That New Episode Was Really Good

ok so it seems unlikely that I'm going to finish the first chapter of that thsc x stp bodyswap fanfic anytime soon (I got hooked on In Stars and Time recently) so uh I'm just gonna put a little synopsis here.

So basically Quiet (along with the voices) and Henry swap bodies. They end up changing a few routes (mainly on Henry's side of things) while wondering how the HECK they got into this situation.

I have an idea for why they swapped bodies, but I don't want to give too much away, so you'll have to wait until I actually get around to finishing the thing.

DON'T

Don't

Ladybug: Chat Noir and I can't know each other's identities because of one of us gets akumatized-

Pico: Why not just... burn the akuma.

Pico: Keep a lighter with you at all times and burn the akuma

Boyfriend: Pico no

I think it would've been very interesting if miraculous had someone dislike or hate Marinette and not forgive her, but also not be a bad guy.

With all the things that she sometimes does, I do feel like this could (and probably should) happen.

EAT THE ICE CREAM MARINETTE

noooooo marinette, your chat noir double fudge cataclysmic waffle sundae is melting :((

Can't risk it

Can't risk it.

I've seen some people say that what happened in mizu5 is similar to what just happened in inanimate insanity so I'm gonna watch the newest episode just to get some context

Welp

There goes my hope for season 6

I still remember when s5 bible leaked and in it, the ending stated : "Marinette will lied to Adrien about his father and she will use his amok to change his perspective toward his father." Or something along the line since I forgot the exact line.

And people were like "Lmao, there's no way she will do that. She knows Gabriel is a bad father."

Except now it's trully happened and people saying "She did it for him, out of love!" And "Even if she did give him command, "be yourself" isn't a bad command anyway" as if the idea of someone giving other a command isn't inherently wrong. Not a suggestion or motivation, it is a command! She has no business to control Adrien's life, even more so since she only know a surface level about his life.

Just because Adrien said "Only Marinette understand me" doesn't necessarily means she trully understand him, especially when she barely talk to him prior dating and her understanding of him is mostly from the magazine (and I bet a groupie group).

I don't think the bible mentions anything about Marinette using the Amok. I just read it through right now and it doesn't mention anything about the Amok, so it's up to personal interpretation. Personally, I don't believe Marinette used it, but the scene itself is rather ambiguous on that front. And the show is so broken in its view of the morality of using a mind control device on a fellow human that I wouldn't be surprised if it was revealed that she had done it.

But if people who believe that she did it are defending that decision, that's fucked up. There's no justification for controlling someone's mind like that without their consent. If she wanted to help him be himself, she could let him figure himself out on his own terms and support him, or she could, you know, ask him if he would like her to help him that way. At the very least, doing it with his full and willing consent is better than essentially violating his autonomy and free will.

Marinette does know that Gabriel is a bad father. She may not know the extent of it, perhaps, but she does know that he locked his son up for years and controlled his mind with a magic ring for years, and she still makes the choice to respect Gabriel's wish and lie to Adrien. There is no justification for this, I'm sorry. There just isn't. "Doing it out of love," is the most pitiful and frankly ridiculous excuse there is. Gabriel was also abusing Adrien "out of love." That doesn't make what he did any less horrible.

And you're right that Marinette doesn't understand or know Adrien that well. The show likes to tell us that she understands him like no other and that he feels free with her and all that BS, but it doesn't show us that. What it does show us is that Marinette does not have a clue that Adrien isn't perfection personified until Risk, after which she never put in the effort to get to know him as a person ever again. Instead, he chose to pursue her and literally felt obligated to change himself for her sake. Which is like, fucked up, cause his narrative is about learning that he doesn't have to change himself for other people and he's explicitly trying to be the perfect guy who asks nothing of Marinette for her, and the show pretends this is all fine and dandy.

This is a very unhealthy relationship, even more so now that Marinette is gaslighting Adrien into loving his abuser. This is super fucked up.

And for those who believe this will be dealt with in the future, the bible does have this to say:

So much for that lmao.

Thank you for your ask!