Life swapped AU. Adrien Agreste is a baker's son, with the perfect life and the perfect family. He gets a miraculous, turning him into Chat Noir, where he can let loose and hang with Ladybug. Marinette Cheng is an aspiring teen model with an overbearing mother, Sabine. Her assistant Carly basically takes care of Marinette, and mothers her. Marinette is risking going to school, where she gets the Ladybug miraculous and gets to escape her responsibilities and mother.
Read on, my dudes.
-Ballet by Night
-Marinette Cheng-
Marinette woke up before her alarm, as usual. She got up and shut it off before it could beep. She stretched out her limbs and felt her excitement radiate off of her. Today was the biggest day of her life. She would disobey her mother and go to public school. She had been homeschooled by Carly her whole life, and took Italian, piano, and fencing lessons. Her whole life revolved around photoshoots and business meetings planned by Carly and Sabine. This left Marinette with no normal childhood.
Life for Marinette hadn't always this way. These shoots and meetings had only started when Tom, her father, had died six years prior. He had lung cancer that just wouldn't go away, and he died within a couple months of diagnosis. Marinette and Sabine were crushed, Marinette shutting her emotions out, and Sabine taking it out of her daughter and those around her.
But that didn't let Marinette get down this morning, no, she hopped up and turned the shower on. While it was warming up she picked out her outfit. As she looked in her lush closet, she didn't like any of her bought clothing. It was too modelesque. She had picked out some pink skinny jeans, a light pink floral top, and a black jacket with pink and white polka dots. She set the clothes and her favorite pink ballet flats on her bed and hopped into the shower.
She got out of the shower, slipped on her robe, and dried her midnight blue hair. She picked a more natural makeup look, with only foundation, lipgloss, and some eye makeup to make her seem less model-ish. She stepped out of her bathroom and into her large bedroom. Slipping on her clothes and shoes quickly, she walked over to her vibrating phone sitting on her bedside table, picking up a call from Chloe.
"Hey, Mari! My limo is waiting outside on the side of the mansion, so come down when you're ready. A car will be easier to get away with, no?" Chloe says into the phone.
"Thanks Chlo! I'll be down in a minute!" Marinette smiles, hanging up.
Marinstte walks over to her couch, where her book bag and shoulder bag were waiting. Marinette's small shoulder bag had an embroidered M on the front, and clasped at the top. She slipped her phone in. She opened her backpack to see if her school supplies were in there. She hoped she had everything she needed for public school, she had no idea.
Grabbing her bags and putting them on, she darted down the stairwell, evading her mother but not Carly. She was halfway to Chloe's car when Carly called out her name, making her freeze.
"Marinette, don't do this! Think of your mother!" Carly called out.
"YOULL have to physically drag me from the school!" Marinette called back. Taking one last look at the mansion, she ran the rest of the way to Chloe's car.
-Adrien Agreste-
Adrien shut his alarm off, waking up early for once in his life. The first day of school was always one of the most exciting for him, and he wanted to look his best. This was a new year for him, he was going to get better grades than last year. He shuddered at thought. Last year he had gotten decent grades, but was still gently scolded by his mother, Estelle.
He hopped into the shower and cleaned himself quickly. Putting his clothes on and grabbing his school bag, he walked downstairs into the bakery. It was already busy with customers, though Adrien wasn't surprised. Gabriel and Estelle's patisserie was the best in all of Paris, and they had the perfect family. Overall, Adrien's life was a good on, especially since he had a sweet tooth.
Adrien grabbed a croissant and sat down, scrolling through his phone. Estelle sat the car keys down next to him and smiled. He smiled back at her, and finished off his croissant.
He then walked out to the car and set off to pick up Nino and head to school.
-Marinette Cheng-
Chloe all but dragged me to the classroom, making sure that no one talked to me. Not that I minded, they only wanted to talk to me because of my status. That was how most people were, they only cared about my looks and my money. No one knew about my academic history, my personality, nothing. 'Don't you worry your pretty little face about it. You'll get wrinkles.' 'Instead of researching physics you should be researching lipstick.' 'Why do you have that book? Here, let me take it for you, want a magazine?'. All of these things are things people have actually said to her, but they really got to her. She teared up at the thought, but pushed it to the back of her mind. No crying on the first day, people will think she's weak and not like her.
I tripped on a loose floorboard and ran into an ombré haired girl. I apologized and introduced myself. She did too. Her name was Alya. I looked over Alya's shoulder to see Chloe sticking her used gum to a seat. Oh gosh, that doesn't sound good.
"Excuse me," Marinette said to Alya, walking over to Chloe, Alya watching, "What are you doing?"
"The brats that sit here need some attitude adjustment, and this is how to do it. It's what needs to be done, you wouldn't know Marinette. It's survival in high school." Chloe says. Marinette knows that's wrong and Chloe's being mean again. She's been like that since her mom died two years ago.
"That's not necessary, Chlo." Marinette says, crouching down to peel the gum off of the seat. Two boys came into the classroom as she tried to get it off.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" The blond asked, moving her out of the way.
"I... I was only trying to get it off." Marinette explained.
"Yeah, right. You're friend with Chloe, aren't you?" He said, brushing her off. He got the gum off with a tissue and threw it away, sitting down with a huff.
Marinette and Alya sat down next to each other.
"Why didn't you tell him it was Chloe?" Alya asked.
"Chloe may be mean, but she is my only friend, I'm not going to rat her out." Marinette explained. Alya frowned.
"How about you have a true friend? Me." Alya explained.
Marinette's face lit up.
-Adrien Agreste-
The blue haired girl moved to sit next to Alya, and Chloe was laughing behind them. She leaned down and whispered something in the girl's ear, and the girl frowned.
"Welcome to a new year at school everyone. We have the same class as last year, you should know he, but we do have one new student. Marinette Cheng." The teacher announced. She looked at Marinetteexpectantly, and she stood up and waved bashfully. Was it even possible for a famous person to be shy?
So Marinette was the girl who put gum on my seat. Nice. Another Chloe. Just what he needed.
Class flew by in a blur, as did lunch and the rest of the day. It had stormed and started raining outside, and a poor old man had no umbrella. Adrien and Marinette both quickly ran towards the man, pulling him into the dry covering of the school's steps.
"Sir, are you okay? It was raining pretty hard." Marinette asked the man. Adrien looked over at her in wonder. How could someone do mean act so kind?
"Yeah, are you sick?" Adrien asked.
"I'm perfectly fine, kids. Thank you. Both of your kindness is very much appreciated and shows who you really are. Here, take these as a gift." The old man says, walking away. He handed the two teenagers hexagonal shaped boxes, which they both stuffed in their bags.
Both teens patiently waited for their rides to show up, or for Nino to come out of the school. Marinette abruptly turned to Adrien.
"Hey, look. I know Chloe is mean to you and stuff, but I'm not like her. She wants to be mean, but I want to be kind. Everyone looks at me and thinks I'm just another pretty face, there's no depth to my personality, but that's just not true. I didn't put the gum on your seat, I was trying to get it off after Chloe put it on." Marinette said, "Have my umbrella, you might be waiting in the rain for a while. My ride is here. Bye."
Adrien watched her walk away, clutching the umbrellas and his bag, blushing furiously.
-Marinette Cheng-
I stepped into the car, surprised to see my mother sitting down in it.
"What do you think you're doing?" Sabine asked, her patience already wearing thin.
"I wanted to see what public school was like, mother." Marinette explained.
"Look, your disobedience will not go unnoticed, but I'll let this go for now. Carly has told me that interaction between teenagers is good. So, I have set up a system in which you will be allowed to go to public school. Terrance will pick you up and drop you off at school every day, and you will keep your grades up along with your other studies and music. Understand?" Sabine asked.
Marinette nodded eagerly and watched her mother get out of the car, letting out an excited squeal.
She ran up to her room and open the hexagonal box the old man gave them. Inside were two black earrings. She slipped them into her ears, when a giant Ladybug came flying out.
"Gaah!" Marinette yelled. "Carly!"
"Shh! No one can know about this!" It said, hurrying to cover Marinette's mouth.
"What are you?" Marinette asked.
"I'm a Kwami. I give you powers through your miraculous. You are Ladybug, a superhero who will go up against Hawkmoth. Your power is the Lucky Charm, which will give you an object you can use to finish battling the Akuma. Akumas are butterflies sent by Hawkmoth to turn people into villains and get the miraculous us for him. You need to find the object on the victim that holds the Akuma, destroy it, and purify it. To purify it you say 'time to de-evilize'. When you transform, you say spots on, and when you detransform say spots off. It may sound complicated, but I know you can handle it." The Kwami said.
"Okay... I think I got that. Do you have a name?" Marinette asked.
"I'm Tikki." Tikki smiled.
-Adrien Agreste-
I came home after dropping Nino off, and took out a ring from the hexagonal box the old man gave to me. I said it onto my left hand, and a black blob flew out. I yelped and stumbled backward into my wall.
"Hey kid. I'm Plagg." Plagg said.
"What are you?" Adrien asked, poking it.
"I'm a Kwami. I'm the thing that gives you your miraculous powers. You have the power of destruction. You just yell Cataclysm and touch an object and it disappears until Ladybug cures everything. Ladybug is your partner, and can purify akumas and reverse all damage done to the people and the city of Paris. Unfortunately, though, she can't heal herself. Just to let you know. Also, to transform you say claws out and to detransform you says claws in." Plagg explains. Adrien nods in understanding.
Adrien then started his homework, thinking of a superhero name.
-Marinette Cheng-
"Tikki. Why would you pick me? I'm just a pretty face with a clumsy body. I'm no superhero." Marinette chuckles at the thought.
"Grand master chose you for a reason, you were kind and helpful. He chose you, and there's no reversing it." Tikki says.
"Whatever you say." Marinette says.
Soo... What'd ya think?