🐾 bugaboo 🐞

Adrien:

Their clothing is symbolic of this, a picture of why the marichat shown in Exaltation didn’t work.

Chat Noir is not just dressed appropriately, but masked. Marinette’s rose imitates a mask, but she can rip it free and he cannot.

She takes a huge step forward in Protection. She has time to change her pajamas but chooses not to.

She accepts who she is and what she has with Adrien. Of course, her nerves don’t just vanish.

Their relationship can only work if he’ll let his protections down as well.

That’s where they reach: a place where they both trust, vulnerable and unprepared in their pajamas.

this is again an example of a pet peeve of mine where y'all think of the lovesquare sides as surface-level/aesthetic based on who’s wearing a mask rather than what they actually are: Relationship Dynamics

When Adrien and Marinette are in the sewers together in the Season 2 finale and Adrien tells her the"you and me against the entire world,” that’s Ladynoir. They’re unmasked, but it’s Ladynoir. When Marinette is texting Alya telling her to laugh at Chat Noir’s jokes to make him happy, that’s still Ladynoir, because she’s thinking about her relationship with Chat Noir as Ladybug.