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Nothing Gabriel did in the end was for Adrien's benefit. He had all the Miraculous and Marinette was paralyzed. If he actually cared about what happened to Adrien after he died Gabriel would've taken two seconds to Voyage to Adrien and give HIM his own amok. Not trust this perfect stranger to do it. But he didn't because Gabriel cared more about appearances than about Adrien himself.
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familyagrestefanblog · 11 months
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Hey Gabe, just saying, you were really damn lucky that the boiling oil got deleted out of that pan of yours by the show writers. I hope you’re aware of that, you fuckface. You two dont need matching scars, thanks.
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queen-of-hobgobblers · 11 months
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The Deal
Chapter Two (Previous Chapter) (Next Chapter)
[A Few Hours Earlier]
“C’mooonnn, Adrien! Don’t you want to do a nice thing for a dear friend of yours?”
“Plagg, they’ve already got memes circling about how much I stink, I don’t think signing up for a lifetime supply of camembert is going to help matters!”
“You’ve been living with me for three years now,” Plagg puts his arms behind his head. “I’d have thought you’d be used to this.”
Adrien pinches the bridge of his nose in annoyance. “Plagg-”
A knock at the door.
Adrien holds out the flap of his jacket on instinct and Plagg zooms inside. The blond then goes to open the door, being met with the face of his father.
“Adrien, would you come here a moment?”
The scene is a surprise. Usually, his father would ask Nathalie to call him down, instead of going through all the trouble of traversing up the stairs to reach him. But she was away on a trip, so unfortunately he was greeted at the door by his father. Or more commonly, not at all.
“Is there something you need?” His son asked, drawing his eyebrows further together.
“Yes,” he snaps. “That’s why I called you. Now come along.” And then he turned away without another word, just expecting Adrien to follow without question or judgement.
He would’ve done so a long time ago, but the present Adrien, three years older and a whole lot wiser, makes a face and mentally screams at the man the whole way down.
They stop at the portrait of his mother.
The painting, based on one called Adele Bloch-Bauer, is as bright and golden as she was, covered in a mosaic of shapes and patterns. She smiles down at her family, or what’s left of it, with the same eyes that haunt Adrien every time he looks in the mirror.
“Adrien,” his father addresses him, even as his eyes stay firmly on the portrait. “I know we’ve grown apart since…”
“Yeah,” Adrien answers, saving him from having to say the last few words out loud, and watching his father’s shoulders fall in his peripheral vision. “I miss her too.”
“I’ve been ignoring you,” Gabriel continues simply. “It wasn’t supposed to be for long. This was all supposed to be so easy. But then… but then they showed up…”
A cold finger slides down Adrien’s spine at the tone of absolute hatred in his voice. “What are you talking about, father?” he asks, turning to face him.
“I thought I could deal with them on my own,” he continues as if his son hadn’t spoken. Something unnerving glints behind his glasses as his tone turns almost wistful. “I thought that… you would be able to forgive me in the end if I just…” He straightens up and turns towards Adrien suddenly.
The boy flinches as the glint in his eye aims at him, but it dies down just as quickly as it came.
“I need to show you something,” he tells Adrien, and presses several triangles in the portrait. His fingers sinks in and the floor sinks with them.
Adrien gasps and steadies himself as they’re pulled down into what appears to be a glass tube.
“Father, what is this?!” He asks Gabriel, who stands unblinking, completely unfazed. He’s done this before.
Unsure what to do, Adrien looks back towards their surroundings, trying to put the pieces together himself.
The floor gives way to an intricate room, covered in crisscrossing metal bars connecting to the wall. They steady a large catwalk in the middle made of similar material, which leads to some kind of garden. Its bright shrubs and crawling vines are an oasis from this steel jungle, and in the midst of it all lies another glass tube, but inside there looks to be… something Adrien can’t quite decipher from this far away.
“What is all this?” he asks once again, breathless from the view. He can’t look away.
Beside him, Gabriel’s eyes narrow. “When your mother fell ill, the doctors diagnosed her with ‘a terminal illness of unknown origin.’ They tried to help her but they realized they could not. It was no ordinary sickness, you see.”
Visions fill Adrien’s pained mind.
Him, at twelve years old, holding onto his shaking mother as she falls to the floor, coughing ceaselessly. His father shouting and running towards the two, and him being pushed into Nathalie’s arms as his father desperately tries to ask what’s wrong.
Staying up late the next night to ask his mother what happened at the doctor’s appointment, the tired circles around her eyes as she kissed the top of his head and told him not to fret.
Him a year later, seeing his mother less and less as she rushed off to doctor’s appointments. His father snapping and taking his anger at his wife’s condition out at him every time Adrien asked for attention, then awkwardly apologizing when Nathalie yelled at him for it.
Him at fourteen, not too long time before he found Plagg, stuck in his room all day studying a concept Nathalie taught him. Only his father coming back from the hospital this time. Him telling Adrien stoicly that his mother died in her bed that evening without a hint of emotion in his face.
Adrien spending the next few days greeting loved ones and sobbing in his room when it was just him, alone at last. Him watching a closed coffin be lowered into the ground, his last view of his mother being that of her giving him a smile as she walked out the mansion doors.
The glass doors slid open and the two slipped out onto the dark runway. Adrien quickly realized that the air was afloat with butterflies. There were no windows, no entrance point for them to come from, seemingly no other creatures lurking in the crevices, and yet ivory insects floated throughout the entire space. One perched on Adrien’s finger, and a wave of deja vu pulsed through his veins.
“Time to de-evilize!”
“Bye bye, little butterfly!”
“She contracted the illness through magical means,” Gabriel continued, stepping across the catwalk as Adrien followed after him, bewildered, “specifically through an ancient artifact that had fallen into her possession. When it had eventually become afflicted from overuse, so had she. There is no mortal cure.”
“Wh- father, what artifact?!” Adrien demanded, stepping out in front of him. “And if all that’s true, why are you just now telling me this?!”
Gabriel regarded him coolly before trying to sidestep. Adrien held his arms out but then suddenly straightened as Gabriel rubbed the ring on his finger. This time he sidestepped with ease.
“Because I need your help, Adrien. When your mother got sicker and sicker, there was little we could do but watch. But fortunately, since this was caused by magic, she did not die.”
Adrien’s throat went dry. “Father. What are you saying?” Was this all a dream? This had to be a dream.
Gabriel made his way into the garden as Adrien followed, taking in the view. It’s a lot more magnificent up close. A large tree with bright, evergreen leaves grows upwards from the floor below, where several more bloom. Light green grass covers the floor. Pale cocoons perch on the leaves, some half-broken, others still fully intact. The main wall has a silver butterfly-shaped design engraved onto it.
In the center of it all sits the glass tube, hazy and embellished with golden swirls. It’s bigger than even Adrien himself, sitting horizontally on the grass as a green glow emanates from it.
Gabriel steps out in front of it and touches the bottom. The glass rolls open to reveal-
Adrien gasps suddenly, at the sight of light skin and a rosy smile, blonde hair twisted into a sleek side pony, and a crisp pink suit. His mother lies in the coffin, hands folded over one another, but she doesn’t quite look dead. Her form doesn’t breathe, but her skin looks fair and flushed rather than pallid. Her smile is warm, genuine, one that had been tossed at Adrien for much of his childhood.
She looks ready to open her eyes at any moment. Her. Emilie Agreste.
Mom, Adrien nearly screams out.
“Your mother,” Gabriel says, “was smart enough to find a way to put herself in stasis until Nathalie and I managed to find a cure. But try as we might, we were unable to. Until about a year ago...”
And it clicks.
“You’re Hawkmoth,” Adrien states, the words bitter on his tongue.
His nod is all the confirmation he needs.
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miraculouslycool · 2 years
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treating his son like an accessory didn’t work out so well for him huh
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rwsdarw · 2 months
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pretend this is a good caption
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jattendschaton · 20 days
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Émilie Agreste purposefully giving Adrien an allergy to feathers to make sure her son would never be able to use the peacock miraculous in the future
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anna-scribbles · 3 months
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they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)
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uptoolateart · 10 months
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Okay, so what I was saying in my long Gabriel analysis rings true. (Ha ha...rings....) He changed to be accepted by Emilie's parents.
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Deep down, Gabriel probably relates to Marinette. In the story Feligami tell...Marinette could easily be the poor tailor, while Adrien is the heir to the empire, ready to throw it all away for her.
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At some point, Gabriel got twisted and sold out his values. It was probably a gradual process, which explains why Emilie initially fell in love with him and then stuck with him despite her unhappiness with him later.
In one of her videos for Nathalie, she said Gabriel got stuck on things. He was good enough for her but not for himself.
When he looks at Marinette, he sees a little of what he used to be. When he gives her that speech about being naive in the fashion world...he's talking about himself, once upon a time. I think he once had a dream like hers, and he let it go, focusing instead on the wealth and status he needed to be good enough for his in-laws.
Now, he envies Marinette, even if he's unaware of it. That's the only reason a grown man would be fixated on her in that way. He's treating her the way Emilie's parents treated him. He has to break her and get her out of his son's life because if he doesn't - if she achieves her dreams of marrying Adrien and becoming a designer without selling out her principles - it means he could have done this too. It will force him to reflect and take accountability for his bad decisions...and he just can't cope with that.
Similarly, when he hurls abuse at Cat Noir about what an ill-mannered child he is, and when he goes to such lengths to control Adrien...I really think he's seeing a reflection of his younger self there too.
Underneath the pancakes and bad dancing and total insanity, the man is nothing but a writhing heap of regrets and won't see that he had so many chances to do things another way.
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HAPPY 1st ANNIVERSARY TO EPISODE “GABRIEL AGRESTE”
(First broadcast in France on 14th November 2021)
Illustrations by Gaëlle Geniller (@avril_circus), showing the Knight Marinette Dupain-Cheng rescuing the Princess Adrien Agreste from the vile clutches of his villainous father 
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Season 5 and the symbolism of pancakes
Guys, I swear I have a life outside of speculating the meaning behind pancakes in Miraculous...
But seriously, they're important. They symbolise the future (as made explicit in Pretention).
[Small note: they look like pancakes, they're called "pancakes" in the French dub, I don't know if they taste like pancakes, but I do know that they are not "French toasts" as the English dub claims. So I'll stick to "pancakes"]
Illusion
So we are introduced to the pancakes in Illusion, where for the first time Adrien sees his father in the kitchen, preparing breakfast.
Seems benign enough. Gabriel is even considered enough to ask Adrien how he likes his pancakes. He likes them "well-toasted."
Illusion is an episode where Gabriel fakes having changed, and him giving Adrien a choice is in line what that change. Of course, he still manipulates him into making him think that he has the freedom to not be the face of the Alliance, by basically threatening to withhold his newly expressed fatherly love if Adrien refuses to agree with him (more on that in this post). Pancakes are just a device for Gabriel to add to his illusion of good parent, and the illusion that Adrien has a choice.
Passion
Adrien and Gabriel are in the kitchen. Adrien is looking at his extremely decorated pancakes.
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As we learn from Nathalie a second later, he likes his pancakes plain. She tells him to not eat them "to please his father", while Gabriel seemingly naively points out that if Adrien didn't want bananas, he could have told him.
Sure he could tell him, except that the last time Adrien asked for something from Gabriel -to not be the face of Alliance-, he emotionally manipulated him to withdraw his request, and even made him wear the said Alliance.
The bananas and the fancy toppings are basically a metaphor for the fancy model life Gabriel wants to give Adrien, while Adrien really doesn't want any of it. And just as many people like toppings on their pancakes, they also would like to have a life of fame, hence think Adrien is lucky (as seen in the S4 Finale). Meanwhile, Adrien doesn't want any of it, he likes his pancakes and and his life plain and simple, "au naturel".
Nonetheless, Adrien still continues eating his father's pancakes, saying that he doesn't mind, that he likes them.
Pretension
This is where the pancake business gets serious.
First, we learn that indeed, Gabriel's pancakes taste bad. Plagg cheers for being saved from eating another serving of Gabriel's pancakes. This is bordering to over analysis but, given that Plagg couldn't eat them while Gabriel is in the kitchen, I assume that's Adrien's opinion which he must have confessed to Plagg at a more appropriate time. And still, Adrien keeps eating his father's pancakes.
Later in the episode, the pancake/future metaphor is expressed very clearly by Gabriel. He tells Marinette that she can have her pancake and life however she wants it, but the one thing she can't do is to share it with Adrien.
He says very clearly:
You think that you have a choice, but all you have is the illusion of a choice. And I decide which choices you get.
And where do we get this exact claim in practice? In the episode Illusion, where Gabriel manipulates Adrien into thinking that he has a say over his future, while Gabriel is the one making all the choices that matter.
And he gives two "choices" to Marinette:
To eat the pancake, receive Gabriel's backing and be a famous designer
To refuse the pancake and have nothing
Once more, the way he frames it, Gabriel gives the illusion that Marinette has a choice, while neither of the two choices includes being with Adrien. So he basically leaves her with no choice but to break up with him.
Now comes the breaking point. Marinette fully understands that the pancakes are a metaphor for her and Adrien's future, and she continues the same metaphor to get her message across to Gabriel (talk about power move).
First, she refuses to eat them. She has "lost her appetite."
This refusal is in contrast with Adrien who kept eating them even though he didn't like them. Unlike him, Marinette "doesn't even need to try them to know that they are bad."
Normally, this is to be understood as her making the choice no 2: refuse the pancake and have nothing.
As such, she is escorted out the kitchen. The scene composition clearly shows that she is stuck between Gabriel on the one side, and the Gorilla on the other.
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Because, she refused the pancake. Per Gabriel's rules, she is supposed to have nothing.
But Marinette defies that. Not only she runs upstairs to hug and tell Adrien that she'll never abandon him, but she also gets back downstairs without needing to be restrained by the Gorilla, hence protecting her composture.
Look at how she goes down the stairs, having not only the physical but also the moral high-ground:
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She looks so intimidating that in the next frame, even the Gorilla steps aside to let her pass. Both Gorilla and Gabriel are surprised by her move, if you zoom in you can see it in their faces. Gabriel did not expect her to do something outside the two "choices" he had given her.
And then comes the death blow, where Marinette tells Gabriel:
You know what's your pancakes problem? They have too much flour and not enough butter. You use an outdated recipe, no one likes them like that anymore.
Yup. She calls Gabriel's entire fashion, but also life practices, outdated with one simple metaphor. My girl slays.
At the end of Pretention, during dinner (no pancakes here sorry), we see that a parallelling breakthrough happens in Adrien's front.
Gabriel tells Adrien that he can spend as much as time as he wants with Marinette, for he will be in London next year. Again, Gabriel is creating the illusion that he is free to date Marinette, except that, as Adrien now realises, he is not. Adrien gets visibly furious at his father for the first time.
He does quickly calm down, but what is his reaction? He says that he has "lost his appetite," just like Marinette did. The boy who kept eating badly made pancakes with the toppings he didn't like finally refuses to eat the illusions his father is feeding him.
This, coupled with Adrien's terror at going to his room at the beginning of the episode, leaving Marinette alone despite himself, become a turning point for him: he finally acknowledges that he isn't free, and that his father keeps forcing his decisions onto him. Maybe also getting one step closer to discovering/accepting that he is a sentibeing.
All this story, told through pancakes.
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Details of shitty parenting Gabriel does part 2735:
In season 2 “Gorizilla” Wayham ends up calling Adrien's phone from the Gorilla’s
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and...
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Gabriel why the FUCK did you have Adrien's phone on you?? What practical reason would taking your son's phone have when Adrien currently ran away from home and you suspect him of being Chat Noir?
Did you look through your son's phone???
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Hey, Little Songbird
Chapter 25 - AO3
An objective observer would call the security of the Agreste Manor flawless. The alarms, the sensors, the guard dogs, the cameras: all preciously poised to keep people out as well as in. in theory, Felix was a rat in a trap.
In theory.
Jimmying the window open with a knife he stole from dinner, he smushed a chewed piece of gum over the sensor as it was revealed, nestled against the side of the frame, never giving it time to set the alarm off. The sensor was designed to be unobtrusive at the cost of efficacy; Gabriel was paranoid, but he didn’t want anyone to know he was paranoid, so the sensor only triggered the alarm if it was fully uncovered.
Felix crept out onto the window ledge, years of gymnastics keeping him light on his feet. Tucked under the eaves of the house, out of sight of the security cameras pointed out at the grounds, he eased past darkened windows and balconies. Gabriel’s office was a floor above and around a corner, with a trellis covered in flowering vines between the two. Normally, a trellis wouldn’t support your weight, but Felix knew, from his childhood spent in and out of the manor, that it was anchored into the wall so that cleaners had access to the roof without the need for unsightly ladders.
He climbed the trellis, crushing ivy and flowers underfoot even though he could avoid hurting them, taking a perverse pleasure in killing them. They were only alive to keep up the perfect appearance of the manor. Eventually, they would die because of him, and then Gabriel would have to fork out thousands to replace plants.
Gabriel’s office window was more elaborate than Felix’s own guest window, with violet stained-glass butterflies all over. But Gabriel skimped on the security. There were no sensors, no cameras pointed at the glass. But there was an alarm. Gabriel had explained to him and Adrien when they were children that it was merely to alert him if the window was opened, so that no one could fall out. And while Felix thought it was strange, to only have an alarm on it, it was convenient. It only went off if he opened the window.
So Felix broke the glass instead.
Felix dropped in, shattered glass glinting in the moonlight from the broken window. The office looked no different from his memories when he and Adrien would stand side by side, bonded together in whatever mischief Gabriel was lecturing them over. Those years were long gone, and Felix ignored those lingering feelings in favor of the safe hidden behind his aunt’s painting.
The combination was their wedding anniversary. Felix gagged at the sappiness—as if his uncle didn’t have something to do with Aunt Emilie’s disappearance, as if he actually cared—but at least in meant Gabriel was consistent. The safe swung open.
A medley of treasures filled the safe. Felix recognized a few, like the pretty brooch Auntie used to wear, but others were more… eccentric. Like the salt encrusting the bottom of the safe. Felix snooped through several empty vials, crusted with an old, long-evaporated liquid, and crystals the size of his fist. An old book with a maroon cover leaned against the side, it’s title gibberish to Felix, with a Celtic knot on its front. There was a long black box, locked even inside the safe, and a lock of long, blonde hair inside a velvet bag.
He’d expected more. Corporate documents, evidence of secret dealings, something he could use to blackmail Gabriel. Not… weird cult stuff.
Finally, in the back, there was a telltale glint of silver.
He grabbed it, and slid his aunt’s wedding band onto his pointer finger, the diamond inset shining in the dim light.
“What do you think you’re doing here?”
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eviebane · 6 months
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Good Omens Crack - Aziracrow Parenting Edition [S2]
Aziraphale and Crowley attempt to take care of Jim.
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rwsdarw · 3 months
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lil song thing
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mipexch · 3 months
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I still need to fully watch the dev stream but genderless angels using masculine pronouns based on hierarchy is both extremely interesting & scratches that trans Gabriel itch even more. Could either interpret him as just simply being nonbinary and continuing to use he/him as a fuck you to the council and the system they adhere to while also being true to himself or just push it all the way and say he’s a transguy. Someone said something about the way the council instantly refers to him as an ‘it’ when he’s failed (while also making sense canonically with the way the hierarchy works and threatening his status with this usage) gives them the feeling of a parent unsatisfied with their child enough to ignore their wants to be referred and identify the way they choose as if it is a privilege. I think Gabriel’s connection and identity with gender is heavily up to interpretation and honestly he can be whatever you want him to be, but I’m choosing to connect his he/him genderless transness etc with things I’ve personally experienced. the trans allegory is strong with this one
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