The Four Loves of Adrien Agreste, or how not to pigeonhole all the girls into obsessive stalkers

Yeah Marinette, Lila, Kagami, and Chloé are different characters with different personalities, but their core reactions to Adrien as a person all fall in under the same umbrella of being possessive and creepy towards him. So here’s how to fix that.

Namely, don’t make them possessive and creepy!

I’m kidding, but seriously if Adrien has to have a harem he should really get more diversity in character. Anyone who’s played an otome game knows that.

So you have Marinette, the everygirl, the sweet friend with a heart of gold and a bit of a snarky streak, who’s willing to stand up for what is right. She ultimately respects Adrien’s wishes and is willing to let him go if he doesn’t return her affections. She has enough faith in Adrien that he’ll know what he wants.

Then there’s Chloé, the childhood friend, who’s known Adrien the longest and knows him best. She’s got inside jokes with Adrien and overall is the one he’s most physically and emotionally comfortable with because they’ve just known each other for so long. She’s got a mean streak but she’ll usually tone it down for Adrien’s sake, but she’s also the first person to tell Adrien to wise up.

Now, Lila is a bit of a mess. I’m gonna go with two interpretations here, one canon and one not. The canon interpretation is that… Adrien doesn’t expose Lila. He could have, and everyone would believe him, but he doesn’t and for that Lila is really fixated on him. She breaks the rules for her own wishes and she pushes Adrien to be less righteous and rule-abiding, but unlike Chloé, is not above throwing Adrien under the bus if she finds something shinier.

The not canon compliant interpretation is that she’s exposed after Volpina and Adrien is the one who stands by her despite everything, so she fixates on him because he forgives her. She really tries to become worthy of his faith in her, but still has a loose moral code on par with Chloé.

Kagami is brutally honest and blunt, but like Adrien, she’s lonely from the pressure of her parent and growing up under a spotlight. Where Chloe is actively willing to pick a fight, Kagami won’t retaliate unless threatened first. And where Marinette would be gentle, Kagami doesn’t sugarcoat anything. Adrien falls for her first instead of the other way around, but they bond in their isolation and love of fencing. Birds of a feather and all.

Ultimately they all share the same trait of being girls who can kick your ass verbally or otherwise, but they’re not just the same variety of “Adrien is mine and no one else is worthy of him”.

I mean. In the end the whole situation is still absolutely shit and I hate it, but if Adrien needs to have this dumbass harem fighting over him, at least they should be different besides Cute Stalker Fangirl #1, 2, 3, and 4.