Ok, few things. This is crack taken with some seriousness. This is pure humor on my side, I have no real ship preference in this show and the newest episodes made me cringe so bad I just had to let it out in humor. So if you don't like the narrative style in this one feel free to ignore it, I'm just doing this for fun.
Enjoy though!
Hello and welcome to The Wildest Love Life of one Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
Who is Marinette you ask? I can answer that for you. Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Fifteen years old. Aspiring fashion designer, adept in baking, organizing, and general academics. Just a normal girl, with a normal life.
Oh, did I mention she is also the current wielder of the Ladybug earrings and Guardian of the Miraculous?
You know, the normal stuff teenagers do nowadays.
But this is not the story of how Marinette tries to juggle her life as a regular teenager and her superhero duties, we have seen plenty of those. No, this story is about one very important aspect of her teenage life, one that, for many around her age is crucial, vital even. For others not so much, which is totally valid, I don't see why they put it so high on the priority list… Oh, sorry I carried away there, we were talking about Marinette's very difficult love life.
What? She's fifteen and does have that type of feelings. Might as well indulge in it, shall we? So, this is the story of how Marinette has a wide variety of people that have fallen to her charms. Who wouldn't? Smart, organized, kind, selfless, dare I say like Ladybug? Oh, sure she has her flaws as well, she's not perfect, but isn't that also what made people fall in love with her even more? Should I also add beautiful eyes, an adorable smile, and soft hair that she manages to pull off in a pigtail fashion? No wonder she caught the attention of several people.
And that is what this story is going to be about. The story of Marinette and the people that have caught her heart.
Yes, you read correctly, not person, people. As in, more than one.
How about we take a look at the candidates for Marinette's affection?
In the first place, we have Adrien Agreste.
You see, when Marinette first met Adrien, they started on rocky terms. There was, of course, a misconception in their introduction, something about chewing gum and being friends with Chloe Bourgeois. It all changed when, during a rainy afternoon as classes ended, Adrien opened up his heart to Marinette, about how lonely his life had been and offering her at that moment his umbrella, an act of kindness like no other, while thunder was heard in the background.
Like the French say: un coup de foudre. Here it was taken, quite literally if you catch my drift.
Marinette fell head over heels. It was bound to happen. The first crush, the giddiness and lovesick sighs when the person of affection passes by. She was, for lack of a better word, a complete mess around him. But it wasn't until she realized it was best to be his friend first that she toned down the infatuation.
This brings us to our second candidate, Luka Couffaine.
Now Luka is our classic guitar boy. A couple of years older than Marinette, Luka is calm in the tornado that composes Marinette's life, the lighthouse in her ocean of anxiety, a beam in her path of responsibilities. Wise with his words, emphatic, in tune with his own emotions, Luka provided safety and reassurance in Marinette like no other. The downside of it was when she realized said feelings growing inside her. And this made her lose several hours of sleep many times and a good amount of journal entries to try and comprehend her own heart.
Which, as far as my memory goes, is way easier to solve a crossword puzzle than understand a teenage heart divided by love.
And to make things even more complicated for our resident baker girl, she met Kagami Tsurugi.
What, did you think Marinette was straight? Have you seen how she wears her pink jeans? Finding out girls were also a possible cause of mistaking a crush for a cardiac arrest wasn't that big of an issue for Marinette more than discovering it was Kagami of all people.
Ahem.
Kagami Tsurugi, a girl that has lived the same hardships as Adrien but developed an entirely different personality. Fierce, thoughtful, precise, dedicated, composed. Socially awkward as well, because like I said, same hardships as Adrien (and horrible parenting but that's for another day). A girl that, while at first was a love rival for Adrien's heart, became a close and dear friend to Marinette.
Which led to her questioning if she wanted to be like Kagami or wanted to be with Kagami.
There goes another night without sleep and a new journal entry.
The fourth, yes fourth but let me explain, and last but not least competitor in Marinette's heart is no other than Paris' hero, the wielder of Chaos and Destruction, a goofball at heart but protective and devoted to his work, Chat Noir.
Ah, I know what you're thinking. But isn't Chat Noir's identity one of the very first suitors Adrien Agreste? You are correct, you have watched the show and pieced the clues together, unlike the majority of Paris that seems to have been dumbed down by constant akumatization. Perhaps they should really look into that.
But you see, Marinette doesn't know that. And while she knows Chat Noir has declared his love for her superhero persona countless times, she can't help but feel the walls in her heart chipping away little by little with this alley cat.
Perhaps it's because he's the only one that understands the weight on their shoulders, perhaps because he also shares the same secret identity, double life situation, who knows, but Marinette discovered, a little too late in the night, that her heart would bump at the thought of Chat Noir.
You know the drill, goodbye sleep, hello journal. At this point, Marinette will have a journal dedicated only to her love tangled messy heart.
So, for us it's only three people (and to be quite honest, way more than an average person can have), but for Marinette, it's four. We shall see whether she eventually puts two and two together and makes it a smaller list.
And I am not counting the many others that have been touched by Marinette's heart and looks. This is the wildest love life of one Marinette Dupain-Cheng after all, not the love life of everyone that has fallen in love with her.
Well, you know the basics now. But wait, as the tv ads say, there is more! Because each member of this list is also in a way infatuated, in love, or crushing over our heroine/fashionista. And they know (sans Chat Noir but Adrien can totally fill him in later he thinks) that each one of them wants to be by Marinette's side.
And with that, we can officially start our story.
Like I said, this is for fun. FUN. Please no ship wars here I don't even know how this is going to end.
