#chloe pepper

theres already a comic sort of like this but... an au where chloe gets the ladybug miraculous with adrien still getting the cat and marinette getting the bee. but adrien still acts as he does in canon ie not f*cking helping or just getting in the way; and Chloe is the one who has to step up her game and she and marinette both have to constantly work together to a) fight akuma and b) prevent adrien from "sacrificing" himself and becoming a bigger nuisance(?) than normal c)prevent civillians from getting hurt. 

eventually adrien will make some stupid mistake leading both chloe and marinette to discover his identity and both draw away from him as civillians as a result, since being a hero has forced Chloe to become a better person.

i think this prompt would give room for an author to develop chloe in a way that she sees how cumbersome fighting akumas is on the daily and will grow to be better because of it

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Lila and Chloe make a promise after Lila is exposed by an akuma who was one of her former friends, and Chloe‘s dad isn’t reelected (and the new mayor won’t put up with her behavior). They say that they’ll meet at a coffee shop in five years and see if they are better people.

They figure it’s a good place to start. 

Chloe is nicer to her dad’s workers and pays for the damage she caused. 

Lila apologizes and takes unpaid internships so she can actually give her classmates the things she promised. 

Chloe works with her mom for a few years and gets her to mention Marinette, the Ladyblog, and Gabriel Agreste’s bad parenting. 

Lila sends a personal apology to everyone she lied to and about. She worked for a few years with her mom and ultimately decided to become a lawyer. 

Chloe becomes a model and speaks out about corrupt politicians. 

They meet up, get coffee and find that they are much better people.

They get coffee more often, and eventually they start dating. 

By the time their ten year class reunion comes around, they’ve adopted a little boy and gotten married.

Marinette is thrilled to see them and them become good friends.

Fifteen years later and Lila’s holding her wife back from telling their son that he’s too young to date Marinette’s child.

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Chloe gets brought on as Queen bee for a chance to prove herself to Ladybug. She does prove herself. By acting as a shield between Chat Noir and Ladybug.

 Her excuse is she wants Ladybug to ‘show her the ropes’. Adrien tries to get Ladybug’s attention like normal, but Chloe gets in the way every time. 

She provides a shield as she chats up Ladybug and they have fun talking. And when the Akumas appears, Chloe is serious. She makes suggestions, she does what’s required of her, she helps and protects Ladybug, but is also careful to stay in commission so she can continue to be helpful. 

It’s one of the easiest Akumas ever.

Adrien is furious. He thought that by sitting out the fight, Ladybug would see how much she needs him.

That didn’t happen, obviously.

Instead it proved how bad of a partner he is. Queen Bee has been doing this for far less time than him but she’s already proven herself to be much more skilled and proper about this. 

When Chloe gives her Miraculous back without fuss, that shows she has grown as a person. Meanwhile Adrien has proven just exactly how he acts and his attitude toward being a hero. 

Both Chloe and Adrien proved who they were. Chloe a hero, and Adrien is a brat.

Suddenly the Paris duo changes.

Chat Noir is nowhere to be seen, but a new ‘Honeybee’ appears.

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Just remember to have Chloe being a better person both in and out of the suit! 

For fun (and to prove how much she’s changed) it would be especially cool to see “Honeybee” interacting with another temporary hero and treating them with all due respect, maybe even apologizing for her past behavior! 

In this AU, Adrien takes it upon himself to help Chloe reform and change her ways for the better.

…Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean helping her become a better person.  Rather, he decides to teach her how to manipulate others more effectively, using subtler tactics than simply throwing her father’s weight and influence around.

Why does he do this…?  For a number of reasons, really.  Their friendship is only a small part of it, and factors in primarily because he doesn’t want to be tarnished by association, like with the gum incident.  Chloe is loud and brash and embarrassing, but still potentially useful; why burn that bridge when he can build her up into a more effective ally, instead?

As Chloe dials back her more overt behavior, this also earns him praise from Miss Bustier.  Adrien is modeling her preferred method of ‘leading by example’, after all - and taking the pressure off of HER to deal with her students’ bullying.  Or not deal with it, honestly.  She gets to pat herself on the back and tell herself that she’s being a wonderful teacher while her students handle everything… including the more insidious, underhanded methods of bullying that Chloe adopts under Adrien’s guidance.

Truthfully, Chloe is only getting worse.  But Mrs. Bustier doesn’t see that.  Won’t see it. Refuses to see it. Prefers to believe that her guidance has made things better when her lack thereof only lets the problems fester beneath the surface.

In this scenario, Lila becomes a wild card.  Does she work with them or against them?  Or play all sides, faking all allegiances - as ultimately, she’s only out for herself and to protect her own interests?

You could also do some interesting things with Sabrina here, if you so chose.  She could fall fully under their sway, or have deeply mixed feelings about the changes in her 'best friend’s’ behavior.  Particularly as Chloe may be treating her nicer on the surface while still digging her claws in deep.

And of course, there’s the matter of how the rest of the class copes with this.  How many are taken in by Adrien’s sweet façade?  Who gets convinced that Chloe is actually changing for the better, and who doesn’t buy into it?  Where does Marinette stand in all of this…?

“Adrien I--I don’t blame you for how horrible I was, because, I mean, I was the one doing all those things, I was the one making those choices, I can’t say it was your fault, because it wasn’t, but I...I mean, it didn’t help, did it? The two of us being friends, always...always supporting each other, even when we were wrong.

Even when what we were doing was wrong. 

Even...when we were hurting people. 

It...it started with us sneaking into the kitchen to steal cookies and lying to each other’s parents so we wouldn’t get in trouble and it...it turned us into monsters.

I let these people think you cared about them. I lied for you by not saying anything. A lie by omission is still a lie, don’t you deny it--and you...you stuck by me even when...even when I was hurting them. Humiliating them.

Adrien I--I was a bully. I was abusing them. And you just...you stuck by me. You defended me. You tried to make them forgive me and I...Adrien I don’t...I can’t blame you for what I did, but I just...I wish just once instead of defending me you’d defended them.

I wish just once you’d have seen past your loyalty and saw that what I was doing was wrong. I wish you could have gotten through to me. I wish you’d have stood up to me, just once, just one time, so that maybe I would have gotten to this point sooner.

I was a horrible person, Adrien, and I don’t even know if I’m a good person right now, I don’t know if I’ll ever be. But I’m going to try. Because I want to be a good person, I want to be better than who I was before. And I really wish you could have helped me get to this point, but you didn’t.

You could have stopped me at any time, but you didn’t. Neither of us did. We just kept supporting each other, kept enabling each other, and getting worse and worse as the time went on. We could have stopped ourselves before we got to this point, before either of us took things this far, but we didn’t.

We’ve been friends since we were kids, we’ve been conspirators since our parents first shoved us in a room together so they could get away from us. 

So that’s what I’m doing for you today, Adrien. I’m standing up to you. I’m telling you that what you’re doing is wrong. You need to stop. You need to just--stop and think about someone besides yourself for just five seconds, please. I know how good it feels, I know how powerful it makes you feel but Adrien--it’s not worth it. It’s not worth the damage you’re doing.

And I don’t mean your reputation, I don’t mean that they won’t be your friends anymore, I don’t mean people will be mad at you and you’ll get in trouble. That’s not what I mean. I mean it’s not worth the damage you’re doing to them.

It’s not worth the damage you’re going to do to her.

Adrien, please, just...listen to me. We’ve known each other for as long as I can remember, and I’m here, right now, trying to be the friend I should have been back then.

What you’re about to do is wrong, and you know it, and you need to stop. And if you make me,  I will fight you, I’ll fight you until I can’t anymore, you’ll have to Cataclysm me to make me stop. You’ll have to kill me to make me stop.

Because I care about you Adrien, but I can’t let you hurt anyone else. I can’t let you do this.

You didn’t do anything to stop me from hurting other people.

But please, let me do that for you. Let me be the friend you should have been to me. Let me stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life. Let me be a good friend to you, like you should have been for me.”