Chloé is doing wonderfully in London. She is studying at a Private School, focusing on remedial courses while taking dance and beekeeping. She has a new cohort of friends and is adjusting well, if a little gunshy, now that her father is no longer a part of her life. The alt-Chloé who returned to Paris is actually a sentimonster. Felix let Noé make one in exchange for the Kingdom leaving Amilie alone.

Unfortunately for Marinette, unbeknownst to her, telling Kagami about how great and talented she is is a bad idea right now.

Her core driving motivation, the emotional need that underlies her actions and worldviews, isn't to be loved or to be needed. It's to be told that she's okay.

She desperately wants to hear that she's good, in both senses of the word. She wants to be someone who doesn't fall shy of others' expectations. Whether in morals or in skill, she wants to be someone there's nothing to criticize about. But she also wants to hear that she's alright, that everything is good and there are no problems or anything else she needs to worry about.

She wants it to be okay for her to just exist.

Which is something she can't believe herself because she has this deep seated belief that she's deeply lacking. She wants that external validation because she has none of that reassurance from herself. For someone to come and convince her that no, she's perfectly fine as she is actually.

And more than that, she wants someone to come rescue her from her own emotions. They're too big for her to handle, and she has no clue how to control them herself. They're a constant source of distress and anxiety that she wishes would just stop.

So many of her actions are just her seeking a relief from her own emotions, trying to control the world around her in an attempt to appease the monster that never lets her rest.

But it's that same attempt at appeasement that only makes it stronger. In her attempts to escape criticism, she ends up hyper-aware and anxious about all the ways in which she could be criticized and spends inordinate amount of energy on trying to prevent it.

Every time she avoids discomfort she trains her brain to see it as something dangerous that she absolutely can't deal with and so must escape from. Yet that only leads to her brain blaring the alarms stronger the next time she encounters something that stresses her out.

It's a never ending spiral. All of Marinette's attempts to escape only end up pulling her deeper.

The monster she's trying to escape from is her own anxiety. No matter how far she runs, she can't escape from herself.

And boy how much she runs. She runs to the comfort of others' reassurances, her own defeatist despair, the desperate belief that if she can just control enough things she can bend reality to be what she wants out of sheer power of will.

She runs to them because they all promise the same thing: she never has to face the monster. Whether it's because they temporarily appease the monster, tell her to give up or promise that the monster will never catch up to her in the first place, all of them give her ways to avoid a confrontation.

Yet that promise is a false comfort. A temporary relief that only leads her further away from what she truly wants.

Because in order for Marinette to actually be okay, she has to stop, turn around and look the monster in the eye. She has to confront her anxiety and weather the discomfort for long enough for her to learn how to manage it. Escaping the monster is impossible, but it can be tamed.

Ultimately that's something she has to do on her own. No one can rescue her from herself, no matter how much she wishes for an effortless magical solution that means she would never have to feel anxious again.

Which leads me to worry something much worse is happening, that Astruc genuinely doesn't realize that the behavior he has written for these parents is abusive. Which means that any children who see this show and identify with these characters because of their own experiences will be left being told "it's not that bad, it doesn't matter. Get over it."

Since when does Adrien think being a hero is a heavy burden??

There are plenty of instances with cataclysm that could explain how he reached that conclusion. You could even spin it as his guilt over not saving his dad making him see superheroing as a heavy burden. Like, making up a headcanon to explain this is very easy.

But I don't want a headcanon, I want to know what the canonical answer is! I don't want Adrien to be a vague vibes based silhouette I can color in however I please, I want to see an actual character! One who has character driven reasons for doing what he does and doesn't just randomly say whatever the story needs him to.

The entire thing just feels like a plot device. In fact, I'm willing to bet that they need no one to know Adrien is Chat Noir and/or to not have a backup black cat in order to make the plot of the finale work.