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Post "Blue Skies" Storylines: Adrien and Felix

Just a rough idea of how the storylines and characters would continue after "The Blue Skies and Your Eyes". If you haven't finished it yet, there's spoilers ahead! The full series is here.

First, we'll start with Adrien and Felix after leaving Paris and heading to London.

Adrien

-> Adrien is getting the therapy he needs while in London. He's able to unpack the issues he had with his father, the grief over losing his mother, and repair his relationship with Felix (who occasionally joins him for sessions). I also imagine him getting some social skills training to supplement the therapy. He's a bit hesitant at first, but is encouraged by his Aunt so he can better understand how healthy relationships work.

-> It takes some time for him to settle into London, but once he does, he starts exploring various interests and hobbies he didn't get to before. I've written a post addressing this before, but to reiterate, I imagine him getting into tricking (combination of martial arts and gymnastics that combines kicks and flips), baking, and romance fiction. To add on to that, I also see him joining a book and/or anime club at his school, or starting one outside of it. And since he's into tricking, I think I'd just have him join a martial arts school while we're at it (a glance at the wiki says that he does karate and kung-fu, so whatever school offers one of those is where he's enrolling).

(For those who need a visual reference of what tricking looks like).

-> His friend group consists of some members of the club he joins, people he regularly tricks with, students at his martial arts school, and some normal people at school. And of course, Felix, once the two have addressed the issues between them.

-> He still keeps in touch with Nino and Kagami, and occasionally Alya too. After doing some soul searching and healing, I could see him reaching out to Marinette and Chloe as well. Adrien and Chloe repairing their relationship helps her quite a bit as she's trying to adjust to New York.

-> Admittedly, he shies away from superhero fiction. Oftentimes, he thinks back to when Miracle Queen took the ring from him, and he can get defensive about it. He's aware of his behavior, but it takes him some time to really let go of it.

-> He is still a romantic at heart, but holds off on dating until a year or so has gone by. He wishes to avoid the fumbles he made with Kagami and Maribug, so he focuses on healing and self-improvement first. His first relationship ends up being someone from his tricking circle.

-> Down the road, I eventually see him becoming a romance author. However, he takes a pen name in order to disassociate himself from the Agreste name. He may also change his name legally for this reason.

Felix

-> While he does put effort into repairing his relationship with Adrien, Felix is well aware that he can never tell him about becoming the Guardian. Over time, he starts to feel a bit guilty about this, but never peeps or hints at it.

-> There were two things I thought of including for him originally in the main story, but never got to address properly: the first was another layer to why he was so hard on Alya. Initially, he was supposed to be a big fan of the Ladyblog, and even develop a small crush on Alya. However, he felt betrayed when he realized she wasn't entirely being truthful on there. The storyline would have focused on their rivalry, and him rekindling his crush on her, but letting go as she was happy with Nino.

-> The other main beat focused on why he was so interested in unraveling mysteries and secrets, which ties back to his own family history. The idea was that every male member on his father's side of the family died relatively young. This would make him concerned over his own mortality, and he would get into investigating the cause of it, since the circumstances were unusual. He would go around involving himself in situations he had no business in, simply to test his own skills.

-> Well, to tie into this new storyline, he'd balance his Guardian duties with finding the answer to this mysterious question. He refuses to admit it, but he's worried about his own mortality, if his own life will end shortly, and if so, by what means. This may cause him to take rash actions and to be called out by various people (Marinette, Luka, Fu, Adrien, etc.) It takes him some time to realize that he needs to practice self-care if he wants to prolong his life.

-> He ends up becoming a beta reader for Alya's autobiography. As they end up having to communicate a lot, I could see him developing a small crush on her, but choosing not to pursue it since she's with Nino. I think she's more observant at this point and picks up on it, but doesn't say anything.

-> You'll often find him spending time in the library doing research or studying for his Guardian duties. He earns the top grades in his class and seems to do so effortlessly. He only joins clubs if it benefits his investigations, with maybe debate team being an exception.

-> He develops a rapport with Marinette and Luka over time, as he continues his Guardian duties. He refuses to call them his friends, but it becomes pretty clear that he's fond of them.

-> In general, he's slow to make new friends. He often meets people when doing his investigations, or if his mom asks Adrien to drag him to one of his events, but they really only stand out to him if they're a person of interest.

-> One person decides to become his rival (for some reason), challenging him to various things, and often losing. When Felix declares that they aren't really friends, this person becomes really competitive... about making Felix his friend. And that's how Felix gains his confidant/sidekick.

[mkengland]

This is it. If nothing else, this is the one thing to know about THE ONE TRUE ME AND YOU. I love this blurb with every fiber of my being. You've maybe seen other parts of it on the final book cover or various posts, but this is the bit that means the most. When I heard @tjklunebooks had given a blurb for TOTMY, I about passed out. His books mean a ton to me. The House in the Cerulean Sea was the book that broke my early pandemic reading slump. It came out on March 17, 2020, the day after we entered lockdown here, and when I finally got around to reading it... oh, friends, it was the perfect comforting hug I needed to get through those times. I quickly ripped through everything else he's written--and there's a lot! I feel like this is the only book that gets talked about, but all is work is fantastic. If you're more of a YA person, you will definitely still love Cerulean Sea, but he also has two YA novels you'll adore: The Extraordinaries and Flash Fire. Please check out his work and give him a follow! TJ's full blurb: “The One True Me and You is a breezy, snappy story about fandom, friendships, and being true to yourself, even if that might be a little scary. This story is lovingly queer, and shows the differences that set us apart should be celebrated rather than denigrated. England writes with heart and I, for one, can't wait to see what they do next.” Thanks, TJ. Both for the "warm hug" books and for this amazing blurb. #theonetruemeandyou #mkengland #tjklune #remikengland #yaromance #yacontemporary #queerya #lgbtqya #queerbookstagram #yabookstagram #fandombooks #queerromance #sapphicbooks #sapphicreads #sapphicromance #march2022books #march12022 #preordercampaign #newbooks — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/zk7dpA6

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OOC

"Y'all don't support talent, y'all support popularity." Real shit I read on a FB post this morning. This totmy applies to the WWE Fandom am I right?

[totmiarchives]

Whoops we forgot yesterday’s post so we were gonna post 2 models only to find out the second one we haven’t rendered. Anyway, this model (plus another that we were unable to render for some reason) is part of our Character Set 0 collection. This Character Set is really any models of our website mascot Totmi. You can pick up a 3D print of him here: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/totmiarchives?section=Character+Set+0%3A+Totmi&s=0 The leaning Totmi figure (the one not seen here) still needs some adjustments however so it can't stand on its own. We will fix that and a few other models soon.

[ao3feed-lukanette]

by xxoceanswavesxx

A bonus collection to celebrate the one year anniversary of "The One to Make It Stay".

Words: 1184, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of The One to Make It Stay

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Multi

Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Couffaine, Rose Lavillant, Juleka Couffaine, Ivan Bruel, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Jagged Stone (Miraculous Ladybug), Penny Rolling, Original Characters, Vivica (Miraculous Ladybug), Aurore Beauréal, Félix Graham de Vanily

Relationships: Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug

Additional Tags: the one to make it stay one year, totmis 1 year, anniversary collection, this will be a mix of new prompts as well as hc posts i put on my tumblr, contents include:, hcs for ending cards, an "omake" chapter in the veins of tales of symphonia bonuses, au takes of this au, one for adrien, one for kagami, one for felix, one for love hexagon, one for ice art, assume that the stories in this collection are NOT canon to the main storyline, unless otherwise stated, i will also do requested chapters that fit better here than anywhere else in the story

[thesaltyoceanwaves]

The tags on that post about the Adrien Remix of TOTMIS got me wondering, have you ever written a Love Square fic before? And would you be willing to do it again?

Way, way back in the day (think the hiatus between season 1 and 2), I wrote a oneshot where Marinette and Adrien revealed their identities to each other in the same vein as the Dic dub of Sailor Moon.

I wouldn't write a full-on fic for them, if that's what you're asking. Maybe oneshot rewrites, or just HCs with changes I'd propose to the dynamic, but nothing in the vein of TOtMiS or Psyche and Bewitched.

[thesaltyoceanwaves]

Um, some bad news (not horrible, but kinda inconvienent).

Because I posted the TOtMiS timeline under my old URL, I can’t access the content past the “Keep Reading” anymore. I’m not sure if there’s a way to override or get past it, but for the time being, I’m going to have to assume it’s lost. 

Thankfully, I have notes from previous documents, including dates for the full version of TOtMiS, so I can piece everything together. Things might be thrown off from the original, but it’s better than nothing!

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I can’t believe I’m saying this but “The One to Make It Stay” is really coming up on its 2 year anniversary! I’m really going to try and get another one shot for the anniversary collection done, and maybe a non-TOtMiS related one shot for MerMay?? (Updates have been slow bc I’ve been getting into Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. I might make a post detailing my thoughts if anyone is on the fence about getting the game)

Also, in regards to whether or not S4 or the specials will have any sway over the course of the story, that’s a strong no from me. I might mention Mari going to New York or Shanghai but that’s about it. Also, since Mari and Luka are endgame here, I’m pretty much punching canon in the face with much disrespect.

[thesaltyoceanwaves]

You know Jack Ryder? The reporter in the game Batman: Arkham Knight? He reminds me of the type of reporter/person Alya is slowing turning into. Especially in your story. You get a good taste of his character by watching a playthrough of the side quest Most Wanted: Lamb to the Slaughter

With Alya’s interlude in “Paper Sky” and the first chapter of “All the Laughs” out, I think now is the time to give some commentary on Alya.

I have mixed feelings on canon!Alya. On the one hand, I think we’ve all had to sit through some toxic relationships or rough patches in our friendships in our life. I, for example, was not a good friend in elementary school. I would actually go up to my friends and tell them “I don’t want to be friends this week” only to go up to them three days later and ask to be friends again. Of course, as I got older, I stopped doing stuff like that.

And I’ve been on the other side of the fence too. I can think of three friendships that really messed with me at different points in my life (one in middle school, one in high school, and the third in college, which I alluded to in another post), as well as someone I would have been friends with if things were different (as in better, but that’s another story). 

With how Alya has been acting this season, and her growing friendship with Lila, I thought it would have been an interesting plotline to have Marinette and Alya have an actual fight. Marinette isn’t allowed to disagree with anyone, not without either being wrong or suffering for it. But her and Alya have legitimate sources of conflict that ought to be addressed - I stand by my opinion that The Puppeteer 2 would have been a great place to address this.

And in general, I haven’t been a big fan of how Alya’s been acting this season - with the dismissiveness in Chameleon, the pawning off of babysitting duties in Christmaster and Timetagger, and the pushiness in Puppeteer 2, and no consequences to be dealt in sight, it’s a wonder she hadn’t become my least favorite character in the entire show. I don’t blame anyone who does feel this way.

But on the other hand, I definitely get where the backlash to the backlash is coming from. Alya is one of the few dark-skinned WoC characters on this show, and black women in media tend to get the worst treatment from writers of their own shows (mostly referring to shows where these women aren’t the protagonist, or are co-protags with another character, likely white) and fandom. 

By contrast, fandom tolerance for white dudes and their antics tends to be a lot higher, even if they make the same bad decisions like Alya has. So when you see enough salt fics going the direction of “Alya is a bad friend” and sometimes take it even further than that (”Alya is the absolute worst!”), it can feel particularly hateful and even racist, even if the writer isn’t intending to be.

I’m a white woman, so I was anxious when trying to respond to this. How far is too far? While it seems most people tend to like how Alya has been handled so far and the trajectory of her arc, it wouldn’t be fair of me to just write off anyone who feels like that’s not true.

I want to note however, that I don’t think fic writers should just stop critiquing Alya in their writing or feel like they have to have Marinette and Alya makeup just because of this anxiety. Different writers have different ideas for how they want to handle the scenarios presented to them, and depending on execution, that’s not an inherently bad thing. Fiction is the space meant to explore possibilities, after all. I just think, in this specific case, it’s a hard rope to walk, mostly if you’re white. If there were other prominent dark-skinned girls in the main cast, or if the story didn’t always focus on the rich, white kids (coughChloeandAdriencough), this probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue. 

I don’t want all writers to feel like they have to go this route if they don’t want to. I chose to give Alya another chance because I like the redemption arc that was set up for her in Nice Guy Adrien and wanted to do something similar for TOtMiS. I wanted Marinette and Alya to work things out in the end, regardless if they remain BFFs or teammates. And at the end of the day, every character on this show deserved better writing (yes, including my least fave Lila and Hawkmoth).

TL;DR: Alya hasn’t been a good friend to Marinette in canon and should answer for it, but I don’t think she’s The Worst™ and should be crucified. 

Anyway, I actually really liked writing commentary on my own story, so I might do something like this again in the future - maybe with Chloe or Adrien when we get further along.

[mkengland]

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[mkengland]

I was so blown away by the amazing blurbs THE ONE TRUE ME AND YOU received, and I want to personally say thank you to every single author who took the time. So I'm going to! From now until TOTMY releases on 3/1/22, I'll be sharing the blurbs and shouting out each author so you can go shower them with love and check out their beautiful books. I wanted to start with the wonderful @dilemmalord for two reasons: because her gushing email was one of the first blurbs we received, which made my spirit SOAR and gave me hope that people might actually like this book; and, because she just had a NEW BOOK out yesterday! Everyone please go flood @dilemmalord with love and affection and book purchases—her stories are so relatable and her sense of humor is * p e r f e c t i o n *. I wanted to highlight this part of the blurb in the graphic because you already saw a different part in yesterday's post, as printed on the TOTMY bookmarks. Here's the full blurb, for your reading pleasure: “A must-read for anyone who has ever found home in a fandom! I haven’t felt this delightfully ‘seen’ since Rainbow Rowell's FANGIRL. This book is a love letter to the support of online communities, to the friendships that define you, and to the ongoing, lifelong challenge to define yourself. Kay and Teagan are here to take your little shipper heart and jump rope with it in the best, most satisfying way.” Intrigued? Hit up the link in my bio to preorder your copy! And save your receipt—preorder campaign details coming soon. #linkinbio #mkengland #remikengland #yaromcom #yacontemporary #yacontemp #yabookstagram #blurb #bookblurb #lgbtqya #queerya #yaromcom #fandom #emmalord #emmalordbooks #march2022books #preordercampaign #march2022 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/334Tdzs