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

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.

avatarsarny:

ok but imagine:

Chat Noir beginning to suspect his Lady’s identity through frequent visits to Marinette’s balcony

She gives him delicious baked goods, blankets when he accidentally ends up sleeping over, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, and eventually (she swears she’s only doing it to shut him up) gentle fingers to scratch at the spot behind his ears that makes him slump into a pile of blissful goo.

And by observing her, her infectious smile, the freckles lightly dusting the bridge of her nose, the midnight hair framing those impossibly familiar blue eyes…Chat’s resolve crumbles. 

She’s too much like her, like his Lady, for it to be anyone else. Her voice - so clear and confident, her bravery when standing up to Chloe’s bullying, her sharp wit that only seems to come out when he’s facing her behind the guise of an alley cat…

Not to mention he catches a glimpse of a small red thing flitting around her head every now and then, and with his enhanced hearing, can hear it talking to her.

Marinette’s a miraculous holder, and Adrien’s in love.

But he’s not sure if she feels the same way…on either side of the mask. And it scares him. Ladybug simply rolls her eyes at Chat’s advances, and Adrien seems to make Marinette rather uncomfortable.

He’s lost his mother, his father’s never there for him, and he can’t lose his best friend and first love, too. 

So he dials back on visits to his princess, not only to protect himself from rejection but also so that he can’t kiss her like he desperately wants to; he stops kissing Ladybug’s hand in greeting, and keeps his distance. 

His friendship with her is one of the most precious things life’s ever given him, and he refuses to let his love for her get in the way of ruining it.

Till a particularly rainy day arrives, and Adrien finds himself unable to stop the tide pulling him ever closer to her.

Chloe’s talking about Chat Noir, and he snaps out of his mid-afternoon daze.

“I personally don’t see why Ladybug needs him. She’s quite capable of saving the city without him. All he does is get in her way,” she remarks absently, inspecting her perfect manicure, Sabrina nodding in agreement.

Something in Adrien deflates, and he pretends he hadn’t heard that.

“He doesn’t deserve to be called a hero, remember that time he completely destroyed my room-”

“Don’t you dare say that about him.”

Everyone listening looks over in shock, and Marinette’s standing with Alya in the doorway, brows furrowed in a  way that makes her the spitting image of Ladybug facing an akuma.

Adrien’s heart is beating so fast he wonders whether it’s going to stop any minute. He can’t look away or pretend he isn’t listening anymore.

Chloe smirks and opens her mouth to retort, but his Lady cuts her off once again. 

“He’s loyal to Ladybug, and he’s unbelievably kind. He’s devoted to saving Paris just as much as she is, and without him on her side, she wouldn’t be here today!”

If Adrien’s blush could get any redder, it’d be worse than Nathanael’s hair right about now.

“He’s just as important and heroic as she is, and he deserves every good thing in the world. So don’t talk crap about people you barely know, or about people who do a heck of a lot more for the world than you do!”

Chloe’s stunned at the girl’s ferocious defense of the black cat, but she sneers even though she’s cornered. “It sounds like you have a bit of a crush on him, Marinette. Careful, wouldn’t want a dirty street cat like him to hear. He’s nobody’s hero. He hasn’t even been seen in some time.”

Marinette fixes her with a glare, but her voice softens. “He’s my hero,” she says simply. “And I’m willing to bet there are many others who’d say the same. He’s my hero, he’s Ladybug’s hero, and he’s…he’s someone I miss very much right now.” Her voice seems to break then, and she turns on her heel to walk out the door, leaving Chloe and the others gaping after her.

Adrien is utterly floored. Completely, irreversibly floored, and he can’t muster any coherent thought except to find Marinette as soon as possible. 

His head is buzzing. Marinette…Ladybug, she’s missed him. Missed him while he tried to give her space and keep his distance, when all she’d wanted was for him to be right next to her. 

She’d sounded so passionate and sincere when she defended him that perhaps, perhaps she might love him, too.

It’s still raining when evening arrives, and she finds her drenched kitty shivering on her balcony, after such a long time.

It’s still raining when he presses his lips to hers right then and there, and she lets him kiss her the way he’s wanted to for so, so long. She’s warm and sweet and strong against him, and they melt into each other.

It’s still raining when they reluctantly break apart, Marinette pressed up against him, drenched from head to toe just like he is, chests heaving and cheeks flushing.

His miraculous beeps a warning-Plagg hates the rain- and he moves away to hide his face as he detransforms. What if he, Adrien, isn’t enough?

She cups his cheeks and meets his gaze. “Minou, I’ll love you no matter who you are underneath that mask. Please, please don’t go away again,” she implores, as if she’d read his thoughts.

He doesn’t deny her, knows that he can’t ever deny her anything, and he breathes out a promise.

 “I won’t, my lady. Never again.”

(via lathori)

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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Anonymous asked: a reveal fic in which adrien and someone (literally any someone, but marinette would probably be most likely to know) would take a picture and say cheese, and plagg comes zooming out. and adriens just like. PLAGG NOOOOOO

catnoirism:

marichat-traaash:

auddy226:

pftones3482:

magical-awesome-kid:

inklizard:

i see that you said fic. i acknowledge that you said fic. but holy shit.

I AM LITERALLY DYING OMFG SOMEONE MAKE THIS CANNON ALREADY!!!!

All Alya had been doing was taking a ridiculous amount of pictures of their small groups first ever double date. That’s it. She had been doing it all day, grabbing candid shots at the water park and the coffee shop and the walk to the park. 

The moment they had found the perfect lighting, of course, Adrien had insisted he take a picture of her and Nino, since Alya had hardly gotten any, and the blogger agreed quickly, allowing Adrien to get several cutesy shots of her and Nino before demanding her phone back and situating Marinette and Adrien in the same spot. 

Nino stood behind her, his chin on her shoulder while he watched her zoom in and out meticulously, Adrien and Marinette holding their pose and their smiles for nearly a minute before Nino finally poked the girl and told her to hurry up.

“Shut up, Nino,” Alya grumbled fondly, nudging Nino in the side. “Okay you two, say cheese!”

Oh no. 

Adrien knew the moment the word spilled from her lips what was going to happen. 

Sure enough, not a half second later, just as the flash went off, Plagg’s head popped up from behind him with a look of delight etched across his face. 

“CHEESE?” he shrieked, slamming his paws down on Adrien’s shoulder and looking around frantically. “WHERE?”

Fuuuuuccckkk.

Plagg seemed to realize his mistake in a heartbeat, and his smile slowly dropped as he found Nino, Alya, and Marinette all staring at him. 

“Uhhhh…hi?” the kwami offered sheepishly. 

Adrien slapped his hand to his face hard enough for his skin to sting, and he groaned. “Plaaaaggggggg,” he whined. “Why would you do that?”

The cat threw his paws out helplessly. “There was cheese mentioned, Adrien! It’s my one weakness!”

“Adrien?” Nino managed to get out. “What the hell?”

Alya tilted her head, eyes locked on Plagg and mind working furiously. “It..kind of looks like Chat Noir,” she noted. 

Adrien was about to try and deny that when a low, shrill sound started emerging from his right. 

The trio turned to find Marinette staring at him, her eyes wide and her face sheet white. Her jaw was working as if she wanted to say something, but the only thing coming out of her mouth was that whine. 

“Marinette?” Adrien said carefully, furrowing his eyebrows. “Are you okay?”

A garbled bunch of words that Adrien hadn’t heard from her since their first date stumbled out over her lips, hands flying and fingers pointing and arms waving. 

Adrien carefully reached out, trying to ignore Plagg’s weight on his shoulder, and grasped Marinette’s hands in his own. “Marinette,” he said firmly. 

She took a deep breath and flung a hand helplessly at Plagg. “You’re Chat Noir,” she got out. 

Adrien felt the blood drain from his face and he glanced backwards at Alya and Nino, who were watching the two of them with slack jaws. “I…how…?”

Plagg shifted on his shoulder and sighed. “Sorry Adrien,” he mumbled. “Guess I kind of screwed that one up.”

“I’ll say!” Adrien snapped. 

A sharp intake of breath made him glance back again to find Nino looking somewhat hurt and Alya looking awestruck. “You really are-?”

He interrupted the reporter quickly, clasping his hands in front of him desperately. “Yes, okay, but Alya you can’t tell anyone. You guys could get hurt if you do.”

Alya bit her lip in indecision, but Nino’s gentle hand on her shoulder made the girl nod, and Adrien breathed a sigh of relief before turning back to Marinette. “Mari,” he whispered, reaching a hand out. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, but-”

A sharp laugh spilled from Marinette’s lips and she started cackling like mad, leaning over and clutching her stomach to keep from dropping to the ground. Adrien just stared at her in disbelief, a confused expression on his face. 

“Well,” Plagg murmured. “You broke her.”

Marinette struggled to get her breath back, waving a hand in the air and moving her other hand to her purse. “No…no it’s…pfffttt….this is….so stupid…”

Adrien frowned and twisted his hands together. “Stupid?” he repeated softly. 

Marinette shook her head quickly and in one swift move had unclasped her purse, digging inside and yanking Tikki out. “Stupid,” she managed to laugh before finally hitting the sidewalk and snickering, leaving Tikki floating in the air in complete bewilderment. 

“Tikki!” Plagg squealed, darting for the kwami and tackling her in a hug. 

“Tikki?” Nino asked in confusion. 

“Marinette!?” Alya yelped, throwing her arms out. 

Adrien’s breath had pretty much escaped from his lungs as he stared down at Marinette, who had finally pulled herself together and was now watching him with a twinkle in her eyes. 

“My Lady.”

AHHHGLFKCKFOFISKCHJJDHGGGGGFDFFZSXBHBVBBBHHHHHHHHH!

‘Hello darkness’

OH MAN

oh my quantic gods

greeneyes-blondequiffs:

Adrien sits bolt upright in bed:

Adrien: But if I'm Chat Noir and Chat Noir has a crush on Ladybug and Ladybug is actually Marinette and Marinette has a crush on me then that means…we actually have a crush on each other.

Plagg *sleepily*: She’s literally lying in bed beside you. You’re married. Go back to sleep.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

*whispers* kay but what about miraculous vigilante!au

miraculer:

bullysquadess:

• no kwami/ superpowers
  
• hawkmoth is the kingpin of the notorious crime ring terrorizing paris under the name “Akuma”
• organized crime is at an all time high, and no one feels safe anymore
• surprise surprise, the police are useless
• enter: marinette duapin cheng, sweet and cunning and tired of seeing her city being terrorized
• so she obscures her identity, setting out into the night streets armed only with her wits, 7 years of aikido lessons, and the burning desire to clean up the streets
• soon all the tabloids are talking about a faceless heroine dubbed “the ladybug“ taking down muggers left and right around paris’ seedy underbelly
• enter: adrien agreste, who’s inspired by the stories and tired of living his oppressively structured life
• so he suits up as well, masking his recognizable face as he and his fencing sabers seek out the mysterious vigilante
• he helps ladybug out of a tight spot, they team up
• im talking infiltrating hideouts
• im talking “cut off one head and two more take its place”
• im talking red-x’d pictures and yarn stretched across a cork board
• imagine the student in their class arguing. “well i think they should just leave it to the authorities!” chloe shouts. “yeah, like the cops could do anything without the help of Ladybug and Chat Noir,” Alya counters
• half of paris loves the duo, and the other half want them off the streets for good
• its basically netflix daredevil au at this point I KNOW
• im talking stakeouts
  
• im talking drug busts
  
• im talking midnight motorcycle chases

• VIGILANTE!AU

heCK YEESSSSSSFFGFGFFGFG

LITERALLY ALL THE GRIT I LIVE FOR

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)