#thewarmembraceofshadow

"How could I ever be okay with that?! I need to wake up more than anything. You and me and everybody, why should we just sit and let some construction dictate our lives? Why should I be content to have anybody tell me what I’m supposed to say and do?"

It was only when he heard Claudia's footsteps reach him that time seemed to flow again. Had she not suddenly been there, now standing perhaps a meter away to his side, Adrien could've sworn he would have been stuck there forever, looking into his own eyes and wondering things he knew were unanswerable. Of course, as was often the case, she didn't realize her own importance in this, and simply brought a finger to her lips.

"Mm," she hummed. "I was wondering why you'd stopped here."

Adrien's gaze (and his heart) both sunk to the floor quite rapidly. Claudia read the placard to Émilie’s wax statue, muttering the words into her finger. Glanced over to him for a moment. To the younger Adrien, then to Émilie.

"Guess she was called the Prettiest Woman In The World for a reason, huh?" she drolled. "Her nose is nice. It’s… it's triangle-y. Nice triangle nose."

Claudia drew out the silhouette of Adrien's nose over her own with forefinger and thumb, then let her hand drop back to her side.

The more that chat noir and ladybug parallel makima and denji

With chat noir seemingly a bit desperate for his lady's approval

And where Claudia is a non Canon reze

You're not the first person to mention that!! I've always found Denji and Tweosdrien in particular to have a decent amount of parallels, which is fun because I really love Chainsawman and hope that the tone of TWEoS and how it handles its darker topics comes off similarly (if not, hopefully, better...?).