Pictures And Cowardice

I like to think about different versions of characters: someones they could have grown into, if the situation was different. I even made a whole AU about it :)

The Rose we see in the Everyone Swap AU is compassionate, optimistic and terminally ill. She wants to help others. She has the ability to do so, because she has magical powers. She is overjoyed and sometimes doesn’t see the limits. Limits see her, though.

When we didn’t yet have information from canon on what Rose’s illness actually was, I decided for myself that in my au, she would have cystic fibrosis. I thought of changing it to cancer when it got revealed that she has cancer in canon, but decided against it. Thoughts on that under the cut, they turned out to be a bit heavy.

I’m also trying to find outfits I like for my versions of characters to wear. I’m not very successful. This one suits the position of main character, but it’s not cutesy enough for Rose. At the same time, I don’t want my main character to be TOO cutesy. I thought the hoodie string bow and a softer color palette would do the job, but I was clearly wrong. Something needs to be changed. Maybe a bigger bow?

She is a digital radio host who gave up her physical body in order to pursue her true passions: peeking into other people’s business, hypnotising listeners with constant talking and stealing money. She doesn’t even need money that much. All she does is purely for her amusement :>

(and also sometimes for wellbeing of Wager, my other OC. Wager helped Voice to cheat her way into digital existence. There was a morality test)

Different background & lighting version under the cut (very bright orange)

Also very curious what Miraculous Juleka gets.

Hi! I think i have a perfect picture for you! (Thank you for your question, I forgot that i even had this picture finished)

There is! Even more, there is a whole Unrequited Love trope! Because I put everything I loved as a teen in this au :>

(The picture it titled „Weren’t you supposed to love me instead?”)

Chloe’s character arc in Everyone Swaps AU is learning when to hold to someone and when to let go. Even in canon she has one shining positive trait: she is extremely loyal. Unfortunately she is a bit misguided as of to whom to be loyal to, making of herself a victim for her mother and a restraint for Adrien. And simultaneously mistreating Sabrina.

So we are going to fix that! With the ultimate tool that once rewrote my brain: Letting Go Of Your Crush!

There is something extraordinary in just becoming content with the feeling inside of you, learning to live with it without needing reciprocity. The story I met this trope in helped me with my high school crush, even. The world wouldn’t end. Let it go. Beautiful.

Also: Juleka gets the bee!

I love this picture so much.

Emilie is at her peak performance. Adrien is a fish out of water. Cameras everywhere, comforting one and worrying the other.

It’s been so long since his mother took him to events with her, since his childhood. He’s almost a whole new person now — at least, he used to feel so. He’s not so sure anymore.

None of his friends are here, even those he would expect to meet at the cinema presentation. He haven’t seen them since his mother gave him a miraculous.

Her son is with her, her smile is with her. She’s going to make this small part of the world — everything that catches in the camera eye — perfect. And after that, she’s going to make perfect everything else.

~

In Everyone Swap AU, amoks can only be used to control whether the sentimonster is alive or dead, not to give them orders. Every order needed is given at the moment of their creation, and from then on they are fully autonomous.

Not that Emilie is troubled by that. She has always been excellent at controlling the situation, after all.

(I thought that making the answer to the question „Why am I suddenly not myself anymore” be „evil magic” would make this situation less interesting, so here we are. She did all of this herself. Out of love. And some human imperfections.)

Every superhero story needs a villain, right?

Meet Madame Moth and Atlas, the butterfly and the peacock holders of the Everyone Swap AU!

Global famous actress, Emilie Agreste recovered slowly, but brilliantly after her beloved husband’s early demise. She is kind, friendly, loving, generous — virtuous in every way possible. She is also a helicopter parent, a control freak, and the villain of Paris.

At least, the Miraculous holders know Madame Moth is a villain. For general public, she’s more like a tragic figure. Haunted by her grief, it seems all she so desperately wants is to make the world better for everybody. Why else would she come to people in their dreams, trying to lessen their burdens? It’s not like she tries to deceive you. It’s not like she makes you do something bad. She’s like, frail, you know? She can’t help herself. But you feel like she holds your hand the whole time, and it feels like The Fairy Godmothers’s touch, even if you know what she can give you is meant to crumble.

No wonder this crying boy keeps following her, huh? Must be something really bad, what he’s got, if he’s so desperate for a consolation.

Some pictures of early designs under the cut! With notes!

I’m on ArtFight this year!

Of course what I was always going to include in Everyone Swap AU was my most favourite canon magic thing: Miraculous Overuse scars.

For Rose, being Bliss means for some time having infinite amount of spoons. It’s difficult to measure your strength when you no longer have units you were measuring it with. Being able to give everything she has becomes joy, then habit, then duty. Then it leaves scars on her.

(I thought that Shadybug and Claw Noir’s scars being purplish black and lightning-like was meant to represent that they were overusing themselves in the name of evil (against the kwami i mean). So here scars are pinkish white and teartrack-like. But still scars!)

Matches Malone taking his new employee to some suspicious places (the bath and the doctor)

When the world was young, people lived in the darkness. Because of that, their hearts emitted fire.

All people were siblings to each other. That, or people knew only those who were their siblings, and didn’t know there were other people out there, who had no relation to them.

There were two brothers, one younger and one older.Was a sister, in age between them, and were younger sisters — so many, that one couldn’t count them all for the whole night. Once, the older brother died.

Not one of them knew death before, and death was sorrow to which nothing was more dreadful.

Middle sister couldn’t bear that. So she left, not remembering herself, far far away.

Younger brother couldn’t bear that. So he silenced himself forever.

Younger sisters had to bear that, because there were no one but them left. And they bore it with them. They took in their hands their silent brother, and they took in their hands their brother’s dead body, and they went as far high as they could. They stayed there, and their hearts continued to burn.

The older was buried with honor. His body became the sun. Of them all, his light is closest to the earth.

The younger was honoured in his solitude. His house became the moon. Sometimes he closes the window, and light ceases.

Younger sisters stayed. They became the stars. They have their houses. They come to them and go, and talk. They come farther and closer and their light becomes paler and brighter.

With learning to hear voices of the stars comes learning to feel a smell of a dead body.

Middle sister now wears a name of Sister of the Sun, because she herself said so, and because so said the stars. Because she didn’t choose them and their still living brother, but chose the dead one over them and left.