Animan

Adrien - Nino

En: FYI, Marinette's never gonna fall in love with a statue. - Shh! You know im no good with the ladies, especially this one all of a sudden. I mean, dude, do I go up to her and crack a joke? Shoot her a compliment? Invite her to the zoo, play it serious?

Fr: Dis moi Nino, je trouve que tu louches un peu trop souvent sur Marinette ces derniers temps. - Chuuut, oui bon bah c'est vrai je la trouve super mignonne. Tu trouves pas, toi ? Oh, comment je pourrais faire pour qu'elle me remarque ? Je dois faire quoi ? Lui sortir une blague ? Lui faire des compliments ? L'inviter au zoo, la jouer façon tombeur ?

Tell me Nino, I think you're squinting a little too often at Marinette these days. - Shhhh, well yeah it's true that I find her super cute. Don't you think so too? Oh, how could I get her to notice me? What do I need to do? Crack a joke? Compliment her? Invite her to the zoo, play it like a stud?

"Marinette's never gonna fall in love with a statue." Sure dude. Very rich coming from the person who tried to get her to like him by, doing what exactly? Ah yes. Masquerading as a wax statue. Anyway. Adrien's line in French might sound a bit like some kind of jealousy when reading it but it's not, he's just teasing Nino.

Nino after Adrien teases him for wanting to invite a girl to the zoo

En: Well, they have this really cool new exhibit there.

Fr: Bah quoi, il paraît qu'ils viennent de recevoir une nouvelle panthère.

Well, I heard they just received a new panther.

UH UM OH NO *shoves my piles of félix out of sight* how about some custom flavor djwifi for ladyofthenoodle

thank you to @lesbitorte for providing the song 💕

OKAY. So - to SOME of you - this might sound like a strange character to make a lesbian headcanon about. BUT I have to because I seriously thought she was before she got with Nino, plus this is my blog anyways 😂

So enjoy this one, fellow Alyanette shippers!

She's definitely had girl crushes

Alya fangirls hardcore over a few of the show's superheroes - Ladybug and Majestia (if I’m remembering her name correctly?) Like, c’mon. She created an entire blog dedicated to Ladybug! Sure, it focuses on Cat Noir too, but it’s the LADYblog and it’s obvious she’s always been more enthralled with Ladybug. Also recently, she straight up just went with Kitty Noire’s flirty behavior towards her?? Like ALYA.

Also, you can’t tell me she doesn’t have some hidden romantic feelings for Marinette (tbf most people in the show have crushes on Marinette). She likes Ladybug = she likes Marinette. She’s constantly there for her, even more than she is for Nino a good portion of the time - I’ll talk about that more in the next section. She knows Marinette like the back of her hand. For instance, in Gang of Secrets, she was the only one who was able to see through Marinette’s bullshit when she tried playing off her mistake of pushing her friends away as just her being heartbroken. Was she heartbroken? Yes, of course, BUT Alya knew there was more to it than just that. So with that being said….(look at the title of the next section)

She’s closer with Marinette than she is with Nino

So, I’m personally all about friendships and romantic relationships being just as important as one another - this is something important my partner taught me and something that’s easy for me to understand as someone on the aromantic spectrum. However, I’ve noticed it’s not commonly understood or taught to a lot of people. Often times the significant other is placed on a higher pedestal. I believe it’s a heteronormative stereotype that a lot of people follow.

(Also just as a disclaimer: it’s fine if you feel comfortable being closer with your SO than your friends. I’m not saying it isn’t! I’m just pointing out this is a common thing I’ve noticed about hetero relationships and that I personally value my friendships just as much as my SO’s.)

So, if Alya grew up being indirectly taught/shown “the significant other is higher and closer than your friends,” then she either 1) doesn’t follow this or 2) likes Marinette more than Nino but doesn’t realize (or doesn’t want to believe it).

Because hear me out. There’s no denying her and Marinette have this special bond that’s unlike any other in the show. It’s such a close one that - need I remind you - Marinette entrusted Alya first above everyone else to reveal her secret identity to. And Alya never once risked telling anyone this secret, not even to Nino who she says she could never lie to.

She didn’t even once consider dating Nino until talking with him one-on-one

Okay, so don’t get me wrong, I love good ol DJ-Wifi, and the way they ended up getting together was hilarious. But, also consider, Alya had no romantic interest in Nino prior to being thrown into a zoo cage with him. In fact, she put him in the “I see him as a brother” box.

When he had the failed attempt of confessing to Marinette and said “your best friend Alya” instead, Alya got annoyed, and that’s when she had said to Marinette that she sees him like a brother.

I also feel they got together really quickly. Like, there was no build up over time. They got put alone together once and then BOOM now they’re dating. Seems a bit strange, right?

I feel like her behavior mirrors Kagami’s in a way; there’s those bits of comphet behavior. Like I had mentioned in Kagami’s part of my lesbian headcanons, common comphet behavior can be mistaking a friendship with a kind guy as romantic connection. There’s that possibility that Alya made that same mistake.

Alya's outfit

Do I even need to say this? She not only has the butch lez stereotypical plaid flannel-type of shirt but it's also ALL of the colors of the lesbian pride flag.

It's reddish orange, orange, white, pinkish purple, and fuschia. It's like what I had mentioned in Chloe's part of the lesbian headcanons about Zoe having all the same colors as the pansexual pride flag.

Conclusion

I finally had a little time off again and managed to get this mini theory done. I wanted to do this for a while now and I'm happy to finally post something again. ^^

Now with Season 3 over and a couple of Mayuras “featherruptions” (as I like to call them) on screen I wanted to pick up this occurrence from the second season finale once more. In s3, after accepting the featherruption, every victim always stayed healthy whereas Hawkmoth in s2 became increasingly weak and hurt. I want to elaborate on this again and state my Mini theory and my reasons.

Some people might already know this theory because I already posted it on this post a while ago. I’m kinda reposting it again because I updated it and I think it’s a bit wasted at the end of another theory.

So here it is again and lets go!

Before “Miraculer” came out I thought people getting hurt by the featherruption would be the normal effect because of the peacocks brokenness. So the victims would get hurt alongside Mayura for at least s3 (cuz before his featherruption Gabriel was completely fine and fighting) but no, every other victim is perfectly fine. Only HAWKMOTH got seriously hurt!

This means that there is a distinct difference between Hawkmoths featherruption and everyone elses. A difference that normally wouldnt be the case. And I think I got it.

The one detail that DEFINITELY is different with Hawkmoth and big enough to be relevant is that Hawkmoths control-object was CATACLYSMED!

To understand why I think the control-object being cataclysmed beforehand would have such an effect I need to clearify that even though I’m often saying that Hawkmoth and Mayura “corrupt” their butterflies, feathers and the victims, its frankly nowhere true at all. I just like saying it like that. What they do is basically just filling the butterflies/feathers with power and let them find a fitting person so they can 1. build the connection between them and the chosen and 2. then manipulate the chosen people so they join them. There is no corruption going on here. Neither do they break or control either the butterflies/feathers nor the people themselves. They power up and manipulate, thats what they do.

The cats power of destruction on the other hand is a whole different story here.

To explain my point in an easier fashion I’ll start with Ladybugs power as a direct contrast to Chat Noirs.

The Ladybug is capable of purifying the akumas and the feathers. “Purifying” IS the right word to use here because something doesnt have to be explicitly “corrupted” to be purified. As I said, Hawkmoth and Mayura power up, that means even if they dont corrupt them they still change the nature of the feather/butterfly and victims and that is what the Ladybug reverses.

So Ladybugs purifying (and the Miraculous Ladybug for that matter) is basically her taking back all the changes other people did to something. Thats whats happening every episode up to “Miracle Queen” and thats why shes once more the one dealing with the feathers. She reverses what has been changed, no other power does that.

The Cat and the Ladybug are equals and since they are also Yin and Yang for each other it also means that not only do they as individuals and the nature of their miraculouses complete each other, their powers too complete the circle.

So if Ladybug can purify (again, meaning that she reverses every damage and everything that other people do to something) the Cat should be able to corrupt everything with his destruction as her direct opposite.

To keep this paragraph shorter lets just explain this with the example from the Heros day.

The Cats destruction and “corruption” is showing itself here with something Chat Noir is doing all the time but on a grander scale: He isnt completely pulverizing the cane to dust, hes damaging and weakening it to the point were it cant be used for neither its original purposes nor properly for anything else anymore and is easily breakable.

In my theory when Chat Noir uses Cataclysm on the cane he not only does the above, he also inflicts the still existing object with some kind of…lets call it a virus.

Now you may ask yourself “Why? Why should Chat Noirs cataclysm destroy something so hard that it loses basically every usage it had + infecting it with an destructive virus but NOT actually destroying it out of existence?”

And frankly, Thomas Astruc already gave an explanation for this after “Reflectdoll” because people were confused by the effect Ladynoires cataclysm had but instead of believing the CREATOR people rather just shrugged off the explanation as nonsense. Again.

If I remember correctly (and please correct me if I’m wrong) it only happened one other time that the cataclysmed object didn’t turn discolored and destroyed after being hit. That being the bus in “Animan”.

But even this can easily be explained with Thomas’ answer.

Because also another answer for the episode “Reflectdoll” was this reply to the question why the lucky charm gave Mr Bug what he wanted when this never happens with Marinette.

Meaning the power of creation adapts to its wearers mindset and when this is the case for Creation I see no reason why Destruction should be any different.

MEANING the bus didn’t turn discolored and destroyed (only lost its original usages) because Adrien was very much aware that it still had to function as a cage (normally the cataclysmed objects serve no further purpose), so the destruction/corruption only spread so far as its wearer pictured it.

With Hawkmoths cane on the other hand you can bet good money that Adrien INTENDED on fucking that cane up. I mean LOOK at him

Yeah no, that cane just became victim of Adriens hatred for Hawkmoth. RIP Cane.

So the default of Cataclysm isnt “destroying it out of existence” because that is not what “Destruction” is. That is “Annihilation”. Destruction and annihilation are two very different concepts that shouldnt be mixed up but everybody is doing it because of how we use the word “destruction/destroy” in our daily vocabulary. That is why probably almost every one of us at least once asked themselves why Chats cataclysm is portrayed so “oddly” in the show. “He’s not really destroying it, hes just fucking it up!” And thats exactly what hes doing because thats exactly what his power is. He’s destroying it so fucking hard that the cataclysmed object could lose every usage it could possibly have (the usages verify with different objects of course)

He’s not messing with it like Roi Singe either, the object could turn completely fucking worthless. 100%. Even the very MATERIAL its made of! But what hes NOT doing is taking it out of existence because THAT is Annihiliation. Not the concept of his power.

Now working with the actual “destruction” concept the destructive “virus” in the destroyed object seems alot more plausible. Because when Chat Noir uses the power of pure destruction on something, really every usage it could possibly have should be able to be affected by it depending on how much Chat Noir wants to screw the object over (and we already covered that Adrien wanted to see that cane dead which I completely understand, Gabriel beat him up with it in “Chat Blanc” so yeah, screw that cane) and THAT also includes the possibility of it being used as a long distance object for Akumatizations or featherruptions for example.

Without the “Virus” Hawkmoths cane would still have had a consequence free use but WITH the “virus” spreading through it the featherruption got corrupted by Chats destruction and hurt and weakened Hawkmoth so much that a limping Gabriel collapsed still nearby and had to detransform out of exhaustion.

NINO KNOWS THAT MARINETTE LIKES ADRIEN

Marinette in Captain Hardrock: falls in love with a "statue" Adrien and Luka

Marinette in Style Queen: falls in love with a "statue" Adrien

Marinette in Puppeteer 2.0: falls in love with a "statue" Adrien

Coincidence?