Marina Storm

My daughter was born today and I'm going to live a long happy life for her sake. I have to live happily and kindly and warmly so she knows shell always be loved and cherished and have somebody to rely on. I have to live so I can make this world a better, safer place for her to one day inherit. I will make the world safe and sound for her.

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Fanfic on AO3: The First Sin [AdamsApple]

By: PaintToxic 💜

@things-arent-what-they-seem66

Once upon a time far, far away there lived a world much like our own, and within that world lay a kingdom.

The kingdom of Eden, where its people were like our own, its nature like our own, its animals like our own, even some of its culture was like our own.

Except for a few details so small that they hardly make much of a difference.

Eden was filled to the brim with magic.

Not simply it being so beautiful that it felt magical, no true magic filled Eden’s roots like blood to the veins.

From the nature that surrounded it, to the animals that could talk, and to the monsters that stalked the forests!

Oh yeah…..did I forget to mention this place had monsters?

But don’t worry! For the monsters are no threat to the people of Eden, as they are protected by not only their indestructible walls but by the royal family.

Using their own magic they protect and serve their people, never abuse it, and forever to ensure that the kingdom may continue to live on.

The source of the magic that they wield comes from an heirloom that has been passed down from each generation to ensure the legacy of the Papillon lives on.

Which leads our story to here.

Today is the eighteenth birthday of crown prince Adam Papillon and on this day he is finally meant to inherit the wand and at long last be truly named the future monarch of Eden.

Something that he has been looking forward to since he was old enough to want. Well the getting the wand anyway, and finally getting magical abilities.

Now you might be thinking to yourself, just who is this Adam anyway? What makes him so interesting?

Adam wanted to have fun! He wanted to see what the world had to offer and just have the time of his life. Especially with his best friend Eve by his side, who just also happened to be a princess.

But one day they crossed the line, so badly to the point his mother threatened to take his wand away.

Adam: Mother please, we were just having fun.

Sera: Fun!? That's what you call all this chaos? Fun?

Adam: We didn't mean anything by it.

Sera: You could have broken the damn wall!!

Adam winced, it wasn't very often that his mother would curse but it was very bad when she did. No matter how minor it was.

Sera: You're clearly not ready and need to learn more responsibility. I wanted to send you to boarding school and take your wand away.

Adam's eyes went wide, he held his wand close to his chest.

Sera: However...... Your father felt that was too harsh.

Adam relaxed, fuck he loved his dad so much. Man had his back!

Adam: A…….roommate?

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Lucifer grunted as he helped his mom tie off the balloons, ensuring that they wouldn’t blow away at the slightest breeze.

Asherah: There! All done! Now we simply have to finish up with the treats and everything will be as perfect as apple pie! Now come along Lucifer!

Lucifer sighed but followed his mother back inside.

When he walked past the living room he found his father fretting over the streamers, wanting to make sure they were in perfect symmetrical form.

He hated when his parents got like this.

Every single time a foreign exchange student comes to town his parents go all out of their way to make sure they feel welcome.

And while he had no problem with the student themselves his parents could get a little out of their heads to ensure they have a nice time.

Everything had to be perfect for the little angel that was going to stay with them for the next year or so.

Which he couldn’t help but wonder himself of what this kid would even be like, he usually got along with the foreign exchange students but most of them had been girls, this time it was a guy.

His father Theodore smiled and looked at the time: Should be any minute now! Come on, let's go see if he's here.

Lucifer tried not to groan, they went out and saw this...... Carriage? How old fashioned.

A little man in a suit got down and opened the door.

Man: Presenting! Their royal majesty the Queen and Prince!

Lucifer blinked, the guy staying with them was a prince? Well that was another first.

Adam and Sera stepped out, he thought that he would be staying in a dorm on campus..... Not someone's house.

Asherah: Welcome to our home! We hope you feel very welcome here over the next year.

Sera: Thank you for taking my son in, should he give you any trouble please don't hesitate to call. I'll handle him.

She gave him a pointed look and Adam shivered at. He looked over to the young blonde man and he felt ...... Something.

Something he's never felt before but he couldn't put a name on it.

Asherah: Oh I'm sure things will be great, Lu, introduce yourself.

Lucifer wanted to crawl into a hole and die, he wasn't six anymore.

Lucifer gave a small smile: Hey, I'm Lucifer. You can call me Lu, nice to meet you.

He held out his hand and Adam took it.

Lucifer smiled: Alright then Just Adam, lovely to make your acquaintance.

Despite it being the corniest joke in the world, and kind of awful to be honest.

But to Adam, it was the funniest thing he’s heard all day.

So despite himself he let out a little snort of humor, one that did not escape the attention of his mother who gave him a look reminding to him remember his manners.

Sera: Well now that introductions have been made it is time for me to leave.

Asherah: Oh, are you sure you wouldn’t like to stay for a moment or two?

Teddy; Yeah! Have a cup of tea and relax for a bit.

Sera: That is incredibly hospitable of you but I’m afraid as Queen my duties are never ending. I must return to Eden post haste. Cletus!

A small man with blonde hair and light tan skin wearing a butlers uniform came running over.

Cletus: Yes milady?

Sera: Cletus, take my son’s belongings to his new room.

The butler bowed politely: Yes my queen.

Teddy: You should help him navigate to which room Adam’s meant to be staying in.

Lucifer: Sure Dad.

He then left with the tiny butler while his parents stayed behind.

Asherah; We’ll leave you two alone, for some privacy for your goodbye.

They left but not before bowing one last time out of politeness.

Now it was just Adam and his mother, all alone.

Sera: …..Adam, I know you might believe that I am being unkind, unfair, or even cruel for leaving you here but I promise this is not only in the best interest of the kingdom but in yours as well. Someday when you look back at this moment, you’ll thank me for this.

Adam: If you say so…..

Sera sighed, she had expected that, Adam was just as bullheaded as his father while having her determination.

Not always a good combination.

Honestly, she would make a better ruler than he would. Adam was just in it for the magic.

Adam: I will mom, safe travels home.

Sera gave her son a hug and a kiss on top of his head before clearing her throat and yelling out for Cletus.

The ring man came running at the Queen's call.

Sera: We are leaving now.

Cletus: Of course your majesty. Farewell young prince.

He bowed to Adam before opening the door for Sera and allowing the Queen back inside. Adam watched him get back into the driver seat and take off back to Eden.

Sighing, Adam turned to the home that was going to be his for the next year.

Might as well make the most of it.

He went inside and looked around, it was a nice home, modern art on the walls with family photos. Even photos of the family and other young people.

Likely their other exchange students.

Adam went upstairs just as Lucifer was coming out of his room.

Adam nodded and stepped inside, immediately he felt disappointment coursing through his bones.

His new room was…….small.

Too small for his liking, but it wasn’t just the size that had him a bit fuddled.

It was so…..so…..plain!

The walls were painted in neutral tones, the only furniture was the bed, that was also plain, and the dresser in the corner.

It was like the complete opposite of what his room was back in Eden.

A dull, lifeless, boring room that filled him with absolute dread at the thought of sleeping in here.

Oh well! Nothing like a little decorating won’t fix!

Searching around he found the case that held his wand, opening it up he grinned down at the shining piece.

For every generation that has been handed the wand it always changed its shape depending on the person.

A reflection on its weirder and who they were within the confines of their heart.

For his mother, the wand resembled that of a white stick with an all seeing eye and wings to immortalize her rule as the queen who protected and watched over her people.

For Adam however his was a little more…..unique and interesting, at least he would say so.

His version of the wand was a guitar, electric yellow and black in color, with its strings a lovely silver.

She was an absolute beauty.

And she was going to help lighten up this room.

Lucifer: Hey Adam I just-

The moment Lucifer opened the door to Adam’s room his words were cut off as his jaw went slack at the sight before him.

No longer was his new housemates room a plain run of the mill bedroom, no, it was now one fit for royalty.

Or in this case a royal like Adam.

Adam turned and the smile fell from his face when he saw Lucifer's shell shocked look.

Right..... They don't have magic in this realm.

Shit.

Lucifer: H-how did you....?

Adam held up his wand: With this bad boy! Don't worry, I'll put it back before I leave. It's my magic wand.~

Lucifer: Magic?

Adam nodded and decided to show him what he meant, he made his mirror appear in the corner and Lucifer's Jae dropped even more.

Adam: Cool right?

Lucifer: Uh, yeah! Oh...... One thing though.

Adam: What?

They could barley watch through Harry Potter without feeling fear prickle their skin.

Which always made Lucifer roll his eyes of course, they weren’t the type to forbid him from being curious or watch anything with magic in it but they themselves always seemed to have a semi problem with it.

If it was discovered that their new host child had magical abilities?

Well Lucifer could only imagine the bomb being placed on their household.

Lucifer: Just promise me that you will never and I mean NEVER do magic around my parents. Please.

Adam didn’t want to agree, he liked using magic, it was who he was, and not using it, especially in the place that was meant to act as his home?

The thought alone made him want to go insane.

But from the pleading look he was being given and the strange feeling once again filling him he relented and nodded at the human boy.

Adam: Okay, okay…..if I need to practice or use general magic I’ll do it outside the house.

Lucifer: You swear?

Adam: Upon the Papillon name do I swear to hold this vow.

Lucifer: Uh, not sure what that means but good, I’m happy you understand…….so if the whole magic thing is real does…..does this mean your actually a prince?

Adam: You didn’t before?

Adam went over to his suitcase and grabbed his crown and placed upon his head with a bit of a smug smile.

Adam: I am the crowned prince of Eden..... But the crown is heavy so I hardly wear it.

He put it back where it was meant to be.

Lucifer: Wow...... What's that like? Being a prince?

Adam: It's pretty awesome! I have pretty much anything I could ever want...... The down side of course is all the rules and being told how to live your life. Case in point.....

Lucifer raised a brow: You don't want to be here?

Adam: I mean..... I've never been to a school with others who weren't other royals. This is a lot of firsts for me. My mother thinks I'm not ready to rule which...... I like the perks that come with being a future King but I just want to have some fun. That so wrong?

Lucifer: No, that would be a lot of pressure.

Adam: It is..... But what about you? What do you do?

Adam: Oh you know just your run of the mill magic kingdom where nature rules it alongside my family.

Lucifer: So that means nature surrounds your kingdom?

Adam: More like my kingdom, meaning the castle, the cities, and its people, surround the nature. It’s been there since the very beginning, way longer than the first people who traveled to my land.

Lucifer: Interesting.

Adam: It is, out of all the kingdoms in my world, we Edenlings are the greenest when it comes to thumbs.

Lucifer: I believe the saying would be more on the lines of, we have the greenest thumbs in all the land.

Adam: Actually that’s how we describe ourselves, in fact it’s the capital’s motto.

Lucifer: ……oh……..anyway! Tell me more!

Adam: Well there over a hundred, if not thousands of forests that the kingdom of Eden has, and there are even more in other kingdoms.

Lucifer: Are there any type of special creatures? Like what types of animals do you have?

Adam: Hmm…..well we have wild warnicorns that roam the more grassy countryside.

Lucifer: Warnicorns?

Adam told him more about his land of Eden, soon both of the teens were sitting on Adams bed as he told stories.

It's been a while since he's told someone about his home and what he does, Eve was normally with him and Emily was a little uptight and didn't want to hear it.

Lucifer listened and asked questions on occasion, hearing about Eden sounded so.... So.... Well, magical!

Adam: Maybe you can see it one day.

Luicfer's blue eyes sparkled giving Adam that feeling once more. He didn't know what it was, but he rather liked this feeling.

Lucifer: Really?

Adam: Yeah why not. Which reminds me, I should call my sister. Mom doesn't exactly tell her anything until she asks questions so she'll want to know I'm here.

He got up and Lucifer watched as he went to the..... Mirror?

Adam: Call Emmy.

The mirror got the words at the top: Calling Emmy.

Lucifer blushed, looking around to make sure he was positive of who she was speaking to or of as the case may be.

But he knew that it was only him, Adam, and his parents in the house.

With him and the prince being the only two in the room.

And unless his dad was somehow both invisible and visible to only Emily she was speaking about Lucifer.

Which, well didn’t that make him feel ever so special?

Adam: Emily this is my new house mate Lucifer. Luci Lou this is my little sister Emily.

He brought his new friend over to the mirror and despite his apprehensiveness he smiled at the princess.

She was quite the adorable little thing, her hair was as white as snow, skin a soft brown with her freckles being as clear as the stars in a night sky, which was the appropriate thing to say considering her eyes were like the sapphire blue of night.

She wore a blue dress made for a lady befitting her title, with the final touch of her crown sitting perfectly a top her head.

She was literally the physical embodiment of a fairytale princess.

Lucifer: H, Hello your highness it’s lovely to make your acquaintance.

Lucifer smiled more and they talked a little to get to know each other. Adam was a little bothered and he didn't know why.

Lucifer: Where are you?

Emily: I'm actually away doing my own studies but with a more hands on approach.~

She winked at him and Adam felt his insides start to boil. Why did this bother him so much? It's not like she was gonna reach through the mirror and fuck Lucifer in front of him.

Now, hear me out: It's a huge costume and we don't know who's underneath it, right? Anyone could wear it (Sabrina, Marinette, Sublime, Luka, etc.) for any reason, interact with the blonde, and fall in love by accident. It's like, free rom-com plot for basically any Chloe ship variation!

That just reminds me that the phermone bees release when they are in panic 'defend the hive' mode smells like bananas.

In the Origins episode Stone Heart she claims to not know who Adrien is despite Gabriel apparently being her favourite fashion designer. You know, the guy who uses his son to model most of his designs and has adverts with his face on plastered everywhere, including right outside the school which is right next to her house! Makes it sound like she says the most well known fashion designer off the top of her head is her favourite and inspiration to hide how little she really knows and understands about fashion design. Heck, compare Marinette's flowery basic designs with soft polkadot pinks and pastels with what Gabriel's shown to design and they share little to no similarities.

Her Ladybug costume from S1-5 is awful and I hate it. It's just bright red spandex with black polkadots everywhere and her basic domino mask is the exact same. She doesn't bother to change her hair colour or style or her eye colour so she looks the exact same as her civilian self only with a different outfit, the only thing that changes with her hair are the red ribbons, and they don't change much since she wears red hair ties anyway. If it weren't for the quantum masking excuse that I'm pretty sure only comes up in the United Heroes special, Marinette would've been figured out by anyone with eyes instantly. "But when she first transformed she wasn't ready to be a hero." So everyone else was? So she stuck with such a bland design for a canonical year? It implies that she couldn't come up with anything interesting until her Lucky Charm suit in season 4, which doesn't even become a permanent redesign.

Her unification costumes. Most of the best parts of the more decent designs were taken from the other holder's designs, like Lady Bee's gold stripes and ponytail are taken from Queen Bee, Dragon Bug's spiral pattern and horn design are taken from Ryuko, the Multimouse unifications are just recolours of each other. The Pegabug design just does not blend well, and the Pennybug design? The Pennybug design is a fucking mess with zero cohesion. A root problem causing most of the bad designs is because of how bland the base Ladybug costume is which leads to the other designs suffering because they have to incorporate the bland bright red with black polkadots into them or else it won't read as a Ladybug unification. A Watsonian explanation for this could be that Marinette is a bad fashion designer who copies from other better works without understanding why they worked and fumbles hard when she has to come up with something original that's good.

Marinette's derby hat from Mr Pigeon. We all know I didn't like the hat at first so I'm looking at it again and... I still hate it. It's a plain greyish black with felt feathers, a black ribbon with gold details hiding her signature around the base... A greyish white bow with an unwashed pigeon feather stuck to the center by a bright orange button. I'm not a fashion designer, will never claim to be, but the hat made me think "bland, bland, bland, why would you put those things together like that?"

The costumes she made for the movie in Queen Banana were just baggy long sleeved shirts with zero details to speak of, just plain fabric. Bare in mind the costumes were meant to represent deities of creation and destruction.

I've most likely missed examples that could add to the idea that Marinette isn't a good fashion designer but these are a few I've remembered at the moment. The show gasses up Marinette to be this extraordinary fashion designer who impressed two famous fashion designers with little effort but the designs she makes are just bland and forgettable if they're not copied from other people in the miraculous universe. Miraculous Ladybug presents Marinette as The Best of The Best at everything she does but when the narrative favouritism is removed, she's barely average at best.

This was originally meant to be for the Maybee Queen event…in May. Of course its sat unfinished until recently. xD

This was for the prompt ‘Safety’, and the idea is that there is an akuma/future enemy that’s teleporting people around randomly, and poor Nathaniel was minding his own business, painting, and then suddenly he finds himself at the edge of a building.

Luckily Queen Bee caught him. :3

(the prompt list is by @maybeequeenchloe in case anyone is curious about the event)

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When it comes to Miraculous, I been thinking about it

But between Zoe and Felix, Who do you consider the More Fustrating Replacement Character between them?

On one hand, Zoe was basically salt in an Open Wound for anyone invested in Chloe and her Redemption/Development (Especially given the recent direction of Zoe is ironically giving her a Damnation Arc as well) but Felix's basically the Excuse Astruc uses to Keep Adrien out of doing ANYTHING important as well. (Given how Adrien was Ironically created to replace Felix in the Final Product, So they're basically backtracking in this case)

So overall, Which one do you feel is the more infuriating Character in terms of them replacing the Character they're stealing form Story-wise?

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Zoé, because, as the latest episode ('Queen of the Dreadzone') showcases, Astruc just ISN'T DONE rubbing it in Chloé fans' faces that she's been replaced by Zoé and we'd better like her and treat her as the "true" Bee Holder. Like, Chloé had been written out of the show, but Astruc just HAAAAAAD to bring her back for some sloppy thirds.

The show for three seasons straight: Zoe is better than her shitty sister as both a person and a hero. Zoe is the True Bee Holder. Zoe has unlocked unlimited ability use and disabled the timer. Zoe unlocked an alternate miraculous costume because her emotions are So Strong. Zoe becomes a vigilante that can discreetly attack civilians.

Chloé, the moment she shows up: I'm about to ruin this pathetic parasitoid's entire storyline. Again.

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Like I've seen people say that if ML wasn't rated PG+ then Astruc would have probably killed Chloé off but what I'm seeing is that Chloé could probably have killed Zoe in episode easier than the time Queen Bee almost took down Mayura.

The link leads to Chloé utterly PWNING Vesperia in the latest episode.

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Yeah, like, as I just said: Chloé rules, Zoé drools! And like, I'm not just saying that because I'm a contrarian or because Chloé had the Bee Miraculous first. This is based on shit we can see happening in the show RIGHT NOW. The writers are THAT BAD at conveying what they want to convey that they repeatedly and constantly show the audience the opposite of what they intend.