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How do the miraculous get scattered during season 2?

Alright, sorry for the late response. This is a question I have to answer carefully because…

While I do know how this plot thread goes down (in fair detail too), we also have plans to eventually write out the MTS story as proper episodes some time in the (likely distant) future. For this reason, I should probably avoid completely spoiling the super major plot threads like this one. Here’s a vague (relatively) nonspoilery description of what happens:

Two Miraculous holders are fighting because one of them wants to steal the Miracle Box while it is the job of the other one to protect it. The thief gets the upper hand in the fight, so the protector is forced to use a fail safe mechanism that scatters the Miraculous all around the city so that the villain can’t get their hands on any of them.

Thanks for the ask! It means a lot to me that someone would be curious about MTS’s story.

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Also idk if I should have included this on the main post or not, but the main reason why Alya doesn’t approve of Ladybug at first is (along with her not liking secret identities) she feels that Ladybug’s Miracle Cure/Miraculous Ladybugs are causing the city to become more complacent, expecting everything to get fixed rather than trying to protect themselves. Just like Chat Noir’s Wildcats lend credence to Alya’s concerns over his destructive potential, Marinette eventually having to give up the Miracle Cure kinda prove Alya’s point, even if she’s still wrong about wanting to expose them. (MTS has a lot of conflicts where both sides have a point/there isn’t a clear “bad guy” in the argument.)

Alright, breaking out of my procrastination bubble to finally do:

Alya MTS!

As per usual, the four categories:

1. General Info

2. Personality

3. Key Relationships

4. Character Growth

1. General Info

I kinda feel like I should preface this with a massive “hear me out”, because her character goes in a VERY different direction from most Alyas.

Not only does she only become Marinette’s best friend at the end of season 2 (as both characters have a lot they need to do first), but “Alya the fangirl” isn’t really a part of her MTS character. She still runs a blog, but it probably won’t be titled “The Ladyblog” (which is sad, because that name is ICONIC), because she focuses on the two heroes pretty equally, and doesn’t want to seem “unprofessional”.

Basically, we took the “Alya is sometimes presented as the practical voice of reason character” and “Alya initially wants to find Ladybug’s identity”, along with the MTS LB and CN getting into some mishaps early in their career, and made her much more skeptical and critical of the heroes. She doesn’t think the safety of the city should be placed in the hands of two strange teenagers (she especially doesn’t trust Chat Noir, since his power is pretty dangerous and he’s pretty reckless with it at first) and wants to find out all of their secrets. Is she in the right? Not completely, but she isn’t 100% wrong to have criticisms of the heroes either.

She fills a pretty interesting role in the earlier portion of the show, where she is technically an (initial) antagonist to the heroes, but isn’t a bad person (in fact, she’s fairly altruistic), as a contrast to Chloe (Marinette’s initial civilian antagonist) and Felix (Adrien’s initial civilian antagonist) who are more morally grey/not concerned with doing “the right thing”.

This is also a bit more of a minor note, but while Alya’s family still moved to France from Martinique, they did so much earlier than they did in the original, (likely when Alya was around ten), so she has lived in France for a few years now.

2. Personality

As I mentioned, this iteration of Alya is a bit more grounded, and tries to be logical and mature. She cares a lot about morality, ethics, and safety, with helping people being her top priority. Her fixation on the truth extends to this, as she believes that knowledge is the only way people can take care of themselves. She’s still very passionate, but tries to direct her energy into trying to be a “legitimate journalist” and often forgets to just let herself be a kid.

Her viewpoints do lack a bit of nuance at first, as she doesn’t realize how important secrets can be, and can get a bit too caught up in her own judgments (in hindsight, MTS Marinette is a lot more understanding than her canon counterpart due to her new backstory, while MTS Alya is kind of the reverse). It’s worth noting that a lot of Alya’s more intense traits are amplified by her fear. Having your city bombarded with demon butterfly possessed supervillains with your only source of protection being mysterious animal-themed teenagers with overwhelming power isn’t very good for your mental health.

Because of these fixations, she often struggles with the more “normal teenager stuff” like friendships and romance. Her blunt nature also makes it difficult to socialize, but her earnest, loyal, honest, and slightly awkward demeanor make her quite endearing once you get to know her (this might not be completely essential to one’s understanding of her character, but MTS Alya likely falls somewhere on the autistic spectrum).

3. Key Relationships

Marinette: These two have occasionally crossed paths in their more recent years (Nora would frequently take Alya with her to the same gym Kim and Marinette go to together), but never really noticed each other until now. Alya mostly sees Marinette as the kind but nervous girl who sits next to her, and is especially worried about her safety after Alya realizes that her “new best friend” Lila is bad news. Marinette is still pretty nervous about Alya finding out she’s Ladybug (although she’s stopped trying to find out the heroes’ identities at this point). After the two (unknowingly on Alya’s part) take down Lila and stop her villainy, the two become proper friends. Marinette helps Alya get more accustomed to the more casual aspects of being a teenager, and Alya helps Marinette begin to recover from her friendship issues. They help each other let their guard a bit more, despite both being such high strung individuals.

Nino: Unlike the original show, Alya and Nino never have a romantic relationship (no hate on DJ-WiFi, the MTS iterations of their characters just aren’t compatible romantically; believe me, we tried!) but do form a strong bond nonetheless. They do get to a rocky start (as Nino mistakens Rena Rouge for Volpina and tries to take her down as Carapace), but after better understanding each other, they team up and build a friendship. Nino makes Alya realize that she doesn’t have to be responsible for everything 24/7, while Alya shows him the importance of putting more effort into things (besides his brother and heroing). Their differing personalities balance each other really well, and while they aren’t hero partners (Nino’s a lone turtle), they work really well as a team.

Chloe: They start off with a small rivalry (which I alluded to in my Chloe post), but quickly form a common enemy. That, alongside Chloe’s arc about caring for others as an actual hero, and Alya’s arc about being more patient with others, and they have a lot to offer each other. For these reasons (and then being the only two heroes with public identities), they are a superhero duo much like Ladybug and Chat Noir. Though Alya gradually accepts Chloe’s dramatics, she doesn’t tolerate her slacking off or making things about herself during an active threat to the city (has the energy of “she’ll fix herself if she knows what’s good for her”). That being said, she does come to enjoy Chloe’s peppy nature and (surprising) ability to be supportive. (However, Chloe’s attempts to get Alya to take “spa days” with her and “treat herself” are met with a mixed reception!)

Lila: Fox versus Fox, Lila and Alya are full-on archenemies. It starts out with Alya simply getting slightly off-putting vibes from Lila, but when she discovers she’s Volpina (after managing to obtain her miraculous that got lost in a fight), she does everything in her power to get her exposed. Likewise, Lila is doing everything she can to get her miraculous back and ruin Alya’s life while she’s at it. Lila coming off as a sweet girl with a lot of friends while Alya’s initial hostility to the heroes and accidentally jarring personality do stack the odds in Lila’s favor, often leading to severe consequences, but Alya is eventually able to team up with the other heroes to take her down. Though Lila is taken into custody, she manages to escape with a dangerous vendetta against Alya…

Other key relationships include her family (particularly Nora and her mom), the heroes (duh), and Zoe.

4. Character Growth

Her main arc is pretty apparent by now. She generally needs to learn to not jump to extreme conclusions when she doesn’t have all the information, as well as be more accepting that people have their reasons for not sharing everything. The two main sequences that help her learn this are her Alakumatization and the Lila/Volpina experience.

Alya gets akumatized when an akuma she captured (attempting to study it to find more about the source of the problem) escapes and corrupts her. She also tries to end the akumatization when Hawk Moth orders her to potentially endanger civilians, but his control over the miraculous (and her) are too strong. After being deakumatized, Alya is a bit more careful in her investigations, and a lot more willing to hear the heroes out (while Alya doesn’t remember being an akuma, just the knowledge that she was corrupted, and the video footage of her as a villain is enough to rattle her).

When dealing with Lila, Alya tries to take the direct approach, both in trying to publically confront Lila for her crimes and by telling the city that she’s the hero Rena Rouge. This inevitably backfires when Lila manages to use her manipulation to avoid being found out and getting Alya in trouble instead. Lila also teams up with Hawk Moth to target Alya’s family, even managing to get Alya akumatized into Vixen Vermillion at her lowest point. She does overcome this, and becomes a lot more tactical with her knowledge in the future. (Alya’s development into tolerating secrets is completed when she finds out that Nino is Carapace, but keeps his secret). She’ll also rename her blog to “The Miracle Blog” after forming a proper respect and camaraderie for the other Miraculous heroes, and shifts from trying to expose or criticize Ladybug and Chat Noir to simply posting any relevant information needed to keep the public safe (which she was doing in the first place but now it’s more of a focus).

Alya also gets the smaller character progression of relaxing a little more, both because she feels safer with her fellow heroes and due to her new friendships helping her appreciate the smaller things in life.

Conclusion:

And that’s a wrap! I know that she might seem a bit odd for an Alya, and her slightly more difficult tendencies may make it seem like we don’t like her very much, but not only was the shift away from her original character intentional (we realize how different we made her), it was not meant to salt on her in any way. On the contrary, we wanted to give her more of a story as her own character, not basing her entire life to revolve around someone else (heck, sometimes she feels like the deuteragonist to Ladybug and Chat Noir’s co-protagonist statuses!). This is particularly what I mean when I said that us rebooting the characters often drastically changed up their original personalities and roles (like many reboots do). Not to hate on what they were, but to tell a different story.

After this I’ll probably explain the new Tikki and Plagg personalities, roles, and development. Then maybe explain the MTS Love Square after that. Thanks for staying patient everyone!

(One more thing: I’m also releasing Alya’s akuma design shortly after this post, so if you enjoy seeing character designs, I’d recommend checking it out!)

Wasn’t going to post non-MTS-related content but I was thinking about the whole Emilie vs. Amelie debate. Aren’t their hair colors slightly different shades of blonde (I’m also pretty sure one of them was slightly paler than the other…)?

Theoretically, we could compare their hair shades to the mystery twin at the pool to find out which is which, right?

(Couldn’t decide which photo to use for Amelie: I wanted to try to find photos with the same lighting as the pool scene, but I couldn’t find any for her via google and I’m too lazy to rewatch all her episodes.)

I’m not sure which one it is though, so if someone is able to tell, please let me know!

Update: It seems that the writers have confirmed that it’s Amelie. Mystery’s over.

Okay so I was feeling particularly self indulgent for these past few days and thus have combined my interests. I bring you:

ML (MTS?) Slime Rancher AU

Basic description and art under the cut:

I should clarify that this is less of a “ML characters with SR characters’ roles” and more “hey what if I dropped these characters in the SR world”. That being said, some of the ML characters would occupy the SR Characters’ ranches (also said SR characters would not show up in the AU. Maybe they were previous owners in universe? Idk).

I won’t elaborate on the exact lore since I don’t think anyone is super duper interested so if you have questions you can send me an ask or two.

Ok art time!

Alright, not entirely sure if I’m going this right but this was the best example that came to mind:

I have a very specific way of dressing (basically if I was a character in a series, I’d have no issue maintaining character design consistency). It started when I was a wee youngin, I’d wear very Generic Little Girl clothes (some sort of logo shirt + skirt + leggings + etc) and kinda just stuck with the style. Then in my preteen years I started wearing a lot of layers/long-sleeved clothing due to the age typical body insecurities and such. That plus getting a lot of t-shirts from various fandoms I’m into (Ben 10, ATLA, etc) means that on any given day, there’s a 9/10 chance I’m wearing a short sleeved shirt with some sort of character or logo on it, a lo bc sleeved undershirt, some type of skirt and leggings combo, and at least one hoodie (either worn traditionally or around the waist).

If we wanna take the overanalyzing a step further, this might explain my penchant for drawing characters in more layered clothing, somewhat atypical fashion senses, and generally being needlessly detailed and colorful.

Seeing as this is gonna be one of those post chain type of things, I should probably tag someone. I don’t interact with very many people who seem like they do these sorts of posts (could be wrong tho) so I’ll just tag @narusakufantastic and @uniquecreationstation as I’m kinda curous about what you two would say (anyone else who frequently sees my posts and would like to add can do so as well obvs)

Ok, I want to start a little something. Have you ever done something a lot when you were younger that explains an interest or liking you have to this day. For example, I have an interest in color-coding characters or elements. When I was younger, I would make lists where I would take a crayon or colored pencil and draw a line of that color, then in regular pencil it would assign a character or thing to that color. Once I finished the list, I would then tape it to a wall in my room. One I really remember was one for superpowers. Off the top of the ones I remember were: red was invisibility, orange was either telepathy or telekinesis, yellow I think was a sonic scream, green was plant manipulation, blue was either water manipulation or power absorption like rouge from the X-Men, purple I think was teleportation, and pink was light manipulation (though I think it was basically just Angewomon from Digimon). There were more, but those were just the ones I remember.

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(Let’s just say his design needed a second chance)

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I just had to draw it once I saw the post on Pinterest. LEGALLY obligated.

At what point in the story do Night Light and Greyhound come into play for the story?

Ooh, I’ve been wanting to talk about this one for quite a bit!!! Okay, this may be a bit confusing, but here goes:

While Greyhound and Night Light are partners who also share a focus season (that being Season 3), they actually get their Miraculous at different points of MTS.

Felix finds his Miraculous in the premiere of Season 3 (which is in the show’s time, during the winter, as each MTS season would be a literal season, with summer being both the first and final season of the show, that being S1 and S5). The first episode would basically be a Greyhound debut episode, with Night Light taking the lead in the second episode of S3.

Zoe gets her Miraculous as a gift from her sister (who is unaware that said gift is a Miraculous), shortly after Chloe herself gets a Miraculous. She is the only hero to get their Miraculous in Season 2 (which is during the autumn) who isn’t a strong focus in that season (LB and CN got their Miraculous in S1 obviously, and CP, RR, and QB all have far stronger plots in S2, while NL is just kinda there with only a little focus). Like the other Season 2 heroes (aside from the elusive Turquoise, who only occupies the first half of Season 2), Zoe becomes a hero in the second half of S2.

Thanks for the ask!