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So I wanted to see if that could extend to my idea on other pairs, particularly Fox/Peafowl and Bee/Butterfly.

Which, for this, there are tweaked themes for these pairs.

Fox and Peafowl echo themes of Deception and Truth/Vision.

Bee and Butterfly echo themes of Order/Notion and Chaos/Emotion.

Bonus, Turtle/Serpent.

As this got long, going to exclusively focus on Fox and Peafowl.

Initially, for me, Fox and Peafowl stand out to be the most interchangeable pair for these two.

Felix is an easy stand out for Fox. He has an eye for detail and being clever, and he's always been a deceptive character (pretending to be someone else why trying to woo LB, being deceptive in canon, pretending to be Adrien at times, ect.). Canon has also brought in Felix doing magic tricks, being something of a magician, who are illusionists. And of course, there is that little detail that Trixx and Felix both keep their hands behind their back when idle.

Felix with Fox can also work off questionable loyalties, as the Fox is often a self-serving animal, not known to be loyal and helps with their own interest (sounds a lot like Felix). Additionally, with canon, Felix also matches the Fox in terms of curiosity/nosiness and being a risk taker. And of course, doing illusions would be right up Felix's alley, as that allows him to decide when to have the stage and when to be more elusive.

With Trixx, that could've been an interesting kwami to work off Felix, being another deceiver/manipulator, and should be a little impish and selfish at least, and you get these two cunning manipulators trying to outsmart each other, clashing only because Felix prioritizes himself while Trixx is for the greater good.

And as a (dark) monochrome character, I do think it can be in the best interest to get something colorful to signify the change in life. And orange represents warmth, spontaneous, and playfulness, working off Felix needs to learn to lighten up, to be "warmer" as he's initially cold.

For Marinette, Peafowl's a pretty natural click when factoring all things that peacocks represent.

Peafowl is a big symbol of Vision, which can include having an eye for deatil/being perspective, looking to the future, being a visionary, and seeing what others do not see (including a supernatural sense). All of which matches with Marinette, being observant, having goals for the future that she works towards, and a knack for predictability and how she can pull off her elaborate plans. She's also quite vigilant, and can usually pick up on trouble or when something is off, which can work off peacocks tied to vigilance and guardianship.

Peacocks are also big symbols of incorruptibility, able to literally take in evil and turn it into beauty (which really kinda makes it weird for it be a misused villainous Miraculous). This works off Marinette as a natural creator of beauty, but it works off her role as a cleanser/purifier.

The Peafowl naturally works off Marinette's interest in fashion, as a natural symbol of beauty and vibrancy, able to stand out.

And on the topic of visual, Marinette has a nice inverse color coding to Duusu:

Visually, this nicely sets them up as foils that click and balance each other out, with Duusu being more "cool" coded to Marinette who is more "warm" coded. So where Marinette is more affectionate, energetic, and humble, Duusu in contrast should be more sophisticated, level headed, and egotistical/vain (this is not Duusu's canon personality, based on the little I've seen, but emotional birdbrain isn't what really comes to my mind for a peafowl kwami).

Working off this set up for Duusu's personality, you can get two dramatic characters with similar moral alignments working off each other, but able to balance each out. When Marinette overthinks and spirals, Duusu brings the truth and logic, where Duusu has the ego, Marinette has the humbleness. Duusu should also be a kwami who adores her interest in fashion, and should be one of the most romantically engaged kwamis, a literal wingman, who wants Marinette to display her colors and show off her interest to her crush (not that she's there yet). Additionally, Marinette can be chaotic and unpredictable, which as a peafowl, Duusu is set up to be more for integrity and order, so anything sketchy will be called out.

Working off Origins, where Marinette's biggest issue is self-confidence, Peafowl is a natural answer as that's an animal that's all about confidence and knowing your self-wroth. This can also work off Marinette getting pushed around (mostly by Chloe), giving up what she's rightfully won (Gamer), and putting herself down/shifting to prioritize someone else's feelings over her own when she also needs a chance to be upset (Glaciator).

Peafowl can also cover Marinette learning leadership as they are tied to royalty and clarity.

It could feed into her Atlas complex a bit, as this is a symbol of absolute goodness and fortune, but this animal has themes of being self-serving (flaws of pride, ego, and vanity), so it probably wouldn't be to the extent of Ladybug.

Now, on the reverse...

Prior to Felix officially joining canon, Peafowl was a natural click for Felix in fanon content, especially as an alternative to Cat. And there was a lot of merit to the possibility.

Felix is a naturally deceptive character who does questionable things, it makes sense for him to get an animal that's tied to truth and integrity, to challenge how he is. Duusu would also come with a lot of the similar appeals to Tikki if paired with Felix being more for the greater good, strong sense of responsibility, to step up to help others, and be morally upright.

Blue as a color can also work off what Felix needs growth wise, it's tied to trust, loyalty, responsibility, security, and truth. But it also vibes with him better as a cool color, one that is more passive and reserved.

But Felix also clicks as he is observant and does know how to grab attention and stand out as needed. And for PV Felix, who seems fine just minding his own business and not wanting attention all that much, that adds another nice contrast as this is an animal about having attention, and showing off your vibrancy (which can have some comedic potential for a more reserved character like Felix).

Now Marinette with Fox is another fun and interest kwami swap, one that's also pretty decently popular.

Marinette matches Fox in creativity, observation, quick wit, being chaotic, and being a risk taker. She also is someone who likes to work long range if she can (though will make do with close range). Similarly, she also knows when to grab attention and when to step back and be in the background.

Fox just very easily can click for Marinette. And the show did give us an example in how elaborate her illusions can be (Kwamibuster).

The biggest intrigue can be with Marinette and Trixx. With Marinette having more moral integrity can Felix, making her the more morally upright character, it can open up Trixx to be more of an impish wildcard. It's actually a similar appeal to Marinette and Plagg, where Plagg is up to be more problamatic in contrast to her. Given the Trixx we saw in Sapotis, I got an impression that with Marinette more likely to get involved and do the right thing, it opens up to Trixx prioritizing Marinette own needs and growth. And with foxes being a more self-prioritizing animal, that can work off what Marinette needs, while still working off Marinette's knack for meddling.

’A L I V E’ is a fan comic based on the videogame ’Undertale’ by Toby Fox and inspired by the AU Community. Please, play the game before reading it, because there are a lot of spoilers and you wouldn’t understand most of it (you’ll enjoy the game, it’s AWESOME).

There’s no profit intention in this, just having fun with a game that I like and an incredibly creative community. This story is obviously FICTION. All characters are FICTIONAL, they do NOT exist in real life in any way.

Sometimes the comic is interrupted by the ASK section, but it’s part of the story so it’s recommended to read them, the order is listed below.

You can find the comics and everything under the cut!

Thank you for reading!! ♥

Warning: This comic is SFW (PG-13 for violence), but sometimes there’s angst, so when things are hard I use the tag #ANGST just in case someone is more sensitive and wanted to mute the tag. There’s also blood and swearing (sometimes I’ll use the tags #BLOOD and even #NSFW when things are really bloody), but mostly it’s just idiots having fun and learning about friendship.

Rhino Miraculous

The Miraculous of Substance

Kwami: Hoorn

Jewelry: Choker

Weapon: Baseball Bat

Power: Matter

Allows the user to manipulate the matter around them. This includes magic matter.

I always thought it would be weird if CN and LB were akumatized separately (I mean, the show keeps reinforcing the idea that they are a team and they can’t finish the job without the other) and while it would be a great way to show how much they really care about each other, it still just feels weird to me.

Thus I propose that the point in the show where we do see them get akumatized is towards the end. Rena Rouge, Carapace, And Queen B all have their Miraculous permanently (and they don’t have to know who each are but it could occur after that happens).

Let’s say, they’ve found out Hawkmoth and Mayura’s lair by this point, and somehow an Akuma or baddies themselves get the jump on the team: kidnapping Chat and Ladybug before the rest of them can do anything.

With their leaders gone, I want the rest go to confront Hawkmoth and save LB and CN, but as they reach the entrance RR, Carapace, and Queen B see two familiar, yet not, faces waiting for them.

I want it to be Chat Blanc and Miss Fortune (LB) waiting for them.

I want them to get akumatized together.

Because I want the second-to-last final fight to be the hardest fought because the ones that can beat and cleanse the Akumas are akumatized themselves.

Coupe: *watching from the shadows as Robert and Flambae are talking, getting closer and closer, potentially leaning in for a kiss in the gym, before Robert backs away* *punches wall* Damn you slow burn... ~ Sonar: You know maybe we should think about getting Boberto out there? I know this place-*gets a knife held to his neck* Coupe: Do not. Ruin this. For me... ~ *Flambae planning how to talk to Robert, Coupe muttering about how this reminds her of one of her novels* Flambae: You say something? Coupe: No... Unrelated question, have you considered riding in on horse back?

The Witch must have been crazy to have made such a Bad Batch of cookies...

(Sorry it's not any of my other AU content, but this was an idea I just really wanted to get out of my head.)

More Info under the cut!

[Sonic]

I tried to hide, but something broke

I tried to sing, couldn't hit the notes

The words kept catching in my throat

I tried to smile, I was suffocating though

But here with you, I can finally breathe

You say you're no good, but you're good for me

I've been hoping to change, now I know we can change

But I won't if you're not by my side

Why does it feel right every time I let you in?

Why does it feel like I can tell you anything?

All the secrets that keep me in chains, and

All the damage that might make me dangerous

You got a dark side, guess you're not the only one

What if we both tried fighting what we're running from?

We can't fix it if we never face it

What if we find a way to escape it?

We could be free, free

We can't fix it if we never face it

Let the past be the past 'til it's weightless

[Amy]

Oh, time goes by, and I lose perspective

Yeah, hope only hurts, so I just forget it

But you're breaking through all the dark in me

When I thought that nobody could

And you're waking up all these magic of me

That I thought were buried for good

Between imposter and this monster, I've been lost inside my head

Ain't no choice when all these spells keep me pointing towards no end

It's just easy when I'm with you

No one sees me the way you do

I don't trust it, but I want to

I keep coming back to

[Sonic and Amy]

Why does it feel right every time I let you in?

Why does it feel like I can tell you anything?

We can't fix it if we never face it

What if we find a way to escape it?

We could be free, free

We can't fix it if we never face it

Let the past be the past 'til it's weightless

[Sonic]

Oh-oh, so take my hand, it's open (free, free)

What if we heal what's broken? (Free, free)

I tried to hide, but something broke

I couldn't sing, but you give me hope

[Sonic and Amy]

We can't fix it if we never face it

They speak it every time they want to say things to each other on the comms that they don’t want the others to hear.

Courtney, not liking to be left out, starts ranting back with swear words in Bisayan. Katon Ur would speak his mother planet’s tongue whenever he struggles with naming an Earth object. Herman stutters some Yiddish curses at a mission gone wrong or a happy expression when it goes well, Jeanelle threatens people in French to avoid being reprimanded (Robert reprimands her cause he KNOWS what she’s doing). Punch Up doesn’t actually know fluent Gaelic, but he knows a lot of languages from his time in the circus, and the entire thing is inspiring him to learn more about Gaelic from his mum. Victor starts talking dirty in Russian, Robert also reprimands him. Malevola grumbles in demonic tongues.

I dunno what Bruno and Alice would speak as a second language, but I think it would be cool if they both knew Morse code.

Just a private (ex) lover’s communication being hijacked into a reenactment of the Tower of Babel.

Punch Up knows his matchstick colleague and scrawny dispatcher are talking about asses of Z-team but he can't prove it. He can feel it in his moustache.

1. Slow down at emotionally important moments.

Big emotions need space to land. If a scene feels rushed, pause the plot briefly to show how the moment affects the character.

2. Add reactions, not explanations.

Instead of explaining what a character feels, show it through physical responses, hesitation, or small actions that reveal emotion naturally.

3. Ground every scene in the senses.

If a scene feels thin, add one or two sensory details—sound, texture, smell, or temperature—to make the moment feel lived-in.

4. Let thoughts interrupt action.

A line of internal thought can deepen a scene without slowing it too much. Thoughts show stakes, fear, longing, or conflict beneath the action.

5. Expand consequences, not events.

You don’t need more things to happen—you need to show what matters. Focus on how events change relationships, decisions, or self-perception.

6. Strengthen setting where emotion peaks.

The environment should echo or contrast the emotion of the scene. Setting is not decoration—it’s emotional reinforcement.

7. Add specific details instead of general ones.

Underwriting often relies on vague language. Swap “they argued” for one sharp line of dialogue or a specific breaking point.

8. Let dialogue breathe.

Short dialogue exchanges without pauses can feel flat. Add beats—silence, gestures, interruptions—to give the conversation weight.

9. Show transitions between scenes.

If scenes jump too quickly, readers feel disoriented. A brief transition helps establish time, mood, and emotional continuity.

10. Clarify stakes early in the scene.

If readers don’t know what can be lost, scenes feel empty. Make sure the character wants something specific and fears losing it.

11. Use the “what are they feeling right now?” check.

After each major beat, ask what emotion is dominant in that moment. If it’s missing on the page, the scene is likely underwritten.

12. Expand scenes that feel “too clean.”

The entire Z-Team is CONVINCED that Robert Robertson must have some kind of superpower. they all heard that he used to be a hero, but nobody knows which hero. Can’t be any of the well known ones ofc (Malevola swears she’d recognize that ass).

The only logical explanation? Covert missions. Black ops stuff. He's gotta be someone incredibly accomplished (hence his clear competency dispatching them) who just flew under the radar.

Sonar: I've figured it out. Robert's power is Seduction. How else would ALL of us want to fuck him within like three days of meeting him?"

Flambea, slamming his hands on the table:** "IT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION"

Invisigal and Water Boy (if you picked him) know Robert is actually Mecha Man ofc but I can def see em keeping quiet bc that’s shits hilarious (or dumb enough to go wait maybe-)

Cue Robert in the next few days just doing the most mundane shit imaginable and everyone is wanting that cookie so bad, dying of thirst, agreeing that SDN did this shitlord corporate move to control their most volatile assets and its fucking working. This twink white boy has bewitched them.

Man, this is such an interesting exchange, cause, like… in most stories, when a character says they'd like things to go on forever, that they want something eternal, they're pretty much setting themselves up for a very rude awakening. You know, nothing lasts forever, sometimes you have to learn how to let go, sometimes you need to move on. I mean, that's one of the core themes of Undertale.

Flowey/Asriel's whole motivation in the Pacifist Route is to make the Game go on forever, to put the ending eternally out of reach, to trap Frisk in an infinite time loop because he just can't move on from Chara's death.

Part of the narrative is that if the Player RESETs a Pacifist Route then they are no better than he was, since now they are also yanking everyone away from their Happy Ending so that we can play with them again, because we can't accept the game has Ended. The Murder Route is less focused on that whole theme but you replay it over and over again Chara will basically call you a weirdo for your obsessive clinginess to this world.

Part of Undertale's themes is the importance of an Ending to a story. A True Pacifist Player's true and final act of selflessness is to let go of their desire have things keep going for forever, to give up on Eternity… for the sake of the happiness of every other character in this world, for the sake of their Happy Ending.

On the other hand, as a Wise Dog once said…

Both Undertale and Deltarune love exploring the ways in which the world of a game is different or similar to the real world, how the perspective of a Player is so different from the perspective of an actual character living in this world and... Real Life doesn't have a clear set ending.

The Player is the only one from whom the story just ended. Everyone else just kept living their stories of friendship together, although they probably never experienced something as high-stakes as the events of 'Undertale' ever again. And... when endings do seem to come, they're not going to be as clear-cut and satisfying and clearly communicated as the Game Ending is to the Player.

…But on the other other hand, it is still true that some things in life do end and we do have to accept that. Like… you know, the most famous Ending in life… is Death.

Gerson hears Susie talk about how she wants things to go on forever, but he already decided he has no interest in Eternity himself. He knows that the Three Heroes are here to seal the Fountains that revived him, he knows that when they succeed he'd go back to being a dust-covered hammer, probably never to be revived again and… he's perfectly at peace with that. He's an old man who died from natural causes, he had a long, full and satisfying life, he already had his ending. What's happening now is some weird glorified epilogue, but he knows it will end soon. And that's fine by him, because the time for his story has ended.

He does have one major regret in life, his failure to properly support his son's writing, and he spends all of the time the Dark has given him to try and make up for it. But it's really just a matter of asking Susie to deliver his message. He doesn't try to maintain or expand the Dark World so he could make up for his mistakes or try to pull Alvin in so he could meet him again or find a way to come back to life in the Light World somehow… I wonder if Someone was expecting him to do something like that and that's why they tried to give him that Shadow Crystal, but we all know that didn't work

In a way… we've already seen Susie's rude awakening for her desire for a 'forever'. She formed such a powerful bond with "the Old Man", she definitely would've wanted their time together to last longer, to last as long as it could, to last forever. But that's not possible.

And even his appearance in the Third Sanctuary was kind of a surprise stroke of luck that shouldn't be taken for granted.

The whole point of the Second Sanctuary is that Susie realized that Gerson was dead in the Light World, and trying to cope with this idea, went straight to a kind of denial.

Well, she can just pop over to the Dark World and, like, ask him what the Door Code is, right? No big deal! I mean, it's not exactly like Susie and Kris were really at a dead-end, there were plenty of areas in the Church they haven't checked thoroughly at all (not just the Fire Extinguisher)…

It wasn't because she HAD to do it for the Door Code, it's because she had to do it to reassure herself that her new friend isn't really gone, that maybe he'll be there waiting for her in his study if she just High-Key Stab Reality and Unleash the Flow of Pure Darkness Energy…

But it wasn't that simple. At best you can say his appearance in the Third Sanctuary means that he can manifest in any Church Dark World created by the Knight… but seeing how Susie's whole goal at the moment is to stop the Knight from making more Dark Fountains, that's not exactly increasing her chances to see the Old Man again.

When they go to seal the Fountain, Susie muses about her 'stupid dream' that things will just… stay the same. That she'll keep having fun Dark World adventures with her friends through eternity. But she knows that although Kris fully understands her, that's not what's going to happen. It's both about how the stakes and seriousness of the story have been so overtly raised for her, the Knight and the Titans aren't just an ominous background detail. She has fought them both. But it's also because she is already experiencing an Ending right now. She knows that when Kris seals this Fountain, she will probably never see Gerson again.

…But despite all of that, I don't think the narrative completely rebuke Susie's desire for Eternity. After all, Gerson heard her say that, fully knowing his own fate, and he mostly seemed intrigued? It doesn't seem to waver his belief that she's the one who should be writing the story, that he could count on her to defy fate in the name of Justice. Y'know, Susie wasn't really thinking of the Inevitability of Death at that moment, she was just thinking that… she would like to keep having fun adventures with her friends in perpetuity. And is that such a bad thing to wish for?

I mean, just because something was a theme in Undertale doesn't mean that Deltarune can't use Susie to drive home the point of 'well, yeah, you're not wrong, but it's a bit more nuanced than that", there's precedence, in fact.

I'm thinking about, like, the Tenna storyline in Chapter 3. That was also about someone who needs to move on, Tenna is clinging to his happier past in unhealthy way and wants the fun of his game show to last forever. He also wanted his own version of Eternity. But the game still draws a contrast between Ralsei, who just tells him to remember the happy times and accept that everything ends, including his use

And Susie, who is the one who rejects this mindset. Her solution still has some level of moving on and accepting that the Dreemurr-Holiday Family Unit has ended, but that doesn't mean he's just got to lay down and accept that his whole life is over. She comes up with a plan that ensures the continuation of his life and his dreams. It's an Ending of sorts, but an Ending that has a continuation attached to it. And it came specifically from Susie's distaste for endings, from her aggressive rejection of going gently into that good night.