#ml ephemeral

Gabriel: I connected the dots

Me: You didn’t connect shit!

And looking at the Chat Blanc transcript makes me 100% sure that Natalie seeing Adrien transforming into CN in that is a lot more realistic, even if it all happened because Marinette’s weird stalking.

Cat Blanc they wrote. It had purpose.

Ephemeral they phoned in.

The cute parts of Ephemeral were very cute, but the entire setup and end were just "whatever man. Make the plot go'

Su-Han shows up and makes a demand.

Luka who hates lies and already knows CN's ID goes along with the plan.

A kwami's magical overload is fixed by setting the clock on a decidedly nonmagical satelite.

Su-han gets told with no new evidence to go F- himself and just laughs about it before asking for a 'pound it'.

Like in Ephemeral, when Adrien is resisting the akuma and then suddenly stops and accepts it? Gabriel touched the ring.

Adrien would have resisted an akuma if his own father didn’t force him to accept it

Cause Ephemeral exist. And yes, that episode COUNTS. You don't get to decide that canon episodes aren't canon. And, no, what happened there isn't irrelevant because of the time loop. Most of the episode takes place outside of it and the Marinette we saw in it is literally the same Marinette as ours, the second time around she was just forced to turn back around instead of keep walking down the awful road she chose herself to take advantages of Chat Noir that set his doom in motion.

And that's the thing that makes Werepapas now just the next worse step to take for her instead of a whole leap. In Ephemeral, Marinette initially went on about how blameless and gorgeous she is for abusing Chat Noir's trust because that'll "keep him save" from Suhan taking his Miraculous (which is so stupidly nonsensical because now Suhan had all the power and information on Chat Noir behind Adrien's back that he could take Adrien's Miraculous without Marinette's being told of it first. Not that she ever thinks about Chat enough to notice that) and it'll keep THEM save from Shadowmoth getting both of them if either of them gets akumatized.

Marinette justified her whole awful and downright toxic and power-and-trust-abusing plan with the explanation of "it's for safety reasons"

Only to immediately throw all of that out of the window the second she sees that Adrien is Chat Noir and, to put it bluntly, she has a chance to get in his pants and have him be her perfect care taker and Prince Charming.

Marinette in Ephemeral disregarded ADRIEN'S safety BECAUSE it's Adrien and her reward was more important to her. There is no way around this. Werepapas is not out of character or far fetched, Marinette has been acting like this since season 4, you all just ignore it and think acknowledging it is "salt".

Marinette, canonically, looked in Adrien's eyes and decided that him being himself makes his safety worth being risked so Marinette can have her chance of getting in his pants as her perfect care taker and prince charming.

Then when it started becoming obvious that was never going to happen they did a 180 and said "Oh, Marinette using the Snake Miraculous to manipulate Adrien and prevent outcomes she personally doesn't like is smart and totally not a violation of Adrien's trust and autonomy!"

And started writing her doing that into their fics.