Better Late Than Never

Guess now is as good a time as ever to post this!

Now you guys know what that preview of Marinette kissing Chat Noir’s cheek is from.

Basically this comic and the entire set of prompts leading up to it was inspired by the kiss request challenges. (Marichat - Kiss on the cheek.) https://portentous-offerings.tumblr.com/post/154625518028/mari-monsta-portentous-offerings

It was my secret Ko-Fi thank you art. (I’ve now replaced it with a different comic piece.)

The worst moment isn’t finding out Gabriel is Hawkmoth.

It’s not that that isn’t awful; it’s not that the ramifications for Adrien don’t race through her mind, tumbling over one another in tragedy. It’s not that a selfish part of her doesn’t break a little at the idea of her idol being rooted in something dark, something evil. Something that hurt her friends.

But she’s riding high on adrenaline and Gabriel being Hawkmoth is something she can fight. She can’t change who he is but she can make the best of the situation. She and Chat can fix this, before anyone has to know. Before Adrien has to know. She can talk to Gabriel. Hawkmoth was always just a dark ominous concept; Gabriel is a person, a person she’s met, a person who she’s sure loves Adrien, even if what that means has gotten tangled up inside. If she can just reason with him, if she can just reach him, she can end all the terror without ruining anyone’s life. She can fix this. She can do anything. She’s Ladybug. With a little bit of that trademark luck, she can just -

Chat Noir throws Gabriel Agreste out the window. He lands amongst the crowd of paparazzi and a thousand eager smartphones. All she can see is the shadow between flashes.

*

The worst moment isn’t seeing Adrien’s face.

Although that one definitely breaks her heart a bit.

“I thought there would be…time to tell him the truth.”

It is not until this moment, weeks later, that Adrien thinks to wonder exactly how Marinette Dupain-Cheng managed to get to his house faster than the police, the paparazzi, the crowds. That it had barely hit social media before she was there at his house. He’d barely tumbled in the window and dropped his transformation when she arrived, and he’d never questioned it.

As he looks at her tear-stained face beside the statue, the answer slides into his heart, easy as breathing.

But it’s @portentous-offerings‘s birthday (or it was?? it still is here but she’s way ahead of me?? WHATEVER TIME HAS NO MEANING) and a few weeks ago I asked her who her favorite not-main-character was in ML. She said Nathalie. And so for her birthday, because she is a lovely, talented person who does great things for the fandom and is also just ferociously nice as a human being, I have written a Nathalie side-story to this. 

ANYWAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIRE I HOPE IT WAS RAD!!

She would never tell anyone - not that she really has anyone to tell - but the week after Gabriel Agreste’s arrest is honestly the most relaxing vacation Nathalie has had in years.

All of his assets are seized and all parts of his business are frozen, so she can’t even pretend that she should be keeping the company going in his absence. Adrien is with the family of his classmate - that pig-tailed girl who made the scarf she stole the credit for with his father - so she doesn’t have to do much, day to day.

That doesn’t mean she doesn’t do her part. She covers every legal boundary anyone might use to strip Adrien of his property, and more importantly of his agency. He has had so little choice for so long that she wants to make sure he has this one. She has every newspaper on speed dial; she makes every one of them very aware that she has the best libel lawyers she can find on retainer and that anything they print about Adrien, they’ll pay dearly for.

But aside from that, she is in limbo. She has never realized how much sun comes into her apartment in daylight hours. She has never been in a position to know. It’s very bright, and she finds herself squinting more often than not.

There were so many things she had planned to do when she had free time. She has trouble remembering any of them now. She should be bored, she has never been good where idleness is concerned, but she isn’t.

It is just so peaceful, with Gabriel behind the bars of the Santé Prison.

「 Source: @en_eeen, Twitter 」

I think when most people think of No Good Deed, they think of super hot Elphaba hitting high notes and having perfect hair. But lemme tell you, this scene is D E VA STAT IN G

Elphie has literally given up all hope in society, and on top of that she feels completely alone. As far as she is concerned, everyone she knows is dead or finds her to be a major threat - even Glinda.

This image is heartbreaking because Elphie appears hunched over the spell book, thin as all hell, and her posture is sunken.

tony casually throws it into a conversation like “oh yeah I don’t vote” and steve trails off mid-sentence and gapes for a second before he starts in on the importance of the democratic process and how dangerous it can be if citizens give up their say in how the government is run and tony is trying so so hard to keep a straight face

He stumbles upon the hot springs completely at random. According to his knowledge, there’s not even supposed to be a hot springs in this area, but lo and behold, there it is, perched at the end of the narrow forest path like it had always stood there. It’s more of a pleasant surprise to Levi who’s spent the last few months on the run and sleeping wherever he could, so he’s more relieved than perplexed at the sight of the small wooden sign that informs him he’s just arrived at Shiganshina Hot Springs.

Upon entering the main building, the first thing he notices is the elaborate tiled mosaic in the middle of the floor in the lobby. It depicts a gushing spring surrounded by smooth rocks and lush ferns, the amount of detail unlike anything he’s ever seen. Though understated, the lobby has a sturdy wooden reception desk and a few benches scattered by the walls, along with doors that presumably lead further into the springs. What matters to Levi is that he now has a roof over his head, and, hopefully, a place where he can rest for a while.

and then i think we see bits of that, when laurent is with damen.  when laurent has found this person who is safe, who finds pedophilia abhorrant, who refuses to harm a child, who almost at the onset proves to laurent that he is safe.. and then i think we see who laurent could have been.  when he softens and teases damen and they are alone together.  if he had been allowed to grow up without trauma, we see bits of that person laurent could have been: a 20 year old boy, who likes to play cards, who teaches little girls magic tricks, who likes to read, who loved his brother more than his own self.

i know every has drawn a pic like this probably but.. god.. tfw u gotta live w/ the fact that u rly fucked up ur BF that one time

anyway this is gay and makes me think o this line 

says cool things like “you look like a whore” “my dear brute, i want you to rot here” “but i told you. it’s the game i like" 

carries himself in a very relaxed and poised way that calmly says “fuck off”

is not meant to be likable to those around him. not there to pander to delicate sensibilities 

is able to use the truth and throw it back as a weapon

can flay people. verbally.

causes poor damen’s world to momentarily fall apart and piece itself back together with his schemes

is incredibly intelligent in every sense of the word

although manipulative, retains his own agency. do you know how refreshing it is to have a deceptive and calculating character like laurent who doesn’t use his and others’ sexualities to further his goals

despite all this, this “cast iron bitch” still sometimes cracks up over really dumb shit and is surprisingly good w/ children