i headcanon that gabe and emilie would want to create a sentibaby that's a mix of their own DNA--which, why can't they do that? Dusuu's got to use some sort of genetic material

but what if they wanted to test the possible combinations of their DNA before deciding on their perfect designer baby? what if you're adrien agreste model 1.0? it's a little weird when you come into the world, fully grown, and the first thing you're asked to do is turn around slowly on the spot. there's some lady in a mask and a peacock dress, smiling as you stand there, awaiting judgement. her counterpart, standing behind her, seems uncertain. but you don't think much of that. there's no time to think much of that--not when all of a sudden you're sitting at a desk, with pages of equations written on them. problems you're meant to solve.

somehow, you know you've learned this math somewhere--even if you don't remember when or how. but they keep watching you--scrutinizing every line of your pencil. you finally dare to ask them about it--because it's weird, right? and god, if they could just leave you alone for ten minutes, you could probably finish this easily. but your examiners' lips turn down at your outburst. and you're snapped away before you even manage to look back down at the page

what if you're adrien agreste model 13.6, and everything you do elicits little whoops of joy from the peacock lady? in your several hours of existence, you've spoken five different languages and carried out a slew of endurance, agility, and cognitive tests. and most importantly--although you don't know why your examiners seem to praise you for this--you never talked back once

the peacock lady claps her hands together, and even the man behind her--who you've come to realize isn't nearly as easy to crack--can't seem to stop smiling. and you don't understand why something about that fills you with dread, but it does. it's a sort of all-consuming, impossible to shake dread. but you smile through it anyways

you don't know that once you disappear, a smaller version of you will come forth into the world. or that, years later, you'll feel that same sort of sick feeling in your gut

you're adrien agreste model 13.7, and you don't know there's anything weird about the way you came into this world. you don't realize your mother sometimes misses 6.8's dimples, or that your father often wishes they'd gone with 11.2--who would have had a real head for business

and you never do figure out why something always feels just a little bit wrong

@wisteriasymphony hi WHAT hello you made it so much worse. i love it. AAAAH

revelation was an absolute pie-tin of Harry Clown/Gabriel crumbs we all saw it

Nino purposely making a plan to have everybody including Adrien dump food on Gabriel

Nino was just WAITING for Gabriel to come out in public! Haha!

Carapace also has canonically hit Hawkmoth in the face with his shield.

Nino might be terrible at secrets but he seems to know who the villain is here. Haha!

(No Nino!!! Don’t let his makeover fool you! You had him pegged correctly the first time!)

New Beginnings - Chapter 1: Reveal

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It's also an issue that Gabriel is wildly inconsistent. Often he tailors what he does to what he thinks might get him a nice akuma. He shut down Nino trying to throw Adrien a party for that more than because he didn't like Nino (not much more though).

Adrien only seems to matter to him when it reflects on himself and his brand. Otherwise Gabriel generally ignores Adrien.

Plus the entire season one finale?

Not only does Gabriel have a digital copy of the book but he pulls Adrien from school. Giving every indication that this is meant to be a permanent punishment.

Then he goes out of his way to akumatize himself and tries to attack Adrien. Because Gabriel doesn't see traumatizing his son by trapping him in a book as important as making Adrien feel guilty for "getting his Father akumatized".

There's also the matter that when Adrien does well Gabriel can't be bothered to show up. Like when Adrien won a fencing competition and the only feedback he gets is that he's late. Which A) isn't something he could control and B) he heard from Nathalie because Gabriel was too busy with "more important things". Despite, y'know, literally being in the other room.

He also cancels time set aside for Adrien even though it's treated like an appointment and is only fifteen minutes of his time.

The only times Gabriel goes out of his way to show Adrien an iota of attention it's because he just endangered his son's life with an akuma.

And let's not forget Sandboy! Where Adrien's greatest fear is literally being locked in a cage. Wonder where that came from? *Stares in Gabriel keeps Adrien isolated from his peers*

Also, Gabriel didn't let Adrien stop modeling just because he asked. I was worried about this take when I first heard how it happened and am disappointed to be proven right. Anyway.

Gabriel appropriated his own son's image to capitalize off Adrien's public image and help him sell akuma rings to the populace. So either Gabriel is illegally profiting off his son's face or Gabriel

legally owns

Adrien's likeness.

Meaning that Adrien can't lend his voice to things like protesting the oxygen tower anymore.

Gabriel is actually incredibly well written. He is not inconsistent at all, at least in the way he is written. It is clear that the writers are familiar with how abusers usually behave.

Those periods of being “reasonable” or “affectionate” (like hugging Adrien after Style Queen) are actually an important piece in maintaining control in an abusive dynamic exactly BECAUSE it causes the victim to doubt they are being abused, causes them to doubt that it’s really that bad, and it gives hope that the abuser really does care and is capable of warmth and affection as long as the victim acts the way the abuser wants. Such unpredictable responses to requests and behavior also keep the victim in a state of anxiety - perpetually off balance and uncertain about the way the next interaction is going to go. This keeps the victim eager to please, and motivates the victim to try and do whatever the abuser wants.

If an abuser is only ever bad, violent and angry, the victim is harder to control. The reason being, no matter what they do it’s impossible to succeed so there’s no point in trying. In that situation, the victim usually shuts down and stops engaging. There’s no reason to do what the abuser wants because they always get abused.

When we’ve studied abusers, the vast majority are incredibly aware of what they are doing. And they will tell you that those periods of being reasonable or “loving” are incredibly important to maintaining control.

Gabriel is so well written and I hope that this allows actual victims of abuse who watch the show an opportunity to recognize they are in abusive situations, which is the first step in getting out.

Can’t wait for the moment in season five when all of the kwamis discover Hawkmoth’s civilian identity and after a long moment of awkward silence spent staring at Gabriel are like;

“Oh, wow.” 

“Huh, would you look at that.”

“This…this makes a lot of sense, actually. 

“Yeah, should’ve seen it coming in hindsight.”

“As all-powerful, ancient cosmic beings, this is embarrassing for us.”

“Shouldn’t he be on a yacht evading taxes or something?”

“I think he’s too busy emotionally neglecting his son for that.”

“Well, it looks like I owe Plagg ten euros and two decades of bragging rights when this mess sorts itself out.”

this is what happened right

This dumb little shit really put "Hawkmoth wins this time" as his password what a loser

OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY

Hopefully that’s not foreshadowing??

... That doesn't make any sense.

If Felix is a sentimonster like Gabriel Agreste is implying why can't he just order Felix to tell him where the other ring is? Since apparently Gabriel has HIS amok in that ring?

Also, what the heck!? Since when can anyone holding the amok snap a sentimonster out of existence!?

All of this makes me less inclined to believe Adrien is a sentimonster actually. Aunt Amilie may be sus but she's not "take away my nephew's free will" sus. If anything it makes me think Felix was designed as a perfect (physical) copy of Adrien. Chloe called him the "fake Adrien" which feels relevant.

(Oh, and if Adrien IS a sentimonster, at which point I will ignore Canon for the rest of EVER, and Felix still acted like that towards Adrien? The Graham de Vanilys can fucking choke on a cactus)

Did Gabriel have his amok though? There’s two rings. Felix has one. Gabriel has the other. I actually thought the threat was based on the fact that Gabriel has the peacock (and was CURRENTLY transformed so could just will a sentimonster out of existence), which wouldn’t make sense because supposedly Gabriel is trying to throw Felix off his identity. Felix seemed to know exactly what Gabriel was referring to though and was genuinely afraid. I agree that it didn’t make sense and that I’m confused. But it actually makes me believe that both Felix and Adrien are sentimonsters more now than before. 

These are so pretty fr

Here’s a link to the artist’s twitter!

This was all I ever needed from a miraculous episode!!

I do wonder why people keep looking at the rings we understand to be separately imbued with magical powers (at least in the family mythology sense) and keep demanding it proves other theories.  

All it proves is that control and influence is built into the rings to some  unknown degree.

Right out of the proverbial supervillain gate, Gabriel was perfectly okay with using tools to control other people. Maybe it wasn’t the first time he was doing so.

Just for a moment, let’s ignore any of those Sentimonster theories out there and just focus exclusively on the rings.  We can assume they have obvious sentimental value, but there is clearly something more beneath the surface.

Looking back at the Felix episode, it does put an interesting spin on something Adrien’s Aunt mentioned when she first appeared.

Notably earlier in that episode, Gabriel deliberately swapped out his ring with Emilie’s.  This whole move seemed very odd at the time, but we had no frame of reference to understand its meaning.  We later realize that Amelie had reached out and was demanding the rings.  That timing feels important here.

Then, Felix seems a little too interested in engaging with the matter considering this is his first line to Adrien:

Felix is clearly versed on what the family’s twin rings are supposed to be able to do.

Gabriel is really angry, but it is notable now that he has his initial ring back.

Going to pose a bit of a theory here of my own:

So, is your theory that the twin rings each control/influence one in a set of twins?

Wouldn’t the rings also be able to influence, say, Emilie and Amelie then?

It seems odd that Emilie would allow them to be used as her wedding rings then, giving Gabriel control/influence over her and/or her sister…

My theory is that the rings are a more literal representation of control and influence.   I think that the set of rings were to be used in parallel to exert influence.  In concept, it probably was used on royalty and the peerage to claim and join that faction and then stay in power.

We definitely have gotten the implication that the Graham de Vanily family is old school money, but from some of the some of the Bourgeois-focused episodes, it is clear that this was more of a new thing for Gabriel himself.

I suspect (based purely on the quality of what Gabriel himself has produced, and I’m including Akuma designs here) that they might have even used this on Audrey Bourgeois herself to have his skills recognized and propelled into fame and acclaim.  

However, I think it takes someone of the Graham de Vanily bloodline to activate said rings to a particular target.  They only get one target at a time, so those targets were locked to the last targets Emilie selected.

What’s more, this means that Adrien is the one who could absolutely use and break this power on his own, but only after he understands what it is and why and how it has been used against him for his father’s benefit.

I AM SURPRISED THAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS YET-

Something has been bugging me since Optigami, and then more in Sentibubbler. What is that? (Warning: This post is really disjointed, far-fetched and quite random.)

Wait-

One of the things I extremely love about Miraculous is the visual clues. EVERY SINGLE DESIGN ELEMENT HAS A REASON. After all, what else do you expect when they literally showed the grimoire and the peacock miraculous right in front of our eyes?

Anyway, back to this. Nathalie's room has been shown of more importance right from the New York Special and since Nathalie's health started deteriorating. And the whole design is, for some reason, Egyptian Themed. Especially these BLACK CATS at the entrance of her room (Literally no other room in the mansion has these statues at their entrances👀). And they look soo similar to:

In Ancient Egypt black cats were representations of goddess Bastet.

Now, This instantly reminds me of Season 1 Episode Pharaoh, since the titular Akuma was very much related to Egypt. Which leads me to the next part of this theory.

THE PHARAOH, THE WISH AND NEFRITITI.

The Pharaoh wanted to make a wish to bring back Nefrititi to life. And the wish required a "pure soul" in exchange for bringing back a life from the death. Sounds very familiar to a certain fashion designer who is losing his mind over wishing to bring back his wife from dead, Huh? Some snippets from the episode:

Before going to the next part, I have a lot of stuff to unpack here. I am assuming that the "her" was Nefrititi. And the "you" here is actually Alya.

This was the scroll depicting the wish and the sacrifice. The person on the plank like thing is probably the "sacrifice". Well, guess what? I zoomed in and-

IS SHE - WEARING GLASSES????

Yup. Looks like it.

Now, applying the same lore to the Agreste mess, Who is the person we know, who wears glasses, and who is the most probable person who could potentially fall into a comatose state in exchange for dear Emilie IF the wish is made??

NATHALIE.

In short, the Egyptian decor in Nathalie's room could potentially foreshadow the consequences of the wish, when (if) it is made.

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FUN FACT TIME!

• The title of Episode 22, Ephemeral, is spelled "EPHÉMÈRE" (Especially with the accents, as confirmed by Miraculous Mexico). And as everyone probably knows by now, "Mère" is French for "Mother". Puns, Huh?🤡

• Nathalie's name literally means,"Born without a heart".👀

Mega Leech - A prelude to the seeds of the rebellion? (The father vs the son)

Okay, so, before I start, I know a lot of fans are very passionate about this scene, but I want to inform you this is neutral territory. And therefore, I am asking you to leave behind any theories you might have before reading this post.

My analysis is not there to prove or refute any theories. The reason why I am analysing any ML scene to begin with is because the cinematography behind it striked me. So my focus will only be on the shots themselves and how they make me feel as a viewer. 

Are we good? Good. Let’s proceed. 

First, let us remind ourselves of the context. Mega Leech is loaded with real life issues such as police-state (how the mayor abused of the police officer to shut down any protestor and later litteraly become a dictator so everyone does as he says without any opposition) and how the political class can favor companies and their profit over the common good and do so behind people’s back. Basically, the episode teaches the viewers to pay attention to the projects their political and rich elites try to sell them. To look past the pretty images and doublespeak use to promote a project and use their civic right to protest and make noise to counter censorship and raise awareness. 

During the episode, Mylène and Ivan inform their classmates about the unsustainability of the Mayor’s new environmental project sponsored by two companies : the Gabriel’s brand and the Tsurugi’s company. Adrien – whose image is used in the add to promote the project – discovers that he had been mislead. And later, he takes a stand and protest with his friends against the project. Stand that his father of course learns about.

However, it is only during the final scene, when Adrien gets home, that Adrien faces the consequences of taking position and being openly public about it.

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