A/N: Hey, Y'all! This note is kinda short, just have some notifications and updates for ya. This series will keep up, with new chapters every Wednesday and Saturday. Best of wishes to Song of Shadow for leaving a wonderful review on the last part, and I invite Y'all to do the same. This time around Hawkmoth gets pretty angsty, so though it should still be K+, you have been warned. Also, on an unrelated note, I'm working on a drabble series for My Hero Academia (or Boku No Hero Academia for you purists :D) which will get going at the latest when this series finishes up, so keep your eyes peeled for that!
Now, with the usual warning for major spoilers for S2 of Miraculous Ladybug, I bid you good day, and hope you enjoy!
Episode: S2 Ep 6 - Robostus
Rating: K+
Warnings: Major Hawkmoth angst
Inspiration: how real Hawkmoth's emotion felt after Robostus turned on him
Hawkmoth's shallow breathing was the only sound on the now silent battlefield of scattered scrap metal and broken blaster pieces. He straightened, his eyes burning with contained fury.
He had made a mistake. He had thrown dice when they slipped out of his pocket, taken a gamble unknowingly and watched as the world he held such control in slipped away from his grasp. For all his smooth lies, for all his impeccable facades, for all the things he had made comical and small, for all the things he had lost, the center had always held. And now, looking around him at the evidence of his weakness, his checkmate, how close he had come to slipping away from it all…
He turned his back on the window, and calmly slammed his cane into the nearest remains of a security gun. This mistake had not broken him. This mistake had not conquered him. It had ravaged him, and callused him, but never again. In this chess game of minds, and on these cliffs of insanity, his sense of agency and power over others had never slipped so close to the edge, never been put in check. Never again.