#miraculous ladybug d&d

[shivering-isles-cryptid]

Peacock Miraculous Dungeons & Dragons Character

Character Details

Name: Hera

Sex: Female

Race: Half-Elf

+2 Cha/+1 Dex/+1 Con

Commom/Elvish/+1 language (Dwarvish)

Darkvision

Fey Ancestory

Alignment: Neutral Good

Background: Anthropologist

History, Insight

+2 languages (Sylvan/Undercommon)

Cultural Chameleon

Adept Linguist

Stats

Standard Point Array. Roll if you want but remember to keep Multi Class requirements in mind

Strength: 8

Dexterity: 14

Constitution: 13

Intelligence: 10

Wisdom: 12

Charisma: 15

Class Details

Level 1: Warlock

Otherworldly Patron: Genie: Dao

Expanded Spell List: Earth

1st Level: Detect Good and Evil, Sanctuary

2nd Level: Phantasmal Force, Spike Growth

3rd Level: Create Food and Water, Meld Into Stone

4th Level: Phantasmal Killer, Stone Shape

5th Level: Creation, Wall of Stone

9th Level: Wish

Genies Vessel: Small bag at the end of you hand fan

Pact Magic:

Cantrips: 2

Eldritch Blast

Mage Hand

1st Level: 2

Unseen Servant

Expeditious Retreat

Spells Known: 2

Level 2: Warlock

Eldritch Invocations:

Eldritch Sight

Eldritch Spear

Cantrips: 2

1st Level: 3

Charm Person

Spells Known: 3

Level 3: Warlock

Pact Boon: Pact of the Tome

Book of Shadows

Prestidigitation

Message

Dancing Lights

Cantrips: 2

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 1

Suggestion

Spells Known: 4

Level 4: Warlock

Ability Score Improvement:

Charisma

Dexterity

Cantrips: 3

Poison Spray

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

Spider Climb

Spells Known: 5

Level 1: Monk

Unarmored Defense: AC when not wearing armor is 10 + Dex Modifier + Wis Modifier

Martial Arts:

Unarmed attacks use Dexterity instead of Strength

Roll a d4 for attacks using unarmed strikes or monk weapon (Tessen)

When attacking using unarmed or monk weapon, can make one additional unarmed attack as a bonus action if you haven't made one already

Level 5: Warlock

Eldritch Invocation: Book of Ancient Secrets

Find Familiar

Floating Disk

Cantrips: 3

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 1

Fly

Spells Known: 6

Level 2: Monk

Ki: Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind

Unarmored Movement: Movement speed increases by 10 when not wearing armor or wielding a shield

Level 6: Warlock

Otherworldly Patron Feature: Elemental Gift

Resistance to Bludgeoning Damage

Cantrips: 3

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

Hypnotic Pattern

Spells Known: 7

Level 3: Monk

Monastic Tradition: Way of the Open Hand

Deflect Missiles:

Open Hand Technique:

Level 7: Warlock

Eldritch Invocation:

Misty Visions

Cantrips: 3

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 1

Banishment

Spells Known: 8

Level 8: Warlock

Ability Score Improvememt:

Constitution

Wisdom

Cantrips: 3

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level:2

Dimension Door

Spells Known: 9

Level 9: Warlock

Eldritch Invocation:

Agonizing Blast

Cantrips: 3

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 1

Hold Monster

Spells Known: 10

Level 10: Warlock

Otherworldly Patron Feature: Sanctuary Vessel

Can take 5 willing creatures into you Genies vessel

Cantrips: 4

True Strike

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 1

Spells Known: 10

Level 11: Warlock

Mystic Arcanum: Conjure Fey

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 2

Scrying

Spells Known: 11

Level 12: Warlock

Eldritch Invocation:

Minions of Chaos

Ability Score Improvement:

Charisma

Dexterity

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 2

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 2

Spells Known: 11

Level 13: Warlock

Mystic Arcanum: Forcecage

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 3

Phantasmal Force

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 2

Spells Known: 12

Level 14: Warlock

Otherworldly Patron Feature: Limited Wish

Can cast any spell of 6th level or lower without needing any material components

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 3

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 2

Spells Known: 12

Level 15: Warlock

Eldritch Invocation:

Gaze of Two Minds

Mystic Arcanum: Dominate Monster

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 3

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 3

Wall of Stone

Spells Known: 13

Level 16: Warlock

Ability Score Improvement:

Constitution

Wisdom

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 3

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 3

Spells known: 13

Level 17: Warlock

Mystic Arcanum: Power Word Kill

Cantrips: 4

1st Level: 3

2nd Level: 3

3rd Level: 2

4th Level: 2

5th Level: 4

Wall of Stone

Spells Known: 14

Total Levels: 20

Warlock 17/Monk 3

Profeciences:

Skills: History, Insight, Athletics, Acrobatics, Deception, Investigation

Weapons: Shortsword, Simple Weapons

Armor: Light Armor

Character Traits

Personality Traits:

By living among violent people, I have become desensitized to violence.

When I arive at a new settlement for the first time, I must learn all its customs

Ideals:

Knowledge: By understanding other races and cultures, we learn to understand ourselves (Any)

Protection: I must do everything possible to save a society facing extinction (Good)

Bonds:

My mentor gave me a journal with lore and wisdom. Losing it would devastate me.

I seek to avenge a clan, tribe, kingdom, or empire that was wiped out.

Flaws:

I talk to myself and I dont make friends easily

Ive picked up some unpleasant habits while living among races such as goblins, lizardfolks, and orcs

Homebrew:

Tessen:

When open: 1d4 slashing damage

When closed: 1d4 bludgeoning damage

Arcane focus

Has small pouch on bottom used as genie vessel

Has feathers painted on the edges

Dao:

Duusuu

Small size

Can contact through the use of a peacock shaped brooch

Emotional and friendly

Thanks for reading. Due to the specificity of the Peacocks powers, I had to do alot of technicalities. Hope you enjoy using this in your next campaign😊

[tizzymcwizzy]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! i hope you get to eat a lot of candy and watch a scary movie if you celebrate :D

[cakemousse]

been dying to gif his insane faces the moment i saw them

et voilà ✨

[edorazzi]

Page 15 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! With a fleeting glance at some previous Miraculous holders... 👀

Index | Start | Prev | Next

Weekly updates each Sunday! You can also read ahead early on Patreon (which is getting THREE brand new pages tonight!), and/or buy me a Ko-fi if you'd like to support my work! 💖

[sidsinning]

Villainess AU update~

Part 1 of another comic :)

Marinette’s feelings are?

Previous | Beginning | Next

[asukiess]

it would be wild if it was revealed that emilie had filed for divorce before falling ill

[clemnoir]

“Chilocorus stigma is commonly known as the twice-stabbed lady beetle. It has two red spots on its wing covers and a solid black body.”

[the-commonplace-book]

@buggachat

drowning (in plain sight) chat noir (insp this iconic text post)

[bananagreste]

Wow, you’ve had it all this time? // Oh, yeah, it’s a sorry sight. I mean, sorry, you’re right!

oh, hey, it’s adrinette → day 184

[xhanisai]

What if after episode Chat Blanc, Adrien would always get dreams about him? Every night, Chat Blanc would tell him about all the chaos and destruction Adrien would cause in the future and that it is inevitable.

Adrien wakes up every morning without fail and the memories of the dreams would be fuzzy. But there's one line that he will never forget.

"Our love destroyed the world."

So he starts to distance himself from everyone, especially Ladybug because his fears are growing bigger and bigger. He thought loneliness was what he feared the most but turns out, hurting the people he loves is even scarier.

He wants to hold Ladybug's hand as they patrol? Chat Blanc is in his reflection, staring at him with an icy glare and slowly shaking his head. So he brings his hand back to himself and plasters on a smile as Ladybug talks.

He wants to tell Nino this funny story he heard during his photoshoot? Chat Blanc is in Nino's shadow, silent and still. Adrien keeps quiet in the distance as Nino is laughing with the boys.

He wants to dance with Marinette at the party? Chat Blanc has a hand caressing the side of her neck, claws dangerously close to her throat whilst staring at him wide-eyed. Adrien bites his lip and lingers in the crowd as she dances away with Alya.

He wants to see his father? He's flashed with a memory of everyone petrified under the ocean.

He's so, so, so lonely...

But everyone's lives matter more than his own wishes.

Right?

[kari-go]

Maybe a spider!marinette?

Cute!

[tizzymcwizzy]

a collection of sketches of my favorite guys!

[fictional-orphan-smackdown]

Once again I have no similarities. They should still fight tho

All propaganda and what each competitor is from under the cut

Trafalgar D. Water Law (Once Piece)

Law is a genocide survivor who saw his parents' dead bodies along with experiencing a whole bunch of other messed up stuff (his sister burning to death, the people of his country being shot for being poisoned by their own government, being terminally ill, escaping the genocide by hiding under a pile of dead bodies, etc etc). After all this shit, he eventually got forcibly adopted by this one guy and dragged around the world looking for a cure for his illness. Right when Law started to trust and love his new caretaker, he is also brutally murdered in front of him. Law's life goal for the next decade is to get revenge on the person who killed his adoptive father. Vote for him bc he needs a goddamn win for once in his life. He is the people's princess and the narrative's favorite punching bag. Also, his depressed, PTSD-ridden autistic swag and scoliosis realness have captivated me body and soul

His biological parents were killed (before his eyes, by the governement) when he was 10(?). He then joined a bunch of pirates, knowing he wouldn't have much time (and will) left to live anyway. There he was sort of adopted by the Big Bad Pirate's brother, who managed to save his life, only for said brother to be killed (more or less before Law's eyes, by the Big Bad Pirate), when he was 13. You could say he was orphaned twice.

He’s literally got the double orphan special (Parents died and then the guy who took him in after them died too) that’s a 50% increase in orphannedness above your standard orphan. He’s also cool as fuck.

Law's parents were already on death row along with him and his younger sister due to a disease that shortens the life span of a person. The disease can only be passed down genetically and has afflicted everyone in the town that he has grown up in. Due to the sudden outbreak and unknown nature of the disease to the rest of the world panicked and the government closed off his city, killing everyone there. That is how his first set of parents died when he was 10, I think. Still then Law would later join a pirate crew where he would eventually be taken away 2-3 years later by Corazon, marine working undercover as a pirate in order to take down this brother, who is the captain of crew Law joined. Corazon took him in order to cure Law's disease which he still had and to get him away from Doflamingo, his brother. Over the course of 6 months the two became close with Corazon essentially becoming a father figure to Law. I am simplify this but at some point of Doflamingo catches on to Corazon being a double agent and finds him. Doflamingo then proceeds to find Corazon and shoot him in front of a chest that Law was hiding in.

Law has faced many hardships since he was a child, but used his experiences to become an extremely powerful doctor. His pirate crew theme and his Devil Fruit ability are all owed to his adoptive father. Law acts really gruff and serious most of the time, initially seeming like a cool, calculating character and feared swordsman… but one second around the Straw Hats and you quickly see just how silly he really is. He hates bread. He collects coins. He is obsessed with ninjas and superhero comic books. In one arc he just fucked around with his powers and INVENTED harpies and centaurs. Oh, and his First Mate is a polar bear. What could be better than that?

The government ordered to kill everyone in Law's country due to everyone getting "fantasy lead poisoning" disease, which was wrongfully thought to be contagious stroked. Law's family was living at the hospital when they got attacked, his parents (who were doctors) got killed and the hospital got set on fire with his little sister inside. He managed to fled the country hiding in a pile of corpses and ended up joining a pirate crew lead by Doflamingo. Law knew he had the disease and it was going to kill him in three years. Doflamingo's brother, Rosinante took Law hospital to hospital to find a cure but they always rejected him thinking the disease was contagious. Then they learned that someone had offered Doflamingo a devil fruit that could grant him immortality. The fruit could also cure Law so Rosinante stole it and made Law eat it. He then made sure Law could escape Doflamingo and got killed by his brother.

dude spent his childhood getting thrown out of windows, while dying from a deadly disease (that was eventually cured) but while he was still showing symptoms of the disease no one would go near him out of fear and disgust, save for his father figure.

nothing can ever go right for this man. its fucking hilarious in the series and makes for some wonderful angst content. i want everyone who has not watched or read One Piece to know that, for half of his 'main' arc, he's carried around like a potato sack by MULTIPLE people. he is a damsel in despair. he didn't even need to be carried, he honestly could've walked, but he had to save that energy so he could take the like 17 lead bullets out of him. he's always getting shot or thrown out a window and he's severely injured more often than not. he's also a doctor/surgeon, one that should be able to cure incurable diseases, yet his pathetic loserboy ass is too busy being emo to worry about the several gunshot wounds and internal bleeding. god help this man but also don't because honestly it's really fucking funny

Ok, FIRST, when he was a tiny frog-disecting little kid, him and his family and island contacted a disease equivalent to cancer BUT his fam didn't die from that. No, no, his parents got gunned down by the military and his little sis was burned alive with the rest of his house, so, yeah, very traumatic, horrific in a way that makes you very angry at yourself and life and want to oh I don't know, kill everyone and everything possible until the day you die, which won't be long because you have cancer after all. Later, after joining a mafia/cult/gang, Law meets Corazon who after like 2 years kidnaps him to try and get him healed and so they spend the next 6 months bonding, WEEEEEE!! Wait, no, NOT weeee because Cora who is now his father-figure DIES having protected and saved him, and thus bruv becomes orphaned not once, not thrice, but TWO very traumatic times! If this isn't an orphan, idk what is……

Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

[Putting on a creepy white mask as I prepare to unleash the most insane lore ever written] Once upon a time…

Okay so not only is Adrien an orphan, but he's an orphan who unintentionally and unknowingly was partially responsible for their own orphaning. Adrien was created via the Peacock Miraculous, since his mom was infertile. But since the Peacock Miraculous was broken at the time, using it caused her to slowly become sick, until she "died" (mostly. Probably. She might have been on life support), just afew months before the show began. Later on, Ladybug had a plan to take down the Big Bad, Monarch (who, unbeknownst to the heroes, is actually Adrien's father), via putting him in a position where Chat Noir (Adrien's superhero alter ego) could threaten him with his Cataclysm, a superpower that destroys everything it touches. Monarch willingly took the Cataclysm, actually forcing Chat's hand onto himself, which infected him with that Cataclysm, meaning that he was slowly dying throughout the rest of the season. When the season 5 finale happened and Gabriel sacrificed his life to heal his assistant, and the closest person Adrien had had to an actual parent since Emilie died, he only had a few hours left to live anyway. Adrien is still unaware of how his parents died, he has no clue that either death involved him at all.

BIG MIRACULOUS LADYBUG SEASON 5 SPOILERS AHEAD Sooo first his mom went into a magical coma as the result of him being born through magical means and was considered dead/missing by everyone. They had a funeral for her and everything. Adrien dealt with it pretty well, but his father did not and decided to become a supervillain to get his wish, recreate the world and bring his wife back. Which he almost does! He ends up trading his life for (I assume) the life of his secretary/former crime partner/Adrien's mother figure and joining his wife in death. (We see wife's comatose body ascend with him so I guess she's dead? Sokka voice You know, it was really unclear) But anyway, yeah, our babyboy is a full orphan now! Also in an alternate timeline he accidentally created an apocalyptic event and killed everyone so it's not even the first time he was orphaned. So there's that

Adrien is the superhero Chat Noir, who had to fight his father as the supervillain Hawkmoth alongside his superhero partner Ladybug, neither Adrien nor Gabriel had any idea they were fighting each other, and Adrien still doesn't know his father was a supervillain, or how exactly he died, but Marinette does and is keeping it from him. Adrien's father is abusive towards him, having kept him effectively locked inside the house for the first 13 years of his life, and forcing him to model for his company. But still, Adrien is the sweetest boy ever to exist, he's endlessly kind to people, sometimes to his own detriment.

I am no good at infodumping I just love this little guy. However, Harrowhark Nonagesimus is such a close second, but I chose Adrien because he's from my current hyperfixation… ily Harrow. Listen, Adrien is the most guy and catgirl ever. If anything happens to him I will go nuts. Unfortunately, so much happens to him. I am not normal. Give my baby some hugs and some real parenting. Did I mention he was not even born as a real human being? Born at the cost of other's life? Oh my god that's actually so Harrow of him and this is so funny I can't do this anymore

[edorazzi]

Page 14 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which Felix begins to explain the history of the Miraculous, and why his and Adrien's experiences are so different! 📖✍️

Index | Start | Prev | Next

Weekly updates each Sunday! You can also read ahead early on Patreon, and/or buy me a Ko-fi if you'd like to support my work! 💖

[carpisuns]

Summary: “Marinette. My bestie. My platonic soulmate. You are a kleptomaniac.”

In which Marinette is forced to confront her habit of thievery

Word count: 2k

Rating: G

A/N: Written for the pre-reveal, pre-relationship section of the @adrinettezine!

Marinette, Kleptomaniac

“Girl. You can’t be serious.”

“What?” Marinette asked defensively. She attempted to shield the open trunk from view, but this appeared to have no effect on Alya.

“All this junk is stuff you’ve taken from Adrien?”

“It’s not junk!” Marinette said. “They’re my treasures. My Adrien treasures.”

“Right. Your stolen treasures.”

Alya was giving her the “Bestie, this is simply not it” look—pursed lips, arched brows, arms folded in a very judgmental way that Marinette did not like.

“I didn’t— they’re not stolen,” she said. “They were gifts. Like… this! He gave it to me on the first day we met.”

Marinette pulled the black umbrella from the depths of the trunk. She ran a finger over the curved handle, remembering how Adrien’s hand had brushed hers, and couldn’t stop a dreamy little sigh from escaping her lips.

“Uh-huh. And what about this?” Alya wrinkled her nose as she held up a sock, pinching the cuff between her fingers. “You’re telling me Adrien gave you this as a gift?”

Marinette looked down, blushing. “Some of the gifts were… unintentional.”

“Where did you even get this? Did you sneak into his house and raid his laundry basket?”

“Of course not.” Marinette snatched the sock away. “It just fell out of his locker after fencing class one day. And I just, you know, happened to be passing by. And I figured— ”

“— ‘hey, Adrien probably left this stinky sock just for me! Because he saw me creeping around his locker and he was like, “Aw, there goes my Very Good Friend Marinette. I know how much she loves sweaty socks and other soiled clothing items. Maybe next time I’ll leave her my dirty underwear.”’”

Marinette’s face burned. “Alya!” she hissed. “You can’t talk about people’s… you-know-what.”

“Why? Because now you’re thinking of his cute little tushie?” Alya grinned. “Wonder if he’s a boxers guy or a briefs guy. Maybe you should ask him. When you return his stinky sock.”

Marinette opened her mouth, but she really couldn’t form a coherent thought once Adrien’s butt had entered the equation. She stared down at the sock instead.

“It’s not stinky,” she said finally. “I washed it.”

(At first she had decided that she wasn’t going to wash it, because how could she eliminate Adrien’s natural scent, which came from his own perfect skin? But it turned out that even Adrien’s perfect skin had working sweat glands, and soon she had no choice but to put the sock in the wash and douse the remaining contents of the treasure trunk in his new fragrance, Pure.)

“Oh my gosh. Is this… ?” Alya turned over a small box in her hands. “The constipation meds? Really? I thought you were going to burn them after how embarrassed you were about the whole thing.”

“Yeah, but— he got them for me!” Marinette said. “That’s kind of like a gift, right?”

“You have a very strange concept of gift giving.”

“Whatever.”

“What else do you have in here?” Alya started pulling item after item from the trunk—the jacket Adrien had left at her house after a group study session, the crumpled love note he had thrown in the trash on Valentine’s Day, a manga box set he had lent her after her enthusiastic response to his summary of Fruits Basket.

Alya inspected a small drawstring pouch. “What— ”

“No!” Marinette lunged for the pouch, but Alya had already opened it and peered inside.

“Marinette,” she said, “is this hair? Like, actual human hair?”

“It’s not real! I mean, it is real, but— ”

“What did you do? Just pluck it right off his head?”

Marinette bit her lip.

“Oh my gosh, you just plucked it right off his head.”

Marinette let out a huff. “Well, in my defense, I thought he was a wax statue at the time.”

Alya closed her eyes and let out a sigh, the way Papa did when she dropped a plate of pastries for the third time in one day. Marinette squirmed.

“Marinette. My bestie. My platonic soulmate. You are a kleptomaniac.”

“I am not!”

“Girl, listen to me.” Alya put her hands on Marinette’s shoulders. “You know I love you, right?”

Her lips slid into a pout. “Right.”

“You know that I think you are good and wonderful and smart and hot and totally worthy of any person you want to date, right?”

“Right.”

“And you know that I am the number one Adrinette shipper, right?”

“Right.”

Alya straightened. “Well, I regret to inform you that this is officially an intervention. No more stealing from Adrien Agreste.”

“But— ”

Alya held up a hand. “Nope. Everything in this treasure box has to be something Adrien actually gave you. On purpose. We’re gonna go through it right now, and anything that you shouldn’t have, you’re going to give back. You’re supposed to be stealing his heart, not his stuff. Okay?”

Marinette’s shoulders slumped. “Okay.”

It took them nearly an hour to go through the box (mostly because Alya insisted on hearing the backstory of every item). Finally, the trunk was empty, and the items were sorted into two piles—a “keep” pile and a “give back to Adrien” pile.

The “keep” pile was relatively small—the umbrella, her lucky charm, the empty constipation pill box, and various wrappers and scraps of paper that Alya deemed unworthy of returning, because “this is literally a piece of trash, Marinette.”

But the “back to Adrien” pile—well, that one was much bigger.

“I can’t give all this back!” Marinette wailed, draping herself dramatically over the edge of the chaise.

“We talked about this,” Alya said. “It’s not right for you to keep what was never given to you.”

“No, I mean, how am I supposed to give all of this back to him? It’s so much.” She tugged at her pigtails. “He’s gonna think I’m some sort of freak, or creep, or— ”

“— kleptomaniac?”

Marinette groaned, burying her face in her hands.

“Relax.” Alya slung an arm around her shoulder. “We’ll come up with a plan for you to return them one by one. We’ll keep it casual. He’ll never know about the junk hoard.”

Marinette shot her a glare.

“Treasure box,” Alya corrected. “Okay, so which of these items was stol— acquired most recently?”

Marinette looked over the pile. “Um, the pen.”

“Right. That’s the one he dropped in Mendeleiev’s class yesterday and it conveniently rolled directly under your chair.”

“It did!”

“Okay, okay.” Alya picked up the pen and handed it to Marinette. “Tomorrow morning, you walk up to him and say, ‘Hey, Adrien, is this yours? I think you dropped it.’ Say it with me.”

“Hey, Adrien, is this yours? I think you dropped it.”

“Good.” Alya grinned. “Let Operation Kleptomaniac commence.”

Marinette crouched behind the stairs with Alya, watching Adrien and Nino across the courtyard.

“Girl, get that out of your mouth,” Alya said. “It’s not even yours.”

Marinette jolted, slipping the pen out from between her teeth. She inspected the cap. There were a few telltale scratches and dents in it, but maybe that was because Adrien had the same bad pen-chewing habit that she did.

A blush crept over her face. If Adrien had chewed on this pen too, then her lips had touched the same spot as his. An indirect kiss, just like the one she had not-exactly-shared with him a few weeks ago at the movies when he accidentally took a sip of her drink. Alya had almost thrown away that straw, but after an impassioned speech from Marinette about the preservation of cherished memories (and the trace amounts of Adrien’s cellular tissue that come with them), Alya had sighed and agreed that she could keep it.

“What are we still waiting for? It’s time.” Alya yanked Marinette out from behind the stairs and dragged her toward Adrien and Nino. Marinette tried to tug away, but she tripped and tumbled forward.

She braced for impact, but it never came. Instead, she was met with something warm and soft that smelled just like her treasure box—clean linen and citrus.

“Whoa,” Adrien said. “You okay, Marinette?”

Her eyes snapped open, and she jumped out of his arms. “Yar! I mean, yeah! I’m— it’s— it’s all grood. Good.” A too-wide grin stretched across her face, her neck growing hot under her collar.

Adrien smiled. She fixed her gaze on his nose to avoid his unfairly beautiful eyes. Unfortunately, his nose was just as beautiful, and it was even closer to his lips, which made her heart hammer like that weird construction-themed akuma from last week (Bob le Builder, a name which she found both tacky and lazy, but which Chat Noir loved, of course).

“Um,” she said intelligently. What was she supposed to tell him again? Her mind had melted into goo. It was probably spilling out of her ears at this point. Oh no—what if Adrien saw her disgusting brain goo??

Alya was miming something behind Adrien’s back. Paper? Writing?

Oh. Right.

Marinette lifted the pen and let the well-rehearsed words spill out. “Adrien, is this yours? I think I’m in love with you.”

She froze. Adrien’s eyebrows shot up, perfect lips forming a tiny o of surprise. Behind him, Alya slapped her hand to her forehead.

“It!” Marinette blurted, much too loudly. “The pen. That’s what I’m in love with. It’s like a pencil, but more darker and, um, smeary-er. I mean, it has such a great… writing— smooth— ink… ness. W-where did you get it?”

Adrien blinked. Then a laugh bubbled out of him.

“It’s just a pen, Marinette. If you like it that much, you can keep it.”

“R-really?”

“Of course! I’ve got a bunch more.” He smiled warmly, sending a golden shimmer all the way down to her toes.

“Well, how about a trade? You can have one of mine!” She shrugged off her backpack and pulled out her pack of pink gel pens. “Um, unless you don’t like pink?”

“How could I not like pink? It’s your signature color.” He grinned, taking one of the pens. “Thanks! And, by the way, you might want to disinfect that other pen. I have kind of a bad habit of chewing on the cap. Sorry. Would you rather have a new one? I’d be happy to—”

“No!” she said quickly. “No, that’s fine. Thanks.”

“Okay, then. See you in class!” Adrien waved, and then she watched him walk away with Nino, slipping the gel pen in his pocket.

“Well, that was… interesting,” Alya said. “But I guess it was technically a success. Nice work, klepto.”

Marinette smiled down at the pen in her hand.

Maybe Operation Kleptomaniac wouldn’t be so bad after all.

Adrien sat in his desk chair, rolling the pink gel pen between his fingers.

“Man, that Pigtails is so weird,” Plagg commented through a mouthful of cheese.

“She’s not weird,” Adrien said. “She’s just… ”

He paused. He didn’t quite have the words for what Marinette was. Smart, definitely. Kind. Funny. Passionate. Brave. Talented. A good person. A good friend.

“… she’s Marinette,” he finished.

Adrien pulled open his desk drawer and took out a little box. Inside were various items he’d collected since he started school. An old CD from Nino. A sparkly invitation to Rose’s birthday party. A spoon from an ice cream cone he’d shared with Kagami. The wrapper from the piece of gum Alya had offered him on his second day. The ticket stubs from the movies he’d seen with Marinette last month.

Now that he thought of it, most of the things in the box came from Marinette. There were ribbons from bags of homemade pastries, knicknacks she’d made for all her friends, a dozen handwritten notes (always signed “Your friend, Marinette”).

“I don’t get why you keep all this stuff,” Plagg said. “It’s just a bunch of junk.”

Adrien carefully placed the pink gel pen in the box, between his Kitty Section mask and the pair of fake glasses “Marino” had left behind.

“They’re not junk.” He smiled. “They’re treasures.”

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Boy, where’s your Mother? Fall Down Dead Dirty Mind, Dirty Mouth, Pretty Little Head

For @buggachat‘s Drowning (In Plain Sight), which is currently giving me brain worms