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Queen Bitch: Look me in the eye and tell me you don't want to "break off a piece of that kitkat bar".
KitKat: I am unsure how to feel about this.
Vulpix: You know what she has a point. Never thought I'd say that.
Hero In A Half-Shell: Same, dude.
Bugaboo: Okay, first of all, since we're doing this whole 'Team Chat' thing, we should lay down some rules:
KitKat: Notice how she dodged the question?

Hero Chat is a Miraculous Ladybug AU created by Cornerverse on Archive Of Our Own.

The story focuses on a group chat created by the Miraculous Holders to discuss both professional and personal troubles. Said group chat was created because the heroes aren't able to meet out of costume because of rules requiring they adhere to the secret part of Secret Identity. As a result, the heroes gain an outlet for the frustrations in their lives and receive advice on how to cope with their hardships. That results in a number of changes to canon and things going quite differently for the heroes.

The stories in this AU can be found here. Other material that ties into the AU can be found on the writer's Tumblr here and here. The hc twitter tag also has related material. The tag hc answers is a mix of canon and obviously non-canon material.

See also Lady Luck (Miraculous Ladybug) for a prose fic from the same author, about if Chloé got the Ladybug earrings.

Hero Chat provides contains examples of:

  • Abusive Parents: The source of many of our heroes' issues.
    • Adrien's father regularly gets comments regarding the punchability of his face, due to his frequently suspect actions and hyper-controlling attitude.
    • Once Sabrina joins the group, she gives a lesser version of this trope—her father believes that service to others is extremely important, so when she reveals that since she's no longer doing other people's homework for them (and thus has free time), he gets so upset that he gets akumatized over it. It's implied that this is at least part of the source of her issues.
    • Audrey is very verbally and emotionally abusive, gaslighting Chloé, frequently getting her name wrong on purpose because "She's not exceptional," and more. A great deal of Chloé's issues stem from her mother, though see Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse for more details. It comes to a head in chapter 62 when it's revealed that she has a second, secret family the whole time, lying that she has an "open relationship" and keeping her other daughter, Zoé, a secret. Not to mention that when Chloé accused her of doing this because she wasn't "exceptional" enough, she outright confirmed it. It's the final straw for the mayor and he begins drawing up papers to start the divorce proceedings.
    • Inverted in the case of an actual supervillain, the necromancer Specter. He was an example of Good Parents to his child, in spite of diametrically opposed morals. To the point that his child continues the tradition of good parenthood. Thankfully his child and grandchild are on similar moral wavelengths.
  • Actually Pretty Funny: During their identity reveal and their flirt-sparring, Marinette laments the frustration of her love square with Adrien, since she's been rejecting him (as Chat Noir) for him. Adrien admits that's a pretty good reason to kill him, which causes Marinette to calm down and both of them to laugh... at least until Marinette finds out that both Chloé and Alix snuck out during the chaos.
  • Adaptational Backstory Change: Compared to canon revealing virtually everything about Lila Rossi is possibly a lie, down to that not even being her real name, Lila here has a backstory a lot closer to her initial identity: daughter of an Italian Ambassador and a massive liar, manipulator, and Attention Whore, albeit with the reasoning for her lies stemming from wanting others to like her and believing people only cared for the lies rather than the real her, and would betray her once they learned the truth.
  • Adaptational Badass: Jagged Stone. He's apparently a witch, with his pet alligator Fang as his familiar, and took over the role of the Bee once when Chloé was under the weather.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Sabrina debuts as a hero in the New York special, when she wouldn't in canon until the end of season four.
  • Adaptational Gender Identity: In chapter 82, Adrien realizes he's genderfluid. The same chapter also reveals that Juleka is transfem nonbinary and Marc is nonbinary as well.
  • Adaptational Heroism:
    • Chloé is a great deal more kind and legitimately heroic here than she is in canon, where she outright refused to accept that she needed to change in the least and stayed the same Alpha Bitch she started as.
    • Felix is more in-line with his Jerk with a Heart of Gold self from the original preview. It's later revealed that he’s the hero Lord Winter as well.
  • Adaptational Karma: In contrast to his canon counterpart Su-Han is banished from Paris and teleported to an unknown location after hounding Marinette and trying to take the Miraculous from her for an entire day.
  • Adaptational Name Change:
    • Chloé has to rename her hero persona to Honeybee in-universe since she revealed herself before reforming.
    • In canon, Sabrina called herself Miss Hound with the Dog Miraculous. Here, she goes by Wolfhound.
    • Mylene, when using the Mouse in canon, called herself Polymouse. She goes by Petite Souris here.
    • Lê Chiên called himself King Monkey in canon, but calls himself Roi Singe here.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: While Gabriel is still acting as Hawkmoth and corrupting people into Akuma, he doesn't want anyone killed by his actions, with a lot of his threats towards Team Miraculous he admits to being scare tactics in the hopes they'll give up their Miraculous to him. All he wants is his wife back so they, Nathalie, and Adrien can be together. So when he ends up manhandling Alya after she punched him in the face and is called out by Nooroo for doing so, he realizes it was a Moment of Weakness and he is at risk of Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, and tries to take a step back from being Hawkmoth for the Winter Gala so as to recenter himself. Outside of that, while he has his failings as a parent, he does genuinely love Adrien and refuses to directly hurt him, and Word of God is that, were he to learn Adrien was Chat Noir, he'd be crushed over how many times he nearly hurt his son.
  • Adaptational Sexuality:
    • Chloé slowly finds that she's attracted to girls, though she admits that she likely kept this part of herself repressed because of her mother. In fact, all of Bustier's class is an example of this, with the author confirming that Ivan and Mylene are the "Token straight couple."
    • Lila is heavily implied to be aromantic as shown by her describing Adrien's good qualities in an almost detached tone, implying that she is not so much in love with him as much as she is sexually attracted to him. After the events of Winter Gala, Lila looks some stuff up and is baffled to discover that both romantic and sexual attraction are a thing, thereby revealing her to be AroAce.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change:
    • Instead of getting the Bee Miraculous (since Chloé still has it), Zoé instead uses the Eagle Miraculous.
    • Several of the Miraculous have their powers changed. The Tiger gives Invisibility, the Goat gives Dream Walking, and the Rooster gives The Power of the Sun.
    • In canon, Marc uses the Rooster Miraculous while Nathaniel has the Goat. Here, it's the other way around.
    • Rather than the Peacock Miraculous, Felix is in possession of a necklace similar to a Miraculous but not actually one, allowing them to become "Lord Winter" and act as An Ice Person.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Very little is changed abut Su-Han's behavior, but unlike in canon, he does not become an ally to the heroes. Instead, he becomes a one-off villain, completely independent from Hawk Moth, who gets banished from Paris by Ariel after spending an entire chapter hounding Marinette and attempting to take the Miraculous from her.
  • Age Lift: The members of Bustier's class are sixteen, rather than the fourteen years they are in the show. Luka's an even bigger example, as while he was Juleka's twin in canon, here he's her older half-brother by about a year and a half, putting him close to Age 18.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: The Dragon Witch could easily turn the tide of the conflict, and is the one who is basically in charge of defending the magic-users of Paris. Unfortunately, she's required to defend all magic-users in Paris, including Hawk Moth and Mayura, so she can't get directly involved. As long as everyone follows the rules, she doesn't interfere.
  • Already the Case: Chloé convinces Ladybug to do an identity reveal if one of the heroes can figure out everyone else's secret identity. Ladybug is unaware that Chloé has already figured everyone out.
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Surprisingly Gabriel is this once Adrien explains his current love life. He even tries to give him The Talk with Nathalie's assistance much to his son's horror.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Alya and Nino theorize that Lila has some sort of actual magical ability to enhance her lies, to explain why everyone believed her. However, it's never confirmed for sure, and Nino points out that they might be reaching for a supernatural explanation because they don't want to admit they got suckered so easily.
  • And Then What?: When Su-Han comes for the Miraculous box, Marinette refuses to give it to him for several reasons, with one of the biggest being that he has no actual plan on how deal with Hawkmoth.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: Defied. Max admits that he would have been more skeptical of André's "Soulmate Ice Cream" if it weren't for the magic battles that have been happening over the past year and a half.
  • Badass in Distress:
    • Most of the Team during Chapter 63 when Darkblade brainwashes them into his generals, prompting Marinette to bring in Zoé.
    • Nino and Alya again in Chapter 68 and Chapter 11 of Team Miraculous, when Shadowmoth and Sentibubbler invade the Cesaire home.
  • Becoming the Costume: The akuma Costume Change has the ability to do this, and is unleashed upon a fan convention. Since the Miraculous team was undercover there in cosplay, they end up using both their regular abilities and their newly-acquired ones to take him down.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: The third category of reasons for being Akumatized is "Bruh what the fuck" where the reason is just incomprehensible to anyone else but doesn't fall under any other category. This includes Mr. Pigeon (prevented from feeding pigeons in the park) and Otis Cesaire (got mad because a kid said he was faster than a jaguar).
  • Blunt "Yes": If Chloé's description on how her mother introduced her to Zoé is accurate:
    Chloé:Yeah it was like. me: "Wow was I such a disappointment at birth that you immediately went out and tried again?", mom: "Yes, actually."
  • Bodyguard Crush: Nora Cesaire, Alya's older sister, was recommended by her friend Jalil, Alix's brother, as a temporary bodyguard for Clara Nightingale. The two of them started dating, though currently it is a secret relationship. Alya even lampshades the trope.
  • Brick Joke: Chapter 20 sees Alya give an Eggman Pisses on the Moon-inspired rant after Hawkmoth's latest Akuma interrupted her latest Zany Scheme for Marinette to confess her love to Adriennote . In Chapter 26, after dreaming of the events of Chat Blanc, Adrien told Marinette that he blamed Alya's rant for what happened to the Moon because it looked like some of her super lazer piss had damaged it.
  • Call-Back: Chloé's hatred of soup is brought back a couple times.
  • Cassandra Truth: Markov initially connected the heroes and their civilian identities months before Chloé revealed them on the Team Chat. Max, under the influence of the Glamour, thought that Markov's recognition program wasn't up to speed and manually tried to fix the "error," with Markov accepting his creator's correction despite the data proving otherwise.
  • Cerebus Retcon: An Inverted Trope. In the episode "Wishmaster", when Adrien is hit by the Akuma he outright disappears since he never had a childhood dream of growing up or any direction he wants thanks to Gabriel's controlling attitude. Here, after Luka expresses his worry about that event, Adrien admits that he's always has many options in his life (whether inheriting the company from his father, going into fencing, or going into acting like his mom and cousin had) that he never had a concrete dream outside of any changing interests like pirates or ninjas. The inversion is downplayed, as Sabrina notes it's both wholesome and depressing and Luka still thinks there is something to unpack there for a later time.
  • Chekhov's Gun: When Chloé reveals the chat's identities, Max mentions that his robot had them all pegged months ago, but he didn't believe it, since robots and AI can see through Miraculous disguises. When the group goes to New York, and they meet Aeon (also an AI), she's also able to see through the Miraculous' disguise and figures out who each of them is.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: Zoé.
    • When she was asked to become Talon (everyone but Marinette was captured by Darkblade 2.0), she initially thought she was getting inducted into a vampiric coven.
    • She believes that NASA didn't land on the moon and that they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake it...but his attention to detail was so strong that they faked it on the moon! In her defense, Nino says that that particular conspiracy would have been something Kubrick would do, and is somewhat believed anyway.
    • She thinks that Jagged Stone is a hologram controlled by Fang. This is despite her being friends with his son, claiming that "Holograms are very advanced these days," and "Has anyone seen Luka flicker recently?"
    • She had Rose pegged for a Fae or Dryad. She's not. She's the granddaughter of a necromancer supervillain and inherited some of his powers. When Zoé hears the truth, she's not happy...that she was so wrong.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Kagami and her mother went on a trip to Japan while the other heroes were working on the movie. The plot of the movie ended up as a Murder Mystery, while Kagami got tied up in an actual murder case on her trip.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Everyone is surprised when the permanent heroes start growing fangs, including those who have animals that don't actually have fangs. The general consensus is "magic is just weird like that."
  • Cuteness Proximity: Chloé has gone so far as to buy an expensive dollhouse for Pollen to live in, complete with clothes for her to wear, which she is disappointed that she can't show the others due to Kwami not showing up on cameras. She also tries to negotiate custody rights for Roarr after briefly using them to get away from Hawkmoth.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Lila turns out to be pretty snarky when she's stuck with a bunch of people who know she's a liar; there's no need to put up a front and she can't really manipulate them, so she settles for just grousing about everything.
    Zoé: Okay, I love snarky Lila better than fake sweet Lila!
  • Deconstruction Fic: An odd version in that it's a deconstruction fic of deconstruction fics, specifically trying to resolve standard call-out topics reasonably.
    • When Chat Noir realizes what his incessant flirting looks like, he has a private discussion with Ladybug about boundaries and how much flirting is too much. Ladybug also clarifies that she's fine with at least some flirting, as she sees it as part of their banter.
    • There's also some to the "Adrien is starved for his model job" plot point. Yes, he's thin and on a strict diet, but he has a nutritionist who's making sure he's fed a healthy amount for a boy his age, and his activities as Chat Noir are taken into account. In fact, his nutritionist is having trouble making sure he's getting enough food, since his high metabolism only spikes higher once the superheroing is taken into account.
    • While most authors will try to portray Adrien's mother as better than Gabriel and that Adrien's suffering happened under Gabriel, canonically she's only been gone for about a year. She was entirely complicit with what Gabriel did to Adrien (albeit better at explaining herself).
    • Marinette's friends may have fallen for Lila's manipulations, but they're not her brainwashed minions; they just think that Marinette was jumping to conclusions about the extent of Lila's lies (Alya thinks that Lila's mom wouldn't just allow her to skip school while she said she was in Achu). They end up figuring out that Lila's bad news by Spotting the Thread on their own.
  • Demoted to Extra: Su-Han appears in one chapter before swiftly being dealt with, mostly because the heroes refuse to let the Kwami go back to the conditions they were stuck in and because he has no plans to deal with Hawkmoth. Thus, the heroes call the Dragon Witch on him. While he's not dead, he's in no position to reenter the story.
  • Devious Dolphins: Kim's reason for why he wanted to punch a dolphin as a kid.
    Monkey Business: Have you ever fucking meet a dolphin??? They're like the Zues of the seas!
    Wonderland: Actually that's Poseidon but I know what you mean.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?:
    • In Chapter 11 of Team Miraculous, Alya manages to attack and successfully remove the Butterfly Miraculous from Shadowmoth. She nearly gets the Peacock too before she's recaptured and Shadowmoth retrieves the Butterfly again.
    • Alix's childhood dream was to fight off Jerkass gods like Zeus...or at least make them pay child support. There ends up being "coincidental" lightning when she brings it up during the post-fight chat.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • This applies to Lila's lies in general, though special mention goes to her attempts to frame Marinette for cheating, assault, and theft, which all quickly fall flat.
      • Lila steals the answer sheet for a mock exam, plants the stolen answer sheet in Marinette's bag, then leaves an anonymous note tipping off Ms. Bustier. When Ms. Bustier finds the answer sheet in Marinette’s bag, the rest of the class quickly defends Marinette, insisting that it isn’t like Marinette to cheat, and that she wouldn’t need to anyway because she always does well in the class. Chloé in particular points out that stealing an answer sheet just to cheat on a mock exam that doesn't even count for a grade is very risky and clearly not worth the minimal rewards, especially for a top student like Marinette. She also notes that if Marinette had stolen the test answers, she would’ve thrown them away immediately after the exam rather than still hang on to such incriminating evidence long after the exam was over. Even Ms. Bustier silently concedes that the evidence against Marinette makes no sense.
      • Lila’s plan to frame Marinette of assault involved just collapsing at the bottom of the stairs while Marinette is at the top, then screaming to draw people’s attention. She didn’t seem to consider how falling down an entire flight of stairs would result in serious injuries, which she would also need evidence of. It doesn’t take very long for everyone to realize she’s completely uninjured, and that her fall was faked.
      • To frame Marinette of theft, Lila leaves her foxtail pendant in Marinette's locker, then accuses her of stealing Lila's family heirloom necklace. However, her foxtail pendant is actually from the previous year's Agreste jewelry line, something that Chloé recognizes almost instantly. Thus, the class is able to convince the staff with relative ease that the necklace in Marinette's locker was really a present from Adrien, and that Lila mistook it for her own necklace.
      • Downplayed with her claim about having a lying disease. While it does save her from the bigger, more immediate problem of being confronted by her classmates and the staff for framing Marinette of theft, assault, and cheating, it also vindicates Marinette’s previous accusations of Lila being a liar. Moreover, it also gives Marinette and the rest of the class opportunities to cast doubt on Lila’s stories without looking like jerks, as they’re now able to pass it off as concern that her disease is acting up.
    • Hawk Moth gets this reaction from the team in regards to Costume Change. Essentially, he thought giving an akuma the power to inflict Becoming the Costume on people and not much else combat-wise was a good idea...and said akuma was unleashed upon a fan convention, where many people were dressed as characters who could have easily kicked his ass, let alone the ones already cosplaying as Paris' heroes.
  • Disabled in the Adaptation: Lila is heavily implied to have clinical depression.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: The second category of reasons for being Akumatized is "Valid, but this is a bit much" where the victim has valid reasons for being upset but is going too far over it. Stoneheart and Stormy Weather are listed as examples of this type, as they were teased about their crush and lost a contest, respectively.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: According to Luka, when Juleka was turned into a Vampire Pirate Queen by Wishmaker, Rose was caught up in how cool/hot her girlfriend looked that she got hit by Wishmaker as well.
  • Dramatic Irony: When D'Argencourt is turned back into Darkblade during "The Perfect Murder", he transforms the Miraculous users sans Marinette, Luka, and Kagami into elite generals. Marinette hope that Darkblade's decision to select them was a coincidence, unaware that D'Argencourt and the other teachers are Secret Secret-Keeper for their hero identities.
  • The Dreaded: An Akumatized Marinette is considered by the team to be one of the worst-case scenarios, due to how creative and clever she is.
  • Emotion Bomb: Persephone, real identity Lillian Lavillant, was created from her own guilt of being unable to protect her daughter Rose from the legacy of the former's villainous father Specter. When Team Miraculous gets close, they end up feeling the same guilt and fall into Heroic Self-Deprecation of their own mistakes. Thankfully Rose is able to snap them out of it.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Gabriel is a supervillain who has been terrorizing Paris for a while and also happens to an emotionally abusive Control Freak. However, he never once attempts to interfere with Adrien's love life, in spite of how unorthodox it is and is in fact quite supportive of it. Part of the reason he turns back into the Collector during the Winter Gala arc was that he overheard people insulting the relationship.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Marinette. The group figures out that Marinette is the mysterious balcony girl Chat is enamored with and half-jokingly tells him that the only people who don't at some point get a crush on her are either people who are 100% into men (Max takes this as confirmation of him being gay) or have no soul (Chloé puts Lila into this category). Some of the girls in the chat (Alya, Chloé, and Alix) admit to having been attracted to her at some point and Kagami realizes she falls into the same category.
  • Everyone Has Standards: It says a lot about Audrey that when she finally reveals how callously she was disregarding her marriage to Chloé's father, and how little she gives a shit about Chloé, that Ladybug says that it's okay to start plotting Audrey's murder.
  • Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Luka gets this when he realizes that, since his mom was in Jagged Stone's band, and she dropped out of the band because she got pregnant, Chloé's nickname of him being "Jagged Stone's Illegitimate Child," might hold more than a grain of truth. Chloé, who was just teasing him about looking similar to Jagged and playing the guitar, is contrite. A few chapters later, it's revealed that Jagged actually is Luka's dad and is upset at Anarka for keeping it from him.
  • Failed a Spot Check:
    • Lila attempts to convince Adrien that Marinette is cheating on him by showing Adrien a picture of her on a date with Luka...completely missing that both Adrien and Kagami are at the table with them.
    • When Juleka tells the other on the chat how Lila's most recent lie had just hurt Rose and that she is sharing her phone with her, the others catch Zoé up to speed about Lila, including her lie about being Ladybug's BFF and having the Fox pendant and how Marinette (Ladybug) and Alya (the true Fox Miraculous holder) get annoyed hearing that. They said this after Juleka warns them of Rose joining in while completely forgetting that Rose was out of the loop at that point, meaning she finds out that they are heroes. Of course, they end up adding Rose to their group since Marinette was planning to give her a Miraculous in the near future anyway.
    • Kim somehow managed to miss that there was any discourse in a fandom that's infamous for having mass amounts of discourse.
  • Fandom Rivalry: invoked An In-Universe case in "To Con a Con". While Max and Kim are undercover at the panel for the new movie about Team Miraculous, Kim's outbursts at the director end up setting off a toxic fan battle since he's dressed up as Lance from Voltron: Legendary Defender, devolving into a fight between fans of Undertale, the "Superwholock" Alternate Universe, and numerous other unspecified fanbases.
  • Fashion-Victim Villain: In-Universe. The team brings up the fact that some of the akuma look...bad. Nino is especially annoyed because some of them are great, so it's not like Hawkmoth is just universally terrible at designing villains.
    Nino: You think he still has the kinda cool "dark prom" aesthetic? Or did the effort of fusion mean he went back to clown outfits.
    Alya: You're still upset about Bubbler, aren't you?
    Nino: YES. THE REST OF Y'ALL LOOKED DOPE.
  • Fix Fic: Gives Chloé a proper redemption arc and brings the heroes closer together, while giving some of the series' most complicated moments a proper explanation.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
    • Chloé pulls this on herself; while her abusive mother and overly permissive father were why she turned into such an Alpha Bitch, that's also why her teammates need to not hesitate to call her out when she behaves badly, as otherwise she won't learn better.
    • The side story "Rise and Fall" details the reason for Lila's lying, that her constantly moving around as a kid left her perpetually lonely, and kids at the schools she went to only paid attention to or liked her when she told grandiose lies about herself, eventually resulting in Lila becoming emotionally detached due to how often she moved, and believing that people only care for the lies and would abandon her if she was caught after that happened once, resulting in her becoming the Manipulative Bitch she is whenever someone tries to expose her. All of her behavior ultimately stemmed from abandonment issues, not helped by her grandmother and father succumbing to illness as she grew up and leaving her feeling more lonely, so she'd lie and manipulate so she'd never be left alone again. None of her backstory is meant to excuse what she's done though, just contextualize it, as none of Team Miraculous particularly like her for all she's done, even if they are willing to give her another chance if she ever bothers to change her ways, something Zoe wants to try and make happen by making Lila realize she's not alone. This is played later on as, while still not a justifiable excuse for being a manipulative bitch, a lot more sympathy is given towards Lila, Chapter 85 focusing entirely on her perspective and highlighting numerous details suggesting she suffers from clinical depression and improperly handling her grief.
  • Gold Digger: This is the assumption that some outsiders have of the polyship; Kagami is probably dating Adrien out of an Arranged Marriage situation, Marinette is blatantly trying to get one-up in the fashion world, and Luka is poor so he's just latching onto a rich meal ticket. Gabriel overhears this speculation and is genuinely insulted that anyone would think so little of his son, or himself for failing to notice.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: The Akuma that the heroes fight at the convention, Costume Change, gives everyone the powers of who they are cosplaying. This quickly backfires as soon as the heroes realize that this applies to them as well.
  • If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Juleka gives Marinette, Adrien, and Kagami the shovel talk after finding out that they are dating her brother Luka. All three were gravely terrified of her.
  • I Hate Past Me: Implied with Chloé and Zoé when Luka tells them that the childhood dream that Wishmaker turn them into was to be what their mother Audrey would approve of...or in other words, acting just like her.
    Zoé: Great. Gonna knock myself the fuck out.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: When the teachers, starting but not ending with Ms. Bustier and Ms. Mendeleiev, figure out that their students are superheroes, they all find themselves wanting a drink—but because they don't actually want to become alcoholics, they eat ice cream instead.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Several canon Akumas still happen in different circumstances, despite the changes to canon.
    • Miraculer still happens, but it's Lila instead of Sabrina.
    • Chat Blanc is an akumatized Sabrina instead of Chat Noir (and isn't from an alternate timeline). The original situation does show up as a dream, however.
    • Chloé rejects Hawk Moth's offer since in this continuity she still has the Bee Miraculous, but he just turns Lila into Miracle Queen instead. Interestingly, because of a poorly timed picture, everyone thinks she accepted the offer since she took the Tiger Miraculous from him, but the rest of her friends make an announcement in their hero forms to say that no, this is not the case.
  • I See Dead People: Rose, due to necromancer heritage thanks to grandfather Specter, now imprisoned supervillain. It's useful for calming down Ghosts, especially new ones.
  • Joke and Receive: As part of the identity reveal, Chloé changes Luka's nickname in the chat to "Jagged's Secret Lovechild", which she explains as a joke because he looks kinda like Jagged and plays the same instrument. Then Kagami points out that his mother was fairly close to Jagged, and Luka remembers that she left the band because she got pregnant with him...sure enough, the next few chapters slowly confirm that Luka literally is Jagged's secret lovechild.
  • Just a Kid: During the New York story, Majestia and Knight Owl are shocked to discover that the members of Team Miraculous are all teenagers, and argue that they shouldn't handle such dangerous powers without an adult guiding them. This frustrates the other heroes and especially brings up old resentment that no other heroes came to help when Hawkmoth first appeared. Later, Jess and Aeon explained that their parents were more concerned about how Team Miraculous were sent out to fight without any actual training but were overall impressed that they were able to defeat the Akumas on their own.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A lot of the complaints directed at the In-Universe Miraculous Movie from fans in "To Con a Con" are actual complaints fans of the actual series had during Season 4 and on, particularly Chloe's flanderization into a Villain, Gabriel's loss of his sympathetic traits, Adrien's Nominal Importance and overall Out of Focus treatment, and the reveal Adrien was a Sentimonster.
  • Letting Her Hair Down: Kagami shares this picture of Marinette◊ with the group. They're all pretty shocked and quite enamored by the sight because they never see her with her hair down. Kagami even texts the picture as "actual angel" and the group agrees with her. She keeps it up because she works and lives in a bakery and loose hair would potentially get into the food.
  • LGBT Awakening: In chapter 82, Adrien sees some genderswap fanart on the Ladyblog, gets envious, and starts questioning their gender. After a quick chat with Marc and Juleka, they conclude that Adrien might be genderfluid.
  • Little Bit Beastly:
    • Many heroes have reported developing fangs after wielding their Miraculous for a while. Juleka views this as a perk.
    • Adult users that are gifted a Kwagatama by their Kwami have further traits in their hero form. Luka finds out on his eighteenth birthday when he gains freckle-like scales and snake eyes after transforming.
  • Luke, You Are My Father: The plot of the canon episode "Truth" in this version is about Jagged Stone finding out that he's actually Luka's father, and is furious that Anarka kept this from him.
  • Malicious Misnaming: After it was pointed out that Hawkmoth with the Peacock Miraculous could have also been referred to as "Hawkcock" (as opposed to his actual name of Shadowmoth), the heroes decided to run with it out of sheer spite.
  • The Masquerade: In the New York story, the team is told that the Mayor originally had a gag order to keep any information about supervillains from getting out of the city. It was already showing cracks, and then Prince Ali got attacked, and there was really no way to keep it contained after that. Apparently he was worried about it deterring tourism.
    Chloé: Damn it Dad.
  • Moon-Landing Hoax: Zoé believes the old gag (or pretends to) that NASA "hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing, but he was so dedicated that he filmed on the moon." Nino suggests "Kubrick totally would've done that. Which is why so many people believe it."
  • Morton's Fork:
    • Chloé's mom starts yelling at Chloé when everyone thinks that she accepted an offer to work with Hawk Moth. When Chloé is able to point out that she wasn't and was in fact working against him the whole time, her mom then begins lambasting Chloé over how foolish she is for giving up on a chance for power.
    • In the Hero Chat's version of "Truth" Anarka describes the situation that led to her not telling Jagged about Luka as this. While it wasn't the best move, the result of telling Jagged would have either led Jagged to give up his music career for his new family or try to make a balance that would have forced Luka into the spotlight for his entire life.
  • Mundane Utility: Miraculous hero costumes include really comfy underwear. Alya even says it's the best bra she's ever worn.
  • Mystery Fiction: The students film their own murder mystery about a rich businessman being murdered.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Discussed in Chapter 29. Amelie is firmly convinced that Gabriel killed Emilie because he and Nathalie were having an affair.
    Kim: No offense to Adrien, but combine that with all the superhero stuff and it'd make an interesting show to watch.
  • My Instincts Are Showing: The fic goes with the common Miraculous Ladybug fanon that using a Miraculous makes you manifest behaviors common to your associated animal. Incidents include Ladybug having unspecified trouble with aphids (real life ladybugs' primary food source), Chloé being attracted to flowers, furry animals manifesting a 'winter coat' (thicker hair and fur costume accents), animals that hibernate being sleepier during the wintertime, and several characters have reported developing fangs, even if the animal their Miraculous is based on doesn't have them.
  • Mythology Gag: Even though Mylene uses a different hero name this time, Polymouse is still suggested as a name by Ladybug when giving her the Miraculous.
  • Noodle Incident: After Alya pulled the Butterfly Miraculous off of Shadowmoth then gets captured by Sentibubbler, Nooroo called him 'Le Paon' when chiding him for being too rough on the girl. The other heroes suspect that Hawkmoth had once solely used the Peacock Miraculous in the past, though the heroes don't have much information outside of that.
  • Not in Front of the Parrot!: How does Jagged Stone work out that Luka is actually his son? The kids were discussing their theories about Luka's potential parentage in front of Fang, and Fang, being Jagged's witch Familiar, decides to be less of a crocodile and more of a pigeon.
  • Never My Fault: The fourth category of reason for being Akumatized is "You brought this on your own damn self", which is pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin- somebody who put themselves in a position to be Akumatized (and thus take out their personal issues on the entirety of Paris). Usually, it's someone getting pissed that their actions have consequences, such as Volpina (maybe don't lie to people and you won't get humiliated when called out?), Lady Wifi (snooping in someone else's locker is a punishable offense, even if Chloé took it too far), and Pixellator (paparazzo got kicked out of a hotel he was snooping in), but there's also the occasional "how could you possibly think this would end well?", like Princess Fragrance (Ask Chloé to deliver a love letter? What could go wrong?).
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Due to the nature of the fic, all fights are offscreen; people don't take the time to chat on their phones in the middle of a life-or-death battle. The best offscreen moment is probably the Miracle Queen fight; at least Chloé and Alya dual-wielding Miraculous and Lila as Miracle Queen giving the brainwashed students Miraculous (unlike canon Miracle Queen, who just used canon heroes), but it's all just discussed later.
  • Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: The heroes have very mixed opinions on the fanfics of them, especially the ones that are unknowingly shipping them with their civilian selves.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: When going out with Marinette and Luka, Adrien and Kagami wear sunglasses and that's it. This actually worked, as Lila didn't notice either of them and it played into her trying to convince Adrien that Marinette was cheating on him with Luka, even though Adrien was in the picture with her.
  • Parents as People: Adrien describes this as the case with his mother, fully supporting his father's Control Freak approach to Adrien's life and just being better at explaining why they're doing what they do. The group's a bit shocked to learn this, having thought his mother was absent for most of his life, but he clarifies that she's only been gone for roughly a year.
    • Played for drama and black comedy in Chapter 65. The imprisoned supervillain Specter was bent on world domination via Zombie Apocalypse, thanks to his necromancer powers. He is also the father of one Lillian Lallivant aka the mother of Rose and was, by all reports, an excellent father. They don't visit due to moral differences. The chat has to take a moment to process all of that. Zoé revises her conspiracy board.
  • Perilous Marriage Proposal: The aftermath of the events in New York with the Eagle Miraculous has Majestia, deciding to not let her fear of her powers hold her back, proposing to Knight Owl. This makes their interviewer Rena Rouge Faint in Shock.
  • Point of Divergence: Used quite extensively.
    • The other heroes being made aware that Chloé is Honeybee made it possible for them to provide her with a support network, allowing her to calm down before the Miraculer Akuma got close enough for Sabrina to be forced to take it in her place. Instead, the Akuma went to Lila Rossi.
    • The Battle of the Miraculous went completely Off the Rails.
      • Because Chloé already had the Bee Miraculous, all he could offer Chloé was the Tiger Miraculous.
      • As soon as Hawkmoth left Chloé, she used the chat to immediately warn the heroes about what had happened.
      • This warning, combined with Master Fu allowing Ladybug to make some of the others permanent heroes earlier, meant that Lila, who became Miracle Queen in Chloé's place, didn't have as many Miraculouses to work with.
      • Lacking Miraculous and temporary heroes to work with, Lila had to settle for randomly handing out what she had to random people, preventing any members of the team from being outed to Hawkmoth.
      • Because the outcome of Miracle Queen was less of a disaster, while Master Fu still passed guardianship of the Miraculous to Marinette, he did so calmly in a way that did not wipe his memories.
    • At this point there's no way the events of season 5 can occur as in canon due to the fact Marinette has given out all but one of the Miraculous out and Felix is a hero in this story.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Costume Change was akumatized because he lost to a black woman dressed as Junko Enoshima in a cosplay contest, and his immediate reaction to seeing Rena Rouge dressed as Ladybug after he's been de-akumatized is to roll his eyes and tell her Ladybug isn't black, earning him the ire of both the team and several spectators.
  • Polyamory:
    • The ultimate resolution of the Love Square turns out to be Luka, Kagami, Marinette, and Adrien forming a four-way couple who all know each other's secret identities. It short-circuits the canon plot of "Truth" and leads to more shenanigans, but it appears to be working out.
    • Apparently there's significant in-universe speculation that the Agrestes and Nathalie might have had something like this going on, and while nothing is explicitly confirmed as yet, it would explain Gabriel's uncharacteristically reasonable reaction to his son acquiring two girlfriends and a boyfriend.
    • In The Winter Gala, it's revealed that prior to the main story that Gabriel and Emilie had discussed Nathalie's feelings for the two of them as well as their feelings for her, implying they wanted to start a polygamous relationship with her. However, that was put on hold after Emilie fell to her illness. After a present-day discussion, both Gabriel and Nathalie agree that they won't act on their feelings until she is brought back to them.
    • A downplayed case regarding Kim, Max, and Ondine. While Kim is bisexual and dating both Max and Ondine, Max and Ondine aren't dating each other due to Max being gay.
  • Poor Communication Kills: The chat was set up to avert this, and it definitely does a good job, averting a lot of communication problems the canon show had. Ladybug and Chat discuss Chat's flirting and the Entitled to Have You vibes it gives off, and the heroes end up comparing notes about Lila's stories and spotting the threads. Chloé eventually manages to get everyone to finally reveal their identities when she's had it dealing with the Love Square.
  • Pragmatic Villainy:
    • Gabriel chooses not to actively try to make Marinette into an akuma because he's certain while Adrien will come to forgive him once he explains his actions as Hawk Moth, akumatizing Marinette would be something he'd never forgive him for.
    • During the Winter Gala, Lila doesn't bother trying to keep up her nice mask in front of the kids her age, because the group consist of those who already know her true nature (Marinette and Adrien), those who already hate her (Chloé and Kagami), those she can't get a read on because the former groups keep them apart (Zoé), and those she already had a bad first meeting with (Felix).
    • What Ariel does to Su-Han shows that part of the reason Gabriel limits the damage his actions would cause, outside of his personal moral code, is that he does not want to get on the Dragon Witch's bad side. He works within the confines of magical law in order to ensure that she won't shut down his entire operation, as he has no way of countering her if she ever decided to take care of him personally.
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes: Or Kitty Eyes, as Marinette describes Manon's ability to get her to make Akuma dolls, with the former saying it's impossible to resist. Chloé finds that hard to believe, as she built a resistance to Adrien's kitty eyes. Nino and Luka both account that Adrien's kitty eyes are hard to resist.
    Danger Noodle: Having seen Adrien's "kitten eyes" yeah no.
    Hero In A Half-Shell: It's so sad and adorable you just want to hug him!
  • Put on a Bus to Hell: Ariel, as the most powerful magic user in the story, can negate certain issues if someone steps out of line. Su-Han is sent to an unknown location by Ariel the Dragon Witch after chasing Marinette across Paris. While she doesn't disclose where she sent him, it's made clear that it would be very difficult for him to get back to Paris.
  • Reality Warper: Discussed when everyone is subjected to Becoming the Costume. As everyone gained the powers of their costumes, Marinette realized she and Max would likely gain the ability to alter reality as they saw fit due to being dressed as Monika and Neo respectively. Fearing what could happen if they tried to though, Marinette opted not to use her new powers in favor of just using Good Old Fisticuffs, and hoped Max wouldn't use more than Neo's ability to fly.
  • Related in the Adaptation: Ondine and Marc are stepsiblings in this AU when in canon, they are implied to not even know each other.
  • Rewatch Bonus: After Chloé explains to Alix that she knows everyone's identities, her constant facepalming over Adrien and Marinette being too obvious and oblivious about their identities makes more sense.
  • Revenge Myopia: A common component of You Brought This On Your Own Damn Self akumatizations (along with doing something really stupid)- the akumatized person is mad because they suffered reasonable consequences for something that they themselves caused. The author gives as examples Lady Wifi (broke into Chloé's locker, got punished for it), Pixelator (got kicked out of a hotel for being a paparazzo), and Volpina (got called out on her lies).
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: Chloé states that the only teens who wouldn't have had a crush on Marinette are those that are not into girls or are soulless, and puts Lila in the latter category. It's implied that Chloé is right about Lila, though it's more to do with the fact that Lila is aromantic and can't develop romantic feelings for anyone.
  • Secret Identity:
    • It's complex, to say the least. Ladybug knows who everyone is except Chat, while Chat only knows those who he figures out. There's a rule in the chat saying that you can't just tell everyone your secret identity, but it tends to come out anyway. Chloé figures out the identity of everyone on her own, just by using logical deduction.
    • Chloé is an interesting example, since she was Queen Bee, but gave up being Queen Bee since it'd be dangerous for her to have a known secret identity. However, she then takes up the Bee Miraculous again, but takes on an entirely new secret identity. They have to do video editing and clever usage of the Fox Miraculous to convince people that Chloé is not the new bee (even though she is). Kagami is in a similar boat, having replaced herself with the same Miraculous.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper:
    • Chloé manages to figure out the identities of all of the Miraculous holders but stays quiet in keeping with the rules that the group chat won't try to discover the identities of the others. She does share her knowledge with Alix but that just makes this a shared version of the trope for them.
    • Frustrated by the romantic shenanigans of the infamous Love Square, Chloé talks to Ladybug through the chat and convinces Ladybug that "if someone finds out everyone's identity, they can just tell everyone." Ladybug thinks that will never happen, so she agrees. Five minutes later, everyone in the chat knows everyone else's identity.
    • The teachers at the school (but not the Principal) have all figured out their students' secret identities and are, to one degree or another, covering for them.
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Played for Laughs. After a dream where Ladybug has to step down because she was pregnant and Team Miraculous spent forever fighting on who would take her place, Chloé nominates herself to take Ladybug's place if the latter goes on maternity leave. This leads to Alya saying that she wants to be the backup Ladybug and will fight Chloé for the post, followed by Kagami (since she looks like Ladybug the most), then Kim (since he wants to join in on the challenge), and then Alix (because she thinks Kim as Ladybug will be a bad idea).
  • Set Swords to "Stun": Chat Noir explains Cataclysm works like this. It only does as much damage as he intends (such as damaging objects in such a manner as they fall or break in the way he wants). So if it is used on a living person he has to actually intend on killing them otherwise it will merely just hurt them as much as he actually intends on.
    Luka: As depressing as this conversation is, saying ‘you’re only alive because I don’t want you dead’, would be the most metal thing to say to an Akuma.
  • Shared Family Quirks: Chloé states that Adrien's "Just A Friend" quirk is common on his mom's side of the family, with Felix acting the same to Bridgette in a more Tsundere matter. She also suspects that Emilie might have been the same with Natalie if her Polyamory theory about the two and Gabriel is correct.
  • Sherlock Scan: Chloé figures out everyone's identities in this way; first, she identifies Ladybug as Marinette because of their similar personalities (Marinette has the In-Universe Nickname "Everyday Ladybug," it's not that much of a leap), along with the fact that Marinette dropped Tikki in front her once and she noticed the similarities between the kwami after meeting Pollen, and then sorting out who the other heroes are from the much smaller pool of 'people Marinette knows well enough to trust with a Miraculous."
  • Shout-Out: Several of the usernames are references to other series.
  • Side Bet:
    • When the other heroes learn that Adrien's identical cousin Felix is coming over, they set bets on who he'll cause to get Akumatized. While Marinette is uncomfortable about betting on new Akumas, Nino suggests it as strategic speculation to know what kind of Akuma to expect. Chloé wins the bet when Lila gets Akumatized after she mistakes Felix for Adrien and he tells her to back off.
    • When discussing the Adrinette lovesquare, Alix and Chloe make a wager on whether or not either of them tried to recommend the other for a Miraculous Chloe wins on both counts.
  • Simple Solution Won't Work:
    • Very early on in the fanfic, Team Miraculous propose trying to get rid of Lila Rossi by simply informing Lila's mother of her daughter's manipulations. They then shoot the idea down because, if Lila could get away with such things as pretending the school was closed for a whole month by an Akuma attack to play hooky, it means Mrs. Rossi is either utterly oblivious or, worse yet, on Lila's side.
    • The idea of using the Rabbit Miraculous' time tavel powers as a quick fix is quickly nixed by Alix; time travel here works on the multiverse principle, meaning that if she were to try and Set Right What Once Went Wrong (such as preventing Fu from accidently destroying the Guardians), all she'd do is create alternate timelines whilst leaving her and the others stuck in their own, Hawkmoth-plagued one.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Chloé declares this as the reason why Marinette is an Even the Girls Want Her Dude Magnet. She goes out of the way to be helpful and kind to anyone she meets, so of course she's going to get admirers because of her kind nature.
  • Spot the Thread: Lila ends up on the wrong end of this.
    • After Chloé explained to Alix that Marinette was Ladybug, it took her two seconds to realize that Lila was lying. After all, if Ladybug is Lila's best friend, why would Marinette be constantly mad at Lila? This is also implied to be how Chloé figured out that Lila was a liar in the first place, and why she leads the charge against her.
    • The kids start getting suspicious of Lila when Chloé mentions Fang, and they realize that if Jagged has a pet crocodile and not a cat (having the latter is a bad idea when you have the former), then Lila couldn't have saved Jagged Stone's kitten as she claimed.
    • Alya and Nino chatting with Ladybug on a near-daily basis allows them to find out how deep Ladybug's fixation with keeping secret identities goes, almost bordering on paranoia. This made them realize that since no one knows Ladybug's secret identity and Ladybug would never become close friends with a civilian while in costume, Lila's claim of being Ladybug's BFF becomes extremely dubious at best.
    • There's the fact that Lila isn't a Miraculous wielder (since back then, the only other girl besides Alya and Ladybug was Chloé). If Lila was really Ladybug's best friend, she'll be among the first choices for a Miraculous.
    • At the start of the New York special, Sabrina confesses to Chloé that she knows Lila is a liar since Lila told Sabrina that Audrey "was concerned about Chloé" and "wants to make up with her." Since Audrey is a textbook case of Abusive Parents in the verbal sense, and Sabrina knows this, it instantly killed most of the admiration she had for the girl.
  • Stating the Simple Solution:
    • While the heroes try to figure out how to stop Lila and her lying without her turning the rest of the class against them. Kim suggests telling her mom about her actions, which the others consider. They still choose not to implement it, though—as Chloé points out, Lila was able to get away with months of truancy without being found out, implying that her mother is either completely taken in herself or actively on her side, so telling her won't do any good.
    • When Sabrina asks why doesn't Alix use her powers to either find out Hawkmoth's identity or even prevent him from coming to power, Alix answers that trying to change history would just make Alternate Timelines, while they'll be stuck dealing with their current one. She also points out that trying to find out who Hawkmoth is too early could lead to them being underprepared for the final fight.
  • Stealth Insult: When Lila was passing out what few Miraculi she had as Miracle Queen to others, she picked ones she felt were the most mocking to the user. Like giving Mylène the Pig Miraculi to insult her weight.
  • Straight Gay: For the most part, none of the characters who have same-sex love interests behave in a way that is overly stereotypical.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Even though she's one of the villains that they regularly fight, Marinette expresses concern over Mayura when it's discovered that Hawk Moth was using both the Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous, meaning that the former was most likely too sick to use it.
  • Tempting Fate: In chapter 78, after an "Angrybug" incident, the others convince Marinette to get some proper sleep, with Luka pointing out the world won't end if she goes to bed at a reasonable time. Chapter 79 and Chapter 16 of Team Miraculous has the majority of the team, including Marinette, trapped in their dreams.
    Marinette: 'The WoRld woN’t End juST beCausE yoU Go tO bEd aT a ReaSOnaBlE TimE'
    Luka: ...
    Juleka: You had to open your big mouth.
  • That Came Out Wrong: After Luka reveals Juleka caught him transforming into Viperion, Marinette states that Juleka is moving up the list. Max and Alix think she means a hit list, while Kagami believes it's another sleep-deprived rant. Marinette then states it's a future teammate list, as in planning to select Juleka as a future Miraculous wielder sooner since she knows about Luka.
  • There Are No Coincidences:
    • Chloé says she figured out Chat Noir's secret identity by noticing the several similarities between him and Adrien and, after learning Chat is allergic to feathers, she decided "there’s no way all that is coincidence."
    • After being de-akumatized, Mendeleiev shows Bustier the drawing of the kwamis she found at school. When Bustier points out each kwami resembles the animal theme of a hero they already know to be one of their students, they agree it can't be a coincidence and Mendeleiev decides she'll no longer try to expose or hunt them.
  • Token Adult: Downplayed. Luka, by virtue of an Age Lift, technically acts as this. However, he's only 18 compared to the rest of the team being 15-16, making it not that big a gap, and he still occasionally laments the team not having proper adult guidance after learning the only adult involved was Fu.
  • Tourism-Derailing Event: The reason Mayor Bourgeois keeps all information about Hawk Moth and the Akumas from reaching the outside world is because he's worried about the existence of supervillains discouraging tourists from visiting Paris. This turns out to do more harm than good; not only does it keep other heroes from offering aid to Paris' Miraculous Holders, but the masquerade gets blown wide open without any chance to reveal the truth in a controlled manner after Prince Ali gets attacked by Princess Fragrance.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Expanded on, as Marinette informs the new Miraculous wielders what their Kwamis like to eat. Aside from Tikki's canon taste for cookies and Plagg's love affair with Camembert, Pollen likes honey, Trixx likes berries (and Alya's mother's cooking), Wayzz likes tea, Sass likes boiled eggs, Fluff likes carrots, Xuppu likes bananas, Kaalki likes sugar cubes, and Longg likes spicy food. Everyone agrees that these are all perfectly logical favorites that are not particularly difficult for the heroes to obtain...except for Plagg's stupid cheese.
    Adrien: Goddamn it. Why must I suffer?
    Chloé: Probably because your power is bad luck?
  • Triple Shifter: Hawk Moth has a really bad habit of creating Akumas in the middle of the night, much to the heroes' frustration. They even wonder if he doesn't need to sleep for his day job.
  • Unknowingly in Love: Chat Noir is blockheaded as always when it comes to romantic feelings. Other characters have to point out that frequent nightly visits to "balcony girl" (Marinette) are not something you do with someone who's "just a friend."
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Zoé's arrival in chapter 62. Zoé had been told by her and Chloé's mother Audrey that she and the Mayor had an open relationship and that they knew that Zoé existed. So when Zoé showed up on their doorstep asking for a break from New York, no big deal, right? Wrong. The Mayor and Chloé had no idea that Audrey had been cheating on the Mayor, much less with so many people. Not only did it rip off the rose-tinted glasses the Mayor was wearing regarding his wife (and leading him to start drawing up divorce papers), but now Chloé isn't sure who her biological father actually is. Zoé didn't intend any of that.
  • The Villain Knows Where You Live: Shadowmoth invades Alya's house with a Bubbler Sentimonster and has her family and Nino taken hostage. Alya fears that he found out she is Rena Rogue, but it quickly becomes clear he is targeting her as the writer of the Ladyblog.
  • Villain Has a Point: The first category for reasons for being Akumatized is "Valid" where the victim is perfectly justified in being upset. The tumblr post ranking every Akuma by Chloé's motive categories includes Alix as Timebreaker (people breaking an heirloom she'd just received), Wang Cheng as Kung Food (was sabotaged in a very important international contest), and Luka as Silencer (Bob Roth stole his band's work and taunted him about it). Chat Noir hopes that if he's ever akumatized he falls into this category, but also admits that Hawk Moth might just catch him on a bad day when he's fed up with how much Camembert Plagg eats or something.
  • Villain Respect: Surprisingly, Gabriel shoots down Lila's accusations that Marinette is just using Adrien to get into the fashion biz. This is due to her already having connections within the industry on her own merits to the point even Audrey is impressed enough to want to have her as an intern. Gabriel even is considering hiring her eventually lest she get snatched up by the competition or become a rival in the industry herself.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Kim wears a dress to the Gala and in fact requested Marinette make him one for it once Alix declared that she didn't want a dress.
  • You Are in Command Now: The group eventually decides if something happens to Marinette and/or Adrien, Chloé gets the Ladybug Earrings and Kagami gets the Cat Ring. This whole conversation started because Chloé had a dream about Marinette being pregnant.
  • You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: Played for Drama. The reason Marinette never told her classmates about Lila's threats was that she couldn't be sure if they would dismiss her claims like her previous protests about Lila's lies. Her teammates are shocked to hear this, and quickly assure her that they would have believed Marinette if she told them about Lila threatening her.

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