One thing that I don't see a lot of Chloe fans talking about is that, it's actually really cute that in Despair Bear, Chloe, the girl whose one of the main traits is to be full of herself, spends the whole episode following someone else's advice, even when she thinks it's dumb, without really questioning it or talking down to her advisor, and she only loses her patience when the butler accidentally humiliates her publically. And all of that was done for the sake of not losing Adrien.
One of the reasons a reform arc seemed like an obvious progression. That entire party was full of future heroes and out of all of them it was *Chloé* who stopped CN from cataclysming Ladybug.
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So, today I rewatched Doudou Vilain/Despair Bear, and I’d forgotten what a cute Adrienette episode it is.
At the beginning, Chloé calls the fire department to interrupt Tom’s baking lesson to the class, and then she tries to blame Marinette. I love how Adrien immediately jumps to Marinette’s defence. His automatic response is “Marinette would never do something like that”. Even though she can’t get three sentences out straight around him, he has a very high opinion of her.
I love how comfortable Adrien is getting into Marinette’s personal space. XD
And then he just leaves his hand there once he pulls back. I don’t know if he’s trying to comfort her or if he just wants an excuse to be physically affectionate. I super buy into the popular fanon theory that Adrien is severely touch-starved.
I’m proud of him for confronting Chloé about her behaviour. It’s a little disappointing that, at the end, when she goes back to her old ways once he says he’ll be friends with her again, his response is a slightly chagrined but fond “She’s never going to change”. I realize that confronting her was a big step, though. I don’t think he’s ever stood up to anyone like that before, and I’m really proud that he tried to set boundaries and expectations with Chloé, even if it didn’t work out in the end.
I think in this episode we kind of see an uglier side of Marinette. It’s clear that Chloé just sets her off. In the beginning, Chloé is being an insulting brat through Tom’s macaron demonstration, and Marinette is annoyed. She’s watching Chloé in suspicion, and when Damocles holds the assembly to find out who called the fire department, Marinette jumps to the (correct) conclusion that it was Chloé. When Marinette sees Adrien talking to Chloé, Marinette loses her temper. Marinette then only decides to attend Chloé’s party because Adrien is going to be there.
Part of me understands because Marinette has been bullied by Chloé her whole life, so distrust, suspicion, and ill-will are totally understandable. Also, she’s young and in love for the first time, and she doesn’t know how to have a healthy crush on someone yet, and, right now, her feelings for Adrien are a little too obsessive. I mean, he’s allowed to talk to other girls, even if he were dating Marinette. Her behaviour puts up a lot of red flags for me, but, like I said, she’s young and has a lot of learning and growing to do so that she’s capable of being in a healthy relationship. I think we’ve seen some of this growth already in Seasons Three and Four. Marinette and Adrien are both amazing, and they deserve to be in a happy, healthy relationship.
I really like this shot showing how Chloé’s bear has been there for her in the past. I think this is a wonderful piece of succinct character development and backstory. I’m very pleased with how they snuck this in there. It highlights a lot of her issues: her father giving her things instead of his time and attention, her mother abandoning her, how she was alone and isolated with only Adrien as a friend... There’s a lot in this one image, and I love it.
I also liked Chloé grabbing, like, five chocolates and stuffing them in her mouth. Mood, Girl. Mood.
Additionally, it’s really funny how Papillon preemptively sends out an akuma to Chloé’s party because he knows it’s going to be a good opportunity to get someone or other. And then he throws a fit when she lets him down. XD Gabriel is really hilarious when he’s Papillon. He’s such a melodramatic nerd.
The above is probably my chief complaint about this episode. Rose, where is your beautiful girlfriend? Why aren’t you dancing with Juleka? Usually, the show does a good job of sneaking JuleRose content into the background for me, but this episode let me down. T^T
Fortunately, it made up for the oversight with the Adrienette dance scene. I love how Marinette bumps into Adrien, and Adrien is like, “Oh, hey. I want to dance with this girl. Let’s go.” And then he looks at her so tenderly. uwu They’re cute, guys. I’m telling you, he loves her already.
And then it gets better when Alya moves their hands and Adrien is just like, “Romantic slow dance with Marinette? I’d love to!”
I love this interaction so much because Marinette is all panicking and afraid of how Adrien will react to what Alya has done, and Adrien just shrugs and pulls her in close and rests his head against hers. Adrien is the one to initiate.
I also love how they keep dancing with one another after the slow song ends. ^w^ (No one on this show can dance in a party setting. XD I guess we need to blame the animation budget.)
Also cool was the move Ladybug uses to break out of Chat Noir’s hold while he’s being controlled and put him in an arm lock. It doesn’t look like any of the hold-breaking techniques that I’ve learned, but it looks kind of similar. I’m using this to support my headcanon that Marinette starts learning self-defence after becoming Ladybug.
It’s also kind of interesting that Chloé is the one to react first and jump in to do something to help when Chat Noir tries to use Cataclysm on Ladybug. I didn’t remember that part. Way to go, Chloé!
It was also cool how Chloé got to help Ladybug fight Doudou Vilain while Chat was being controlled. I’m really proud of Marinette for putting her personal feelings for Chloé aside and acting like a real superhero by involving Chloé and praising her for doing a good job.
I’m also proud of Chloé for stepping up and doing the right thing. I’m really sad that she goes back to her old ways after Adrien forgives her and tells her he’s proud of her for making an effort to be nice. :/ I really want Chloé character development that sticks. I want her to learn and grow and be a better person because she has so much potential. I think this episode shows how cool she could be if the writers gave her a character development arc that stuck. ^.^;
Anyway, the disappointment over Chloé aside, I like the ending of the episode. Adrien purposely goes up to Marinette to ask for one of her macarons when there are literally a dozen other people he could have asked for a sample. He gets up in her personal space yet again and asks, “Can I?” and then he says that her macarons are as good as her dancing. XD Adrien doesn’t even know what he does to that poor girl. All in all, good episode.
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I’m probably not the first person to notice this but Chloe’s everyday outfit is pretty clearly her trying to dress like Mr. Cuddly, probably because he’s one of the only things that gives her comfort since her mom left but she can’t be seen with a teddy bear in public so this is the next best thing
