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LIKE

he has every reason in the world to be a villain

-lost his mother

-POS abusive not-even-a-human-being father

-constantly isolated and lonely

-severely restricted freedom

-smothered by pressures of perfectionism

i could go on.

AND YET

he is….sunshine boi. he is KIND. he is GOOD. he cares about others. he has so much freaking love to give. 

he was given the power of DESTRUCTION, which would normally be associated with darkness and evil, but he uses it only for good

in this episode he is utterly blindsided and traumatized when he sees his comatose mother and discovers that his father is the supervillain who not only has been terrorizing paris for months but who was about to akumatize the love of his life. his mind is REELING and he’s extremely vulnerable, so of course HM being the POS he is takes advantage of it to akumatize and command him (after beating him up???)

AND STILL

adrien resists the akumatization for SO long considering how much mental/emotional (and presumably physical) pain he is in 

and when he finally can’t anymore and he’s actually akumatized he STILL resists HM’s commands to destroy marinette. we’ve never seen an akuma victim do this before. he turns on HM but is also too good to find it in him to destroy his own father. and then he chooses instead to direct the power AT HIMSELF???

and even after he’s full-on “evilized” and has been alone for who knows how long and is driven mad from the looks of it, we still see moments of tenderness from him. the good sunshine boi is still very much alive in there and sometimes he can shine through the darkness and derangement.

And even in this state his #1 priority is still loving his lady and ensuring that they can be together. Hawkmoth is gone. No one is commanding him to take the miraculous. He wants to use the wish to fix what he broke and be with the love of his life.

at first glance, it’s seemingly easy for marinette to defeat chat blanc. there is really not that much actual fighting and in the end she is basically able to just walk up to him and grab the akuma. why?

Clearly, he’s going easy on her. He has been granted the power of INFINITE DESTRUCTION—like, he could destroy the ENTIRE GALAXY if he wanted to (and he threatens to do exactly that!!). But most of the time, it seems like he’s just toying with her. Because he doesn’t want to hurt her. She’s his lady and he loves her. He tries to explain. He even says please. The reason she defeats him is that he’s still so in love with her that when she gets close he pauses long enough for her to take him by surprise.

Here’s my takeaway from all this:

Adrien Agreste is the the post powerful (and messed up) akuma victim ever, both because Chat Noir is already one of the most powerful beings on earth and because the emotional trauma powering the akuma is more powerful than anything else Hawk Moth created.

Adrien Agreste is also one of the few (only?) akumas to show awareness and remorse, to be motivated by a desire for love and harmony instead of revenge or power. Despite EVERYTHING that happened to him, despite all the abuse and trauma, despite the fact that almost every aspect of his circumstances set him up to be consumed by darkness, he still resisted. His light still shone through. Without that, there would have been no hope. Ladybug could never repair the damage. 

Hawk Moth is the reason the world was destroyed by Chat Blanc.

But Adrien is the reason the world could be put back together.