The examination Mole

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

LORE

To start things off, while Roland and Gina were married they had two children, Tom and Nina (Mrs Anciel). Tom followed in his fathers footsteps and became a baker, while Nina pursued meteorology and became TVi's weather reporter. Roland and Gina later divorced after their kids grew up, and the family went no-contact with him following Tom's wedding. (I believe the fandom consensus is that he didn't attend the wedding because he disproved of Sabine, since he's very old-fashioned and racist)

In this rewrite, the wedding picture would also depict Nina and her husband Emmanuel (Mr Anciel), who she later took his last name

Sabine grew up in Shanghai with her parents Mei and Yan Cheng, her uncle Wang Cheng, and her twin sister Shu Yin. By this time, the Order of the Guardians have been disbanded (see my Lila post here for the lore)

In case you don't want to read that post; the rewritten Order is separated into Mages and Guardians. Mages are descendants of the original creator of the Miraculous, given power by Gimmie. They can read Grimoires naturally and can create other jewels. Guardians on the other hand must undergo a ritual to read Miraculous texts, and that's all they can do. The actual ritual is lost, but descendants of the Guardians still get self-defense training. After finishing hers, Sabine traveled to Paris for new career opportunities, meeting Tom

I bring up the Shanghai special, since the Prodigious's role in the story is significantly changed. The pendant exists as a result of the hubris of the Guardians who tried making their own Miraculous w/out the blessing of GImmie, instead creating something very dangerous and limited

In saying all that, a trip to Shanghai to visit her maternal grandparents is the perfect opportunity to bring the World special into the plot, and makes much more sense than Marinette chasing Adrien over international boarders

Since Ladybug randomly shows up in Shanghai on their trip, alongside her daughters absence, this is where Sabine starts putting two-in-two together that her daughters a superhero. She isn't 100% certain, but she supports her daughter from the sidelines

As far as Fei goes, who I believe gets adopted by Wang Cheng uncle by the end; her story remains relatively unchanged; with the exceptions that she robs Marinette on a family trip, and that she starts undergoing Guardian training to wield the Prodigious safely. She, Marinette and Marc - though she's not as close to him - all consider eachother family and face-time regularly

Anyways, after Tom and Sabines wedding, they had Marinette, and around this time Nina and Emmanuel also had Marc

In this rewrite, since Marc and Marinette are cousins who live in close proximity to each-other, they are pretty close, though they orbit different friend groups. Marinette had Nino and Socqueline, while Marc had Alix. During the height of Chloe's bullying, Marc was one of the only other one of her classmates willing to associate with Marinette (alongside Nino obviously). Both of them are clumsy, socially awkward misfits

Marc in this instance also probably knows about Fei's superhero identity as LAdy Dragon, and it's an open secret within the family

As far as every-bodies akumatisations are concerned, they remain mostly unchanged (Simpleman will not exist), except Befana takes up Riginarazoines power. Obviously Nina and Emmanuel need new villain concepts since they're basically OC's at this point, so I'm calling them Solar Flare and Party Crasher, for I do not care enough about Wayhem

Happening around Season 2 or 3, Nina is giving a report on an upcoming heatwave, something about it starts her global warming anxiety, which Monarch capitalises on, turning her into Solar Flare (shown as Smolderdash from Skylanders). Her power lets her absorb heat and sunlight, turning them into fire and laser beams. Potions are unlocked by now, the Red Potion gets revealed as her direct counter, protecting the user from fire, lava and heat

Party Crasher on the other hand at least happens after Evilistrator and Reverser, whenever Marc and Nathaniel start their comic together. Emmanuel is worried about people making fun of their "comic", an allegory for their relationship, and so channels all his 1970's flamboyance into his akumatised form, always one step ahead from uncertainty (his powers are the same, as in the show)

Because of my different plot structure (there's a time-skip between seasons 3-4 where Lila obtains the Peacock), Dearest Family changes from being a bunch of akumatised people, probably into a giant tree sentimonster called Dearest Family. Marc ends up getting willingly akumatised by Fritilary (Master Fu using the Butterfly Miraculous) in order to give his family a different perspective

The concept of Sentimonsters remain the same as in show, they allow a person to create a monster out of emotions. The difference in the rewrite is that they can only use their own emotions to create the monsters (the feathers are a result of Lila’s custom power). All types of sentimonsters require an object of control to exist, and destroying it destroys the monster

I’m also following the show’s explanation surrounding organs, in that every sentimonster is derived from a specific organ. Because the Peacock was damaged, the organ of origin get attacked and start deteriorating (I imagine this happens similar to other broken Miraculous, the Fox would deteriote a persons senses and the Bee would deteriorate a persons movement)

Instead of going berserk when Cataclysmed, they first deteriorate, then grow back like how Nino’s parents did in the Chained Titans. This way Chat Noir’s power isn’t entirely made useless

Sentibeings are a subset of sentimonsters, which are created by making an embryo inside a womb. They follow the same rules as normal monsters, except they’re half biological, self aware and capable of complex thought (basically a human)

In the rewrite only Kagami and Adrien are sentibeings, since Felix doesn’t exist in my au 😌 Kagami was created to be perfect in her mothers eyes, so Tomoe’s eyes were destroyed following her birth, while Adrien was created out of love, so Emilies heart was destroyed instead (so basically the show)

Delving deeper into the custom powers though, I’ve decided to give Emilie the secondary power of detachment, which lets her detach a sentimonster from its object of control. In Adriens case, he can exist without the Twin Rings, but he can still be controlled by Gabriel through them

This isn’t the case of Kagami, who’s always under her mothers thumb (literally). But I haven’t figured out what Tomoe’s secondary power is yet

I unfortunately could not find the image where Banana Boom Boom gets cataclysmed, and it’s a shot of its face

In the case of Amoks, which are again in this rewrite Lila/Mayura’s unique creation, her custom power allows her to pluck feathers from her fan and send off to infect other peoples objects. This lets her outsource the emotional burden onto others, lets her control them from long distances, and protects her in case the jewel gets destroyed again

Note: she is able to fix Miraculous since she’s a descendant of a mage, who made the jewels themselves, but it takes her ages to find the ingredients herself

For storytelling purposes, Amok-created sentimonsters carry their object of control with them. The heroes can't just grab the object from the person holding it