Take My Hand.

Take my hand.

I literally love how in this arc she isn’t portrayed as this dumb brute of a woman who is supposed to be a super secret high level assassin (I know I’m over exaggerating a bit and this is a comedy story but still). Here she actually a well written character, as well as her arc and it actually feels like she is this high level deadly assassin (with a brain) that has found a solid reason to continue being in this assassin job and doing what she believes is right.

I love the Forger family so much but I had felt Yor was a kind of a weak link for me and hadn’t really been done justice with what she could have been and hadn’t really made sense how she could have continued being a super secret deadly assassin doing what she believes is right and have someone fall in love with her when she was portrayed as being dumb as a brick.

I know I sound harsh and I am being slightly harsher with my criticism than with how I really feel about her but I’m trying to get my point across.

Yor is questioning why she is continuing her job as assassin and it happened bc she has a family now 🥺🥺 she started it for her family and now thinking about not continuing since it can take her family away from her 🥺🥺 she is so full of love 💖

I keep thinking about how the reason ladybug felt the thunder at the time she did was bc I think she really has thought all along Chat Noir liked her bc he saw all her accomplishments and even if he was resilient she would inevitably push him away, and thus she worked in s4 to do it faster so it’d hurt less later.

And then when he sees her make possibly almost the biggest mistake she could’ve made (just behind losing the Ladybug or Black Cat) and still stands by her side she realizes she was wrong all along.

Because Chat Noir loves her BECAUSE she makes mistakes and tries SO hard anyway. He loves her resilience through all her hardships and mistakes. He loves that she MAKES MISTAKES to begin with.

Knowing who Adrien is, it makes SENSE that he’d be enamored with someone so imperfect who pushes through it anyway to achieve incredible and miraculous things because that’s what he wishes HE could do. In the depths of his heart he knows they’re both terrified all the time but as long as they can pick themselves back up they WILL and that’s what he loves so so much about her. It’s not that she’s never terrified its because she ALWAYS is and does it anyway, because so is he every day.

Marinette never understood that because she HAS NO IDEA that Chat Noir is always terrified. She has No Clue. Because to her he’s the most brave and resilient person she’s ever fucking met.

Ok but listen

So I saw a post that said (correctly) that it would be awful if Marinette gave Felix the Dog Miraculous while still thinking he was Adrien and I was like ok but the potential for shenanigans…

(Transcript below readmore. Story of the unbelievable stress this gave me coming soon.)

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they used to be at a turning point in their relationship everytime it was raining and they were protected under an umbrella and now everything and everyone including them has turned upside down and they're standing in the rain without an umbrella to protect them and no way of escaping it either but they're together and it's okay because it was never about the umbrella it was about who was underneath it all along

"life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but learning to dance in the rain" yes queen alya listen to her majesty's word, it's law

'The fact that Adrien, who had the most reason to be angry at Ladybug for what happened in that episode but didn't is more than enough proof for why he's her partner.

This entire season has been about Ladybug learning how to be a leader, and Adrien struggling to figure out where his place in all of this was. The conflict of the season was that these two didn't know where they fit in exactly. Marinette wanted to try her hardest to be the guardian she needed to be and Adrien wanted to be the the hero she needed.

And in this episode both of them thought they lost it.

Adrien's worst fear that he wouldn't be useful for Ladybug anymore, and Mari's worst fear that she would fail as a guardian, both came true.

But all hope is not lost.

In this scene where Adrien comforts Ladybug, he does what he's always excelled at doing as Chat. Like so many other scenes, as I've mentioned in Miracle Queen, Psycomedian, Kuro Neko, and of course ladynoir in Puppeteer 2, Adrien's worth as a hero isn't determined just by heroic feats and clever planning.

It's because his compassion and empathy for others is what saves the day, time and time again.

He tells her to trust him, because he knows her better than anyone else. And he knows in that moment she needs him. It's this level of selflessness that is Adrien's greatest strength. He would never hold a grudge or be angry at her because at the end of the day he's going to be on her side, always and no matter what.

In the end he does what he was always going to do: he does his best for his lady. Because he knows what she needs, and he never hesitated to give it.

And Marinette, who has spent this entire season learning about what it means to be a hero, and failing because of trauma and making mistakes, has finally learned the most important lesson for her.

She is Ladybug. She is a hero, mistakes and all. Her fear and anxiety and trauma do not make her failure.

The people have faith in her and support her, they want to follow her. They love her. And that's what makes her a great leader. A leader who Paris can get behind even when everything becomes bleak.

There's this idea that Marinette has to be perfect to be a good Ladybug. It's an idea Mari has been struggling with all season. It's what has led her to make so many of the mistakes we see her make. It's what many of the fans have argued she should be, when the reality is Mari was never perfect. Just like with Adrien, the show tells us that perfection isn't what we're looking for. It isn't what we need, it isn't what Paris needs.

What Paris needs is these two who never give up and always fight, who get back up even when they fail. Who the people want to support.

We've hit rock bottom now, the lowest of low. But the one thing this episode showed us was that Adrien and Marinette are the best Chat Noir and Ladybug for the job. And most importantly, it reminds us what makes them the best team for the job.

And that they most certainly are a team. Ladybug, Chat Noir, and all of Paris.