Yet Again, Chat Noir Has Gotten Me Out Of Art Block, And Become My Default For When I Don't Know What

“We were in love.”

I call this one "Double Kill"

Not people saying Adrien “lost all character development by the end of the episode” 💀 When are people going to realize losing their feelings for their original love interests is NOT character development and doesn’t resolve anything lmao. There’s nothing wrong with them being in love. This is a romance series ffs. Enough of that “reverse the lovesquare” bs

They need to learn how to HANDLE their feelings. They need to learn how to be themselves around their crushes. They need to be the ones to take initiative to overcome their personal barriers and show their crushes who they really are. That’s character development. 

Y’all, Adrien literally experienced THE most important character development in regards to the romance plot. Hearing Marinette’s confession about how she acts around her crush, and how she thought her crush was stuck up and pretentious before she realized how kind and genuine and sensitive he could be and fell for him, made Adrien finally realize what’s been holding him back. Adrien finally realized he needs to stop playing casanova and crossing Ladybug’s boundaries and just be himself - i.e. kind, genuine, and sensitive - to have a chance at Ladybug returning his feelings. This means Ladybug is finally going to be able to see ADRIEN shine through Chat Noir.

Recall Origins, where Marinette realized she was wrong in what she initially thought of Adrien after he opened up to her about how new he is to school and friendship, and she fell in love with him after seeing his kindness and vulnerability.

Now we’re moving towards that repeating with Ladynoir - and this time Ladybug will see Chat Noir’s vulnerabilities. We’re now closer than ever to not only having Ladybug realize her feelings for Chat Noir, but also to her eventually learning and coming to terms with his identity, which is something she hasn’t considered at all thus far, unlike how Adrien has already thought about Marinette being Ladybug. And given how it’s been foreshadowed all season, I’ve been betting on Ladybug learning Chat Noir’s identity by the end of this season — whether it happens this season or later, this is a big step in warming her up to seeing the resemblance before it happens.

Adrien realized he has to be genuine and vulnerable with Ladybug if he wants any chance of her truly loving him. THAT’S HUGE. That’s the realization he’s been needing to make for three and a half seasons. That’s the realization Kagami was trying to get him to make in the art room scene back in Lies -

That even when he’s being silly he’s still playing a character and not being genuine. He wears the mask of a perfect dutiful son as Adrien. He doesn’t stop wearing a mask as Chat Noir – he puts on a different one. One where he can ignore and hide all his vulnerabilities and loneliness and solely play the part of the charming, funny Cat-sanova with superpowers. Just because it’s a character he LIKES playing doesn’t make it any less of a character. He wasn’t ready to come that realization then, but he’s done it now.

And what did he do in the very next ep that comes after this one?

He was vulnerable and honest with her about his feelings. He opened up about how terrified he is of losing her, of being abandoned. It can’t have been easy given what we know about what happened with his mother, and you can see that it wasn’t easy for him – his voice wavers and he curls in on himself and looks away from her. But it worked, and it brought her closer to him – both literally with her hand on his, and emotionally, by softening her up to him more and helping her understand him a bit better and finally allowing her to give him heartfelt reassurance.

YESS! I never new I needed this in my life until now.

Chat Noir recreating Tom Holland's Umbrella

That would be everything, it needs to happen!! It would also be the perfect symbolism for his relationship with Marinette/Ladybug. Imagine a post-reveal, love square canon where Chat does this as an act of love. Ladybug doesn’t know if she should laugh or faint.

DEADEST INSIDE SHES EVER LOOKED WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

Chat blanc spoilers

So this episode is saying that whatever happened in Felix killed the love square? I feel like I’m dying after watching that

time for some ML sugar

Chat noir is an incredibly competent hero in his own right.

Ladybug is doing worlds better than the order of guardians

Alya is a great support and confidant for Marinette

Kagami is a good friend and is doing her best to help out Marinette with her feelings

Luka is a good brother to Juleka and he does a good job being a friend to Marinette and Adrien

Zoe is a phenomenal actor and she has a great bee costume

Nino deeply cares about his buddy adrien and his whole anger towards Chat noir was solely jealousy and worry

Marinette is immensely creative and she is incredibly good at planning

Marinette is allowed to get carried away with her emotions

Adrien is valid in feeling like he is replaceable

They are all kids and allowed to make mistakes and not see everyone's perspective

Part 149 of my bakery “enemies” au!

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Kofi

I don’t need anymore excuses why I need to draw him 384758390475903 times more.

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