While rewatching Miraculous Ladybug today I realised how poorly the children hide when they transform. Marinette jumped behind a wooden bench in a public park right by a fence in Climatika??? That's not very genius hiding. Now I'm all for the head cannon that the Miraculous have glamours to hide their identity, but I also like the idea of a Danny Phantom kind of scenario. Like literally every civilian KNOWS who Ladybug and Chat Noir are because they've seen them transform right in front of them when the kids think they're hiding so cleverly in bloody plain sight on the street and just outside class. However they don't have the heart to tell the kids that they know as they try so hard to keep their identities hidden (it's not their fault they're not very aware of their surroundings), so instead everyone just...pretends they don't know. Shop owners will give Adrien and Marinette free products when they realise who they are, but Adrien waves them off as part of being famous and Marinette is too sweet to not believe their excuses of there being extra stock. Their teachers even give them slack when they come in with bags under their eyes after a late night of chasing an akuma. Alya directs outsiders and tourists away from their identities by feeding the Lasyblog false information. The Parisians are very protective of their heroes. So basically we just see the series from Marinette and occasionally Adrian's view, in which they keep their identity safe. Meanwhile everyone around them are trying their best to support the two young teens as discreetly as possible.
Honey: It is not nice to throw people!
Tadashi: Whoa there, feisty-pants, calm down!
Honey: I'm calm.
Tadashi: Good.
Honey: Hya! *throws a chem-ball at Yokai*
Jishi, once he finally wears MaoMao down into marrying him: I’m gonna take things real slow to not rush MaoMao and allow her to become comfortable before we take the next step in any form of intimacy.
MaoMao: I know more than you.
Everyone out here wondering and arguing over when it became obvious that Martin had a crush on Jon...
Homeboy had a crush from day one. It only became obvious when Martin went back into that fucking worm house and found Prentiss just because he needed to get enough evidence to prove himself right to Jon.
Martin was so full of pining that he committed several crimes of breaking and entering, and then went back so he could risk his life for some spider webs
That’s gay rights BABY
Honestly Griffin McElroy and the boys' acting has totally destroyed me with this latest episode. The implications of the end scenes are so messed up and I really hope we see them come into play later on, but they also give us a lot of insight into what's happened in the other arcs. Taako was already messed up from believing he had killed all those people in the last episode of his cooking show, but Barry's death would've made his guilt weigh down so much more. When he was running away from the ruins of his show, all he would've been thinking about was how much bad luck and death he brought to the world. To him Barry's death was impersonal as he didn't remember him, but the sight of a man falling to his death in front of him was the first coherent memory, the only one that was real in this world and not the filled in ones from Lucretia. So the deaths of all those people from his cooking would've made him remember that man falling to his death in front of him, and the weight of his still warm wand in his hand, the smoking tip pointed at the figure dropping away from him with a pained smile on his face. Lucretia may have thought she was setting Taako up with a happy life of stardom, but the whole time he was weighed down with the guilt of murdering a stranger for some unknown reason. And when he saw Barry in the first arc, there would've been a sensation of fear and guilt weighing on him, despite him not knowing why. Fisher would've blurred the face of the man he killed in order to block his old memories, but the sight of Barry's face still dredged up horror, fear and longing. Longing for a man he once saw as a brother, but who he now associates with the feeling of metaphorical blood on his hands and an empty place next to him. And Merle, every time he saw Davenport in the Bureau, would hear a soft choking echo of a man desperately asking who Merle was. Who he was. Davenport's very utterance of his own name initially brings a swell of emotion that blocks off Merle's airways, ears ringing with a desperate cry of "I'm Davenport!" But Fisher's power quiet end the whispers every time, and Merle is left with a hollow feeling that once crept up on him every time he sat at his beach at dusk, mind tricking him into seeing six figures dancing along the shore, chasing one another with happy shrieks as they hadn't done in so long. Merle doesn't feel guilt like Taako did. Does. But he feels a hollow sensation in his chest where it used to be filled to the brim with joy and love. Worst of all was Magnus, who knew what Lucretia had done before his mind was wiped. Each time he saw the Director, there would be an initial sense of betrayal, a world less scream of despair billowing up inside him, begging her to stop! Didn't she know what would happen? It would all end, they wouldn't be together anymore, Lucretia don't let us go, don't leave me alone Lucretia p l e a s e. The sight of the voidfish, beautiful and ethereal, would soothe the turmoil of emotions inside him, bringing him a sense of warmth and comfort. If only for a little while. Magnus was a happy sort of guy, but there were days when he felt like his skin didn't fit, that the creaks in his bones shouldn't be there. That his time with Julia, his beloved wife, didn't seem real, none of this did. And he would look into the sky with longing, feeling a sensation of the ground beneath him gently rocking, a cool breeze ruffling his hair as the heavens spread out beneath him. And each one felt sorrow when they saw the harsh lines at the corner of the Director's mouth (she should be smiling, she should be happy, we have to protect her), and crinkles at the corners of her tired eyes (little bookworm, so strong and clever, she needs some rest, she always does). But they also felt overwhelming joy when she smiled and laughed, her tired and old visage melting away to reveal a fresh-faced girl who loved to explore the work around her (our journal keeper, our friend, our little Lucretia). But then the power of the voidfish would crash over them, and they would absently smile back at the woman who loved them more than anything in the world, who had to hold herself back from cracking goofs and hugging them tightly. Who gazed into their aging faces and only found emptiness looking back.
How about a Saints Row AU?
:O Like, that the nerd herd are a gang? and trying to take out all the other gangs in the city?
Perhaps they save Tadashi’s life from the fire, and induct him into the gang then, where he learns of their plan to grab all the territory in San Fransokyo. It’s surprising, because Honey Lemon and Wasabi and Fred and Gogo are a small gang, and none of them seem particularly cruel or terrible. But then Tadashi witnesses one day Gogo break a man’s arm completely in half, theres a lot of gorey details, none of the others even bat an eye, and he no longer doubts.
The leader is unknown to Tadashi. Just a mysterious person the others talk about whom Tadashi is not allowed to know the identity of yet. Despite this, Tadashi still helps, and he invents things/hacks other gangs’ technology to give our nerd gang a leg up over the larger numbers in the other gangs.
It helps, a lot, and soon all the other gangs are down and San Fransokyo is theirs.
But then, their leader is kidnapped by the police chief, and Tadashi learns that it was his little brother Hiro pulling the ropes all along to try and clear out rival bot fighters and more dangerous men from the streets - all to try and make San Fransokyo safer, in his weird and anti-hero gang leader way. Tadashi is absolutely in shock, but he doesn’t have time to have a crises over if he ever really knew his little brother, because they all have got to get their gang leader back.
- Megamod
AFTG au where everything is the same except Neil and Andrews attempts at gifting each other CRAZY FUCK-OFF expensive things is somehow ratcheted up another notch until someone (Nicky) notices them spending their literal life savings on each other and calls them out on their mutual attempt at making each other their sugar baby.
(Neil is confused as per usual, Nicky is fuxking delighted at these disaster gays competing to make the other their baby without a single word, and the rest of the foxes are internally screaming about how dumb the whole scenario is because neither will admit something more is going on. Aaron just doesn’t want to think about his brother fucking anyone let alone the suicidally stupid sugar baby who has the mafia after him)
(Andrew is contemplating murder more than usual while simultaneously looking at bigger houses in Columbia because Neil just upgraded his car that fucker)
Watching ‘Toilet-bound Hanako-kun’ Is hilarious because it’s set up so that the 2 school/ghost trios are thematically meant to maul each otherto death/be each other’s foils.
The only problem is that god has given (1) brain cell to each trio to share.
The Toilet Trio pass it amongst themselves like a hot potato. Kou sacrifices the brain cell the rare times he gets it just to help his friends through their emotional stupidity. Nene loses it every time a hot boi goes by. Hanako only gets more time with it because he has a goddamn job to do.
Meanwhile Sakura has never let go of the brain cell.
Perfection