Here is the next chapter! How does Adrien react to learning Marinette’s identity? Loosely inspired by @randomfanfairy‘s post because it made me laugh and this is the perfect opportunity to make it exist.

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Chapter 4

Oh this was bad.

This was very bad.

Adrien paced back up the hall quickly, shoulders tense and eyes wide. Marinette was Ladybug. He saw her transform right before his eyes. He knew her identity now, and she was inevitably, definitely without a doubt going to kill him when she found out.

Was he happy that Marinette was Ladybug? Absolutely, stoked even, also a little intimidated because this just made Ladybug all the more incredible, and now he feared that she was way out of his league. Who was he kidding? Marinette was smart, driven, passionate, kind, creative, a true hero in and out of the mask, and he was just some model with a rich dad. She’d designed an album for the Jagged Stone, and he thought highly of her. Adrien couldn’t hold a candle to Marinette.

And now he knew her secret, and she was going to roast him and turn him into cat loaf then they were going to sell him at the bakery because there was no chance of him maintaining his cool now! Ladybug was finally into him, and just when he felt like he had a chance, he had to go and reveal her identity. She was going to dump him and give his Miraculous to someone more deserving, and he was going to die alone.

During his internal panic, he momentarily forgot why Ladybug was transforming, and he came to right around the time the akuma hurled a table at him.

One more redraw of Louise from a year ago 😭💛