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As someone who has PREACHED the good word of a Chat Noir themed remake of Sabrina's first Akuma, often with a Cheshire Cat inspiration, I am embarrassed that I never thought of the name Vanishire. You OP, are a genuis and a legend.

LOOK AT HOW GOOD MY GIRLIE LOOKS!

SHE IS GONNA FUCK SHIT UP!

My design for Sabrina's akuma, Vanishire!

One of her akumas in the show is called Vanisher but what if when she was visible she had a cheshire cat theme :) when she gets akumatized as Miraculer she's in a Chat Noir outfit and in my story of how she gets akumatized she is in one as well, and she also sees herself a lot in Chat Noir as an often forgotten sidekick, so I think to feel powerful she would assimilate parts of his design into her look

Her powers give her cat-like agility, the ability to vanish in purple smoke whenever she pleases, and little cat shaped bombs, where whatever gets destroyed by them becomes invisible as well (like if they hit the ground, the rubble that broke off becomes invisible), she can't throw the bombs while invisible tho ;)

And what if all the akumas had platform heels,,, what about that,,, also her akuma is in her cat goggles :3

(also guess who's back after a month of not drawing anything :p IM GETTING BACK ON THE GRIND THOUGH)

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HERE HERE!

Back in the beginning of this blog my header was "Sabrina Raincomprix's #1 fan" and I was so right for that. I'm changing it back

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Is it just me? I might be delusional but... (I am)

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I love her so damn much

Miss Hound is ready to fight!

This took a bit longer since I had to get new reference for season 6 designs, some of them aren’t good because we don’t have a lot of clear shots of them yet.

Ryuko King Monkey Rena Rouge Tigeress Purple Queen Bee Argos Viperion Bunnix Vesperia Carapace

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I don't ship it in canon but I can see fics and aus where it could work!

Do you ship it?

reason: Sabrina has to be in love with Chloe on some level to put up will all this. Hopefully, when Chloe realizes what they can have, Sabrina gets more respectful treatment.

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"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

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Made A New Community

All Sabrina fans are welcome to join!

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So I’ve given myself a project to assign birthdays (and zodiac signs) to the entire Paris hero team, and !!!!!, was this an interesting endeavor!

I started out with just focusing on which Decan in their respective zodiac each character would have, and if they were on the Cusp of any pair of signs. There are some characters that I had to keep within a timeframe due to their birthday episodes (Marinette, Adrien, Nathaniel, Alix, Luka and Juleka), but they all matched up with my headcanons.

But Miraculous is known for its moon symbolism, so I also decided to assign every character with moon signs. But I didn’t stop there! I assigned my favorite characters with rising signs!

I thought I’d stop there, but then I remembered that moon and rising signs were something that had to be calculated with location, and birth time. This was a predicament. I would have to change my headcanons.

Luckily, rising signs change every 2 hours. There are 12 zodiacs, and 24 hours in a day. Babies are born whenever they feel like it, so I had free rein to choose whatever rising sign I wanted for every specific character.

Moon signs are a different story. Like rising signs, they also rely on location. The issue was that they change every few days. I bit the bullet and googled a moon sign calculator.

The results, quite frankly, shocked me.

Multiple characters had moon signs I previously assigned to them. (Adrien, Alix, and Nino are most of note, While Marinette was assigned my second choice for her moon sign) And even more characters had moon signs that just made so much sense. (Alya, Luka and Juleka, Kagami, and more)

Take for instance, fan favorite Chloe. I assigned Chloe with a July 28, birthday, which is a Leo (first decan). I then gave her Aries as a moon sign. After I realized my mistake with moon signs, I reissued Aries as her rising sign.

She was (presumably) born in Paris. I then calculated her moon sign. The result… was Scorpio.

It just made SENSE. Here’s a copypasta of astrology.com’s summary of a Leo sun/Scorpio moon/Aries rising:

“The combination of Leo Sun, Scorpio Moon, and Aries Rising creates a complex and dynamic personality. On the one hand, you are confident and outgoing with a natural ability to lead and inspire others. Your Leo Sun gives you warmth and charisma, while your Aries Rising adds a sense of fearlessness and initiative. However, your Scorpio Moon adds a layer of intensity and complexity to your personality. You are not afraid of the darker aspects of human nature and have a deep understanding of the motivations of others. You may be prone to emotional extremes and can sometimes struggle to let go of grudges or perceived slights. Overall, your Sun-Moon-Rising combination gives you a powerful presence and a natural authority that others are drawn to. You have a magnetic personality that inspires loyalty and admiration in those around you. However, you may need to be mindful of your tendency towards intensity and emotional extremes.”

I’m certain that Chloe stans see her image in that summary.

On the other hand, there were some characters that I didn’t appoint either moon or rising signs, like Sabrina. I allotted her the birthday of May 30, a 1st Decan gemini.

When I decided to tackle my sun/moon/rising project, I input Sabrina’s assigned birthday, set the calculator to Paris, and it declared Sabrina to be a Virgo moon. While it was surprising, it also just made such satisfying sense. I then personally assigned her Scorpio for a rising sign.

Here’s the astrology.com summary of a Gemini sun/Virgo moon/Scorpio rising:

“With a Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, and Scorpio Rising combination, people are intellectual, analytical, and intuitive. They are highly observant, using their sharp minds to assess situations and people. They are motivated by new ideas, but will only pursue them if they see practical value. While they pursue mentally stimulating challenges, they can be quite critical of themselves and others. At their core, people with this combination are versatile and adaptable, able to thrive in a variety of social settings. They are intellectually engaged, but also methodical in their approaches to life. Furthermore, their Scorpio Rising adds depth and intensity to their personalities, allowing them to take on emotionally charged conversations with a calm, analytical approach. While this combination has numerous strengths, it can also have some challenges. Due to Virgo Moon's penchant for perfectionism, these individuals can be critical of themselves, which can lead to anxiety. Gemini Sun's scattered energy may at times be misinterpreted as flakiness or a lack of focus, which can cause others to underestimate their intelligence.”

I know there are fewer Sabrina stans than there are Chloe stans, but I’m sure they can see their favorite girl in that summary.

There are so many more instances of of serendipity regarding characters and their combination of signs, and I plan to share them all, but for now, this post is long enough as it is.

If you made it to the end, thank you for coming to my TED talk!

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NEW PROFILE PIC BY THE TALENTED @gender-snatched EVERYONE LOOK AT IT!!!!!

LOOK AT MY GIRL SHE'S SO PRETTY!

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She wasn't Copycat in canon but oh boy she absolutely should've been!

have you done your daily click

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Sabrina Raincomprix Wallpaper🧡

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Lukabrina Art!

Luka & Sabrina my original ship for best girl. I've got fic for them, and now I've got art! This lovely piece was done by @catmelot.

Luka brought his sweatshirt along on their first date, in case the museum was cold. when she found out it was for her she made grabby paws until he gave it up and has been stealing his sweatshirts ever since.

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As another hardcore Sabrina Stan (there's not many of us but we are everywhere and our numbers only grow) I think at the core of her character is a need to be needed.

It's a driving force that's strong enough to overrule her own well being and moral compass if it means she can be useful to someone.

But that being said, she does have a moral compass, it's just skewed a little. It's not as rigid as Roger's but she has been shown to feel bad for some of the things she does, just as she's been shown to not always be perfectly in Chloe's corner all the time even though she aims to be.

She's ultimately a kind but mischievous girl who likes helping people, willingly aligning herself with someone who does not have her best interests at heart because that person needed her and she wanted that.

Sabrina needs to be needed and she doesn't mind what happens to her while she's performing a service.

In short, she's very confusing and I kinda love her for it.

Tagging some other Sabrina Stans in case they wanna share their two cents but no pressure!

@star-the-gremlin @toychicraft-dump @axolot-of-ideas @the-lavender-creator @ofekma

The following post is intended to be seen as levity and joking, not salt.

Chloé this, Chloé that, "Redemption started?", "Redemption interrupted?", "Redemption cancelled?". The discussion is getting old. What I haven't seen enough yet is how the show did Sabrina really dirty, by giving her the worst thing of all: A conscience.

The early parts of the show toyed a lot with how exactly Chloé and her relation to Sabrina works, which was clearly not well established when the first episode came out (hell, they didn't even seem to know who Max and Kim were yet, they only had their character models). Sabrina's deal is easy enough in the abstract, but difficult to pin down in the early episodes: Is she more meek or mean? More of a victim or more of a bully? Does she share Chloé's values whole-heartedly, opportunistically, or is she pressured into it? Does she have scruples or is she just a coward? Those are all elements in her character to some extent, but the exact mixture did not really solidify until she got an episode to shine and be away from Chloé, in Evilstrator.

That episode did the fairly obvious plot of Marinette going, "you can stand up to your bully instead of doing their homework for them!", and then showed us how Sabrina reacted. And the reaction was: Sabrina is every bit as unhinged as Chloé, just in completely different ways, and their dysfunctional relationship might just be the only one in which either of them can function.

This choice is not fully unproblematic, but ultimately okay in my book. I think die-hard Sabrina stans might call this character assassination, but I don't think there are any die-hard Sabrina stans. I feel like I should become one just to even out the numbers. Anyway, the choice clearly telegraphs that the show is not interested in long-running redemption arcs, which, you know, fair enough, it is designed for six-year-old French kids after all. (Yes, season 2 and 3 looked rather different here, but that's later)

The show did not exactly use Sabrina consistently after that, but for a while, they leaned into it. Early Sabrina was often mean, materialistic, codependent (I don't actually know what that word means I'm just guessing) and toxic in her own way. She broke into Marinette's room, helped steal Marinette's designs, lie and cheat for Chloé.

And then that was basically it. The show mostly forgot about her. She was an appendage to Chloé, usually frightened and a bit incompetent, but not much more. When Chloé showed signs of a bit of a hint of a redemption arc, Sabrina was not part of it. When Chloé gained a sister for, I actually don't know (I still maintain that "replacement bee" makes no sense for anything but selling merch), and there were hints that this might be relevant to her story, Sabrina wasn't there.

What did happen in the moments we saw Sabrina was that Sabrina got more meek, more scared of Chloé, and less mean. There were no more hints of her playing superheroes with Chloé and being at least somewhat of a friend, and also none of the meanness of Miraculer, one of the worst Akuma names in the show. Instead she was now in a closet doing Chloé's homework.

As she becomes less effective, she becomes more sympathetic, with some moments e.g. in the New York special, until she finally becomes Miss Hound. At this point we have basically the exact same thing that Evilstrator rejected: Sabrina is really just an oppressed underling who is too scared to tell Chloé to stop, instead of someone with at least some of her own ideas that happen to overlap with Chloé's in all the worst ways.

This all comes to a head in confrontation, when Sabrina's defining character trait is suddenly, out of nowhere, that as a police officer's daughter, she hates lying and stealing and hates that Chloé makes her do it. Since when!? Sabrina, weren't you around for Darkblade!?

Sabrina breaks off her friendship with Chloé and is now officially a good girl. And that sucks.

Old Sabrina had a certain edge to her. She made sense as an Akuma threat on her own, and even as a threat to Chloé as Vanisher and Miraculer. Now, she's only an Akuma effectively when Chloé tells her to, and she stopped listening to Chloé anyway. Her personality is now strictly: A good girl. Not like Chloé.

Ironically, in her emancipation, she has lost almost everything that made her unique, and become entirely defined by Chloé in every way. She's her own person, but with barely any personality traits except "not like Chloé anymore". No hobbies, no meaningful relationships with anyone, she's just there, and nice now I guess.

There are so much more interesting things you could have done with a mean Sabrina, which we know for sure because the show already did some.

But that's really part of a wider issue: When people talk about Chloé, they mostly forget Sabrina, and Sabrina isn't interesting enough to stand on her own. The ideas of a Chloé redemption throughout season 2, 3 and in some form 4 focused on Chloé's relationship with Ladybug, Marinette, a bit Adrien, Audrey, and a bit Zoé. Chloé's super-duper villain arc in season 5 focused on her relationship with Lila. Sabrina, who has been here from day one, who has the longest and most complex relationship with Chloé out of any character, is not a part of it at all.

I think that sucks. I think Sabrina has more potential, but in particular I think Chloé is more interesting if we include Sabrina in the discussion as well. Their relationship is something deeply weird and unique, and any Chloé redemption that brushes it off leaves a lot of very tasty crumbs on the table. It sucks that it ended like that. Yes, Sabrina is now redeemed, but as a result of that, she's boring, and isn't that much worse than being evil?

In short: We should all write more Chloé/Sabrina fanfics.

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Let's see if we can do this here using the Sabrina Playlist;

S: She's So Gone - Naomi Scott (Lemonade Mouth)

A: As The World Caves In - Sarah Cothran

B: Bim Bam Toi - Carla

R: Rose's Turn - Glee Cast Version

I: I Will Survive - Demi Lovato

N: Nobody - Mitski

A: Ambrosia Wine - Madds Buckley

C: Cheshire Kitten (We're All Mad Here) - S. J. Tucker

E: Enemy - Mystery Skulls

N: No Mercy - The Living Tombstone

T: Tongues & Teeth - The Crane Wives

R: Rose Colored Boy - Paramore

A: Angry Too - Lola Blanc

L: La Seine - Vanessa Paradis

I could probably do a whole other set of songs with this using only songs from the Sabrina playlist, it's actually gotten ridiculously long.

🎵 URL song game 🎵

Stealing this tag from a random/non-mutual just bc it looks like fun, and I'm in a listen-y mood :)

Rules: Go to your playlist and find a song for each letter of your URL, then tag some friends to do the same.

C: Come Into the Water, Mitski A: All My Favorite Songs, Weezer

P: Psycho Killer, Talking Heads

N: Nightcrawler, Czarface

M: Molasses, Radiohead

A: Acai Bowl, Dominic Fike

C: Criminal, Fiona Apple

H: House of My Soul, Langhorne Slim

E: El Paso, Marty Robbins

T: The Calvary Cross, Richard Thompson

E: Ex's & Oh's, Elle King

No-pressure tags: @davycoquette, @bouncydragon, @morning-alfie, @hoodeddreams13, @tea-atfive, @loricasquamata, and anybody else who wants to jump in

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Gonna do this with the Sabrina playlist first and then do one in my main blog that was actually the one tagged in this;

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

thanks @midnights-dragon for the tag!!

tagging [let me know if you don’t wanna be tagged in these anymore]: @the-stars-are-ineffable @ineffable-ezra @hurr1cane-lurks @evann-escence @whatsfourteenupto & open tag ^^

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i hope i am not only a mutual to you but also someone you can point at a fictional character and go "oh shit that guy on tumblr is super fucking mentally unwell about that one" about

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For Your Consideration:

This outfit and pose for Sabrina.

That is all, thank you.