We give Gabe a lot of (well deserved) crap but in photos of him and his mom, Adrien is already fairly old. I know homeschooling is a thing, but considering Adrien has only ever had one friend and I think he said he hadn’t ever been to school before, would you say that his mom was also overprotective?
Oh I’m definitely camp “Emilie isn’t as innocent as the narrative Adrien would lead us to believe”. It’ll be interesting if we get to see more of her alive personality, but I headcanon her as a more subtle kind of parental manipulation that went unnoticed by Adrien thanks to the contrast of blatant asshole Gabriel, especially if Emilie was good at supporting Gabriel’s decisions when it came to Adrien while also lowkey making him take the blame for them in Adrien’s eyes, even if maybe they weren’t entirely his.
