Marinette is Fantômette’s grand daughter. No, really!

I just rewatched Simplificator and at one point, Roland says that Ladybug, in the cartoon he’s watching with the four terr… kids, reminds him of Gina when he first met her.

Welp, that’s good enough for me, headcanon confirmed. Gina and whatever maiden name she was using before Dupain is a witness protection program name, Marinette’s grandmother’s real name is actually Françoise Dupont because she used to be Fantômette.

Now, fans might be thinking Françoise Dupont would not fail to realize Marinette grew up etc. You need to realize she is probably quite traumatized by whatever caused her to have to abandon her old life and go into deep hiding forever, and had some trouble actualizing the idea that her grandchild was in the “danger age”. And it’s not like she’s feeling safe now, why do you think she’s literally always on the run “travelling”? And why she so wanted to give Marinette something that would allow her to go very fast while being very maneuverable? She needed to run, she subconsciously thinks everyone needs to be able to.

She’s going to have a breakthrough and revert back closer to her old self when she finds out Marinette is Ladybug and needs help. And later on she’s going to be training Alya to be the new Fantômette.

It’s all but confirmed!

What do you mean that’s insane extrapolation?? Pfft. Ye of little faith.