@mlsecretsanta gift for @thequeenofspace!
happy belated holidays and apologies for the delay, had a serious family emergency followed by sickness! I had so much fun making this though, was so excited to finally draw these two 🖤
hope you enjoy!!!
i think marinette is worse at resting when she's sick but adrien is worse at sitting things out if he's injured. i have no explanation, these are just the vibes
Of course you do. How could you not. But do you ever think about this exchange specifically:
“You’re not Adrien!”
Because Adrien is sweet, and forgiving, and kind. In fact, kindness is his defining quality — Marinette herself made sure of it:
“I’ll never tell another boy I love him before I know everything about him! Whether he’s kind or not, thoughtful, what he does outside of school and with who… I’ll know everything.”
But.
Do you ever think about Adrien’s development in S4 and especially S5?
Overtime, he has grown resentful of a system that exploits him relentlessly.
Of the people he gave countless chances to, only to be let down over and over again.
Of the web of lies and half-truths he constantly finds himself tangled into. A web that is only growing bigger, stickier, and trickier to escape.
And the Senticousins. Do you ever think about them?
Do you ever think about how they are each other’s reflection, identical and opposites all at once?
“When you bring a living being into this world, you have a responsibility towards them. Your duty is to protect them, love them, help them discover the true meaning of their existence. To deprive them of that… is monstruous.”
“To have a child is to help them blossom, to grow, to find themselves and to be free!”
Do you ever think about their opposite character arcs in S5 — one learning mercy and trust, the other developing a rage so strong it could destroy the world?
Do you ever think that if Felix can now have this exchange with his mum, and mean it:
“They’re all monsters!”
“Not all of them.”
Then there’s nothing stopping Adrien from saying this:
Félix: kidnapping is a love language
Kagami: you have no social skills, idiot
*two weeks later*
Félix: okay, so when Marinette's at her most vulnerable, I'll gaslight her into thinking I'm her boyfriend, so she'll follow me into an abandoned building where we can put her in an altered mental state and present to her my family's life story in the imaginable most cryptic play of theater she has ever seen, which will reveal to her our horrible secret and the fact that her abusive father-in-law is also her arch-nemesis
Kagami: you're so big brained, bae 🥰
if your takeaway from the “all I was good for was cracking jokes” line is “oh, it’s ladybug’s fault that he feels that way up until the end” and not “adrien has severely unexamined identity issues that have played an important part in his whole entire character arc and he will, while in this state, always fall back on the crushing feeling that he’s not enough--not strong enough, not loveable enough for the people around him--as a regression” then we do not watch the same show
I can't stop thinking about that time when Adrien picked up the trash can as soon as he heard Marinette sneeze and waited patiently until she was done.
And something i love about Adrien is that he (as Adrien not as chat noir thats a whole different thing) is like the chillest guy.
He just wants to go to school and make friends.
And now that he has that he's ready to protect his little friend group with everything he has. Hes never had this many friends before (*cough* fuck Gabriel Agreste *cough*) and hes so happy that he finally does.
It doesn't help at all that hes completely oblivious to marinettes crush on him. He's so sweet when he tries to hangout with her and indulges in her obvious want to get closer to him, bc he wants that too!
He wants to get close to this girl who is adored by everyone. He wants to become friends with marinette.
And hes so chill about it.
Almost all of the episodes from S1 where he's seen in class, he acts so nice and simple and I love that for him.
this clip is so adrien “i love my girlfriend marinette dupain-cheng i do not want a job or a future unless it is with my girlfriend marinette dupain-cheng whom i love” agreste coded
I haven’t been on Tumblr as much recently, but I am absolutely OBSESSED with @buggachat ‘s Bakery Enemies AU. I absolutely love it, even though each new update causes me pain on Adrien’s behalf. This poor boy needs a hug 💜