I am swearing a lot rn

[alexseanchai]

"Origins" is at the start of the school year, presumably the first week of September.

"Stormy Weather" is on "the first day of summer", which might (depending on definition) be as early as mid-May but is most likely June 21 or 22.

"Dark Cupid", which must be after "Stormy Weather" judging by Ladybug and Chat Noir's comfort with their abilities and each other, is definitely Feb 14.

"Santa Claws" is definitely Dec 25.

Marinette turned fourteen in "Befana", unless her parents misspoke and she didn't feel impelled to correct them that she was newly fifteen (I think the cake candle count backs the smaller number but I'd have to check a screenshot). If we're including timeline data from the webisodes, this is the second birthday she's had since "Origins".

Either Marinette's math is off or Adrien, who by all indications turned fourteen back in "The Bubbler" (he's definitely fourteen in "Gorizilla"), is still fourteen in "Chris Master".

Apparently this is all during their troisième year?

...For the love of God, Montresor Thomas Astruc! For the love of God!

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[alexseanchai]

Sass = snake. No canon on Duusu's gender yet. Or Nooroo's, complicated by how the voice actors for Nooroo across different dubs aren't all the same gender. (Nonbinary Nooroo for the win?)

[chanter1944]

Aha, thanks! :) I could tell there were a ton of other kwamis in the miracle box with the named folks; what others were visible? Somebody's fic said dragon, but that might've easily been noncanon. I can envision wolf or dog, but that's probably just me hoping for a kwami of super puppy cuteness, and black cat is specifically specified, so I wonder if there's another catshape out there? Snow leopard kwami, oooooh.

Nonbinary Nooroo for the win! It kinda fits. I can also imagine Duusu using both he/his and they/theirs interchangeably, once discovering the possibility is a thing, and that idea's growing on me!

Fan musing and theory ahead, obliquely.

... Watching a bunch of eps, and also reading the latest posted verses of one of Ysabet's poems, totally led to me dreaming I was Emilie Agreste, transformed as Paon Bleu, shouting for Duusu's help while dealing with a painful combat injury identical to what Gildenstern got to the shoulder, yes it did. Never mind the kwami in question was powering the transformation at the time and couldn't do anything. It definitely read like desperation, the pain of the injury talking, you know. Sorry for the ick.

[alexseanchai]

Reportedly the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. But also reportedly an absolute shitton. idk.

[chanter1944]

So dragon *is* a possibility! ... But cat wouldn't be, would it? So hmmmmm.

[alexseanchai]

The seven we've already seen are the top level of the Miracle Box, which we have seen has another level or two, and that's where the twelve Chinese zodiac are supposed to come in.