Plagg, claws out!

They end up having to go back in time to gather the Miraculous before they end up in Emelies hands.

They’re warned before hand it will change their time and they will have no Memory.

Cue beginning of origins

Except

No master fu stopping her.

She makes it to class okay.

Adriens in class. His mom let him go to school this year to help him grow.

He’s so excited. Chloe is pouting because adrien wanted to sit by himself and make new friends

Marinette stumbles in.

That’s the first time they meet.

So, originally a theme song was pitched for Miraculous Ladybug by Andy Marsh called “Here Comes Ladybug” and… holy shit.

Asian Squad™

Pose based off this 

This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a long while already and now I accidentally found a solid reason to finally do so!

But I’ll start with the beginning because this is an appreciation post and I want you all to appreciate every little aspect of this beautiful glass window with me.

Hawkmoths butterfly glass window + scenery

Quickly starting with the basics here because there is not too much to unpack. Hawkmoths butterfly window is the most direct and obvious side of the window, since it’s the one we see every episode because Hawkmoth is/has been the main villain since day 1. I don’t think there is a single person in a Fandom who hasn’t noticed the implied butterfly in it. As seen above, the butterfly spreads across the whole window and it’s present to us from a tilted side perspective from the left corner of the room, slightly looking up.

The “corner and up” perspective gives Hawkmoths presence in the room a more threatening and uneasy feeling, highlighting his chaotic and uncontrollable tendencies and persona. The slight tilt of the “camera” and his stand also functions as a visualization of Gabriels unstable mind.

The window itself is the highest focus point in the picture and the light falling through it throws light and shadows on the floor, in which Hawkmoth himself is standing in the bright center of it. This and the big butterfly on it tells us one thing inmediadly: Hawkmoth is in charge now. Through it we see Paris the way Gabriel sees it in this moment. Far beneath him, small and unimportant (Paris is blurry out of focus).

Mayuras peacock glass window + scenery

Yes with this I mean the scene in “Mayura” where Natalie stood in HM lair and used the miraculous to “akumatize” Gabriel.

Right of the bat one can notice that the scenery is giving quite different feelings to the viewer. The perspective we are given for her is straight upfront and (again) looking up (same as with him, Paris is far beneath her, small and still blurry out of focus. It and it’s citizens are unimportant to her.) In comparison to Hawkmoths tilted side perspective, it tells us that Mayura is more focused and calmer/more collected than him (as we have seen in her scene in “Mayura”). She’s not here to make a show, she’s not taking unnecessary chaotic/sadistic enjoyment out of it (though I’m sure Natalie is enjoying herself just fine as Mayura/Catalyst) the way Gabriel/Hawkmoth does, she’s BUSINESS! Hawkmoth may mean serious business too but her focus and straight forwardness brings her to another level (still do NOT underestimate this man, Mayura being more focused doesn’t mean he’s not a serious force to reckoned with. He’s highly dangerous and a league for himself!)

Back to the window and to the next visual point. Unlike Hawkmoth Mayura is not standing neatly in the middle of the center of the light. She’s a few steps off and for her the window isn’t fully in frame anymore. Meaning the butterfly is not viewable for us anymore. Instead we get a view on the window that shows us this:

Now instead of the butterfly we have Mayuras mask in the focus of the window.

The way she’s standing in the light but not on Hawkmoths propper place, how her symbol is in the window but unlike his not on the entirety of it and that the room is now colored in her blue but the personal and owning aspect of the butterflies is gone (now its just empty) let’s the viewer understand straight away that Mayura took over and is now in charge of the villain room that doesn’t belong to her!

This fits perfectly and perfectly forshadows what we have been told about Mayura before met her. She an even bigger and worse threat/evil than Hawkmoth and will “make him look like a baby”. She will overthrow him!

But frankly, that’s not what I wanna focus on here

This comparison between Hawkmoths and Mayuras symolism and presentation in and of the window was originally the reason I wanted to do the application post. I just thought it was so freaking awesome how they managed to put two villain symbols into it and presented the needed one and Hawkmoths/Mayuras mannerisms to us through the placing of the “camera”.

But two nights ago, I looked at these two window pictures trying to analyze the details (and honestly just starring at it because it’s just so visually appealing and pleasing and just such marvelous work imo)

So I just laid in my bed gushing over its awesome design when I saw it and I just

What

THE.

CAT?!??!!!!????

Okay 1. That’s a cat, plain and simple. And this is not a coincidence or just accidentally looks like a cat. I literally don’t think that’s humanly possible to accomplish with how detailed the cat is in the woven linework and how big it is (literally half of the window/half of the butterfly symbol). It’s there because they want Adrien in there. Make with this information whatever you want.

2. Or you know what? Do that later. I’m gonna ask you now to take a step back for 3 more minutes and to just appreciate the insane level of design and craftsmanship that went into this window to put THREE layers/perspectives of character symbols into it while at the same time making 2 of them subtle enough to never overpower the third (and main one) in a normal episode.

Seriously, whoever designed this is a bloody brilliant genius and I hope they’ve got a raise for it. This is just.. just.. I really can’t find another word for it, IT’S MIRACULOUS, that’s what it is! Like, I dead-ass lost almost 3 hours of sleep that night, because I lost my shit after finding the cat and I simply couldn’t stop fangirling about the BRILLIANCY of the window! Working and coming up with this had to have been so frustrating, infuriating and complicated. Redoing ideas and sketches over and over and OVER again, to then having to scratch them entirely,had to have been a complete pain in the arse but GOSH I swear it was so worth it! I am in love with this window and it’s easily one of my favorite visual story elements of the entire show.

What a Masterpiece!

I’m giving my permission to spread these pictures everywhere you like. I really want this to get the attention and appreciation it deserves and therefore you can take/use it. No credit needed.

Here a better “cat glass window” picture

I added the bugs little feet because that was the aspect of the window that convinced me from the beginning that the big circle has to be a ladybug. I mean, C’MON, big circle with four little ends on each “leg side”? That has to be SOMETHING!

What stopped me though for while from really believing that this IS the Ladybug symbol is that if you dont colore it, it looks like this

and by god, no camera perspective could ever change the focus from the butterfly to the ladybug. The whole window is in view and Hawkmoths butterfly is the dominant symbol, I didnt think it could be done

but THEN lotusmushishi dead-ass did gods own work and pointed out to me that Actually, there is an other, smaller Ladybug hidden in the window 

then my brain shut down for a moment going bitch WAT?? And THEN after I screamed wale noises at my sister and my brain finished its restart I started thinking and trying work out which Ladybug is the right one and why?

My answer: Both

And here is why:

These are the four symbols we have/found (yet?) And the way 3 out of 4 are/will be used in the show is through subtle camera perspective. Hawkmoths butterfly is the only one that is more in your face because you really cant not notice it and like I said above, its the dominant symbol.

So my thought is that Mayuras, Chat Noirs and Ladybugs glass window symbols will only be used occasionally, in the few out of norm times they are in charge of Hawkmoths lair. Meaning, the viewable symbol in the window doesnt necessary need to show a villain (it can tho), but its there to subtly show the current person in charge and this person can be either, good or evil.

Practically its also quite simple to use. We already have seen it with Mayura.

Mayura is in charge? Cut of the upper half of the window and keep the camera perspective low

Chat Noir is in charge? Use (for example) a lower perspective close/right infront of him, making the camera look up to him. Adriens head/upper body will therefore cover the lower part of the window and the cat symbol comes into focus

Ladybug is in charge? (For example) She stand in front of the window, camera a little higher than her symbol, right corner, side wall. Screen cuts of the viewable one of Mayuras mask wings, leaving only the Ladybug symbol and Marinette in focus

Alright, I gave my thoughts to the “smaller Ladybugs” purpose but where does the big Ladybug we both found fit in now, because why should Ladybug need two different symbols in the window?

Well what I believe is, that the “big Ladybug” will be used at the end of the show, after everything is over and our heros celebrate their victory. The window will be changed from the butterfly to the Ladybug, visualizing that the evils reign is now officially over and Paris is save. This I think, because I just find it ODD that the big Ladybug includes all the lines, not even Hawkmoths butterfly uses ALL OF THEM.

The big Ladybug has an even bigger size than the BUTTERFLY and my, that has to mean something!

I was commissioned by @overworkedunderwhelmed for a puss-in-boots chat noir comic, which was a stroke of genius, i was so excited to work with it… cats dressed up in little outfits is like, the platonic ideal of comedy! For context, this is a continuation of the la chata au

Gabriel decides that Adrien has a lot of potential in saving Emilie and targets him for akumatization / purposefully upsets him multiple times. Marinette keeps a close watch on Adrien and saves him (like above) multiple times, and Ladybug starts to keep close watch on Adrien and listen to his problems.