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@generalluxun as promised, here's the drabble for the second part of your request: Puppy Love- Sabrina !

A reminder of the prompt: The NYC students are on a field trip to Paris, and have brought a packet of Sweetheart candies for their French friends.

Hope you enjoy!

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Puppy Love, by @queer-cosette (AO3 link)

‘Just Puppy Love’ was what her mom had called it, Sabrina’s old infatuation with Chloe.

“She’ll grow out of it.”

It had felt insulting, diminishing something Sabrina was sure was real and true and important and everlasting, and it hadn’t encouraged her to stay in contact with her mom post-divorce.

But it’s different when Sabrina sits down at her desk on Valentine’s Day and finds a box with a candy heart with those two words on it.

‘Puppy Love’.

She looks around eagerly, meets Zoe’s nervous gaze just outside the classroom door.

Puppy Love. Love of a ‘puppy’.

Sabrina smiles.

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Ohh that ask game is adorable! I hope I can submit two?

Proud of U- Chloé

Puppy Love- Sabrina

Hi! That's absolutely fine ☺ Here's the first one, we'll tag you for the second one when it's done!

A reminder of the prompt: The NYC students are on a field trip to Paris, and have brought a packet of Sweetheart candies for their French friends.

Enjoy!

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Proud of U, by @2manyfandoms2count

"Go on, Chloé, you clearly want one." Sabrina nudged her encouragingly, noticing her benchmate begrudgingly watching the merriment surrounding the packet.

Chloé gave it a beat before rising from her seat and carefully making her way towards the group.

She quickly reached for one of the heart-shaped candies, tightened her fist around it without looking at its inscription, and scurried back to her place before revealing it, one finger at a time.

Proud of U

Three words she longed to hear from anybody– rather, one person in particular.

“Ridiculous.” She gulped the heart down with her tears.

It tasted bittersweet.

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Hello everyone!

It’s finally February, arguably the official month of love (chocolate, flowers, romance, but also pancakes and groundhogs – you name it!) ♥️

To celebrate, we’re hosting a collaborative event between you and our MWG event participants, based on the following general prompt: 

The NYC students are on a field trip to Paris, and have brought a packet of Sweetheart candies for their French friends.

Up to you to send in a Sweetheart-esque message (real or inspired by the real ones – here’s some inspiration if you need it ) + an ML character who picks it, and see how it inspires our writers! Their challenge is to make it fit in 100 words, exactly – keeping it short and sweet!

Excited to see the results 😍

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Hello everyone!

It’s finally February, arguably the official month of love (chocolate, flowers, romance, but also pancakes and groundhogs – you name it!) ♥️

To celebrate, we’re hosting a collaborative event between you and our MWG event participants, based on the following general prompt: 

The NYC students are on a field trip to Paris, and have brought a packet of Sweetheart candies for their French friends.

Up to you to send in a Sweetheart-esque message (real or inspired by the real ones – here’s some inspiration if you need it ) + an ML character who picks it, and see how it inspires our writers! Their challenge is to make it fit in 100 words, exactly – keeping it short and sweet!

Excited to see the results 😍

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Sass and Roaar: Twinsies

The response to this prompt comes to us from @sunshinecloud-03 !

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A shorter summary for the Sass and Roaar : Twinsies prompt

Luka and Juleka commission Marinette to make matching accessories for Sass and Roaar. A few weeks later, she comes on the Liberty, and Sass and Roaar get a full matching set, with multiple hats, scarves and jackets in varying shades of teal and magenta.

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"I came to dance, not to talk." - Felinette

The response to this prompt comes to us from @sunshinecloud-03!

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Marinette and Felix are bitter ex-lovers who have had a messy break up. When they take on the role of maid of honor and best man for Adrien and Kagami’s wedding, they meet again. Rivalry rises, and old feelings resurface. Kagami notices this, and with Adrien’s help, they meddle and pair up their friends for a wedding party waltz, once the first dance is over. Marinette and Felix are paired together, a decision that doesn’t please them, but they agree to get through it, for their friends. Felix attempts to apologize during the first rehearsal, and Marinette rebuffs his attempt, telling him that she came here to dance, not to talk about their past relationship. Weeks pass, sparks fly, and icy exteriors melt as Felix and Marinette reconnect and fall in love once again.

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Plagg - Chaos (Me, I'm Chaos) Is What Killed the Dinosaurs, Darling

The response to this prompt comes to us from @deinde-prandium!

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This is more of an prologue than a summary, but I couldn't help myself...

They’ve asked for this story about five hundred times now. What’s more, they seem to react to every detail the exact same way every time they hear it. 

Selective amnesia. Plagg’s convinced it’s the only explanation. 

And yet, there’s something in the way they ask that always makes the kwami cave. Plagg might be a god, but not even gods are immune to a well-executed plea. 

Or it could just be that it’s Adrien and Marinette’s kids who are doing the pleading, with their annoyingly adorable puppy dog eyes. It’s funny to watch when they use the look on Tikki (though why they’re asking for extra dessert instead of extra camembert remains a mystery), but for oneself to be the target of such weaponized cuteness…

“Pretty pretty pretty please??” the children beg. 

Dammit. 

“All right, all right,” Plagg relents with a sigh. “But I’m not pausing midway through because Hugo needs to use the bathroom again. You need to pee, you go do it now.”

“Yay!” they cheer. Hugo races down the hall as quickly as he can, and Emma and Louis snuggle into their beds as they wait for their brother to return. 

Once Hugo is back (and it’s been confirmed that he washed his hands before leaving the bathroom), Plagg flicks off the overhead light. A moonbeam filters in through the bay window of the kids’ shared bedroom, and the kwami steps into it like a spotlight as they begin their tale. 

“It all started about 66 million years ago. Cheese hadn’t been invented yet, so…”

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Luka/Marinette/Adrien/Kagami - No One Can Know That I Know That He Knows That She Knows That One Thing

The response to this prompt is a collaborative effort by @galahadwilder and @deinde-prandium!

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Luka wasn’t an idiot, but there were times he suspected Kagami thought he was. In fairness to him, however, it wasn’t exactly his fault that he was trying to put some space between them since accidentally discovering that she was Ryuuko. It’s not that the news upset him or anything. It was just…he was now at three secret identities that he’d discovered, all without even trying. And he wasn’t even a Guardian! As good as he was at projecting an air of calm around Marinette and Adrien, somehow knowing about Kagami as well threatened to set him off kilter. Honestly, he didn’t know how Marinette did it, keeping the kinds of secrets she did. But it’s not like he could talk to her about the situation…or Adrien, for that matter. He shuddered to think how awkward the conversation would go if it turned out that his boyfriend, a superhero, didn’t actually realize his boyfriend and girlfriends were also superheroes…

No. He just needed time to process. And to figure out what to do. The important thing was, no one could know that he knew. 

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Kagami wasn’t an idiot, but she certainly felt like Luka was treating her like one. It’s not like she’d treated him any differently when she accidentally discovered he was Viperion— not that she told him that she knew, but still. Then again, it was one thing knowing Viperon’s secret identity, but quite another to learn the secret identities of Ladybug and Chat Noir. That discovery had thrown her for a loop, even though she really should have seen it coming, and now she found herself wishing she had a confidant. Talking to Adrien about it was out of the question, and Marinette— as the Guardian, she had enough on her plate. Luka, on the other hand…he would be an excellent secret keeper, if only it didn’t feel like he was avoiding her. Did he suspect that she knew about him? Hmm. 

Whatever Luka’s motives for avoiding her, perhaps he had the right idea. No matter how awkward things got, it was critical that no one knew that she knew. 

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Adrien wasn’t an idiot, but he was starting to wonder if Marinette thought he was. Kagami had blown her identity on her first time out, and Miracle Queen had shown Luka’s directly to Hawkmoth, but only Marinette wasn’t allowed to have a Miraculous back after only he had seen her? Sure, do whatever it takes to protect your identity, but then. Luka—Viperion—had found out his, somehow, and she hadn’t seemed surprised. Which meant she knew and didn’t tell him. That hurt. He wanted to ask her about it, but he wasn’t supposed to know who she was, was he? She’d been adamant that nobody was supposed to know, but apparently it was just nobody but him.

He could get the picture. He wasn’t let in, again. And that was fine. He still cared about her, about all of them, even if they didn’t about him, so it’s not like anyone really needed to know he was hurting. It’s not like anyone needed to know he knew.

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Marinette wasn’t an idiot. Both of her boyfriends, and her girlfriend, were all avoiding each other. Clearly there’d been some kind of fight, and all of them were… mad? Maybe?

Okay, maybe she was an idiot. Because she had no idea what had happened, why none of them were talking, and none of them were telling her anything. She’d gotten so engrossed in her duties as Ladybug, and the Guardian, that she hadn’t really kept up with her datemates, so she’d clearly missed something, and she had no idea what. And she couldn’t just ask them—they’d flip out and be mad at her and they’d stop being able to protect Paris and then Monarch would win and the city would be overrun by Nazi Zombies! No, she needed a plan. Some way to investigate what had happened. Maybe she could get the rest of Operation Secret Garden involved in her scheme? It didn’t matter. Whatever it took, she had to know.

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Chlonette / I Wasn’t Like This Before

The response to this prompt comes to us from @galahadwilder!

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The worst part of dealing with Chloé isn’t the pranks. It isn’t the mean-spirited comments. It isn’t the constant attempts to get Marinette thrown out of school. It isn’t even the outright violence. No, the worst part about dealing with Chloé is that Marinette remembers who she used to be before her mother left. And that Marinette may have had a tiny, teenie, itty-bitty baby crush on her.

Chloé was Marinette’s first kiss, “practicing that thing that grown-ups do in movies.” The two of them had gotten married by the slide in elementaire. They’d been best friends, sharing everything, everything, until Chloé’s mother had vanished and Marinette’s parents had stayed. And Chloé hadn’t forgiven. The worst part about dealing with Marinette isn’t the self-righteousness. It isn’t the sabotaging of Chloé’s plans. It isn’t the way the designer keeps turning the class against her. It isn’t even the stupid cracks about Chloé’s family, though those hurt quite a lot. No, the worst part about dealing with Marinette is that Chloé remembers how things used to be before her mother left. And that Chloé is hopelessly, helplessly, desperately in love with Marinette Dupain-Cheng. And she has no idea how to be her friend again.

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Gabriel Agreste centric — “Messy blades and spilled blood”

The response to this prompt comes to us from @hanaasbananas!

— I've been sitting on this for a few days now and I keep coming back to the idea of, like, a set of vignettes or snapshots through his life, with a repeated motif that changes as his life does or gets sort of warped.

So it could go:

"Gabriel Agreste would never be a father." going into his reasons why, a child would be a distraction from his work, and there were too many variables involved. He'd considered having a child to be his heir but the chances of the child posessing the same skills needed to run his business were slim, he'd rather take an apprentice the way Audrey had taken him in.

"Gabriel Agreste didn't want to be a father." He really didn't understand why Emelie so desperately wanted a child. It would only disrupt their lives. Treatments were expensive etc etc. He didn't want to be a father, but for Emelie he tried.

"Gabriel Agreste was not a very good father". Emelie told him with every reproachful glance, every whispered argument late into the night about his indifference towards their son, every something something. He pretended to ignore her when she'd call him mr grumpy face to Adrien as he passed them by. Emelie didn't talk to him for a week after he asked why she wasn't simply content enough that they'd HAD a child, why did he need to get involved too?

"Gabriel Agreste was a single father." But he wouldn't be for long. Some nights would hear Adrien crying in his room, but what was the point in comforting him, trying to bond? Neither of them would like the experience and besides, Adrien would have his mother back soon enough.

Idk about the part in the middle, where I could have him maybe discover chat noir is Adrien and resents him even more for fighting against him, not wanting his mother back (which is illogical bc adrien doesn't KNOW what Gabriel's endgoal is). There would be a fight, maybe Gabriel doesn't want to get his own hands dirty so he makes an akumatised knight for the blades part of the prompt and he comes out only when Adrien is exhausted. Blood is spilled.

Now this could go either way it could be Adrien had faked and strikes a killing blow or he wasn't and Gabriel does it instead. Either way:

"Gabriel Agreste never wanted to be a father. And now, standing over his sons body/lying at his sons feet, he was a father no more."

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for the March event: Kitty, Honestly (The History of Wrong Guys) for Marichat!

The response to this prompt comes to us from @galahadwilder!

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Post-Elation, Marinette realizes two things. First: Marinette can’t be with Chat Noir. Second: Chat Noir isn’t in love with Ladybug anymore.

Crushed, Marinette stays home from school the next day, until Chat Noir shows up at her balcony that evening after school to check on her. He looks about as wrecked as she feels, and the two of them make an agreement:

Stay friends.

Thus begins the Marichat friendship, where Chat Noir comes over a few nights a week to commiserate. But they keep… almost kissing. Almost loving. Almost. And so Marinette resolves to move on, by force if necessary, before they both go crazy..

She tries to date, to find other guys, but none of them feel right to her. She complains about it to Chat Noir, hoping to maybe dissuade him from pursuing her. This goes okay, until he finds out that her crush before him was Adrien.

Suddenly he’s weirdly invested in getting her together with Adrien? It doesn’t matter how much she tells him that won’t work, or how much she pursues anyone else. Every time she complains about another bad date, there he is, telling her to go for Adrien.

And is Adrien suddenly paying so much more attention to her than he used to?

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Characters: early fanon cat blanc and early fanon evil ladybug (antibug?), Alya, Nino etc

Title: Cruel season

The response to this prompt comes to us from Gaussiansphere!

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The idea of seasons as a motif always makes me think of other classical quadralities—four elements, temperaments, humours, etc. As a result, I'd want to organize it as four short storylines or even vignettes, each one tracing the relevant character's descent. In terms of length, it could go two ways—there's a short version of it where you just have one chapter per character, or a longer one where you do 3x4 with each set of three hitting the basic story notes: introduction/tragedy/fall. When I've written things similar to this concept in the past, I usually have a more independent continuity, where each narrative arc is seperated from the others or is at least not very intertwined with them. In this case, however, it would be fun to mix things up and have the chapters interspersed so that the fall of one character becomes the tragedy of the next. For order, the way to go would be Alya-Nino-Adrien-Marinette. I considered having Adrien and Alya swapping places in the order, but Adrien falling first would make the rest of the narrative a bit awkward. (Flipping this order so the two heroes fall before their friends would also work, but the progression of the plot would be very, very different—in the former, you've got a roughly inverse rate of power to corruption rate. In the latter, the opposite. It would be a grimmer story, but without as much potential for suspense).

My twist on this would be that I'd make it a period piece: 1960s France was crazy. There was a war going on, huge social unrest, and radicals nearly assasinated Charles De Gaul. All in all, it fits the title quite well.

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Love Square — “Band-Aids Don’t Fix Bullet Holes”

The response for this prompt comes to us from @chai-ki!

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So this idea actually came about when I was working on my Eras fic but I scrapped it because it promised to be way too long for the 10,000 word limit. 😅

When I saw the title “Band-Aids Don’t Fix Bullet Holes” it immediately brought me back to this story. It’s one I definitely want to write and I think I may keep the title because I love it. I just have other pieces I’ve committed to that I need to finish first. 🫣 (Looking at you December event fic…)

The story takes place post “Destruction”, post Monarch defeat and follows my typical ‘I use what I want from cannon and scrap the rest’ type of writing. It’s an AU where Adrien and Marinette have never met -potentially. I haven’t figured out the plot holes there yet. Adrien is traumatized by the fact that he not only killed a person but that that person was his father who was also an evil psycho. Maribug of course only knows part if the story and tries to be supportive but he falls off the face of the earth, refusing to transform ever again. Two years later is where the majority of the story would take place. So yeah. 

If you’ve gotten this far, enjoy the snippet below and thank you! 🥰

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Adrien awoke to his head pounding. Rays of all too cheerful sunlight streamed in through his curtains that gently swayed in the breeze flowing through his wide-open balcony doors. He tried to remember what exactly happened last night that would lead him to leave them open. Trying and failing to focus on any sliver of a detail, he decided to try and get up.

Bad idea.

His stomach lurched and he barely made it to the bathroom before emptying what little remained inside. The action only spurred his headache on, and his vison went blurry. Leaning back against the wall he tried again to recall any sliver of a detail from the night before. Despite the obvious hangover, his heart felt incredibly heavy, like something large was suddenly missing, but for the life of him, he couldn’t figure out what it was. Rapidly he came to the conclusion that he needed more sleep if he were going to figure anything out.

Adrien crawled his way back to his bed and hoisted himself up, facing away from the open window this time. A black blob filled his line of sight and for a moment he thought something was truly wrong with his eyes before realization hit.

“Plagg?”

“Hey kid. You look like…”

“What- what happened?”

Plagg hoisted the large comforter up and over Adrien’s shoulders. “Get some sleep, you need the rest.”

Rather than reply, Adrien quickly fell into a deep slumber, already forgetting what it was he had wanted to know in the first place. Plagg hovered above him with a sad look in his eyes.

“It would break your heart if you remembered, kid.”

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1 New Voicemail

“Hey kitty, just checking in. You had me really worried last night. Plagg assured me that you were okay… I don’t really believe him, but I suppose I don’t really have the choice. Heh.  Um. So, anyways, I’m at our spot. Please come see me soon.”

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1 New Voicemail of 427

“Kitty… It’s been a year. I hope you’re alright. I miss you.”

“Nothing new has happened lately. Same old minor crimes and what not… My friend (the one I told you found out who I was about a few months ago) and I have been talking and… well I think I want you to know who I am outside of the mask.”

“No, I know that I want you to know.”

“My balcony hatch was always open for you, even if it was raining because I wanted you to know you were welcome any time... You used to come by for cookies and tea… Sometimes we’d stay up late and watch a movie, sometimes you’d fall asleep on my chaise. We were closer than you knew… silly kitty.”

“Marinette. My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng. And I miss you, Chaton.”

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