I’m not entirely sure what went down without subtitles, but I’m warming to this dynamic.
Féligami has potential if she can call him out and beat him up while being clear she doesn’t hate him. He needs someone to make him feel it when he’s in the wrong.
Maybe Félix can even match Kagami in the ways she wants. He’ll need to like her for more than shared species, but that should come with time.
I was just thinking that given that Lila/Cerise is going to be a/the main antagonist in the future, it's a good thing that the Miraculous team now seem to have Félix on their side (and in their friend group too I suppose) as he might be the only one who will be able to see through her future's alias lies.
I mean, sure Marinette saw through her the first time, but not only was her jealousy over Adrien a major factor, she also knew for a fact that Lila didn't know Ladybug.
Similarly, Adrien, being Chat Noir, could find it suspect that Ladybug would be friend with a civilan, let alone one who talked about it so freely. What's more, while he might be a bit naive at times, his fame has him used to liars up to a point.
The rest of their friends though all seem pretty willing to trust her. I guess the only odd-one-out is Luka who I believe never interacted with her.
If she goes with more subtle lies, the way I seem to remember she did with Kagami, not lies about extraordinary achievements or famous acquaintances, but lies or implicit suggestions about interpersonal relationships, I'm not sure any if the Miraculous holders will see through it.
Félix might be the only exception in my eyes. While he seems to be somewhat sheltered, like Adrien and Kagami, and thus not the best when it comes to social cues and conventions, he is the most wary, the one most used to fend for himself. He is naturally suspicious where Adrien would give people the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure if his Miraculous might give him an additional advantage (make him some kind of empath), but that's also something to keep in mind. His own acting skill might be, to our knowledge, limited to imitating his cousin, but his skills as a magician might help him catch Lila/Cerise red-handed at some point. And he has shown an ability to come up with ambitious plans and to achieve his goals through a variety of means that only Lila/Cerise can rival with so far.
The rest of them are just too "innocent".
Though Luka could also be a candidate, due to his "empath" music skills.
For both of them though, there is the question of how much interaction they might actually have with Lila/Cerise as they have been rather secondary characters so far. And the show seems to stubbornly only focus on Marinette/Ladybug, and Adrien/Chat Noir to a lesser extent. The start of a new villain arc would be a great time to change the dynamic, but I'm not very optimistic regarding the probability of this actually happening (this is a kids' show with a vested (economic) interest to keep focusing on the friendly heroine and her cool & gentlemanly sidekick, rather than the deeper, somewhat ambivalent secondary characters).
In the end I wouldn't be surprised if they have Marinette being the one to see through her because of Lila/Cerise's animosity towards her and Ladybug. Possibly with Adrien/Chat Noir being taken advantage of, with the true circumstances of his father's death being kept from him by Ladybug, and Lila/Cerise telling him the truth or something close to it, plus not having "been there to save his father" and him still being just "one of the (Miraculous) team" getting to him.
If they are going to stick to Marinette and Adrien instead of giving a bigger role to secondary characters, let's hope they at least make it somewhat interesting by having Marinette completely falling for the "new girl's" friendly attitude and Adrien being the suspicious one.
But yeah, fingers crossed for more Félix screen time (he's definitely the most interesting character so far, toeing the line between "good and bad") and him being key to "defeating" Lila/Cerise. And in general to more "mature" storylines than what we've had so far. And/or more realistic ones.
Just like usual, it had been all Félix’s fault.
Okay, maybe that hadn’t been entirely true. Truthfully, all he had done was be a nuisance, and that’s in his nature. He really can’t help it. But when he had stretched along Adrien’s sofa with a yawn, propped his feet up on the coffee table, and said, “I’m bored,” Adrien should have suspected that things were about to get messy.
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You know, Félix is smart. If I were him I too would have conveniently left out the tiny detail of having used one of Adrien's amoks - that was safe and sound away from Gabriel/Monarque and with Felix in another country - as payment on top of 15 other miraculous to make sure Gabriel won't definitely say "no" to get the Peacock miraculous from him.
Félix by now knows exactly how much Adrien means to both Marinette AND Kagami. Ship Feligami as you like, they will forgive the Miracle box thing because of Félix being a Sentihuman, but if they ever find out that Félix used Adrien's freedom and physical and mental autonomy as payment and put him back in his abusers wrath who is not only his father but Monarque and now extremely powerful and batshit insane, then may all gods of human history have mercy on Félix' soul.
Neither Marinette nor Kagami will forgive that because Félix has NO excuse for doing THAT to his own cousin he claims to love oh so much. With this backstory of his being revealed here and him using it to get sympathy points and his ultimate speed redemption all of it can absolutely break apart again because Félix actively CHOOSE to put Adrien back in his abusers wrath as his scapegoat so Félix can ensure saving himself and himself only. He can't have it both ways now.
He choose to get his redemption by portraying himself as the full-out victim because of him being used and abused as Sentihuman by his horrible father and that automatically means the moment it's revealed what Félix did to Adrien in "Strike Back" Félix has to stand fully accountable for what he did to his cousin while then abandoning him defenseless at the mercy of his insane abusive Father who is Monarque. Félix CHOOSE to do that despite his own backstory as abused Sentichild. If Adrien is still okay today than that's thanks to Nathalie and ironically Gabriel's own damn still always decreasing tolerance for Adrien's rebellious behavior.
And with that being said: I damn hope the girls find out about it in season 6. Marinette, Kagami, get his ENTIRE ass for literally selling Adrien out to his extreme dangerous, highly abusive, controlling and outright insane madman of a father with a fucking smug SMILE on his face!
it would be very amusing if season 6 does end up having amelie & felix stay in paris for many reasons, but one of my particular favorites is that since felix and adrien are literally identical, I imagine it might be hard for felix to go outside without getting ambushed by dozens of fangirls mistaking him for adrien only to be met with a feral yorkshire terrier of a british boy
say hi to me
i don't know, i just remembered being so much
brighter, i guess
cigarette ash like wildfire
burning holes in the nighttime
open scars feel like barbed wire
white lies flying high like a ceasefire
dropping flags on the shoreline
this is as far as i can feel right
'cause what you don't know can haunt you
and all we ever wanted was sunlight and honesty
highlights to want to repeat
let's get away from here and
live like the movies do
i won't mind when it's over
at least i didn't think for a while
don't drag it out
living like that doesn't mean a thing
so let's, make a great escape
and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway
it doesn't matter who we are
we'll keep running through the dark
and all we'll ever need is another day
we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away
and live like shooting stars
'cause happy endings hardest to fake
and i wanna let you know
i wanna let you go
but i just can't bring myself to speak
but this is how it goes
the end credits, they roll
this bridge was built over kerosene
but we can watch it
and all i ever wanted was sunlight and honesty
highlights to want to repeat
let's get away from here and
live like the movies do
i won't mind when it's over
at least i didn't think
so let's run, make a great escape
and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway
it doesn't matter who we are
we'll keep running through the dark
and all we'll ever need is another day
we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away
and live like shooting stars
you can wish away forever
but you'll never find a thing like today
1. Gabriel will not redeem, Adrien will find out the truth, and vows to never be like his dad. He also gets disowned by Adrien and is put in jail where he belongs.
2. Félix will also not redeem, and Adrien calls him out and disowns him for all the pain and misery he has cause to not only him but his friends as well. Oh and Kagami will tell him to fuck off because getting them together was stupid and pointless.
3. Chloé will be the temporary Guardian of the Australian Miracle Box because Don Undra will be going on "vacation" for a while (i.e. Africa and Brazil) and he needs someone to run the shop while he's gone. Chloé does know what he means by vacation, but she doesn't say anything.
4. Aurore, Mireille, and Wayhem will become members of the team with their Australian Miraculouses, but under Chloé's guidance. The other Australian Miraculouses will be used by the French Miraculous team, but only for emergencies or when necessary.
5. Nathalie adopts Adrien and tells him that she does feel remorse for what she has done with Gabriel and only wanted him to be happy for her sake. Adrien believes her, but also tells her he doesn't forgive her. Which she understands.
Adrien: "My mother may have want me to forgive you, but I can't right now, Nathalie. I'm truly sorry."
Nathalie: "It’s gonna take a while for me to atone for this sin. I understand. It’s no one's fault, but mine and your father's."
6. Félix does meet Lila (Yeah no, she's not Cerise or whatever bullshit they came up with, she will always be Lila) and seeing how he failed to get what he wanted, Lila with the Butterfly Miraculous teams with him as Argos and her as (depending on what her name will, but for now, Imma just use my fan name for her) Lady Falena.
Lila: "And together, we'll stop not just Ladybug and her allies, but also all the miraculous holders in the world. New York, Shanghai, you name it. All the Miraculouses and its other sources of power will be ours and ours forever!"
Félix: (smiles evilly) "I like that very much, partner."