Mary Jane Watson's Journal: Entry 01.

"Hello everyone! My name's Mary Jane Watson, but as you know, you can call me MJ, Red or just Mary Jane, well, today I come to talk to you about what I think about heroes like Spider-Man, Ladybug and Chat Noir, what I think about Harry being American Son and Spider-Man offering him a position on his team without hesitation, what I think about the villains, specifically about the two stupid blondes who make my life a martyrdom, talk about Kagami, a certain object that was given to me a very short time ago and a stupid woman who I'm gonna kill if she dares to show her face...

Well, to begin with, I want to make it clear that I fully support heroes, as they risk their lives to defend those who can't defend themselves.

Personally, I have always admired heroes like Thor, Captain America and Iron Man, because in addition to being the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, I have to admit that I have the typical high school girl crush on Thor. Still, leaving the Avengers aside, the protectors of Paris are perhaps braver and more worthy of admiration, because one can easily see that they're very young, despite Alya's crazy theories, where she told us that if Ladybug has been protecting the world since Ancient Egypt, Spidey and Chat must also be like 10,000 years old or something like that.

Ladybug seems to be the one who always keeps their spirits afloat, the one that without a second thought, will always be there when needed.

Spider-Man, on the other hand, seems to be the mastermind, the one who carefully plans their movements and who always manages to have a backup plan when all else fails, which is the most usual.

Chat Noir, despite what the gossips say, is as indispensable to the team as Spidey and Ladybug are, as I have noticed friction between the red-suit heroes and whenever they occur, Chat Noir stops them and makes them focus their anger on the enemy in turn. Personally, he is the hero I trust the most and know the most, during the last few days he and I have ran into him several times during our patrols and I think we've formed a bond, but I'll delve into that sometime later.

Now, as for Harry, I'm really glad to see that he's giving Spider-Man a chance, after so much hatred that he held against him for everything about Gwen, and that he's also become part of the team. I know for a while now, Harry had been feeling a little down because he had nothing to make him stand out in his father's eyes, but now that he's American Son, I bet ol' Norman will be proud of the man Harry is becoming, just as Peter and I are.

Anyway, with that off my chest, I have to say I'm very upset by the mere existence of Felicia Hardy.

God, if Chloé Bourgeois was a rock in my shoe, now that she's Felicia's friend, she has become insufferable, especially with Sabrina hating her and Chloé blaming me for it. It's not my fault that she was so insufferable and so mean with her ex-friend.
But going back to the other blonde but much more irritating idiot, Felicia has proven to be a tough cookie and a complete pain in my ass, because she's managed to turn Chloé back to that spoiled and bratty girl she was before Sabrina paid back all her mistreatment.

However, I'm not afraid of her, not one teensy bit.

On the contrary, no matter what tricks she has up her sleeve, she's not going to be able to intimidate or defeat me, much less make me stop fighting for what's right, which in this case is to make sure that she and Chloé don't mess with my friends and teach them a lesson so they don't try it again.

I have to admit that she's good, she's much more dangerous and stronger than Chloé, both physically and mentally, because she's very good at hand-to-hand combat and has managed to knock me down. But like I said, it takes more than two idiotic blondes to defeat me.

And now, turning to Kagami, I have to admit that I still feel somewhat guilty and stupid for having believed that she was all talk and no action, and that she still feels some remorse for having tried to kill me as Riposte, but things between us are doing quite well, even though her mother considers me a bad influence because I'm... well, you know how I am, which is bad because honestly, Kagami needs friends in her life, after so much stress she has lived through having to keep her family name up. Fortunately for both me and her, Gabriel Agreste and Goldilocks always help me and that has allowed Kagami and I to get to know each other better, for example, did you know that in addition to being good at fencing, she knows Tai Chi and archery? Because I didn't, and she's really great at both.

Yeah, that fencing match with Kagami was definitely one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Moving on to the penultimate point, Pollen and the Bee Miraculous are arguably the best things that have ever happened to me.

Sure, you might think that having superpowers is cool and that they don't have any downsides, but oh, folks, you'd be terribly wrong.

Sure, it's great to perform incredible stuff like jumping buildings in one leap, swing around the city at break-neck speeds and defying gravity in the process, be much stronger, faster, agiler and more resilient than the average human, fight the forces of evil and stop crimes left and right, and stuff, but boy, does it come at a high price...

Now I understand Spider-Man, Ladybug and Chat Noir much more, I mean, the Avengers don't have this problem because their identities are public and after seeing what they have done to guys like Galactus, the Skrulls, Kang and the Masters of Evil, it's hard to see scenarios where they lose, which isn't the case with me and the others, mainly because, as I said before, we're just kids.

And although we have strengths such as fencing, martial arts, our special powers, Harry's armor and others, we still lack the experience to deal with what Hawk Moth, and especially the Green Goblin, throw at us, I mean, with Riposte we needed the whole team and she literally kicked our butts until I brought out my light foil, and let's not even talk about the Style Queen, who literally beat almost all of us without us noticing... and now that I think about it, it's funny that almost all the superheroes of Paris were at the Gala... Hmmm, I wonder if we know each other as civilians without realizing it.

Anyway, getting back to the point, things are getting more and more difficult, after the Style Queen, it's more than clear that at some point, this secret identity thing is gonna screw up the day to a great extent, as such maybe I should tell someone on the team my secret identity, just in case they need to contact me or at least if some other akumatized person leaves me incapacitated again so that the others won't think I'm not showing up out of fear or laziness.

And personally, I think that identity secrecy is not as essential as Ladybug and Pollen usually say, since it's evident that both the Avengers and the X-Men know who Spider-Man is, and not to mention Doctor Strange, that Madame Web lady and that Master Fu guy, who know our secret identities.

Anyway, putting that aside, I think the identity thing should change at least a little bit, even if Ladybug disagrees, so as soon as the opportunity presents itself, I will reveal my identity to Chat Noir and thank him for the help that he has given me in all this time... And before you say it, no, it's not a clever strategy to win the most handsome hero in all of Paris, no, not at all...

And finally, the only thing I will say about Gayle is that I am not in the least interested in what she wants, I reiterate what I said to Aunt Anna when Mom left the hospital, I no longer have a sister, she died for me the night in which she abandoned me, and if she dares to come, I'm gonna break her damn spine like Bane did to that idiot Batman in the comics.

So, without anything else to say, I think I've already overdone myself in airing my problems, hehehe, so I'll end by saying that as always, I'm gonna give my best in everything. And I have to go, it's time for the replacement gala that Chloé's mom ruined yesterday."