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Okay but bonus points if he's on the verge of tears and has like a better family to go back to.

Adrien needs a iroh.

Let him have a iroh please.

A thing ATLA has I hope/wish ML will have too

ATLA fans, remember the famous pivotal moment where Zuko visited Ozai during the sun eclipse and confronted him about his horrible actions as a father and directly called him out on it? That none of the things Zuko blamed himself for were actually his own wrongdoing, but his father's?

I'm talking about these scenes:

ML fans, remember Gabriel? Gabriel Agreste?

Yeah.

I wish this would happen sometime during the climactic battle between Hawkmoth and the Miraculous heroteam, where Adrien, transformed as Chat Noir, walks over to Hawkmoth, now detransformed on the ground, his staff broken, an exhausted Nooroo laying beside him.

I want Chat Noir to confront him similarly how Zuko confronted Ozai.

"For the longest time, I can't think of anything I wanted more than be the son you wanted me to be father. I tried to please you, always, I never lashed out, rarely spoke out of turn, but when I did, I always felt so guilty." Chat Noir glanced off to the side, but his fists clenched in resolve and he turned his head back to look down at his father.

"I felt guilty for disrespecting you, my father, whom I didn't know endangered countless of lives every day. My father, who was too hung up on the past to see the slowly crumbling future that was ahead of him."

Gabriel's face twisted into a grimace, hand clenched into a fist. "How dare-!"

Chat Noir ignored him, voice growing firmer. " My father, who couldn't even be bothered to show up at parents day at his own son's school. Who got angry at his son's best friend who just wanted to throw a birthday party for him, something all children did. Who didn't even want to decorate the Christmas tree. All this time, I thought I wasn't good enough, but after learning the truth, I could see it for what it was." Ladybug noticed the narrowed green stare directed at the older man and she didn't dare step in.

Gabriel growled, hand shaking at his side. "You didn't realize it! You still haven't realized the sacrifices I've made! For you, for your mother, for us!"

Chat Noir took a deep breath, staff lifting to point it accusingly at the grey haired fashion mogul. "I realized how all this time I spent missing mom, being lonely and feeling guilty for wanting to make friends, were times I wasted on you. Time I spent thinking of you that you never spent a quarter of thinking of me."

Gabriel's steel eyes narrowed, his voice a booming roar that would've made Adrien cower with his tail between his legs.

But not today.

"I forbid you from speaking that way to your father Adrien! You can't possibly know of the sacrifices I've made for our family, the time I spent planning everything to be perfect for your mother to come back! I did what I had to in order to ensure my plan couldn't - wouldn't - fail! Failure wasn't an option! Not again!" Gabriel beat his fist upon the concrete beneath him, but Chat Noir remained firm, standing tall.

His voice was low when he spoke, more calm than the infuriated voice of his father. "Your son. Who lost his mother a year ago, spent Christmas without his mother there for the first time. Your son who went to Chinese lessons, fencing and piano lessons to appease his overworked, mourning father. Your son who acknowledged your needs before his own." Chat's gaze fell, a veil of sadness filling it before it cleared again.

"I tried to be the son you wanted me to be, but you were never the father that I needed. I didn't need a father who organized my whole life, I needed a dad who helped me figure out what to do with it when I got lost. I didn't need a father who never talked to me outside of photoshoots, I needed a dad who listened and taught me all the things I didn't know. I didn't need a father, at least not the kind you turned out to be." his voice cracked at the end, Ladybug was about to take a tiny step forward, but the subtle lifting of Chat Noir's hand made her stay put.

It seemed like the fight left Gabriel, who could only stare at the solemn expression on his son's face, an identical look growing on his own face.

Chat Noir took another step towards Gabriel, his transformation dropping as Adrien stared down at the stunned expression of his father. "I needed a dad who was there for me."