#bellklaes

- Marinette is the heroine; Adrien is the crown prince; Chloe is the main villainess (Lila comes up at some point)

- Adrien and Chloe were engaged; Adrien wanted to annul their marriage long before meeting Marinette but with no success

- Adrien and Marinette fall in love and condemn Chloe villainess style

- Akumatized Chloe tries to kill Marinette and she gets executed as a result; said execution leads to the release of a lot of evil or something and Adrien winds up dying

- Marinette is traumatized but suddenly remembers her other life as a player of an otome game + save file screen shows up in front of her and she goes back

- She doesn’t remember how to prevent the bad ending so she does time loop after time loop to figure it out

- Her personality in the og timeline is more like the typical innocent heroine, but due to the time loops, she becomes more overprotective and more stalker-like (like in canon)

- Adrien loves her no matter what she does; it is his destiny

- At some point, she wonders if the problem is him being with her so she does her best to befriend Chloe in some loops or to bring them together (she gets pretty close to possibly changing the ending, but Adrien still loves her and Chloe still gets akumatized)

- In the present route, she is trying to get them together; however, she chose the wrong time to do that because Chloe somehow remembers her previous life being executed/killed this time arouns

- Chloe remembering that she died tries to be super friendly with Marinette and begrudgingly tries to get her together with Adrien (Marinette is like wtf and is sus about her behavior)

- Chaos ensues

bonus doodles from when i was first thinking of the au:

it was initially gonna be just marinette as an npc who recovered her memories and caught the interest of chloe but i scrapped it