Anonymous asked: Adrien (from Miraculous Ladybug) for the headcanon meme?
HELL YES. For this ask meme.
A: what I think realistically
We all know, in our heart of hearts, that Adrien and Marinette are the local masters of all physical activity. Like, I recognize that the kwami magic is what makes them super strong or agile or whatever, but like. Y’all. Some of that is just pure organic buff-as-fuck muscle. Over the course of their first school year of having the Miraculous, Adrien and Marinette both get so fit they could easily be sports stars. During a game of dodgeball, Adrien accidentally convinces everyone he’s a gymnastics master because he does a back handspring to avoid a ball, totally on instinct out of habit because combat. Marinette starts wearing tank tops because Summer Ugh and Adrien walks into a door because holy shit Marinette has back muscles wow oh my god. A bunch of them go swimming and everyone’s like “You are both tiny teens, how do you both have a sixpack.” Adrien’s modeling agents are baffled by where he’s finding the time to pull this off, but like, hey, as long as he’s putting on lean muscle instead of bulking up, they’re not gonna…like…stop him.
Anyway flash forward to post-identity reveal when Marinette and Adrien are playing dodgeball again and she literally vaults over him to nail the last member of the opposing team and Adrien catches her on the drop and they run around celebrating like morons with Marinette on his shoulders while the entire school gapes at them.
B: what I think is fucking hilarious
Listen, I know we all like to talk about Marinette’s response when she finds out that Adrien is Chat Noir, but. For a hot second. Let’s just talk about how Adrien is going to react when he finds out that Marinette is Ladybug. He thinks Marinette is great, clearly, even though her inability to speak to him has obviously convinced him that she doesn’t like him much. But Adrien admires Marinette so much, she’s such a strong-willed person, she’s so clever, she’s so funny, and honestly if he wasn’t already so head over heels for Ladybug he’s be crazy about her.
After he finds out Ladybug’s identity, Adrien spends three hours lying flat on his back in his bedroom, staring up at the ceiling.
“Plagg, she’s so cool. Plagg. Plagg, Marinette is Ladybug and she’s amazing. Plagg. Plagg, are you listening to me? Plagg, I think I love her.”
Plagg is absolutely not listening to him. Adrien doesn’t care.
C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends
Fam. Let’s talk about akuma!Chat Noir. I have no idea if this is ever going to be a thing, but I want it to be a thing and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since I saw THIS AMAZING COMIC.
Ladybug is wounded in battle with Hawkmoth, and Chat Noir…well. The akumas are attracted to strong negative emotions, and for that moment, Adrien is nothing but a bit of driftwood being dragged out to sea on a riptide of grief and guilt and rage. And Hawkmoth, he does like his dramatic irony, and what could be more ironic than this, one hero destroying another.
He miscalculates a bit, though. His akuma melts into Chat Noir’s bell, and the magic sweeps over him, and, indeed, Adrien feels the akuma warp the lines of his thoughts. Until all he feels is rage, white-hot and protective. His lady is bloody in his arms and it’s all because of Hawkmoth and he is going to destroy anyone who comes near her.
Chat Blanc is going to make sure of it.
D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway
Anyway Adrien’s mother was a Miraculous holder and he got his sense of humor from her (”You know me,” she used to say, winking at him as she did her elaborate blue-green-violet eyeshadow, “vain as a peacock!”) and also she used to tell him about what it meant to be a good person. He tries to live up to her memory every day.
