
«You can’t defeat me Chat Noir”
Written by L
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“Excuse me m’lady.”
Seven years.
That’s how long it had been since the last time Marinette had been called that name.
As she stood in the busy streets of New York with people pushing past her from every direction and coffee dripping down her once clean shirt, Marinette saw nothing but the man in front of her. Could it be him? No. This man was American, there wasn’t a single possibility it could be him. But even so, Marinette couldn’t help but wonder if the person standing in front of her was the boy who she fought endless battles with many years ago.
“Hey are you okay?”
Marinette snapped out of her day dream and turned her attention to the stranger who had just run into her, causing her to spill her coffee all over the top that she had designed herself.
“Pawsitively purrrrrfect,” Marinette nervously laughed trying to get a reaction out of him.
The man’s expression instantly changed from one of concern to confusion as he muttered “Weird,” and walked away.
Well I guess that answers that question. But as Marinette rushed off towards work, she was transported back to a time when her days were filled with keeping Paris safe with her favorite sidekick, Chat Noir.

MULTI QUADRANT LOVE SQUARE.
this is an old au that ive been thinking more about because @ladyblargh made THIS post and ive been talking to @kulekrizpy and now @sphenodontia has made THIS post and now you all have to see my own quadrant headcanons.
what can i say the time is ripe
I don’t have time to go as in depth as i want to but heres the one I feel like I have to convince you of:


i gotta go but I’m right and ill die for CHLOE ♠ MARINETTE ♣ ADRIEN
anyways this makes for the messiest, stupidest reveal
It’s been a long time since I was a Homestuck, and I never actually understood ashen very well, but I definitely remember that it was a three-person relationship. So does the first image mean that Marinette is mediating between Adrien and Chat? Or that Adrien and Chat both want Marinette to mediate between them and someone else/want someone else to mediate between them and Marinette?
The two panels at the bottom are clearly suggesting that Adrien would mediate between Marinette and Chloe, but I don’t know what the situation with Chat would be.
The chart is about how they feel towards each other, not what relationship they’re in! I should have specified, haha. Here’s what’s going on:
Marinette (and consequently also ladybug) is flush for adrien but pale for chat noir. Adrien (and consequently also chat noir) is flush for ladybug but has an ash crush on marinette (and chloe, but she’s not in the lovesquare so she doesn’t get to be in my diagram.)
theres not a huge amount of precedent in homestuck canon for what an ash relationship looks like, or how you even have an ash crush, like so i’m taking some liberties… and twisting things to root adrien’s ash feelings in caring about chloe and marinette rather than being annoyed at them.
maybe he’s a little annoyed. Chloe is his oldest friend and he knows she can be too much, but she’s also capable of being better, and deserves kindness. Marinette is incredible but when she lets chloe get under her skin she can be so sharp. he wants to give them a good talking to, but romantically. and make sure they are nice to each other, on a candle-lit date. He wants to put them in the get-along shirt when they are to mean, and make them appreciate the good qualities he can see in them.
Adrien: there’s something I need to tell you father and I don’t know ho-
Gabriel: just rip the bandaid off, Adrien.
Adrien: okay… I’m Chat Noir…
Gabriel: …Put the bandaid back on.
-He probably did it after someone mocked Marc for wearing pink.
-“Colors do not have genders, you dimwit!”
-Then he probably went to the Agreste Foundation and started a whole campaign against toxic masculinity and gender stereotypes because he totally would he’s such a sunshine child.
-In order to promote his new campaign (and also to challenge his father tbh) he makes Gorilla take him to a beauty salon and he just gets his hair dyed.
-Gorilla was shocked when he saw it coming out of the salon. Nathalie dropped her tablet and gasped. Gabriel was very upset, naturally.
-It took a little bit of negotiating, but after seeing how committed he was to his campaign and how well people were receiving it (and also bc he knows the whole pastel goth-esque thing is trending among the tweens) he allowes Adrien to keep his hair dyed “for a season”.
-Which gets Adrien really excited bc he’s never been allowed to decide about his appearance. (u know, he’s a model)
-Rose freaks out when she sees him cuz it’s her favorite colour, of course.
-Marc thinks it’s a very sweet gesture and thanks Adrien for standing up for them and then blushes a little (Nath freaks out a bit but he’s not a jealous bf so he calms down easy)
-None of the boys in the class tells him even the slightest bad thing bc they’re all great boys.
-Chloe is kinda annoyed bc “What did you do to your precious golden hair, Adrikins!?”
- You bet Adrien and Alix did a full on “pink hair squad” selfie shoot.
-A boy from another class looks mockingly at Adrien during recess and Nino goes full on “yO! U gOt a PrObLeM DuDe???!!”
-Adrien calms him down, obviously. He doesn’t mind people looking.
-Low-key he also did it because Marinette wore the color very often and he liked it.
-Marinette almost fainted when she saw him. Of course she loved the look.
-But her reaction was nothing compared to Ladybug’s when she saw a pink haired Chat Noir.
-Her jaw just dropped. Literally. It also made her feel some type of way??? Like, she liked the way Chat looked??? (she didn’t suspect nothing about Adrien and Chat appearing the same day with the same color, bc everyone in Paris is very unobservant)
-In order to avoid suspicion, Chat tells Nadja Chamack he joined the Agreste campaign and talks about the issue.
-“You know Nadja, girls can be kick-ass super heroes like M'Lady (cuts to Ladybug w a slightly awkward smile in the background), and boys can be emotional and kind!. Sometimes I cry a little after a heavy fight!” (Bc he totally does. It must be very draining to be a superhero)
-As two of the most recognized boys in Paris, it was only natural that both Chat and Adrien started a trend.
-Other boys started doing the pink hair at school (Kim committed to a full head. Ivan did just a streak).
-Everyone loves the campaign and supports both Adrien and Chat.