#ml plotbunny

Imagine if Chloe, maybe a few days after the episode 'Ladybug', was sent forward to Season 6. The Chloe that still tried to be good, the Chloe that still believed in Ladybug, the Chloe that did not get cornered on a roof by a magical terrorist.

Her getting to experience consequences of actions she hadn't yet made and wondering how she got her (figurative and literal).

Imagine Queen of the Dreadzone where Marinette, Sabrina, and Zoe show up and Chloe just starts acting like she and Sabrina are friends again, because from her perspective they never stopped being friends. The confusion and upset from everyone thinking she's being a brat when genuinely she has no idea who Zoe is. Unpacking whatever it is that would happen from her finding out that Marinette and Adrien are actually dating, how she would have some mixed feelings cause she still cares about and is friends with Adrien while also thinking 'Really? Her?'.

Anything involving Lila and how she'd not even be a blip on Chloe's radar since that wasn't a thing until Penalteam.

Actually had an idea for something like this, except it was a complete AU. Old West(US) AU. The Miraculous were all 'shooting irons' with unique powers theme'd on the canon ideas. Gabriel was a rich landowner who discovered the butterfly iron.

The tournament was a bound magical contract. Everyone had to swear in, and then it was last man standing with a broad (county level) range they could travel but not cross.

Whoever collected them all got the wish.

That's an interesting idea! Marinette A timeline where Chlonette happened returning to the past would be a great PoV. How did it happen? Does she remember the past? Is stuff recontextualized? Does her attempting to speed run end up jeopardizing it, or creating a new timeline entirely? Can this Marinette find a different path forward if it doesn't look like her and Chloé will connect this time? How does she deal with being mentally years older than her peers?

Cue a week of Alya in stunned shock trying to reconcile the Chloé she knows with the hero of Paris.

Probably been done before, but I think it'd make for a fun fic.

That *would* be funny. An Alya PoV fic is always good. Having a fun mystery is also good. Trying to figure out how/why Chloé has a very real double life (vs Marinette who is the same person in different clothes) all seem like good hooks.

Au of Animaestro: there's an old rom-com trope where two people team up to keep their respective love interests from getting together, but they end up falling for each other instead.

This is a cute idea! I'm not sure a single episode could pivot Chlonette all the way from enemies to lovers, but it could definitely be a spark that changes course.

perhaps both of them end up chased by Animaestro because he knows who gave him that bum macaron. They get a mutual 'what am I doing???' moment while hiding for their lives. Then either CN distracts Animaestro long enough that Marinette can 'wait here I'll distract him!' and go transform, with Chloe being surprised that 'Dupain-Cheng' of all people would stick her neck out and have those kinds of guts. So, she changes a bit.