Red and Blue make Purple

What if Adrien the Wingman succeeded?

sarahcada

Let me make this clear: LadyNoir/Adrienette is my OTP. Which means the following stuff will proooooobably be angsty. Or hilarious.

CONSIDER THIS: What if Marinette actually gave Nino a chance? (Maybe not dating for real, but maybe a few dates or something.)

(I mean, okay, Marinette did say that if Adrien wasn’t around, she’d give Chat Noir a chance, so maaaaaybe Chat Noir has better chances with the girl than Nino. BUT STILL. Consider MariNino for a second.)

Marinette, being the sweetheart that she is, agrees to a date after the zoo one. (One date!)
Since Nino is an upstanding citizen, though, she finds no fault.
Alya, best best friend ever, will support them (maybe). But she knows, she knows this is wrong, somehow.
Remember that Adrien is coaching Nino. And Marinette wants Adrien. So what if Marinette sees things she likes in Nino-coached-by-Adrien?
But Marinette knows she only likes Nino as a friend, and she doesn’t want to hurt him.
Meanwhile, Chat Noir notices that Ladybug is distracted, thinking about her boy problem, and she lets slip that someone is trying to woo her.
Kitty cat is very concerned and wondering WHO HIS RIVAL IS, GDI. (Basically the stuff of love square fanfics, only there’s a wrong boy involved).
AND THEN, somehow, Adrien somehow finds out that Marinette is Ladybug.
He just helped the love of his life get together with his best friend.
He is crushed.
Because OF ALL BAD LUCK IN THE WORLD, THO.

sarahcada

Okay, I can’t stop thinking about this now.

So now Adrien has a lot going on.
He’s dealing with the new knowledge of who Ladybug is.
AND the fact that she is, in fact, dating his best friend.
And the fact that he MADE IT HAPPEN and he kind of wants to hit his head on the wall. Repeatedly.
They haven’t gone on a lot of dates, but they’re interacting a lot in school. In front of Adrien. Of course.
And he has to summon all his I’m-a-gentleman-and-a-perfect-model-without-problems smile and it takes ALL OF HIS ENERGY.
Nino talks to him about Marinette, of course, and it opens Adrien’s eyes about how great she is as Marinette– not that he didn’t know already.
And he is now hyperaware that she’s sitting behind him–again, not that he didn’t already know–and he sees her talking with Nino, laughing with Nino, and he can pick her voice out in the murmur of the room now GDI.
The next time he sees Ladybug, he asks how things are with her suitor hoping she’ll say the guy is just a friend.
But then Ladybug tilts her head and says, “Well, he’s nice…”
And of course Adrien can’t refute that because Nino is great, which is why he’s his best friend.
His own words to Nino has come back to haunt him.
And then, the next MariNino date comes, and, in some kind of panic, Adrien offers the whole earpiece thing again, but Nino goes, “I think I got this, bro.”
Adrien is torn between being relieved that he won’t have to painfully cheer his best friend on, and panicking because he won’t know what’s going on.
During said date Adrien paces his room trying to keep from pulling his hair out while Plagg laughs at him.

sarahcada

There’s SO much space for Adrien angst, but if we wanna take it to happier tones….

Marinette actually wants to talk to Nino to tell him that Dude, you’re a really good friend, but…you’re…a friend.
And she’s scared that she’ll hurt him, right?
BUT. Nino is okay. Because during their zoo date when Ladybug locked him in a cage with Alya, they had a nice, long talk and well…Alya’s pretty cool, too, and does Marinette think he’s so very fickle?
She doesn’t, of course
Then he lets slip that he knows that she likes someone else in their class– but Alya totally didn’t tell him who nope nope
He figured it out on his own because, well, he has been observing Marinette, you know? And the other guy is Nino’s best friend.
Marinette is flabbergasted and mortified but is otherwise relieved.
Yet she’s also sad, because knowing that Adrien was setting up someone else with her can’t be a good sign.
But Nino says Nooooooo I’ll help you!
Marinette agrees to help with Alya, too!
In fact, they both go to talk to Alya immediately. (Nino, really, but Marinette is hiding somewhere close by for support.)
Meanwhile, Adrien is antsy because he had texted Nino, and the boy hasn’t replied for hours. But Adrien’s really not even sure if he wants to know the answer.
Nino finally replies that it went really really really well.
Plagg at this point may or may not be sympathetic to Adrien now. Depends on the presence of cheese.
The next day at school, Adrien spends his last remaining energy to be cheerful in front of his friends, but isn’t doing a very good job
And Nino observes his best friend this time and confirms the dejected sigh when she and Nino greet each other good morning, and the lingering looks on Marinette and the quick scowl whenever Nino reaches past Adrien to talk to Marinette or something
Later in the day, Nino tells Adrien that they should go on a double date.
Adrien wants to punch his friend now and says that he’s not interested in Alya okay
Nino laughs and says, I hope not! because Nino will be Alya’s date, and Adrien can be Marinette’s
Adrien is thoroughly confused.