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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.

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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.

I suspect the author totally did intend that, but *shrug*

Fair enough. I'm used to something like that being tagged, I guess.

*nod*

also I think you have not read their other work? I know Azz said they made a point of warning you for things their tags don't cover on what worse luck...

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.

Generally probably wise here? I don't think "blinding leaps of faith" and "what's up danger" are particularly in need of any such warning, nor the two in the scrabble/jumanji series, and I'm pretty sure "let the storm rage on" is not; I'd have to reread them all to assert any of this with more confidence. But Seeking Shelters is definitely one you should step more carefully around.

I'm 95% confident these are minefield-free:

blinding leaps of faith (6011 words) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends, post Chameleon episode, Unexpected Alliances, Team Bonding, technically, a surprising amount of casual breaking and entering, Fluff, Chameleon Spoilers, Developing Friendships
Series: Part 1 of (i'm not) scared of the dark
Summary:

A third person abruptly throws herself down with a huff onto the other half of the bench.

"A week and a half," Chloe says, fuming, and Marinette pauses and exchanges a confused glance with Adrien. "A week and a half! Adrikins, I've only been gone for a week and a half, how has that- that harlot tricked everyone into thinking she's the greatest person ever to grace them with their presence?" Chloe tosses her hair back as she sniffs and adds, "Which would actually be moi, naturally. Or Ladybug, I suppose." Her voice turns syrupy sweet as she says, "Not that they shouldn't appreciate you as well, Adrien."

Marinette has to take several more deep breaths, but she finally manages to hiss out (and it is nearly a hiss, Chat Noir would be proud), "Want to join us, Chloe?"

(Marinette and Adrien aren't the only ones upset by Lila's lies).

what's up danger (5435 words) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Caline Bustier, Caline Bustier's class, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Parkour, Identity Reveal, outsider pov, miracuclass shenanigans, no one is paid enough to work in this school at this point, Humor
Series: Part 2 of (i'm not) scared of the dark
Summary:
Caline Bustier has not seen a single one of her students come through the classroom door in a week and a half.

There would likely be more students on time if they weren't all coming in through the windows or, in Juleka's case, technically through the doorway- as much as going hand over hand along the ceiling counts. Caline's not even sure how she's doing that.

She's not even sure who to blame for this anymore.

I think this is deliberately hinting at Adrien and Marinette having PTSD, if that's even the word when it's obviously not post yet? But it's no more in-depth in the story than the summary, and other than that I think it's safe?

let the storm rage on (5376 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: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Plagg
Additional Tags: ladrien, Gift Fic, Fluff, LadyNoir - Freeform
Summary:

He sees Ladybug lying in a pile of rubble in the middle of the room, groaning.

One of the hardest things about being Chat Noir and Ladybug is that their battle instincts don't just shut off when they aren't transformed. Adrien startles much more easily now, and Ladybug's admitted to the same, and it's not safe to surprise either of them, and that's not the only battle reaction that carries over too easily to their civilian selves.

Adrien's own ingrained reactions mean that he doesn't stop to think before he's throwing himself over Ladybug, because the villain is right there, and Adrien also forgets entirely that he doesn't have any magic armour protecting him right now. Ladybug is in danger and it's his responsibility to protect her.

This and sequel are also with the not-PTSD, and sequel has violence both by and against zombie-zombies (emphasis original), but otherwise canon levels of everything.

Nino Has Done Nothing To Deserve This (30838 words) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe
Characters: Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Adrien Agreste, Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug), Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Ladybug (Miraculous Ladybug), Wayzz (Miraculous Ladybug), Trixx (Miraculous Ladybug), Rena Rouge (Miraculous Ladybug), Carapace (Miraculous Ladybug)
Additional Tags: Identity Reveal, Marinette and Adrien's very frustrated friends, Adrien Agreste Needs a Hug, Really everyone needs a hug, Friendship, Team as Family, Fluff and Angst, Teamwork, Sleepovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Let Adrien Agreste Eat, dodgeball - Freeform, Humor, Rated For Language Mostly
Series: Part 1 of we should have just played scrabble, now we're losing at jumanji
Summary:

It's nothing, really- just an innocent comment, a joke. But when they hear it, Nino and Alya come to a realisation.

There were, in retrospect, dozens upon dozens of hints. Now that they're suddenly aware of all their friend's flimsy excuses and rushed explanations, they're not only sure how they've missed it, they're not sure how anyone else has either. They realise that it had to be magic protecting their friends- and that same magic has ceased to work on the two of them.

Well, this means they'll just have to start watching over their friends themselves.