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“You sound very confident for someone who’s about to die,” said Ladybug. “What’s your plan, pretending to be me? That won’t help you.”
“Actually…” He pulled out a gun from a holster at his side. She hadn’t paid it any attention before, because she didn’t need to. “I was planning to shoot you.”
He fired. He was a decent shot, despite its futility. The bullet glanced off her chest, near the heart; she felt it like the flick of a finger.
See? Nothing to worry about, thought Adrien.
“Seriously?” she said, almost snarling. “You know who I am. You should know that won’t work on me.”
“Just testing, just testing,” he said, smirking confidently. His gun was still raised. “I hadn’t seen your anomaly in action yet. It’s remarkable.”
“It’s not my anomaly.”
“Oh, I know that. It’s Chat Noir’s, isn’t it? I’ve seen his power, from a distance. And you just… took it from him. You took all of him, didn’t you? His mind, his memories, his abilities. A perfect imitation.”
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Ladybug, mutant and government anti-terrorist soldier, experiences the worst day of her life during a routine assignment. And then she experiences many worse days thereafter.
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19 May 2026
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Amazing hurt/comfort.
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"Marinette, my lady, bugaboo, light of my life, will you marry me?"
When Gabriel tells Adrien it’s time for him to learn about the brand internationally, Adrien knows he can’t leave Paris - or Marinette. The two concoct a plan to allow Adrien to stay and finally achieve his independence from his father. They’ll just get married.
The only problem is...they’re not actually dating.
But that won’t cause any issues. After all, they’re just friends, right?
What could possibly go wrong?
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“We live in a crazy world where pieces of our lives can be erased like they never even happened. I just wanted to memorize this moment so… so I could keep it, if that makes sense.”
Adrien's heart gave a little flutter. She wanted to keep this moment, meeting him. She wanted to keep… him.
“I understand exactly what you mean."
In a world that has created a way to selectively delete memories, no moment is truly safe. So how do you hold on to something when the memory of it is gone?
And how do you keep fighting for someone when you're the only one who remembers? -
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Kagami thought her understandably high standards for a match in marriage would mean she could avoid being paired with a man by her mother. That she could keep perfecting her flying-machine skills and eventually take over her mother’s place in leading the Tsurugi steam engine manufacturing company without having to defer to a man. She would have thought that when her mother told her to test the Agreste boy as a marriage match she had been kidding - if her mother ever kid.
But she was serious and there truly was no fault to be found with Gabriel Agreste's son - except for the small detail of course, that he was not human.
So Kagami must turn to the only fine mechanic she knows in Paris to find a solution to this new dilemma. But perhaps the dilemma could turn out to be the solution itself.Written for the AU Roulette Challenge 2024 with the prompt: Steampunk AU
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13 Oct 2024
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Naturally growing Love triangle (the good kind) super cool world building.
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When the bottle cap comes to a stop dead center on Nino, Adrien’s both relieved and somehow more anxious.
His first kiss - not his actual first kiss, but still kinda his first kiss - the first kiss he will remember, will be with someone he deeply cares about.
But Adrien also cares what Nino thinks of him, so what if he’s a terrible kisser?
Nino offers him a reassuring smile, and he relaxes. Adrien glances at Alya for permission, and she just shoos him towards Nino.
Adrien turns to Nino, leaning closer. If his stomach had been squirming before, it now feels like a half dozen Kwamis have taken up residence in his gut. But Adrien doesn’t hesitate. He blocks out the presence of all of his friends watching, and instead focuses on Nino - like Nino is a stage partner in a photoshoot.
Except kissing Nino is nothing like a photoshoot.
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Adrien kisses Nino in a game of Spin the Bottle, and then neither can stop thinking about it. Alya really likes how flustered her boyfriend is by all this. Marinette though, can't handle it and keeps running away.