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Strikeback AU, Adrien/Cat Noir bashing/salt, Felix/Flairmidable, Adrien OOC, Felix doesn't win here and neither does Adrien, warning: poisoning.
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Cat Noir watched as Ladybug and Flairmidable were talking together. He was perplexed about the new Dog hero, as she just lent the same Miraculous to a girl just a couple of days ago. He didn't think Miss Hound was a memorable addition to the team but he also couldn't remember her double crossing Ladybug in any way to justify getting her replaced from the team so suddenly. Especially by this random dude, who seemed to try his luck with his lady.
He then noticed how flustered Ladybug was getting around this new hero. "So it's him !" Cat Noir murmured under his breath. "I knew she'd recruit the guy she's in love with in her team eventually, I bet she was just waiting for this moment to finally get rid of him completely by having her crush fight alongside him. Too bad that I came prepared for this day!" He finally took out a croissant, which he Cataclysmed with his finger. However the croissant didn't disintegrate or even change composition at all. "Plagg told me that you can use Cataclysm to destroy the composition of an object but not the object itself so you can trick your opponents into thinking the object it's still intact. This method works on food as well and it makes what looks a completely delicious croissant become literally poison."
"Now it's time to get my payback" - murmured Cat Noir again. He went to Ladybug and Flairmidable and of course Ladybug tried to excitedly introduce him to the new hero, but he was having none of it. "I can't wait to wipe that smirk off your face".
He started eating a croissant in front of both of them and Ladybug scolded him about this not being the right time for it, but Cat Noir argued that he was too hungry to wait any longer. Flairmidable's stomach suddenly started growling much to his annoyance and Cat Noir's satisfaction "And it looks like I'm not the only one who is".
"Of course that loser had to start chewing that damn thing just as I'm quite literally starving over here". The moment Felix saw Adrien was due to leave Paris today he skipped all of his meals so he could come over to Paris to swap places with Adrien before he would leave. He had no other choice, this was his once in a lifetime opportunity to rob his uncle of the jewelery that was holding his life and he already got sidetracked by the fake Miraculous, but at least Ladybug unknowingly gave him the opportunity to outsmart his uncle once and for all. He was willing to deal with all of these annoying people and his body's needs in order to achieve his goal. He wasn't gonna let a hungry stomach get in the way of his mission !
"Hey, dude!", Cat Noir suddenly startled him from his thoughts. "It looks like I'm not the only who needs a bite. Lucky for you I've got a second croissant and I'm willing to give it to you."
Flairmidable: Sorry to tell you, but I don't need anything from you. If you can't see, we've got a villain to deal with, we don't have time to lose to eat sweet croissants ! Flairmidable's stomach started growling again after he said that "Crap!".
Cat Noir: Your stomach is clearly disagreeing with you about that, my cat ears don't lie. And look, we need all the energy possible to defeat this villain and Ladybug's gonna take her sweet time to gather everyone around for her final plan, so you have time enough time to devour this sweet croissant before we get into position.
Flairmidable: Ughh, fine, but I'm only doing this to shut you up.
Cat Noir: And your stomach as well I bet. Cat Noir winked.
Flairmidable started quickly eating the croissant. He didn't want to admit it, but it was delicious.
Cat Noir: I can tell you from what bakery you can find more such delicious croissants if you're a fan.
Flairmidable: Let's stop wasting time and concentrate on the villain at hand. "After all, he was after a much bigger prize later on."
Ladybug gathered and gave everyone from the team her multipled Lucky Charm sunnyglasses so they could go in and defeat Strikeback. As Flairmidable was about to take his pair, his stomach suddenly started growling intensely, making him drop his glasses and clutch his abdomen in pain. Everyone started being worried about Flairmidable instantly except for Cat Noir.
Ladybug: Are you alright Flairmidable ? What happened to you ?
Cat Noir: I think he's still hungry for some more of my delicious croissants. Said Cat Noir smirking.
Flairmidable's face turned green after hearing Cat Noir say that.
Flairmidable: Croissants ... (another intense stomach growling) let me go, LET ME GO !
He suddenly run over to the edge of the rooftop so he could start puking on the streets. And his puking was uncontrollable.
Ladybug: Oh My God Adrien ! Please detransform urgently, I think your Miraculous may have gotten broken and it's affecting your body !
Cat Noir murmured "Adrien ?!? I mean me ? How could that be possible ? Unless ... Oh no !"
Flairmidable detransformed and Cat Noir saw Felix in his earlier disguise of him. He stopped puking, but his face was still green and his stomach was still growling horribly while he was clutching it.
Felix: Help ... me ...
Cat Noir: Felix ?!? How are you here ?!? Why ?!
Ladybug: Wait, Felix ?!? Ladybug suddenly looked at the ill looking "Adrien".
Felix: You ... How could you ... ugh ... you couldn't ... couldn't have known it was me unless you ... you're Adrien !
Everyone suddenly gasped and Ladybug looked at Cat Noir with horror.
Ladybug: Cat Noir, is it true what he's saying ? You're really -
Cat Noir: Look M'Lady, I can explain !
Felix: You did it purposefully, suddenly shouted a green paled Felix. That croissant, you did this to me ! I will destroy you !
Felix got up and tried to charge up towards Cat Noir, but he was stopped in his tracks by more horrible growls coming from his infected stomach.
Felix: Oh no, not that again - suddenly he was back throwing up and this time he was doing it on the rooftop in front of everyone.
Ladybug: Someone needs to take him to receive medical help RIGHT NOW ! Carapace, take him to the nearest hospital that isn't in the radius of the sentimonsters.
Carapace took the almost unconcious Felix and started jumping towards the nearest undestroyed hospital "Please don't throw up on me dude".
Cat Noir: M'Lady look - but Ladybug stopped him in his tracks while she was examining by the Dog Miraculous.
Ladybug: You know Cat Noir, or should I say Adrien, Master Fu warned me that a Miraculous holder can only get sick while trasnformed if their Miraculous is damaged or their body got altered by another Miraculous' power. And the Dog Miraculous looks to be completely intact. So was what Flairmidable said true, did you really do something to him ?
Cat Noir: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to -
Ladybug: What did you ?!?
Cat Noir: I cataclysmed the composition of a croissant and then gave it him.
Ladybug: Why the hell you did that ? You could've killed him !
Cat Noir: I didn't want to kill him, just to make him a bit sick and make him unable to complete this mission, I didn't thought he'd get sick that badly !
Ladybug: But why ? Why would you poison your own cousin ?
Cat Noir: I didn't know he was MY cousin, I would've have done it if I knew. And truth be told, I didn't want to lose you !
Ladybug: What ?
Cat Noir: I thought this was the guy you were in love with with the way you were acting around him and I honestly couldn't stand the thought of you two working together, you replacing me with him, I needed to do something, I couldn't lose you, you know I'm still in love with you.
Ladybug looked at him in horror for a couple of moments afterwards, but finally resigned.
Ladybug: I should've done this earlier. She subtly gave a signal to someone behind her back.
Cat Noir: Do wh- Suddenly Cat Noir was paralyzed from behind his back by Vesperia. Ladybug took the Miraculous from him unceremounisly and he detransformed back to Adrien.
Ladybug: I'm sorry Adrien, but you've just proven yourself unworthy of the Miraculous.
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Today's episode was Representation, the one with the weird art student play put on by Kagami and Felix. On a rewatch, I think I may have realized why the writers did that. It's a crazy theory, but I can't stop thinking about it.
SO's thoughts first: he was extremely disappointed that Felix used a sentimonster when he could have just talked to Marinette. Wasn't Felix's whole thing freeing sentimonsters? Why does he keep using them for the lamest reasons?
My thoughts: I once again noticed that Felix never says that Adrien is a sentimonster. He just says that Emilie got pregnant - with peacock feathers in the background as a hint - and that Emilie asked Gabriel to help Amelie have a baby, too. Then the peacock gets explicitly brought up, which is odd. Why don't the writers just commit to sentiAdrien and be done with it? I was also confused why they made such a big deal of the family rings when they don't seem to have any special powers in and of themselves.
As I once again considered these issues, I had a thought: does Marinette actually know that Adrien is a sentimonster?
I know that sounds crazy, but think about what she actually knows vs what we know: until Felix explicitly mentions the peacock, Marinette would have no reason to think that sentimonsters were involved, meaning that she could easily have missed the quick hint. Especially since most of Adrien's commands were things that were only shown to the audience. She was only there for one of them, "Adrien go to your room," and she had no reason to think that was odd behavior.
Even if she did know that he was a senti, how would she know what his amok was? Felix never tells her. He only says that the rings were precious family heirlooms + the Agreste's wedding rings. And Marinette knew nothing about Emilie's illness. She was never told that it was the same illness that Nathalie has. Marinette didn't even know that Emilie was in the basement until that final fight.
All of these things were obvious to the audience, so we just assumed that she knew, but maybe she doesn't? Because watching that play, one could reasonably assume that Adrien was a real child and Felix was a look-a-like senti made because Amelie wanted a baby, too. This is why I thought up the theory, actually, because I had the thought that they'd written it that way in case they wanted to backtrack, which made no sense. But writing it that way to confuse Marinette? That would actually be somewhat logical.
I could be totally wrong, but maybe we're all blaming her for something she doesn't actually know. At the very least, the setup for her not knowing is there. Has it actually been confirmed that she knows?
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something I love to see is like. How fandoms treat villains differently and I think you can really see it in miraculous ladybug and the villains of Lila vs Hawkmoth
(cw HP) like it’s analogous to Harry Potter and how the fandom treats the villains of Umbridge and Voldemort. I’ve seen others say that Voldemort is such a far away and cartoony evil that it’s hard to relate to and feel threatened by… but Umbridge? She is every single teacher that hurt us, the uncaring and actively malicious authority figure in our school or work life, and the bigotry in the education system and legal system given a face. So she represents a much more close evil than the end of book villain, which is why fandom fixates on her and projects everything on here
And that’s what I think is happening with Lila in salt fics. Why she’s so demonized in comparison to Hawkmoth in those fics. (This is not to relate it to the canon because the canon isn’t supposed to be projection fuel) but really, most of us aren’t haunted by a distant evil man in a tower, we’re just not going to relate to that part. But most people have had that middle school bully who seemed to have it out for us. We’ve had friends with lying sides who made rumors about us or hurt us with fake sweet words, and Lila is just a stand in for everyone that did those things. We can project all of our anger and hurt on her, making her a demon because that’s how we felt about our bullies. And genuinely, no one really got justice or closure. Zero tolerance policy hurt the bullied kids just as much as the bullies, if not more in how it never really put a stop to bullying.
Maybe that’s why Lila can be so over the top in fics, her comeuppance so grand, and Marinette so willing and able to cut ties with toxic friendships. It’s wish fulfillment. We wish our bullies got what was coming to them, we wish we were able to walk away from things that we once loved but now was hurting us.
Idk, I just love it.
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You know some interesting I noticed? A popular defense for Marinette and why she should get away with stuff she does even when she breaks the law is the defense that she “goes though enough”. When her mistakes and flaws are pointed out, a go-to defense os that “oh, but she already suffers so much, she’s punished for stuff that isn’t her fault, life is already so unfair to her, let’s cut her some slack, it’s only fair.”
Well, guess what Adrien haters?
That’s exactly Adrien’s situation in the show.
Sure he doesn’t get the chance to suffer consequences for most of his mistakes and learn from them and grow as a person like Marinette does. But if an overbalance of suffering for thongs that are not one’s fault is a qualification for getting a free pass on negative consequences for your mistakes, I think Adrien meets those qualifications. After all, it’s certainly not his fault that his father abuses him, or that his mother is gone, or that he has very limited freedom. If unfair cosmic occourances count as free passes on facing fallout for your action, I think Adrien has earned it.
Which would certainly be ironic, considering that everyone is whining that Adrien doesn’t get consequences for his action and dismissing all the emotional and psychological abuse he suffers at home as a flimsy excuse. The hard fact is, everything they want happening to Marinette, to be able to use her suffering as credit to get out of consequences, is what is happening to Adrien right now.
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