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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2019-06-05 09:57 pm

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love languages (11882 words) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), several background OCs
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Tourism, akuma dodging, platonic marichat mostly but ladynoir too, Music, yes music is important enough to tag, accidental flash mobs
Summary:

There's a very familiar figure standing in front of the wall.

Marinette hasn't seen Chat Noir so still all day. Even his tail is hanging limp, without the faintest twitch, and there's a slump to his shoulders that puts a stiffness into her own.

The other people around are giving him a wide berth. Marinette very nearly turns to leave, too, but-

Unlike the others here, she knows Chat Noir. She knows that set to his spine, the way he's standing with his chin tucked under, the restless way he's rolling his baton between his hands.

She sees the unhappiness in the way he's holding himself and she's moving towards him before she ever sees the butterfly.

silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2019-06-07 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That one came for the feels. People who are out have been around someone who's depressed, possibly to the point of ideation, or who have been ideating before, might find Chat's state of mind pretty close to that state, if not being worried that he already there.

I don't think the author necessarily intended that, but that's the alarm bell that was ringing in my head throughout the story.
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2019-06-07 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. I'm used to something like that being tagged, I guess.
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)

[personal profile] silveradept 2019-06-07 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I have not yet, because of what Azz said, and because of the length of the work, and so on. So perhaps that is a thing I just need to keep in mind for that author.