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You know, with how Risk is emphasizing how Chat Noir isn’t really needed to fight akumas as much anymore, Alya’s increased role as Marinette’s support (both Miraculous-wise and emotionally) and how Gabriel’s trying to send Adrien away, but ended up sending Felix in his place… I’m wondering whether there may actually be something to the “Adrien going rogue” idea. Not in terms of him being pissed at Ladybug, but in terms of him doing his own, independent thing to try and stop Shadowmoth. Risk was talking about how Adrien always “does what he’s told” and saying that he needs to cut his strings, stand up for himself, etc.
being the topic du jour and all
The problem with the Adrien-is-a-sentimonster thing isn’t the no-man-of-woman-born whatever, since they’ve bent over backwards to insist that a sentihuman is completely 100% physically for all intents and purposes a human being like anyone else. Yeah, someone on this show is a sentimonster or at the very least there’s going to be a plotline about someone thinking that they are one.
The problem is that in the case of Adrien specifically, “posessing his own amok” could never be anything else than a tangible allegory for breaking free of his father’s abuse. And the problem with that is that they’ve already discarded the option through the very framework of how sentimonsters work. ~Controlling the amok~ has long since been tested and proven false.
In “Feast”, Nathalie blackmails the sentimonster with a threat of removing the amok, and Feast clearly, physically reacts to her powers. In “Ladybug”, Marinette gives Sentibug the amok and Nathalie promptly wipes her out of existence.
Posessing the amok will never be enough.
In order for any sentimonster on this show to be truly emancipated, it needs to posess not only the amok, but the peacock miraculous. And with that, the amount of provisions for the allegory has sunk any elegance to it, turning it from an apt narrative device to a matter of plot mechanics. If Adrien has to carry two pieces of jewelry in order to be a free man, then the show has also set up a clear precedent of miraculouses and other magical jewelry falling into the hands of relatives with sticky fingers.
That’s why I’m still not convinced - because this setup would amount to some MASSIVELY CLUMSY STORYTELLING. If Adrien is a sentimonster, then the only tidy way out of it is if The Wish ends up being used to turn him into a Real Boy or something to equal effect, and then what was the point except just adding another item to the list of Adrien Agreste’s life is despair.
(again: Those Rings clearly have some kind of magical abilities beyond any possible amoks, because this entire Felix-Gabriel feud can not be over a family heirloom. If that’s truly all they are, then Gabe’s redemption is going to be his using The Wish to set Adrien free once Felix completes the set and I’ll probably sit here pulling my hair)
Did Gabriel actually cry?
This was his worst emotional breakdown, holy shit. I want more of him crying over his wife because it actually shows he cares about someone?? Makes him more vulnerable? This man who usually doesn’t even show affection towards his own son.
(Can we also take note that both him and Adrien smash things when they’re mad? That’s so scary.)
I’m so glad that we’re finally getting payoff for the “using multiple miraculouses at once can make you lose your mind” thing from Kwamibuster.
Like. Gabriel isn’t acting himself anymore. He’s growing more and more erratic. He seems to be having difficulty keeping the composure that used to be so integral to his character.
I can’t get over how sad it is that Adrien felt like he couldn’t tell anyone about how upset he was, not even Nino. He’s been so conditioned by his upbringing to believe that nobody cares about his feelings or what he has to say that he just… doesn’t even attempt to tell even his closest friends.
It’s nice that he told Marinette, but the fact that he only told her because A. She prompted him on the subject and B. He was affected by akuma magic is just… sad.
He saw “telling a close friend of mine that I’m upset at my father” as a RISK. That was a RISK to Adrien, and something he needed an akuma to force him to do. I can’t get over that.
I just realized that Simpleman was basically Risk Lite and I'm utterly fascinated by the idea of the two of them in one episode causing all the mayhem because it will come down to "This is the simplest concept and I will take the risk and do it!"
they threw the sentimonsters into the sun and killed them without a second thought, and they made félix watch, but yes, tell me how the sentitwins are a good idea
The lesson for this season really should be that Ladybug and Chat should trust each other completely, since no matter what, he's the one who always stays.
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