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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 10/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

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Ten: Of the Fallout

A rise of giggles from the other side of the boulangerie — noticeable even above the bustle and the tinkling of the bell above the door and Sabine calling out a greeting to M. Ramier as he walked in — caused Luka to look up from their conversation, and Marinette frowned as she noticed his jaw tense. She followed his eyes to the gaggle of girls by the window. She recognized at least two of them from their…her school, because Luka was in lycée now and technically no longer a student at Dupont, but she was pretty sure they were in the year above her.

The tallest one, with light brown hair and more boobs than Marinette could ever hope to have, she was sure, lifted her hand and wiggled her fingers in a flirty wave. “Hi, Luka,” she mouthed, and Marinette glanced back at Luka in time to see him look back at the counter between them as his jaw clenched again. She would swear she could see a little vein sticking out of his neck with the strain of it.

“…come on,” she said, grabbing his hand and hopping off her stool. He looked up in surprise, the girls on the other side of the shop completely forgotten as she tugged him behind the counter.

“Marinette?” he asked, but she was already hauling him towards the back.

“I’ll be back in a bit!” she called to her parents as they slipped out the side entrance.

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FIC: "Time Out" (MLB; House Band)

Characters/Pairings: Huey Couffaine, Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Melody Couffaine; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: Teen (for slight language & jokes)

Summary: Melody decides to traumatize her brother put Huey in time out.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: Quick shared another Insta.  My brain isn’t braining much beyond these short lil’ pops of ridiculousness, apparently.  😂

“Time Out”

The house was quiet.

Too quiet, Luka couldn’t help but think as the front door swung open and he paused just inside the entryway, a bag of groceries in his arms with another hanging off his elbow.

“Hello?” he called, taking another step inside, hooking the edge of the door on his heel, and closing it behind him.  “Anybody home?”

The girls should be home from school.  It wasn’t anywhere near the Twins’ naptime.  Marinette was still on maternity leave, working remotely – and she hadn’t told him of any plans to leave when he’d headed off to the studio that morning.  That was kind of why she had asked him to stop by the market on the way home, so she wouldn’t have to leave.

“Darning?” he called, a little louder, then grinned when he heard a harried shhhhhh come from the just up the hall.

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💍Lukanette wedding photo💐💕

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The Wrath and Resignation of Anarka Couffaine: Chapter 3

Most of Anarka's thoughts had been bent toward Luka and Juleka, but meeting Rose had tripped the floodgates of curiosity. Triton had children of his own. He had asked her not only to be his wife, but to be their mother. She was pensive during their next walk. Triton was quiet too. Hesitant. Had Rose told him everything they spoke of?

Remembering how she had flinched away from him when he grew angry at the memory of the men who hurt his daughters made her feel… not quite guilty, but apologetic. Rose's adoration and trust in him spoke volumes. She took a deep breath, and with a hesitant glance in his direction, reached out and took his hand while they walked. His hand curled around hers, and she caught him smiling out of the corner of her eye. Triton's hold was gentle, his acceptance of her olive leaf a much-needed balm after the stories she had heard.

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From @verfound: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You Ch 9

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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 9/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: (General housekeepy notes; life is Chaos but fic is done/updates should be regular.)

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Nine: Of Summer Music

It was well into summer — and the third heatwave of said summer — when Rose came bursting through the door to the roof where the others were gathered, waving a flyer in her hand. Juleka and Luka had been spending a lot of time on the roof lately, after something busted in the air unit, the repairman had had an unpleasant encounter with Fang, and refused to come back until that unruly beast was gone.  He’d also spread the word around the city, and it seemed no matter how much money Jay was willing to throw at the companies no one was willing to come work on the unit until Fang was disposed of.

“Just…take her to work, Dad,” Juleka had whined a few days ago, a melting frozen water bottle pressed to her forehead.  “You can escape to the studio for hours every day.  We don’t even have school right now.  Have mercy on us.”

“They ain’t gonna respect the croc, I ain’t respecting them,” Jay had sniffed, and that had seemed to be the end of it.

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another Luka couffaine collection

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it’s missing lukanette hours in my room rn

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So, Lukanette.

What is your favorite aspect of them to write?

What is your favorite aspect of them to read?

Ooh I feel like you could ask me this question every day for a week at least and get a different answer every week.

I think my favorite Lukanette moment is the confession scene, not because of the confession itself or how it happened but because *omg they went there.* no seasons of mystery or wondering, no retconning, no memory erasing! Someone felt a thing and said it out loud! I immediately realized that was so much more intriguing to me than the does he-doesn't me that we've seen a thousand times already. I like to try and recapture that feeling in my writing - that moment where you think you know where the story is going because that's the usual way it happens, and then instead someone does the direct and adult thing, and you can actually move beyond the boring standard narrative.

The more I thought about it, as well, the more I dwelled on the fact that the standard narrative is super dependent on finding out exactly how someone feels about you before you take the risk of admitting to them that you like them, and that just made Luka's confession so much more meaningful. Not only was he direct and up front about his feelings, he did it not only without finding out how Marinette felt about him first, but he did it knowing that she liked Adrien. I just love the guts that took and how simply he went about it. I just really loved that.

There's a lot of other things I love - the fact that Luka really sees Marinette as someone special from the very beginning, as opposed to the way everyone overlooks her or discounts her. Many many other things.

As for reading, I just love seeing other people's perspectives and where they get inspiration, and all the different ways we can write the same character that are still IN character, though they're different. I still want to see all the things I enjoy writing, but I love reading something from someone else and going "omg, he/she totally would do that, I hadn't thought about that before."

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So, there is my first chapter of my Lukanette fanfic... This is such an experiment to me because I NEVER WROTE ABOUT ANY MLB STUFF BUT... these two have a chokehold on my heart since 2021 and I NEEDED to write them happy ending...

So, enjoy! :333

One Call Away - Chapter 1 - WiktoriaFrozen - Miraculous Ladybug [Archive of Our Own]

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Weekly Lukanette Roundup

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From @verfound: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You Ch 7 | Ch 8 | Hello, Old Friend | A Maribet

From @djwriterkp: Pirates, Princesses, and Peonies Ch 12

From @simpofhans: One Call Away Ch 1

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

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From @rierse: A Siren's Sacrifice Ch 5 (Complete! WOOHOO GO RIERSE) | Time Heals All Wounds

From @smileytrinity: Gift of Love

From @verfound: Dance with Me

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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 8/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: Jagged vs. Gabriel is not a conflict I knew I needed in my life, but apparently I am living for it.  (Or: the moment this fic really started to go off the rails/Enter Jagged Stone.)

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Eight: Of Families and Just Friends

Luka getting grounded wasn’t that bad, or that long, in the end. No one in the Stone house (or beyond, if they were privy to the reasons why Luka had punched Adrien) really thought Luka was in the wrong, and the worst of his punishment had been the week of “community service” Penny had agreed to to get the captain to drop the charges. And while Luka would rather be doing anything else than doing grunt work at the police station (Officer Raincomprix got a sick, twisted pleasure from making him wash his cruiser, he swore), he supposed it could be worse.

It was raining that whole week, and he supposed they could have told him to help clean up the parks. Or the public toilets in the parks. Eugh.

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FIC: A Maribet (MLB; Ninette, Lukanette)

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters/Pairings: Lê Chiến Kim, Nino Lahiffe, Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Nino Lahiffe/Marinette-Dupain Cheng, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Endgame)

Summary: When Kim catches Nino mooning over his new crush, he bets him five euro he can’t ask her out.  Nino isn’t so sure he wants to take that bet.  Marinette isn’t so sure she likes being bet on.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: A while back, Quick found this prompt on FB that was all good until you got to the last line, after which everyone in the group was like “eeerrrrr maybe not?” and I was like “hold my beer”.  😂  Just some silliness.  🖤

“A Maribet”

“What are you looking at?”

Nino yelped and ducked back behind the stairs.  He glanced back at the courtyard nervously, but no one had seemed to notice his shout.  At least…Marinette, Mylène, and Rose hadn’t seemed to notice, and that was really the only thing that mattered.  He looked up from where he was crouched behind the steps to find Kim looming over him, a wide smirk on his face and his eyes locked on the girls on the other side of the courtyard.

“N-nothing,” he stammered out.  He tugged his hat down and hoped his face wasn’t as red as it felt.  “Shut up, dude.  I wasn’t doing nothing.”

“You were staring at Marinette like a creep,” another voice piped up, and Nino yelped again and jumped away from the steps – into Kim – with a flail when he noticed Alix sitting beneath the steps.

“W-when did you get here?!” he gasped, a hand clutching his chest as he tried to steady his racing heart.  Alix grinned at him and flipped the page of her comic book.

“I’ve been here the whole time,” she said cryptically.  She glanced over at Kim, her smirk growing.  “Yo.”

“Hey,” Kim said, smirking back.  He looked down at Nino.  “Why’re you staring at Marinette?”

“I was not, dude!” Nino whined.  Kim looked evil.  Nino was starting to think he was.  “I was…I was…”

“Staring at Marinette,” Alix supplied.  “Like a creep.”