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"I personally won't go that way anymore, and instead make sure that villains can't be liked, and only provoke strong rejection." (Taking screenshots is more annoying on desktop, but you can literally see it in his reply tab posted a few hours ago.)

Like, villains being likeable as characters (which is not the same thing as being likable as a person and I am absolutely losing my mind over how many people refuse to learn the difference) are literally what makes a good villain. A villain is barely a character (at best just a plot device) if they're not enjoyable to watch.

YEAH BECAUSE THAT'S MUCH BETTER

Felix: I did what I had to.

Marinette:ah yes, clearly. I should have known you were in danger. It's my fault. I'm so sorry. Everything you did was justified.

Kagami:Yes, it is as I said, he just does not know how to communicate.

Felix:I'm glad we got that sorted. Now, I need to go make out with my cool azn sentigirlfriend.

Adrien:*coming from the mansion* Hey, anyone know where the Mountain Dew is?

Let me just say I don’t really care about an apology to Ladybug in the grand scheme of things that much. It’s something that would help his character a lot, but it wouldn’t fix all of his narrative problems. It happening off screen is poor practice in specific because the audience isn’t kept in the loop and is just expected to accept things as they are.

Adrian is just as pressing of a matter in regards to Felix, and yet we don’t see anything where they hash it out or come to an understanding. If they did off screen then it’s just poor writing for the audience, and even then him lying to Adrian undermines any apology he could make regarding the red moon incident as that was also done under the pretense of doing something he thinks Adrian would want. He made the same mistake twice and yet his hypothetical apology to Adrian, possibly happening around the same time, is supposed to be genuine?

It's an admission of how tangled and inavigable the current plot threads are. Who would Felix apologize to? What explanation would he give? The scene itself would beg so many questions that cannot be answered. Would he tell Cat Noir? Would Ladybug forbid him from telling Cat Noir? How would it come off and be in character? How involved in the conspiracy to lie to Adrien would people be?

First of all, people seem to only think as far as "Adrien will have a complete meltdown", but never seem to think about why. Sure, Cat Blanc and Ephemeral exist, but in both of those episodes, the revelation gets unceremoniously dropped on him and exploited in the same moment. Of course he loses it, anyone would. In The Collector, where he's given the information away from Gabriel and his fuckwittery, he takes only a few seconds to collect (heh) himself before locking in. Like, Adrien isn't inherently some fragile baby, he's just in an emotionally unsafe environment, something no one in his life besides maybe Alya seems to be doing anything to help with.

Second and most importantly, it would've hurt a lot less if Marinette just told him in the first place instead of going through this whole brouhaha? Now it's not just his dad being terrible that Adrien has to deal with (something he was already aware of, btw), but also the fact that Marinette broke his trust.