ladyofcreation
There are exactly twelve students in Mlle Bustier’s class. And all twelve have the unsettling sense that something isn’t right with that number.
Written for @purrincess-chat‘s Miraculous Spooktober Day 27 Prompt - Where did [x] go?
Background Music: Clock Tower
My last fic for Miraculous Spooktober! Hope you all enjoyed the stories.
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Alya couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right.
It wasn’t something she could explain or pin down. It was just a feeling. It was just there. And it was wrong, somehow. Very wrong.
For someone like her, someone who investigated and tried to find the truth no matter what it was, this was incredibly frustrating. To just have a feeling, a gut instinct, murmuring “wrong, wrong, wrong, something is wrong,” and to not even begin to know how to go about finding out what that something was? It was going to drive her mad. Not the least because that instinct was just a murmur – not a scream, like when her instincts told her she was in danger – just a faint trace of something, nagging at her like a pebble stuck in her shoe. Only, no matter how hard she looked or shook her shoe, she couldn’t find or get rid of that tiny pebble.
At school, it was both worse, and better. If anything, that nagging feeling got stronger. But on the other hand, Alya could put a name to something that was wrong, even if it wasn’t that something.
It was too quiet.
Far too quiet.
Usually, before class started, there was talking amongst the students. But today, it was just…quiet. No one was talking. Everyone seemed…subdued, somehow, drawn in on themselves. Even Chloé seemed off – she wasn’t trying to get attention like she normally would.
Does everyone else feel this weird thing, too?
She watched Nino in front of her, trying to gauge without asking if he, too, felt that something was wrong. She frowned, and wondered why she wasn’t sitting with him. He was her boyfriend, after all, and neither of them had seatmates, so why shouldn’t she sit next to him?
She shook her head. She was trying to concentrate on the weird feeling; she shouldn’t be getting distracted by her boyfriend!
And yet…when her mind had been wandering down that path…it almost felt like a step closer to the answer…
But that didn’t make any sense. She wouldn’t be getting this way just about not sitting next to her boyfriend. And more than that, the whole class certainly wouldn’t be getting this way just because Alya didn’t sit next to Nino.
Alya furrowed her brow. It didn’t make any sense. But it was something, so without a second thought, she gathered up her bag and plopped down next to Nino, who started.
“There’s no reason I can’t sit here, right?” she asked, her voice sounding far too loud in the silent classroom.
“No,” he said slowly. “I guess there isn’t…”
But he sounded uncertain, as though there was a reason Alya couldn’t sit next to him, but he didn’t quite know why. And that was all Alya needed to be certain she was onto something, here.
So, instead of paying attention to the day’s lessons, Alya spent class trying to work out just what that something was. She’d been onto something with sitting next to Nino, but that was all that she had to go on. But maybe that was enough of a start.
There was a reason she shouldn’t sit by Nino. What possible reason could that be?
The obvious answer was that the seat was reserved for someone else. But who? Everyone was accounted for; no one was absent. Alya checked. Double checked, triple checked, even. She counted everyone in the classroom several times over, as though she expected the number to change.
Twelve. It was always twelve. But why did that sound wrong?
Someone else is supposed to be here, Alya concluded. But who are they, and where did they go? And why can’t I remember them?
by-saiyuri
quick sketch of Alya from my Ladybug AU having a good time with her fox friend ✨✨
I really like the colours of this sketch, it’s sooo warm (*¯︶¯*)
I have some ideas for Luka and Juleka’s designs in this AU, so what do you think? Should I draw them next or you’d like to see more MariChat? 🐾
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m-azing
So about…………not that many days ago, I decided to start rewatching all of Ladybug s2 to prepare for the finale (that’s a joke, nothing will prepare me for this finale). I told my friends I would watch the episodes in the Zag “production order” that was posted on Tumblr an indefinite time ago. Well pretty quickly my faithful ho @spockishot pointed out there were already several inconsistencies in that order, so though I really liked some pieces of it, I am obviously extremely picky and noticed even more as I kept going.
“@trishmishtree did a masterful reorder of s1,” I thought, “so how hard could it be to do one of s2 myself??”
HA. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Have a gander.
**ETA: I added a spoiler-free list of episode titles in this order RIGHT below the cut, so you don’t have to read all the way down if you haven’t watched this season yet!!
pftones3482
I just had this weird realization about Kagami and Luka that I’m not sure I’ve seen anywhere before. Stop me if I sound nuts lol
They’re direct foils for Ladybug and Adrien.
“Duh, Becca, that’s why they’re in the show at all.”
Let me explain.
Kagami is bold, very sure of herself, quick on her feet, intelligent. All of Ladybug’s best qualities, but with very little of Marinette’s empathy and compassion. Kagami isn’t heartless, obviously, we’ve seen that. But, imo, she doesn’t have the level of kindness Marinette does. I mean, the girl helped Adrien, her crush, go on a date with someone else. That seems pretty selfless to me, and I’m not sure Kagami would do the same.
Luka is soft and very kind, and is probably the character in the show with the most compassion save for like, Rose. He is gentle with Marinette, flirts with her delicately, and let’s her go when he knows that he has to. Aka, Adrien’s best qualities.
Marinette falling for Luka is her picking out Adrien’s qualities, and Adrien falling for Kagami is him seeing Ladybug’s. But because that’s all there is to Luka and Kagami, because Luka doesn’t have Chat’s wit and snark and personality, because Kagami doesn’t have Marinette’s compassion and empathy, they don’t click.
Basically what I’m saying is that their mixed personalities are what made them fall for each other. Singling out only one side of the personality, as Thomas has done with Kagami and Luka, proves that they won’t work as a couple until they know the whole truth.
We’ve seen their attraction to each other using this, too. In Glaciator, Chat Noir switches to his personality as Adrien, soft, open, vulnerable, and we visibly see Marinette react positively towards that, because previously she had only seen him as a goofy, fun loving partner.
When Marinette takes charge of situations, be that standing up for herself in front of Chloe or anything regarding her class representative position, Adrien is (usually) proud of her for doing so, and commends her on her good work (the one example I can think of where he doesn’t is Malediktator, but that’s because he was genuinely upset at Chloe leaving).
One personality or the other doesn’t do it for the love square. They need both to work well.
itskawaiicatshipper
LIKE HE’S LETTING HER GO AND HE KNOWS SHE’LL BE HAPPIER WITH HIM
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miiiraculous
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dapanem
ruinedchildhood
