Theories began floating around that she was Mayura. The fact that she looked eerily similar to the peacock themed villain.
It was then that a dam burst. Students and teachers alike who had witnessed Bustier’s teaching methods revealed her tendency to gaslight or outright punish victims of bullying while letting the aggressors off scot free.
“And why should I apologize,” Marinette asked. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“We talked about the Marinettes of the world, remember?” Caline smiled. “You have to be the bigger person; be an example for the other students. Show them the right way to act.”
“This attitude of yours is getting out of control Mari-“
“What attitude?! Mme Bustier? The one where I sat quietly in class taking notes? Or the one where I calmly answered questions when asked? Or maybe the one where when the class got disruptive I didn’t do your job for you?” Anger filled Bustier’s eyes and her smile twisted into an ugly look.
“Don’t you think your going a bit far. Marinette.” Bustier’s voice was sickly sweet barely hiding the venom behind it.
Marinette reminded Ms Bustier, “Smile and forgive, Ms Bustier. Isn’t that what you told me? To be a better example.”
Caline had forgotten that mantra when she was a teenager, the teachers actually did their job so she wasn’t punished. The rule breakers were. It was easy to be on the high road when she wasn’t the one punished. Sure she wasn’t popular with her class, but it’s not like they would stay friends upon graduation.
And now here was, a teacher, while her bully was a socialite. It wasn’t fair.
Mrs. Bustier went to the school board the next day to ask about her pay. She didn’t expect to hear what she did. “Why haven’t I received my most recent pay checks? I haven’t received my last two checks, and I need to pay my rent. What is going on?” The board just looked at her with bored expressions. “You haven’t been paid, because you haven’t been doing your job.” Mrs. Bustier was shocked. “What do you mean? I show up everyday, and I teach my pupils all day. I am doing my job.” The head of the board just rolled their eyes.
Remember some chapters are longer than others (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
Inspired by Ella Enchanted. I thought Caline should be the fairy godmother but her sending Marinette to the ball just didn’t seem to fit.
Meet Alya, a powerful, good and unfortunately naive fairy. She just loves to grant wishes, not really thinking through the consequences.
When Marinette was born, she was crying.
Alya took no note of the parents’ protest as she immediately bestowed upon Marinette the gift of obedience, telling her to be quiet.
Immediately the squalling baby’s lips were sealed shut, unhappiness clear in her eyes.
Alya beamed as if she had done something good, for who wouldn’t want an obedient child?
If only she could see just how much Marinette suffered when Chloe made Marinette her new best friend. Aka someone to help Sabrina answer all of Chloe’s requests and assignments.
Marinette was determined to find Alya and get her to break this curse!
She happens to find Prince Adrien, running away from the castle and his admirers.
Marinette immediately shuns him. She already has to deal with one pampered and bossy noble. She does not need another!
Adrien is intrigued by Marinette, her reaction is so different from everyone else’s. Not terrified they might be imprisoned, not batting their lashes. No, Marinette just looked annoyed and exasperated. How refreshing!
Marinette finds Alya at a party celebrating Lila, the kingdom’s self-proclaimed golden girl.
Hearing Lila admit that it is a struggle to balance her personal life with all her charity work, “I wish I could do more.”
Alya pipes in, “No worries, I hereby bless you with the gift of giving. From now on, you will be able to do just as you have always done, just more efficiently.”
To Lila’s horror, the first thing she did was to use all her stolen charity funds to actually donate to charity! Then she sold off mostly everything she owned, except for the necessities and even then, she made sure they were all plain. What the hell!?
She was lucky Alya didn’t make her truthful since Lila was also so “modest”.
Desperate to lift the curse, Lila quick-thinkingly persuaded Alya to check on her previous blessed friends (victims). She hopes they are more ostentatiously miserable than she!
Alya finds Marinette slaving away for Chloe, looking miserable. Chloe decides to take Sabrina to the ball since she looks happy, but leaves Marinette behind.
Alya is horrified that her blessing has such a consequence. Marinette begs her to undo it but Alya confesses she cannot. Hoping to make amends, Alya foolishly suggests Marinette go to the ball, but her wording makes it an order.
Marinette arrived at the masquerade, annoyed and planning to leave ASAP but then she met Luka and did not mind spending a bit more time with him.
Then someone had to cut in and remind Marinette that everyone has to greet the prince and she has not.
When Marinette greets Adrien, he recognizes her immediately and asks her to dance, wanting to know this mysterious girl. Throughout the dance, he tried to engage her in small talk but her answers were always curt and unfriendly.
And again, poor Marinette has no choice but to obey his suggestions to “Dance with me” or “Wait, one more round!”
By the time midnight rang, Marinette saw Chloe fleeing and abruptly pushed the prince down and fled herself, before he could “ask” for another dance.
She also ditched her heels because who can run in them?
Marinette made it back in time, pleased to see Alya had magically finished her chores for her too.
Chloe sulked over not dancing with Adrien. Then cheered up when she heard that he would marry whoever could wear the red shoes.
Thanks to the magic, even those with the same size feet as Marinette could not wear the heels.
When the shoes arrived at Chloe’s estate, she threw a tantrum over these ridiculous shoes.
Nathalie asked for the other females to try them next.
Chloe: don’t bother with Marinette. She didn’t even attend the ball.
Nathalie: regardless, the prince’s intended has displayed some aversion to being found. So all maidens are to try the shoes.
Surprise, surprise. The shoe fits.
Nathalie: wonderful. Let’s go.
Chloe: Marinette, i forbid you to go.
Nathalie: and I forbid you from forbidding her. Who are you to counter a royal order?
Chloe: I’m her best friend!
Marinette: no, you’re not. And I don’t want to marry Prince Adrien.
Nathalie: orders are orders. I have to bring you to see him, so let’s go.
Marinette was miserable as she looked out the carriage, her heart breaking as she caught sight of Luka strumming his guitar on the river bank. She would have dated him months ago but Chloe found out and didn’t want any of her friends to be engaged before herself.
If only Alya had broken the spell!
But no! She can’t. The spell has grown too strong with time passing.
There has to be something stronger than Alya’s Magic. But what?
Love.
Wasn’t that what the fairy tales said was the most powerful magic of all?
But if that were the case, shouldn’t Marinette’s love for Luka have broken the spell already?
What else did she know about magic? It’s tricky because it’s all about the wording. And Marinette has to obey every order ever given to her, no matter who gives it.
No matter who gives it.
Marinette suddenly felt like hitting her head. How could she have been so obtuse. The answer had been literally staring her in the face for as long as she could remember.
Focusing on her reflection in the carriage window, Marinette said firmly, “You will no longer obey any command unless you wish it.”
Nathalie: who are you talking to?
Marinette wanted to leap out of the carriage right away. But she supposed she has to face the prince sooner or later.
When Adrien met Marinette, he did not look like the arrogant, controlling princeling she had expected. He almost looked shy, naive.
Adrien: it’s you! I knew it!
Marinette: you must already know I don’t want to marry you.
Adrien: i know. I wasn’t going to force you, but I did want to be your friend.
Marinette: won’t the king be upset about this arrangement, after all the fuss about finding me?
Adrien: my father will be relieved, I assure you. He didn’t want to throw a party at all. The whole engagement thing was to make sure I would be as miserable as he was. He’ll be fine.
Marinette: good. Now if you would be so kind as to excuse me, you can find me at the bakery…
Marinette spun and fled for the riverbank, throwing herself into Luka’s arms and asking if she is too late to accept his courtship.
Luka laughed. “Not at all, Ma-Ma-Marinette!”
Chloe was disappointed to lose Marinette, but not for long. Apparently Lila was so generous to take Marinette’s place and help Sabrina. This time Lila couldn’t even fake a smile. “Where is that blasted fairy?!”
Marinette knows her occupation as Ladybug is more important than Alya’s blog. She does not need the added stress of being class representative.
Bonus, if Alya is busier as Class representative, perhaps it means she will be less able to chase after akumas, consequently running into danger, if she is herding the class to safety.
As a result, Marinette insists Alya be Class representative. Downright standing down when Alya nominates Marinette.
When Dark Knight attacks, Marinette is tempted to start ordering the class what to do, but she instead asks Alya out loud what they should do.
As Alya directs everyone, Marinette rushes away to transform.
Alya is elected class representative since Marinette does not exactly inspire confidence in them.
Later when it is Ms Bustier’s birthday, and Chloe ruins Marinette’s gift, it is Alya who is called away
Caline encourages Alya to forgive Chloe, but Alya is stubborn and quotes that people who do nothing are just letting bad people win. If people keep forgiving Chloe for her misdeeds, she won’t see any harm in continuing to do them.
Alya is not as swayed by Ms Bustier’s authority because she is disillusioned with the staff after Damocles suspended her and is outraged on Marinette’s behalf. If Ms Bustier forgives Chloe just like that without punishing her, she is hurting Marinette’s feelings.
They see an akuma and it is unclear whether it is more attracted to Ms Bustier’s fear for her students or Alya’s feeling of injustice. But since Ms Bustier puts herself in front, the akuma goes for her. Alya refuses to believe herself guilty as Ms Bustier can’t just force people to forgive bullies when no justice has been served. If that is the case, should they just forgive an unrepentant Hawkmoth in the hope that he will turn over a new leaf?
When Zombizou is defeated, Ladybug gently advises Ms Bustier that she cannot force people to forgive their bullies. And that she needs to think of the victims, not just the bullies.
Later when Lila arrives, Alya is fascinated by her tales and wanted an interview about her time as Volpina. Due to class President duties making her less likely to have direct footage, Alya has instead learned to post video and reports from multiple sources.
Alya is disappointed when Lila claims her mother was so alarmed by her akumatization that she is taking her with her to Achu. It is rather sudden for the Italian Ambassador to stay in Paris for just two days, but a mother’s love knows no bounds.
Alya wishes Lila a good trip and informs Ms Bustier, who acknowledges this when an email comes from “Mrs Rossi” addressing Lila’s leave of absence.
Meanwhile, determined to make a post on Volpina, Alya reviews all the various footage people have on Lila.
To Alya’s dismay, she sees a recording of Ladybug exposing Lila as a liar in front of Adrien. And Alya can understand after the recorder repeated Lila’s claims of Ladybug not being a top tier hero.
Apparently the recorder wasn’t at first interested in Lila and Adrien but was appalled to see Marinette stalking the couple, then recognized the celebrity nearby and recorded him instead, wondering how much he could get paid about Adrien’s secret girlfriend.
Alya is understandably upset at being lied to. And if Lila lied about this, what else has she lied about? She forwarded the footage to her class, editing out Marinette stalking Adrien, asking them to double check what Lila claimed.
While the class is outraged at Lila insulting Ladybug, and kind of annoyed with Adrien for not telling them, even if his plea that Lila was already upset and humiliated enough that he did not want to upset her further; Alya tells Marinette that she was recorded stalking Lila and Adrien.
Marinette is alarmed but relieved the recorder might not have seen her transform. Alya admits that she might encourage Marinette to pursue Adrien and even look on as Marinette steals his phone to delete her unintentional message. But seeing her actions on video, Alya admits that if Adrien were to ever find out, he might be creeped out. Alya suggests that Marinette tone down her crush. Even though Marinette followed Lila to steal the book, she agrees.
When the class report that Lila’s claims are either impossible or false, Alya decides to try calling Mrs Rossi.
(Considering that Damocles had her number, Alya should have it too just in case.)
Mrs Rossi answered and was curious why Alya the class President was calling her. If this is about the school being shut down, she already received an email. If this is about online classes, she should be calling Lila.
“Mrs Rossi, may I inquire as to why Lila will suddenly be leaving school when her first day was just today.”
Mrs Rossi: hasn’t anyone told you the school will be shut down due to the akumas?
Alya: Mrs Rossi, do you know who was akumatized today? We only had one akuma, Volpina, and Ladybug and chat Noir defeated her already.
Mrs Rossi:…who was akumatized?
Alya: your daughter. I’ve asked around. Apparently Lila has been claiming some outlandishing feats from saving a rock star’s cat to being best friends with Ladybug. As a matter of fact, after she was defeated, she called me to say that you were horrified by her akumatization and were taking her out of Paris to go to Achu.
Mrs Rossi: I see…thank you for informing me of this, Alya. I promise you, you will see Lila tomorrow.
Lila was in so much trouble. Her mother had seen the interview on the Ladyblog and knew how much she had lied to her class.
Knowing Lila would not want to show her face after her insulting Ladybug is now on the Ladyblog, Mrs Rossi does not ground Lila. Instead, she stopped her allowance.
The next day, Lila keeps her head down at class, ignoring the glares and hurt looks.
Rather than let Lila be isolated, Alya feels guilty and instead asks Lila if they can start over.
Lila grits her teeth, blaming Alya for exposing her to all of Paris, forces a smile and fakes an apology.
Chloe is insulted that Alya can even consider forgiving Lila after she insulted Ladybug! and refuses to do so.
Marinette feels guilty as well and also chooses to give Lila a second chance. Mostly everybody else follows but this time whenever Lila tells them stuff, they’re just gonna double check.
Of course Lila is going to exact her revenge on Alya somehow. But in the meantime, she needs to be careful. If she wants the girls to like her again, she needs to stay clear of Adrien.
As it is, Lila is Chloe’s new target for insulting Ladybug and going after her Adrikins.
Lila is a parasitic friend. Always taking and “asking” from her classmates.
She skipped Marinette’s party during her supposed trip to Achu. But of course she loves parties.
There is a crowd of admirers waiting for her to arrive, along with a buffet of free food.
Of course, it would have been better had this been Lila’s birthday party and not Juleka’s. As technically the twins were to claim the spotlight on this day.
However, with Juleka’s shy nature and Luka’s preference to speak through music, Lila is sure her voice will dominate.
As Marinette rushed to comfort Juleka and Luka expressed his disappointment, Lila was quick to take advantage. Turning, she put on a chiding face. “Guys, we should have known better. Juleka doesn’t like being in the spotlight.”
The others all looked downcast, but hearing Luka’s sad song, they all put aside their negativity and sought to cheer up Luka. Like Lila said, they had to think of others first.
They all offered excuses for Marinette and Juleka. Lila couldn’t help adding in her poisonous words. “We should probably let Marinette come to you when she is ready.”
And knowing baker girl, that will be never.
Lila internally smirked at the thought of Marinette’s friendship with this cutie being officially over. And really she didn’t have to do much this time. Marinette practically declared they aren’t friends anymore with her absence.
To give Juleka and Marinette assurance that no one was waiting for them to come back into the spotlight, Nino started playing his music and everyone began to dance.
Lila chose to dance closer to Luka, keen on getting to know this handsome boy better.
It was then that a certain celebrity boarded the boat.
Jagged Stone had arrived, and so had Fang.
Lila squeaked, her own horror and shock lost in the surprise of the others.
“Jagged Stone? What’s he doing here? Did Lila invite him?”
“Maybe he wants Marinette’s help with a design project?”
But Jagged wasn’t here for either girl. He was here for his son Luka and daughter Juleka.
To say everyone was shocked when father and son greeted each other would be an understatement. The class, especially Kitty Section, thought they were pretty good friends with the twins. Close enough to know that their parents was a celebrity!
Lila panicked. If Juleka knew Jagged Stone personally, she might spoil everything!
As it was, when Jagged went downstairs with Luka, the others thought her shocked frown was because Jagged Stone had not acknowledged her.
“Don’t be upset Lila,” Rose assured. “I’m sure Jagged is focused on his kids only today.”
Lila forced a grin. “I understand. Don’t worry, I adore family relationships and I wouldn’t want to intrude.”
The others cooed over how thoughtful Lila was.
Then, thank you Hawkmoth, the divorced couple were akumatized and everyone fled.
Lila was relieved and opted to skip the party. Better to be absent then have Jagged actually meet her and ask for her name. She can claim to be busy donating her clothes or something.
She even texted the class this in the group chat.
What she never considered was that some students just were not that interested in checking their phone over every alert, or that their phone was on silent mode.
As a result, as the party resumed, someone in the crowd asked, “Where’s Lila?”
“Oh, she was asked to help with an emergency meeting with Prince Ali.”
Jagged stood on the stage. “Any requests?”
Adrien raised his hand. “The song you wrote about Ladybug!”
Mylène: what about the song you wrote for Lila?
Jagged blinked. “Who’s Lila?”
Alix: the girl who saved your kitten, remember.
Jagged: I’m afraid you must be confusing me with someone else. I never owned a kitten and never will.
Nodding towards his children, he added, “Not that kittens don’t rock. My allergies just don’t get along with them.”
Juleka paused and mumbled, “You never had a cat? But Lila said she saved your cat and that’s why you wrote a song about her.”
Jagged: like I said, maybe she was talking about someone else.
Except no. Everyone knew this story was about Jagged Stone.
Kim: Lila lied to us.
Alix: not cool!
For Alya, it was as if the dots were finally connecting. Marinette was Ladybug but Lila said she was best friends with Ladybug except Marinette can’t stand her. So…wow, Alya just wanted to crawl into a hole. How had it taken her this long to figure out Lila was lying?
Seeing how upset everyone was getting, Marinette took charge. “Ok, so now you all know Lila is a liar. But this is Juleka and Luka’s day. And we’re not going to let a liar spoil it, are we?”
Everyone: no!
And so the party continued. Yet once all were back in their bedrooms, Lila’s deceit was once more brought to the forefront of their minds. Laptops and phones were brought out. Search engines fired.
Time to see just how much of a liar Lila Rossi is.
The results were disheartening, and students outside Ms Bustier’s class began receiving texts in the middle of the night.
The next day, Lila knew something was wrong when everyone began whispering as soon as they saw her.
Not the good whispering kind where people gossip about her supposed connections.
This whispering was indicating that Lila was involved in a scandal.
She paused. Perhaps she had been outed after all at yesterday’s party….if that was the case…she immediately turned around and began walking back home, texting her mother that the staff had been akumatized again.
The school may have finally caught onto the truth but her mother might not have. It was imperative this was so, if only so Lila could convince her gullible mother to transfer her to another school.
Meanwhile, Lila’s departure was talked about widely. The class felt disappointed, wishing to confront her.
Caline noted her absence and said Mrs Rossi texted her to say Lila was feeling ill.
Alya: is this the same Mrs Rossi who texted you about their sudden leave for Achu? Because Rose confirmed with Prince Ali that Lila was lying.
Caline paused. Is it possible she had been given the wrong contact number?
The answer is yes.
Thanks to Markov, a new number was produced to call the Italian embassy.
At the embassy, a receptionist called Mrs Rossi. “Your daughter’s teacher wants to talk to you.”
“Disconnect the call! My daughter told me the whole staff has been akumatized!”
The receptionist was puzzled. “But there have been no akuma alerts. And besides, the teacher was not addressing herself with an akuma name.”
“I don’t know! But I’m not taking the call from an akuma.”
The receptionist sighed and switched calls. “I’m sorry, but my colleague is under the impression you are an akuma and refuses to pick up.”
Caline was not amused. “I see. Well, please let Mrs Rossi know that Lila is currently skipping school and that we urgently need her to inspect Lila’s file in person to double check that her medical ailments and contact information are correct.”
The receptionist promised to do just that and told Mrs Rossi the teacher’s message.
Mrs Rossi: I am not going to an akuma’s lair!
Receptionist: I don’t think there actually is an akuma. Hang on.
She goes to a secretary. “Hi, Mr Fontaine. You have a son who attends Dupont College now, right? Mrs Rossi is told by her daughter that an akuma is taking over the school, whereas the teacher told me her daughter was playing truant. Would you mind calling your son?”
Mr Fontaine: not at all
He made the call. The receptionist patient and Mrs Rossi embarrassed.
“Ah, hello Alain….nothing much, I just wanted to check if your principal or anyone has been akumatized at your school…no? That’s good.”
Mrs Rossi began to feel uneasy. “He might be under the control of an akuma!”
Mr Fontaine raised a brow at this woman. “Hang on, for a moment son. Mrs Rossi seems to think you’re under an akuma’s influence….oh my. I see. Yes, I’ll tell her right away. Have a good day, son.”
He ended the call and turned to Mrs Rossi. “Alain had something rather remarkable to say about your daughter. Apparently she has a reputation for lying.”
Mrs Rossi huffed. “Well, he’s under an akuma’s control. We can’t trust what he is saying.”
Mr Fontaine continued, “One of her lies includes a trip to Achu that took place a couple of months ago. Did your daughter stay at home then too?”
Mrs Rossi was not deterred. “Yes, but-“
“Did you also know your daughter has been akumatized at least twice? Both of her akumatizations involved deception in one form or another.”
Mrs Rossi faltered. “What?”
Mr Fontaine looked at the receptionist. “Volpina and Chameleon,” she was already using images from the Ladyblog to show the pale mother. “In fact, I remember Lila was interviewed as Ladybug’s best friend the same day she got akumatized.
When Mrs Rossi saw the interview of Lila claiming to be best friends with the heroine she also claimed to be lousy, her cheeks flushed with humiliation and anger.
“Do you still have the teacher’s number?”
Needless to say, Mrs Rossi and the staff were both ashamed in their discussion at having been duped by Lila Rossi. And considering the situation with Marinette Dupain-Cheng, with the footage finally watched, obviously she cannot stay in the same class. And she will need to serve detention and retain a year.
Mrs Rossi took it one step further though. “I have to take her out of Dupont. It will not do for her to be the pariah when Hawkmoth is at large.”
Later that day, Lila had rehearsed what she wanted to say to her mother when she finally came home. “Oh mother! With all these akumas interrupting my education, how will I ever graduate? Do you think I should transfer? I’ve been doing some research and it seems like Dupont College is a hotspot for akumas. Although with the daughter of the mayor bullying everyone and the Teachers not standing up to her, that is no surprise.”
Mrs Rossi was firm. “Actually, that is a great idea. I’ve been thinking that you should leave Dupont immediately. And I’ve found the perfect school for you!”
Lila: is it Sinclair Academy? Because their credits are almost as good as Dupont!
Mrs Rossi: nope. I’m sending you to military school!
Lila: ….what?
Mrs Rossi: although it looks like you will have to stay beyond school hours to catch up on your studies. I’ll arrange everything.
Lila: military school! Why?
Mrs Rossi: you didn’t think i would never find out about your lies, now did you, sweetie?
Lila stood up. “Mom, you can’t trust the akumas.”
Mrs Rossi finally glared at her daughter. “Oh, but I can trust you? Your opinion about Ladybug seems to be quite contradictory when I compare what you told me to what you tell your classmates.”
“They’re fans! You don’t badmouth their idols in front of them!”
Mrs Rossi: but you can lie and say you’re best friends with said idol?
Lila: I wanted to make friends
Mrs Rossi: friendship built on lies? That is a new one. Cheer up, Ma Bella. You’re transferring, just like you wanted.
Lila: I didn’t want to go to military school!
Mrs Rossi: would you rather stay at Dupont where everyone hates you? Those are your only options.
Lila gritted her teeth. “Fine!” she snapped. “I’ll transfer.”
“Good. And I’ll be sure to inform your teachers about your compulsive lying, just so you don’t try to skip classes again.”
And certainly no one was falling for Lila’s grand tales now.
I finally started watching Transformers! And then I came across this request by @the-delta-42 to write a crossover but I still can’t write it, so I wrote my own outline
Here are the Autobots.
Miracle Charm
Alias: Marinette
Terrestrial mode: ambulance
Her original Autobot form is red and black, similar to Bumblebee and Ratchet in appearance. She is dubbed so because she has a variety of tools and gadgets that seem useless, but with her creative mind, are actually quite useful
Her bakery hires Tom and Sabine to run things.
Cataclysm
Alias: Adrien
Terrestrial mode: racing car
His original Autobot form is black with green highlights. Similar to Jazz in appearance. He is especially skilled in destroying stuff.
Cataclysm pretends to be a rich man’s son living alone with no one but his bodyguard (a projection)
Tikki and Plagg
Small bots like Wheelie and Brains
Plagg likes to dive into garbage to search for scrap metal to eat. He disguises himself as a cat.
Hawkmoth
Alias: Gabriel
Terrestrial mode: plane
A purple deception who looks like Starscream, and seeks to turn humans into his cyborg puppets. He sends out his akuma drones to latch onto his human victims when they are feeling vulnerable. He pretends to be a rich old man with nothing to do but tend to his garden.
Story outline: Hawkmoth is attempting to create akuma cyborgs. Optimus has assigned Miracle Charm and Cataclysm to stop him. The creation of an akuma cyborg is quite ostentatious because they go on a rampage. The Autobots must stop the cyborg without killing him or her and let Miracle Charm remove the parasitic drone.
The Transformers are able to blend in among humans because they are Pretenders like Alice, able to disguise themselves as humans, hair and teeth and skin and clothes.
Due to their partnership, people assume Marinette and Adrien are a couple despite their firm insistence they are just good friends
This is more of a fic prompt. I’m not sure how to include class salt
Marinette and Alya split the workload of running the class.
When they have to plan a class party for Lila’s birthday, Alya takes over this time, letting Marinette focus on other things.
However, Alya doesn’t tell anyone else this because Lila is so sensitive and might cry, making others disappointed in Marinette who would feel unhappy and pressured.
Alya gets the usual decor set up. She even asks Lila the usual deets about what likes to eat, her favorite music, food allergies, when she is free. But she does it discreetly, so Lila doesn’t suspect anything. And they are quite common questions when getting to know new friends.
At the party, Alya credits Marinette for it.
Lila then starts to complain. Pretending to wince at the rock music she secretly likes, claiming to be allergic to carrots and cannot eat carrot cake, and she can’t stay for long because she already promised to visit the animal shelter.
Everyone starts to get disappointed in Marinette for planning a party that Lila dislikes. However Alya puts a stop to it.
Alya: wait a minute. You told me you loved carrot cake
Lila: This allergy was recent
Alya: and you told me your favorite band was KISS
Lila: I changed my mind, and moved to pop.
Alya: and you told me you just wanted a relaxing day off on your birthday so you would definitely be free after school!
Lila: and I would like to spend it relaxing with the animals.
Alix: wait, why are you getting so worked up about this Alya?
Alya: I was the one who looked into Lila’s likes and dislikes for this party! I do some class duties too as the Vice President.
Rose: oh, it’s alright. Lila just doesn’t have any fixed interests. That’s how she likes everything.
Ok, fine. So Lila misses out on a party she would have liked as her friends continue to celebrate and she goes off to the “animal shelter”. She cannot even complain about Marinette’s lack of organising the party now.
She also gets the reputation of being rather wishy washy.
For fans of Miraculous Ladybug and Ouran High School Host Club
Adrien is actually allowed to join the exchange program, more like ordered to, really.
He will be visiting Kagami’s old school, Ouran High School, a school for the children of rich and influential adults.
Lila wants to go there too and Gavriel allows it.
Marinette originally was not going because she has to stay behind and protect Paris but Kagami realizes what Gabriel has planned and refuses to let the old man pair Adrien up with that liar.
So she signs up Marinette for the exchange tour too, in secret.
Marinette initially wants to back out, no matter how tempting it may be to get between Lila and Adrien. But Tikki points out she went to New York too. They have Kaalki. She’ll be fine.
At Ouran Academy, Lila tries to sound glamorous and claims to know so many important people.
Unfortunately, the students of Ouran can see the holes in her stories.
For one thing, they actually know the people Lila claims to be so intimate with, and have heard nothing about her.
Haruhi, the scholarship student, is also quick to point out the impossibility of such stories. For instance having tinnitus from standing too close to an airplane.
Kyoya Ootori himself does thorough research on the students. He concludes that while there is merit in befriending Adrien Agreste and Marinette Dupain-Cheng for their connections, Lila is someone to avoid.
Tamaki, however, insists that they show Lila she doesn’t need to lie to make friends.
Kyoya pulls out records where Lila’s old classmates have made posts about her, calling her out for being a bully and parasite.
Marinette meets Honey and Mori, popular students who are old friends of Kagami. Honey has an especial sweet tooth and grows fond of Marinette.
Lila is unhappy to be making no progress, she threatens Marinette to help her or she will frame her once again.
Marinette refused to lie.
As a result, Lila pretends Marinette stole her wallet.
But the staff and Kyoya are very thorough and check the security footage where Lila herself plants the wallet in Marinette’s bag.
Lila mentions her lying disease.
Kyoya’s family manages hospitals. He can assure everyone there is no such thing.
Lila is sent back to Dupont in disgrace.
Tamaki notices Marinette’s crush on Adrien and decides to help her out. But no matter how many times the pair are alone in romantic settings, Adrien always sees Marinette as a friend, making her depressed.
The twins find out Adrien has a crush on Paris’ local superhero. Tamaki uses that information to cheer Marinette up, since Adrien likens her personality to the superhero.
This works as Marinette blushes, and no longer feels depressed that Adrien likes someone else, because that someone else is her.
Back home, Damocles was notified that there is no such lying disease and of Lila’s horrible record. He contacts her mother at last. Lila won’t be getting away with this.
Everyone notices Adrien looking depressed about his global trip. This makes it easier for Marinette to rouse the others to stop it from happening.
Lila points out that Gabriel is in control right now and can ground Adrien.
Nina is fed up about Gabriel and actually lashes out, asking how Lila became cool with Gabriel when he hates everyone else.
Lila lies that the photographer insisted she become a model and Adrien was supporting her career, not Gabriel.
On a roll now, Nino decides to finally report Gabriel to the child authorities, never mind Adrien’s reaction
Kagami and Wayhem and all Adrien fans join in by encouraging Adrien to stand up to his father.
Adrien tries to stop the mob forming outside his house, but Nino confronts him about his busy schedule when he would rather just hang out. “You even see school as a form of freedom!!! If that doesn’t raise red flags, I don’t know what does!”
Thanks to Risk’s influence, Adrien temporarily blurts out that he hates modelling and doesn’t want to go on a trip with Lila of all people.
Gabriel: Adrien!
Adrien covers his mouth in dismay.
One fan: This is forced child labour!
Another fan: call the police!
Adrien: no! Don’t do that!
Forced to keep up a front, Gabriel at last said “I thought you would enjoy a trip to see the world. And I never realized how taxing modelling can be. I apologize, Adrien. You and Lila can stay here!”
Catching Lila’s glare at him for ruining her career prospects, Adrien blurts out again, “And Lila isn’t my friend! I only agreed to work with her so she would make sure Marinette got back into school.”
Marinette: so that’s why she took back her charges.
Adrien: i got your back.
Mylène: what was that about Lila?
Under influence of Risk, Adrien exposed Lila himself.
Lila: he’s lying! He’s siding with Marinette!
Alya knows Ladybug is Marinette however and said, “Well, we could always just ask Ladybug herself. And Rose can call Prince Ali.”
Crocodile tears steamed down Lila’s face. “You don’t believe me!”
One fan, impatient from all this drama now, called out, “Just let them make the call so we can all go home already!”
Lila is exposed as a liar by the celebrities.
Gabriel terminates Lila’s contract.
Lila is tempted by Risk to expose Gabriel hiring her to spy on Adrien’s friends and distance them. This lands her in hot water but also paints Gabriel in bad light.
Gabriel: your best friend threw a wild party in my house without supervision! What am I supposed to think? You are literally in the akuma class!
Adrien: Lila was an akuma too!
Gabriel: she agreed to keep you safe from bad influences. And she never threw you an unauthorised party!
Inside his mansion, Gabriel exhales. “So much for taking risks. Ladybug hasn’t shown up and already the police are eyeing me with suspicion.”
It looks as though the earrings and ring are the only way out of this mess.
Nathalie: sir, given the circumstances, how can we trust our own judgment.
….
Gabriel had to admit he had not thought that far ahead.
And if he was compromised, instead of Ladybug finally being defeated, what if he is the one who is finally caught and arrested?!!!
He recalls Risk.
Lila is now a pariah at school and it only gets worse for her because at work, her mother finally blurts out her complaints against the heroes. Before her colleagues had just told her to keep her mouth shut but now thanks to Risk, she just ranted about the incompetence of the popular heroes.
The people at the embassy are shocked by her tactlessness and ignorance. Needless to say, Mrs Rossi is in for a rude wake up call, especially when she connects the dots that her daughter must have been playing truant.
Lila will not be graduating at the end of the year. She will be held back a grade. Her mother is also furious and blames her daughter for making a fool out of her.
Lila: like it’s my fault you don’t even watch the news!
Mrs Rossi stops giving Lila her allowance and forces her to get a job. Given Lila’s record, no one wants to hire her but Chloe decides to get her daddy to hire her as the new garbage girl. (Like how Linguine was the garbage boy in ratatouille.) Mrs Rossi also cuts off cable TV and wifi, and confiscates Lila’s phone. The laptop will have to remain for school but Lila will need to use the school wifi to actually do research.
The morning after Risk was akumatized, Nathalie went to comfort Adrien.
They were alone in Adrien’s room and seeing Adrien look so disappointed and depressed, it made Nathalie sad.
She cared for Adrien. She did.
“Adrien, i thought you would be more excited,” she commented, coming in. “You’ve always expressed a desire for more freedom.”
Adrien: you and I both know this trip gives me no freedom. It’s a business trip. I’ll be leaving my friends behind.
Nathalie knew better than to mention Lila Rossi. She overheard his deal and knew he could not like the girl.
Being stuck with the clingy liar for the whole trip…Nathalie doubted he would even be able to appreciate the scenic landmarks in that frame of mind.
I am froggy
Adrien: and another thing, I hate Lila. Why did father even hire her? She got you and my bodyguard in trouble! Did she make up some story about her celebrity connections? You have to have suspected she was lying at least!
Nathalie pushed up her glasses. “Your father found that Lila’s Italian heritage gave him inspiration for a new line of clothing and he rewarded her with a job.
Adrien did not look impressed.
Nathalie came closer. “Adrien, I know you’re unhappy with your choices being taken away from you. But your father does care for you. The main reason behind this journey was because he wanted to send you away from Paris for your own safety.”
Adrien blinked. “What?”
Nathalie sat down. “With all the akumas roaming around Paris and the never-ending war between the heroes and Hawkmoth, Gabriel doesn’t want you in the middle of that. Nor the rest of us.”
“Then why doesn’t he join us?” Adrien pleaded.
Nathalie gave a sad smile. “Adrien, who is resting in Paris?”
Emelie.
Gabriel would rather die in the city with her than leave with his son.
Adrien did not know how to feel about that. So he settled for, “Why does Lila have to come? We have other models in the agency.”
Nathalie shrugged. “She is your classmate. Your father didn’t want you to get lonely.”
He made a face. “You didn’t protest? We’ll be stuck with her for weeks.” A never ending tale of how many celebrities she claimed to know and amazing feats she really never performed.
That…was a very unpleasant scenario.
Nathalie grimaced as well. “It’s too late to change the details after our announcement.”
After she left, Adrien and Plagg looked at each other. “We can’t leave Paris. Should we ask Ladybug for the horse miraculous?”
Plagg: worth a shot.
Adrien transformed and called Ladybug, telling her to meet him ASAP.
He was busy roaming the streets to broadcast his presence and kept busy saving careless civilians.
Alya noted Chat’s presence and informed Ladybug.
Ladybug: what do you mean you’re going away too?
Chat: too?
Ladybug: never mind. I suppose I have to give you the Horse Miraculous.
However Ladybug soon had another message from Rena. “Adrien’s gone missing again?”
Chat: what?
Oh yeah, he was supposed to go to school in his limo but ended up meeting Ladybug. Oops.
Ladybug: I don’t blame him for running away from Lila. He looked so sad in the news.
Chat perked you as he got an idea to discourage Ladybug from finding his alter ego. “Does that mean we shouldn’t find him? If he doesn’t want to be found.”
Ladybug frowned. “I’m not sure.”
I am froggy
“But if this is what Adrien wants, then so be it.”
Chat never planned to run away but sure!
Ladybug headed to school, with Chat rushing to save some children running across the road.
Everyone was concerned about Adrien. Why would he run?
Marinette: does no one notice Adrien frowning? He doesn’t want to go!
Mylène: but why? I thought Adrien loved to go out.
Nino stared at the phone. “It’s a business trip. He won’t really be having a holiday, not with his schedule.”
Lila frowned and gritted her teeth. She texted Adrien to keep his end of the bargain or she won’t either.
Chat received the text message and hissed.
I am froggy
“I’ve had enough of her!”
He had some visits to make.
Less than two hours later, there was another scandal on the loose.
Chat Noir had made a video post where he interviewed various celebrities from Jagged Stone to Prince Ali about Lila Rossi.
Their answer was always the same: Who?
He even visited Mrs Rossi to ask about her daughter’s visit to Achu.
Mrs Rossi: I’ve never been to Achu. And now please leave. I have to work.
The whole school stared at Lila, exposed.
Bustier: Lila, if you weren’t in Achu, where were you?
Ivan: you’ve been lying this whole time haven’t you?
Lila: it’s my condition. I have a rare lying disease from the time I visited a rural village in the Amazon.
Bustier: lying disease or not, you still missed a large chunk of the school year. I’m afraid it looks like you will be held back a year.
Lila: I can provide the paperwork to excuse myself. Just give me time.
Alix: seriously? Ms Bustier, how do we know she isn’t making up this lying disease!
Caline paused.
Alya: we should at least check with her mother to confirm the story.
Lila: my mother is very busy! You saw that in the video.
Caline pauses. Unsure what to do.
I am froggy
Alya and Marinette transform.
Rena: so Ladybug, are you actually friends with Lila Rossi?
Ladybug: of course not!
Rena visits the embassy while Ladybug helps Chat save civilians.
Rena: Mrs Rossi, is it true that your daughter has some rare lying disease?
Mrs Rossi: what are you talking about? My daughter is perfectly healthy. Why are you heroes harassing me?!
Rena: you might want to visit your daughter’s school.
Rena’s post was watched during lunch break.
Gabriel also made another announcement.
Alec: in light of the recent Liar Rossi scandal and his missing son, Gabriel has cancelled the upcoming trip and fired Liar Rossi from his company.
So much negative emotions. It was a shame he couldn’t become Scarlet Moth again.
Satisfied, Chat returned to school and detransformed. His friends greeted him enthusiastically and congratulated him on a narrow escape
Lila was upset and stuck in the principal’s office. Where was her akuma? She was furious right now!
Gabriel was waiting for Adrien to come home, safe and sound before he created Strike Back.
With the scandal about Adrien gone missing, Felix hesitated in coming to Paris.
Strike Back is unleashed on Paris.
Rena Furtive informs about Risk.
Ladybug rushes to find Sabrina.
Miss Hound retrieves Risk’s toy.
Now they just have to defeat the sentimonsters.
Gabriel feels so defeated.
Ladybug and Chat Noir’s risk was exposing Lila as a fraud, but the massive negative emotions resulting could not be taken advantage of since Nathalie could not become Catalyst.
Even though Alya was receiving criticism for not checking her sources and Lila was still seething, Gabriel felt defeated and not in the mood to akumatize them.
They had their chances at least twice and failed.
He’ll just keep failing.
Nathalie: are you so ready to give up? Perhaps we should try this from another angle.
Gabriel: like what?
Nathalie fumbled. “There are other miraculous out there. What if we were to acquire them?”
Gabriel considered. “An intriguing idea.”
He made a master thief sentimonster, Sneak, then akumatized it to be able to find foreign miraculous.
“Go forth, Sneak, and bring me miraculous to counter Ladybug’s own!”
Adrien just wants to stay with his friends. And since Marinette seemed to have something to want to talk to him about, he visits her, in his Felix disguise.
He calls her.
Marinette immediately picks up. “Adrien! Goodbye, I mean hello. I mean, what’s coming?” she facepalmed and groaned.
Adrien gave a slight chuckle. Marinette’s antics always cheered him up a bit. “Is it alright if I hang out at your place for a bit?”
“Sure!” Marinette exclaimed in surprise. “But, did you tell your dad you want to stay in Paris.”
Adrien sighed. “No. My cousin showed up and offered to trade places with me.”
A cold feeling settled inside Marinette’s stomach. Felix is back?
I am froggy
“Better your cousin leaves with Lila than you,” Marinette declared.
“I agree,” Adrien stood up and started walking over. “I just can’t figure out why he’s doing this now all of a sudden. It can’t be for my sake.”
“Maybe he just really dislikes your father. Didn’t your dad turn into the Collector because of him?”
Marinette’s brain spun with all the possibilities.
“I’m glad I can talk about this with you, Marinette,” he said. “I’m almost to your place.”
“Gah!” Marinette was instantly distracted. “I’ll meet you at the back door, I mean the front door!”
Marinette welcomed Adrien into her living room.
Then Kagami called and berated Adrien for not standing up to Gabriel.
He stood up. “Kagami’s right. It’s time I stood up to my father!”
Marinette cheered.
Adrien texted Felix before he dialed the Gorilla, who gaped at the caller ID and then at Felix. Gulping, he accepted the call.
“Hi. I’m at Marinette’s place. Could you come pick me up.”
Normally in this situation, the Gorilla would have just come to get Adrien and send him to the train station, ignoring his order to return him home.
But with Felix present…
Gorilla discreetly texted Nathalie and Gabriel.
Gabriel: pick up my son and send him to the train station. Felix can board the train back to London.
He saw the safe and knew Felix fell for bait.
Adrien and Marinette frowned to see Felix in the limo again.
Nathalie: Adrien, it’s time to go now.
Adrien: no, i want to see my father!
Nathalie: Adrien!
She subtly touched the ring.
His shoulders slumped.
Marinette looked dismayed and disappointed.
Felix: you couldn’t even stand firm for more than two minutes! I can’t believe we’re even related.
I am froggy
Adrien clenched his fists. “I’ll show you.”
He promptly ran off, against the flow of traffic.
Marinette chased after him. “Adrien!”
Nathalie hopped back into the car. “Follow them.”
Plagg: where are we going?
Adrien: anywhere but the station. Plagg Claws out!
Marinette stopped short, unable to find Adrien anywhere. Though why was Chat outside? Never mind. Adrien was running away! Again!
The car drove by. “Marinette, where did Adrien go?” Nathalie demanded.
Marinette: i don’t know
Nathalie: we’ll split up. Call me if you see him and I’ll do the same.
Then she drove off.
Marinette; wait, why am I helping Nathalie find Adrien? I want him to stay in Paris.
Tikki: so what do we do?
Marinette: i don’t know.
Tikki: Adrien doesn’t want to be found right now, Marinette. If he wants you to find him, he’ll call you.
Marinette: yeah, I guess you’re right.
With Adrien still in the city, Hawkmoth can’t create Strike Back yet.
And Chat is willing to take the risk of staying in his hero form for now.
Hours pass and no one can find Adrien.
Nathalie calls everyone for a mass search.
Marinette takes the risk of not joining in.
This reminds her of Santa Claws where she made things worse. She just has to trust Adrien.
Tikki is also very sure Adrien is fine, especially with Chat Noir so ostentatiously present on patrol. He certainly is kept busy since civilians are getting more reckless and careless
Everyone wonders why Adrien would run away and finally realize that he maybe he doesn’t want to go on this trip after all.
With the danger increasing, Gabriel is concerned about Adrien and creates a sentimonster to find him.
The sentimonster fails.
Fed up, Gabriel finally makes a public announcement that says Adrien can stay in Paris if that is what he wants, just come home.
Just like that, Adrien miraculously appears at the mansion gates.
Gabriel: you’re still grounded.
Nathalie monitors Adrien while Gorilla sends Felix to the train station.
Lila is furious the trip is cancelled because of Adrien and calls to threaten him.
Adrien: oh, and what if I ask Jagged Stone and Ladybug to defend Marinette. Wouldn’t that be a shocker to see such famous celebrities calling you a liar in public?
Lila: you would risk me getting akumatized?
Better her than Marinette.
Adrien: i trust the heroes to wipe the floor with you any day.
Lila hung up and scowled.
With Adrien safe in the mansion under the watch of the returned Gorilla, Hawkmoth creates Strike Back.
An akuma alert is sent out and Adrien goes to the bathroom to transform. “I’m gonna take a nice long soak.”
Cue the fight.
With everyone taking risks, Ladybug is unsure what she should do.
As such, she gives Luka his miraculous in case anything wrong should happen.
Ladybug detransforms and merges Baark and Fluff.
She returns back to the present and destroys the akuma and casts the cure, removing Risk’s influence.
She detransforms and transforms again and sends the sentimonsters to the sun.
Rena gives back her miraculous.
Gabriel is absolutely discouraged by this defeat. Even when taking risks, Ladybug still hasn’t made a mistake. What was he expecting when she has good luck on her side?
Nathalie doubts he will give up. This is just a setback, like with Style Queen. Eventually, Gabriel will remember why he is doing this and regain his determination.
Just like how Wayzz was sent to recover the miraculous, Marinette sends Tikki to London to recover any miraculous Felix might have kept. She suspected he has the peacock.
However this time Chat asks that he send Plagg instead. The city needs her more than ever now.
Having learned her lesson, Ladybug agrees to trust Chat Noir, and Plagg.
Adrien gives Plagg Felix’s address, even showing him pictures of the mansion and a map.
They decide to wait a bit to make sure all is safe for the time being and to let Felix actually get home and be less on guard.
Gabriel also agrees to take time off because Nathalie has had another one of her coughing fits and Adrien barely escapes punishment because his recent behavior can be attributed to Risk’s influence.
Lila sulks about not going abroad but silently gloats about Ladybug’s failure.
Plagg finds Felix’s mansion and looks out for any fan-shaped brooch.
Knowing he is a suspect, Felix hides the brooch in a hidden pocket of his vest.
Still, because Duusu is active now, Plagg finds him instead and Duusu silently leads Plagg to the pin while Felix is bathing which he steals.
Back in the hands of the heroes, Duusu still cannot reveal who is Shadowmoth but Tikki points out he can answer indirect questions or give them clues.
Duusu: Shadowmoth and Mayura are very close to Chat Noir.
Given the limited interactions Adrien has, he immediately deduces the culprits.
Duusu nods when he asks if they are the villains.
Ladybug ponders the implications of Chat being a close associate of the Agrestes but decides not to think on it further.
They have to defeat Gabriel very carefully.
Adrien will run a distraction for them while the kwamis attempt to steal the miraculous. There is no way Gabriel keeps all the jewellery on his person.
They are correct. Hawkmoth keeps only the fox, horse and turtle miraculous in his pockets.
Darn it. He won’t be able to be cornered so easily.
Lucky Charm!
Strong-blasting Perfume?
For once Chat has the idea. He plans to ask Adrien to spray the perfume in his father’s face and when Gabriel coughs and is distracted, Ladybug can use venom on him.
Chat will keep Mayura and the Gorilla busy.
Chat detransforms and manages to bustle Nathalie into a room away from electronics under pretense of making sure she gets her rest. He locks the door.
Then he distracts the Gorilla with action figures.
Finally, he barges into Gabriel’s study. “Father, I just invented a new perfume! What do you think?”
He sprays the perfume right at Gabriel who begins coughing from the strong scent and doubles over.
Goldenbug stuns him and immediately frisks him for the remaining miraculous.
I honestly thought the season finale would be the last but then now we know why Shadowmoth won’t be coming back. He’ll have a new name!
Does anyone else think that the yo-yo should have disappeared the moment Marinette detransformed rather than wait for her to transform back into Ladybug again? This is what I see happening if that happened.
Ladybug sees her yo-yo stolen and instantly covers Adrien’s eyes. “Spots off!” she yells. “Don’t turn around Adrien or I will be forced to knock you out.”
It helps to sound strong if she imagines him as Felix. Marinette has no time to let her thoughts stall around her crush. This is a world ending crisis!
Fortunately, for once her Ladybug luck was on her side.
Gabriel had hardly grabbed the watch before it disappeared. “No!”
Now he only has the dog miraculous. A weaker weapon than Duusu!
Ladybug checked her yo-yo, sighing with relief to see her inventory was not missing anything.
With a known thief on the loose, Ladybug has officer Roger assemble the whole police force to arrest Felix for questioning and impersonation.
And this time, Adrien is not going to let his cousin get away with this.
When Gabriel ponders letting Felix get arrested but he risks being exposed
Nevertheless with Felix in possession of the peacock miraculous now…he offers a deal. He will help clear Felix’s name in exchange for the miraculous.
Felix refuses and creates his own sentimonster Scapegoat, a shapeshifter. Keeping possession of the amok, Felix trusts the peacock miraculous to Scapegoat.
When the police find the real Felix, he is tied up. He admits that he lied about being Adrien but there was no way he would miss the chance to be a hero. However, when he returned to the meeting spot to detransform and keep his cousin away, someone knocked him unconscious.
Adrien insists they frisk him but the dog miraculous is not on him.
Felix leaves with his miraculous and Hawkmoth is furious about this deal where he made more of a loss than a gain. He is never taking risks again! Nathalie returns and tries to cheer him up by reminding that Ladybug has one less miraculous too.
Ladybug bemoans the loss of Barkk and Adrien carefully suggests she never let him have another miraculous. He claims he is too traumatised by his time as Aspik to want to be a hero.
I can’t remember if I ever wrote this prompt but wouldn’t it be interesting if Marinette kept saying yes to any request or demand. But she finally snaps when she misses some event she really wanted to attend.
This was inspired by a Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends episode
I finally finished Strike Back and it gave me a lot of fic prompts. Here is one.
Ladybug realises that all humans are likely infected by Risk but kwamis are not. She detransforms to consult Tikki, then transforms into Pegapup.
Together Pegapup and Tikki travel back in time.
When they return to the present, Kaalki swaps places with Tikki.
The day is saved.
Meanwhile Felix is irritated he has been been tricked. And there is no way in hell he is going on a world tour with Miss Blabbermouth. At least he has Nathalie’s tablet. An informative consolation prize.
Gabriel is infuriated by the defeat and orders Nathalie to return home with Adrien. He feels like giving up.
To his surprise, he finds Adrien at home demanding to stay at home.
To Adrien’s surprise, his father immediately agrees to cancel the world tour and even stop his joint photo shoots with Lila. Then asks Adrien to leave him be.
Adrien: but i want to spend time with you, normally. Not just for business dinners.
Gabriel: Adrien, i have to call Nathalie and let her know she is with Felix. Did you even consider what Felix might gain from this? I listened to you already, now you listen to me. Leave my presence immediately.
Without even looking at Adrien, Gabriel calls Nathalie or texts her about Felix and warns her to check that nothing is stolen.
Nathalie discovers her pad and ring missing and demands Felix return them. In a public setting, with Gorilla summoned, Felix sulkily hands over the items.
Lila is dismayed to learn the trip had been cancelled.
Marinette is so relieved and proud Adrien stood up to his father.
Adrien himself feels this is a bittersweet ending. He gets to stay at home but now his father feels like he can’t trust him.
Plagg: cheer up. We can blame this whole thing on the Risk akuma
Gabriel blinked. “A risk. Of course! She never makes mistakes because she never takes any risks.”
Nathalie cut into his cackling. “Actually, Ladybug took the risk to entrust Chloe Bourgeois with a miraculous. And despite our knowing her team’s secret identities, she still gives them a miraculous, when we could try making another sentimonster doppelgänger to steal said miraculous.”
Gabriel blinked again, then grinned. “It’s time for Optigami to make a return then!”
I have only watched Risk, not Strike Back, which will be for tonight. Anyway, rather than risk giving Adrien a miraculous, I rather Marinette expose Lila
The moment Marinette sees the news about the First Love perfume trip, she chooses to sabotage it by exposing Lila as Ladybug, and demands Alya help clarify the situation, never mind the risk of Lila getting akumatized. If the truth was going to be exposed sooner or later, that is going to happen anyway, and she rather it happen before the trip.
Alya turns on her camera.
Alya: breaking news. In light of Lila’s exciting opportunity, I thought I would ask how her celebrity friends felt about it. But instead….
Video recording of Ladybug: Lila? She’s not my best friend. I never even met her before she became Volpina.
Alya: I’d like to officially apologize to my viewers. I should have fact checked.
Considering how popular the Ladyblog is, those who know Lila are now wondering what else she told them is true.
Rose asked Ali and he confirmed he does not know who this Lila Rossi is.
Luka and Juleka confirm Jagged never had a kitten or wrote a song about Lila.
The news spread through the school, with students getting angry at being lied to and given false promises.
Lila is so happy she will going away from school now.
Damocles and Bustier know about Lila’s lying disease and try to calm the student body.
Needless to say, they are not happy the faculty let them be lied to either.
So much negative energy, Shadowmoth creates a Sentimonster to enhance his own powers, becoming Scarlet Shadow.
Now this is what should have happened when Lila framed Marinette!
Lila and Chloe willingly get akumatized into Volpina and Antibug, except the former is hit by Princess Fragrance’s perfume.
The akumatized student body is ready to take revenge on their principal, Ms Bustier and Lila.
Some of Ladybug’s team members are akumatized. But no matter. Ladybug learned her lesson about giving miraculous out during Scarlet Moth’s last attack.
As duo battle against the akumas, Princess Fragrance forces Volpina to tell about all her lies on live TV.
Eventually all akumas are de-evilized or immobilized. But Scarlet Shadow is not done. People are still upset by Lila.
Knowing this, Ladybug decides to finally end this war, and tells Scarlet Shadow she will have Chat cataclysm her earrings. Never mind that he could take out his frustrations by destroying the city, which cannot be fixed by a magical cure now.
Realizing the mistake of making Ladybug reckless, Scarlet Shadow finally confesses about the Risk akuma, if only to get Ladybug to stop Chat from destroying her earrings.
One miraculous cure later….
The news coverage blames Lila for Scarlet akumas.
Now unpopular, her truancy and framing Marinette exposed, Gabriel fires her and gives her money to keep her mouth shut.
Lila manages to persuade her disappointed mother to send her away from her haters lest she be akumatized again. She knows when to cut her losses.
Mrs Rossi agrees but makes sure Lila’s new military school will see to it her daughter attends therapy
You’d think since Lila humiliated Chloe about being Ladybug’s close friend, Chloe would know that something is wrong if Lila says she hates Ladybug instead.
Chloe was initially satisfied to know that someone else hated Lady Loser, even if it happened to be this pathetic weakling.
As she rode home in her limo, she considered adding Lola to her entourage. She can do her language and geography homework for Chloe.
At least now she’ll have someone to disparage Ladybug with. It would almost be like having a friend, except Chloe was a queen. She did not have friends. She had servants.
Chloe ordered Sabrina to invite Lila to evening tea so she can have her rant about Ladybug today.
Sabrina: But why Lila? She’s Ladybug’s Best Friend, she’s just going to argue against you.
Sabrina herself never argued against Chloe, but she never said anything to support Chloe’s insults either.
Chloe:Best Friend? She told me she hated Ladybug! She must have seen the error of her ways and realise that Ladybug is utterly ridiculous.
It was this tirade that finally brought the memory of Miraculer back to Chloe.
Lila claimed to be Ladybug’s Best Friend and told Chloe about that ridiculous dance.
And by now Chloe knew that the real way to get Ladybug to come was by having an akuma around. So that dance wasn’t even magical!
Ugh!
The humiliation burned Chloe’s face red.
Whats-her-name may hate Ladybug now, but nobody makes a fool of Chloe Bourgeois and gets away with it!
Was that liar ever friends with Ladybug before?
Chloe knew all the miraculous holders’ real identities from her time as Miracle Queen. Maybe that loser was angry she never got to be a hero and broke off her friendship with Ladybug?
The why and how does not matter now. What matters is Chloe getting her revenge.
Chloe is not shy about broadcasting who she hates. She already made enemies of everyone that her resentment of Ladybug hardly changed their opinion of her.
But what would happen to Lila if Chloe exposed her as a fraud?
And that was how Lila was invited to have high tea at Chloe’s hotel.
Naturally, the liar did not want to draw attention to the fact that she was becoming friends with the local bully, and made sure to watch out for Zoey.
In Chloe’s bedroom, Lila delighted in the confectionary spread.
Chloe sipped her tea. “So tell me, what made you finally realize that Lady Luck is Lady Loser?”
Lila smiled. “Ladybug threw a tantrum when she saw Alya report about our friendship. She is so secretive that even our friendship can’t be public. Can you believe that?”
Obviously! Chloe lost her chance to be a hero because Ladybug was so concerned about her secret identity being exposed! Puh leaze! Those American heroes did the same and they manage fine!
Lila continued, “We got into a huge fight about it and Ladybug told me to tell Alya I was lying. But I refused and then she dumped me! For refusing to lie.”
Chloe yawned. “Yeah, poor you and whatever. But why didn’t you do anything about this? Reveal Ladybug’s true colors?”
Lila: because Ladybug is too popular. No one will take kindly to any criticism about her.
Chloe: ugh, you are so spineless, and utterly worthless.
Lila bore the insult in stride. “I’m sorry. I’m just not brave like you are.”
Chloe studied her manicure. “You’re right. I am brave. But I suppose you have some decent vision, if you managed to see the truth. I’ll let you do my language homework. See Sabrina for details.”
Like hell. Lila excused herself, “But my wrist…!”
“Figure it out!” Chloe snapped.
Oh well, Lila supposed she could butter Sabrina to carry on with her usual workload and pretend Lila did it.
As Lila left, Chloe sat in silence. The blog post about Lila’s friendship with Ladybug was months before the Miraculer incident. Meaning when Lila told Chloe about the dance, she already wasn’t friends with the heroine.
This conversation had been recorded secretly. But the words Lila had let fall were not good enough for to receive any backlash.
Looks like Lila will be getting another invitation to the hotel.
It took a lot of invitations and branded goods to make Lila finally show her true colors. By now she realized that if she wanted more expensive freebies, she needed to be more insulting about her classmates, possessive about Adrien and hateful towards Ladybug.
Once Lila was sure that Sabrina and Zoey weren’t around, she let her mask slip a bit.
She started sharing advice on how Chloe could get out of doing unwanted lesson stuff, trying to get the blonde to listen to her.
Lila: here’s a tip if you want to avoid an akuma targeting you, try offering to help them defeat Ladybug.
Chloe: that’s what Hawkmoth wants, not the akuma. Wow you really do suffer from amnesiac fits.
Lila: you have to make the goals align. Say you will do whatever they want, but only if they defeat Ladybug. By that time, Hawkmoth will have no use for them and we will be rid of two enemies.
Chloe: easier said than done.
Lila: it can be done, I promise. One time, that fencer girl turned into an akuma because she doesn’t like Adrien knowing any girl but her. She chased after me but I got her to stop by saying I would give up Adrien if she got rid of Ladybug. And she fell for it, hook, line and sinker. She would have killed Ladybug too if that stupid feline hadn’t gotten in the way.
The delight in her voice was obvious.
Hook, line and sinker indeed.
Chloe: do you want to watch videos of Chat Noir the punching bag?
Lila: let me guess, you got it on one of those hate websites.
The next day, during lunch period, Chloe used Sabrina’s phone to send voice recordings of Lila badmouthing her classmates and desire for Ladybug’s death. Her own voice was disguised or hidden.
Everyone was shocked to say the least.
Chloe’s involvement was hardly surprising but sweet, delicate Lila?
Lila quickly fled from the school and summoned an akuma to her. Her rage was not at Chloe but at Sabrina! That sycophantic doormat must have gotten jealous and spied on them!
Lila transformed back into Volpina, intent on returning the favor by showing how Sabrina was an expert at making false voice recordings.
Except Ladybug and Chat Noir expected there to be trouble and arrived on time.
One fight over, the cops arrived. Roger looked very proud of his daughter for her role in exposing the true nature of this horrible character, even if it was via spying.
Sabrina: it wasn’t me!
Chloe: she’s right, it was me.
Lila: why?
Chloe: you didn’t think I forgot about that stupid dance, did you?
Lila was exiled from Paris. It wasn’t just about keeping her out of an akuma’s reach, it was about keeping her away from those Ladybug zealots who were furious at her.
Ladybug tried to thank Chloe but the latter refused, still claiming she would make Ladybug regret denying her a miraculous.
After all, with Mayura and Lila out of the picture now, Chloe was Hawkmoth’s only able accomplice left.
Regarding Lila’s mistake, either she assumed Chloe forgot about the dance incident like she forgets names, or she was just that careless. This is the girl who would lie about celebrities to people who actually know them.
This is a draft about a magical exchange student who is extremely blunt and does not feel awkward about it whatsoever
As part of her NEWT-level muggle studies class assessments, Luna is expected to undergo an exchange student program with a muggle school.
Of course, Luna’s actual background will be a mystery.
Professor Burbage gave her a charmed necklace to confund the muggles so they will ignore how they never really did learn the name of Luna’s school.
At Dupont, Luna was befriended by many of her classmates, except a blond girl who reminds Luna of Draco Malfoy and her redhead friend.
Lila: oh, I have been to Scotland. The minister is so kind to have invited my mother and I regularly for dinner.
Luna replied politely, “That is nice.”
Marinette eyes Luna’s strange jewellery. “Are you a designer?”
Luna’s eyes brightened. “Yes. What do you think?”
Marinette’s inner fashionista could not help but cringe. She managed, “I think they are very unique and original.”
Chloe snorted and said very slowly as if Luna did not speak fluent French. “That’s french for very ugly.”
“Shut up, Chloe!” Marinette flushed. “You don’t have a single fashion gene in your body if you can only steal others’ designs. If your mother, the fashion queen, admired my hat, but you don’t, what does that say about you?”
Chloe reddened herself. “Speaking of my mother, she said you clearly had no future as a designer. You just don’t have the ambition and clarity to see an opportunity when it is right under your nose.”
Alya: oh, so would you rather Marinette accepted your mother’s offer instead of ordering her to spend more time with you?
Chloe: my mother doesn’t take orders!
Caline: girls, please! This is Luna’s first day.
Luna was still smiling in her serene way. “Oh, I’m fine. I know my accessories may not be popular with others, but they are popular for me and that is what counts.”
Marinette felt bad about her first impression and invited Luna to come hang out with her and the girls after school.
Luna accepted.
In Marinette’s room, she offered to loan Luna any sewing materials she might need. Luna graciously thanked her.
Then she spied Adrien’s photoboard and asked, “Do you have a crush on Adrien?”
Marinette freaked out. “What? No, I’m just a fan of his father’s clothes!”
“Oh. I thought you might be. Your stuttering around him indicates you might have a crush on him. And some of these photos only have his face…”
“Alright,” Luna promised. She then relates the story of Ginny and Harry without mentioning their names.
Marinette: so I should try relaxing around Adrien first?
Luna: it is worth a try.
Marinette: but i keep messing up and babbling when I’m around him.
Luna: because you are focused on your crush. Try distracting yourself with another topic when talking to him.
The next day, people wanted to talk to the new girl. It irritated Lila. She tried to get Luna to become one of her listeners instead.
Except Luna was not really interested in Lila’s bragging. She was more keen to know about the akumas, whom she believed to be a new magical species and wanted to capture one to show her father.
As such, Luna grilled Alya about them.
Knowing Chloe, Luna decided to tail the bully, hoping to capture an akuma before it reached her latest victim.
Except Chloe wanted to torture Luna and it was driving her crazy that Luna seemed so unbothered by stains on her clothes or missing homework.
Marinette exposed Chloe and Caline forced her to apologize.
Luna: i accept your apology.
Everyone was impressed with Luna’s unfazed attitude.
Lila was not and decided to take action.
One thing gathered about Luna was that her dad was the editor of an unpopular magazine and she was fiercely defensive. Lila stole the Quibbler from Luna’s bag and scribbled insults all over it, framing Chloe in the process.
Luna was understandably upset and the class accused Chloe. But Luna did not see the point in pointing fingers and made them drop it.
Another role model like Marinette!
Lila: ugh
One day, the class decided to play a game to compare how Marinette and Luna viewed fashion.
They would see each person and what they liked best about their appearance
Alya
Marinette: waist pouch
Luna: picnic shirt
Nino
Marinette: red cap
Luna: glasses. They reminded her of Harry
Adrien
Marinette: everythingLuna was confused. “But your hair does remind me of sausages. Have I offended you?”
Luna: cat plushie (fortunately Plagg had packed the sock doll)
Lila
Marinette: erm…romper?
Luna: sausage hair
Lila burst into tears. “How dare you?!”
Luna was confused. “Did I say something wrong?”
Lila promptly burst into fake tears, outraged. “How dare you!”
The class remembered Luna’s unique fashion sense. and now that they looked closer at Lila, her hair did remind them of the processed meat.
Word spread of this. And now wherever Lila went, she heard whispers and jealous cackling about “sausage hair”
It was enough to wound her pride and call for an akuma.
Except Luna soon decided that perhaps sensitive Lila will be better to follow. Seeing the akuma, she captured it with the bubble charm and promptly summoned it to her jar.
She can’t wait to show her father.
Meanwhile Hawkmoth is upset because he can’t find his akuma nor can he akumatize someone else.
He gets Duusu to make a tracking sentimonster. It was promptly captured by the animal lover too. The department of magical creatures will want to see this!
No matter how many sentimonsters Gabriel sends, Luna easily captures them.
He gives up on recovering his akuma and just sends sentimonsters now to fight Ladybug and Chat Noir.
How the conversation in Kuro Neko could have gone down.
Seriously, Plagg blames Marinette for saving the day with other heroes when Chat is the one who was absent? He even wanted to miss the battle, neglecting his own duty!
He should have been focused on Paris, not about spending time with Ladybug. That is not why he was given the miraculous.
After hearing Plagg accuse Marinette, Tikki could not help defending her chosen. “That is not Marinette’s fault! Chat Noir wasn’t there. And I know for a matter of fact he could have been there earlier if he had wanted!”
Given how aware Marinette was of Adrien, of course she would glance over at his house. And being part of the suit, Tikki was not happy to see Adrien and Plagg just sitting on the sofa watching the fight.
Marinette was shocked. “Chat Noir skipped out on the fight?!”
Uh oh. Plagg tried to defend his friend. “Your fight was nearly over. He didn’t think he was necessary.”
“So he only joined us when the battle was over, when I am on a timer,” seethed Marinette. “That’s not how he’s supposed to act. I call the others when I need them for my plan to work. But Chat Noir was given the cat Miraculous to show up at every battle, not only when I call for him!”
“He’s busy,” Plagg defended.
“I know what it is like to be busy,” Marinette snapped, her hectic schedule ever on her brain. “And he dares to accuse me of favouring partners who only come when I need help when he himself won’t come?! You know what, fine! He can retire. I need a partner who is actually reliable and isn’t in love with me.”
Plagg’s tail and ears drooped. That did not go as planned.
Even Tikki looked worried. “Are you sure Marinette? Maybe Chat is just having a bad day.”
“He left his Miraculous out in the open! What if Hawkmoth or Mayura had been spying on us?” Marinette pointed out.
Ok, that was a bad move on Chat’s part.
“Everyone makes mistakes,” Plagg’s tone became lighter. “Even you. Need I remind you about Master Fu?”
“Plagg!” Tikki and Wayzz gasped chidingly. That was a low blow. But Plagg is not having any other holder than Adrien.
Marinette wavered. She had let her personal life interfere with hero business. Perhaps she was a bit hard on Chat Noir after all.
But if she continually mixed her feelings with business and that led to a catastrophe, what did this say about Chat and his feelings for her. She voiced this thought aloud. “I need a partner who won’t let his feelings get in the way. Someone who doesn’t have a crush on me.”
Qilin really frustrated me because Roger just dumped Sabine’s items carelessly on the ground. And the ticket inspector hardly got reprimanded for his behavior! Marinette also annoyed me. If her Mother’s Day gift is late, then it can wait a little longer rather than being late for their lunch and borrowing her mother’s money for it! And Sabine already paid for the tickets! The bus driver saw them. And thanks to Marinette, they have to pay a fine???
Alya is a dedicated blogger. Since there were no video recordings of the fight, she decided to get a personal statement from Sabine and Marinette.
Her readers were disgusted by how the ticket inspector and Roger handled things. And for Roger to ignore Ladybug during an Akuma fight? How dare he?
The ticket inspector’s boss is a fan of the Ladyblog and decides to send him in for training again. Along the way he decides to test the inspector’s judgment to see if he really is impartial. The inspector fails the test and is subsequently fired.
Roger is facing pressure from the crowd from his mismanagement of things. Hawkmoth takes advantage and akumatizes him back into Rogercop. Of course Ladybug and Chat Noir defeat him.
They encourage him to ignore the haters and focus on his own improvement.
This makes Roger remember he never really apologised to Sabine.
He visits the bakery and gives her an apology gift: a calligraphy painting of the Chinese character for justice/principle/humanity
Bonus: maybe some salt for the bus driver and passengers for not even helping Sabine.
Marinette points out that Lila never returns her classmates’ lunch money because she always claims to have spent her allowance on charity.
The class does not mind helping Lila out however Marinette does have a point. What Lila does isn’t borrowing…
Later when Lila wants to borrow Alix’s new skateboard, signed by Tony Hawk, to play with orphans used to secondhand toys, Alix recalls Marinette’s words and fears losing her skateboard when Lila might be tempted by a child’s puppy eyes. She refuses.
Max has a new iPad and plays games on it. He does not want to loan it to Lila so she can use it to play with those poor sick hospital children.
When Chloe passes Sabrina her exclusive scarf, the latter obviously does not dare to let a cold Lila borrow it.
Even when it comes to generous Mylène, when Lila is promoting a fake charity for saving Orangutans and asks for a donation so they can donate together, Mylène says she would rather do it herself and spare Lila the trouble. She had heard from Rose that Lila was going to attend another function with Prince Ali. And Mylène worries her money will go to a different charity.
Lila is irritated. She tries to get the whole class to gang up on her target and guilt trip them, except they empathise with the target, and refuse to help, even defending them.
Frustrated, Lila decides to use the ol waterworks and pretends to cry. “What’s wrong? Is it because Marinette accused me of lying? But I am telling the truth.”
Mylène: it’s not Marinette. We do believe you.
Alix: that’s the problem.
Lila: what?
Max: Lila, you are a very generous person…a little too generous.
Markov: that’s not quite an accurate description.
Sabrina: you just keep giving, even donating the leftover lunch money we loaned you, which you haven’t paid back.
Max: we admire your passion to help others, Lila, truly. But we aren’t ready to trust you to return items anytime soon.
Lila gaped.
Alya: sorry, girl. But it’s the truth. But we’re happy to share our lunches with you.
It was while Mayura was actually outdoors because Nathalie was accompanying Gabriel for a party hosted by Audrey Bourgeois.
However, before Mayura could even say a word, a coughing fit overtook her and she detransformed.
Duusu: oh no! You really ought not to transform now.
Nathalie glowered. “We need a sentimonster.”
“And I need you to be healthy, Nathalie.” Hawkmoth knelt down and detransformed as well. “I have lost Emelie already. I can’t lose you too.”
Duusu began sobbing. “That’s so sweet!”
So they went back to the party where Nathalie sat down for most of it in a private room, far from the main party venue.
Concerned, Adrien asked Marinette if her parents were serving something would help Nathalie feel better.
Marinette personally serves a jelly dish to Nathalie.
Once left alone, Duusu comes out and cries over the jelly, touched by Adrien’s thoughtfulness.
Nathalie avoided the jelly bits where Duusu’s tears hit.
Marinette collected the leftovers and decided to eat them since she missed dinner earlier on.
Adrien comes over. “Hey Marinette, how is Nathalie?”
ANGRY
Marinette shoves the empty tray at Adrien. “Why don’t you ask her yourself?!” She points a finger at Adrien who backs off from his angry friend. “You know I am always tired of having to do stuff for you. I organized a party for Chloé even though everyone but you hates her. I set up perfect dates for you and Kagami. And now I’m your dad’s secretary’s nursemaid?!”
Adrien holds his hands up. “Woah, Marinette. I’m sorry if I upset you. I didn’t know you were unhappy doing those things.”
“Yeah? Why should I expect anything else from Mr Oblivious?-”
SAD
Marinette starts sobbing loudly. “You don’t even care when Lila tries to ostracize me from the class! Or when Queen Bee nearly killed my family! You don’t even show up for ice cream!”
Marinette breaks down sobbing on the floor.
Adrien is alarmed and bends down, unsure what to do. “Marinette, i am so sorry. It’s not that I don’t care.”
“Liar!” Marinette wept.
“It’s true! I cherish our friendship, Marinette. We really are friends,” he said earnestly.
“Friends!” Another sob erupted. If she had a euro for every time he said that!
“We are friends,” Adrien repeated firmly. “I’ve just been a lousy friend, I guess.”
SUSPICIOUS
Marinette’s tears stopped all of a sudden. She narrowed her eyes into a glare. “How do you consider friendship, hmm?”
Adrien backed up again. “Caring for people?” he offered nervously.
“That was phrased as a question,” Marinette pointed out. “You don’t really know what friendship is, do you?”
“Marinette, you know I’ve only had anime for reference before I even entered Dupont,” reminded Adrien.
“Wrong,” corrected Marinette. “You also had Chloé for reference! You’ve had two bad examples for friendship!”
“Anime wasn’t all that bad,” defended Adrien.
HAPPY
Marinette laughed giddily, frightening Adrien even more with her sudden mood swings. “Oh, I love anime! Which one is your favorite?”
“Sailor Moon?” Adrien squeaked.
“Oh, I loved that show?” Marinette sighed. “You know what else i love? Dressing up as the characters! I had so much fun cosplaying. That was part of how I knew I wanted to be a designer!”
“Good for you….”
“And now I know I can make it because other people like my work too,” Marinette blushed. “Seeing others like my designs really gives me a boost of confidence.”
Adrien was starting to relax now. “I’m happy for you Marinette. Truly. You’re always so optimistic, which is good for this job.”
CONFUSED
Marinette tilted her head. “What do you mean?”
Adrien rubbed his neck. “Well, I mean, that the criticism can be kind of harsh in this industry, but you shouldn’t let it get you down. God knows my dad and Audrey ignore them all, and look at where they stand now?”
Marinette pondered. “Huh. If I do become a designer, will my personality match theirs?”
“What? No, no! It’s not a definitive thing. You can’t judge a profession just after meeting only two designers in person.”
“Why not? It’s not like I will have much opportunities to meet many more.”
“Of course you will,” Adrien said with conviction. “You’re so talented. How could you not get to know more?”
LOVE
Marinette blushed furiously and starts stammering. “You’re so gorgeous- I mean great.”
Adrien flushed as well. “I don’t think I deserve to be called great. I’ve been an awful friend.”
Marinette flung her hands out. “No. No. You’ve been an awesome friend. That’s why I like doing things for you!”
Adrien studied Marinette, trying to gauge if she meant what she said or if she was just trying to cheer him up.
“Marinette!” Sabine called. “There you are. You’re still on duty, you know.”
“See you later?” Marinette said hopefully.
Adrien smiled. “Of course. I owe you an ice cream date.”
ANGRY
Marinette scowled. “You owe me much more than that!” and she stalked off.
Adrien stared after her, lost and confused.
Plagg: wow, talk about mood swings.
Adrien: i don’t understand. I wish I could help her.
Plagg: oh you can’t. This is a female thing. Give her a week to cool down.
Adrien frowned. “Should I tell Alya about this then?”
Plagg: try telling her mother before Marinette insults a party guest.
But there was no need. Sabine was taken aback by how moody Marinette was and hastily sent her back to the bakery. Marinette left, sobbing about how useless she felt.
Gabriel meanwhile was confused and irritated by how short Marinette’s strong emotions lasted.
Given the mood swings, Marinette is excused from school until she is feeling better.
Once all the jelly had been digested,
Marinette blinked. “Um. What just happened?”
Tikki peeked from behind a pencil case, wary to face Marinette. “How do feel now, Marinette?”
He never said what was enough, nor which Kwami he was addressing. Plagg does love loopholes, or just breaking rules.
As Gabriel continued talking, Plagg just shouted “CATACLYSM!” and headbutted Gabriel’s palm.
Gabriel’s shock could barely be seen since he instantly burst into an ash cloud.
When faced with the choice of the target for his power, Plagg knew Gabriel was the logical choice. True he could have destroyed the ring, but Gabriel would know Ladybug’s identity. Given how flirty the hero couple had been behaving in public lately, not to mention Adrien’s sudden increase in phone calls to Marinette, it would not be too hard to figure out Ladybug’s civilian alias.
However, as a result of the cataclysm, all three miraculous were damaged. The kwamis returned to their jewels.
Adrien stood stunned by what had happened, fortunately the akumatization continued despite no wielder controlling the butterfly miraculous.
Ephemeral was a lot more durable than Adrien Agreste.
As soon as Marinette realized where this sudden earthquake originated from, she rushed to the Agreste mansion. Rushing down, she spotted a dazed, directionless akuma, a pile of ash with 3 familiar jewels on top, and - was that Adrien’s mother?
With no time to spare, Ladybug was brought back to the emergency of the situation by another tremor. She hastily grabbed the miraculous on the floor.
Ladybug: Adrien, please give me your akumatized object!
Adrien readily handed it over.
Breaking it, Ladybug caught the akuma and summoned her lucky charm.
“Miraculous Ladybug!”
Cue buildings being fixed, Adrien returning to normal, the miraculous being fixed (and hastily stuffed in the yo-yo) and Gabriel returning to life.
Gabriel blinked then snarled. “Ladybug!”
Ladybug quickly wrapped the villainous parent with yo-yo string. “Mr Agreste, you are hereby under arrest for your crimes as Hawkmoth.”
Gabriel quickly looked at Adrien. “Do something, Adrien! I’ve done all this for your mother! Don’t you want us to be happy again?”
Adrien looked sadly up at his father, then turned to Ladybug. “I won’t object to my father being thrown to jail.”“Adrien!” “But is there a way to save my mother?”
Ladybug looked at the comatose woman. “We’ll have to ask Master Su Han.”
Gabriel struggled to gain the last word in his defeat. “You may have won, Ladybug. But if I have to give up my miraculous,” he snarled, “so do you. Your secret identities won’t be so secret anymore.”
Ladybug looked unperturbed by that. “And? You forget how the New York superheroes live. Not to mention Wonder Woman.”
Hawkmoth was then handed to the local authorities where he continued to yell about the heroes’ identities.
Su Han confirmed he can wake Émelie Agreste. However, he was none too complimentary about her wisdom in using a miraculous that was clearly broken and damaging to her health. Neither was he impressed with Adrien’s surrender.
Ladybug swiftly defended her still shellshocked boyfriend and his kind mother, stating Hawkmoth had surprised Adrien and dealt him an emotional blow. And Emelie Agreste was an intelligent woman, she must have had a reason.
When Emelie woke up, she was saddened to learn that her husband had become a terrorist in her name and was now sentenced to jail.
Su Han considered letting Ladybug keep the miraculous box because he is still learning the ways of the world and is wary about choosing the wrong holders. He only asks she add extra security to the miraculous box.
Having learned her lesson before, Chloe preferred to mock Marinette’s capability to be a hero rather than steal the bee miraculous.
Lila on the other hand….let’s just say she was trending on social media as the new clown criminal.
Really annoyed with our main characters in the episode Ephemeral. Adrien pretty much overdoes the cat puns, a dead giveaway to his identity. And what happened to Ladybug’s declaration that it would be better if chat did not know her identity? Also annoying? the mere words “my lady” giving away Chat’s identity. It would have been better if Gabriel had also heard the cat puns too. At least the epiphany would have been more believable.
This is a draft
When Su Han demands Ladybug knows Chat Noir’s identity, she refuses as she already knows what will happen should that occur. Chat Noir becomes Chat Blanc and the world blows up.
Su Han refuses and argues that the future is not set in stone. All it takes is a single choice to change the course.
Viperion finally defends ladybug and admits he knows their identities. He understands Chat’s reasons. And he knows for sure Chat saw the akuma.
Su Han is furious since Luka has been akumatized before. This time Ladybug defends Luka and promises to give him more charms to protect him from akumas.
The fact is, since Chat would have been unable to make it even if she knew him, nothing would have changed.
Besides, he already has the akuma alert app.
Ladybug’s decision is final. Chat Noir’s identity will stay secret.
Su Han is not happy but relents since it is alright that at least someone knows Chat’s identity. He asks for Chat’s identity. Viperion refuses as Su Han’s appearance would be disruptive. Chat Noir’s life is heavily guarded and Su Han’s appearance will raise awkward questions.
Later, Marinette asks Luka how long he had known.
Luka: since Wishmaker.
Marinette: why didn’t you tell me then?
Luka: I wanted you to tell me your secret. Not because I had discovered it by accident.
Marinette: you should have told me.
Luka: I’m sorry.
Marinette: it’s ok. At least your knowledge came in handy. Now about that protective charm I promised you….
Luka lugged home a new ladybug-themed guitar case, and backpack, and sneakers, and waterproof watch.
Inspired after I read the movie companions for the first two Narnia films
Marinette gets the job of a lifetime working on costumes for the upcoming movie, The Silver Chair.
It is hard work with little sleep, especially for a heroine. So good thing it is taking place during the school holidays.
Marinette travels all over the world, truthfully telling her disappointed friends that she is working while on vacation.
Alya: don’t you think you should chill for a while? You look like you missed a whole week of sleep!
Well, she does have to help make thousands of costumes, so no. This is why Marinette’s best friend at work is the coffee machine.
Marinette makes a good impression on the costume team, including head designer Isis Mussenden. She even got to be the one to work with Ben Henders, the very cute actor playing Prince Rilian.
When Marinette returns to Paris, she does not brag about her job, only mentioning how satisfied she was that the costumes were without flaw and she had met the quota.
After one or two years, The Silver Chair is about to be released.
Chloe brags about getting to sit at the premiere viewing thanks to her world-renown mother.
Lila gushes about how the stars of the movie are like family who had asked her to play Jill Pole but she had to decline since she had already made a commitment to save endangered penguins up in the frigid north. However she will still get to sit at the premiere.
Marinette: penguins live in the Antarctic!
Nino is a huge fan of the Narnia chronicles and even buys the movie companion book to learn about the film making process. It is how he learns about Marinette’s job.
Because at the costume design section, Isis praises Marinette and there is even a picture of Marinette helping Ben into his knight suit.
Realizing Marinette had actually been on the set, Nino wondered why she never told them about it.
Ok, maybe he can understand considering that they might have pestered for her information about the movie the way they asked Lila.
Hang on, Marinette will probably be at the premiere.
Maybe once she sees that Lila was there herself, she will finally believe their newest classmate.
But in the meantime, he can respect her wishes and let her secret remain, at least till premiere day.
At the premiere, Chloé was surprised to see Dupain-Cheng. Immediately she began mocking her, asking if she was there as a waiter again.
However, the cast and crew (seeing Marinette as part of their second family) defend her from this rich brat, praising Marinette for being a talented designer and even bringing them homemade pastries that were to die for.
Audrey could see the odds were in Marinette’s favor, and that Chloe was an unwanted blot in the party.
As the director begins to ask Chloe to leave, Audrey swoops in. “You’ll have to excuse my daughter. She gets jealous whenever she sees Marinette’s exceptional talent.”
Chloe: mother!
Audrey: marvellous job, Marinette, as always.
Chloe: mother, you can’t be serious! She’s just a baker girl.
Audrey: who is renown for her talent. What are you famous for, Claudette?
Sensing danger, Chloe flushed and stalks away, trying to hide her tears.
To make herself feel better, she has to make others feel worse. Dupain-Cheng is surrounded by the crew so no hopes of sneaking over, especially when she won’t be welcome.
Hmm, what about that Lila girl?
Somehow Marinette always got the short end of the stick whenever they were together.
She headed over to the director. “You, where is Lila Rossi.”
Andrew Adamson scowled at Chloe. “Am I supposed to know who that is?”
Chloe ignored the cameras recording her bratty behavior. “Well, duh. She’s the one you wanted to play Joan Pill instead of that creature,” she waved her hand at the young lead actress.
Andrew’s scowl deepened. “I think you meant to say Jill Pole. And I don’t know any Lila Rossi, but if she is friends with you, I’m glad not to have been introduced. Good day.”
Chloe gaped, then rounded on Marinette. “Dupain-Cheng, explain yourself this instant.”
“What is there to explain, Chloe? I’ve been telling everyone for months that Lila’s been lying about her celebrity connections.
Chloe gasped then rounded on Ben Henders. “You, do you know a Lila Rossi?”
Ben: no.
Meanwhile, back in Paris….
Class are watching videos about the premiere (some official and some leaked), and are shocked. Lila had lied to them?
That kind of put a damper to their happy surprise about Marinette being one of the costume designers.
Lila’s phone was bombarded with texts demanding explanations.
Squealing, she immediately switched her phone off and tried to think of a suitable lie.
….
Lila said she was friends with the director of Narnia, but she never said his name. There have been more than one media series of Narnia. She can use that to excuse Andrew’s ignorance of her name.
As for Ben Henders…that was more tricky. She had claimed to the girls to be good friends with the actor, talking about the very movie itself. Hmm, maybe she can attribute his denial to Chloe’s abrupt and rude attitude?
Satisfied, Lila turned her phone back on, only to pale at what she saw. Since she took so long to reply, the others had done their own research and were now calling her fraud, that she now owed their money back (as if!), etc.
At the premiere, Chloe felt humiliated and overshadowed as all the celebrities ignored her.
At the Rossi residence, Lila began pleading to her mother that they should move because she was being bullied by the very same people who had sent Mrs Rossi video interviews of her contrasting opinions of Ladybug and demanding their money to be returned.
I dislike both Gabriel and Felix but in this case, I am on Gabriel’s side because he was the victim of theft.
While akumatized, Gabriel decides to reveal that his nephew has stolen his wife’s ring. He knows Emilie’s ring very well and is not fooled by a copy. Also, having had unpleasant experiences with Felix, Ladybug and Chat do not trust this innocent facade Felix puts up.
Felix: my uncle is a strange man
Collector: better to be strange than a thief!
Chat glared Felix. “Well, now it all makes sense. First your cousin, now your uncle. Have you no shame?”
Felix: yes, I stole his ring, but I gave it back!
Collector: liar! I know every scratch on Emily’s ring. Do you really think your copy could fool me?
Chat Noir was further enraged at the disrespect Felix was showing his mother.
Ladybug was hardly surprised. Swinging down, she cast the boy a disgusted glower. “I’m not even surprised,” she said. “This is the boy who would try to alienate his cousin from his friends on his mother’s anniversary, not to mention strike a deal with Hawkmoth of all people.”
Seeing no point in pretending to be innocent, Felix just scowled. “Are you going to just stand there lecturing me or actually do something about my uncle?”
Ladybug summoned her lucky charm.
Cue fight.
A remorseful Gabriel stands up. “I’m so sorry. Today just makes the memories of my wife stronger.”
Chat interrupts Gabriel’s apology to Felix. “You had every right to be angry, Mr Agreste. You were as much a victim.”
Ladybug put her hands on her hips. “Felix, isn’t there something you want to return to your uncle? Something that isn’t fake?”
With the influential crowd coming out, some already recording the heroes, Felix gritted his teeth. “I don’t have the ring on me now,” he admitted. “It’s back home in England.”
Gabriel says softly. “It’s alright, Felix. You can keep Emelie’s ring.”
Felix: No, I can’t. Not like this. I’ll send it to you via post.
Chat: hopefully not another fake.
Cue Chloé interrupting and Bob Roth deleting her video
Needless to say, Felix and Amelie quickly leave.
However, bad press has a way of spreading quickly.
Footage of the battle against the Collector had been posted on media, with Ladybug and Chat Noir reporting Felix’s crimes.
The possibility of him being Hawkmoth’s accomplice was enough to get the police involved.
Felix claims to have been in a bad mood then to think clearly. However the public opinion is still not satisfied with his bratty attitude and are pressuring him to return the real ring.
When Gabriel sends a public message asking the crowd to desist bothering his nephew, he apologized for causing such a ruckus.
This actually spurs the crowd further as Gabriel had a right to be upset.
Amelie decides to hire bodyguards until this all blows over. That enrages the public since she is enabling her son.
Felix soon sends another fake ring in public view.
Gabriel is annoyed by the lack of the real ring. He akumatizes the crowd somehow into the justice jury so they can find the ring.
Considering this is in England and they are right outside Felix’s home , they find the ring before Ladybug and Chat Noir show up. But now that they have done so, they have to honor their bargain with Hawkmoth.
Cue fight.
When Ladybug casts her cure, it leaves the ring in place.
With the ring properly restored, Ladybug tells the former akumas not to let negative emotions lead their lives.
Just watched the mini series and was inspired. Warning, got salt for everybody
As queen, Anna would be taking a tour of the world and visiting other kingdoms, one of which would be France.
Elsa would look after Arendelle in her absence.
Not to say that Anna was going alone, she was bringing Olaf with her.
And the snowman was thrilled to perform skits on what he had experienced in each kingdom.
France was truly an eye opener, Olaf had tried in vain to keep his queen from aiding the Parisian superheroes.
In the end, Ladybug asked Anna to guide everyone else away.
As queen, Anna was invited to various prestigious events where Olaf had met the lonely Adrien Agreste.
But Anna also liked getting to know people which was how she came across the Dupain-Cheng bakery and College Françoise Dupont.
At the Queen’s farewell event, Olaf had insisted on performing his skit, the contents of which only the snowgies were privy to.
Olaf wearing stones all over his body in imitation of ladybug spots. “I’m Ladybug. I use random useless objects to defeat villains with terrifying powers.”
Gabriel’s eyes narrowed in displeasure.
Olaf throws up a leaf. “Bye bye little Butterfly!”
Marinette giggled, nearly dropping her tray of macarons.
Olaf now dons a stick tail and leaf ears. “I’m Chat Noir. My lady, will you go out with me? Akuma, quit interrupting me!”
Adrien flushed at how irresponsible he looked.
Olaf now has leaf pigtails. “I’m Marinette. I live in a bakery and attend College Françoise Dupont! Oh hi Adrien,” Olaf-Marinette giggled and promptly falls over.
Marinette gaped and quickly hid her face behind her tray.
Olaf now has a leaf hairstyle copying Adrien. “Hi Marinette. I have to go do another one of my many tasks to please my perfectionist father who never seems to notice me. Oh well, at least I have friends. See you at the class party? Oh never mind, my schedule shifted. I’ll see you at next month’s party!”
Olaf has a leaf ponytail. He sticks out a hand. “Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. It is so ridiculous I don’t even care that I will cause another akuma whose sole goal will be to take revenge upon moi.”
Chloé sniffed.
Olaf has a camera in his hand. “Wait up Ladybug! It’s not easy dodging danger just to get a clear shot of your dangerous battles!”
Alya shifted uneasily under her mother’s look.
Olaf is regaling a crowd of snowgies. “My name is Lila. I am super charitable and super connected. But do you mind helping me do my homework and pay for my meals? I am too busy with the charities I donated all my money too. I also have to meet with my celebrity friends. No I cannot introduce you to them! But I can take any money you want to give to charity.”
Lila’s fingers clenched into fists. Hopefully her classmates are too dumb to suspect her in the snowman’s salty skit.
Olaf holding a flat stone tablet. “I am Ms Bustier. I believe in forgiveness. So I will not punish Chloé if she behaves badly. Ivan, quit talking in class. Go to the principal!”
Olaf sits in front of a snowgie. “Ivan, I have no time to look into this situation. I am too busy scouting Paris for trouble any other civilian can report. Hoo Hoo!”
Olaf strums a ukulele. “I can hear the song of people’s souls.”
Finally, Olaf is dressed as the mayor with a leaf sash. “I have all the power! I am the man in charge! Oh, whatever you say my queen. Of course my darling princess, whatever you want.”
Olaf, smirking proudly and innocently of his accurate skit: any questions?
Andre mournfully walked back to his limo, where his impatient daughter glared at his empty hands.
Chloé: what’s the point in being mayor if your own subjects don’t respect your wishes? Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.
Andre: forgive me, Chloé. But there are other bakeries in the city.
Chloé: none of them are the best. Anybody who’s anybody is eating a galette made by Dupain-Cheng. XY, Clara, Prince Ali….I refuse to be the exception.
Except it seemed that pretty much all the galettes Chloé coveted were already eaten (by Tikki)
Father and daughter entered the hotel in a dismal mood.
Audrey was already complaining when they crossed the threshold, not noticing their empty hands. “I don’t know about having galette. They leave such a mess.”
Chloé’s mood brightened. “You’re right mother. We don’t need a galette like everybody else does. The Bourgeois are not trend followers, they’re trend setters.
Audrey: exactly. I’d rather have a mousse today. Jean-Pierre!
Andre sighed.
Zoe: actually I bought a galette early this morning, if you would like some. I had prepaid and reserved one in advance just in case.
Chloe: haven’t you learned anything. Anything baked by a Dupain-Cheng is trash.
Andre gaped at his daughter.
Perhaps it was a combination of sympathy for Zoe and frustration with Chloe’s ingratitude, but Andre declared, “I’ll eat it with you, Zoe.” Then to prevent another outburst. “As mayor, I have to be seen celebrating this day.”
Chloé started to yell, “Ridiculous-“
“Chloé, quit yelling,” Audrey snapped. “I refuse to have my holiday ruined by you. Galette, mousse, just pick one and shut up.”
Chloe shut up her mouth, scowling at Zoe, who smiled weakly.
So while Andre and Zoe retired to her room to share the galette, happy to enjoy their holiday without any more fussy demands or cruel words, Audrey and Chloe dined on their mousse in tranquil silence.
After breaking up with Kagami, Adrien feels like he is not good boyfriend materials.
Determined to change that opinion about himself, Marinette brings Adrien out to parties where everyone fawns over the model.
Adrien takes a liking to Annette who reminds everyone else of Marinette. He asks her out on a date.
Alya meets Annette and tries to make Adrien realize he actually likes Marinette.
Alya: doesn’t Annette remind you of anyone?
Adrien: of course. That hair, those sparkly eyes, and her love of fashion? She’s a dead ringer for London Tipton.
Alya gives up but settles for the consolation prize that at least Marinette knows Adrien is interested in her. Until…
Alya: I was shocked to see you taking news about Annette so well, then I actually met her.
Marinette: i know. Annette’s artistry, compassion and burst of energy could give Jessie Mei Li a run for her money.
Nino had to stop Alya from ramming her head into the bookshelf.
To Marinette’s surprise, Adrien breaks up with Annette.
When questioned, Adrien says, “Annette was lovely but she just seemed to be missing something. Like store-bought sandwiches vs your family’s bread. She just didn’t have the spark.”
What a shame. Marinette wonders if Annette will still introduce her model friend Ajax to her. Apparently he was so busy, he won’t mind Marinette’s frequent absences.
Anyone find it odd how Adrien wanted to prevent Lila from akumatization but did not bother to console the frequently akumatized Mr Ramier? I was so upset with both Marinette and Adrien for not trying to help Mr Ramier. This has Marinette salt in it. I would have put Adrien salt in it too but I needed someone to help Mr Ramier. This is a draft.
As Adrien noticed Ramier’s dejected frame and face, he instantly burst into action.
“Mr Roth, you can’t blame Mr Ramier so harshly like that.” Turning around, he called out, “Mr Ramier, please wait.”
Bob Roth shook his head. “You heard your father, Adrien. We need doves, not pigeons.”
“So bleach them digitally,” Adrien said. “Shouldn’t you know this much if you’re in the entertainment industry?”
Bob Roth would not give ground so easily. “I already told your dad that guy was fired.”
Adrien shook his head. “My dad wants me to have an angelic reputation. How do you think my fans will react to see me working with a director who fires his staff so rudely?”
At that, Bob Roth straightened. “Are you threatening me, young man?”
“Not at all. I’m warning you,” Adrien said simply, arms hanging slack at his sides.
After a brief stare down, Bob Roth relented. “Fine. You get one more chance, Ramier. Don’t screw this up.”
The man happily bowed his head. “We won’t disappoint you, sir. Thank you, Mr Agreste.”
“Please call me Adrien,” he offered.
As Adrien resolved to stay focused on his job, Kagami finally caught hold of Marinette and dragged her out of sight.
“That is enough, Marinette,” she snapped. “Other than the fact that you disrespected my wishes and pushed me into this meeting, your attempt nearly got a man fired. But you don’t care about either of that, do you?”
Kagami was blunt and straightforward. And for the first time today, Marinette’s tugging at her limb ceased. Blushing furiously, she said, “I…I just wanted to console you.”
Kagami inhaled. “I know you do. But you are going about it the wrong way. I need my space away from Adrien just as you say you need yours from Luka. You can’t be so focused on your plan that you ignore other people’s opinion.”
Marinette looked down, ashamed at how pushy and insensitive she had been. “I’m sorry.”
Kagami tried to think positive. “It’s ok. I forgive you. And since Adrien just saved Mr Ramier’s job, I suggest we let them finish shooting without any more distractions.”
“Should we return to the park then?” Marinette asked.
“I could use some refreshment along the way,” Kagami suggested. “How about we try a fruit smoothie this time?”
Marinette managed a smile. “I do love a berry smoothie.”
And with that, the two girls left the stadium to get smoothies.
This is more of a prompt/outline for a draft for an actual story
Suspect: Adrien
Witness turned Accomplice: Nino
Victim: Kim
Judge: Marinette
Officer: Alya
Adrien’s Lawyer: Chloe
Crime: eating the whole stinky four-cheese pizza meant for the class to enjoy
Naturally Marinette is inclined to show leniency on Adrien, and everyone knows it.
Marinette tried to clear Adrien by calling Nino to testify that he had stood guard over the party food. She even brings in security footage as further evidence.
Said evidence reveals Nino saw Adrien hunched over the pizza box but ignored it.
Alya: Nino!
Nino: my best dude was starving! It’s like his dad has spies everywhere (Lila) if he can’t even eat Marinette’s breakfast croissants.
Meanwhile Markov’s recording was still playing.
Marinette was present to drop off macarons. However at the sight of Adrien’s blond hair, she lost focus and just stared dreamily at him.
The class is unsurprised and exasperated.
Lila: should Marinette really be the judge for this case? We all know she can be…ahem, sentimental.
Alya looked sadly at Marinette. “I’m afraid she’s right, girl. We need an unbiased judge for this case.”
Marinette tried to protest but cannot think of a decent argument.
Alya: I will take over as standing judge. Adrien, do you have anything to say for yourself?
Adrien slumped, dejected. “I plead guilty.”
“Ridiculous,” Chloé slammed her hand down on the table. “My client has been taught to be passive. As his lawyer, I will argue on his behalf.”
Jury: the evidence is in the video.
Ivan: and we all know Adrien likes cheese.
Chloe: yes, you do. But what did you expect Adrien to do? He’s starving and you laid a feast out before him! True, I will never understand his diet, but Adrien must have been truly hungry to have forgotten his manners
Alix: he could have asked.
Chloe huffed. Why should he ask when he paid for part of the pizza?
Max: partly, not all. Everyone but you and Lila paid for the class feast.
Lila: I donated all my money to the animal shelter.
Chloe: whatever. Anyway, shouldn’t you all be a good example like Ms Bustier says and let bygones be bygones.
Jury scoffs. “Then why don’t we just let Hawkmoth go free?”
Mylene: we all like Ms Bustier but her head is stuck in fairytale land.
Jury: we find the suspect guilty
Alya lifts her toy hammer. “Adrien Agreste, you are fined the total sum of our party feast and forbidden from partaking it without permission.”
Later, Lila tries to suggest that Marinette is not fit to be class president because she prioritizes Adrien over everybody else.
Marinette refuses to resign to Lila.
Alix: I can take over. Alya can still be deputy.
At night, Adrien blames Plagg for getting him into this mess and getting Marinette replaced.
Plagg: you should seen it coming. Besides, this way pigtails has more free time.
Is a fairy godmother and substitute teacher for Ms Bustier while she is on maternity leave.
She asks the class what they wish for, and she will try to grant it. they think she is acting for them
Marinette: Hawkmoth to be defeated!
Goodmother: Something not related to magic, please? The miraculous magic is too ancient for me to tackle.
Marinette: um….time management (she finds that she now has plenty of time to do her duties and even gets to school on time)
Adrien: more time with my dad. (Gabriel is sick and can’t be Hawkmoth or do his job.)
Chloé: the only thing I want is to be queen bee again, but you can’t even do that (she gets turned into a literal bee when she gets home.
Lila wanted to impress her class. So she went for the most selfless wish she could think of. “I wish to dedicate my life to helping those less fortunate than me.” (To Lila’s internal horror, all her savings went to charity and she is arguing with her mother to skip University and be a full-time volunteer.)
It is Chloe’s condition that has Ladybug and Chat Noir confronting Miss Goodmother. She confesses she is not a fully licensed fairy godmother and needed more practise.
Chloe’s condition is reversible. Like the fairy tales say, she needs to learn her lesson. Miss Goodmother knows no other solution.
Chat: what lesson does Chloe need to learn?
Goodmother: if only magic could be straightforward, am I right? I don’t know, either.
Chat looks to Ladybug. This sort of magic was up her alley.
Ladybug thinks and recalls Chloe’s wish. “I think I know. We need to change Chloe’s desire to be an animal-themed hero, to a social queen bee who wants to help others.”
Chat: and how do we do that when we don’t speak bee?
Ladybug: maybe Pollen does.
Pollen can speak bee and does not mind helping her former wielder.
Initially Chloe is as whiny and unreasonable as before. But thanks to Pollen’s patience, Chloe starts to mature.
After all, what has she to be proud of now that she is a bee? Her parents don’t know what to do with her. Nobody can understand her so they only view her as a passing bit of news.
It is a humbling experience, especially since the only one who understands you is a bigger, magical bee who isn’t bothered by her remarks. (Pollen was instructed by the guardian to be firm with Chloe, who is no longer her queen.)
As Chloé watches the world go by, she soon offers commentary for how things should be done, eventually without the insults.
Chloe’s bee head turns human.
Pollen: progress!
There comes a time when Chloe is fed up with her mother for wanting to fire Jean whoever, and actually speaks in loud english.
Pollen: more progress!
Chloe even used her restored speech to ask Jean’s full name.
One day, as Chloe watches Sabrina do her homework, she admits that she would rather do her own homework and would even volunteer to plant trees with Mylène, if only to fully appreciate her human body again.
Poof! Chloe is human.
When news travels of how Chloe’s personality and magical cure, Lila realizes what her cure might be.
If wishing to be seen as charitable got her into this mess where she is a prisoner of her own body, then being seen as uncharitable might get her out.
But with her body being forced to be charitable, that is easier said than done.
That said, it doesn’t mean she cannot call for the heroes to help a cursed student.
Chat: oh i got this one. If being seen as uncharitable breaks the curse, then just tell the truth since action won’t do it.
Of course it would be the stinkin truth to set her free.
Lila reluctantly tells the class she has conned them, all the while her body is giving the money she owes them back. (Since she donated all her savings, she sold her branded goods to pay back her debts. As usual, this was the curse’s doing.)
At first the class are disbelieving. As this is going on, Lila’s hand is about to accept a deal that will sell her prized Pandora bracelet. It was definitely one of her cheaper jewellery pieces but it had sentimental value since it was a gift from her dad before he died.
Lila snaps and insults the class’ naïveté, desperate to break the curse before it is too late.
The class gape in shock at Lila’s change of tone.
Lila regains control of her body and backs out of the online deal.
Of course this means she is still punished for truancy, but the curse saw she was punished enough. Her body is exhausted and worn. Her wardrobe and bedroom practically Spartan. Her popularity gone in an instant.
Last of all, Adrien suspects Gabriel’s cough is due to his wish. Realizing he needs to give his father’s health back, Adrien is unsure how to do so.
Chat tells Ladybug Adrien’s problem.
This stumps her too as Adrien did nothing wrong. Then she suggests it is Gabriel who needs to change. If he wants to get better, he has to make time for his son.
They decide to back Adrien when he tells his father the truth of his illness.
Chat backs out, claiming to be very susceptible to cough. And Gabriel doesn’t think very highly of the goody hero.
It takes a monumental effort for Ladybug to maintain presence of mind around Adrien but she supports him when the time comes.
Needless to say, Gabriel is not pleased but relents to always eat meals with his son.
His illness is getting better.
Now Nathalie suggests he actually talk to Adrien.
Poof, Gabriel is cured!
Hawkmoth is back!
(Maybe we should have just let Gabriel be cursed with the common cough. Paris was remarkable peaceful for a while.)
Believing herself to be a celebrity after her first photo shoot and media debut, Lila thinks she is famous.
And certainly her workload has increased, attending photo sessions with Adrien.
Lila does not want to be associated with her class anymore, thinking them beneath her. She aims for fellow celebrities like Aurore and Mireille. Her excuses have also become more about meeting with celebrities than helping with fundraisers.
Fortunately, Aurore and Mireille are good friends with Marinette and they can tell she dislikes Lila. Trusting her judgement to be beyond simple jealousy, the weathergirls stay clear.
Lila is frustrated but decides to spend her time primping. She is a model now, she has to look perfect. She even spent a lot of money for a new fancy hairdresser.
Meanwhile, Mylène is hurt that Lila brushes off her charity fundraiser selling candy and potted flowers.
She had accidentally gotten the honey-drizzled treats on Lila’s hair and she freaked.
“DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MY STYLIST COSTS NOW? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU I AM TOO BUSY WITH MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN YOUR CHARITY? YOU’RE LIKE A BROKEN RECORD. Charity this, charity that! Just stay away from me.”
Fortunately, Marinette had been on hand to console Mylène.
Lila’s outburst had been secretly recorded by Markov.
As Lila prepares herself for her next photoshoot, ignoring her disgusted and offended classmates, she is surprised to hear that the session has been cancelled.
Rather than risk Lila targeting Markov, Adrien slyly suggests it was hardly a surprise. Lila just didn’t cut for model material. She should have spent more money on facials.
Lila frantically checks her mirror for pimples or moles.
Meanwhile Max hurriedly makes sure the recorder’s identity is anonymous.
Eventually, Lila decides to check public opinion to find out how she is lacking. She finds the video instead.
Outraged, she confronts the class but they all deny it.
To make matters worse, the comments agree she isn’t model material.
“Looks like she is ugly on the inside and the outside.”
“She must have won a contest or something to be hired.”
Knowing she must fix her reputation, Lila is forced to apologize and ask to volunteer.
However Ivan harshly refuses. “The fundraiser should be handled by those who genuinely want to help. You just want to feel good about yourself, you don’t care about others.”
Everyday, Lila has to endure scorn from the student body and it hurts so much, knowing she was so close to fame only to lose it.
The despair drowned her enough that no lies were ever issued from her mouth again.
AU where Tikki and Plagg are 2 children. To be honest, I’m worried about the tricks Plagg pulls.
Plagg: why do I have to join you in trick or treating? I hate sweets.
Tikki: then give me yours
Plagg: I’m going back home and taking a cat nap.
Tikki: you get to play tricks on those who don’t give us good candy?
Plagg: I already do that.
Tikki: yeah, but this time I won’t yell at you.
Plagg: oh so Sugarcube is willing to bend the rules for some candy?
Tikki: like the way you stole Chloé’s bracelet when you thought it was some expensive cheese.
Plagg: touché.
Generally, people were glad to give candy to the pair. Plagg was getting bored. He hated exercise and he hadn’t pranked anyone for the last 2 hours. How much longer is Tikki going to drag him around?
Then they visited Chloe’s hotel.
Beyond mocking their Ladybug and Cat costumes that Marinette made for them, the brat threw her own chocolate foil wrappers in their buckets like it was a trash bin. Then Chloé slammed the door in their faces, laughing as she went to enjoy her expensive chocolates.
Plagg: …prank her?
Tikki: do you have to ask?
As the pair walked out, they heard Chloé screaming after Plagg tossed a hive full of bees into her room. Tikki didn’t even ask how he got through the air vents without alerting security. All she asked is if Chloé would be all right.
Plagg: the bees were already dead. I just scared her and ruined her chocolates.
They skipped the Agreste mansion, knowing it was a futile candy stop. Plagg was tempted to trick Gabriel Agreste but didn’t want to get Adrien into trouble about his choice of friends again.
Then they came to Lila. She gave them sugar-free candy. Personally Tikki thought those things did not deserve to be called candy.
Tikki: prank her?
Plagg: why? She gave you candy.
Tikki: how would you like it if I swapped your camembert for dairy free cheese.
Plagg raised his hands in surrender. “I was just asking.”
One of Plagg’s favorite pranks was to throw toilet paper. And he did the same to Lila’s house. Only he used her toilet paper and tossed it all outside and inside her apartment.
When the children returned home, Tikki was pleased with her spoils. Plagg was muttering he wasted 3 hours just for 2 pranks he could have done any day.
Tikki shoved a cheesecake at him. “Less talking, more eating.”
Summary: Emma Dupain-Cheng always wanted to know more about her father - but her mother lied to her and told her he was dead. And it would be like that, if Adrien Agreste hadn’t came back to Paris and they hadn’t bumped into each other during a fashion event. Now, knowing her father is Adrien Agreste - Chat Noir! - Emma does what her mother - Ladybug! - forbade her to do - she grabs the rabbit miraculous and travels back in time to fix everything. She deserved a happy family - and she would do everything possible to have it.
Emma Dupain-Cheng fell in love with a camera when she was barely three years old - or at least, it was the story her mom loved to tell people.
Marinette always said that if Emma saw a camera, she would laugh, giggle, scream or do something to be the center of the camera’s attention. She would pose and beg for photos, making Nino the most happy man ever since he was a photographer, he always had his camera ready for Emma’s photoshoots.
Marinette lost track of nights she spent with Emma on her lap as she looked photos and photos of Emma in different outfits and places, aging like the model she was, like her father-
No. No. Adrien was her past and he decided to move on without them. He didn’t know about Emma and he didn’t have to, so Marinette hated to admit it, but she was selfish and cowardly and lied to Emma, telling her that her father was dead and his ashes were free in the ocean he loved when he was alive.
Besides, it has been sixteen years since he left. Emma would turn sixteen in some weeks and Marinette couldn’t believe how far her little princess was going as an international model.
