It's Like The Reverse Special Except It's @cookiedough77 Ladybug And Also Mine Because I Like Crossovers...

YES OMG that's what I was going for with my most recent fanart. Adrien now needs to figure himself out without anyone's lead, find his own thing. But for now, he's very lost, he's never taken any decision for himself. I'd love for him to get into some kind of art or craft

His character seems to kind of take that direction in s6 with Revelator where he clearly states he won't do anything that will bring attention to him, so I'm thinking of something that allows him to have a more of a safe space and a community + He seems to have made changes to his room as we can see in this scene, his bed changed spots I guess ? And he painted the wall behind him :

I'd like to think that Adrien's going to get into abstract art. It's totally opposed to his father's very symmetrical, cold and strict artistic direction. He'll be able to express his emotions and creativity freely

A lot of people think of baking, since it's already a running joke in the show. But it's too tied to Marinette, and I don't like that very much since I don't want him to keep being under her wing, although she will probably be the one to inspire him to experiment.

So maybe cooking instead ? It's a way for him to connect and take care of the ones he loves, and it's also an art form

I'm really trying to figure out the development of his character since I've been planning out a rewrite/redesign of his character, which hopefully I'll be able to present to you soon

So if anyone has other suggestions/opinions on the matter, I'm all ears !

Saw the interview of Thomas saying Adrien/Chat Noir is in a stage of his life where he's finding himself and he's akin to a blank piece of paper and i could feel the mental illness activate like a sleeper agent at the thought of Adrien staring at a blank canvas trying to decide what and who he's supposed to be now im going to explode

So real, I needed more of Adrien's inner monologue so badly that I'm doing it myself now 👩‍🦯 Adrien and his mess of a family are a current obsession of mine

I just feel like the writers don't understand that girl power doesn't mean making every male character of the show insignificant. Marinette still could've been the cool super OP protagonist without having Adrien be so robbed of screen time (like in Star vs the forces of evil, Star is the most important character of the show, but Marco gets his moments as well and is not deprived of his agency)

But don't get me wrong I still enjoy Miraculous, and I think the 6th season is actually pretty solid for now. I like it for what it is, but I also enjoy expanding on it !

A blank piece of paper

Adrien art inspired from Astruc's latest interview </3

I've been trying to work a bit on my own au/rewrite of miraculous, like just writing the general themes of it.

And one of the things I wanna focus on is Marinette and Adrien having some sort of identity crisis. I want their super hero alter ego to accentuate their insecurities and to slowly overtake their everyday life. It would manifest for different reasons and in different ways, but the idea is still the same.

I mean, imagine being 15 (already very confusing age) and everyday you get to transform into a bigger, stronger, cooler version of yourself. I'd like them to experience a distortion/fragmentation of self, being unable to recognize who they truly are anymore, body image issues... Idk would be pretty neat. Still need to work on how I'd show that visually tho

Pound it 🐰👊

adrien being reminded constantly of his fathers heroic sacrifice. adrien believing that monarch murdered his father the one fight chat noir wasn’t there. the guilt chipping away at him slowly but surely. the disparity between the authoritarian father he knew vs the martyr the entirety of paris now eulogizes. all of paris being compassionate towards him for the wrong reasons. the overwhelming support that has trapped him in a narrative sanitized to the point of being a heinous lie. he’s alone in his company. there’s nothing he can do about it.

Nathaniel's transformation and suit are probably my favorite now omg

Just watched climatiqueen, so beware spoilers ahead !!

HOLY SHIT IT WAS PEAK OH MY GOD ??? The wait was 100% worth it !!

THE ANIMATION WAS SO GOOD, THE SPECIAL EFFECTS, EVERYTHING ?!!

THEY FINALLY MADE AN EPISODE FOCUSED ON ADRIEN ?! WITH HIS PERSPECTIVE ?! WE WON GUYS WE WOOON

First, the call back on the pancakes hurts so much. As I predicted, Adrien is really taking the grief hard and seems to be slowly constructing a more idealized version of his father in his mind. I mean, how could he not when everyone constantly presents Gabriel as a hero ? The future angst is gonna hit so hard guys

Also, would you believe me if I told you that I 100% imagined a montage of Adrien trying different things to find his passion ? The Adrinette moments were, as always, so precious 😭 I'll keep headcanoning Adrien as a litterature major just bc of this scene

Also, this girl on the left is 100% suspicious she talks exactly like Lila (telling Aurore that she would never lie and spread rumors about her friends to gain popularity which implanted that idea in her head). Call me crazy but HER TONE IN THIS SCENE IS EXACTLY LIKE LILA'S TELL ME I'M NOT CRAZY

AND FINALLY MY FAVORITE SCENE IT LOOKED SO GOOD !! AND LOOK HOW HAPPY AND FREE HE LOOKS I LOVE HIM !!😭😭

Too lazy too screenshot but I love how they introduced Sublime, I'm so happy that Adrien gets to have a friend of his own, who's not from Marinette's group but also not a love rival of some sort. Maybe she's gonna be more important in the future who knows 👀👀

Currently rewatching werepapas in french, and I noticed this detail about the lucky charms as well ! I think everything in this season is pointing out how Maribug is making bad decisions, and it's gonna turn against her at some point. Every episode that has been released until now is clearly showcasing this. Ngl all of this drama is making me fired up for this season ! I just hope they handle well the pay-off.

Ladybug's Lucky Charms in Werepapas

Let's talk about another detail that people kinda REALLY wanna ignore about Marinette's decision in the Werepapas akuma battle. It's the fact that she hand-waves away FIVE Lucky Charms until she finally goes with the sixth:

No, that is NOT irrelevant. Marinette is not supposed to disregard her Lucky Charms left and right because they're trying to tell her what she's supposed to do. That's Lucky Charm 101 in an akuma battle.

I'm not gonna pretend like I know for 100% certainty what they all tried to tell her, but

1) a couple of them can be easily interpreted in very relevant ways.

And 2) I don't NEED to know what exactly they all mean because it doesn't need to be PROVEN that Marinette isn't supposed to cherry-pick her Lucky Charms. We've known since s1 how this works and it's still done like this in s6. Thanks to not being limited anymore to 1 Lucky Charm, she gained the luxury of sometimes just getting to summon one for the purpose of whooping ass instead of solving the actual situation - which is still a lucky charm's REAL purpose - but that doesn't change the fact that you're supposed to listen to the Lucky Charm, not the Lucky Charm to you!

Under special circumstances like a final battle, sure, use additional ones to whoop ass. But you can't just switch out the problem solving Charm with a purely ass whooping one which is what Marinette did here in "Werepapas". It's fine when you do that in an extremely dire situation, but a normal akuma battle is no dire situation. Especially not when the only real stakes there are is being reckless with Adrien's amoks!

She's supposed to use whatever she gets and that'll lead her to the right solution. Not going through a whole line of Lucky Charms until she gets one where she finally likes the first thought she gets from it because of how little it challenges her self-preservation (makes you wonder if having unlimited Lucky Charms now isnt the worst thing that ever happened to her. Now she can just ignore whole Lucky Charms until she finally gets one that tells her something closer to what she wants to hear instead of listening to the CHARM)

Let's take a look at her 6 Lucky Charms:

From my recollection (so correct me if I'm wrong), while the teapot sometimes shows up here and there as filler Charms it was firmly established and used several times as a visual cue for Marinette to go to Master Fu.

Obviously, she can't do that anymore, but she has Alya as co-guardian, Luka who was trained by Su-Han, and even Su-Han himself as Celestial Guardian who now does whatever she wants.

In a situation where Adrien's amoks are the akuma object, it's a pretty logical thing to happen that her first Lucky Charm tells her to get Guaridan-related help. She has the option, all the needed support, and all the resources, but doesn't use it because it wouldn't be nice having to face the baggage that could come with it.

And even if you wanna say "She didn't get help because she didn't wanted the new Butterfly to possibly find out that Adrien is a Sentibeing!" Then that excuse still falls flat because obviously Adrien's LIFE is supposed to be more important than preventing that secret from coming out. The secret has no value if Adrien is DEAD.

Afterwards she gets a fan and this obviously could VERY likely mean that she's supposed to get Felix involved because he's the Miraculous holder of the Peacock. And by "VERY likely" I mean "I doubt there is a likely chance that it ISNT a hint to get Felix".

I won't even elaborate on this further. Her second Lucky Charm tried telling her to get Felix when Adrien's amoks were on the line and she ignored it. It is what it is.

For the third and fifth ones, I personally don't know what they could mean because I already struggle recognizing what exactly they are supposed to be. Though, they do have recognizable shapes. I bet other people could look at them and know where they've seen these objects before in the show.

Then right between these two, the fourth Charm Marinette summons is an unicycle (that for some reason isn't polkadotted, but screw it)

An unicycle like she summoned back in season 2 "Sabotis", the episode in which Alya became Rena Rouge for the first time. Meaning this one pointed to getting Rena's help.

For me, this is one of the most interesting ones regarding Marinette's feelings of not wanting to face the Lucky Charm's solution to instead protect all her secrets. But if anything, I would want to give it its own post and not half-ass it here. Cause there are a lot of layers to this one.

And, of course, the last one: the scarf. It's alongside the fan the one for which the fandom does casually acknowledge the symbolism of it being a call back to 1x01 "The Bubbler" where Marinette now infamously made the decision to let Adrien believe that it was his father who made the scarf for him - and not her - because of how happy it made Adrien that his father finally "cared":

I don't think I need to explain why it makes sense that this is the one s6 Marinette cherry-picks to finally work with. The poor scarf has been made into the symbol of Marinette wanting to keep pretty much everything about Adrien's family a secret from him. Including him being a Sentibeing. I miss the good old days when we dreamed of the scarf being set-up to become the catalyst for Adrien to write off his father as a useless deadbeat who isnt worth his time and love.

So, unfortunately, of course this is the one she goes with now. Even if it means taking the risk to kill Adrien. Anything to keep the secrets save and lies unnoticed. How tf did we GET here?

Very rough sketches of my take on Ladybug's and Chat Noir's suits

I'm still not sure if these are good enough or not, but they're quite cute I think ? Designing suits is hard lol