#ether-solrac

Ok so it begins with Fu actually taking a step back and letting Tikki and Plagg go out and choose weilders of their own. The thing is they both prefer weilders that they can guide and redeem rather than the "best fit." Tikki sees Lila in desperate need of compassion and order in a life that never let her settle down, while Plagg sees Chloé who's seen nothing but strict rules and toxic images and is in desperate need a of a new chaotic and free point of view.

For Lila she kind of calms down in her civilian life and most of her desire for attention and reputation just kind of sticks to the hero side, creating a sort of overly charismatic and showy hero. Shed never admit it but she draws a lot of inspiration from the overly campy 80s style of superhero where it's like all flashing white teeth and bravado. Think Metro Man from Megamind.

Meanwhile the whole performance and responsibilities as a hero just kind of leaves her more tired and quiet as a civilian, she's subconsciously given up on making a big deal about herself and just wants to get through the day until she's a hero again. This has the unintended effect of catching Marinettes attention who tends to have a big heart when it comes to the class. She sees what looks like a tired deperesed girl her age and makes it her mission to cheer her up, often bringing pastries and coffee from her parent's bakery.

This pretty much leaves Lila a confused blushing mess becuase "what the hell? I barely even introduced myself and this girl is already super nice to me?" She kind of finds herself again through Marinette's kind prodding and kind of forces herself to figure just who she is a as a person.

Also a funny side thing, Marinette can't stand the ladybug hero. Since she's not a hero in this AU (at least not at the start) she helps Alya with her blog and as such she's gotten to meet the heroes quite a few times. Oddly enough she's friends with the chat hero but she can't stand the ego of the ladybug hero and finds her to be really fake and obnoxious. It isn't until Lila starts getting closer to Marinette that she starts to dial it back a bit and finds confidence in her real self since thats the personality that made a genuine friend (and what she hopes could possibly be more).

Meanwhile with Chloé, Plagg is just the worst best influence on Chloé. Their entire dynamic is just "aren't you tired of being nice, don't you just want to go ape shit?" and then she does. Cat chloe gives zero fucks and is probably one of the most feral cats so far. She has awakened her inner Yang and she very much wants to punch stuff. Instead of her mentality being about using her hero persona to impress her mother, her thoughts are basically that if no one knows she's Chloé, then she can act anyway she wants.

As much as I love Chlolix, I think it'd be interesting if Chloé goes for Alya and uses her hero persona as her gay outlet (maybe her mother is homophobic or her father can't support her becuase of politics etc) so when she sees Alya becoming a textbook Louis Lane she absolutely goes for it. She kind of takes on this sort of Shego like confidence and swagger where she knows what she wants and that's this cute redhead. this kind of leaves Alya more focused on the cat hero.

As for Chloé's civilian life it's a slow battle overcoming her mother's image if perfection and becoming the person she wants to be. Little by little she kind of transitions into more of a Ryka/ Chloé Couffaine personality. She doesn't stop being "mean" as Chloé but it's kind of gone from bully to aggressive protector. Kind of just sticking up for the members of the class that are a little too nice and would probably get taken advantage of.

Ok that's all I got. Kind of basic but I felt like sharing.

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Ok so to start, instead of a Rift in the pacific ocean the story begins with the peacock miraculous being completely destroyed rather than just broken. Instead of Fu getting away with the rest of the miraculous the entire order is gone and the miraculous (now in a hibernate state do to the magical shockwave) are now scatteredand lost. This also causes the peacock's powers to run rampant and create massive sentimonsters at random all over the world.

This prompts the governments of the world to come together and create the Jaeger program. They discover the dormant miraculous while studying the energy of the sentimonsters and use these to power the mechs. Unfortunately for them, they require compatible users to access the miraculous energy, as well as multiple people per mech in order to function.

In doing so the program gathers the MiracuClass (aged up to around 18) as a training program to pilot the Jaegers and combat the sentimonsters.

Now for some of the mech combinations:

*Chaos Squared: Marinette, Adrien, Luka, Kagami.

-the most experimental and powerful of the Jaegers, but also the most complicated with four arms and multiple modes. While two people have primary control as normal, the other two form an added layer with the effect of having an active subconscious style link for support. The mech also features configurations that can swap depending on the two pilots in the command positions, each one with unique styles and weapons of their own. For example an adrinette combination might be a balanced sword and shield configuration while an adrigami combo might be a longsword/duelist configuration.

*DJ Wifi: Nino, Alya

- the ultimate support mech. This Jaeger is a combination scout and command unit built with every kind of radar and scanner possible as well as sporting powerful sonic weaponry to fight.

*Dusk Garden: Juleka, Rose

- the ultimate in ranged weaponry. Armed with any and every kind of ammunition, they can create a storm of "petals" on sentimonsters.

*The Stinger: Chloé, Alix

- the smallest of the Jaegers but also the fastest and most maneuverable. Think of the personal Jaeger from pacific rim 2 but slightly bigger. Built to be a bit more primal and animalistic, as well as its own powerful set of jump jets, this mech can out manuver nearly any sentimonsters as they grapple and climb their opponents to deal devestaing stabs and shocks to enemy weak points.

*Titan's burden: Kim, Max

-easily the biggest of the Jaegers, this mech is designed to be the tank of the group and incredible brawler. They are the last wall and damn if they'll let anything past them.

*Cottage Core: Ivan, Mylene

-built more like a mobile fortress then a huminoid, this jeager is designed to be the support unit overing extra ammunition and emergency parts/supplies on the battlefield.

That's all I can think of for now, maybe I can come up with more later.

Submitted By: ether-solrac

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Essentially instead of having the butterfly and the peafowl/peacock miraculous, Gabriel actually has the main five miraculous but needs butterfly and peacock since they're actually part of a set of 4 with the ladybug and black cat. Each one one with a different fragment of what constitutes life/reality. Butterfly represents change/evolution, peacock represents creation/imagination, ladybug is life/order, black cat is death/chaos. Together the user(s) have the power to rewrite reality as they see fit.

So basically the heroes only have the butterfly and working peacock to defend against a sort of league of evil where the villains are always the same but the heroes have to use their powers creatively to create the right hero and companion sentimonsters to deal with whatever plan the villains come up with.

I'm thinking maybe Marc for the butterfly since as a writer he can best see how a person's attributes could best translate into a possible hero while Nathaniel could be the peacock as his creativity as an artist could make perfect sentimonsters.

And finally for the evil team I'm thinking Gabriel takes the fox despite being the leader since as a designer he can probably make better illusions. Nathalie could be ladybug as she's more focused on order. Maybe gorilla for the turtle as the protector. And I'm not sure who could join them to fill the black cat and bee positions. As for motivations, in this AU Emile is legit dead. Like absolutely gone and it was becuase of a tragedy. They want to rewrite reality to not only bring her back but also create a "world without pain, suffering, or loss. "

the main lesson of the fic would be that despite how much it hurts, pain and struggle still play a huge part in life and that it's that pain that makes the good moments all the more important as we wouldn't be who we are without both the good and the bad.

Idk. That's all I got for now. Might expand more in a little while but wanted to share this now before I forget it.

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*Bee + Rabbit = Freeze Frame:

- for 60 seconds time itself is completely frozen except for the user(s).

* Fox + Rabbit = Echos of the ancestors

- an illusionary imprint is created of a past miraculous holder of choice. They aren't solid so they can't help fight but they do retain all the knowledge from when they were a holder. This can be a way to get info on a villain that came back or for general advice and training.

*Ladybug + turtle = Biome

-The power of life is infused in an area and the resulting magic turns the area into any kind of environment/biome desired.

Bee + Fox = Astral Purge

- the user is converted into a mental Astral form and allowed to invade a mind with one of a few goals in mind. This can either be extracting a secret, placing an idea inception style, or in extreme cases reawakening a fear to mentally paralyze.

*Rabbit + Snake = Perfect Paradox

- Rather than repeating the same loop until you get the desired result, the user can choose multiple timelines/outcomes and converge those two or three realities into a single reality where they got to achieve everything. (from the outside this would just look like multiple copies of the same person running around but they're somehow hard to concentrate on until the timelines become one again)

*Dragon + Mouse = Split Charge

- The dragons elements are split between copies that are allowed to fully utilize the one element each.

*Cat + Bee = Weakpoint

-Rather than complete destruction, this power essentially forces a weak point onto the opponent like a glowing red dot on a video game boss. This is meant to be a way to seriously damage something that's otherwise invulnerable without disintegrating them.

*Turtle + Fox = Hardlight

-while they won't last as long, all illusions created during this time are hard light and can be felt.

*Ladybug + Fox = Independant shadow

- Can create a single illusion that can act on its own as long as the user has given it some kind of base to go off of.

*Cat + Fox = Fear itself

- an illusion that is seen differently by everyone that looks at it. No matter what you'll always see you're deepest fear.

*Cat + Turtle = Wrecking ball

- the shelter becomes a ball and the then converts the destruction power into just a massive amount of force at once.

*Ladybug + Rabbit = Alternate Support

- instead of a lucky charm, a person or object is temporarily summoned from an alternate timeline to help. For example if another of the same miraculous is needed for a plan then another user from AU. (ex. If this were done in the Panthera AU and they needed a second cat then Chat Noir might be summoned.)

Those are all I can think of for now. As usual if people want more I might make another post with more combos.

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Ok so it it starts again with a Chloé Couffaine type base with her being an orphan after being put up for adoption by Audrey. Only instead of being adopted by Anakra, she's adopted by Caline making her Chloé Bustier. Throughout her childhood Caline tried teaching Chloé about always doing the right thing and let's just say the lesson stuck a little too well. This is still a Chloé that will kick the crap out of bullies, break rules/laws if it means protecting someone, and actively joining protests against unjust politics. That's where she meets Anakra and the two just immediately bond. She loves her mom but Anakra is the one that really UNDERSTANDS her and her thought process. She's the best bad influence ever.

So it gets to the point where Caline wants to meet this mystery pirate woman that her daughter won't stop talking about, and when they do its just "Holy shit, Raka is that you?!" "Holy shit it's Cali!" and it's basically they used to be highschool/college sweethearts before life unfortunately seperated them and now this little blond bundle of attitude has brought them together again. The family just clicks, Chloé being ecstatic to have siblings and Caline getting along really well with the Couffaine siblings, and maybe a year or two later they're a full family on a massive double decker/physics defying Liberty v2.

Anyways that's the family set-up, now comes the crazy part, and where the dynamic changes the most from the original. So it's time for the miraculous to be chosen and Fu gets like a 2% boost to rational thought and thinks, "ok maybe I should choose actual adults." He chooses Caline for the Ladybug when he studies how compassionate she is with her students and people in general. He then chooses Anakra when he sees how she's committed to chaos as a force of chance for the better through various protests. And just for extra laughs dude has no idea he chose a married couple. Anakra recognizes Caline immediately since, and I quote, "I've studied every last curve on that body, like hell I wouldn't recognize my wife, glamor be damned." it takes Caline getting exactly one cheesy flirt from Anakra to break the glamor and realize who her partner is. Fu immediately gets wrecked when he trys to play favorites with the ladybug becuse there's no way these two keep literally anything secret from each other.

I'm a little less sure how they get the miraculous but essentially the remaining three miraculous of the main five get divded amongst the kids. I'm thinking Fox Luka and the flute gets replaced with either a lute or guitar. He can clearly visualize the heart songs for others to physically see as well. Chloé would still get the Turtle in a futile attempt to get her to be more passive, only she just straight up wails on Akumas with it. Full Captain America. She has a strong protective streak and she'll absolutely take the blows meant for her family but like hell she isnt also the one to throw the first punch. And finally that leaves the Bee for Juleka. I think it fits since she seems like the kind to wait in the background like a nija and wait for the perfect moment to absolutely stab enemies right in the back. Also I like the idea of Juleka getting a sort of royalty theme and playing on Rose's love for princes and princesses to flirt while in costume. Although it's less cheesy flirts and more smooth as fuck kisses on the the back of the hand and chivalry.

Ok so yeah that's the main premise. Just an entire family that's in on the secret and they've just got the strongest Incredibles vibe the entire time. Just a chaos family with a bunch of superpowers and tiny gods thrown into the mix. And that's the final thing, like since all 5 of the kwami just live in the house and don't have to hide they're just honorary members of the family and they just get dragged into the chaos just as much. Stuff like Tikki acting like the third mom. Plagg being a terrible influence. Trixx guiding everyone in pranks. Pollen being like emotional support. Wayzz throwing centuries of wisdom out the window becuase wow this family honestly just took logic and rationality out back and shot it in cold blood huh?

Finally there's the ships. Obviously there's a sort of pre-established Anakraline. Julerose is a great fit like always. I like the idea of the "better love square"/Lukadrigaminette for Luka. Just a chaotic combo that he gets dragged into by accident when all he wanted was to vibe. All that really leaves is Chloé who I think would be nice to have a sort of agnst free ot3 with both Sabrina and Alix since this Chloé wouldn't have the negative history with either. Basically bring back what was supposed to be the original "mean girl" trio and just have them all be friends to lovers. Like Chloé is the overprotective caring one thats just naturally big on physical affection and taking action. Alix is the high intelligence low wisdom member of the trio that's the brains of the operation but lacks any self preservation instincts whatsoever. And finally Sabrina is the tired holder of the common sense and organization skills. She's stressed as hell with these two but she wouldn't give it up for the world. The cuddles are a nice motivator too. This also makes it REALLY easy to make Chloé loves red jokes.

Like usual if you guys want more I can maybe throw out more ideas to add to this. Honestly just consider this a playground to do what you want with. Hope you all enjoy it.

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HOLY SHIT THATS CUTE 

We on high Couffaine Hours rn y’all this is great

Ether you did it again you madman

Basically it starts with Juleka being the massive Cryptid that she is and knowing that Lila has been telling lies since Juleka is always in the background observing. Lila sees her as a threat and comes up with some crazy lie about Juleka, only instead of believing her they're like "oh! You have Juleka theories too? Let add it to the board!" and the rest of the class just pulls out a betting pool on various theories about Juleka. Theyre all over the place. Some people think she's a Mafia boss, others think she's a literal pirate who got misplaced in time, some think she's actually a vampire, etc. There's even a single bet that she's the chosen of some supernatural frog God of Cryptids. That last one spooks everyone esle the fuck out since no one knows who the hell wrote that one on the board.

Anyways. This leaves Lila very frustrated since none of her attempts to discredit Juleka are actually working. But what confuses her and leaves her on edge is that despite everything juleka hasnt retaliated against her at all. She spends days expecting some kind of backlash from the goth that has a creepy habit of appearing out of nowhere. It gets to the point that when she's alone she starts having a small panic attack. She looses focus until she feels someone hug her from behind and provide enough support to ground herself. When she's back to normal she turns around to find Juleka is the one who helped her. She asks whey she did it but all Juleka responds is that it's what she needed.

From there Lila just starts noticing small random events that stop her from her lies but still help her. Like one day she lies about having had a big extravagant breakfast or something when she actually just forgot her lunch at home, only to have a random apple appear on her desk. Lieing about being up all night doing something for charity when really she's been busy doing the homework from the days she missed, and just having a coffee waiting for her. Small stuff like that.

She just confronts juelka again and again Juleka's response is that she's giving Lila what she needs. They continue like this, Lila just trying to watch Juleka and her just doing these random acts of kindness and helping Lila out wven when she lies to seem like she's ok. This leads Lila to just taking the time one day to stop and ask Juleka if she wants to hang out and Juleka accepting. Little by little Lila finds herself lieing less and less since juelka sees through them all anyways. They get to the point where they're close enough fkr Lila to ask juleka, what she meant when she said she was giving Lila what she needed.

Juleka responds that she was doing just that. She saw that Lila needed someone in her corner who didn't give two shits about the lies and would support her with what she actually needed rather than what she wanted, no fans, no enemies, just someone to see the real Lila and offer help even when she's too prideful to admit it.

Idk. This came out a little vague and messy but there you go. Tried my best. The short version is basically that juleka is such a massive Cryptid that she knows everything that's going on and decided that instead of fighting Lila she just wanted to give her someone that would help her no strings attached, and then the way Lila responds to this and eventually falls for the girl that saw the lies, and cared enough to push through anayways.

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AWH

I LOVE THAT

YES

I want to go over the heroes now. The idea here is that the only permanent heroes are Marc and Nathaniel with the butterfly and peacock respectively. Some small notes here to start:

1) I don't want there to be secrets between them so they actively know each others identity when they get chosen to become heroes. Like it was a conscious desision by the guardian for them to know who the other is.

2) for their ship, they're not a couple yet but they're already at the good friends with crushes that are obvious to everyone but them stage.

3) just to make things a little easier Marc and Nathaniel are in the same class.

Ok with that out of the way here's what they're dealing with. The guardian actually discovered them through the hero comic that they've been writing for a while now. He could see the values and creativity they show in each issue and he thinks theyre perfect for the miraculous.

They get recruited together and discover that their role is to create champions to defend against a threat that's on the horizon. Their role is basically to find people with the will to rise up against threats and convince them to fight.

Champions can be basically anyone but becuase of the way Nathaniel and Marc see things they kind of go, not for the most obvious choices, but for those they feel need the help the most. Kind of a Steve Roger's thing where they don't pick the person with the most power, they pick the person that would respect/use the power the best.

I don't know what spell/attack would work best for their "origins" but here's an example of a particularly agnsty fight. Gabriel creates a spell that makes it so that everyone in Paris sees illusions of people they lost and one of the people suffering the most from it is Alix who sees her mom. Most of Paris is ready to turn on the heroes and are starting a manhunt for the butterfly and peacock so that they can get their loved ones back. Alix despite the pain is the only one who knows that as much as she wants her mom back, she's only looking at a memory. That so much has changed since then and she's come out of it different. So Marc and Nathaniel choose her as their champion for the fight provide her with powers and a sentimonster to aid her. And while I'd probably have to rethink this later maybe the power she develops is mirrors. And in each mirror she shows the citizens an image of the people that came into their lives in place of the loss. Maybe seeing how despite the loss she's closer to her dad then she was before. Or maybe how moving to Paris after the loss brought her to the class and made her so many new friends, etc.

Okay so that's the main jist. Here are some extra rules and ideas that I want to expand on that don't really fit neat divisions.

1) the limit on miraculous abilities for being kids doesn't exist. It's instead about actually getting accustomed to the magic. This essentially means that although they start with one champion and summon each, as they get more used to the miraculous and learn more from the pages they collect they can have more champions and summons active at once. This also means that unfortunately the villains are getting more used to their powers too, so while they're loosing more spells, they themselves are become harder to fight.

2) after a fight certain champions, instead of releasing the butterfly/feather, get this special pin that's a mix of the two and essentially marks them as potential candidates to be called on again (usually with new or developing powers.) generally speaking the pins will usually go to the class and the others that would normally get a miraculous, plus a few more. Marc and Nathaniel don't nessesarily choose who gets pins an it kind of takes them a while to realize they're finding people with strong natural magic like them.

3) champions don't have to be the same each time they're called but the general idea is that they get more used to being heroes and thus get stronger abilities the more often they're called on. So while they'll still need to find one off champions they eventually start leaning more towards their chosen champions as fights get harder.

4) since identies aren't as much of a problem in this AU since there isn't a mignd control attack every week, the favorite/chosen champions won't know Marc and Nathaniel's identies until way later, but they do set things up so that those with pins are allowed to know about each other form like their own support group that kind of develops into the full class plus extras that would be worth bringing in like Luka, kagami, Aurore, Ondine, Mireille, etc.

Ok theres probably more I can say but I think that's enough for now. Apologies for any typos since its a little late and I did all this on my phone.

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Rose is the gamer with regular appearances from Juleka who is the unofficial co-host of the channel.

Marinette has a design channel where she regularly shows off her new clothes and designs, often getting her classmates to come in as models. Her most prominent guest is Juleka since she wants to be a model.

Adrien is a V-tuber since he can’t actually show his face and “risk the Argeste brand. ” He has a catboy model as his avatar and he does regular reviews and news for anime. He sometimes has Chloé over as a guest (also with her own digital avatar that’s basically a blonde Weiss) but mostly so she can rant for like a solid hour about whatever ship she’s currently secretly obsessed with. Juleka likes to make spontaneous appearances where she recommends the most traumatic anime she can.

Max has a science channel in the same vein as Muppet Labs. Kim is basically his Igor/Beaker and they commit morally questionable acts of science on the regular. YouTube has tried to take his channel down but the kid built a legit AI on his own so like hell they can’t actually block him. now both Google and the government are terrified of him. Juleka is never actually seen on screen as she’s the camera operator but she often chimes in and lists several ways how each experiment is illegal but also providing convenient loopholes for how to get away with it.

Nathaniel and Mark post animated segements of their recent comics and stories. Juleka provides like half of the voices.

Alix and Kim have a channel where they host their dares and challanges for each other. Juleka isn’t technically part of this channel but she shows up at least once a video in the background just vibing and eating popcorn.

Since I’m just going to assume this world isn’t a miraculous one, Alya, Instead of making the Ladyblog, makes a Late night talkshow like conan where she talks about the current trends. Kitty Section acts as the “Studio Band.”

That’s all I can think of for now. The gamer Rose is obviously the main part but I thought it would be fun to see the rest of the class go online in some way too.

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PFFTTFJFJS YES INLOVE THIS

ETHER YOU DID IT AGAIN YOU SON OF A BITCH! Amazing.

“Does Juleka just live everywhere/know everyone??”

The answer is yes. 

I can imagine in Adrien’s little thing she has a little mini tiger girl avatar that just looks like an anime version of her.