#guilty alya

Here’s an idea featuring Alya guilt, Sadrien, and Angrynette. None of which in a good way.

Ladybug has decided to give more permanent members of the Miraculous Team a try and presents the Fox Miraculous to Alya to hold onto as part of a trial run to test if this would work out. Alya is honored and vows to prove herself to Ladybug. To show she’s deserving, she decides to use the Miraculous for good.

And what greater good could she do than help Ladybug’s best friend and get Marinette to stop accusing her of telling lies? She’s only doing it out of jealousy after all, so she would be helping Lila by protecting her and helping Marinette by getting her over her issues. It’s a win-win!

So Alya uses the Fox Miraculous to cast an illusion over herself to appear as Adrien so she can talk to Marinette about Lila. She figures that since Marinette’s antagonism towards Lila is just due to her jealousy over her crush, that she could make a difference by having “Adrien” step in to ask her to be nice to Lila and not let her jealousy keep them from being friends.

She expected Marinette to listen to “Adrien” and back down. She expected her to admit to being wrong and apologize. She expected her to accept anything “Adrien” told her.

Obviously, that was not what happened.

To Alya’s shock and confusion, Marinette is livid. And she’s mad at HIM. She chews “Adrien” out. That it was bad enough that he just sat back and let Lila lie after knowing the truth. That he had said they were in this together. Accusing him of lying to her.

“What happened to ‘as long as you and I know the truth’, huh?”

She full on sobs.

“I guess it really doesn’t matter to you at all.”

This tells Alya two things. First, that Marinette’s hang up over Lila wasn’t just about Adrien. And two, that whatever beef Marinette had with Lila, Adrien KNEW about it and had apparently supported her.

Which is when Alya realizes she made a serious error in judgement.

It comes too little too late though, as Marinette runs away.

But this wasn’t anything too big, right? This was just a minor setback. Marinette loves Adrien after all, so of course her crush will pull through and she’ll forgive him and everything will be okay.

The next day, Marinette ignores Adrien. Flat out refuses to acknowledge or speak to him. She makes it clear she wants NOTHING to do with him.

Naturally, Adrien is hurt by this because Marinette is one of his closest friends and now suddenly is acting like she hates him and he doesn’t know why.

Alya is internally panicking. It’s just leftover anger from the illusion the previous day. It’ll fix itself, right?

Then Marinette invites Alya to her house after school to help her trash all the Adrien pictures. Unfollow him online. Block his number. Delete his thank you video.

Oh. Shit.

Alya fucked up. Big time.

This is a huge circle of angst and hurt that Alya unintentionally created. Marinette is angry at Adrien because of what Rena Rouge did but doesn’t know Rena was responsible. Adrien is upset because he lost a dear friend and doesn’t know what he did to upset her. And Alya is feeling guilty as hell because she caused this and can’t fix it without admitting to someone she’s Rena Rouge and what she had done with the power, which will get back to Ladybug and cause her to lose her Miraculous.

Alya can’t accept that. So she tries to find ways to “fix” things. Without actually revealing her involvement. So she starts setting up situations for Adrien and Marinette to be alone together in hopes it will rekindle Mari’s crush.

Adrien appreciates these moments for all that it hurts him because it at least gives him a chance to try and talk to Marinette. Marinette does NOT appreciate these moments because it’s coming off like Adrien is continuing to try and shove his stupid high road in her face or make her feel bad for being upset.

It comes to a head when Adrien finally has enough. He KNOWS Marinette is mad at him for something but can’t get Marinette to talk to Adrien. So he uses his status as her favorite superhero and tries to get Marinette to talk to Chat Noir.

Which is how he hears about Lila’s threat.

Said threat which happened to involve losing not just her friends, but also Adrien.

Adrien, who had apparently betrayed her by taking Lila’s side.

But...he hadn’t!