An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tomoe Tsurugi / Audrey Bourgeois
Characters: Tomoe Tsurugi, Audrey Bourgeois, Nathalie Sancoeur
Additional Tags: Office Romance, Audrey loves attention, Tomoe will not give it to her so easily, Audrey's love language is being annoying, Tomoe secretly enjoys it, Nathalie Sancoeur Does Not Get Paid Enough, Shamelessly spreading my StyleMachine propaganda, StyleMachine, I just love middle-aged women in love (with each other), post s5 finale
Summary:
Ever since Gabriel Agreste died, business opportunities have brought two powerful women closer to each other. But are their almost weekly meetings really only about business?
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Nathalie held herself in that sad, slumped over position, wrist bent in an awkwardly harsh angle to surround the edge of her mug with a claw. Audrey could only remark on the phenomenon—in the way she often did, for which she held no remorse—as “utterly ridiculous”. Nathalie looked so graceless in that chair, nothing more than a pre-arranged sculpture of rifle barrels into a puppet of sharp points. The second-most gentle thing about her character was that softening aura of self-pity she’d thrown over herself, and the first was the way she’d brought her black ponytail to rest over her shoulder to pet like the ear of a Saluki.
“I was never told about your relationship with them outside of business,” Nathalie began.
To that, Audrey slouched back in the settee; The smoke from her cigar as she gestured it in circles could have been taken as warding the spirit of Gabriel off, supposedly, had Audrey ever considered herself devout.
“I would hope so. There’s nothing to discuss.”
“I don’t know how it started, whether they were looking for a confidant or… a witness. I imagine you put your foot down in some regard, and- They wanted someone young, and I was so eager to do what they wanted me to, Audrey.” What cry for help Nathalie was trying to impress upon her, Audrey had no clue nor intention to figure out, and yet for some ridiculous reason the woman wouldn’t shut up. “I just want to know what it would’ve looked like if I could have said no to them. What I could be like today if I’d-“
The idea that the two women were comparable was an insult. It was a bold and ridiculous insult for Nathalie to allege and Audrey refused to believe that someone so ready to be trod upon as Nathalie Sancoeur was by the Agrestes would have the gall to imply she, too, was pathetic. Audrey leaned forward, snarling:
“Don’t you dare try and fabricate my life in front of me. You don’t know who I am, you don’t know what I think, and if I want you to know something about me it will be told.”
Nathalie began to clam up, stroking her ponytail with greater anxiety. “No, I could never assume- Madame Bourgeois—“
Audrey stood to her feet, appalled that she would ever agree to the invite to begin with. For what it was worth, Nathalie’s sense of design was horrific for someone living under Gabriel’s roof for so long, and the masks from the Congo were tacky and half the weapons were sure to be little more than well-polished paperweights. Audrey Bourgeois considered herself in that moment to be the bizarre first case of a healthy foreign cell in a sick, sick body (as far as taste was considered) and thus it was self-defense of her integrity to leave. Nathalie’s mug rattled as she stood in turn, when, in that moment as Audrey went to open the door, her motives were stripped bare.
“Would you ever testify against us in court?”
Audrey stopped. She’d never let the idea pass her mind before. In an instant, sunny visions of glamorous court sketches and paparazzi photos of herself shoving her gloved, bejeweled hand into a camera danced in the pocket between her eyes and her sunglasses and she almost forgot what to do with herself.
“I have never met two people more evil, more revolting and self-centered than Gabriel and Emilie Agreste.” Nathalie spoke those words nakedly, and yet it was so profound in its irony that Audrey could sense just how much love and devotion Nathalie wove into that sentence as it left her lips. “I… I know everything the two of them have done. Gabriel couldn’t marry me in time to prevent me from testifying, and I’m going to have to lie.”
“Oh?” Audrey turned smoothly on her heels, patent leather mules that would look much better on the steps to the Tribunal de Paris than they did in Nathalie’s sorry room. “You? Lying in court? I’d be surprised if you could order yourself a drink at a bistro.”
“So you know I can’t do this by myself. Please, Audrey.”
Audrey raised a brow.
“Well,” she conceded, “If you’re going to beg someone to give you a helping hand, you’d benefit from a little specificity.”
villainswap scenario where Marinette wins a competition and gets Audreys attention. Audrey offers her an internship or smt and she doesn't wanna take it but she knows it's chloe's mom so she agrees to fuck her over. Thenshe spends like 15 minutes with Audrey and hears her shittalk her literal own daughter and Realises
The Agreste household cordially invites you to attend our first annual event celebrating the relationship between Gabriel and Emilie Agreste, and their assistant Nathalie Sancoeur.
The event is sponsored by the Sangreste Soirée Discord server and spans the week of Monday July 6th to Sunday July 12th, with July 8th as the official Sangreste Day.
Every format of fan-created content is allowed and can be posted on any platform. Use the official #SangresteWeek2026 hashtag for your post to be seen. Works on Ao3 should be placed under the Sangreste Week 2026 Collection. You may share any content created for this event at your leisure.
Thank you @asukiess for the amazing poster!
RULES:
AI-Generated content is not permitted
Event submissions must include all three characters
NSFW works are welcome and encouraged
Prompts for each day are intended as guidelines; you may choose one, write both, or create your own.
Have fun and spread your feathers!
PROMPTS:
July 6th - Exploration | Body
July 7th - Sweet/Bitter | Ring
July 8th (Sangreste Day) - Free slot
July 9th - Parents | Portrait
July 10th - Masks | Service
July 11th - Gala | Spotlight
July 12th - Promise | Scars
We eagerly await your participation in our celebrations and hope to see you in attendance at the Soirée!
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When Tomoe gave birth to Kagami, it is implied she still had her vision. There's something so tragic that, as Kagami grew up, Tomoe saw her less and less until she eventually was blind to her own daughter. In the literal and metaphorical sense, this is devastating. No matter what Kagami did, she could never really catch her mother's eye. Tomoe even tells Kagami that she loves her for the pride she brings, implying that this same love doesn't extend to any other parts of Kagami that her mother just chooses to ignore.
I think the only time Kagami ever really held her mother's gaze was when she was born. That one soft, brief moment where she was held in her arms, where Tomoe experienced that instinctive maternal connection, where they were mother and daughter for a single instance.
Tomoe looking down at her daughter, vision clear, while Kagami couldn't even open her own eyes. Its poetic somehow.
The Agreste household cordially invites you to attend our first annual event celebrating the relationship between Gabriel and Emilie Agreste, and their assistant Nathalie Sancoeur.
The event is sponsored by the Sangreste Soirée Discord server and spans the week of Monday July 6th to Sunday July 12th, with July 8th as the official Sangreste Day.
Every format of fan-created content is allowed and can be posted on any platform. Use the official #SangresteWeek2026 hashtag for your post to be seen. Works on Ao3 should be placed under the Sangreste Week 2026 Collection. You may share any content created for this event at your leisure.
Thank you @asukiess for the amazing poster!
RULES:
AI-Generated content is not permitted
Event submissions must include all three characters
NSFW works are welcome and encouraged
Prompts for each day are intended as guidelines; you may choose one, write both, or create your own.
Have fun and spread your feathers!
PROMPTS:
July 6th - Exploration | Body
July 7th - Sweet/Bitter | Ring
July 8th (Sangreste Day) - Free slot
July 9th - Parents | Portrait
July 10th - Masks | Service
July 11th - Gala | Spotlight
July 12th - Promise | Scars
We eagerly await your participation in our celebrations and hope to see you in attendance at the Soirée!
The Agreste household cordially invites you to attend our first annual event celebrating the relationship between Gabriel and Emilie Agreste, and their assistant Nathalie Sancoeur.
The event is sponsored by the Sangreste Soirée Discord server and spans the week of Monday July 6th to Sunday July 12th, with July 8th as the official Sangreste Day.
Every format of fan-created content is allowed and can be posted on any platform. Use the official #SangresteWeek2026 hashtag for your post to be seen. Works on Ao3 should be placed under the Sangreste Week 2026 Collection. You may share any content created for this event at your leisure.
Thank you @asukiess for the amazing poster!
RULES:
AI-Generated content is not permitted
Event submissions must include all three characters
NSFW works are welcome and encouraged
Prompts for each day are intended as guidelines; you may choose one, write both, or create your own.
Have fun and spread your feathers!
PROMPTS:
July 6th - Exploration | Body
July 7th - Sweet/Bitter | Ring
July 8th (Sangreste Day) - Free slot
July 9th - Parents | Portrait
July 10th - Masks | Service
July 11th - Gala | Spotlight
July 12th - Promise | Scars
We eagerly await your participation in our celebrations and hope to see you in attendance at the Soirée!
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Lost helpless mind, obsessed in her kiss, thirsty over so red ambrosia, hungry over warmer eager flesh. Yearning for muffled midnight sonnets. Yearning for an inmortal, ever darkening love~
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Why only draw Nathalie wearing a vampire costume, when I can make Nathalie a vampire herself. This definitely wasn't on my agenda when Vampigami came out. But I'm not complaining...
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Finals are OVER!!!
And now I can focus on my art! To prepare for Art Fight, I decided to start making some OCs. To get motivated, I decided to once again refer to the council - so, here is Amba Warrier, The Wheel.
Here is a link to my post on the Wheat: Victor Serdtsev
(I'll make a masterpost once I make more council members; speaking of which - who should I work on next?)
Background
Amba = reference to Mahabharata
Warrier = traditionally associated with temple duties, guardianship, and ancient responsibility
Born 1968 in Thrissur, Kerala to a culturally traditional but middle-class Warrier family
Deeply influenced by Hindu philosophy, particularly concepts of Dharma and cosmic order
Extremely bright; excels in academics, especially political theory and law
1984 – Bhopal Gas Tragedy (Age 16):
Their father, a chemical safety officer, was sent to Bhopal as part of an early response team by the Kerala State Disaster Authority
He dies from toxic exposure. Government denies compensation and accountability.
He died not in the initial leak, but days later from exposure while assisting victims
First personal experience with systemic failure. Plants the seed of disillusionment.
Anti-Sikh Riots / Punjab Insurgency:
Later that year...
Studying in Delhi. Their Sikh roommate is burned alive by a mob
Amba is beaten by the mob trying to save her. Police do nothing.
Loses faith in the state’s moral authority and secular values.
Caste Violence:
Working as a legal aid volunteer in Tamil Nadu - 1996
Witnesses the aftermath of the Melavalavu massacre, where elected Dalit leaders were hacked to death by dominant caste men
Saw their bodies piled in a ditch
Legal efforts to prosecute the attackers are sabotaged.
Convinced that law protects caste privilege, not the vulnerable.
1999 - Kargil War:
On a government-sponsored peace tour, trapped in Ladakh with their family (husband, son, and daughter) during surprise shelling
Spends five days hiding in the mountains with terrified, dying villagers
Saw villagers lose limbs to stray mortars
Dug makeshift shelters with their bare hands
Watched Indian and Pakistani soldiers die on both sides
Daughter suffers lasting psychological trauma
Stopped talking for a year
Husband leaves them, unable to cope with the stress of their political life
Although their marriage was arranged, his leaving hit them hard
Sees war as cyclical and senseless; fueled by politics, not justice.
2004 – Indian Ocean Tsunami:
On vacation in Alappuzha, Kerala with their children (ages 6 and 12).
Tsunami strikes - both children die. Amba survives.
State response is chaotic, impersonal.
This loss becomes their psychic break: their grief merged with radical clarity: the world must end so something purer can begin
Recruited by the Council:
2009 - Delivers a scathing speech on failed global systems at a Geneva conference
"The wheel stalls where power sits..."
Approached by the council afterwards
Present-Day:
Now a wealthy, influential politician and reformist figure
Believes in ruthless cosmic justice: systems must fall, the Wheel must turn
Design Notes/Character Study
Based on Amba/Shikhandi from Mahabharata
Genderfluid
Wears a small Wheel of Dharma pendant that belonged to their daughter
Touches it before giving speeches
In their mind, their children live on - not as memories, but as sacrifices for the future they will forge
The spinning wheel has 24 spokes, like the Ashoka Chakra (one hidden in the pic)
Wears white - sign of mourning
Believes suffering is not meaningless - it is ritual fire, cleansing the old world before the next is born
They are a systems-level villain
They don't assassinate people in back alleys
They reshape nations through coordinated collapse, policy manipulation, and ideology-driven warfare
Tools: institutions, chaos, and belief
Doesn't get directly involved in fights - however, will take advantage of extremist groups, chaos, and engineered conflicts to get their way
Bangles that look like wheels
Trimming of the sari has imagery of spokes
Religious powders on the forehead/neck:
Kumkum (Kumkumam/ Sindoor):
Color: Red
Made from: Turmeric that is dried and mixed with lime (or sometimes saffron or vermilion)
Significance: Symbolizes auspiciousness, energy (Shakti), and marital status (especially for women).
Manjal / Haldi (Turmeric Paste)
Color: Yellow
Made from: Ground turmeric root
Significance: Purity, protection, and prosperity. Also used for its antiseptic properties
Bhasmam (Vibhuti/Sacred Ash)
Color: White/grey
Made from: Sacred ash, typically derived from burned herbs used in homa (sacrificial fire).
Significance: Symbolizes renunciation, detachment, and devotion to Lord Shiva
Chandanam (Sandalwood Paste)
Color: Yellowish-beige (usually); can be red sometimes
