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Petty Quartet

Context: Marinette has been averaging four afternoons a week at the Agreste household and Gabriel and Nathalie have pretty much adopted her as their second part-time child.


Gabriel: Marinette, you really spend a lot of time here

Marinette: Guess I do

Nathalie: You’re nearly like a second child to this family

Adrien: Only sees her a limited time, criticises her work, pushes her to be perfect, and spends more time with an assistant than dad? It checks out

Marinette: Except I don’t get driven everywhere, can go out with friends when I want, have friends other than Chloe, and am happy

Adrien: You’re right. It doesn’t add up

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Marinette: I’m really sorry but I can’t come to study at your place this week. My parents are grounding me 

Gabriel (overhearing): Nathalie, get Gorilla to bring the car around we’re going to the bakery

Marinette: You really don’t have to. It’s within-

Gabriel: I’m going to lecture them on the damage isolating a child and denying them social interactions with people their own age can cause

Adrien: So was I the test group for this hypothesis?

Gabriel: Pardon? I was talking about the impact it would have on me.

Adrien: No I was just wondering when you figured out social interaction was good

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Tom: I thank you for having Marinette study at your house and have accepted her, but she needed to be punished

Adrien: Why not just force her to practice piano 4 hours a day?

Gabriel: Not the time

Adrien: It never is

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Gabriel: So a week without Marinette. What ever shall we do?

Adrien: Spend time with your actual child?

Gabriel: He disappears all the time so that’s off the table

Adrien: I know, spend time together watching a movie so he doesn’t have to sneak out

Gabriel: …..

Adrien: Don’t worry about it. It’ll just give me a chapter of my biography “My Traumatic Childhood: How I was raised by the assistant”

Nathalie: Don’t you mean “My traumatic childhood: Growing up with a rock climbing wall, massive tv, and foosball table in my two story bedroom”?

Gabriel: Chapter 3: My difficult teenage years of having a rich father

Nathalie: Chapter 4: How to make a girl lose interest? Call her a ‘good friend’

Adrien: I think I liked it better when you weren’t here

Gabriel: Chapter 5: Complaining when I get what I want

Adrien: Just because I have material possessions does not mean my childhood wasn’t traumatic or you are a good parent

Gabriel:…. Chapter 6: Dad set me up for success and I have first world problems

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Marinette came back the following week. Everyone had just spent the week planning out pettiness and small pranks. 

Gabriel “grounded” Marinette, she yelled “you’re not my real dad!” Adrien chimes in “at this stage he’s barely mine”

Marinette gave Gabriel a device Max designed that alerts you when a person is near so you can avoid all social interaction. 

Adrien and Marinette team up to constantly tell Nathalie she is running late, give Gabriel parenting advice, and even put up a fake ‘for sale’ notice as the place is so empty and lifeless they thought it was abandoned

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