Jun 6, 2025
people tend to characterize Nathaniel as this shy, quiet introvert, but he's the one character who's come closest to cursing on-screen π
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people tend to characterize Nathaniel as this shy, quiet introvert, but he's the one character who's come closest to cursing on-screen π
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How can anyone deny this boy anything when he looks at you like that?
Today's episode was Protection, the one with the... oh gods, it's the Ferris wheel episode. Whhhhyyyy???? It's also the episode where Kagami gets akumatized because Lila somehow convinces her that Marinette is pretending to be a mess around Adrien and, oh, if only.
Real talk, did anyone find the Ferris wheel scene funny? I know people complain about seasons 4 & 5 turning Chloe into a caricature instead of a character, but they're doing it to everyone. The class has gone from Marinette and Adrien's friends who would like to see them together, but still have their own lives to the Adrienette squad whose sole purpose in life is shipping. It's creepy, unfunny, and frankly makes them all look like terrible friends. Even 8-year-olds would know this plan would never work. Who wants to have their first kiss with a captivated audience? It's just gross.
Adrien is also a victim of this. He's always been underdeveloped, but this season reduces him to Marinette's Perfect Boyfriend and it's.... not great. But I'll make this its own post because I don't wanna get too serious here since the episode is anything but.
Then we move on to the funniest thing that season five did: the introduction of the "arranged marriage" plot. Aka, the scene where we learn that Adrien and Kagami are supposed to end up together. Which is hilarious when you actually look at what Tomoe and Gabriel did to get Adrien and Kagami together:
Raised them on separate continents
Did nothing to introduce them beyond sending Kagami to Adrien's fencing team to try out
Did nothing to get them to start dating
Did nothing to support their relationship once it actually got going
Sent Kagami to a different school
Until this episode, I honestly had no clue that Gabe and Tomoe even knew that Adrien and Kagami had started dating. The way Lies presents the relationship, I thought it was a massive secret. Why else would Kagami have to lie about their fencing lessons to get alone time? If these two are supposed to end up together, why were they never sent on parent-approved dates? Were the senticouple designed to just go at it as soon as they saw each other, but Adrien was defective? It would explain Kagami's out-of-nowhere crush on Felix. He activated her Adrien-programming!
This is also another case of the writers forgetting that Emilie is supposed to be a good mom unless we're supposed to think that Gabe only came up with this plan after Emilie was gone? If so, how is he going to explain any of this to her?
Then we get to the part of the episode that actually could have done something clever: Lila tricking Kagami. As-is, Kagami looks like she's breathed the stupid gas that Lila emits for her lies to work. (SO's theory is that Lila is an ancient sentimonster who makes people believe her lies which would make more sense than my gas "theory") If the writers had been smart about it, this was where we could have introduced Lila's multiple identities. Have a random girl "from Kagami's class" be giving Kagami advice. Then the audience thinks it's an objective third party misreading Marinette and not Lila manipulating Kagami for... reasons? As-is, it's just dumb. Why would Kagami believe Lila? How did they even meet? I have questions....
Mild credit where it's due moment: This is also the episode with the Adrienette picnic date and while Marinette showing up in her pajamas felt super forced, Adrien matching her was super cute and I liked their almost kiss. The writers clearly can write these two cute, the hand raise scene shows that, they just chose the drama route instead. Unfortunately, they suck at drama and so does this episode.
Kagami is soooooo clearly autistic and i think most people agree on this so I think we sleep on the fact that Adrien is like the only person in the show (besides FΓ©lix ig, but you can apply this to him as well) who immediately got her. like Adrien and Kagami are on a wavelength. like everyone thought Kagami was awkward and weird and didn't understand her but Adrien just thought she was cool and nice. I'm almost positive that if a character commented to Adrien about Kagami being "weird" he literally wouldn't understand what they were referring to. Kagami commented all the time about how similar her and Adrien were and how that made them perfect for each other. Marinette, the other person who Adrien clearly super vibes with and gets along super well with, is also commonly agreed upon to be ADHD. The most Adrien thought of Marinette's extremely outlandish behavior around him was that it was "sweet and just her charm" (literally his words to Kagami in Protection). In general there's almost a trend in the show where the more openly neurodivergent a character is the more Adrien seems to vibe with them and is comfortable around them. Adrien is not neurotypical in this essay i will
Hello hello! One last ask and then I'll stop bothering you. Thanks for your replies, they were very enlightening. Flightfoot's comments also helped in describing what I wanted to say, so my thanks to them as well. Yeah, I less meant romantic closure and more "oh so he wasn't running away during our dates because he didn't want to spend time with me" or something along the lines. Again, thank you for the helpful replies. Now, onto writing a Kagami centred identity reveal fic. Bye Bye - πββ¬
good luck anon, happy writing!
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Hello! Kagami Anon here. I don't really mind spoilers, since I know half the show by MLB shitposts by now (but I brought that on myself, I don't have a spoiler filter). And yes, I did talk about what @flightfoot mentioned, her not having a clue *why* Adrien kept running off. That's just kinda... I don't know. Luka got that knowledge. He got to connect the dots. Why not Kagami? (Then again, the same can be said for some other situations too) πββ¬ (signoff just in case I need it again)
some specific season 5 episodes you can watch for the kagami arc are perfection, protection, pretension, and representation.
to answer your question, with spoilers:
does anyone have any s5e16 mlb fics? i fucking love that episode
I can now take off protection off my list of muted tags. π Only downside is, I don't know where all the posts have gone.