A.N.

Look what you made me do, MelDaBearKwami.

I had originally meant it to be a one-shot.

Now here we are again.

Nino's awkward cough echoed through Adrien's indoor home cinema. The Dj sat on the oversized amphitheatre and stared up at the ceiling, waiting patiently for his friend to calm down. But he hasn't.

"I am telling you, Nino! I think the number of strawberries in Madam Bustier's garden had a direct connection to the irregular patterns in Ladybug's daily breath intake!"

Nino slouched back into the cushions, internally screaming at the pressing boredom weighing on his mind. Adrien has been at this for hours, a non-stop rant about how he has 'figured out his Lady's identity' or how he has discovered 'the truth about his life'. Why did this all happen to be at 3 A.M. in the morning? Why couldn't it wait for the sun to be up?

"Bittersweet limes are a big part to take in this presentation," he announced from the other side of the room, "they have a key foundation in the exploration of Ladybug and her former trends of..."

Adrien paused for a second.

'Thank all things merciful,' Nino thought to himself, 'he's stopped his blabbering.'

"Are you even paying attention!?" Adrien shouted from the stage. "Please, Nino, I don't expect audience participation, but at least have some decency to watch the powerpoint I have so generously provided for you."

Nino perked up his head and yawned loudly from the back row of the room. After the lengthy yawn, he cupped his hands over his mouth and booed Adrien. "Wrap it up sucker, I wanna sleep!"

Adrien impatiently tapped his pointing stick against the ground, irritated by the mockery of his well thought out and brilliant deductions.

"Alright!" he shouted once again before raising his electronic clicker towards the screen, "I'll give you the 411 on everything. BEHOLD!"

A bright image of Ladybug and Marinette came up side by side and a showy animation of explosions and special effects on the screen. Nino had to avert his eyes a little.

"Here," Adrien announced as the explosions continued on screen, "is my reasoning."

He quickly clicked through dozens of slides, each with another piece of information highlighted in red and accentuated with a large portion of the screen space.

"I begin this on the topic you so rudely interrupted me on... Where Bittersweet limes are used in garnishing Enchiladas."

"Enchiladas are generally made with rolled Corn Tortillas."

"Corn."

"Corn is found in the word Corny."

"Cliches are corny, and here is where we begin our real investigation."

"An average cliche is losing your tv remote in the sofa cracks."

"Who is to blame? The TV REMOTE of course!"

"Television has impacted all of us with the marvellous technology it possesses."

"You know what has better technology?"

"That's right!"

"JAPAN."

"Did you know that Japan translates to 'Land of the Rising Sun'? Because I bet you didn't see this one coming!"

"Rising Sun obviously relates to the dawn!"

"DAWN."

"Have a guess who wakes up at the crack of Dawn?"

"Sheep farmers."

"Sheep have wool, and therefore we can conclude that whoever is Ladybug must have the softest personality out there."

"Let's continue this trend, shall we?"

"Wool - Yarn - String - Horizontal Rotary Wing - IT ALL COMES TOGETHER."

"Planes have an average altitude of 39,000 feet."

"But how do we measure that? There is only one possible way we could do that!"

"With a Measuring Tape!"

"Who uses a measuring tape when they work?"

"Why only our beloved Marinette!"

"So that puts her in the spotlight! And, her personality is as sweet and as soft as cake."

"CAKE! DO I NEED TO EMPHASISE THIS EVEN MORE CLEARLY? CAKE IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS!"

"WHY?"

"Because cakes are forbidden in my household."

"And you know what else is forbidden in my household?"

"FRIENDS."

"So Ladybug has to be one of my friends or somewhere near there."

"I would hate to be the one who rings the bell on one of my friends, so that leads us to bells.

"Bells means Clocktower."

"Clocktower means time."

"Time means money."

"Money is power."

"Ladybug has powers and so do electrical gadgets."

"An example of an electrical gadget is a headlamp."

"Headlamps wrap around your head, just like how I have wrapped this information around mine."

"Lightbulb."

"Larking."

"Labradoodle."

"Lobster."

"Ladybug."

"All creatures starting with L."

"STOP ME NOW IF YOU THINK I AM CRAZY BUT..."

"Ladybug has the word lady in it."

"Lady means girl."

"Both Marinette and Ladybug... are girls."

"Mari is Ladybug, Confirmed..."