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a short story told in bullet points:
- 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
- this was her city
- and no one could take that away from her
