Guys I actually cooked fr the first time in forever!
I’ve been working on this for a whole year (because I’m slow) but I finally locked in and finished. My Marinette redesign. Drawing everything by hand was tough but I’m honestly so glad I pushed myself to do it.
Anyways enough about me and more about Marinette.
In my rewrite Marinette starts off high school completely alone, her friends from middle school have kinda abandoned her for reasons I’ll get into later. So she’s at an all time low when it comes to her self image and her anxiety is at an all time high.
I thought it would be good for her character arc if being a superhero helped her gain back her confidence in her regular life as well so over the course of the show she makes more friends and feels more comfortable sharing her designs and such, because as time went on it’s like the show forgot she wanted to be a fashion designer.
My second big “change” I guess you could say is that I wanted there to be a difference in how Marinette interacts with the other half of her racial identity. Obviously living in France it’s easy for Marinette to be in tune with her french side and French culture but I feel like there could’ve been background details that showed her still interacting with her culture. And her going to Beijing just to stalk Adrien really weirded me out.
So I gave Marinette a Chinese name and my idea would be that she starts connecting with Chinese culture through fashion because Hanfu has such a diverse history.
