I was done being the villain.

At last I could retire, at last I could be the hero of my own story.

As I blinked and looked up at my new parents from the ornate crib I was placed I couldn't be happier as I saw the final farewell from the Agency.

[Welcome Agent 214 to your final destination. The Miraculous Dimension. With the Agency's final farewell we gift you the Big Spender System.]

Of course retirement came with a catch, why wouldn't it?

I blinked as I was downloaded with the plot of this world, but this time I had free-reign to change it as I wish.

Alas it would seem my new father may have villainous leanings. My mother not so innocent either in her use of the powers of this universe.

I let out a small sigh. Well no one said my new life would be easy.

I blinked again as a hologram of fireworks showed before me.

[System bonding...]

[Welcome to the rest of your life.]

My life as Adrianne Agreste.

I'd taken the place of my male counterpart Adrien. He'd be trained and placed on missions of his own.

I suppose it would be my last villainous act.

I was the apple of my father's eyes. My features looking like a fine mix between his wife and his. When my mother wasn't home, off on a film set somewhere, my father would take me to work with him.

I had my own crib set up in his office.

He was an attentive father, if not a bit intense.

His subordinates at his company feared and respected him. His temper was legendary, I would only see the after effects as he would never raise his voice around me.

Gabriel Agreste was a complicated man. Where a son would have been loved at arm's length, a daughter was held on to tightly perhaps a bit too tight. When he loved, he loved something with his whole heart, throwing his soul into caring for it. It was seen by how important his brand was to him, how he watched every one of his wife's films, never missing a premier and it showed in how he coddled me. If I hadn't lived hundreds of lives before, I could have grown quite spoiled.

But his love could be near obsessive. Saving his first designs behind thick glass only perused with white gloves. Having a gold foiled portrait of his wife front and center in his home office. Keeping me watched every moment of the day, framing all my first creations, giving me not one but four bodyguards, keeping recordings of me babbling. Ok maybe his behavior toward me was just first time parent behavior but I feared what it would mean for the future as it would seem it remained the statis quo throughout my childhood.

But it would seem my parents were truly a match.

For Émilie Agreste was nearly as much strange.

She seemed to never lose her temper, at least I never saw it. She was obsessed with safety. The house was baby proofed in every nook and craney. When she wasn't home, she'd leave behind little videos of her for each day she was gone, so I wouldn't forget her face. She was graceful and kind, never treating anyone in a service job as lesser than, a bad habit which she scolded Gabriel on occasion for. She was determined that I become a creative child. So when at 5 I picked up a violin and sat with her at the piano as she played, she was ectactic. When I was 8 I took up ballet and ice skating, my parents barely noticed when their miraculouses suddenly disappeared (well they found them later in the year, I hadn't been able to send them to the guardian yet. Being watched all the time I could only hide them in the guest bathroom behind the pipes in a secret spot before they were discovered).

At 10 I was finally able to get my hands on my first computer and began to put into place my first plans. Buy stocks, earn my own money was the first step.

[Mission accomplished: First 1000 spent, reward: 10 points]

990 more points until I could get the system store open.

I hoped there would be something there to help save Émilie Agreste.

[Mission accomplished: First 1,000,000 spent, reward: 10,000 points.]

Step 2: Adult identity made. First property bought.

[System store now open.]

There was nothing available that could help my mother.

By this time my father had grown distracted as mother got more and more sick.

The price of the wish to have a child wore down on her.

The guilt that I wasn't the child she wished for haunted me.

By the time I was 12, I had purchased and given to the Dupain-Cheng's, as an anonymous gift, the deeds to the bakery and their home (under my other identity). I had remodeled the warehouse I had bought at 11 and made it my own secret base, including a secret hacker suite behind a retnal scan and fingerprint-passcode hidden door.

At 12 my mother fell into a coma.

[Act 1 of Adrien's Life complete, reward: the Kiss of Life

The Kiss of Life attributes: will sustain the life of a person keeping them from death's door but it will not automatically heal them. Gradual healing is implied.]