#bridgette chen

So everybody loves to plop Felix down into the show, but nobody ever thinks about putting in Bridgette, I get it she looks a lot like Marinette and they have similar personalities but guys there is potential! (okay and I’m saying this as someone who did not like Bridgette in the PV, plot twist I also didn’t like Felix sooo growth)

-Bridgette Chen is also a model, an up-and-coming one at that (I’ve had this headcanon for so long guys, I just loved the idea that she wasn’t a designer but instead a model, I mean in the PV we even see her posing with an umbrella on the street like it’s an amateur shoot)

-She’s from new money, her parents being famous in the cooking/bakery scene on her father’s side but big in the jewelry and cosmetics scene on her mother’s, and one day she’s chosen to model with Adrien

-They’re fast friends, and Adrien of course says that she would get along well with his friend Marinette

-For Bridgette, she is infatuated with this sweetheart just like she was with Felix in the PV

-For Bridgette’s personality, she is very nice, excitable, trusting, and naïve; she is actually too trusting as she can let herself be taken advantage of and mixed with her naivety it can be really bad

-Well she actually mentions that she will be going to Francoise-Dupont soon so she can meet all his friends

-Alya sees the shoot and immediately calls Marinette about the fact that she was in a shoot with Adrien, she only realizes when she actually reads it that it was Bridgette

-Bridgette joins their school and is instantly popular with everyone or at least most everyone...

-Marinette’s been burned before, but she tries anyway to be as nice as possible to Bridgette and be a friend; she doesn’t like however that Bridgette seems to be replacing her even more than Lila. Bridgette is genuine, so genuine, oh you couldn’t get this girl to lie good even if you said it would save your life she just has everything on her face at all times. She also makes promises that Lila gave a reality, she can actually get you the meeting with producer, she can actually get you the high end make up or talk with fancy manga artist; and what’s worse is that Bridgette believes Lila and her lies, so when Lila asks if she can say that it wasn’t Bridgette who got them all to a fancy yacht party, she agrees. The girl is a fool and a half.

-Marinette also doesn’t like that she is making way more progress in the love department with Adrien than she or maybe even Kagami is. Because Bridgette is so easy to love, she’s fun, she’s kind, she’s caring, she’s beautiful, and she goes out of her way to try her hardest with people

-Marinette just can’t help but feels that Bridgette is replacing her, everyone keeps saying that her and Marinette are so similar and Bridgette is so nice and sometimes Marinette thinks that maybe she is the one who should be the hero, the one who should be the class president, the one who should be the best friend and with Adrien and no one would care if Marinette disappeared because she’s not good enough

-This makes Bridgette a rival in all aspects for Marinette, and a genuine threat without being an unlikable character 

-And her character flaws are good, she’s naïve, she craves affection so desperately that she’ll give whatever for people, she’s impulsive and doesn’t always think her actions or words through, she wishes to make people happy no matter what, she’s an open book, she’s a total pacifist who doesn’t want people to fight no matter what, she’s an enabler, and she has tunnel vision with most things 

-She’s a lot like Adrien, to the point where it could make Marinette not love Adrien as much because he is so much like Bridgette

-Chloe and Sabrina as a rule don’t like any girl who’s in competition with Chloe

-Lila however both hates and loves Bridgette

-On one hand she’s a rival for Adrien’s love, Adrien her ticket to everything she’s ever dreamed of, Adrien who is hers as a rule because she’s fought so hard for him and she never gives up anything she wants, Adrien who Bridgette clings to and stops from hanging out with Lila and how dare she! She should be Adrien’s top modeling partner not some Marinette look-a-like

-Oh and she’s more popular than Lila with the class to! Bridgette is everything she wants to be-the saintly girl, the heroic angel of the class, the girl with connections-but that leads her to why she loves Bridgette as well

-Bridgette can get her whatever she wants: A meeting with Clara Nightingale? Done! A meeting with an artist and Bridgette pays for the artist to paint her? Done! All the meetings she could ask for and all the opportunities. She doesn’t ask to meet anyone she’s mentioned before in her lies because Bridgette is loose lipped enough to let anything slide. Just because Chloe, Marinette, and Adrien don’t use their connections to expose her doesn’t mean Bridgette will do it on accident.

-But, if she asks Bridgette to say that the charity for Prince Ali was because of her than Bridgette will do it, because Bridgette trusts Lila and sometimes Lila twists the words just so in all the right places to make Bridgette think “oh yeah! this was all because of lila and not me!”

-Bridgette is so gullible and kind friendship wanting that she’s so easy to manipulate and it’s music to Lila’s ears.

-And if Lila uses Bridgette to turn the class away from Marinette-because of course she hasn’t given that ambition up, why should she?-well that’s Lila’s business and not anyone else’s

-Adrien, Adrien’s conflicted, because on one hand he knows Ladybug wouldn’t do a lot of these things, knows that Bridgette can’t be Ladybug because she’s not a puzzle solver like Ladybug and is so open that surely she would’ve let something slip and she believes Lila wholesale and Bridgette didn’t know Adrien until after Aspick and she’s so unlike Ladybug but also...

-But she looks so much like her, and she’s so kind just like her and just, she’s the epitome of what Ladybug should be and maybe it’s a disguise?! Maybe Ladybug is such a good liar that it looks like all her emotions are plan to see and maybe Ladybug does want him like Bridgette does...