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Merry Christmas to @their-destinys-writer! I was your Secret Santa for the @mlsecretsanta

When you said you wanted MariChat, I just instantly gravitated towards all my favourite tropes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun writing it!

Thank you to @trying414 for beta-ing this fic and to @afayebray for help on research! 🤭

A Very MariChat Christmas

Rated: Explicit

Tags: Secret Santa, Identity Reveal, Christmas Smut, Aged-Up, Fluff, Awkwardness, Oblivious Adrien Agreste, Friends With Benefits, Boss/Employee Relationship, Probably not ethical workplace relations, These are my emotional support idiots your honour

All the MariChat tropes in a Christmas fic

Summary

Slowly, he motioned towards his gift sitting under the tree and suddenly felt a bit embarrassed. He didn’t plan on drawing Marinette’s name from the hat, but when he did he was so excited. Now, he was more worried that it looked like favouritism. He could see Marinette handing a gift to her Secret Santa, Antoine, who opened the box to find a pair of humorous socks with bells on the end. Antoine thanked her and hugged her, a little too tightly, he thought.

Maybe he was a little jealous.

Adrien tapped her on the shoulder. His heart skipped a beat as she turned around.

“Merry Christmas,” he said shyly.

Her mouth opened into a wide grin as she took the present in her hands. “You were my Secret Santa?”

“Purely by accident, I promise,” he blushed.

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An Akuma alert interrupts Marinette and Adrien’s work Christmas party which leads to a certain cat visiting late at night. Who would have known that a little Secret Santa gift mix-up could change their lives forever?!

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Married at First Sight AU

Explanation for those who haven’t seen the show, the premise of Marriage at First Sight is that two strangers are paired by relationship coaches and agree to get married.

Relationships: Marinette x Adrien

Minor relationships: Xavier Ramier x Olga Mendeliev, Socqueline x Wayhem, Lila x Theo Barbot, Kim x Alix, Chloe x Luka

Rating: Mature

Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Ex-Lovers, Aged-Up, misunderstandings, canon divergences, semi arranged marriage (they signed up for it), accidental reveal, crack-treated-seriously, slow burn

Summary: When Ladybug and Chat Noir broke up, they had agreed to never speak again. The next time she saw him, he was standing at the end of the altar, ring in hand and ready to marry her. For any other girl, being Married At First Sight to Adrien Agreste would have been a dream come true. But for Marinette, it was a certifiable nightmare.

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Thank you to my amazing and talented friends from the 2024 Miraculous Big Bang server. A special thank you to @burntwaffle12 @piratesandpizza and @yellowbullet100 for all their work beta-ing and making art along the way!

Here is a snippet from the first chapter ‘First comes Misunderstandings…’

It all started with a simple misunderstanding.

Like most things in Marinette’s life, the misunderstanding snowballed, becoming bigger and bigger until it was an avalanche and she’s cold and it’s white everywhere and she’s miserable and she doesn’t know how to get out of it.

Fun times, basically.

Sort of that feeling you get when you accidentally find yourself standing in a white ballroom catching her not-boyfriend in the middle of a romantic dance with his ex kind of miserable. Maybe boyfriend was too strong a word. They had only just confessed to each other their feelings and they hadn’t even kissed.

The Diamond Ball was only the first in a long line of deceit. When Marinette used Zoe’s invitation to enter the Diamond Ball, the first thing she heard was Chloe Bourgeois’ loud obnoxious voice from across the room. Marinette turned the other way, heading directly to the podium where Adrien and Kagami were sitting. She just wanted to tell him it was okay, that she understood his obligations as an Agreste… that she didn’t even want to go to the ball anyway.

But her courage soon faded away as Adrien smiled at his ex-girlfriend. The way he looked at her - with so much emotion that she thought was only reserved for her. She tried to convince herself that it was only that Adrien was doing a convincing job of being in love - he was a model after all, he could fake a smile like the best of them.

Half truths and pretty white lies.

A/N Canon divergence:

Marinette never confronted ‘Adrien’ at the Diamond Ball, so Argos never happened. The events follow roughly the same events leading up to the London Special and post season 5.

Thank you to my amazing and talented friends from the very unhinged, very hilarious Miraculous Big Bang server. A special shout out to @burntwaffle12 @piratesandpizza and @yellowbullet100 for all their work beta-ing and making art along the way!

Fanart for my fic Queen Marinette: A Royal Engagement for the 2023 @mlbigbang.

You can read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52857853

Chapter 7 updated!

Reception to Follow

Chapter Summary:

After the ceremony, the bride and groom meet their new family members, complete with speeches from the best man and Father of the Bride. Tensions abound with renewed friendships but the cake cutting is always a crowd pleaser.

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Photo credit Buzzfeed (Wedding Day Red Flags) but edited by me 😂

Chapter 6 updated!

I do or die (Melodrama not included)

Relationships: Adrien x Marinette

Tags: Semi-arranged marriage (they signed up for it), Reality TV show, enemies-to-lovers, slow burn

Rated M for Mature (suggestive language, no smut) and swearing.

Excerpt:

Marinette barged through the old wooden doors, marching out into the garden while the rest of the guests looked on in horror. The redhead jumped to the front and held her hands above her hair to get everyone’s attention. “We will take a short break. Please talk amongst yourselves! Thank you for your patience!”

She let out a scream as the door slammed shut.

This was not possible!

They wrote down their exes - but she couldn’t just well write down Chat Noir. Before today, the time they saw each other they parted on bad terms and there was a lot of unresolved tension. They had kissed and fooled around a bit in their suits and outside of the suit, it was barely even hand holding. She didn’t even think about writing down Adrien’s name because the chances of him being paired with her were astronomical.

“Before you formally quit, remember your contractual obligations,” the red headed lady warned.

Marinette startled. She was so quiet that she didn’t even know that they were standing right behind her. “What do you mean?”

“Well, you know, there's a lot of expenses that we have to pay. There’s the venue hire and the staff, you know, not to mention catering. So some level of compensation would be ideal.”

The red head handed her a tablet, on it she recognised it as the network contract. Marinette looked at the bottom line with alarm.

“I—,” she protested meekly. “But I don't have any money!”

“Well, you should have thought of this before you signed with the network,” the woman replied snippily.

“Yeah, but I didn't think that you were going to set me up with my ex boyfriend.”

“We had asked you to fill in the questionnaire and list all your exes. Don't you remember?”

Marinette remembered. Because he was fucking Chat Noir! There was no way she could say “I can’t marry him because I am Ladybug and we happened to date before I realised we accidentally killed his father.”

Fuck this. She thought testily. Shit like this was always happening to her. Why couldn’t it happen to someone more deserving (I don’t know, say, Lila?)

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Written for the @mlbigbang2024

Some pretty pictures below the cut.

Chapter 11 updated!

Finally, we’re onto Act II! The honeymoon period… which is definitely not what we normally expect from a honeymoon.

Chapter summary:

They always say travel with your significant other to see if they are The One. Surely in Australia, the couples can find out if they are truly meant to be.

Tags: enemies to lovers, sort of fake marriage / arranged, based off the reality TV show Married at First Sight

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Photo Credits Mark Fitz (Airlie Beach, Whitsundays)

Chapter 9 Updated!

Tags: Adrinette, Forced Marriage, Reality TV Show, There Was Only One Bed

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For the first time, the five couples are waking up married to a stranger; before they can leave on their honeymoon, each spouse will have brunch with the other newly weds.

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