A prompt for the Poly week:
Ivan, Mylene and Adrien are in a poly relationship. Marinette finds out about it (by snooping, naturally) and wants in. Of course, she only wants in as a plan to steal Adrien away and make him only hers. She gets caught and ends up screaming at Mylene in public, calling her and Ivan all sorts of awful things for daring to steal “her Adrien” and letting it slip that she believes that poly relationships are “just greedy”. Mylene bursts into tears but has a few choice words of her own about how long Marinette’s been scheming for Adrien and planning a life out with him without his input.
To quote the meme, everyone disliked that.
I’d also gladly take Sublime and Zoe, or Sublime and anybody (we see her so little sadly and it’s Disability Pride Month too) but Ivan and Mylene are rarely used for this type of thing as well.
Again, I'm loving that y'all are sending in ships/orientations between/of characters that you'd typically wouldn't see.
I like to think that Mylene and Ivan had a few times where, while they were a monogamous, they felt shame for thinking of someone else. They still loved each other, but they felt bad for liking someone else. Because somewhere along the way, they both realized they liked this other person.
And eventually it becomes to much and they both spill the beans. It's surprising, but...they can work this out, right? When they ask each other who this person they like is, they decide to say their name at the same time: Adrien.
That...makes things a bit easier. They didn't have to break up, but...there wasn't any way they could both date Adrien...was there?
Queue epic montage of Myvan learning about polyamory and practicing asking Adrien to be a part of their relationship. Queue second epic montage of them cheering and hugging each other once Adrien has left after saying yes to dating them.
They aren't hiding their relationship, per se, but they're advertising it either.
And then Marinette asks to join. Says she's been hiding feelings for all of them. But Mylene can smell her bullshit from a mile away. She knows why Marinette suddenly likes all of them. Throughout her entire confession she's kept her eyes on Adrien and Adrien only.
When she says this, Marinette insists it's not true. She was just... focusing on one of them because it made confessing her feelings easier. But Mylene still isn't having it, and since they agreed that everyone had to be on board for anyone else to join their polycule, Ivan and Adrien also have a hard time believing Marinette's feelings are true.
Seeing that she wasn't going to be invited to their polycule, Marinette gets angry and begins to go at them. Them being Mylene and Ivan. She accuses them of accusing her of only wanting to date Adrien (which was true but they didn't have to say it). That she was a homewrecker who wanted to split their relationship (she's not, she's just trying to get Adrien in a real, normal, relationship). That she wanted to steal Adrien (Mylene, the fat fucking traitor, was the one who stole Adrien with her stupid, ugly, fatass of a boyfriend). They just want to rub it in her face that they took the boy she likes.
She tells them they're sick and disgusting. They probably forced Adrien into their relationship and made him scared to leave. That's why they didn't want her to be in their polycule. Because unlike them, she wasn't a fat, ugly, cow!!
She thinks she's won when Mylene starts to cry, but she wasn't expecting Mylene to bite back. And when she realizes what she's saying, she tries to stop her.
Because Adrien is here. He's hearing everything. And the look he's giving her isn't good. For the love of God, Mylene, shut the fuck up!!
But Mylene keeps going. She exposes Marinette's dating schemes. The fact she has a giant pull down calendar of Adrien's entire schedule. She admits she helped her, but stopped after she began developing feelings for Adrien as well. How she was always going to tell him, he deserved to know, but she didn't want to chase him away. So she decided to wait until they've been dating for at least a month. After a month, if they were still going strong, she'd tell him the truth. She had it marked on her calendar. She had what she wanted to say written in her notes. She had screenshots of the girls past plans saved. She'll understand if Adrien and Ivan wanted to break up, but she's not going to let Marinette get away with what she said, as if she hadn't tried to steal Adrien from others who liked him.
Marinette just scoffs, expecting the boys to side with her. But she's shocked when they pull Mylene over and leave.
The next day, she doesn't understand why things are tense in class until Alya tells her the trio told them what happened. No one likes her anymore, and the other girls got into serious trouble for helping her. They agreed not do so anymore, especially since Adrien himself told them to stop.
Speaking of Adrien, he wasn't in his seat. He was sitting in the back, next to Nathaniel. Lila was sitting next to Nino. The minor swap was done in order for Marinette to not be able to stare at him during class. It also puts him near Ivan, who wouldn't let Marinette get to him. And Alix swapped with Mylene since they shared a row with Marinette and Alya.
Marinette couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe she was being punished for nothing. All she did was tell the truth. Since when does telling the truth mean getting punished?!
