You know what? I'm in the mood to be a bitch.
It's pretty selfish of Marinette to withhold the information from Felix and Kagami that their amoks aren't as endangered as they think they are. Or at least that there is a solid but unexplored possibility of it.
Cause Felix and Kagami came to her in "Yaksi Gozen" explaining how they've wrecked their brains on how to possibly keep their amoks save, but couldn't come up with anything because they are going with the assumption that any damage to it will be their death. They are so convinced of it that they are now rather going with the risk of putting said amoks in Ladybug's yo-yo, even though Felix himself has already proven that that's not a foolproof place to keep things.
And don't get me wrong here, it is my interpretation that amok objects would still get destroyed in a case like them burying them somewhere and then construction work happens to break the objects.
But the key word here is MY interpretation.
I don't decide that and I (we) clearly don't have all the information, and that's what I'm taking issue with.
The fact that Marinette is listening to Felix and Kagami saying that they are so afraid for their lives (due to being Miraculous holders) that they DONT want the objects on them taht give them free will, and instead prefer the risk of putting them in a place of which Felix has already proven isn't as save as they need it to be
And she's just out here withholding the information that their lives are not as fragile as they fear to be. As long as someone doesn't WANT them dead, their amoks can literally be broken and they can still be brought back.
But no, Marinette is not written to prioritize soothing Feligami's fears and anxiety for their literal lives. Shes instead written to let them put their lives out of their hands into HERS because she cant risk them getting justifiedly upset at her for her absolute selfish disregard of Adrien's life.
Marinette will rather emphasise over and over how honoured she feels to be trusted with such a high-stakes duty than allow them to make an informed decision about trusting her in the first place.
We're constantly told to cut Marinette all the slack in the universe for her bad behaviour and actions on other people's expenses because of the responsibilities she has to bear. And yet, here is a responsibility she should absolutely NOT just take on and instead tell these two people of what she has done but also found out.
It doesn't matter how many times Marinette says she feels honoured to be trusted, this isn't about her ego, she should prioritize letting Feligami make an informed decision and telling them that their lives may not be as fragile as they fear them to be.
But even when you wanna ignore all of that, absolutely no argument can be made that could make me change my mind that Marinette here isn't an unbelievably short-sighted and self-centered guardian for not using any of her 5 billion guardian resources AND contacts to talk this case through.
Literally all she has to do is get in contact with the guardians and tell Suhan that her chosen Peacock holder wants more detailed information on his powers. That's it. That may have been all she needed to do.
Because, again, Marinette since s4 has utterly and completely declared herself above the guardian culture she is taking all her power, status, and privilege from. Suhan literally held an entire book in her face and she rejected it because she rather wanted to do whatever she pleases with no compromise or consideration for how anything works cause "she decides that". She didn't want help, less responsibility, alternatives, a superior she can hold responsible in case something goes wrong, nothing. Marinette was literally written to only want untouchable power, status, and privileges. That's it. ALYA is the one who took any interest in the guardian culture. Marinette has never done that.
So yeah, this whole amok case may as well already be long-explored by the guardians. Cause with how strict the guardians were, I can easily see it be the case that the show would say that they used to create Sentibeings just to test the limits of amoks (to, you know, claim that Marinette is a saint of a guardian in comparison, even if she isn't)
My point is that this amok situation is something she as the GUARDIAN should be solving by asking for help from the experienced guardian CULTURE she has pretty much rejected up til now just because she didn't like the thought of her every whim not being the start-all and end-all of leadership.
She HAS resources. She HAS people she can contact about this and she wouldn't even need to tell Suhan that Felix and Kagami are Sentibeings. She literally just needs to say that Felix is the new Peacock Miraculous holder and they have agreed they he (they) wants to know everything about Sentis and amoks as the Guardians know.
How hard is that? Why is Marinette still written to never improve on her not using her 5 billion resources and instead still makes every about how burdened but honoured she is?
All she needs to do is stop lying and keeping secrets and instead ask for the army of help and support she absolutely HAS. All she would need to do is make a compromise on her benefit and comfort and her being the one in full control of everything.
But that's the problem isn't it? Cause that's always at the core of why she isn't doing the things she should be doing.
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