Inspiration for Marinette's Powers:

So, this is the story behind her light powers and how I came up with it.

It's based on me. I've been sensitive since I was about 3 years old. I've seen spirits since then, family and not. As, I got older… I began to get more into it. I began to see negative spirits too as a teenager. I began to also have visions of various things, like past lives and what not.

As, I got older… I only learned more and more and grew stronger and stronger. I began to see things by touching them. Let me give a few examples.

One time I was at a historical park that me and my husband love to go to. Anyway, I touched the building and focused on it and began to see women in period clothing walking around the porch and going in and out of the front doors.

Another example is antique shops. I LOVE… antique shops and vintage stuff. So, I tend to go to them. I own three things that have spirits attached to them. One is a yellow stuffed animal bunny that was in an antique shop. No one ever bought it and each time I went... all I wanted to do was buy it. But I kept saying I didn't need it. Three years later… it was still there. I picked it up and realized a little girl was attached to it. I took it with me and bought it. I asked the workers if there was a story behind it and they didn't know. That place is closed down now. Eventually I chose to restuff it. I opened it to find white pieces that looked like bone fragments and couch stuffing… I buried it and restuffed it. But ever since I brought it home… my mom and I would see a little girl running around. She would open and drop cabinets when I would cook and bang pie tins, if I was baking something. She would hide behind doors and run around and play games with you. Anyway, once I buried the insides of the stuffed animal… she was gone. I still have the bunny at my husband and I's first house and I love it.

Another is a really old mirror that is connected to a woman.

The point is… I can touch items and focus on them enough to see who or what is connected to them. I have an old book, from my husband's mom, that has a young guy attached to it, that my husband moved on for me because he wouldn't stop following me around. Haha

The light thing started about… 4 years ago. I was seeing a therapist because of something traumatic that happened, that has nothing to do with any of this. Not important. Anyway, she was a therapist and she did spiritual stuff on the side. She taught me about this thing that I could do to protect my house and to protect me. I didn't know how to control my abilities prior to this. My mom's close friend, who was psychic, told my mom that if I didn't learn to control it… then I could be taken over by a negative spirit. Spirits would come to me at night and give me short dreams of how they died and I'd wake up with shadows standing over me. I always slept with the light and tv on so I couldn't hear or see them.

Anyway, this therapist/ spiritual psychic lady… told me how I could close my eyes and focus all of my energy and soul into the middle of my chest. Imagine it like a white bubble of light. Then you make it grow and reach out until you are surrounded by it. Then push it out past your house and it will push all of the spirits out from around you. So, I learned how to do this white light now. That is where Marinette's powers came from. :)

My family is sensitive. It runs in the women on my mom's side. I've always been this way, but now I can turn it off or on. I'm not always open anymore. So, I can focus on a person or an item, which is when Marinette sits and focuses on Chat Noir. That's what I was referring to. She can focus on objects or a person.

I wanted to share where her powers came from. :) Thank you for reading and loving this story. LdyFcknNoir and I are going to write a sequel called, Le Maitre in the future. :)