The examination Mole

Characters:

• Lila Rossi

My take on Lila Rossi, which aims to make her character and motivations more fleshed out. I also talk about lore important details, like Fu’s new backstory, to how Gabriel got the Butterfly Miraculous

• Chloé and Sabrina

My reimagining of Chloé's negative arc, in addition to introducing Sabrina’s character development earlier on in the series - taking elements from Zoe’s character, who unfortunately doesn’t exist in the rewrite. Also includes a bit about Loïc, Ray and Nelson

• Nino Lahiffe

My update on Nino's character following Chained Titans airing. I've changed his backstory accordingly, talked about his need to protect others and how it affects his relationships with other characters. I also briefly talk about what "infectious powers" are, which I don't think I did in both the Magic System Overhaul or Custom Powers posts

• Loïc, Ray and Nelson

First half of the post is my analysis on their characters in show; I think they're cool as a group but they can't really stand on their own. The second half is my draft ideas for them within my rewrite

● Kagami Tsurugi

My thoughts on Kagami and how I'd basically fuse her with Mirelle, and also give her a friendship and later relationship w/ Aurore. Also I share my opinions on the Kwami of Perfection representing Weather

Lore:

• Magic System overhaul

Overhauling the Magic System, including; explaining the origin of the Miraculous (the jewels), base and customised powers, sub-classifications of powers, potions, unifications, and adjacent jewels like the Prodigious and Totems

• Miraculous Jewel origins

A very short continuation of the above tab (Magic System overhaul), I expand on the origins of the main 7 Kwamis, which different boxes they originated from, and why they were grouped together in the first place. I also include an update regarding Totems, since they were kinda lwk an afterthought

• List of custom powers

A semi-comprehensive list of all the secondary powers of the main seven Kwami, and an elaboration on how unification work in the rewrite

• Sentimonsters/Sentibeings

I talk about Sentimonsters and the differences between them and Sentibeings - in short, beings are born/not created, and they're biological instead of magical - and also about Lila's custom power, see the above dot point

Extra:

• Marinette’s fashion shows

Anyways, I was thinking a bit about Aurore and Mirelle the other day, mostly because I remembered how in the Scarlet Lady AU (@zoe-oneesama's MLB comic, give it a read) I believe Aurore dating Kagami. Plus, because of the recent Kagami-centered episode and also because I've rewritten Nathaniels mum (who I'm calling Nina) as a meteorologist/weather reporter - post linked here, it's gotten me thinking about weather a lot

Note: Though not directly related to the topic, Kagami and Lila are not sisters in my rewrite. I am fine with the reveal in show, but it doesn't work for my version of Lila - which was decided on before Dirtifiers

All this to say, I think what I'll be doing going forward in my rewrite is replacing Mirelle with Kagami. To clarify, I'm suggesting making Kagami and Aurore rivals for the KIDZ+ weather girl position/in Stormy Weather

Kagami remains a sentibeing alongside Adrien, she still spars with him and has an interest in art, but now she's also interested in weather as a callback to Ryuko (for in this rewrite, the Zodiac Kwami do not exist). I'd like to think her akumatisations would play into this new interest; obviously Aurore has control of weather phenomena, and if you read my Dupain post you'd know Nina has solar powers, I think I'd carry over the Dragon's power of physically transforming into different weather

One thing I will say about the show. I think weather would've been a great representation of Kagami's arc if Longg wasn't the Kwami of Perfection. Weather is unpredictable and uncontrollable, everything Tomoe is against her daughter embodying as a sentibeing. I would try emphasising that during seasons 4-5 when the Butterfly is brought over to the heroes side, and when Kagami can choose to defy her mother

So, we know a lot of new things in Dirtifiers; we got shown the process of how senti-beings are created and further evidence towards Kagami being one too, we got shown Tomoe's peacock suit (side note: do we know what she's wearing?) and obviously the main piece of news, Lila is Tomoe's daughter

*This was technically revealed in Yaksi Gozen, but I didn't believe it until now

Anyway, I want to draw parallels to the Tokyo Special before starting, where Nozomi describes a story analogous to Kagami and Felix's relationship. From this, it's clear Miraculous is using stories within stories as a way to represent it's characters struggles and story-lines. My theory centers around this idea, that the movie Kagami played during the sleepover is analogous to Tomoe's backstory, and the reason why she created Kagami in the first place

Kagami: It's the story of a Samurai's wife who was betrayed. She manages to escape with her child, and now must protect them from the henchmen of the awful lord!

Which is then followed up by in-movie dialogue

Female speaker: But you see, you have a choice. If you choose the doll, I will never let you experience such painful feelings again.

There's a bit of dialogue afterwards thats spoken in Japanese w/out subtitles, but unfortunately I do not understand the language. This however is all the relevant information we get from the movie Kagami plays

Obviously we know Tomoe has two daughters, so this parallel could additionally apply to either one, but is most likely in reference to Lila for reasons I'll delve into later, Tomoe and presumably an infant Lila were fleeing from people hired by her ex husband

(Unrelatedly, I went on Google translate to read what this text in Yaksi Gozen said)

Father's thoughts higher than the mountain, Mother's love deeper than the sea

Anyway, so we know from Yaksi Gozen she was disappointed by men all her life, which tracks with my theory that she was betrayed (and possibly was put in danger) by her ex-husband. So what I believe is the case; she eventually gives up on Lila, unable to not see her abuser in her daughter, and uses the peacock Miraculous to create a daughter that avoids this problem, one that looks exactly like her

This fits with the organ theory, which stipulates every emotion is linked to an organ that gets destroyed by the damaged Peacock (Tomoe therefore loses her eyes because Kagami was created to push the image of her abuser out of her head), and why she was weirdly defensive when Kagami questioned Tomoe about her emotion of origin. She was created out of unresolved trauma

*Kagami's name literally means mirror. She was created to literally mirror her mother

I think this is supported by the film's only known dialogue "If you choose the doll, I will never let you experience such painful feelings again", which further highlights Tomoe's mission to forget the memories of the past - and to a greater extent, why she's so antagonistic towards Lila

*Obviously in part because Lila betrayed Tomoe (like her father, I should add) by keeping the Butterfly for herself, but also because she's a constant reminder of him

While I'm also on the topic, I like believing Tomoe was partially genuine in her apology to Kagami, even if it was also a plan to mind control her boyfriend (who now I think about it, if Tomoe has had trauma with relationships in the past, it makes 100% sense why she'd be angry that her daughters dating her kidnapper, who could feasibly also mind control her into doing whatever he wants)

There was no reason to show Tomoe furrowing her eyebrows and smiling unless it was real, or at least no reason to show it on screen. She was facing away from Ladybug and Chat (I think, fact check me on that), so she has nobody to pretend too with a fake smile. I think she does love her daughter, but it's clouded by years of repressed trauma

None of this to say how she ultimately treated Kagami was right, just because she was traumatised. We just had an entire episode hammering home that it's not an excuse, and Kagami's whole arc this season is about how she feels unloved by her mother

Anyway, that's just my theory 😁😁 I hope you liked it

Queen of the Dreadzone

Read some of my previous blogs abt Chloe, you'll know I'm disappointed with Queen of the Dreadzone. It's what I was expecting from the show (on a realistic level), but that's why I'm disappointed. Of course they were gonna hammer home the point that Chloe is irredeemable. I just figured given the other good arcs this season, they'd take the opportunity to flesh out Chloe, but that's on me ig

Like, just add two short clips of Chloe reading the letter and looking at the charm, think about it for a few seconds, and then decide to keep acting like a bully. You don't even have to forgive her in the end, or show her family being abusive/make her a perpetual victim, just something that humanises her is all I was hoping for

And just on an episode level, I'm dissapointed Fury was never brought up, nor a Vesperia transformation. Should've been Grendiaper, and if not it should've been now. They had the perfect opportunity to include it when they cut the camera to her behind the wall

But I will say as a silver lining, I'm kinda glad my mini thesis on Chloe stans ended up being supported by the show; Noe's whole dialogue about how being a caricature of meanness, or how I'd say as a diva instead, garners fan support through comedy. Maybe I'll bring it out of the drafts, idk

I also found it interesting how Chloe is the only person (to my knowledge) in the show to be akumatised without someone whispering in her ear. Do I think it was intentional to emphasise her cartoonishly depicted wickedness? Absolutely, but I really like the visual of someone so irredeemable they don't need the influence of a supervillain

Dirtifiers

I don't have as many thoughts on Dirtifiers in comparison to Queen of the Dreadzone, but I will say I'm disappointed in the Lila reveal. Not for any narrative reason, it's just that all my theories are busted now and I look dumb for arguing against people on Tiktok (that's the way most theories turn out tho)

That finale was such dog turds, I'm sorry 😭😭😭. Jax abstracts off-screen (because I guess we've already seen the process, it's not like we wanted to see his actual abstraction or anything!) and we spend half the movie slogging around in his mind and how he's imagining soliciting Gangle, and proceeds to be dragged into a kennel like a dog, because what else are we supposed to do with him at that point? Have Caine unabstract him? Course not! Instead we have him randomly show up after being deleted and suddenly he realises all his faults with zero buildup, gets instantly forgiven (from a viewer perspective it's instantaneous) and pulls a deus ex machina to the degree I was surprised they didn't have a dance party at the end

God forbid we have information about C&A beyond "Scratch had a brain tumour so he created mind replicating AI's for literally no reason", nope! Instead we lump all the company lore into an adventure ages ago, and reveal it was all fake by the end! Who cares about world-building!

(Less I mention the voice actor drama 😭😭😭😭😭)

This ending was such piss water and I'm so sad I invested the amount of time I put into it 😭😭 I'm holding out hope for Knights of Guinevere, but genuinely I'm probably not gonna watch another Glitch production for awhile after this