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There will be massive spoilers here for season 5 of Miraculous as well as for all the specials.

There will also be angst, discussion of emotional abuse, gaslighting, death, cartoon violence against minors, possibly discussions about mental illness as well.

For a show that seems like a kids' show in the American (Please note where possible, I use the French version) release, it can cut pretty deep.

You have been warned.

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SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON | RESERVED OR CHALLENGE

Player: Chicklet
Age: Adult
Contact: ChickletLARP
Current Characters: Iroh and Najaran

Character: Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir (With Kwami Plagg)
Canon: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir, canon point is after the fall of Monarch, but before the interview with the new mayor at the end of the last episode of Season 5.
Age: 14


Background Information:


Wiki for Adrien
Wiki for Plagg

Short history for Adrien:
Adrien had been homeschooled, with countless tutors in a dazzling array of subjects. He had few friends, only the children of people his parents did work with or for, politician's kids, and other kids who modeled as he did. It was fairly lonely, but he had his parents, and their staff.

And then one day, less than two years ago, his mother vanished - as far as Adrien knew. It destroyed his father and home became oppressive. Finally, one of his very few friends - Chloé, daughter of the Mayor - helped him convince his withdrawn and almost absentee father to allow him to attend school. Part of that convincing involved Adrien running away to try to go on his own. He had a chance to get in free and clear but stopped to help an old man and wound up dragged back home because of it.

The old man was Master Fu, and for his selfless deed he secretly granted Adrien the Miraculous of the Black Cat. When Adrien put on the silver ring for the first time he met the Kwami who lived in it, Plagg. Plagg hardly got through the "You are now a hero" song and dance when Adrien transformed into Chat Noir and threw himself recklessly into the world, almost making some pretty major mistakes for it.

Over the next six months or so, Adrien lived a double life, as much Chat Noir as he was Adrien Agreste. He had to learn how to deal with people who were peers and not professionals in school. He had to put his life on the line over and over again fighting against Akumas created by the villain who first called himself Papillon (though the name changed later). The American name for those following along on the Wiki was Hawkmoth.

Several times as Adrien he was the target of the Akuma, or one of his friends were. As Chat Noir, not only has he actually died a number of times, he once spent months in a time loop watching Ladybug, his partner friend and love interest, dying over and over again.

It all came to a head more recently. He told his father he wanted to stop modeling and his father turned around and made an AI version of him to package in with a product he and Tsurugi-san were selling, a smart ring called Alliance. His father suddenly started swinging wildly hot and cold, becoming more attentive and aware, but also overbearingly controlling and strict. He had no way to know that his father was dying of the same thing that had claimed his mother. That was also killing Nathalie - his father's assistant and Adrien's main advocate at home. He was losing everyone, without ever knowing why.

Around this time he was getting over his unrequited love for Ladybug by falling in love with Marinette, against his father's wishes. His father wanted him to marry Tsurugi-san's daughter Kagami. Though Kagami still loved him and they had dated for a time, they were friends, his love belonged to Marinette. When he rebelled one time too many, his father packed him up and sent him to London. He used Chat Noir's expanded abilities to fly back to Paris to see her, but wound up fighting an Akumatized version of his father that gave him a PTSD level bad dream through magic. The dream involved him as Chat Noir killing everyone and destroying the moon. (In a timeline he did not remember, we know that he actually 100% could have done that.)

He wound up back in London and his father locked him in a padded cell. Terrified of his own lack of control he gave up his Miraculous and told Plagg to find someone new to be the next Chat Noir.

The next thing he knew, he was being freed from his cell and brought back to Paris. He was free, and the villian who had been Papillon (who had been calling himself Monarch at the end) was defeated. And Alliance was gone. The campaign to tell the world that he and Kagami were a couple was over. Also, somehow, Nathalie was fully healed and well. Plagg returned his ring to him. But all this good news came at a horrible price. He was told that his father, Gabriel Agreste, had died helping Ladybug save the world. His father was dead.

The school term was over, and he had to adjust. But Nathalie wasn't his father, he was allowed to have his friends to help him get through it, to adjust. Marinette helped him come to terms, at least to start, with his father's absence, encouraging him to wear his parents' wedding bands.

A very oversimplified history for Plagg:

Plagg is one of the oldest beings in existence, existing across countless realities all at once. Adrien is his most recent holder, and he spends a lot of time worrying about the boy.



Personality:

Adrien:

Until recently, Adrien was a very quiet and polite child who always did what he was told and never raised a fuss. But when his mother died and his father withdrew, he became isolated. He rarely saw anyone that wasn't an adult he had to deal with at work, or someone who worked for his father. He stopped even seeing his cousin or aunt all that often. And for someone as naturally inclined to be friendly as Adrien is, it was slowly killing him.

His father's yes you can no you can't back and forth over his going to school was behind a lot of his earliest rebellions. Especially once he had the taste for freedom and discovered that he liked having friends, that he liked earning people's friendship not just having awe granted to him due his fame.

Getting the Black Cat Miraculous and discovering a whole new kind of freedom opened a new world for him. Behind the mask no one fawned over Adrien Agreste. He didn't have to be polite and quiet and obedient. He became wild and reckless. He became the type to jump first and think later when he could, though when he had to think he could. But he got to play stupid at times where Adrien was always supposed to be smart and educated. He got to be silly and crack jokes. For all being a hero meant life and death situations he got to finally be a kid. And most important he found someone he could trust, utterly and entirely. Not because he was told to. But because she earned it. And with that person he could trust... he fell in love.

For a while after that change became gradual. He remained very trusting, but learned that some people could actually lose that trust. He learned how to not just be angry, but to express it. That sometimes he should actually speak up even though his father raised him to keep his impolite thoughts to himself.

He learned to love his freedom and how to grow into an actual person rather than the puppet he had been becoming. With Marinette's help he gained the courage to to tell his father that he wanted to stop modeling.

The nightmare that the last Akuma put into his head hasn't fully left him now, even though Ladybug reset the power that made it stick. And then to go from that to freedom but at the cost of his father's life... He's in a state of flux, trying to figure out who he is now without his parents, a super hero without a villian to fight. A teenager free to love whoever he wants, but with the knowledge that he was now an orphan. He got permission to stop working, but he knew he would have to start again, sooner rather than later, in order to support himself, Nathalie, his bodyguard. The house was what he had left of his parents, and he'd never lived anywhere else, not for long. And Nathalie and his bodyguard were all the family he had left, local at least. And he couldn't expect his aunt and cousin to move in and take over paying anymore than he could count on the money left to him to last forever. Sure there were Royalties and Residuals and contracts still in play, but even that had limits.

But it was summer vacation. And he had enough that he could wait until school started again to think about that at least. He could enjoy a summer where Ladybug and Chat Noir transformed just to spend time together, a summer where he could just be a teenager in love with his girlfriend, where he could just spend time with his friends.

So of course he woke up here...


Plagg:

He's easy at least. He tries to come across as lazy and piggish, caring more about cheese than anything else. And most of that is actually true, to a point. He could talk about cheese all day if no one stopped him, and would rather eat cheese or sleep than do nearly anything else...

But for all he claims cheese is his first last and only love... he really cares about the people who use his Miraculous. He loves Adrien dearly. He cared about Zoé even though she was Blaqueminette only briefly. He loves about Marinette, he cares about Alya too. And of course he cares deeply about Tikki, the Kwami of the Ladybug Miraculous.

For someone who claims all he loves is cheese, maybe sleep, and more cheese, he has a heart larger than all of reality. However he really is a glutton for cheese and will spend all day eating and sleeping if given the choice. And his love is rarely expressed clearly. Usually you can only tell once he starts comparing you to cheese...

Abilities & Inventory:
With the help of a Miraculous and its Kwami, Adrien can transform by yelling the Kwami's name followed by "Transform me!" and gain powers associated with that Kwami. He will be entering the game with one Miraculous, the Black Cat Miraculous which will let him become Chat Noir. He has also memorized the formula for what to add to cheese to get Plagg to transform him into various alternate enhanced forms with additional abilities, such as Astrocat who can survive in deep space and move through it. But for the most part Adrien's main abilities are as follows:
CATACLYSM - his main ability, this allows him to charge up his hand with a black and green energy that will destroy whatever he next touches with that hand. Even if he doesn't want it to. This is a very dangerous ability, and unbeknownst to him massively hastened his father's death and the desperation of Monarch to hurry up and win at any cost.
He can run on all fours, using his clawed fingertips as though they were toes.
Speed, agility, insane jumping skills, wonderful inhuman balance, can see in the dark.
His ears, which look like hair clips, with rivets and all, move independently and seem to give him better hearing.
His eyes are green to the edges which leads to great sight and the aforementioned ability to see in the dark.
His tail is a belt. It has been taken off and used in many of Ladybug's wild plans... however when it is on him, it can actually flick and move like an actual tail.
His bell can be used to hold small things. Very small.
His staff can be used as a communication device, can grow or shrink as needed, can be split into two, can defy physics in a fair number of ways (He throws it like a boomerang and it comes back to him, it stretches higher than buildings holding him and someone else up and not tip until he wants it to, He can use it to pole vault and often does.) It can also be used as an underwater breathing device.

His enhanced forms vary but are all single vector. Like one of them lets him survive super cold and gives him ice skates. One gives him basically a space suit and lets him fly in space. The water one gives him fins on arms, feet, and around his tail while letting him breathe under water. Things like that.

Ever since late season 5, Adrien no longer has to transform back after using his Cataclysm ability. He does have to feed Plagg, after however. And there are implications from the Paris Special that doing too much of that could wind up destroying Adrien's physical health.

Plagg's abilities:
Cataclysm on a far larger scale than Chat Noir's Cataclysm usually is. While Chat Noir usually Doesn't destroy anything bigger than the Eiffel Tower, Plagg trying to use just a fraction of his powers destroys city blocks. So much worse if he isn't trying to control himself. However Kwamis aren't supposed to use their powers on their own, and there are always... weird side effects when they do. But Plagg is basically a small immortal god of destruction.

Plagg cannot be seen or heard by machines. Even living ones. So no cameras, no videos, and AI beings cannot see or hear him. Even if he wants them to.

Plagg can move in and out of walls and other enclosed spaces. he can fly. He can move swiftly. Like we see him fly from London to Paris in what seems like almost no time.

Plagg can eat a seemingly infinite amount of cheese without it seeming to ever fill him up, and in fact he recovers faster from exhaustion with cheese. The stinkier the better.

Part 2

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Inventory:

Plagg - nice and easy. Nothing.


Adrien:
His Miraculous and thus Plagg
His parents rings, two silver bands he wears together on a single finger.
His cellphone with photos of his family and friends.
His duffle bag
His fencing foil
One of the few remaining Alliance rings, in a lovely box, never worn, never activated.
A bottle of perfume, his father's brand his face on the bottle in a subtle and fashionable way
A magazine full of ads he is in
Camembert in both regular and formula drenched wedges
A change of clothes
A towel
his good luck charm from Marinette
His music player and headphones
Chargers for his devices
One of his father's sketchbooks
his tablet (The electronic sort)



For what I am thinking for nerfs/dreamotion changes... I was thinking that when he runs out of the potion infused cheese he won't be able to find everything he needs to make the new potions in game, but will discover that he can imbue the cheese by focusing extreme emotions into the wedges. I'll need to figure out which emotions go with which ability sets, but that will give interesting ways to change the abilities around and figure out emotion based enhancements.

Suitability & Plans:
Honestly like with Iroh, the main reason I want to app Adrien into this game is that a friend is bringing someone else from his canon and we want to play them together. But I've been discussing and plotting with other people and am excited to see him interact with a number of other characters on game. For example, with the ATLA crew he could remind them of Sokka. In a previous game I saw someone else play Chat Noir in scenes with Link. I wanna see how my Chat Noir and someone else's Link will get along. I also want to see if I can handle Adrien. I've played other characters from Miraculous, usually his father, I want to see if I can do this, pull off the duality. Also Adrien is painfully smart and educated. In some ways better educated than I am (I speak one language to his, what is it now, four?) and smarter. Which always adds a bit to RP, having to figure out how someone smarter than I am will handle a situation.

Also I want to see how emotion energy can come into play with him given that emotions are such a HUGE part of his canon. Monarch/Papillon's powers worked based on preying upon people's negative emotions openly enough that characters were learning how to help each other emotionally to keep them from being akumatized. By the end, multiple characters had been able to break their akumitization by changing their emotional state. So by his canon point, Adrien specifically has become very aware of other people's emotions and is almost desperate in his need to cheer people up when they are too upset. I wanna see how that plays with the effects of Dreamotion from other characters.

Additionally, Adrien tends to bottle things up, shove his emotions aside. One thing the TDM has given me so far is that I never realized until playing him just how much he does it. (And I have gotten vibe checks from others who know canon to let me know how I'm doing.) Tapping into Dreamotion will become a double edged sword for him as it will let him power up the special cheese wedges and give him something new to learn, but it will also make it much harder for him to hide his stronger emotions, which could be really interesting. Though I suspect that is a long term plan as he likely has a ways before he progresses that far.


Test Drive Sample: Sample

Questions: Not at the moment, Tanks is a wonderful friend who wound up asking most if not all of the questions we had.

Revisions

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Revised personality section:

Adrien:

Until the start of the series, Adrien was a very quiet and polite child who always did what he was told and never raised a fuss. But when his mother died and his father withdrew, he became isolated. Practically as well as emotionally. He rarely saw anyone that wasn't an adult he had to deal with at work, or someone who worked for his father. He stopped even seeing his cousin or aunt all that often. And for someone as naturally inclined to be friendly as Adrien is, it was slowly killing him.

His father's yes you can no you can't back and forth over his going to school was behind a lot of his earliest rebellions. Especially once he had the taste for freedom and discovered that he liked having actual friends, that he liked earning people's friendship not just having awe granted to him due his fame. And that not every friend was like his cousin who could be manipulative and Chloé who was, well, Chloé.

Getting the Black Cat Miraculous and discovering a whole new kind of freedom opened a new world for him. Behind the mask no one fawned over Adrien Agreste. He didn't have to be polite and quiet and obedient. He became wild and reckless. He became the type to jump first and think later when he could, though when he had to think he could. But he got to play stupid at times where Adrien was always supposed to be smart and educated. He got to be silly and crack jokes. For all being a hero meant life and death situations he got to finally be a kid. And most important he found someone he could trust, utterly and entirely. Not because he was told to. But because she earned it. And with that person he could trust... he fell in love.

For a while after that change became gradual. He remained very trusting, but learned that some people could actually lose that trust. He started to see how horrible Chloé could actually be. He tried, he tried so hard to help her grow up, and it broke part of his heart when he realized that she wasn't actually going to change. He had break off that friendship, which was very hard for him. He also met Lila Rossi, and learned that some people really are not honest or worthy of trust, and that too had been hard for him to accept. He learned how to not just be angry, but to express it. That sometimes he should actually speak up even though his father raised him to keep his impolite thoughts to himself.

He learned to love his freedom and how to grow into an actual person rather than the puppet he had been becoming. With Marinette's help he gained the courage to to tell his father that he wanted to stop modeling.

The nightmare that the last Akuma put into his head hasn't fully left him now, even though Ladybug reset the power that made it stick. His father isolated him around then more than he had ever been isolated before. Between being constantly monitored so he couldn't talk to or feed Plagg, and his fear over using that power again, he gave up his Miraculous. He was well and truly alone to a degree he'd never been alone before. Trapped worse than ever, and dealing with the emotions from his nightmare and accepting that he was actually furious with his father.

And then to go from that to freedom but at the cost of his father's life... He's in a state of flux, trying to figure out who he is now without his parents, a super hero without a villian to fight. A teenager free to love whoever he wants, but with the knowledge that he was now an orphan. He got permission to stop working, but he knew he would have to start again, sooner rather than later, in order to support himself, Nathalie, his bodyguard. The house was what he had left of his parents, and he'd never lived anywhere else, not for long. And Nathalie and his bodyguard were all the family he had left, local at least. And he couldn't expect his aunt and cousin to move in and take over paying anymore than he could count on the money left to him to last forever. Sure there were Royalties and Residuals and contracts still in play, but even that had limits.

But it was summer vacation. And he had enough that he could wait until school started again to think about that at least. He could enjoy a summer where Ladybug and Chat Noir transformed just to spend time together, a summer where he could just be a teenager in love with his girlfriend, where he could just spend time with his friends.

So of course he woke up here...


More on interactions in addition to what was added above:

Nino was the first person to stand up for him against the adults other than Chloé and sometimes other adults. Nino got himself akumatized out of desperation to try and get Adrien to be allowed to have a birthday party. Through thick and thin Nino has been at his side. Nino let him in on the secret when he had become a Miraculous holder, which made Adrien feel guilty he couldn't reciprocate. Because he was following Ladybug's rules. But still through everything, Nino is with him, at his side, the best friend he could have ever had imagined. And Nino creating the resistance gave him ways he could help as Adrien as well as as Chat Noir, and ways to become closer with his other friends.


Marinette was the first chance he had to really see that Chloé was not the wonderful person he had thought. Both by showing how cruel Chloé could be, but also by being there as an example of how wonderful a person could be. At first she stood up and was firm, but then he watched her getting more and more awkward. At first he thought that it was endearing, but more recently he realized that all her flailing awkwardness had been her being in love with him, which he internalized as his having hurt her this whole time, which lead to a lot of guilt. It took him a while to fall in love with her, though he did eventually when she stood up to his father and he realized how strong and brave she'd been overall, standing up to Chloé, Standing up alone to Lila, and how hard she worked as student representative, and how much she did for her friends.

Chloé changed him wildly by being his first "Friend" and his first hard lesson that not all friendships survive. That someone could be kind to him, but cruel to others. And that not everyone who liked him would do what he asked of them. Which lesson was echoed later when his father started being kind to him for a brief time near the end but outwardly horrible to Marinette.

Lila taught him that his instinct to trust pretty much everyone is not always right. In the end he still offers trust from the first, but he is somewhat more wary.

Kagami was his second love (Ladybug being his first, I'll get to that in the Chat Noir section). Their parents wanted them together, and they tried it. He does still love her, but for all she was still in love with him after, his love became friendship. They have a bond because she's the only one from fencing class that he's really close to, as well as being one of the few who can take him down at the sport. She has trouble expressing her emotions fully, so he had to learn to be better at reading people.

Nathalie had an impact for sure, but it is hard to measure as much without going into headcanon territory, since we don't know her role in the family before Adrien's mother "vanished". So we can only guess how things changed. My guess is that she was like a somewhat distant aunt who happened to live with them and work for his parents, based on how she was close with the adults but didn't start the series close to Adrien at all. But after Émilie "vanished", Nathalie took on a mixed role of personal assistant to Gabriel and schedule keeper for Adrien. We found out much later that she had been asked by Émilie to watch over Adrien and be there for him, to be there for him like a mother. But she really doesn't start doing that until it is almost too late at the end of season five. By that point, though, she has begun to stand up for him to and even against his father, and even gives him advice contrary to his father's orders. At the end she goes from someone who is an extension of his father's control over Adrien into someone Adrien can turn to when he needs advice, when he needs an adult. She becomes the only adult (unless one counts Plagg) that he can really turn to. And we see a lot of that in how the way he treats her changes as well. For example putting aside his own concerns as soon as he sees she was upset to try to help her, as he would for any of his friends. (He does it for strangers as well, but there was more closeness in how he went to help her than in how he helped, say, Master Fu in StoneHeart.) But even more, in the same scene we see it in his terror when he asked if what happened to his mother was going to happen to her. By that point he has gotten close with her, though most of the evolution of that is subtle and/or off screen.

Gabriel.... Gabriel is complicated. I'll start by addressing the elephant in the room - A lot of people take the episode Representation as confirmation of the fan theory that Adrien and Felix are in fact sentimonsters created by their parents using the broken peacock Miraculous. This goes so far as to be in all the wikias. The thing is... the confirmation we get if this in canon comes from two characters, Felix and Kagami. And Kagami only knows about it because Felix told her. Which means it comes from Felix. And Felix has a history in the show of being perfectly willing to use deception, deceit, misrepresentation, and any other word for dishonesty you can think of to achieve his aims. There are some scenes that could either confirm that... or be a representation of Adrien's anxiety and fear around disobeying his father. So since another season is coming, leaning into that or leaning away from it will come down to intense OOC conversations with any castmates that it might matter for.

That out of the way, here is less controversial Gabriel stuff. We get more or less told that Gabriel only started being so strict after Émilie vanished, but that seems to be not fully the case given we know things like the fact that Adrien never went to school before the series started and that Adrien is so timid about going against his father from the start. For all he can be brave in other ways, Adrien spends most of the series afraid of standing up to or disappointing his father. It isn't until Gabriel pushes him past the braking point in season five that he can - with encouragement from Nino and Marinette (among others) try to speak for himself. That he can tell his father he doesn't want to model anymore, that he can tell his father how he feels about the Alliance rings, that he loves Marinette, that he isn't in love with Kagami.

Their relationship though isn't simple even looked through the lens of strict father obedient son who wants more. I am going to do my best to keep this succinct, just because I have RPed as Gabriel for YEARS now, and I could rant about his relationship with his son for hours.

Gabriel Agreste is a man terrified of losing more of his family, who very much believes in the means justifying the ends. He is sure that whatever damage he does to Adrien now can be fixed by the same wish that will bring Émilie back to them. His driving force is repairing his family - at any cost. At first he tries to keep a tight reign on Adrien, constantly. But not being able to tell his son why he's so absentee while demanding his son stay where he can be found and accessed at all times... it made Adrien increasingly bitter and resentful. Adrien felt in a lot of ways as though he lost both of his parents when he lost his mother. Gabriel's constant canceling of plans - even just to have a meal together - made Adrien lose hope, to the point where he stopped believing Nathalie when she made excuses for Gabriel. Nathalie was able to get through to Gabriel the first Christmas after Émilie was gone, but that was after Adrien had already lost hope for the day and ran away.

Adrien learned that his father could have a formidable temper, though the man rarely showed it publicly, and after Émilie was gone, Adrien started to feel like part of that public. His father was always busy and dismissive and seemed to be disinterested in his son.

Then season five came along.

Midway through season five Gabriel's abuse went from mostly unintentional abuse borne of a mix of neglect and the whole ends justify the means way of thinking into active gaslighting. Now personally I do believe that the change started at its roots somewhat legitimately. Unbeknownst to Adrien, Gabriel was aware that one way or another the status quo was coming to an end. He was dying. He was on a clock. And when it ran out either he would be dead, leaving Adrien alone - Nathalie was also dying - or he would have the Miraculous and be able to make his wish and everything would be better. Either way meant it was time to reconnect with his son. And I feel like he did genuinely try, at first. That the pancakes and talking to Adrien and struggling to hold his temper were genuine attempts to bridge the chasm that had grown between them. And I think Adrien, once he got past his shock, also saw his dad actually trying, though he did not know why. But quickly Gabriel saw - because he was now paying some actual freaking attention to his son - that his son was not behaving in the ways Gabriel expected him to. While he tried to be understanding at first that broke quickly, and once broken this new "closeness" became a form of gaslighting, and a new way to try to control Adrien. Carrot and stick. All the abuse was still emotional, he didn't hit his son... but he was breaking him down all the same.

By the end of series five, Adrien (and Kagami) were trapped in plain padded cells under the surveillance of cameras at all times. We did not see the bathroom, but can presume that Adrien at least presumed that there were cameras in there as well, given the lengths he went to to talk to Plagg rather than just going to the restroom to do so. He was suffering from the effects of the Akuma Gabriel had made himself, as was Kagami, but both were kept isolated, and Adrien was not given any form of comfort or love. Even Nathalie and his bodyguard were not allowed to be with him.

We see, just before that, when Adrien escaped London the first time as Chat Noir just how angry Adrien was at his father. Angry and hurt and lashing out. He knew the Akuma wouldn't remember anything once Ladybug freed him, so he vented as he fought his father one last time. He vented and raged and defeated the Akuma, saving the akuma (the corrupted butterfly in that second usage) in a glass jar for whenever LAdybug showed up to purify it.

Adrien was furious at his father and hurt when he was trapped back in his padded cell. He was also still suffering from the terrible PTSD nightmares his akumatized father cursed him with.

And while the transition happened off screen, essentially he went immediately from those emotions into being told that his father was dead, and had died a hero defeating Monarch.

I can't tell you how he reconciled all those conflicting emotions, because at his canon pull point he's just beginning to. This will give him a lot to deal with in game, especially as the AU of his father was apped at the same time and I found out was accepted. We (Tanks who plays AU Gabriel and I) are very much looking forward to the emotional mess to come out of this.

Part 2

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As Chat Noir:

Whoo boy. You guys are 100% right that I should not have neglected this, even in fear of the word count limit, and I appologize. So. Here we go.

As Chat Noir, Adrien is in the weird state of having a mask being the very thing that allows him to drop his masks. Where Adrien has to be polite and cautious and obedient - especially early in the series - Chat Noir has a nearly impenetrable super suit, tremendous magical powers, and a blank slate when it comes to expectations. He dove in head first, reveling in the freedom.

As Chat Noir, Adrien is the first to jump into danger. He loves to crack jokes at almost any situation and seems to have mastered annoying akumas into being so frustrated they make stupid mistakes. He has a pun for every occasion and in the early seasons very rarely seemed to be able to take anything seriously. He seemed like he saw superheroing as a game. And in a way it was.

He fell in love with Ladybug at nearly first sight. The episodes were released out of order, but I am going to try to go with in universe chronology, which means that the last two parter of season 1 was actually the start of the adventure for Chat Noir and Ladybug. In that episode he got to see Ladybug in a way she'd rarely be seen later - unsure, self doubting, and afraid. But he also watched her overcome that. When Papillon would have had the whole of Paris seeing Ladybug and Chat Noir as the villains, Ladybug came into her own and stepped up. That was pretty much the moment that Chat Noir - and thus Adrien - fell head over heels in love with the girl behind the mask.

In fact, it was pretty much only Ladybug doing something reckless in the early episodes that could make Chat Nori act serious. Like when she jumped into the open mouth of a dinosaur and he thought she was dead. He panicked then. Generally he was the one to take risks, trusting Ladybug completely. He took her orders even when he had no clue what she had in mind, trusting that she would get them through, and he trusted that if he got himself killed, her power would bring him back. Which is probably why he has proven out to have far more than nine lives.

Of course, having never fallen in love, he... had no clue how to actually court her. His first attempts were so, well, laughable, that she thought he was kidding and actually laughed at her. The problem for him was that he really was learning how to interact with people in a whole new way, for the first time, without guidance or advice. What made matters worse was that once he was sent to go protect Marinette as part of one of Ladybug's plans, and trying to clam what he presumed was a panicked civilian - at that point he mostly saw Marinette as a friend who was sweet but awkward and clumsy and terrified of seemingly everything - he played the chivalrous goofball. Which... was close enough to his way of flirting that Marientte, who is secretly Ladybug, considered this proof that Chat's love confessions were just him goofing around and that he didn't really mean it, and she leaned into the goofing around dynamic, rather than taking his romance seriously.

Eventually Chat Noir was able to convince Ladybug that he was serious, and was let down gently. It hurt. A lot. And it took him a while to get over it. But he didn't push her once he realized her NO was firm, and except for a few small bumps in the road remained her trusted and trustworthy partner as he tried to make himself love her in a different way. Oddly, he spent some time as Chat Noir talking with Marinette about their one sided loves, which was interesting for the audience who was in the know that this was a two person love square.

We have seen alternate futures and similar that keep making it clear that Ladybug and Chat Noir becoming a couple would doom the world, but those were during circumstances that as of his pull point no longer existed, or didn't yet exist. Like learning each other's secret identities or the fact that they were still fighting Papillon. The one time we do see it seem to work out at all was when an akuma gave them a shared dreamstate in which they were a couple and lived happily, raising children. Except that they never revealed who they were, even when they thought they were married with kids. It was... a very weird episode.

Throughout their adventures together, Ladybug and Chat Noir grew closer as friends and partners, if not as romantic love interests. This isn't to say there were no bumps in the road, of course. During the New York special, Chat Noir said he was staying in Paris and wound up going to New York, and that caused a lot of friction between them and a fair amount of guilt on his behalf. It was one of the many times he tried to renounce his Miraculous, certain that he didn't deserve it. But hearing Ladybug say that she couldn't be Ladybug without him brought him back. There was also a long span where Ladybug was giving other people each their own Miraculous and Chat Noir had to deal with feelings of jealousy and anger when he was no longer her only trusted partner. In fact, with Rena Rouge/Alya he felt he was actually less trusted and it hurt. This peaked when a trapped Ladybug gave Alya the Ladybug Miraculous, and then again when Ladybug gave Felix - thinking he was Adrien - the Miraculous of the Dog.

Which was a disaster. Ladybug and Chat Noir wound up having a number of very serious discussions after that, and they actually grew closer. And he felt stronger for having had a fight, being able to air his feelings, and... being listened to, heard, understood, apologized to. All by someone he respected. It wasn't an echo of what happened between Adrien and Chloé, which was important. It affirmed that he was actually a person worth taking seriously, that the problem wasn't him. Or at least, not all him.

One major recurring trauma for Chat Noir that bled into Adrien at the end of season five was the fear of his own power. At the start if his adventures he was wild and reckless with it. But Ladybug helped him to see how dangerous it actually could be, and he started being terrified that he would accidentally Cataclysm a person. It nearly happened so many times that when he actually was forced to use it on Monarch it haunted him. Without him ever knowing that it was his father. The nightmare he had at the end, the PTSD-esk vision given to him by the final akuma involved him losing control of his power and killing everyone.

It has been a fun ride watching Chat Noir mature, and seeing that until the last battle, at least, he kept a sense of humor and bad puns even when things were dark and grim. How things will go from here... we can only wait and see. Except for those of us who get to RP him and find out sooner.



Plagg:

He's easy at least. He tries to come across as lazy and piggish, caring more about cheese than anything else. And most of that is actually true, to a point. He could talk about cheese all day if no one stopped him, and would rather eat cheese or sleep than do nearly anything else...

But for all he claims cheese is his first last and only love... he really cares about the people who use his Miraculous. He loves Adrien dearly. He cared about Zoé even though she was Blaqueminette only briefly. He loves about Marinette, he cares about Alya too. And of course he cares deeply about Tikki, the Kwami of the Ladybug Miraculous.

For someone who claims all he loves is cheese, maybe sleep, and more cheese, he has a heart larger than all of reality. However he really is a glutton for cheese and will spend all day eating and sleeping if given the choice. And his love is rarely expressed clearly. Usually you can only tell once he starts comparing you to cheese...

The added stuff for Plagg:

It really is difficult to go more into detail with him without it coming down to cheese. He plays up that part of his personalty more than he ever shows anything else. He works it into pretty much every conversation, both serious and otherwise. He does try to do his best for Adrien, near the end. At the start he mostly comes across as a lazy glutton, but as the series progresses and we learn more about the Kwamis - Mostly from Tikki and Master Fu - you can start to wonder if he didn't expect Adrien to last long and was trying to protect himself. But by the end of season five, he dearly does love Adrien and is more open with his affection. In his own sort of roundabout way.

The wiki says things like easy going, but my read is more like lazy. He'll work when he has to, but he'd rather Adrien spend time with him as Adrien then transform into Chat Noir. While he will speak up when Adrien has what he thinks is a bad idea, like with the Snake Mirauclous when Chat Noir had to spend months of five minute intervals of watching Ladybug die over and over again (ouch), but he doesn't really expect Adrien to listen to him.

In the early seasons we see his curiosity get him and others into some bad scrapes, but he does that less and less as the show went on, and mostly only sneaks away from Adrien near the end when he's going to consult with Tikki. He is really concerned about Chat Noir and Ladybug becoming a couple in the later episodes, even though he didn't seem to care in the early ones. Tiki's insistence that Marinette is horrible at being in love soothes him, but somehow when Marinette and Adrien do wind up together at the end of season five he seems to be okay with it? Unclear if he isn't and he'll be upset about it in Season Six, or if he is okay with it because they're hiding their secret identities still, or if this is just inconsistency in writing him.

But yeah, the summary of Plagg really is a lazy glutton who hides a good heart under laziness and odes to cheese. If it helps any, though, he usually hides and rarely interacts with anyone other than whoever holds his Miraculous - Adrien in game - and Tikki.


Inventory update:

Plagg - nice and easy. Nothing.


Adrien:
His Miraculous and thus Plagg
His parents rings, two silver bands he wears together on a single finger.
His cellphone with photos of his family and friends.
his good luck charm from Marinette
Cheese - both regular camembert and some of the pre-doused wedges, since he always seems to have that in show even when he doesn't have his either of his bags.

I hope these changes are acceptable, and I am sorry that I did not do a better job on the original app. Thank you for your time and consideration.