Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

A thought

bullysquadess:

Marinette keeping the pics of Adrien up on her wall becuase she cant bring herself to throw them out, but adding pictures of her other friends as well so it’s less weird. Suddenly it’s Adrien and Alya and Nino and Rose and Kim and everyone at school who’s plastered against her walls. She adds pics of her parents, her neighbors, her Aikido instructor, and all the little kids she babysits. She even asks the regular patrons at the bakery if they’d mind posing for a portrait. (which of course they do because she’d always been so sweet and sunny and who could resist those blue eyes.) 

then one day Adrien gets invited back to her house. maybe to study, maybe for video games, the reason isn’t important. what is important is the fact he climbs up into her room and just marvels at all the friends Marinette has. The sheer volume of people she knows is staggering, he thinks, and he spends a good ten minutes looking at every single picture. 

Some wonderful things to keep in mind for this scenario:

1. Adrien spots himself amongst her collection, and while he’s not-so-lowkey ecstatic over the fact someone cares enough about him to hang his picture on their walls, he’s also a bit glum that the only shots she has are from magazines. everyone else gets candid shots or laughing selfies, things that show their personality, but all his photos are fabricated and retouched. Impersonal. He gently brings this to Marinette’s attention, and suggests she take some new pictures of him. Pictures just for her. (cue Marinette dying)
   
2. Adrien also happens to spot another familiar feline face on the walls, and just barely swallows down his pleased smirk (’cool it, you’re not in costume’) to find a dozen pics of Chat Noir scattered across Marinette’s room. Most of them he recognizes from the Ladyblog, but there’s one or two that seem to be candid captures of him on patrol. (which yeah, should probably freak him out but damn if Marinette’s photography skills dont make him look heroic as fuck under the moonlight.) He asks- very super casually -if she’s a fan, and is not at all emotionally prepared when Marinette launches into a speech about how Chat Noir is one of the most selfless, kind, and underappreciated people in all of Paris, and how he deserves just as much recognition as Ladybug for keeping the city safe. “Everyone needs to remember, his destruction is what balances Ladybug’s creation. Without each other, they’d be nothing,” Marinette prattles on. (Adrien nods mutely, desperately trying and failing not to fall in love.)
3. Speaking of Ladybug… she’s noticeably absent from the walls. When asked about it, Marinette grows vague, saying something about how she’s waiting for the right picture or what not. something unique. something that isnt already on the walls of every Ladybug fan in Paris. ‘Something unique…’ Adrien muses, asking Marinette if he might barrow her camera for the night, ‘I might just be able to do that…’

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

For the random title fic meme, from @littlestartopaz:  Sugar and spice. Miraculous! Fandom

This is obviously the fic where Alya is convinced that her best friend is cheating on her boyfriend who is…also cheating on her?  It’s all a little confusing, honestly, there are a lot of people to keep track of in this…love trapezoid, or so she tells Nino when she commandeers recruits him to help figure it out.

There are three problems with her mission to figure out what the hell is going on with Marinette and Adrien.  Little problems.  Tiny, really.  She can barely see them, they’re so small.

First of all, Marinette and Adrien are impossible to keep track of, which means she can’t even get a good picture of the guilty parties caught red-handed.  Alya can get around this, okay, she is a skilled journalist, she’ll figure it out even if she has to bug the little bastards.  (Nino thinks this is going a bit far, but she did not ask for his opinion, thank you very much.)

Second of all, neither Marinette nor Adrien will even entertain suspicion of each other, which under any other circumstances Alya would consider a good thing.  Really!  But how are they so dense, she wonders aloud on more than a few occasions to Nino.  Hell, they’re always running off without explanations, anyone would be suspicious.

Third of all, and this might be a slightly bigger problem, the other half of this set of guilty couples is pretty high profile.

But how do you just up and accuse the heroes of Paris of cheating with a couple of high school students?

words-writ-in-starlight:

“Miraculous! Adrinette where Marinette is an upperclassman. Her main interaction with Adrien is at her parent’s shop, where he always grabs something during lunch break. She’s still a hot mess around him, and he’s still a complete flirt with Ladybug. Go.”  For @littlestartopaz , on the AU meme.

C’mon now, we’ve all basically agreed that I’ve co-opted this meme as an excuse to get AU prompts and write a lot on every single one of them.  So Marinette is seventeen here and Adrien is still a lonely fifteen-year-old kid who gets devoted to anyone who seems like they care about his feelings. There’s no regard whatsoever for the canon timeline here, we’re pretending that they’re already working together by the time he starts public school.

• The first time Adrien Agreste walks into her parents’ bakery, Marinette hides behind the counter and hyperventilates for a solid minute while he looks around.  She stutters her way through taking his order, and he gives her a small smile that genuinely makes her heart stop a little.  (She’s going to feel bad about that later, once she knows how much it bothers him when people get fluttery over him, but look, just look, he’s a very handsome boy and she’s awkward, this is a matter of record, Alya has the proof.)
  
• And then he actually sits at the counter and picks through his sandwich and talks to her, and he’s nice and funny and wry, with a sweet self-deprecating smile.  Marinette can barely string a sentence together, but he doesn’t make fun of her or question her and he seems fine with pretending that she has no idea who he is.  She might die, she might have a heart attack, but what a way to go, that’s all she’s saying, under those bright green eyes.
  

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Second daaaaaaaaaay reeeeeeeeblog!

phantomrose96:

I don’t know the rules of Miraculous at all outside of what I’ve gathered from tumblr, so maybe this is illegal in canon but

I’m highly entertained by the idea that like, the class takes a trip to somewhere high-security that requires passing through a metal detector. So they tell the kids that all jewelry needs to be removed. Which is like, cue small amount of panic from Adrien/Marinette as they remove their ring and earrings. Some other patrons see their anxiousness and assume it must be because those earrings/ring are highly valuable.

And this includes the akumized person in line who’s here to rob the place.

Kids head inside. Akumized person overpowers the guard, grabs the jewelry basket, rushes inside to steal whatever else. In their hurry, Adrien’s ring drops out of the basket.

Marinette notices the person first. Hands shoot to her ears, but nothing’s there. So she races back to the security desk to retrieve her earrings. Lo and behold, they’re not there. There’s only a dropped ring on the floor and…Chat Noir’s miraculous? Plagg sees her, and all rules-of-hiding be damned pretty much tells her “Yeah I have no idea where Chat is. And that person in there is akumized. And you already seem to be aware of this so just put on this ring I’ll walk you through what’s about to happen.”

Very confused, she puts the ring on her finger. And (to Plagg’s confusion now) Marinette activates it entirely on her own, and becomes Mari-chat Noir (this is weird). But there’s not much time to think about it. Plagg just gives her the speed-course in Chat’s powers and she rushes back inside to fight.

The fight, of course, gets Adrien’s attention. Who now sees the rather clumsy battle between akumized person and “Hey that’s not me”!Chat Noir. Mari-chat Noir lands a kick on the person, which sends the jewelry basket flying. People start running from the scene. The basket lands next to Adrien. He drops to his knees and starts sifting through it frantically for his ring. It’s not there. What is there is Ladybug’s miraculous.

Tiki’s response is more or less. “You have to go help Ladybug up there. Are your ears pierced? Never mind. Just take these earrings and clip them to your shirt I’ll walk you through what to do.” So Adrien does, and (to Tiki’s surprise) he knows how to activate the earrings, and becomes Adri-bug.

Adrien joins the fight. The first 30 seconds are taken up by mutual “Hey that’s my miraculous!”/”Where did you get that?”/”If you’re Ladybug, and I’m Ladybug, then who’s flying the plane?” exchanges. But hell, at least they’re used to working together. Except now they have to coordinate by giving each other commands for the best Ladybug/Chat Noir technique, now as Adri-bug and Mari-chat Noir, to use in this situation.

The students watching the fight are downright baffled because it’s definitely Ladybug and Chat Noir up there. Except…Ladybug is Chat Noir. And Chat is Ladybug. And describing the fight becomes downright impossible because it boils down to, “Then Ladybug whacked the guy in the face. Well I mean it was Chat Noir. But Chat Noir was Ladybug. Okay I mean Chat Noir the person was Ladybug the superhero and he whacked the guy in the face. No wait, let me rephrase.”

After the fight’s over, both of them agree to shut their eyes, remove the jewelry, and drop the earrings/ring back into each other’s hands, and turn away. It wouldnt be right to out each other over this. Both Tiki and Plagg go home with their proper owner. And both of them are quiet in the realization of what happened. Because yes, that was both Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting just now, and both Tiki and Plagg know exactly which classmate they flagged down to take on the opposite miraculous role.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)