#genius ask

Glorious perfect.

You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.—The Heart’s Domain

It’s a very well known fact that MJ does not like grand gestures.

Or small gestures.

Or really any kind of gesture, for that matter, unless it involves a middle finger.

Because of this, there’s an ever-growing list of things Peter is definitely not allowed to do: no reservations at fancy restaurants, no celebrating ridiculous anniversaries (literally who celebrates monthly, Peter, geez), and no presents above the reasonable price of $19.99.

It’s a great list. Very thorough, very safe. A completely, 100%, foolproof plan to keep whatever this is from ever getting too serious.

There’s only so much one can do with after school study sessions and leftover latkes, right?

(Or, 5 times MJ didn’t realize she was falling in love, +1 time she did)

Eventually, after listening to “Chloe”, Marinette starts to suspect that “Chloe” might be telling the truth, so she decides that she must test “Chloe” and “Zoe”. She fakes being in danger to see how they react. “Zoe” reacts slightly faster than “Chloe”, so Marinette comes to the conclusion that “Chloe” is lying and that “Chloe” has an evil and manipulative plan. Marinette thinks that “Chloe” must have picked up a few tricks from Lila, because she thinks no version of Chloe could possibly react faster than Zoe when it comes to protecting her. So Audrey takes “Zoe” back to New York again to “correct” her after “Zoe” fails to convince anyone of the truth.

10 years later, “Zoe” gets seriously injured after fighting a villain when Ladybug isn’t around, which causes “Zoe” to not have long to live. Then Ladybug accidentally stumbles upon the truth about “Zoe” while trying to help “Zoe” using magical powers. Ladybug decides that the moral thing to do is to switch Chloe and Zoe back to their original bodies. Once Zoe gets her body back, she blames Chloe for her impending death and for leaving her with 10 years of loneliness, while Chloe got off scot-free. When Lila gets defeated, Zoe steals the Butterfly Miraculous to get her hands on Ladybug and Catnoir’s miraculouses, hoping to “make things right”. Zoe gets defeated by the heroes (including Chloe, who has gotten her memories back) and Ladybug manages to cure Zoe’s injuries.

Firstly, i need to watch the whole movie attentively, Secondly, what are you doing in anonymous asks, write a fic!

Third, that's a little out of character for zoe to do at the end, maybe a more fleshed out angst part, but yes! Gorgeous plotline, would kill to read in detail.

Fourth, Scarabella would know when chloe gets a turn at being kitty, i think plagg and pollen would know too, but either they can't tell anyone because of their powers, or maybe that includes chloe or maybe they are kwami and don't care enough to distinguish if chlo is being good enough as a hero.

Btw, yk what would be awesome? If zoe uses the fact that she looks like chloe to sidle up to lila once she figures out who the new hawkmoth is and manipulates her. Then, defeats her without using powers.

It's like a plan in hatching but very, very fast. She knows lila is losing and in the last few months she steps in, weakens lila from the inside, leaks things accidentally like chloe would, (she knows chlo well enough to manipulate her canonically) and then, when lila is on the run from a fight that injures her, she steals the miraculous.

She then finds out that lb intends to switch em back. So she hides the miraculous away and brings it back out after returning to her now weak body.

Lila is in her hands, and zoe has become a greater threat than lila and hawkmoth combined. She is as manipulative and cunning and angry as lila and as desperate as gabriel. (Upping stakes)

(What hurt her so badly that she thought of doing this?what made her begin in the first place?)

She abducts lila and makes it so that the heroes don't realise that the powers changed hands.

Cue epic fight scene featuring lots of scared parisians, held hostage by akumas, fighting the team of heroes one by one.

But here's the thing about zoe. She's not only persistent and capable, but she's also kind to a fault. She will make sure the rejected akumas hound the target victim until they give up. she will direct each of them on how exactly to fight. She will also ensure that right as they're verging on horrible, painful defeat, she will lead the next akuma victim into the fight AND get that one out to safety, release from the akuma that looks for it's next victim.

The final fight actually lasts a whole week due to this. Zoe isn't defeated because she messed up. She is defeated because she is literally dying. It's not a cutesy end with a lovestory. It's grim war fr. Somehow, despite everything with hawkmoth, chat blanc, and lila, lb and team newly realise the importance of safeguarding the akumas.

Because if zoe wasn't a truly good person, the heroes would have had to deal with the ghosts of blood on their hands, and still they'd have barely scraped by, still they would have been unable to take zoe out.

They had still been unable to take zoe out.