Me, whenever I see a cute dog:

They meet as children.
Marinette is seven years old when she’s invited to Chloé’s birthday party for the first and last time, and Adrien is six, being dragged to what feels like the millionth time when all he really wants to do is stay home and play Mario Kart.
They meet while mutually trying to find a hiding place good enough that neither of them will be found again, and become friends so fast their mothers get whiplash.
Marinette is thirteen when she realizes that what she’s feeling isn’t just friendship anymore.
Adrien turns sixteen before he examines why the thought of Marinette growing away from him is so utterly terrifying.
They’re eighteen when they get their Miraculous.
Separately.
(Because where would we be without our love square, really?)
It’s only a few weeks after that that Marinette finds out Adrien, for the first time in history, has shown an interest in someone.
“C’moooon,” Alya was cajoling Adrien as Marinette walked into the room. “I know you like her. You just gotta tell her! Be brave! You can do it!”
“Ah, actually,” Adrien interrupted, sounding a bit like this wasn’t the first time he’d tried. “It’s… It’s not who you think it is.”
(It was only sort of half-occurring to Marinette that they were talking about crushes as she trudged up the stairs to her seat, mostly unseen.)
There was a beat, as she moved to set her bag on her desk, where Marinette could almost see Alya blink at him, and then:
“A-actually,” Adrien repeated, scrubbing the back of his head. “I’m… It’s, ah, actually Ladybug I was talking about earlier — th-the girl I have a crush on, I mean.”
Marinette missed her desk.
Marinette missed the next step.
Marinette’s heart missed its next few scheduled beats.
What.
this one time I ran a red light on mistake and I didn’t notice it was red until it was too late so I just ran the light screeching like an angry pterodactyl the entire time
a cop was at the intersection so he pulled me over and when he came up to my window he was wheezing cause he was laughing so hard and he said
“ok so i know you ran a red light and that’s really bad and you should never do it again but i’m not gonna give you a ticket cause that was the funniest thing i’ve ever seen and my partner can’t get out of the car cause he’s laughing so hard he’s about to pee himself”
i forgot that i’d had my window open when i ran the red light and the cop told me that all he heard from my car was this really high-pitched “screeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
and that’s how i got out of getting a ticket for running a red light
Paladins + Planets
Allura + Venus
Shiro + Jupiter
Lance + Neptune
Keith + Mars
Pidge + Mercury
Hunk + Saturn