#lila rossi redemption arc

[internetgiraffekid1673]

I Had Miraculous Ladybug Thoughts, Specifically the Chloe Lila Alliance Situation, and I'm Making It Your Problem! I am So Sorry!

Just. Read the title of this post. I am the most biased person you could have on this topic. You've been warned.

Okay, so. Chloe. If you are in the ML fandom, first off, my condolences, we shall suffer together. Second off, you know that Chloe is incredibly divisive. On the one hand, she's an absolute a**hole to everyone around her at any point in the series that is not season 2 and parts of season 3. On the other hand, it is clear that she has no adults teaching her how to not be an a**hole or regulating her behavior because the only people who have the necessary authority should not have ever been parents.

And then you have that whole thing in season 2 where they started to explain her awfulness and gave her the bee miraculous and she started getting better and developing a support structure, and then she stopped being allowed to have the bee miraculous and dove headfirst off the deep end. This frustrates pretty much the entire fandom. On the Chloe hate side, you wonder why they were wasting time with this. On the Chloe love side, you just got baited, and you're annoyed as heck, and you also are wondering why they wasted your time with this.

But fine, okay, it's dumb, but whatever, the fanfiction can work with this. What the fanfiction has a MUCH harder time working with is Chloe and Lila forming an unholy alliance over their mutual hatred of Marinette and Ladybug. Because the problem here is, it's redundant, it doesn't make sense, and makes Lila even more of a Mary Sue.

Tangent warning: YEAH I SAID IT! I think Lila is a Mary Sue. You don't have to think that. My definition of a Mary Sue is "a character that warps the fabric of the story around them without it making any sense because the author likes/hates/pities/has other strong emotion about this character/ too much to care about a coherent narrative." Not everybody defines a Mary Sue this way, but by this definition, Lila is a Mary Sue. Everyone immediately loses their brain cells around her despite being compassionate and sometimes intelligent individuals who will kill for Marinette in most other scenarios. Nonsensical story warping just because the author said so. Tangent aside:

What this alliance does is it gives you two manipulative lying b*tches who willingly get akumatized to further their petty schemes and are out to destroy Marinette and Ladybug and are weirdly possessive of but don't actually seem to care for Adrien. There's really no point in having two. They occupy the same narrative niche and it is awkward and stupid and I DO NOT LIKE IT. Neither does most of the fandom it seems, because this alliance rarely appears in fanfiction.

There are a couple default solutions in fanfiction:

1. Redeem Chloe. I like this solution. I like Chloe, I think she's entertaining, and I think her interactions with other characters as a good guy are especially entertaining, I think she brings a lot of valuable skills and perspective to the cast as a good guy, I think she has a lot of reasons for being an a**hole that should be properly addressed, and I think the reasons her redemptipn arc got aborted were stupid. Most fanfiction goes the route of having redeemed Chloe viscerally hate Lila too, because Chloe goes after enemies with passion and her whole heart. This is a clean solution, but not great if you don't like Chloe all that much or are trying to make it canon compliant (best of luck to you, canon is all over the place).

2. Only focus on one as a villain and yeet the other out of the story. If Chloe is the villain, set the story during the time that Lila was off being Cerise or wandering around Paris or whatever, or before she showed up. If Lila is the villain, give Chloe an unrelated reason to decide she's not dealing with that today, thank you very much. Usually used in salt fics to dunk on whichever character grinds your gears more without unwanted interruptions. I like salt fics, and this is also a good clean solution. Having both of them is redundant, so just remove one. For Lila, it makes sense because she's a Mary Sue and writing her is annoying, so pretending she never existed is a great fix to that. For Chloe, it makes sense because "lying manipulative ladybug hating b*tch" only really starts being her archetype after the writers screwed up her character with a million inconsistincies. Before that, she was more of a "comically loud, bossy, really obssessive fangirl b*tch," so Lila just works better for certain plots. Downside is that you can't focus on Chloe-Lila interactions, and you sometimes have to do a bit of finagling to figure out how to remove them from a situation they would ordinarily be VERY invested in.

3. Make them hate each other. This is one of my favorite solutions because I have a weakness for villain rivalries that are equal parts comedic and dramatic, but bias aside, this absolutely works. They both want Adrien's sole, undivided attention, and, prior to aforementioned screwing over of Chloe's character, Chloe is the world's biggest Ladybug stan, and Lila is her number 1 hater. They also both have a weird power over the adults in the story that two 14 year old girls really shouldn't have. All these factors make it very easy to guess they would clash. Watch as they try to destroy each other! This plays into the "they both suck, but it's different flavors of suck," and makes those flavors mix BADLY together. The one downside is that it is hard to not make this the central focus of the story, because both of them are so over the top that they're absolutely going to drown out most other going ons, and this is technically supposed to be about Marinette and Adrien. It also erases some of the storylines you can get from an actually thought out alliance.

4. Redeem Lila. I have only seen this in one place, but it is a prominent place and that's more places than my suggestion on this whole ordeal. The prominent place being the Scarlet Lady AU by the very talented and lovely ZoeOneesame. Her take on it was basically:

"Chloe in this AU has the ladybug miraculous, and Chloe sucks at her job, so Lila's ladybug hatred is justified. Marinette is in love with Chat and isn't involved in the ladybug drama, so Lila has no reason to hate her. Adrien is both much smarter and much more active in this AU, so he wouldn't deal with Lila in the same hands-off way. Everybody else is also smarter in this AU and would probably know Lila was lying and also not care because they are forgiving and compassionate. So Lila's lies would most likely get called out, she would have the freedom and desire to figure out who she is beneath the lies, and she would have a justified hatred of Scarlet Lady matched by other characters in the AU, and would probably band together with them."

And thus, no filter, vindictive good guy Lila was born! Again, I have only seen this in Scarlet Lady, but it is amazing over there, so I had to talk about it. Redeeming Lila is an unconventional choice for sure, but I think if you arrange for circumstances where Lila would rather ally with the heroes than the villains, then you can get a lot of mileage out of her people-reading/manipulation skills helping out the heroes while possibly scaring the crap out of them at the same time. This has basically all the same downsides as the Chloe redemption though. It's not fun to do if you're here for Lila salt, and it's ABSOLUTELY not canon compliant.

Now. You may have noticed that nobody who writes fanfiction for this show does the canon Chloe-Lila alliance. This is for a myriad of aforementioned reasons: it's redundant, it continues the confusion of Chloe's character arc, and Lila is a Mary Sue, so anything that involves her tends to be frustrating. But, I think there is a way to make it work, so I'm writing about it.

First of all, don't do what canon did where 6 just have Lila teach Chloe how to lie. Take full advantage of the fact that they are two very different types of a**hole. They can ally for the same reasons: they both are super possesive of Adrien and are raging about him getting together with Marinette. And while I don't like the arc of Marinette being a trash and controlling guardian who shows inordinate favoritism to Alya and Zoe and literally nobody else because she's gay for them, you can still do that and have them both hate Ladybug too. I don't like that plot beat, mostly because it's never really addressed that Marinette is in fact a bad guardian outside of some light sulking from Chat, but it can work. She's a 14 year old girl in way over her head with no adults left to help (except the kwamis, but they don't really count because they are very unhelpful). It makes sense that she wouldn't do a good job at first. But whatever their reasons for teaming up, lean into the fact that Lila is a two-faced secretively awful person while Chloe is an in-your-face publicly awful person. From there, it depends on the tone you're going for.

Chloe is a great villain for humor because she's so loud and dramatic. She can get away with saying and doing really insane and rude stuff on the grounds that she's insane and rude (and also rich and powerful). People don't have any expectations for Chloe to be nice or rational, so she can do stuff like try and write a Queen Banana character into the class film and be met with annoyance and frustration rather than outrage and shock. So if you're going a lighthearted route, let Chloe be the one who does all the public legwork for their schemes, and let her be absolutely over the top about it.

On the other hand, Chloe can also be threatening in a far more tangible way than Lila. Lila can make people think you're a bit of a jerk, but it takes a lot of work for her to come close to getting Marinette expelled, even with all her Mary Sueness to help. Chloe can just look at the principal and say "My dad will fire you and remove all school funding if you don't expel her." Chloe won't make people dislike Marinette because nobody likes her, but she can physically hurt Marinette in ways that Lila can't. So if you're going for drama, you can lean into that. Chloe is in a completely different social class than everyone else and has actual power.

Either way, let Chloe be a complete drama queen who is publicly out to get Marinette, because there isn't anything anyone can do about it.

Meanwhile, let Lila work in the background. Lila has never been a comedic villain, only getting introduced after the show had taken a turn for the more dramatic, so don't bother. Leave that to Chloe's antics. Let Lila be the actual threat who is driving their plans. A lot of the reason Chloe was manageable while Lila never was is because Chloe's rage tends to be directionless and impulsive. She has a short temper that can easily be triggered, but also easily soothed, and she doesn't have any thought out plans or long form schemes. She just does whatever she thinks will make her happy in the moment. Have Lila be the one who convinces her to think in the long-term, and who comes up with an overarching plot to get rid of Marinette, adding a sense of real tension to the situation. Sure, before Chloe could have you expelled on a whim, but she also would have stopped bothering the second Adrien paid attention to her. Lila will help Chloe drop that boundary.

Lila also has the advantage of people actually liking her and being willing to do things for her without threatening or bribing them. Lila can do things like make it so Marinette doesn't have any of her friends around to help in an emergency. She can make it so people believe Chloe might actually be justified in her crusade against Marinette this time. She can plant seeds of doubt and distrust and she can socially isolate Marinette in ways Chloe can't. Make people love and believe in her instead, slowly destroy Marinette's support system, and so on. It not only is really dramatic and upsetting, it basically leaves Mari with just Adrien and Chat to rely on, which is FANTASTIC ship fuel if that's your jam. This can also let you have some other prominent characters come to the fore. Have some Kagami focus. Have some Luka focus. Bring in Socqueline and Felix and see how that changes things.

Point is, between these two, you could have a genuine, non-redundant threat that you can get emotional mileage out of. Lila is on one side turning all of Mari's friends against her and scheming to destroy her in the long term. Chloe is on the other side threatening Marinette's lifestyle---her bakery, her school, her fashion career, her public image, her existence in Paris---anything that can be damaged by the Mayor and the Style Queen is under attack. And then you have Hawkmoth on the other end, throwing akumas in her face and forcing her to make impossible choices. I would imagine Lila also gets akumatized on purpose whenever she needs a little extra help, while Chloe just gets egged on and pushed off the deep end by Lila whenever Lila thinks it'd be advantageous. So that trifecta is super genuinely threatening. But you can also have Chloe being a really stupid drama queen whose fits of rage can still be silly and poorly thought out, even with Lila helping her. And you can have some really heartwarming stuff as the people left in Marinette's support system band together and become even closer to get rid of these two once and for all. I just think this plot beat has a lot of untapped potential if the writers didn't make then fulfill the same narrative role, and I haven't really seen it explored yet.

Feel free to use this idea in fanfic, tell me that it sucks and would be bad, or ignore me, I mostly just needed to write this down!

If the mood strikes me or multiple people express interest (yeah right), I will make a (probably much shorter) post explaining how you can redeem both of them effectively and also why I think that would be bad in most circumstances.

Congratulations if you read this whole rant, now please go to sleep. Please. So much please.

[cardiac-agreste]

Here are some thoughts on why I think Chloe's character arc makes perfect sense.

Chloe has a real bad hangup about power. She needs to feel it desperately.

she idolizes Ladybug, who is powerful

she wants a Miraculous to feel powerful

she orders her dad around to feel powerful

she mis-names her butler to feel powerful

she bosses Sabrina around to feel powerful

she is cruel to Marinette to feel powerful

she is dismissive of Chat Noir because he is subservient to Ladybug and therefore weak

When Adrien stands up to Chloe regarding her treatment of Marinette, she perceives this as him ordering her to reign in her power. To restrict her power.

In response, she re-asserts her power: she cuts him out of her life. Similarly, Ladybug denies her a Miraculous, so she turns on Ladybug, again lashing out at someone who has diminished her power. She then aligns herself with someone who promises it to her.

Then Zoe shows up, and Zoe gets attention and affection (and therfore power) from Andre, who isn't even her real father! She's spent more time with their mother, which is another form of power.

S3 through S5 is a systematic stripping away of the thing Chloe holds most dear: power. In response to this, she exerts power every opportunity she gets: she tries to take over the movie, she bosses Adrien around, she revels in her cruelty toward Marinette, she aligns herself with Lila (who Chloe recognizes has the power to fool everyone around them), she is cruel to her sister, and eventually she "leads" a fascist takeover of Paris (of course, not realizing that she's fourth banana in the takeover after Evil Gandalf, Slightly Less Evil Elon Musk, and Lila.

Her character arc makes perfect sense.

Uhh, umm, in this powerpoint presentation I will

[alittledoseofchaos]

I'm planning on doing a Miraculous Ladybug rewrite

This is both for fun, to vent some frustrations, and get ideas out of my brain. However, as far as redemption goes for Gabriel, Lila, and Chloe, I don't know what I want to do for sure. (I already have plans for Felix) I don't think I want all of them redeemed, but I definitely don't want none of them to be redeemed either. I kind of want to see Marinette and Adrien helping 1 (or 2) of them, but (think) they fail the others. I want Adrien and Marinette to have to come to terms with the fact that it wasn't their job to help others change, but they went above and beyond to try anyways. Additionally, I'm not only redeeming Gabriel (cause that's stupid and makes no sense, why would the grown man be the only one to change). No matter who I redeem the others will still get therapy in jail or boarding school and it will be played as a 'they didn't want to change' or something similar because there are people out there who won't change and foils.

[uptoolateart]

Where We Find Ourselves Again - Ch 12

PREVIEW:

Chloe eased down onto her sofa, legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles. She scrolled through the camera roll on her phone, smiling at the latest impromptu ‘photoshoot’ of her daughter.

Izabel was easily the best thing to happen to her – her greatest achievement. Those gorgeous dark eyes inherited from her father. That luscious hair inherited from Chloe. And the way she posed…. It was like a second instinct – incredible, bearing in mind she’d never even met her grandmother Audrey. It was like fashion was in the blood.

It was time for another major upload to her social media account, to remind everyone she’d won the Mother jackpot with her Izzy. Frankly, that was the only reason she’d even signed up for this account. Some people latched onto social media to hold onto their pasts like precious antiques. But not her. She had zero interest in keeping up with everyone – practically negative interest. Why move to Rio just to keep doing the same thing she was doing in Paris?

She opened the app, her finger moving for the ‘New Post’ button – when a message notification grabbed her attention. Probably Sabrina, off on her latest charity mission somewhere, sharing another reel of a cat being stupid.

Preparing herself for a good laugh, she tapped the notification and…blinked at the screen.

Lila Rossi?

Good god. She hadn’t thought of her in years. They’d never really been friends. More like…acquaintances drawn together by a mutual dislike of that baker girl. One more thing she’d put behind her when she’d run off with Leo to Brazil – just like she’d put Lila behind her. You couldn’t build connections based on common hatred. You couldn’t build anything on hatred.

But…maybe Lila had learned that, too. After all, they were nearly forty now. Surely no one was still hung up on stuff from when they were in school…right? She probably just got drunk last night and looked her up and sent a totally generic message about…well, how gorgeous Izabel was, of course. What else would anyone message her about, who didn’t know her personally?

So why was her heart pounding…some instinct telling her not to open that message?

‘Ugh. Chloe Cardoso, you are being ridiculous – utterly ridiculous!’ She stabbed at the phone and brought up the message.

Lila: Hey!!! Long time no speak!! Your daughter is GORGEOUS. So I know it’s been FOREVER but I just found out the most INSANE NEWS about Adrien and Marinette. I know, I know, who cares about those losers anymore?? But this is BIG, Chloe. Like…BIG. It changes EVERYTHING.

Read at Ao3

[visionaryinsomniac]

Your goth Lila is amazing. Maybe you can do something where she and Juleka get to interact with each other? I think seeing those two together would be cool.

Man I wish I could sit with them

[iwasbored777]

Never have I ever thought I'd put Lila's quotes affectionate in "leave Marinette alone challenge" tag but here I am. Also not y'all complaining she isn't a believable liar then posting "omg she's getting a redemption arc" after one line lol 😭😭😭😭😭 the hypocrisy

[luka-couffaine-ship-tournament]

Round 1 Side B - Pair 5

Luka Couffaine/Lila Rossi

Look, Lila deserves these man? No fucking way. Luka could be able to love her because he sees good in people and she could understand her wrong ways and become a better person? Yes, he could, because the world doesn’t deserve this boy

Luka Couffaine/Chloé Bourgeois

Listen, I honestly think that this blonde bitch is redeemable!! Has she made bad choices? Indeed She has a very good chunk of responsibility? Of fucking course, I mean yes her mom is the worst but NO ONE forced her to treat Sabrina like dirt. And yet I feel that she is just too immature for her age and has been misled by people smarter than her (for example, Lila). She needs a redemption arc and what better guide to help her rebalance her moral compass than Luka? And that would make the perfect start for enemies to friends to lovers 100%. Chloe loves Adrien because he is hot and rich, her crush is based on the perfect image that she has of him not the real Adrien. I want to remind you that her only problem with Luka is that he is poor (because she has admitted to finding him attractive), and I truly think that she would fall in love with Luka easily. She would work on her priorities so she will get over the poverty fast (even faster when she sees him playing the guitar from up close). And Luka would see how she is working on herself and falling in love with her because our boy is a big handsome softie. I think that this ship has good potential and it’s just to overlook EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

TAG:

Luka/Lila - @saliseburi

Luka/Chloe - @bgony

@lukacouffaineappreciation

[chiisana-lion]

the stuff you’re reblogging about mlb??!? what’s happening with this show

its. so insane. theyve been running around in circles since season 1 with little development up til recently and for the first good chunk the initial love square got swapped (theyre literally like two people with like four or so different dynamics) and then adrien and marinette do end up getting together but not until adrien's dad gabriel mr supervillain hawk moth/monarch himself after having for ages been trying to get the miraculous of the ladybug/black cat to revive his kind of dead wife who he keeps in the basement without his son knowing also decides to have beef with marinette specifically and then a 15yo threw a coup on the mayor and has a breakdown on the same day and then it turns out adrien isnt even a real person and an artificial monster his parents created and this fact was presented to marinette via dramatic theatre play by adrien's ex/marinette's friend who is now dating his cousin and also adrien starts getting nightmares about how he in an alternate timeline kind of got turned into a supervillain and killed the girl he loved his dad and everyone else and destroyed the moon and the whole of planet earth along with it leaving him all alone mourning by himself oh and while that happens he's kind of detained in a solitary confinement room by his dad in london or something so his dad could frame ladybug and chat noir for kidnapping him (note: he literally is chat noir) more things happen marinette/ladybug finds out that gabriel is monarch and tries to fight him about it with both the ladybug and black cat miraculous (their combined form is pretty sick ngl) and did manage to beat him and gabriel realizes last minute in the most halfassed redemption arc (not even an arc that was like not even 5 minutes probably) ever that the perfect world he wanted would just ruin things for adrien so he goes and paralyzes marinette take the miraculouses back for his wish and does end up reviving his dead wife at the cost of his own life and asks for marinette not to tell adrien about ??? him being the supervillain that tormented paris for a solid year????????? abusive dad dictating every single aspect of his son's life???????? hello????????????????? and so that happens and boom happy ending marinette and adrien can peacefully be together you'd think!!! but this isnt even the end of it. ohhh no the butterfly miraculous this time is in the hands of this little bitch lila rossi/cerise/iris verdi whatever the feck she goes by now and good fecking god i cant ever be free from this show you are doing some cocomelon shit to me since 2015 miraculous

[yubellia]

Some of my Thoughts about Lila Rossi/ Cerise (Miraculous Ladybug)

Hi. For the people who know me already, yes I also like Miraculous. For the people who don't know me, hi. I thought I talk about Miraculous for once.

Befor we really go in, I would like to say, that I am not a hardcore Fan. I don't watch all the episodes but I know the most important lore to follow the plot. Also for those who are new here, english is just my second language so I am sorry for any mistakes.

I want to talk about Lila, because she will be the villain of season 6 (most likely) and I have a theory about her. My next post would be about her and this theory.

Please don't rip me apart, I know I won't get many friends with this but I always liked Lila/Cerise or whoever she is. There. I said it.

Why? Well, not only did i like her look but I also liked the fact, that she never got played by the writers of the show. With that I mean that she never got an 'almost redemption arc' like Chloe. They never gave us hope, that she would be a hero, only to drop her. No. Every time she showed up, we knew that something bad would happen.

(In my opinion, she would have made a better wielder for the fox miraculous. I like Volpina much better. Lies and Illusions are her thing. Not Alya.)

But anyway. I have to admit, that after she got tricked by Sabrina and Marinette, so after she became Cerise, things got better for her character.

I think many people did not like her, because her lies are so easy to see for us. We follow Marinette. We already know, what she is up to. So seeing everyone acting so stupid the moment she starts speaking is annoying.

But than, we learned the truth. Or at least we learned something about her. Many fans of the show joked about how big her forehead must be and that she wore a wig. And guess what? It is a wig!! We were just joking here!

But what made this moment so special? You can see youtubers react to this part of the episode. They seem to be confused and shocked. Why? (besides them acting to some degree?) Because we thought we had her figured out to some degree. Yes she had at least 3 Mothers and we all were wondering how she did that but we did not see that coming! This moment is special because we learned, that we can throw everything we thought we knew about her out of the window. We did know little to nothing about her, just like the characters. She could be a grown woman in a child's body for all we know. (like in that movie 'Orphan'). She had us fooled too and that is why in this moment, she became much better as a character in my opinion.

As Cerise, we learned just how dangerous this girl could be. She controlled Chloe like a trained dog and got what she wanted without anyone knowing anything! By the end of the season, she got the butterfly miraculous and will join Marinette again at school with a new identity.

On that note, I would like to point something out about the ending, where we see something appear behind her and hear her scream. Not sure if anyone pointed that out but we don't see Nooroo anywhere in that scene. She has the Miraculous but where is Nooroo? Could it be, that that was just Nooroo being forced to join her since she got the miraculous now? Nooroo could never leave when Gabriel had it after all. Or, now that the new Miraculous Paris special came out, it could be 'the supreme'. But i won't go into that.

Anyway, these are some of my thoughts about Lila/Cerise. I hope the writers won't waste her in season 6. My next post will be about a little theory i have about her. See you soon!

[sxrrandomfanfics]

Name your top five cartoon mean girls excluding Sasha way bright because we all know she's the best mean girl character just because she's awesome

Cartoon specifically... Without Sasha being used... Well, I'm not usually a big fan of cartoon mean girls. But I'll try.

Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) - I like cat girls. I like her heterochromia. I like her story and watch scenes about her arc as well as Entrapta's arc. And she keeps that kind of smugness even as she gets a redemption.

Bonnie Rockwaller (Kim Possible) - an interesting mean girl considering the fact that she and Kim have similar claims to high school popularity with cheerleading and money.

Paulina (Danny Phantom) - if you're looking for a girl that is probably a base that I would use for any mean girl OC, Paulina is one I'd definitely use. "I'm not shallow... then again, I'm not so deep to not go after a guy to steal him from a girl."

Lila Rossi (Miraculous: Ladybug) - OML this is such a good mean girl character. She's the one who is... mean. But also has a point. And a goal. And is actively against the Main character. Good Written Mean Girl in her first season.

Heather (Total Drama) - Every series needs a villain, and she's a good one.

[taldigi]

[gameguy20100]

Maybe FIM just turned me off them.

But I personally hope that none of the Villains if Miraculous get a “Redemption arc.” 

I think the pain and Trauma all of them have caused our two leads is too much that trying to redeem them would be narratively unsatisfying. 

Also, as much as I hate them, Felix and Lila are a ton of fun to watch. I feel making them good would wipe away everything interesting about them. 

Let bad guys stay bad, so it’s satisfying as hell when our hero's beat them up and throw them in prison. 

[you-shouldnt-know-my-name]

i will never not be mad that chloe is still the bad guy

are you kidding me with this bullshit?

her character development was so fucking good, she was getting better (not perfect mind you but even then the writers could have made her change even more.)

and then the writers said “fuck it. good well thought out plot lines that have a satisfying ending? lol no”

they threw her redemption arc right in the fucking toilet and im so mad

i demand justice for chloe. the only thing i need in life is a chloe redemption arc i swear

if they redeem lila (which they shOULDNT) before chloe i will sue

[wheretherunawaysrunthenight]

Picture this:

Marionette screaming singing “ Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” by Set It Off at Liela Lila with Chloe recording in the background with Chat Noir dying of laughter on the side and Luka looking on proudly.

[dontfollowmeman]

My favourite Miraculous OT5s

#1 The OG Miracusquad

Members: Marinette, Adrien, Alya, Nino, Chloe

Pros: Chloedemption, the Reveal™, Best Friends to Lovers

Example: A Cat, a Fox, and a Bee walk into a Bakery by @ssilverstreak (seriously it's so good)

#2 The rich, the famous and the baker girl/The "Fuck off Lila" squad

Members: Marinette, Adrien, Chloe, Kagami, Felix

Pros: Chloedemption, the inherent sexual tension of fencing, Marinette Protection Squad but every one of them is able and willing to kick your ass and then sue it for all you have just for the hell of it, Lila is very scared

Example: Can't think of one except if you put more Chloenette into the Feralnette AU by @bigfatbreak (BTW the Feralnette AU has godtier versions of Marinette and Felix, go read it)

#3 The "I made Marinette's life difficult because of her crush on Adrien but I hope she can forgive me and get over him because I'm in lesbians with her" squad

Members: Marinette, Alya, Kagami, Chloe, Lila

Pros: Chloedemption, Lila Redemption, Kagami as a Sword Lesbian, (Enemies to) Friends to Lovers, frees up space for some good fucking Adrinino or Lukadrien content

Example: god I wish there was one