Miraculous Writer's Guild

The response to this prompt comes to us from @deinde-prandium!

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This is more of an prologue than a summary, but I couldn't help myself...

They’ve asked for this story about five hundred times now. What’s more, they seem to react to every detail the exact same way every time they hear it. 

Selective amnesia. Plagg’s convinced it’s the only explanation. 

And yet, there’s something in the way they ask that always makes the kwami cave. Plagg might be a god, but not even gods are immune to a well-executed plea. 

Or it could just be that it’s Adrien and Marinette’s kids who are doing the pleading, with their annoyingly adorable puppy dog eyes. It’s funny to watch when they use the look on Tikki (though why they’re asking for extra dessert instead of extra camembert remains a mystery), but for oneself to be the target of such weaponized cuteness…

“Pretty pretty pretty please??” the children beg. 

Dammit. 

“All right, all right,” Plagg relents with a sigh. “But I’m not pausing midway through because Hugo needs to use the bathroom again. You need to pee, you go do it now.”

“Yay!” they cheer. Hugo races down the hall as quickly as he can, and Emma and Louis snuggle into their beds as they wait for their brother to return. 

Once Hugo is back (and it’s been confirmed that he washed his hands before leaving the bathroom), Plagg flicks off the overhead light. A moonbeam filters in through the bay window of the kids’ shared bedroom, and the kwami steps into it like a spotlight as they begin their tale. 

“It all started about 66 million years ago. Cheese hadn’t been invented yet, so…”

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Luka wasn’t an idiot, but there were times he suspected Kagami thought he was. In fairness to him, however, it wasn’t exactly his fault that he was trying to put some space between them since accidentally discovering that she was Ryuuko. It’s not that the news upset him or anything. It was just…he was now at three secret identities that he’d discovered, all without even trying. And he wasn’t even a Guardian! As good as he was at projecting an air of calm around Marinette and Adrien, somehow knowing about Kagami as well threatened to set him off kilter. Honestly, he didn’t know how Marinette did it, keeping the kinds of secrets she did. But it’s not like he could talk to her about the situation…or Adrien, for that matter. He shuddered to think how awkward the conversation would go if it turned out that his boyfriend, a superhero, didn’t actually realize his boyfriend and girlfriends were also superheroes…

No. He just needed time to process. And to figure out what to do. The important thing was, no one could know that he knew. 

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Kagami wasn’t an idiot, but she certainly felt like Luka was treating her like one. It’s not like she’d treated him any differently when she accidentally discovered he was Viperion— not that she told him that she knew, but still. Then again, it was one thing knowing Viperon’s secret identity, but quite another to learn the secret identities of Ladybug and Chat Noir. That discovery had thrown her for a loop, even though she really should have seen it coming, and now she found herself wishing she had a confidant. Talking to Adrien about it was out of the question, and Marinette— as the Guardian, she had enough on her plate. Luka, on the other hand…he would be an excellent secret keeper, if only it didn’t feel like he was avoiding her. Did he suspect that she knew about him? Hmm. 

Whatever Luka’s motives for avoiding her, perhaps he had the right idea. No matter how awkward things got, it was critical that no one knew that she knew. 

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Adrien wasn’t an idiot, but he was starting to wonder if Marinette thought he was. Kagami had blown her identity on her first time out, and Miracle Queen had shown Luka’s directly to Hawkmoth, but only Marinette wasn’t allowed to have a Miraculous back after only he had seen her? Sure, do whatever it takes to protect your identity, but then. Luka—Viperion—had found out his, somehow, and she hadn’t seemed surprised. Which meant she knew and didn’t tell him. That hurt. He wanted to ask her about it, but he wasn’t supposed to know who she was, was he? She’d been adamant that nobody was supposed to know, but apparently it was just nobody but him.

He could get the picture. He wasn’t let in, again. And that was fine. He still cared about her, about all of them, even if they didn’t about him, so it’s not like anyone really needed to know he was hurting. It’s not like anyone needed to know he knew.

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Marinette wasn’t an idiot. Both of her boyfriends, and her girlfriend, were all avoiding each other. Clearly there’d been some kind of fight, and all of them were… mad? Maybe?

Okay, maybe she was an idiot. Because she had no idea what had happened, why none of them were talking, and none of them were telling her anything. She’d gotten so engrossed in her duties as Ladybug, and the Guardian, that she hadn’t really kept up with her datemates, so she’d clearly missed something, and she had no idea what. And she couldn’t just ask them—they’d flip out and be mad at her and they’d stop being able to protect Paris and then Monarch would win and the city would be overrun by Nazi Zombies! No, she needed a plan. Some way to investigate what had happened. Maybe she could get the rest of Operation Secret Garden involved in her scheme? It didn’t matter. Whatever it took, she had to know.

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The worst part of dealing with Chloé isn’t the pranks. It isn’t the mean-spirited comments. It isn’t the constant attempts to get Marinette thrown out of school. It isn’t even the outright violence. No, the worst part about dealing with Chloé is that Marinette remembers who she used to be before her mother left. And that Marinette may have had a tiny, teenie, itty-bitty baby crush on her.

Chloé was Marinette’s first kiss, “practicing that thing that grown-ups do in movies.” The two of them had gotten married by the slide in elementaire. They’d been best friends, sharing everything, everything, until Chloé’s mother had vanished and Marinette’s parents had stayed. And Chloé hadn’t forgiven. The worst part about dealing with Marinette isn’t the self-righteousness. It isn’t the sabotaging of Chloé’s plans. It isn’t the way the designer keeps turning the class against her. It isn’t even the stupid cracks about Chloé’s family, though those hurt quite a lot. No, the worst part about dealing with Marinette is that Chloé remembers how things used to be before her mother left. And that Chloé is hopelessly, helplessly, desperately in love with Marinette Dupain-Cheng. And she has no idea how to be her friend again.

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The response to this prompt comes to us from @hanaasbananas!

— I've been sitting on this for a few days now and I keep coming back to the idea of, like, a set of vignettes or snapshots through his life, with a repeated motif that changes as his life does or gets sort of warped.

So it could go:

"Gabriel Agreste would never be a father." going into his reasons why, a child would be a distraction from his work, and there were too many variables involved. He'd considered having a child to be his heir but the chances of the child posessing the same skills needed to run his business were slim, he'd rather take an apprentice the way Audrey had taken him in.

"Gabriel Agreste didn't want to be a father." He really didn't understand why Emelie so desperately wanted a child. It would only disrupt their lives. Treatments were expensive etc etc. He didn't want to be a father, but for Emelie he tried.

"Gabriel Agreste was not a very good father". Emelie told him with every reproachful glance, every whispered argument late into the night about his indifference towards their son, every something something. He pretended to ignore her when she'd call him mr grumpy face to Adrien as he passed them by. Emelie didn't talk to him for a week after he asked why she wasn't simply content enough that they'd HAD a child, why did he need to get involved too?

"Gabriel Agreste was a single father." But he wouldn't be for long. Some nights would hear Adrien crying in his room, but what was the point in comforting him, trying to bond? Neither of them would like the experience and besides, Adrien would have his mother back soon enough.

Idk about the part in the middle, where I could have him maybe discover chat noir is Adrien and resents him even more for fighting against him, not wanting his mother back (which is illogical bc adrien doesn't KNOW what Gabriel's endgoal is). There would be a fight, maybe Gabriel doesn't want to get his own hands dirty so he makes an akumatised knight for the blades part of the prompt and he comes out only when Adrien is exhausted. Blood is spilled.

Now this could go either way it could be Adrien had faked and strikes a killing blow or he wasn't and Gabriel does it instead. Either way:

"Gabriel Agreste never wanted to be a father. And now, standing over his sons body/lying at his sons feet, he was a father no more."

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Post-Elation, Marinette realizes two things. First: Marinette can’t be with Chat Noir. Second: Chat Noir isn’t in love with Ladybug anymore.

Crushed, Marinette stays home from school the next day, until Chat Noir shows up at her balcony that evening after school to check on her. He looks about as wrecked as she feels, and the two of them make an agreement:

Stay friends.

Thus begins the Marichat friendship, where Chat Noir comes over a few nights a week to commiserate. But they keep… almost kissing. Almost loving. Almost. And so Marinette resolves to move on, by force if necessary, before they both go crazy..

She tries to date, to find other guys, but none of them feel right to her. She complains about it to Chat Noir, hoping to maybe dissuade him from pursuing her. This goes okay, until he finds out that her crush before him was Adrien.

Suddenly he’s weirdly invested in getting her together with Adrien? It doesn’t matter how much she tells him that won’t work, or how much she pursues anyone else. Every time she complains about another bad date, there he is, telling her to go for Adrien.

And is Adrien suddenly paying so much more attention to her than he used to?

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