Just something I wrote while trying to get back into writing. I found inspiration in a random train of thought and wrote it pretty quickly.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng was in denial. She had been ever since Alya showed her that photo-shopped picture of Adrien as Chat Noir. She was determinedly ignoring it.
Every time Adrien reminded her of Chat; every smirk, every wink, every pun. She was paying attention and it did not slip her notice that when he let his guard down around his friends he seemed a bit more like a certain crime fighting feline.
And now Chat was reminding her of Adrien too. The same allergy, that odd reaction while fighting the Bubbler about not all kids needing parents. The same look of angry determination when fighting against something evil, of course the worst thing that Adrien has faced is Chloe but still. And of course, they both smelled faintly of cheese…
But if Adrien is Chat then that would mean that he is in love with the wrong version of her and that is too painful for her to think about.
All of this she noticed and then immediately ignored because Marinette Dupain-Cheng was in denial and it would take more than a picture and a couple of coincidences to get her out.
I wanted to try and write a fanfic for this fandom. I know its short but it's just a small idea I had that I liked because I think that as of now with the current episodes out, it could be cannon, this could be what is going on in head that she is noticing everything but is just in denial because she doesn't want to think about the consequences
Also explaining a bit more about Marinette's thought process because I got a review that prompted me to clarify;
Yeah she's not being completely fair. But she's also kinda just being an insecure teen. In the web short she admits that she probably would have fallen for chat if there wasn't Adrien so she doesn't hate Chat and if her brain is associating the two of them, even if she refuses to admit it then that is something. But she already thought that she wasn't good enough for Adrien. Now she has found out that he is in love with what she views as the better version of herself. That has got to hurt. So she is denying the whole thing to save herself from the pain.