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mlwritingprompts · 3 years ago

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Submitted prompt: Universal Chaos

Hi, it's me again, and this time, I got another prompt to add to my "Universal Theater" and "Universal Oblivion" AU prompts.

But this time, it's a prequel to the "Universal Theater". Why didn't I think of this before is a question I am not interested in finding the answers for :)

Contains the beginning of Cosmic Actress (neopronouns: nix/nix/nix/nixself) and nix Amok Natasi (called Time-Clock at first, then changing the name to Natasi soemetimes later. uses the pronouns clo/loc/locs/clockself, used the same as she/her/hers/herself)

TW: character death (Gabriel and Nathalie, also André Bougeois, if you want to add more, do so, ESPECIALLY rich and abusive assholes:) )

Adrien salt (because the events happen in the canonical universe first).

Rjalker here. This is my favorite prompt ever. Here is my reaction throughout the entire thing:

[ID: A screenshot from The Good Place show, showing a demon grinning widely, saying excitedly, while laughing, "This is so exciting!" The rest of the dialoge has been covered with a black line. End ID.]

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"I'm... Tired of... All of this!"

Alya watched in horror as Marinette's expression looked murderous as she spit the words with venom.

The reason was not just because Chloe was the one that started the whole situation by calling her father.

It wasn't just because André basically tried to blacklist Tom and Sabine from ever opening their bakery again and kick them from the city because he felt like it, and because Chloe became more bold since her betrayal.

It also wasn't just because Marinette literally punched André multiple times in a fit of pure rage and knocked him out, as everyone looked with horror as he fell on the ground, a nasty bruise on his face and several broken teeth, Marinette's.

No, what made her terrified was the purple outline on Marinette's face, making it clear that Hawkmoth was corrupting her friend in front of her.

"Yes..." Marinette says, responding to whatever Hawkmoth is saying to her, "Giving people chances is all but useless! If being the good person is such a torment, let's see how things are from the other side!" Marinette states with fury, throwing away her earrings away in anger, no doubt, Hawkmoth's magic twisting her thinking process for his goals.

And Alya hates that she could do nothing to stop it.

The same purple bubbles appear, covering Marinette for a moment, before dispersing.

What stood in her place was a figure with a similar face and a different set of clothes. The eyes of the Akuma cold and uncaring.

Another figure appear alongside the Akuma, looking similar to nix, with a large circle behind loc. The circle had the numbers from one to twelve written in Roman.

"I am Cosmic Actress, and the one... who will teach you what it means to suffer." the Akuma stated with cold rage.

Alya knew at that moment, that her friend is no longer there.

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Rage.

Hatred.

Desire to destroy.

These were the things that Cosmic Actress felt when nix was... born.

Born from Marinette's rage and hatred towards how her life was being destroyed, feeling like she was always going towards self-destruction no matter what she chose. As if her purpose for being born was to suffer.

Cosmic Actress understood that these feelings were Amplified and twisted. Twisted by the misused Butterfly Miraculous.

But nix didn't care about that.

These feelings gave birth to nix. Nix couldn't just abandon these feelings so easily. Not when they burn so painfully in nix heart.

Nix wants to hurt the idiots that harmed Marinette. Nix wanted them to see how it feels when they were the ones who have the choice stripped from them.

Nix felt as Time-Clock came to existence. The amok born of Marinette's lament at the many choices she was forced to make, the many things she had to sacrifice in the name of a responsibility that was never hers to do in the first place. A being capable of resetting and travelling through time and manipulating space as clo wishes.

A being under Cosmic Actress's full control, from what Mayura stated just one second ago.

Nix couldn't hide the repulsed expression showing on nix face.

Nix doesn't want to control another being! It was disgusting!

Even more, that was part of why Marinette had to suffer, because someone will always try to (and often succeed in) decide her choices for her!

Cosmic Actress immediately pointed a hand towards Time-Clock's Amokized object, the red hair ribbon that was now black.

"Shattered Chains." Nix intoned.

Like shattered glass, the black color shattered as the ribbon became red once more.

And nix could no longer feel the connection between nix and loc.

Neither could Mayura, the villain losing the connection to Time-Clock as well.

Clo is truly free from loc binding now.

"Hey! What did you-!" Mayura started to protest, but Cosmic Actress was already pointing nix hand at nixself before Hawkmoth and Mayura started screaming in nix head at what nix did next.

"Shattered Chains."

The voices of the villains were cut short along with their connection to nix.

The butterfly miraculous was no longer shackling Cosmic Actress. Nix power and freedom now truly belong to nix. Hawkmoth won't be able to hurt nix and rob away nix power like he did to the many previous akumas that disobeyed him.

Now that the little nuisance was dealt with for now, Cosmic Actress took a moment to look at the terrified looks of the escaping citizens, before looking towards where André Bourgeois' unconscious body was being lifted by his most-definitely very underpaid employees.

Now that won't do.

"Please leave. You are not my target." Cosmic Actress said to them, then looked at the Amok as loc looked neutrally at nix. "But if you want to stay, just don't get in my way." Nix added.

Clo gave a smile at that, and said, "It's fine. In fact, I would like to help you. Marinette's emotions gave me life. I want to avenge her as well. It's the least I can do for her. Even if I no longer have to obey someone else's orders." Clo answer was sincere, and loc voice was somehow neither high nor low, but somewhere exactly in the middle, perfectly gender-neutral.

Cosmic Actress nodded and accepted this answer, and focused nix attention towards the mayor once more. The underpaid employees had moved him, but that didn't matter, nix could still sense him.

He was not far away, only a few houses separating them.

Cosmic Actress and the Amok moved at the same time, easily jumping high enough to fly and avoid the buildings. And getting a good look at the still-unconscious mayor that was right below them, the underpaid employees having set him down, exhausted from carrying him. They were standing far enough away that they wouldn't be hit, luckily for them.

Nix raised a palm, energy condensing in front of it. "Oblivion Orb."

The orb rapidly hit the mayor and him alone, erasing his body in an instant.

And with that nuisance dealt with, Cosmic Actress pondered on who to select next.

From Marinette's memories, Chloe was a big source of suffering, but Hawkmoth and Mayura are worse because nix can deal with a weak civilian. Supervillains will be much more threatening.

And of course, another major nuisance is that bratty cat guy, Chat Noir. Nix will make sure to eradicate that bastard for his constant sexual harassment of Marinette. Marinette was forced to allow him keep his ring because of things out of her control and because she was guilt-tripped into doing so. But not Cosmic Actress. Nix will destroy him for what he did, and for being a horrible human in general.

There were also lesser sources of rage, like the populations' inability to understand that Ladybug's "NO" means "NO", not "maybe".

"..."

Supervillains and Chat Noir it is then.

Decision made, nix moved to search for the villains.

Clock-Time decided to help by using loc control over space and time to feel search for them.

The miraculouses have a slight effect on space and time around them thanks to them being powered by a concept (as far as nix and clo know for now) and that effect is what clo is searching for.

"... Not there... Close... No that's probably Tikki's Miraculous... Ah, in that direction!"

Nix followed as clo jumped towards the source.

And ending up in front of one large mansion belonging to one Gabriel Agreste.

Nix frowned.

"Agreste? you're sure? I don't doubt you but didn't Marinette investigate him?"

Clo thought for a moment, "But that was before Mayura appeared so..."

The point was clear. Gabriel had Mayura akumatise him to cover his tracks as Hawkmoth.

"After all, he can't be so stupid to akumatise himself without Mayura, right? I mean, that would be monumentally stupid."

Yes, that would be very stupid and nonsensical.

"By the way, before we start, I want to ask you- uhh, do you like the name Clock-Time, or... do you want to change it?"

For the first time in nix short life, nix felt awkward and unsure.

The name Cosmic Actress was in a way fitting for nix, and nix had chosen it nixself, but nix wasn't sure if the same applied to the Amok and wanted to make sure.

Clo blinked for a moment before smiling.

"Oh! Thanks for the concern! And... yeah. I don't like the name very much. So I will call myself... Natasi!"

"Natasi." nix repeated the name.

"Yes! Pronouns are clo/loc/locs/clockself! Used the same way as she/her/hers/herself."

Nix smiled at loc enthusiasm.

"Natasi, nice to be friends with you. I think I will keep naming myself Cosmic Actress, pronouns are nix/nix/nix/nixself."

Both smiled for a moment before focusing on the goal.

Natasi once more used loc power to get the exact position of the villains, then opened a portal directing to them.

Both were met with the sight of the two supervillains inside their lair, shocked out of their minds.

"You!" Hawkmoth yelled furiously as he raised his cane.

No doubt that he was so angry and frustrated at how easily the two broke from his and Mayura's control.

On the other hand, Mayura felt more... subdued. She looked just as angry, but it felt like she was only trying to.

'No doubt because of using a broken and damaging miraculous.' Cosmic Actress pondered.

Not that their anger meant anything. They both were no match for Natasi and Cosmic Actress.

Natasi simply pointed a finger at Mayura, and a portal opened in front of her so she could not escape, and was sucked into the portal.

"What did you-!" Hawkmoth's yell was cut short as nix punched his head with a force that would have exploded a normal human. Only his defensive suit protected him from the worst of the damage and he ended up being dazed for a moment as his body easily shattered right through the walls and he fell to the ground outside the mansion far below, making a crater in the pavement.

"Well, he is not dead yet. His suit is too strong to die from something insignificant like this. By the was, where is Mayura?" Cosmic Actress said as both jumped down on the ground to finish him off.

"Somewhere in the universe, probably dead already. Don't worry, I can get her miraculous back just fine. These things will not be scratched even by a black hole." Natasi told nix.

Reaching the ground as Gabriel was trying to stand, clutching his head from pain, nix raised a palm, ignoring the fleeing and screaming bystanders.

"Oblivion Orb."

The orb hit Gabriel head-on, and he screamed as he was forcefully detransformed, his suit unable to withstand that amount of damage. It did one thing right, though, it let Gabriel survive it.

With a flick of Natasi's hand, the butterfly miraculous was teleported into loc hand.

"Y- you...! How dare-!" Gabriel started to shout, but both ignored his furious screams, and Cosmic Actress just killed him.

"Good riddance." Nix stated as Natasi opened a small portal and extended loc hand, and bringing from it the Peacock miraculous. Nathalie's body was long destroyed by the forces of the cosmos, apparently.

With this, they only need to make a show and wait for the heroes to appear to get their miraculouses.

So both quickly went to the highest point of the Eiffel tower and nix spammed large Oblivion Orbs and with the help of Natasi, guided them towards a few more people.

There was Audrey, that rich abusive woman, Andre the icecream guy because he was a creep who can't take a "NO" from his customers and doesn't let them pick what they want, and most likely a queerphobe as well.

There was also that racist dude who basically went out of his way to cause trouble to Marinette's mother, and so is that cop, Rogers.

In fact, nix decided to just murder all the cops. They literally did nothing but obey a fascist mayor and solidify his rule. Plus, they were racists anyways. They deserved death.

After a minute or so of mass-killing unrepentant racists and jerks with large orbs of energy, the heroes finally appeared.

Well, the only ones Natasi and Cosmic Actress qualified as heroes were Carapace and Viperion along with Pegasus and Ryuko. Cosmic Actress wasn't so sure about the Ladybug-themed hero, but nix can vaguely recall that she is the former Rena Rouge since she was Marinette's confidant. Scarabella was her Ladybug-themed name, right?

Chat Noir is still not here. Not like it's surprising at this point. Nix recalls from Marinette's memories that th riche brat was starting to shirk his duties even more and being only a show for the sake of harassing her and enjoying her tormented look.

Oh wait, he is actually appearing. He jumps alongside the other heroes looking angry.

Did Cosmic Actress trouble him somehow for him to be this annoyed? Or maybe nix killed someone he actually cared about?

Oh no, nothing to worry about. He just started being passive-agressive to Scarabella because his "bugaboo" isn't here. The other heroes were at least paying attention to Cosmic Actress and nix friend even while telling him not to worry about Ladybug for now, because the villains are the real concern, but Chat Noir is not even looking. His is focusing his attention at Scarabella.

"As much as I can enjoy your excellent 'bonding experience'," Cosmic Actress started to call, the sarcasm heavy in nix voice. "I have other things to do right now. So give me your miraculouses and I will leave you alone. Except Chat Noir. We hate you personally." Nix stated in a matter-of-fact tone with the heroes getting even more tense at nix words.

Chat Noir apparently thought it was a great time to joke about the situation as he put his hand on his chest looking like a kicked puppy. "Meowch! This hurt me, Marinette! Am I really this unbearable to a girl like you?"

It took a great deal from both nix and Natasi not to just immediately and violently throw him into the sun.

Nix looked at him coldly.

"First, I am not Marinette. I am Cosmic Actress. I am also not a 'she'. I don't have a gender. I use the pronouns nix/nix/nix/nixself, remember them. I expect you to have at least some memory capacity in your head for things other than Ladybug. As for being unbearable, it's more like hating you for being a sexual predator incel."

It was very satisfying to see how his jaws dropping along with the rest of the group.

"What!?" He screamed angrily with his eyes narrowing.

Natasi just blinked as clo spoke with a smile, but what was coming from loc mouth was anything but gentle or sweet: "But what else can you call a guy who constantly asks for kisses and dates when a girl explicitly tells him to stop and refuses to stop, when he keeps attempting, and even succeeding in violating her boundaries?" Clo asked, "Remember when Gigantitan attacked and Ladybug was busy holding back the akuma, only for you, Mr. Totally-A-Gentleman, to decide to go for a kiss?" Clo pretended to think about it, then added, "Oh wait, that was also when thanks to your great help, Ladybug lost focus and the akuma destroyed Marinette's room and you only laughed at how funny the whole thing was! Who knew that watching someone you called a friend almost dying is so hilarious?

"Or maybe, you want us to talk about the times you were a very understanding partner by refusing to help Ladybug fighting an akuma because she didn't want to date you? You know? Like what happened when Frozer and Glaciator attacked? Oh wait, didn't you also try to guilt-trip Marinette into shipping you and Ladybug in the middle of the night when Glaciator came?

"Yeah, how romantic you are. Especially when Mayura almost stole your ring by using a fake Ladybug who only said that 'she' loves you and was about to kiss you. Such a shame that you were unable to see the trickery. Truly, Sentibug was a master at fake-acting and totally acted like Ladybug and not like your sick and twisted version of her that you want her to be~! So, is there any recent romantic actions Ladybug did for you? I mean, the last thing I can recall is her throwing you in the trash, which I guess was technically very romantic from your perspective, since she didn't just rip away the ring from your hands when she was the literal Guardian and had every right to find your identity or retire you completely."

Natasi and Cosmic Actress were both smiling at the shocked expression of the heroes, all of them horrified.

Because none of them knew of how Chat Noir acted when they weren't there. They never knew what he did when Ladybug, his victim, was the only witness.

Viperion and Scarabella looked horrified the most, and Cosmic Actress didn't know why, and wouldn't care right now.

But Chat Noir? He was also pale, and his body was shaking as he clutched his staff tightly. And nix could feel it.

Rage.

Rage at being called out and insulting his so-called love for Ladybug.

"TAKE THAT BACK!" He rushes with vengeance as his staff extends.

"Chat Noir, don't!" Viperion yells in warning, he tries to move and stop him. He can feel the danger. but it's useless.

Natasi raised loc hand-

And both Chat Noir and Cosmic Actress vanish from the tower.

Natasi looked down at the heroes neutrally.

"You don't need to worry about your... teammate. I am sure he will find himself in good company with Cosmic Actress."

Viperion doesn't hesitate on what to do. He will fix this mess! He'd already set the timer before he got here!

He slid the snake bracelet.

"Second Chance!"

...

Nothing happened.

He couldn't feel himself go back in time.

The rest looked at him in surprise.

"What? Why!?"

He looked in shock at his bracelet.

Natasi just sighed.

"Sorry, Viperion. I like you since you were supportive of Marinette but... I am not letting you interfere with this. So I just stopped time from being rewound by your miraculous. Sorry." Clo shrugged.

"And if you are wondering about where they were sent off, well..."

A sound of a large explosion reached their ears, from the direction where the Agreste mansion is located.

"There they are." Natasi finished.

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"How dare you!?" Chat Noir snarled as Cosmic Actress ducked under another swipe from his staff, which easily destroyed another wall of the Agreste mansion.

Nix opponent looking vengeful.

"I dare, because I have basic decency. And basic decency says that you are a harasser!" Nix stated, anger clear in nix tone before blocking the staff with one arm, taking no damage.

"I love Ladybug! She's my love!" He roars angrily, "Cataclysm!"

Cosmic Actress felt nix blood boiling as Chat Noir kept saying he loves Ladybug, and he is even trying to kill nix most likely.

"Chat Noir. Do you really think yelling that phrase over and over will make me believe it!?" Nix shouted back, avoiding the Cataclysm and giving the so-called hero a kick that threw him to the wall. "If you really loved her, you would have accepted her feelings and stopped asking for kisses and dates! You would have stopped calling her names she didn't like! You would have respected her boundaries that she had made clear a hundred times by now!"

Chat Noir was already standing back up, but Cosmic Actress was already above him.

"It seems that for you, the word 'love'...!" nix yelled as nix fists hit Chat Noir, throwing him away so hard out of the mansion, the same way his father had been thrown earlier.

"Ugh!" He quickly stood up again only to find Cosmic Actress in front of him once more.

"It seems like 'love' is just a valid reason for sexual harassment as far as you are concerned! Right?!"

Nix threw an Oblivion Orb that hit his Cataclysm, and wasted his power as the two spells collided and the Oblivion Orb overpowered and wiped out the Cataclysm.

"Even when Ladybug lost her voice...! Even when Mayura made a fake Ladybug...! It seems that it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your 'beloved', since you only care about your twisted version of her that can only exist to be tormented and mocked by you! But this nonsense ends now!"

The last sentence was accompanied by Cosmic Actress' arms holding Chat Noir as nix looked at him with venom that made his eyes show shock and fear.

Nix hand easily ripped away the Ring, detransforming him.

Cosmic Actress eyes widened in shock as nix recognized the person who was hiding behind the mask.

"Adrien Agreste..." Nix said numbly.

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It felt ridiculous. So ridiculous.

The guy that Marinette fell in love with, because he was nice to her.

The guy that she suffered a lot for his sake. Where she had to allow her own birthday gift for him to be stolen and never tell him the truth because she wanted him to be happy. Where she felt ashamed of celebrating the leaving of her long-time bully because this insensitive brat loved Chloe his childhood friend so much more than he cared for any of her victims, including Marinette, the one who loved him because he was nice to her once...

And he is her harasser.

And Chat Noir... is what he is in the dark. When no one is looking.

Chat Noir is how he really wants to act. When there is no fear of repercussions and responsibilities to negatively impact him.

Cosmic Actress doesn't know what to feel; Horrified? Disgusted? Angry? Numb? Tired?

In the end, pure rage and hatred won.

"YOU...." Nix gnashed nix teeth from wrath. "DIE!"

A blast of energy came to existence, obliterating everything around nix.

Adrien along with the Agreste mansion and the surrounding houses ceased to exist.

All what was left was Cosmic Actress trying so hard to calm nixself back down. Nix body was shaking, and nix expression was still wrathful. Nix wanted to just obliterate the whole world, but barely, nix controlled nixself.

It would be several long minutes later that Cosmic Actress managed to calm down enough, and decided to deal with Scarabella and the rest.

Then nix will see if the Wish can help nix in attaining nix desires.

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The battle with the rest of the heroes was basically a cake-walk.

There was nothing they can do.

Just Cosmic Actress was more than enough, but with the help of Natasi? It was basically like a level 999 monster fighting a newbie in all but name.

No matter how much they tried, it was all useless.

It didn't matter how much they resisted.

Defeat was the only option.

As nix wore both the Ladybug and Black Cat miraculouses along with the Butterfly and the Peacock, Cosmic Actress breathed.

"Natasi. I am going to use the Wish. Do you really want to follow me still? It might be dangerous." Cosmic Actress asked nix friend.

Natasi only smiled. "I'm sure. I want to be with you. Please grant this selfish request of mine."

Cosmic Actress could only shake nix head. Maybe having a friend with you in a rewritten universe will not be so bad.

Nix can only hope.

Nix breathed once more.

"Okay then. Tikki, Plagg, unify! I wish that---------!"

With that, the world turned into a rainbow as reality shuddered...

And changed. ========= END...

For now. ========= Well, this is it. the beginning of my AU.

Chronologically, this is the first one.

The second one is actually another prompt that I did not write yet. Would have written it as part of this prompt but I felt that the tone will be messed up way too much for my liking. Don't worry though, I will write it someday:) I hope.

Then Universal Theater.

And finally Universal Oblivion.

Goodbye! :)

(I literally love everything about this)

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custom-pronoun-pins · 3 years ago

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[ID: Fifteen circular pronoun pins showing the night sky with a column of colorful stars in the center, above the silhouette of a hill, with a person holding a flashlight standing on the top. White text in the blocky font "Antar" reads on each, "My pronouns are", followed by a set of pronouns.

The pins read, in order:

xe/xim/xis/ximself

ze/zim/zis/zimself

li/lia/lias/liaself

neo/neos/neoself

ne/rix/riv/rixelf

heart/hearts/heartself

clo/loc/(locs)/clockself

ri/riv/rivs/riverself

he/him/his/himself

she/her/(hers)/herself

they/them/their/(theirs)/themself

they/them/their/(theirs)/theirself

they/them/their/(theirs)/themselves

they/them/their/(theirs)/theirselves

star/stars/starself

End ID.]

Feel free to use these as icons, headers, for moodboards, ect. You can find the HD versions of the designs here on the web archive:

"https://archive.org/details/star-column-pronoun-designs"

You can also request more pronouns with the design by sending in an ask! Let me know the full set, and that you want the "star column" design! :)

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Designs are no longer available on Redbubble as of April 2023, as they've started actively stealing money from artists. Sorry for the inconvenience. You are, as always, encouraged to save these designs to use as icons or in other art, and you are encouraged to print them out and make your own shirts or buttons if you're able to.

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rjalker · 2 years ago

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if your pronouns aren't on this list, tell me so I can add them.

Mostly it's just the first two forms that matter for most of the pronoun pin designs, but people kept asking for the full sets, which is why they're all listed out.

You know, I had these sorted into groups of 10 but tumblr decided to undo that. so. RIP.

ace/aces/acelf (or aceself)

ae/aem/aes/aemself

ae/aeon/aeons/aeonself

ae/aer/(aers)/aerself

ae/ryn/(ryns)/rynself

ae/aev/aevs/aevself

aero/aeros/aeroself

aix/arix/aiv/aixelf

an/droid/androidself

an/dro/gyn/oid

an/dro/dros/androself

aro/aros/aroself

ar/lok/loks/lokself

asi/min/mina/minself

aster/asters/asterself

ay/ace/aceself

ay/li/yen/alienself

bee/bees/beeself

bee/bem/bes/bemself

beep/boop/boops/boopself

bun/buns/bunself

by/lar/lars/larself

byt/byts/bytself

ca/thar/tis/tharself

card/cards/cardself

ce/cer/(cers)/cerself

ce/cey/ces/ceyself

ce/cey/ceir/ceyself

cey/cem/ceir/cemself

ce/cim/cims/cimself

ce/cir/cirs/cirself

cer/cers/cerself

char/chars/charself

charm/charms/charmself

che/chi/chis/chiself

che/chim/chis/chimself

click/clack/clacks/clackself

clo/loc/(locs)/clockself

club/clubs/clubself

club/heart/spade/(diamond)/suitself

coin/coins/coinself

co/cos/coself

cu/ti/tis/tiself

cy/cyan/cyans/cyanself

cyan/cyans/cyanself

cy/cyb/cybryk

cy/cyb/cyber/cyberself

da/dar/dark/darkself

dark/darks/darkself

dae/daem/daems/daemself

dae/daem/daemon/daemonself

de/ad/ath/adself

de/der/(ders)/derself

de/dim/dis/dimself

de/ir/irk/irself

deq/dir/dira/dirself

dey/dem/des/demself

diamond/diamonds/diamondself

dove/doves/doveself

dre/aras/arel/araself

dre/dream/dreams/dreamself

dream/dreams/dreamself

e/em/eir/emself

e/er/ers/erself

e/im/is/imself

echo/echos/echoself

es/lin/lins/linself

ex/exs/exself

ey/eir/eirself

ey/em/eir/emself

ey/er/eir/erself

fae/faer/(faers)/faerself

fae/fir/firs/firself

fang/fangs/fangself

fe/ir

feather/feathers/featherself

fleur/fleurs/fleurself

fluff/fluffs/fluffself

fox/foxs/foxself

frog/frogs/frogself

gal/lif/frey/gallifrey

gar/ros/roself

gear/gears/gearself

gi/gin/gins/ginself

glitch/glitches/glitchself

he/him/his/himself

hea/ler/(lers)/lerself

heart/hearts/heartself

hero/heros/heroself

hop/hops/hopself

hy/hym/hys/hymself

ido/eis/eiself

ili/ilin

it/its/itself

ith/iths/ithself

ith/kir/kirs/kirself

ivy/ivys/ivyself

ix/hal/hallep/halself

ix/ixelf

izi/av/avi/fiself

jay/jays/jayself

joke/jokes/jokeself

joker/jokers/jokerself

ke/kem/kes/kemself

ker/kri/krix/kriself

key/kem/kes/kemself

king/kings/kingself

kit/kits/kitself

kit/kitten/kittens/kittenself

kiz/zuna/zunas/zunaself

ky/shal/shalk/shalself

ky/tin/tins/tinself

kyn/areth/arev/arethself

leaf/leafs/leafself

ley/lem/les/lemself

li/lia/lias/liaself

li/lim/lis/limself

li/lin/lins/linself

li/lir/lirs/lirself

lo/lok/loks/lokself

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The original separate prompts can be found here:

tumblr won't actually let me update this post properly, so this only contains Universal Chaos, Theater, and Oblivion. There's a new version of this post that is properly updated.

You can click the links below to go to the individual parts, or click here to see the newest updated compliation.

Universal Chaos, Scars, Theater, Oblivion, submitted by Anonymous.

Here's an archived version of this post just in case. (because I'm still not over the fact that tumblr suspended my account for literally no reason and then gave it back but didn't explain why they suspended it in the first place lol)

This is intended to be a writing prompt for Miraculous Ladybug, but it can also be used as inspiration for an original story!

Akumatized and Amokitized Marinette.

Neopronouns used:

Cosmic Actress: nix/nixself. Nix is an Akuma, who spends most of nix time with nix friend, Natasi. Nix is hardly ever alone by nixself.

Natasi: clo/loc/(locs)/clockself, used in the same way as she/her/(hers)/herself. Clo is an Amok who spends most of loc time with loc friend, Cosmic Actress. Clo is hardly ever alone by clockself.

Trigger warnings:

-Discussion of sexual harassment,

-Character death: Gabriel, Nathalie, André Bougeois

-Unreality / fourth wall breaking

-Cosmic / elderitch horror

-? (Please let me know if you feel any other warnings need to be listed, no matter how specific / "unusual"!)

Total word count: 9k+

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Part one:

Universal Chaos

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“I’m… Tired of… All of this!”

Alya watched in horror as Marinette’s expression looked murderous as she spit the words with venom.

The reason was not just because Chloe was the one that started the whole situation by calling her father.

It wasn’t just because André basically tried to blacklist Tom and Sabine from ever opening their bakery again and kick them from the city because he felt like it, and because Chloe became more bold since her betrayal.

It also wasn’t just because Marinette literally punched André multiple times in a fit of pure rage and knocked him out, as everyone looked with horror as he fell on the ground, a nasty bruise on his face and several broken teeth, Marinette’s.

No, what made her terrified was the purple outline on Marinette’s face, making it clear that Hawkmoth was corrupting her friend in front of her.

“Yes…” Marinette says, responding to whatever Hawkmoth is saying to her, “Giving people chances is all but useless! If being the good person is such a torment, let’s see how things are from the other side!” Marinette states with fury, throwing away her earrings away in anger, no doubt, Hawkmoth’s magic twisting her thinking process for his goals.

And Alya hates that she could do nothing to stop it.

The same purple bubbles appear, covering Marinette for a moment, before dispersing.

What stood in her place was a figure with a similar face and a different set of clothes. The eyes of the Akuma cold and uncaring.

Another figure appear alongside the Akuma, looking similar to nix, with a large circle behind loc. The circle had the numbers from one to twelve written in Roman.

“I am Cosmic Actress, and the one… who will teach you what it means to suffer.” the Akuma stated with cold rage.

Alya knew at that moment, that her friend is no longer there.

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Rage.

Hatred.

Desire to destroy.

These were the things that Cosmic Actress felt when nix was… born.

Born from Marinette’s rage and hatred towards how her life was being destroyed, feeling like she was always going towards self-destruction no matter what she chose. As if her purpose for being born was to suffer.

Cosmic Actress understood that these feelings were Amplified and twisted. Twisted by the misused Butterfly Miraculous.

But nix didn’t care about that.

These feelings gave birth to nix. Nix couldn’t just abandon these feelings so easily. Not when they burn so painfully in nix heart.

Nix wants to hurt the idiots that harmed Marinette. Nix wanted them to see how it feels when they were the ones who have the choice stripped from them.

Nix felt as Time-Clock came to existence. The amok born of Marinette’s lament at the many choices she was forced to make, the many things she had to sacrifice in the name of a responsibility that was never hers to do in the first place. A being capable of resetting and travelling through time and manipulating space as clo wishes.

A being under Cosmic Actress’s full control, from what Mayura stated just one second ago.

Nix couldn’t hide the repulsed expression showing on nix face.

Nix doesn’t want to control another being! It was disgusting!

Even more, that was part of why Marinette had to suffer, because someone will always try to (and often succeed in) decide her choices for her!

Cosmic Actress immediately pointed a hand towards Time-Clock’s Amokized object, the red hair ribbon that was now black.

“Shattered Chains.” Nix intoned.

Like shattered glass, the black color shattered as the ribbon became red once more.

And nix could no longer feel the connection between nix and loc.

Neither could Mayura, the villain losing the connection to Time-Clock as well.

Clo is truly free from loc binding now.

“Hey! What did you-!” Mayura started to protest, but Cosmic Actress was already pointing nix hand at nixself before Hawkmoth and Mayura started screaming in nix head at what nix did next.

“Shattered Chains.”

The voices of the villains were cut short along with their connection to nix.

The butterfly miraculous was no longer shackling Cosmic Actress. Nix power and freedom now truly belong to nix. Hawkmoth won’t be able to hurt nix and rob away nix power like he did to the many previous akumas that disobeyed him.

Now that the little nuisance was dealt with for now, Cosmic Actress took a moment to look at the terrified looks of the escaping citizens, before looking towards where André Bourgeois’ unconscious body was being lifted by his most-definitely very underpaid employees.

Now that won’t do.

“Please leave. You are not my target.” Cosmic Actress said to them, then looked at the Amok as loc looked neutrally at nix. “But if you want to stay, just don’t get in my way.” Nix added.

Clo gave a smile at that, and said, “It’s fine. In fact, I would like to help you. Marinette’s emotions gave me life. I want to avenge her as well. It’s the least I can do for her. Even if I no longer have to obey someone else’s orders.” Clo answer was sincere, and loc voice was somehow neither high nor low, but somewhere exactly in the middle, perfectly gender-neutral.

Cosmic Actress nodded and accepted this answer, and focused nix attention towards the mayor once more. The underpaid employees had moved him, but that didn’t matter, nix could still sense him.

He was not far away, only a few houses separating them.

Nix raised a palm, energy condensing in front of it. “Oblivion Orb.”

The orb rapidly hit the mayor and him alone, erasing his body in an instant.

And with that nuisance dealt with, Cosmic Actress pondered on who to select next.

From Marinette’s memories, Chloe was a big source of suffering, but Hawkmoth and Mayura are worse because nix can deal with a weak civilian. Supervillains will be much more threatening.

There were also lesser sources of rage, like the populations’ inability to understand that Ladybug’s “NO” means “NO”, not “maybe”.

“…”

Supervillains and Chat Noir it is then.

Decision made, nix moved to search for the villains.

Clock-Time decided to help by using loc control over space and time to feel search for them.

The miraculouses have a slight effect on space and time around them thanks to them being powered by a concept (as far as nix and clo know for now) and that effect is what clo is searching for.

“… Not there… Close… No that’s probably Tikki’s Miraculous�� Ah, in that direction!”

Nix followed as clo jumped towards the source.

And ending up in front of one large mansion belonging to one Gabriel Agreste.

Nix frowned.

“Agreste? you’re sure? I don’t doubt you but didn’t Marinette investigate him?”

Clo thought for a moment, “But that was before Mayura appeared so…”

The point was clear. Gabriel had Mayura akumatise him to cover his tracks as Hawkmoth.

“After all, he can’t be so stupid to akumatise himself without Mayura, right? I mean, that would be monumentally stupid.”

Yes, that would be very stupid and nonsensical.

“By the way, before we start, I want to ask you- uhh, do you like the name Clock-Time, or… do you want to change it?”

For the first time in nix short life, nix felt awkward and unsure.

The name Cosmic Actress was in a way fitting for nix, and nix had chosen it nixself, but nix wasn’t sure if the same applied to the Amok and wanted to make sure.

Clo blinked for a moment before smiling.

“Oh! Thanks for the concern! And… yeah. I don’t like the name very much. So I will call myself… Natasi!”

“Natasi.” nix repeated the name.

“Yes! Pronouns are clo/loc/locs/clockself! Used the same way as she/her/hers/herself.”

Nix smiled at loc enthusiasm.

“Natasi, nice to be friends with you. I think I will keep naming myself Cosmic Actress, pronouns are nix/nix/nix/nixself.”

Both smiled for a moment before focusing on the goal.

Natasi once more used loc power to get the exact position of the villains, then opened a portal directing to them.

Both were met with the sight of the two supervillains inside their lair, shocked out of their minds.

“You!” Hawkmoth yelled furiously as he raised his cane.

No doubt that he was so angry and frustrated at how easily the two broke from his and Mayura’s control.

On the other hand, Mayura felt more… subdued. She looked just as angry, but it felt like she was only trying to.

‘No doubt because of using a broken and damaging miraculous.’ Cosmic Actress pondered.

Not that their anger meant anything. They both were no match for Natasi and Cosmic Actress.

Natasi simply pointed a finger at Mayura, and a portal opened in front of her so she could not escape, and was sucked into the portal.

“What did you-!” Hawkmoth’s yell was cut short as nix punched his head with a force that would have exploded a normal human. Only his defensive suit protected him from the worst of the damage and he ended up being dazed for a moment as his body easily shattered right through the walls and he fell to the ground outside the mansion far below, making a crater in the pavement.

“Well, he is not dead yet. His suit is too strong to die from something insignificant like this. By the was, where is Mayura?” Cosmic Actress said as both jumped down on the ground to finish him off.

“Somewhere in the universe, probably dead already. Don’t worry, I can get her miraculous back just fine. These things will not be scratched even by a black hole.” Natasi told nix.

Reaching the ground as Gabriel was trying to stand, clutching his head from pain, nix raised a palm, ignoring the fleeing and screaming bystanders.

“Oblivion Orb.”

The orb hit Gabriel head-on, and he screamed as he was forcefully detransformed, his suit unable to withstand that amount of damage. It did one thing right, though, it let Gabriel survive it.

With a flick of Natasi’s hand, the butterfly miraculous was teleported into loc hand.

“Y- you…! How dare-!” Gabriel started to shout, but both ignored his furious screams, and Cosmic Actress just killed him.

“Good riddance.” Nix stated as Natasi opened a small portal and extended loc hand, and bringing from it the Peacock miraculous. Nathalie’s body was long destroyed by the forces of the cosmos, apparently.

With this, they only need to make a show and wait for the heroes to appear to get their miraculouses.

So both quickly went to the highest point of the Eiffel tower and nix spammed large Oblivion Orbs and with the help of Natasi, guided them towards a few more people.

There was Audrey, that rich abusive woman, Andre the icecream guy because he was a creep who can’t take a “NO” from his customers and doesn’t let them pick what they want, and most likely a queerphobe as well.

There was also that racist dude who basically went out of his way to cause trouble to Marinette’s mother, and so is that cop, Rogers.

In fact, nix decided to just murder all the cops. They literally did nothing but obey a fascist mayor and solidify his rule. Plus, they were racists anyways. They deserved death.

After a minute or so of mass-killing unrepentant racists and jerks with large orbs of energy, the heroes finally appeared.

Well, the only ones Natasi and Cosmic Actress qualified as heroes were Carapace and Viperion along with Pegasus and Ryuko. Cosmic Actress wasn’t so sure about the Ladybug-themed hero, but nix can vaguely recall that she is the former Rena Rouge since she was Marinette’s confidant. Scarabella was her Ladybug-themed name, right?

Chat Noir is still not here. Not like it’s surprising at this point. Nix recalls from Marinette’s memories that th riche brat was starting to shirk his duties even more and being only a show for the sake of harassing her and enjoying her tormented look.

Oh wait, he is actually appearing. He jumps alongside the other heroes looking angry.

Did Cosmic Actress trouble him somehow for him to be this annoyed? Or maybe nix killed someone he actually cared about?

Oh no, nothing to worry about. He just started being passive-agressive to Scarabella because his “bugaboo” isn’t here. The other heroes were at least paying attention to Cosmic Actress and nix friend even while telling him not to worry about Ladybug for now, because the villains are the real concern, but Chat Noir is not even looking. His is focusing his attention at Scarabella.

“As much as I can enjoy your excellent 'bonding experience’,” Cosmic Actress started to call, the sarcasm heavy in nix voice. “I have other things to do right now. So give me your miraculouses and I will leave you alone. Except Chat Noir. We hate you personally.” Nix stated in a matter-of-fact tone with the heroes getting even more tense at nix words.

Chat Noir apparently thought it was a great time to joke about the situation as he put his hand on his chest looking like a kicked puppy. “Meowch! This hurt me, Marinette! Am I really this unbearable to a girl like you?”

It took a great deal from both nix and Natasi not to just immediately and violently throw him into the sun.

Nix looked at him coldly.

“First, I am not Marinette. I am Cosmic Actress. I am also not a 'she’. I don’t have a gender. I use the pronouns nix/nix/nix/nixself, remember them. I expect you to have at least some memory capacity in your head for things other than Ladybug. As for being unbearable, it’s more like hating you for being a sexual predator incel.”

It was very satisfying to see how his jaws dropping along with the rest of the group.

“What!?” He screamed angrily with his eyes narrowing.

Natasi just blinked as clo spoke with a smile, but what was coming from loc mouth was anything but gentle or sweet: “But what else can you call a guy who constantly asks for kisses and dates when a girl explicitly tells him to stop and refuses to stop, when he keeps attempting, and even succeeding in violating her boundaries?” Clo asked, “Remember when Gigantitan attacked and Ladybug was busy holding back the akuma, only for you, Mr. Totally-A-Gentleman, to decide to go for a kiss?” Clo pretended to think about it, then added, “Oh wait, that was also when thanks to your great help, Ladybug lost focus and the akuma destroyed Marinette’s room and you only laughed at how funny the whole thing was! Who knew that watching someone you called a friend almost dying is so hilarious?

"Or maybe, you want us to talk about the times you were a very understanding partner by refusing to help Ladybug fighting an akuma because she didn’t want to date you? You know? Like what happened when Frozer and Glaciator attacked? Oh wait, didn’t you also try to guilt-trip Marinette into shipping you and Ladybug in the middle of the night when Glaciator came?

"Yeah, how romantic you are. Especially when Mayura almost stole your ring by using a fake Ladybug who only said that 'she’ loves you and was about to kiss you. Such a shame that you were unable to see the trickery. Truly, Sentibug was a master at fake-acting and totally acted like Ladybug and not like your sick and twisted version of her that you want her to be~! So, is there any recent romantic actions Ladybug did for you? I mean, the last thing I can recall is her throwing you in the trash, which I guess was technically very romantic from your perspective, since she didn’t just rip away the ring from your hands when she was the literal Guardian and had every right to find your identity or retire you completely.”

Natasi and Cosmic Actress were both smiling at the shocked expression of the heroes, all of them horrified.

Because none of them knew of how Chat Noir acted when they weren’t there. They never knew what he did when Ladybug, his victim, was the only witness.

Viperion and Scarabella looked horrified the most, and Cosmic Actress didn’t know why, and wouldn’t care right now.

But Chat Noir? He was also pale, and his body was shaking as he clutched his staff tightly. And nix could feel it.

Rage.

Rage at being called out and insulting his so-called love for Ladybug.

“TAKE THAT BACK!” He rushes with vengeance as his staff extends.

“Chat Noir, don’t!” Viperion yells in warning, he tries to move and stop him. He can feel the danger. but it’s useless.

Natasi raised loc hand-

And both Chat Noir and Cosmic Actress vanish from the tower.

Natasi looked down at the heroes neutrally.

“You don’t need to worry about your… teammate. I am sure he will find himself in good company with Cosmic Actress.”

Viperion doesn’t hesitate on what to do. He will fix this mess! He’d already set the timer before he got here!

He slid the snake bracelet.

“Second Chance!”

…

Nothing happened.

He couldn’t feel himself go back in time.

The rest looked at him in surprise.

“What? Why!?”

He looked in shock at his bracelet.

Natasi just sighed.

“Sorry, Viperion. I like you since you were supportive of Marinette but… I am not letting you interfere with this. So I just stopped time from being rewound by your miraculous. Sorry.” Clo shrugged.

“And if you are wondering about where they were sent off, well…”

A sound of a large explosion reached their ears, from the direction where the Agreste mansion is located.

“There they are.” Natasi finished.

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“How dare you!?” Chat Noir snarled as Cosmic Actress ducked under another swipe from his staff, which easily destroyed another wall of the Agreste mansion.

Nix opponent looking vengeful.

“I dare, because I have basic decency. And basic decency says that you are a harasser!” Nix stated, anger clear in nix tone before blocking the staff with one arm, taking no damage.

“I love Ladybug! She’s my love!” He roars angrily, “Cataclysm!”

Cosmic Actress felt nix blood boiling as Chat Noir kept saying he loves Ladybug, and he is even trying to kill nix most likely.

“Chat Noir. Do you really think yelling that phrase over and over will make me believe it!?” Nix shouted back, avoiding the Cataclysm and giving the so-called hero a kick that threw him to the wall. “If you really loved her, you would have accepted her feelings and stopped asking for kisses and dates! You would have stopped calling her names she didn’t like! You would have respected her boundaries that she had made clear a hundred times by now!”

Chat Noir was already standing back up, but Cosmic Actress was already above him.

“It seems that for you, the word 'love’…!” nix yelled as nix fists hit Chat Noir, throwing him away so hard out of the mansion, the same way his father had been thrown earlier.

“Ugh!” He quickly stood up again only to find Cosmic Actress in front of him once more.

“It seems like 'love’ is just a valid reason for sexual harassment as far as you are concerned! Right?!”

Nix threw an Oblivion Orb that hit his Cataclysm, and wasted his power as the two spells collided and the Oblivion Orb overpowered and wiped out the Cataclysm.

“Even when Ladybug lost her voice…! Even when Mayura made a fake Ladybug…! It seems that it doesn’t matter how much time you spend with your 'beloved’, since you only care about your twisted version of her that can only exist to be tormented and mocked by you! But this nonsense ends now!”

The last sentence was accompanied by Cosmic Actress’ arms holding Chat Noir as nix looked at him with venom that made his eyes show shock and fear.

Nix hand easily ripped away the Ring, detransforming him.

Cosmic Actress eyes widened in shock as nix recognized the person who was hiding behind the mask.

“Adrien Agreste…” Nix said numbly.

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It felt ridiculous. So ridiculous.

The guy that Marinette fell in love with, because he was nice to her.

And he is her harasser.

And Chat Noir… is what he is in the dark. When no one is looking.

Chat Noir is how he really wants to act. When there is no fear of repercussions and responsibilities to negatively impact him.

Cosmic Actress doesn’t know what to feel; Horrified? Disgusted? Angry? Numb? Tired?

In the end, pure rage and hatred won.

“YOU….” Nix gnashed nix teeth from wrath. “DIE!”

A blast of energy came to existence, obliterating everything around nix.

Adrien along with the Agreste mansion and the surrounding houses ceased to exist.

It would be several long minutes later that Cosmic Actress managed to calm down enough, and decided to deal with Scarabella and the rest.

Then nix will see if the Wish can help nix in attaining nix desires.

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The battle with the rest of the heroes was basically a cake-walk.

There was nothing they can do.

Just Cosmic Actress was more than enough, but with the help of Natasi? It was basically like a level 999 monster fighting a newbie in all but name.

No matter how much they tried, it was all useless.

It didn’t matter how much they resisted.

Defeat was the only option.

As nix wore both the Ladybug and Black Cat miraculouses along with the Butterfly and the Peacock, Cosmic Actress breathed.

“Natasi. I am going to use the Wish. Do you really want to follow me still? It might be dangerous.” Cosmic Actress asked nix friend.

Natasi only smiled. “I’m sure. I want to be with you. Please grant this selfish request of mine.”

Cosmic Actress could only shake nix head. Maybe having a friend with you in a rewritten universe will not be so bad.

Nix can only hope.

Nix breathed once more.

“Okay then. Tikki, Plagg, unify! I wish that———!”

With that, the world turned into a rainbow as reality shuddered…

And changed.

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End Part one.

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Part Two:

Universal Theater

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“And, done!”

Chloe, the user of the Ladybug miraculous, going by the name Roselina, breathed as she defeated the duo of Amok and Akuma, purifying them and fixing the damage.

“Finally we defeated this duo, huh?”

Chloe looked at her childhood friend, Adrien Agreste, the wearer of the Snake miraculous going by Do-Over.

With them, the other protectors of Paris were feeling happy that they finally defeated this threat.

The group constitued of Kagami, weilder the Fox, with the name Kyubi.

Alya, the weilder of Bee, called Honeymoon.

Nino, weilder of Black Cat, called Destructo.

And Ivan, weilder of Turtle, called Protector.

“So,” Kagami started “Did any of you have any sudden flashbacks, like usual?”

The teenage heroes frowned at that, and they nodded.

Chloe had no idea of what’s happening in the world, but ever since she started superheroing, she was having some weird feelings of deja vu, that slowly turned into flashbacks.

She didn’t believe the flashbacks at first because, well, she was the daughter of a therapist and a nurse who took it on her shoulder to help people, as she felt her father and mother are good people and she felt pround of going on their path.

She really didn’t get why she saw visions of her being cruel to others, being spoiled rotten by her father, or abandoned by her mother.

The others had similar visions, except most of them had more adjusted lives and morals than her version in the flashbacks.

Adrien was also weirded as he was just the son of gentle and nice normal fashion designers, not the son of an abusive billionaire who tormented that Ladybug heroine like the flashbacks show him.

“And about that mysterious figure, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, did any of you get to know about her?”

Marinette Dupain Cheng was a mystery to the team.

Not only did she not exist here, as Thomas and Sabine stated that they don’t remember having a kid, but they stated that they feel a strange feeling of pain and loss every time they think of the name “Marinette”.

It was as if the girl’s existence was erased out of nowhere.

“I think I do, let me remember for a minute…”

Alya concentrated, trying to remember any new detail, and she saw it.

A girl crying in rage, screaming to the world, just as black and purple aura covered her, before the entire world became nothing more a myriads of colors, and then everything went dark.

Alya gasped and dropped to her knees, as her teammates rushed to her side.

“I- I remember a little more! She- she was Akumatised, maybe also Amokized as well!”

The entire team paled.

The Akumas and Amoks in their flashbacks might not be the most creative or subtle, but the fact is that they needed to go to the timeline where the Akuma/Amok was made to find the very important answers needed to deal with their situation.

It would have been so simple to fix using the Rabbit miraculous, if not for the fact that time travel was risky, and deadly as well.

Sabrina, the Rabbit heroine with the name Eternity, had warned them of the dangers of messing with the timelines.

For whatever reason, there existed some deadly Akumas and Amoks who live between the timelines, called Time Deletors, and who attack anyone trying to mess with the timelines.

The only reason they even survived their first timeline travel was because Sabrina held them back, and even then, she was so hurt that she could have died without immediate help.

They became better with the next atempts, but it was always a close thing.

“Th- then, you kno-”

Chloe’s attempt at moralizing the group was cut off as a portal appeared, and Sabrina exited from it.

“Yes, you know, and you will have to face her.”

Sabrina’s tired voice resounded, and she warned the heroes.

“But, you have to know this, this timeline travel mission is going to be a lot harder, since as far as I was able to see, this girl’s Akuma and Amok were never defeated. At all.”

The grim tone of hers made the rest feel fear.

This mission might be their last…

After few days of relaxing and calming themselves down, they were prepared, and Sabrina opened the portal, and they entered.

And immediately, things went wrong, as the group were immediately and magically pulled towards a black hole that appeared out of nowhere, and Sabrina screamed along with the group.

Slowly opening their eyes as they realized that they are not dead, they saw that they were in some dimension where there is nothing but colors.

“Took you long enough to visit me.”

An unfamiliar voice brought their attention, and they looked to the source of the sound, only to see a blue-haired person, wearing civilian clothes, wearing a blue brooch, and a purple necktie on nix, who was actually sitting on a table, and drinking a cup of milk, in here.

Their instincts warned them. Nix is dangerous.

None of them knew how they knew that this person’s pronouns were nix/nixself, but they knew it was true.

“It is actually quite amazing to see how different you are now, than how you were before everything ended.”

Nix gentle smile fooled no one, and they brough their weapons to face nix.

“Well, I have to introduce myself, I am Cosmic Actress, but you may know me as my previous name, Marinette Dupain Cheng.”

Nix simply kept smiling at them, sensing their fear.

“How? How can you exist? Or not exist? How can someone paradoxical like you exist!?” Sabrina, being connected to time, was panicking.

This person, nix exists, and yet, Sabrina’s power tells her that at the same time nix doesn’t.

It was maddening.

The akuma simply chuckled at them.

“It’s obvious, dear, after all, I was the one who had your role, Chloe. Or should I call you Roselina?”

“WHA- HOW!? And what do you mean!?”

The heroes were shocked by nix statement, and confused by everything nix said.

The akuma sighed.

“Le me ask you this. Do you know what theaters are? Okay, dumb question, you do. But think of this, what does this have with this whole situation?”

Nix pointed at the area they are in, much to their confusion.

“"You see, life, and universe themselves, are like theaters, everyone gets a role, a job to do, and they are forced to obey it, and do what they are told to do with no complaint.’

“I, was the ‘hero’ of a previous ‘story’, you can say. I was a normal teenager, got dragged to the supernatural, had to deal with a magical terrorist planning on using my miraculous and my partner’s for evil, all while having to deal with my crush.”

Everyone looked at nix weirdly, because nix description sounded exactly like a story from a magical girl cartoon.

“Yeah, I know, sounds cliche, but you see, I never liked how I was treated.”

Nix smirked in a horrifying fashion.

“Being punished for trying to know my crush better, being humiliated for wanting to get a straight answer from him, being bullied and gaslighted for years from childhood, losing sleep due to my double life, being always anxious and afraid of being taargeted by the villain, being harassed by the person who I thought was my partner, and having any attempt at fixing my life turn into a nightmare. Until; I finally stopped feeling, becoming more of a machine than a human, simply acting as if programmed, with no will or emotions, until I finally lost it.”

As nix kept talking, the heroes were paling more and more as black tears flowed from nix eyes.

“It was at that moment, I realised, I am not going to be happy, I am not going to be granted closure or happiness. I was fated to be tormented by a world who forced me to become it’s punching bag. Which is why, I abandoned my role as a hero. I gave it up. I hated it, and hated being in this pathetic story, and killed the villains who thought they can control me.”

She slowly calmed down.

“But, the universe is just like a cruel movie producer, or writer. I didn’t like being a hero, therefore, the world was reset so I am the villain, and other people had their lives changed to accomodate their new roles.”

Nix just shook nix head.

“This is the truth, heroes; You either die a hero, or you become a villain. This is why I will keep this world as it is. Why I would not give you a chance to defeat me. Maybe I am not allowed to win as a villain, but I can stop you from defeating me and ending my story.”

Nix stood up, a black aura coating nix body.

“Now, let’s fight. You win, and you get to fix all the damage I caused, and maybe you can free me from this painful fate I was bound with. I ‘win’, and the world gets reset so we can repeat this process all over until you win. Either way, you are the ones who are lucky.”

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End part two.

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Part Three:

Universal Oblivion

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You know, people always speak that the reality is stranger than fantasy.”

Cosmic Actress sighed as nix spoke.

“Well, to me personally… I have to disagree.”

Nix shook nix head.

“In fantasy, the heroes triumph. No matter how hard the battles are. No matter how strong their foe is. The power of friendship will always save the day! It doesn’t matter how smart and creative the villains are, no matter how outnumbered and outclassed the heroes are, the Good will win!”

Nix raised nix hands as if to emphasize nix point, nix face mockingly gleeful, before the expression became one of boredom.

“But, that isn’t how reality works. At least to me. Reality is never so kind. Or at least, it rarely is.” Again, nix shook nix head.

“In reality, a hopeless battle will still be hopeless. In reality, there is no way for you to defeat someone who is both stronger and smarter than you. Especially when they can easily hide and have minions that can change the fabric of reality as we know it.” Nix sighed again.

“So, how do the heroes win in this scenario? How do they rise to the realm of fantasy, and surpass all these insurmountable odds? Simple. Have the universe give them unfair advantages. Give them inexplicable power-ups. Hit the villains with the Idiot Ball, if that’s what the trope is called in this reality. Or maybe, some sudden interference out of nowhere, without any proper reason for it to occur. Do you understand, heroes?” Nix looked at the heroes facing nix.

None of them were in a good state.

Kyubi, Honeymoon, Do-Over, Destructo, Eternity, Protector and Roselina.

All of them were barely standing, some of them had their protective armors literally damaged and cracked, even though it should have been impossible.

They were trying their best to not fall or lose focus despite the pain.

Because they were not even sure if they would not faint and not wake up for days.

What was worse for them was the fact that the Akuma in front of them…

Nix wasn’t even serious. Not even trying.

No matter how many combos they tried, no matter how many time resets via the Snake miraculous, no matter what kind of power they used to attack.

It all was useless.

Venom barely stopped nix. If it even hit nix at all, that is.

Shelter was casually broken with a finger.

Mirage was basically useless, and even a Mirage with of light as bright as the sun itself it was worthless.

The Cataclysm, the power of Destruction, that they hit her with by sheer mistake and mental exhaustion from the battle, was useless. Nix defenses and regeneration were too high to do much other than cause nix a slight annoyance.

Even the Lucky Charm was useless. No object could help them from the absolute power that was facing them.

They could only watch as nix literally ran circles around them, and defeated them soundly.

It’s only thanks to the Akuma suddenly deciding to monologue that they were even given enough room to breathe properly.

Cosmic Actress looked at their state and sighed again.

“What I want to say is; I am not being… nerfed.” Nix explained, “Back when I was Ladybug, when I was a hero, even when the universe was against me, the reality went out of it’s way to not let Hawkmoth just win. Unfortunately for you, I am immune to all of these machinations of the cosmos. The only rule that applies to me is that I cannot truly win. I cannot use any of the Miraculouses in a way that allows me to free myself from this cosmic thread that is suffocating me.”

Nix directed a single palm at them, and a large orb of chaotic energy came to existence.

“Me trying to do so will only cause a time reset. That also means that you… are not going to face me in the ‘Easy’ difficulty. Oblivion Orb.”

With that, the orb rapidly sped towards the exhausted heroes, who could only watch as darkness consumed them all.

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Chloe woke up with a killer headache.

She clutched her head, trying to stop the pain, as Tikki’s voice suddenly rose next to her on her pillow, the little kwami screaming wordlessly as if having a nightmare.

“Wha- where am I?” Chloe asked, the overwhelming sense of confusion overriding even her concern for Tikki.

She took a moment to look around, trying to fight through the helpless confusion, as Tikki’s frantic screams stopped, her eyes opening wide.

The same room, the same bed. But something was missing…

She wondered if she was having memory problems.

“Tikki, why were you screaming? Did you have a nightmare?” She asked her companion gently.

The poor kwami took a large breath before speaking. “Yes. I dreamed that you and the rest were fighting an Akuma and it- it wasn’t even a contest! You all were…!”

Chloe could understand the meaning of her unfinished sentence and tried to calm her down. “But, an Akuma that powerful to easily ki-”

Words stuck in her mouth as she looked at the large mirror on the wall.

There, instead of her and Tikki’s reflection, the figure of another being was showing.

A figure her mind immediately remembered. Just as she remembered the fight.

“C- C- Cosmic Actress!?”

The Akuma ignored the girl’s paling, terrified face along with Tikki’s.

“We need to talk. I, you, and your teammates. Meet me at the Eiffel Tower in an hour. Your team is being spoken to.”

Just as suddenly the akuma appeared appeared, nix had disappeared.

Chloe shakily breathed and calmed herself.

She called her team and they all stated they faced the same thing.

And she knew that there is no other choice but to do as the Akuma told.

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Time flew rapidly as the hour ended.

Chloe was on the top of the tower along with the rest of the team.

Only Sabrina decided to hide in the Burrow just in case things went south so there might be something to save… Or someone.

They couldn’t argue against that.

Now, they impatiently waited for the Akuma nixself to appear.

It didn’t take too long as only a minute later, space and time twisted beyond recognition, finally taking the form of a circle in front of Adrien, and Cosmic Actress appeared from it.

For a moment, Adrien could have sworn to have seen a humanoid figure peeking from the portal besides the Akuma, but the portal closed before he can make sure of what he saw.

“Now that everyone is here – Well, except Sabrina – I will talk. You cannot defeat me. Absolutely. And definitely not directly.” Nix tone was as if nix was stating a fact.

And nix was stating a fact.

The heroes know it also.

“You said that you also can’t win.” Kagami spoke to the akuma.

Nix smiled. “Yes. I can’t. I am not allowed to win because I am the villain. That is why… I am raising the white flag.”

Adrien blinked. “The… white flag? Wait. You will give up!? After all that, you will just–!” He cut off his words in sudden horror in fear of enraging the akuma.

Nix only kept smiling. “Oh, I am not giving up. I am simply not going to fight you in particular anymore.”

“… What?” Alya asked in incredulity.

The akuma is not giving up, yet, she will not fight them?

“It’s really simple.” Nix starts explaining. “You are not able to defeat me so, I just need to wait for the next generation of the Miraculous holders to stand up to me instead.”

They can’t believe nix.

“It’s the perfect plan, really. If we go by the principle of the younger generation surpassing the older one –which I assure you is very true for the Miraculous holders by the way–, all you need to do is to train the younger generation to make the world a better place, and maybe, in the distant future, there will be someone or a group of people able to truly defeat me. And free me from this cursed fate and save the world at the same time.”

The heroes look shocked at the plan. Even more was the utter conviction in nix voice.

But the surprise disappeared too fast and turned into dread as Cosmic Actress’ smile turned into a cruel smirk.

“Of course, this is if you are ready to face the fact that this universe… Is already marching towards Utter Oblivion.”

A shiver ran across their spines at the words.

“Oblivion?” This time, it was Nino who asked.

“Yes. And since this might be the last time I meet you, I might as well tell you everything.”

Cosmic Actress took a breath. This will be a little long.

“Now, let me ask you a question. How many times has it rained in Paris this year?”

Needless to say, that was not the question they expected. It was just too random.

“Rained? Really?” Even Chloe couldn’t comprehend the randomness of the question.

“Just answer me. Let me guess. Only once or twice?”

As they tried their best to recall, they found out that nix was correct. But it still doesn’t explain anythi-

“Even in the winter and the autumn? Only once or twice?”

That-

Now that Alya thinks of it, it is indeed strange, but it is not enou-

“What about the fact that Alix, your friend, had never dyed her hair again? She had just dyed it once and the dye just… stayed there?”

Okay, that too was-

“Or maybe the fact that none of you, that no one in this city, ever changes their everyday clothes? As if you only have copies of the same outfit for no reason?

"Or maybe that, even with Paris being known as one of the biggest centers of fashion, the very designs are plain or are too similar to each other?”

They couldn’t refute nix.

And as they ponder more, they realize that things are not normal.

“I will tell you why these things happen. It is all thanks to…” Nix pointed at them. “The very jewels that allow you to transform.”

“Uhh, what?” Adrien’s voice resounded.

Nix stopped smiling as nix looked at them.

“Didn’t you find it strange? That the sources of the power for your Miraculouses are literal deities? Doesn’t it sound even more ridiculous then, that the kwami, who are supposedly governing the universe, cannot refuse a holder’s order? That their power can be used against the kwami’s will? If the kwami are such powerful beings, why then, did they not erase me and the many other supervillains right away? Why didn’t any of them decide to just not transform without their will?”

The dread and horror return to the heroes as they absorb nix speech, and the meaning behind it.

“That’s right, the kwami, the fragments of the literal concepts, are slaves. Shackled by the Miraculouses. And what is happening to Paris, from the weather, creativity, and the rest… is because of that.”

“No, no, no nonononononnono! It can’t-!”

Just as they started to mutter and scream in denial as the reality slams itself on them, Cosmic Actress simply pointed at them.

Their high and raging emotions ceased to exist. They literally couldn’t feel panic anymore, and they dropped from the shock.

“You can get shocked later. I still need to finish my talk. So, anyways, it’s because of the kwami being enslaved that the world is marching toward it’s annihilation.”

Nix continued speaking casually. As if nix was talking about weather. And maybe, nix was literally like talking about weather from nix viewpoint.

“When the… Order of Guardians” they can hear the venom in nix voice when nix said that name. “Created the Miraculouses to enslave the kwami, they made a disastrous mistake in their arrogance and greed. They broke the concepts. They broke the universe’s balance. The universe itself was no longer the same from the very attosecond a fragment of the concepts was enslaved and separated from the cosmos. The universe could no longer move the flow of causality in a natural way.

"The concepts are shattered, none of them can ever work in the natural and proper way they should. In some places in the universe, they work better, in others, they are unstable and annihilate everything that exists. Nothing is truly created or destroyed anymore. Nothing can be truly illusionary, Time and space are so twisted that it is impossible to understand. Even worse is that the universe can’t sustain itself or heal the damage in any way. Its will is spread too thin and it cannot do anything. It can’t simply act unnaturally. But the cracks in its existence do. They are slowly growing and widening. The universe as you know it is the equivalent of a person on life support against an illness that will kill them regardless.”

Nix shook nix head as it stopped speaking for a moment as the group absorbed nix words.

“The kwami are, in a way, a better version of the will of the cosmos. They have an ego and their will and ability to think is much higher if only because they are literally a large mass of a concept shackled in a very small area and in a very tiny form. Their will is not spread too thin. But it is the same with the cosmos. They are shackled, and their powers are severely limited by the Shackles you are wearing. At the rate this is going, a millenia or two will be the most generous estimate for how long this universe will hold, before it collapses on it’s own and it simply… ceases to exist.”

Silence was deafening.

No one could speak. The revelations are too much.

It’s only because Cosmic Actress made them unable to feel terror or panic that they are not having a mental breakdown.

“… Can’t this be fixed? If the kwami being shackled and separated from the universe is the problem, then shouldn’t breaking the shackles help?” Ivan asked this time.

The akuma shook nix head.

“No. It’s too late for that to just fix everything. Far too late. Had that been done just a few days, or at best, a few years after the enslavement of the kwami, that might have been fixed with little problems. But today, it’s been centuries if not millenias since those idiots at the Temple shackled the kwami. The universe can no longer fix this level of damage freely. Trust me. I know. I tried doing that before. At this point, if you do that right away, it will be like like taking a broken vase and having a literal toddler do the fixing. The universe as you know it will be completely unrecognizeable. And it won’t stop the kwami from being enslaved again. The Order of the Guardians will still exist, they will still get the idea of enslaving literal concepts, and the universe will still want things to happen naturally so it won’t stop them. And no. Time travelling to stop them is impossible. The laws of causality will not allow that to happen. Even I almost died and had my literal soul almost erased when I tried in one of the many time resets I’ve lived through.”

“Is there no way to fix that?” Chloe asked.

“… To be honest. I don’t know anymore. I’ve exhausted all my options through my long life. Teaming with other heroes. Creating subordinates to do it for me. Freeing the kwami right after they are enslaved. Even in timelines where I allowed the heroes to defeat me, another version of me will still exist in another timeline, still undefeated. Nothing really worked for me. I don’t know if it’s because of my position as the 'Final Villain’, or because of any other reason. All. Failed.”

For the first time since Cosmic Actress spoke, tiredness and resingation seeped into nix tone.

They could understand that.

It just sounded so hopeless.

“There’s only one last options that I did not really try until now. It didn’t really seem plausible to me, but I guess I must gamble here.”

Nix took a breath as Chloe and the rest held theirs in anticipation.

“The only option left to me is to… gamble on the coexistence of the Theory of Narrative Causality and the Protagonist-Centered Morality. And that you are the protagonists of this era.”

“I don’t follow.” Adrien told nix sincerely. All of them can’t really understand nix words.

Nix rubbed nix forehead, feeling the headache resulted from explaining this. “Look, you people have media entertainment. And sometimes in the show, things happen because and I quote, 'because the plot says so’. Sometimes characters act in a different way only to justify the plot. Got it?

"This is exactly the reason why Hawkmoth, or rather, the former villain, Gabriel Agreste- not the current one, this reality’s Gabriel is a good person somehow–didn’t just win. He could have overwhelmed Marinette and the 'original’ heroes by spamming Akumas every hour until they dropped from exhaustion. He could have made a tracking Akuma, or any of the other ways for him to win easily or solve his problems. He didn’t do that because the universe, or at least the not-so-healthy area of the universe made it so.

"The same thing happened with Marinette and the many problems she had. She could have easily defeated Hawkmoth many times over, rescued herself from her partner’s harassment (literally take the ring away with no guilt), forced people to respect her boundaries even if it required violence, stopped people from shipping her against her will, made better choices in her life. But the choice was basically stripped from her. In fact, me coming to existence was because the universe was stable for a moment and suddenly Hawkmoth couldn’t magically ignore her negative emotions being unleashed like it happened many, many times before.

"And here we come to her partner. Your previous counterpart, Adrien Agreste.”

Nix pointed at him much to everyone’s surprise.

“You might be a good person in this reality, but in Marinette’s reality, you were one of the most horrible people I’ve ever seen. You were a two-faced brat with no morals and with no care for anyone but yourself. You never cared that your classmates were threatened by an akuma, you casually joked in the most inappropriate times, you contstantly sexually harrassed Marinette as a 'hero’, and you abused your power over her to stop her from dealing consequences to those that hurt and bullied her. You were all but literally given everything on a silver platter. You had the easiest and stupidest test to be a superhero, your classmates liked you instantly despite apparently never having time to bond with them. You all but have gotten a harem of girls fawning over you for the most nonsensical reasons, and somehow no one in Paris could see that you were literally harassing your partner. But of course, when someone does the slightest thing that you didn’t like, it’s suddenly the most horrible act ever. You were literally an embodiment of the Protagonist-Centered Morality in all but name.”

Adrien was paling, but he didn’t refute nix.

He’d seen them, the memories of what he did in that timeline. He knew just how horrible and disgusting the previous him was. It still didn’t make it any less painful to hear it told to his face so bluntly.

But Cosmic Actress was still not over.

“Not like the rest of you were spared either from being Narratively Right or Narratively Wrong either, but it will take too long to talk about every little thing that you were tangled with. So I will just sum up that your entire behaviours as being a bunch of racist stereotypical caricatures, and existing to woobify the rich. I mean, how else would Chloe’s pervious counterpart stay a billionaire or how her father didn’t get murdered because he didn’t even punish his daughter for crashing a train and basically committing to aiding a literal terrorist? Of course we can’t also ignore forcefully trying to shove someone into a relationship simply because the relationship in question sounded 'cute’, even if the person in question is making it clear they are not happy or comfortable.”

The whole team was shaking, horrified by the pictures nix was painting.

Nix waited for them to calm down, feeling drained nixself. What nix was saying were things nix had wondered about for a long time, and never spoke to anyone else (except nix Amok and friend Natasi) so it felt a little liberating to voice them out.

“Okay, but what is our role in that? What can we do to fix all of–” Adrien spread his arms as if ponting to the world around them. “–This?”

Nix looked at them.

“Honestly, at this point I only have assumptions to go with.” nix admitted “But the only thing that might work is you using the so-called favouritism of this broken universe for your benefit. If you are really the Heroes of this Reality, the Protagonists, then maybe, just maybe, if you desired to get rid of the shackles put on the kwami, wished so hard to fix this messed-up reality, you might bend the broken will of the universe for you and make it give you the results you desire. You may even allow for the current versions of you to continue existing, instead of being erased or reset to that of your original selves.

"Of course, this is not even a 50/50 chance for success, it might even be a one in a trillion or less in your favour. But at this point, I am more than satisfied by this infinitesimal chance of success. I really have nothing to lose either, except losing my sanity and memories as I continue living forever.

"But you do have a lot to lose. If you don’t stop this, the entire universe might cease to exist, or the world will be reset, and you will be erased anyways, along with all your loved ones.”

That was it. That was the whole message. A long speech about how messed-up the whole reality is. Nix has nothing else to tell them.

A portal opened behind Cosmic Actress, and nix glanced at the heroes for the last time.

“The choice is in your hands. Will you gamble on this one chance to give everyone their happiness? To free the kwami and fix the damage while simultaneously making sure that the history will not repeat itself? Or will you abandon all Hope, and succumb to the Despair? From this point, I am leaving this little war between us. You are also free from your responsibility to fight me. Do whatever you want in your lives. If you want to live normal lives, go for it. If you want to prepare the world for the worst, go for it. If you want to risk everything for a possibly nonexistent chance of happiness for you and the world as a whole, go for it. You are the only one who can decide what to do from now on.

"Farewell. We might never meet again, Heroes. Regardless of what you choose, I hope you live contently… Until your last breaths…”

With that, the portal closed, with what seemed to be a final farewell.

Only the superheroes were still there on the tower, processing the whole speech.

“Just… what should we do now? If this was true, what can we do…?” Alya asked, doubt clear in her voice.

“I don’t know, Alya. I don’t know…” Ivan told her.

None of them knew what to do.

The weight of the knowledge of their world’s impending end hangs heavily, and there are not enough answers to how they can even start untangling this cosmic web that is hanging on every living being.

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Submitted prompt: Universal Hope.

Here is a google doc link to the full compilation of prompts in this series, since there's apparently too many paragraphs to put in a single tumblr post. (because tumblr insists on making this site worse rather than better lol...) You can download the file as a word document, PDF, or epub. If you download it as an epub, you can then transfer it to your phone to read in any reading app like an ebook!

And finally, here it is. The finale of my "Universal" series AU. (though maybe if Fluff helped me time-travel, I can give it for free it as an original plot long before this show's idea even came to existence lol, at least that would make a good show if given a budget)

Also, two other nonbinary characters makes an appearance (although admittedly very shortly):

Luue, kwami of Impossibility and uses the pronouns mi/mir/mirs/mirself.

And Elise, a teacher, pronouns are ce/cer/cers/cerself. Would have given cer a more prominent role, but sadly I only thought of cer only at the end of the AU and I don't have energy or ideas to make an omake or another story about Elise :(

I mean, one can make an omake or a side-story where Elise interacts with Adrien, Chloe, and the rest of the class in a helathy and positive manner and helps them through their teenage years and encourages them to discover themselves and unleash their creativity in a helpful way. Maybe even helping some of the students with their problems and help them enforcing their boundaries and curbing any harmful behaviour and spreading positivity, thus showing why Elise decided to be a teacher because ce has compassion and morals and wants to teach the younger generation the same positive morals and foster compassion and respect into them, also showing why ce was also respected and loved by cer students and collegues. (I gave an idea that can be made into a whole story, yay! :))

(But who would like to read that? /sarcasm.)

(But seriously, if someone can, do so if you want. I can't write this since it's too out of my experience and I fear I will mess it up. So there, have fun writing if you want :))

So, I guess, you can treat cer character as a gift to use in your original stories or fanfics??? I am not sure about this approach really.

Now Tikki, stop breaking the 4th wall and giving me ideas while I am simply watching completely unrelated videos please I can't do more than this for the AU.

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Natasi walked alongside loc friend, enjoying the sunny day.

Just a moment of calmness, as both decided to have fun by touring the city of Paris another time.

It had been a month after Cosmic Actress had told the heroes of the current timeline about the state of the universe, and both friends felt that a vacation is very much needed at this point.

Nothing to let one relax more than having fun with friends.

"You are sure to let them deal with the end of the cosmos?" Natasi asked loc friend as both ate some icecream.

"Yes. We've tried for so long. And you know how that ended. Maybe we should take a page from media entertainment and 'let the new generation deal with it'. Who knows, maybe this is what the universe needs at this point."

Nix smiled jokingly. Something reciprocated by loc. Neither really had any real hope that the heroes can fix this, but sometimes, even an amateur can do something so unexpected it might work.

Little did the duo know, that nix telling the group had far reaching consequences.

Neither did the two expect just how this broken shell of a universe will act.

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In a domain devoid of concepts, The Nothingness shrieked with a wail that no mortal should be allowed to hear.

Its powers, the power to delete any concept.

They were now being hampered, as the essences of concepts it had absorbed for eons started rebelling.

The essences of the cosmos somehow attacking it from the inside, harming it.

How!? How did this happen!?

Even in the many time resets these two brats had done, it had never felt this much pain!

In fact, this was the first time it had felt pain at all!

It extended its senses, searching and trying to locate what had happened.

And it had found the source via using a tiny fragment of Time essence it had absorbed long before.

It watched as Cosmic Actress spoke to the heroes, telling them about the dangers, the cracks in the cosmos. And how their existence will cause the end of the cosmos.

The brat was right, The Nothingness admitted to itself. The only thing strange was that the Akuma did not truly realize that the Nothingness was a conscious entity. Or maybe nix did, but did not think it was important?

No matter.

As it kept watching the past, it had watched as the cosmos, the weak and broken shell of it, started to change and warp.

As Cosmic Actress was talking, the concepts were already twisting, somehow augmenting themselves...

And attaching themselves to the so-called heroes.

As if giving them power. Favouritism. Protagonist status. Or whatever Cosmic Actress had called the damn thing.

And at the same time, other areas of the universe were somehow becoming more and more hectic, as if preparing for a battle for survival.

Survival and annihilating the enemy.

It. The enemy...

The Nothingness felt a new emotion, an emotion so foreign yet so fitting.

Wrath.

Wrath at the universe.

Did the damn thing believe that because the Nothingness was content with being suppressed once, it would allow that to happen once more!?

Unacceptable!

It needs to stop this madness.

And get back the Solitude and Silence it so desired...

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Chloe had to admit that she had seen better days as she awoke with difficulty.

Ever since Cosmic Actress gave her and the rest of the heroes the news about the big disaster the cosmos was facing, and the fact that Tikki, her friend, was a slave, she could barely get a good sleep.

The rest of the heroes were the same, and no one knew how to even start to fix this mess, even now.

They couldn't just shatter the Miraculouses, because it would only result with them going back to where they started.

Shaking off the dizziness, Chloe walked the exhausting distance to her school, her teammates meeting her along the way. All of them clearly tired as well as the kwami.

"Not a good night's sleep as well?" Kagami asked, hints of exhaustion still in her tone.

She also couldn't sleep very well.

The whole group resisted the urge to sigh and walked to the school.

Chloe hoped that the lessons she will be having today will put her mind off from the reality of their predicament, for a moment at least.

Entering the class, the teacher, Cie. Elise was already there.

Ce greeted Chloe and her friends as ce waited for the clock to hit 8:00.

Chloe relaxed a little as the lesson started, and she focused as Cie. Elise was explaining the subject of today.

'Maybe today I can enjoy myself for a while.' she says to herself, feeling as Tikki was besides her.

The class ended up quickly, and Chloe found herself taking the break with Alya as both sat together talking about whatever they felt like it.

"At least, we can give our assignments on time since there's no more Amoks and Akumas/Champions to deal with right now." Chloe says jokingly as both take a laugh.

－Only for them to hear the sounds of screaming, and instinctively looking at the source of the noise, hoping it was just students playing a prank－

And they saw as the school's upper part was being swallowed by a black sphere.

"What!? Didn't Cosmic Actress say that nix will not attack anymore!?" Alya shouted in shock before the two transformed, meeting their teammates as the group looked at the black sphere, a sensation of dread and confusion seeping into their minds as they watched as the sphere stopped growing, and an unearthly scream resounded.

It was only thanks to their defensive suits that they were not knocked out right away from the force, as the air vibrated, and the ground shattered in front of them.

And under their watch, the sphere shrunk, taking on a humanoid figure made of pitch black darkness with no eyes or mouth, but regardless, all of them felt how the being was looking at them with a soul-piercing gaze.

"Welcome... Humans..." The being spoke, its words this time feeling more human-

No, its words were more comprehensible for the mortals in general. Its words no longer destroy things just by uttering them.

"I guess... this is how to communicate with you...? Fascinating! This sure is... interesting..." It ignored them for few seconds as they got their bearings, more focused on being impressed by being able to speak to normal humans, mere mortals as far as it was concerned.

"Ah... I guess... An introduction is in order?" Its "head" tilts as if giving a questioning look before straighening up. "I am... Well, I don't have any name, really. But these two brats called me the Nothingness. I guess I will take that name for myself for now. You shall call me that as well."

The now officially named Nothingness stated in confidence as it raised an "arm".

"And you are standing in the way of me and my home. Disappear."

With that, a world where concepts were absorbed and ceased to exist... was made...

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"Damn it! What's going on now!?" Cosmic Actress swore as nix was wildly flying alongside Natasi.

Both had felt the essence and energy of the universe starting to vanish at an alarming rate.

And they also felt a huge mass of... whatever that Nothingness was... concentrating in the area.

"This is too fast! I thought that this level of cosmic deletion would happen only a millenia later at the very least! Why is it spreading so soon!?" Natasi was also terrified out of loc mind. "Did we do something to speed up the process somehow?"

Cosmic Actress bit nix lip at that.

This shouldn't have happened so soon.

So what did cause this?

"I told the heroes my theory that the world, or at least, the city of Paris, works on the idea that Protagonist-Centered Morality and the Theory of Narrative Causality coexist, and that the messed-up way the concepts work here make that happen. But even that is not enough to explain-" Nix suddenly stopped talking, nix eyes widening.

Nix then gave a small chuckle at the realization of what just happened.

"Cosmic Actress?" Natasi asked nix with worry.

"Oh, nothing surprising. I just realized that my long talk to the heroes might feel like the mentor giving their wisdom to the protagonists while dropping exposition. And you know what trope is the most dangerous to the mentors?"

Loc eyes widened as clo connected the dots.

"Yes, Natasi, we have done our last info-dump, and we have outlived our usefulness, so to speak. And the True Final Boss is approaching." Nix kept smiling for a moment before nix expression turned into irritation and spoke with a furious tone.

"I have told you I am starting to hate Murphy for making that law, didn't I?"

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"Well, I have to say... I expected better than this."

Nothingness stated as it looked at the current state of the heroes.

All looking tired and spent.

The battle could barely be called that, since Nothingness was almost as strong Cosmic Actress from what the heroes can feel, if only in a completely different way.

While Cosmic Actress can be hit by the attacks they made against nix and be affected, even for only a second, The Nothingness did not even bother reacting to their attempts.

As if both were on completely different dimensions.

It could interact with them, but they could not interact with it.

Any attempts they had tried would have ended up in their immediate deletion and absorption by it, had they not honed their skills and insticts from a long year of superheroing, and the fact that their opponent seemed to only know how to fight using overwhelming power and no tactics or plans.

'This is just the same as when we fought Cosmic Actress.' Chloe thought and bit her lips. 'Are we really that pathetic compared to beings like them?'

She wondered what she could do to save the city, but ideas were running out and she couldn’t figure out how to use the Lucky Charm, a strange alien sphere emitting a powerful energy of sorts.

The Nothingness looked at them once more, before the air around it changed, and Chloe for some reason felt that it was 'determinated'.

For what? She didn't know.

"Farewell. World End!"

A wave of nothingness came to existence, expanding rapidly, and the heroes felt it.

The deletion and absorption of the concepts, as the wave rushed at them, about to-

"Leave them alone!"

A voice they had not heard for a month exclaimed angrily, as a large amount of energy was being created, stopping the march of the nothingness and overpowering it.

Cosmic Actress and Natasi landed gracefully on the ground, and with a wave of nix hands, white butterflies emerged from Cosmic Actress’ palms, latching into the heroes.

"Heroes, we don't have much time! I will boost your powers! Accept this!"

They took a second looking in shock at nix and loc presences.

"Just do what I say!" Cosmic Actress barked.

They immediately nodded at nix yell, feeling the urgency of the situation, no more time for them to waste.

Energy flowed from their new forms as all of them felt the connection to their kwami' concepts sharpen and expand immensely.

The Nothingness looked at Cosmic Actress and Natasi with what seemed to be annoyance.

"Ah, you two finally appeared. You two are becoming really annoying, you know that?"

The group took a guarded position.

"Just what are you? How can you exist?" Natasi asked it, feeling unnerved by its presence.

The Nothingness tilted it's "head" questioningly as if it was confused as well. "Me? Honestly, I don't have an actual name, but you shall call me the Nothingness, like you had called me before. And about being able to exist?"

It made a shrugging motion. "I don't know, but I... existed... long before your cosmos came to be. And now, I want my sweet silence and solitude back. And you are in the way!"

With that, it struck once more, a blast of void unleashed.

The group evaded and jumped, watching as the attack hit the ground, corrupting it with the essence of the Nothingness.

"So this is the being that started the deletion of the cosmos, just how can we defeat it?" Adrien asked, and Cosmic Actress didn't feel like correcting him on the fact that the Order of Guardians were the ones that started the whole mess first right now.

But he was correct, how can they defeat it?

They must do that, but...

Easier said than done.

None of their attacks managed to reach it, but it could attack them just fine, only failing due to its lack of experience.

After avoiding another blast of void, the group made contact with the ground once more.

"Chloe! Did your Lucky Charm give you anything that might help?" Natasi asked, still focusing loc eyes at the enemy.

Chloe shook her head and showed loc the strange ball. "No. I only got this sphere, it is pulsing with some sort of energy, but I couldn-"

Chloe's voice cut off as her instincts flared as she looked at the ball, then at Natasi and Cosmic Actress.

"Oh! I think I got it!" She exclaimed.

Nix and nix friend had already realized it as well the moment their eyes landed on the sphere.

Chloe immediately threw the sphere towards the duo, who immediately created a butterfly and a feather using Duusuu and Nooroo's energy, as the Nothingness felt something wrong it had never felt before.

Danger.

It didn't know how or why it felt that way, but it felt that sensation all the same.

That sphere! It is dangerous for it's existence!

It moved to attack and stop them-

But it could not reach in time.

The feather fused with the sphere, the energy inside it mixing with the fragment of Duusuu's power.

And creating a new being.

The being rapidly took a shape and size very familiar to the heroes.

A shape and size the kwamis have.

A blast of concepts overpowered the Nothingness' attack for a moment, just enough for Nooroo's power to make contact with the new being.

The energy intensified, stabilizing, becoming denser and more potent.

"NO!" The Nothingness screamed as it pushed through, directing an attack towards the heroes and the new being.

'Don't have enough time!' Cosmic Actress swore in nix mind, moving to take the hit in place of the group-

And an eye opened.

The Nothingness made contact-

And Cosmic Actress was still there.

Nix was not absorbed.

Nix eyes widened in shock at the surprise of nix survival.

"You can't delete nix." A foreign new voice resounded, not high or low, but somewhere in the middle. Perfectly gender-neutral.

Nix looked from the edges of nix eyes, and saw the new being.

Mi was... well, no one could describe mir as mi looked completely different than any lifeform to compare to, but mi had three eyes, all of them having a color that humans should not be allowed to see.

Luue, everyone felt in their hearts, was mir name.

"Indeed, you can't delete anyone here, Nothingness." Mi spoke with a passionate yet cold tone towards it. "I am Luue, the embodiment of Impossibility! From now on, you will not be able to delete this cosmos!"

A powerful wave of energy spread from Luue's body, harming and weakening the Nothingness, causing the essences of the concepts it had absorbed to slowly rampage inside its body, while empowering the rest even more.

The Nothingness felt like screaming in rage, but then Cosmic Actress punched it in the face, causing it to stumble, clutching its head from the sensation of pain.

"How!?" The Nothingness' scream was left unanswered as the heroes finally started fighting back, actually managing to harm it this time.

"We can reach it!"

"Keep going!"

"Fight!"

As they attacked, yelling with confidence, The Nothingness could only scream in pain and anger.

‘How!? How can they harm it!? It had existed for so long! It was the antithesis of everything they are made of! So how can they still pull out so much power against it!?’

A wave of nausea suddenly hit it, as the energy of the concepts it had absorbed, started to leak from it's body, weakening it further.

Luue, Cosmic Actress and Natasi took this chance, and rushed towards it.

It desperately targeted Luue, who phased through the attack and entered its body, a butterfly and a feather made by nix and loc in mir hands, and from the inside, the butterfly and feather resonated with the locked essences of the concepts, ravaging the Nothingness from the inside.

It screamed in pain as the concepts fully and violently forced their way out, and its body slowly collapsing on itself.

Cosmic Actress looked at it, an Oblivion Orb in hand, and an angry resolute expression in nix face.

"Return to whence you came from! Nothingness!" The orb hit it directly, and it was forcefully thrown into the ground, cracking it.

"Ughh..." The Nothingness tried to stand, only for its body to drop. Exhaustion seeping into its being in a way it had never felt before.

It tried to force more power into its body, only for its hands to dissolve.

Chloe and the rest watched in alarm, wondering if it will regenerate.

It, on the other hand, looked at its hand that was slowly disintegrating, the feeling of pain slowly numbing.

In what qualifies as its mind, another feeling was starting to appear even as it became unable to feel it's body.

"I'm... Dying...?"

It asked, feeling confused, yet feeling certain that death would likely feel like that.

"I'm dying... What is dying...?"

Its whole body slowly started to disintegrate, the feeling of numbness intensifying as it became more and more unable to think.

"Thinking... is too bothersome... Living... is... too... bothersome..."

With such words, it completely disappeared, feeling nothing as it breathed it's last breath.

The group stood there, looking at where it once was, and only when they realized that it was gone, with Luue explicitly stating that, did they finally breathe in relief, as Nino and the rest of the heroes detransformed with a sigh. "Finally! We defeated it!"

Cosmic Actress breathed with relief as well along with Natasi.

Slowly, the group started to relax and smile.

Luue meanwhile, raised mir hands, and a sphere of energy came to existence.

An energy of the same type of that the Nothingness was using.

The group looked at mir, wondering what mi will do with that orb of nothingness.

Mi saw their questioning looks and gave them the answer with a smile.

"Well, you might not know this, but even defeating it and disintegrating its body, The Nothingness will not die. Currently, it is in a state different than being alive or being dead. It is neither asleep or awake. It just still is. But it now, with its energy in my grasp, it will never be able to escape again. It will stay in a prison of its own making. A silence and solitude it always desired." Mi explained to the group that was listening intently.

"Also, even if it is no longer free to cause havoc in the cosmos, you still can't just fix the damage or free the miraculouses right away. Instead..."

Everyone held their breaths in anticipation.

"You should use a portion of this energy, to substitute and help fix the damage. This energy. This nothingness. It works as an antithesis to the laws of the cosmos. If we use it right, we can convince the cosmos to be lenient, and allow the kwami to be freed without the reality morphing again."

Cosmic Actress could not hide nix smile at the news.

Finally, after so long...

The kwami will be truly free...

Nix was surprised then when Luue looked at nix and Natasi.

"This also allows us to help you two, too. We can help Marinette."

Nix covered nix mouth with a hand, emotions rapidly forcing themselves inside nix.

"Help... Marinette...?" Natasi asked, feeling like crying from happiness clockself.

Luue smiled at the two.

"Yes, no longer will Marinette be forced to bear the fate of the world due to the broken will of the universe. And you two as well."

Cosmic Actress fell on nix knees, eyes tearing up from happiness, along with Natasi. "Is that it? Really? After living for so long, trying to acheive a goal we thought it was impossible... Is that it? Are we truly done?" Nix sobbed from happiness.

After so long, nix and loc were free.

No longer will they keep seeing the cosmos repeatedly destroyed. No longer will they suffer living for so long with no end in sight, all their attempts to fix things destroyed.

Finally, this long seemingly-hopeless journey had ended.

The kids felt themselves tearing up at the sight, as the other kwami flew towards Luue.

Luue gave the duo a last smile.

"Farewell, it was really nice to meet you! My brethren! Let's do it!"

The kwami enthusiast smiled as they put their hands and mir hand together, their energy and the power of Nothingness harmonizing, as the reality shuddered.

The miraculouses started to shatter, turning to dust, but the kwami were still there, they are no longer bound by their previous constraints.

They are no longer a fragment of a concept, they are now truly the embodiments of them. No longer needing to be bound to an object.

Large orbs of energy came out from Cosmic Actress and Natasi's bodies, turning into Nooroo and Duusuu, who gave the duo a thanks and a hug before joining the rest of the kwami.

Reality was then covered with light, and as it slowly disappeared, Chloe saw that the Akuma and Amok are no longer there.

"They're fine. They just were given their own happiness. Along with Marinette." Tikki answered the unspoken question.

Alya hoped things will go well for them.

====================

Marinette found herself standing awake in confusion as she could not remember what happened.

Looking around, she saw that she was in a strange place, everywhere she looked, only white could be seen. Neither could she see an ending to it.

As she kept looking around, she suddenly heard a voice that caused her to jump a little.

"Hello, Marinette."

She looked towards the source of the voice and found two people.

One of them had a circle with roman numerals behind loc.

'Loc?' Marinette thought, still confused.

Somehow, she knew that the one with the circle used the pronouns clo/loc/locs/clockself, while the other used nix/nix/nix/nixself.

But she didn't have time to ponder that as the two identified themselves:

"I am Cosmic Actress, an Akuma, and this is my friend, Natasi, clo is an Amok." The one without the numbers told her with a happy smile, which was sadly not reciprocated by Marinette even in her confusion.

Marinette immediately took a panicked and guarded stance the moment nix stated their true nature, months if not years of training forcing her to put up her guard. "Akuma!?" She gasped.

"No need to worry! I will help clear your confusion!" Cosmic Actress said.

It took a simple finger snap, and before Marinette could process anything, memories started flooding back.

They filed themselves away in her mind almost instantly, and just a moment, later, all of her memories had returned.

And she looked at the duo in front of her, knowing exactly who they were.

And who they came from.

Her face paled as she remembered her justified fit of rage.

She could remember as Hawkmoth's voice was whispering to her to unleash her hatred and wrath-

'And I failed!'

She felt like crying.

After all that effort, it all ended up thrown away.

She became a prey for the villains.

All of that...

'Because I could not con-!'

"And it is not your fault for not controlling how you feel, Marinette. And it isn't your fault for having negative emotions." Natasi cut off her depressing thought immediately, causing her to look in befuddlement, her eyes almost tearing up. "I said, that it is never your fault for having negative emotions. It never was." Natasi said in a soft tone.

Marinette stepped back in fear, not from them, but from what they were telling her.

"N- No! It is my fault! Because of that I was-!" Her words were cut off with a sob, as the reality of the situation asserted itself. "I was Akumatized... I failed in my duty! I couldn't protect my friends or family!"

For a moment, the only voice heard was the sound of her sobbing, before Cosmic Actress spoke with a soft yet serious tone.

"And what's wrong with having negative emotions?"

The phrase hit Marinette like a train, but she couldn't muster a response before nix started speaking up again, slowly approaching her.

"What is wrong with feeling rage? What is wrong with feeling hate? What is wrong with feeling the desire to stop people from abusing you? What is wrong with wanting people to respect your boundaries? What is wrong with wanting people to not harass you? What is wrong with wishing to cry without the fear of being controlled. Tell me Marinette. What is wrong with that?"

Each question made Marinette feel like a blow, not because they were wrong, but because they were so close to home she couldn't find any other way to react.

She knows deep in her heart that she thought of that. Many nights and days, did she feel like crying at the unfairness of it all. She hated being unable to stop Chloe from bullying and hurting her. She hated being unable to stop Chat Noir from harassing her. She hated Hawkmoth for stripping any ability to vent these emotions from her.

She hated it so much-!

But she bottled these feelings down.

Because it's what her duty had forced on her.

The duty that was also forced on her without a choice.

And all these thoughts, they are being told to her face.

With no way to deflect.

By her own Akuma.

It is too much.

"it was never your fault, Marinette. You know it in your heart. Just like it was never your responsibility to deal with Chloe's abusive behavior, and Chat Noir’s entitlement to your body and affection. Even dealing with Hawkmoth, was a job forced on you by a neglectful guy who ran away the moment danger knocked on his doors. It was never your fault and I can't stress this enough." Cosmic Actress shook nix head before gently smiling. "But you don't need to fear them anymore. They will no longer bind you anymore."

Marinette's body stopped shaking for a moment, tears still flowing from her face. "What do you mean by that?"

"They are all dead. In your reality. But it doesn't really matter anymore. You are no longer cursed to be everyone's problem fixer, Marinette. Don't you want to live it? A life without having to invalidate your own feelings for the sake of people who hurt you?" Natasi told her with a soft smile.

Marinette had stopped crying, she can't feel the energy to do so any more.

She had vented a lot of her emotions when she did.

Her body shook, before she looked at them, her face for the first time giving the impression of a smile.

"And how can I trust you two?"

The duo smiled at that. "Because we are you, Marinette. We are your own feelings made manifest." They said in sync.

A warm light blue glow started to shine as Cosmic Actress spoke, still looking at her. "I know that you are scared. You have trusted people before, only for them to betray you. We understand your fears. But please. Find it in your heart to trust us. Trust your own emotions just this once."

The light intensifies, but Marinette could only feel warm, like a kid protected by their parent.

"Please believe in a better future. Hope for a better future!"

What happened next was purely instinct.

Marinette felt herself warming, smiling as she grasped the light, and the entire dimension glowed as well.

She felt that she did the correct thing.

She saw Cosmic Actress and Natasi smiling, waving at her.

"Nice to be your friend, Marinette. We will meet later!"

With that farewell, Marinette happily accepted her new reality, as everything became blue.

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A girl wakes up as the alarm clock rings.

She shuts it down, yawning, before going downstairs to get her breakfast.

"Good morning, Marinette!"

She turns around, and saw her siblings giving her a bright smile.

"Good morning, Cosmic Actress, Natasi! Today is pretty, isn't it?"

Natasi, her youngest sibling, smiles at her enthusiasm. "Indeed, shame it's the day we get back to school though~!"

Clo pouts jokingly at that, with Marinette and Cosmic Actress give a light-hearted laugh at that.

"Now, come on, let's go get ready!" Marinette insists.

They gather their school supplies, and together three went downstairs, seeing Tom and Sabine who greeted them with a hug and a smile. "Are you three prepared for school?"

Three enthusiastic nods was the answer Sabine got.

But before they left, Marinette had one thing to announce. It was something...well, something zu had been thinking about for a while. But now, standing in the bakery with zek siblings and parents, everything so perfect even the thought of a new school year couldn’t ruin it, zu was done thinking about it, zu was ready to announce it. It felt right.

It was funny, how zek youngest siblings had figured this out before zu did. “Everyone,” zu announced, “I’m changing my pronouns. I’m going to use zu/zev/zek/levself pronouns from now on.” Zu hadn’t thought to write them down, since zu hadn’t actually been planning to do this today. But what better time than the present? The best time to make the changes that would make you happy was today. It was never too late. “For now, you can still call me Marinette, I haven’t decided if I want to change it yet.” Zu continued. There were so many fun names to pick from, zu didn’t know where to start.

Zek family was overjoyed, and they all shared a group hug as zek siblings congratulated zev and zek parents told zev how proud of zev they were, and there would definitely be a cake just to celebrate the occasion when zu got home from school.

There wasn’t time to make a pronoun pin or anything, but zu would get to introduce levself to zev classmates in most of zek new classes, so that was okay. Zu would get a chance to explain zek pronouns then, and zu could always write them on paper and tape it to zek shirt or something. Or maybe Mr. Aubert, the art teacher, would be nice enough to give zev a blank pin to write on, the way he had for Cosmic Actress and Natasi when they’d changed their pronouns and names last year.

The trio walked side by side, feeling happiness and curious what this new year will hold for them.

Marinette felt so giddy and content at being with zek siblings.

'I don't know what the future will hold but... I will face it with hope and compassion, alongside Natasi and Cosmic Actress. I promise this!' Zu didn't know where this emotional fire came from, but neither did zu care.

It just felt great to have hope for a better future today.

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HAPPY END.

#neopronouns in action #miraculous ladybug #ml writing prompts #zu/zev/zek/levself #nix/nix/nix/nixself #nix/nixself #clo/loc/(locs)/clockself #clo/loc/locs/clockself #ce/cer/cers/cerself #ce/cer/(cers)/cerself #mi/mir/mirs/mirself #mi/mir/(mirs)/mirself #Show!Miraculous #Show!Marinette #Show!Adrien

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mlwritingprompts · 3 years ago

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Submitted Prompt: Universal Scars.

Hi again, I found inspiration to finish my fourth idea of my AU series.

Though this is chronologically speaking, the second one lol.

Occurs after "Universal Chaos" and before "Universal Theater".

Here we get to read as Cosmic Actress and Natasi find out that the cosmos is broken and damaged, and that the kwamies are slaves. And the results of that are not pretty.

I also think it's a little messy (and I think is somehow even longer, though I wanted it to be shorter...), so...

Time is broken AU. Because that AU is what gave me the inspiration for the Oblovion prompt.

Basically a small gift to @emberwritesinsight really as thanks for making that AU.

Concepts are broken AU.

Kwamies are slaves.

Angst.

TW: cosmic horror (I guess). --------

As the Wish was made, reality twisted.

For a second, Cosmic Actress felt like nix was floating in space, before gravity reasserted itself.

Cosmic Actress opened nix eyes and looked at the sight in front of nix.

Nix was still in the Eiffel tower, the city felt peaceful.

"It seems the Wish was a success!"

Nix looked behind and saw the source of the voice.

Natasi was there smiling happily.

Cosmic Actress relaxed in relief.

Nix could feel nothing wrong in Natasi's aura, so nix was happy that nix friend had not left because of the Wish.

"Yes, I think so."

Nix told Natasi and checked nixself.

It was at that moment that nix found something strange.

Nooroo's and Duusuu's miraculouses are still worn by nix.

But Tikki's and Plagg's miraculouses are not with nix. They are gone.

Both frowned for a moment before shrugging.

Maybe the cosmos took them away so Tikki and Plagg can recharge their energy or something.

Nix touched the Butterfly and Peacock miraculouses gently and murmured softly. "Nooroo, Duusuu, are you there?"

Nothing happened.

No little kwamies appearing, no voices. Nothing.

Nix felt concerned now.

Nix was not transforming via the peacock or the butterfly miraculouses right now. By all rights, the two kwamies should be appearing...

"Cosmic Actress," nix looked at Natasi as loc face was worried. "I think that... they are not there. Or at least not conscious at all."

Nix eyes widened at the news. "What?"

Natasi nodded, biting loc lips. "I can feel their previous auras, but it's not attached to their miraculouses anymore. The auras are now... part of you. I think that the Wish... had at the very least swapped Nooroo and Duusuu's powers and made them yours."

Nix wanted to refute that, to say that maybe Natasi had made a mistake somehow but-

Now that Natasi stated it, nix can vaguely feel the emotions of people down there, feel their calmness, worry, excitement, and more. Nix could feel Natasi's doubt and hesitation.

And nix could feel the power. The abillity to give these feeling a new form.

This is not natural. Nix shouldn't be having this power. It should belong to the two kwamies.

Both looked with worry for few minutes before sighing.

Cosmic Actress felt a headache starting to form. Nix didn't want this, Natasi also didn't want this.

"Maybe we could use this power to fix this?"

Nix asked.

Clo pondered for a moment before agreeing.

The butterfly and peacock miraculouses were busted and overpowered as hell, so maybe it will work.

Cosmic Actress clapped nix hands, a light purple glow manifesting as a white butterfly of energy was created.

The butterfly made contact with Natasi. This time, there was no corruption or forced mind control. Just a purely symbiotic bond.

There was no need to change Natasi's name.

"Natasi, I give you the power to fix the damage done to Nooroo and Duusuu and all the other kwamies. Do you accept?"

Natasi accepted, and white glow started appearing, giving her a new form. A form to free Nooroo and Duusuu and the rest of the kwamies.

But unfortunately, Natasi's new form barely started appearing, before it suddenly shattered like glass much to Natasi's surprise and Cosmic Actress.

"W-what?"

Nix asked in confusion.

The connection that should have been made, had shattered. As if it couldn't be allowed to exist.

No, that was not it, nix can feel.

The connection itself was not the problem, but the goal both wanted to achieve.

"I- I didn't even resist! How!?" Clo exclaimed in shock as the energy of the transformation was cut short and vanished.

Both stood in silence, and they realized the answer, even if neither liked it at all.

"It seems that... we can't use the butterfly or the peacock's powers to fix whatever that happened." Cosmic Actress grimaced as nix spoke.

"Do... do you think that the rules of how the miraculouses work changed in this reality?" Natasi asked in worry.

That, neither knew the answer for.

Things were already not going well. ==== After multiple more attempts that brought similar results, the duo discovered few things.

Nooroo and Duusuu's powers worked just as intended for the most part.

Cosmic Actress could Championize (opposite of Akumatize, you can change it if you like) Natasi with no problem and give loc all sorts of powers.

It's when the powers related to fixing whatever harm that befell on Duusuu and Nooroo that the process was immediately broken.

The same with Amoks. As long as the purpose of their 'creation' was anything but healing the kwamies, they came to existence just fine. Otherwise they don't appear at all. No speck of energy could even appear.

Naturally, Cosmic Actress freed the Amoks nix created. It would be unfair to destroy them just because.

Almost all of them left and went to enjoy their lives, wether among human population in Paris or just wandering across the globe.

In the end, after waving goodbye at the leaving Amoks, both decided to ignore the mess of Nooroo's and Duusuu's predictment for now and simply have fun.

As the two discovered, today is the first day of school year.

It turns out that the wish punted the two into the past where everything started. Where Marinette will be 'saving Fu' and get her miraculous, thus starts a life of suffering where her opinion is Always Wrong even more so than in her childhood, and where Adrien will most likely give Fu a "gentle" smile and that will somehow mean he is a hero material.

Now, that won't do.

Marinette deserves more than being cursed to a fate of self-destruction because an old man and a kwami with the mind of a toddler (Tikki) think that throwing responsilibity of saving the world on a child and think that said child must also bottle all their negative feelings, lest the world conspire to make her suffer for being a human being with feelings.

It sure won't be ironic at all when Adrien can be as angsty and sad and predatory as he wants and still not be punished for anything and get away with things that no person can get away with.

Well, Adrien won't die now, neither will Chloe.

Might give them one last chance at redemption in this timeline.

But Gabriel and Andre the mayor?

They're out of luck, especially since a quick check showed them still a bunch of racists and billionaires in this reality.

“Poor” rich bastards.

Oh, might as well kill Emilie (if she's still alive and not kidnapped or killed by one of Gabriel's enemies) and all the other rich snobs in the other parts of the worlds. They're all nothing but a waste of air.

Might as well kill the cops while at it.

And Fu as well. That guy couldn't bother using any of the dozen miraculouses he had to fix his mistake of losing the Peacock and the Butterfly miraculouses. And he then threw the responsibility of saving the world on the laps of literal children with no adequate reason. He didn't even bother to check and make sure his "chosen" were up to the job. Or care to stop Adrien when it was blatantly clear how incompetent and irresponsible the rich kid was.

Sometime during the "cops & rich snobs" killing mission, clo told nix about the two superheroes approaching, and seconds later, both heroes appeared.

Adrien and Marinette, the same people were picked up.

Marinette looked determined, even if the Akuma and Amok duo could feel her uncertainty.

Adrien was... excited. For a fight, or for letting loose, nix didn't care.

'Almost forgot the first day of Marinette getting the Ladybug earrings. He was as excited and reckless back then as well.' Cosmic Actress mused before glancing at Natasi.

"Welcome, heroes. I am Cosmic Actress. This is my friend, Natasi." nix said.

Using nix new emotion sensing ability, nix found that she had almost similar problems with the original Marinette. Chloe bullied her, adults didn't defend her, she was forced to be the "bigger person" by the teachers, etc.

Adrien's emotions meanwhile, well... There was the desire to let loose and have fun, but there was also a lot of hidden resentment towards Gabriel and his mother. (who was alive in this timeline, nix killed her anyways)

Maybe this Adrien is so much more different than the first one.

But still, time to finish this.

With a swipe of Natasi's hands, Adrien gets teleported along with Cosmic Actress who takes away his miraculous with no effort.

He detransforms with shock in his face and nix drops him on the ground.

Nix tells him that nix knows his hatred towards his parents, and that both are now dead, and that he will not be abused by them any longer.

"I- They-!" he couldn't muster an answer from surprise.

The whole thing happened too fast for him to process completely.

"Yes, both are dead. Their wealth will be also distributed back to the society, like the money of the other rich snobs all around the world. You won't be one of the rich kids anymore. So, go get therapy to deal with the effects of your parents' abuse and to fix any abusive teachings they threw at you. Go make friends, be compassionate, and have fun. Just don't be a bigot. I'd rather not kill you."

Well, the current him anyways, before nix can see if he wants to redeem himself or not, but he doesn't need to know that.

Finishing the speech, Cosmic Actress left him alone to ponder on how to live his future.

Meanwhile, Natasi was also giving Marinette a similar speech after taking away the earrings.

The poor girl almost broke down at "failing so hard" at her 'mission' to protect Paris when Natasi told her that no, it was literally not her responsibility to save the literal world from magical terrorists or what Marinette thought the duo were. Just like how it isn't her job to cater to Chloe's selfish desires, whose parents are dead, so Chloe doesn't have her "dear daddy" to enforce her threats with.

Clo told Marinette that the only responsibility she has is to care about her grades as a student and be a good person. That's the only responsibility she has. Nothing like allowing the daughter of a fascist billionaire mayor to torment her and be unable to defend herself. And definitely not sacrificing her life for a job that was literally thrown at her.

Natasi tells her not to worry about Chloe's threats anymore. Clo as well tells her to go to therapy if she wanted or felt she needed to. Marinette's mental health is important after all.

With that, Natasi left Marinette who was feeling conflicted for so many reasons. === Cosmic Actress and Natasi walked into an abandoned building.

The appearance of the building mattered little compared to what the two planned to do.

The two wanted to use Tikki and Plagg's powers, along with the other kwamies (that their miraculouses were taken after Fu's death) to fix whatever happened to Duusuu and Nooroo.

Natasi reasoned that maybe the reason any attempt to heal the two kwamies failed was because clo and nix were not concepts or a manifestation of one.

Maybe if a kwami got Championized, it will work.

Nix couldn't see any problem with that.

It took minutes to calm the hysterical kwamies after freeing them from the box along with Tikki and Plagg.

None of them had been allowed to see the outside world for centuries, so it took a lot for them to calm down enough

Cosmic Actress told them of what nix and Natasi are, and that Duusuu and Nooroo are most likely hurt or in a magical sleep.

Nix told them that the plan was to Championize one of them to heal the two kwamies and also destroy the miraculouses so no one can misuse them, preferably Tikki since she embodies the Creation concept, but Plagg is a good substitute as well.

Tikki reluctantly agrees, and Cosmic Actress makes another white butterfly and sends it to Tikki.

This time, the connection holds, and Tikki transforms fully.

Everyone feels glad, but-

The moment Tikki is about to use her newfound powers to destroy the miraculouses-

She stops, much to the surprise of the rest of the watchers.

"Tikki?" Plagg asks in concern as he waves his tiny hand in front of her.

But she isn't responding. Nothing of her form is moving at all. And as the group focuses more, there is no sound from her at all either.

Natasi's eyes widen as clo steps back in shock.

"No, no way..." clo softly murmurs.

Nix looks at loc and asks what clo felt.

"This- this is not natural. It is not a paralysis! Tim- I can feel it! Tikki's time is forcefully stopped! Even my ability to control time can't reverse this!" Natasi tells the surprising development.

"How!? Why!?"

Cosmic Actress yells in shock that is reciprocated by the other kwamies as nix tries to fix this mess.

Luckily, just breaking the connection with Tikki was enough to revert Tikki into her not-suspended-in-time state.

More similar attempts were met with the exact same result.

It was impossible to heal Nooroo and Duusuu, and it is seemingly impossible to destroy the miraculouses.

Even Plagg's cataclysm could only damage a miraculous, and even then, only to a certain limit. If Plagg tries to damage the miraculous anymore, it won't have any effect.

In the end, after weeks of trying multiple methods and combos, all failing, Cosmic Actress and Natasi decided to take a break.

Luckily, making the kwamies able to not transform without their permission was easier, so now no kwami can be forced to transform people without permission.

The kwamies were given freedom to roam wherever and whenever they liked and the Akuma-Amok duo easily entertained them and played with them as well.

But even now, neither could Cosmic Actress and Natasi realize that the kwamies were slaves. Neither realized how easy it is to force a kwami to obey. And neither realized just how wrong the existence of the miraculouses was.

But the truth will be discovered in the end.

In all it's horrifying glory. ===== The thing that started the discovery was a seemingly random day, months after the duo used the Wish.

Just the normal sun blooming on the city of Paris, the life becoming better after the killing of the rich and abusive snobs.

Cosmic Actress was enjoying some delicious macarons from the Dupain-Cheng family.

Just enjoying the food with Natasi.

Marinette's emotional health grew better and nix could feel the girl becoming more energetic and upbeat. She was also having more time to spend on fashion and truly try to make her style.

It helped that Caline had "tragically" died and that her current replacement was not interested in allowing racism and abuse to infect the school.

The whole relevation started with a joking line.

"But, for a cool fashion designer, Marinette sure doesn't change her usual outfit much, if at all."

Natasi only meant it as a joke, and nix knew that.

But...

Something felt strange about the remark.

"Yes it is indeed a little strange but... wasn't that everyone?"

Nix asked, and clo was the one looking in confusion this time.

"I mean, doesn't Marinette's whole class also keep wearing the same outfit? I mean, even from Marinette's previous memories, didn't they also wear the same outfits for... months?"

Nix raised a brow as nix stopped talking, Natasi reciprocating the action.

"... Even Chloe, the girl that wanted to show how much better than others she was...?"

This time, a feeling of wrongness seeped into the hearts of the duo.

One person is a happenstance, two is a coincidence, more than thirty different people is...

"... Maybe we are just overthinking?"

Nix tried to shake the feelings of unease along with loc.

Neither were successful. === As weeks and months went by, the duo could no longer ignore just how some things did not make sense.

People not changing outfits could be excused as a large trend or some open secret.

But then as time went by, things became less easier to justify.

Paris, one of the biggest fashion centers, and most the fashion trends feel too bland and similar to fit.

Alix, one of Marinette's classmates, dying her hair and even months later, the dye still goes strong with no sign of disappearing.

And finally, the weather.

For a whole month, the sun never disappeared, never got covered by the clouds, never experienced a raining day...

In the winter...

The temperature itself did not drop, and neither do the civilians even bother wearing something more suited for winter.

It was as if the winter itself no longer existed.

"This is too much. This can't be normal or natural at all."

Cosmic Actress whispers as nix looks at the bright sun.

Natasi was also alongside nix, nodding.

"Yes, this is... abnormal... And now that I am looking for it, I can feel that space and time are not... working normally even if only a little."

Something wrong was going on, but what was it?

"Cosmic Actress. Championize me. If the city is having... whatever this is happening in it... Maybe we can understand if we saw other similar bizarre things happening."

Nix agreed and used a white magic butterfly to boost clo's sensing abilities even further.

Clo concentrated for a moment, searching for any abnormalities in space and time.

The rest of the planet felt like nothing was wrong, even after checking multiple times.

So Natasi decided to further loc senses outside the planet.

As clo focused, loc mind picked up multiple signals where the energy of the cosmos was... behaving abnormally.

"There is nothing wrong in the planet, currently, but... I believe that the rest of the universe has some severe problems."

Nix held a breath at that.

Clo looked at nix, and the message was clear.

The two should check whatever that was happening to have a better idea on what's going on in Paris. === "Ready?"

Cosmic Actress asked nix friend.

Natasi's form was glowing softly, a new form clo had gotten via another Championization.

This time, Natasi's new abilities was to allow loc and anyone of loc choosing to survive and be able to breathe and speak in space outside as well.

Clo nodded before opening a portal.

The two will be teleporting just far enough from whatever that was happening to the unreasonably wildly moving energy of the cosmos.

The duo took a long breath before entering the portal...

And were met with a sight that would have blown the minds of anyone looking at it.

The cosmos was indeed beautiful.

Stars shining brightly as they move, their brightness giving a orange-ish blue hue to the cold empty void of the universe.

It could be said that many scientists will risk their lives to see the beauty that the two were seeing right now.

Taking a moment to engrave the sight and enjoy it, the two then went to look for where the energy distortions were coming from.

The source was found after a few more minutes of high-speed travel, as a large rocky planet was orbiting around a star.

It sounded natural, except for one thing.

The sheer speed it was rotating around the star was too absurd to make any sense.

Usually, a planet will not go so fast to the point it looked like a large ring surrounding a star.

And usually, not when the planet was so far away from it's star.

To give an approximation, the distance between the planet and the star was as large as the distance between the sun and Jupiter.

Cosmic Actress would admit to not having a huge interest in the astronomy and space-related sciences, but nix knew that this level of speed is not natural to occur.

"Oh, my...."

Nix heard Natasi's whisper, and looked at loc.

"It's time. It- it's moving too fast. Unbearably fast. I almost can't keep up with how fast and strong time is going o- No, not only is it so fast, it's still going even faster!"

Natasi's face was showing shock and horror as clo spoke.

Clo was connected to time as manipulating it was one of loc original abilities, but to see this madness.

The sheer force time was going on, so differently was terrifying.

"Do you want us to get closer and check what's wrong?"

Cosmic Actress asked softly.

If Natasi wanted to check, the two will land on the planet to see what was going on, if not, the two will return to Earth and maybe see one of the other irregular places of the cosmos.

Natasi's body shook for a moment before looking resolute.

"We must see what's going on."

With that, the two teleported to the planet, with Natasi's natural time and space powers working as a protection from the rapidly increasing flow of time.

The first thing the two noticed is that the star doesn't look like a star at all when seeing it from there.

What would have been a large circle of light that moved slowly as the planet rotated on itself, was now moving so fast it resembled a sinusoidal arc.

And when Cosmic Actress looked at the ground of the rocky planet, the ground was...

It was rapidly becoming cracked, and shattered, slowly disappearing.

"Just what is going on here?"

"The planet... it's being forcefully aged. At this rate, it will cease to exist in less than a hundred years."

Cosmic Actress frowned at Natasi's conclusion.

Nix didn't doubt loc, but it was difficult for nix to comprehend just how fast things were aging and speeding up on this planet... or this solar system for that matter.

Natasi noticed the frown, and decided to demonstrate.

Clo picked up a small cube of metal from loc pockets, one of the many things loc collected just for fun.

Natasi then threw it gently into the air, as Cosmic Actress watched.

Nix felt the amount of force put into that throw. Something a normal six years old can do easily.

What was surprising is that the very moment the cube left loc hand, it suddenly vanished and reappeared just a few steps away on the ground.

There was no space or time manipulation from Natasi's part that caused that.

It happened solely because time in this part of the universe is moving abnormally fast to the point of absurdity.

And as the two watched the cube for a while, the cube started dissolving, disintegrating in front of nix and loc eyes.

Until nothing remained.

"That's how fast time is moving here. Had we not been protected, even we would have aged and withered to dust if we stayed too long."

Unease was clear in loc eyes as clo spoke.

It wa clear how uncomfortable clo felt with the way Time was marching in this place of the universe.

Deciding that maybe it's time to leave, the duo returned to Earth to get a break from the discovery, but the journey did not end yet.

The two needed to see the other areas of the cosmos.

Time was definitely messed-up, but what else in the universe is this... twisted?

As the two teleport across the universe, there were too many strange things that should not exist.

A planet that is struck by lightning bolts... that extend to three times the size of the sun.

A star that was made out of water without combusting or immediately collapsing on itself into a blackhole.

A gaseous planet bigger than Jupiter that literally had no mass or weight, as if gravity ceased to exist on it. Having a smaller mass than Earth is possible if a planet's density is extremely low, but having literally no mass could not be possible.

A planet locked in space, unable to move as it gets cooked by it's star that was closing towards it.

And finally, a galaxy that is frozen in time, unable to move. The worst case so far.

But there was also another situation that felt as urgent.

One that the duo was looking at right now.

It was a large star.

A star that normally would be able to annihilate almost everything in the universe by sheer heat and size alone.

And it was slowly getting sucked into a strange rift in space. A large rift that was ten times larger than the star.

But the worrying thing was not the fact that the star was being slowly eaten by the rift, Natasi states.

It's the fact that the strange rift is not even a rift in space or time.

Because neither clo or Cosmic Actress could feel the essence of any concept enemating from that strange... Void- No. It can't be called a void.

It was more like a Nothing.

A power and energy that simply nulls and erases any and every concept it comes to contact with. A power that was so out of the cosmos that it felt almost awful to look at.

"Just... what is going on with the cosmos?"

Cosmic Actress' question was left unanswered in front of the sight in front of the duo.

"First Paris and the strange weather and stagnation of the population's creativity. Next that planet where time moves so fast a normal human will age and wither in seconds. And now, this. It's as if..."

Natasi's eyes widened as a realization hit loc.

"As if the concepts are broken! As if they can no longer work naturally anymore!"

Now, it made sense now.

Creativity was broken, that's why none of the parisians were making any actual fashionable clothes.

Weather was broken, which is why it had not rained for months, and why sometimes lightning and rain occur in the cosmos in areas that should be devoid of it.

Time was broken, which is why it is stagnating in places, and running with frenzy in others.

Space was broken, which is why things are sometimes shackled to a specific coordinations in space, and why they sometimes are teleported with no explanation.

Creation and Destruction were also broken, causing the annihillation of matter with no explanation, and the creation of things that disobey all the rules of physics.

"But, what can cause this?"

Natasi kept pondering.

Cosmic Actress looked at nix friend, a possible answer appearing in nix head.

"What if... what if the kwamies being bound to their miraculouses is the reason?"

Both stood in silence pondering about that.

The kwamies were said to be an intristic part of the cosmos, a part of a concept, and even though some of their powers felt weirdly unrelated to the concepts they supposedly embody, their powers were real.

"But if the kwamies being separated from their whole concepts, if binding themselves to a miraculous for the sake of helping the humanity would cause this... Wouldn't they first make sure that the cosmos won't turn into... this?"

That was a great question. One with no easy answer.

Unless-

Nix eyes widened at the implications.

"Unless the kwamies could not refuse! The kwamies said that they were the ones to help the humanity. But now that I think of it, if that was true, why did Nooroo not stop Gabriel from abusing him? Why didn't Tikki create a whole different reality where Gabriel had already lost? Why did none of the other kwamies stop him and the many evil miraculous holders before him?"

Natasi's eyes widened with horror at the implications.

"No, no! It can't be! If what you say is true, then that means-!"

"That the kwamies are slaves. There is no other reason."

Both were paling as horror was written on their faces.

Nix put nix hand on nix face, feeling extremely drained.

"Now it makes sense. The failsafes. The inability of the kwamies to tell their holders' names. Nooroo's and Duusuu's inability to escape from Gabriel or just kill him right away. Why the kwamies 'needed' the help of an 'owner' to 'use their powers safely'. The miraculouses- The Shackles that are binding them. They are not just making the kwamies unable to refuse the holders of their Shackles. It must also be interfering with their ability to control their powers. The kwamies were part of the cosmos. They are literally billions of years older than any human. To think that a human will have any more understanding of what they were is nothing short of absurd."

Because it was true.

A being that lived for billions of years, working to stabilise the cosmos, yet it somehow knows less on how to control it's immense power than a human does?

"... what should we do now? We must free them. But..."

Natasi stopped speaking.

Both knew why.

Because all their previous attempts to break the miraculouses failed.

"... We should try once more. It's the only way we have now."

Nix answer was clear.

There is nothing else that could be done for now. === Once more, the kwamies were there.

The group had assembled for the sake of another attempt to break the miraculouses.

This time, nix decided on a feedback loop.

Nix boosts someone's powers, and they boost everyone else's powers, including nix and Natasi.

Repeat the process until it felt more than sufficient to break the damn Shackles.

It took almost three minutes of boosting and addding more and more abilities, and this time, Natasi was sure that the tie won't suddenly freeze when the group tries to break the Shackles.

One final Championization was made to help them combine and synchronize their powers with complete precision, as a large beam of light hit the miraculouses.

And much to the surprise of everyone, the miraculouses actually shattered.

Everyone cheered, as the kwamies' bodies glowed and their powers started to grow brighter.

Two blue and purple lights exited Cosmic Actress' body, manifesting into Duusuu and Nooroo, the two kwamies glowing as well, seemingly healed of whatever that caused them being locked into nix body.

Slowly, their bodies started to vanish into particles, as they told the Amok and Akuma that they are fixing the cracks in the universe.

It felt like something truly grand and happy, as Natasi and loc friend couldn't help to smile.

But it was over all too soon, as reality, like glass, broke into tiny fragments in front of the duo.

Knocking them unconscious in the process. === The two awoke with a groan, looking at the area around.

The place seemed to be a rocky and barren land, with large pillars and altairs everywhere.

"Wh- where...?"

Nix spoke in confusion as nix felt a headache, Natasi just as confused.

It took a moment for loc to feel the strangeness.

"Cosmic Actress, my connection with time... it tells me that we are in an alternate reality. And in the past as well."

"What?"

Clo pointed to the left.

"Come on, I feel people are there! Maybe we can find out what happened and where and when exactly we are."

Moving towards where the feeling of life was enemating, both walked slowly and carefully, a sense of wrongness consuming the two.

Something felt really wrong...

Reaching the destination, the two were met with an unusual sight.

A bunch of men and women, from different ages wearing robes talking in a strange language.

None of them noticed the duo, nor did they seemed to care.

Nix and clo watched as the group's speech seemed to change, as both felt their hairs rise.

Something was very, very wrong here...

And both felt neaseaus when out of nowhere, an immense wave of light and energy came to existence.

And was sucked into a tiny jewel.

The duo couldn't comprehend what happened. Even when their senses told them.

For a moment, nothing happened, then the two felt as if the cosmos, it's very energy...

It- it was ripped away. Leaving an emptiness that neither could describe. An emptiness that felt so repulsive and painful to feel.

And as the two looked at the jewel, a new light appeared...

Transforming into a tiny animal-looking creature.

A ladybug-looking creature.

"Tikki..."

Nix said softly as realization and horror enveloped nix and Natasi.

"These people- These bastards! They enslaved Tikki!"

Clo was trembling with rage and horror.

The sudden emptiness in the Creation, clo felt it. And it was one of the most vile sensations clo had ever felt in loc relatively short life.

The shattering of a concept, of it's very will and then Shackling it.

It was unforgiveable!

The two rushed to destroy the damn Shackle and kill the assholes that started the whole thing!

Nix arm was pulsing with energy, planning to annihilate them in one hit, and unleashed!

The wave of energy that would obliterate everything moved at blinding speed-

Only for it to pass through the group with no harm done to them.

"W-what!?"

Nix couldn't believe it.

The attack should have erased them from existence, not phase though them as if they were ghosts!

Natasi tried as well, but-

"I- I can't hit them! Even controlling space and time is-!"

It was the same result.

"It's as if we are mere spectators in this era... Don't tell me-!?"

The cosmos... the cosmos is not allowing the two to kill these men.

'Why!?'

The question was left unanswered as the "Guardians" didn't even feel anything.

There was no response from them.

It was like nothing happened at all.

"Why...?"

Cosmic Actress gritted nix teeth from rage, before looking at Natasi.

"Natasi! I seem to have a little more power from Nooroo! Let us try to use it to stop them!"

Natasi didn't need to be told twice, and light engulfed loc form, power oozing as now, both could interact with the world.

The "Guardians" noticed the two now, but it was already too late for them.

All of them died with no exception, and Tikki was immediately freed.

Whatever spells these people used were not completely stabilized yet, so shattering the miraculous was a much easier endeavor.

Unfortunately, as Tikki's essence seemed to return and merge with the cosmos, the reality-

It shattered again.

Leaving the duo unconscious for another time. === Another wake-up, and another realisation.

The duo saw the same scene, the Guardians enslaving Tikki and then startint to target the other kwamies.

Cosmic Actress realized thanks to the previous experience that maybe killing them after enslaving the kwamies can't xork.

Then better go to a point of time before they did.

Once more, using a fraction of Nooroo's remaining powers to boost Natasi's time and space abilities, the duo leaped into the portal that should connect them to the intended point of time.

Neither realized what nightmare they would see. === Dread.

Pure, uncontrolled dread consumed the two.

What the duo found beyond the portal was not the world of before, but a place completely different.

A place that enemated the sensation of terror and insignificance.

As the two looked at the area, a pitch-black space with no colors-

No.

As both spread their senses, it took their utmost effort to not throw up.

For in this place where colors seemed to cease to exist...

All the other concepts ceased to exist as well.

Neither could feel time, space, creation or destruction.

No concept could be felt.

It felt-

It felt-!

"Like what happened when we saw that Nothingness eating that star!"

Cosmic Actress choked, feeling pained by the act of speaking in this place alone.

"Just like... What happened when Tikki was also enslaved!"

Natasi added, feeling just as pained.

Movement felt so difficult.

Both felt they would lose conciousness at this rate.

Suddenly, pain amplified, as both barely held a scream as the two watched as their bodies...

Started to disappear.

As if being deleted by this Nothingness.

As if every concept that was allowing their existence was being deleted.

Panic filled their hearts as they tried to free themselves, but-

Their powers were being drained by this place.

It took a huge effort for the two to make contact, and it was only thanks to the sheer emotions of terror that Cosmic Actress and Natasi managed to successfully escape using another portion of Nooroo's leftover energy.

Barely escaping with their lives.

The two took rapid breaths trying to calm down the raging emotions.

"What was that!? How can that-!? That thing shouldn't even exist! It just felt so alien and opposite to every thing that should exist in the cosmos!"

Natasi yelled as clo clutched loc chest in horror at the experience the two had the unpleasantness to live through.

"I don't know! And honestly, I don't think neither of us even can! It was as if-!"

Nix was also terrified out of nix mind at the experience.

That... Nothingness, as the two decided to name it, shouldn't exist. It was so fundamentally different from the concepts it was terrifying.

A place, or an entity that simply deletes every concept it came to contact with.

It was as if-

"As if it was born from the lack of concepts."

That was the only option.

A domain that was created due to the lack of sufficient essence in the concept of Creation-

Then growing larger as more concepts get their essences taken away, leaving more holes for that Nothingness to "grow".

"... That Nothingness is why the kwamies can't be really freed, isn't it?"

Natasi asked, but both knew that the answer is "yes".

Most likely, that Nothingness doesn't want to allow anything to exist alongside it.

And worse, it was doing that just for doing that.

There was no feeling of maliciousness or rage or hatred towards the cosmos enemating from The Nothingness from what the two sensed, very, very faintly, now that the two can process the emotions a little more calmly.

It was just utterly indifferent towards any and everything. As if The Nothingness, if it was an existing entity, was looking at them the same way an eldetitch abomination looks at humans and ants alike.

Just pure apathy and nonchalance.

The concepts, Cosmic Actress and Natasi. They all were treated the same.

As if they were all nothing but nonentities.

And if the conclusions are correct, then The Nothingness will only keep deleting and sending cracks across the cosmos. Wrecking the concepts even more, until nothing remains.

"We must stop that thing but how?"

"I don't know Natasi. I don't know. But we must stop it. No matter what..."

Both looked at each other, faces still pale from horror at the encounter.

But easier said than done.

Neither know how to start untangling this mess that the "Guardians" had caused.

And neither do the duo knows just how far the universe can hold... === In a point of nonexistence that no concept can identify, a being was slowly waking up.

Little did that mean, since this being was nothing but a "mass" of nonexistence.

Barely, just barely, it could remember what it was.

An entity of Nothingness, a being that embodied the nonexisence of anything.

For "centillions of years", it had "existed".

Long before the cosmos was created.

"Enjoying" the "Solitude" and "Silence" it was surrounded by.

Then suddenly, the cosmos came to be out of literally nowhere, expanding infinitely.

The Nothingness was rapidly banished- no. To be more precise, it was... locked into a prison of it's own essence.

And it then laid "dormant" for the next billions of years, as the cosmos kept expanding and branching

Only recently, when the power-hungry idiots who called themselves the "Order of Guardians" throught it was a great idea to Shackle a concept's power and essence to a tiny jewel did it start to... "Awaken".

But now, after experiencing what it felt like to be "alive" again, it had wondered...

Maybe it is time to get the "Solitude and Silence" it lived in long before.

And make sure that no other entity stops it this time.

From being the only thing to "exist" anymore.

For the first time in it's long "life", it felt something.

It felt... Motivation.

And no matter what, no one will stop it from attaining it's goal.

The other concepts will no longer bind it. It won't allow that.

Let them try. Creation, Destruction, Time, Space, and all the rest.

All will succumb in front of it. And be deleted.

All for the sake of the "Solitude" that it was desired so much... === "Just... how much should we keep trying...? Just how long will this continue?"

Cosmic Actress fell on nix knees, tears falling from nix face.

Another time reset.

Another time reset trying to save the kwamies with Natasi.

Failed.

Natasi was alongside nix, loc face crying as well.

Nothing worked.

And neither was able to know just how many time resets that were done.

It's always the same.

Nothing ever changes.

And when things do change, the reality twists, and they get punished for it by ending where and when the two started, or seeing the end of the cosmos as anyone can know it.

Even Duusuu and Nooroo, the two kwamies that were freed from nix body, somehow were Shackled once more inside the duo's bodies.

As if none of their efforts of freeing the two kwamies mattered...

And neither of them know for how long their minds can hold for much longer. === End. === Well, not really.

Turns out that my brain is being a jerk, because I find myself having ideas on how to finish this AU and I can't get them out of my head :(

So, I guess I will be submitting another prompt to close this story.

... After I can find out how to give Cosmic Actress, Natasi, and Marinette a happy ending. Yes, my brain is a sadistic brat.

Either that or Tikki broke the fourth wall and decided to punish me for 'tormenting' Marinette by giving me ideas.

Don't worry, I am already working on it :)

#Miraculous Ladybug #ML writing prompts #writing prompts #Cosmic Actress #Natasi #Neopronouns in action #nix/nix/nix/nixself #nix/nixself #clo/loc/(locs)/clockself #clo/loc/locs/clockself #clo/loc #Show!Miraculous #Show!Marinette #Show!Adrien

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custom-pronoun-pins · 3 years ago

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Designs are no longer available on Redbubble as of April 2023, as they’ve started actively stealing money from artists. Sorry for the inconvenience. You are, as always, encouraged to save these designs to use as icons or in other art, and you are encouraged to print them out and make your own shirts or buttons if you’re able to.

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The List of neopronouns! Whenever I make a new pronoun pin/icon design from now on, I'm going to make one for every single pronoun set on this list at least.

I am no longer employed because it's past high time I admitted that I can't have a normal job and have an appartment that's livable in, so my twin's income is now our sole source of income. So from now on I'm going to try to make at least 60 new pins a day, since that's the limit for designs you can upload to Redbubble at once, in the hopes that more pins will mean more people are buying them.

If you would like to donate to help out, both my venmo and cashapp usernames are Rjalker! There is also our gofundme here. The Redbubble store is set up so that I get half of the listed price (instead of the default 20%), so if you buy a pin for $6, I get $3, and Redbubble gets the other $3, and same with more expensive products.

As always, if you are buying a pronoun pin from Redbubble that you want to be functional as a pronoun pin, I suggest buying the "large" size, since the "small" size is way too small for people to notice or read easily. You can see an example of how big the "large" pin is here.

If you don't see your pronouns on this list, or would like a specific combination (it/xe for example) or different spellings, please let me know, either in replies, reblogging, sending an ask, or whatever! :)

Any pronouns not on this list that are requested for other designs will also be added to this list so that hopefully nobody gets left out.

Maybe if I find a website that will do it for me, I will figure out how many unique combinations there are of these pronouns in sets of two and make all of them, we'll have to see, lol...

They have been sorted into alphabetical order to help finding them be easier.

Some of these have only just been added while making this post, so they aren't on the newest pin designs yet. That's on my to-do list.

You can request pronouns to be added to this list even if you have no intention of ever buying from my Redbubble store, because the designs will also be free to use for icons and other things! (or if you have a printer and are able to make your own buttons, you can print them out for that, as long as you aren't selling them or claiming the design is your own)

This list will be edited and alphabetized again anytime new ones are added :)

You can also read the list on this google doc with larger font.

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Ask for my pronouns

Any pronouns

Any neopronouns

a/ace ace/aces ae/aer ae/he ae/it ae/ryn ae/she ae/they ae/xe aero/aeros an/droid ar/aro ar/lok aro/aros ay/ace ay/li by/lar byt/byts char/chars clo/loc/locs/clockself club/heart cu/ti de/ad de/der de/dim de/ir deq/dir dey/dem dre/aras e/er e/im echo/echos es/lin ex/exself ey/eir ey/em ey/er fang/fangs fleur/fleurs fluff/fluffs gar/ros he/ae he/it he/it/she he/she he/she/it he/they he/xe he/xey hea/ler hop/hops hy/hym ido/eis it/ae it/he it/he/she it/she it/she/he it/they it/xe it/xey ith/iths ith/kir ix/hal ix/ixelf ke/kem ker/kri kit/kits ky/shal ky/tin kyn/areth ley/lem li/lia li/lim li/lir lo/lok ly/lyr mango/mangos mio/fel mley/mlem moon/moons moth/moths mus/ruum N/Z nat/zahl ne/nem ne/neo ne/rix nei/ther neo/neon ney/nem nix/nixself pe/per pup/pups rain/rainself rak/sura rot/rots ry/ryn sci/ence sci/scis shay/shayself she/ae she/he she/it she/it/he she/they she/xe she/xey shey/shem sia/lia singu/laer star/stars sy/sky tal/lyn tar/dis te/ter tey/tem they/ae they/he they/it they/she they/vee they/xe they/xey they/ze thi/hil thorn/thorns thun/thunder ti/tik twig/twigs vae/vam ve/vei ve/ven ve/vim ve/vir vee/veen vi/vir vo/vos voi/void wa/wir wave/waveself x/xself xae/xaer xe/hir xe/xem xe/xim xe/xir xe/xym xeno/bell xey/xem xi/kiyn xiy/rik xy/xym zag/rey zal/az ze/hir ze/zem ze/zir zey/zem zy/zem zy/zev zy/zym

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neopronouns-in-action · 3 years ago

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#030: Boundaries are Made to be Respected, a short, touch-averse Horror story

I'd like to dedicate this story, with hate, to everyone who treats touch averse people like we're problems that need to be solved. Fuck you.

You want to know the genre of a story where the premise is "a touch averse person is asked to compromise on their boundaries to make a touch starved person feel better?" Horror. You are describing a horror story, where you are the villain.

Neopronouns: clo/loc/(locs)/clockself which follow the same rules as she/her/(hers)/herself

Replace she with clo

Replace her with loc

Replace hers with locs

Replace herself with clockself

EX:

"She is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as she gets a fence set up around her yard so the puppy can go outside without her having to walk it. Her uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting her use, since she lost hers."

Becomes:

"Clo is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as clo gets a fence set up around loc yard so the puppy can go outside without loc having to walk it. Loc uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting loc use, since clo lost locs."

ri/riv/rivs/riverself, which will follow the same rules as he/him/his/himself

Replace he with ri

Replace him with riv

Replace his with rivs

Replace himself with riverself

EX:

"He is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as he gets a fence set up around his yard so the puppy can go outside without him having to walk it. His uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he’s letting him use, since he lost his.”

Becomes:

"Ri is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as ri gets a fence set up around rivs yard so the puppy can go outside without riv having to walk it. Rivs uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he’s letting riv use, since ri lost rivs.”

= = =

Edie was reading on loc phone in the living room, loc legs stretched out in front of loc, loc back propped up on loc favorite pillow against one arm of the couch, when, out of the corner of loc eye, clo saw loc friend and roommate appear in the doorway that led first to the kitchen, then the hallway that led to their bedrooms and the bathroom.

Callery didn't do anything else or say anything, so Edie didn't pay riv any mind, assuming ri was looking at something on rivs own phone, and just continued reading the February 1930 edition of Astounding Stories of Super Science on loc phone, courtesy of Gutenberg.org.

The giant beetle army was advancing across the skies of Australia, and Edie was honestly shocked and horrified by the carnage that was unfolding. Clo had expected this story to be adventurous, sure, but hadn't actually expected to be thrown into the midst of a legitimate, horrifying apocalypse with people actually dying “on screen”, so to say. Why hadn't anyone adapted this to a TV show or something yet? This was horrifying. Clo couldn't look away.

So clo kept reading, and after less than a minute, clo had completely forgot loc friend was still standing in the doorway, completely absorbed as clo was by the ending half of The Beetle Horde. It almost seemed hopeless, but something had to give, right? This wasn't sustainable, so it had to end naturally soon, because nothing in nature would exist with this level of unbalance with the rest of the ecosystem--

“Hey.” Callery's voice came suddenly, deadly serious, and Edie was knocked out of loc thoughts and the book. Immediately, clo felt loc heart freeze in dread, and this time not because of the giant beetles that seemed like they were going to destroy all of humanity. No, this time it was because that was not the kind of tone of voice you used to deliver good news.

Edie lowered loc phone, and lifted loc gaze toward the doorway of the living room, turning Callery's form from a blur at the corner of loc eye into the fully detailed reality.

Callery was standing there leaning against the doorway, wearing rivs favorite purple hoodie with rivs hands shoved into the front pocket, and rivs dark green and gold flannel pajama pants, with rivs feet bare on the carpeting. Rivs brown hair was undone from its usual ponytail, and was pushed back behind rivs ears, falling in a rippling wave down rivs back. Rivs expression was serious, and ri was staring straight at Edie with rivs cool but disconcerting electric blue eyes.

Edie sat up, alarmed, shoved loc phone into loc pocket so it'd be out of the way, and swung loc feet onto the floor, for a moment irrationally worrying that Callery was about to announce that giant gods damned beetles were attacking Australia, before the much more logical, and likely anxieties cut in. “What's wrong?” Clo demanded, “What happened?” Had Amie died? Was someone else in the hospital? Had Callery caught Covid19? Were they both probably going to die now despite all their precautions?

To loc consternation, Callery didn't answer immediately, just looked down at the floor, rivs hands visibly fidgeting inside the giant hoodie pocket, until finally ri looked up again. “I need to ask you a favor.” Ri said, still in that horribly serious tone of voice, staring directly into Edie's eyes.

Callery's contact-assisted electric blue eyes were sharp and clear, determined and intense.

Edie couldn't look away. Clo felt like clo was pinned into place like a bug under a microscope.

“What kind of favor?” Clo managed to ask, now even more alarmed than before. This was not the way loc friend normally behaved. What in the world could ri possibly want?

Again, Callery didn't answer immediately. Instead, ri strode fully into the room, around the coffee table, and then sat down right next to Edie on loc couch. Right next to loc. Literally on the cushion right next to loc.

Now clo was really afraid, and even more frozen. Why was Callery doing this? Ri knew Edie hated being this close to other people, that was why clo had a whole couch just to clockself. Clo found clockself leaning away from loc roommate, into the pillow clo'd been leaning so comfortably on just a minute before, and still, Callery didn't move away, didn't get the hint, even though Edie could see rivs eyes watching loc. Callery had to know how intensely uncomfortable Edie felt right now, how trapped ri was making clo feel, but ri wasn't doing anything to move away or apologize.

They had had many frank, in-depth discussions about Edie's boundaries and personal space bubble before they ever moved in together. Callery had sworn over and over again to respect them, not to press loc in any way. Ri had agreed that Edie's couch was Edie's alone, ri'd only use it with permission. Ri would never try to sit next to Edie, and would not only never touch Edie without permission, but never /even/ ask Edie to let riv touch loc. The only time they would ever touch was if Edie initiated it clockself, which, Edie assured riv, would literally be never, unless there was some sort of life or death emergency.

(Clo didn't know how to perform CPR, but if Callery was ever unconscious, clo would do loc best to revive riv. And the same thing if the apartment ever caught on fire. If Callery were hurt or unconscious, Edie would try to drag riv out, or even try to carry riv if clo had to.)

So why for the love of all that was sacred was Callery doing to to loc?

Clo could barely get the words out. “What kind of favor?” Clo repeated, already sure clo knew the answer, and dreading it. There was no other favor Callery could be about to ask loc for that would involve betraying loc like this.

Clo'd thought clo could trust Callery.

“I know you're going to hate me, I'm such a horrible person for asking,” Callery began, and yeah, Edie was really, really beginning to hate riv just for that tone of voice and the manipulative way ri was phrasing this. Callery continued, supposedly oblivious to how much ri was stressing loc out by saying this, “I know, you said you don't ever want to be touched, but, Edie, I'm really feeling touch starved right now, and I wanted to ask you if we could re-negotiate on your boundaries.”

And to think, Edie'd been having so much horrified fun just a minute or two ago. Now the horror was real.

Callery was so close Edie could smell the peppermint on rivs breath from the bag of dinner mints Edie'd gotten riv at the store as a random present, since clo knew ri loved them.

“What?” It was all Edie could think to say, because everything about this situation was horrifying, even more horrifying than the thought of giant beetles destroying the world. Re-negotiate on loc boundaries? There was no fucking way to negotiate on not being touched, except to be touched!

“I want to negotiate,” Callery repeated, and unless it was Edie's imagination, ri seemed like ri'd moved even closer. “See if we can find a middle-ground where where both our needs are being accommodated for. I'm just feeling so lonely, I really just need someone to touch me. With the lockdowns, I can't get it from anyone else, you're my only option left.”

Edie's mind was almost blank with rage and betrayal. This was exactly the kind of thing clo'd never wanted to happen. This was the exact sort of thing clo'd set up loc extremely strict and clear boundaries to prevent.

And here Callery was, trampling all over them, and trying to make Edie feel bad about setting them up in the first place. It had seemed too good to be true when Callery had so readily agreed to respect Edie's personal space all those months ago when clo'd decided to let Callery move in with loc, and now Edie could see why it had been so easy for Callery to nod along and say the right words - - ri hadn't actually meant any of them.

It was easy to make a promise you had no intention of keeping.

Edie's heart was pounding in loc chest, and loc hands were beginning to tingle. Either loc was about to have a panic attack, or loc was really just that angry. Or both. How was clo supposed to be able to tell the difference?

“Get away from me.” Clo said, and it was a struggle to keep loc voice even, when what clo really wanted to do was snarl. “You are way too close. Back up.”

Callery's mouth twitched, and Edie had no idea what kind of expression almost crossed rivs face.

But ri lifted riverself slightly, and backed up...but only by a few inches.

Edie didn't know what expression was on loc face when clo realized that that was as far as Callery was going to move, but Callery reacted to it by lifting rivs hands, palms forward, as though pleading with a wild animal. “Come on, Edie,” Ri said, “I'm not asking for much, and you don't know what it's like, being touch starved. I'm really suffering here, it's making my depression even worse. Can't we just, I don't know, hold hands or something? Don't look at me like that, why can't we talk about this like mature adults? You've got to learn to compromise.”

“Letting you touch me isn't a compromise!” Edie snapped. That would literally just be Callery getting everything ri wanted, and Edie losing everything clo needed. Clo shoved clocself further back into the arm of the couch, suddenly acutely aware of the fact that clo was quite literally trapped. The way the coffee table had one edge against the wall, the only way for clo to move away from Callery if ri stayed where ri was, would be for clo to literally climb on top of the table to get away.

Callery had to be aware of this. There was no way ri couldn't be. Ri'd known what ri was doing the moment ri decided to sit down right next to Edie on loc couch, tearing straight through loc personal space like it was made of tissue paper.

“Go pet Spot!” Clo snarled, feeling too many things at once to process them all. Loc heart was still racing in loc chest, and loc head was starting to hurt, too. Clo could no longer feel loc hands. Was this anxiety? Rage? Clo couldn't tell the difference, and it didn't matter.

This conversation shouldn't be happening. This didn't have to fucking happen. How fucking dare Callery do this to loc, after making such a big show of caring about loc, after promising to respect loc boundaries.

It was so fucking simple, all ri had to do was not fucking touch loc. It was so fucking simple, didn't require any effort at all. All ri had to fucking do was actually respect Edie's boundaries, but no, no.

Callery opened rivs mouth to say something, but Edie cut riv off, too overwhelmed to even pretend to play nice. “If you're so fucking desperate to touch someone, go pet Spot, she'd fucking love it, and there's no way in hell I'm letting you touch me. Go pet the gods damned cat!”

But Callery shook rivs head forcefully, and sighed loudly. “It's not the same as with a person.” Ri said, leaning forward like that was going to do anything to help the situation at all. “It's about the human connection.”

Edie had already been seriously contemplating the idea of punching riv in the face, and that was almost the final straw. “Well, good thing I'm not human!” Clo exclaimed, “Go find your damned human connection somewhere else! Like Robin, you know, your partner? Or did they just suddenly cease to exist?”

“The lockdown - -”

“He lives right across the parking lot! You had them over literally two days ago!”

“He went to visit their sister!” Callery slapped rivs hands down on rivs thighs, clearly starting to get frustrated with Edie's unwillingness to just give in to rivs demands. Ri clearly hadn't been expecting a fight, ri'd just thought Edie would roll over and do what ri wanted as long as ri put on a sad face while asking. Ri huffed out a sigh, then visibly composed riverself, only to then immediately let rivs face fall back into a sad expression. “Come on,” Ri said, voice lowered like that would make what ri was asking less inherently offensive, “You know I have seasonal depression, it's really kicking my ass right now. Is it really too much to ask for you to comfort your depressed friend? We can just hold hands, whatever you're comfortable with.”

Whatever clo was comfortable with??

While clo was sputtering with rage at the audacity, Callery decided that ri was going to reach out towards loc shoulder with one hand.

That was it. That was Edie's limit.

The TV remote was the closest thing nearby that wasn't invaluable, sitting on the back of the sofa, so faster than clo ever thought clo'd moved before, clo snatched it up, and slammed it down on Callery's reaching hand, right across rivs knuckles.

Then clo made a flying leap over the coffee table, and miraculously managed to avoid tripping over it or slamming into the TV directly opposite. Spinning on loc heel, clo made a split second calculation, and, ignoring the front door, swung instead through the door frame, into the kitchen, the tiled floor cold beneath loc bare feet, through the next door, then dashed down the short hallway and into loc room on the left side, turning to slam the door shut behind loc as soon as clo was inside, twisting the lock on the handle as clo did so.

It was just the simple kind of lock you turned on the doorknob, and clo had figured out how to easily open them as a kid using a penny. Literally all you had to do was fit the penny into the slot on the other side of the doorknob, and turn it, and the door would be unlocked.

All clo had in the way of real furniture in loc room was a short bookshelf that was only half filled with books, so clo immediately dragged it over across the carpet, and shoved it flat against the door.

Clo didn't know if Callery would try to get in or not. Clo didn't even know if Callery knew the trick to opening locks like this. But if Callery did manage to get in somehow past the bookshelf, Edie had plenty of spray paint to use to defend clockself, because all loc craft supplies were kept in the plastic drawers next to loc bed. Clo went over, ripped the drawer open, and snatched out the first one loc hand found - - neon yellow.

It was then that Edie realized that Spot was half-crouched right there on on loc bed, staring up at loc with wide, frightened eyes, everything about her posture screaming fear.

It was because Edie had slammed the door so hard, and maybe if Spot had heard any of their shouting. Edie was still in the midst of what was probably a panic attack, but clo did loc best to make loc voice come out soft and soothing as clo reassured almost entirely on automatic, “Hey, Spot, it's okay, it's alright, pretty kitty, you don't need to be scared, I'm not mad at you, it's alright.”

Clo wiggled loc fingers towards Spot to reassure her, and was rewarded with Spot's body language almost instantly relaxing out of her tense posture, though she was still slightly wary.

“Good girl, good kitty.” Edie reassured again, trying to calm loc own self down. Loc hands were shaking as clo pulled loc phone out of loc pocket, just to make sure loc still had it, thanking every god ever worshiped that clo'd thought to put it in loc pocket in the first place, rather than just leaving it sit on the couch. Clo didn't know what clo would have done if clo'd been trapped in here without loc phone.

It had been a calculated risk, choosing to run for loc room instead of out the front door. Clo was barefoot, and wearing shorts and a tank top, it was forty degrees outside, and the sun hadn't even set yet, so it would only get colder. If Callery locked loc out, there would be no other options than freezing if what Callery'd said about Robin going to visit his sister was true.

There were no sounds of pursuit, no angry banging or self-pitying pleads for forgiveness from the door, so hopefully Callery was too busy crying over rivs hopefully bruised knuckles to chase loc down.

Still shaking, Edie went over to loc bed and gently sat down so clo could lean against the wall. Spot gave an almost silent 'mmow' in greeting, and immediately got to her feet to come over and curl up next to Edie's leg, rolling over onto her back to bare her soft, cream-colored belly trustingly.

Edie obliged by gently rubbing loc hand up and down Spot's belly, feeling her purr under loc hand. Most cats hated having their belly rubbed, but apparently no one had ever told Spot that, because she seemed to think she was a dog. She was by far the weirdest cat Edie had ever rescued.

Edie sighed.

Clo had set loc boundaries the way clo had for a reason.

Many people treated the idea that every person needed regular physical contact with other people as a universal fact, sacrosanct and unchallengable.

Those people hadn't met Edie, for whom physical touching from other people, and even animals if it went on long enough, caused physical pain.

Edie hadn't woken up one day and decided to punish everyone around loc by withholding physical affection, but that was sure how literally everyone clo'd ever been friends or family with acted about it.

Everyone insisted on taking the fact that physical touch literally hurt loc as a personal attack on themselves, or loc trust in them, no matter how many times clo explained that it literally didn't matter who it was, or how much clo liked them, it was all equally horrible to experience. It was literally nothing personal.

Clo had made that clear, too, to Callery when clo agreed to let riv move into loc apartment. And Callery had pretended to agree, pretended to accept it. Had nodded along and said all the nice words that Edie had been all too happy to hear.

But it had been a lie. Clo should have known better than to expect the level of compassion Callery had pretended to offer. Callery was just as selfish as everyone else Edie had ever met. Callery thought ri was owed Edie's body, owed Edie's touch, just like everyone else who had ever demanded a hug or a handshake or any other kind of physical “affection” from loc.

It literally had nothing to do with the person, and everything to do with the fact that it hurt. It felt bad.

Half the time Spot tried to sit with loc, Edie literally had to pick her up and move her somewhere else, because if Spot leaned against loc arm the way she usually wanted to, loc whole arm, all the way up to loc shoulder, would start to ache horribly, and it would stay painful for a long time afterward.

Sometimes clo was willing to put up with it to keep Spot happy, because clo was just so overjoyed to have so thoroughly gained Spot's trust in the first place, clo didn't want to do anything that would make Spot think clo didn't like her.

Because Spot was a cat, she didn't understand the concept of boundaries, she'd never agreed not to touch Edie unless loc initiated the touch first. Spot was just a cat, she was literally incapable of breaking Edie's trust, or understanding that when Edie moved her away, it wasn't because Edie didn't like her.

The same could not be said of loc roommate.

Clo didn't know what Callery would try to do next, if ri would try to pressure Edie again, if ri would beg for forgiveness, or if ri would just pretend the whole thing hadn't happened at all, pretend ri hadn't betrayed Edie at all, and tried to guilt-trip loc into agreeing to hurt clockself.

But Edie knew one thing for sure. By this time tomorrow, clo would no longer have a roommate. Clo had managed to pay the rent on loc own for a full year before she met Callery, clo would manage it again without rivs help. Clo would never be able to trust riv ever again, not after today, not even with a million apologies and promises that it would never happen again.

Clo had already been fed that line in the past too many times to believe it now. Callery had gotten rivs chance, and instead of taking it, ri had decided to burn it to the ground.

This time tomorrow, Edie would no longer have a roommate. And that was perfectly fine with loc. Clo was happier on loc own, anyways. Interacting with Callery every single day had been wearing on loc nerves for months. This was the final straw.

Callery could move in with Robin, if they were still willing to date riv once he found out what ri'd done. Their other roommate had moved out two weeks ago, there was no longer any point in Callery staying with Edie instead.

Some of the anger and anxiety was starting to drain away, and Edie shifted so clo could lean back against loc pillows and stretch loc legs out in front of loc, the way clo'd been lying before loc now ex-friend ex-roommate had decided to interrupt.

Clo turned loc phone back on, and selected the book again, hoping that the horrors of the beetle apocalypse would be enough to distract loc from the much worse horrors of real life.

If Callery decided to break loc door down, clo would spray-paint riv in the face when ri did that, but until that happened, clo was going to try to calm down and try to enjoy clockself.

[[Ships were found drifting in the Indian Ocean, totally destitute of crews and passengers...]]

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mlwritingprompts · 3 years ago

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(tumblr won't let me update the original compliation post, so here's a new one lol.......)

The original separate prompts can be found here:

Universal Chaos, Scars, Theater, Oblivion

This is intended to be a writing prompt for Miraculous Ladybug, but it can also be used as inspiration for an original story!

Akumatized and Amokitized Marinette.

Neopronouns used:

Cosmic Actress: nix/nixself. Nix is an Akuma, who spends most of nix time with nix friend, Natasi. Nix is hardly ever alone by nixself.

Natasi: clo/loc/(locs)/clockself, used in the same way as she/her/(hers)/herself. Clo is an Amok who spends most of loc time with loc friend, Cosmic Actress. Clo is hardly ever alone by clockself.

Trigger warnings:

-Discussion of sexual harassment,

-Character death: Gabriel, Nathalie, André Bougeois

-Unreality / fourth wall breaking

16K words as of this version with four parts!

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Part one:

Universal Chaos

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“I’m… Tired of… All of this!”

Alya watched in horror as Marinette’s expression looked murderous as she spit the words with venom.

The reason was not just because Chloe was the one that started the whole situation by calling her father.

No, what made her terrified was the purple outline on Marinette’s face, making it clear that Hawkmoth was corrupting her friend in front of her.

And Alya hates that she could do nothing to stop it.

The same purple bubbles appear, covering Marinette for a moment, before dispersing.

What stood in her place was a figure with a similar face and a different set of clothes. The eyes of the Akuma cold and uncaring.

Another figure appear alongside the Akuma, looking similar to nix, with a large circle behind loc. The circle had the numbers from one to twelve written in Roman.

“I am Cosmic Actress, and the one… who will teach you what it means to suffer.” the Akuma stated with cold rage.

Alya knew at that moment, that her friend is no longer there.

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Rage.

Hatred.

Desire to destroy.

These were the things that Cosmic Actress felt when nix was… born.

Cosmic Actress understood that these feelings were Amplified and twisted. Twisted by the misused Butterfly Miraculous.

But nix didn’t care about that.

These feelings gave birth to nix. Nix couldn’t just abandon these feelings so easily. Not when they burn so painfully in nix heart.

Nix wants to hurt the idiots that harmed Marinette. Nix wanted them to see how it feels when they were the ones who have the choice stripped from them.

A being under Cosmic Actress’s full control, from what Mayura stated just one second ago.

Nix couldn’t hide the repulsed expression showing on nix face.

Nix doesn’t want to control another being! It was disgusting!

Even more, that was part of why Marinette had to suffer, because someone will always try to (and often succeed in) decide her choices for her!

Cosmic Actress immediately pointed a hand towards Time-Clock’s Amokized object, the red hair ribbon that was now black.

“Shattered Chains.” Nix intoned.

Like shattered glass, the black color shattered as the ribbon became red once more.

And nix could no longer feel the connection between nix and loc.

Neither could Mayura, the villain losing the connection to Time-Clock as well.

Clo is truly free from loc binding now.

“Hey! What did you-!” Mayura started to protest, but Cosmic Actress was already pointing nix hand at nixself before Hawkmoth and Mayura started screaming in nix head at what nix did next.

“Shattered Chains.”

The voices of the villains were cut short along with their connection to nix.

Now that the little nuisance was dealt with for now, Cosmic Actress took a moment to look at the terrified looks of the escaping citizens, before looking towards where André Bourgeois’ unconscious body was being lifted by his most-definitely very underpaid employees.

Now that won’t do.

“Please leave. You are not my target.” Cosmic Actress said to them, then looked at the Amok as loc looked neutrally at nix. “But if you want to stay, just don’t get in my way.” Nix added.

Cosmic Actress nodded and accepted this answer, and focused nix attention towards the mayor once more. The underpaid employees had moved him, but that didn’t matter, nix could still sense him.

He was not far away, only a few houses separating them.

Nix raised a palm, energy condensing in front of it. “Oblivion Orb.”

The orb rapidly hit the mayor and him alone, erasing his body in an instant.

And with that nuisance dealt with, Cosmic Actress pondered on who to select next.

From Marinette’s memories, Chloe was a big source of suffering, but Hawkmoth and Mayura are worse because nix can deal with a weak civilian. Supervillains will be much more threatening.

There were also lesser sources of rage, like the populations’ inability to understand that Ladybug’s “NO” means “NO”, not “maybe”.

“…”

Supervillains and Chat Noir it is then.

Decision made, nix moved to search for the villains.

Clock-Time decided to help by using loc control over space and time to feel search for them.

The miraculouses have a slight effect on space and time around them thanks to them being powered by a concept (as far as nix and clo know for now) and that effect is what clo is searching for.

“… Not there… Close… No that’s probably Tikki’s Miraculous… Ah, in that direction!”