#sl:pollen

Happy 6th Anniversary to my Scarlet Lady AU! Though you are done, you live on in my heart U_U

5 Years of Scarlet Lady! I can't believe it's been half a decade! Thank you to everyone for hanging on!

To me Pollen comes across as a very loyal...employee. Like, one with great enthusiasm and energy and nothing but good things to say about their employer no matter how good or bad the company they work for is. You might have a near fanatical amount of love coming from Pollen, but there's this bit of...distance in it.

So for Pollen to get over that distance and really embrace a holder as a great friend and confidant? I think that would be pretty hard and pretty rare for Pollen. It's hard to redefine a relationship when it was firmly put into a certain box from the beginning.

Hi, thank you! Plagg and Pollen both know that Scarlet Lady is Chloe.

Plagg since "Rogercop":

And Pollen since "Riposte":

Kwamis don't operate on normal logic. There's literally spells in place to prevent directly giving away someone's identity.

Tikki is duty bound and has it deeply instilled that ratting out your holder is a big no-no (though she's mentally at the point where if there were an alternate in the wings, she would nudge things in that direction.)

Plagg is an agent of chaos and willing to let things land where they may. If it ever went to far, he'd put a bit of effort into hinting at Scarlet Lady's identity, but that's "too far" by the Kwami of Destruction's standards.

Happy Anniversary! 3 Years, 3 Seasons, can you believe? Thank you all for your continuous support!

She's known since Riposte.

Marinette adores Pollen and treats her mostly like a friend and sometimes like a precious pet(?) I can't think of another way to describe it, like, not like a pet as in a dumb animal to take care of but like how you become devoted to your cat or dog and pamper them a little excessively. She's a Bee Mom now.

Pollen thinks the sun shines out of Marinette's face. She thinks highly of most all of her holders regardless of how they use the bee, so Marinette being respectful and justice oriented and creative and willing to listen to Pollen and willing to DOTE on Pollen makes her like level 9000 peak holder. It makes Pollen want to be selfish and hold onto her.

Adrien and Plagg are basically bros. Brothers? Like how you get on each other's nerves but you love each other (and younger Bro Adrien looks up to Plagg a bit for being so "I do what I want"). Adrien wants Plagg's attention and affection even though it's usually irritating, like sharing his cheese or using his hair as a cat bed, but he secretly loves it. It's also nice to have someone constantly next to him willing to throw shade back and forth, not treating him like a tool or hot commodity.

Plagg is so not used to someone as SENSITIVE as Adrien, but while he's bringing out some of Adrien's snark, Adrien's bringing out some of Plagg's softness. I mean, c'mon, he SANG for Adrien, if that's not LOVE-

Chloe and Tikki are basically sisters. Like how you're forced to live together but you have nothing in common but you can't escape each other because you share a room. And Chloe is not having Big Sis Tikki's unsolicited advice. If Chloe didn't need Tikki, she'd probably be locked in a glass case or something or thrown out on the street (which at this point Tikki might prefer).