So Real, I Needed More Of Adrien's Inner Monologue So Badly That I'm Doing It Myself Now 👩‍🦯

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im normal about these guys btw

this is so funny because i got this from myself putting something in my notes app (i do NOT remember) and was just like "yeah fuck it we ball"

No because a lot of people insist on saying that Gabriel had some kind of mini redemption before dying since he sacrificed himself, when he's THE BIGGEST COWARD OF ALL TIME KILLING HIMSELF TO ESCAPE ALL THAT SHIT AND DELEGATING ALL THE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE 14 YEAR OLDS. And that's what the show is showcasing again and again. There's a clear constrat between what the general population thinks of Gabriel and who he actually is.

Oh Gabriel is SCUM SCUM HUH

YOU!!! WANTED!!!! YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL ORPHANED SON!!! TO DO WHAT!!!! AFTER YOU DECIDED TO FUCK OFF ON YOUR OWN!!!!! WHAT!!!

Still trying to figure out Ladybug's design, so any opinions are welcome ! But I'm more inclined to choose between the first and the third options.

The thick leg warmers are cute but I don't think they fit my version of Ladybug, who's supposed to incorporate gymnastic moves into her combat style, so she needs a very light suit. I'm also planning on shortening those wings.

The gold accents look a bit too jarring for me tbh, so I'm considering removing them and leaving them for a power up/leveled up version of the suit.

As bonus, here's a more dynamic shitty sketch of Ladybug that I made to see how the design would look like in action. Will finish it some day, for now uni work is piling up...

AI can scrape my blog all it wants to

because i'm going to stick random words into my posts goldfish to confuse it.

i chicken cat kangaroo salmon hate generative AI, broadly speaking. AI makes me want to live alone in the woods with my Celsius Fahrenheit cats like my ancestors probably did.

Banana.

Also, I will be telling lies. Did you know fish can get jobs. Some of them are lawyers.

Low quality Chat Noir doodle to escape my responsibilities

me with every 2010s show/anime I've ever watched tbh

accidentally stumbling upon something you used to love and finding you still feel the same way about it

i was trying to make a meme but i fucked up the audio layering and

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?