If a character or idea would’ve been helpful to Marinette or made her life easier, it’ll be used to benefit Adrien in some way. (Or if it’s something that negatively affected Marinette, it’ll positively affect Adrien.)

- Kaalki would’ve enabled Marinette to escape off the train and back to Paris in “Hack-San” and thus no replacement Ladybug would be necessary and thus there would be no Adrichat shilling scene where she promises to never abandon him. (Also could’ve avoided Scarabella being nearly cataclysmed or Marinette could’ve showed up with the Horse to catch him in the act of doing so).

Meanwhile Kaalki and the use of voyage is immediately remembered in “Strike Back” to retrieve and recruit “Adrien” for the fight, and Maribug was going to use it to bring him back to Paris before Strike Back showed up anyways.

- Completely changing the name and look for a hero to pretend they’re a different person entirely/that they got replaced would’ve been SO helpful for literally ANY of the compromised temp heroes to avoid being targeted (Optygami), especially Alya (especially since she still chose to go by Rena and got only a recolor for a design change) and maybe with their safety insured Marinette would’ve potentially let them keep their miraculous instead (which would lessen the blow of the finale).

The idea however IS used for Adrien in “Kuro Neko”, but instead of doing so to deceive Shadow Moth, he’s deceiving Ladybug to keep the miraculous even after he impulsively quit.

- Risk’s powers affecting Marinette leads to her ‘making a mistake’ (that she would’ve had to be psychic to avoid) which ends up with Gabriel getting ALL the other miraculous.

Risk’s powers affecting Adrien got him to vent to Marinette about his feelings and got him to go along with the plan to switch places with Felix, keeping him in Paris completely (the trip gets cancelled anyways after Strike Back is defeated, and since Chat Noir was not neededin the fight, Adrien would’ve gotten to stay in Paris regardless even if he sat out the fight on the train).

- Su-Han and Alya’s absence in “Kuro Neko” prevent Marinette from having someone that could find a replacement for the cat instead, or at the very least call out Plagg’s blatant lies (Su-Han in particular would have), instead of having her stress out over it and be manipulated.

On the flip side, their absence means there’s nobody to find a replacement or call out Plagg’s lies, meaning there’s no one to stop Plagg’s plan to give the ring back to Adrien (since Tikki just goes along with it), meaning Adrien gets the ring back, no issue.

- Marinette is lamenting her breakup with Luka in “Gang of Secrets”, is at an emotional rock bottom, her upset is directly tied to her duties as Ladybug/Guardian and her identity. She can’t ask anyone for help without compromising herself, she directly asks for help and receives nothing from Tikki/the Kwami. Her friends then barge into her room and mess with her things, giving her no room to breathe or process.

Adrien is at an emotional low in “Glaciator 2” after a firm rejection from Ladybug, but his problems are about his heartbreak, it isn’t a problem completely hinged on his identity and it’s something that could be talked about without compromising himself/his identity as Chat. Kagami offers him help directly without him even asking for it, and unlike Marinette who’s despair was made worse by her friends trying to pry and force her to talk with little regard to her feelings, Adrien is instantly comforted by Marinette attempting to give him a gift and Gabriel calling off the akuma and bringing him home with an offer to talk about it, no invasive attempts to get him to talk are made and his feelings aren’t disregarded.

- Luka finding out Marinette’s identity in Truth would’ve not only given her a more reliable confidant than Alya, but Lukanette’s relationship would’ve stayed intact and thereby avoided a lot of the things that went wrong for Marinette throughout the season. (Truth could’ve been avoided altogether, GOS wouldn’t have happened, Sentibubbler wouldn’t have happened, etc). See this post for a full breakdown: here.

Luka finding out Adrien’s identity (along with Marinette’s) makes it so not only can Luka be used to support the square (as well as a writing excuse to keep him away since his presence would break the paper thin plots the writers present us with), but him finding out the way he did and not telling Marinette about it ONLY serves to protect Adrien (if Luka was made to divulge how he found out their identities, Chat would be painted in a bad light to Maribug, Luka keeping quiet effectively shields Adrien from consequences).

- Speaking of Luka, him specifically being in the finale would’ve probably saved the miraculous from getting taken, as well as minimizing any collateral damage from Strike Back. There’s little-to-no chance SB could absorb his Second Chance ability (especially since doing so seems to require direct contact going by the other times it absorbed any abilities) so he could reverse damage as well as be able to warn the other heroes about Strike Back. Then he would’ve immediately caught onto the fact that Flairmidable was an imposter, with how Maribug was fawning over him Luka would likely put two and two together and realize she thinks it’s Adrien when he knows it can’t be. He’d have to come clean to her about his knowledge of their identities, but that would enable them to put a stop to Felix before he pulled what he did with the Dog miraculous. Meaning Gabriel doesn’t get all the miraculous.

Luka not being present in the finale makes the fight more dire, more collateral damage happens, and with no one to call out Felix, Felix runs off, hands Gabriel all the miraculous, and gives Adrien exactly what he wants: Ladybug having him and only him to rely on, with no backup. No more having to “feel replaced” and no more sharing her with the others. He is made her “most important partner” by being made her ONLY OPTION.

This is alljustfrom season 4, and even then I’m sure there’s ones I’ve forgotten.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

THE BEST 3 FEMALE MIRACULOUS HOLDERS

Tigresse pourpre/Juleka (tiger )

vesperia/zoé (bee )

Rena rouge/Alya (fox )

masterlist | maribat

(so apparently there’s something wrong with my asks, so if there are any requests, just ping me!)

felinette

oneshots:

rewinder | +0.8k | adrien salt, class salt

summary: an akuma brings people from the future to the past.

jasonette

oneshots:

broken promises | +1k | adrien salt, alya salt

summary: adrien sees his lady kissing another in the school hall.

dead (or not) | +1.9k | fluff, angst

summary: marinette thought jason was dead.

that’s that. | +0.6k | tooth-rotting fluff; [part 2 to ‘dead (or not)’]

summary: “on a scale of one to ten, how bad do you want to kill me?”

wanted | +1.4k | adrien salt mainly

summary: jasonette with wanted by hunter hayes.

series:

jasonette july 2021 | +11.9k | fluff, angst, humour

the title says it all

marijon:

series:

marijon week 2021 | +4.4k | fluff, angst, humour, adrien salt, alya salt, lila salt

summary: the title says everything.

daminette

oneshots:

serendipity | +3.9k | lila salt, adrien salt, alya salt

summary: the last time damian al-ghul saw marinette was when they were twelve. he didn’t think he would see her again. so, it’s a huge surprise when he stumbles upon her in WE while exposing the liar of the class from France.

the confrontation | +0.8k | lila salt, mild class salt [part 2 to ‘serendipity’]

summary: what a lovelytime to run into her enemy that probably wants her deadby now.

soulmate au | +1.8k | lila salt, adrien salt, alya salt

summary: tradition says that your soulmate will have another tattoo, something that relates to you. when they meet you, it is said that the tattoos start glowing a bright gold.

jealous damian | +0.7k | alya salt, adrien salt

summary: so can you make yandere damian or one were he is very possessive with marinette and his anger and jealousy hits 1000%?

kidnapped | +0.4k | yandere damian [tw]

summary: damian’s habibti is kidnapped.

hogwarts au | +0.6k | a hint of salt, humour

summary: polyjuice potions

i think i could fall in love with you… | +1.1k | lila salt, humour

summary: he was a handsome man, she would give him that, but according to her father - the one of the most important lords of the kingdom - he was extremely stand-offish and cold. she didn’t know if she would get along with him.

just two kids in love | +0.9k | fluff

summary: song-fic of ‘kid in love’ by shawn mendes.

i’m so sorry! | +0.5k | fluff | genderbend

summary: marin accidentally drops coffee on his new classmate, dahlia.

jealousy jealousy | +0.3k | fluff, jealous damian

summary: damian gets jealous.

overprotective | +1k | fluff, overprotectiveness

summary: clark, jason and tim were more than a littleoverprotective over marinette. especially when she started dating damian.

arranged marriage au | +1.1k | talia being a lil female dog :)

summary: talia makes a deal with the order of the guardians - in exchange for their not-annhilation, their great guardian will be betrothed to damian.

the great guardian | +2k | angst, adrien salt, hints of fluff

summary: the assassin bows his head. “yes. the great guardian of the miraculous is currently in new york city.”

and we meet again | +0.8k | humour, romance [part 2 to ‘the great guardian’]

summary: “i’m looking for an alien. his name is thanos. or something like that.”

colours of love | +3.5k | salt, fluff, angst

summary: damian glared at her fiercely and she shrunk back. “i can assure you, lila rossi is most definitely not my soulmate. perhaps you should check everything she has said on google. it does exist you know.”

hero | +1.8k | fluff, angst

summary: hero by faouzia.

series:

the story of love | +12.3k | lila salt, adrien salt, alya salt, class salt, adrien redemption, class redemption | complete

summary: the story of damian and marinette’s relationship.

timinette:

oneshots:

an…interesting reunion | +1.5k | little angst, fluff, salt

summary: tim and marinette attend marinette’s class reunion.

the recording | +1.5k | little angst, fluff, salt; [part 2 to ‘an…interesting reunion’]

summary: the recording (can be read as a stand-alone)

the gala | +1.6k | lila salt, adrien salt, alya salt, class salt [platonic]

summary: timothy drake-wayne was not happy. he had to lead the (according to dick at least, and he was inclined to believe him because he had never seen dick so unhappy) class of dimwits from france because it was his turn. He had put it off all week and now he had to do it as the CEO of WE.

brucinette:

oneshots:

injuries | 1.1k | angst, fluff

summary: a sharp blade was sticking out of bruce’s side and hot, sticky blood was gushing out of it.

lukanette:

series:

luka couffaine wayne | +7.9k | fluff, angst, humour | incomplete

summary: “you really should have sat down,” sighed anarka. “lad, your father is bruce wayne.”

no pairing

oneshots:

the exposé | +5.3k | lila salt, adrien salt, alya salt, class salt

summary: lila was having the time of her life at WE. the class was fawning over her, ready to do her bidding whenever she wanted, however she wanted. she could spout out a ridiculous lie and they’d believe it; they were completely and irreversibly under her spell. but then, of course, things hadto go wrong.

pathetic little liars that are squished like ants | lila salt, humour [part 2 to ‘the exposé’]

summary: damian was seething.

hospitals | +0.7k | fluff, crack, humour

summary: marinette wakes up in a hospital, paralyzed.

what a liar! | +1k | lila salt, class sugar, fix-it fic

summary: lila rossi mentally prepared her plethora of lies as she entered her new class. the only thing was, she wasn’t aware they possessed brain cells.

other pairings

oneshots:

absolutely & irrevocably | luka and jason | +1.1k | fluff

summary: luka gets over his feelings for marinette, only to fall head over heels again, this time, with his best friend, jason todd.

adopted | maridamijon | +3.1k | fluff, angst

summary: “i mean,” marinette says frustratedly, ready to tear her hair out - you will never believe the number of rants she has told chloe and kagami and the nights she has spent obsessing over it, “i’m in love with both of you!”

colours of love | daminette

Word Count: +3.5k

summary: damian glared at her fiercely and she shrunk back. “i can assure you, lila rossi is most definitely not my soulmate. perhaps you should check everything she has said on google. it does exist you know.”

ao3|wattpad | masterlist | prompts

“Marinette!”

Said girl stirred a little, mumbling, “5 more minutes, maman.”

“Marinette!”

Yet she did not respond, rolling over to cover her ears with the pillow next to her.

“Marinette Dupain-Cheng, if you do notwake up right now you are going to miss your flight to New York!”

Sabine Cheng stifled a laugh at her daughter’s high-pitched shriek.

**

Marinette grumbled as she picked herself up from the ground.

Amazing start to the day, rolling off your bed and falling down.

“Cheer up, Marinette!” Tikki said, unfailingly happy in the morning (as always). “You’re going to go on your America tour today!”

Her chosen brushed her teeth faster, while simultaneously trying to make sure she had everything ready. “Tikki, am I missing anything?” she asked frantically.

While looking at the list Marinette made, Tikki smiled fondly at her chosen, hoping that the Rossi girl and Marinette’s ex-friends didn’t ruin the trip Marinette had worked so hard to organize.

Since Bustier couldn’t be bothered to, it fell onto Marinette to plan the senior trip. It was supposed to be educational and fun, in a way, since they would be required to write an essay about their trip. It counted for more than 50% of their grade.

With help from her friends (Alix, Kim, Max and Chloe), in no time, Marinette had developed an outline of what places they could visit.

Theoriginalplan (before it was presented to the class) was to go to New York, Metropolis, LA and then finally California.

But nooo, Lila Rossi just hadto see her so-called soulmate, Damian Wayne (“Marinette, how could you?” “How could I what?” “How could you just exclude Gotham because I want to see my soulmate?”), billionaire Bruce Wayne’s son.

Despite Marinette’s warnings, Mdm. Bustier forced her to change the itenary so that Lila could see her ‘soulmate’ (“Marinette, please change the locations.” “But Mdm. Bustier, Gotham is one of the most crime-ridden-” “I will not stand for your petty grievances, Marinette. Change it at once.”) and so the list had become:

California, New York, Metropolis and thenGotham.

Nevertheless, Marinette beamed as she waved to her parents, feeling excited.

“You can stop waving now,” Chloe remarked dryly, filing her nails. “They’re out of sight.”

**

You might be wondering, what happened to elicit such a changebetween their relationship.

Lila.

That was one thing Marinette had to thank her for. She showed Marinette who her realfriends were, a.k.a Chloe, Alix, Kim and Max.

Chloe didn’t believe Lila from the start (“Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. Does she expect meto believe that Jagged Stone, the one who lives in my hotel every monthowns a cat? Everyone knows he’s allergic to them!”) but Max was disillusioned when some of the things Lila said didn’t line up – “I got tinnitus from saving Jagged Stone’s cat from an airplane!” “You would’ve become deaf. Not suffer from tinnitus.” “Don’t be silly, Max!” – case in point.

Kim and Alix, on the other hand, came to know when Lila mixed her names up (“I know Michael Phelps – he’s such an amazing skater, Alix. I could give you some tips from him!” “Michael Phelps? Isn’t he a swimmer?”) and (Marinette snorted when she heard that) said Michael Phelps was a skater.

That certainly didn’t earn her any points with thosetwo.

In the end, Marinette could say she would take her life right nowthan the one before because until Lila came, she never really noticed how whinythe class was.

She shuddered when she remembered the never-ending requests they had – and they expected herto do it for free.

Thank god she got away from them.

**

In response to Chloe’s statement from earlier, Marinette mock-glared at her. “I know,Chloe. I was about to stop.”

“Sure, Mari,” sniffed her best friend.

Marinette protested feebly. “Really!”

“Uh-huh,” Chloe continued to file her nails, completely uninterested.

Before Marinette could retort, the door burst open and two balls of chaos rolled into the car with one poor Max.

“Ha! I won, Kim, you owe me 30 Euros!” Alix crowed triumphantly.

Kim, as expected, disagreed. “No way, pipsqueak! Iwon.”

“I did.”

“No, I did.”

“I did.”

“Can you both pleasesit properly?” Chloe pushed them with a surprising amount of strength. “You’re wrinklingthe car leather.”

In response, the two of them stuck their tongues out.

Marinette snickered at the expression on Chloe’s face – exasperation, pureexasperation.

Maxfinallyup righting himself, stood up unsteadily as he walked to the only empty seat next to Marinette.

“Oh no, you don’t,” Kim said, pulling Max onto his lap.

Max squeaked, his cheeks turning a fiery shade of red.

Alix cackled, “Poor Max. Kim, you reallyshouldn’t do that. You’re going to give the poor boy a heart attack.”

Marinette sighed happily for her friends. She was honestly elated that Kim and Max had found their soulmate in each other. They were just adorable!

She fairly beamed when Marinette saw the love-sick smile on Chloe’s face. It meant she was talking to Kagami.

Alix hadn’t found hers yet and according to the girl herself, she wasn’t really bothered by it either because she was ace.

Marinette just wished she could find hersoulmate.

Soulmate bonds – in their world – came in different types. For example, Chloe and Kagami’s bond was the word bond. Each had a word or a phrase written circling their wrists (“Excuse me, you dropped your phone.” “Thank you”) and whoever said those words was their soulmate.

Kim and Max had the string-bond – one of the strongest bonds in existence. The bond only surfaced when it decided whether the two people were readyto become lovers.

Marinette had the aura bond – one of the most difficultbonds to find your soulmate with. Basically, her aura and her soulmate’s aura – when they meet – would touch each other and glow.

It was extremely rare to witnesssuch a bonding and even rarerfor someone to find their soulmate with it.

She often wondered whether she would ever findher soulmate. At first, she thought her soulmate was Chat Noir, after all, wasn’t he her other half?

But their auras did not connect when they met.

“Marinette?” She snapped out of her thoughts when Chloe shook her arm. “Come on! We’re at the airport!”

**

After checking in – and successfully avoiding Lila’s attempts at sabotage (“Oh my gosh, Marinette! Your ticket is ripped to shreds, you can’t come!” “Well, it’s a good thing I made two copies then, isn’t it? Just in case I lost mine.”) – Marinette sighed and resigned herself to listening to Lila’s bullshit for the next few hours.

Unfortunately, she and Alix had gotten the seats rightbehind her and Alya.

“-and then Prince Ali took me out on a date!” Lila was babbling.

Alya gasped theatrically, right on cue. “Oh my gosh, girl! How did it go?”

“Well-”

Marinette groaned and resisted the urge to throw herself out of the window. “Kill me now,” she said tiredly, “Please.”

Alix didn’t look like she was faring any better and glared at the idiots in front of them. “Why did we have to get stuck with them?”

“I don’t know,” Marinette banged her head on the table in front of her. “But what I doknow is that the next few hours are going to be torture.”

**

By the time the plane landed, Alix was eyeing the knife in her hand murderously, clearly plotting Lila and Alya’s murder, and Marinette had scribbled uselessly on 2 clean pages of paper because Lila’s voice was interrupting her inspiration.

“FINALLY!” Alix screamed, running around like a maniac. “FINALLY, WE GET TO LEAVE THOSE-” Yelling some extreme profanities, she continued, “BEHIND!”

Even though the attendants were eyeing the two of them like they were crazy, Marinette didn’t care because finally.

How did anyone believe Lila anyway?

**

The next day, Marinette argued with Chloe the better color for her new sketchbook at one of the gift shops near the Statue of Liberty. “Red it better because it’s so bright but not toobright. That way, if I don’t know where it is, I can just look. For. RED!”

Snatching the yellow one off the shelves, Chloe held it in front of Marinette’s eyes. “NO! Yellow! Red would just mergeinto your room because it’s pink, while yellow would be more obvious!”

“But yellow is too brightfor the night!”

Offended, Chloe gasped. “How dare you-”

Seeing as they were dragging the attention of other customers, Alix snatched both the books from their hands and put it on the counter. “Both of them, please.”

As they walked out of the stationary shop (Chloe and Marinette still arguing) the three of them spotted Lila, Alya, Mylene and Rose walking out of a boutique loaded with bags.

“I can’t believe they’re going shoppingwhen we’re supposed to be taking notes for the essay.” Alix muttered glaring at them with disgust.

Chloe smirked icily. “It doesn’t matter because when they fail the essay, it’ll be theirfault.”

Marinette and Chloe agreed to disagree in favor of scorning Lila and her cronies.

**

California was the funpart of the trip. With its beaches and just right weather, Marinette and crew set up their site somewhere on the beach.

They spent most of their days running around, playing games and in Marinette’s case being completely oblivious to the boys flirting with her.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t help wonder whyHawkmoth wasn’t striking. It had been 3 days now and yet there was no akuma. Perhaps he was giving hera break since Chat Noir didn’t show up to half the fights anyway.

It certainly wasn’t because Gabriel Agreste was frantically planning for his spring line of which the developments got delayed due to his…terrorizing activities.

Marinette made the most of the reprieve.

**

“Marinette Dupain-Cheng,” Chloe screeched. “I cannot believe you!”

They were in Metropolis now and Marinette was currently stuck inside a sideways bus.

How, you ask?

She saved a young girl from being the hostage of the villain. Unfortunately, because she wasn’t Ladybug then her reflexes weren’t as fast and now Marinette was stuck inside the bus being the villain’s hostage.

Just a regular day for her.

Along with Chloe, Alix was yelling, “Mari, what is wrong with you?”

“Marinette, is her name?” asked the terribly-dressed villain (seriously, was he color blind or something?), “Alrighty then! Superman!” he bellowed suddenly.

Superman appeared almost immediately and distracted the villain.

While,Superboypulled Marinette out and set her beside her friends where she was promptly pulled into a bone-crushing hug.

“Guys,” she gasped, exaggerating only slightly(read:a lot), “Can’t….breathe…need…to…breathe!”

Finally, they let her go and just before Superboy was about to take off, Marinette called out, “Thank you!”

In reponse, he merely tipped an imaginary hat.

**

Marinette muttered angrily while Kim and Alix rough-housed with each other blow some steam.

How could they? She fumed. How f*cking could they?

Their ‘class’ had left them behind in Gotham Park. And Mdm. Bustier (someteacher) hadn’t even bothered to do attendance to check if everyone was there.

Marinette would even go as far as to bet that Lilawas the one to engineer this.

“Look OUT!”

Yelping, Marinette tumbled down laughing when a Great Dane came jumping on her, licking her face.

Giggling, she ran her hands through his fur making no move to get up.

“Marinette!” Chloe gasped, running to her, “Are you okay?”

Still playing with the unnamed dog, Marinette giggled out a “Yes,”.

“Ms, I am sosorry,” a masculine voice gasped, evidently from running. “Titus, no. Bad-”

Marinette sat up slowly. “It’s fine, your dog – Titus, is it? – is really very cute.”

“Cute?” Surprise laced his tone. “Most people describe Titus as scary. I haven’t seen him take to someone so fast.”

Standing up with Chloe’s help, Marinette brushed her outfit and made eye contact with the man.

Her breath suddenly whooshedout of her chest.

And slowly, slowly but steadily, her pinkish red aura reached out and merged with his dark emerald one.

As Marinette watched in wonder, the two of them slowly formed a beautiful, breath-taking gold turning brighter and brighterand then it was gone.

The only sign it had been there was a little heart made out of a puff smoke – one side red, the other green.

“Oh my god, Mari,” Chloe breathed. “I think that’s your soulmate!”

You think?

◇─◇──◇─◇

When Damian went to walk Titus that afternoon, he expected it to go normally.

He certainly didn’t expect Titus to run off and then meet his soulmate all in one go.

Nevertheless, he swallowed thickly and introduced himself, “My name is Damian Wayne.”

His soulmate’s friends looked at him in shock but his soulmate didn’t have any such reaction. If she was surprised, she was doing a damn good job of hiding it. “Marinette Dupain-Cheng.”

“Marinette,” her glasses friend said, “Don’t you know who that is?”

She turned to him curiously. “He’s my soulmate, Max.”

The girl – familiar from somewhere, he thinks – slaps her forehead and pulls Marinette to her side while whispering something in her ear.

“Oh!” Marinette’s cheeks suddenly colored and she said, “I didn’t know you were theDamian Wayne, I just-”

Suddenly feeling nervous, Damian interrupted her. “It’s fine,” he said slightly harshly. “It was actually kind of refreshing to meet someone who didn’t know who I was.”

She started blushing all over again and he distantly thinks, it’s cute.

“What are you doing here, anyway?” Damian moved forward to try and dispel the awkward silence that had descended upon them. “I’ve never seen you here.”

“Well,” Marinette stutters, “We were actually on a school trip, but our teacher acci-”

“Since Mari’s too nice to tell you it objectively,” Her blonde friend interrupts, “I will. We were left behind by our teacher. Chloe Bourgeois.”

Chloe holds out her hand, eyes threatening and Damian takes it, equally cold.

Somehow sensing the tension between them, Marinette continues, “And we were supposed to go to WE but because they left us behind-”

“-we’re stuck here,” finished a pink-haired girl. “Alix Kubdel.”

Nodding towards her (she certainly seemed better than Chloe), Damian sends a small smile to his soulmate (his heart beat faster at the thought that he found his soulmate). “I can take you to WE if you want. But how did your teacher just forgetyou existed?”

Exchanging looks with her tall friend, Marinette gestures towards him and says, “Kim will tell you.”

**

By the time they have reached WE, Damian is fumingresisting the urge to go and murder this Lila Rossi and Adrien Agreste and the rest of their idiot classmates.

Whotells someone letting a pathological liar, lie and lie is taking the ‘high road’?

What kind of friends ditch someone who did so muchfor them just like that?

And the liar. Damian seethed at the thought of her. How dare she, how dare she targethissoulmate.

“Woah, Damian, man,” said Kim – the tall one, “You might want to calm down. You’re scaring the people.”

Breathe Damian. Breathe.

Inhaling with great difficulty, Damian said, “I am going to murderyour class and teacher. And I won’t even make it look like an accident.”

Chloe finally looked at him with something other than wariness as she murderously said, “I’ll help you.”

Marinette panicked looking at their serious expressions. “No! You guys can’t do that!”

“Watch me,” Damian snarled.

◇─◇──◇─◇

Richard Grayson considered himself to be a good person.

So,whothought he deserved this?

This being a class (and teacher) without braincells because they believe every damn word out of a patheticliar’s mouth. Seriously, hadn’t they heard of something called Google?

Oh, and as if thatwasn’t enough, the teacher had forgotten about 5 students and stated, “They are troublemakers anyway, we can start without them,”

Was she insane?

She was a goddamnteacher! Didn’t she know it was her jobto make sure they straightened out?

Gritting his teeth, he said with a patience did notfeel, “Mdm. Bustier, we cannotstart the tour without your missing students. You will have to findthem and get them here.”

So, here he was.

Waiting for the idiot of the teacher to try and get her students to WE.

Needless to say, he was elatedwhen the WE doors slammed open and Damian came striding in (even though he looked like he was about to murder someone).

“Lil’ D!” Dick yelled, hoping Damian saw the pleading in his eyes, “Come meet the class we’re touring today!”

Growling, Damian walked right passed him and glared icily at the class. “Which one of you is the liar?” he hissed, glaring at everyone.

When no one responded, Dick volunteered himself, “That one.”

Damian shot him a slightly thankful look and advanced to her. “You,” he spat. “Lie about my soulmate one more time and I’ll end you.”

Turning her nose up at him, she sniffled theatrically. “How dare you say that to me? My soulmate is Damian Wayne and he’ll have the Wayne lawyers on you in seconds.”

By now, everyone (employees included) had frozen, watching the drama eagerly. But when Lie-la said that.

Most people burst out laughing immediately, and Dick would have too, had she not said Damianwas her soulmate. “What do you mean, Mdm. Rossi, that Damian is your soulmate?”

Smirking triumphantly, her olive-green eyes sparkled maliciously as she said, “Damian Wayne is my soulmate.”

Woah.Shereallyhadn’t done her research. “Mdm. Rossi,” Dick said coldly. “Damian is not your soulmate.”

“And how would you know that?” An ombre-haired, glasses-wearing girl glared at him.

“Because,” he said coolly, “I am his brother andyou do realize that Damianwas the one to tell you to stay away from his soulmate?”

Lila paled and Dick felt satisfaction course through him.

But then he registered what Damian said. He had found his soulmate.

“Wait, Damian,” Dick asked turning to him, “Just whois your soulmate?”

“I am,” a female voice said. A short blue-haired girl with pale skin walked next to Damian and held out her hand. “Marinette Dupain-Cheng,”

Dick smiled at the girl and shook it firmly. “Dick Grayson.”

“But that’s not possible,” cried out the glasses-wearing girl, Alya. “Lilais Damian’s soulmate!”

Damian glared at her fiercely and she shrunk back. “I can assure you, Lila Rossi is most definitely notmy soulmate. Perhaps you should check everything she has said on Google. It doesexist you know.”

Alya quickly pulled out her phone and was probably searching up everything Lila told her.

The rest of her class watched her in tense silence and then backed away slowly as they saw the unbridled fury grow in her eyes. “You.” Alya hissed. “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU!”

◇─◇──◇─◇

Marinette jumped when she felt a hand touch her elbow.

It was Adrien. “Marinette,” he hissed, “What are you doing? Why are you exposing Lila?”

“Oh, I don’t know, Adrien,” she said loudly, drawing the attention of Damian. “Maybe it’s because she’s been lying about me?”

“But she wasn’t-”

“Hurting anyone?” Marinette glared at him coldly. “She was, Adrien. Me.And you and your ‘high road’ bullshit can go and rot in hell for all I care.”

“Wait,” asked Nino, hurt evident in his expression. “Adrien knewall this time?”

Chloe smiled icily. “Yes. He didn’t wantto expose Lie-la because she wasn’t ‘hurting anyone’,”

And then suddenly, the entire class was rounding on Adrien, who was frantically trying to explain his actions.

In the chaos, no one noticed Lila advance closer and closer to Marinette.

She jumped onto her and screeched, “MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG,I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!”

Lilaattemptedto try and choke Marinette but said girl was quicker, stronger and smarter.

Marinette quickly backed away and flipped her onto her back, pinning Lila’s wrists together.

“Let me go!”Lila was thrashing around trying to get out of Marinette’s hold.

“Mdm. Rossi, you are under arrest for assault and attempted murder,” came the cool voice of an unfamiliar officer.

As one of his men handcuffed Lila, Damian wrapped Marinette into a warm hug. He opened his mouth to say something but Alya interrupted him.

“Marinette!” she called. “I’m so sorry! Can you give me an interview with theDamian Wayne?”

Marinette goggled at her, unable to process what she said. Turning to Chloe, she asked, “Did she actually just saythat?”

“Well?” Alya tapped her foot impatiently and Marinette glared at her.

“No,Alya, I will notgive you an interview with Damian,” she hissed.

Alya looked gobsmacked. “But…why? I’m your best friend!”

“Best friend?” Marinette laughed. “Best friends don’t leave each other when the next shiny thing comes around. Best friends don’t ditch other. Best friends don’t believe a liar over each other. And besides,” she added sweetly. “Youare not my best friend. Chloeis.”

Chloe beamed at her.

“Alright,” Dick clapped. “I know this must be a nasty shock-”

Damian snorted quietly when he said that.

“-but we must continue with the tour!”

Marinette shot him an amused look.

At least everything was right in her world.

what a liar! | no pairing

Word Count: +1k

summary: lila rossi mentally prepared her plethora of lies as she entered her new class. the only thing was, she wasn’t aware they possessed brain cells.

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As Lila Rossi stood outside her new class, she mentally prepared her plethora of lies. She could literally taste the victory she was going to feel. After she wooed Adrien Agreste (he was going to fall head over heels in love with her), she would rule the class.

Lie No. 1: I must sit in the front with Adrien because of my tinnitus. I got it when I saved Jagged Stone’s kitten from an airplane. It nearly died! Because Jagged loved his kitten SO much, he wrote a song about me.

Lie No 2. I’m besties with Ladybug! We met at an akuma attack and-

“LILA! Are you even listening?” asked her mother.

Lila almost glared at her for interrupting her. Almost. “Of course I am Mama, I just zoned out a little because I was so nervous.”

Her oh-so-gullible mother’s expression softened considerably. “Don’t worry mio caro, your teacher her, Ms Bustier-” The lady beside her waved at Lila, “says that the children in her class are absolute angels. You’ll get along great!”

Lila smiled with the utmost glee - not that her mother could see it - the class would be so gullible, they’d be at her beck and call! “Of course Mama.”

“Now Lila,” said her new teacher - she seemed to be a pushover, “Why don’t you go inside and introduce yourself. I’m sure my class will welcome you with open arms. I will just talk to your mother for a few seconds.”

Lila nodded dutifully. Mrs Rossi pulled her into a hug and said “Addio mio caro!”

Addio indeed.

◇─◇──◇─◇

Lila stepped into the class. All the chatter inside suddenly ceased. There were about 10-11 students looking at her curiously. She could see her ticket to money and fame - Adrien Agreste - sitting at the front. Time to rule the class.

She pasted her sweetest, fakest smile and said “Bonjour! My name is Lila Rossi! I have just joined. My mother is the ambassador so I have joined late.”

Most of the students smiled and introduced themselves, while one - the one sitting behind Adrien - said “Bonjour Lila! My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, why don’t you sit next to Nathaniel in the back?” Nathaniel waved at her.

Lila’s smile became a little fixed. Dammit, she had to sit next to Adrien! “Actually,” she simpered. “I hate to cause an inconvenience, but I suffer from tinnitus so I can’t hear properly from the back.”

The brunette beside Marinette said “Oh? How so? I mean like if you want to tell me of course.”

Lila smiled. Finally someone was falling into her trap!

“Oh no of course not! I got tinnitus by saving Jagged Stone’s kitten! It ran under an airplane and I went to go get it out because, well, obviously, I couldn’t let it die like that! As a thank you, Jagged wrote a song for me! And then Ladybug heard about that and came to meet me. We became besties just like that!” she bragged.

The rest of the class was speechless. They were totally going to fall for it. Hook, line and sinker.

“That’s like…wow dudette.” said Nino.

Lila cackled internally.

Hook.

“That is so cool, Lila!” said Alya.

Line.

Lila didn’t notice the glint in Alya’s eyes though.

Wait for it….aaaaaand…

“What a LIAR!” cackled Alix. The class burst out laughing with her.

And sinke- wait…what?

Lila forced her eyes to fill with tears. “What are you guys talking about? How could you say that to me?”

Kim rolled his eyes at her. “Stop with the crocodile tears Lila, we don’t believe you.”

Alix chimed in with her own input. “Everyone knows that Jagged Stone has Fang-”

Lila, seeing an out, said “That was the kitten’s name! Fang!”

The class stared at her. “Who is a crocodile.” Alix finished.

Oh.

“And no airport security is so lax that it would let a kitten go onto the runway, let alone a girl.” says Adrien. Her ticket to fame.

“And, there is a reason the airport people wear earmuffs on the runway Lila.” said Max.

“I’m NOT lying, you guys.” said Lila, stamping her foot like a 3 year-old.

“Oh because it’s totally legal for a 35 year-old man write a song about a minor.” said Mylene sarcastically.

Well shi- Lila didn’t think of that.

“And anyway Lila, even if we believed your pathetic lies, we wouldn’t even care,” said Rose.

“We’re all successful people Lila, and we have our own connections too. We don’t need your fake ones.” said Juleka smoothly.

“Say for example, Juleka and Adrien. Those two are models. Adrien for Gabriel and Juleka for MDC.” says Marinette. “Rose has Prince Ali on speed-dial. Kim and Alix have several sports figures looking for them as interns. Max has created one of the best AI’s and tech companies are fighting for him.”

Chloe adds her own bit. “Not to mention my daddy’s the mayor. And Sabrina’s daddy is the Chief Police Officer.”

“Me and Mylene are getting known in movies!” says Ivan excitedly.

“I’m the co-owner of the Ladybug and Chat Noir comics, and me and Marc are almost sold out!” adds Nathanial.

Nino grins smugly and says “DJ Nino at your service. I got chosen over XY.”

“Plus Alya is the creator of the Ladyblog. Everyone knows she’s the closest thing to a civilian best friend Ladybug has. Chat Noir is her best friend.” said Adrien.

Lila finally sees someone they missed. Marinette. She smirks at them and says “And what about Marinette hmm? She doesn’t have any connections.”

Adrien surprised her by laughing. “Oh you know nothing. Marinette has more connections than anyone of us.” Said girl was blushing tomato red. “Let’s see..” said Adrien, counting off his fingers. “She’s Jagged Stone’s personal designer. Designed his famous glasses and album covers you know? Then, she designed for Clara Nightingale and Prince Ali and did you know? She’s the M to the DC that’s taking over the fashion world. She’ll be ruling it by the time she’s of age.”

Still blushing, Marinette smirked at her. “So you see Lila, your lies mean nothing to us.”

That was when Ms Bustier entered the classroom. She smiled kindly at the class and asked “I hope the class gave you a good welcome Lila?”

The class nodded at her. “Oh yeah,” said Alix smugly. “It’s one she’ll never forget.”

◇─◇──◇─◇

At the back, was when everything processed for Lila.

At her realization, her heart stopped beating for a minute.

The class didn’t believe her.

jasonette july 2021 | series masterlist

wattpad|ao3

1.dead | angst, angst, angst y'all

summary: jason and marinette break up. marinette leaves. she doesn’t make it.

2.the new suit | fluff, jason being adorable

summary: marinette wants to make jason a new suit. jason accidentally puts his knives in her fabric. oops?

3.the protection suits | fluff, humour

summary: jason will never condemn another protection suit ever again.

4.the graveyard | angst

summary: he needed a way to tell marinette he was sorry. that he was sorry for not telling her about him. that he was sorry for missing their dates. that he was sorry he was the reason they broke up. that he was the reason she was dead.

5.game on | fluff, humour, damian being a simp for marinette

summary: damian and jason schedule a fight…again.

6.the fairytale of how we met | fluff

summary: alicia wants her mommy to tell her the story of how she and daddy met.

7.trust | a teensy weensy bit of angst, fluff

summary: red hood asks ladybug to trust him and promptly jumps off a building.

8.hurt | fluff, humour, jason being ridiculously overdramatic

summary: “you what?” shrieked jason. “are you hurt? is it bleeding? do you need a doctor? or a hospital?”

9.pixie & bluejay | fluff, angst, marinette’s too cute

summary: jason smiled at her – a real one. “then, you’re my pixie,” he decided.

10.mornings | fluff, angst

summary: jason and marinette’s morning.

11.and they were roommates | angst, fluff, meet-cute

summary: the title says it all

12.enemies | humour, enemies to lovers

summary: lady noire met red hood – another not-so-welcomed vigilante like her in gotham. you would expect the two of them to hit it off, maybe work together, but it was the complete opposite. it was hate at first sight.

13.coffee puns | fluff, humour, meet-cute

summary: “i dare you to go to that man there,” alya pointed at an, admittedly, handsome man, “and ask him out on a date using puns.” alya finished her dare with a smug smirk.

14.chloe bourgeois | chloe being chloe, fluff

summary: “so, you’re the one bugginette’s been dating?” asked chloe bourgeois, marinette’s best friend.

15.moving on | angst, hurt and a little comfort

summary: “oh,” tim quietened down and jason relished the silence. until, well, dick apparently snatched the phone from tim and screeched, “marinette’s a ghost!”

coffee puns | jasonette

Word Count: +0.5k

summary: “i dare you to go to that man there,” alya pointed at an, admittedly, handsome man, “and ask him out on a date using puns.” alya finished her dare with a smug smirk.

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“I dare you to…”

Marinette eyed her best friend with a healthy amount of cautiousness. Alya could be extremely…daringwhen it came to giving dares.

The two of them were playing a game of Truth or Dare in a coffee shop – she knows, notthe ideal place but they were bored.

“I dare you to go to that man there,” Alya pointed at an, admittedly, handsome man, “And ask him out on a date-”

Marinette waited for the other shoe to drop – there was literally no way Alya was going to let her get off so easy. Because, like, even if she wasn’t dared, Marinette would definitely ask him out.

“-using puns.” Alya finished her dare with a smug smirk.

Marinette groaned loudly and pointed an accusing finger at her. “I can’t believe you’re-”

She paused when she saw her dark-haired (with a shock of white) turn around – curious to see who made that noise.

“-actually going to make me do that.” Marinette continued in a significantlysofter voice.

Alya grinned at her – wickedly, she might add. “That’s the point, Mari.” She sing-songed.

Her best friend made her hands into a shooing motion. “Now go. You gotta ask someone out, girl!”

Marinette huffed and dragged herself behind the man as he waited for the person in front of him.

Pausing, she made a mental list of all the coffee-themed puns she could use and took a deep breath.

◇─◇──◇─◇

Jason turned around when he felt a light finger tap him on the shoulder.

He wasn’t exactly surprised to see the girl who groaned before behind him, grinning.

She said, “I seem to like you a latte.”

Jason’s eyebrows shot up. He was expecting somekind of flirting, but definitely not thiskind. Nevertheless, he played along, “Really? And who would you be?”

The female giggled. “Marinette,”

“Well, now, Marinette,” Jason bowed gallantly, “My name is Jason. And may I add you are brew-tiful?” He even added a wink on for a good measure.

Marinette’s eyes brightened as he set the unspoken challenge. “It seems like we’re the blend then, aren’t we?”

His response was interrupted when the bored barista at the counter said, “If you two are done flirting, could you please order? There areothers behind you, you know.”

Jason turned around, giving a half-hearted apology and placed his order. He turned to ask Marinette what she wanted. “Do you want to order anything?”

Marinette nodded and gave him her order.

Once they got their steaming cups of coffee, she grinned. “Thanks a latte, Jason.”

Jason resisted the urge to one-up her and instead asked, “Would you like to go on a date with me? A real one, this time, not as a dare.”

Marinette grinned at him sheepishly. “When did you figure that out?”

“Wasn’t that difficult, seeing as your friend isn’t quitethat quiet.” Jason stifled a laugh when her cheeks pinked a little.

“Actually, I would like that very much.” Marinette dug around for something in her purse. She scribbled something on the paper she pulled out and handed it to him. “Here’s my number. Call me up, yeah?”

Jason nodded and she grinned brightly at him. “Guess I’ll be seeing you around, hot stuff.”

He couldn’t stop the grin that spread across his face when he heard that.

She couldn’t resist the last pun, could she?

Have you or a loved one ever wondered why there isn’t much orchestra au art? well I did some research and it’s because instruments are a Pain to draw!!!

Anyways most of these are based on vibes i associate with each instrument that i got from being in middle school band and high school orchestra so it’s probably a bit (a lot?) cliche. It’s totally possible that you might have a better idea of what suits each character, and if so, I would love to know!

Some other stuff I was thinking

• Juleka on double bass
• Rose ??? on piccolo (that’s gotta be too cliche) or some low brass??
• Kim and Alix on trumpet
• or Alix on viola? I can’t decide
• Max on violin (he’d be like one of those musicians who are super technically skilled but have trouble with the artistic side)
• Ivan is obviously a percussionist
• Mylene plays some reed instrument. clarinet or bassoon maybe
• Nathaniel on cello?
• and Nino maybe as trombone, or maybe as a new up-and-coming composer, or maybe as a sound engineer when the orchestra is recording something, or maybe as production manager (not sure what they do), or maybe as the conductor, or maybe as a dj, or maybe
• pls help me with Nino
• Gabriel is probably a famous composer or something
• Adrien was like paganini - locked in his room by his dad and made to practice for hours and hours until he was so good people thought he sold his soul to the devil for his music skills
• Adrien is really famous and that sort of intimidates all the orchestras he plays with and they all keep a bit of a distance so he doesn’t really have any friends
• and then he’s a guest soloist for this orchestra! and he makes friends!
• (and maybe he finally goes against his father’s plans for his life and chooses to stay as a permanent pianist?)
• also there are plenty of alternative Luka ideas
• Luka could be the famous guest soloist instead
• or he could be a new conductor (a la Mozart in the Jungle)
• ;) ;) ;)
• or he could not even be a classical musician! He could be a famous rock musician! pls i love the whole “classical musician and famous non-classical musician fall in love”

Anyways I really miss being in orchestra and I’d love to here your thoughts!