Me thinking of the Nino/Alya and Andre/Audrey parallels while thinking of the Adrien/Marinette and 脡milie/Gabriel parallels while also thinking of the Marinette & Adrien & Alya & Nino friendship and Gabriel & 脡milie & Audrey & Andr茅 frienship parallels:
I love how this show does everything in pairs 馃檪
Andr茅 and Nino are both into film direction. Andr茅 never truly followed his dream but Nino has a chance to.
Audrey and Alya both working on media by Audrey being the head of her fashion magazine while Alya is head of the Ladyblog.
Andr茅/Audrey clearly in an unhappy relationship (that might be full of secrets cough ZOE cough) vs. Alya/Nino being completely honest with each other and resolving their issues rather quickly and maturely for being 14 year olds.
Gabriel and Marinette mirror each other by: being into fashion design, coming from a middle class/poor (in contrast with Adrien and 脡milie) background, being disapproved by their love interest's parent/s. Gabriel taints his victims with the power the butterfly grants while Marinette cleanses them with the ladybug.
脡milie and Adrien are both kids with strict parents in a higher class status, sunshines that desire to see the world on their own. 脡milie created with the peacock while Adrien destroys with the cat.
Gabriel & 脡milie & Audrey & Andr茅 have been friends since before the kids were born
脡milie starred in Andr茅's film while Adrien starred in Nino's project back on s1
Audrey discovered Gabriel and befriended him while Alya found Marinette and befriended her
It is very likely that Audrey knows that Gabriel is Monarque while Alya was told by Marinette herself that she's Ladybug
And right now i don't remember anything else lol
BONUS ROUND!
Luka and Nathalie are both the couple's friend and confidant that knows their secrets and tries to help as best as they can.
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A friend of a friend was doing a Google survey recently on what names the fandom uses for various characters. It included Orange, also known as Second, sometimes shortened to Sec, and occasionally abbreviated as TSC which is understood to stand for The Second Coming.
Participants in the survey were instructed to select, from a list of options, which name they primarily use for each of the characters featured. One of the examples given for clarification is that many people don't refer to Chosen by his full title of "The Chosen One" in regular conversation. Which makes sense. I tend to shorten his name to Chosen in casual conversation, whether speaking or typing; I don't usually abbreviate his name as TCO unless I tag him as such so a post reaches more people.
But what tripped me up was the other example, in reference to Orange: that being, using the name Orange to refer to him in the AvM series, but using the name Second to refer to him in the main AvA series.
...do...do people really do that? Is that how a bunch of you have been doing this?
If so, I'd really like to know why because just hearing about it like this perplexes me.
Does it come from the idea that AvA and AvM are separate timelines, that they don't share continuity? I'd heard that idea mentioned some time ago and, while I admit that the in-story chronology of Alan's videos as a whole is a mess (some information isn't even consistent between multiple videos of the same event, see: King losing his child to a different version of Minecraft in the s3 finale than is shown in the full season compilation), I don't really understand why that's enough to say they're separate continuities.
In my mind, there are too many things that fall apart if we consider these disconnected series featuring different iterations of the characters. If AvA Yellow isn't also AvM Yellow, then there's no explanation for Yellow being able to figure out a way to render a cursor into the outernet in The Showdown, because we never see AvA Yellow working with redstone so his capability has no explanation. If AvM are the only videos you know Purple from, then you won't get why the color gang are friendly with him at the end of The Witch episode because you aren't considering the events of AvLeague.
And I forget where I saw this comment, I think it was on YouTube somewhere, but somebody said that AvA Orange and AvM Orange are practically different characters and- I don't get it?? What did they see that I'm not seeing? Where's the divide? Can someone illuminate it for me???
As far as naming conventions, I do use both names for him and have reasons for which name gets used at which time, but it's not to distinguish between series, because I do believe AvA Orange and AvM Orange to be the same character.
I use the name Second to refer to him at times when his powers are active; specifically, the powers that awoke in full for the first time during The Showdown. This began as a way to demonstrate how his powers seemed to act on their own merit without his conscious input in that episode, since he has no memory of them or of anything he did while they were active. (A bit like ???% for those of you familiar with Mob Psycho 100.) But if such a time comes when he is able to maintain consciousness while his powers are active and use them deliberately, I will still continue to call him by the name Second during those times.
I use the name Orange to refer to him the rest of the time, when his powers either are dormant or are unconsciously active, such as when his drawings self-animate.
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