#vp post

BUT S5 established that Juleka was held back (I had the impression it was multiple times but that might not be true? Maybe I misunderstood.)

The English dub says 'highschool' meaning the kids are presumably in ninth grade (US). But in France the equivalent to that is troisième which is actually the last year of 'middle school' there, meaning Luka is ACTUALLY in the French equivilant of highschool.

Which is cool and all, but last time I checked a couple(?) months ago, both Luka and Juleka were listed as 14-15 on the wiki which makes no sense if they're 'supposed' to be a year above the other kids. They should be at least 16-17, pretty much putting Luka back at the age he was when he was originally announced as a character.

I know who you are. I know what you've done.

I was incapable of thinking of anything else while reading today's update. The emotions! The drama! HE'S RIGHT THERE MARINETTE-

Setting aside Dearest Family's (obviously) more kid-friendly interpretation, can y'all imagine what the Ladybug Miraculous could do on a cellular level? Like, I am thinking of a kind of body horror-esque concept borderlining on Eldritch horror, where the power of the creation Miraculous causes abnormal growth in the environment around the kwami/user.

Say maybe you're functioning normally on a normal day and then next thing you know, your body just starts producing things it should not be making. Like all of a sudden plants, gems, fungi, whatever are emerging from your skin or hair or teeth- like it's a tumor, like these are normal cells your body was always supposed to be capable of making. Like yeah, the power of creation is great and kind and wonderful and all that, or at least it's all of those things until that power is creating something where it just should not be.

The best example I can think of is the popular talking point of the surreal horror movie Annihilation (2018) being about what happens when a planet gets cancer.

Anyway yeah, what Chat Blanc did to the moon is terrifying and Tikki making a dessert big enough to squash Europe is terrifying, but there's just really something about knowing that the object of your defeat isn't as simple as destruction through violence, but something cannibalizing you to make something new because that's all it ever knew how to do. That's what it was meant to do, and it will do so even at the end of everything, even at the end of you. I think that would change what violent ever meant in the first place.