Yeeeeah nobody likes this idea. But at this point Adrien only cares whether it will work.

[alexseanchai]

CN serious injury, self-injury, blood. Might also choose not to click if you're unnerved by vampires.

Scenario: Post-reveal on multiple fronts. Marinette is on the verge of dying. (Internal bleeding? Blood loss? Who knows? I haven't decided exactly what bits Gabriel stabbed yet.) Tikki is exhausted. Neither Marinette nor Adrien has anything to feed Tikki. No one will be able to get them help of any kind soon enough unless Gabriel permits that, which he will not do. Recent events have not exactly lessened Adrien's willingness to get himself hurt or killed if his so doing will improve Ladybug's chances against Hawkmoth. Killing Gabriel is technically an option Adrien has, but it's neither desirable nor, more to the point, certain.

Think Tikki could recharge via Adrien's blood sugar?

ETA: I did math and no.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

8 to 10 g sugar per cookie is typical. (If possibly Americentric.) For someone without diabetes, 140 mg/dL blood sugar is the high end of expected for a couple hours after a meal. Donating 10% of total blood volume is safe; the line between class 1 and 2 hemorrhage is 15%. The average 150 to 180 lb adult should have about 1.2 to 1.5 gal blood, which is 4.5 to 5.7 L. Assuming Adrien is sixteen and six foot even, a weight of 150 lb puts him at the 46th percentile; of what I'm not sure, but this BMI calculator is happy. So 4.5 L times 10 dL/L slash 10 to get to safe blood loss range equals 4.5 dL, times 140 mg/dL equals 630 mg. We could bleed Adrien 100% dry and Tikki still wouldn't get a whole cookie's worth of sugar.