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I like to think that in the future Malleus and Yuu will continue in the role of "friends forever until death do them part" so…

Some time after NRC…

p1: you are here! pt2: next

Hearing the familiar sound of footsteps, Malleus waited as Sebek, his faithful knight, landed behind him.

Malleus: What it was?

Sebek: WAKASAMA…..

Sebek: … I, um, bring news. -

Sebek: - But, before I tell you this news, my lord needs to promise that you will not… execute me.

Malleus:Tell me - he said, losing patience with Sebek - or you will prefer execution.

Swallowing hard, Zigvolt continued:

Sebek: It's nothing important, my lord, in fact, no reason to overreact. - It's just that Prince Leona just…

Malleus:Contract leprosy? -

Sebek: No, my lord...Leona has just…

Malleus:Contracting the black plague? Yellow fever?

Sebek: Wakasama… - Prince Leona asked Yuu!… and here is the part where I will remind your majesty not to kill me…

Sebek: he asked if she would become his…

Malleus:Don't ruin my morning.

and so, Malleus flew away and left Sebeck alone.

Sebek: You're handling this incredibly well, Wakasamaa!

You know that song that goes

🎵you gotta get up and try try try🎵

Thanks, but everytime I've gotten up to try try try, I've failed and cry cry cried. So no

NOW IT'S GULF AND MEW

WHATTHEFUCK 💀

I think it's fucking hilarious,, my mom on the other hand does not

WHOEVER KEEPS PUTTING GULF ON MY MOM'S FACEBOOK,,, PLEASE STOP

SHE KEEPS ASKING WHO HE IS

I feel like she wouldn't appreciate knowing that he's a main character in a queer drama 💀

what the israeli army is doing is absolutely disgusting. the fact that people will turn a blind eye because it’s supposedly in ‘self defence’ is disgusting. genocide is not self defence. please try and boost as many posts about gaza that you can whether that’s by liking, commenting, reposting etc

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

Dianthus before the banishment :DD (Referenced a pose by @9vampeerie9 on twitter)

girl (gendy nooch) not all thoughts are outside thoughts

me (to me) regarding the wild adventures my brain goes on and the desire to be known

SHAMPAIN - Marina and the Diamonds (2010) dir. Kim Gehri

JUNGKOOK I AM NOT YOUR STRONGEST SOLDIER

230928 - bts on tiktok (4)

THIS. The whole thing you said about the lack of substance in Marinette and Tikki's dynamic is the VERY reason why I prefer Adrien and Plagg.

With Plagg and Adrien, their relationship seems more alive, with their disagreements and heartfelt moments. It just seemed more substantial compared to Marinette and Tikki.

Not like disagreements are necessary, but every time Tikki pops up to speak, it seems like she's there just to say her piece or play the "voice of reason" just to get the story to move. She just seems more like an extension of Marinette, instead of a friend and foil to Marinette's clumsiness and forgetfulness.

Hi! Been loving reading through all your Miraculous reblogs and the meta you've written - you have some really great stuff on this blog! I was curious if you've ever written/reblogged anything talking about how, from the very start of the show, Miraculous uses Tikki as Marinette's absolver? Marinette "makes mistakes" and "owns up to them" according to Astruc's tweets, but I find myself feeling that the "accountability" she takes is rarely related to what she did wrong in the first place, even when the show tries to tell us otherwise, and it's usually Tikki or a different yes-man, like Alya or Adrien, absolving her of her mistakes, whether the situation had anything to do with them or not. Ikari Gozen is an episode that always comes to mind for this - Marinette is absolutely terrible to Kagami, sabotaging her, badmouthing her, and going through her phone. Marinette never expresses remorse to anyone but Tikki, but Tikki absolved her so the narrative never addresses the issue again. Tikki tells her "it's never too late to make things right" and Marinette invites Kagami out for juice without ever taking accountability for her previous actions. And Kagami just GOES with it, even stating that SHE was wrong about Marinette and that she understand why Adrien values her. I I will admit, I don't really like Marinette as a character, because I find her consistent self-absorption, and the narrative's endorsement of it, to be really maddening, but I'm pretty new to the fandom, and the subreddit isn't a great place to find thoughtful analysis, so I'm looking for perspectives here! Thank you for your time!

Hey, thank you so much for your kind words! <3 sorry for taking so long. I've had my ask box deactivated for several years now and i completely forgot about me already having started replying in my drafts. 😭👏

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No, I don't think I've ever written or reblogged something about Marinette's dynamic with Tikki, but I do have thought about it. For me, their dynamic is just lacking much... idk, substance? I remember reading from Marinette stans that they think Marinette and Tikki have a much deeper bond than Adrien and Plagg which is something I simply cant understand at all. Plagg is the only person Adrien actually truly HAS in all the neglect and bad treatment he's stuck in from all sides. Plagg takes on so many roles for his kid and has grown so much because Adrien needed it.

The thing is, Tikki and Marinette's dynamic is very different so I'm just not able to properly read them because I personally would need a Plagg in my life and that's perfectly fine. That's why I dont talk about them.

But about your point now:

I definitely agree that Tikki is one of the main indicators about what is wrong about the way Marinette is written as protagonist, especially since the retooling in season 4. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Tikki also used to have a bigger presence in the how which was by now mostly made redundant by Alya always being with Marinette and in season 4 Marinette (unnecessarily and dangerously) keeping all the Kwamis outside the box all times so they too stole screen time from Tikki.

So Tikki lost alot of her personality. I believe to remember her also being more energetic and excited in the earlier seasons, showing off more to her character, which would by now make her yet another character the show sucked alot of their life out of so they aren't in the way for Marinette. Tikki seems alot more down these days, that I definitely noticed.

Marinette has Alya now, if that makes Tikki sad because she isn't relying on her the way she did before then Tikki has to deal with it quietly and not bother Marinette (seriously, Tikki reminds me ALOT of Adrien and they're both treated badly in the narrative for Marinette’s sake :/)

And this reduced characterization makes it by now very noticeable imo that Tikki herself as a Kwami often doesn't really know what is going on because she lacks experience with alot of things. I wholeheartedly agree that Tikki is one of Marinette's strongest and most damaging enablers because Tikki is because of it not actually allowed to be challenged in her dynamic with Marinette the way Plagg is with Adrien. Where Plagg is allowed to grow, Tikki is kept the same because Marinette is not allowed to be really pushed back on.

The show has to my memory always been quite open about Tikki not being familiar with alot of things so Marinette can explain things to her. The problem comes, as you say, from the show then weirdly still acting like Tikki saying some random vaguely positive thing about whatever Marinette just did.. suddenly meaning it doesn't need to be taken care of anymore?

It's the same thing as the show has Adrichat, Alya or Luka do. Most of what the narrative and Marinette as the main character want to hear at this point is being told positive things whenever something went wrong. If that positive thing actually holds any water the way it was executed is beyond irrelevant which reflects incredibly badly especially on Marinette because she is the main beneficiary.

Again, remember Cat Charming in "Kuro Neko". From Marinette's perspective he should have no valid opinion on the Ladynoir conflict AT ALL because he just arrived half an hour ago and never even met Chat Noir in her eyes. But still, Marinette made him the deciding voice of the Ladynoir conflict, absolving her of all blame to entirely put it on Chat Noir, because Cat Charming validated her and said positive things about her mistakes so she doesn't have to really think about them as mistakes anymore if she wishes to not have been in the wrong.

Which for the show somehow equals that she isn't and they aren't real mistakes anymore she should genuinely work on (and therefore still hasn't really beyond surface level)?

Who tf cares if this is literally not how it works and how badly it reflects on Marinette as a character that any random dipshit can walk up to her, validate her, and she'll just... GO with it (making Marinette ironically the most endangered person regarding Cerise now because that girl has plenty of identities and Marinette doesn't give a damn who's validating her as long as she's validated by a person not explicitly telling her they're evil)

Where was I? Ah, Tikki!

Tikki is at the end of the day yet another character who's kindness is kinda weaponized by now by Marinette's narrative.

We've reached a point where one kinda has to say that Marinette shouldn't be told optimistically positive things anymore because not rarely will these words just be used to sweep Marinette's biggest flaws under the rug when it really wouldn't have hurt anyone to simply cover the damn conflict at hand.

As you said, there are writing rules, but I think they were "Marinette has to make a mistake every episode" and "Marinette has to learn something every episode". And as you correctly said, these two things often don't necessarily go hand in hand. To the point where the thing she learns is making the initial mistake even worse (I wanted to look for a more precise example, but at this point it's literally all of Ladynoir)

Which of course absolves her of having to properly take her blame or accountability in ot of cases, too. If I were to approach it in bad faith, I would say that this is exactly the reason why the writing rules don't specify that the lesson learned needs to be about the mistake she made... and that's exactly what I'm saying. Bad faith sounds rather realistic to me.

I remember someone having had made a post where they explained that Marinette as protagonist is written like a villain or antagonist, and the more I look at all the aspects of this show the more does that take check out.

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(damn, I am out of PRACTICE in responding to asks! I hope I didn't talk right past the point you wanted to hear in my response. If I did, please clarity with another ask, I'm not sensitive to that)

…can scott antis be serious for five fucking seconds?

The locked tomb

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Don’t shave for a man, don’t drink pineapple juice, don’t put on baby oil… if he can’t handle your natural form then he doesn’t actually want you. You don’t deserve to go through all this bullshit for mediocre sex anyway…

i know i told myself that after frye’s intense losing streak i wouldnt pick her team again but bonnie has been my favorite since the start and i cant bring myself to betray my true loyalties

WE ARE NOT FUCKING DOING THIS AGAIN .

I need to shove him against a wall and push my thigh in between his legs and make him whimper is that so much to ask

it’s always been so it’s no surprise

And that is why I love to call them the chaos twins

Okay- I know there are more important things to be thinking about but

CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT EDRIC AND EMIRA LITERALLY TRIED TO BURN DOWN THE FACTORY- THEY WERE ABOUT COMMIT ARSON WITHOUT HESITATION-

no one: jungkook: *attractively eating noodles*

Just hear me out…..

Bear vibing in a river ⊂(￣(ｴ)￣)⊃

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