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clottedscream · 2 years

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i’m actually a little surprised with myself that i haven’t made fanart for @buggachat ‘s BEAU yet considering i’ve been reading it religiously since it started coming out. anyways i was listening to Zachary Levi’s She Loves Me on repeat as i was drawing this

#miraculous ladybug #ml #adrinette #miraculous ladybug identity reveal #ml identity reveal #bakery enemies au #buggachat #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #ladynoir #bakery enemies au spoilers #the people who only follow me for my miraculous ladybug shitpost comic are gonna be so shocked when they see this and discover i can draw #dairydraws #image id in reblogs

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arikee · 9 months

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Why on earth was the miraculous movie that was 1hr 40 mins better than the series that was carefully curated over around 8yrs? Thomas Astruc should be ashamed that that movie made his series and god-forsaken season 5 finale look like dogwater from the animation, to the ACTUAL ROMANCE DEVELOPING ,the songs , and that ADRIEN AND GABRIEL IDENTITY REVEAL! Cannot wait for the inevitable sequel based on that little end bit, and *loved* the running gag of ending the film right before they kissed :)

#miraculous movie #mlb #mlb season 5 spoilers #miraculous ladybug #chat noir #gabriel agreste #identity reveal #thomas astruc #mlb awakening

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galahadwilder · 1 year

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Marinette and Adrien are dating and they are so, so happy but Marinette can’t help feeling like something is missing. Adrien is the perfect boyfriend, the perfect gentleman, so she feels like something is wrong with her—and then she realizes that what’s missing is Chat Noir.

She’s in love with Chat, always has been, and now that he’s moved on and found a girlfriend and stopped flirting with her she feels like something got carved out of her chest. And yeah they’re still best friends, still partners, but something about their easy camaraderie feels poisoned.

And Adrien simply isn’t Chat. He doesn’t have the same goofy side to him that she’s come to love.

She’s torn. She loves Adrien, she does, but she loves Chat too, and how is she supposed to choose between them? But she knows that if she did have to, she’d choose Chat, and it’s tearing her up inside.

Eventually, she tells Chat everything. How she feels like a monster for it. How she can barely eat because of it. Because she is in love with her boyfriend, she wants to marry him, but she is in love with Chat and she needs him like she needs air to breathe.

She and Adrien end up breaking up because he realizes she’s unhappy with him, even though he can’t figure out why. (Surprisingly, Ladybug’s confession is not part of his decision. He loves Marinette and wants her to be happy, even if it’s not with him.) That night, Ladynoir meet up, and Ladybug confesses to Chat again, and asks him out.

They decide to reveal identities.

About four blocks of Paris get to hear a very loud Ladybug scream of “SON OF A FUCKING BITCH”

(Luckily they both take it very well and they’re back to goo-ily dating each other within the hour, if slightly more goofy and relaxed with each other going forward)

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #angst #original content #chat noir #ladybug #adrienette #adrinette #ladynoir #ml #Adrienette breakup #identity reveal #crack

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frickingnerd · 10 months

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identity reveal

pairing: adrien agreste / chat noir x gn!reader

summary: the last thing you expected when you turned on the tv, was to see chat noir detransform into none other than your boyfriend adrien agreste

"put on the tv!"

"wha–?"

you barely had any time to realize what was going on, as your roomate burst into your room.

"put on the tv, now!!"

you did as you were told, quickly grabbing the remote and turning on the tv. you immediately saw what was going on. it was on every channel!

chat noir and ladybug were fighting hawkmoth on top of the eiffel tower. there were news helicopters circling around them, trying to film everything. it didn't look good for the two heroes, as they were cornered by hawkmoth, only able to defend themselves instead of getting offensive.

and then it happened.

hawkmoth landed a devastating hit on chat noir, slipping the hero's miraculous off his finger, before tossing him to the side. within seconds, chat noir detransformed and all the cameras were on him.

your heart stopped when they finally managed to get a clear view on him. the blonde hair. those familiar clothes. you knew the boy behind the mask. you knew him very well.

"is… is that… adrien..?"

your roommate stuttered out, in complete shock. you wanted to tell her she was wrong. you wanted it to be anyone else. just not him. you wanted to tell her that the boy laying there couldn't possibly be your boyfriend. that it wasn't adrien.

but it was. it really was him.

"n-no… he…" you tried to get up, but your legs felt so heavy. your body didn't react anymore and you just sat there helplessly. you wanted nothing more than to get up and run out there. but you just couldn't.

"why..?" you gasped out, as your eyes started to fill with tears.

why had adrien never told you about this? why did you have to find out like this. about adrien, your boyfriend, and chat noir, the hero of paris, both being the same person.

and why wasn't he moving anymore? why didn't he get up and fight? why was he just laying there?

you stared at the screen, desperate to see him move again. desperate to see anything that could indicate he was doing alright. the cameras were switching back and forth between your unmasked boyfriend and ladybug and hawkmoth fighting each other.

until a few seconds later, the screen went black.

you could still hear the noises from outside, the helicopters flying through paris. but you couldn't see him anymore. you didn't know if adrien was alright! all you could do was sit here and wait, hoping that the cameras would turn on again and that you would get to see him again, alive and well…

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dkrosi · 22 days

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"I'll always be on your team."

She sniffles against his chest." You shouldn't be."

"I know," he says. Her fingers dig into his back as she hugs him tighter. "So, no more lies?"

"No more lies."

And here is another drawing I made for a fic, for another incredibly talented writer and another super sweet beans of mine, @miabrown007! 😍😍

I love her current ongoing story, Felonies And Other Love Languages so much!! 😍😍Can't wait for the last chapters and to see how these dorky beans' relationship will turn out at the end! 👀

#miraculous fanart #miraculous ladybug fanart #miraculous #miraculous fanfic #miraculous au #felonies #enemies to lovers #criminal au #adrienette #identity reveal

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hamsternamedmarinette · 2 months

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Imagine Adrien's identity getting revealed while Paris still thinks Gabriel was a hero who helped Ladybug take down Hawk Moth. Imagine people being like "WOW! How amazing is it that the father of Cat Noir himself was the one to help save us! Looks like heroism runs in the family! ✨"

Also imagine the level of stress this would put Marinette under 😙

#recreation #мой пост #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #cat noir #paris #identity reveal #ml

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a-flaming-idiot · 2 months

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Meanwhile, in the universe where Marinette figured out identities first.

Chat Noir, flying through Marinette's window: "Helllloooo, my princess!~ It's so wonderful to see you on this beautiful night." Chat Noir: *Kisses her hand* "Though the night could never rival your im-paw-ssible beauty." Marinette, low on sleep, caffeine, and patience: "Adrien... get the fuck out of my house before I have to call Nathalie..."

#miraculous ladybug #incorrect miraculous ladybug quotes #marichat #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #chat noir #identity reveal #Miraculous love square #Chat's about to have a breakdown

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jennagrinsoverml · 2 years

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hii do you have a list of miraculous fics you think everyone should read at least once?

Anon, I have been excited to answer this request ever since I got it. What better way to celebrate my 50th Rec List (!!!!) than with my favourite fandom fics? 🎉🎉🎉

I've tried to choose fics with a variety of tones, from different fandom eras, and different authors. These fics are all special to me in some way, and whittling this list down was HARD. Others may have fics they think should be on this list, and to those people I say: make your own rec list. This one's mine. 😘

Experimental Kisses by @komorebirei

Ladybug watched him. Maybe it was guilt, maybe sympathy, maybe a streak of playfulness. Maybe the traumatic akuma experience had softened her up. Whatever the reason, a thought wafted lazily through her mind and out of her mouth. “You know… you’re right. It isn’t fair, is it?”

Chat Noir looked up.

“I remember my first kiss, but you don’t.” She hummed and tapped her chin, making a show of remembering. “It wasn’t a bad kiss, but we were in the middle of fighting an akuma, so I didn’t get to enjoy it much, either.”

Oops—that came out sounding a little, no, a lot more flirty than she had intended. Anyway, if she was going to commit to this idea, she may as well go all in.

One-shot. Ladybug offers to kiss Chat since he doesn’t remember their kiss and the way she reacts to the kiss…it lives in my mind rent-free. I have fallen asleep many a night fantasizing about what the repercussions of the kiss might look like. One of my absolute favourite Ladynoir fics.

team is a four letter word by @ladyofthenoodle

Alya didn’t want to come between Ladybug and Chat Noir. But she didn’t want to stop being Rena Rouge either. And if Chat Noir didn’t want to talk to her, then she’d need to find a different way to prove all three of them could be a team.

Her plan unintentionally brings a few secrets to light, which leads to even more secrets coming to light, which leads to… well, Alya is sure it’ll all work out eventually.

Multi-chapter. Warning, this fic is a WIP! (But there’s only one chapter to go.) Honestly, I didn’t want to have any WIPs on this list and I was lowkey hoping that it would be finished before I posted this list but I’m obsessed with this one and couldn’t leave it off. It’s literally one of the BEST fics in the entire fandom and, I think, the absolute best delving into the characterization and relationship dynamics of the core four. This fic feels so dynamic and complex, with all of the characters feelings so like themselves and each having their own distinct voices. The conflict is so well done and so realistic. It’s such a fantastic tackling of the issues that came up in the last couple seasons and I cannot rave about it enough!!

œuf ouch owie by @ominousunflower

Chat Noir enlists Rena Rouge's help to create an Aspik illusion. Absolutely nothing goes wrong.

Ladybug smiles. “I wanted to drop by and welcome Aspik. I know it must be a little intimidating, being surrounded by so many veteran heroes…so, welcome! We’re glad to have you on board.”

“I look like an egg!” Aspik announces, T-posing.

Chat turns to Rena, feeling like he has been punched in the solar plexus. What the hell? he mouths.

Rena grimaces, her eyes wide with panic. Stomach sinking, Chat remembers one of the first things he learned about the Fox Miraculous: that if Rena Rouge isn’t focused, her illusions go haywire.

Oh, no.

One-shot. This is hands down the FUNNIEST fic in the entire fandom asdfghjkl like I have read this fic at least 50 times and I still laugh out loud every single time. If you have somehow failed to read this fic before, read it now. You won’t regret it!

lucky (we're in love in every way) by @carpisuns

Chat Noir is Adrien, and Marinette is freaking out. If she manages to quiet her internal screaming, maybe she can also find the guts to tell him her identity too. And maybe they'll actually live happily ever after—well, as soon as Tikki and Plagg are done humiliating them.

One-shot. This fic just makes me so incredibly happy. Like it puts a smile on my face every single time I read it (and I have read it many, many times!) I love Marinette’s reactions and Adrien’s sweetness and the kwamis just absolutely ROASTING both of them. Marissa has written a ton of amazing fics for this fandom (seriously we are so lucky to have her) and I was tempted by others (like tell me something i don't know) but in the end, I had to follow my heart with this one.

Your Kitty by @gabriel-agreste-has-no-rights

“Such a dramatic kitty.” Marinette scratched under his chin, bringing a smile to his face and a purr to his throat.

Your kitty, he didn’t say.

Wait. What?

(The one where Chat Noir thinks he needs pats like a cat, only to find out he may have jumped to the wrong conclusion.)

One-shot. When I think of Marichat, this is THE fic I think of. Adrien being touch starved is 100% my headcanon now. This is just so sweet! Marinette’s affection and Adrien’s determination to do the right thing no matter the personal cost and the way they fell for each other without meaning to... Also I love that they both encouraged the other to go back to their original crushes because that makes so much sense!!

rattle my cage by @lnc2

In which history, despite Alya's best efforts, does not repeat itself.

One-shot. I am always here for Adrien being rash and Marinette being smart and capable and just switching to treating him as Chat absolutely seamlessly after a reveal. I absolutely love the vibes of this one.

Chasing the C/h/atwalk. by @runningoutofink

Paris. The city of lights, love and fashion. Follow the progress of Marinette Dupain Cheng as she enters the extremely competitive world of Reality television for a chance to be the winner of Project Runway: France.

Multi-chapter. It should come as no surprise by now that I’m a sucker for reality tv and this is my absolute favourite reality cross in the fandom! I love that it’s canon compliant, and frankly the idea of Marinette and Adrien as designer and model on Project Runway is friggin’ BRILLIANT. The slow burn and pining are delicious, and the identity reveal is incredibly well done! (And it has a steamy sequel, Meet me in the Middle, which is 🔥🔥🔥 and intensely satisfying after all of that build up.)

daydream by @clairelutra

you're my daydream

you know that i've been thinking about you lately

In which Adrien finds out Ladybug is Marinette, and beats the 'this is fine' dog at his own game.

One-shot. Shout-out to the author for realizing way before canon let on that Adrien is way more likely to figure out Marinette than the reverse! And then absolutely murdering us with this intense slow burn that absolutely drips with mutual pining and UST.

What Will You Do When Everyone Knows? by @sariahsue

They stepped in closer, shoulder to shoulder to catch the akuma as she landed, but she twisted in midair, landing squarely in front of Cat Noir, swiping at him. He stepped back, trying to keep his balance. Her fingertips almost touched his face, and Ladybug felt her stomach lurch.

“Duck!” she yelled to him as she whipped her yoyo around. He did, but unfortunately, the akuma woman did, too. Ladybug suddenly had no target to latch onto and lost her balance. Her stomach twisted again as she pitched forward. Black hands darted forward to catch her, but too late she realized it wasn’t her partner. Cold gloves caught her shoulder and neck, then slid up her face, brushing past her earrings. Cold. The woman’s touch froze Ladybug’s breath in her throat.

Then there was something warm around her middle. Cat Noir’s shout sounded distant as he pulled her away. As the woman’s black gloves left her face, Ladybug felt even more heat being pulled from her, along with… something else.

Multi-chapter. There really isn’t another fic in the fandom like this one. The akuma is original and provides an absolutely amazing premise for this fic. We have mystery, intrigue, and a huge upset to the status quo with the public revealing of Ladybug’s identity. I also loved the dramatic irony of Marinette being unable to understand Chat’s reactions to things that make perfect sense to us readers. It’s got amazing characterizations and suspense, and I love it!

But All I’m Seeing Is You by @chelseaapproved

After Ladybug finds out Adrien is her Chat Noir, they start dating. She didn’t think it’d be so hard to keep her identity a secret from him. She also didn’t realize how much it would affect her friendship with him as Marinette.

One-shot. This might be my favourite ladrien of all time. It’s only about 5k, but man does it ever pack in a lot of emotion and relationship development and I really, really, really love it. I really felt how much they love each other in this one and Marinette is just so, so wonderful to Adrien and he’s so wonderful to her and if you haven’t already please read this.

A Miraculous Reveal by @kasienda

Series of one-shots and drabbles all centered around The Reveal Moment. Identities will be revealed, feelings will be confessed, and secrets will be discovered through contrived situations, accidents, meddling friends, desperate moments, and moments of emotional vulnerability. Each chapter is a self contained piece. Love-square focused, but will not remain exclusive to them. Each chapter will have its own trigger warnings.

Collection of one-shots. I feel a little like I’m cheating in including a collection here, but like most of us in this fandom, I’m an absolute sucker for identity reveals, and @kasienda is especially talented at writing them! Every single one of these is beautiful, amazing and worth reading at least once.

the wonderful part of the mess that we made by heresie_irisee

They knew.

They knew, and there would be no magical reset button for the memories they'd made today. She'd have to see him at school every day, and she'd see the Chat in him, as surely as he'd see the Ladybug in her.

One-shot. Oblivio is probably my favourite episode and this is such a great alternate take on it. The mutual pining is so, so, so good! Especially love Marinette struggling to assimilate Adrien’s identities and Adrien’s obliviousness.

The following fics are amazing and absolutely worth reading, but do feature sexual content, so minors beware.

The Ladybugs and The Bees by @bullysquadess

AKA the early-fandom Ladynoir puberty fic that spiraled waaaaay out of proportion.

Multi-chapter. I’ve avoided reccing this fic for so long as it was literally the most kudosed fic in the entire fandom when I joined. However, the kudos are well-earned and I can’t make a list of must reads without including it. I love the ladynoir, the way it builds slowly, the focus on the developing relationship, both physical and otherwise, the yearning and the devotion and the vulnerability. And, of course, the steamy scenes are fantastic!! The whole thing is just so well developed and feels so grounded and real. I absolutely love it.

one night of moonlight by @mirthaculous

i’ll always think of you

inside of my private thoughts

i can imagine you

touching my private parts

2:13 ok im texting you now like i promised instead of drunktexting adrien and telling him how badly i want his cock tonight. arent you proud of me?

2:19 this is Adrien, hi.

Marinette’s brain-to-mouth filter isn’t great on the best of days. Add some beer and some misplaced texts, and things get a little more… interesting.

One-shot. Rated M. This is one of my favourite fics of all time. This is so steamy, seriously the UST is off the charts!! It is absolutely unreal how much these two want each other and the mutual pining and they’re so stupid and this fic literally killed me and I thanked it.

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miraculousfanworks · 11 months

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Fanfiction Prompt

When Adrien got the ring, he saw it as the way forward with all his dreams. Not just being a hero, not just being loved, not just a chance to escape from the four walls of his home, but to finally get away. So, shortly after dealing with Stoneheart, he starts on his plan. First things first: he tells Chloe that he's Chat Noir, he'll need her support. She takes it pretty well, in his opinion, and it's nice to have a confidant that he can trust. Secondly: he quietly starts to move some of the things he truly cares about to Chloe's room at the Grand Paris. It's not much, but it's his, and she promised to take care of it. And then, finally, he transforms, climbs out his window, and doesn't come back. Adrien Agreste is officially missing. Unofficially, people know that he's in Paris, they see him sometimes (he can't stay Chat Noir forever, after all). But no one can catch him, no one can pin him down for long enough to do anything about it. He runs, they chase, and then he just... vanishes for a little while, before turning up again a short time later where the entire thing will start over again. Chat Noir, meanwhile, has been enjoying going to school and making friends. Sure, it's not the easiest thing to have a normal school life as a superhero, but he's somehow managed it (a lot of the more annoying people backed off when they realized that Chat Noir is a gigantic dork, and any boost to their popularity is not worth being seen around such a massive goofball. The rest backed off when it became clear that Chat had absolutely no interest in fake, vapid friendships, and that he was pretty skilled at identifying them). So this is Adrien's life now: a superhero and a runaway. But it's his life, and he finds that he rather loves it, despite the difficulties and the hardships that it brings.

Prompt by BlueStarOfTheSouth

#miraculous fanworks #miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous #mlb #writing prompt #prompt #miraculous prompt #ml prompt #adrien agreste #chloe bourgeois #chat noir #cat noir #au #miraculous au #ml au #miraculous identity reveal #ml identity reveal #identity reveal

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kasienda · 4 months

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A Miraculous Reveal - Rings True

Post Season Five - Angst w/ a very happy ending

Summary: Ladybug hits send on her text to Chat Noir, telling him who Monarch is. She tells Adrien a very different story. Adrien doesn't know what to make of it, but he thinks he deserves the truth. Thanks to @coffeebanana, @wackus-bonkus-maximus, and @nemaliwrites for the beta read. This hits just a bit harder because of your input.

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A Miraculous Reveal - Rings True

I figured out who Monarch is. He’s Gabriel Agreste. Meet me at the Agreste Mansion .

Chat Noir stares at the text and then glances up once again at the imposing statue erected in his father’s honor. Because his father apparently sacrificed himself to help Ladybug defeat Monarch.

He shivers in the winter morning air.

Both of those realities can’t be true.

Chat Noir falls to the ground, his father’s oversized form blocking out the sun’s glare. He has no idea what he was feeling, but whatever it was, it wasn’t good. He just sits there, gravel from the pavement digging through his suit, barely aware of the passersby chattering about his unexpected presence. He can’t hear what they’re saying with his heart trying to beat its way out of his chest. His stomach is so sour he thinks he might throw up, and his hands shake hard enough he’s not certain he will keep hold of his baton.

His father’s gone.

He wished for this. Adrien wanted the man who wouldn’t let him make his own choices or live his life gone. And him being Monarch made all of that worse somehow.

How many times had Adrien wished Monarch dead?

Well, now he was.

But Ladybug told him to his face, as Adrien, that his father gave up everything so he could be happy.

Adrien can’t believe it. His father had never cared about Adrien’s happiness. That had never been more clear than when he shipped Adrien off to London to be the poster child alongside Kagami for the Alliance rings or whatever else his father had in mind.

It’s far, far easier to believe his father had been Monarch.

But why did Ladybug lie?

He doesn’t have to contemplate the question long. She lands next to him and he scrambles to his feet, his shoulders tense as he turns to her. She asked to meet him this morning, it’s the first time he’s seen her since he failed to show up to fight Monarch. Is she angry with him? She doesn’t look angry, but she doesn’t look happy either.

She very noticeably does not look at the monument.

“Can we talk anywhere but here?” Her voice shakes. And it’s amazing how just that small sign of anxiety from her makes his own turmoil abate.

For the moment, at least.

He clears his throat. “Lead the way.” His voice sounds like gravel.

She takes off, and he launches himself in pursuit, not paying any attention to where they’re going. He just follows the flash of red as he always does.

They eventually settle on an ordinary rooftop away from prying eyes. She doesn’t speak. She stares at the blank brick wall in front of them as if it holds all the answers of the universe.

Every moment of silence eats at him, bringing back the clammy feeling in his neck and the sour churn in his stomach. He can’t stand it.

“M’lady?”

She glances at him and visibly swallows.

“Are you okay?”

Her hands grip the edge of the roof and her gaze drops. She shakes her head and her eyes well with tears.

His hand covers hers immediately. “I’m sorry I wasn’t there.”

She leans into his shoulder and his arm comes around her immediately.

She breaks down into tears immediately, and he just holds her as she cries herself out.

“I wish you were there,” she whispers, and his chest tightens in guilt. “I don’t know that it would have made any difference, but–” her head nuzzles further into his shoulder, “–I would have felt better with you there.”

“I’m sorry,” he croaks again. He shouldn’t have given into his nightmare. He could have broken out of his father’s prison. It apparently wouldn’t have even mattered that it would have revealed his identity.

Monarch was dead.

She shakes her head. “You couldn’t have known. I didn’t know either. I was there for another reason entirely.”

He wants to ask what that reason was, but now that she’s talking, he’s unwilling to interrupt.

“Discovering his identity was an accident. The miraculized robots were everywhere. They were tracking my active miraculous somehow. I had to detransform. He had me cornered. Thank god you sent Plagg. The tides shifted then! And I had him!”

Her face falls and she buries her eyes in her closed fists.

“I was so stupid! I thought I could convince him to give it up for Adrien.”

His throat tightens. It isn’t surprising that his father wouldn’t. But hearing her say it still somehow hurts.

Adrien had never been enough, not for his father.

He blinks furiously to fend off the unwanted tears.

“So why is there a statue of Monarch in the middle of Paris?” he croaks. “Why did you lie to Adrien?”

He doesn’t mean for it to be an accusation. He needs to know.

But she recoils violently. “It wasn’t a lie!”

He frowns. “But—“

Her face crumples and her body shakes like an earthquake. She breaks down into wracking sobs all over again. “I lost , Chaton. I trusted him. I wanted to be able to heal their relationship. He took all the miraculouses - including the Ladybug and the Black Cat. He made a wish.”

Adrien sucks in a breath.

“But something I said must have gotten through because he changed his wish. He didn’t wish for his wife to be revived. He joined her in death instead. Then all the miraculouses minus the butterfly were returned to me. Before he did it, he asked me to make sure Adrien remembered him fondly.”

Adrien tastes bile. Seriously? His father wanted Adrien to think well of him?

“So I only told Adrien the good parts. But I didn’t lie . Gabriel did sacrifice himself for his son’s happiness in the end. He did help me defeat Monarch.”

Adrien’s claws dig into his knee. His father may have said he did it for Adrien, but that’s what he always said. That’s what he said when he wouldn’t let Adrien have a birthday party, or go play music with his friends, what he said when he had forbidden Adrien from being with Marinette and when he had Adrien shipped off to London.

But none of it was ever actually for Adrien. It never was.

His father hadn’t needed to make a wish at all. He didn’t have to leave. If he wanted Adrien to be happy, he could have come back and done things differently. “But it’s a lie.”

She shakes her head. “It doesn’t matter.”

“Doesn’t matter?!” he echoes hotly. “That’s what Gabriel did to his son all the time. Lied to him, made choices for him about what he was allowed to know and do, what Adrien was allowed to feel . He locked him up and sent him away from the people he loved most!”

His heart rises to his throat, his chest heaves up and down.

Ladybug stares at him, her eyes wide. “How do you know all that?”

He tries to meet her gaze, but he can’t do it. He feels exposed.

“And now you want Adrien to remember that man fondly?! Want him to think that his pain and frustration and anger are all something he imagined?!”

She cries harder. “But he deserves better than Gabriel,” she sobs.

Chat Noir took both her shoulders and squeezed them gently. “He deserves the truth. You need to tell him, M’lady.”

And he’s being ridiculous. He already knows, so what does it matter?

He just wants her to be the one to tell him.

“But how do I do that?” Her words are barely louder than the wind. Tears slipdown her face.

“He deserves to know,” he says again.

She leans back into Chat’s chest. “You’re right. I just— I wish he didn’t have to go through all this.”

“He won’t be alone.”

He has Marinette, Nino, and Plagg.

He has her .

…

Ladybug doesn’t show up that night. Or the next. Adrien spends each evening pacing back and forth in front of his stupidly large glass window. He purposely kept his evenings clear - sending Marinette home early and begging Nathalie to let him eat alone in his room.

He was trying to make it easier for Ladybug to approach him.

But still, she hasn’t come. He doesn’t understand it. What is she waiting for? Does she not trust him as Chat Noir? Does she think Adrien can’t handle the truth?

Adrien throws himself backwards onto his bed. Each day he proves more irritable than the last, prone to snapping at everyone around him — even Marinette, who’s the absolutely last person who deserves his ire.

Five excruciating days later, she stands before him, wringing her gloved hands and all the tension that had been building up inside him like water against a dam for days, releases.

She’s here. She’s going to tell him.

He smiles at her. “What can I do for you, Ladybug?” he asks.

She doesn’t meet his gaze. She’s so worked up, he almost feels bad that he pushed her into this. He could have just volunteered as Chat Noir to talk to Adrien himself.

“Are you okay?” he asks.

She laughs darkly, and looks at him. “You should not be asking me that. I just… I have some things that I need to tell you, things I should have told you before. C-can we sit down for this?”

“Of course!” he says, walking her to the couch. “Can I get you anything?”

“No, no! I’m fine,” she says. “You should sit too.”

He sits next to her. She’s vibrating in her seat. Her legs are bouncing, her hands are fidgeting, she looks at him only to look away immediately.

She bolts to her feet and starts pacing in front of him. His eyes follow her.

“So umm…” Her hands flail around her. “You know how I told the city that your father helped me defeat Monarch?” The words come out of her in a rush, like she’s afraid if she stops she won’t get them out.

“Yes?”

“Well, that wasn’t exactly true. Your father—” she looks at him now. “Well, he was Monarch.”

And there it is. The words are out. He almost wants to laugh. Instead, he lets out a heavy sigh.

“Are you okay?” she asks, kneeling down in front of him, and taking his hands.

He smiles again, and nods. “I… okay is not the word, but maybe? Thank you for telling me. It’s relieving in a way.”

“Relieving?” she repeats, her eyebrows arching in disbelief.

“Yeah, thinking of him as a hero after everything he had done to me… it didn’t feel right, but being angry with the person who helped Ladybug save all of Paris— well, that didn’t feel right either.”

“I— I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before.”

He squeezes her hand.

“Why are you letting the whole city believe he was a hero?” he asks. It’s still the one bit that doesn’t make sense.

She offers him a pained smile. “Because I didn’t want anyone to know you had any association with the villains.”

He frowns. “You don’t need to do—“

She shakes her head sharply, cutting him off. “There’s more to it than that. This next part, Adrien. I…” she bites her lower lip. “I haven’t told anyone. Not even my partner.”

Every muscle in his body locks up.

“This is too sensitive, too personal. I feel like I shouldn’t even know.”

Her hands tremble, and he shivers. What could be so awful that it was worth letting all of Paris believe Monarch was a hero?

Ladybug’s finger taps the rings on his left hand - and he glances down at his parents’ wedding rings.

“These aren’t ordinary rings. They’re amoks.”

“Amoks?” he repeats. “Like for a sentimonster?”

“Sentibeings,” she corrects. “These are your amoks.”

Did his father leave sentimonsters running around? Ones that Adrien is now responsible for? How awful was—

Ladybug watches him carefully. She’s biting her lip again, her eyes wide, clearly bracing herself for his reaction.

He missed the mark. The rings are suddenly all he can see. These are his amoks.

He hunches forward, his shoulders feeling like lead. He gasps for air that won’t fill his lungs. It feels like the ground has opened up underneath him and swallowed him whole.

Ladybug’s arms wrap around him, she cradles his head against her chest. She strokes his hair like he’s a small child needing to be soothed.

“I’m a… sentimonster.”

She shakes her head violently. “Senti- being. ”

He laughs, the sound hysterical and unbelieving even in his own ears.

“But yes, you were created with the peacock miraculous.”

He’s a sentimonster.

His whole life is stored in a pair of rings .

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know how to tell you this,” Ladybug says, tears slipping over her mask. “I wish you didn’t have to know.”

His eyes fly up to her face. Ladybug almost didn’t tell him. If Chat Noir hadn’t convinced her, would he have ever known?

Suddenly, he’s furious. “You weren’t going to tell me.”

“Adrien, I swear I returned the rings to you the second I understood what they were.”

“What if I had taken them off or given them away?!”

Then her words catch up to him.

“Wait. You didn’t give me these rings. It was… Marinette?”

Her eyes flood with tears. It’s confirmation enough.

He scuttles backward so fast the couch tips over. He shoves himself across the floor further, needing to be away from her.

“Adrien! Please!” she begs, reaching for him on her knees.

She’s Marinette.

He sobs brokenly, shaking his head. “I don’t understand! Why would you keep this from me?! I thought Ladybug, at least, had no idea what my father was like. But you? Marinette! You stood against him time and again. And now you cave to him?! To lie to me?!”

“I didn’t want to hurt you! I wanted you to be as happy as possible given everything that has happened.”

He caves in on himself - he cradles his neck, and buries his head between his knees, rocking back and forth.

“Adrien?” she asks, her hand hovering over his shoulder. He flinches from her, and she backs away.

“I’m sorry!” she cries.

“You know, when I read your text the first time, I felt relief . My father was Monarch. That sucked, but it also felt like a puzzle piece had snapped into place. Something that made sense .”

“What text?”

“Then you showed up to talk to me, and you fed me a completely different story! My father, a hero?“ he laughs bitterly.

“Adrien—“

“When I told you that you needed to tell me, I didn’t think it mattered because I already knew. I wanted to hear it from you.”

Her eyes blow open wide and her mouth falls open into a horrified “oh”.

“Chaton?” she asks, her voice cracking.

“If I hadn’t done that, would you have ever told me?”

Her cries only intensify and she doesn’t answer him, but for once, he’s unmoved by her tears. He can’t ever remember being so angry with her.

“You’re just like him.”

The look on her face is pure devastation. He can’t bring himself to care.

“I’m so sorry,” she sobs.

“Why didn’t you just use the rings?”

“What do you mean?” Her voice is so quiet he barely hears her.

“If you wanted me to be happy, couldn’t you have just ordered me to be happy?”

“Adrien! That’s horrible!”

“Is it?! How is it any different than what you did?! You told me lies to manipulate my feelings! Made me believe in something that you knew wasn’t true. The rings just would have made it easier.”

“I would never do that to you!”

“But you did!”

“I’m sorry! I didn’t understand! I never wanted to hurt you. I love you.”

“That just makes it worse.”

“Adrien, please.” She reaches for him again. And he pulls away.

“I can’t do this right now.”

She stares at him, her eyes glassy. “Adrien–”

“Just go!” he shouts.

And she does. And he’s not entirely certain that he wants her to come back.

…

She keeps calling him. She calls him so many times that first night he loses track. She leaves him messages almost every time. He listens to every single one the second it comes in.

She apologizes profusely again and again. She cries until her voice is sandpaper, and then she cries more. She understands why he’s angry and she knows what she did wrong.

He wants to forgive her. He does.

But he doesn’t know how.

Two days go by, and he still doesn’t take any of her calls. But he continues to listen to every message.

His phone rings again, but it’s Alya.

“Hey, what’s up?” he answers cautiously.

“How are you doing?” And it’s definitely Alya talking — not Marinette and he relaxes.

“That depends.”

“On?”

“Are you asking because you want to know, or because Marinette does?”

“I won’t tell Marinette anything if you don’t want me to, but whatever happened between the two of you, know that she has always loved you.”

He squeezes his eyes closed. He doesn’t even doubt that. But his parents had loved him too. He twists his amoks around his finger. That hadn’t stopped either of them from controlling and manipulating him.

“Sometimes love isn’t enough,” he says.

Alya’s silent for a moment. “You don’t really believe that, do you?” she asks softly.

“I didn’t used to,” he admits. “But now… now, I don’t know where I stand with anyone.”

“I can only imagine how hard it must be to process everything about your father.”

“Yeah, everything about my father,” he echoes dully. Alya doesn’t know even half of it—

“It’s so messed up,” she commiserates. “Especially given who you all turned out to be.”

Unless she already knows all of it. Because she’s Ladybug’s best friend!

“How long have you known?” he asks, trying to keep his tone even, but it probably just comes out cold.

“Known what?”

“That I’m Chat Noir, she’s Ladybug, and my father was fucking Monarch?!”

“Adrien, listen—“

Adrien’s tired of listening.

“—she had a total meltdown.”

“She told you before she told me, didn’t she?”

“Adrien–”

He’s shaking his head even though she can’t see him. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I thought it should come from her! ”

“Did she also tell you I’m a sentimonster and she wasn’t going to tell me?!”

“A what?! Adrien!—“

He hangs up. He tries to take solace from the fact that Marinette hadn’t told Alya or Chat Noir about Adrien being a sentimonster. She had some lines she wouldn’t cross at least.

But it’s not enough. She hadn’t planned on telling him either.

He twists the rings on his finger. What if he had taken them off?

It’s the thought he can’t shake.

He calls Nino.

“Hey mec! What’s up?”

“Tell me you didn’t know.”

“Know what?”

“Did Marinette or Alya tell you about me?”

“Umm… I thought you already knew that Marinette liked you since you guys have been dating.”

And despite everything Adrien bursts out laughing. Nino definitely didn’t know anything.

“Dude! What is going on?”

“Can I come over?”

“Anytime, mec!” Nino exclaims enthusiastically! “You never have to ask.”

…

Adrien barely has time to knock before Nino whips the door open and yanks him inside and into a hug.

Adrien lets himself relax. Nino didn’t know anything. Nino never lied to him. If anything, Nino was stupidly forthcoming about his own secrets.

He can trust Nino.

Which gives him an idea. A terrible idea.

“Dude! How’ve you been holding up?”

Adrien shrugs. Before he can overthink it, he slips both of his amoks off his finger and presses them into Nino’s hands.

“Put these on,” he says.

Nino looks at the rings. “Are these wedding rings?” Nino asks.

“Technically, yes.”

“You proposing, mec? You could at least buy me dinner first.”

Adrien doesn’t laugh. “Just put them on. I want to try something. I’ll explain after.”

Nino slips the rings on without any hesitation. “Okay. Now what?”

Because Nino trusts him.

“Tell me to do something weird.”

“Weird like what?”

“I don’t know, something I wouldn’t normally do.”

Nino pulls out his phone and puts on a dance remix. “Alright dude. Dance like you’ve never danced before.”

Adrien throws himself into the moves, rolls with the music Nino’s music, he tells himself. It doesn’t feel like a compulsion. It feels like he wants to do it - almost like it’s his own idea. But he can’t stop either. And he wants to cry.

How many times had he tried to stand up to his father only to immediately fold once standing before him?

Even his maman! How many times had she sweet talked him into cooperating? She had always said he was an easy child. All he had ever wanted was to make them proud. Was any of it him?

Nino stops the music.

“Dude! You’re crying.”

He is, and yet, he’s still dancing. Another sob tears from his throat.

He’s not human. He’s a sentimonster, a puppet on strings, a plaything for his parents’ amusement.

“Stop it! What’s wrong?” Nino asks, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Adrien’s limbs still, and he falls to his knees, sobbing.

Nino is on the ground right next to him an instant later. “Talk to me, please.”

Adrien knows with that command, he can technically talk about anything, but he had come here to talk about one thing in particular.

“I’m a sentimonster,” he gasps. “I’ve been a sentimonster my whole life. Those,” he points to the rings on Nino’s pinky and ring finger, “are my amoks.”

Nino’s expression falls off his face. Then he tears the rings off his hands and slams them up against Adrien’s chest.

“Why would you ever give these to me?! Why would you give them to anyone?!”

“I just… wanted to know how they worked, what it felt like. I didn’t think you would use them if you knew.”

“Damn right, I wouldn’t!” Nino roared, his chest visibly heaving. “Please don’t put me in that position again!”

Adrien nods. “I’m sorry.”

“What the hell is going on? What do you mean you’re a sentimonster? They haven’t been around that long. Are you some kind of copy of my best friend?”

Adrien shakes his head. “I’m the original, one and only, Adrien Agreste. My father had the butterfly and the peacock since before I was born, and apparently for some reason —“ that Adrien hadn’t had time to even think about, let alone figure out. “—they raised a sentimonster instead of having a child using more natural methods.”

“Wait! Your father had the butterfly?! But that means—“

“He was Monarch,” Adrien says before Nino can.

“But Ladybug said—“

“Yeah well, Ladybug doesn’t have the best relationship with the truth,” he says bitterly. “She’s just like my father.”

Nino looks more shocked by that than anything else Adrien has said.

“What?” Adrien asks, unable to interpret Nino’s silence.

“Dude!” Nino exclaims like that explains everything. “You’ve always been Ladybug’s biggest fan!”

“That was before she tried to lie to me about my father! She wasn’t even going to tell me about being a sentimonster! She gave me back these rings without saying anything! What if I had lost one or taken them off? Or gave her one when I proposed?!”

“When you proposed?” Nino echoes. “To Ladybug?”

Adrien thunks his head against the wall. He hadn’t lasted twenty-four hours with her identity. She’s going to kill him.

“Can we pretend I didn’t say that?”

Nino’s head cocks to the side. “Marinette is Ladybug. Huh.”

“That doesn’t surprise you?”

“That’s definitely the least surprising thing you’ve said today. Not surprising at all really,” Nino says. “Okay, so we’re pissed at Maribug—“

“Cute.”

“—because she didn’t tell you about your father being an even worse dick than we already knew. And she didn’t tell you were a sentimonster. But then, how did you find out?”

“She told me.”

“But—“

Adrien sighs. He’s already screwed as it is. “She told me as Chat Noir.”

Nino is silent again. “You’re Chat Noir.”

“Yup.”

“And your dad was Monarch.”

“Unfortunately.”

“Mec! That’s so messed up.”

“Tell me about it.”

“So Maribug told Adrien the same thing she told the city?”

“Yeah, that he died a hero helping her defeat Monarch.”

“Gross,” Nino says. “Why would she want you to remember him with rose colored glasses?”

“I don’t know!”

“Do you think she killed him?”

Adrien freezes. The thought had never occurred to him because it’s incomprehensible. “No. There’s no way.”

“And she told Chat Noir - not knowing that she was talking to you - that you’re a sentimonster?”

“No, she only told Chat Noir that my father was Monarch.”

Nino hums.

“Just say it,” Adrien says.

“Well, I get that you’re pissed. I think I am too on your behalf. But I don’t think Marinette is anything like your father.”

“Go on.” Adrien wants to forgive her. He just needed a way to get there in his own head.

“The difference is Marinette did tell you.”

“She wasn’t going to. I had to talk her into it.”

Nino nods. “ Exactly. She wasn’t going to, and then you explained your perspective and she changed her mind. She recognized that she was wrong, that you were right and she did what Marinette always does. She tried to fix it. Your dad would have only doubled down.”

“Or tried to akumatize someone over it,” Adrien adds darkly.

“Dude! He’s akumatized like every single one of your friends.”

His father hadn't wanted him to have any friends. Had his father ever seen him as a real person?

“Nino, do you still care about me knowing that I’m not real?”

“What the fuck kinda question is that? One, yes! I care about you more than almost anyone on this planet. And two, you are most definitely real .”

Adrien’s crying again, but Nino quickly seizes him in a hug. Adrien buries himself in Nino’s solid embrace, and he knows he’s going to be okay even if he’s not there yet.

…

It’s been four days since he shouted at Marinette to get out of his room.

She’s still calling him, and he covets every message, as a sign that she loves him despite what he is, that she hasn’t given up on him, or on them. He listens to them the second they show up, though he still hasn’t been able to bring himself to respond, though he thinks he might be getting close. He did send a message through Alya that he just wants some space and he’ll let her know when he’s ready to talk.

Most of her messages are similar in nature. She apologizes over and over, tells him that she loves him, and that she’ll do anything to make it up to him. She just doesn’t know what that is.

He thought that he might feel vindicated or something hearing her so small and contrite, but he doesn’t. He feels awful because as much as he was hurt, he doesn’t want her to hurt either.

He loves her.

Then her last two messages were drastically different in content.

“I learned that you were a Senti from Felix.” Her voice is subdued, like she’s narrating from a script. “He and Kagami are both sentis as well. They asked Ladybug for help.”

Figured that Felix told Ladybug without even telling him .

“I’m not sure they want anyone to know that, but I guess… even if you—“ her voice cracks and his chest clenches at the pain in her voice. “—even if you can’t forgive me, I-I just wanted you to know you’re not alone.”

She’s openly sobbing now. “I love you.”

The message abruptly ends.

The second message that day comes in hours later.

“I got Kagami to bully Felix into letting me talk to Dusuu!” Her voice is so different from the previous call. She sounds excited. She sounds like Ladybug with an idea. “The original amoks didn’t have a mind control feature. That was something the Guardians added at the same time they added it to the miraculouses to be able to control the Kwamis. If they added it, there’s gotta be a way to take it away, right?”

“I have a plan to free you all from your amoks. But there’s a hiccup. We’ll need the butterfly so I can give you the power to see your spiritual connection to the ring so you can cataclysm only the part that can control you. I know it’s dangerous. And we don’t have to do it if you’re not comfortable, and we don’t have the butterfly right now anyway—“

Adrien smiles as Marinette rambles on. How had he never realized Ladybug and Marinette were the same? They think out loud in the exact same way.

Even though he asked for space, even though he wasn’t talking to her, even though she wasn’t certain they were going to remain a couple, she was still fighting for him.

He transforms immediately and lands just outside the bakery. He’s not sure if she’s even home, but he hopes that she is.

He takes the stairs two at a time. He hesitates before knocking. And before he can bridge the gap, the door flies open of its own accord.

Marinette drops her purse and stares at him. Her eyes are red and her usually neat pigtails are half falling out and completely uneven. She’s still in her pajamas though she had thrown a coat and a scarf over them.

She has never looked more beautiful.

He offers her a wobbly smile. “I’m sorry. You’re on your way out. I can— I can come back.” He starts to turn around.

She grabs his wrist. “No! Please don’t go.” Her voice is hoarse, and faint, like she’s afraid if she’s too loud he’ll bolt. “Wh-what do you wan— I mean, need? What do you need?”

He eyes her grip on his wrist, and she instantly lets go, and suddenly can’t meet his eyes.

“Can we talk?” he asks.

She nods. Her eyes are downcast, her shoulders are hunched in, and her arms are wrapped around her stomach. She’s been tearing herself up for all the days he didn’t speak to her.

“Hey,” he says softly. “Can you look at me?”

She does, but her eyes water immediately, and he yanks her into his arms.

“It’s going to be okay,” he assures.

She falls to pieces in his arms. He rocks her harder, kisses her hair, and continues to hold her.

“I’m so sorry,” she sobs.

“It’s… o—“ he cuts himself off before he can say it’s okay. Nino told him that was the one sentence he wasn’t allowed to say. “It’s going to be okay,” he says again.

She shakes her head. “No, I’m awful. I don’t know what I was thinking! You’re right to be so angry. You’re right to hate me!”

He laughs, and then cups either side of her face. Her blue eyes fill with tears and he aches for her. “M’lady, I could never ever hate you. I was hurt.”

“Of course you were!”

“And I needed some space.”

She nods against his hands.

“But I’ve been thinking, and Nino made me realize that I actually should be thanking you.”

“Thanking me?! For what?!”

“Because you told me.”

“But I wasn’t going to. Not until you convinced me to.”

“But then you did. You listened to me, and you trusted me as Chat Noir, and then you told me as Adrien. And I’m glad that I know now. I needed to know. No one else was ever going to tell me. And so, I’m really glad I have you, that you respected me enough to tell me this hard truth about my own life. My parents didn’t tell me. Nathalie never did, though she had to have known. And I don’t think she ever would have. Even Felix, and apparently Kagami, didn’t tell me though you think they’d get it better than anyone.”

“But I should have told you right away. I never should have lied.”

He shrugs. “Yeah, that’s true, but we all make mistakes. And when you realized you were wrong, you tried to fix it.” He held up his phone. “And you’re still trying to fix it. Even though it’s hard, even though I didn’t take it well. You still told me the truth when no one else did. And I just— I love you.”

He presses his forehead to hers. “Even when you make mistakes, even when you really piss me off, even when you’re not perfect, I love you. And I don’t think that will ever not be the case. Thank you for telling me, thank you for giving me some space to figure stuff out on my own, and if you’ll still have me, may I still be yours?”

“If I’ll still have you?” she repeats, aghast. “Shouldn’t it be if you’ll still have me?”

He shrugs again. “I’ve already said I still want to be your partner in every sense of the word, but I’ve had time to think about it while you were sending me message after message that you loved me. Even though I’m not even human.”

Her face contorts into pure rage. “Adrien Agreste! You are the most beautiful human being I have ever met in my life! You are kind. You give people second chances. You are persistent, and brave, and you have the dorkiest sense of humor. You drive me absolutely insane both with and without a mask, and I am so stupidly in love with you, I will absolutely still have you! And if you think—“

He cuts her off with a kiss. He’s going to spend the rest of his life with this girl if he has anything to say about it.

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galahadwilder · 1 year

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After a week of insisting to Alya that no, he and Marinette were not going to get together, he's in love with another girl, Adrien is both delighted and mortified to learn that actually, the other girl is Marinette and he's been acting like an ass all week. He falls into being Marinette's boyfriend quickly and easily, with all the gooey idiocy expected from a Lovesquare relationship, but one question keeps eating at him:

What is he going to tell Alya?

After all, he's been telling Alya no for a week. It won't be believable if he just suddenly claims he changed his mind, and he doesn't want her to think that he considers Marinette a second choice or backup option. He needs an explanation that sounds plausible while also not making it clear that he's not settling.

He shuffles through explanations with desperation. Maybe he and Marinette were secret pen pals? Or they knew each other from virtual Mecha Strike events, but only by their gamertags? They've actually been secretly dating for months but had to hide it from his dad? He'd realized he'd fallen out of love with the "girl from his work" and realized he'd actually been in love with Ma--no, she'd never believe that. He was so used to Anime relationships that he'd mistaken respect for love? Maybe, hard stretch, not great.

The next day at school, Alya sees the two of them necking and asks what changed, and Adrien launches into a long, complicated, incomprehensible explanation that he hopes will mollify her while protecting their identities.

This is approximately when Marinette realizes that she forgot to tell him that Alya found out a year ago.

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #alya cesaire #adrienette #adrinette #identity reveal #post reveal established relationship #original content #crack #post gang of secrets

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frickingnerd · 4 months

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finding out luka is viperion

pairing: luka couffaine / viperion x gn!reader

tags: best friends to lovers, secret identities, accidental reveal

luka was your best friend, but viperion was the one you ended up falling in love with

the snake hero came over to your house regularly during his patrol and a friendship started to bloom between the two of you

perhaps even a little more than just that

you had no idea who was behind the mask, nor that you knew that person very well

and luka didn't intend to let you know about his secret identity, since it would only put you in danger

besides, it gave him the possibility to openly flirt with you, without having to worry about ruining your friendship

and yet, you ended up finding out about his secret identity

or rather, your friend marinette revealed it to you by accident

one late evening, viperion was once again coming by your house and paid you a visit

you ended up talking on your balcony and when viperion needed a break to feed his kwami, you turned away as he unmasked himself

you never saw his face that night, but when you met your friend marinette in school the next day, she was asking you about luka's late night visit at your place last night

it took you a moment to understand what she was even saying, before you put the pieces together

that night marinette must've seen a detransformed viperion on your balcony

and that person was none other than your best friend luka!

you could feel your cheeks heat up as you realized what was going on and for the rest of the day, you couldn't stop thinking about luka and viperion

your best friend and the boy you loved were the same person!

after school, you rushed to luka's place unannounced

by then, you had already thought of every possible scenario and always came to the conclusion that there was just no other way. they were the same person!

when you finally found luka in his room, you didn't even give him a chance to react

you pressed your lips onto his, stumbling back a little onto his bed

when you finally pulled away, he just looked at you surprised. but he certainly wasn't disappointed!

"what was that for, y/n~?" he grinned amused

"shouldn't you know the answer to that already… viperion~?"