#Nekydallon

[bigfatbreak]

wanted to doodle what the villain!au kids look like under the super suits... adrien/pavo's feathers are actually feathers, and marinette/nekydallon has velvety butterfly patterned skin, peachy to the touch

[wormzandgutz]

Bigfatbreak makes a new au and I have to draw I have to draw I have to draw I have to draw

[tumble-witch]

@bigfatbreak YOUR STUFF IS SO COOL!!!!! like ur the reason i stayed up til 4 am more than once TwT

[d011zk1ll]

Guys I'm hyperfixed a totally normal amount what are you on about 🙏🙏

(all au's by @bigfatbreak they're so cool and have become the object of fascination for my autism™)

[remmicreates]

i adoooree your art and if you still are doing some requests: id love to see you draw any of @bigfatbreak’s au characters!! im sure they’d look amazing in your style

I love @bigfatbreak ‘s au and character designs, especially Nekydallon’s. :)

[princess-of-the-corner]

Have you seen bigfatbreak's AUs? Specifically, the Feralnette, Nekydallon and Villain Dad AUs. If not, I seriously recommend them.

I was actually scrolling down the Villain Dad one.

I'm like. 99% down with them but there's once again the 'haha Chloé's mom is abusive' vibes so I probably won't hang around but other than that it's great

[a-flaming-idiot]

Ok, I and @sashonya were suddenly struck with inspiration after seeing some beautiful art made by @edorazzi. Specifically, an older piece made back in 2015 depicting Felix and Bridgette from Miraculous Ladybug PV as younger versions of Gabriel Agreste and Sabine Cheng. This one Specifically. So Sash and I made an AU.

This AU starts basically the same, with Adrien as the sheltered son of rich but distant fashion designer, Gabriel Agreste along with the late Emilie Agreste. And Marinette as the clumsy and anxious daughter of bakers Tom Dupain and Sabine Cheng. But one day while digging through the old belongings of his parents, Adrien discovers a small box holding the cat miraculous. And for her birthday, Marinette is given a pair of family heirloom earrings. Which turn out to be the ladybug miraculous.

You can imagine where this goes...

Marinette and Adrien become the heroes Chat Noir and Ladybug, but are aware of older heroes who once existed several decades ago, long before either of them was born. With the help of their kwamis they go about trying to hide their activities as heroes fro their parents, seemingly doing rather well.

The kids go on to fight Hawk Moth, fighting to discover the identity of the villain who not even the audience knows. But through a series of events, the kids start to suspect it might be Gabriel due to his distance and coldness after the passing of his wife. Along with the fact both Miraculouses can be used to grant a wish that could revive his wife.

This all comes to a head in the season one or two finale, depending on the show's preference, where the kids are captured by Hawk Moth or one of their akumas. In the process, they are separated from their miraculouses, which are soon found by Gabriel and Sabine. The two parents meet up once they realize what happened to their kids. Gabriel looks down at Sabine, and gives a deep bow while greeting her with a "My lady" and Sabine simply laughs out a "My dear Chaton". And finally, it's revealed that both Sabine and Gabriel were once the previous holders of the two miraculouses. They quickly transform and rush off to save their kids.

Imagine the kids shock when they're sitting tied up, thinking they're up the creek without a pedal before Chat Noir suddenly cataclysms through the wall, followed by Ladybug(or their previous names). Both of them waste little time in freeing their kids, Gabriel shocking his son by scooping him up in a massive, teary hug. Yeah, he's actually rather sweet in this AU, just with a lot of difficulty expressing his emotions correctly, especially after his wife's passing.

Marinette and Adrien then get to witness the full power of the cat and ladybug miraculouses with their much more experienced parents who absolutely decimate Hawk Moth's forces. In that fight it's also revealed the truth of Hawk Moth's identity, being Tomoe, Kagami's mother. (Both of them would likely being introduced much earlier in this AU). Tomeo would specifically take a lot of inspiration from @bigfatbreak's Nekydallon, being blind but regaining her sight when akumatizing someone, along with a sick-ass butterfly mask. I'm not certain of Tomeo's motivations, but I think she'd make an interesting villain. She also likely would have been born sighted and have lost her sight at some point in her life, which possibly led her to find the butterfly miraculous.

After Marinette and Adrien are saved, their parents finally get to reveal the truth to them. Gabriel and Sabine were once the holders of the cat and ladybug miraculouses when they were younger, along with once being called Felix and Bridgette. As teens, they faced off against another great threat. But once their enemy was defeated, Paris no longer needed them. And both of them were tired of being heroes after so long carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. So together they decided to renounce their miraculouses and hide them away. In a motion to distance themselves from their previous identities, they also went about changing their names to Gabriel and Sabine. They actually haven't seen each other since they gave up being heroes in their twenties. Sabine did very much want to be there for Gabriel after Emilie died, but they'd been apart for so long and she worried returning to his life in such a turbulent time would only worsen things for him and Adrien.

Back then they were crazy close, not romantically but more like platonic soulmates. The only reason they avoided each other for so long was the knowledge both of them wanted to live their lives away from their past and had found their own new happy lives. However, things got a little complicated when Hawk Moth appeared and they became hyper-aware of the fact Paris needed new heroes. Which is what led them to entrust their own children with the miraculouses in secret. They felt that even if their kids wouldn't be able to take on the roles of heroes, they would be able to find the right people who could.

Maybe it's not the best reasoning but it's certainly something and I wouldn't put reasoning like that past this show.

I also like to imagine the cutesy interactions we can see between Sabine and Tom concerning the whole miraculous thing. Tom is 100% Sabine's biggest fan even after she retired. And he's had to fight as hard as possible to keep from scooping up Marinette and tell her how proud he is of her every time he hears about her actions as Ladybug. Gabriel and Emilie likely had a similarly sweet relationship concerning his former life as a hero. Though I think she was flattered to know he gave it up to start a life with her. Him and Adrien 100% would also need a scene where they visit Emilie's grave or memorial in private and talk about Adrien's exploits as Chat Noir. And just how amazed and proud she would surely be of him.

Anyway. I think that's it for the AU idea. It's a thing and it's sweet. I might be the one to write it if it wasn't for the fact I was working on something else. So anybody take it if you want it. I'm not gonna use it.

[bee-a-garbage-shipper]

Favorite AU List [WIP]

MLB AU |

MariBat AU |

Sailor Ladybug AU |

Taking Shape AU |

Knitting Fairy AU |

LadyBugOut AU |

Biker AU |

Feralnette AU |

Copycat AU |

Ladybird AU |

Nekydallon AU |

Miraculously Reincarnated As The Villainess AU |

Scarlet Lady AU | SL Comics | Scarlet Lady Comic |

Into The Unknown AU |

BNHA AU

9/10THs AU

Bleach AU

Empathy Verse

Naruto AU

S&S AU

EAH AU |

The Silent Queen AU |

[magpiejay1234]

https://bioone.org/journals/The-Journal-of-the-Lepidopterists-Society/volume-69/issue-4/lepi.69i4.a2/Butterflies-of-Ancient-Egypt/10.18473/lepi.69i4.a2.full

Going by the Chrysalis-Ozymandias connection:

Symbolism. The symbolic meaning of butterflies in art and history in later periods is well documented (Gagliardi 1976, Nazari 2014). The best examples come from the Roman era and the story of Psyche and Cupid, where the death and rebirth of the former is symbolized by the fragile wings of a butterfly going through the stages of metamorphosis ([Blatchford] 1889). Although some insects, such as scarab beetles, had clear religious or cultural connotations (e.g. Ward 1994), the symbolic significance of butterflies for the ancient Egyptians is yet to be determined. Several authors have argued that because the butterflies found in Egyptian tombs were part of the funerary goods of the deceased, they must also have possessed a symbolic or magical meaning related to the afterlife (e.g. Lopez-Monet & Aufrère 1999, Germond 2008, Espinel 2015). The marsh scene, where butterflies appear most often, has been variously interpreted to have a symbolic meaning, either as the reestablishment of order and defeat of chaos, as an identification of the tomb owner with the king who could perform fishing and fowling on sacred lakes as a royal ritual, or as a sexual unification between the tomb owner and his wife with aspects of rebirth (Dodson & Ikram 2008). Many of the elements in marsh scenes are considered to have symbolic meanings, e.g. the Nile tilapia (Tilapia niloticus) is described as a symbol of sexuality, rebirth and renewal, and the lotus flower, usually held by figures accompanying the deceased, is interpreted as an icon of fertility (Desroches-Noblecourt 1954). Similarly, butterflies have been interpreted as symbols of transformation and regeneration (Keimer 1934, Servajean 1999, Germond 2008). Lopez-Moncet & Aufrère (1999) have argued that because Calotropis, a host plant of D. chrysippus, was associated with the goddess Hathor and was known to have magical properties, the butterfly itself must also have had a great symbolic meaning for the ancient Egyptians. Such speculations remain controversial however due to lack of concrete evidence. Considering the very large number of surviving Egyptian tombs, butterfly iconography must be considered quite rare. Among tombs with a marsh scene, only about 20% contain butterflies (Fleuren 2010). There is no evidence that the ancient Egyptians knew anything about metamorphosis, and in fact even the Egyptian word for butterflies is not yet known (Hannig & Vomberg 1998). Butterflies, together with birds and bats, were considered “beasts of the sky” (Levinson & Levinson 2009). These facts undermine the significance of butterflies as essential symbolic icons. Based on several ancient Egyptian texts, Feucht (1992) has argued that the meaning behind fishing and fowling scenes was simply that the tomb owners wished to continue the pleasure of these activities in the afterlife, and so butterflies were sometimes added as naturalistic elements of the marsh (Fleuren 2010). Today butterflies are commonly found in the Egyptian swamps, and the most common butterfly species in the country, D. chrysippus, is also the most frequently depicted in tomb scenes. It may be, therefore, that this species simply represented a faunal “type” by which to indicate the presence of butterflies in general in such environments (Evans, in press).

Of course, in the Ptolemaic Egypt, Greek symbolisms around butterflies (association with hope(Elpis) in Pandora's Box, nekydallon theming bigfatbreak uses etc.) should be well known, so I'm not fully convinced by the statements here in the second paragraph.

Of course, Ozymandias is just the Greek name of Ramesses II, aka. the Pharaoh most identified with the Exodus narrative, so...

Synder version of Lila arc will almost certainly have Iron Maiden's Powerslave as the background music for the final fight for sure.

[badscienceman]

So just in case anyone was wondering...  ψυχή is ancient Greek for “butterfly.” It can also mean “soul” or “life” among other things.

The word for butterfly in formal Greek is psyche, thought to be the soul of the dead. Ancient Greeks also named the butterfly scolex (“worm”), while the chrysalis – which is the next stage of metamorphosis from a caterpillar – was called nekydallon, meaning “the shell of the dead”. The metamorphosis of the butterfly inspired many to use butterflies as a symbol of the soul’s exit from the body. Thus, the myth of Psyche concomitantly signifies soul and butterfly. It has come to mean the story of the soul coupled with divine eros, but which must nevertheless endure tribulations before achieving immortality. (Source)

For these reasons, Thanatos was often depicted with butterflies as the taker of souls.

I’m proposing... the pinned butterfly is symbolic of Thanatos handing over his own soul to Zagreus.

[skovsnua-blog]

The word for butterfly in formal Greek is psyche, thought to be the soul of the dead. Ancient Greeks also named the butterfly scolex (“worm”), while the chrysalis – which is the next stage of metamorphosis from a caterpillar – was called nekydallon, meaning “the shell of the dead". - Georgoulis KD. Psyche. Helios Encyclopaedical Lexicon.

[bigfatbreak]

dicking around with CSP's animation work a little

[wormzandgutz]

More @bigfatbreak fanart

[d011zk1ll]

Doodles I did instead of revising for my very important mocks in 3 days 🙏🙏

All from @bigfatbreak aus they're so cool you don't understand

[bigfatbreak]

luckily Pavo doesn't mind his Lady is a little eldritched~

[bigfatbreak]

oh, that is her face. she doesn't have a mouth, hope that helps!

addition: the closest we'll see to a Nekydallon smile (her dimples are still visible)