a request for a romantic dance from @dimes1. supposed to be a simple drawing of a tango, but halfway through it became a waltz bathed in sunset light. (I heard a lot of wildest dream during the process and it influenced more than I thought) I was quite surprised because I usually avoid drawing with bolder play of lights and shadows because I don’t feel safe enough or when I try, I don’t think the result is beautiful. but I don’t know, I just loved the result. I think it was so romantic and intimate, like a movie.
Okay, here’s an au that mixes two things I love, fae fantasy and mlb. In a very long and very delusional text, don’t say you weren’t warned.
At this point, it’s just a piece very similar to my favorite trilogy (Folk of the air) and as I love miraculous, I started rambling into an idea of a Paris submerged in magic and magical creatures, where Adrien is a prince (nothing cruel in fact lol) with a peculiar curse that has been prophesied as the cause of the destruction of everything, that he tries to hide from everyone’s sight as he is about to ascend the throne in place of his (that cruel) father. And where Marinette, she was half human, half fairy, no pointy ears but with a unique and quite unusual feature, wings.
I know, I know, fairies are usually depicted with wings. But not for a girl with human blood in her veins. the pureblood fairies in this world have animal characteristics but not all of them have insect wings, adrien has cat eyes, chloe has fine bee wings, Alya has eyes and a fox’s tail, among others. But humans are just humans, and half-fairies are usually not unusual at all.
Marinette however, is just a half-fairy girl who wants to be more. She is in training and wants to become part of the court of the realm that purges the akumas. White butterflies that transform any being into a terrible monster that causes terror throughout the kingdom. She wants to help fight this evil for the greater good. But, she is not considered suitable for the job as she is not a complete fairy.
You see, every fairy of pure and royal blood, receives after completing a certain age, a guardian, a kwami, an ancient creature that is possessed of a powerful magic that can borrow it to fight the akumas. The Kwami alone do not have control of their own power as it is very extensive (that same story we already know about the miraculous, I will not redo this speech) they do not have a defined form, sometimes they are small beings, others can show themselves to whoever wants to be a human or a fairy (depends on how they want to be seen)
Plagg and Tikki are the Gods who founded the entire fairy world. Plagg was destined for adrien because of his curse, and marinette eventually discovers that she is the first half-fairy to possess a guardian as powerful as Tikki in thousands of years.
Two halves, destined to meet. Marinette, may be the key to saving the kingdom, and Prince Adrien himself.
From here on, things derail like a train and I honestly have a lot of ideas that don’t fit in this post. Maybe I’ll bring more of this story, if anyone is interested to hear it. That’s it for today, until next time.
She looked and saw an open mouth Chat Noir and was surprised to see him there already but then saw everyone looking towards a nervous looking Lila and a girl she didn’t recognise. “Wait, you’re not Milady? Did you use the Mouse Miraculous to multiply yourself or something? Please tell me this wasn’t a lie!” Chat Noir demanded and Marinette demanded someone explain what was going on.
“The new student is Sara and she is Lila’s best friend; they had been telling us that she was you.” Sabrina spoke up and Marinette had her mouth wide open and was growing angry. This had gone far enough…
“Then why won’t you help the class,” asked Adrien. Lately, he’d been on Lila’s heels. Her former crush was another name on a long list of betrayals.
“It’s simple, I’m always willing to help my friends. Now, please leave, I’m busy.”
They left the art room, her words sinking in. Oddly enough, it was Nathaniel who broke the news. Telling Alix, who told Kim, who told Max, and so on and so forth until it got to Alya.
Marinette shook her head, “Fifteen thousand dollars of work you were going to get for free, gone.”
Most of her classmates’ faces had drained of color at the price, at realization of how big of a screw up they made. They had no idea just how much work Marinette did.
Lila was seething because it would be too hard to turn this around.
“What’s your best friends name? And can you describe them.”
Marinette froze and stayed silent. Tikki suddenly felt a strange twist in her tummy. Sabine and Tom looked at their daughter uncertainly. Finally after a long pause. Marinette spoke with a strained laugh.
“I uhh dont remember having one sir.” Sabine felt her stomach suddenly drop, hidden away behind a plant Tikki felt the same thing.
“I suppose there’s nothing left to say then.” She told them, before she turned away from them, heading to the back of the class. She sat down and refused to speak for the rest of the class despite the confused looks she got and the annoyed ones. Even a few hurt ones.
I’m very much ali Back to miraculous 80’s ! An au that I made sometime ago! This is a fanart of Adrien from Miraculous Ladybug, inspired by Morten Harket, A-ha’s vocalist! I hope you guys like It! -commissions open-
Sooo I came up with a « Miraculous Ladybug musketeers au » kind of? I have so many ideas for this au and already a few sketches of the other characters, would you like me to explain how this would work? I think I’ll call it « musketeers au » for now, I have another name for this in French but I don’t know how to translate it lol
omg remember that twitter au i was fawning over a few weeks back that ended? the author, @jakcfrost, is turning it into a fic!!! please give it a read here and flood her with all the love because by god is this a good story and i’m so pumped for it
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! and yes guys please read the story on ao3 i’m SO SO EXCITED about it
during marinette’s senior year, her class is assigned to write an essay about their favorite hero
most people write about ladybug or chat noir, some even write about rena rogue or carapace or queen bee
adrien writes about ladybug of course
and nino about rena and alya about carapace
and chloe struggles to decide between queen bee or ladybug
she chooses ladybug
but marinette struggles to pick a hero
she considers writing about chat noir
he’s been there since the beginning of their fight against hawkmoth
he’s helped her save countless civilians
without him, she would be dead ten times over
and the public never gives him enough credit
but how can she write about him without mentioning the other miraculous heros?
they’re just as important
shechose them because she believed in them, and they haven’t let her down since
and what about non-traditional heroes?
her parents have supported her in everything she does
they’ve been there for both the bad days and the good
they help her with her problems no matter how small and they’ve never given up on her
and what about her teachers?
or tikki?
or master fu?
how could she choose just one hero when she was constantly surrounded by them?
she found a hero in the older man on the street corner who gave her directions when she was lost
she found a hero in the little girl who helped her pick up her dropped books after a long day and an even longer night full of akuma fighting
she found a hero in the young woman who told her her shoe was untied so that she wouldn’t trip
hawkmoth may target people on their worst days but paris combated this by looking out for each other, by helping each other stand up whenever they see someone fall over
so she wrote about that
she wrote about the exceptional kindness she experienced on a daily basis
she wrote about how her classmates made sure she was eating enough and getting enough sleep
she wrote about how her father would teach her a new cookie recipe on the weekends
she wrote about how her mother would come home with a new fabric swatch once a month for marinette to experiment with
she wrote about jagged stone giving her the opportunity of a lifetime when he showed up on her doorstep and asked her to design him a hat, jumpstarting her career
she wrote about adrien and his desire to make people smile
she wrote about alya and her fierce determination
about nino’s ever-watchful protective eye
she wrote about chat’s ability to make ladybug laugh even when it felt like the world was ending
but most of all she wrote about the city
she wrote about the people that she didn’t even know the name’s of
she wrote about the people who saved her when she didn’t even know she needed saving
she didn’t get a very good grade on her essay, but that didn’t really matter to her
because ladybug belonged to Paris, and Paris was ladybug’s
adrien would try on cowboy boots one time and become obsessed. his father hates them but he doesn’t care. he just walks around in those loud ass stompers because they make him feel like he’s in a Western and he loves it. he wears them out as chat noir one time (plagg is a menace) and paris can’t decide if they love them or hate them. one day when adrien and his father get into a really big fight adrien donates all of his shoes except the cowboy boots. he wears them everyday. he owns three pairs and his collection is constantly growing. marinette makes him a pair covered in the most obnoxious sequins she could find as a joke for his birthday but they’re unironically his favorite pair
Marinette: goodbye Unknown number: wait Marinette: oh Marinette: u r here Marinette: i thought u weren’t Unknown number: i was Unknown number: i’m not used to things like this
p.3/5 preview:
Unknown number: what do u associate with me?
Marinette: a good luck
Marinette: what is latin for lucky?
Marinette: wait i’ll google it
Unknown number: don’t
Marinette: oh it’s felix
Marinette: do u mind me calling u Felix?
*
p.4/5 preview:
Felix: so now that u know for sure u don’t feel the same anymore, do u?
Marinette: i
Marinette: i don’t know what i feel
Marinette: when did u understand it was me?
*
p.5/5 preview:
Marinette: r we really discussing how to catch Shadow Moth right now?
Felix: of course we do *** For EARLY ACCESS please check patreon.com/san_fics
Why the authors of Miraculous Ladybug hate Felix so much
It’s obvious that Felix is important — and they can’t deny it, and couldn’t even resist making him to be the reason of a big Ladybug’s failure in season 4 finals. And they left him in that scene looking at the burning Paris side by side with her anyway (the scene from PV-trailer, where Ladybug looks at the burning city together with Felix-Chat Noir).
Funny dynamics, isn’t it?
But why? Couldn’t they use Lila as a villain-type role? Or even Chloe?
And why did they even brought Felix back after saying that he won’t appear in the show?
On my opinion, the answer is purely psychological.
Felix is like a first born son to show, that they had to give away and someone else raised him…) — and that is why we often see Felix as an older sibling in fanfictions — because the fans intuitively feel his status.
Felix is more mature in comparison to a playful and sheltered Adrien, who of course took some hardness from his father (that we saw for example when he made Lila get Mari back to school and some other moments), but still much softer then Felix.
Adrien has his feminine side a little too developed sometimes. That’s how he gives the ruling role to Ladybug, for instance, although they start out as equal partners. And even when she becomes a Guardian, Chat Noir whines and suffers from her secrets instead of making a firm stand.
But also being so soft as Adrien! They even made him a princess to be saved! Come on! Is this what you expect from the leading male character?
So while Adrien is nice and all, he can never reach Felix’s potential of freedom and inner strength (not to be confused with the bravery, ‘cause that he has).
I think the authors of the show hate Felix for this, for being strong, self-sufficient, extremely smart, playful in his own way, but strict at the same time, taking from life what he wants and making decisions that he considers necessary. And with all that inner depth and outer freedom they had to refuse him. Give him up for sweet Adrien.
So now that they were aloud to bring him back to the show, they can’t stand but show his strength and importance, even making him an antihero (not the villain, btw, ‘cause he didn’t actually hurt anyone directly, but left to the hero’s fight their own fights, and played on their weaknesses in order to get what he wants.
After all — nobody asked Ladybug to give him that miraculous.
Felix also has a great relationship with his mother, which makes him potentially much more adequate in building relationships with a girl, while Adrien’s position would be distorted by rigidity (taken from his father) on the one hand and infantilism on the other.
To naive children for whom this show is made, Adrinette couple seems perfect, but in practice the two would not last long together. At the same time Felix would found the way to conquer Mari if he wanted to and found how to build a deep relationship. And with passion everything would be good as well.
That’s why I love to write Canon Felinette much more then even PV. I mean, PV are sweet and classic, but Canon Felix, who returned to the show as an antihero has just SO MUCH MORE potential.
I can see him as a strong man next to Marinette, with this girl changing the direction of his actions with her warm heart, and he can be that internally strong support that she really needs. Because while Adrien-Chat says the encouraging words based by his belief he n good, Felix would make sure that the good would happen, no matters the ways of reaching it.
He also wouldn’t stop by her rejections like Adrien did if he fell for any of Mari’s guises — I’d rather expect him to trick her into falling in love with him — until it wouldn’t be important why and how their romance started.
Because we saw that he is ready to play till the end to reach his goal, and not only with honest and direct methods that both Marinette and Adrien mostly use.
And Mari herself — who can still phones and dress funny to sneak to Adrien’s house — much closer to Felix’s way of acting, so honestly — they would understand each other much better then the “go the higher road” boy — once they would have a common goal.
So I see I went a little further then just the “why the MLB-authors hate Felix” topic, but it’s all about the same. Felix has a strong position to be at the leading male role in this show, and they feel it, and they’ll use him as such, even if they will have to turn him to the other side of the barricades.
Just because they cant let him go from their mind.
Drama of life)
I prefer Felinette over Adrinette, because I feel like Marinette and Felix are more like equals than Marinette and Adrien. Adrien is attracted to strong, determined people (like LB and Kagami), because he’s not able to stand up against his dad. I don’t blame him, it’s not easy to stand up to your abuser, especially since it’s his dad and he wants to believe, that he loves him. But yes, even though he likes to think of him as Chat as some knight, he’s more like a damsel in distress.
That’s ok, I actually think the “Boys can be princesses in need of saving, too” thing good. Let him be in need of a saviour, that’s ok. But that also means that any romantic relationship he gets into (while beeing in need of saving) is doomed or will have at least major problems down the line (and I don’t trust Miraculous to deal with them appropriately). There would be a power imbalance and that can’t be a good foundation for any kind of happy long term relationship.
Felix on the other hand doesn’t sit around to wait for a hero to save him. He’s ready to make a deal with the devil if that’s what it takes. He and Marinette compliment each other, their strengths and weaknesses balance each other out. She has a strong moral compass and can set the goal and device a plan and he can make sure the plan goes through, maybe by using his own methods in some sort of grey area (well, as long as the goal is reached … You know )
I haven’t seen the finale, I just sort of know what happens, so I’m not sure if it’s just LB again or if Marinette also has some interactions with Felix, but there is a reason why Marinette and Felix are always bickering like an old married couple in fanfictions (I think I even once read one which wasn’t Felinette and they were still bickering): They have that energy and that’s so much more compelling than the way Marinette is constantly forced to stammer and stumble when interacting with Adrien.
And this is why the writers hate Felix: He’s a threat to Adrien’s status as male lead and as “perfect”. I somewhere read that Adrien is meant to be “perfect” and that “the world has to change, not Adrien”. Huh. Well, keep your perfect little pretty boy, I’ll prefer the mischievous gremlin any day. Felix is not “perfect” and he doesn’t need to be to be a much more interesting character than Adrien and that’s why he’s a threat. Well, I’m not even sure all the writers hate him, could just be one person ().
Adrinette is a teenage romance that probably wouldn’t last and might even end in a nasty breakup, but Felinette is a power couple. They challenge each other but they could also work together - and I still think they might work together with Nino and then share custody over Adrien.
Felix, sighing: You’re spoiling him, Mari.
Marinette, defensive: I’m not!
Adrien, beaming with a pastry in hand: Yeah, she is!
Always so good to have a conversation with you
I think the MLB main fandom also have reasons to hate Felix)
It’s like that…
MLB 10-14 fandom: Felix? Faugh! He is bad boy!
MLB 15-17 fandom: Felix? Well, he is kind of smart and even cool, but he is a villain, so…
MLB 18-21 fandom: Felix? He is hot! He could definitely shake it all more, if they returned him to the show
MLB 20-30 fandom: Felix? Obviously he is the only clearly thinking there. I’m not even sure Marinette deserves him, but if she gets her head out if her butt, it could work.
MLB 30+ fandom: Adrien? Who is Adrien? Ohh, right, it’t Felix’s baby-brother who is still punished in his room while the big boy making kids with Marinette!..
Sorry-not-sorry?)))
Awww, thanks! I’m always happy to answer with my weird brain ramblings ☺️
He’s moraly ambiguous in the best case, there can be an argument made that he’s a villain or at least an antagonist. But Felix is without question the best at doing so. He had a lot more impact and a lot less opportunity to do so than any other character. Even Marinette, who is forced to endure some kind of groundhog day hell. Felix brings change. Just imagine what he and Mari could do if they worked together!
And yes, many fans don’t like him, that’s kinda the job of a villain/antagonist. But if it’s a good villain, you love to hate them. Chloe, Lila? They are teenager who do what Gabriel makes them do, if anything they need a set of responsible parents. Nathalie is a grown woman and still helps her boss to fight kids in colourful animal costumes, because of “love”. I want to shake her and ask her what went wrong in her childhood. And Gabriel? The guy who is so incapable of functioning as a human being that he can’t mourn his wife like a person? Instead he has this whole creepy basement/lair thingy? He literally has a body in his basement.
I mean, all the adults in this show are an embarrassment, but as the main villain he is extra embarrassing.
So, what I actually wanted to say: Not only as an alternative lead, but also as a villain Felix is a better character than the ones occupying those roles now.
Ohh, this part about embarrassing adults was amazing
Felix would make a perfect villain indeed, if he wanted. But the thing is that his goals personal and clear to him. And with all the capacity for emotions that we saw in the show, he appears very and very clear-minded. So, to really become a villain he must be at least a little bit mad)) which he is not.
And self-confidant, because he has a living mother again.
So I guess he wouldn’t spend years trying to gain power over people, enslave them, conquer the world, or whatever the villains are doing. It would just be boring for him, since he personally is much more interesting to himself.
So if Marinette would actually grow up — and she has a big potential to her character as well — I agree that this would be a great power couple, because she could bring his attention to right things (as a smart woman does) and he would reach any goal for her (as a strong man does).
This miraculous predecessor was a bit more difficult to design than usual so there may be fashion elements that don’t clearly scream “feudal Japan” than how I initially planned Nevertheless, here is Feudal Japan Viperion!
Slightly similar to canon viperion, I was thinking that striking the shamisen strings would initiate the “time-travel”countdown and the snake design would indicate how much time he would have left to travel back to the initial time-travel point. Otherwise, maybe he could use the instrument as an overdecorated bat to knock folks out lol.
