#yellingintothevoid

When I was little you wrapped me in bubble wrap and placed fragile labels all over me.

Every step came with a warning that if I went too far I would be lost forever.

Now I'm 20 and can barely leave my room cause every step comes with an ever growing fear,

And I know you wanted to keep me safe and your intention wasn't to fill me with fear of the unknown.

But with every lecture about being an adult now

“They will have to give Luka some flaws otherwise it won’t be believable when Marinette breaks up with him”

Many parts of the show including the side characters/secondary love interests are poorly written, period, Luka ain’t special in that regard.

It’s hard to give a character you want people to like flaws when they’re only on screen for a few minutes at a time.

They don’t need to give Luka flaws to break them up, it’s enough that he’s Not Adrien. Luka looks at Marinette at any point and says “you’re still in love with Adrien, go be happy” and then she’d give him a weepy cheek kiss and go racing off after Adrien a la Frozer. Look me in the eye and tell me that would be unbelievable in the context of the show so far, even after Miracle Queen.

They are not together, unless “play me a song” is some hip new lingo for “be my boyfriend” so there doesn’t have to be some big dramatic breakup?

If you’re trying to make a foil for your male lead and everyone is like “he’s so perfect” then dude maybe that secondary character isn’t the one you should be rethinking? I mean I would argue that Luka has all of Adrien/Chat’s good qualities but none of his flaws? (He’s romantic and protective without being jealous and pushy, he’s perceptive where Adrien is dense) Could it be that maybe The Folks In Charge don’t actually see Adrien as all that flawed? That maybe they think Luka’s gentle nature is enough of a flaw in itself? That maybe they think maybe given the choice of a jealous (passionate) pushy (persistent) guy or a gentle (weak) respectful (boring) guy, women would universally choose the former?

Don’t get mad, write (or read!) fanfic. It’s actually not that hard to extrapolate some potential flaws from what’s been shown on screen. I can think of three right off the top of my head that haven’t necessarily been shown but could be believable.

The 1500 parts that I do or the 3000 parts that I do?

Growing up my best friend and I were interested in the same guy multiple times. And yeah, it sucked when the guy picked my friend over me (which, honestly, happened a lot - she was bolder and more flirtatious while I was mostly witty and slightly combative) but I wasn’t mad at my friend for it. Obviously she was awesome or she wouldn’t be my friend, why wouldn’t a guy like her? And I would never ask her to not date a guy just because he wouldn’t date me. She never rubbed it in my face and I never begrudged her anything. Twenty years later we’re still friends.

Fucking hate my “back up” at my job. She’s fucking stupid, lazy, and doesn’t deserve the title as a type of any management. She’s racist, she’s greedy, she doesn’t care about the job or the people, she makes fun of the other people, she’s not a nice person but puts up the pathetic front of “being a good person”. She kisses ass to move up while everyone else works hard. I can’t stand her. She won’t even go for other positions because she would actually have to work and she can’t do that.