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A/N: Hoowww about yes?

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Thanks so much, Nonny! <3

“Can you slow down?” Rena Rouge called, chasing Carapace across the rooftops. He came to a halt, chest heaving, and she circled in front of him, worried. “Talk to me. What’s going on?”

“I don’t know if I can do this,” he panted, head hanging. “I think Fu chose the wrong guy.”

Rena Rouge looked around for a moment to be certain they were alone and put a hand on his shoulder. “Nino, you aren’t the wrong guy.”

“That was a kid, Al.” He looked up at her, eyes haunted behind the yellow goggles. “He didn’t look any older than Chris and we were fighting him. What kind of people does that make us?”

“You know no one is themselves when they’re akumatized, kids included,” she said gently.

“Do you remember?”

Rena Rouge swallowed. “Remember?”

“I remember being The Bubbler,” he answered, voice low. “It was fuzzy for a few days after, but then I started having nightmares.” He shook his head. “That kid,” he pointed back in the direction they had come from. “That kid is going to remember that his heroes fought him today. What do you think that’s going to do to him?”

“He isn’t the first child to be akumatized. Manon–”

“You didn’t see his face,” he interrupted. “He looked at me, Al. He looked at me after everything was fixed and he looked so…so…” His shoulders slumped and his right hand went to his left wrist, covering his Miraculous. “Maybe I’m not cut out for this.”

“You had three votes.”

Carapace looked up at her in confusion. “What?”

“Master Fu told us he was passing on the Turtle and Guardianship to someone. He asked each of us to give him a name for consideration. You got three of the four votes.”

“I don’t…”

“Nino, we need you. We need someone to be the heart of this team. We need someone to remind us sometimes that we aren’t fighting the akumas, we’re fighting Hawkmoth.”

He chuckled humorlessly. “So you’re saying I’m stuck?”

Rena Rouge shook her head. “If this really isn’t something you think you can do, Fu will have to find someone else. I only want you to know that we believe in you.” She stepped closer, kissing him softly. “I believe in you, Nino Lahiffe. You’re the hero Paris needs right now.”

His arms wound around her middle as he held her close to him. “Maybe I could set up some kind of support group for the previously akumatized. Somewhere they could talk to us about what happened and know they aren’t to blame.”

“And that’s why we chose you,” she smiled against his chest. “I only set up a forum on the Ladyblog that people are too afraid to use.”

He pulled away slightly so he could look down at her. “Thanks for coming after me. I didn’t realize how much I needed to talk about this.”

“I’ll always be here for you,” she replied, squeezing him. “But for now, we should probably get going. I haven’t studied for that biology exam yet.”

Carapace winced. “And I told Marinette I would have the playlist finished for our group project by tomorrow.”

She stepped away, taking his hand. “A hero’s work is never done.”

Prompt List 

Make sure you know what you’re saying before you talk to a blogger. (it will spread.)

I was gonna do this as Adrien and Marinette but I haven’t done enough Alya and Nino, if not at all..

(I need to work on drawing glasses...)

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