Fandom: Did Félix just... apologize? Astruc: You know, it was really off-screen.
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Fandom: Did Félix just... apologize? Astruc: You know, it was really off-screen.

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Did Tumblr get word that Félix's apology canonically happened off screen or do I have to be the one to do it again.
I'm going to milk the shit out of that quote. It's funny how his apology is now relegated to the same camp as Alya's apology and Audrey and André's divorce: Off-screen and never worth touching on again. Why does he do this? What does he gain? Does this make you feel smart, Tommy?
He is apparently unable write any sort of satisfying payoff to a narrative arc, so he just skips it. I mean, considering the attempted payoffs we get, maybe this is for the best.
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?
(end scene)
Whenever anyone tries to defend Chloe's botched redemption arc by saying "you thought she was ml's Zuko, but she's actually Azula," I just know for a fact that they have the shallowest understanding of Zuko and Azula as characters.
The fandom is ruining Luka for me.
I mean, I like him and Lukanette fine, but so much of that ship is just "it's better than Adrinette" and arguments that literally always come down to "only Adrien is the problem with Adrinette, so all of that would be fixed if Marinette got with Luka".
I don't hate Luka, but he's officially been tainted for me. And ngl, even ignoring all that for a moment, I always thought Luka was a bit boring BECAUSE of how "perfect" he is. At least at this point in canon Luka doesn't have nearly enough flaws for me to care.
I don't mind Luka, because I know the Lukanette stans don't care about him specifically, they only care about using him as an accessory for Marinette.
Thomas Astruc apparently tweeted that he wanted people to ship chloe bourgeois with Ray đ€ź Please look for the tweet.
I don't have a Twitter account, and I'd probably avoid Astruc's tweets if I did.
Anyway, all I have to say is, XY was right there.

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Oh the turtle is one of MY nitpicks. I would go with "shell up", idk, I like it more
I personally like "Shell on!", but yeah, it's a matter of taste.
Tbh Felix kisses Ladybug for the same reason that QOTD and Derision exist- to spite fans. Astruc specifically called that moment out on Twitter as a "fun nod" he threw in for the PV fandom.
Which immediately puts it into the Disregard As Canon pile for me. His various tantrums over not being able to control how people perceive his characters is not my problem, nor should it be.
Yeah. He's also equating two things that aren't similar at all and hoping people are too stupid to notice, which is another running trend with him. PV Félix kept trying to kiss Ladybug because that would get rid of a curse. Canon Félix did it just to be a dick.
Most shows are able to do lie plots just fine by letting the writing speak for itself. Miraculous Georg, who lives in a cave and thinks its audience is made up of space aliens, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted.

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Re: Felix tried to kiss Ladybug because he wanted to make Adrien look bad
I see this explanation all the time but it's not fully satisfying to me because it doesn't seem like the full truth. And the reason for that is that there was real, non-zero chance that Ladybug would kiss "Adrien" back or at least not reject it. (In fact, it's what I thought would happen when I was watching this episode for the first time). Like, Felix looks surprised after Ladybug punches him, not smug, meaning that wasn't the reaction that he was expecting. I think he fully expected to actually get to kiss Ladybug. Which is why I suspect that his real goal was some sort of weird power play where he got to hurt both Ladybug and Adrien. This actually makes "Felix" episode parallel "Strike Back" better.
Yeah, I went back and watched that scene, and you've got a point. I was remembering the episode wrong.
I know it's been a minute and I'm not going to watch it again bc I'll roll my eyes too hard if I do BUT I'm still confused by the end scene of Daddycop when that grown ass man in a school uniform threatens to expose Zoe's past to her friends as if she didn't literally introduce herself to everybody with "hi I'm Zoe and I PRETENDED to be a BULLY but I'm ACTUALLY a LOSER whom EVERYBODY at my OLD school BULLIED FIRST"
So Iâve heard from someone that Chlonath was a decently liked ship at some point in the past. Around season 1 and 2. Do you have any details on the popular hypothesized dynamic of the time?
Yeah, it was the most popular Chloé ship for a while. Not so much for Nathanaël, who was more frequently shipped with Lila and Marinette. (Then again, a lot of this was before Volpina aired; like most Lila ships, LilaNath lost a lot of steam after that.)
As for their fanon dynamic, it was snarky and argumentative for the most part. Sure, there were exceptions, but most fics had them bicker pretty much all the time. It was all about the ~tension~, basically. He was frequently a factor in Chloé's redemption precisely because of this, the fact that he was calling her out. There was also this popular AU that had them as straight-up enemies, and not in the way that you'd think! Chloé was the heroic Queen Bee, while Nathanaël was a villain, wielding the Peacock Miraculous.
They were also teammates pretty often, with Nath wielding either the Peacock or the Fox. Lots of fics in this genre involved either amnesia or time travel, where one or both of them were extremely confused as to how the actual fuck they ended up together and had to like retrace their steps. Hilarious. Nath was also one of the frequent shortlisters for getting a Miraculous in general, and if anyone other than the OG 5 got one in a fic, it was almost invariably him. Which, considering this was before the Zodiac Miraculous were introduced and people were under the impression only 7 Miraculous existed, was a pretty big deal.
By the way, since I saw you wondering how MarcNath would sideline Nath if he was already a side character: it's this. The expectation was that he would become one of the big important characters. Being part of a dubiously canon ship that appears like once per season is kind of a downgrade from that. It's also most likely why Astruc was looking to pair him up with a guy specifically. Revealing that Nathanël is queer is pretty much the only thing impactful enough to overcome that expectation.
I donât think people really understood Misaâs character
(Pretty half-assed analysis)
Misaâs whole point of existence was to represent what a victim of circumstances can become.
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Both the Japanese and Korean say "Do not place items here.", while the Chinese seems to say "Do not offer anything".
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hii! i don't know if this has been answered, or whether you have anything to say on the matter, but i'd love to know how you would've handled the Agreste arc, especially Gabriel. just an ask to comment on a rewrite you might've done? mayhaps? lol i waited so long for this ask box and i forgot everything i wanted to ask đ blessings
I have a "Gabriel deserves better" tag and an "Emilie deserves better" tag that cover a lot of my thoughts on the Agrestes and how they could have been handled better. My favorite pitch is still this one because canon so clearly wants the Agrestes to be tragic figures and I like that approach way more than what canon actually did. Pure evil villains can be a lot of fun, but in long-running stories, I prefer more complexity and nuance.
Quick summary of the linked post: remove the backstory of the Agrestes being selfish idiots who messed with forbidden magic and got what they deserved and replace it with a backstory where Emilie got her hands on the butterfly and the peacock by accident or inheritance. The peacock is still broken, but in this version she knows that and is avoiding using it. Instead, she wields the butterfly.
As a bold, but soft-hearted woman of substantial means, she decides that it is going to be her mission to fix the peacock so she became a world traveler. During her travels, she meets Gabriel and they work together to try to fix the peacock. Then something happens and Emilie is forced (or feels forced) to use the peacock for a reason that isn't a magical slave baby, making her illness and Gabriel's reaction to it infinitely more sympathetic.
Yes, I'm STILL not over canon letting Emilie use the peacock without knowing the consequences. What the hell was that? Why would you do that? That's so much less interesting! Same goes for the magical slave baby. How is that even remotely sympathetic? Yes, infertility is sad. That doesn't change the fact that she decided her want to have a kid was more important than the child having free will. That deeply selfish choice kills any sympathy I might have had for her especially since the butterfly could have gotten her pregnant just as easily and without the nasty consequences for her or Adrien. That makes Emilie dying feel like the natural consequences of her playing God. She picked the wrong miraculous and paid an extremely reasonable price. Something her equally egotistical husband couldn't accept which lead to him also getting his just desserts. If only canon had let Nathalie pay too...
Back to the rewrite!
Once Emilie gets sick, Gabriel would go through a corruption arc where he slowly goes from a genuinely good and loving father to a monster over the course of the story, another thing canon seems to think it pulled off, but didn't. You can't have his corruption all be pre-canon if you want it to compel the audience. You need to actually show it on screen! Season one Gabriel should be a sad mess we all feel sorry for, but he wasn't so no one cares that he's dead now.
Basically, I see the vibes the writers were going for and I am fully on board, I just think they completely failed to actually capture those vibes which is why things like the season five ending failed to land.
Btw, I saw you sent a second ask elaborating on this first one and I'll answer that, too.
While we're at it, Gabriel wanting the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous in order to heal Ămilie is also kind of weird, because we've never given a reason why he can't just use the Butterfly for that purpose. The Butterfly has been shown to be extremely OP, and we also know that he can akumatize himself. Failing that, Nathalie would probably agree to it as well. It's why personally I like clairvoyance as a power for the Peacock. Gabriel talks about using the Wish to "erase their past mistake" a lot. If they toppled a chain of dominoes that would cause a bad future, and bringing back Ămilie is a more of a side effect of preventing the bad future rather than the actual goal, it'd make a lot more sense and would go a long way to explain why he needs the Ladybug and Cat specifically. He really wants to be sure, and time travel runs the risk of him moving the wrong chair and accidentally becoming his own grandpa. I also think it'd be really funny if Ămilie was brought back and she was immediately all like, "Congrats, kids, that was the easy part."