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liking a character for what they have the potential to be even though in canon they’re a lot less faceted that what you want to envision in your head

Being "salty" is an expression meaning being grumpy or upset about something, so "salt" kind of references that. In most online fandoms "salt" will mean complaints or negative criticism about something, with the Miraculous Ladybug fandom it often also means character hate/criticism especially. So there can be "ML salt" (hate/criticisms toward the show), "ML fandom salt" (hate/criticisms toward fandom opinions/fanon/etc.) and "(character) salt" (hate/criticisms toward a specific character).

I have a way for the 3 moms to make sense just hear me out. So Lila becomes Chrysalis well into adulthood as seen in Timetagger, she also acquired the Peacock during the time skip because Felix needs to stop being a main character. So she creates Timetagger and then sends herself into the past where she adopts herself. Then she and her past self create sentimoms who will also be Lila’s parents when Chrysalis is out doing timeline shenanigans. Three moms that isn’t an absurd logical leap.

The PV was a good concept but the romantic aspect killed it. I would have watched a show with a Felix who's never had friends and has always had to live up to the expectations of his father and likely has some fucked up concepts of how society works thanks to Gabe but Chat Noir gives him insight to a freedom he's never gotten to have before while Marinette tries to befriend him and break down his idea of how things work. He tries to romance Ladybug at first but she ends up becoming his first real friend and he stops wanting to go back to the status quo over time and he genuinely becomes invested in her mission and beliefs.

I think the decision to change felix into adrien because the writers felt that felix wouldn't make a good hero or romantic lead is a good one. like i also think there's a way to make it work, but if the writers don't think they can pull it off then coming up with a new protag is a good idea. it also frees up felix as a character to be introduced later and they can be more flexible with him since he’s a side character. there’s a game i really like called the unavowed where on the developer commentary track the dev talks about doing this exact thing with a character, ‘demoting’ them from playable/protagonist to making them a side character and being able to have more fun with them because of it.