#ML Volpina

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Back at it again

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Adrien was done with Chloe and Lila.

In "Protection", as Lila lies to Kagami, she makes up the lie about experiencing a tragic heartbreak in a previous romantic relationship she once had, saying that the boy she once loved had made the decision to no longer see her. Lila has lied about many things and although we know Lila is lying to Kagami about a past romantic relationship, it's not uncommon for some of her lies to end up being twisted versions of reality.

The "boy" Lila is talking about who left her in so much pain, is obviously Adrien since he is the only boy she has had eyes for since her first introduction in "Volpina". So, perhaps something did happened between her and Adrien, and that something might have occurred not long after Adrien made the decision to end his friendship with Chloe back in "Derision"

In "Derision", as Adrien silently walked away from Chloe, a lot of things must have been running through his mind as he thought about everything in his life and the life he had with Chloe (more here), but among those thoughts, he might have also begun questioning the one other thing that reminded him of his decision to end a friendship with someone, and that was his reasoning for staying friends with the only other person he knew would, and did, hurt the people he loved, Lila.

At the start of the series, Adrien had made attempts to be patient with Lila and her deceitful nature, why? Because no matter how much of a liar Adrien realized Lila was, after learning she was not a descendent of a superhero or saved by Ladybug, part of him could not help but hope that maybe Lila could eventually come around and realize her lies would not give her the life she wanted and would eventually turn others against her rather than give her the connections he thought she was searching for, to give her the love and attention he thought she needed. To Adrien, Lila had the potential to be good just as much as anyone, but she would never learn to be good so long as there were others who would attempt to expose her and humiliate her in front of others. 

(in "Chameleon", Adrien questions Marinette if her attempts to expose Lila in front of everyone was a good idea as doing so would only humiliate and hurt Lila more, pushing her away from following a better path for herself.)

Adrien remembered the way Lila reacted when Ladybug exposed her back in "Volpina", to see Lila cry the way she did after being humiliated made him feel a sense of sympathy as he determined Lila was nothing more than someone who craved attention. 

(Adrien explains his views of Lila in "Oni-chan", believing she was not dangerous and only craved attention)

At the start, Adrien genuinely believed Lila was not dangerous and just needed someone to trust and confide in, someone who would be willing to offer her a helping hand and be that person she could rely on, and he for one was more than willing to be up for the task so long as she was willing to be honest with him. However, over time, Adrien would learn just how dangerous Lila was, the more he saw the full extent of her lies, but more than anything, Adrien would also learn how his kindness for her fooled him into believing she was someone else entirely.

  In "Oni-chan", Adrien did not appreciate Lila deceiving Nathalie and his bodyguard as he knew they would suffer consequences from his father, but despite this, he would later feel hopeful in seeing Lila show a sense of (fake)vulnerability as she clung to Ladybug and expressed how she understood heroes like them were only trying to help her, but it was precisely this moment of potential good that led Adrien to build his understanding of Lila and further imagine the type of person she was, as well as what she could do for herself in the future.

To see Lila have a more positive attitude towards Ladybug amidst Oni-chan's relentless pursuit, was more than enough for him to believe that Lila was coming around and learning that she could rely on others if she was willing to set aside her ways and open up as a more truthful person, that she really was just a girl who needed a little kindness and guidance her way.

(In "Oni-chan", Cat Noir really thought Lila was coming around to accepting Ladybug, a sign that Lila had made steps to being a better person)

Unfortunately, through that one little moment of watching Lila express a sense of "good", Adrien formed a positive view of Lila which had blinded him to the reality of her deceit, all the while he was amidst a fight against Oni-chan. Ladybug knew what Lila was capable of, she knew how much Lila could deceive others because Lila told her in "Chameleon" just how far she was willing to go to ruin another person's life if they did not fall under the line she had set and let her continue to live out the life she had built around her lies.

(Marinette/Ladybug saw Lila for who she was, a bad person).

Adrien on the other hand, could not see the same truth Ladybug saw because it was in his nature to see the good in everyone, to love everyone just as much as they were willing to love him, but the good he believed he saw in Lila was something he wanted to believe Lila would prioritize for herself, however, Lila had no such plans to do so regardless of understanding the harm her lies could cause.

(Lila is perfectly aware of her actions and the lies she is telling other people )

Still, regardless of what Lila did during "Oni-chan" and "Ladybug", Adrien was still not willing to end their friendship, why? Because no matter how cruel Lila appeared to be, Adrien did not have the heart to leave someone, not when he still held out hope that things could change for the better, which is why he didn't officially end his friendship with Chloe back in "Queen Banana", even after he watched her continued cruel actions towards the others over the year.

(Despite their actions in "Ladybug" and "Queen Banana", Adrien could not bring himself to end his friendship with Lila and Chloe and only reminded them of the possibility of doing so if they did not fix what they caused and stopped their ways. Regardless if they did or didn’t, he held out hope they would listen to him and do as he asked, because they we’re friends)

And yet, in some ways, it was as if Adrien thought he understood Lila and her desperation for attention from others, because he too had experienced life where he was all alone and in desperate need of others' attention. Adrien grew up being isolated from the rest of the world, devoid of interacting with others his age. 

Sure, he had Chloe growing up, but it was precisely his experience in having just one person in his life to talk to that made him believe it would be all the difference in others like Lila who had no one. However, to Adrien, it would also be all the more painful if Lila ever lost someone like him who was willing to listen to her. After he became Cat Noir, Adrien even understood what it was like living a life surrounded by lies, lies he knew would hurt him and the good people around him, but was something he would not need to continue in the future if he found ways to improved things for himself, and so odds are, Adrien thought Lila felt the same way, but as we all know, she didn't.

Much like Chloe, Adrien believed Lila's toxic behavior was temporary, that somehow, he could help change her. Adrien never stopped trying to hold out hope that Lila would eventually realize the harm she was causing and learn to make positive changes, all things he had also thought of when it came to facing Chloe. But the more Adrien saw Chloe and Lila continue to fall back into their ways, the more he began to question Lila and Chloe, their actions and whether or not they actually wanted to hold true to their word, to their apologies, as well as their promises and commit to the hard work and sacrifice of bettering themselves, but more than that, Adrien had to question whether or not his kindness and loyalty actually meant anything to them. 

After learning the full extent to Chloe's bullying in "Derision" and knowing that Lila had already succeeded in ruining Marinette's life and reputation in "Ladybug", Adrien had to face the cruel reality of his friendship with Lila and Chloe, as well as his attempts to salvage his friendship with them, time and time again, and the reality of it all was that his friendship with the two of them was not like the friendships he had with the others, it had become toxic and one sided. 

Things he believed Lila and Chloe would never do, were things he would not do himself and only assumed others had the good sense to do the same, but Lila and Chloe had every intention to continue doing what they did, why? Because they did not see the world the same way Adrien did, and to them, they were entitled to more than others and felt justified for much of what they did. 

Adrien had tried to understand how Lila and Chloe felt and thought, but in many ways, those thoughts and feelings were his, not theirs. He tried to find the reason behind their actions, but in many ways, he believed their reasons would be the same as his if he was in their position, but they weren't, their reasons were their own and they took joy for much of what they did, even when they knew it was not morally right in the eyes of others like Adrien.

In the end, as Adrien faced Chloe in Derision and heard her talk about her views of the world (more here), he did not give the same approach he would always give, because for the first time in a long time, Adrien did not see Chloe through his eyes, he saw Chloe through her eyes and understood that no matter what his hopes and expectations were, no matter what opportunities he and others were willing to offer and no matter how much time and dedication he was willing to give, he could not expect another person to decide the path he believed was best for them, they had to decide for themselves if they would take it, and that is exactly what he had to think about when it came to Lila, he had to look at Lila through her own eyes and understand her for who she was, not who he had imagined she would become if he stayed with her long enough.

In one little moment with Chloe in "Derision", Adrien knew he had a choice to make, should he allow one sided friendships with people like Chloe and Lila to continue? To live a life where he would only have brief moments of hope over the possibility that maybe the two could one day give up their ways, as he continued to watch from the sidelines knowing they felt they were entitled to hurt Marinette and others the moment they did something again, OR set his boundaries and stick to them, say enough was enough.

Adrien told Chloe as far back as "Despair bear" that he could not be friends with someone who was cruel to others, he told Lila as far back as "Oni-chan" that she could always rely on him as a friend, but not if she hurt the people he loved.

The day Adrien ended his friendship with Chloe, was likely the day he also decided to end his friendship with Lila, he was done with both of them as he understood that although anyone can change, not everyone wanted to, some people are who they are, and not even he could change that.

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Optimizing Viewing Experience for Love Square Shippers

You guys have previously seen me make a post on the love square screen time records based on the data I collected on how much screen time each love square ship has in each episode and special and in each season exactly and now we're going to be putting that data to more practical use and using it to figure out what are the best seasons, episodes and specials for shippers of certain sides of the love square to watch when binging through Miraculous.

Adrienette

You don't need to know the exact screen time for Adrienette in every season to know that season 5 is the best season for Adrienette shippers to watch. Not only is it the season with the most Adrienette screen time, but it's also the season where Adrienette finally becomes canon which is yet another plus.

For episodes that feature particularly large amounts of Adrienette screen time you can look to "Gamer" (6 min 28 sec) in season 1; "Riposte" (4 min 14 sec), "Gorizilla" (4 min 11 sec) and "Frozer" (4 min 10 sec) in season 2; "Oblivio" (9 min 3 sec) and "The Puppeteer 2" (4 min 27 sec) in season 3; "Mr. Pigeon 72" (2 min 23 sec), "Psycomedian" (2 min 19 sec) and "Simpleman" (2 min 8 sec) in season 4; and "Determination" (4 min 46 sec), "Transmission" (4 min 49 sec) and "Protection" (4 min 19 sec) in season 5.

In terms of Miraculous World specials, you're best bet is the New York Special which has 7 min 40 sec of screen time which has the whole storyline of Marinette trying remain friends with Adrien.

Ladynoir

Really you can pick any season since Ladynoir dominates all of them but the best season for Ladynoir shippers would be season 1 which not only has the most Ladynoir out of all the seasons but also has that classic Ladynoir dynamic I've seen certain Ladynoir fans crave in the later seasons: fighting villains and just being a dynamic duo in general, Cat Noir making the puns and Ladybug getting annoyed with him, those kind of stuff.

For episodes with particularly high amounts of Ladynoir check out "Stormy Weather" (6 min 7 sec), "Mr. Pigeon" (6 min 10 sec), "Horrificator" (6 min 8 sec), "Kung Food" (7 min 3 sec), "Animan" (8 min 28 sec), and "Volpina" (6 min 7 sec) in season 1; "Prime Queen" (8 min 19 sec), "The Dark Owl" (8 min 14 sec), and "Mayura" (8 min 32 sec) in season 2; "Reflekdoll" (7 min 19 sec), "Timetagger" (6 min 22 sec), and "Cat Blanc" (6 min 35 sec) in season 3; "Truth" (4 min 4 sec), "Psycomedian" (5 min 40 sec), "Furious Fu" (4 min 57 sec), "Kuro Neko" (7 min 23 sec), and "Strikeback" (4 min 14 sec) in season 4; and "Evolution" (7 min 50 sec), "Multiplication" (7 min 36 sec), and "Passion" (7 min 4 sec) in season 5.

In terms of Miraculous World specials, you can go for the New York special which has 6 min 29 sec of screen time and gives us some good Ladynoir angst with Cat Noir betraying Ladybug's trust and feeling so guilty about that he gave up his Miraculous.

Maricat

For Maricat, the season of you're choice would be season 4, even though most of the screen time there is concentrated in "Glaciator 2". This season even has the episode with the most Maricat screen time in all of the show so far, that is, "Glaciator 2".

Episodes with particularly high amounts of Maricat screen time include "Evillustrator" (2 min 17 sec) and "Gamer" (54 sec) in season 1, "Glaciator" (3 min 29 sec) and "Befana" (36 sec) in season 2, "Weredad" (3 min 57 sec) and "Kwamibuster" (44 sec) in season 3, "Sentibubbler" (1 min 24 sec) and "Glaciator 2" (8 min 14 sec) in season 4, and "Elation" (5 min 37 sec) and "Protection" (48 sec) in season 5.

Ladrien

For Ladrien shippers, the best seasons for you guys to watch are seasons 2 and 3, moreso season 2, where Ladrien was at the peak of its screen time until it dwindled into nothingness in seasons 4 and 5.

For episodes with a particularly large amount of screen time we have "Simon Says" (1 min 22 sec) and "Volpina" (1 min 23 sec) in season 1, "Riposte" (3 min 42 sec) and "Gorizilla" (3 min 58 sec) in season 2, "Oblivio" (1 min 40 sec) and "Desparada" (5 min 35 sec) in season 3, "Strikeback" (37 sec) in season 4, and "Passion" (17 sec) in season 5.

Conclusion

Well, that's it. Hope this was helpful to some love square shippers who want to binge through Miraculous.

[kaalki-cinnamon]

Holy Miraculous shit,

VOLPINA COMEBACK!!!!!

[burningstarfishqueen]

A lot of people are talking about Lila’s faked support of Ladybug this season. In Multiplication, Lila correctly points out that Ladybug is young and she will make mistakes.

Her words are right.

However, her acknowledgment of this highlights that Lila understands how pointless her grudge against Ladybug is. Ladybug (arguably) messed up when she yelled at Lila in Volpina, but she apologized and has consistently saved Lila and offered her truces.

If Lila couldn’t grasp the concept of making mistakes or couldn’t apply it to superheroes, maybe her growing hatred would be understandable. Multiplication clarifies that Lila knows she’s being ridiculously petty, she could let it go, and she’s choosing not to.

[elenahigh03]

Now I know your secret !

[mila-beedoodling]

I might have gotten a little bit carried on my Lila doodles the other day because of @wackus-bonkus-maximus update 👀

close-ups of page 2 under the cut

KoFi<3

SHE'S SO SO PRETTY GUYS.

I'm a sucker for evil women

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okay okay my turn. Most slay akumas (by season)

Season 1

Volpina

That’s my girl how could I say anyone else

Season 2

Frightningale

It’s giving Harley Quinn and I love it. Also star motifs are always a win for me.

Season 3

Desperada

Season 3 has very little slayage I’m afraid.

However, I’m loving the little quavers as design accents, love the guitar case giving a butterfly wing silhouette.

Season 4

Qilin

Qilin — She looks awesome and would say acab if she could. Need I say more?

Season 5 (e 1-10)

Safari

Duh

[mlb-confess]

"I ship Flairmidable x Volpina 🐶🧡🦊"

- submittes by anonymous

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Lila Rossi is one of my favorite characters of the whole ML series. Despite her short screen time the most interesting things constantly happen while she is on screen

[nixthelapin]

I think the writers totally missed out on using Alya and Lila as foils for both being foxes, but using the power of illusion and misdirection in very different ways.

Lila: using emotions and threats to set a trap for LB (and CN, but she’s got that personal grudge)

Vs. Alya: using her intelligence/cunning to get out of a trap (and get LB out too)

And just in general being very different people:

Lila’s entire character is that she’s a liar who will do anything to avoid the truth, while Alya is the investigative reporter who uncovers truth.

Lila as someone who hates and is out to get both Marinette and LB vs. Alya who loves and supports both

I just think they could’ve done a lot more with this, especially since they made both girls a fox character, specifically surrounding the Fox Miraculous (I know Lila never had the real one, but she did pretend to for her akumatization)- that’s not nothing!

But nah, instead Alya just becomes brain dead around Lila, believes all her lies without question (no matter how stupid or nonsensical), and doubts everything her best friend tells her when it comes to said lies. Wasted potential.

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Been struggling with this design ngl.

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What is Lila's wish?

 Back in season 1, when Volpina's character design was first hinted, a commotion had occurred over the exciting possibility of a new hero appearing in the series. Once it was revealed this characters civilian name was Lila, naturally, fans had assumed Lila was destined to be a new addition to the team of heroes the moment they realized her design detailed her wearing a Fox themed attire, which matched the fox miraculous we all saw in the miracle box (back then, "Origins" released first so we all saw the miracle box before "Volpina" aired).

Of course, it was a major blow the moment it was discovered that Lila was not at all the person people in the fanbase had envisioned her to be. She was no hero, in fact, she was far from that. For the longest time, it was anticipated that maybe one day we would see new heroes added to Ladybug and Cat Noir’s team now that we knew there were other miraculous to foreshadow such an exciting possibility.

However, aside from any potential new heroes being included into the show, there was an additional factor which had been overlooked until the end of season 1, which was that Hawkmoth could not be the main villain forever. Sooner or later, someone would come along to take the title of the primary villain. After "Volpina" aired, it became apparent that Lila would be set up as an additional antagonist to the show, but it wasn't until "Time tagger” did it become clear just how much of a threat Lila would become. When Hawkmoth assumed he was  close to victory, thanks to “his” akumatized villain of the future, Timetagger reveals Hawkmoth will not be the holder of the butterfly miraculous in the future. And so, with the episode ending with Lila having a moment with Chris, who would be akumatized into Timetagger in the future, it had now been set in stone that Lila would become the future butterfly miraculous holder and the new villain of Paris. 

However, despite this interesting revelation, no one knew exactly what Lila’s intentions would be in the future when she sought the power of the ladybug and cat miraculous. The two miraculous are capable of granting anyone a wish if they manage to obtain them, it was because of its immense powers to grant whatever a person wanted that Gabriel sought it to cure Emelie from the effects of the broken peacock miraculous, but knowing Lila is fully capable of obtaining whatever she wants by lying and manipulating others, we have yet to know what exactly will happen in Lila’s life that will lead her to seek the wish granting powers of the miraculous.

Although Lila had been displayed throughout the series to be fully capable of obtaining whatever she wanted through her own abilities, its discovered in “Onichan” that Lila's life with her family is far from the adventurous and lavish life she would often tell others, in fact, judging by her upset expression as she leaves her home, we come to find that Lila is not happy with the life she is living with her family. 

One of her moms works at an embassy, as a result, she is not around much and only briefly stops by the house to check on Lila and prepare her breakfast lunch and dinner for the day. She always arrives home late and often times does work through the weekends.

Lila's other mom had been noted to work at the “Style queen magazine”, but due to Audrey being the head of the company and very demanding of her employees, it was obvious that life in the office was just as grueling of a work place, meaning neither of them could spend much time at home to properly observe Lila and realize she had been lying to them about the school being closed for months, and had even constructed an even bigger lie to convince the teacher and student body that she traveled the world working with prince Ali and his family to combat various global issues. Lila's life revolved around creating an entirely new persona only a rare few would come to realize was fake, and she made sure her moms would never know she was doing this both in and outside of the house. 

Not much is known yet about Lila’s emotional connection to her moms, let alone if family would be her reason to pursue the miraculous. But despite them being very loving and supportive of her when they do show up on screen, Lila is not above lying to them in order to ensure she continues to maintain the fake life she had worked hard to build. From what is understood so far, given her mothers busy schedules, Lila's behavior stemmed from being devoid of attention as her mothers continued to be preoccupied with their careers, so in order to compensate for the lack of attention her two moms failed to give her, Lila had begun to lie to people outside her family to draw attention onto herself.

However, it had become clear that over time, her parents were no longer the sole reason for her being the way she is. Lila gained a taste for manipulating others to her advantage, and despite the few people(Marinette and Adrien) who were willing to explain to her that what she was doing was wrong, Lila genuinely had no interest in stopping what she was doing, not because she couldn't, but because she liked what her talents could provide her. 

And with her now having accomplished the impossible task of being recognized by Gabriel as his new muse, and even be included as one of the avatars to the alliance rings, Lila no doubt felt a sense of pride in knowing she was no longer just pretending to be someone who is more accomplished than others, she was no longer just some ordinary person, she was better than the rest, she was valuable. No matter where she goes, people will know who she is the moment they see her as their avatar. But if someone, anyone, dared to interfere with the world she had created around herself, a world where all eyes would fall onto her, then she would not hesitate to become vindictive and spiteful towards anyone who wasn't willing to fall into the line she had set.

If they weren't willing to fall into place and side with her to let her be the one to obtain whatever she wanted, regardless of who she might take advantage of in the process, then she would not hesitate to view them as an obstacle that needed to be removed, this obstacle was of course, primarily Marinette.

Lila's deceit can't go on forever, however, although Adrien said long ago that everyone would quickly turn against her the moment they discovered she lied to them about who she really was, it would appear as though Collège Françoise Dupont and the entire student body, genuinely did not mean much to her. It was never Lila's intention to form an actual attachment to anyone at the school, it was only something she would need to feel involved in for as long as she wanted, and so far, she appeared to be devoted to staying now that she knew she had more to lose, those things being of course, her delusional romance with Adrien, her new modeling career with Gabriel and her vengeance against Marinette. Its possible that if all of these things were to be stripped from her, then it would become a factor in her drive to pursue the miraculous. But despite all this, there is also one big mystery to Lila that could explain her future motive to pursue the miraculous, and that is knowing what she did during her months away after the first season. 

 During the months of school Lila missed, she wasn't just sitting in her room, she was likely still walking out and about among other civilians doing other things while also managing to avoid everyone else who knew her at Francoise Dupont. We may not know what she was really doing during that time yet, but what we do know is, it was something which needed a large portion of her attention to the point of her realizing she needed to leave Françoise Dupont for a few months. 

Something happened to Lila, and the answers to what could really be going on in her life that will lead her to pursue a wish, may be within those months she was away from school, and whatever it is that Lila wants, must of course be something that is far beyond her control to achieve, but it could be achieved through a wish from the Ladybug and Cat miraculous the moment she learns of its power, but lets just wait and see what the show has to say. (no comment of other released episode as I am waiting to see them in order).

[circuslollipop]

i can finally share my finished art for the @onceuponzine, an ml fairytale zine! i drew lila as the pied piper and had a LOT of fun with the glowy magic effects!

[please do not put lila s/alt or any other character s/alt in the tags or comments; thanks!]

[mirrorghosty]

I got a tad bit carried away but hey magicalgirl Au Miraculous Ladybug

[zoe-oneesama]

Did you think I was done? More from the inner circle for an Angelic Layer AU! These three would probably bring in the most drama, especially since I picture Chloe being SO into Angelic Layer being the sole reason Marinette didn’t jump in sooner.

Main 4 Inner Zodiac Outer Zodiac

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