you know what i love
i fucking love the idea of an older adrien
being /just as devoted to marinette
just as in awe of her
basking in her presence and her light and reminding her of it every chance he gets
I utterly adore their dynamic and their sparks now
and I really want to see that continue on in their later years
I want her to catch him looking at her
and there are still little blitzes of Chat in his eyes
and it brings the Ladybug out in hers
whether they’re still kicking ass and taking names freeing akumatized citizens or not
this is the first pairing that I have ever been invested in past they will they or won’t they stage
I genuinely want to see them develop
grow
change into older teens and then adults by each other’s side
I want to see how they push and support and help each other change through the good the bad the reveals and the ugly
I want them to be each other’s biggest fans and number one source of support
I want to see the holes and doubts that they have about themselves filled in by having someone by your side that you not only trust with your life
but also with your heart
There is /so much to be explored with them
and I want to see their full story
for the first time I want to see what happens after a couple’s supposed happily ever after
and that’s really special to me
This is so lovely i don’t even know what I can say. OR, how about:
I want to see them build a family.
Not a family family, not right away, but I want to see them take those tentative first steps, with open eyes and open arms, into carving out a life for themselves.
Talk to me about how there’s always a fourth place set out at Sunday dinners at the Dupain-Cheng’s, how when Tom finds Adrien lounging in the living room, he no longer asks if Adrien is waiting for Marinette, how Sabine has started to set aside an extra croissant from the first batch every morning. Talk to me about how Marinette walks freely through the doors of the Agreste mansion and greets the staff by name, how Gabriel doesn’t spend as much time locked away in his office, how there’s laughter filling the empty halls of the mansion again.
Talk to me how no one expected them to last this long, how they defied everyone’s expectations, even her parents’, especially his father’s. Talk to me about how, five, ten years later, they’re MORE in love than they were when they were teenagers.
Talk to me about how they are an uncontested unit. But it’s not that they’re always together so much that they’re always on each other’s side, that even and especially when they’re not together, they’re never to far from each other’s mind. Adrien doesn’t have to worry about standing up to his father anymore, not when he knows, even without her needing to be there, that she will support him in whatever he does. Marinette doesn’t succumb to her despair when her rivals tear into her out of jealousy, when she feels like she will never amount to anything, because she knows, with a deep-seated certainty, that there has never been a person who has believed in her more than him.
Talk to me about them continuing to protect their city, even after they defeat Hawkmoth and the impending akuma attacks are no longer dragging them into the spotlight. Talk to me about how they start speaking out, because just because Hawkmoth is gone, that doesn’t mean the root causes of his destruction are. People are still drowning in those dark emotions that Hawkmoth had once preyed on, are still feeling alone and desperate. Talk to me about how Ladybug and Chat Noir start making appearances at fundraisers for orphanages and food drives, how they start volunteering at soup kitchens and visiting children in the hospital.
Talk to me about the rainy evening they find a box of kittens on a street corner, how they manage to find homes for every single one except the littlest one. And maybe it’s hard to split the care of a little kitten across two different schedules and two different houses. Talk to me about how they start looking into apartments because they’ve got to keep their family together.
#honorary dupain-cheng adrien agreste AH YES THE RETURN OF MY FAVORITE TAG #kitten dupain-cheng-agreste #IS NOW A THING aaaaaAAA AND A NEW FAVE THING TO LOVE BLESS
This is gonna be a behemoth I feel it in my bones.
