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this was fun for the five minutes it lasted

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Since fucking when do you ever do that, Marinette? You literally let everyone face whatever emotional (or worse) consequences necessary just so you dont need to have a single uncomfortable conversation.

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His "you lied to me, too?" right before this though...the fact that he's surprised, or maybe more doesn't expect her to lie to him anymore...hurts me.

Liar. Shameless liar.

Yes, I am pissed that there is no improvement to be seen yet for the third season in a row in how Marinette takes advantage of Chat Noir and his trust. And, no, this episode pointing out Marinette's lies is not enough to give this a pass. Alya losses her memory in the end so Marinette goes back to being held to no standards by anyone around her. She will just continue doing it until hell breaks loose, like always.

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Chat Blanc Theory

Ever since “Chat Blanc” aired all of us took displeasure of the convenient writing that Adrien just… never mentions that Hawkmoth is his father while talking about him or in general that he blames the end of the world ONLY on his and Marinettes love, when in fact that was the only guiltless aspect of that entire mess.

So you know what? Here is my Theory on it, don’t know yet if it’s maybe more of a headcanon (I lean alot more towards Theory though since Chats powers remain completely unexplored yet) but it sure as hell solves the convenience problem for me:

As Gabriel says while akumatizing Adrien, he gifts (curses) his son with the power of invinite destruction

And this is also how I explain convenient dialog of Chat Blanc.

I mean, we all have talked ESSAYS about Chat Blancs situation. Adrien was confronted with the lifeless body of his mother out of nowhere, found out that his father is Hawkmoth who then not only physically abused but emotionally abused and manipulates him. He is forced to “decide” which one to kill while already being under Hawkmoths akumatization: Marinette, the love of his life or his own Father he still cares about.

He is very understandably completely overwhelmed and manages to break his fathers orders to redirect the fatal blast at himself which unfortunately backfired like crazy and Adrien ended up not only (at LEAST) extincting the entire population of Paris including Marinette and Gabriel themselves

But he also destroyed the moon which ended up leaving the world a flooded empty wasteland.

Adrien was confirmed to be all alone in this time-line of hell for at least months while still standing under the influence of his akumatization. This is…. holy SHIT is it a miracle that Chat Blanc was as cooperative towards Marinette as he was, this is a one-way path to insanity yall!

The akumatization was the only thing saving him from having to face, live and soon die in the aftermatch of Gabriels tyrannical actions (because GABRIEL is the one to blame here, no one else), no wonder Chat Blanc never unakumatized himself and was so desperate when Marinette arrived.

But let’s get back on track. Why am I repeating all of this? How does this explain why Adrien then spoke so unbelievably convenient for the preservation of all the revealed secrets?

Well, what I think happened is that Chat Blanc over time destroyed his own memories to endure living in the ruins of the world he once wanted so desperately to be part of but now brought upon doom.

Remember Gabriel gave him the power of infinite destruction, this can manifeste in ALL kind of ways not just physical destruction. And my GOODNESS I wouldn’t blame Adrien for a second if he did so!

In fact, I think it actually would make the most sense considering what Chat Blanc then still talks about and how he does it.

He doesn’t talk about his Father being Hawkmoth, his Mothers lifeless body, how Gabriel almost forced him to kill Marinette, the abuse or even how Gabriel broke them apart with a scheme, which, remember, happened a good bit before Adriens akumatization. Adrien and Marinette worked together perfectly fine after Marinette was forced to break Adriens heart so how come Chat Blanc is now presenting is as a legitimate reason that caused the end of the world?

Actually, it’s quite simple. Everything about his and Marinettes relationship are the only things left for him to remember! Everything else, his Father, Mother, all the circumstances that influenced their doomed love in this time-line he literally destroyed out of his memory, because they brought upon too much pain. In fact, even after being deakumatized Adrien straight up doesn’t seem to remember what happened BEFORE his akumatization, which… normally isn’t how this stuff works

As I already said earlier, their love was the only legitimately and truly POSITIVE aspect of this hells time-line. They weren’t to blame in any way, everything between these two WORKED OUT in the episode and because of that their love was also everything Chat Blanc still hold onto as comfort (including Marinettes identity but… maybe not his own though, let me think about this…), which sadly ONCE AGAIN backfired on him (just like Adriens FIRST decision, to redirect the deathly blast from both Marinette and Gabriel towards himself, horribly backfired, although he made the best decision he could have done here) and turned him into a completely unreliable narrator.

Because if Chat Blanc took every painful truth out of his memory, then he only has the memories of their relationship left to explain to himself how all of this destruction and devastation he now lives in came to be.

So of course Chat Blanc would end up saying what he says to Marinette, but sadly this is now ONCE AGAIN only backfiring on Adrien EVEN MORE!

Because as we know, Marinette didn’t even came CLOSE to figuring out what actually lead to Chat Blancs creation.

(And how is that supposed to work if you have no idea how it came this far, Marinette?)

Because of Blancs unreliable narrations through (honestly UNDERSTANDABLE) memory loss she now TOO thinks that their love was the cause of the end of the world, when in fact.. their love was the only reason why Adrien/Chat Blanc was even able to redirect his deathly blast at himself (even if it didn’t had the effect he wanted) and then later hold onto ANY memories to preserve his sanity whatsoever. Their love was the only reason Ladybug even had the CHANCE to set things right as we saw very quickly when Blanc thought his Lady actually didn’t love him anymore:

So how MESSED UP is it that now Marinette unknowingly took the ONE ASPECT (Herself) out of the Chat Blanc equation that made it BEARABLE for Adrien to life through it. The ONE ASPECT that made the happy ending even possible??

It’s so messed up from every angle because LOOK at Marinettes! She was so endlessly HAPPY and relieved that HER Chat Noir is alright and that she did her best to spare him from this fate! She even called him JUST to be in his presence, THATS how much he means to her!

So how AWFUL is it that she unintentionally did the complete opposite and made it so. much. WORSE instead???

And I WISHED I could end this with a positive outlook for the future but, like, we all KNOW where s4 is going now and that Chat Blanc wasn’t prevented but delayed at MOST. Everything is happening all over again just this time it’ll be without the ONE aspect that kept Adrien/Chat Noir saveable!

Guys, we are screwed!

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Adrien didn't have a whole scene where he fought the dark, edgy version of himself where he makes it very clear that he wouldn't use the wish to resurrect his own damn mother just for people to really be debating whether he'd use it to bring Marinette back.

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Heck, it's not like Marinette had a scene with Monarch where he asks Bug Noire "are you sure that no wish is worth that price" and "how about you, Marinette? Wouldn't you give your life for your sweet Adrien's happiness?" Which with all the Gabe-Marinette parallels, means *Marinette* is going to have to make that choice one day?

And given how much she's already doing for Adrien at Paris' expense with the "Ladybug is the truth speech," the precedent is there

Adrien didn't have a whole scene where he fought the dark, edgy version of himself where he makes it very clear that he wouldn't use the wish to resurrect his own damn mother just for people to really be debating whether he'd use it to bring Marinette back.

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I'll hold onto my bit of hope that "Revelator" will finally teach the lesson that Maribug BEING one of paris greatest public figures and then DATING an extremely famous model as a civilian simply means she can't control how everyone perceives her and that she -kindly said- PLEASE has to get over it now.

This lesson is so overdue, it's not even funny anymore. She expects everyone to treat her as main hero, leader, guardian, AND authority

AND she wanted and agreed to dating a famous model. Girl, people are gonna have unpleasant opinions of you, thats normal. Demanding for that to NOT be the case just cause Marinette only wants the good sides of everything and then screams and cries when there is a downside she cant control are just bad messages.

That girl has anxiety and cant handle anyone thinking anything but the best of her. She's a big public figure by her own choice and aspires to be a world famous FASHION DESIGNER. That doesnt mix well. Please just give her the needed development and finally call it a day.

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Saying that Adrien has to "earn the right" to hand out Miraculous is hilarious on account of the fact that, well. Marinette didn't either actually. She didn't pass a secret test of character or something, she brought Fu a book. A book she didn't play any part in retrieving, mind you—it was Tikki who did all the literal heavy lifting while Marinette was more concerned with seething about Lila. If we were to follow this take to its logical conclusion, Tikki is the one who should be handing out Miraculous right now. Tikki 4 Guardian 2K25!

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Saying that Adrien has to "earn the right" to hand out Miraculous is hilarious on account of the fact that, well. Marinette didn't either actually. She didn't pass a secret test of character or something, she brought Fu a book. A book she didn't play any part in retrieving, mind you—it was Tikki who did all the literal heavy lifting while Marinette was more concerned with seething about Lila. If we were to follow this take to its logical conclusion, Tikki is the one who should be handing out Miraculous right now. Tikki 4 Guardian 2K25!