laydeebouge reblogged
#big fan of 'chat noir swears - adrien doesn't'#but also home school boy definitely sounds untried when he starts cussing b/c there is a learning curve to it#this manifests as an audible delay in the seconds between him loosing his ice cream scoop and saying 'fuck'#(which is when nino faints)#maybe the mental gears are turning and the consequences are being weighed in that delay - but mostly you see#its not the vocab he reaches for on impulse and it takes time to boot up and really stretch that muscle#it gets to a point where adrien will walk into a door#and the whole classroom goes deathly silent#everyone waits#'... shit' he says (too many seconds after it would be normal to react)#everyone roars with approval or disappoint (alix has been taking bets)#this exercise slowly peters out as his lexicon expands and it becomes more naturalistic#chat on the other hand... it's just second nature to him: day 1#plagg swears all the time and chat is totally in another element. its very much like code switching for him#however if he ever actually put much thought into this disparity it wouldn't really make sense and everything would get existential