Hi, Headcanon Prompt Time. What Is The Progression Of Chloe's Relationship With Zoe Like? Specific Talk
hi, headcanon prompt time. what is the progression of chloe's relationship with zoe like? specific talk points, but feel free to add on if you get brainworms:
how did she feel about learning she has a younger sister?
how did she feel about zoe coming to paris (ie. did it give her difficulties when she was trying to learn to be Better™)?
how did she feel about zoe becoming the new bee?
how did she feel about being entrusted with the bee again after zoe had been established as the new bee (and sharing the role)?
how does she feel about there being two bees going forward?
unprompted asks / always accepting !!
Chloe has a lot of complicated feelings surrounding Zoe, especially in the beginning. Finding out she even had a younger sister that she didn't know about previously meant that she had to acknowledge her mother left to start an entirely new family. Chloe has always had a very distant, strained relationship with her mother, Audrey, in trying to live up to her impossible expectations; so finding out she had a sister living in New York just kind of added another layer to her already struggling questions of whether she was a good enough daughter.
I think that when Zoe first arrived in Paris, Chloe still would have been a little unfair and certainly jealous. She wouldn't have been as cruel, but there would definitely be feelings of jealousy and comparison — again, going back to the fact that Audrey left to create this other family outside of the Bourgeois. For instance, in Zoe's introduction episode, I think a lot of Chloe's behaviour would have been relatively the same, except perhaps a touch less cruel, and that only at the end of the episode, and seeing the way Zoe was able to reach out and make friends despite trying to emulate Chloe, would have helped Chloe to realise that she, too, could still have a chance to make friends. And that, I think, would have been the start of trying to build the bridge between her and Zoe.
When Zoe became the new holder for the Bee miraculous, it definitely stung ( no pun intended ). In a lot of ways, Zoe is Chloe's foil. She has Chloe's potential for cattiness and meanness, as we see when she tries to emulate her sister, but she actively chooses — going forward — to be kind, considerate, and to not let other people dictate how she should present herself, even her family. These are all things that Chloe, herself, struggles with. She struggles to let down her guard and be kind. She struggles to live up to her parents' "perfect" image and reputation. She struggles to let people see her true self ( and it can certainly be argued that even Chloe doesn't know who her "true self" is anymore, either ). But, going back to Zoe being the new Bee holder, it kind of reinforces everything about Chloe's own struggles and why she decides to make a significant change for the better. She wants to be someone that can make and keep friends. She wants to be someone Ladybug trusts again. And yeah, admittedly, she wants to be the holder of the Bee miraculous again — she won't say she doesn't keep that thought in the back of her mind when she's trying to build trust with her peers again — but ultimately, as the story progresses and Chloe learns more about herself in relation to her peers, she comes to accept that Zoe is the rightful holder of the Bee miraculous.
Which is why, when she's presented with the opportunity to be the holder of the new, second Bee miraculous, she's initially in shock. At this point, she's made her peace that she probably wouldn't get that opportunity again, so to be presented with it and that a second Bee miraculous was even created for the purpose of Chloe taking on the role? That's a huge exercise in trust.
There is this fanart ( that, of course, I can't find when I actually need it ) and is actually one of my favourites and it perfectly illustrates how I think Chloe feels about taking on the role of Queen Bee again. It's basically her as Queen Bee standing next to Viperion and she's saying something like "I won't let Ladybug down again."
That's how Chloe feels. When she accepts the role of Queen Bee again, it's because she wants to be a team player. She wants to be someone Ladybug and the other holders can count on. I think, initially, it takes some getting used to, knowing there are two Bee holders going forward. This is Chloe, and at her core, she is always going to be a bit vain, selfish, and want the limelight. She's just learned to have more empathy and compassion for others along the way. But, at the end of the day, it's more important to Chloe that she was given this second chance as Queen Bee and she'll do everything in her power not to mess that up again.
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❝ You should tell him, you know, ❞ Marinette says, not looking up from the baking pan where she's very carefully squeezing batter from a pastry bag for the fourth of the six batches of macarons she's been baking for the class Christmas party. She'd invited Chloe over to help—and she had, for all of one batch, which Marinette calls a win—and now that they're a little over the half-way point and there's no risk of any baking mishaps, it feels like a safe time to broach the topic. ❝ Luka, I mean. He probably already knows, but... you should tell him anyway. That you like him. I think that would mean more to him than anything you could buy him. ❞
( unprompted / always accepting !! )
𝐂𝐇𝐋𝐎𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐒. More than once, Marinette had smacked her hand away from the bag. An effort in futility. Chloé's response had been a simple 'I'm checking the bag for freshness!' as if the bag wasn't half empty already. Otherwise, the atmosphere was remarkably uneventful. It was a record for the Chloé's Redemption book. She's popping yet another chip into her mouth when Marinette speaks her third worst fear into existence.
The blonde immediately chokes.
❝ What are you talking about, Marin—ette? ❞ The accusation comes as soon as she recovers. The shock is so apparent, she nearly reverts to calling her Marinella and just barely catches herself. Her face has gone red from embarrassment. ❝ What, in all of France, makes you think I like Luka Couffaine? ❞
She doesn't know what is worse — that Marinette is spot-on ( ha ) with her intuition, or that she'd been so careless in hiding it, that the girl could tell. Marinette. This is the girl who made her crush on Adrien so painfully obvious it was a wonder how the model hadn't picked up on it yet himself when the rest of Paris had. He was so dense. And Marinette was so embarrassing.
They were perfect for each other.
Chloé laughs, a little more unkind than she'd meant to. She's just mad at herself for letting her tells slip. ❝ That's rich coming from you. Have you told Adrien yet? ❞ Maybe if she can deflect this back on Marinette, they can forget about this whole thing and stop talking about it.
❛ close your eyes and hold out your hands. ❜ / hehe
( 200 random dialogue prompts / accepting !! )
❝ —— What? Why would I do that? And for you, no less. ❞
𝐂𝐇𝐋𝐎𝐄́'𝐒 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖, regarding MK with no small amount of suspicion. He seems harmless. Still new enough to the class that he hasn't quite figured out that she's popular, so she'll forgive him for thinking he can freely approach her and make such demands. This time, at least. She glances over her shoulder to Sabrina, who looks about as apprehensive as someone about to witness a trainwreck.
MK starts to elaborate, prattling on about how he'd made her something or some such — to say that Chloé is barely listening is being generous, but far be it from her to refuse a gift from an adoring fan. Hm. Maybe he's not entirely useless.
Chloé holds out her hands and shuts her eyes.
❝ Look — whatever. Stop talking and give me it already. And if this is some kind of trick? You're dead, newbie. Is that clear? ❞
i need more adults to adopt the nepo baby.
❛ ▌┊𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 : marinette ( @yinbug ) .
❝ Ugh! Watch where you're going, Dupain-Cheng! Do you have any idea how much this sweater cost?! ❞ 𝐂𝐇𝐋𝐎𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆, manicured hands balled into fists at her side.
Her mood was already soured prior to running into Marinette. It wasn't even the humiliation of her defeat as Miracle Queen that had set her off; no, it was the notion that Ladybug was never going to give her the bee Miraculous again. The notion that Ladybug, someone she had admired and been a fan of, didn't trust her with it. Quite literally running into Marinette Dupain-Cheng just hours after the battle, was simply a stroke of bad luck. Marinette, with her ridiculously clumsy ways and downright embarrassing lack of conversation skills — and yet everyone in their class seemed to adore her. It didn't make any sense!
❝ Actually, don't answer that. Your opinion is as irrelevant as your fashion sense is ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous! ❞
❛ For now, if you feel like you have to keep the deception going, I am hardly in a position to contradict you. ❜ luka → chloé ♡
( the cruel prince prompts / accepting !! )
𝐋𝐔𝐊𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐄𝐓. Unlike most of the others at school, he didn't scramble to get out of her way in the hallway, or on a good day, offer to carry her books. Worse than that, he didn't seem to be completely enamoured with her by her mere presence in his boring, unfulfilled life. Didn't he know who she was?! In fact, Luka seemed to be completely unphased by anything Chloé did.
Not for lack of trying, though. She had, at one time, tried to make him angry. Had tried to push his buttons, poking and prodding so much that she ended up being more mad herself in the end than he was. Luka was, in fact, so calm as she threw a fit, she wondered if he even knew how to be angry. It wasn't like Juleka's quiet calm. Juleka was quiet to the point of painful shyness. Luka just seemed to be relaxed no matter what the situation was. Chloé would have been impressed if she weren't so annoyed by it.
They only ever saw each other in passing at school. At least at the start. Sometimes, on the rare occasion she could be convinced by Adrien to come hang out with everyone at the Couffaines — sit in on band practise, or whatever else they had going on — she'd stand off to the side and pull faces every time Luka so much as glanced at her. He always smiled, though. In that easy sort of way that got under her skin and made her want to jump into the Seine.
Do you... like him, Chloé? Sabrina had asked at one point as she caught the blonde staring at Luka's retreating figure in the cafeteria, timid because she knew that the other girl would likely blow up at the accusation. And she had. Of course she had.
Infuriating. Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous!
That was how they ended up here. In the park. She'd bee-lined for him as soon as she saw him, a girl on a mission because there was no way she, Chloé Bourgeois, had a crush on someone like Luka Couffaine. Luka was strumming away at his guitar; blissfully ignorant — or, perhaps, choosing to ignore — Chloé as she went on another one of her tirades.
She paced back and forth in front of him, gesticulating wildly as she seethed.
❝ —— And Sabrina had the gall, the utter audacity, to insinuate I might have a crush. On you! Can you believe it?! ❞
Do you?
❝ Excuse me? ❞
Do you have a crush on me?
She felt the heat rising to her cheeks, though it was less fuelled by anger and more by sheer embarrassment at his forwardness to even ask. He was looking at her curiously. No thread of judgment in his expression. Chloé scowled.
❝ Of course I don't. Don't be ridiculous! ❞
Mm.
❝ I don't have a crush on you. ❞
For now, if you feel like you have to keep the deception going, I am hardly in a position to contradict you.
Chloé's hands balled into fists at her side. She stamped her foot and didn't care how childish and unreasonable it made her look. ❝ Couffaine... ❞
Chloé.
❝ You — You — I'm leaving! ❞
She stormed off without another word, barely registering his soft laugh and murmured 'See you at school, Chloé'. It wasn't until she was out of the park and couldn't hear the gentle strumming of his guitar anymore that she finally stopped and pressed a hand to her heart. It was thrumming so wildly, she thought it might burst out of her chest. Adrenaline, she told herself. It was just adrenaline. She did not have a crush on Luka.
❝ ...Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous! ❞
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