#lilabug

aw man this sucks but alas i can't work on it anymore

Original Script below! It gives more context

Didn't really know what to do for this prompt, so I decided to draw Lila's reaction to my Ladybug redesign (which is still a work in progress)

I need Ladybug to be a little bug freak or I think I may die, bc what if instead of miraculous ladybug it was miraculous freakybug, and instead of serving paris she just served. Also she's taller than Lila in her ladybug form bc I said so <3

Anyways Ladybug is showing off her mandibles, and Lila is both horrified and also having realisations about herself lmao

No Shading Version:

As usual, Lila's real identity is Lila Rossi (it's the only one that makes narrative sense unless she's some kind of supernatural being), and I use the original names because I'm Italian and Gabriel's villain identity being Papillon here sounds like he's calling himself a bowtie.

And for the first time in my writing career I need to give you a trigger warning, in this case for human trafficking.

Marinette had no idea where she was. She had been going to a date with Adrien when someone put cloth over her face and she felt sleeping, and when she woke up she had found herself tied up, blindfolded, gagged, and held in some very tight space. She hoped what she thought wasn’t happening – and as much as she was willing to call up on Tikki to escape, she couldn’t unless the gag was removed.

She knew there were people with her, she had heard them, but she didn’t know what they wanted. She didn’t even know what language they were speaking. Suddenly the door of wherever they were opened and closed, and she heard a familiar pair of boots.

“Hi guys? The boss sent me.” the very familiar voice of Lila Rossi said. What had she done?! “Plans have changed, the girl comes with me.

“No, girl ours.” a gruff voice said. “Your boss sold she.”

“I know, I know… Thing is, he just found out that his son’s preferred fiancee is sterile, and you know how the wealthy are. He wants a legacy, he wants his son to have heirs, and the fiancee looks so similar to the girl that their children could be mistaken for each other.”

“She ours.”

“Of course. The boss is an honest man-”

Lila was interrupted by a laughter that went on for a good minute.

“As I was saying, he’s an honest CRIMINAL, and has given me a payment for you.” Lila continued when the laughter ended.

“Сапфир!”

“200 carats. He didn’t have many diamonds left on hand, and he knew you’d leave soon. So, are we good?”

Someone else said something, before shouting in fear.

“I take he’s a new one? Or he’d know the boss wouldn’t let me come here without taking precautions, like the Remington at the other hand of the laser pointer.”

A gunshot.

“He was fool.” the gruff voice said. “Take girl. Leave.”

“Of course. Thanks for your cooperation.”

Lila came close, and Marinette felt moving – a trolley. They stuffed her in a trolley. Lila carried her away and opened the door – and before she closed it, she heard Chat’s boots landing, and then jumping inside. Then Lila closed the door, and she could hear muffled screams and gunshots.

She heard a zipper, and then the blindfold and the gag were removed. And she could see a REALLY angry-looking Lila Rossi.

“You have no idea how much you owe me.” Lila told Marinette.

“WHAT HAPPENED?!” she shouted, the only outward sign of the fear she still felt.

“Long story short: Gabriel Agreste doesn’t want you to date Adrien.”

“What.”

“He hired me to keep an eye on you and you away from him, and when I had enough basic human decency to not do something really drastic to keep you from dating him he fired me. I became Hoaxer, and after the rampage I found out I had a hard drive full of his secrets, because of course even as an Akuma I’m smart enough to remember who I really wanted to fuck up and do exactly that with the brainwashing powers I had. I started preparing a formidable revenge, discovered Team Flare exists and he’s actually Papillon, Gabby I mean, and just as I was finalizing the first draft of my grand plan to destroy him and take revenge on Ladybug at the same time the surveillance I was keeping on him with the stolen info told me the asshole had sold you to the fucking Russian Mafia.”

“What.”

“And before I could even reason it was too much I called Chat Noir and gave him all the information I had, and we came here to exchange you with a big synthetic sapphire I had at home because reasons. I gave up the revenge on Gabby and the only real chance I ever had to take one on Ladybug to save your ass.”

“Why did you do that?”

“I’m wondering that myself. Only thing I can think is that I’m somehow in love with you, and we both know it’s not that.”

Or was it? Alya said she and Lila were too fixated on each other for it to not be romantic, and she knew Lila well enough to realize what her giving up on her revenge meant. She had seen her throw off Papillon’s-no, GABRIEL’s brainwashing while she was Chameleon because she wasn’t satisfied with the revenge she could take that time. Or maybe…

“How do I know it’s not all some weird plan to get me indebted?” Marinette demanded.

Lila snorted. And smiled – and why is she crying?

“Why am I crying?” Lila asked. “You just showed your paranoia and proved you aren’t too traumatized, and I’m happy and crying… Forget it.” she said as she pushed Marinette off before cutting the zip ties with-safety scissors? “You fucking owe me, and you better find something good.”

_____

Lila was a hero. The hero who discovered Papillon’s identity (because the media were refusing to use his Monarch moniker) and exposed a vast rich people conspiracy, the self-proclaimed Kingdom (though the Team Flare nickname was taking roots). Yet she couldn’t enjoy the glory.

She couldn’t even enjoy the chaos from the collateral damage, with Kagami (Lila still couldn’t avoid laughing in her mind at the name) back to Japan with her grandmother after her mom was arrested (and the bodyguard was tased by Kagami herself), mayor Bourgeouis resigning in disgrace for letting one of the prominent terrorists manipulate him, that Felix jerk turning himself in (and that explained how exactly Gabriel got his hands on the other Miraculous), Adrien breaking up with Marinette out of guilt over what his father had pulled (and this one just drove Lila spare. It made no sense to her, it was Gabriel’s sin, not his), and the big American billionaire lobby gunning for president Hombee being torn apart by its own pawns (literally, in the case of the orange guy) thanks to one of Audrey’s secret children (how many did she even have?!), the one she got along with, being part of it.

The situation was better with the gratitude, with Chloé and Zoé starting to reconcile and having thanked her for allowing it, the hanger-on (the one with red hair and a witch’s name. Hilda or something like that) having brought her her favorite cake, only gigantic, Nino throwing her a feast for saving Adrien from his father, and both sets of Adrien’s grandparents showing their gratitude for the same (genuine gratitude. From the Duke of Westchester and Munster. And Marinette said her lies weren't believable), and even Gabriel himself thanking her for stopping him in a brief moment of lucidity before the madness induced by using a Miraculous selfishly finally got him for good, but she couldn’t properly enjoy it.

No, for some reason she was fixated with Marinette (who she was starting to suspect was Ladybug. Her being unreachable right when Marinette was being trafficked was suspicious and adding up to a few other things), how she looked at her after she saved her out of basic human decency – she didn’t want a badge for doing the bare minimum, so why was Lila so fixated with the look of gratitude the annoyance gave her when she freed her?

That was what Lila was thinking about as she was hiding from the latest party held to celebrate her at the embassy. It was also why she had stolen the cigarette pack, maybe those things could get her to calm down as they said-

“It’s going to ruin your lungs.”

And here she was. Ladybug, the heroine. She had been invited to the party, and while she had skipped most of the celebrations she had come to this one.

“I don’t care, Marinette.” Lila said, trying to see how she’d react.

“Listen, the-Marinette?! Who? Who’s her, I don’t know-”

Lila smirked – she had found her. It could have been annoying, finding her identity like this, but she knew the girl.

“You have no proof.” Ladybug said the moment she realized Lila now knew for certain.

“Don’t need it, I just wanted to know.” Lila admitted. “That, and why your old suit was so plain, you have better fashion sense than that.”

“Chloé was horrible back when I started.”

“Nice to know. And now you owe me even more, what with the mess of our first meeting.”

Ladybug took a long, tired breath, then pulled out a hexagonal box containing a rather familiar and infamous jewel.

“Lila Rossi, this is the Miraculous of the Pea-” she started.

“Ma ti sei bevuta il cervello?” Lila demanded, surprised at the utter STUPIDITY of Ladybug giving her, a sworn enemy, a Miraculous. “Besides, you got everything back, didn’t you?”

“The Butterfly was stolen from police custody, and Natalie is missing with Emilie Agreste’s pod. You are one of the smartest people I know, and what you did wasn’t just basic decency. So, do you want to be a superheroine? A real one?”

I release a poll about Marinette and Lila/Cerise. They exist multiple variants from this ship. I named it: The Lovepentagon.

It concerns Marinette, Lila and their alter-egos (Ladybug for Marinette; Cerise and Chrysalis for Lila).

Tried making a meme, failed, so I’ll just write it.

Lila getting Akumatised to try to ruin Ladybug is out.

Lilanette Week 2020, Day 8- Love Square

FINE!!!!!! I CONFESS I ALSO SHIP LILANETTE. please guys you must understand

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Lila, or rather Vulpecula, was packing. Marinette, that she had long figured out was Ladybug, had seen her transforming, and to make things worse that had happened on cameras that Sabrina Raincomprix had access to. Meaning that Paris’ white cape community now knew who had stolen the Fox Miraculous, and the police would soon.

And while statute of limitations for theft was six years, it could be easily argued that being out of the country for most of the time she had the Fox Miraculous warranted a suspension from when she left to the day she returned. Assuming they hadn’t just classified it as terrorism and/or trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, that was THIRTY years.

She was going to leave France and the entire European Union. Where for? Not Achoo, King Alì liked her as a friend but the economic reconfiguration of the country depended on Europe, and a good king will throw his friends, family, and even himself under the bus for the good of the nation. Same went for Outremer, the country was much less messed up than the blood soaked remnant of British colonial divisive policies it was before unification in 1992, but what happened the previous year meant they could ill afford messing with the EU.

The US, maybe. Vulpecula was well liked for exposing the redcaps’ plan for electoral fraud and smashing their insurrection with the first test of using the Mirage to influence human minds directly, so the Heroes may not extradite her.

Or she could go to Chipan, the Yín Shuǐjīng Dynasty had the stated goal of regaining control of the Miraculous (why did they even claim to ever had control over them, she had no idea. But the Order of the Guardians CONFIRMING the claim in the same statement that declared they were duty bound to maintain neutrality and thus not let the Miraculous under their control made people wonder who exactly the founders of the Yín Shuǐjīng Dynasty actually were), and while they respected the treaty with the Order dated to the Xia Dynasty (first historical proof they had actually existed) the Fox was outside the Order’s control.

As she tried to decide where to go, possibly before Ladybug and her team showed up (especially Mothra and Paonne Blue, the former was the Chuck Norris facts in human form and the latter was clearly Alya), her phone rang with a call from Zoè.

“Ok, Red, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!” she asked once Lila hit the speaker.

“I know I stole your kill, but-” Lila started replying, but Zoè interrupted her.

“What are you talking about?! Alya just published on the Ladyblog that Ladybug is retiring the charges about the Fox Miraculous.”

“Cazz’hai detto? Because I understand the words individually, but together they make no sense.”

“Maybe I can explain.” Ladybug said from the window.

“It’s a trap, isn’t it?”

“No. Even Master Su Han had already agreed after the insurrection in Washington, didn’t the United Heroez tell you?”

“Yeah, they brought Ninjette out of retirement just to track me down and tell me. I gave them literal canned laughter as an answer.” The kind of stuff you can find in the prank shops of American hero-filled cities is unbelievable. “Besides, didn’t you try and catch me yesterday?”

“Because you TERRIFIED THE CITY! And helped two wanted criminals to escape.”

“Vigilantes!” Zoè protested from the phone. “I-FURY got more criminals than the cops!”

“The archers don’t care.” Ladybug said as she peeked on the phone. “And you called from the Fury costume’s phone, so don’t bother to hide.”

“… Uh. I did. I thought it was a trick.”

“You have that reputation, Pagnottina.” Vulpecula said as Ladybug looked offended.

“My tricks are better.” Ladybug protested.

“And that’s why we expect you to pull a few basic ones once in a while, most wouldn’t expect them. Plus, you just admitted you have reasons for arresting me, even without suspecting it was me to shoot Gabriel.”

“No, I thought it was someone paid by Chloè. You have always been so aggressively Italian that using a Black Star didn’t make sense.”

Lila almost admitted that was half the reason she procured that Yakuza pistol, the other being a plan to frame Tomoe she hadn’t really thought through, but remembered in time Ladybug could well be recording her.

“You want to fuck Lila!” Zoè shouted from the phone. The girl got quite the potty mouth as Fury…

“No!” Ladybug protested, redder than her costume. “Just date for now!”

“Great! Now Maya must try the Marinette Soup!” Because of course they had a bet on it.

Vulpecula said nothing, too surprised from the admission. She has been expecting to be her to take the initiative and to wait for months before the time was right… And here MARIBUG had said it.

“Is that… True?” she asked in shock.

Ladybug nodded, then gathered her courage and said it: “I like you! Please go out with me!”