Okay, so what I was saying in my long Gabriel analysis rings true. (Ha ha...rings....) He changed to be accepted by Emilie's parents.
Deep down, Gabriel probably relates to Marinette. In the story Feligami tell...Marinette could easily be the poor tailor, while Adrien is the heir to the empire, ready to throw it all away for her.
At some point, Gabriel got twisted and sold out his values. It was probably a gradual process, which explains why Emilie initially fell in love with him and then stuck with him despite her unhappiness with him later.
In one of her videos for Nathalie, she said Gabriel got stuck on things. He was good enough for her but not for himself.
When he looks at Marinette, he sees a little of what he used to be. When he gives her that speech about being naive in the fashion world...he's talking about himself, once upon a time. I think he once had a dream like hers, and he let it go, focusing instead on the wealth and status he needed to be good enough for his in-laws.
Now, he envies Marinette, even if he's unaware of it. That's the only reason a grown man would be fixated on her in that way. He's treating her the way Emilie's parents treated him. He has to break her and get her out of his son's life because if he doesn't - if she achieves her dreams of marrying Adrien and becoming a designer without selling out her principles - it means he could have done this too. It will force him to reflect and take accountability for his bad decisions...and he just can't cope with that.
Similarly, when he hurls abuse at Cat Noir about what an ill-mannered child he is, and when he goes to such lengths to control Adrien...I really think he's seeing a reflection of his younger self there too.
Underneath the pancakes and bad dancing and total insanity, the man is nothing but a writhing heap of regrets and won't see that he had so many chances to do things another way.
I thought my color palettes were pretty vibrant until I was messing around with the color filters on my art program and it looked so much better than what I had
I just 😭
Okay, it’s not that it looks better its just that it has a bright quality and feel to it that I tend to admire in other artists work. On one hand, the brighter colors are very appealing and pleasing to look at but the muted colors were my authentic choice and have really nice earthy tones that i like and are much more often represented in my style.
I like them both idk
In my head I WAS using vibrant colors so I guess i was really just surprised
bug and deer!! please say hi to Sika, also known as Kagami Tsurugi! the deer is my original miraculous for my rewrite! i will yap about her elsewhere. perchance
Emonette and Shadybug ft. Obligatory Evil Mega-Sword
[She] became like the dark, fucked up version of the Ladybug Miraculous holder. Just a glimpse into [her] dark reality. A full stare into [her] twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao.