Bugaboo 🐞🐈‍⬛

Two weeks until halloween! That gang have revamped some old costumes :3

Good morning! ☀️

"No! Scoob! Get back here!"

So, I really wanted to write the Adrinette hug scene from the London special. Or, more specifically, I wanted to write what would happen if it went on a little longer and the scene hadn't cut right away. And really, this is the beginning of a oneshot that will have a second scene—because I also want to explore them talking about what happened. Talking about the version Adrien knows, at least—but I'm sharing this scene now because I really like it and I'm incapable of keeping words to myself.

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Even after everything, crashing into Adrien’s arms felt exactly the same. It was the same gleam in his eyes as he ran towards her, the same hitch of his breath as he cradled her head oh so carefully. He even smelled the same—which was silly of Marinette to notice. 

It had only been two days; of course he smelled the same.

But it had also been a whole other lifetime.

A stutter of air warmed Marinette’s cheek but sent shivers down her spine. Adrien’s fingers curled gently into the fabric of her blazer, pulling her in closer just as she wondered if it was time to pull away. And as fast as the relief of seeing him had come, the guilt roared back in. Her heart pounded in her ears, each beat louder than the last.

Would he be holding her like this, if he knew what she’d done? Considering how he’d reacted to Bug Noire’s news, Marinette didn’t think so.

Yet there was no going back now. She’d chosen this path, dark and thorny though it may be. Because at its end there was the light she needed like oxygen. There was the happiness she valued more than her own.

It would all be worth it, so long as Adrien was okay. And she’d make certain he was okay.

That all started with this moment, though. With the air her soul gasped for, yet couldn’t quite find. As Adrien’s breathing grew heavier, he crushed her tighter into his embrace. His collar bone pressed painfully into her cheek, and still she daren’t let go.

She let her hands roam upwards, fingers tethering themselves in his hair. And again, she was pulled closer—with no space left to go until she rose up on her toes. And then it was her throat she found pushing into his shoulder, forcing the lump that was lodged there to rise to the tip of her tongue.

It tingled, like any good poison, demanding to be expelled.

“Adrien. I’m… I’m so…” Sorry.

She couldn’t say the final word aloud; it would have come out as a sob. And she couldn’t cry right now, not when she was meant to be comforting him. So she pressed her lips into a tight, thin line, swallowing back the urge. 

Swallowing back the guilt.

It put up a good fight, expanding and writhing and practically choking her all the way down. But no matter how fiercely it burned, she couldn’t let it out. She hid her face in Adrien’s neck, not sure which of them had started trembling. Maybe it was both of them. Maybe they were one and the same now, their fates inexorably stitched together after bursting apart at the seams.

Maybe it didn’t matter who it was. Maybe they were both doomed.

Rising higher on her tiptoes, stretching up to her last nerve, Marinette twisted to press a kiss to Adrien’s cheek. It tasted of salt.

Unable to hold herself up any longer, she fell back down to the balls of her feet. She pressed her face into Adrien’s chest until his breaths finally evened out. Until he remembered how to stand on his own two feet.

He stared down at her as he pulled away, smiling weakly even though his lips still wobbled. And she did her best to smile back. She kissed his fingers and helped wipe his tears.

It’ll be okay, she told herself. Everything will be okay.

She was a liar now, after all.

the hex girls!!! it’s spooky season 💚❤️💜

"well... nathalie's hugs ARE pretty great"

WHO ELSE IS SEASON 6 HYYYYYYPE

Hex Girls in Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost

🐟part of your world 🐠

Adrinette hug

It’s Scoobtober 2024!!!!

this is kinda rushed n bad but like we were so robbed of the kiss on the cheek

:( so sweet

adrien looked so miserable, hugging nathalie and crying, his eyes red rimmed and his heart hurting from experiencing such a deep loss a second time. he'd probably been crying for hours. hadn't thought he'd be able to be whole again. and then he saw marinette and LIT UP, smiling and running to her and immediately hugging her. it has me wanting to Cry. he was swaying as he was holding her. he needed that hug like he needed air. that hug was probably some of the best relief he'd felt from grief all day. she's everything to him. he loves her so much. imagine how much weight that hug lifted from his shoulders. how he probably sank into that hug and the stress melted from him. how much he cares about marinette and how much she means to him. im sick. i love them sm

Whose Wish Was It?

So, we know the new butterfly holder is Lila. We also know what she wanted at the end of S5 was revenge against Marinette and Gabriel. With Gabriel dead, she must be focused on Marinette now.

But if Lila found out Marinette is Ladybug, and took the miraculous...that's kind of enough. What would she wish for? She already has everything - apart from Adrien.

When Chrono Bug sees that light consuming Paris, she's told that because of one of her choices / actions, the biggest wish of all time is happening and effectively destroying the future of the universe. But we saw from Gabriel's wish that reality should just be remade.

Destruction is Cat's domain. And the first lucky charm Ladybug got in the London Special was a calendar showing a black kitten.

Put all together...I think the choice she had to change was lying to Adrien. Naturally, Ladybug assumed the villain also made the wish - because she doesn't suspect it's Lila. But I think what happened was:

Lila gleaned all the details, including Ladybug's identity, then told Adrien the truth at some point. In anger, he made the wish - or it was actually a mega cataclysm after Lila akumatised him as Cat Noir. But if it's a wish, he's the one who's likely to wish some kind of catastrophe in his distress.

The crucial point is that at the end of the special, Ladybug managed to hide her identity...but she didn't erase anything else in that notebook. Lila still has almost the full story of what went down in that basement - and the lair afterwards. She can still tell Adrien. The only vital information missing is Marinette's name.

I think the catastrophe was Adrien finding out at the wrong time, in the wrong way. But there's still scope for Cat to become Ladybug's temporary enemy, as the story evolves. We saw his anger at her when she first told him the lie in the white room. All the pieces are there. Marinette is just not seeing the bigger picture they comprise.

When she asked Plagg and Tikki if she made the right decision, this sort of stuff was probably rolling through their minds. They know how dangerous Adrien could be, if this goes wrong.

bdnfhgkdhf marinette feeling guilty because everytime they kiss or hold hands he doesn’t know she knows everything :(( adrien noticing and wondering if he did something wrong

this special gave me carpal tunnel + it’d be funny if he thought it was his kissing skills and just kept buying different types of chapstick