#thistookforever

i set two glasses down on the coffee table, with the best wine set alongside them, a bowl of popcorn, and some candies i went and got earlier. everything looks perfect. oh- and lets not forget, our favorite movie, La La Land. he should be here any second now so i sit, waiting patiently, trying to contain my excitement.

8:45, phew, trafic must be bad. ill just shoot him a little text

y/n:

“hey sweetie, everything alright? miss u!!! got our movie ready for us!!!”

9:00, a sinking feeling settled in. maybe he's just running late, I thought, trying to hold on to hope.

the minutes dragged on, 9:30. 10:00

10:50.

i’m tired. i walk up to our room with trembling legs and my- already bad vision- is clouded teary, blurry eyes. half from the wine i’ve guzzled down, the other half from crying.

he promised. promised. he said he wouldn't be late and here i am, left with dissapointment. i crawl into my side of the bed sobbing, until sleep, finally overcomes me.

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meanwhile, nanami is rushing and rushing to get out and into his car, speeding to his wonderful wife.

"shit. shit shit shit" he mumbles looking at his watch which reads 11:30. "i got carried away with my work god she’s gonna be so disappointed. i promised i’d be home early today for our long-awaited date. drinks, extremely unhealthy snacks,but most importantly, her: the perfect time."

i race to the door and quickly unlock it. “sweetheart?” i call out. i walk in to see a wine glass spilled on our coffee table, her phone, and a black tv screen.

fuck.

shes been drinking.

i run my fingers through my hair, guilt just running through my veins. i loosen my tie and walk up to our shared bedroom, finding my beautiful wife curled up into our blankets.

“sweetheart, i am so so sorry-“

i pause as i notice the pillow stained with tears and her beautiful face, looking like she’s been crying. which makes me wanna cry. i look over at our clock. 3 hours. i hate to wake her but i need to see my baby.

“baby..?” i gently shake her awake and i hear her voice. breaking. i wrap my arms around her body.

“‘min..?” she says with sleep coating her words.

“yes sweetheart it’s me. look, i’m so sorry i just got caught up with-“

“just *hic* save it. don’t ’wanna hear it anymore nanami.”

she uses my full name.

“ baby please please i’m so so s-“

“‘said stop it. hic ‘don’t love me *hic* ‘don’t care about me. just get off me and *hic* stop.”

my heart drops. don’t care about her? how could she ever think something like that?

“ love you know i care about you okay? you’re just a bit tipsy and-“

“‘s always my fault isn’t it? *hic* how could i know you care when *hic* all you do is work work work.”

“don’t wanna be your *hic* wife anymore.”

what?

she doesn't.. what?

“stop it, don’t you dare say that” i respond with not only a breaking voice; but a breaking heart. she doesn’t mean it she’s just- tired. right? i mean, how could she?

right?

“tell me you don’t mean that doll, tell me now. baby please. please.” i say while peppering wet kisses on her damp cheeks. my voice is breaking and you could hear me on the verge of tears.

she doesn’t respond. why isn’t she talking. does she mean it? this is all my fault. i’ve been prioritizing work while my real priority has been slipping away from me?

i look over and she’s asleep. her beautiful eyes are closed and she’s breathing softly. i quickly get undressed and slide into bed with her.

there’s no way i can leave my baby alone in bed.

i wrap my arms around her, only for her to turn her back towards me and out of my touch.

she was awake.

tears threaten to fall from my eyes as i kiss her “i love you. so much baby.” and with that, i grab my stuff and walk out.

she’d probably want me on the couch anyways.

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fuck. my head is pounding and i feel like absolute shit. i sit up holding my head reaching my hand out to his side of the bed.

oh.

he isn't here.

whatever. didn't want him here anyways.

i think.

i step into our large bathroom and start a shower and as i’m rinsing the disappointment off my body, i almost miss the soft opening and shutting of a door.

was that in here? is that him?

he hasn’t said anything yet so neither will i. i turn the shower off and wrap myself with a towel and yank open the curtain shocked seeing him sitting on the toilet. waiting for me. i lock eyes with him.

mistake number 1.

he looks like shit.

eyes swollen and heavy with guilt, slight, no- very obvious red flush across his face, and tear-stained cheeks.

“baby please” is all he says when he rushes infront of me, blocking the exit.

ignoring his presence seems to be impossible.

“what do you want nanami” i say coldly, my gaze not daring to meet his.

“i am so sorry beautiful. i am so. sorry. there’s no excuse and no other way to express how sorry i am." he starts. "sorry can’t and won’t cut it. i love you and i do care about you. just so much. i’m so happy you’re in my life and i never regret marrying you, i only regret the mistakes i’ve made." he stops and takes a small breath. "you should be my number one priority. i’ve been terrible to you. i will do anything and everything for you.” he says desperately and tears streaming down his face. he’s crying. he’s sobbing actually trying to apologize. i finally look up at him with water-filled eyes.

before i can say anything, he pulls me in tight and is breaking down. “i-i’m so sorry sweetie i’m so so sorry-“ he can’t barely speak without sniffles. i’ve never seen him like this before. i wrap my arms around him and when i do he releases a sigh of relief.

“oh thank god” he says quickly before pulling me in even closer.

“did you mean it?” he asks, his voice quivering. “w-what you said las- night”

i take a second to think before answering. what’d i-

oh.

my heart drops.

“plea-please tell me you didn’t. r-right? you didn’t ’mean it?”

i look up at him, his lips are trembling and his face is red.

“no, i didn’t. i shouldn’t have said that. i’m sorry ‘min.”

“o-okay because if you did i- i wouldn’t know what to- to do. i’m sorry you can get changed n-now ill be waiting for you in the living room, okay love?”

“okay.” i whisper as i watch him turn around and shut the door.

i finally finish my post-shower duties and walk out of the bathroom.

is that.. apple pie im smelling or am i going crazy?

i must’ve taken forever because by the time i get out there, he’s knocked out. but he’s knocked out on a cute blanket laid across the floor with a box of my favorite donuts, a bottle of orange juice with 2 glasses, and-

an apple pie cinnamon candle buring away.

he set this all up as i was sleeping?

as if on cue, he slowly opens his eyes staring at me staring at him and the cutest set up ever.

i sniffle “did all this for- me?”

he stands up and softly grabs my hand to come sit with him, “of course doll. look”- he says grabbing the TV remote

FREAK, I KEEP FORGETTING NOOROO’S ENGLISH VOICE AND EVERY TIME I HEAR IT I DIE A LITTLE BECAUSE I LOVE HIM BUT I HATE HIS VOICE! QwQ Anyway, so Nooroo is talking about the miraculous and how heroes have used them for centuries, so basically explaining how we got to this point. So Hercules is a miraculous holder, huh? Ignoring Feast, I like to think he is a cat miraculous holder. That would be freaking cool. Also, Nooroo refers to miraculous as “jewels” which is kind of cool. So they’re some kind of precious stone? The little rock lover in me is very happy. He also mentions that whoever uses the most powerful miraculi (the cat ring and ladybug earrings) will achieve absolute power which sounds great. Also, cut to Hawkmoth closing his little brooch locket after staring at Emile for probably the thousandth time. I have no idea how my brain excused this when trying to figure out who Hawkmoth was. I suspected it to be Gabe once but just never gave it a real thought and just someone else had a thing for Emilie, which would have been cool. Ah, to be in those times once more. So Hawkmoth really wants those miraculous and Nooroo says nobody knows where they are which brings up many questions for me. Like, how does Nooroo know this? Does he just assume because he doesn’t know, no one else does? Why did no one try to contact Nooroo sooner? Also, he’s so cute. I love Nooroo so much, you have no idea. QWQ  Hawkmoth asks to be reminded of his powers again, for some dumb reason. I know its to inform the viewer so I’ll let it slide but still... dude... Nooroo is like, “you can give powers to normal people and make them their own superheroes and they become your devoted followers” and Hawkmoth is like, “Pfft... more like supervillains” and Nooroo is like, “No, you can’t. Miraculous aren’t meant to be used for evil!” and Hawkmoth is all like, “Make me!” Complete with the toddler foot stamp and I just... It’s honestly kind of funny, especially knowing this is Gabe. I also wonder why you couldn’t just say something like, “I’m not using it for evil purposes. You’ll see... this will all be for good in the end.” Come on, man. Stop acting like child and grow that villain spine. Hawkmoth basically makes Nooroo a slave and NO MY BABY IS SAD, HOW DARE YOU! And then he transforms and I really need to know... did... did Hawkmoth really just add “dark” to “wings rise” because it sounded evil or was that the actual phrase? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because butterflies are hardcore but still... >.> “From this day on... I shall be know as... Hawk... mom... *evil laughter*” Okay, so he does actually say Hawkmoth but I literally heard Hawkmom and I couldn’t resist. Watching Hawkmoth transform is awesome, he gets covered in butterflies and then just magically gets a suit. None of the flashes and poses. It’s so refreshing.  We cut to Wayzz sleeping in the phonograph and.... does Fu ever actually used this for its intended purpose because if so, Wayzz postage stamp decor and matchbox bed is kind of just screwed, huh? So Wayzz senses the butterfly miraculous went active I guess... They never explain this, btw. They never use this again! I am low key, kind of ticked about it. Anyway, he loudly calls out to Fu for some dumb reason and it leads to Fu having to cover up that he has a magical god living with him, by pretending to chant “master” over his patient. At least, I believe it to be some kind of patient and that he makes living from being some weird spiritual healer but... why didn’t we get scenes of Mari barging in on him during his work hours? Imagine how hilarious that would be. Come to think of it... why does this never come up again? He even mentions he’ll see the guy next week as he pushes him out the door? Alright Wayzz... how do you know the person who has the butterfly miraculous is “dark”? Did you just hear “dark wings rise” in your dreams? That must be it... Fu says they gotta stop it so he tries to transform but his back is like, “Ha. Nah. Find someone else.” So Wayzz is like, “dude, you can’t do this, you’re old.” Fu is like, “I am 186 and still kicking!” DANG FU you look REAL good for your age! So he presses a few buttons on the phonograph and we get to see the miracle box. Cut to Mari’s house where her alarm is going off and her mom is telling her to get up because her alarm has been going off FOR 15 MINUTES? MARI! THAT THING IS RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR HEAD? HOW THE HECK? I mean, I relate... but STILL. So Mari heads down stairs to get food and then complains about the fact Chloe is gonna show up in her class and Sabine is like, “FOUR YEARS IN A ROW? IS THAT POSSIBLE?” I guess. Apparently. Mari’s just real lucky like that. So does anyone know what the freak Mari is making for breakfast because she put what I assume to be milk and cocoa powder in a bowl and that just don’t sound healthy? She then slams that tub of cocoa powder down and it causes an orange to roll out of the fruit bowl next to it, down the cheese conveniently placed as a ramp against it, over the knife (despite not going fast enough to really do that) leaning against the stick of butter, knocking over what I still assume to be milk, then circling back over to knock over an unopened yogurt. This whole time I have been screaming at the screen, “GRAB THE ORANGE! GRAB THE FREAKING ORANGE!! GIRL YOU HAVE HANDS!! USE THEM!!” Mari is upset about this even though its her mom’s fault for setting the table up like that. I MEAN WHY? WHY WOULD YOU EVER SET IT UP LIKE THAT? Sabine comforts her and we get a cute smile so that’s great. So now Mari is fully clothed and Tom gives her a box of macaroons to share with her class... Can we take a second and just admire how HUGE Tom is? Like this man got together with a small woman with a pear shape and created their skinny as a stick daughter. Just let that sink in.  Mari thanks her dad for the pastries and he thanks her for their new logo she designed and it looks fine. I like it, I do, but I wouldn’t classify it as amazing. But I do appreciate him encouraging his daughter I just don’t think that would really draw people into their bakery but then again, I guess it had to be simple so they could stamp it on their macaroons for some reason. Then Mari runs outside and almost gets run over by a car moving way too fast for that kind of street but whatever. Then she sees this old man taking his sweet time walking that crosswalk when the sign is red and NO ONE ELSE CARES but Mari. So Mari swoops in to save his clearly blind behind and in the process drops some of her macaroons. RIP. Btw, that car was moving way too fast and surely would have caught Fu’s ankles. Oh, yeah, the old guy is Fu, forgot to mention that. Why does no one even stop to react to this? AN OLD MAN ALMOST DIED AND THIS RANDOM STICK FIGURE SAVED HIS LIFE AND THEY KEEP STEPPING ON HER PASTRIES!! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? (please note, that I am not shaming Mari for being skinny. I find her cute and tiny but perhaps a little too thin but not bad. I have a cousin way skinnier than her and said cousin is in her 20s. My family tends to worry about her but she eats fine and is just fine, just a stick).  So in the English version Fu just takes a macaroon without asking and I’m glad Mari was okay with that but personally I would have preferred he had asked especially since he caused her to drop them. So then we hear the school bell ring causing Mari to freak. She runs off because she’s late and Fu looks down at his little box with the earrings in it because Mari proved she’s heroic which is cool but what I’m more concerned about is how loud the school bell is? Why is it so loud? Why can she hear it from next to her home?  Mari makes it in class, takes a seat, and the teacher tells Nino to sit in the front probably because she wants to keep an eye on him so he doesn’t listen to music instead of learning. He’s so mad about it though, and it’s cute. Then Chloe shows up to tease Mari and Mari doesn’t really act like a bully victim here? She kind acts like Chloe is just a nuisance, something akin to breaking your only pencil while in the middle of writing something? Chloe wants Mari’s seat for some dumb reason and tells her to get lost. Mari says, “But Chloe, this has always been my seat.” Hold up... You mean to tell me, that you’ve been showing up in the same classroom every year? That can happen? I had no freaking idea. So teachers aren’t resigned to specific grades? No, these are actual serious questions. I had been home schooled most of my life and was only in public school for the first 5 years of schooling. So does this actually happen? Is this just a France thing? Or is it made up? Genuinely curious. Sabrina tells Mari to get lost. Chloe suggest she sit next to the new girl. Mari doesn’t even get to answer because Chloe is like, “Look, Adrien is arriving today and I’ll be damned if I don’t get to sit near him so get your butt out of that seat before I rip it off myself.” Could be paraphrasing. *blinks innocently* Then the thing I call bs on happens (yeah, even in origins), Mari says, “Who’s Adrien?”  Alright, your a fan of the Gabriel Agreste brand but have no idea who his main and (apparently) only model is? I agree with Chloe. Have you been living under a rock? Girl, where have you been? Have you actually just been asleep this whole time until this story just finally began? That’s the only think that makes sense. >.> Alya a.k.a. “the new girl” barges over to tell Chloe to get off her high horse, Chloe calls her a little superhero I guess, “what are you gonna do, shoot beams with your glasses?” and Alya is like, “wouldn’t you like to know?” before dragging Mari out of her seat WITHOUT ASKING HER FIRST so she falls on her face because she didn’t expect it and causes her to drop almost all the rest of her macaroons. Again... RIP. Alya leads Mari to the seat next to her while Mari apologizes for an honest mistake. Mari is like, “dang, wish I could do that like you” and Alya is like, “you mean the way Wonder Woman knock-off does it?” Then spouts a kind of cool quote from her comic book where it goes, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.” Then calls Chloe evil and her and Mari good people. She says they can handle her and Mari is doubtful but Alya just thinks she needs more confidence. Mari shares the only macaroon left with Alya , they introduce themselves, and behold, a budding friendship.  Chloe’s all sad Adrien isn’t there yet and then we get this beautiful cut where Adrien just appears in from of a billboard of his perfume advertisement (wait, hold on, that was created in a later episode after origins canonically? How the heck?) and I can’t help but find it hilarious. He’s trying to run into school but a car is chasing him which is low key terrifying when you don’t know its actually his body guard and... task manager.... I guess? Nathalie pops out like, “You can’t do this, your father will kill you and then me” and Adrien is like, “I WANT TO GO TO PUBLIC SCHOOL, YOU CAN’T STOP ME” before this convenient old man falls over reaching for his cane and Adrien gets all sad so he goes to help. I just... Mari saves Fu from dying and Adrien hands Fu a cane? Really? Fine, whatever. At least he’s a sweetheart because anyone else would have ignored that, especially with how desperately he wanted to go to school. Btw, AGAIN STRANGERS JUST WALK PAST A POOR HELPLESS (as far as they know) OLD MAN? WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? I like to think that Fu kept doing this over and over again whenever he saw a kid run into school and the people are just like, “Ugh, what’s wrong with this guy.” Personal preference, though. So Adrien turns back to the school, sees his bodyguard and Nathalie and just immediately gives up which is so freaking sad. Dude, you could AT LEAST try to run around them? He’s like, “I just want to go to school like everybody else. Please don’t tell my father.” SOMEBODY HUG HIM!! I hated public school myself, but that was my problem and had I been home schooled from the beginning I might have longed to go to school just like Adrien so I feel bad for him even if I don’t get the appeal. Anyway, they take him home.  So cut back to the class where the teacher tells the kids that have PE to head to it and the rest to go to the library and... I’m sorry... THERE’S  A PE IN THIS SCHOOL? Anyway, Ivan gets mad at Kim for teasing him with a piece of paper and shouts, preparing to punch Kim... While I get the teacher telling Ivan to go to the principal’s office for that I still think she should have heard him out and tried to solve this first before immediately just sending Ivan off but what do I know?  We cut to Hawkmoth just sitting in the dark all alone waiting for this negative moment I guess. He sends an evil butterfly after Ivan... Hawkmoth... Gabe... dude... Get a life. Ivan opens the door to the principal’s office but the principal ain’t a fan of that no knocking thing people do now-a-days and tells him to start over and knock this time. That’s when the butterfly enters the piece of paper crumpled in Ivan’s hand that Kim teased him with and we get Stoneheart and then he just busts down the door to the principal’s office. It causes the library to shake so Mari falls over while everyone else runs but Alya scoops her on to her feet and they rush over to the security cameras that are for some reason in the library where we see Stoneheart outside already. Well... that was fast... Mari immediately recognizes it as Ivan by his voice which I mean, wow. Good for you. Alya is like, “It’s as if he has been transformed into a super villain!” And rushes off to document it and Mari asks what the heck but Alya says “where’s there’s a super villain there’s always a superhero close behind! No way I’m missing this!” And leaves. Alright, you aren’t just gonna let her run off like that, Mari? Like seriously, she could die. You are? Okay... Stoneheart throws a car at the security camera and it causes Mari to flinch. HOW DARE YOU Cut to Fu outside of Adrein’s mansion with another jewelry box with the ring inside and then we go into the house to find Adrien answering questions Nathelie is quizzing him on. What is Nathalie to Adrien, anyway? Shouldn’t Adrien have a private teacher? So Gabe shows up and I guess rubs in Adrien’s face he can’t go to school... He already knows this? I’m really just being picky here. I get it, its a natural parenting technique, it helps remind kids and cement things in their minds. It just annoys me a bit. XD Adrien tries to protest, Gabe don’t want his son “out there in that dangerous world”, Adrien calls foul on this and is like “why can’t I be like everyone else” and Gabe is like, “because you are not like everyone else, you are my son!” Ugh. I have specific feelings about this scene but won’t share them because of reasons. Adrien just runs off to cry and then hears the Stoneheart stuff going on outside. He rushes out of his mansion to find a bunch of police cars outside his gate and they fire at Stoneheart but it only makes Stoneheart grow bigger and Stoneheart still wants to murder Kim so... yay. Stoneheart tries to crush a police officer with their own police van but misses. WOO! Adrien rushes back to his room and turns on the TV to find the mayor telling people to stay inside and then Nadja sharing the news that they all believe this is a super villain? How do you guys even know? What the heck? Why are you so chill about that? Are super villains just a normal thing in your world? We see Mari is watching news in her room at her computer, then Adrien and Mari notice this weird jewelry box right in front of them and I get why Adrien didn’t see it since he just got to his TV and was too preoccupied with seeing what was going on but Mari... it’s literally right in front of your computer? How the heck did you not see it? They both open them to get really bright lights in their face that reveal odd creatures that we all know as the kwamis Tikki and Plagg. Mari screams at the sight of Tikki and calls her a bugmouse while flinging books at her. All while Tikki tries to tell her to calm the freak down. Glad Tikki is having fun. Btw, apparently the live news broadcast paused on her computer somehow, without her touching it? Adrien’s TV did the same thing? Alrighty then. Adrien thinks Plagg is the genie in the lamp and Plagg is like, “Met him once. So he grants wishes... Big deal!” I’M SORRY? YOU WHAT? GENIES ARE CANON IN THIS UNIVERSE? I don’t know what to do with this information... Plagg immediately tries eating anything he sees and, I mean, same. Adrien chases Plagg around to get him to stop. Back with Mari she manages to “trap” Tikki in a glass and then Tikki tries to explain herself saying, “if that makes ya feel better”. Back to Adrien climbing a rock wall to pounce on Plagg trying to eat the TV remote. It’s honestly hilarious. Adrien catches Plagg, Plagg explains a few things and asks if Adrien’s got it, Adrien shakes his head, clueless. Don’t blame him. Plagg is like, “glad ya got it. have anything to eat?” Which is a good question.... what do kwamis eat in their weird kwami realm? Adrien for some reason thinks this is a prank played on him by his dad of all people. He does realize that’s stupid but come on, Adrien. Plagg is like, “YOUR DAD CANNOT KNOW I EXIST AND NO ONE ELSE, GOT THAT?”  Back to poor Tikki and Mari. Mari starts screaming for her parents but Tikki phases out of the glass to stop her. Then we cut to Fu and Wayzz where Wayzz wonders if they’ll be up to it and Fu is like, “only got it wrong once, it will never happen again.” Very reassuring. Back with Mari like, “hey, you should see Alya. She loves superheroes. I ain’t up for this.” Tikki is like, “but your the chosen one”. Back to Adrien wondering how the heck he can be a superhero when he’s stuck in his house while Plagg is hilariously running around on a roll of toilet paper. Back to Mari putting the earrings in and Tikki giving her instructions. And Tikki calls lucky charm her “secret superpower”... Some secret... >.> Mari doesn’t think she can do it, Tikki is like, “you can do it, just say spots on”. Mari does, then she does the transformation thing. Back with Adrien as he puts the ring on and Plagg tells him to say “claws out” and Adrien just immediately does it and I’m laughing so hard. He’s so ready to be a superhero. Plagg screams something about, “haven’t finished explaining” before being sucked into the ring so... that’s fun. : ) Back to Mari, now Ladybug, looking in her mirror and messing with her hair that hasn’t changed on bit so who knows why she is messing with that... while also trying to figure out how to take the suit off and calling for Tikki. GEE. I FEEL LIKE TIKKI COULD HAVE EXPLAINED A BIT MORE BEFORE TELLING HER HOW TO TRANSFORM! The news suddenly started up again and Ladybug sees that Alya is chasing Stoneheart on a bike and she seems surprised? Girl, she told you she was gonna do this! Sabine calls up to Mari, asking if she got home safely, Ladybug panics and is like, “yup” while running up to her balcony. Sabine is apparently deaf and did not hear her so she tells Tom they should call the school while Ladybug tries to figure out the Ladybug thing. She throws her yo-yo, it hooks onto something, and she’s off.  Cut to Chat Noir now balancing on his baton, being graceful and careful. That’s cute. He’s never gonna be careful again. XD Ladybug just lands on top of him and then they are tied together in her yo-yo, hanging from his baton. Good times. Somehow they got out of that and Chat is like, “bet your the partner my kwami told me about” and I’m sorry? When did Plagg tell you this? Chat introduces himself as Chat and he asks for Ladybug’s name. Ladybug almost introduces herself as Mari while trying to get her yo-yo down but accidentally hits Chat on the head with it, but she got it and his baton down so, cool. She’s like, “I’m madly clumsy.” He tells her its okay, he’s learning too. What a sweetheart.  That’s when a building falls over and then Chat pole-vaults off. Ladybug asks where the heck he is going and he’s like, “To save Paris, right?” I love him. He runs off. Ladybug managed to figure out how to swing the yo-yo but hasn’t quite figured out how to handle the swinging part, yet. You’ll get there. 

So apparently gym is at a public stadium? Alright... So Stoneheart finds Kim there and is all like, “Who’s the wuss now?” Chat Noir stops Stoneheart from crushing Kim. “Hey, it’s not very nice to pick on people who are smaller than you.” Stoneheart is like, “guess your talking about yourself.” Then immediately tries to kill Chat, but Chat jumps out of the way. Also, I’m taking a moment to just point out how deep Stoneheart’s voice is compared to Ivan’s... How did Mari recognize it? We cut to Hawkmoth in his lair like, “everything is going according to plan. The ladybug and cat miraculous are out and they have come to save the day. Now my super villain will destroy them.” Okay, how did you know their names already before Chat Noir even said it and before Ladybug has even came up with hers? Is it because it’s predictable? I get ya. Cut back to Chat still dodging Stoneheart like a boss. He then hits Stoneheart and he grows bigger... Boo.... Chat is wondering where the heck Ladybug is and keeps dodging death. Good for him. Then we zoom out to the top of the stadium where Ladybug is on top of it just watching in shock.  Stoneheart throws a soccer/football net that literally almost kills Alya if it weren’t for Chat Noir throwing his baton to knock it away. Nice aim, man. Sadly, its at the cost of him getting caught by Stoneheart. QWQ Alya tells Ladybug to get her butt down there already. Ladybug nearly has a panic attack but becomes filled with confidence all of a sudden. Alright. She jumps into action. She’s like, “animal cruelty? How shameful!” While she trips up Stoneheart with her yo-yo and gets a perfect soccer/football goal with Chat Noir. Good for her. Ladybug’s like, “sorry it took me so long” and Chat is pretty cool with it. Glad you were so cool with her almost letting ya die because of her nerves. I don’t blame Ladybug but I feel Chat Noir should be at least like, “I understand but maybe next time you could not let me get captured by the pile of rocks that could crush me in milliseconds? :D” He runs off to beat Stoneheart’s “rocky-behind”. Ladybug grabs his tail like, “are you insane? He gets bigger and stronger with every attack! We need another plan!” There’s Chat just casually petting his tail. Chat asks what they should do and Ladybug has no idea so Chat does cataclysm. Ladybug asks what it does, Chat is like “apparently I destroy whatever I touch” and Ladybug is like, “I don’t need a superpower to do that”. I see were just booming with confidence. Chat Noir uses it on the soccer/football net and is all like, “cool!” Before rushing over to try and use it on Stoneheart, before Ladybug can stop him. Anyway, it doesn’t work because it only has a one time use.  Stoneheart kicks Chat away and man it sounded painful! Sounded like Chat was impaled for a second... Ladybug is like, “now you only have 5 minutes until you transform back, didn’t your kwami explain anything to you?” Chat has to sheepishly explain he got excited. Nice. Ladybug is oddly cool with it even though she’ll never be like that again so I shall savor this moment. She calls for lucky charm and gets a scuba diving suit? Okay. She says Tikki told her she had to break the object where the akuma was hiding and Chat’s like, “he’s entirely made out of stone so...” Ladybug points out that his right hand is still closed into a fist which is all fine and dandy and everything but I don’t know how he didn’t drop that little purple rock when throwing that soccer/football net at Alya.  Chat asks for the plan, Ladybug spots Stoneheart’s right fist, Alya, one end of a hose, the other end of a hose. She sticks that other end of the hose into her scuba suit lucky charm and somehow tied all the sleeves closed in less than 2 seconds. Then she wraps her yo-yo around Chat’s legs and yeets him at Stoneheart without giving him the plan. Thanks, Ladybug. Chat Noir calls her crazy. I agree. She also told him not to resist while she did that and to trust her. I wouldn’t. I just met ya, miss. Stoneheart catches Chat in one hand and then Ladybug jumps forward holding the scuba suit attached to the hose. Man this is a long hose. What is this hose doing in a public stadium? Stoneheart catches her in his other fist, causing him to drop his little purple rock. Ladybug screams at Alya, (saying her name, btw, and this will be glossed over) to turn on the water which blows up the swimsuit and releases Ladybug from his grasp. Ladybug breaks the rock and watches the butterfly fly away. That’s fun.  Ivan returns to normal and Chat is free. Chat casually fawns over this girl who almost killed him. That’s always nice. Honestly my favorite part of romance. Ladybug looks at the pieces of purple rock she had in her hand and they turn into a crumpled piece of paper... WHEN DID SHE PICK UP THOSE PIECES OF PURPLE ROCK? EXCUSE ME, THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN!  Anyway, Ivan asked what the heck happened, Chat is like, “you were awesome.” And she’s like, “we did it together.” Yeah, sure ya did. : D They “pound it” for the first time. SO CUTE!! Chat has to run off because he’s gonna detransform. Ladybugs tells him “our identities must remain secret” which will never not be frustrating to me. It was even before season 2 and 3. Chat bounces. Ladybug causally hopes she never has to do this whole hero thing again. She turns to Ivan after reading that piece of paper Kim used to tease him. Hey, Ladybug, that could be private. How about you don’t? It says, “You haven’t even got the guts to tell Mylene you love her. Wuss.” Ladybug is all like, “aw....” I mean, me too. Ivan is like, “Kim wrote that. He’s always making fun of me.” Ladybug holds the paper out and I now see Kim did a little doodle of him pointing and laughing at Ivan and that’s a cute little detail. Ladybug is like, “You really shouldn’t get so bent up about that. There’s no shame in telling someone you love them, Ivan.” This is advice she will never take for herself but I don’t follow my own advice myself, so like I blame her. Ivan asks how she knows his name but luckily Alya interrupts with her recording of Ivan asking that question. Hey, so does she ever answer that? Alya is fangirlling and is like, “Are you gonna be protecting Paris from now on? How did you get your powers? Did you get stung by a radioactive ladybug?” 1. Ha, nice reference to spider-man. It’s a great tribute to the superhero they took inspiration from. 2. LADYBUG’S CAN STING YOU? WHAT? Ladybug finally introduces herself as Ladybug before swinging away.  Cut to Mari watching the news, which is sharing Alya’s footage. Mari is like, “I did it, Tikki!” Tikki is all like, “I told ya.” Mari gets called down for dinner. Cut to Plagg looking at four different dishes of food as the mayor on TV plans a celebration in honor of Ladybug and Chat Noir. Adrien is all sappy about her name being Ladybug but Plagg interrupts with the fact he hates gourmet ice cream so Adrien asks what the heck he wants. Cut to that stupid little purple butterfly that I bet ya forgot about that flies to the top of the Eiffel tower and just multiplies by the thousands infecting tons of people and turning them into mini paralyzed Stonehearts. Mari catches this on the news and races to her room. Cut to Adrien complaining about Plagg eating camembert and that he’s gonna smell like that. No worries, I assure you no one in this universe is gonna care. Then Adrien catches what’s on the news.  Adrien asks what’s up, then Tikki and Plagg ask their holders if they caught the akuma. Mari asks what that means. Tikki is like, “it can multiple which means if Ivan gets upset again, he’ll turn back into Stoneheart and control all the other stone beings”. Fun times here in the miraculous universe, everyone. Mari blames herself and I just gotta say... NO! BAD MARI!! THIS IS TIKKI’S FAULT! SHE SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT!  Tikki is like, “it was only the first time, you’ll do it right next time, I know it”. Mari is like, “nope. I’m a mess. I’m quitting. Chat Noir can handle it.” Meanwhile, Adrien finds out he can’t do anything without Ladybug so... yay. Mari is like, “if Chat Noir can’t do it, you’ll just have to find another Ladybug”. She takes her earrings off which causes Tikki to disappear and she gets confused before putting the earrings away. She gets sad. Cut to Hawkmoth taking his akuma back to save for later and is all excited for the future of Stoneheart. Ivan, Adrien, Plagg, and Mari are all sad while Hawkmoth monologues about the “fact” he’s totally gonna get absolute power. And it just ends.... There’s no end card. While, that’s sad. I can’t end this without an end card... Let me see if I can find a nice screenshot.