#mon's stuff

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Several voice actors for the English dub of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir (or Miraculous), a popular animated television series airing in over 120 countries on major networks like Disney and Netflix, requested a pay raise for the upcoming fifth season of the series. The production company behind the series, ZAG, refused to give the voice actors a pay raise, instead opting to give the main cast raises and forcing them to not tell anyone about the raises.

Production staff such as animators have also reported being underpaid and have been given a lower budget to work with, even as the popularity of the series increases.

Due to this, SAMG, a Korean animation studio and the main animation studio for Season 1, has mostly left Miraculous, and 4 voice actors, Joe Ochman, who voices the supporting character Mayor Bourgeois, Reba Buhr, who voices 3 roles, including 2 of the heroes, Anne Yatco, who voiced the main character's mother, and Cassandra Lee Morris, who voiced a classmate of the main characters, quit the show because they wouldn’t agree to another season without a raise.

WHY IS THIS WRONG?

Miraculous is an internationally-beloved show and the number one children's program in countries like Brazil and France, where the recent season 4 finale special The Last Attack of Shadowmoth attracted over half of all TV viewers ages 4-10. Despite this and the increasing popularity of the show since its release in 2015, the voice cast and animators have been underpaid.

It’s a ‘what if chat blanc won’ fic (in fact I could have sworn that was part of the fic description but it hasn’t helped me at all). He gets the earrings from Marinette and hides them. It winds up with Marinette trapped in the apocalyptic future with Chat. Time moves forwards and Marrinette accepts that she’s never going back and they start a family together. Chat starts coming back to himself bit by bit. They have a kid that I’m pretty sure they name Louis (though it could have been Emma or Hugo) that gets sick so chat goes and gets the earrings and they wish themselves back to normal Paris or LB Miraculous Ladybug’s it back (I can’t remember) but then they kick HM’s butt and live their lives together in normal Paris as their adult apocalypse selves?

This one is one from Chat’s POV. It starts with him going to patrol with Ladybug, Rena, and I think one other female holder (possibly purple tigress). As he’s getting closer he overhears what they’re talking about, it’s about fanfiction. Rena is reading Ladynoir fanfic to the small group and Chat starts feeling kind of uncomphorrable with his characterization as this like suave bad boy type. Then he hears LB being all like, oh my god that’s not what that dork is like at all, before going on a bit of a rant. I think he joins them at the end of her rant and they go on patrol and then it ends.