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I rewatched some season 2 and 3 episodes and Chloe is genuinely so broken I just wanna hug her 🥺😭 (and I forgot she managed to resist an akuma🤯!?!?)

Are there any...I dunno, particular anti takes that get under your skin? I don't necessarily mean dumb takes. I mean, takes that deliberately seem to put you in a frenzy whenever you hear it?

I think mine's the "Azula was born bad" argument. Maybe this is because I'm autistic, but I can't believe that everyone was born as some sort of set of letters that can screw them up from birth. Does that mean genetics have nothing to do with anything? I mean, no, not really. But I can't believe that in the case of Azula, it's the end all be all. Cause it completely ignores her upbringing, all in favor of pinning the entire blame on herself and insinuating that no matter what, she cannot be redeemed because of "bad blood" or anything.

Como si ese viejo de 60 años no tuviera miles de muertes en sus espaldas de los que Azula alguna vez llegaria a aspirar. Y la unica razón por la que paró fue cuando la guerra le quito a su hijo, que, de hecho, tambien mando a la guerra. ¡He incluso dejo a la deriva a su ejercito por su luto! Seguramente miles de esas personas de FN tambien murieron porque su comandante se fue a hacer su viaje espiritual.

Hipocrita y cobarde. Lo que me molesta de todo es que sus fans lo justifican a más no poder.

Here another hot take I don’t like the fact that Marinette is friends with the whole class and the whole classroom are friends

Yeah, the world is separated into Marinette's friends and bad people. Not that we need a bunch of random Mari haters, but the world becomes so flat when no one has any other dynamics at play except 'Marinette's friend' or not.

Let Nino and Luka have beef about Music.

Let Mylene and Max get into arguments over tech vs nature.

Let Juleka hang out with a small bevy of goth girls.

Have a clique of former Adrien fans who still like him, but now try to befriend him for his interests.

Have Prem and Mylene hang out and make plans for new gardens.

Let Sabrina be awkward around the others.

one day, I saw that art, a different perspective on sirens, and how they could be bigger than what we expect. And it just clicked like, yeah sirens live under water where there's mass amount of pressure and everything so their bodies need to adapt. And ta - da! This version of siren Katara is my favorite.

That's it.

Would I accept a redeemed Chloe? Yes.

Do I like Chloe being brought back every full moon to remind us her upbringing made her a walking pile of human garbage?

Absolutely the fuck not.

I don't like Chloe because of my mistreatment from classmates, therefore, I dislike seeing her when she's being horrible.

People who hate Chloe don't wanna see her. People who love Chloe don't wanna see her like this.

So what was QOTD for? Who was the audience?

You'd think if Thomas hated Chloe soooo much, he'd stop talking about her. He's the type of guy to bring up their horrible ex, even when they're dead and gone.

Chloe bullies people, but is also a victim herself of abuse. She's domineering but desperately alone and afraid. She's complex, like a person(one of the reason people gravitate towards her character).

Factually, despite Thomas's Twitter insistence, since(and including) the end of S3 her life has been a litany of absolute disasters. --The following are listed from Chloe PoV, just to illustrate the point)

-Nathalie and Gabriel conspired to isolate and manipulate her into working with them through a mixture of blackmail and bribery. After this event literally everyone(even the parents she had tried to save) was shown to be happy except her(the parents she tried to save utterly ignoring her in favor of cuddling up to each other for the ONLY TIME in the entire series)

-A Half Sister shows up. Chloe welcomes her(no really, she does! She's just imparting very messed up big sister knowledge because that's all she knows) Then that half sister attacks her out of the blue. Half sister then abandons her for the popular kid group in school.

-She interrupts her half-sisters movie in a petty display of power(This is bad, but we must remember this is literally her dad's doing. All he has to do is... not). The outcome of this is that the protagonist(Marinette) works with the Villain(Gabriel) to stop her, and the Villains goal in all this is to akumatize her. They didn't even bother to tell her not to show up. She just arrives on time and it's already shot, done, and being screened. Her childhood friend tells her she sucks and she blows him off because she's *already really mad and maybe this isn't a good time*. Oh and everyone is very voiciferous about how much Queen Bee sucked, you know that one time she tried to be a hero.

-She doesn't want to play soccer in ballet flats, God hating gym class is relatable. Instead of just letting her sit out they decide to come up with a solution that actively insults her out of the blue. Akumatize into an actually fun game of soccer for a bit during which she does nothing to actually help Hawkmoth, then they let her sit out ANYWAY once it's all over. Oh and Lila worms her way in.

-Sidestep here to be sure it's obvious that how she's treating Sabrina in S4 on isn't remotely acceptable. It *feels* like an escalation in retaliation to being afraid of losing Sabrina but that's never explored because it's just that flanderization in effect (We see several times before that Sabrina is actually Very Important to her, their transactional and messed up friendship is a product of Chloe's upbringing, not a lack of affection)

-S5 is just a cavalcade of Lila moving Chloe around like a pupper. Lila who hoodwinks the class. Lila who gets Kagami Akumatized *twice* in short order. Lila who has 3 moms. Lila removes free will, she's a macguffin with legs who actually gets away with everything(in contrast to Chloe who gets repeatedly dunked on and defeated in the text)

-Sabrina betrays her. (Escaping the bad situation is totally valid, this is just Chloe's PoV so *feels* that way)

-Lila spurs her on to things she wouldn't normally do. Repeatedly we see Lila having to prompt and push Chloe to be worse. This isn't calling Chloe an angel by any stretch, but Lila is the one in control and Chloe has ZERO support to save her(contrast to Kagami who is twice saved by her connections to others)

-Tomoe gives her murderbots. Gabriel convinces her that her father is being usurped(and he kind of is. Ladybug teams up with an Akuma to run him out of office. Marinette teaming up with the villain again because it suits her ends(she wants Bustier back) This isn't a dig at Marinette, it's a perfectly valid plot hook but goes nowhere. In most shows you'd have repeatedly teaming up with the villain because it is an easy way to get what she wants bite her in the backside as a 'lesson' that never happens.

-Monarch shows up and Lila convinces her not to arrest him. He manipulates her into taking the akuma to end everyone with a Miraculous. Notice a pattern?

-She wakes up days later, deakumatized, and her father who has never done a darn thing his entire life to parent drags her off and throws her on a plane with the mother who despises her. Oh, and her father *kept* the daughter that wasn't his when he threw her out. -Now Noe seems to pay a little attention to her -because like all the adults ever he's using her. She's doing what she's been told/explained is what should be done, and of course the child is the evil one, not the adults. The whole episode is so nakedly a mockery of the character and the fans from *outside the text* that anyone who isn't blind can see it and it's just not fun for anyone.

This azula been sitting there since november lmao forgor to post

Oh it’s the trio I missed so much

However, she hasn't seen them all in one person since a thousand years ago. In the form of Chloe Bourgeois.

"You do not have a lot of admirable qualities as of late, my Queen," she looked at stormy blue eyes. "But traits...they are not permanent. They can be altered, everyday is a chance to choose something else. Are you willing?"

The blonde's response is cut short as the building shook after the akuma threw a massive boulder at the hotel.

Pollen hummed - or maybe it was buzzed - in amusement as Chloe Bourgeois rejected the butterfly sent out to her after Ladybug left her during their heated argument.

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