Here’s my counter points to the people who despised marinette for lying:
“Adrien Deserves to know the truth and lying to him is taking away his right to the truth” Adrien also deserves to be happy IT’S NOT BLACK AND WHITE , why are we acting like destroying Adrien’s life with a truth bomb is better than lying to protect him, all it does is make you feel better about yourself,
“Adrien deserves an open and honest relationship and marinette is lying” MARINETTE KNOWS THAT, she wants desperately for him to have that but she also knows that Adrien loves her and breaking up with him isn’t gonna make either one of them feel better, and also are we really gonna act like they aren’t both lying about not being superhero’s? The whole “I’m so glad we have an open and honest relationship” stuff is so dumb because they’re both lying to eachother and it unintentionally makes Adrien look like a huge prick with how often he says it which I’m ignoring bc I know why they’re making him say it
“He’s gonna find out anyways delaying it will just make it hurt more” we’re all gonna die one day anyways but that doesn’t mean you can stab me and be like “oh well it was gonna happen anyways” and also have you ever received shocking/sudden news? That crap does NOT feel good? Adrien having time to cope with the fathers death before finding out he’s a villain is 100% better for his mental health, if he had to deal with his fathers death and finding out he’s a villain at the same time there’s no way he would of coped as well, and part of the reason why marinettes in the states she’s in is her having to deal with finding out Gabriel’s hawkmoth and dealing with the death of Gabriel and how it effects Adrien
“Marinette manipulated the documentary to be fake which was iredeemable” okay to be completely fair the only real lie was the stuff marinette made emille say (which lowkey emille was also being the problem bc marinette was kinda like tell Adrien the good parts and then emille was like oh so you mean lie and marinette was like yeah which was 100% wrong that one she went overboard) but Gabriel DID love his wife and literally would carve the heaven and earth for her and he DID care for his son that doesn’t make him any less neglectful and abusive but he did love him, and it’s not exactly a bad thing for marinette to make sure that these facts didn’t get erased (again her making emille lie was crazy and the documentary as a whole was messed up but there was some genuine good things in there too)
“Alya is just being a good friend holding her accountable and she’s hates lying” straight up the Alya hates lying thing in season 6 is bullcrap girl lied to marinette about her not telling nino she was Rena Furtive (assumibly) lies to her family about her being Rena Rouge and girl was best friends with Ms pathological liar who ruined marinettes life and also Alya not telling Adrien and yelling at Marinette doesn’t accomplish anything, if she truly cared about Adrien she wouldn’t be keeping the secret she said he has the right to know, and she was so invested in finding out which was insane of her to do, if my friend said they had a secret that they couldn’t tell me I would NEVER start investigating the way she does, Marinette confided in her and she took advantage of that, Alya has not been a good friend this season I’m sad to say
Another thing is MULTIPLE people who care for Adrien know the secret, none of them are telling this so called evil secret that Marinette’s a “horrible person” for keeping like why is she getting ALL the hate for it when Emille, Felix, Natalie and now Alya could tell him at any time too and still choose not to and at least Marinette understands the ethical issues of what she’s doing, the rest of them are on a high horse acting like they aren’t also a part of this mess.
Also I feel like a Majority of the marinate haters think we excuse all morally grey areas of her when defending her when I feel like most of us including Marinette herself understand that there’s moral and ethical issues with what she’s doing but we also understand that the issues aren’t originating from her, the issue was with the fact she was able to and forced to make a choice like that,
the fact that people think that the reasonable choice to make is to tell your loved one a secret that will destroy them and then watch their life fall apart and say well I did the right thing is insane to me

















