In your "Wish Me Away" does anyone feel guilty? I would hope the Dupain-Chengs do but what about Adrien and Lila?
Yeah some do! Like Rose, Nino and Ivan. Maybe more but those are the set ones I have in mind. As for the Dupain-Chengs, they do feel guilty but in different ways. Tom does genuinely feel guilty and it pulls him into a depression. While he did think of the shop as his and Sabine's baby, he grew to think of Marinette as their other baby, just as important as their shop. He loves his daughter, he just thought she was very independent like her mother but when he sees how lonely she was in the memories he is forced to see it hurts him.
He regrets so much but he does accept that he was a cause of her pain and loneliness, he is one who's memories slowly start to fade but Sabine. Sabine is another story. She knows Tom is losing his memory of Marinette and it is selfish but she makes him remember. She makes him remember his guilt so she's not alone.
Sabine does feel guilty, she does, but her guilt turns to anger. Anger at herself and anger at Marinette. She feels guilty that she didn't notice things were so bad for her daughter but she also blames Marinette for not talking to them and telling them anything. If Marinette had been more open to them they wouldn't have been in this mess is basically what she feels. Because of this mindset her memories of Marinette are very much present and not going away.
Adrien feels no guilt. He thinks he holds no blame in the situation. If anything, he feels like his actions were fully justified so he feels like the punishments are anything but fair. It's why he becomes such a problem in Marinette’s future. He can't accept his faults.
Lila feels no guilt, but she does regret things. She regrets not figuring out Marinette was the retched insect. She regrets making the girl her enemy when she could have been her biggest ally. She regrets getting caught. She regrets ever coming to Paris. But she feels no guilt over what she has done, maybe it can change in the future but so far no guilt is felt.
Too Late: Juleka & Rose (commission for miner249er)
Chapter 10 of @miner249er ‘s commission
Summary: A nightmare, a call, and a conversation. What a night.
Juleka was running. Fast. Her feet ached, her lungs burned, she had to have been running for hours and yet she couldn’t get away. She couldn’t even put a distance between her and her pursuer. It was like every step she took only brought her closer to them, but all she could do was run, and she absolutely refused to look back at them. Least she be filled with fear and guilt so deep, it would render her incapable of movement. It would drown her. Juleka was a lover of all things macabre and she was a horror movie fanatic, but living in one? That was another thing entirely. Even though she knew she was running as fast as she could, she knew that She was right behind her and had stayed behind her all the while keeping a leisurely pace like the most iconic slashers in horror movie history.
There were whispers all around, all saying different things, but it was the same voice but multiplied. It didn’t make sense, but the subconscious never did to begin with, why should it have started now? At first, Juleka paid no mind to the whispers, that was until they grew in volume and felt like they became tangible, like walls pressing around her, slowly pushing in. Ready to crush her at a steady pace. The whispers were yells, she had no choice but to focus on them and hear what they said. It was static, then all at once she was hearing anything and everything she had done that she classified as bad or that warranted guilt, but the ones that stood out the most were the ones that involved Her. It wasn’t surprising given everything that had happened but Juleka still didn’t want to hear it, any of it. So as she ran she covered her ears but ultimately it did nothing. The voices got louder, almost shouting, and she could feel that She was closing in on her.
#rota#revolt of the akuma#goggles commission#ml salt fic#ml class salt#juleka couffaine#rose lavillant#ml prince ali#akuma marinette#marinette dupain cheng#slighty angsty with a pinch of fluff ish#luka couffaine#lila rossi#lila rossi salt#lilas lies exposed#lila rossi lies#look they know they made mistakes#they are trying to learn from that and grow#its everyone else holding them back and thinking they need to be punished more#crazy ladybug/ the protector fanatics#let the kids grow#dashes of salt#rota too late