Does Marinette Have A Crush On Cat Noir?

Does Marinette Have a Crush on Cat Noir?

 I was thinking about Cat Noir’s ridiculous and failed attempts to kiss Ladybug in Prime Queen. I remarked that Cat would be better off turning his attention to Marinette, oddly enough. Afterwards I realized that my comment stemmed from the balcony scene in Glaciator. Looking deeper at the scene, I noticed similarities between it and another: Luka’s introduction in Captain Hardrock. Because of these similarities, I believe that Marinette might be crushing on Cat Noir as well, meaning she’s torn between not two but three boys (though really only two).

Glaciator starts off with Ladybug refusing a not-date with Cat Noir to hang out with friends, but mostly Adrien who doesn’t show up because he still hopes Ladybug will come for their not-date. Marinette is upset that Adrien doesn’t come, and so goes out on her balcony to think/sulk. When Cat, who is also upset, sees this, he joins her. Marinette opens up to Cat Noir because she feels badly about standing him up (though she really didn’t) and Cat tries to make her feel better in turn. This is a sweet bonding moment for the pair as they are probably the most honest with each other that they’ve ever been, in either of their identities. In Captain Hardrock, Adrien once again is unable to hang out with his friends--though this time it’s because his dad is being a jerk. Marinette is upset and, even worse, starts to believe that maybe she and he aren’t meant to be. While in this vulnerable state, she meets Luka. While she doesn’t open up to him like she did Cat, Luka still goes out of his way to comfort her. This moment is important for Marinette and Luka because Luka was there for Marinette when she needed someone, even though they were practically strangers at the time (Juleka might have talked about Marinette, but Luka had never met her before). Both of these episodes involve Marinette being troubled by Adrien’s absence and someone coming to her aid while she was down.

These similarities are part of the reason I say that Marinette has a crush on Cat, the other being her behaviour to him during and afterwards. During the scene, Cat takes Marinette to the balcony he had set up for his and Ladybug’s not-date.

Both of their expressions say a lot here, but I’m just going to focus on Marinette’s. She’s comfortable with Cat Noir. He’s her partner; she trusts him with her life, though he doesn’t know that of course. But the way she smiles is telling. I’ve never seen her smile like that for Alya or Nino or any of her other friends. This is a smile reserved for Adrien (and eventually Luka). Throughout the rest of the season, Ladybug seems to respond to Cat’s flirting a lot more, even calling herself his lady at one point (Befana: “Fighting evil with his lady.”). Then there’s Zombizou. Not only does she seem more distressed when Cat gets ‘bitten’ than when she’d though Adrien was a zombie--which could be brushed off by saying the episode had put Ladybug through the emotional wringer by that point and he’d sacrificed himself for her once again--but they’re this line: “Don’t worry Kitty, you’ll get your kisses.” Now, nothing comes of this in the episodes, but that still seems like something odd to say when Cat Noir probably isn’t going to remember anything that happened. From my own experience, whenever I’m comforting an animal (slightly different as they don’t understand what I’m saying instead of just not remembering it), I say things that assure me more often than not, as I know it doesn’t matter what I say to them.

None of us can really know for sure until either the creators say something or Marinette admits it, so I could be wrong. However, because of the similarities between the balcony scene with Cat and Luka’s introduction along with how Marinette acts around Cat now, I would not be surprised if Marinette has a crush on Cat Noir as well as Luka and Adrien.

Besides the bit about Jim dying, I have to agree with this. As cool as troll Jim is, I couldn’t get past the thought that it was so against everything the show was about. And also, I don’t know how Jim and Claire’s relationship is gonna work from here but I’m not going to question that for now.

Some thoughts on Trollhunters S3 and Anton Yelchin

Alright so Trollhunters season 3? It was as good as it was wayyyyy too short. 

However…

The writing surprised me a little bit at first as some things felt a little bit… off? Or awkward? Now Trollhunters is the show I watch knowing and accepting that it is a kid show, with a typical kid scenario that feels a lot rushed and simplistic. However, I was surprised, at first, how several elements from S1 and S2 were entirely left out of S3, namely the whole thing about the Deep (what the hell was that about) and how Jim, as the first human trollhunter, has a strength of his own. Both of these things I want to address separately.

Spoilers under the cut!

Concerning the Deep, it was entirely ignored during S3 and even the whole scene in S2 was… too short. I thought it was that way because we would eventually get an explanation on what happened down there, but we didn’t. So I thought about this and figured it was probably because they wanted to keep as much of the work Anton Yelchin did into the show as a way to honor him. Maybe? That could explain why some scenes felt a little bit awkward and off topic: those scenes might have been cut off the episodes under normal circumstances. The Deep, for instance, serves absolutely no purpose, but does allow a few more voice lines from Yelchin inside the show.

That could also explain why there was so very few development between secondary characters compared to S1 and S2. As such, there was no Creepslayerz and sadly (to me), very little Changelings (the cliffhanger from the end of S2 had me hoping we would see a lot more Strickler and Nomura. We’ve got some very good Strickler content, but almost no Nomura which I thought was sad. I also would have wished to see more of the Changelings teaming up and helping the Trollhunters, but oh well). However, maybe I am a little bit harsh on that point, since we’ve got some pretty awesome town action throughout S3 that leaves me pumped for an Arcadia Oaks aware that supernatural beings exist.

Back to Yelchin: if what I’m guessing is true, then… well, I think it’s a good choice that they kept as much of his work into the show as they could, even if it cost some of the quality of the storytelling. Overall, I think S3 was great despite it’s shortcomings. Concerning the end, with Jim becoming a troll, it was… well, heartbreaking (in a good way), but felt, to me, so incredibly weird storytelling wise. What happened was the opposite of the whole message of the show (Jim’s humanity is his strength and stuff), which felt super weird to me. Now I thought it was good that Strickler and Nomura would tell Jim that humanity is weakness (and would have hoped to see them becoming more aware that it is not, especially on Strickler’s side, though he kind of did but you know…). I also loved that Merlin brought it up and offered the choice to Jim (because Merlin sucks holy shit!). I’m mad that Jim accepted however, but it did gives us a pretty badass fight scene towards the end (although it could have been done by having MORE of the Trollhunters, the Changelings and the Creepslayerz uniting against Gunmar… but oh well!)

Somebody on Tumblr (I can’t remember who, yikes!) brought up that Jim becoming a troll might have something to do with the show moving on from Yelchin’s death, which is a theory I am willing to go with as it feels like the most logical explanation from this 360 degrees turn from the original plot line. As such I feel that it could be very interesting to see how that evolves in the future (as heartbreaking as it is). However, I’m a bit intrigued by how exactly Jim can still be part-human (aside from, like, in his heart or something) and still burn in the sunlight and be pretty much 100% troll. So maybe we’ll get more of that explained in the future, hopefully. I’m not necessarily hoping that Jim switches back to his human form but…

It would have felt less weird and more… errrr… fluid storytelling-wise if Jim had simply died during the battle. Sacrificing himself, becoming the new Merlin or some shit, I don’t know. Of course, this is a kid show, so I suppose it’s not really an option to have the main character die. 

So alright, that’s it! Thank you for reading and feel free to share you thoughts with me if you have any!

ALSO STRICKLER WITH WINGS GIVES ME LIFE THANK YOU GOODBYE

In honor of fanfiction appreciation day we are sending out our fic rec early this week, and tune in later today for an extra fanfic bonus. 

Fanfiction comic in appreciation of The Arbitrary Line by Sir Arghs III/ @dreams-of-kalopsia

Everyone thinks it was only a matter of time. And yet it is not happening. Post-canon. Written for Tumblr user crazydcchick/FFN user KassieMarie for the 2017 Ghost Hunt Exchange.

Told in multiple POV’s, with each character cleverly utilized to show the whole progression of Mai and Naru’s complicated relationship in depth, despite it being a relatively short multi-chaptered fic. The writing is superb, almost poetic, and characterization is on exactly on-point. If you want to see Yasuhara unprepared for a slight miscalculation, Lin being an excellent wing-man, Bou-san doing some tough-love dad act, and Naru showing some heart-meltingly sweet-yet-still-canon-believable moments, then I would highly recommend this story!

Art and review by GHHQ member @soulsborne123

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Unpopular opinion

I’m on the fence about half-troll Jim. I like him but…

Seeing him for the first time was such a shock for me that I basically had the same reaction as Arrrgghhhh. “No like troll Jim.”

It’s an interesting development but it has so much angst attached to it. We see what pleasures of being human Jim loses in addition to his humanity. He’s a completely different person to me and all I can do is miss the OG Jim with all of his emotions and expressiveness.

Not to mention him and Claire can barely do anything with their relationship now. It looks fine, but if you think about how different his life will be from now on compared to hers, it’s frustrating and will be hard on them both.

I feel probably the most sympathy for his mother. She can never again gaze upon the face she of the boy she raised. Jim’s sudden disappearance will have to covered up by maybe a “death the eternal knight” or something. To lose your child so soon like that. To have to pretend that he’s dead or something. I don’t know. It just makes me incredibly sad.

But at the same time, I like him. His new personality is just likeable in general and I like the angst.I love angst.I love to suffer. I like interspecies romance too. I love how much closer he is to Blinky and Arrrgghhhh now.

But please for the love of god, allow him to take the suit off!

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