refresher on pv facts

EDIT: important bit i forgot whoops! the series was being developed since 2010 as a movie but 2012, negotiations were being made with toei animation to make an anime series that would be animed at teens and young adults, NOT kids. that was was the pv was made - “promotional video” “for internal use only” - producers didn’t like it, so the pv was scraped and they tried for a 3d series instead

since some people don’t really seem to know either because they weren’t originally into it, or forgot, or are new to the fandom:

ladybug was marinette cheng - NOT BRIDGETTE - bridgette is the fandom name we started calling pv!marinette circa 2015 to differentiate the versions of the character
marinette was fully chinese. her surname, from what was known at the time, was just ‘cheng’. there was nothing else that pointed to her being half.
chat noir was felix. no surname. felix was originally a fandom nickname since his civilian name hadn’t been released. eventually promotional material released that confirmed the name was felix.
the original premise for the powers was good luck and bad luck. no lucky charm, no miraculous ladybug, no cataclysm.
actually i think the ship name was lucky charm - you get why
marinette was only allowed to use her powers for altruistic reasons. if she used them selfishly, bad things would happen.
felix was cursed with bad luck. we don’t know why.
he couldn’t take the ring off
he was forced into doing hero work because - i think - his bad luck would get worse is he didn’t. don’t trust me on this one. but he was forced into it.
the only way to remove the ring, and the curse, was to get a kiss from ladybug.
ladybug and chat noir weren’t really partners. she actually hated when he tried to get involved because his bad luck would just fuck things up for her
chat noir relentlessly, desperately pursued ladybug.
marinette relentlessly, desperately pursued felix. we don’t know why.
she really did not leave him alone.
we didn’t know the deal with hawk moth le papillion at the time
le papillion had two buff bodyguards and an assistant/henchwoman. neither were seen in the trailer.
it seemed that mr pigeon and mime were recurring villains?
felix may not have been an absolute prick? there’s concept art of him talking to other people…idk
quantic kids! we didn’t get any snippet of them until 2012/2013 with this online slot machine game. i think i was the one who brought major attention to it? there were old fanarts of them before 2015 but it doesn’t seem like many knew about it…
the first mention of the change from felix to adrien was, at the earliest, 2013. i think it was 2014, i’m not sure. WAIT, no i think it was 2013 cause of the-
FU in the pv concept was called the ‘guardian of the orb’. we have concept art for the orb. we have no idea what it does. if only sam-g released the artbook in english…it’s been what 3 years? gimme…
THE EARRINGS WERE AN HEIRLOOM FROM MARINETTE’S GRANDMA THAT SHE FOUND IN HER ATTIC I FORGOT ABOUT THAT - ok yeah so there was an old source thatihavetofind that said that marinette received the earrings from her grandma, or something like that…
but then there’s also a synopsis that says fu entrusted marinette and adrien with stopping hawk moth…that may have been because they already had their jewelry?
oh yeah, miraculouses weren’t a thing. they were just magic jewelry with tiny spirit pets.

#minimenace #miraculous ladybug #ml: pv #ml pv: refs #marinette cheng #bridgette cheng #chinese marinette #felix x marinette #felix agreste #adrien agreste #mlpv felix #i also really love felix agreste #chengs #cheng family #marinettes grandma #papillon #mlpv papillon #miraculouses #toei animation #guardian of the orb #quantic kids #felix x bridgette #marinette IS CHINESE #let us have black haired dark eyes marinette if we WANT #GDI #i was here when it dropped #(Yes a BIT has been said about the PV since even this post was made But)#({WHY DO THEY KEEP MAKING PV CAMEO FULLY ANIMATED INSERTS INTO EVERY OTHER NEW SERIES THEN AAAAA})#({ALONG WITH LITERALLY MAKING THEM PARALLEL WORLDS CANONICALLY ?? ? ? IDEK ANYMORE BUT IM ALLOWED TO KEEP ENJOYING PV})#(And no I do NOT have to consider the Miraculouses being necessary to the original PV concept because THEY WERENT!!! I DONT NEED TO REGARD)