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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 Finally, one of his very few friends - Chloé, daughter of the Mayor - helped him convince his withdrawn and almost absentee father to allow him to attend school.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.