Red and Blue make Purple

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miraculous ladybug

bittenred zhenyablossom

gabzilla-z

i know adrien and marinette should be able to recognize each other but then again

magic

luanna255

I feel like having been a superhero fan for years made me way more chill about this than most of the Miraculous fans.

Look, I’ve had to deal with “Lois Lane is an idiot for not being able to see past a pair of glasses” jokes for years. This is child’s play. At least Adrien and Marinette have masks.

Why don’t they recognize each other? Because they don’t, that’s why. Because superhero genre conventions. Because domino masks are actual magic. Whatever. Say it’s part of the magic of their transformation, if you like. But at the end of the day, it’s just something you’re gonna have to suspend disbelief on.

The truth of the matter is, Adrien and Marinette aren’t idiots, they’re just being controlled by the narrative conventions of their genre. And it is, admittedly, an aspect of the genre that strains credibility, but I think it’s also one that speaks to a very real aspect of human nature. Human beings wear multiple masks in our daily lives. We show many different faces and act different ways depending on who we’re around, and very few people get to see the full picture of another person. And as a result we put the people we know into boxes, and try to label them as one thing or another, and very often we don’t bother to look deeper.

Marinette looked at Adrien and decided he was a nice, refined boy, and now she can’t imagine that he could be anything else. Marinette looked at Chat Noir and decided he was a silly troublemaker, and now she can’t see him being anything else. Neither of her impressions is completely false, they’re just based on an incomplete picture of a whole person. The same applies to how Adrien sees Marinette and Ladybug respectively.

Recognizing another person is about more than just taking in their facial features, and you’d be amazed by how much our eyes can play tricks on us even in real life. Charlie Chaplin and Dolly Parton both lost lookalike contests of themselves. The superhero genre (and the Magical Girl genre, but I’m less familiar with that one) takes it to an extreme, to be sure. But it’s absolutely a truth of human nature that if you don’t expect to see someone in a certain place, there is a very real possibility that you just won’t see them.

marinette-adrien

My sweet darling. Thank you for saying it out loud. You deserve an award.

shishitsunari

Yeah, thank you. This is perfect.

Source: gabzilla-z im so glad this post is a thing miraculous ladybug

ash-is-boss

*SCREAMS INTO THE ABYSS*

... okay just gotta deal with people tomorrow who don't know what they're doing for eight hours... I can do it and then probably scream pass out and die good thing I have Sunday through Wednesday off ash babbles