#sentifelix

The Demon Takes Two Chairs (Ao3)

Après moi, le déluge.

I'm excited to announce the release of chapter one of my new Miraculous longfic for @mlbigbang2024.

First, I want to thank @uptoolateart for generously beta reading this story. @supergirl9130 has provided art for the first chapter (click through to the work to see it!).

Thanks to @amarilke for some last-minute help as a fact-checker on ch1.

The story is canon divergent, but also somewhat canon adjacent given that much of canon has happened, but some of it in different ways. But, crucially, most of the identity reveals have not happened. I'd rather do those myself :) Think of it as Justice League meets Twelve Angry Men. Superheroes weighing the fate of the accused, except they all have reasons to resent each other (when you start thinking about it, there's a shocking amount of reasons in canon for there to be grudges and grievances!).

Blurb

Nathalie Sancoeur has turned on Gabriel and gave information to Ladybug that led to his downfall. Now, her ragtag team of Miraculous holders must decide what to do with her while she is being held prisoner by Bunnyx in her time burrow.

Ladybug feels overwhelmed by all her allies’ differing opinions and by the revelation tonight that her boyfriend is a sentibeing. She sets out to convince them that Adrien Agreste’s closest quasi-family should be shown leniency. As the team debates Mme Sancoeur’s fate, old wounds are re-opened, and the team feels like it's falling apart.

Most painful of all is that Ladybug hasn’t seen Chat Noir in days.

Yes that was my take on it :( look how sad he is!!!

Felix is actually rather reasonable in his plans. He had briefly debated a rather convoluted plan involving disguising himself as Adrien a few times so that he could infiltrate his uncle's home and steal the Peacock. But, in the end, he decided that there was a potentially easier method, albeit one that was a little more time consuming: he'd talk to the heroes of Paris about it. They had Miraculous of their own, so surely they'd be useful allies in his endeavours. The heroes of Paris are a little skeptical, but a Lucky Charm that was made into an "Sentimonster Detector" proved that Felix was telling the truth about his story, so they can begin planning what to do with his information. Just as soon as they all recover from the shock of the detector going off when it was briefly pointed at Chat Noir.

but just now I’ve realized that the Gabriel Agreste episode was named like that because the focus point was the sentimonster of Gabriel Agreste and it didn’t hit me that the name of the other episode was “Felix” because even if we didn’t know it yet, he is the sentibeing that the episode is focused on, not the four akumatized characters.

His biggest hope would be getting Adrien amok which... Uh... Hm... What DID happen to his amok???? He dusted Gabriel... Did... Did he destroy it and live? Or is it in a pocket dimension limbo cause of the transformation?

Or is this just a plot hole?

asking the real questions here mythical lol. maybe since the amok was on emilie and she was underground it got...preserved? maybe it has magical protection like in odnlb. maybe akumatized powers don't work on amoks bc the butterfly's power can't destroy the peacock's power?? or yeah maybe it's a plot hole! it's fun to speculate on isn't it 😂