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huh. so, marinette knows how to make the anti-akuma charms, and a pretty reasonable step from there would be improving them so that someone who’s never been akumatized in the first place could have one
cue “okay chat blanc is never going to happen so we’re finally safe, it’s all good, identity reveal time”
i have no idea how you’d pull another round of “oh no time travel reset button this was a mistake” without it feeling like cribbing from chat blanc or ephemeral so maybe you’d have to lean into it but i feel like there could be something fun there
bunnyx turns up and ladybug is like “oh no not again” and bunnyx is just like 😬 yeahhhhhh sorry
I’m imagining just the most depressing running gag of bunnyx occasionally popping up out of nowhere to shake her head and then vanishing
chat noir: ?????
ladybug: um so you remember how we faced sandboy 2.0 and you saw my worst nightmare was you being akumatized and i decided to figure out how to make a charm so it could never happen and—
chat noir: yes that was last week and also you brought it up literally ninety seconds ago right before bunnyx showed up, i remember
ladybug: …………………right
ladybug: well um apparently the charm isn’t good enough yet sorry. bunnyx you can go now we didn’t actually get to the identity reveal bit so it’s, you know, fine
bunnyx: ✌️ [leaves]
chat noir: i have more questions
side note, it’d be interesting to see someone explore in fic things people could do with the magical charms, you know
like if you’re cornered by an akuma, it takes awhile to get through so maybe you take the chance and run
ladybug makes like a half dozen charms, do they all fail at once?
like just bc gabriel made a bigger akuma doesn’t mean they have to be worthless
also crack idea: ladybug just makes physically bigger charms
you get a magical charm - akuma arms race until you get like, mothra vs something the size of anish kapoor’s bean
(no one knows how ladybug pulled that out of her yoyo but whatever)
like the show gave us such a gift with the whole “marinette your power is creation! go wild!” and she was like okay! anti-akuma good luck charm!
like holy shit so many things are now possible
just like. can you imagine. m pigeon 76 happens and she is so fed up that she just goes on an extended magical charm spree and suddenly monsieur ramier is like a freakin polkadot christmas tree
charms all over
if they don’t all fail at once, gabriel’s gonna have to go through a significant amount of effort to akumatize his favorite dude again
also something that amuses me greatly every time I think about it is given hawkmoth’s inclination to come up with angry vindictive venting speeches after his defeats, it’s amazing just how many akumatizations we don’t actually see onscreen
dude is so active
72 angry post m pigeon speeches
72 pigeon related puns
tbh frustration over his ultimate goal aside that must be a great way to vent frustrations
there’s crackfic potential in him doing a lackluster akumatization just to be defeated so he could have an excuse to get angry and yell
okay new headcanon, that’s the reason he goes after m pigeon so much
plus he gets some vindictive enjoyment at how done ladybug and chat noir are and sometimes he just feels petty
he’s uptight as fuck, it makes only too much sense
god I just remembered he didn’t know about the anti-akuma charms for awhile
post-72 he must have been like goddammit did m ramier discover meditation???? he hasn’t been upset in days what is this
or like, he’s still been getting upset regularly but the akumas haven’t succeeded in possessing the bird call so like. damn. maybe he finally has been getting therapy and learned to control his emotions. which. inconvenient but at the same time, probably better for his mental health in the long run
he must have gotten to know m ramier stupidly well at this point, even better than the kids in adrien’s class tbh
like just imagine a supervillain having a parasocial relationship with you
therapy in paris is just. such a unique field even in a world where superheroes generally exist
god. at one point hawkmoth is like “oooh a therapist who’s frustrated on behalf of their clients, that should be very usefuOH NO ABORT. NEVER MIND. I’LL JUST FIND SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY IT’S FINE”