Justyourcasualidiot

So bear with me, this is gonna be a long one, but whatever, here we go. To be honest, I feel like most people are really underestimating how bad the situation actually is. Like the problem isn't just about marinette lying to adrien about his dad. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

To start let's see how many things marinette's actually keeping secret from him;

Gabriel was monarch

Adrien is a sentimonster created by his mother, which is why she died and why gabriel became monarch in the first place

Nathalie was mayura, aka an accomplice to the whole thing

That's 3 very major things about his life. Now let's see who exactly is lying to adrien about this, because marinette isn't the only one

Marinette (duh)

Nathalie

Felix

Kagami

Plagg

Amelie (this one isn't confirmed, but she knows felix is argos, and since felix is also a sentimonster, as his mother, I'd expect her to know this, which leads me to believes she knows the miraculous came from gabriel and emilie, etc. point is until proven otherwise, i will assume she knows about most of it)

So that's his girlfriend and partner (depending on if you see it as marinette or ladybug), mother figure/legal guardian, cousin, ex-girlfriend who's now one of his closest friend, kwami and aunt. Aka the people he should be able to trust the most. Now, as a kwami, plagg is mostly meant to obey the guardian, so if marinette ordered him not to say anything to his holder to keep everything a secret, he'd probably have to obey. So he gets a pass, but he's on thin ice.

Now going back to adrien, throughout season 6, we can see him already doubting that something is wrong with the whole thing and he has trouble believing his father was a hero like ladybug told the world. Rightfully so, because gabriel essentially abused him for years. Maybe not physically, but emotionally for sure. He isolated and controlled everything about that boy's life. Adrien being a sentimonster makes this even worse because gabriel quite literally had control over his own son. Adrien is showm multiple times to be terrified off his dad. And now he's expected to believe that his father, that same man who was awful to him in so many ways, is a hero? That he just sacrified himself to save ladybug? Of course he has trouble making sense of that story, it's completely unlike the man he knew. But now he has to deal with everyone telling him his dad was a hero. He has to deal with everyone idolizing him when adrien knows damn well he shouldn't deserve it.

And now, on top of that, he also has to grieve him. His father. The last parent he had. He's an orphan now. He has to come to terms with both the fact that his dad is dead, and the fact that he wasn't a good father and person at all. But while he's trying to deal with this, the world tries to convince him he was a hero. Of course that's gonna mess him up.

And of course, that's not all! Because we have to think about his feelings as cat noir too. Adrien deserves to know the truth as gabriel's son. But cat noir deserves to know as ladybug's partner and as a hero who spent months of his life making sacrifices to fight this man to protect the city. He deserves to know the identity of the man he's been fighting all this time. He would still deserve to to know even if he wasn't the guy's son. Not to mention that he and ladybug recently had multiple talks about trust and how he was tired of being left in the dark about things.

So ladybug should've told the truth to adrien because he deserves to know the reason why his parents are dead and he deserves to know what his father was actually doing, and ladybug should've also told cat noir because he's her partner and he deserves to know who he was fighting and why.

But she doesn't tell either of them. I can understand lying to paris, though I do think there were better ways to keep monarch's identity a secret rather than making gabriel seem like a hero. But yes, I can understand lying to paris to protect adrien. He doesn't need more trouble that would come with everyone coming to talk to him about his dad being a terrorist. BUT, she still should've told adrien the truth. Even if she still lied to paris, she could've told him the truth and ket him decide what to do with the information. And again, she should've told cat noir, but she didn't tell him because she was afraid he'd go tell the truth to adrien? which, frankly, seems like a bad reason for me but maybe that's just me idk.

I will say, I can understand marinette and sympathize with her. She's still a child and she was manipulated by gabriel into lying to "protect adrien". Then nathalie absolutely did not help and she's still manipulating marinette into keeping the secret going to this day. I dont agree with the decision and I think they were stupid ass decisions, but I understand why she made them.

But this brings me to my next issue with the whole thing. Nathalie. She was an accomplice. She deserves to suffer some kind of consequences from this. Sure, she changed sides at the end and helped marinette. But she still helped gabriel commit so many crimes? And let adrien get treated horribly by him. Only reason why she turned on gabriel was because he lost sight of his original goal and he was going to let her die. Not to mention that apparently she might still be working against ladybug, but marinette doesn't know that yet so it doesn't have anything to do with my point.

My point is that everyone who knows about nathalie, (so marinette, felix, kagami etc,) all decided it was a good idea for adrien to stay in care of a criminal who let him get hurt for years?? Change of heart or not, they shouldn't trust her enough to leave him in her care. That's just a stupid ass move let's be so fr. (the fact that she's still working with the bad guys proves my point like why did anyone think she was the right person to take care of him just get that boy out of that fuckass house)

Going back to adrien, when he finds out, because he will find out, and this is where I'm starting to lose faith in the writers, I don't trust them to handle adrien's reaction as seriously as they should, because he should be pissed. He DESERVES to be pissed. To be angry, To feel betrayed. Because, as I pointed out at the start, everyone he should be able to trust the most are actively lying to him about multiple things about his own life. That's a massive betrayal. To be entirely honest, I feel like the betrayal of seeing how many people have been lying to him for so long will hurt him more than knowing about his dad being monarch.

Adding to that is the fact that their reason for lying to him is supposedly to protect him. The same people who say they want to protect adrien and let him finally be able to control his life are the same people that are taking some of that control away from him by controlling the narrative of his entire life. They control his perception of his parents. They control his grief. They control how he sees himself as a human being by keeping the fact that he's a sentimonster away from him. They control every thing.

So yeah, adrien deserves and should be angry. He should crash out when he finds out.

And this is where I start having a bad feeling about how the writers will handle the situation. Because we all assume marinette will get akumatized this season. Probably during the episode Lady Chaos, though it's not confirmed yet, it it very likely at this point. And while I am excited to see that, because marinette getting akumatized because of everything makes sense, I'm scared it's going to end up something like: adrichat finds out, reacts badly and gets (rightfully) angry, maribug gets akumatized, he saves her, then he apologizes for how he reacted because he feels bad for causing her akumatization.

This feels like the most likely scenario. Which is annoying because, again while I can understand marinette's actions and i can sympathize with her, adrien deserves to be mad at her. He deserves to scream at her. I don't want him to be forced to downplay his reaction because he doesn't want to hurt her. Because she hurt him. Deeply. She betrayed his trust in one of the worst ways imaginable. If anything I'd say he should get akumatized when he finds out but that's beside the point.

Now, how do I think it should all go down them? Simple, he finds out, they have a fight, she gets akumatized, he saves her, then he doesn't apologize or anything. He saves her, and they can get to an understanding of sort. I dont think adrien would or should have a villain arc. It doesn't suit him at all. He would still be a hero. But he wouldn't trust her anymore. They can be civil with each other. But friendship would be hard. He probably wouldn't listen to her much anymore. I can see him do his own thing on the side. Using his miraculous and newfound knowledge to investigate some stuff on his family or something.

Could be interesting to have him figure out before marinette that lila is the new butterfly miraculous holder. Then I could see him actually telling ladybug about it. Because while he may not trust her as much anymore, she deserves to know, just like how he deserved to know who monarch was. It's a nice way to open the door to their relationship getting better again, slowly, and it's a good lesson for marinette.

Basically eddie coming to terms with his sexuality, he’s gay and that’s fine. He can and deserves to be happy while being himself. Good for him. He also realized he’s in love with buck! And this suddenly explains so many things for him. He’s very happy with this realization because it makes so much sense, perfectly understandable and "omg buck really is amazing wow I love this man". And he’s overall just relieved to have finally come to terms with his feelings and he’s now just enjoying his life without guilt.

Meanwhile buck is over there spiraling like "eddie? my best friend eddie? naaaah no way. i can’t like eddie! that’s my best friend. i mean i love the guy, like a best friend, obviously, but i’m definitely not IN LOVE with him. that’s outrageous. nuh huh. no way. what are you talking about?"

So basically what I’m saying is buck being in the BIGGEST state of denial imaginable about his feelings while eddie is giggling and kicking his feet thinking about how much he loves that man. Show me eddie shamelessly flirting with buck, then buck full on believing it’s all in his head because "there’s no way eddie is actually flirting, we’re best friends and nothing more… right??? yeah no of course that’s all in my head for sure"

While it depends on the continuity, bruce often was around his mid 20s when he took dick in, while dick was around 8-12 (again, depends on the continuity). This makes their age difference to be around 12-16 years, or something in that range. This is a similar age difference than what I generally see for dick and damian. And dick and damian's relationship is basically a big brother who became a parental figure after having to basically raise the boy for a while. I personally like when bruce and dick have a similar dynamic.

Not to mention all the potential the dynamic has for them. In fluff, angst, crack and basically everything.

Imagine the other batkids thinking that not only are they father and son like the rest of them, but they might also feel like there's some favoritism going on since bruce treats dick differently then the way he treats them. Until they realize that it's just because dick is more like his brother than his son, so of course he'd do stuff with him or talk about things that he wouldn't typically do with his kids.

And like, the way you treat your sibling is very different than the way you treat a parent or a child. From the bantering and annoying the shit out of each other, some inside jokes, to talking about some important stuff you wouldn't talk to your parent/child about.

There's also lots of potential regarding the league. Imagine the league being confused as to why batman and nightwing of all people are arguing about eating each other's left overs or some shit. Hilarious tbh.

A good comparison to that dynamic could be anakin and obi-wan, whoes age difference is also similar to bruce and dick's. And they're depicted as considering each other as brothers. I absolutely love to imagine bruce and dick treating each other similarly to how anakin and obi-wan treat each other.

"oh yes of course i’m the batman, i keep all of my secret bat-gadgets in a secret cave under wayne manor and i definitly love dressing up as a bat during my free time, it’s very freeing haha"

Then batman starts publically beefing with bruce wayne for impersonating him.

"bruce wayne is an idiot and has always been. this is why I never go save him when he always gets himself kidnapped like the incompetent bastard he is"

Because while buck did need to have that realisation about himself, because he’s too oblivious about his own feelings to have realized it sooner, I believe eddie should already know this about his sexuality. He just refused to accept it and has been repressing that shit for years.

I want to see eddie finally accept that he’s allowed to be himself and accept his homosexuality. I want him to finally embrace it.

I don’t need another arc of "Oh! I might not be as straight as I thought I was! How nice! This actually explains so much"

I need a "I finally understand I’m allowed to be happy with just being myself and I’m going embrace that part of me instead of forcing myself in a role that doesn’t work for me" moment for him. Because I geniuenly believe it’d work much better with his character.

It would also show a different kind of experience when coming to terms with one’s sexuality, especially for a character in their 30s. Which is nice.

Could also end up with a nice moment between eddie and chris. About how it’s important to live true to yourself, now matter what others think. I feel like it’s the type of things they would talk about, especially after everything that happened with eddie’s parents.

Not sure about you guys but personally, I think it’s kind of weird of them to make an april fools episode so late into the month.

Like he’s in a game, but he thinks he’s in a tv show.

Or he knows he’s in a show, but he thinks he’s in season 6 when it’s actually just been 2 seasons.

Watch him try to look at the camera to speak to the audience, but he’s never able to actually find it. He just keeps on looking at random directions and starts talking to the audience but it’s never the actual direction of the camera so he’s never actually looking at us.

The other characters in his universe can’t break the fourth wall but they can very much see him trying to break it. They just leave him in his delusions… no matter how close to the truth he actually is, even if they don’t believe him.

Well I need one where he joins the league and him and batman are able to act professional enough that no one even consider them knowing each other more than just as colleagues. They don’t seem particularly close, they work well together, which is to be expected considering how similar they are.

Literally everything is fine, no one has any doubts, it doesn’t cross anyone’s mind.

Then they walk in on them arguing.

At first it sounds like a classic argument that always happens when working on a team with someone. You’re bound to disagree on something at some point.

But then it starts to sound like the kind of argument that’s clearly a repeated thing. Whatever nightwing and batman are fighting about, they’ve faught about it before.

It starts sounding weirdly personnal. Too personnal for two coworkers who just started working together maybe a few months before.

It’s enough for the other members to start wondering if maybe the two might have known each other for longer than expected and have simply never mentionned it.

Then they hear it.

And I don’t mean nudity as in nsfw fanarts and other sexualised fanarts like that. I mean nudity as in fanarts of characters being naked in such a natural way. Kinda reminds me of nude statues or a muse or something.