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Skimming through her old master's tablet was exhausting. Before retrieving the Cat Miraculous, Plagg was able to give her the Grimoire and her Master's tablet back, at first she was confused about how the kwami did it, but after knowing who Chat Noir is behind the mask, she now understood how the kwami got the book back but was still confused how he found the tablet. She now has the lost Grimoire and a tablet with the translated version of the book.

Marinette decided to create another trap box that will house a notebook that contains everything that is connected to the Miraculouses, from Akumas— how they work, the times they've been akumatized, the object, to Heroes and Villains— their names, suits and powers, possible suspects of who the villains are, and much more. One page has the alphabet and the equivalent of it in the Guardian's language, it is to ease her life in translating the Grimoire. It also has a page about the power-up potions— their ingredients, what type of power-up it is and how to make it.

Marinette was now all alone on the battlefield. No partner, no mentor, not even temporary heroes!

For now, she concluded she needed a thorough plan. Since Hawkmoth has gone into hiding for a while, no akumas were rampaging around Paris for the meantime, giving her enough time to prepare. First, she needed to handle issues in her civilian life.

Marinette picked up her phone and listened to the recording. After listening to it, she knew it could be detrimental if she decided to anonymously send it to her mother's news reporter friend— Nadja Chamack. Their names are listed and what they have done, and if it gets newscast everyone will be alerted. However, she could send it to the Board of Governors, it will be huge evidence since it includes what is happening around the classroom. Marinette also keeps a copy of what she has done as a class representative since she started being class representative, she thought it will be handy if she ever forgot something she could check her files if she did it or not, and now it could be used as evidence. Bustier throwing everything to Marinette except her lesson plans and teaching could already paint her as a bad teacher. But if anyone listened to the recording, they could hear the slight manipulation in Bustier's words.

She also has copies of her class transfer requests even back when Chloé was still her bully, but only for it to be denied. She fills out one form then copies it to not fill out more. But she needs evidence of the school's principal using the school funds for his 'The Owl' business. She already knows as Ladybug that the computer is the main key. That's the only thing she's missing, maybe she can also recruit Chloé? She'll think about it.

After her school problems in her civilian life, she needed to talk to her parents regarding her so-called friends. Marinette stood up from her desk chair and made her way downstairs.

"Maman? Papa? I need to talk to you guys." Marinette called.

She saw her mother cooking their dinner while her father is preparing the dinner table. Tom looked up and smile at her. "Come, dinner's almost ready."

Marinette sat down and waited until both of them are seated as well, while eating Marinette felt nervous, she didn't know how her parents will take it in. "Maman..."

Sabine looked at her daughter, she immediately figured that something must be bothering Marinette. Instead of speaking further, Marinette slid her phone across and hit the play button of the recording app. Sabine and Tom were listening carefully.

After the recording stopped, Sabine was trying to calm herself down. "This needs to be reported. I'll talk to the board—"

"No." Marinette interrupted.

"I've already had evidence against them, I just need time to collect another against the principal for being too lenient to rich kids. Once I'm done, I'll be hitting three in one. The moment I emailed it to the board, they'll investigate Mlle Bustier's teaching methods, M. Damocles' leniency and possibly Lila's accusations against me."

Sabine stared at her. Based on Marinette's words, she already has a plan for everything. Sabine could feel that her daughter has changed, she isn't the girl that will run up to her and ask for help, she's now a teenager that wishes to solve her problems and just need them to support her from the background.

"Okay. We'll let you handle it, but if you need any help and I mean anything, come to us and we'll help you in any way we can." Sabine said.

Marinette smiled at her then nodded. "Also I'd request if you no longer allow them to go up to my room nor our house... The only friends I have in the class are Alix, Kim, Sabrina and Chloé."

"Of course, bǎobǎo. I and your Papa will handle them." Sabine reassured her.

They continued their dinner and talked about other things.

——— •• ◆ •• ———

After dinner, she needed to make a plan regarding temporary heroes and who will wield the cat miraculous.

Since the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses are the yin and yang of the Chinese Miracle Box, using only one and leaving the other dormant could upset the balance. If one of the two miraculouses is active the other should be as well.

"Tikki, I'm going to need your creation power," Marinette said.

Tikki flew towards her and Marinette could see the confusion in her eyes.

"Huh?"

Marinette giggled a little before answering. "I'm going to create something that could let the user express negative emotions yet cannot be akumatized. Ready Tikki?"

"I still don't understand how your going to create it? Potions? Spell?" Tikki questioned.

"You'll see. Tikki? Spots On!"

Marinette could feel the magic of the miraculous running through her body as she transformed.

"Woah! Guardian!"

Marinette looked behind her and saw most of the kwamis has a surprised expression. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked.

They didn't say anything but they all pointed to a mirror that is placed in the corner of her room.

Marinette walked towards it and gasped once she saw her reflection. Her suit changed. She looked around at the changes in her suit.

Marinette is still sporting a skin-tight spandex suit but with more black incorporated. From her neck to the top of her chest was black with red edges, her forearms as well. Elbows to wrists, lower chest to mid-upper knees are her signature red and black polka-dotted suit, the red colour though is a much deeper hue. She now has black heeled knee-high boots with red soles. Her hands have black wrist gloves, and she also has extra black designs with red edges near where the black part of her suit ends. She still wears the same mask but her hair is now longer and in a high ponytail that reaches up to the back of her waist, it has red streaks on it and on top of her ponytail, she has four ribbons, two black and two red, representing a ladybug's antennas. Her yo-yo still rests on her left hip but also has holsters on both sides of her thighs.

'Woah! Why did my suit change?' She thought.

Before she indulged further and forget her initial plan, she took a deep breath and concentrated. She looked at the black spots of her suit that started glowing, looking back at the mirror the colour of her eyes changed to red as well, she unlatched her yo-yo from her hip and opened it. Reaching inside it, she took hold of a bundle of strings, Marinette pulled it out of her yo-yo, and the glowing dimmed. On her hand holds an object that could prevent someone from being akumatized or amokizied.

"Spots off."

Tikki re-emerged from the earrings and Marinette immediately gave her a cookie to munch on. She looked down at her hand and saw an engraved M, A, C, S and K pendants with a string. It all has different designs as well.

She picked up the M pendant, it has a circular rosegold platelet pendant with an engraved familiar cursive M on one side, and her signature flower design on the other, it also has a rosegold chain as well. She tried to slip it on her wrist, neck, ankle and even just attaching it to her bag. Marinette figures that the chain will accommodate the user how it will be attached to the person. Marinette decided to wear it on her ankle, to hide it from anyone.

"This should do the trick. And it looks like we created a few for my friends as well!" She exclaimed.

"But how will it work, Guardian?" Wayzz asked.

"By wearing it, the person should have a personal barrier that will prevent any infected butterfly or feather from possessing them. They would be perfectly fine to able to express their negative emotions freely and will not be possessed by Hawkmoth or Mayura."

The kwamis nodded at her explanation. Leaving them to their thoughts, she went up to her desk and started grabbing materials to create boxes.

After two hours of crafting, Chloé's has a canary yellow-coloured box with a black cushion inside that showcases a gold platelet pendant with an engraved cursive C on one side and a bee on the other, it also has gold chains as well.

Alix has a light blue coloured box with a white cushion inside that shows a silver platelet pendant with an engraved cursive A on one side and roller skates on the other, it also has silver chains.

For Sabrina, she has a pale turquoise-coloured box with a white cushion as well that shows a gold chain with a sandstone-coloured platelet pendant that has an engraved cursive S on one side and a bow on the other.

And lastly, for Kim, he has a light brown box with a darker brown cushion on the inside that showcases a silver chain with a copper platelet pendant that has an engraved K on one side and a monkey on the other.

It represents her friends on one side. A bee for Chloé that represents her time as a Bee themed heroine, roller skates for Alix to represent her love of rollerblading, a bow for Sabrina that looks exactly like the bow she always wears and a monkey for Kim to represent his time as a Monkey themed hero.

Her civilian plan is set in motion. Gather few more pieces of evidence against the villains in her civilian life and give protection gifts for her friends.

She cleaned her workspace, store the Miracle box back into its disguised cover and hid the Grimoire alongside the tablet.

"I'm going to sleep, good night..." She said sleepily.

Collapsing on her bed, the other kwamis flew towards a space that Marinette gave them that has individual beds for each of them while Plagg and Tikki chose to sleep beside her head on her pillow.

——— •• ◆ •• ———

continuing...

T A G L I S T:

Marinette grew up in a world filled with magic

Although Marinette's own parents weren't wizards, but bakers, she inherited her Gramdfather Fu's magic, celestial magic

She was able to summon spirits to help her with the help of silver and gold gate keys

The silver gate keys are pretty common, as far as gate keys go

The gold keys were a lot more rare as there was only 12 of them

Marinette already had 3, Tikki spiritof creation, Plagg spirit of destruction and Wayzz spirit of protection

They were her Grandfather's keys and he passed them down to her when he retired.

She also had a magic yoyo gifted to her by Tikki after her Grandfather had given her Tikki's key when he started training her

So when Marinette turned 16 she decided to follow in her Grandfather's footsteps and join a boarding guild

She ended up joining the Miraculous Moth guild, a guild that had a large amount of members, but nothing like Justice League, who had almost half the amount of members, but was about 10x more powerful

Their guild stamp was a pointy looking moth

Marinette had decides to get hers on her left shoulder in red

The guild master was Gabriel Agreste

Nobody was really sure what type of magic he had, but there were always a new rumor floating around that said something different.

Some said he had transformation magic

Others said he had solid script magic

Few thought he had absolutely no magic at all

And het there was some who whispered that he was a celestial wizard

Marinette didn't give the rumors much thought

She was too busy getting to know her new guild mates

She made some great friends and even made up a team with Adrien (Gabriel's son), Alya, and Nino

They were a pretty good team

Adrien was an equip mage

He can summon different weapons and armor

Alya was a solid script mage

She can create create materials by writing words out in the air

And finally Nino was a sonic mage

He can produce and control sound waves and use it against enimies

They were called Team Adrien

Marinette joined their team a week after joining the guild

The three had already been a team before hand for a couple of years

So because of this Marinette felt like a stranger looking in sometimes

Either way they made a good team

Though they were a little destructive

Luckily for them Tikki can fix everything with her miraculous ladybug spell

They had a pretty good team for about a year than somebody new joined the guild

Her name was Lila Rossi and she was an illusionist mage

She claimed to be a great independent wizard and even was offered a spot at Justice League

She told stories about saving villages and people from evil wizards and monsters

Everybody was so amazed by her, but Marinette has her doubts

She couldn't explain it, but it was just a gut feeling, but Marinette tried to do her best to push that aside a welcome her with open arms

She even joined Team Adrien

And that's when stuff really went down hill for Marinette

Lila started to make sly remarks about Marinette and celestial wizards in general

Stuff like how she didn't really contribute to fights and instead just let her spirits do all the work

Even though Marinette fights whenever she can using her yoyo

Or how Marinette is the weakest on the team

Even though Marinette could now summon 2 spirits at once something most celestial spirits can't even dream of doing especially with golden keys

She tried to ignore it, but as time went on it hurt more and more

And when her friends started to join in she tried to change that

She started to try and cast star dress

Which would allow her to share her powers with her spirits

And gave her a cute outfit with that

Her team mates didn't seem to understand or appreciate her attempts to gain more strength

They started to leave her behind for missions

They cut her part of the rewards down claiming because she didn't do as much work as the rest if them so she doesn't deserves an equal amount of the reward

Sometimes they were just abandon her to finish a job by herself then demand their part of the reward even though Marinette did all the work

The final straw came after a very dangerous mission

They were going up against a dark wizard who was kidnapping young women and selling them them into the slave trade

They took the job because the reward money was ridiculous and a golden gate key

So the team decided to use Marinette as live bait

Because she would get such a great prize for the mission

Which she was okay with

And she was successful in luring him out and was going to fight him until she realized her yoyo was gone

She then checked her keys and they were gone too

Marinette panicked and tried to hold the dark wizard back the best she can while yelling for her teammates

They didn't show up

In a last ditch effort Marinette tried to use star dress magic

Marinette: STAR DRESS LADYBUG!

Marinette felt a rush of magic fall over her

It had work

She was now wearing a read flowie dress that fell a couple of inches above her knees with a black ribbon tied around her waist and black fingerless gloves

Her hair was now down with a red headband and black flats on her feet with a new red and black pock a dot yoyo

She used her new yoyo to tie the creep up and her team finally showed up

Marinette: WHERE WERE YOU GUYS AND WHO HAS MY KEYS?!?!

Alya: Chill girl Lila pointed out that the wizard wouldn't go after somebody with magic items on them so we just grabbed them before you left

Alya held out Marinette's keys and yoyo and Marinette snatched them out of her hands checking everything over

Marinette: THAT IS SOO STUPID!!! YOU GUYS ALMOST GOT ME KILLED OR WORST

Adrien: Calm down Marinette

Marinette: DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!

Lila *tearing up*: Come on Marinette we weren't that far away

Marinette: I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT! I'M SO DONE WITH ALL OF YOU RIGHT NOW!

Alya: Stop being such bitch Marinette you're fine and look you finally did that stupid star dress thing you were trying to do

Nino: Yeah dudette if you're going to be like that maybe Lila should get that gate key instead of you.

Marinette just glared at the group and used Plagg to help her drag the wizard to the Grand Council gourds that were posted in the town

She dropped him off got the reward money and the gate key

It was the Key of Illusion Trixx

When her teammates asked where their shares were Marinette just glared at them again

The whole trip back was her team criticizing her about keeping the money for herself

Marinette remained silent during the whole ride back

When they got back to the guild Lila cried to anybody who would listen about how mean and selfish Marinette was for keeping the money

Marinette ignored her and walked up to Gabriel

Marinette: Sure I would like to resign from this guild

Gabriel: Are you sure Ms. Dupen-Cheng?

Marinette: Yes after today I don't feel welcomed her any more

Gabriel: Well it'll be a shame to lose a wizard with such assets. Are you sure about this?

Grabiel looked down at the keys rested on Marinette's hip before looking back at Marinette's eyes

Marinette: Yes I'm sure

Grabiel snapped his fingers and Natalie, his second in command, removes her guild mark

Marinette walked out of the guild receiving sneers and nasty remarks from her ex-guildmates

She walked out and never looked back

She went to her home town to live with her parents and help out with the backery

She needed a break from guilds and other wizards

So she and sometimes her spirits would help her parents out

Well Tikki, Wayzz and Trixx did Plagg mostly just ate all the cheese pastries

Marinette kept training though she even made it so she can do Dtar dress with Plagg and Wayzz

Her bound with Trixx wasn't strong enough to complete star dress with him yet

After a couple of months Marinette was walking through town when she bumped into 2 boys

Both boys had black hair and looked around the same age

But one had blue eyes and was paler than his partner whi had green eyes

Damian: Sorry miss but you'll have to come with use there's no time to lose

Damian grabbed Marinette's hands and continue running with his partner Jon

Marinette: What's going on?

Jon: We're wizards on a mission to stop a dark guild who's top members are currently chasing us, so we're trying to lead them away from the populated area to avoid casualties

Marinette: Okay there's a short cut to outside of town, This way!

Marinette pulled Damian down an alley with Jon following the 2

Marinette could hear the sounds of crashing at the entrance of the alley assuming it was the dark guild members

They burst out of the alley into the open field next to the town

They made it to the end of the field before they had to face the evil wizards

Marinette looked over the group of eight wizards

Each one looking tougher than the last

Damian: Get out of here miss we can take

Marinette: No way there are way to many people for the just the 2 of you

Jon: what can you do to help?

Hearing that lit a fire in Marinette

Marinette: This! Open gate of creation, Tikki!

Damian and Jon watch with surprise as Tikki appeared in front of them

Tikki: I'm here to help

Marinette: Tikki we're going against a team of dark wizards be ready for anything!

Damian: You're a cestial wizard?

Marinette: Yep and that's not all I can do. Star Dress Black Cat!

Marinette was surrounded by a bright light

When it faded she was wearing black combat boots with neon green thigh high socks

Black shorts with a neon green belt

And a black tank top with a hood attach that had cat ears on it, with the inside of the hood being neon green

Her hair was still in pigtails but now were resting in front of her shoulders

In her hands laid a bo staff

Damian in wonder and Jon a little scared: Wow

With Marinette's celestial magic, Jon's fire God-slaying magic, and Damian shadow dragon slaying magic they were able to take down the wizards with ease and soon all the dark wizards were capture

The group of teens handed over the wizards to the guards before they finally have a proper introduction

Marinette: I'm Marinette by the way, Marinette Dupen-Cheng.

Jon: Nice to meet you Marinette, I'm Jon Kent and this is my partner Damian Wayne

Damian grabbing Marinette's hand and kissing the back of it: It's a honor to meet such a powerful and kind wizard

Marinette blushing: O-oh I don't know about that, I'm not that powerful and anybody would have jumped in

Damian: I'm not so sure about that

Marinette ended up inviting the two back to the backery for a free lunch

They continue to talk just getting to know eachother

And a good amount of flirting went on between Marinette and Damian

They were laughing and joking around and Marinette felt like she gained something she lost when she left her team

They continue their conversation as they make it to the backery

Marinette introduces them to her maman and papa before taking them upstairs to make lunch for all of them

They continue to laugh and joke around and Damian insisted on helping Marinette cook

Jon: But you're an awful cook, you go around eating people's shadows before you cook.

Marinette: Eating shadows?

Damian *blushing*: Yes I'm a shadow dragon slayer, so when I get hungry I can eat shadows or darkness

Marinette: I thought all the dragon slayers were in the Justice League guild

Jon: Yeah that's our guild

Jon pulled down his shirt to show his blue guild mark which looked like a J and L put together with a star in the middle

Damian rolled up his sleeve to show his green guild mark on his left forearm

Marinette: You guys are a part of Justice League?!?! Oh no I must be holding you guys up! I'm so sorry!

Damian: Oh no, not at all! We're really not that busy! Right Jon

Damian gave Jon a pointed look as if it say not to upset the cestial mage

Jon: Right! We have plenty of time especially with the help you gave us today. We thought we would have to be here another week at least, thanks to you we can leave tomorrow

Marinette turning around to continue cooking: Well I'll be sorry to see you go

Damian grabbing Marinette and turning her around holding her by her shoulders: Then why don't you come with us? You said yourself you don't have a guild and you're way too talented just to stay here all your life

Marinette: I don't know I don't think I'm powerful enough to join Justice League

Damian: Are you crazy? You're more than powerful enough!

Jon jumping up: Yeah! And you can be apart of our team! If we stick together nothing can stand on our way!

Marinette still wasn't too sure until she felt her keys warm with encouragement from her spirits

Marinette: Okay I'll join you!

Damian and Jon smiled and Jon raised his hand for a high five, which Damian didn't reciprocate but Marinette did

Marinette turned back to continue cooking as Damian continue to pester her to help

Marinette finally relented and told him to chop the veggies

After lunch the two boys left for their hotel telling Marinette to meet them at the train station tomorrow at 11

That night Marinette told her parents her plans and they were over joyed for her

To them Marinette started to look like a cage bird staying in the bakery longing to spread her wings but start in a small cage

The next day Marinette packed up all her things and met the boys at the train station

The trip was long it felt even longer because poor Damian had motion sickness like all dragon slayers

At one point he ended up resting his head on Marinette's lap which seemed to help him a bit so Marinette's just let him stay there

As soon as the train stopped Damian perked up

They made it to the city of Gotham just in time for dinner

Jon dragged Damian and Marinette down the streets of Gotham determined to get her to join as soon as possible

Damian: Calm down Kent I want her to join just as badly as you do, but I don't think pulling her arm out of her socket will make her move any faster

Jon: I'm just so excited! Just wait until you meet everyone Marinette they'll love you! One of the guild master's mother was a celestial wizard like you, even owned Tikki before

Marinette: Guild Masters?

Damian: Yeah our guild instead of having only 1 master has 5. Because we have so many powerful members they felt it wouldn't be right for 1 person to have so much power, so instead we have 5

Marinette nodded her head in understanding

The rest of the walk to the guild was filled with Jon's babbling about Justice League and what Marinette could expect

When they made it to the front of the guild hall Marinette froze

All the bad memories from her old guild came flooding back

And with that all her worries about being accept came back with

Marinette was spiralling until she felt another hand engulf her smaller one

Marinette looked up to see Damian with a soft look on his face

Damian: Don't worry Angel you'll be great, and no matter what you'll have me and Jon right by your side

Marinette blushed at Damian's nickname for her looking over at Jon when she feels him take her other hand

Jon: He's right Mari you have us, no matter what

Marinette smiled squeezing the boys' hands before letting go of Jon's, but keeping a hold on Damian's hand

Not that he minded or planned on letting her hand go either

They opened the doors to the guild and found utter choas

There seemed to be some sort of brawl going on among the younger members

The guild hall was two stories and as Marinette looked up on the second floor she can see the older members of the guild calmly eating and chatting ignoring the antics of the younger members

Marinette stared as Damian and Jon maneuvered her around the guild pulling her down to avoid the bodies being thrown and Damian lifted her up to avoid one of the guild members who were sent skidding along the floor

They finally made it the bar area were Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Diana Prince stood watching the choas

Damian: Hello Father I have brought a new wizard to join the guild

Dick from across the guild: WHAT?!?!

Tim from another part of the guild: DAMIAN BROUGHT A GIRL HOME!

The members cheered and Marinette and Damian stuttered saying it wasn't like that

But it was too late Damian got pulled into the chaos by his brother loudly protesting and somehow joining in the brawl

Bruce sighed: So you wish to join Justice League Ms...

Marinette: Marinette, Marinette Dupen-Cheng

Jon talking to Clark: And she's really powerful dad, she helped us take down that dark guild we were sent to stop

Diana: And what magic do you wield little one?

Marinette: I'm a celestial wizard and I can also preform star dress with some of my spirits

Diana impressed: And what keys to you have?

Marinette: I have a few silver one, the clock and the cross, and I have 4 golden keys, Tikki, Plagg, Wayzz, and Trixx. I can do star dress with all of the gold ones except Trixx out bond isn't strong enough yet.

Diana: That's very impressive. You know my mother used to hold Tikki's key before she retired and gave it to her dear friend Fu Cheng

Marinette smiling: He's my grandfather, sadly he passed a couple of years back.

Diana: I'm sorry to here about your lost, but if Fu entrusted you with Tikki and his other spirits you must be a powerful wizard. I vote we let her join

Marinette: Thank you

Clark: If my son says she's worthy that's all I need, I say yes to

The two guild masters looked over to Bruce waiting for his answer

Bruce: I can sense a large amount of magic and magic potential in you. It's a yes from me to, and since that makes a majority we are pleased to welcome you into Justice League. As soon as Damian escapes his brothers he can help give you a guild mark

Marinette looked around scanning for Damian giggling when she finds him in a tousle with 3 other boys who she assumes are his brothers

Dick was holding Damian in a headlock as Damian clung to Tim's back pulling his hair as Tim tried to pin Jason to the floor as Jason tried to pull Dick down with him

Jon laughing with her: Yeah those are our dragon slayers. You of course know Damian. Dick is the one putting him in the headlock, he's a light dragon slayer and a great acrobat. Damian probably gets along the best with him out of all his brothers. The boy who's getting his haired pulled out by Damian is Tim he's a lighting dragon slayer, but can also do solid script magic and barely sleeps. I swear one time I saw him eat straight coffee beans. Finally the boy with white streak in his hair trying to pull Dick down with him is Jason. He's a metal dragon slayer who prefers to use his magic to make weapons. He's the only one of the brothers who isn't on a specific team. He usually just tags along with whatever team he feels like or goes on solo missions.

Damian sensing Marinette staring at him looks towards her blushing

He shakes his brothers off him trying to make his way over to Marinette only to be stop by Jason

Jason grabbing Damian's waist: wait a moment Demon Spawn we're not done with you yet!

Damian thrashing around: Release me Todd!

Tim messing with Damian's hair: Aww are we embarrassing you in front of you girlfriend?

Damian: stop it Drake!

Dick stepping in: All right guys that's enough we don't want to ruin Hatchlings (a/n: Get it because they're dragon slayers) chances with his girlfriend

Damian finally breaks away from his brothers rushing over to Marinette and Jon

Damian: Sorry about that my brothers are idiots. How did it go?

Marinette: They said I could join, Mr. Wayne said you could help me with my guild mark

Damian: Of course come with me

Damian grabbed Marinette's hand pulling her towards a side room as Jon went to go talk to his brother Connor

Marinette decided to get a pink guild mark on the top of her right hand

Marinette seemed to fit right in with the rest of the guild

There was no adjustment period like with her old guild she seemed to be able to join in right away

She learned when a brawl was about to start up and how to avoid flung guildmates

Though Damian still insisted on lifting her over skidding bodies

She and Diana formed a close bound that started with Diana telling her stories about her mother and Tikki and it evolved in a mentor/mentee relationship

Marinette also joined Damian Nd Jon's team helping keep them focus on missions and stop the few fights that broke out between them

Sometimes Damian's brothers would "kidnap" Marinette to go on missions with them which usually lead to Damian running after them and Jon following Damian

Marinette became close friends with Dick's girlfriend Kori, Barabra, and Stephanie

They would sometimes go on girl only missions together

When they return they would often find Dick, Tim, and Damian sulking that they were left behind

Just watched the ep where we finally see what happened during the Uchiha Massacre and like-

whoa.

WHOA.

HOLD THE PHONE.

THIS IS A KIDS SHOW.

THEY SHoWeD thIs As CHiLd ENtErtAINmENt?!?!

I mean yea the blood is mostly nonexistent/censored ala convenient sharingan color inversion but like- oh my word. Sasuke’s VA was … good. During this scene. Yikes.

Also Itachi what the actual heck is wrong with you (beyond Danzo and the Clan and Shisui dying and Konoha being terrible and-) there’s motivating your baby brother to get revenge and doing *flails arms* THAT.

But on another note can we all appreciate how protective Sasuke is right now? Tiny Emo Murder Boi asked what was wrong with his sensei. Then when he found out about Itachi he went tearing after Naruto to go PROTECT HIM. It’s like- openly stated. He’s looking for Naruto to try to get Naruto AWAY from impending death by Itachi. He’s running right into the jaws of the person who did ALL THAT MENTAL TRAUMA TO HIM. He’s literally having flashbacks while looking for Naruto (ala how we know what happened during the Massacre) and yet he’s still trucking.

And I know him trying to stab Itachi in the heart with a Chidori was Dumb and Naive but like- kudos to the kid for trying and not just Shutting Down™ the second he heard Itachi’s voice again.

Also also WHERE THE FLIP IS JIRAIYA?

He’s either oblivious and stupid enough to be fooled until the last minute by a woman who is NOT doing this of her own conscious will

OR

He knows this woman is under genjutsu (essentially unconscious/not aware of her own actions) and is HAVING FUN WITH HER ANYWAY rather than breaking her out of it.

I’m not sure which is more in character, but one of those is a whole heaping lot more  N O P E  territory for me.

Just

Jiraiya you utter useless toad hermit. Who keeps letting you be responsible for literally anything, let alone a child. Even SARUTOBI wasn’t this bad and he’s partly responsible for LITERAL GENOCIDE.

How does Naruto survive your “care” during the time skip to Shippuden oh my word.

You know the Akatsuki are hunting him, you KNOW he’s a jinchuuriki leaking his chakra all over the place, you KNOW THIS and yet you- run off. To flirt with pretty lady. And then you don’t show up until Naruto has been robbed of his chakra and Sasuke has GOTTEN HIS WRIST BROKEN by a known mass murderer. If Sasuke hadn’t been there to delay them with his Uchiha Drama then Naruto might have lost Actual Limbs or been carted off who knew where before Itachi found an excuse to “lose” him.

HOW IS THE PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNSOUND MURDER CHILD THE MOST RESPONSIBLE AND PROTECTIVE PERSON IN THE ROOM RIGHT NOW. HOW.

you have long cat (serval)

ear cat (sand cat)

small evil cat (black footed cat)

spherical cat (pallas cat)

cat who probably watches makeup tutorials on youtube (caracal)

very round cat (leopardus guigna)

water cat (fishing cat)

cat with socks (leopardus colocolo)

grayscale cat (geoffroy’s cat)

and let’s not forget revolver cat (ocelot)

Are You 100% Sure This Isn’t A Lemur (flat-headed cat)

That’s A Fucking Stoat (Jaguarundi)

Foot Fetish (canadian lynx)

(OK I’M SORRY FOR THAT ONE BUT JESUS JUST LOOK AT IT.)

and I move that my favorite, spherical cat, should be renamed Redonkasaurus Rex immediately (pallas cat)

You

Fucking