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The Lack of Adrien POV is a Problem

Storytelling, by its very nature, promotes an understanding of the protagonist. If not outright sympathy for their circumstances. Even in situations where they are very much at fault.

This can and does extend to any POV characters, whether they are antagonistic in the story or not. The result being that the more we, the audience, see things through a certain character's eyes the more we sympathize with them.

Meaning that the less we see of a character's, even a protagonist's, viewpoint the less the audience will understand said character. Let alone sympathize with them.

Let's take Puppeteer 2 as an example: We start off with Adrien having to do a tedious task that directly results from being a child celebrity. So with very little prompting he invites his friends to go with him in order to be less alone while doing it.

However, no one there prioritizes Adrien's loneliness. The very reason they were invited in the first place.

Instead the narrative focuses on Marinette's inability to accept Adrien's friendship in place of a romantic relationship. This in and of itself is not a bad plotline... Except that it completely subsumes Adrien's plotline about his friends prioritizing Marinette's romantic pursuits over, well, being his friends.

Marinette's embarrassment, resulting from her own actions, over the statue scene is resolved in the same episode.

But the fact that Adrien's friends left him alone is never addressed.

This prioritization of Marinette's POV actively alters the fandom's perception of Adrien.

As far back as Origins, Chloe allowed Adrien to take the fall for something she did. However, because Chloe and Adrien's relationship always takes a backseat to Chloe and Marinette's relationship, or just generally Chloe herself, the fandom takes years to acknowledge that Adrien is also one of her victims.

Adrien's friendship with Chloe is never given the spotlight. Even in episodes such as Despair Bear and Queen Banana the focus is on Chloe's relationship to everyone else.

This lack of priority that Adrien's character suffers from came to a head in Chameleon. While Lila's threat to Marinette was given due gravitas, Lila impersonating Adrien and attempting to ruin his friendships was treated as a joke.

Lila posses just as much of a threat to Adrien as she does to Marinette. If not more so! But because we only see glimpses of Adrien's thought process the fandom is less inclined to empathize with his own struggles against her.

Then there is Felix.

Throughout season four Adrien was isolated and sidelined. Not only in regards to the heroes' changing dynamics but also in regards to his own relationships. We do not see Adrien's reaction to his breakup with Kagami, indeed we barely see them interact at all. We do not see Adrien's reaction to Nino's intentionally hurtful words. When they finally interact there is no reference to it at all.

Even when Adrien's emotions DO take the spotlight the narrative minimizes his feelings in order to prioritize Ladybug. Something that, supposedly, was being built up as a character flaw he would grow out of.

The entire season was building on some grand catharsis for Adrien's character. Some great revelation... And instead the spotlight is almost exclusively on Felix. A character that only showed up for one episode before the two part finale. Giving Felix more focus in three episodes than Adrien had all season despite the buildup. In spite of the buildup. Ignoring the buildup.

And this isn't new. The narrative has basically always prioritized antagonist POVs over Adrien's. Therefore minimizing his impact on the story even when he is at the center of it. Even when it supposedly brings him into focus.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who had issues with the powers of the peacock miraculous

First of

The power is kinda the same as the moth miraculous, heck, even the presentation is the same

“A random person is sad so send an random akuma or feather, corrupt the item the person has, evil monologue and then BOOM new villain”

And what a huge coincidence is that both miraculous that has to do something with emotions has to be found by the bad guy

But the question is….what does the concept of “Emotion” has to do with creating living creatures, in fact, the concept of emotion works much better with the moth miraculous, but transmission still works too

The moth works better because the akumatized villains are created by what are they feeling, in fact, is like the villains in their designs is like a way to let out all of the emotions they are feeling right now

So then….what about the peacock? Why do we need two miraculous who has to deal with the emotions of a person?

Like, at least one of them is mostly about let the person get release all of the emotions they are feeling and they transform

You may say that to create a sentimonster you need an item and it’s created by the persons emotions, like love, hate, happiness, etc

But that topic comes to another problem with this power…look how I say a lot to of times create before and right now

create

create

CREATE

What miraculous HAS not only that power BUT also that specific concept?

THE LADYBUG MIRACULOUS!!

Why the heck the peacock is allow to create living beings BUT no the ladybug?

Like, why the ladybug is only allow to create random items but no living beings, it’s literally the concept of creation but also LIFE, the ladybug miraculous should be the one with that power, it’s work and match a lot better than with the peacock, because again, what does emotion has something to do with create a creature?

Can someone explain that, did I miss something???

I know it would make the ladybug miraculous more overpower than already is but at least it would make more sense, like imagen it’s like a power up, that could work

Anyway, that’s kinda all I wanted to say about that issue

What power would you think could worked with the peacock miraculous

I say before I did have two ideas, one spying people around mirrors and the other one was to with the feathers if anyone looked directly to them, they would be blinded by them

So, what do you guys think, do you agree with me or not, let me know

Talking with a Miraculous s fan from Twitter is like talking with a rock

They don understand and would still act like the series doesn’t have problems

And I feel I just insulted a rock because is more productive to talk with it