#adventuremaker21

commission for @adventuremaker21 !!

Like maybe Soos becomes clay and can change into different tools? And maybe Wendy becomes an action figure with gimmicks and accessories? While Stan becomes a teddy bear (since he’s the twins papa bear for the summer?)

I've been debating this with myself tbh!! Originally I was thinking maybe Stan also got cursed, with everyone else being fine, but I've realized I find it very fun to have just Dipper and Mabel be cursed while everyone else are as normal as ever. (So not normal at all, lol.) I just enjoy drawing kid-sized bobble-headed dolls next to regular humans. So Dipper and Mabel are the only cursed ones.

We all love our darling shy, goth girl, Juleka. I present the different AU Julekas we, the fans, have created (plus the canon one). The Julekas we have are:

1 - @ladyadalicialove - Salem (Black Cat!Juleka)

2 - @sorcerymuses - Beach Mheala (Bee!Juleka)

3- @justanotherpersonsuniverse - Panthera Noire (Black Cat!Juleka) - Panthera Noire AU

4 - @sassyduckqueen - Culpeo (Fox!Juleka) Rise of Anatis AU

5 - @zoe-oneesama - Purple Tigress Redesign - Scarlet Lady AU

6 - @adventuremaker21 - Violet Tiger - Protectors AU

7 - @bigfatbreak - Thalamos

8 - Canon - Purple Tigress

9 - Mine - Juleka - Scions AU

10 - @taldigi Precanon/Ladybug classic Bat!Juleka (I think Akouma, but plesae correct me if I'm wrong) Fashion Club AU

Thank you to the anons who suggested most these Julekas and for @authorambermkestner for picking which of my AU Julekas to use.

I've got a couple of fix pitches for Lila under the "Lila Deserves Better" and "Lila Salt" tags, but my personal preference is to just not use Lila at all. I cannot stand her and the way she poisons everyone around her, making them all look terrible. To make Lila work, you need to fundamentally change her writing and the way everyone else interacts with her, basically make her an OC, and I just don't have any interest in doing that when I don't need her to make the story work.

Lila is the kind of character I'd only introduce if I was forced to setup a sequel or prolong the series past the Gabriel arc. If I had full creative control, then I wouldn't do that. The story would end with Gabriel's defeat because it's incredibly hard to top Gabriel as a villain. His motivation and ties to Adrien make him infinitely more interesting than any other villain could ever hope to be. A villain being bigger and badder just can't compete with the emotional gut punch of the villain being so closely tied to the heroes. No matter what powers you give them, they will always be a downgrade.

Even if they give Lila some wacky tie to the heroes, it's going to feel far less genuine and compelling. I'm fully expecting that tie to not exist or for it to be something bonkers like Lila being from the future. Either way, I'm not excited.

I could obviously use Lila as a petty mean girl, but I have Chloe for that. Even if I redeemed Chloe, I probably wouldn't bring Lila in to replace her because Chloe's redemption would be pretty drawn out. By the time it's ending, we'd be nearing Gabriel's defeat and it would be odd to bring Lila in then. The closer we get to the end, the less the civilian side should matter. You should be kicking off reveals and completely ruining any hope of petty school drama feeling worth discussing.

And if I couldn't draw out Chloe's redemption due to the show's format? Then I wouldn't redeem her because her redemption requires the type of format that lets you draw it out.

As a final note, I don't dislike the idea of the Miraculous team fighting someone other than Gabriel. I think you'd just need to do one of three things to make it work:

Have those fights come pre-Gabriel. Let the first few seasons be normal superhero nonsense, but the existence of the miraculous gets Gabriel searching for a way to save Emilie, leading him to find the butterfly. Maybe Lila starts with the butterfly and Gabriel gets it? Either way, he now becomes the final boss, so to speak

Let Adrien be a villain during the Gabriel arc and have the rest of the show be his redemption as the heroes fight a new threat. That maintains the emotional core that canon has lost while separating that core from the villain side of things.

A one shot that’s connected to the main story I’m writing about how the reveal (yes, THAT REVEAL) happened in my timeline.

It’s almost 1100 words, but please go check it out and leave a review!