#ladybug theif au

[emdoddles]

Testing out the procreate gif setting with some Ladybug Thief AU

[so-were-heroes]

(If you’ve seen Hack-San) Who are the characters’ most precious possessions?

Dear Evan Hansen

Evan: Connor

Connor: Ladybug

Alana: Zoe… (Stay tuned)

Jared: Evan (He does care!)

Zoe: Connor

Be More Chill

Jeremy: Michael

Michael: Jeremy

Jenna: Christine

Christine: Probably the whole Squip Squad

Jake: Rich

Rich: Same as Christine

Chloe: Brooke

Brooke: Chloe

Mean Girls

Gretchen: Karen

Karen: Gretchen

Regina: She won’t admit it, but Gretchen

The Lightning Thief

Percy: Probably the whole group

Annabeth: Percy

Grover: Percy

Silena: Clarisse/Her makeup/Evan

Clarisse: Silena/Evan

Katie: Her plants/Evan

Heathers

Veronica: Martha/Heather M.

Heather C: …

Heather D: …

Heather M: Veronica

JD: Veronica/Veronica/Veronica/His Gun

Ram: A football/Kurt

Kurt: A football/Ram

My most precious possession: The fact that Nathaniel is Marc’s most precious possession, and this lovely image

[kenna-nor]

Marichat Day 4! Theif. Same Hogwarts AU. Chloe stole something from Marinette and Adrien is returning the favor. In the middle of the Great Hall. Because why not?

[miracu-less]

Theif AU-

Alya: *watches Chat Noir get thrown into a wall* Getting into trouble a little early today, aren’t you Chat?

Chat: Trouble? No way. You’re only in trouble if you get caught.

LadyBug: Gotcha!!! *lassos YoYo around his torso*

Chat: I’M IN TROUBLE! *gets yanked off screen*

[blursed-ninjago-ideas]

Blursed AUs masterlist.

This is a reference for all the AUs that are commonly talked about on this blog. The mods they are listed under are the mods in charge of content for it on this blog, not necessarily the creators of them. (* indicates that they are original to the the mod)

Mod Ivy

Kairro: Morro posses Kai instead of Lloyd. Things take a much different and darker turn since Morro and Kai are very alike.*

Overkill au/ Overkill!Zane: Zane develops a glitch named Overkill that convinces him the best way to protect his friends to to mind control them. Surprisingly, the ninja disagree!*

Serial Killer Nya/Serial Killer!Nya: Nya is a serial killer, and very over protective of Kai. Instead of Samurai X Nya creates the persona Mazoku X. Kai is aware of her habits, but largely in denial. She's a bad influence on Lloyd.*

Hypno Lloyd/ Hypno!Lloyd: Lloyd has oni hypnosis powers.*

Evil Hypno Lloyd/ Evil Hypno!Lloyd: Lloyd decides to use his oni hypnosis powers to force all his friends to turn evil with him. Nya is able to get away because she doesn’t have an elemental connection to Lloyd for him to exploit.*

Thief au/ Thief!Kai, Theif!Nya, and Thief!Lloyd: Kai and Nya were adopted by Ronin, later finding and adopting Lloyd as well. Zane, Cole, and Jay are the same and have to try and get these hooligans to cooperate with them to save Ninjago.

D&D au: All of the show is just a D&D campaign the characters are playing.*

Moviekhan: Nadakhan shows up in the Movie universe, the movie ninja force wish for someone that can defeat him, Show!Jay gets teleported into their universe and has to coach the much younger ninja and help them defeat Nadakhan.

Siren au: Nya and Kai are sirens. Jay is a pirate they kidnap and keep as a pet/friend. 

Djinn!Jay: Somehow Jay gets turned into a Djinn. He gets his own rules and his wish granting has it’s own quirks.

Villain Vibe: All the ninja are just evil and group up to be bad evil people and rule ninjago. Each are their own brand of bad guy though.*

Cyborg Jay/ Cyborg!Jay: Jay has been augmenting himself in secret and has a whole system of inventions he’s wires into himself.

Oni Misako au: Misako is an oni that was sent to Ninjago as a scouting party, but met Mystake, fell in love with Garmadon, and decided to just live in Ninjago instead of trying to destroy it.

Fate/Ninjago: A holy grail war featuring all your favorite Ninjago characters! (Or at least weird reincarnated substitutes of some of them.) Cross over with the Fate series.*

Ninjatubers: The ninja get Youtube channels for various reasons. Chaos ensues.

Tall Vampire Lady Misako: Misako is a Lady Dimitrescu style vampire. Garmadon is a simp for his giant wife. (There is no tag for this because it got out of hand too fast and there is no way I can dig through and find everything now.)

Grandpa Djinn: Darla was pregnant before Nadakhan's banishment and was Kai and Nya's great something grandmother. Nadakhan escaped the tea pot early and is delighted to take in his great something grandkids.

Uncle Krux: Multiple versions. Krux takes Kai and Nya in instead of leaving them to fend for themselves and either raises them to be evil, or slowly gives up on the evil plan. Alternatively, he gives up on the evil plan before he ever kidnapped Ray and Maya.

Brainwashed Kai (Mod Ivy's Version): Instead of just stealing Kai’s element, Aspheera decides to take him as well, brainwashing him into being her decorative pet

Mod Kat:

Miraculous au: Lloyd accidentally gets stuck in the Miraculous Ladybug universe, the rest of the ninja soon follow. Hawkmoth is his usual jerk, the ninja use some miraculous and just generally deal with the chaos all while they figure out how to get home.

Monkie Kid crossover: the ninja adopt a child from another realm when he randomly gets spit out by a portal directly in their front yard.*

Mod [R]

Amnesicpirate!Jay au/ Orpheus!Jay: Jay gets kidnapped by Nadakhan and has his memories stolen. Jay is told that he’s always lived on the Misfortune’s Keep and that his name is Orpheus. The ninja recognize him, he doesn’t know who they are or why they keep calling him “J”.

Bunker au/ Bunker!Kai: Movie!Kai finds an abandoned super villain lair under his house and decides to use it as his own personal secret clubhouse. Show!Kai ends up in the Movie universe and Movie!Kai puts him in the super villain bunker and keeps him a secret from everybody while Show!Kai figures out how to get home.

Cryptid Jay Aus: Jay is a Cryptid that endlessly builds towers that the ninja need to stop. 3 versions, Gay, Child* and Greiving.

Amongus!au: The ninja are aboard a spaceship, and everything is going fine. Until they realize there is an imposter on the ship, planning to kill everyone.*

Kai instead au: In the pilot, Kai gets taken by the skullkin instead of Nya. Now she has to go find her brother. Nya gets help from three students who are also trying to stop the skulkin, they also want some weapons that she couldn’t care less about.*

DHMIS!au: The ninja as the Dhmis characters. Things go about as well as expected.*

Animaniacs au: The Warners mess with a machine of the Brains, meant for Brain to use the help of alternate universe versions of himself. This causes the three Warners to to be teleported to this weird place called “ninjago”, like what a stupid name!*

Hadestown au: It’s the Hadestown musical. Garmadon is Persephone, Misako is Hades. (Plasma au)*

Wrong place wrong timeline: The ninja keep seeing the apparition of a strange person desperately trying to get to them, disappearing right before they get to them. When trying to learn more about what’s going on, they learn that Garmadon is a little more ruthless than they thought.*

Blog God (Departed)

Brainwashed Kai au/ Brainwashed!Kai: Instead of just stealing Kai’s element, Aspheera decides to take him as well, brainwashing him into being her servant.

Siren Jay au/ Siren!Jay: Jay is part siren on his mother’s side and doesn’t have perfect control over his siren powers.

Element Swap au/ Element Swap!Kai, and Element Swap!Nya: Nya is the master of Fire and Kai is the master of water.

Ghost of Time AU/ Ghost of time: Kai dies fighting Krux and Acronix in the timestream, causing him to be removed from time. Small evidence remains of him existing like a blurry video of his final moment. Kai’s ghost is outside of time and has virtually no memories. The ninja think he’s important, but can’t figure it out, plus there are some holes in their own memories where things don’t make sense. 

Duolingo Lloyd: Lloyd is the duolingo bird (with a gun) and terrorizes Kai in his nightmares. (and I guess now Misako has an alter ego named Rosetta Stone that’s the same thing)

[timetravelersdoctor]

Villains little bug bit 3

This one focuses on the class and the hawkmoth situation. It's salty. Hope you enjoy.

First things first, the classes reaction of marinette leaving. Most of the class felt like marinette was running from her problems not knowing she didn't have a choice.

The main three (Alya, Nino and Adrien) figured that she was embarrassed by the fact that everyone knew(thought) she was a theif and a cheater.

Lila soaks up the attention she gets for 'outing' a bully. She continues to lie and sometimes she'll say marinette called or texted a threat to her just to keep the illusion alive.

Before marinette moves away she becomes ladybug to explain that in order to keep the ladybug miraculous safe she will only come out after the akuma is defeated.

After that she introduces the new team members Ryuko and Viperion. She then proceeds to explain that these two will be helping out as permanent heros.

Chat does not like this and says as much. Ladybug explains that she won't be fighting because it would keep the ladybug miraculous safer and give hawkmoth less of a chance at getting both the cat and ladybug.

The new team starts off shaky due to the fact that chat became the self appointed leader.

Ladybug decides she's had enough and gets mad at him. She explains that just because she's still the leader she's just working behind the scenes. If he would use his comm he would hear her leading the team the way it's supposed to be lead.(in this au the phones the miraculous weapons have can become communication devices)

Because ladybug publicly stated she was not going to fight only fix the damages hawkmoth has his akumatized victims spend half the time trying to get the black cat and the other half looking for the ladybug.

So while it destroys more of the city sometimes it becomes slightly easier to defeat the akuma. At least as long as there's only one.

Ever since ladybug stoped coming to fights chat attempts to follow her in order to flirt and find out where she goes after fixing the damage.

Ladybug figures this out the 1st time he did it so she goes through this ling process of walking (swinging) around inorder to throw him off.

Eventually though she snaps at him and threatens to get the guardian involved if he doesn't stop. (He stops for a bit but then starts again)

When she learns of this she goes to fu and demands he take away the cat. He does so and marinette learns that chat and Adrien are one in the same.

Fu says that because the cat had already been in play since the beginning and with her sorta out of commission, either he or marinette has to give the black cat to someone.

Marinette decides to give the choice to the guardian. The guardian decides to give it to a certain coffee addicted hero that was stationed just in case someone needed to truly step in.

Also known as Red Robin and when he uses the cat miraculous he becomes chat volant (flying cat translated with google translate) he of course informs batman of the change.

With volant on the team they finally have what they need in order to figure out who hawkmoth is.

~extra tidbits that aren't too important to the story~

Alya decided to change the lady blog into a old hero support blog that bashes the new heros. For example: "hey everyone so and so did this but I bet you chat noir or Rena rouge could do better"

Because of lila's lies and Mlle. Bustier's lack of discipline the majority of the class can't (don't) get their work done. They're to busy helping Lila.

Every once in awhile a new 'student' will show up and be in class. Those 'students' are actually people observing the class as evidence on how the school runs.

So far the only problems they see are with the principle and Mlle. Bustier. They report to the school board and a certain split faced lawyer.

Ok next one might be the last and I'm debating on writing something based on this. So I hope you enjoyed this. (Edit: heh I forgot the tags...opps)

Tag list: @unknownvsworld @queenmj10 @heaven428 @iglowinggemma28 @queer-hufflepuff-writer @freshbark @smolplantmum @rouge-fandoms @echpr @sassakitty @sayuricorner @elijahcoser @princess-of-fangirls @coltaire

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AU Masterlist

Any and all asks for these AUs are more than welcome.

Kwaminette AU- AU where Marinette is Plagg and Tikki’s daughter. She’s a Kwami instead of a human, but she prefers to take on a human form because she likes interacting with humans. She’s the Panda Kwami of Balance, and the kwami of Cory Bernard/Panda Girl, my Miracusona. When she’s not helping out Cory, she’s busy trying to bond with Adrien. This one takes place within the show.

Miraculous Injustice AU- AU where the members of Team Miraculous are placed in the Injustice video game. The canon Team Miraculous gets sent to a dimension where the team is split up and akumas fight for both good and evil because Cat Noir turned evil after they found out Gabriel was Hawkmoth. The Quantic Kids (Felix, Bridgette, Melodie, Sparrow, Gavroche, Kim Mime, and Mercury) are included in this AU as well.

Dupain Cheng Kids AU- AU where Tom and Sabine adopt everyone in the Miracuclass as their child (except Adrien cause he’s their future son in law). Marinette keeps an eye for fellow classmates that don’t have the best home life. She then passes word to her parents, who fight tooth and nail to earn legal custody of said child (We don’t care they aren’t on the adoption list, they deserve to be in a home FULL OF LOVE).

Catbug AU- AU where Marinette has both the Black Cat and Ladybug Miraculouses. She calls herself Catbug. Plagg and Tikki are like a second set of parents to her, and she eventually develops a harem.

Mike and Mari AU- AU where Marinette has an older brother named Michael. He is her favorite thorn in her side as well as her go-to Miraculous Holder. He’s dating Miss Bustier and is going to school to become an interior designer.

Role Reversal AU- AU where Marinette and Adrien are switched Miraculouses. Lady Noire and Mister Bug protect Paris against Pavona and Hudie (Gina and Sabine); who want the Miraculouses to bring back Tom. Involves reverse crush and somewhat reverse life.

Adrien’s Monster AU- AU where Duusu summons a full time sentimonster to protect Adrien. He names it Hiss and it follows him everywhere he goes. Hiss and Plagg hate each other.

Supernatural AU- AU where everyone except Adrien (who’s still human) is a mythological creature. Marinette is a fairy, Kim and Rose are werewolves, Alix is a Hobbit, Mylene is a Dwarf. Juleka and Luka are vampires, Ondine is a mermaid, Ivan is an ogre, Alya is one of the last of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, Chloe is an elf, Lila is a changeling, Max is half-sphinx, Nathaniel is a brownie, Kagami is a yokai, Marc is a leprechaun, and Nino is a Kappa (though nobody knows). The Kwmais are fae creatures that run/protect the school. Miss Bustier is a pixie, Ms Mendeleiev is a witch, and Principal Damocles is the owl of Athena. Gabriel is secretly a hunter of mythical creatures and sent Adrien to the school so he could get closer to them. (Courtesy to @miraclesoup for some of these ideas)

Hive Guard AU- AU where Chloe keeps her Miraculous at the end of Miraculer, runs away, and becomes a freelance hero of sorts. She’s extremely active is trying to find and stop Hawkmoth and Mayura. She lives in the eiffel tower, and trains with Pollen every day. Nobody but Sabrina knows her location; and she becomes Queen Bee’s right hand.

Jurassic AU- AU where Emilie’s maiden name was Hammond, and one day Adrien discovers is grandfathers work and reopens Jurassic Park.

House Cat AU- AU where Cat Noir actually decides to date Marinette in Weredad and becomes the Dupain Cheng housecat.

Mother Peahen and Papallion AU- also known as the MP3 AU. AU where Duusu and Nooroo adopt Adrien after Heroes Day with Plagg as the greasy uncle.

Road Trip AU- An AU where Team Miraculous travels around the world looking for Lost Miraculouses after defeating Hawkmoth and Mayura. Ali and Aurore bear the Moth and Peacock Miraculouses in this AU.

Miraculous Descendants AU- An AU where Miraculous characters are in the movie Descendants. Most of them are the children of Akumas.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 AU- An AU where there are two boys that like Kagami. Conner (a new student from America who tries to make Kagami jealous by lying about Ryuuko being into him) & Hiroki (a rival from Japan that she beat who believes that she should be his girlfriend) & Luka/Viperion doesn't like how uncomfortable they make her or how angry they make her feel.

Guard Dragon AU (Rockstar!Luka & Bodyguard!Ryuuko AU)- An AU where Kitty Section's new bodyguard is so mysterious and tough. Anarka trusts her to keep her children and their friends (Juleka and Rose dating) safe. Ryuuko does not plan on letting her down, but with Luka? It's hard for our Lady in red black & gold to stay professional.

SongHeart & The Queen (Ryuuka's Beauty and The Beast AU)- Kim is Lumiere, Anarka as Maurice (great parents are great), Chloé and Sabrina as Gaston and LeFou (duh), Emilie and Adrien as Mrs Potts and Chip (need that adorable mother/son bond), Marinette is (a younger) Wardrobe (fashion girl!) and Luka's closest friend in the place. Luka is Belle and Ryuuko is the Beast. Instead of inanimate objects, they’re cursed to be akumas.

Scales and Whiskers AU- An AU where Ryuuko and Cat Noir fight over who gets to date Marinette. She eventually gets so sick of it that she just tells both of them to date her. Before she knows it, she’s got a superhero boyfriend and girlfriend.

Behind the Scenes AU- An AU where Miraculous actually is a show in the canon universe and the characters are all actors. Chloe and Rose are sisters from the South. Jagged, Marinette, and Kagami are siblings. Gabriel and Adrien are Uncle and Nephew, and Lila is Marinette’s best friend.

Akumavillian AU- An AU where everyone who has been akumatized has the ability to turn into their Akumas without the power of the Moth.

Cat’s Shipping Show AU- An AU where Cat Noir runs a blog dedicated to all the ships of Team Miraculous, because he’s shipper trash. He gives people the news on certain ships, and reviews ships as well.

Ghost Bug AU- An AU where the past Ladybug’s are attached to Marinette. They’re like her 24/7 Obi-Wan, and they’re a little Ladybug family. Turns out, everyone on Team Miraculous (plus Hawkmoth and Mayura) are in the same boat.

Sentibug AU- An AU where Bugette wasn’t destroyed by Mayura and instead becomes Ladybug and Cat Noir’s sidekick/daughter

Mom Pink AU- An AU where Pink appeared instead of Steven when his gem was taken out. Somehow they can both exist now and mother and son are reunited.

Adrien Universe AU- Steven Universe, but with Miraculous characters.

Momma Mayura AU- An AU where as soon as Stoneheart appeared, Nathalie grabbed the Peacock Miraculous and became Mayura. She fights on Ladybug and Cat Noir’s side to bring down Hawkmoth and quickly becomes the team mom.

Tales of Pegasus and King Monkey AU- An AU where Master Fu instead distributed the Horse and Monkey Miraculous and Kim and Max are the main characters of the show.

Chatroom AU- An AU where Team Miraculous has a group chat

Genderbend AU- An AU where everyone’s genders are swapped.

Teacher Kwamis AU- An AU where Miss Bustier is fired and the Kwamis take over teaching.

Frozen Dragons AU- A Hiccelsa AU that combines Frozen and How To Train Your Dragon. Basically, just before the events of Race To The Edge, Elsa and Hiccup have an arranged marriage and her, Olaf, Sven, Kristoff, and Anna are present for the events of the show and Dragons 2

Kumafeather AU- An AU where Max and Kim have the Moth and Peacock Miraculous and are trying to bring Max’s dad back. They call themselves Kuma and Dark Feather and are like that classic supervillain and dumb sidekick trope but they’re gay.

GrayBlue AU- An AU where Adrien and Marinette have the Moth and Peacock Miraculous and are trying to bring Emilie back. They call themselves Grayling and Beau Blue.

Mastermind Fu AU- An AU where Master Fu is evil and the Miraculass steal the Miracle Box to fight him.

Evil Miracuclass AU- An AU where the Miracuclass is evil and steals the Miracle Box. Master Fu must use the remaining Miraculous he has to fight them.

Marigod AU- An AU where Marinette and her parents are Gods.

Tangled Sisters AU- an AU where Cassandra grew up in the tower with Rapunzel and Varian is Flynn’s protege/adopted little brother. It’s be the same as the movie, just Cassarian, Aged Up!Varian of course, and the sister duo we deserve.

Apprentice AU- An AU where Master Fu was Emilie’s mentor. They have a father-daughter bond

Killer Princess AU- An AU where Juleka has the Moth and Rose has the Peacock

Timmy Dupain Cheng AU- An AU where Timmy (Sandboy) is Marinette’s foster brother and earns the Dog Miraculous under the name of Pup Fidele

Forbidden Love AU- An AU where Flynn is still a thief and Rapunzel is the ruler of Corona. The two of them have a little flirty to and fro, as he’s the most wanted theif in the kindgom and they both really dig each other but don’t want to admit it, not even to themselves. Lance is his sidekick and Kiera and Catalina are their young protégés. Meanwhile, Varian and Cass work under Raps. Cass as her royal adviser and personal bodyguard, and Varian’s her little brother and the royal alchemist.

Cousins AU- Inspired by the theory that Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna are cousins. An AU where they were there to celebrate her birthday in Secret of the Sundrop and went with her and the gang to the Dark Kingdom! Sven, Kristoff, and Olaf tag along too, of course.

Twins AU- An AU where Marinette and Kagami are long lost twins

The Prince and The Pup AU- An AU where Prince Ali starts going to Marinette's school after falling for the heroine known as Chien De Guarde after his first encounter with her. What he doesn't know is that Chien De Guarde is Sabrina Raincomprix.

Tales of Monarch and Chien de Guarde AU- An AU where Monarch and Chien are the main heroes

Tales of Ryuuko and Viperion AU- An AU where Ryuuko and Viperion are the main heroes

Tales of Ryuuko and King Monkey AU- An AU where Ryuuko and King Monkey are the main heroes

Elsa Padare AU- an au where Elsa is adopted by Cass and Varian

Gandalf Swears AU- An au where everything is the same except Gandalf swears

[bravechamomile]

Yep, I love combining amazing shows :D How could I miss such opportunity after watching Carmen Sandiego??

About this AU:

• Found as a little child, Mari (as everyone called her) was taught in a secret school for theifs (V.I.L.E.), later discovering it’s true evil aims. It’s led by few highly ranked people (Nathalie Sancoeur, Audrey Bourgeois, Mater Fu and Mr. Damocles). Of course, they need money to operate their plans, but they are also playing a much bigger game - always in search of powerful MIRACULOUSES.

On her way escaping, Mari managed to steal the very first-found miraculous, which was just transported to VILE. By opening the little box with earrings, she released Tikki, and was granted with Ladybug powers. After escaping the island of her school, she became the new Ladybug.

Despite VILE’s desire to collect ALL miraculouses, their main priorities are the Ladybug and long lost Chat Noir miraculous. 

• She was not alone on her journey. The very skilled hacker, who named himself Player (in this AU it’s Max), was her friend, communicating with her with a phone she stealed a few months before her exams in VILE. After her escape and becoming a new Ladybug holder, he provided her with useful tech and information, for her to steal from VILE everything THEY stole/ are stealing, They are also in search of different documents/ artifacts/ clues about other miraculouses whereabouts (to secure them before VILE founds them first)

• Adrien Agreste: is a junior inspector, assigned to help inspector Roger Raincomprix to catch the international thief - Ladybug. Adrien is assured she is a criminal, and after their first encounter, wants to personaly put her in jail and prove himself on his new occupation. She often teases him, and his attempts to catch her always fail. 

• Chloe Bourgeois: is an additional junior inspector in the Ladybug case. She was raised by her father (who happened to be a mayor) and despite her sometimes abrupt attitude, she is very supportive to Adrien - her childhood friend, with whom she is best friends even now. Her father wanted her to choose a mature career, and decided to give her the same path as Adrien - in hopes he’ll also help her to adjust. At first she was against it, but with time her new job started to grow on her.

• Luka Couffaine: was Mari’s best friend in VILE, goes now by a nickname Waver (his tech device allows him to shoot sound waves on a frequency hurtful for humans, when he is always wearing specially designed earplugs to avoid their influence. While his victims are struggling with it’s effect, he attacks them while they’re disoriented). Is a very skillful fighter. Became an orphan at a very little age, left without any family.

That’s all for now! There’s more to come soon, because I’m planning to expand this AU. There’s so much more to tell, guys! I hope you enjoyed it and will wait for the continuation :D If you have any questions, I would gladly answer them (if they’re not too spoiler-ly) ;p

For now I’ll go with Miraculous Carmen, but may change the name later

[Part 1]

[princess-of-the-corner]

Last Ladybug AU concept I promise. Okay that’s a lie but you know what I mean

But I found an old post that’s about a Miraculous Ladybug Phantom Theives AU and like usual I want to go hog wild.

So:

Ladybug and Chat Noir are Phantom Thieves by night. They have the sort of Sly Cooper/Robin Hood/Leverage type thing going on, only stealing from other thieves or criminals.

By day, Marinette and Adrien use their jobs as detectives to find new targets and keep suspicion away from themselves, and arrest the criminals they target.

However: Ladybug and Chat are Rivals, who have no idea that the other is their detective partner that seems dedicated to finding out their identity.

Okay, first, let me address the ‘Phantom Thief’ thing. Like how it works and the culture around it

Being a Phantom Thief is like being a thief, but also a Magician, Actor, and Attention Whore.

While thievery is the main part, there’s the theatrics. Outsmarting your target, stealing everything not nailed down, and avoiding the police, along with over-dramatic bragging to the reporters, yet always getting away somehow.

Like, in this modern age, the only reason heists aren’t livestreamed are that it would make it too easy for the cops. But the thieves might occasionally post videos(untraceable, of course.)

Some Thieves announce targets beforehand, hyping it up and making the heist more of a challenge. Some take the ‘Phantom’ part literally, only leaving a calling card after the fact. Others do something in the middle, purposely sending an alarm out half-way through, which makes the heist itself easier, but gives them a bigger crowd.

The culture about it is kind of weird. People enjoy the ‘show’, and the more of a ‘show’ you put on the bigger fanbase you get. But, ultimately, even if kids think it’s cool and all, most everyone agrees ‘yeah, they’re still criminals, let the cops handle this’.

Side note: While our heroes are the ‘steal from actual bad guys and help the good guys’ type, some thieves are legit bad guys. But we’re not going into that.

And before I get to our main characters, some notes on the Miraculous in this AU:

The Miraculous and the Kwami still exist in this AU, but they’re less… Good vs. Evil. I mean, while the Phantom Theives are technically doing good, stealing from actual evil people, the Kwami aren’t meant to be given to Heroes. They just exist and give power to those who wield the Miraculous.

As for how everyone got their Miraculous… I debated about still having a Guardian handing them out, or possibly you have to ‘win’ it from someone and all our thieves found theirs in someone’s collection on their first heists, but….

Idk. I think I’m going more ‘random chance’ combined with ‘Magic is attracted to Magic’. Basically the Miraculous ended up in the possession of our characters out of random chance, but because Magic attracts Magic, they all end up close to one another, even within the same family.

The Miraculous’ powers are a bit different. They can stay transformed indefinitely, even if they use their Power, but the Power has a much longer cooldown instead of just ‘detransform, eat, transform again’.

One part of the power that is completely nerfed is the part about ‘the Ladybug and the Black Cat combined gives ultimate power’ thing. They just have their normal Creation/Destruction Powers.

That said, while the Magic is still there, it’s a bit downplayed, as all have the usual thief skills that you’d expect.

Onto the characters: I’m keeping it to just the ‘main set’ of Miraculous. For now. So the Zodiac Set doesn’t really exist. The characters themselves do, and are allies to our cast, but they don’t have actual powers. Also, in case it wasn’t obvious, the characters are all bumped up in age in this. Like, the teens are in their early-to-mid-twenties.

Marinette/Ladybug

Obviously a Ladybug themed Phantom Thief.

Leader of a ‘team’.

She uses the power of Creation to make temporary fakes to buy time (no one’s looking for a painting that isn’t missing), or sometimes to get out of desperate situations. Sometimes she can even conjure up disguises.

During the day she’s a Detective hunting down the various thieves around the world. She uses this to find new targets. Ladybug’s team shows up and robs them blind, then Marinette’s team comes in to arrest them.

After encountering Chat Noir on a heist, she focuses on catching him. She keeps trying to figure out who he is, and how to finally take him down. Of course, that’s difficult when they’re face-to-face in the field. He’s pretty and charming, and their ideals would have them make a great team. Perhaps once she finds him, she’ll offer to let him work for her instead of arresting him.

However, there is her detective partner, Adrien. While he’s great and wonderful and Mari will admit to having a crush on him, it’s a bit difficult to let him get close to her with how obsessed he is with finding Ladybug.

Adrien/Chat Noir

A Cat-themed thief

Leader of his ‘team’.

He uses the power of Destruction. Sometimes it��s needed if a safe takes too long to crack, or occasionally used to make a quick getaway through a wall.

Chat uses the same tactics as Ladybug, though neither knows it. You’d think they’d figure it out when Ladybug and Chat Noir show up for the same night of a heist, but they’re a little oblivious.

Chat and Ladybug met on a heist, and while he got away with the treasure they were both after, Ladybug stole something far more valuable: His heart. Adrien would love to make her part of the team, but Ladybug has made a game out of it: she has to catch him first. Too bad he can never be caught.

On the other hand, his detective partner, Marinette… the fire and determination in her when she’s tracking down his secret identity, well, Adrien has to keep himself from giving up and letting her cuff him, if you know what I mean.

Alya/Rena Rouge

Fox -themed thief

Main member of Ladybug’s team.

Uses the power of Illusion to create distractions and keep the guards busy while she and Ladybug grab the target.

By day, Alya is a reporter. She uses her job to gather info for Ladybug, and also get her access to high-profile places. (News coverage on galas, or famous people giving interviews, etc.)

While she’s suspicious of Chat and his team, she actually trusts Adrien completely. She knows Marinette has feelings for him, and thinks he’d ‘turn to the dark side’ if they offered for him to join the team.

She’s also interested in another theif, but we’ll get to him later.

Chloé/Honeybee

Bee-themed, of course

Main member of Chat Noir’s team.

Her Power, Venom, is used to stun guards. Also, because I want more Sly Cooper jokes here and I can’t let go of the Honeybee AU, instead of a spinning top, Honeybee’s weapon is more like the Cooper Cane.

Chloé’s parents are still the same, her dad the mayor and her mother the Fashion bitch. She gets easy access to mansions and galas, always invited and bringing Adrien as her Plus One. But this also gives her access to information, dirt on various targets.

She is impressed by Ladybug and her team, admitting that they might be just as good as Chat Noir and Honeybee , but she’s suspicious of Marinette. She plays nice because Adrien likes her, but she’s concerned about her focus on Chat Noir.

While many people believe she’s into Adrien, some even believing they’re a couple due to how often he’s her ‘Plus One’ to events, they’re far more sibling-like for reasons I’ll get into later.

Nino/Carapace

Turtle themed, naturally.

Carapace is actually somewhat neutral, a member of both teams. They all know this, of course. But they also know he’s incredibly loyal, and won’t give away anything to the ‘other side’.

He’s rarely in the field, usually the tech guy hacking into things (Look, I already pulled out the Sly Cooper references. Let me have hacker turtle.). But when he is needed, Shell-ter can keep them safe from guards and traps.

Nino is of course DJ for his main job.  

He’s good friends with both teams, in both identities. He doesn’t actually know anyone’s secret identities though. That said, he does think the ‘rivalry’ is a bit silly, since he’s worked with both and knows that they’d easily become a fantastic team.

He’s been dating Alya for a while now. It’s not yet time to get to the ‘hey, honey, I love you and I should probably tell you I’m a master thief’ talk. But they’re soon getting there.

Gabriel and Emilie/Paon and Mariposa.

So…. here’s the thing….Why isn’t it ‘Hawkmoth and Mayura’?

Because I have old headcanons about things that involve Gabriel being the Peacock and Emilie as the Butterfly, but they did switch sometimes.

The switch was usually when other skills were needed. Like, as I said they don’t rely 100% on their magic. They have other thief skills and they have different strengths and weaknesses. Emilie was better at sneaking(since she’s smaller), Gabriel was better at safe-cracking and disarming traps(More detail-oriented), etc.

So, like, sometimes they’d need the Butterfly’s power near a trapped room, and the Peacock’s power in a place only accessible by small vents or something and they’d switch for the night.

It did help keep the cops on their toes, since they weren’t predictable.

I’m not entirely sure how their powers would work other than distracting guards, but tbh I might change the Peacock’s powers(I kinda hate it’s canon powers anyway, but that’s a conversation for another time.)

Gabriel and Emilie were actually training Adrien and Chloé, hoping to pass the titles of Paon and Mariposa on to them.

Training Adrien is obvious, but why train Chloé? Because she is Adrien’s best friend for most of his life and does show skill in it early on.

The Agrestes practically adopt Chloé. Her mother is never even in the country, and her dad is usually too busy, so she spent nearly all her time with Adrien and his parents. Especially once they decided to train her.

While Chloé does still love her actual dad, since he tries to be a good parent, she hates her mother and is hoping to one day target her as Honeybee. She thinks of Gabriel and Emilie as her parents more than them.

However, on a job where Gabriel and Emilie had switched powers, there was an accident. I’ll go into detail what all happened to her, but while she is still alive, she’s taken out of the game and the Peacock Miraculous is broken.

Realizing how dangerous this life is(well, they always knew this was dangerous, but this was too close a call), Gabriel and Emilie decide to go back on that training. Paon and Mariposa ‘retire’, and forbid the kids from trying to get into this more than they already have.

Then Adrien and Chloé find the Cat and the Bee, becoming thieves on their own. They’re figured out pretty quickly, since Chat Noir and Honeybee use many tactics that Paon and Mariposa used.

While Gabriel and Emilie are hesitant to let them do this, they also knows they can’t stop them now. They resign to mostly minor mentoring, keeping out of too much danger, but not going out of their way to help with heists.

That said, if there was ever a situation dangerous enough, Gabriel might become Hawkmoth to help them. (Due to reasons I’ll explain later, Emilie can’t use the Butterfly and the Peacock is broken).

Of course, Paon and Mariposa are kind of legendary in the business. Like, they were very well known and.. I don’t want to say ‘well loved’ since they were thieves, but you know. They had a lot of fans. It’s a big mystery of what happened, because a few years ago they suddenly ‘disappeared’. Most people speculate that they died, since they would’ve pulled another heist again if they were still around.

Onto other story elements:

What happened to Emilie

So, I don’t have exact details, but she gets very injured and the Peacock is broken.

Her physical injuries are enough to take her out of the game, at least for a long while. She definitely recovers after a good bit of time. But the Magic Backlash of breaking the Peacock has made her Magic unstable. She can’t even safely use the Butterfly.

So she ends up retiring entirely.  

Because of this, Chat Noir and Honeybee tend to focus on finding Magic items to steal, since they could potentially fix the Peacock Miraculous and/or Emilie’s Magic.

Even if they are aware that the Ladybug Miraculous could do this, they aren’t entirely aware that Ladybug has it. The Ladybug theme could be coincidence, but even then, it’s not enough of an emergency that they’d steal it from her. After all, Chat is sure that Ladybug will willingly join him eventually.

Ladybug and Chat’s ‘rivalry’ starts early on in their careers

Both had done enough to establish themselves beforehand. So when they run into each other and the rivalry starts, their ‘fans’ get invested.

the first time they meet is actually the first time Marinette and Adrien happen to be working a case together as detectives, actually

Ladybug and Chat Noir planned a heist for the same night. They run into each other in the treasure room, and fight over the prize.

They have some wonderful flirt banter, but ultimately, Ladybug kind of kicks his ass

Only reason Chat wins is because of Honeybee using Venom

Now, every time they meet, they have their flirt banter and try to one-up each other, both in general ‘impressing with thief skills’ and also getting the loot and running off.

Marinette and Adrien get along very well though

They have an issue at first, basically this AU’s version of the gum incident.

When they’re assigned to partner together, the first day involved Adrien sort of panicked and leading her in a wrong direction because of the ‘I don’t want her to figure out that this ‘investigation’ is me casing the place’ thing.

Mari thinks it’s him being a jackass about having to work with her, or disrespecting her for being a girl detective or some thing.

He does apologize later, and it’s all good

They end up as close friends. Obvs Mari is still a bit nervous because of her crush(as is Adrien tbh), but in this AU she’s a grown ass adult instead of a teenager, so she is able to reign in her anxieties and isn’t nearly as wild.

So, the other’s friendship with Chloé is a little different than Canon

Chloé is less of an outright bitch in this AU. This is because she realized early on that her real mom is terrible, therefore she stopped trying to imitate her and impress her. And the Agrestes provided genuine parental affection.

She’s still very blunt and can come off as rude, especially to people who haven’t yet earned her trust.

But because she wasn’t going out of her way to bully people, she doesn’t have much of a history with Marinette and Nino, and while Alya was quick to judge her as some dumb rich girl coasting on daddy’s money, she reconsiders once they start hanging out.

Since I’m discussing personality changes, let’s discuss the differences between the Agrestes.

Gabriel is still a bit emotionally distant, though the Persona he uses for Paon balances this out since ‘Paon’ is very dramatic(Look, the man is a Peacock. They are known for it.)

However, the biggest shift between Canon personality is due to Emilie. I mean, first off she’s alive and all so he doesn’t have a reason to go off the deep end and become a supervillain. She also balances him out when he’s being a bit of a fuck.

Both are protective of Adrien, but considering they were training him for a dangerous life, they do give him his freedom. He still has to sneak out though since getting past the house’s alarm system is good practice!!

That said, they didn’t start training him until he was a teenager. They probably taught him simpler skills, like lockpicking and safe cracking as a kid, but anything dangerous like disarming traps waited until he was older

Speaking of Adrien, he did go through a ‘rebellious phase’. As I said, sneaking out. This was very enabled by Chloé, since as much as she loves Gabriel and Emilie, she does think Adrien should get out more.

He’s a good bit more independent now, partly because when he started ‘rebelling’ they listened and gave him more freedom, and partly because he is an adult and has technically moved out.

Next, let’s discuss Carapace being the middle man between Ladybug and Chat’s rivalry.

He thinks the rivalry is dumb, and doesn’t even bother keeping it going

literally, if he’s working with both teams on the same heist, he’ll have them run into each other and be like ‘work together damn it!!’.

He’s probably the closest to figuring out everyone’s identities though.

Especially since Rena and Carapace are kind of crushing on each other but have discussed ‘look I’m already in a relationship so I’m not gonna fuck that up’, but they keep noticing things that are just a little too similar. Which makes Nino notice similarities between everyone else.

He’s mostly staying in denial because if he’s right then he’s not sure he wont just punch something in frustration.

The Kwami!!!

Okay, so, as I mentioned, the Kwami still exist. But they’re entirely neutral instead of forces for Good. They don’t care what their Chosen use their powers for, as long as said Chosen is someone Worthy of the Powers. All have been used for both Good and Evil in the past.

Plagg, Pollen, Nooroo and Duusu all hang out together since their current Chosen are family.

Side note: While the Peacock is broken, this doesn’t effect the Kwami entirely. Duusu kind of flickers in and out for Human perspective, but the Kwami can always see them.

Tikki and Trixx hang out as well, since Mari and Alya share an apartment.

Wayzz is a bit lonely, but since Nino has his own place he doesn’t have to hide.

Plus, they can hang out whenever their Chosen are together

Because the Kwami can sense one another’s presence, and figured out who was who. They don’t tell anyone though because they find the drama too entertaining.

Next question: Do their families know and how do they feel about the Phantom Thieves?

For the most part, no, families don’t know. But I’ll go individually.

Marinette’s parents are still bakers, and they don’t know that she’s Ladybug. However, while her parents agree that two wrongs don’t make a right, Mari assures them that these thieves aren’t that bad, and are actually fairly helpful to taking down actual bad guys.

Alya’s parents are pretty much the same. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they seem to be doing good.

Her younger sisters are actually very invested in the thieves, thinking it’s super cool! Big fans of Ladybug and Rena Rouge (Alya is low-key proud about this)

Her older sister, on the other hand, well… Nora is in the same boat as the parents, but she’s concerned over how much Ella and Etta idolize the thieves, since they are technically idolizing criminals.

Their parents don’t think it’s that bad. It’s a cool thing a lot of people are into. It’s not going to ruin the fabric of society since these kids still understand that stealing is a crime.

It causes some problems since in her over-protectiveness, Nora sometimes says some hurtful things toward the thieves, not knowing she’s insulting Alya.

Nino’s family are also similar, but they don’t know about Carapace since he’s more behind-the-scenes. They do keep telling him that since he’s so talented with computers, he should do something more with that instead of just music. If only they knew…

Chloé’s parents are more outright against the thieves.

Her dad has to be, since he’s the mayor. In private he does express that he’s thankful to Chat Noir and Honeybee, since they’ve exposed several corrupt politicians, which has helped him with his job.

Her mother, on the other hand, well… her mother is one of the kinds of people that they would target. And several of her friends have already been arrested because of their crimes being exposed. She doesn’t care what crimes her buddies committed, just that they got caught. Every conversation between them is like: Audrey: “I miss going to the Merciers’ Holiday parties. They always hired the best catering.” Chloé: Yeah, too bad he was arrested for ripping off innocent people with insurance fraud. Just hire the same catering business.’.

Since we already know what Adrien’s parents think of all this, let’s discuss Nathalie!

She’s a friend of Gabriel and Emilie’s, and did become Gabriel’s assistant at his day job.

However, she was not really part of their Thief work. She knew about it, of course. She couldn’t know them as long as she did without knowing them. And se would help in casing places and planning things, but stopped short of fully helping because they wanted to let her have some plausible deniability should they get caught.

Nathalie did pick up some skill over the years, like lockpicking and dodging traps.

Adrien and Chloé see her as a big sister. She would usually babysit while Gabriel and Emilie were out.

First heists:

Chat Noir and Honeybee’s first heist was against some corrupt politician.

Right after Emilie’s accident and they were forbidden from doing things, Adrien and Chloé found their own Miraculous.

While they’d been casing a few potential targets, they picked this politician after one fancy dinner event thing where he pissed off Chloé in particular, and they decided to hit him first.

After the heist, when the news was reporting, they said that it had several classic hallmarks of Paon and Mariposa. Gabriel and Emilie are watching this report and giving each other the ‘please tell me they didn’t...’ look. When news then shows Chat Noir and Honeybee showing off for the cameras, they recognize their kids.

Ladybug and Rena Rouge’s first heist happened in this AU’s version of Silencer.

Marinette and Alya found the Miraculous. They wonder what exactly to do with them, even thinking about becoming Superheroes.

When their friends start a band and are ripped off, they use their powers to break into the studio to find proof of this.

They didn’t mean to become Phantom Thieves, but they were good at it. So they keep going.

Carapace

I’m not sure about his first heist. It was probably something personal, but he covered his tracks well enough when he first did it. And he decided to keep going, righting wrongs and all that.

Nino would’ve been a thief before finding the Miraculous, but he found it soon after and got his ‘theme’.

Paon and Mariposa

Their first heists were years ago, before Adrien was born. Hell, Gabriel’s first heist was before he and Emilie got together.

I feel like this started with Gabriel being in a similar position Ladybug and Rena Rouge. Like, he’s still a Fashion Designer, and some asshole ripped off his designs so he used his power to find proof. Then kept with it.

He was originally a solo act until he met Emilie. He eventually sat her down for the ‘hey I’m a master thief’ talk, and she wanted in. She already had the Butterfly, but had yet to do anything with it.

Let’s talk about the other characters for a little bit. AKA, the classmates. I don’t have specific ideas for all of them yet, but the basic idea is that they’re various contacts in the business. Some are people with special skills, others are contacts to sell things, and a few people who can gather info or give them access to their targets. All of them would have their own codenames too, each corresponding to their in-show Hero Persona. But most of those haven’t been revealed yet so you know. Not sure how their Akuma forms would work at all.

Sabrina – A friend of Chloé’s. Information gatherer. She’s good at remaining invisible, so to speak. People don’t notice her, allowing her to hear secrets. Exclusive to Chat’s team, doesn’t know their identities(she thinks the info she gives to Chloé is for her dad’s political career)

Alix – Museum contact. Good at figuring out value and origins of the various treasures they steal. Not to mention that she knows how to break into various other museums. Also a great getaway driver. Works for both teams, no clue about identities.

Nathaniel – Art world contact. Oh, you have a valuable painting? Hm. Looks like its worth a few million. Let me find you someone who could buy that. Works for both teams, no clue about identities.

Max – While he can rival Carapace’s hacking skills, his specialty is in robotics, flying drones and stuff. Works for both teams, no clue about identities.

Kim – trap and weapon expert. While our thieves do rely more on Magic, they do sometimes need more mundane tools. None of them kill, only subdue. Works for both teams, no clue about identities.

Members of Kitty Section – The band itself is a way for Marinette and Alya to have access, as they’re invited to places as either guests or entertainment, and can bring along a friend or two. Exclusive to Ladybug’s team, suspect Marinette and Alya are the thieves, but decide it’s better not to know in case one of them gets caught.

Some of them do have special skills on their own, but I can’t think of them right now.

I’m going to go ahead and say that Luka is Marinette’s ex. They broke up on good terms with little heartbreak and are still very close friends, but they’re no longer together. (Luka does give Adrien the ‘you hurt her and I’ll fight you’ talk. I mean so does everyone but you know.)

Kagami – Along with fencing she does a different kind of fencing if you know what I mean. Originally exclusive to Chat’s team, but does end up working for both. She might know identities, but idk.

I want to say she used to date either Adrien or Chloé, but whichever one it was they’ve since broken up(on good terms)

Back to Story:

More on the Lovesquare:

Adrienette – very cute, as usual. Everyone thinks they’re a couple. Literally the only thing keeping them from getting together is ‘if we hook up I have to tell you about my secret identity and you might hate me/arrest me’.

Ladynoir – oh. If you thought their flirt banter was bad as partners, imagine the Rival Flirt Banter. During the whole mission the rest of the team are always like ‘uh… would you two like to take a time out while we handle this?’.

Ladrien – This doesn’t get much interaction, because Ladybug doesn’t want Adrien to catch her. I mean, she trusts him enough to know that even if he does catch her, he cares enough about ‘Marinette’ that he probably would let her go. But she thinks he might hate her for it. When they do meet, she’s more reserved than usual, which always throws Adrien off.

Marichat – oh boy. While there is still the fear in the ‘she might hate me if she finds out it’s me’, and they don’t interact much, Chat’s mindset is more ‘if anyone is to catch me, it will be you. And if you manage it, you deserve to know.’. So he can’t help but flirt with Marinette. And since she has no fear of Chat finding out who she is, she flirts back.

I haven’t addressed the fashion!

So, Gabriel’s day job is still fashion designer. That was his original dream anyway, before becoming Paon. While he does take it seriously, like the rest of the thieves he uses it to gather information on targets. Especially because no one thinks of a fashion designer as a threat.

Marinette is in a similar boat. She wants to be a designer, and was heading there before becoming Ladybug. She hasn’t exactly ‘quit’, as she still designs and makes outfits in what spare time she has, but her other jobs take up most of her time.

Mari actually didn’t make the connection between Adrien and Gabriel until Adrien is like ‘hey my dad wanted to ask why you stopped designing?’. Like, she knew Gabriel had a son her age and obvs she knew Adrien’s last name, but why would the son of a famous fashion designer be a detective?

After she does make the connection, she starts to stammer something about how she doesn’t want Adrien to ask his dad about this, because she doesn’t want to use their friendship to further her career even if it’s a career she hasn’t furthered in a while.

Adrien’s like ‘Oh no. I just mentioned your name and he remembered you from a while back. You won a few of his contests and designed for a couple celebrities. He thought you had a lot of talent but then you disappeared and he was wondering what happened.’.

She explains that while she still likes it and would love to be a designer, various things get in the way. Adrien says that if she ever wants to try again she has an invite from his dad. Mari kinda dies.

Of course, all of this leads up to the eventual story line where they do end up teaming up to go after a specific target. Why would they team up now even though they’ve been targeting the same people for months? Well, because they have not just a mutual target, but a mutual enemy.

Adrien comes into work one day to find Marinette studying images from a recent heist.

From the images, it looks like Rena Rouge has gone off the rails. Not only pulling a heist without Ladybug, but pulling a heist on an innocent target.

Adrien finds it odd, wonders what happened, but the way Marinette practically growls at him when he suggests that Ladybug and Rena had a fight makes him think otherwise.

Mari can’t tell him, of course, but Rena has a solid alibi. In fact, Adrien is part of that Alibi since the five of them had been hanging out that night.

Hm… a Fake Fox… You know where I’m going with this.

Next heist, Rena can’t keep herself from addressing the press when they showed up. ‘Hey, heard there’s someone out there impersonating me! Not cool man!’.

A few days later, there’s confirmation of a different Fox-themed Thief. ‘Volpina’.

She plays off the whole ‘Rena Rouge’ thing, claiming that she’s the real Fox, and Rena is just copying her.

Then she takes it a step further, claiming to be Paon’s successor, after he dropped his last ‘Assistant’, Mariposa for being so inadequate.

Both teams are fucking pissed.

Ladybug and Chat both try and call Carapace at the same time, asking him to get them in contact with the other. He’s just connects them now.

Both are immediately like ‘I need you to help kick Volpina’s ass!’.

They’re a little surprised. While Chat knew that Ladybug was upset about Volpina’s Fox theme, he didn’t expect her to ask him for help.

Ladybug, in turn, asks him why he wants her help with this.

He claims that it’s about honor. Volpina’s claim of being Paon’s successor is insulting enough, but she went on suggesting that Paon would be okay with her methods and choice of targets. And bringing Mariposa into the mix is despicable.

Everyone notices that it seems personal, but he doesn’t go into it.

They all agree to meet at Carapace’s base.

After our five Thieves get together and start working out the details of how this will go, someone else shows up. A man, about twice their age, in a purple suit and mask.

Chat and Honeybee are surprised, but grinning.

Ladybug and Rena are on the defensive.

Carapace asks how the hell he got in there without setting off the alarms. The man replies with ‘I’m a Phantom Thief. It’s what I do.’.

When asked on his name, he tells them that while he used to go by ‘Paon’, it doesn’t quite fit his new outfit. Hawkmoth sounds much better, doesn’t it?

Honeybee mutters something about him being dramatic.

Cue Ladybug, Rena, and Carapace freaking the hell out over Paon. Like trying not to fangirl.

After that, identities start to fall apart.

It starts when Chat refers to Hawkmoth as ‘Father’. When they’re like ‘wait, what?’, he just gives his best cat grin and says ‘told you Volpina wasn’t Paon’s sucessor’. They also take a moment to clarify Volpina’s words about Mariposa, saying she wasn’t an ‘assistant’, but Paon’s partner and wife of several years.

I actually think it’d be hilarious if Gabriel figures out the identities first. It happens when Ladybug is taking a break, having gotten frustrated. She decided to start sketching something out, and he recognizes the style as Marinette’s. Of course he makes the connection to the other two friends being the other two thieves.

Gabriel doesn’t tell any of the team. He goes home to Emilie, tells her, and she’s just laughing at how ridiculous and convoluted it is.

The biggest reveal, of course, is between Chat and Ladybug.

While they’re planning this out, trying to pin down Volpina so they can target her like usual, they realize that this feels a lot like working with their detective partner. Each can barely keep from saying their partner’s name instead of their ‘rival’s’ name.

Chat gets an idea. A very bad and dumb idea.

When Ladybug leaves for a break and goes back home as Marinette, she finds Chat waiting for her.

He offers her a deal. She helps him take down Volpina, and she’ll get him. He admits it’s a gamble, but he has a feeling she won’t actually arrest him. The only part of it is that she’s not allowed to go after the rest of his ‘team’.

Mari is amused, and knows there’s probably a trick to let him not get caught at the last second, but she agrees to the deal. She does manage to text Rena and tell her not to react to what’s happening.

Chat leads her back to the base. Hawkmoth is amused at Chat’s decision because of who it is. Honeybee is pissed because ‘damn it she’s trying to arrest you don’t bring her here!’. Carapace almost gives himself away because he nearly forgets that he doesn’t know ‘Marinette’.

At first, they set up as a ‘Marinette will help us’ thing. But, honestly, it’s Hawkmoth telling her to do away with the trick. Because it’d be easier if she just helps instead of pretending to be two people.

Marinette and Rena are a bit shocked he figured her out so quick, but agree.

Marinette admits to being Ladybug. Everyone realizes that means Rena is Alya.

Chat just decides ‘well, since we’re telling secrets here...’, and reveals his own identity to them. Obvs they connect Chloé to Honeybee and Hawkmoth/Paon to Gabriel(along with Emilie being Mariposa)

Mari has a minor freakout over how her two idols in both professions are the same person.

Carapace just starts ranting with a ‘this is complete bullshit I can’t believe you idiots’ and detransforms into Nino half-way through

They find out the Kwami knew the whole time and there’s several shouts of ‘you little fucker!!’.

Mari and Adrien kinda have a talk on their own

Mostly just the ‘hey, now that I know you won’t arrest me...’.

Legit though, they had fallen in love twice and now it’s kind of a thing. They do agree that they should probably put off the part where they get all snuggly and all until after this job.

You do get some flirting like Adrien saying ‘Well, even if you won’t arrest me, you can still put me in cuffs.’. (Chloé overhears that and passive-agressively kinkshames him)

At some point, they discover that the Ladybug Miraculous might be able to fix other Miraculous, and the Balancing Ability of it and the Black Cat might be able to fix Emilie’s unstable Magic.

Oh yeah. Paon and Mariposa are back in action!

Jokes aside, they decide to make ‘taking down Volpina’ be their last heist, officially and publicly calling Chat and team their ‘Successors’.

Back to them tracking down Volpina

They find out that most of their other contacts have been in contact with her (You know, to parallel Lila manipulating the class).

At first they were a bit enraptured with the idea of ‘Paon’s successor’ and liked working with her, despite their hesitation with her methods.

But since Ladybug and Chat have the real Paon, along with the real Mariposa, they can prove that Volpina has no clue what she’s talking about.

The actual heist is a beautiful amount of fuckery.

The main team of seven doing their own various parts, disabling trap after trap and stealing anything not nailed down.

They call in literally everyone just to make this seem as easy and ‘fuck you’ as possible.

And it actually does go really smoothly. Perhaps overkill, but they wanted to make sure.

All of the attention this gets is WILD

I mean, I mentioned people being fans of the thieves. And can you imagine how much all this is for them?

Ladybug and Chat’s team up being official, along with a definite ‘She pulls him into a kiss in celebration’ thing.

The return of Paon and Mariposa, along with it being their Finale

Them calling the whole team their successors, though dropping the drama bomb of Chat being their legit kid.

The fact that they returned just to spite some new thief who insulted them on such a personal level.

Also, Volpina herself had gotten a lot of fame quickly, so her downfall is very big.

After that, Paon and Mariposa officially retire, Ladybug and Chat officially team up permanently, Marinette and Adrien get together, and they all have happily ever after and stuff.

[cornerverse]

Had to use the Phantom Theif AU!

[emdoddles]

I’m testing the poll system, please vote!

[so-were-heroes]

Me, sees Hydra: 😃

Me, noticing he only appears on one chapter: 😔

Does this cheer you up a bit?

[ao3feed-ladynoir]

Operation: Sleepover

Operation: Sleepover by eclare writes

(Takes place in that period of time/AU in Chat Blanc where Marinette and Adrien are dating and he knows she's Ladybug but she doesn't know he's Chat Noir)

Adrien somehow got permission to have Marinette stay the night at his house. They're both nervous teenagers who are really in love. Marinette makes a dastardly plan with Alya's approval.

Also, nothing really sexy happens in this story (just smooches and lots of blatant staring), but I feel weird about writing about 13/14 year olds so I'm pretending they're like 15/16? Idk fam, imagine what you want. Just keep in mind that these innocent beans are staying that way while still behaving like youngish teens.

Words: 5160, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Nathalie Sancoeur

Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Additional Tags: Sleepovers, shirt theif, adrienette - Freeform, Chat Blanc - Freeform, no identity reveal so don't ask, Fluff, Kissing, lots of smooches, Vanilla, Cussing

Read Here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/21476209

[squidwardsbastard]

Miraculous Ladybug Au

so theres this Alfred Hitchcock movie called “To Catch A Theif” and essentially its about a notorious ex-cat burglar who lives in the French Riviera. he is framed for a string of jewel robberies, and decides to prove his innocence by ctachting the actual cat burglar. to do this he ( the ex-cat burglar, john robie) meets and befriends a mother and daughter who own very expensive jewels and are on the lists of people the cat burglar may steal from. so anyway in the end john robie and the daughter of the rich ladies daughter fall in love. My point is that this is such a cool Miraculous Ladybug AU. so here are some points: -Adrien/Chat Noi is the ex cat burglar/john robie - Marinette is Francis Stevens (the rich ladies daughter) -marinette meets and helps adrien prove that he is not behind the stolen jewels Anyway, i will add more to this at some point because its just so cool to me

[leswansong]

Le Swan’s Master List

Stories -

✓ = Completed

AU August 2018 - Earth Shatter ✓

[ A03 ]

- Summary: Ladybug and Chat Noir try to get back home

Marinette March 2019 - Moments in Time ✓

[ A03 ]

- Summary:  These are a series of loosely based story’s meant to tell different parts of our girl Marinette’s life.

Days- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Adrinette April 2019 - Notes for You ✓

[ A03 ]

- Summary: Reverse Crush AU

Days - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Marichat May 2019 - Kitty Cats & Ballet Shoes ✓         

[ A03 ]

- Marinette is a Ballet Student, Chat Noir is a Theif. They bump into each other and now Marinette is stuck helping him steal.

Days - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Ladynoir July 2019 - When Tomorrow Comes

[ A03 ]

-  The revolution is in full swing, Adrien has lost his home and Marinette is struggling to survive. They see both sides of the revolution and they know they can’t stop it but that doesn’t stop them from trying.

Small Drabble’s

Season 3x1 Drabble ( Aka The One Set in a Bathroom Stall.)

- Summary: Lila starts to fulfil her promise to Marinette.

An Anon requested story, [ Part One ] | [ Part Two ]

- Summary: Reveal Fic ( it is what it is )

Letter’s to You

[ A03 ]

- Summary: A story of a Knight and a Princess told through a selection of Letters.

Protecting Ladybug

[ A03 ]

Summary: He had been fighting her for years but he couldn’t stand by and watch this happen. Not this time…

Memories

[ A03 ]

-Summary: She hadn’t realised the weight of what those words meant.

What Comes After The Heartbreak

[ A03 ]

-Summary:Adrien is heartbroken after learning that he was the boy Ladybug was in love with.

[miiiraculous]

So I’ve just been reading a book series called Heist Society by Ally Carter and now I can’t get the idea of a Theif AU out of my head. 

Ladybug and Chat Noir, famed Parisian thieves 

also Cat Burglar puns