and he's not complaining, he loves how much Adrien adores him and he adores him back, and he loves teaching curious had-a-sheltered-life Adrien all he needs to know about anything he wants to know about and now I'm just gushing about Adrien with puppy dog eyes, u can tear this image from my cold, dead hands

anyways ! as I was saying,,, Luka and Adrien fall in love as civilians but because they have other crushes (Marinette and Scarletbug), neither of them act on this crush or even tell each other

Then they all have a eureka moment where everything falls into place and they all kiss and live happilyeveraftertogethertheend :)

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#lukadrienette #ot3 supremacy #adrien agreste #mlb #luka couffaine #lukadrien #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #lukanette #adrienette #mlb au #miraculous au #coralbabbles #i still need a name for this au

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luka-couffaine-ship-tournament · 3 months

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Final

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Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

-They‘re just so good for each other. Luka is such a calming presence in Marinette‘s chaotic life and helps her relax when she feels anxious and unsure of herself, always willing to be there for her and offer a helping hand during tough times. Marinette has a deep appreciation not only for Luka‘s ability to play music but also hear heart songs, as if she understood immediately what he meant after listening to him play for the first time. They feed off each other‘s creative energy and are just generally so wholesome together. I could talk about them forever, they make me so happy!!

-Luka is the best boy, and deserves love from the girl he adores

-Luka/Marinette had 3900 works on AO3

-I just woke up and am too lazy to think of words for my favorite couple so here's some gifs as propaganda

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Oh my god

They are literal soulmates

in every regard

You cannot change my mind

And not only because Luka is best boy and goes above and beyond for Marinette and gives her the most beautiful love confession in the entire show

It is because they literally have the most special and unique connection from every couple in the show, not only romantic but also platonic

It starts off with captain hardrock, the first time they meet, they‘re a little awkward at first, until he invites her to sit and Luka plays out Marinette‘s heart

And she doesn‘t judge him or thinks he‘s weird or is confused. She gives him a look of curiousness and of genuine admiration and asks „how do you do that?“

She immediately realized Luka is special for his gift of hearing people‘s hearts. And I can easily imagine that people would see Luka as weird and cringe (like parts of the fandom did), so imagine what it must‘ve been like to get appreciation for something like that. She‘s impressed and wants to learn more.

They interacted for about two minutes at this point and they‘re already smitten by each other.They already have a wholesome dynamic that feels so realistic for two teenagers who are attracted to each other. Again, after two minutes of meeting.

And it goes on through the episode, speaking highly about each other and Luka basically self-sacrificing himself so Marinette can escape

(I‘m certain he knew Marinette would come back for everyone one way or another. And she did)

An amazing set up for an amazing couple🩷💙

From there on every time we see them together when they‘re (not to be salty) not undermined by another ship they keep being there for each other through hard ships

Their both artistic kids and respect and admire the other for it (See Silencer, the best episode of the whole show)

It also just shows that Luka isn‘t the center of Marinette‘s life. Instead she‘s a girl with ambition who just happens to have a crush on a guy. Silencer is her being the best version of herself and Luka doesn‘t actively try to change her. He‘s literally just existing around her. For show‘s standards that‘s incredible. It takes away the one thing people don‘t like about her, what more could you want?

And then when their music gets stolen, Marinette literally starts beef with Bob Roth, a super influential man in the industry who could destroy them both, just to save Luka‘s music from getting stolen! She’s not even afraid or second guesses herself, she just goes all in and threathens him to reveal everything on live tv.

Wife material through and through.

Which leads to the most wholesome confession in the entire show. Not only as an akuma

BUT LATER AS REGULAR LUKA

AND MARINETTE IS SO TOUCHED BY IT

And by the end of season 3, they give the relationship a shot. Without Mari pretending she‘s over Adrien, but with full honesty about her feelings. And that‘s really the most fair way they could‘ve gone about it. They don‘t promise each other wedding rings and kids, they‘re just two people in love who wanna create art and have them be muses for each other and just like each other without any pressure from outside. It really those silent moments where it‘s just them where Marinette is her best self and Luka is his best self.

They are so so SO GOOD for each other.

„But Blueberry, Marinette broke up with him and lied to Luka!“

RIGHT PERSON WRONG TIME RIGHT PERSON WRONG TIME RIGHT PERSON WRONG TIME

The problems these two had ultimately were never intrinsic problems that they fundamentally don‘t work together as people, it‘s really outside forces keeping them apart. Had Marinette not been LB, they would‘ve literally had no reason for a break up and crushes on other people are things people can get over.

Plus, even as exes they keep being there for each other, having a wholesome and healthy friendship. That‘s a big deal! Nice hard feeling or anything, they just want what‘s best for each other, even if they aren’t a couple anymore.

And yet still look at each other like this

And just overall being super touchy with each other

And put the safety over the other above their own values, even though it means they have to lie about what they know. It hurts both of them but you know how it is, nothing hurts like true love. And yet they forgive each other because they never wanted to intentionally hurt each other

They‘re still SO in love with each other argue with a wall.

(Also it‘s this episode when Mari says „you always find the right words“ even though in Luka‘s introduction he says he‘s not good with words. I bet 1000000€ Marinette was the one which helped Luka be a better communicator with words. The support for each other always went both ways I know it they told me)

But even just as platonic buddies, look me in the eye and tell me that these two will not have each other in their lives forever, I dare you. If one of them jumps into danger, the other jumps after them. If one of them has troubles of any sort, the other will listen, because they know nobody will understand them as good as each other.

They‘re ride or die forever and I think that‘s fucking beautiful. So yeah folks, show the blueberries some love because they deserve the recognition just like they deserve each other🫐🩷💙

Thanks for coming to my propaganda ted talk

Luka Couffaine/Therapy

-Therapy... so much therapy

-As much as I ship Lukadrinette and all its sides, Luka/Therapy should 100% win, lol

-So many of the propagandas for other ships (outside of two or three) were about what Luka could do for the other person, not how they were the best match for him! That means our boy needs to go get some professional help (therapy) so he doesn't become everyone's personal 'fix-it' guy/partner!

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Luka/Marinette: @mikoriin

Luka - Twitter @Karma_sensei_

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#luka couffaine #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous ladybug #ship tournament #viperion #tournament poll #tumblr tournament #tumblr polls #polls #fandom polls #lukanette #luka x marinette #luka x therapy

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