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I Don't Need Lila's to be an Actual Master Manipulator
I've spent a lot of time talking about the issues with Lila's writing, so I wanted to step back and talk about reasonable exceptions for a character like Lila. My stance is not that the writers needed to create a true master manipulator for her to work. My stance is that her writing only needed to be strong enough for me to suspend my disbelief.
Suspension of Disbelief
"Suspension of disbelief" is the technical term for an audience being willing to play along with whatever BS the writers are feeding them. It's most often referenced in stories with magic as magic obviously doesn't exist. To enjoy a story with magic, you have to be willing to suspend your understanding that magic isn't real. If you can't do that, then you can't enjoy the story.
Suspension of disbelief applies to far more than magic, though. Stories are full of absurd coincidences, insane luck, and non-magical things that wouldn't work in real life, all of which require suspension of disbelief. Lila's lies are a perfect example. As far as we know, they're not magical. She's just a really good liar. The writers presumably know that they're not writing her like an actual good liar. They're asking us to play along and pretend that she is one. Here's the question: is that a reasonable ask?
Reasonable Expectations
Suspension of disbelief isn't a carte blanche to write whatever you want and blame the audience if they won't play along. It's a contract between the audience and the writers that the audience will play along for the sake of the story, but the writers still owe the audience their best effort. If the writers give a character that is so poorly written that the vast majority of the audience can't believe her supposed role for a second, then the writers have failed. This is where Lila falls.
The problem is not that Lila's lies aren't master class in manipulation. A show meant for young children was never going to give us a true master manipulator. Lila was always going to be simple enough that a child could follow her lies and the adult viewers always needed to be willing to play along even if the lies weren't that good. The problem is that the lies feel like the writers weren't even trying to make Lila work, a stance that is shared by a large number of viewers given the overwhelming amount of Lila salt in the fandom. Most plausible Lila take downs feature something as simple as a character talking to Jagged Stone about his cat or Rose texting her friend Prince Ali about his good friend Lila and learning that he's never met Lila.
When it's that easy for fans to spot ways to take Lila down and canon never acknowledges the problem, then the issue isn't fans asking for too much from a story. It's a story failing to even try to let fans engage their suspension of disbelief. This is why I often suggest fixes as simple as changing Lila's lie from "Jagged Stone wrote a song about me after I saved his cat!" to "I met Jagged Stone backstage at his latest concert." Neither of those lies is particularly impressive, but the second is strong enough for me to play along. The first is not.
Final Thoughts
When it comes to suspension of disbelief, there's always going to be an element of subjectivity. Every person has their own level where the BS gets to be too much and they can't enjoy a story, but I do think the average person is willing to give writers a good amount of grace. We know that any given writer probably isn't an expert scientist or a master manipulator, but we also know that stories need characters like that, so we go into stories with those kinds of characters expecting that there will be some weak points. There are stories where those kinds of characters need to be extremely well done for the story to work, but in many cases, that's not true! We know the hacker isn't actually hacking into a bank, but we'll play along because showing accurate hacking isn't as fun to watch.
I can think of several stories I adore where a character is supposed to be a master manipulator, but the writing falls short of that goal, yet I'm willing to play along because the lies work well enough. One of my favorite characters - Gen from Dr Stone - is a master manipulator with several scenes where his writing falls short of that goal yet I still love him and think he works well enough for the show he's in.
Even when my suspension of disbelief breaks to the point where I can't enjoy a story or plotline, I can usually see that the writers were trying, it just didn't work for me. I can name several stories that I found extremely silly where I'm quite critical of the writing, but none of them annoy me the way Lila annoys me because all of them feel like the writers were at least trying, they were just in over their heads. Lila is the rare case where the lies are so low-effort that they feel like an insult and that is my issue with her. I didn't need her to be a true master. I just needed her to feel like she was written by someone who respected the intelligence of the children the show was written for.
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I know you deleted your patreon since it was SL specific and the comic was ending would you ever make one thats for Angelic Layer if/when you start it?
Nahhh, doing the taxes for Patreon was a pain in the ASS
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 How is your ultimate universe of miraculous different compared to the actual show? 
There's too many lore wise to write down individually (the sentistuff, if it's even worth keeping, needs a total rework and a firm stance on what the show is even trying to say with it). I've never really thought too deeply on a rewrite because it's a lot of work for a show that I'm not even that invested in anymore.
That's kinda why I only got as far as making surface level changes to Marinette, Adrien, and Alya. Nino wouldn't even go through many "changes" so much as actually giving him a role?
But I can kinda expand on the 3 I've bothered making any notes on:
Hiii, one question about the angelic Layer Au. Since Alya prompted Marinette into entering the competitive world, what does motivate Marinette into being a champ?. Is it because of her crush to Adrian or rivalry towards Chloe?
Chloe.
 What made you want Lila to have a redemption in your alternate universe? 
I think I've said it in the past but keeping Lila around as her canon nasty self was, uh, superfluous? I already had Chloe making things hard in every episode, what did I need Lila for? So this was just for fun really. I easily could've written her out or written her as a Sequel Bait villain to replace Chloe lol
Are you doing an angelic layer au? I thought I saw some stuff about that. Is it still a thing or was it just some fun doodles.
At the time, I was fully intending to do another comic series with the Angelic Layer AU, but I've just kinda....lost the enthusiasm for it? It's not even the AU itself, Miraculous Ladybug just hasn't particularly inspired me for a while now.
But behind the scenes, I HAVE put a lot of work into outlining chapters and mapping character arcs and got a lot of it done, so part of me doesn't want to announce the AU totally dead, which is why I haven't said anything to the several people who've messaged me about it.
So I think, definitevly, I can say that the Comic Idea is dead, but the AU is not.
Scarlet Lady was made by the seat of my pants, I had the overall intention of the story planned by every chapter was sorta made up as I went (ex: I knew I wanted Alya to stan Scarlet Lady and then be disillusioned by her before finally coming into her own as a hero and journalist, but I didn't choose specifically which episodes I'd focus on that until the timeline hit them)
Because of that, I wanted to make sure the ALAU was veeeeery planned before publishing everything. That does mean that I wouldn't publish anything until it's at least fully written. But the writing is hard when I'm just not as enthusiastic as I once was.
If I do publish ALAU, I think it'll be as a fanfic with artwork breaking up a the paragraphs. So, a very different format than Scarlet Lady.
So I'm very sorry to anyone who's been waiting around for this AU. You might be waiting for a very long time, it might never come out. I do give anyone permission to do what they want with this AU, and take no offense if it is completely different from my vision. This project is not abandoned but it's definitely not being given my attention right now.
People assume that being a magical girl is all about sparkles and moon beams and romance, but the thing that the masses miss about the power fantasy behind magical girls is that almost every single protagonist is a HUGE jock
“All magical girls are clumsy and personality-less”
Actually, all magical girls are RIPPED, little girls dream of physically dunking on you while looking cute doing it, and we SUPPORT
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Am I going crazy, or was there once a page of the miraucli users just beating the crap out of Gabriel after Chloé collapsed?
lol You're not crazy, that was a bonus I put out on the comic's anniversary after the comic finished, you can find it here.
Would you ever consider making a season six to your Scarlet lady au?
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Doing another re-read of Scarlet Lady and I don't remember if this was asked before. Since Tikki and Pollen are essentially roommates (kwami rommies. Kwammies?) now that Marinette has both of them, is there anything in particular that they like to do together? Ex: chatting, playing a game, etc.
They for sure like gardening together! Bugs do like the outdoors~ And I think they'd both enjoy being Marinette's mini models.
I'm cleaning out my "Potential Art" sketch folder, enjoy these hella rough sketches that I let rot in my files.
Since some of my first fanart was of @imthepunchlord's Little Kitten and Little Princess, so I wanted to redo it some nearly 10 years later lol
Some Minnie Miraculous AU extras for @goatlilly's AU
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I just love drawing Clara, she's so fun in my style. And some Lukanette that I'm sure I'll get flak for from @miraculous-content for never posting lol
aaaand some Miraculous Rewrite AU stuff for my own reboot that I never got too deep into (this is also First Draft Alya, I have way more sketches of her cuz I'm not sold on what to do with her hair lol it's Koki Marina ALL OVER AGAIN!)
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Hii I saw you said you had an Amazing Digital Circus blog and I really want to follow you there too but what’s it called 😭😭😭
That would be Zo's Toy Box! It's mostly Funny Bunny (Jax x Pomni) over there, but I am not posting any spoilers for the Finale so feel safe to pop over!
Miraculous characters as tweets part 2 (I'm bored)
