#choé bourgeois

[generalluxun]

Hey! I've been loving your Chloé/Alya AU story as well as enjoying your posts a lot in general, I'll be reading Dog Daze too when I can because it seems like it's your "main story" and I'm curious about the dynamics of Adrien/Sabrina as a ship (which I hadn't thought of before seeing your blog!) - I also just enjoy the way you write the characters a lot, especially because you're both a Chloé defender and a gay Chloé enthusiast like me lol. And your dunking on Astruc is delicious too, of course! Do you have any upcoming fics/vague ideas you've been considering that you feel comfortable sharing?

Thanks for the question and for your followup clarification, I'll answer both parts here.

First off: Thank you for reading! The Chloé/Alya fic was an experiment, and a bit of a gift to @flightfoot who is a big Alya fan, and a treasure to the community. I've come to love the dynamic as I've explored it.

Dog Daze is the largest AU, yes. Chock full of one shots after the main fic. It *Does* start with Puppy Love, which was supposed to be a one shot, then oops, I had an AU. Fin fact:Dog Daze was supposed to be endgame Adrienette, but the goobers just didn't want to let each other go. Oops. 🤣

Adribrina is my comfort ship. They are just so... 🥺 It's sweet, it's gentle, it's supportive, and they don't even realize it.

I wouldn't call myself a Chloé defender. I just don't like anything that belittles/justifies/ignores choild abuse. Chloé happens to be an abused child blamed for her own abuse by the narrative. I fond that particular aspect of ML reprehensible and so am vocal about it. If they had just left her as a 1D bully the entire time, it wouldn't be an issue. Once you demonstrate child abuse *on screen* then certain expectations change.

I do think Chloé as a character is in an amazingly dynamic position, teetering and able to go in many directions. This is why she features so much in my writings.

As you said in your followup, I do put Chloé in both het and lesbian ships(even some bi) for me, her attraction has a lot more to do with the person *giving her attention* and the plumbing is actually largely secondary. Not knocking anyone else's headcanon, that's just my take on her.

I don't set out to 'dunl' on Astruc, bit he has positioned himself as the voice/aithority/control so questionable narrative lands in his lap. He also seems to be ill suited to engaging on online discourse (no slight there, it can be hard!) But also seems to want to enjoy the access to praise it offers. This makes for a volatile mess. In all honesty I would love a chance to corner him and just ask 'why' for a lot of choices. I do fear though many of hos answers would boil down to 'Who do you listen to, me, or your lying eyes?'

I was thinking of actually doing a LoZ TotK fic in the near future.

If ML there are cirrently 3 options spinning.

1)Continue Dog Daze Continuity with a story set in the final year before university and bringing Kagami back into the mix.

2)Continue Gothic AU continuity with a story focusing on Adrien's acquiring of the Pig, and Sabrina's akumatization with the Goat while continuing to explore the other dynamics (like Ladybug/Peluche and Chloé reason for being... Lile she is)

3)Chloé comes back worse. Post S5 fic where Chloé is actually putting in effort to be a chaos demon, not just other people's pawn.

Thanks again for the ask!

[ao3feed-ladynoir]

Alya Unleashed

Alya Unleashed by DaFishi

Alya was fairly quick to temper.

She might be stubborn and a little naive, but she isn't stupid.

And dear god did Lila get on her nerves.

“Ooh, that girl is asking to have her ass kicked,” Alya hisses, stabbing her ice cream.

“Hey,” Choé admonishes. “Leave your poor ice cream out of this.”

Words: 478, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M

Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Luka Couffaine, Kagami Tsurugi, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi (mentioned)

Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Chloé Bourgeois/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Additional Tags: Lila Rossi Bashing, Manipulative Lila Rossi, Lila salt, Protective Kagami Tsurugi, Protective Alya Césaire, Best Friends, Nino and Luka are bros, Chloé learnt how to fence for Kagami, Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng Fluff, Identity Reveal, post identity reveal, Good Parent Gabriel Agreste, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33714484

[lilaanonsupportgroup]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Chloé Bourgeois/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Luka Couffaine, Kagami Tsurugi, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi (mentioned) Additional Tags: Lila Rossi Bashing, Manipulative Lila Rossi, Lila salt, Protective Kagami Tsurugi, Protective Alya Césaire, Best Friends, Nino and Luka are bros, Chloé learnt how to fence for Kagami, Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng Fluff, Identity Reveal, post identity reveal, Good Parent Gabriel Agreste, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

Alya was fairly quick to temper.

 She might be stubborn and a little naive, but she isn’t stupid.

 And dear god did Lila get on her nerves.

 “Ooh, that girl is asking to have her ass kicked,” Alya hisses, stabbing her ice cream.

 “Hey,” Choé admonishes. “Leave your poor ice cream out of this.”

[iwroteinapastlife]

The Big Drama

Tense, angsty chapter of Honey I’m Home. Feel free to skip to the bottom where I’ve put a summary of what happens for anyone who doesn’t want to read the drama.

December 29th had been a surprisingly easy day. Really surprising, seeing as how it began with a full family search of the house to find Georgia’s missing tablet, and went on to wrapping up the rest of the party preparations for tomorrow’s trial run.

Chloé was put in charge of managing the crew of servers Georgia had hired—meeting them, briefing them, scaring them into subordination, etc. Having run her fair share of hotel events, she was fairly used to the process, and was especially skilled in the art of making people fear for their lives should they mess anything up. She was also, however, used to dealing with the same team of workers who had been employed at the hotel since she was a teenager—a team she was familiar with and who already knew to fear her.

It went well though. Georgia didn’t skimp on the help she hired, and Chloé had no problem teaching them her ways; Nathaniel never even had to step in to calm her temper—which, if he was being honest, he had been fully prepared to do.

Meanwhile, Georgia and the rest of the family had gotten all the other details settled, and the party was ready for its trial run by dinner time.

All surprisingly easy, painless.

…Until Audrey happened.

At the time, Nathaniel had been wrapped up in a conversation (argument) that Jasmine and Isabella were having over who Katara should have ended up with. So he didn’t know exactly what happened, or the context. All he knew was that the hand holding his under the dinner table tightened its grip to bruise-giving levels right at the same time he heard the name “André” in Audrey’s voice.

“What exactly is that supposed to mean?” Chloé asked the woman sitting across from her.

Audrey picked up her wine glass and didn’t even deign to look at her daughter as she replied in French, “Chloé, this is not the time or place for this.”

Chloé automatically slipped into French as she responded, “You’re right, this isn’t the time or place to be talking about my father.”

Nathaniel might have been the only one at the table able to follow at that point, but the others didn’t miss the agitation in their voices. Conversations were quickly falling silent around them.

“Chloé, please, you’re making a scene.”

“And you’re insulting my family.”

“Stop it, this behavior is inappropriate.”

“No, what’s inappropriate is casually insulting my father over dinner, and right in front of me no less. What’s even more inappropriate is talking down to me like I’m some sort of child, and giving me orders as if you were my mother.”

Audrey was finally looking directly at her then—blue eyes even icier than usual, with a voice to match. “I am your mother.”

Choé scoffed lightly, her voice maintaining that same tense calm that Audrey used. “Clearly I should have gotten you a dictionary for Christmas as you seem a bit confused on the meaning of that word.”

“This is ridiculous, Chloé,” she put down her wine glass with a certain finality, tone severe, “drop it.”

“Me defending my father is not ridiculous. Ridiculous is dropping all of your responsibilities to your family and flying off to another continent to avoid your problems. Ridiculous is abandoning an eight-year-old girl without a word and then expecting her to still regard you as her mother. You left me and Papa alone, and even though he didn’t know what he was doing, he tried his absolute best to make up for the damage you caused, to clean up the mess you made. You have no right to insult him—no right to even speak his name.” Her hand slipped from his then as she stood up, ready to leave. “Constantly spouting snide comments about me is one thing, but you had better hope I never hear you utter another word about him.”

“Oh please, Chloé, you really think you can threaten me?”

Chloé Bourgeois was Nathaniel’s childhood bully. He had seen her upset, spiteful, and menacing any number of times. Later on, she became a superhero and while that didn’t make her completely abandon that side of herself, she learned to refine it. Hone in on it. She became ten times more dangerous when that happened because suddenly it wasn’t petty pranks and “my Papa will hear about this” every five minutes; it was deliberate, calculated insults and threats reserved only for when she needed them.

He had seen significantly less of that, as it was mostly used when business partners tried to take advantage of her, but he’d still seen it nonetheless, like when a photographer wouldn’t leave Marinette alone after news got out that she and Adrien were dating. Nathaniel had watched as she cut into the man, dropped a few names of people she could contact to utterly ruin him, and all the while used a certain tone that seemed to make him shrink below her despite him being significantly taller. It was terrifying, and by far the most venomous Chloé he’d ever seen.

Until now.

Slowly, deliberately, Chloé placed her palms flat on the table and leaned forward so she was face to face with Audrey. When she spoke, her voice was level, controlled, but rigid and seething with a cold, searing anger the likes of which he had never witnessed.

“Maybe I need to remind you that while you’re a match for me with money, I am still the daughter of a very influential man and close friends with not one but two leading figures in your line of work.” She paused for just a moment to lean the slightest bit closer. “You do not want to cross me, Audrey Bourgeois; I learned from the best.”

She waited a second to let that sink in, holding her gaze steady while Audrey merely stared back with that neutral, unyielding glare of hers. Then without another word, Chloé stood up straight and stalked out of the dining room.

Chapter summary:

Party preparations are all ready for the trial run tomorrow. The family is sitting down at dinner when Audrey drops a snide comment about André (Chloé's father). Chloé jumps to his defense and Audrey responds (in French) that this isn't the time or place to talk about this. They have a tense conversation that ends with Chloé threatening Audrey, saying that she better not say anything about her father again. The chapter ends with Chloé walking out of the dining room.

That's all you need to know to move forward, back to better feels! <3

[generalluxun]

Whats A Bad Ending about? :)

Timeskip post S5. Aged up to 18. Choé comes back to Paris. Very Bad Things start to happen rapidy. The question isn't if Marinette can stop her. The question is: Who can Marinette save?

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“Hello Marinette.”

Marinette nearly jumped out of her skin. It was late, well, early now technically. Paris never truly slept, but hearing her name spoken aloud in the deep night gloom was a shock.

Especially by that voice.

Marinette turned to the speaker, “Chloé Bourgeois.”

The blonde stepped out from the lee of a café storefront. The years had stretched the other girl, and sharpened her. Dressed as she was in an expertly cut suit of Charcoal and ash, with oversized sunglasses hiding much of her face, she seemed more apparition than person.

The glasses came off, one tip touched to her lips before she replied, “Mmmm, just Chloé now. I’ve emancipated myself. You look happy, Marinette.”

“That’s… good… Chloé?” Marinette’s mind was racing as it hadn’t in years. “And… I am happy, thank you.”

The other girl’s eyes glanced down the street, back the way Marinette had come. “Tsk. It’s late Marinette, and a school night too. Shouldn’t you be at home?”

Marinette clamped her lips shut over the obvious protests. It was none of Chloé’s business, she was eighteen, Chloé shouldn’t be out herself or even in Paris for that matter; there was a disquiet in her stomach and her hair was on end.

Chloé filled the silence, glancing the way Marinette was going, “Nnnn, you really shouldn’t leave your parents all alone. Bakeries are so dangerous.”

The disquiet turned into dread and anger. Marinette’s retort was cut off by Chloé stepping further out of the shadows. The light caught in those once familiar eyes, a sickly shine hung about them, a primal wrongness that sent Marinette’s already keyed up senses into overdrive.

Instead of speaking, Marinette looked down the street too, then ran.

A delighted laugh trailed off behind her.