#ask of alice kagami

[babitim-royal-au]

Yo I’m kinda sorry for not uploading a lot of fanart😭, art block fucking sucks,I’m gonna try to get something done over this weekend but untill then, take this as a gift for Mr.cuphead from pepper the timekeeper :3

The album DAMN. pepper said he thought mr.cuphead would like it so idk

Art block is a pain in the ass.

[trishacollins]

Nina asked "felix and masks, kagami and roses."

His life is cluttered by design.

A folded picture Kagami had slipped into his pocket when he wasn't looking, meticulously smoothed, of Duusu and Longg trying to drink Boba.

The carefully pinned movie tickets from their first cinema. Pictures. So many pictures. Pressed flowers- a dried white rose. Memories stored in trinkets

He wondered what Adrien thought of Marinette’s new obsession with giving him stuffed rabbits. His cousin hadn't asked but had raised an eyebrow at the newly forming colony. Kagami’s gift of a signed copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and a pocket watch were less confusing, he was sure.

"Felix?" Adrien was dressed for the opera, only his tie still draped loosely around his neck.

Felix sighs and steps into his cousin's space, fixing the thing. "Just because your minders are gone doesn't mean you need to look slovenly."

Adrien grins. "That's what I have you for, right? Or is that Marinette's job now?"

"It will take the three of us just to keep you in one piece." He dusts his shoulders off.

"I like this." Adrien blurted out.

"hm?"

"This you. The one that isn't hiding everything." Adrien looks so- painfully earnest. "I missed this."

Felix rolls his eyes. "Who says I'm not hiding everything?"

Adrien flicks his gaze to the Peacock broach and the tiny opera glasses tucked in Felix's pocket for Duusu to use later. "Righttt." He laughs. "Less secrets than normal, at least. No more masks."

Argos has never needed one.

Felix smiled faintly, glancing at his shrine to....being. To being a person who had experiences. Who was allowed to have a life, to keep things and people. "I suppose."

Adrien grinned and tilted his head. "Presentable?"

"How you survived as a model I will never know." Hw sighed. "But yes."

[woolmasterleel]

How do I even introduce him again.. Here's the man himself, Kisaki!! I am so happy to finally have an updated ref for him! His other ref is almost five years old...

Honestly working on this and Tagashei's ref just made me so happy, I gave them both slight redesigns and I'm very happy! As always, info below! o(*°▽°*)o

Dr. Kisaki Hizarou

213 cm tall (without heels)

Male

Limbo-Altered Entity (partial)

Tagashei’s husband and Alice’s father!

A famous scientist known for his breakthrough research in organ creation.

Initially a withdrawn, shy individual, Kisaki became his energetic (and somewhat scary) self overtime due to his constant exposure to deities being taken to Limbo.

At the time, he didn’t know anyone else who could understand Limbo, nor could he tell anyone. This ate away at him constantly.

When they were both human, Kisaki spent most of his time desperately trying to perfect his organ creation, so he could make a new heart for Tagashei, who was in dire need of one.

Unfortunately, Kisaki’s life was cut short just as he started making progress.

He was unruly after his passing, not taking the moment to decide which kind of deity he wanted to become, he ran into the demon realm while trying to find a way back to save Tagashei.

It is because of his urgency to get out that his biology didn’t properly adjust to his new demon form. His heart failed to properly form the chamber responsible for magic production. Kisaki didn’t care.

It is hard to pinpoint when Kisaki finally snaps and becomes his seemingly careless, laugh-at-everything attitude, but it is most likely around the time he found Tagashei’s grave.

Not knowing what to do now, he continued his work, creating a heart for Tagashei.

Feeling as though he failed him, he approached the local hospital with his work.

Years later, Kisaki and Tagashei reconnect. They work to create Alice. Kisaki’s organ creation extended beyond organs, he was able to create an entire human in a lab.

A few years later, Kisaki is approached by Mirror Kagami. He offers him a position in a lab specializing in disease creation for the purpose of fighting against them. Kisaki is immediately suspicious, but agrees to join.

He created the first sample of Rapid Corpus- a disease which is supposed to target only angels and demons, rapidly promoting bone and blood production to a fatal degree.

Kisaki then kills this sample in front of the head researchers. When they demand he create another one, he refuses. When they ask him for his notes on creating it, he smiles and says there are none. He calls them out, knowing why they wanted such a fatal disease so carelessly created.

Kisaki promptly causes the lab to explode, killing a large number of angels.

This severely throws off the balance of powers. Galvarium appears to take him to Limbo. She is confused and shocked to see Kisaki.

He explains his reasoning. Hearing Mirror’s name is enough for Galvarium to believe him.

Kisaki is released from Limbo not long after, thus being only a partial LAE.

When Kisaki returns to his family, he isolates himself from Tagashei- he knew he was being watched by Mirror’s organization, and didn’t want Tagashei being killed again because of him.

Finding out years later that Tagashei’s body mutated the Rapid Corpus disease made him extremely happy. Not only was he immune to any targeted attacks from Mirror’s organization, but now he could study Tagashei’s Mad Rabbit form, and create a mutated strain of the disease for defense purposes.

During the final arc is when Kisaki reaches his complete Limbo form, known as Alpha Decay Kisaki.

During their fight with Reflection of Mirror β, Kisaki (as Alpha Decay) and Tagashei (as Mad Rabbit) form Monarchy of Hearts.

He is part of the Court of Limbo (which consists of Galvarium, Pandora, Fate, and Medlo)!

Here's some design notes!

Kisaki's hair usually looks like normal hair, but he sometimes appears to have molecule structures floating around. How he does this, no one knows.

Kisaki purposefully wears the loudest shoes possible- it lets people know he's approaching, giving them a head start if they need to leave.

His wedding ring was made by Tagashei!

He does have the emblem visible on Alpha Decay with him prior to reaching that state, but keeps it in his pocket.

His blood is really bright green, he probably modified it to be that colour.

His eyes flicker like radiation caught on camera, that sort of fuzzy texture.

You will never see him without his coat.

He has four black earrings- two on each ear.

He needs his glasses to see well, he can manage without them but he prefers wearing them.

I'm attaching Alpha Decay here too because again I'll take any chance to show him off...

And of course I have him and Tagashei together! I worked on their refs on the same canvas so they're actually to scale with each other (✿◕‿◕✿)

They'll kick your ass

[goldennika]

im reading through the manga for kuroko’s basketball for the first time and AAAHH if you knew the plot i would have mentioned something to you but since you don’t i won’t spoil it !!! (this was the reasoning of my ask hehe)

but as for recs hmmmm i watch a lot of different genres ngl 😭 so i’ll just spit some out

romance - i really really love fruits basket!! i will say its a bit controversial because of the relationships between some of the characters with mc but honestly its just people looking too far away from the premise of the zodiac story. i also really enjoyed my happy marriage again a lil bit weird on the relationship but this time because of the age gap. theyre both adults no worries (bc i know some animes would not respect ages) and its really really beautiful the art style. the story is great too and very interesting, kind of sad but it makes you root for mc even more.

sports - YURI ON ICE. watch it. neooowwwww. art style is BEAUTIFUL and its BL which is not very common!!!!!! i loved it so so much the story was compelling and i binge watched it so hard T^T i also recommend kuroko’s basketball naturally hehe !! it was one of the first series i ever finished. the characters are to DIE for. like you think haikyuu has a great diverse group of characters??? SO DOES KUROKOS BBALL it focuses more on a set of characters within different teams like haikyuu so you still get that one-on-one feel between mc team and the opposing team while getting the opposing team dynamic feel as well!! i would say main duo kagami + kuroko are way different than haikyuu’s kageyama + hinata. all four are really motivated and have their own weaknesses and strengths as players but the dyanmic in the duos are so so different!!! kageyama + hinata are like sunshine and grumpy while kagami + kuroko are like quiet + loud AAAHHH i can go on and on about both of these animes and how similar yet different they are >< but moving on~~

science fiction - the promised neverland i have not watched after s1 mainly because s2 is behind a paywall (for me) BUT it is so so good and so tragic and sad and ughhh i could eat up so many of these dystopian films and shows !! its my fave genre in film overall!! but this show had me BAWLING. i kid you not i swear i probably cried almost every episode toward the end of s1 because its such a good but devastating plot. darwin’s game if you can get behind some fan service and only having one season out… i really recommend this anime! its very similar to alice in borderland (which i also recommend it’s a japanese show adapted from a manga) in which mc gets trapped in a survival game and he does his best to defeat whoever made said game. its really good and some of the characterization is great too !

currently watching - jujutsu kaisen OFC I LOVE MY HUSBAND NANAMI LMAO kidding (not) but um this anime is really really good. heavy on the action and plot and really great animations. however. i will say that if you get attached to characters really easily do not watch this anime 😭 gege (author) is a hater of all his likeable characters /srs im also watching sk8 the infinity which is a sports anime revolving around street skateboarding! i havent watched much maybe a couple of episodes but its really good so far! very intruiging and definitely might interest you since you enjoy haikyuu

also ty for reading all of this hahahaha if you have any recs pls share them 💗💗

Waaahhhh thank you for all these!! 🥹🫶

Another friend had recommended Fruits Basket to me before so that’s been on my radar! If I’m in the mood for romance animes, I’ll be sure to check these two out :)

ok ok Yuri on Ice is the next anime I’ve wanted to watch actually!! Either that or Kuruko’s Basketball since Haikyuu got me on a sports anime/manga kick 😂 so if these are on Netflix, I’ll be sure to queue them up soon!!

I’ve actually started reading a bit of Promised Neverland (and by that i mean the first chapter only HAHA) before focusing on reading just Haikyuu! It’s intriguing for sure 👀 although it did give off very intense vibes so i’ll have to pace myself with that series ig?? Darwin’s Game sounds so interesting too!! 👀

OH GOSH JUJUTSU KAISEN — I HAVE SUCH A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH IT ESPECIALLY OVER THE SHIBUYA INCIDENT ARC BC EVERYONE WAS JUST DYING LEFT AND RIGHT 😭😭😭 i might still read the manga tho lol

Hmm i honestly haven’t watched or read a lot but would def reco Demon Slayer if you haven’t read/watched it yet!! The sibling bonds in the show are so precious to me that when i reread it recently, i was fighting back tears so many times 🥺😭 that and bc their backstories can be so sad but the entire premise is that they’re hunting human-eating demons so tragic backstories come with the territory ig

I also enjoyed Kakegurui although it’s a bit… darker? and a bit more idk sensual/sexual? compared to other series i’ve dabbled in haha. The premise is elite high schoolers are all into gambling and the stakes are all really high bc they get a thrill out of it haha. I thought it was pretty fascinating how they worked around the different bets they’d make. Deals with some bullying though so just putting that as a cw!!

[paradise-in-k4]

Parallel Satellite Incident Notes: A Portfolio for Muses

A master post for tags, muse profiles, and other lore writing

Suffice to say, jumping through boundaries twice into a parallel universe where the town we thought was nonexistent not even an hour ago yet being clear as day was enough to baffle us. It was just us two university students here, the leaders of the Hifuu Club. And yet, the fact that we managed to clear the jump with help from two boundary-related abilities already denies several quantum theories proposed by leading scientists in both Japan and the United States. We had now entered a second paradise. Similar in expanse to the first, but not a satellite of any kind, nor bathed in a scarlet hue. Instead, it was firmly on Earth. One could even suggest the aforementioned mega-crater did not exist here. But first, we need to get out of this forest thicket.

-Renko Usami

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Case A: The Gap in the Evening

The Canon Touhou Muses

They will usually belong to Universe L1, which I will refer to as the canon universe subject to personal headcanons. They will usually have icons due to their abundance of canon pictures and other fan creations online (although I will try to stick with official works and screenshots specifically from YouTube videos where possible). Muses without links here are still active. The order in which they’re listed here is based on the entry numbers at the top of their profile posts.

Nitori Kawashiro: Super Youkai Warhead

Aya Shameimaru: Traditional Reporter of Fantasy

Patchouli Knowledge: Girl of Knowledge and Shade

Reimu Hakurei: Hakurei Shrine Maiden

Youmu Konpaku: Half-Human, Half-Phantom Gardener

Marisa Kirisame: Ordinary Human Magician

Star Sapphire: Falling Starlight

Alice Margatroid: Seven-Colored Puppeteer

Shinmyoumaru Sukuna: Descendant of the Inchlings

Renko Usami: Hifuu Navigator of a Scarlet Fantasy

Maribel Hearn: Hifuu Dreamer of a Scarlet Fantasy

Koakuma: Nameless Little Devil

Case B: Curiosity on the West Mountain

The OC Muses

These are my original characters, but not all of them have visual references or face claims beyond one icon if they have one at all. More will appear later. If they’re based on a fandom, it will be listed in their profile and in their title here. Otherwise, they’ll be marked as original.

*Ask for Aya to make a paper on an indicated muse to open interactions and see their profile early.

Futsubasa no Rei: Lone Tengu Looking Westward (Touhou)

Kagami Kitakami: Hidden Sage of Spirit Hammer (Touhou)

Rainy Daze: The Calm Before the Storm (Touhou)

Haruka Tsukikaze: East Wind in Overbearing Responsibility (Original)

Hinako Takahara: Vigilante Shrine Maiden Borrowing a Youkai’s Magic (Original)

Kasami Suzuki: Unusual Human Magician (Original)

Yukari Kamimaru: Watchful Raven of Shadows and Time (Original)

Case C: Bunbunmaru’s Examination of Missing Words in Scarlet Gensokyo

The AU Touhou Muses

Pay attention to the universe codes, they carry basically the same weights and values as depicted in Touhou Lost Word. Bios will be posted separately, although you can ask for details before then. Face claims and icons may be scarce or nonexistent.

*Ask for Aya or Nitori specifically to uncover anyone who has question marks in their titles and see their profile early.

Marisa Kirisame: Ordinary Human Magician of the Gap (K4)

Nitori Kawashiro: ?????? ????????? ????????? ????? (Lr)

Reimu Hakurei: ????? ??? ?????? (B3)

Miscellaneous Notes

Additional Blog/AU Lore

A1.5 - Nine-Ball Fork

Journals of the Multiverse

A collection of research notes that serve as background lore for this blog, which can also link said lore to other blogs that I have.

Marisa’s Notes: What is a Spell Card?

Kirisame Print Shop Journals

The Frost Miko Incidents and the Resolvers Incident (leads to @timekeepertwister; another blog I manage)

Universe K4 - Scarlet Gensokyo of the Lily-White Gap

Universe J6 - Incidents of the Old Gods

Universe B3 - Notes of the Second Genso-Lunar War

Universe Z1 - A Scarlet Devil Tower

Universe L80 - Glimpse into the Apocalypse

Index

The Blog Tags

#muse: (name) - The character that’s talking

#rp muse - Muse bios

#parallel satellite incident notes - Lore-related posts

#universe k4 - Outsiders Examining Scarlet Gensokyo Orbiting the Unknown Gap

#universe l1 - The World You Inhabit (essentially the “canon” universe)

#the portfolio - Master posts like this one

#the muses respond - In-character ask responses from a muse

#ooc - Miscellaneous posts that aren’t RP related

#the timekeeper spins in chaos - Crack RP posts

#rp promo - Reblogs of other RP blog starters

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Unsorted Reports from the Gap

Planned Muses that still require development. They can be added to the main list under specific request.

Marisa Kirisame: Ordinary Human Magician (Z1, L80, J6)

Yukari Yakumo: Youkai That Lurks in the Boundary (L1, K4)

Ran Yakumo

Sunny Milk

Luna Child

Cirno

Daiyousei

Sumireko Usami

Reisen Udongein Inaba

Shinmyoumaru Sukuna (K4)

Seija Kijin

Sagume Kishin

Kosuzu Motoori (L1, J6)

Hieda no Akyuu (L1, J6)

Reimu Hakurei (K4, J6)

Youmu Konpaku (J6)

Recipes for Cookies

A growing list of anthropomorphic running cookies from another seemingly unknown land of fantasy that is known to the Mun Beyond the Screen

(There is nothing here. But don’t be afraid to ask!)

[eyelessdoll-y]

Hey i really like Alice's , so like , you should give us some facts about her

Oh seriously?? You want to know about my girl? 🥺🥺I'm glad to know you're interested so I'll leave here 15 facts about Alice ❤️😘🥰

15 facts/curiosities about Alice Kagami♡

1° fact: Her whole name is Alice Kagami, or Alice "Mirror" in translation. Alice has this surname because mirror originally symbolizes truth, sincerity and purity! Which matches her, (purity not too much rsrs) like wisdom too, which Alice also possesses.

2° fact: Alice was born on 08/03 and is the sign pisces♓.

3° fact: She was raised by her grandparents until she graduated and moved to live alone in a rental house, which she paid for with her job.

4° fact: Alice is very good with crafts and confectionery, she is hardworking and already worked for some events.

5° fact: Alice L O V E knit and does anything with needles and ball of wool. Loves making clothes and pets because she is very g4y and thinks cute.

6° fact: Alice collects socks and heels. She loves to combine the two, but most of them collect more socks.

7° fact: Alice's favorite food is Condensed Milk Pudding.

8° fact: Alice is known for her cherry red eyes, so she has a tattoo of a small cherry on her hip, in addition to wearing various accessories and clothes that live up to her eyes.

9° fact: She also loves playing with animals. Her favorite animal is the dog.

10° fact: Alice don't know how to play instruments but finds harp a very beautiful, delicate and soft instrument. She dreams of learning one day but she's too busy with work.

11° fact: Alice loves challenges, to this day she tries to deal with her greatest challenge which is to tame the beast that is her crush. (i think you already know who is)

12° fact: Alice is shy and quiet but when she gets used to it she talks a lot, plays and is very affectionate with touches. ♡

13° fact: Alice is not a perfect girl even if she has some gifts and kindnesses. She's stubborn, insecure, sensitive, dizzy, scared, sometimes jealous and can get cocky when in a bad mood.

14° fact: Alice loves listening to music and dancing them. About dancing, Alice always wanted to be a ballerina but could not finish due to her study and work, so when alone she trains and redoes some steps of her childhood to kill the longing.

15° fact: Although Alice has her mature and gentle aura, she is for S and M. Alice also loves to tease others, sometimes touching wounds and etc.

I left only these points, I did not want to leave too big! Alice doesn't get to be a self-insert but it's an Oc with a part of me, she's special! ❤️❤️ Thank you so much for the ask, I had a great time!!

[pawsitivelymiraculous]

Damian, the little brother, Dupain-Cheng (Part 1)

I'm backkkk! I explained why this series went on hiatus on this post but yeahhh the Damian Dupain-Cheng series is back and will be posted on it's old schedule (which is every other week) Anyway I really appreciate you guys,, sorry for taking so long and let me know what you think! Comments really motivate me to keep writing.

(I promise I'll add a read more thing and the links tomorrow but I need sleep. for now I'll add the masterlist you can find everything there)

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~♡~ Recap ~♡~

Marinette kidnapped/adopted Damian after seeing him with Talia in the Miraculous Café. She gives him the choice between staying with her or a non assassin relative. He chooses to stay in hopes of stealing the miracle box, but since that didn't work he lashed out and tried to kill Marinette and her friends repeatedly. This makes Marinette doubt in herself because she feels guilty about the whole situation. After hearing Marinette cry, Damian runs away confused at the whole situation, but he didn't get far before realizing that he was actually okay with the idea of Marinette becoming his mother. Marinette finds him and they go home. Time passes, they get a dog, Damian grows closer to Marinette and Marinette legally adopts him.

This takes place some time after all of this, like a couple of months.

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Why am I still in Paris?  

Jason asked himself this every day, and yet he could never find the answer.

Maybe it was because he really had nothing else to do. Well besides killing a Bat.

Or maybe it was because being in Paris somehow cleared some of the madness leftover from the Lazarus Pit that clouded his brain.

In either case it seemed like every time he tried to leave, he would convince himself to stay with the lie that Marinette Dupain-cheng was just as dangerous as Talia had claimed she was.

And that his "brother" really was in danger.

Which only led to him tailing after the pair like a complete creep while feeling miserable because who was he kidding? The woman who had taken Damian in was just as dangerous  as a basket of golden retriever puppies and Damian would have a way better life living with her rather than with Bruce.

And still he could not f*cking leave.

So he continued to observe from the shadows. Trying to remain invisible.

Which had worked out perfectly fine until that day it seemed, because Jason soon found himself pressed against the cold concrete after being flipped by a woman half his size.

Jason tried to look up, but he felt the heel of a shoe pressed against his head.

"Ow"

"Oh, I'm sorry did I hurt you?" Jason heard a familiar voice say. The only difference was that she was speaking in English with a slight accent rather than French.

How the h*ll did she know that he spoke English?

Jason tried to get a better look at his attacker, but she just pressed down her heel deeper making it very clear that she was not sorry at all.

Marinette leaned down to talk to him. "Look kid, I just want to know why you keep following me. Now we can talk like normal people, or I'll have to be a little… unconventional. So what do you say?" 

Kid? Jason couldn't remember the last time he had been called. It was especially surreal coming from such a petite woman who couldn't be older than thirty.

"Now I'm going to let you stand up just… don't do anything stupid."

Stupid seemed to follow Jason because as soon as he felt the pressure on his head lessen, he stood up and ran. The only thing in his mind was getting away from the woman. 

He wasn't able to go far though. As soon as he got to the end of the ally they were in, Jason suddenly felt all the muscles in his body grow weak. Everything around him became blurry and for the second time that day, Jason fell down and hit the gravel.

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Marinette hadn't meant to use a tranquilizer she made from the bee's miraculous venom on the guy. Honest.

But she needed answers, and he didn't seem in the mood to be the one providing them, so she had to do something before he got away.

Marinette did find it strange how he seemed more interested in running rather than harming her in any way. But she could think about that later. For now, she had to do something about the unconscious body on the ground.

First, Marinette tried to drag him back into the ally because she didn't want to risk anyone seeing her. It was ridiculous how difficult it was to move the guy a couple of inches. Even with all the strength she got from being ladybug, Marinette found herself incredibly tired when she finally managed to get to the end of the alley.

There was no way that Marinette could drag the guy to a safe location. Unless… she had the horse miraculous.

Marinette swiftly grabbed her phone and called Adrien while still holding down the guy in case he regained consciousness. "Hey kitty! Are you busy right now?"

"Um no?" He replied cautiously. "Unless you need me to bury a body, then I'm really busy." He would gladly lie to the police and give marinette suggestions on how to get rid of the body, but actually digging a hole sounded like too much of a hassle in Adrien's opinion.

Marinette laughed nervously. "Don't worry it's not a body." She paused "Not a dead one at least" she added under her breath. 

Adrien heard her anyway "Marinette."

"I just need you to get the horse miraculous and come here." Marinette added quickly when she heard Adrien's disapproving tone. 

"Do I even want to know why you need it?"

Marinette hesitated. Adrien still acted weird around Damian, and she wasn't sure that he would want to get involved with this. "Well I found the guy that was following me" she explained  "and accidentally knocked him out" Marinette stopped when she saw a portal open. "And you’re already here, was there no traffic?"

Adrien laughed as he walked out of the portal. "I was already getting the miraculous while you talked." He explained with a shrug then he looked at the unconscious guy on the floor. "Sooo… do you need help with that?" 

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Kagami was already at the café's storage area by the time Adrien and Marinette passed through the portal.

Adrien did a double take when he saw her. "Woah, I literally just texted you."

"You said you found the stalker, and I was nearby, and I figured that you would need help interrogating him." she explained. 

"With a sword?" Marinette asked, eyeing Kagami's left hand. "Where did you even get that?"

Kagami smiled. "Yes, and your son has an excellent taste."

Marinette looked at kagami, with a very confused and slightly worried expression. "Wha- when did you go sword shopping?"

Adrien replied instead. "When you asked me to babysit, your little gremlin scares me and gami wanted a sword, so I let him go with her." Then he grabbed a nearby chair and sat the guy in it, and also tied him to one of the stands that held coffee supplies using zip ties.

"You have broken my trust Agreste." Marinette said trying to sound as serious as possible but failing at it. "No, but seriously, let me know next time okay?"

"Yes ma'am"

It took a couple of minutes for the guy to regain consciousness. And as soon as he did, he thrashed around trying to break free from his restraints. Looking around him wildly until his gaze landed on Marinette.

His eyes narrowed. "You" he lunged towards her but was held back.

His attitude was completely different from their first meeting. Before he seemed conflicted and confused. But while he still seemed very confused that confusion was now mixed with rage. Which Marinette could understand, she had just knocked him out and brought him to a strange place.

But Marinette needed answers, the guy was very clearly part of the league, his aura reeked of their darkness, and she was not about to feel sympathy for anyone connected to the league of assassins.

So Marinette held no remorse when she allowed kagami to approach him with her sword after he calmed down a bit. 

"Who are you?" Kagami asked threateningly, then raised the blade dangerously close to his neck. "And why have you been following Marinette?"

The guy didn't even flinch. "Name's Jason" then he turned slightly to look Marinette in the eye. "I am Damian's brother," he continued. 

Marinette's eyes widened. The room fell silent for a moment. 

Jason smirked at his captors' shocked faces as he gave the final blow.  "And I'm here to take him to his father."

~♡~♡~♡~ TAG LIST ~♡~♡~♡~

(If you want to be added please let me know)

@elmokingkong @anjuschiffer , @ii-fox-demon , @justcourttee , @tazanna-blythe , @lozzybowe , @idontfuking, @wannajointhecrabcult , @bakergirl13 , @rosalineandrosemary , @art-is-hard-to-do-sorry , @our-preciousss , @consumeconstantly , @jiso-lee , @allthegooddaimenettenamesaregone, @justcourteesuportline , @finallyaniguana , @user00000003 , @whydoexamsexist , @justafanwarrior , @violetfandomaddict, @smolplantmum @fidget-eep ,@cadenceh2o , @justarandomtumblerblog , @ramos123 @iwantasecretidentity @t1dwarrior-of-earth @thesunniestdays @alice-hazelwood

~♡~♡~♡~ PERMANENT TAG LIST ~♡~♡~♡~

@charme-de-malchan , @theatreandcomicfreak , @m3owww, @elliebelliegirl , @genevieve-the-demonologist, @vixen-uchiha , @t1dwarrior-of-earth , @waffleyunsure , @technicallyburninggarden , @azuremayscarlet , @vroomtaka , @emistar0 , @ichigorose , @maskedpainter , @art-is-hard-to-do-sorry , @alysrose-starchild , @jayjayspixiepop , @abrx2002 ,  @nathleigh , @icerosecrystal , @jumpingjoy82

[2manyfandoms2count]

#LadynoirJuly Day 1

I’m back for Ladynoir July! I’m really glad I got an excuse to write something for this side of the Lovesquare :D Hope you like this first piece, it started out slightly angsty but then I decided to save most of it for the Breakdown prompt 😉

Thanks @ladynoirjuly2020 for organising the event!

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Day 1: The Wall Between Us

“Ladybug, wait!” Chat Noir jogged up to his partner, who’d been about to yoyo away. 

“Yes, Chat Noir?” She interrupted her movement and waited expectantly. The patrol had been very quiet, for once, so it wasn’t as if she had to be somewhere. 

The pair had long abandoned their nicknames for each other, some time between their battle against Miracle Queen and their first relationships. It hurt somewhat, at first, but they’d quickly learned how to interact without them. There was something slightly uncomfortable about lying to Luka and Kagami about their comings and goings, which wasn’t helped by the fact Ladybug felt like she was cheating anytime she’d call Chat by his pet name. Chat Noir refrained from calling her ‘my lady’ or ‘Bugaboo’, afraid he’d slip up someday with Kagami.

Unfortunately for Marinette, the secrecy and sneaking around had  done little to help her develop a lasting relationship with Luka. Add to that the fact that her boyfriend had been singled out by Jagged Stone as a back up guitarist after a competition and was now touring Europe, one could say that long distance, both emotional and physical, had signed the death of romantic Lukanette. They did remain friends, Luka sending her postcards of every city he stayed in. They were gradually replacing Adrien on Marinette’s board. 

“Did you think about it?” Chat asked.

Ladybug sighed as she finally let her hand fall to her side. She should’ve known Chat wouldn’t drop the topic. The previous month, drunk on lack of sleep from repeated Akuma attacks and anxiety at the idea that her relationship was slowly, but surely unraveling, Ladybug had carelessly told her partner that she was getting tired of secrets and that they deserved to know more about each other, if only just to facilitate out-of-costume communication. She tried not to rely on Chat too much with the Guardian job, but she was determined to make him realise how important he was to her (and, incidentally, to Paris) by delegating more tasks to him. She was tired of the mystery that surrounded their identities, which prevented them from communicating as freely as they should’ve been able to. With all due respect to Alya, Chat Noir was her best friend, and something told her that she officially held the same place in his life now that he had a girlfriend. 

They were the only ones who shared the burden of saving Paris every day, while still having to juggle friends, family, school, and extracurriculars. All of their conversations, however, were censored by the looming wall between them, a filter which she thought it was high time to tear down. She couldn’t take the duality of their conversations anymore, either far too mundane or way too deep, the constant being the vagueness that surrounded their anecdotes. She just wanted something in between. Chances were they didn’t know each other anyway, so what difference would it make to be able to talk about the Françoise Dupont shenanigans without making the story convoluted enough that it couldn’t be traced back to the Collège?

At first, Chat had been ecstatic at the idea. He’d dreamed about this moment since the first time they’d gone home from fighting an Akuma. He’d daydreamed about a proper way to reveal his identity at least a thousand times, but scrapping all his ideas as either too sappy, stupid, obvious, in short not right. It had actually made him rethink wanting to tell her who he was. 

There was no way the person behind the mask hadn’t heard about him. His father had made sure of that by apparently buying the ad spaces on all the Paris billboards, buses and whatever else could hold a perfume poster (not to mention the fact Ladybug had saved him a good dozen times), and that was the problem. What if her opinion of him was tarnished by his celebrity? Worse, what if she started treating him differently because of it? He desperately wanted to get to know her, to share his whole life with her, but the wall between them did provide a shelter he was reluctant to give up. As much as he tried to be himself in his day-to-day life, he could tell he got special treatment from a lot of people, and many of the remaining crowd was intently studying his every move, waiting for him to slip up. With Ladybug, as Chat Noir, he got to be… well, not completely ordinary, but they did share a status. He could slip without worrying about what his father or the press would say, and he knew that the fall wouldn’t be long anyway with his partner around. He was terrified about losing what they had.

Ladybug shook her head lightly, looking at her feet. Chat Noir took her hand in a reassuring gesture, and helped her sit down facing him.

“I’m sorry.” She said, hiding her face in her hands. “There are a million reasons why we should do this, but I always feel like why we shouldn’t outweighs them all.” 

Chat placed his hand on her knee tentatively. “It’s alright, LB. I actually wanted to tell you… I don’t think this is the right time.”

Ladybug’s head snapped up. Of everything he could have said, this was probably the last thing she would have expected. She looked attentively at her partner, who looked more serious than she’d ever seen him before. 

“Really?” She breathed, squeezing his hand in hers. She didn’t quite know how to feel, frustrated that they were putting off something inevitable again, offended that he didn’t want to know anymore, or relieved by it.

He gave her a sad smile in response, his eyes filled with fondness and something else she couldn’t quite make out. “M’lady,” her old nickname rolled off his tongue before he could register what he was saying, his thoughts directed solely towards his very best friend. “If this was it, we’d know. And maybe it won’t even happen then, purr-haps we’ll be caught off guard when the time comes, but it should be something we don’t lose sleep about.” 

“I guess you’re right, Chaton.” She smiled softly, absentmindedly stroking the back of his hand with her thumb. “What made you change your mind?” She asked curiously.

“The reasons why we shouldn’t started being louder than the others.” He shrugged, his gaze losing focus as he looked into the distance.

“You know you can talk to me if you need to, right?” Ladybug said tentatively after a short pause. “Maybe we’re not ready to know who we are, but I still think we should loosen the rules a little.”

 “That could work.” Chat nodded. “How do we do that?”

“We could change the names of the people we talk about. And the exact story.”

“Okay, so for example… My girlfriend’s name is... Kelly?” He tried. She nodded encouragingly. “I met her because we both… play tennis in the same place. I like her very much, but I’m afraid she’ll get tired of me finding flaky excuses when the city’s attacked by Akumas. It’s not very honourable.”

Ladybug patted his knee with her free hand. “As long as you know you’re doing the honourable thing by protecting her and this city, I’m sure you can find a way to compensate. I promise that someday, she’ll know why you couldn’t stay by her side. And if you need me to talk to her, I’ll gladly do it! She should know how amazing her boyfriend is.”

Chat was thankful for the darkness around them, which concealed his blush. Ladybug’s compliments were becoming less rare, but they generally concerned his skills or actions, not himself directly. He cleared his throat. “What about you? Didn’t you say you have a boyfriend?” 

“Had.” She corrected. “Louis and I are still friends, but he left town to… study.” It wasn’t that far from the truth. “He’s a little older, so we didn’t get to see much of each other, anyway. Especially with the whole Guardian business and everything.” She gestured vaguely at the city at their feet.

“Was he the boy you had talked to me about before?” Chat pried. 

Ladybug thought about Adrien. Seeing him so happy with Kagami, she had abandoned her pursuit, which had led her to Luka. In both cases, she thought, the outcome would have been the same anyway, especially since Adrien had an even busier schedule than the blue-haired boy. They would have barely seen each other if they’d dated. “No. That was… Arthur. He was a very accomplished musician. He wouldn’t have been happy with me; like you said, I would’ve been very absent for a supposedly caring girlfriend. We’re good friends, though, and I’m satisfied with that.”

“His loss, I guess. And who meows, maybe it’ll work out someday.” He winked at her.

They continued chatting for a while, moving to the edge of the roof to get a better look at the illuminated streets. Soon, they had more or less rebuilt their lives and were talking freely, Alya becoming Alice or Audrey, Nino, Nathan or Nicolas, Marinette, Madeleine… The way they distorted things, or pulled up older events they’d meant to talk about earlier made them unrecognisable, although there were times where the stories felt familiar, without them being able to put their finger on it. They laughed, more than they’d had in months, talking about their excuses to justify their absence during a fight. It felt good to finally talk about something else than strategies, Akumas or Sentimonsters. 

When the Eiffel Tower flickered for the third time since the beginning of their conversation, Ladybug and Chat Noir agreed it was probably time to go home. As they walked away, both turned around before leaping off the roof, giving each other a small wave and a wide smile before leaving, already looking forward to the next patrol. Ladybug realised they hadn’t shared a moment like this in a while, if ever. 

Maybe they’d be okay sitting on their own side of the wall, after all.

[ronninoir]

Can I Steal You For A Second? Chapter 24

Summary: Adrien is forced to participate in a new dating show, but becomes more excited when Ladybug says she’ll participate as her civilian self.

AKA: AU where Adrien doesn’t know Marinette, the superheroes are 22 and Gabriel is mean and ruthless but not Hawkmoth.

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Chapter 24

That night, Marinette locked herself, Juliette, and Hanna in the closet and gave them the low down of what happened to Lila on the group date, only leaving out what Lila had hanging over Marinette’s head all week.

“Oh my gosh, how is she still in the mansion?!” Hanna asked, crossing her arms against her chest, as Juliette nodded. Marinette had never seen Hanna this angry before. “If it’s proven that she purposely tried to sabotage you, then send her home.”

“He’s trying to give her a second chance, because that’s the kind of person he is,” Marinette explained, trying very hard to keep her frustration with the situation out of her voice. Marinette agreed with Hanna and Juliette, but she had to stand with her partner, no matter how stupid of a decision this was.

“Just because it’s ‘in his nature’ doesn’t mean he has to let her walk all over him,” Juliette pointed out. She opened her mouth like she was going to continue, but then let out a gasp. “Does this mean I have to be nice to her from now on?” The disgust in her voice matched the look on her face enough to make both Hanna and Marinette burst out laughing.

“Don’t worry,” Marinette reassured her, gently resting a hand on Juliette’s arm. “You only have to be nice to her if she’s nice to you first, and I can’t imagine that going over well at all.” The girls laughed once more, and exited the bathroom, their spirits high despite the devastating news.

Those high spirits didn’t last, at least for Juliette, as it quickly became apparent that Lila really was trying to change her ways. They observed her for the rest of the week, and by Saturday morning, Lila was quiet, yes, but kind to everyone in the house, including the staff coming in to set-up. It was clear, however, that she was still uncomfortable with her newfound niceness, as when one of the crew members said something to her, she jumped and ran away without responding.

After that embarrassing moment, Lila didn’t appear again until the cocktail party started, right before sundown. Marinette was feeling pretty confident going into this cocktail party, not only for herself, but also for her friends. Except for the fact that Lila had been keeping her word, Juliette already had a rose, and Hanna looked exceptionally beautiful tonight in her light pink gown.

The girls were standing around the Date Card room, all holding a glass of something. They were informed that Adrien was on his way, and Marinette got lost in the conversations happening around her. There were only eight of them left, and besides how empty the room felt without all of the other girls, it also felt warmer and more welcoming. Marinette felt as though she knew these girls really well, and that they all genuinely cared for each other, despite the fact that they were all dating the same man. When Marinette glanced around this Date Card room, she saw the whispers of girls who had been here and had gone, Gabrielle, Alice, Sofia, and others. She saw them laughing, saw the cliques they had all made in the beginning and even saw the group come together over various things, usually involving Lila. 

Marinette’s heart hurt a little, for the girls who had left, and she hoped that she would one day get to see them all again, without the pressures of the show, and hopefully with no hard feelings.

Marinette’s thoughts were interrupted by Adrien walking into the room, looking sharp and collected in his black suit tonight. He gave the girls a smile before addressing them all, “Good evening, ladies. This week has been one for the record books as the most fun week in Bachelor history.” He gave a quick glance to Chris off-stage, who gave a small shrug and a smile before Adrien turned back to the girls and said, “I’m taking that as a yes,” which made everyone giggle. “Anyway, tonight is going to be difficult on all of us, and I just want to prepare you for how important the conversations we are going to have tonight are.” A sudden seriousness fell over the room, and Marinette could hear every girl slowly breathe in anticipation for what the night held.

“With that being said, Camille, can I steal you for a second?” Adrien addressed Camille, who silently stood up, accepted his outreached hand and followed him off to a sitting area somewhere else in the house.

Instead of the normal chatter and excitement that spread through the girls while waiting on their time with Adrien, his little speech left all of the girls silent. The seriousness of what was to happen tonight hit them all hard and left them wondering who of them would be saying goodbye tonight for the last time.

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The night was not going well for Adrien. He was hoping that the decision that had to be made tonight would be obvious after the cocktail party, but Adrien had talked with every single girl except Lila, and he didn’t want to send any of them home. He was even so contemplative during his time with Marinette that he felt as though it flew by without either of them barely saying a word.

It also didn’t help his stress levels that his Father had decided to show up to this cocktail party and brood from behind the camera at every one of his conversations. As Adrien made his way around the house to find Lila, he noticed his Father’s watchful eye following his movements. He hadn’t said much to his Father after the confrontation with Marinette that day on the beach. He knew his Father had been avoiding him as much as Adrien had been avoiding him, but a conversation was inevitable, especially with Adrien narrowing the girls down to the top six tonight. 

Adrien found Lila. sitting by a fire by herself outside, just looking out at the stars. She looked peaceful and actually very pretty without a scowl or that fake smile on her face, and he almost didn’t want to disturb her. He cleared his throat softly, to announce his presence, and only spoke once she met his gaze. “Do you mind if I join you?” 

The fake smile was back, but something seemed different about it as he sat down to join her. “How’s the rest of your week been?” Adrien asked politely. Although it was a loaded question, he truly was curious at how she had done.

She gave a small shrug before answering, “It’s been okay.” Adrien waited for her to go on, smiling encouragingly. Another sigh before she continued, “I’ve been on my best behavior and everyone in the house can attest to it.” Another sigh and then, “It’s just hard to change a behavior that has become a habit. But I’ll do anything for you, Adrien. Anything to stay here in the house, to be able to spend more time with you.” She looked on the verge of tears, as though she had been crying on and off all day.

“I believe you, Lila, and I’ve been asking around. Both the crew members and the other girls are impressed with your shift in behavior and I’m honored that you’re trying so hard for me.”

Lila gave a small smile that didn’t feel real and Adrien just stared. This was not the Lila who shoved Marinette into that bathroom and proceeded to attempt to destroy Marinette. This was not the seductive girl who flirted heavily and kissed poorly and tried too hard to steal all of the attention no matter where they were. This was a broken girl and someone who was going through something bigger than Adrien, bigger than her spot on this show.

He leaned close to her, close enough that the cameras wouldn’t pick up on his words. “Do you want me to send you home, or do you want me to keep you here.” There was a pause where she didn’t say anything and Adrien added, “Please be honest.”

Lila didn’t say anything, and Adrien pulled back from her, scanning her face for any signs or emotions. He also checked the sky, in case an akuma decided to take advantage of her on her bad day. She slowly shook her head and whispered, “Do whatever you think is best.” Before standing up and leaving Adrien behind. He watched her walk away and wondered if that was the first time he had seen a glimpse of the real Lila, the Lila that hid under the façade she put on every day. He wondered how many people in the world have seen that Lila, and if he was possibly the first.

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 The conversation with his Father was brief and curt.

“Lila stays.”

“Sounds good.”

Then they parted ways, Adrien to the room where he decided who gets the roses, and his Father off to do whatever he pleased. 

Adrien didn’t need his Father’s instructions on this particular day though, as he had already decided to keep Lila. He didn’t know what was going on, but he had promised her that if she made an effort to be nice, then she could stay and continue on the show. He didn’t know what was going on in her head or her heart to make her act like that with him, but he was going to keep his word.

Once all of the roses were decided, as hard as it was to choose which girls would go home, he had to make the decision at some point, and he felt as though tonight was the right night. Even if it did hurt the people he cared about. Plagg didn’t say a word as he saw the two girls who were leaving that night, though he buried himself into Adrien’s pocket and gave him a reassuring, “It’ll all be okay.” before Adrien left the room and mentally prepared himself for what he was about to do.

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Marinette was calming the girls around her and pretending to look frazzled too as they lined up for the Rose Ceremony. Sasha, Juliette, and Kagami were at the end of the line looking calm with their roses in hand and gently reassuring the other girls. Marinette was right next to Hanna, a first for the Rose Ceremonies, who was gripping Marinette’s hand so hard she was beginning to lose feeling in her fingers.

Victoria, calm despite the air of nervousness in the area, instructed the girls to walk into the Rose Ceremony room and stand only on the first row of risers, as there weren’t enough of them to make two rows without it looking weird. Lucie, who was at the front, took a deep breath before starting off the line of girls.

They silently lined up, the silence in the room heavier than it had ever been, especially with the three roses staring at them on the podium. They all stood there, looking nervous before Adrien walked in. He studied the girls and for once didn’t smile before he spoke. “Tonight was a hard decision, and I know that it’s only going to get harder as we get closer to the end. But, I had to make the decisions that will bring me closer to my wife at the end of this, and as much as it pains me to do this, I really feel as though this is bringing me closer to my wife.” Adrien didn’t even look at Marinette at that, as he had last week. Something must really be bothering him.

He paused for another moment, staring at the roses before finally picking one up. “Marinette,” he looked at her then, and she walked towards him, a small smile gracing his face. “Marinette, will you accept this rose?” he whispered, barely loud enough for her to hear. 

She whispered back a “Yes,” before taking the rose and giving him a hug. “You can do this,” she whispered in his ear, hoping to provide a little encouragement to make this rose ceremony a little easier. When she pulled away, his eyes offered her a thanks before she walked back to her spot in line. Hanna grabbed her hand and gave her a Hanna-smile, which Marinette returned. 

“Lucie,” Adrien said, a little bit more confidence in his voice. Lucie traveled to Adrien, relief evident in her walk as she went through the same routine that Marinette just had. There was one rose left, with Camille, Hanna, and Lila left to receive one.

Marinette didn’t dare let herself hope that this was the moment Lila went home.

Chris Harrison stepped out of the shadows and addressed the group, “Ladies, Adrien, this is the final rose tonight.” Chris turned towards Adrien and said, “When you’re ready, Adrien,” before disappearing once more.

Adrien stared at that rose for a very long time. Marinette almost felt herself sigh in relief and squeal in excitement. He was about to say Hanna’s name, and then Lila would be gone forever. It was a glorious thought that made her want to jump with excitement, and the only thing that kept her from doing that was Hanna’s death-grip that once again was cutting off circulation in Marinette’s hand. She wished she could send a thought to Hanna to tell her to relax that she was safe, that Adrien wouldn’t get rid of her just yet. But before she could offer Hanna a reassuring smile, Adrien picked up the rose and said, very quietly,

“Lila.” 

Marinette felt her jaw drop. She could barely take her eyes off of Adrien as Lila slowly walked towards Adrien and the rose that had been assigned to her. When her eyes did move, it was to Juliette, who on the other end of the line, was already crying. Marinette realized that she was too, especially when she looked at Hanna, who was trying her hardest to keep herself composed knowing that the cameras were watching her reaction.

Marinette hadn’t even noticed that Lila had accepted her rose and gotten back in line with the others until Chris stepped back out of the shadows and said those heart-wrenching words. “Camille, Hanna, I’m sorry. Please take a moment to say your goodbyes.” 

Juliette was on the two of them quickly, and they all were embraced in a hug, not bothering to hide the tears any longer. Other girls had come to wish Hanna well and Camille even came over, but all of it felt numb. 

Hanna was leaving. Hanna, the girl who welcomed Marinette as a friend that first night, no questions asked. Hanna, who had stood up for her that first night as well, and had stood by her side time and time again. Hanna, who introduced Marinette to Juliette and created a group of friends that Marinette will cherish forever. Hanna, who had the bubbliest laugh. Hanna, who’s smile lit up a room. Hanna, who had the innocent idea to make a pillow fort in the living room.

Marinette saw all of these memories and more flash as she squeezed Hanna, unwilling to let her go. Thankfully, the producers were letting the girls take a little longer to say their goodbyes, so Marinette didn’t feel rushed. Their trio broke apart and Hanna hugged each girl individually, which allowed Marinette to hug Camille as well. 

When Hanna got to Marinette, Marinette couldn’t even pretend to hold it together. But Hanna held her, as she always had, and whispered in her ear. “Thank you so much for being with me through this. Adrien deserves a friend as amazing as you, and I know that you’re going to be a wonderful wife to him one day.” Marinette didn’t even have the breath to argue with her as she hiccupped in her crying. “You go on, and you sweep that boy off of his feet.” She pulled back and Marinette managed a nod before Juliette kissed her on the cheek, and went to say goodbye to Adrien. 

As she walked down the hallway that led to the front door, where a car would be waiting for her, Juliette moved beside Marinette, grabbing her hand and gently laying her head on Marinette’s. They both watched as their best friend made her way with Adrien, only looking back once, giving them a soft reassuring smile, before disappearing out of Marinette’s sight for the last time.

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[the-delta-42]

Spread the love

Spread the love

Adrien tried not to break the pencil he was hold as he watched Ethan roam his hands over Marinette, despite how uncomfortable she looked. Kagami glared at Ethan, right when his hand decided to disappear up Marinette’s skirt.

In the blink of an eye, Adrien’s pencil snapped, Marinette was on the other side of the room and Ethan had a red handprint on his face.

“What did you do that for?!” Yelled Ethan, storming up to Marinette.

“Because you started touching her without her consent or comfort.” Shouted Alya, as she got between Marinette and Ethan, “I don’t get what your problem is, first you make her change how she looks, then you change how she dresses and then who she hangs out with and now you’re trying to force her to do something she obviously doesn’t want to do.”

Ethan sneered down at Alya.

“Stay out of this you stupid little, nig-” Ethan suddenly received a book to the back of his head. As he turned around to see who threw it, Adrien punched him in the face. As soon as punches were being thrown, the situation fell into chaos.

A high-pitched shrieking sound cut through the air, making everyone cover their ears. As soon as the fighting stopped, the teachers quickly rushed in and collected Marinette, Adrien and Ethan. Three other members of staff, including Marinette’s older brother, Michael, were left to watch the rest of the students.

While all this was happening, Juleka was doing her best to keep Rose calm.

“He said he loved her, why did he do that?” Cried Rose, as Juleka held on to her.

Quarter of an hour later Michael was called into the office and told to take a distraught Marinette home. Kagami thought that she saw a vein on his temple pulsing.

A purple butterfly outline appeared over Rose’s face.

“WHY CAN’T PEOPLE JUST LOVE EACH OTHER?!” Screamed Rose, as darkness enveloped her frame.

Immediately, people started running, as the darkness covering Rose faded away. Rose resembled the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, with the exception of holding what looked like a torch instead of a staff.

“Spread the love!” Cried Heart Queen (I’m not good with Akuma names, okay), shining her torch on a few members of her class.

The effect was instantaneous, the couples of the class were on each other in seconds, in a seemingly permanent lip-lock with each other. Juleka was surprisingly unsurprised when Nino and Alya vanished into a cupboard after a few seconds.

Heart Queen continued shining her torch on everyone she could find, when Ladybug crashed through the roof, accompanied by a Hero they’d never seen before.

“Ladybug!” Gushed Heart Queen, before throwing a book at the Heroine, knocking her over, “Spread the love!”

The new hero was caught in the blast alongside Ladybug. When the light dimmed, Ladybug and the other Hero stood there staring at each other.

“Are you alright, little one?” Asked the new Hero, his voice a deep baritone, obviously going through a filter of some sort.

“I’m fine, Timber Wolf.” Replied Ladybug, taking an offered hand to help her up.

Heart Queen screamed in frustration, before shining her torch on the two again, flicking the light between on and off.

“Why won’t you love each other?!” Screamed Heart Queen, getting a laugh from Timber Wolf.

“We already do,” Replied Timber Wolf, just as Chat Noir arrived on the scene, “we’re family.”

“What?!” Snapped Heart Queen, gritting her teeth.

“You tried to make me fall in love, with my sister.” Growled Timber Wolf, drawing a claymore out of one of his overcoat’s pockets.

Chat took the opportunity to land behind Heart Queen, who just vanished into thin air.

“W-wait, where’s she gone?” Gasped Chat, as Ladybug drew level with him.

Ladybug didn’t say a word, only throwing her arms around him. Chat was frozen, one, because his Lady was hugging him, two, because her terrifying older brother was glaring at him, and three, Ladybug was crying.

“What happened?” Asked Chat, looking around.

“She’s going through a rough time at the moment, she needs her emotional support animal.” Responded Timber Wolf, his yellow eyes scanning around the room, “Both Miraculouses are here, so she can’t have gone far.”

There was a quick pop, swiftly followed by, “Spread the love!” and Ladybug and Chat Noir was hit with one of the rays from the torch.

The light died down, with Ladybug and Chat Noir remaining as they were before the light hit them.

Heart Queen screamed in frustration and threw her torch at the pair, accidentally breaking the object for them. Ladybug quickly caught the Akuma and purified it, before summoning a lucky charm and casting the Cure.

“Pound it.” Said Ladybug and Chat Noir in unison.

“Interesting power.” Muttered Timber Wolf, before turning to Ladybug, “Little one, I don’t suppose you remember why I was with you.”

Ladybug froze and her shoulders slumped, “No, I didn’t forget.”

“Little one, you need rest, recuperation, time to heal.” Said Timber Wolf, his arms folding, “One way or another, you are going to bed and going to sleep until at least tomorrow morning.”

Ladybug gave a small nod, her gaze fixed on the floor, before Timber Wolf gently guided her out of the room.

Chat went to a cupboard to transform back into Adrien and ran into Kagami just as he changed back.

“I think we both know who Ladybug is now.” Said Kagami, her arms folded.

“Yeah.” Said Adrien, looking down, “I was asked to leave the room before they got Marinette to talk about what Ethan had done, but I know it was enough for them to send her home and contact the police.”

Kagami was silent, before she looked up.

“So, how are we going to broach the attraction issues we have towards her?” Asked Kagami, making Adrien frown.

“I don’t know.” Replied Adrien.

[pinepickled]

Hellooo! :D Fun Games Friday: Would you rather observe a Kaguya/Sakumo or a Kakashi/Zabuza date? Would you rather be friends with Kagami or Izuna? Would you rather be the Jinchuuriki of Gyuuki or Shukaku? Would you rather play poker with Team Asuma or Team Gai? Would you rather listen to an hour of Hinata trying to tell you something or Sasuke laughing like a madman?

>:0 don't do this to me. You're so cruel Alice.

Would you rather observe a Kaguya/Sakumo date or a Kakashi/Zabuza date?

Hhhhhhh my OTP versus my Number One Chaos,,, how could you. *sigh* I'd like to observe the Kagumo date, if only because it sounds so terrible and chaotic that I would be a fool to pass it up but! I am very upset that you would make me choose >:[

Would you rather be friends with Kagami or Izuna?

KAGAMI!!! precious baby (let's ignore that one time I thought he was a girl) but I love him!!!! He's a precious bby and even spawned Shisui so he is probably the best person out of the Uchiha~

Would you rather be the jinchuuriki of Gyuki or Shukaku?

Ohh this his hard :0 Gyuki is definitely more chill and more powerful than Shukaku, plus Killer B had Killer Rap Skills so I'm going with Gyuki. Best Boi.

Would you rather play poker with Team Asuma or Team Gai?

Team Gai, if only because I am a God at poker and I want to A) flirt with Tenten B) roast Neji.

Would you rather listen to an hour of Hinata trying to explain something or Sasuke's maniacal laughter?

Both! I love Hinata so much and I would happily listen to her babble and Sasuke's hysterical laughter was a dang mood.

Thank you for the ask! I really have a lot of fun with these and appreciate that you do this. Thank you 🥰🥰🥰

[shazzeaslightnovels]

Mokushiroku Alice 3

Author: Takaya Kagami

Illustrator: Yuki Kato

Label: Fujimi Fantasia Bunko

Release Date: 19 July 2014

My Score: 3 out of 5 eternal labyrinths

The first part of this volume is spent resolving the cliff-hanger at the end of the last one. You know, Kiri betraying the gang and stabbing Shinnosuke while Gunjou turns into an eternal labyrinth. At the start of this volume, Shinnosuke wakes up, having seemingly been in a coma for a month and is saved by a still infected Gunjou. He cures Gunjou using the sword he got last volume and we find out what happened to Shiro and the others after the stabbing and that Gunjou’s labyrinth is somehow connected to Saki’s, Shinnosuke’s lttle sister, labyrinth. So almost all of this volume is just about Shinnosuke and Gunjou interacting and they are still so lacking in chemistry that it is really dull to read. They do have some good interactions but it falls flat overall for me and the romantic implications of their scenes certainly doesn’t help matters.

That aside, it’s an entertaining enough volume and the cliff-hanger ending would work really well if this wasn’t the final volume in the series. You can tell that Kagami was under the impression that there would a fourth volume by reading the afterword where they talk about how the first three volumes have just been a set-up and the “real” series starts next volume. So what happened? I’m not sure because, as far as I can tell, an official announcement was never made. I don’t think the publisher would have cancelled the series suddenly because Kagami seems to be an experienced and reliable writer for Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. My best guess is that Kagami underestimated the amount of time they needed to put in to work on Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End but I don’t know for sure. I don’t think we will get a continuation because I just don’t think the series was popular enough for the publisher to ask for a come-back.

If the series ever did get a continuation, I would probably read it because I do think that this series could have been really interesting and I would have been interested in seeing the consequences of Shinnosuke curing Gunjou. I doubt that the people in this world would believe that Gunjou is harmless and, if they didn’t kill her on the spot, she would likely be imprisoned and studied and what would happen to Shinnosuke? What he did would probably be considered treason and it would have been interesting seeing how they would have dealt with him.

For the seires overall, I don’t think it’s worth reading in it’s current state, unless you’re already a Kagami fan and are determined to read all of their series. A lot of plotlines are left unresolved by this volume and it’s not worth getting invested in.

[crazyrandomfucker]

Dreams and melodies of another time(line)

Summary:

It all started a couple of weeks after the fight against Miraculous Queen. It begun with a dream of hers and a song linering on Chat's head each time he was on his suit. Why now? Why this? Who can help? Are they the only ones? Well, just like Alice, you need to follow a rabbit to the Wonderland.

Notes:

Ok so, once again, after seeing a bunch of fics of Chat Blanc consequences and a bit of inspiration I decided to write this fic. I have no idea if it will become a long fic with a lot of chapters or a one-shot fic. I hope you enjoy it! ^-^ P.D.: In the end I let myself focus in writing and not on what I was writing, sorry if the story shifts ona weird way or there is something you find strange with my writing. P.D.:P.D.: WHY CAN'T I WRITE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON UGHHHHH

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It all had started a couple of weeks after Ladybug and Chat Noir had won once again against Hawk Moth with his latest akuma: Miracle Queen. It had been a difficult fight where both heroes had to hold onto two different miraculous at once to win. Despite winning, the loses were also great. Their superhero partners were forced to reveal their identities and could no longer use the miraculous without being compromised, Chloe had betrayed their trust and fell in a comma a day after pulling the stunt of wielding all the miraculous at once and, even worse, they had lost their only support and mentor, Master Fu, who renounced his duty as the guardian of the miraculous and passed into Ladybug. His memories were erased, Ladybug had even more responsibility now and she refused Chat's idea of revealing identities to help her guard the miraculous box.

At least Marinette had had two weeks to adapt to her new role as guardian of the miraculous and the miraculous box turned back to its usual form when she detransformed. She had made a crafty box with safe lock disguised as a sewing box. Tikki had taught her all of the guardians’ history, rules and duties Fu hadn't explained yet and cheered Mari through the whole process, helping her dealing with the loss. Occasionally, when Mari was sure that Chat wouldn't pay her a visit, she would open the miraculous box and let a kwami free for some time so they weren't bored inside the box and the kwamis helped her giving advices or helping Tikki explain something.

Everything seemed fine once again and Marinette and Adrien had this unnerving feeling that something was going to blow or go wrong. Even Hawkie had managed to stay silent for two whole weeks, which definitely wasn't a good sign. And then it came, unannounced, creeping like a cold-blooded reptile, attacking at night like a predator to its prey.

For Marinette, it was a dream of her, first dating Adrien, then it changes to her breaking with Adrien and finally her dating Chat before everything turned white. She woke up, sweating and with a feeling that those pale blue eyes stared at her from somewhere she couldn't see. She talked about that with Tikki, but it was just a nightmare, right? She had had tons of those after losing Chat in Timebreaker's fight. It would be gone due time like that, right? She couldn't sleep well and it began to show in her daily life.

For Adrien, it started during one of his nightly escapades as Chat, as a tune that popped in his head and he couldn't help but to hum. When he stopped in a rooftop, the tune brought some lyrics he couldn't help but sing. It said something about a cat sitting on a rooftop, which was ironic in retrospective, but he couldn't help it. Then he began to have this lingering sensation that he was missing something, as if something had been stripped out of him. He returned to his home and detransform, sitting to think about it. The song was gone, but that hindering feeling was not and for once, Plagg was silent. He didn't tease Adrien or demand his usual portion of cheese, but he also didn't reply to Adrien's questions and he did a hurt face each time he looked at the beret.

Things were also weird at school for both. Lila was in a bad mood each time Adrien or Marinette were in her range of sight, almost making her slip. Alya and Nino were strangely stubborn affirming that Adrien and Mari were dating secretly and that made both of them pinch as if something had hurt them. Marinette's obsession with Adrien had worsened and Adrien couldn't help but to wander around Marinette for some reason. Everyone in their class openly discussed daily how cute would Adrien and Marinette be if they were a couple. Some weeks ago, Mari would be in heaven for most of that, but now she was unexplainably hurt, as if she was losing something but didn't know what.

Then Adrien began to dream too. Dreaming about him being with Mari, both as Adrien and as Chat Noir. Those were nice and made him happy, but he felt at loss when he woke up. There were also those that gave him chills and made him wake up in cold sweat. Those were about him, alone, in a destroyed and sunken version of Paris. He wore a white version of his suit and his eyes were icy blue. Sometimes he fought with Ladybug and he felt disheartened each time. But what scared him the most were those where he was sitting alone in the roof of a skyscraper, singing that exact same song he couldn't get out of his head when he was Chat.

For their kwamis wasn't easy as well. Plagg felt a huge amount of pain, despair and sadness each time Adrien transformed or he saw that damned beret or Marinette. He knew something was wrong, very wrong, as if someone had been playing with the fabrics of reality he used to play with when he was a young kwami, but he didn't know what it was. Tikki would feel very sad in the most unexpected situations and her little chest hurt each time she wasn't with Plagg, so they would visit each other an awful lot while their holders where at school. They would chat a bit, but they would mostly bask in the other's presence before having to part ways once more.

But all that was only the first week. In the second, more people became involved. Gabriel Agreste wouldn't get to rest for just one night being haunted by nightmares of a white cat killing him over and over.  Nathalie would also get nightmares of she being killed by a white explosion, Hawk Moth beating her, stealing her miraculous and firing her. But then, each time she saw Adrien or his friend Marinette, a word would slither into her mind and haunt her for the rest of the day, telling her unceasingly that she, was a traitor. Luka and Kagami grow a bit distant of Mari and Adrien, having dreamed a lot about the two of them dating and being genuinely happy. They hated those dreams, especially because deep down, they knew they would never be able to make them so happy and it hurt. Adrien’s latest behaviour and demeanour paired up with Marinette's nervousness didn't help Kagami and Luka's feelings as well.

In the second week, Adrien became restless and spent a lot of time patrolling Paris by himself, since he couldn't bear with those nightmares were he fought with her, so he would spent the nights bouncing from roof to roof, guarding Paris as he hummed non-stop that grim tune he was beginning to loathe. Meanwhile, Marinette also became restless, because of those dreams of her with Adrien and everyone's behaviour. She was trying so hard to turn over a new leaf and everyone encouraging her to be with Adrien, Luka being distant and those cursed dreams certainly didn't help her.

Then it was Alix turn. Since understanding she was going to be a kwami holder, she had begun to add a little white and blue rabbit on her graffities. She would sometimes draw things from weird dreams she gets from time to time. But she didn't expect the white cat. Or the white cat on an apocalyptic Paris. Or the white cat destroying the moon. Or killing a ladybug and a butterfly. She was scared of that little white cat. And then the real dream came. She saw Chat Noir being akumatized and turning Chat Blanc, she saw him, crying, trying to disobey Hawk Moth and accidentally killing everyone and destroying the moon in the process and she saw him, all alone, spending a whole month in a ruined empty city that began to flood. It was disheartening and she couldn't help but pitying Chat Noir. She wanted to help, sure, but what could she do? She didn't have a Miraculous and she certainly didn't have a way to contact Ladybug.

And the third week came and the kwamis couldn't bear with everything anymore. They knew that everybody was getting weird, that everybody was having dreams of something that never happened. They were getting more and more restless as the seconds passed, but they didn't know what to do. They wouldn't risk it and act unless something serious, really serious happened, because they had promised to never play again with their powers. But then, Kagami broke with Adrien and Luka broke with Marinette. Their holders were heartbroken, and they knew that they had to do something. Tikki couldn't act or do something straight forward, but she had a plan.

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The next time Ladybug and Chat Noir patrolled Paris, they both looked horrible and Parisian people couldn't help to pity them. Chat Noir was tense and hurt, while Ladybug was heartbroken and stiff. There was no banter, no flirting nor joking from both of them. Not even a single sound came out of their mouths. And then Plagg decided to act. He used the tiny bit of conscience kwamis had while powering up their holders and infused Adrien's mind with a single thought. That hellish tune that even he was getting tired of. Chat immediately frowned and began to hum the melody, angry that it came out even when he was with his Lady and they weren't still on a rooftop.

And Ladybug slipped. She slipped and crashed into one of the thousand Agreste's billboards. Chat immediately went to help her and ask her what had happened, but he couldn't stop humming the tune and Ladybug became visibly discomforted and traumatized. When Chat approached to help her, she backed away and cover herself for an instant, before remembering that her Chaton wasn't akumatized nor he was trying to kill her. But it was already late, Chat was really hurt from that.

"M-My Lady?" said Chat hurt, but not stopping to hum that cursed tune.

"I- I'm sorry Chat" said her at the verge of tears. "I just- I just can bear it anymore".

"Wh-Whats wrong Ladybug?" asked Chat Noir, finally stopping to hum.

"There is- There's a lot or things wrong Chat. We... We need to talk" said Ladybug as she began to cry and it began to rain.

"Let's go somewhere else LB. I also need to talk with you" said Chat Noir.

They silently jumped from roof to roof, not bearing to look at one another, with a destination set on their minds. They arrived to Notre Damme and entered the cathedral, like they normally did when it was raining and none of them carried an umbrella. The priests where always considerate with them and let them stay inside, thanking them for saving the city each time they were around. This time, they sensed the tension between the heroes and offered them a peaceful spot to chat without worrying about someone listening to them.

"I-" began both heroes at unison.

"You first Chat" said Ladybug calmly.

"No. You were the one who wanted to talk My Lady" replied Chat.

"You also wanted to talk kitty" said Ladybug.

"But you said it first, so you talk first buggaboo” said Chat smugly and the mood lifted for a bit.

"I guess you are right on that one chaton" said Ladybug with a faint smile.

"Oh, I'm more than right and you know it LB" purred Chat, making both of them laugh for a bit, before getting back to the sad mood again.

"Chat, there is something I haven't told you... And I'm getting nightmares from it. Everyone around me is suddenly acting strange out of nowhere and I-" said Ladybug with tears running down her cheeks.

"Is it- Is it related to the melody I was humming before?" asked Chat, immediately regretting it when Ladybug suddenly stiffened.

She nodded. "Y-You were akumatized".

"I... What?" asked him, feeling as if everything was tearing apart.

"I-It's hard to explain, but a month ago I delivered a beret for someone and the Bunnix appeared, and she send me to the future and you where there, all alone and akumatized and I didn't know why and you knew my identityandhtenwefoughtandyoutriedtokillmeandandand-" said Ladybug breaking down.

Chat stood there, deciphering what Ladybug had just said and trying to process it all of it. The beret wasn't from Ladybug, she was just delivering it. And he somehow was akumatized in another future. More importantly, he was alone in that future, just like on his nightmares. Wait a minute, he knows her identity? Could it be that he was akumatized when she revealed her identity to him? That couldn't be, right? Wait a second, they fought and tried to kill her? That definitely wasn't normal. No akuma would ever want to kill them, at least, not before snatching the miraculous first. Unless...

"M-My Lady? D-Did I kill Hawk Moth? Did I- Did I killed you?" asked Chat with his voice faltering.

"I- I saw a reman-nent of m-me a-a-and Hawk Moth c-cataclysmed under the water. Paris wa-as de-destroy and f-fl-flooded. Y-You told me th-that our- That our love did that..." managed to say Ladybug.

"I- I think I'm also having nightmares about that... Was I- Was I a white cat with ice blue eyes?" asked Chat.

She opened like plates, confirming his suspicions, and slowly nodded. "I think- I think it's because I changed the timeline..." said Ladybug. "It happened to me before..."

Now it was Chat's turn to be surprised. "It had happened to you before? When?" asks the cat hero clearly worried.

"It was- It was after Timebreaker. I- I saw you die in my arms for two months..." said Ladybug, remembering the nightmares and crying once again.

"What?" asked Chat, getting more worried after every answer.

"You jumped in front of me and- And saved me from Timebreaker's power. You- You died in my arms before I went back on time and fixed everything" said Ladybug.

"I- I had no idea... I-I'm sorry for ever worrying you Ladybug" said Chat with watery eyes.

"Stupid chaton" says Ladybug trying to clear her eyes. "Why are you apologizing for now? I thought we had already settled that whenever you'll take a hit for me, I'll throw you across Paris"

"How could I forget; I think I've seen Paris from above so many times a flock of birds has taken me in as one of them" said Chat smiling a bit.

"Okay, we've got to fix this. Any ideas Chat?" asked Ladybug standing up and drying her tears from her face.

"How could this foolish alley cat have one My Lady? You're the one who makes the plans and the new guardian, aren't you?" said Chat standing up as well.

"I'll talk with the kwamis to see if anyone has an idea. Send yours as well, I bet he has a lot to catch up with Tikki" said Ladybug.

"Will do, but I'm not sure it will work. I've been asking him for weeks and he's been strange lately. Perhaps he does need to catch up with his buddies kwami" said Chat.

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Ladybug landed perfectly on her bed and called off her transformation, throwing herself to her bed from exhaustion. The patrol and the talk about the Chat Blanc incident had really taken a token on her. Nevertheless, she stood up and took out the miraculous box. She stared at it for a long time until a cough behind her get her back into reality. She turned around and found Tikki rolling her eyes and next to her was Chat Noir's kwami, Plagg, who was giving her a deadpanned stare.

"Please, whatever you do, don't begin to fantasise with that model boy or my holder, I'm a bit tired of teen hormones at home" said Plagg plainly.

"Plagg? What are you doing here?" asked the girl.

"You said you wanted to see me, so here am I" answered Plagg.

"I didn't mean right now, but that will certainly help me. Nice to see you again by the way" said Marinette politely.

"It's always nice to see you too Princess, even if it's through my holder's eyes" said Plagg bowing. "Or wait, now I should call you Master?"

"Don't be silly Plagg, I don't feel like a guardian and I'm too young to be a master. Would you like a bit of cheese? It's not camembert but I swear we should have a bit of brie".

"I have to admit it Princess, you're my favourite guardian. You're not as lame as the others, you're laxer and you know how to break the rules. I like you. But I'd still appreciate that cheese" said Plagg in an unexpectedly polite manner.

"Aww, thank you Plagg. I'll be back in a sec" said the girl and disappeared downstairs.

"You really get the good ones Sugar Cube" said Plagg.

"I told you not to call me that Stinky Socks. But I think you have a great holder now" said Tikki.

"If that kid knew how to use his head, he would be great ladybug material. Your holder on the other hand would make an excellent black cat" teased the black kwami.

"We both know you love this kitten, even if you refuse to admit it" teased back Tikki.

"Whatever" said Plagg facing away from Tikki to hide his embarrassment.

"I'm back" said Marinette bringing along a tray filled with food.

"I think that's too much food for two kwamis and a girl" said Plagg.

"Who said it was just for two kwamis and a girl?" said Marinette, opening the miraculous box and putting on all of the miraculous. She sat immediately after doing that. "Ugh, this is so tiring".

"I retire what I said before Tikki. This holder of yours is way too crazy, she's fit for the monkey kwami" said Plagg.

"Don't be rude to my holder Plagg" warned Tikki.

"Good afternoon Master, kwamis of Creation and Destruction" said Sass.

"It's an honour to see you again Master" said Pollen bowing, but a bunch of kwamis zoomed along her.

"Master! Master! We're so happy that you summoned us all, we were getting bored. But you're the only one who has freed us from time to time, you're the best guardian we've ever had!" said some of the kwamis.

"Aww, you guys are so adorable" said Marinette snuggling the kwamis happily. "But today I called you here for a reason and not just to play. Well, we'll play a bit, but later".

"What do you need Master? We'll help you gladly!" said the kwamis.

"I'm amazed Princess, you have them all on your side and that's weird for a human" pointed Plagg.

"I thought you were also on my side Plagg" said her faking being hurt. "After all this time and cheese, we've shared".

"Oh, shut it Princess, you know you're my n°1 human girl and my n°2 girl and human, but don't tell Chat Noir I said this, he'll be insufferable if he knows".

"And we don't want him to get more annoying, don't worry" said Mari giggling.

"Even if it's lovely to talk about that, I believe we should focus on our little problem before you exhaust yourself like Chloe did" said Tikki interrupting the idle chat.

"You're right" said Marinette and turned to the kwamis. "I need your help with a pressing matter".

"What's happening?" asked Pollen worried.

"Is it the time ripples?" asked Fluff innocently.

"The what?" asked confused Marinette, Tikki and Plagg.

"The time ripples" repeated Fluff.

"Those are the residual memories and energy from timelines that had been erased or forcefully changed. Fluff and I can sense them" explained Sass.

"Right, because Fluff is the kwami of time and you're the kwami of repetition, you two are time-related kwamis" said Marinette.

"Yes. I'm sensing a time ripple now, like when you fought Timebreaker or Chat Blanc" said happily Fluff.

"Fluff, sweetheart, we fought him two months ago and we began to have this time ripples a month after defeating him. Is that something normal?" asked Tikki.

"Oh, that could be because my holder spent quite a lot of time preventing another Chat Blanc timeline. Master can be adorably clumsy, but we had a hard time dealing with all the timelines she provoked" said Fluff.

"I'm sorry for that" apologised Mari. "Wait. Bunnix! Can we ask her to help us?"

"It's rather unlikely Master. Fluff's powers aren't intended to work like that, even if Bunnix used it for fixing the timelines, their power it's meant to be used just for time traveling. Not even with my power, that it's meant to alter the timelines, we can fix the time ripples" explained Sass.

"But couldn't we ask Fluff's holder to give Master some advice about dealing with time ripples and their effects?" asked Wayzz.

"Great idea as always Shelly. But there is a tiny problem with it. She's from the future and Fluff can't precisely pinpoint from when we should call her" said Trixx smugly.

"It's okay, I'll think about it and find a solution. Thank you for your help guys" said Marinette. "Now, who wants to play?"

The kwamis played with Marinette happily, watched curiously her designs and latest projects and ate delightedly the food Marinette had prepared for them, minding which food to pick based on the favourite snack of each kwami. When Marinette was exhausted by the token of bearing sixteen miraculous, which was surprisingly a lot of time for a human, the kwamis returned to the miraculous box without waiting for Mari to ask them to, thanking her for letting them have fun like that. When only Tikki and Plagg were left, Tikki landed on Marinette’s head and Plagg flew in front of Marinette.

"Princess, you're really surprising and strong" complimented Plagg. "Beautiful as well, thought my kitten is smitten with you for another reason".

"I thought he decided to go after someone else" said Marinette.

"He did, or at least tried to. But his girlfriend broke with him recently. And you never left his mind" explained Plagg. "Both as Ladybug and Marinette. Really, even if he doesn't know it, he's head over heels for your civilian self. He can be really dense sometimes, but I hope you'll be able to forgive him for being stupid".

"Of course I can Plagg, he has already done plenty of stupid things to me. But he's my best friend and the best partner I could ask for. And you think so, don't try to deny it" teased Marinette.

"If only you knew Princess. All that bravado he has with the mask disappears outside of it. He's so boring and soft. He doesn't even rebels against his stupid father! And his father is an horrendous piece of sh-" complained the tiny god.

"Plagg! You're revealing a bit too much! And for the record, I think Chat Noir is honestly a very kind and adorable human. He wasn't wrong when he told you that you'd drool after seeing him without the mask. Even you have to admit that you like him a bit" said Tikki.

"I'm not only after pretty boys Tikki. That both Adrien and Luka were very handsome was just a coincidence. And we both know what happens if Chat and I love each other. We don't want another Chat Blanc" replied Marinette.

"Wait, let's ignore the whole Chat Blanc being caused by your mutual obvious love. She likes the model boy and the guitarist? I know you're high quality Princess, but you seem to aim high for a boyfriend as well. What's so special about the model even? The guitarist at least showed some guts, but the model one seemed to be quite a wimp" said Plagg.

"Watch it Plagg, or no more cheese for you when you come by" warned Marinette seriously. "That model you're talking about is the sweetest and kindest boy I know. He is very gentle and nice even with those who doesn't deserve it. He's much more than just a pretty face. He has protected me a lot of times against akumas without even having a miraculous and when he had the Snake miraculous, he repeated the same moment for a lot of time".

"I'll be sure to not disrespect him again, if you talk so well of him, he must be a great guy" said Plagg ignoring Tikki's death glare. "Before I go, anything I have to tell my kitten?"

"Tell him what we discussed and that I'll try to find something as soon as I can" said Marinette. "Also tell him that even akumatized and despite trying to fight me, he still was very gentle to me".

"Your wishes are orders Princess" said Plagg bowing and phase through the window.

Plagg flew across Paris, flying high enough to avoid being seen by humans, but not high enough to be seen against the dark blue starry sky. He was amused, it was clear that his kitten and Tikki's baby bug we're so in love, even if they didn't know it. Tonight had proven his suspicions and he was glad, Marinette would be perfect for his depressed kitten. Plus, she'd gain someone loyal who'd give her the unconditional love she deserves. Because she does deserve it, Plagg was more than sure of that. She had proven once and again that she was a capable Ladybug, despite her age, that she was a great guardian and, above all of that, she was the best human Plagg had met since Tikki created them. And with a happy shipping thought, Plagg phased through Adrien and landed on his head.

"Missed me already? Your baker friend saw me and feed me cheese on my way back, so I was educated and repaid her with an educated talk. She's really interesting you know. Such a pity that she won't be able to be Multi Mouse again" said Plagg and before he could react, Adrien hugged him.

"I was so worried Plagg. I was beginning to think that something had happened to you" said Adrien. "I'm glad you had your fun. Mari is such a great girl. Don't tell Nino, but she's my best friend without a doubt".

"She is a great human, I admit that. But I was thinking, do you like her? She is an amazing girl after all. Maybe she would be good for you" commented Plagg.

"You too Plagg? Why is everyone so pushy to make us a couple? She dislikes that clearly, she's stuttery and blushy around me again, even if she wasn't anymore" complained Adrien.

"I'm not pushing you lover boy. But don't try to fool me, I know perfectly what sort of dreams you're having and how happy you feel about the ones in which you date her" said Plagg.

"The dreams! What did Ladybug discover about them?" changed the topic Adrien not so discretely.

"They aren't dreams" said Plagg.

"What?" asked Adrien dumbfounded. "What do you mean they aren't dreams?"

"Exactly that. Those are your memories, as Ladybug suspected. The memories of the timeline in which you were akumatized. Which reminds me, your Lady said that you don't have to worry, you were gentle to her even akumatized" said Plagg.

"As sweet as always My Lady, but what do you mean those are memories?" asked Adrien.

"Fluff, the time kwami, said that they are time ripples, the residual memories of a timeline that has been erased or forcefully changed" explained the black kwami. "Which means that you dated Marinette and you were very happy. And just so you know, apparently she is also having this dreams".

"Wait, if the dreams are true and everyone is shipping us together... Is everybody having this time ripples? Wait. If Mari is being stuttery again, could it be that she doesn't likes at all the idea of us being together. She probably hates me again" said Adrien feeling down.

"Why do you have to be some dense sometimes" complained Plagg. "Look, kid, when I badmouthed you to see her opinion of you, she defended you quite fiercely. She has seen you, the real you, not just the perfect sunshine boy. And putting that aside, do you want to know what I've been doing all this time?"

"What are we going to do Tikki?" asked Marinette worried.

"I don't know Mari, it's been so long since I suffered something like this. The concept of time was barely new and the one provoking the time ripples was..." began Tikki. "That little..."

"Who?" asked Mari curiously.

"Plagg. That- That- Uggghhh. I bet he has something to do with all of this" said Tikki.

"How could he? Aren't we dealing with timelines?" asked Marinette.

"Marinette, without a holder to regulate our powers, our powers are absolute and supreme. Plagg can literally destroy concepts of reality that you study in physics. I created the universe in a fit of rage" explained Tikki.

"What? You're telling me everything in existence was created because you threw a tantrum? Wait, more importantly, we are regulating your powers?" asked Marinette.

"I was young and Plagg wouldn't stop destroying everything I did, but yes you regulate our powers, if not Chat would destroy Paris each time he used cataclysm" said Tikki.

"Couldn't we then ask Alix to use the bunny miraculous to locate her future version precisely?" asked Marinette.

"That's a great idea Marinette!" exclaimed Tikki. "You should talk to her tomorrow after school".

"I'm not sure how to explain it to her thought" said Marinette.

"Be simple, we need her help to go to the future and find her future self" said Tikki.

"Yeah, it will be better not to overthink it too much. Good night Tikki" said Marinette and turned off the lights.

"Good night Marinette" said Tikki.

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"Hey Alix!" called Adrien when he saw the pink-haired skater.

"Huh? What's up sunshine? You want some real advice to date Mari? Wrong girl I'm afraid" teased Alix.

"What? No, I wasn't- I didn't-" said Adrien getting all flustered.

"Oh my god. You two are made for each other" said Alix.

"I was trying to ask you something else!" said Adrien utterly embarrassed.

"Oh. What happens Sunshine?" asked Alix.

"Have you had any type of unusual dreams lately? Like, someone dating or a white cat?" asked Adrien still blushing.

"Wait. How do you know that? I didn't tell that to anybody" said Alix surprised and worried.

"I was just checking. I'm having them and since they first appeared everybody acts differently and tries to make Marinette and me a couple, which by the way seems to make her quite uncomfortable" said Adrien looking down a bit.

"Okay, first thing blondie: Marinette is definitely not uncomfortable with the thought of dating you. Second: Who else is having these dreams?" asked Alix.

"As far as I know, you, me and our local heroes" said Adrien. Alix raised an eyebrow. "I happened to bump into Chat and I talked to him a bit".

"Bumping into other people? That's something really Marinett-ish you know Buttercup" teased Alix.

"Ugh! I'll keep asking to see who else has dreamed unusual stuff lately!" said Adrien hurrying to hide his flustered face.

"I'm so going to share this with the girls" said Alix smirking and turned around to bump into a half asleep Marinette.

"Oh, I'm sorry Alix, I was distracted. I've been having these weird dreams lately and I haven't been sleeping well. Have you had any weird dreams this past weeks?" asked Marinette not so discretely.

"Okay, first of all, you look like a zombie Mari. Second, I have and apparently Sunflower, Chat and LB have been having them as well. Your boyfriend just asked me a minute ago".

"My boyfriend? But I've broken up with Luka Alix" said Mari sheepishly. "Wait, you had the dreams too? What happened on them?"

"Well, I meant Adrien. As for the dreams, I saw you dating Adrien and a white cat destroying Paris and the moon. Why?" said Alix.

"Okay so, apparently, about two months ago or so Ladybug went to the future with a superhero from another future and she had to take down an akumatized Chat Noir. She defeated him, changed the timeline and now there is this weird time thingies that are affecting everyone involved with Ladybug or Chat in that other timeline. Apparently, I dated Chat after breaking with Adrien or something like that" said Marinette. "And since last month everyone has being acting weird and I've been having those dreams and like, yesterday Ladybug appeared on my balcony to ask me and I was so relieved because I thought I was going crazy or something like that and-"

"Wowowowow, breath girl, I'm not getting all of that" said Alix.

"Sorry, it's been hard lately since I'm barely sleeping a couple of hours" said Marinette.

"Don't worry. But let me get this straight. Anyone who interacted with Chat or Ladybug on that timeline is now getting these thingies of time? Why am I getting them though?" asked Alix.

"It's more like anyone who was significant in the development of that timeline is having dreams and people around them is getting influenced subconsciously by that. But you're getting them for another reason. Ladybug wanted to talk to you and ask you personally, but I offered to because it was faster for everyone. Your future self is apparently the future hero that helped Ladybug" said Marinette mentally praying not to be outed as Ladybug by something so stupid.

"Oh yeah, Bunnix rocks. I can wait to be like future me. You should have seen me Mari, I was so cool and badass" said Alix excited and proud.

"Alix, you already are cool and badass to me. Your skating abilities? I could never do anything like that" said Marinette. "Oh, before I forget it, Ladybug wants you to meet her on your rooftop by 5 or so. Imagine that you get to help her like your future self did. Will do. Does? Ughhh, all this time travelling is so confusing".

Alix laughed wholeheartedly and the bell rings. "Come on time-klutz, we need to get in class before Mme. Mendeleiev or we'll have to face her wrath" teased the skater girl.

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Ladybug landed on the designated rooftop, her mind filled with thoughts. After having asked the whole classroom, she discovered that the little lie she had told Alix about why people was getting the dreams wasn't so farfetched as she thought. Every single person on her class had had some sort of dream and even some other people she knew had as well. She discussed this with Fluff when she picked his miraculous to lend it to Alix and the joke was on her because it was indeed how the ripples worked more or less. She was a tad nervous about the whole issue but at least she had Alix and Chat, she had sent him a message via a private chatroom, supporting her.

Chat saw her landing at the distance. As always, his Lady was diligent and punctual, getting to the meeting point some time before their meeting. He was also nervous like Ladybug and wanted everything to go back to normal. So when he saw his Lady's call through their private chatroom on an old and almost forgotten platform, he instantly transformed and ran to Alix's rooftop. He supposed they would be giving Alix the time miraculous for a bit so she could help them with all of this time travelling problem. He landed and approached Ladybug, not daring to make a sound due to all his nervousness. She gestured him a salute and they both sat down, contemplating silently the blue sky.

Alix was excited, but a ball of dizziness remained on her throat. Sure, she was eager to become Bunnix and be the badass heroine her future self was, but she had a bit of doubt whether she would make it right or not. At least she knew Ladybug and Chat trusted her enough to give her a miraculous, even if it was just for a short time. Also, she couldn't forget about Mari's earlier support. Yeah, she could take on the world if Marinette say she could. So she opened the door to her rooftop and saw the heroes waiting for her.

"Hey" called Alix. "Am I late?"

"Hello Alix. Don't worry you aren't. I see that Marinette did remember to tell you" said Ladybug standing up.

"Huh? You asked Marinette to deliver a message? Why didn't you just visited Alix?" asked Chat confused.

"Well, I had to talk with Marinette, it was already late when we finished talking and also because I asked Mari to do something else too. Thanks to her, I now know that all of her classmates are having some sort of time ripples" said Ladybug.

"She remembered. She only seems to forget to sign anything she makes for-" said Alix, but Ladybug put her hand on Alix's mouth.

"Alix, I'm pretty sure Mari wouldn't appreciate a certain alley cat knowing about... That" said Ladybug.

"What? Now I want to know" said Chat.

"Didn't curiosity kill the cat?" teased Alix smirking.

"Purrhaps, but satisfaction brought it back" replied Chat Noir with a smirk.

"Maybe, but your Princess will have your neck and ours too if we let you know" said Ladybug, sending a chill down Chat's and Alix's spines.

"Wait, why do you know I call her Princess?" asked Chat confused.

"No, why do you call Mari Princess? You seem to know her well" pointed Alix.

"I happen to know her. After being her knight in shining leather a couple of times and having some heart to heart, she let me be her friend and I sometimes pass by her balcony" said Chat. "But why does My Lady know it?"

"You think Mari is just your friend? Besides, us girls like to gossip, specially about boys. Isn't that right Violet?" said Ladybug with a smug smile.

"No way, you know Secret Garden?" said Alix surprised yet amused.

"I loved Secret Garden" said Ladybug. "I almost told Marinette to include me, but it wouldn't be great if a hero helped in a plan to get Buttercup with Lotus".

"Lotus? Buttercup? Violet? Secret Garden?" asked Chat very confused. "I'm lost. Did Marinette plan to open a flower shop?"

"Silly kitty, we are using codenames so you don't understand us" teased the heroine.

"Yeah, Marinette is the sweetest person, but you really don't want to be on her bad side, not to mention angering her" agreed Alix. "Wow, Mari is so awesome. She attracts all of types of talented people like Jagged Stone or you guys".

"Also you Alix. You are also very talented skating and painting those incredible graffities. Don't think I missed that one you made of Chat and I near the library" said Ladybug.

"That was hers? Boy, I loved that graffiti of us! It was a great ego boost to see something so cool of us." said Chat amazed. "Also, let's not forget that time you helped us when we were affected by Reverser's powers or when we fought Timetagger".

"And that's why we're here now" concluded Ladybug with a smile so bright that almost blinded Chat and Alix. "Now, Alix Kubdel".

"Yes Ladybug?"

"I will grant you the miraculous of the rabbit and you must return it when your task is finished" said Ladybug opening the box and revealing the miraculous, allowing Fluff to flow out of the miraculous. "This is the miraculous of the rabbit, which gives its holder the power of time travelling, and this creature here is a kwami, the magical being that lends you its power through the miraculous".

"My name is Fluff. It will be nice to work with you in the future. Or was it tomorrows’ past?" said Fluff.

"Heya Fluff. Nice to see you too" says Alix petting Fluff. "Was the speech necessary thought? Not to be rude, but like, I already knew that".

"I know, sorry, it's the rules" apologised Ladybug.

"Well then, it can't be helped. So, what do I need to do?" said Alix. "Do I transform now?"

"I'm not sure. The power of the rabbit miraculous is pretty dangerous after all. Do you think she should train to adapt to it Fluff?" asked the heroine.

"There is no way fixed to train it Master. Only with experience can will be learned" said Fluff.

"Uh... Am I the only one that doesn't understand this kwami's speech?" asked Chat Noir.

"Nope, I don't get it too" said Alix shrugging.

"Fluff can be a bit confusing sometimes, but they are a great kwami for sure" said Ladybug. "Anyway, Alix, transform and let's try to use your power, don't worry about making a mistake".

"Sure thing LB. Fluff, clockwise!" chanted Alix and her transformation begun.

"Uh... Isn't her suit different from future Bunnix?" asked Ladybug.

"I think so My Lady. At least, I don't remember that Bunnix had a vest or a cap or... Are those skating protections?" pointed Chat Noir.

"Could it be because it's my first time?" said Bunnix.

"Hm... Oh, I remember Tikki, my kwami, telling me that our suits are made unconsciously by our deepest thoughts, so maybe they can change?" tried Ladybug.

"It makes sense to me" accepted Chat Noir.

"Well then, now I only have to use my superpower to... What do I have to do?" asked Bunnix.

"Well, we need you to find your future self, but we don't know from when she is. At least we think that you can open a Burrow and there should be a lot of exits to different points of time. It's what I saw future Bunnix doing" said Ladybug.

"I can do that!" said Bunnix eagerly. "Burrow!"

"Now what My Lady?" asked Chat Noir. "We jump inside?"

"No, Bunnix has to jump inside holding us, or else we'll be lost in time" said Ladybug.

"Then let's go!" said Bunnix grabbing the other heroes and jumping into her burrow.

The inside was unlike Ladybug remembered. It was all white and only had a single hole, the one they had entered from. Ladybug was perplexed, why wasn’t the burrow like she remembered? Could it be that she had messed up or something? What if it was like that because she and Chat were there at the same time? No, it couldn't be that. There had to be a reason why this was happening. And then she remembered the kwami guide they had on their weapons.

"Bunnix! Look at your umbrella, you should have a little screen or something and there should be a manual in there" said Ladybug.

"A screen? On an umbrella? What are you- WOAH!" said Bunnix as she pulled the bottom of her umbrella and revealed a screen. "Impressive".

"No time for wondering Lola Bunny, you'll detransform in 5 minutes and we'll be on a huge problem if we're in here" said Chat hurrying her.

"Sheesh, I'm doing it Tom, no need of any nickname" said Bunnix searching through the screen. "Here it is! Uh... Aha... Oh, apparently, I'll collect those holes Ladybug talked about for each time I travel through another time and open a burrow. Oh, but for now I can simply go to whenever I want".

"And can you leave a message to other time-travellers?" asked Ladybug.

"Uhhh... Yes! I can. But it will take form of a riddle and will appear on an exact date and moment" said Bunnix.

"Like that one your future self-sent us" said Chat.

"Okay, then send a message to yourself in... Say, 12 years from now telling to come" said Ladybug.

"I'm on it Ladybug" said Bunnix. "Done. Now, how about we exit this before I detransform, because I've lost the count of how many times has beeped my miraculous".

"Let's get back for now" said Ladybug. "Hopefully, your future self will come in no time".

Bunnix picked up the heroes on her shoulders and jumped out of the burrow. They landed gently on the roof and then Bunnix put them on the ground to let them stand, awed by the strength the miraculous gave her. She was so enthusiastic about it that she was jumping without even noticing, which caused a huge laugh from Chat Noir and a smirky smile from Ladybug who found it adorable and amusing at the same time. Bunnix stopped and looked at them confused at first, but she realised what had happened and blushed almost instantly.

"Aw, don't worry Lopunny, it's normal to be so excited the first time you use a miraculous. My Lady literally fell for me on her first day" said Chat Noir with a huge dorky grin.

"Firstly, I fell on you, not for you. And secondly, why did you had to tell her that! I'm so embarrassed" said Ladybug turning red as her suit.

"No way, Ladybug fell on you?" said Bunnix. "The gracious and agile Ladybug? Our Miraculous Ladybug?"

"The one and only. Apparently, she’s quite clumsy outside of th- Hey! My Lady?! My Lady put me down! What are you- Oh no! Buggaboo please n-" pleaded Chat Noir as Ladybug threw him across Paris once again.

"That's for teasing me so much! Stupid alley cat!" shouted Ladybug and turned to Bunnix with a dead serious face and a blush that rivalled with Marinette's in Bunnix opinion. "You have seen or heard nothing, got it?"

"Pfffft. Sure thing clumsybug" teased Alix and instantly got a soft punch from Ladybug on her shoulder. "Okay, okay. I won't tell a soul LB, I don't want an aerial tour of Paris like Chat".

"Good" said Ladybug trying to look serious and composed, but still bright red as her hero suit.

"Can I ask you something Ladybug?" asked Bunnix trying to change the topic.

"Yeah, sure thing" said Ladybug visually relaxing.

"How did you befriend Marinette? Don't get me wrong, she's great and I know that, but she has this huge despise towards your other friend Lila Rossi" said Bunnix and instantly regretted it when she saw Ladybug tense.

"Lila? Lila Rossi isn't my friend and she has never been. First, she lied about me rescuing her and saying we're besties, then she tried to lie to that model boy saying she was a hero as well, a hero that would beat me easily with her eyes closed. Do you see a patron yet? Because then she was akumatized, we deakumatized her and declared openly her hate towards me. She abused of her lies to make Marinette look like a villain. Marinette almost was akumatized, but she didn't let herself get akumatized. Meanwhile, your so good Lila saw the akuma and use it to become once again a villain. And let's not forget how she actively tried to help an akuma to defeat us. She is nothing but a liar and a villain. And Marinette has evaded being akumatized not once, but twice. Now tell me, which one is a good friend?" said Ladybug with a faint note of anger on her voice.

"Marinette was almost akumatized twice?" said Chat Noir getting on the roof, a bit surprised and devastated by the information.

"She- She has been lying all this time?" said Bunnix shocked. "That lying-"

"Stop that both of you, you wouldn't want to be akumatized again, would you?" said someone behind them. They turn and see Bunnix, future Bunnix, standing there with a worried look on her face. "Mini-bug is telling the truth. But Lila is not a liar. She's a villain, a true villain".

"Bunnix?" said the young heroes at once, surprised.

"The one and only. I came when I got the message, what's the matter Mini-bug?" said adult Bunnix.

"We need help to deal with the time ripples I caused when fixing Chat Blanc" said Ladybug.

"Actually, I caused the time ripples after changing too many times the timeline, Fluff already told you" pointed the older rabbit. "To be precise, Plagg caused them when he destroyed the possibility of Chat Blanc, but I asked him to do so".

"Plagg did what?" asked Chat Noir surprised.

"He is destruction itself; he destroyed any possibilities for Chat Blanc happening in any future. Though, mini-me will have to deal with it when the time comes, but she will have forgotten about it after spending so many years trapped in a rock thanks to a certain cat" said adult Bunnix. "I did forget that you originally gave me the miraculous now, but after this you won't need Bunnix for a few years".

"Shame, I planned to fill that blank space with a lot of holes" said young Bunnix as she detransformed into Alix.

"Don't worry mini me, I remember this now, so here, a carrot for Fluff" said Bunnix giving Alix a carrot. "Let them eat and transform back. Meanwhile Mini-bug, use your Lucky Charm. And Kitty Noir has to use Cataclysm on it, but you have to call for your Cataclysm before Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm. This way we'll fix the time ripples".

Chat Noir nodded and called upon his Cataclysm and looked to Ladybug. She used her Luck Charm and an umbrella fell on her hands, but instead of a red with spots item, it was a black umbrella. Both heroes recognised perfectly the umbrella and were a bit shocked at first, but the black umbrella began to turn white. Bunnix rushed Chat Noir towards Ladybug and he cataclysmed the umbrella before it turned completely white. Ladybug and Chat Noir stood there for a solid minute without saying a thing, staring at the ashes of the umbrella.

"I'm done" said the younger Bunnix. "What now old me?"

"Oh, now we go into my burrow" said as she grabbed everyone and jumped into a burrow.

"Now this is real time travelling" said young Bunnix amazed with the hole filled burrow she was in.

"Even better, your burrow will look like this next time you use it" said proudly the older Bunnix.

"No way. This is so cool!" said the younger one amazed. "What do we do now?"

"Now? Now we let the idiots in love detransform" said Bunnix as all the holes in the burrow closed.

"What! Bunnix let us out now! This is serious! We can't know each other’s secret identity as long as Hawk Moth has his miraculous!" said desperately Ladybug.

"Do you want to fix the time ripples or not? Because this is the way to do it" said Bunnix firmly.

"How can revealing our identities fix this time mess?" asked Chat Noir equally desperate as Ladybug.

"It will fix more than this time mess as you call it Kitty Noir. First, it will fix your relationships as heroes and civilians. Second, it will fix Marinette's problems with Liela. Thirdly, when you two reveal yourselves and realize how big of an idiot each of you are, there will be a soul bond between you two. When a soul bond between destruction and creation happens, there will be a flash of light that works on the same way the miraculous cure works, but since we are trapped intime, it will only fix any time problems" explained the older Bunnix.

"Then why am I here? Is it okay for me to know who they are?" said teen Bunnix.

"You need to know as well. You will play an important role to help Marinette's problems with that lying fox wannabe. Also, without your help, an akumatized Ladybug will destroy Paris and everything" said Bunnix.

"I'll be akumatized?" asked Ladybug shocked.

"I can’t tell you that Mini-bug, but I can assure you that Lady Akuma will be an akuma far worse than Chat Blanc. Be prepared Kitty Noir" said Bunnix with a tenebrous tone.

Everyone remained silent. Adult Bunnix was simply standing there, not moving at all. Teen Bunnix on the contrary was moving a lot, walking from one point to another while thinking what she could possibly do. Chat Noir was lying on the floor, lost in his thoughts about future Bunnix words and her warning, which made his skin crawl a bit. Why had he been prepared for an akuma named Lady Akuma? Meanwhile Ladybug was panicking mentally. Her secret would be discovered, she would become akumatized and create the worst akuma ever. What did everything had to go so wrong? And then, Chat's ring beeped for the last time and a green light covered him. Ladybug involuntarily closed her eyes. Bunnix did not.

"You are Chat Noir?!" screamed the younger Bunnix with a mix of surprise and disbelief.

"Uh... Hello again Alix?" said civilian Chat Noir as he fed his whiny kwami.

"Ladybug, open your eyes" said adult Bunnix.

Ladybug obeyed and saw... "Adrien Agreste?! You're mon chaton?!"

"The one and only" said Adrien bowing.

"I can't believe it. NO. Bunnix let me go, he can't see me detransformed!" Begged Ladybug panicking extremely. "Alix Kubdel you better let me go right now!"

"Won't do Mini-bug. You have to stay, even if you want to die out of embarrassment" said older Bunnix grinning. "Or is it that you can't face Buttercups? What a shame Lotus".

"No way! No! It can't be! You're Ma- I mean, Lotus?!" exclaimed surprised young Bunnix and began to laugh when she saw Ladybug's blush.

"What is going on?!" asked confused Adrien.

"Girls. Girls are going on. That's why I prefer my delicious Camembert" said Plagg deadpanned.

"I want to die" said Ladybug covering her face with her hands curled on the floor.

"Oh come on Buggaboo, Kitty Noir will be delighted to know you're lotus, he thinks so greatly of you already" teased the older Bunnix.

"Yeah, doesn't Buttercups already consider you part of nobility?" said teen Bunnix.

"But I can't face him! I've had this huge fat crush on him for so much time and now he ends up being my partner? The same I've been rejecting all this time? COME ON! WHAT'S NEXT?! IS MY MOTHER HAWK MOTH?!" screamed Ladybug forgetting that Adrien was still with them.

"You like me? I've been rejected all this time for me?" asked Adrien first sheepishly, but he soon began to laugh.

"AND NOW HE KNOWS!! Kill me already please" whined Ladybug.

"Are you sure we can't spare her adult me?" asked teen Bunnix pitying Ladybug.

"I also feel sorry for her, but it's just for a few minutes until they start being so gross" said adult Bunnix smirking.

"Uh... Can I know what's happening? This cat is purrty confused right now" said Adrien.

"Oh don't you purrty me Agreste! I refuse to hear your horrible puns in class too!" jumped Ladybug as her earrings beeped and she detransformed. She quickly covers herself, but it was too late.

"Marinette?" asked Adrien confused. "Purrincess is that you?"

"Marinette? Who is Marinette? I-I don't know what a Marinette is" said Marinette smoothly.

"Oh come on Lotus, Buttercups has seen you already" said Alix as she detransformed to face them seriously. "Though I wish Tiger Lily was here to film all of this, we'd have fun for months".

"Alix Kubdel! IF YOU DARE SAY A SINGLE WORD TO ALYA I'LL SKIN YOU ALIVE PERSONALLY!" said Marinette in an outburst, not thinking rationally, turning herself to face Alix but meeting Adrien.

"Hello again M'Lady. Or should I say Princess?" said Adrien trying to smile gently despite his utter confusion and embarrassment. He had so many emotions swirling inside of him that he was surprised that he was acting so... calm. Thought he is surprised when a light blinds all of them, said light coming from him and Marinette and expanding through the Burrow.

"I told you that you loved bakery girl, but did anyone hear me? Of course not" complained Plagg.

"Oh shush Stinky Socks, you're ruining the mood! Please, proceed with your talk" said Tikki.

"Why is Ladybug's kwami so cute, yet so scary?" asked Alix.

"She's the most fearsome kwami of al I've met. I have nothing but respect towards her. Even Plagg fears her" said Bunnix.

"Can we get a bit of privacy?" asked Adrien and Marinette at unison while blushing crazily, which only worsened when they processed their newly found synchronization.

"I'm afraid not, unless you want to be lost in time that is" said Bunnix. "Come on lovebirds, stop being like that and confess already or I'll confess for you both and just so you know, I'm very acquainted with your darkest deepest secrets, so you definitely don't want me spilling things like a phone theft or a huge dakimakura".

Both teenagers straightened by the fear caused by the sole thought of the other one knowing their most embarrassing stuff. "Okay..."

"Marinette?" asked Adrien nervously.

"Y-Y-Yes?"

"Shall I start?" asked the boy even more nervously.

"That's it, I'm done" said Bunnix.

"I like you Adrien! I've liked you since you gave me that umbrella!" confessed Marinette scared by Bunnix's threat to her social image.

"What?" said Adrien.

"You heard her Buttercups. She likes you so much, she can't talk straight to you without messing up her speech or stammering like an MP5" said Alix.

"And she does really like you. Ask her why did your father let you return to school after the Volpina and Collector incident" said Bunnix.

"Marinette? Did you convince somehow father to let me go back to school?" asked Adrien hesitantly.

And then it came. Marinette explained everything. How she felt, how she had tailored after Lila and Adrien once and discovered the book of the miraculous, about her fear, her love, everything since the very beginning, when they got their miraculous. There were a few laughs at some points, mainly due to something Marinette had messed up with; but there were also tears and Alix even hugged Marinette until she almost asphyxiated her. Then it was Adrien's turn to talk. He talked about his family problems, about his huge cold empty home and how alive he felt when he was Chat. He also confessed his feelings to Marinette, about him still not being 100% over Ladybug, but also about his recently found feelings of Marinette. At the end, Alix was very shaken by all of the things she had just learnt and simply pulled the two idiots into a hug.

"Come on Mini-me, let's give these dorks a bit of time to think" said Bunnix as she opened her Burrow again and pushed each teenager on their bedroom.

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"Tikki" said Marinette with a wavering voice.

"Yes Marinette?" asked Tikki.

"Am I dreaming again? Adrien is not Chat and I didn't embarrass myself in front of him, right?" asked Marinette.

"I'm sure you didn't embarrass yourself, Adrien really liked the fact that-" said Tikki, but she was interrupted by a knock on the window.

"Oh no! Chat's here! And Chat is Adrien! Adrien is here! On my room! My posters of him are all over the room! He's going to freak out and he'll hate meandI'llbeleftwithoutapartnerandHawkMothwillslaughterParisanditwillallhavebeenmyfaultand-" said Marinette until Tikki headbutted her.

"Marinette! Calm down, open that window, let that cat in and talk with him. He won't be creeped by you, I'm sure of it" said Tikki calming her holder.

Marinette breathed, nodded and opened her windows. "Hello?"

"Hey Mini Bug, you forgot the miraculous" said Bunnix.

"I bet she was lost on her mind" teased Alix. "Thought I won't mind keeping the miraculous if you want".

"Oh, Alix, Bunnix. It's just you" sighed Marinette relieved.

"Were you waiting for someone else Lotus?" teased Alix winking.

"I hate you so much now" said Marinette blushing. "Come on, give the miraculous and let me be paranoid by myself".

"Just so you know Mini-bug, everything will be alright before you can say Spots On" said Bunnix. "To begin with, the time ripples are fixed".

"Yeah, you'll be able to sleep finally girl, you definitely need it" pointed Alix.

"Gee, I love you too Alix. No need to have some tact or anything alike" said Marinette sarcastically.

"Even restless, Princess is a delightful sight for an alley cat like me" said Chat poking his head through the windows.

"Aahh!!!!" screamed Marinette from the bottom of her lungs as she picked a pillow and threw it to Chat Noir, almost knocking him off.

"Make sure to never be on the receiving end of anything Marinette throws Mini-me" said Bunnix. "I once saw her knock Chat and Carapace of a roof, without even being transformed".

"You could have warned me!" exclaims Chat Noir. "Why do you treat me like this after I compliment you Buggaboo?"

"I panicked" said Marinette sheepishly shrugging her shoulders.

"You did deserve that one for eavesdropping us" declared Alix.

"I can't argue about that, even if it wasn't intentional" admitted the feline hero. "Can I get inside before someone spots me here?"

"Y-You can enter I guess" said Marinette trying to appear uninterested and calm.

"And we'll leave" said Bunnix, giving the miraculous to Marinette. "Come on Teennix, I'll burrow-drop you an hour ago".

"See you at school guys" said Alix preparing to leave but turns to Marinette. "And Marinette, I'm sorry for being a jerk about you and Lila. We show her who is the boss?"

"Count me in" said Marinette smiling. She bid goodbye and the pink haired girls disappeared through a Burrow.

"I'm sorry for telling you to leave Lila alone because she wasn't hurting anyone. And for not noticing that she was hurting you" said Chat Noir.

"Don't worry, I know you always see the positive side in each possibility. It's one of the things I like about you" said Marinette calmly.

"Marinette?" said Chat Noir.

"Yes Kitty?" asked Marinette.

"I know we have some- Well, a lot of stuff to process and everything but..." said Chat nervously as he played with his fingers.

"But what? What happens Minou?" asked Marinette a bit worried.

"If you'd like, could we... Could we, you know, go on a date or something? After everything, of course. And only if you want to" said Chat blushing.

"Chat, detransform" ordered Marinette and the cat obeyed.

"My Lady? Princess?" asked Chat worried.

"I would love to, you big dork" said Marinette as she pulled Adrien into a hug, giving him a peck on his cheek.

"You know, I think this is the best bug you've ever had. She's bold, she feeds me and she can shut my kitten with a single peck" said Plagg to Tikki.

"Admit it, you also like my bug because she's good for your so smitten kitten" said Tikki smirking.

"You will never hear me admit that" said Plagg stubbornly. Meanwhile, the teenagers were both dying inside from embarrassment.

"Plagg, please, shut up" managed to say a very flustered Adrien.

"I-I'll go for s-so-some snacks" said Marinette blushing considerably as she headed towards the stairs and disappeared.

"Hello again, Adrien. I'm not sure if you remember me from Reflekta's and Reflekdoll's fight but I'm Marinette's kwami" said Tikki politely, allowing Adrien to calm down.

"Hello Tikki. I do remember you, it's nice to meet you again" replied politely Adrien. "I admit you are a lot less grumpy than Plagg and a lot nicer".

"Watch kid, because that less grumpy nicer kwami can and will obliterate you if you dare anger her" warned Plagg and instantly got hit by Tikki.

"Now, now, Plagg. Don't scare Adrien like that. I'm not that bad" said Tikki smiling with her eyes closed, giving more and more a feeling of danger. "Thought Adrien, sweetheart, I'll say this once. Keep Marinette happy. Okey?" said as Adrien felt a shiver go down his spine.

"Roger that" said Adrien a bit nervous and afraid for his life.

"Don't worry now, I was just kidding a bit" said Tikki, but Adrien thought otherwise. "But you will face a lot of threats if you date Marinette. As you know, Marinette has a lot of people close to her, some of them are quite famous, some of them are a bit zealous of black cats that broke their daughter's heart. But I'm sure you'll manage it".

"I love Marinette a lot. Nothing can or will ever stop me from loving her" said Adrien, now very serious and determined.

Tikki pat his head. "Well said Adrien" said the kwami not noticing that Mari had just arrived. "Now I can finally give you my approval as well as my blessing".

"Tikki!" whined Marinette even redder than before, startling Tikki and Adrien. Adrien found cute how she could blush so much.

"Are those Camembert filled croissants?" asked Plagg gleefully as he darted over Marinette. "Adrien, you better make her happy and marry her this instant or I'll cataclysm your butt to the next millennia".

"M-M-Marry?" said both teens profoundly blushing at unison.

"And here I thought you'd drop a pun to propose" teased Plagg and Tikki nudged him.

"Stop teasing them so much Stinky Socks!" said Tikki.

"I'm sorry Sugar Cube, but I've been hearing this kitten fantasize with her so much on both sides of both masks. This is my revenge" said Plagg.

"N-No croissants then" managed to stutter Marinette.

"Not the croissants!" said Plagg as he kneeled apologising on mid-air. "I'm sorry Princess! I shall never enrage you again".

"G-Good. Have one then" said Marinette still blushing. Adrien was speechless and amazed.

"You're amazing Marinette" said Adrien without thinking. "If I could, I'd ask you to Mari me".

Marinette.exe stopped working. She blushed, groaned, rolled her eyes and squealed. At the same time. Adrien was once again surprised by her, until he registered what he had just said and turn into another blushing mess. Plagg was cackling as if it was the funniest thing he had seen ever, even crying from laughing to hard. But nobody expected Tikki to enter into a giggling mood that didn't stop even when Plagg had finished laughing. Adrien wanted to crawl into a hole and never get out. But Marinette grabbed his shirt shyly, not looking to him because of sheer embarrassment, but also not letting him go.

"Ad-drien. I h-h-hate you" she said and then give him a shy peck on the cheeks and proceeded to hide herself behind a gigantic pillow.

Adrien stood there, uncertain of what just happened and unsure of what to do, but everything was irrelevant since Marinette has given him a kiss on the cheek. A lot of feelings revolved inside of him, thus causing Adrien.exe to stop working. That is, until Plagg decided to feed him with a Camembert-filled croissant which was, to Adrien's disgust, impressibly delicious. He munches it down and resisted the urge to stare at Marinette until his heart was satisfied.

"Come on now, don't go all silent you two" said Plagg. "Do your weird human mating ritual and begin to date or whatever you find appropriate".

"He's right Marinette, you two have confessed your feelings already but, those that means that you're a couple?" pointed Tikki.

"I- Uh- Do you-" fumbled Adrien, not sure of how to express his feelings.

Marinette giggled a bit seeing her partner doing silly faces while trying to figure what to say. "Would you two give us a bit of time to discuss some stuff?"

"Your wishes are orders Princess" said Plagg bowing as he and Tikki turned to leave the room.

"So..." began Adrien.

"Yeah, so..." said Marinette awkwardly. "What should we do know?"

"I want to date you, I really want to, but..." said Adrien scratching his neck and hoping that Marinette didn't misunderstand him.

"But there is a lot to process and you don't want to make things weird" finished Marinette nodding, calming both of them the fact that they had thought similarly.

"Purrcisely, I couldn't have said that better" said Adrien. "Though, I really want all of this to go away and date you and maybe hold hands with you and take you on some dates" said as he blushed.

She looked at him with tender eyes and love pouncing through her body. "I want that too" said with a gentle and shy smile.

"So, when I'm ready, and you are as well, could we..." said Adrien, but got interrupted by Marinette, who decided that it was a good idea to kiss him and didn't expect that his brain would melt at that.

"Yes kitty, when we're both ready, I want you to take me on a date" said Marinette with a bright blush on her cheeks."

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Epilogue:

Marinette and Adrien finally where ready three months later. Everyone had stopped getting the time ripples effects when they fixed it, but there were a lot of things to work out. With Adrien decided to help her and Alix wanting to kick some butts, Marinette finally managed to prove that Lila was a liar. It didn't happen on the course of a day thought. They had first convinced Alya and Nino with some proof they had managed to gather, getting both of them on their side. But Alya was a major breakthrough in the whole operation. After apologizing for ages, she swam through the internet, getting medical records, testimonies, gathering proof of Lila's lies and contacting Lia's previous classmates to ask about her. Almost singlehandedly she managed to recompile enough data to prove once and for all that Lila was an evil.

Obviously other people participated. Luka tried to help after apologizing to Marinette for breaking up with her, but Alix and Alya refused to let him help, so he simply gathered some information and handle it to the boys, who were a tad more understanding, specially Adrien after knowing that Luka had simply having so many dreams of Marinette being happy with him that left Luka almost paranoid. Kagami also apologised to Adrien, but this time the girls didn't interfere because Marinette had expressly called her to help due to the fact that she had also been involved with Lila's lies and that they were friends, no matter if they both loved the same boy. She was a valuable asset to the team and working with other people along with Marinette's encouragement, Kagami made some more friends. And then was Max. He had been the hardest one to convince, but after showing Markov the evidence and the little robot stubbornly forced the boy to look at it too, they managed to get him to help, but only after Ladybug and Chat Noir deakumatized him.

When they released the truth to the principal and the teachers, there was a burst of anger between the humiliated adults, but they managed to keep their feelings in check and called Mrs. Rossi to talk with her. Lila got expulsed, her mother wanted to send her back to Italy, but after everyone saw how she willingly accepted Hawk Moth's offer of akumatization, it was clear that she couldn't simply walk away. They called the authorities and send her to a minor center on Italy, far from Hawk Moth's influence and far from anyone she could manipulate.

Then it was the turn of the students to know and Scarlet Moth made an appearance once again. This time thought, the heroes where prepared and they had more than enough back up to deal with all the students. Afterwards, a lot of people apologized to Marinette for being rude to her or accusing her of being jealous. She forgave them, because she knew it wasn't fully their fault, they were being manipulated after all. But she never forgot, and it showed. She never fully got back to her lovely attitude. She was still selfless and stood up to any injustice people faced, but she also was wearier of them and didn't fully trust anyone. No one blamed her for it, rather, they were thankful that she at least tried to keep thing normal between everyone.

Soon enough, she became a sensation. Everyone in school adored her, there were fan clubs and she got a lot of commissions. She opened a fashion blog and began to post her newest creations along with her never ending commissions. Adrien helped her as much as he could doing anything for her or simply being for her, not ready to date her yet but caring for her nonetheless. It helped a lot that the akumas where fewer than ever and that Mayura had surrendered her miraculous anonymously, leaving it along with a note on the Major's desk, who immediately contacted Ladybug and returned it to her. At the same time, Nathalie had resigned as Gabriel's assistant and left the mansion forever, leaving Adrien a bit sad, but Gorilla made sure to fill in her role, always caring of the boy as if it was his own child.

Slowly, everything fell back in order and improved further any expectation Adrien or Marinette could had ever thought. They were more in love with each other, having fell for the other each day had passed, making their feelings grow as much as possible and, when the time finally came, they began to date. Alix lamented ever pitying Marinette's embarrassment back in the burrow, future Bunnix was right and they both were sickening with all their lovey-dovey interactions. Even Rose despised them from time to time for being so cheesy, and Rose was an addict to romance. But everyone was happy for them, even if they only showed disgust for their newly founded couple. As for what happened with Hawk Moth? Well, that's a story for another time.

[storytell]

@praevari​ asked

every other one starting with ✮ !

✮ ━ top three favorite muses that you’ve played

twain, gentle, and maria for sure. twain muse.. well, he’ll always be my favorite. gentle muse is up there because while i may not have as much muse for him as i used to, i vividly remember the days when i would do literally nothing but scream about him constantly. maria may be new, but she’s so fun to write and so amazing and just perfect in every way.

ღ ━ favorite canon ships for your muse(s). are there any you dislike?

pretty much all of the baccano! canon ships that involve my muses are really spicy, as well as the MDZS canon ships (wangxian and xuanli) and darling/apple. as for canon ships i DON’T like, these are the ones i can think of just by scanning through my muses pages: gentle and la brava, shiroe and akatsuki, lizzie and daring, kagami and adrien, and tink and terrence.

☀ ━ how long have you been roleplaying? how did you get into it?

probably like 6-8 years! i got into roleplaying via minecraft. the minecraft creative server i’d always play on was big on roleplaying, and i always liked to join other roleplay plots or create my own on there. i didn’t start tumblr until like.. 2 and a half years ago now?

♕ ━ which fictional characters are your favorites?

i have a lot, so i’ll give one top favorite from every fandom i roleplay in! twain (bsd), genji (overwatch), yo fujiura (the unlimited), gentle (bnha), roland (vanitas no carte), all of love (servamp), seung-gil (YOI!!!), shiroe (lh), koumei (magi), wei wuxian (mdzs), KAITO (vocaloid), jack frost (rotg), monika (ddlc), yura (pafl), maddie (ever after high), tamaki (ohshc), juleka (miraculous), wells (poe party), sylvia (alice isn’t dead), claire (baccano!), cassandra (tts), terushima (haikyuu!!), liz (ahs: hotel), gatsby (the great gatsby), giovanni (epithet erased), silvermist (disney fairies), gear/adam moonlit (evillious)

◈  ━ share some headcanons that you have for a muse of your choosing

let’s go with shiroe! 

he didn’t realize he was gay until he met naotsugu

he used to really love tea, but now he’s sort of tired of it. he won’t say no if it’s offered to him.

he doesn’t really want to go back and finish his education in the real world.

he’d like to have kids someday, but worries he’d be a bad parent.

because he likes working so much, he doesn’t know when to take a break and is prone to passing out in the middle of his work.

☾ ━ how many pets do you own? if none, what kind of animals do you like?

i own three dogs and a cat who is actually my dad’s and i haven’t seen in several years. i would LIKE to have a chameleon. my mom said she’d get me one when i move out.

mun related.     /     accepting.

[atopearth]

Subarashiki Hibi (Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole) Part 3 - Looking-glass Insects

Would referencing Alice in the looking-glass be talking about something like grass always looking greener on the other side? Alice thought the world of mirrors was a wonderful place even though it just reversed her normal reality and was basically her world, yet she found it fun, so really, would it mean to say that as long as we look at our own world from a different perspective, it’ll be just as wonderful? Or would it be just as the narrator/Zakuro says, that in the end a bored face here will only reflect the same bored face on the mirror? Yay, this one is from Zakuro’s perspective, I’ve always wanted a better look on what she’s thinking so I guess this chapter will be interesting! I love the immediate outside perspective of Zakuro’s that shows and tells us that Takuji used to be bullied, but now everyone is scared of him. Really goes to show that Tomosane and Yuki are probably just different versions of one entity or something? When Takuji said he doesn’t get new glasses because he doesn’t really want to see anyway, I couldn’t help but feel a bit like Zakuro and feel for him; feel for the fact that he’s seen so many unpleasant things in life that he’d rather just give up on looking at them if he could. It’s such a saddening thing to think about though… I think it was so innocent of Zakuro to think and pray that everyone and Takuji would be happy when he was talking about melting a happy couple’s face with sulfuric acid LOL, I guess it’s nice that it didn’t scare her at all, she’s so resilient, but I guess it’s because she can see through Takuji’s exterior. I actually think it’s really nice to see that Zakuro really did notice Takuji, and was interested in him as a person. It was cute when she stared at him moving books to the old pool wondering what he was doing, she completely forgot about class lol.

I guess you can kinda finally see why Zakuro abruptly left the secret base in the beginning. Since it was different from her everyday, she viewed her going into the hideout as something similar to Alice dropping into Wonderland with the well and thought it would be just as interesting and fun, but really, it was just another place added to her mundane life. The Mamiya reading a book….is Yuki isn’t it? I wonder how the Yuki/Tomosane/Takuji thing works though, does that mean every time we think we’re seeing Yuki or Tomosane, it was actually just Takuji all along and Yuki and Tomosane is just what Takuji himself views those personas of his? So all along Takuji is really the only person that’s “real”, and I guess that means he lives next to the Wakatsuki sisters and is their childhood friend, and they know about his different personalities? Hmmmm if Hasaki (Takuji’s little sister) is real (since Zakuro sees her as who she is), then why do they refer to Tomosane as their brother? Oh wait, I forgot! The Wakatsuki sisters probably don’t exist either! Yasuko and the others didn’t know who they were in the previous chapter! So then Hasaki is the Wakatsuki sisters combined? Since the doll she’s holding is what Kagami supposedly turned into when Yuki carried her “corpse” back to her. I think it was quite normal and expected that Zakuro would fall for the Takuji on the rooftop aka Yuki, I guess that’s why Zakuro was so smitten with Yuki. And I guess it’s kinda funny to remember how all that time, Yuki insisted that she was a girl but she really isn’t lol.

Zakuro is such a cute lovesick girl when it comes to Takuji lol. But I can relate, especially when she held off on going to buy a CD just to continue riding the train with him. I remember the feeling of putting aside things just to hang with the person I like haha. She’s so bold though! Taking him to the amusement park on a whim! Honestly, when it was the Yuki perspective, I just thought of Zakuro as this weird girl wanting to hang with her all the time for some reason, but now I totally get it, her life literally sparkles when she’s with him/her. It was so cuteee when she made that extravagant lunchbox for him lol! She’s full doing her best at getting closer to him lol. Honestly though, it feels so weird to see things in Zakuro’s perspective, it feels like a whole different story haha. I always felt Yuki was cool but seeing things from Zakuro’s perspective just makes Yuki/Takuji shine lol!

Kimika Ending Oh? So Kimika and Zakuro had known each other since elementary school? And then Zakuro changed schools and lost contact until now…  Oh...Kimika told Zakuro from the beginning…. That she shouldn’t associate with her or she will get bullied. She even told her that if Zakuro were to be bullied, she would feel so much guilt, she would just die. I guess, just as Kimika could never forgive herself for bringing Zakuro into this, Zakuro probably can’t forgive herself for causing more harm than good to Kimika, since now she has to protect Zakuro from them as well, so now she’s getting more hurt than before. I knew Kimika wasn’t as bad as she thought she was, but really, seeing everything from Zakuro’s perspective, Kimika really tried her best to protect Zakuro in her own way all the time. She knew that she couldn’t go against Megu and Satoko, so she always acted mean towards Zakuro to make sure that they wouldn’t suspect the two of them of doing anything against them. She was cold but that was how she protected her. I can also see why Kimika loved Zakuro so much, yet hated her so much, because I kinda feel the same lol. Zakuro is so kind (and clueless or maybe more optimistic) that it’s cruel. She doesn’t realise how much all this is hurting Kimika. Like sure, the bullying is sorta bearable right now etc, but she doesn’t plan or think about how to change things, she just goes with the flow, which is admirable in itself, but it’s because she’s like that, it puts all the burden on Kimika to actually do something to save them from this situation. Also now, Kimika has to be super desperate about it because Zakuro is getting hurt too, whereas before, if it was just herself, she could just deal with it, but she can’t just do that when someone she cares about is getting hurt because of her.

Omggg, to think all this bullying started because Shiroyama (Megu’s boyfriend) called Kimika cute, and then later on called Zakuro cute too, so Megu got jealous and annoyed! Shiroyama running lives all around, first it’s Takuji and now Kimika and Zakuro too zzz. I nearly cried when Kimika told Zakuro to go and be happy (since she’s been smiling a lot after hanging out with Takuji) and never come back to her and never attract the attention of Megu and Satoko again. Kimika has always been prepared to shoulder all this and be the only victim, she honestly didn’t deserve that saddening ending in the previous chapter…

I’m glad Zakuro made the decision to act weird and defy Megu and Satoko by running off with Kimika when they wanted to record her underwear etc to sell. I guess that’s why for Kimika and me, we really just can’t hate Zakuro lol. She’s really cool to want to be in this together than to have Kimika sacrificed, but at the same time, she really doesn’t think of the consequences huh? But, with Kimika watching out for her, it’ll be okay, I can’t believe Kimika really brought a stun gun to retaliate against them though loll, it was so nice to see Megu and Satoko shocked as to what do and how to go about all this. Kimika really got them this time haha. It’s kinda weird to be happy about this, but Kimika is, so I guess it’s good that Kimika spent years thinking about what she could do in retaliation, but never really did until Zakuro got bullied. I think she’s right though, when you’re experiencing it yourself for so long, you become numb to it and either think you deserve it and that you shouldn’t bother doing anything, or you break, or you become like Zakuro and fight back in an all in battle. Seeing Zakuro treated like that made Kimika realise that she couldn’t leave them to do what they wanted to any longer and I’m happy for that, even if Kimika is a dangerous person, she’s someone who does everything for the people she cares about.

Wow, no wonder why Kimika hates everyone and the teachers in this school so much, they literally can’t be bothered to deal with bullying even when it’s practically shown in front of their face that there’s something going on. I can see why she killed Senagawa in the previous chapter though, Kimika literally told her about the bullying, so Senagawa went to ask Megu and Satoko about it, and just took it for face value that since they said they’re not bullying her, then they’re not, like wtf? I know you’re busy with other crap but do you remember that you’re a teacher??? Honestly so shocked at how these teachers behave tbh, it’s so disheartening to hear and think about. Kimika was so cool when she threw her nattou trap and stuff at Shiroyama and them to get away loll. But it was so hilarious and cute when she faced off against Takuji/Tomosane, lmaoo when he kept implying she was flat in different ways lolll. He even took her knife loll, so mean, but to be fair, Kimika is pretty dangerous with it LOL, she was literally swinging it at him lol. But yeah considering his words and lack of memories of Zakuro, it’s fair to say that Tomosane is probably the only one that’s aware of the different personalities. Lmaooo when she had an airgun too hahahha, how many weapons does Kimika have?! I love her. It was so funny when she was annoyed that her chest was flat compared to Zakuro’s.

I have to say, I honestly love Takuji/Tomosane’s teasing relationship with Kimika so much more than Yuki with Kagami. It’s so much more hilarious because just as Tomosane gets on her nerves, she also gets on his nerves by doing stuff like putting explosives in cigarettes and offering it to him LOL, he should have known she wouldn’t be that nice though hahaha. It’s also really cute how Hasaki makes him a boxed lunch but he pretends to be cool and doesn’t want to eat it in front of others lolll, he’s so cute. I honestly thought Tomosane was just a violent persona that came out to protect the Takuji body but I guess he’s the most entertaining one haha. Can’t believe Megu and Satoko brought so many thugs (I assume) to help corner Kimika and Zakuro, they’re so dirty. I’ve been waiting for Takuji to appear!! Yayy~ he was so cool when he called Kimika and Zakuro his women and said not to touch them🥺 I am legit smitten with Tomosane. Honestly, Yuki is cool and everything but she never appealed to me that much, on the other hand, this chapter with Tomosane is like my favourite right now. I really love how Kimika acts so tough though, she’s obviously the one with the lowest stamina and weak reflexes, but because she wants to protect Zakuro, she tries her best to fight in her own way and sacrifice herself at the drop of a bat if needed.

Well, the fight went as expected, but I still wonder why Tomosane and Takuji have to be killed/disappear to leave Yuki as the “only” Takuji? It’s saddening to see Kimika kinda down over the fact that she couldn’t protect Zakuro and that Zakuro is so interested in him compared to her. I find Zakuro kinda funny though, she’s so persistent about interacting with Tomosane even though he’s not interested. Cyrano de Bergerac sounds like such a sad story. Both Cyrano and Christian loved Roxanne but one lacked the looks and the other lacked the intelligence to attract her, so they pretended to be one person and so Roxanne fell in love with Christian, the one who possessed the looks and was able to “borrow” Cyrano’s immaterial intelligence that Roxanne couldn’t really fall in love with since it has no “shape”. In the end, he played the fool until the end even when she realised it was actually Cyrano. It’s kinda interesting for Tomosane to give the reason that just as Cyrano never wanted Roxanne to realise the one behind the letters was him, Tomosane doesn’t want to reveal his real name to Zakuro either. I find it so cute how he has such a soft spot for Zakuro. I’m glad she was able to tell him she liked talking to him before he disappeared forever. Tomosane always says that Yuki is the kindest one of them all, but really, I think Tomosane is really kind in his own way, so it’s sad that he’s gone🥺 It’s kinda interesting to think about if the Holy Trinity of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit kinda motivated the creation of Yuki, Tomosane and Takuji. Since even God needs three forms to do his work, so they would need the three of them to achieve whatever their purpose is huh~

Although it’s nice to see this result of Zakuro and Kimika not being bullied anymore, and even getting popular alongside Takuji etc, it’s a bit saddening to think about what could have happened in the background for this to occur. So crazy to see how bold Zakuro became with Kimika haha, but it was refreshing even though a bit random with the transition. So, I wonder if the worlds just keep reincarnating the same souls in the same world over and over again with different endings depending on their choices, and this time around, Zakuro was able to achieve her wonderful everyday by changing Yuuki’s decision? Why does everything have to keep repeating though? Do we all just want a wonderful everyday? Anyway, overall, I really enjoyed this chapter and ending, so much better than the others imo because I liked all three of the characters. I really liked how Zakuro grew as a person, she didn’t necessarily change, she just got the courage to do what she wanted that she was always hesitant in doing. And that was achieved through Kimika doing her best to protect her even though she was weak, and through the Takuji who was strong and was able to provide her with an opportunity to live life the way she wanted. It was really nice to see all that unfold, and to see my favourite side of Takuji hahaha. It was really nice to see some questions answered this time around, so that was fun. I think the only random thing imo was Kimika and Zakuro getting together because I always felt like they were true friends more than romantic partners, but this is fine too I guess haha.

Insects Ending I see…so for this ending, Zakuro doesn’t run away with Kimika and instead she was forced to masturbate in front of their camera inside the restaurant… But I see, Kimika was already ready to fight them at this time, she already had her steel baton with her. Omggg, Zakuro is so dumb, she should have at least screamed for help when Kimika was getting beaten or when she was taken away by Megu and Satoko, like, do you really think they’ll let Kimika go easily after attacking them?? I’m not shocked at what happened when they got the drugs into her, but I’m glad no one raped her…. Except, now that something has happened to Kimika, what’s going to happen to Zakuro? I don’t even know why Zakuro bothered to go back to class when they stole her underwear and stuff, she should have at least put on her swimsuit under her uniform… But anyway, we shouldn’t blame the victim because Megu and Satoko are utterly disgusting to force her to expose herself in front of the class and blackmail her with the video. Doesn’t help that no one in the class even feels sorry for her, in fact the other girls think it’s funny too, it’s just disgusting. I can see why Zakuro would just break with all that happening, her one and only ally was gone, and even the people in the class are joining in on the bullying like it’s so fun. Honestly though, seeing everything that’s happening, I feel like Satoko and Megu got off too easily in the previous chapter, they definitely deserved a worst death, it makes me so angry to see how they can torment someone so much like this and still expect others to forgive them. Okay, I got a bit ahead of myself, they really did end up gang raping her and that was the worst thing to witness especially since they gave her drugs to numb her to the pain and everything. I feel so bad for her though, she was tormented before but at least she felt that if she was still a virgin, Takuji would still like her (since she saw the scribbles on the wall in the underground hideout about how he likes virgins or whatever), but now she’s utterly broken in body and her spirit, how could she possibly pick herself up now… I don’t even care if it’s implied that Megu got gang raped before and that’s probably why she does this to others as well, it’s just disgusting.

I’m honestly not sure what to think of Ayumi and Usami because they honestly feel like traumatised people gathering another traumatised person (Zakuro) and bringing her into their delusions. So, I really can’t believe that they really tried to save the world in their previous lives and then force reincarnated themselves to try again, and that everything bad that happened to them was the evil side doing their work. It’s kinda saddening to see what Zakuro experienced and felt when she saw Takuji/Yuki right before she did the Spiral Matai (near death experience for them to get their powers back) aka the suicide. She had to go through so many terrible things and he was one of the things that kept her going, saving the world for him was a part of her mind… It’s just so saddening… It was nice to see the kiss from her perspective though, it was rather tender and sweet even though Yuki was confused lol. I’m honestly surprised that Usami was the one getting scared and didn’t want to jump since she thinks they might die instead of regaining their powers from the “near death experience”. For Zakuro though, she had already prepared herself and there was nothing left for her to really care about besides wanting to save the world for Takuji especially when she’s “seeing” all this destruction in her mind. Although I do find it rather amusing that they’re the ones who dragged Zakuro into this and yet they’re the ones most scared. In the end, did Ayumi and Usami just want someone to commit suicide with them as Yuki said in the previous chapter? I guess it does seem like it even though they kinda changed their minds lol. I’m not sure how I should feel for Zakuro though. Would she have been saved somehow if she never met them? Or would she just keep getting tormented by Megu and Satoko? Or would she have gone insane and killed them? Either way, it’s a saddening ending, a saddening story that should never happen to anybody and yet it does. It breaks my heart to think about everything she had to experience, especially when one decision could have changed it all into a happy ending instead. It’s saddening to think of it like that.

Overall, I really enjoyed the Looking-glass chapter and I loved seeing an alternate ending for Zakuro, a girl who always just viewed herself as a worm. It’s saddening to see what happened for her, but I can really see how Kimika had to get revenge for Zakuro no matter what. Otherwise, as I said before, seeing Tomosane was awesome and definitely the highlight of this chapter tbh haha. But I really do have to say that the rape and that dog thing with Ayumi were very uncomfortable to read. Maybe it’s because I’m a girl as well so the thought of it really made me sick to the stomach, I guess it affected me so much only because I kept thinking about it though lol. But yeah, it honestly hurt to see Zakuro so broken tbh and I honestly had to skip through the voice acting because it was tormenting to hear. But I guess the fact that it felt so uncomfortable proves how well the effect of everything was done?