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Marinette Duapin-Cheng, future clothing designer and current helper of rich kids with family issues!
In honor of it being spooky month, I have decided to post one of my akuma designs
This is the MTS version of Sole Crusher. When a character gets akumatized, its usually because a short-term situation they’re in triggers an underlying issue that has been festering long before Hawk Moth even started terrorizing Paris (the main exceptions to this being young children, who have had less time for a large issue to fester, but also struggle with dealing with their intense emotions, and the more sinister akumas, who are easier to akumatize due to being full of negative energy). In this case, it would be the short term trigger of Chloe trying to get Zoe to behave like her (which would be more of an attempt on Chloe’s part to show her little sister how she genuinely thinks the world works as opposed to being intentionally malicious towards her) combining with Zoe’s long term traumas of needing to conform to others’ desires such as the kids at her boarding school and their mother (hence why SC’s design has the black and white like Audrey’s style).
Sole Crusher’s power would also be different from what it was in the original series. Instead of needing to touch people with the shoes she’s wearing to absorb them and grow larger, she’d end up summoning giant, high heeled pillars to step on people and drain them of all personality (“If I can’t be myself… No one can!”). This change was mainly made to prevent there from being too many akumas whose power is grow really big, and it fit the soul crusher idea that her name is inspired by far better.
(I also think it goes without saying that Zoe’s acting complex would not be resolved in one episode. She’d probably start to act perfect and sweet with the rest of the cast at the end of the episode, but it’s more that she’s watering down her personality to appease potential new friends rather than genuinely being fully honest with others. Similarly, most of the other characters would hold on to their suspicions of Zoe and not immediately accept her.)