Earl Gray

Imagine him in Twilight mode in the bathroom, meticulously counting the exact number of squares in the toilet paper strip that he’ll insert into his pants before walking out. For the mission.

(No pressure to draw this at all I just thought you might enjoy this idea :) hope you’re getting enough rest!

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Like, maybe Loid asked her to pick up groceries for him one time and she ended up getting hit by a car, so now he feels he has to work three times as hard to make sure he doesn’t have to endure a loss like that ever again.

She also doesn’t know exactly when she died, so Loid could’ve been a grieving single parent for a few years before he met Yor, which would explain why he’s so anxious all of the time.

A lot of people assume Yor is really gullible and just takes things at face value (which, to be fair, she does), but from her perspective, everything about Loid makes sense as a widower trying to raise a child and maintain a stressful job.

Even his normally sullen attitude could be lingering depression from his wife’s death.

From Yor’s point of view, Loid has really been put through the wringer and gone through a lot of undeserved pain. But despite all of that, she still sees him as an incredibly kind and patient man, trying to be the best parent he can be for Anya.

It’s no wonder she wants to be more useful for him: she wants to ease the burdens she thinks he’s been carrying alone.

They held a senti orgy I just can't prove it

What is your opinion on the “Chloe deserves/doesn’t deserve redemption” situation or the “Chloe wasn’t meant to be redeemed and there for what happened to her is fair game” stance?

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My thoughts on the Chloé situation are kinda complex. Back when the show only had three seasons, I did think Chloé’s character trajectory made sense. Sure, she’d saved people when she was acting as Queen Bee, but she still treated her classmates the same. In fact, she started treating Sabrina worse than before because she considered being anything other than Queen Bee hanging out with Ladybug was slumming it. For me, it really was a 50/50 on whether or not Chloé would be redeemed or fall into actual villainy.

Because, here’s how I saw it: I didn’t think Chloé was an actual villain-villain in seasons 1-3. She was Marinette’s school nemesis and a decidedly defanged one. Marinette was scared of her exactly once, in Origins, a flashback episode meant to showcase how much more confident being Ladybug has made Marinette that she views Chloé as small potatoes. The season 3 finale could have been the culmination of an arc where Marinette accidentally causes Chloé to become a villain and ally herself with Hawk Moth in the future.

And it would have been caused by Marinette, even if unintentionally. It would have shown how good intentions can have unforeseen consequences, especially when you don’t know what you’re helping someone with or what they want before you do so. Marinette doesn’t really understand what she’s trying to help people with whenever she does try to be helpful, because she assumes what they want and need instead of asking and listening (like in Reflekdoll, the latter part of Ikari Gozen and Quilt Trip). Many heroes create their own villains this way, and Marinette could have done so as well since she was the one to strengthen Chloé’s bond with the person who taught her to be an entitled bully and then she dragged her feet on whether or not she could use the Bee Miraculous.

The season 3 finale shows Chloé brought to a new low. The following New York Special gives us a glimpse of a Chloé who is withdrawn, like she’s reconsidering her life. This could have led to Chloé deciding that she would have revenge on Ladybug for leading her on and then dumping her (as a teammate). But, it could have also have led to Chloé realizing that, while Ladybug wasn’t her friend, Sabrina was, and she pushed the latter away in pursuit of being the Bee Miraculous holder. Chloé could have gained new insight that would have led her to start working on how she treats those closest to her, finally starting to treat her schoolmates with decency and, maybe, with time, kindness.

Then season 4 came along and all that foreshadowed introspection was dumped out the window in favor of having Chloé do cartoonishly stupid school antagonist character things. In season 4, where this kind of hijinks are so incredibly low-stakes that it’s both laughable to see, and laughable to realize the writers think this is good television.

I think the writers realized this too, because then comes season 5 with the retcon that, actually, Chloé is an evil mastermind who is so heinous that she orchestrated a traumatic event that led to Marintette’s character flaws and therefore Marinette should be forgiven for her flaws and Chloé blamed for them. Never mind the damage this episode does to Kim’s character, turning him from an oblivious to jock to a total creep, it also tries to convince us that Chloé is this big threat despite that it happened at least a year ago in-universe and that she had never done anything even close to this bad since. It just makes no sense when contrasting with the early seasons, where Marinette treats Kim as just one classmate among many and Chloé as a low-threat nuisance.

The problem was that they decided that they didn’t want Marinette to hold any responsibility for anything she does anymore. This is why they wrote the episode ‘Derision’, to absolve Marinette of all responsibility in her stalking of Adrien, even though them making it a serious trauma response instead of a cartoon-logic joke means that now she absolutely should take responsibility for her behavior and get therapy. Because they wanted to give Marinette a retroactive justification, the episode just doesn’t mesh with the rest of the show. But, like, the writing in Miraculous seasons 4-5 is so bad it’s of course never just about a single episode, it’s all about how the Miraculous writers don’t know how to build up arcs that then come to a logical conclusion, which is why all their story arcs’ endings fall flat and leave viewers thinking “where’s the rest of it?” when they’re not considered one of the worst finales for a show.

Basically, making Chloé a villain could have worked, but it would have required her getting built up into such a status. The Chloé of seasons 1-3 isn’t a monster, she’s a brat. But the writers didn’t want to do that work despite wanting that story, thinking some repetitive episodes of Chloé being a brat some more will accomplish the same thing. So, Chloé just keeps performing petty bullying until the writers think the viewers forgot that she’s like this because of her mother, who Marinette reunited her with, all the while pretending the woman who calls her by the wrong name to her face on purpose has done nothing wrong as a parent other than “leave”, before she randomly turns on Miss Bustier and starts working with Hawk Moth for supposedly no reason in Collusion.

Marinette had a freaking front row seat to Audrey's treatment of Chloé in Style Queen and Queen Wasp and her reaction was basically "still try to bond with your horrible mom instead of cutting her out of her life". Like how did you think it would turn out Marinette? The lady straight up mispronounced her own daughter's name, more than once, and outright says the only thing special about her is her mom, aka herself, and then puts her down on live television and you want her to bond with her? For what, so she can be happy, and that maybe they'll make each other better? The woman threw a fit for not being seated in the front row in her debut episode and was firing people over her impossible standards, why do you want her kid, who's pretty terrible too, to bond with a horrible woman like that when said woman is also the root of her many issues?

It's like trying to make peace with Gabriel and Adrien, the man straight up threatens to take Adrien out of the school more than once as a bargaining chip so that he won't be disobeyed or have his friends make him act out of line or just to threaten his friends with the possibility if they cross him, yet Marinette is still gonna honor his wish in the season 5 finale of making Adrien remember all the times he was a good dad after learning he was the local magical terrorist whom she's been fighting all show long and who repeatedly hurt his own son, herself and made tons of people suffer under his capricious whims. But Marinette's response is always to have the kids try to make up with their parents no matter how shitty said parents are and that the kids would be better off without them.

Let's be real here Marinette should not bother sticking her nose in their complicated and toxic family business, she is not equiped and mature enough to make it all better. She thinks she's doing them a favor with her good intentions but the fact is Audrey was horrible long before Marinette was even born so she wasn't gonna really change simply because she bonded with Chloé, as later seasons proved, and Gabriel thinks it doesn't matter if Adrien suffers now when Emilie will be back it will all be good.

Marinette is horribly naive in family relations, she thinks because her family is loving and caring others are like that too and they just need a push to see the way but it's way more complicated than that, hearing Marinette it seems adults have all the excuses in the world to act the way they do because they care, they love them and wants to protect them but not all of them are like that and despite seeing it with her own eyes she still thinks they just need to talk it out.

People's feelings and thoughts have always been Marinette's weakness, and she still fails at them when it counts. Thing is she is good at making complicated plans and bringing them to fruition, but when it comes to people's feelings, reactions and thoughts about it, she's a sitting duck, because she always assume what she wants to happens with them will happen because she has already thought for them and decided for them what they will think about it, instead of actually asking and listening to them, which is why a lot of her plans fail and upset people, she projects herself on them constantly and assumes they think the way she thinks they do, and she never stop this pattern despite being proven wrong and wrong again.