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[soc_puppet]

The saddest ML plunny I have ever considered writing: The one where Miraculous wielders get stuck with Modified Fruits Basket Hug Rules. (Nuclear family member hugs are now okay, but all other hugs are out regardless of participants' gender/assigned sex; Adrien is slightly glad for the excuse to start enforcing boundaries with fans and Chloe other people, and as for the rest, well. He can't miss what he never had. Marinette, meanwhile, is hugging her parents as much as she feels she can get away with, and she didn't exactly think she had a chance with the cute new boy at school, even if he did give her his umbrella. And if hugs between Cat Noir and Ladybug are kind of weirdly intense whenever they happen, neither of them is taking questions about it.)

The next-most-sad plunny currently in the hutch: The one where Ladybug figures out that the kiss cure from Dark Cupid can work every time Cat Noir gets hit with an akuma's power, but is sure it will only ever work one way, because Cat Noir is not her True Love, and she isn't going to get Innocent Civilian Adrien Agreste tangled up in this if she doesn't have to.


You can tell the first one is sadder because it hasn't made me cackle horribly even once, while I cackled over the second just typing up the summary.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

cool cool cool

(when in fuck did I become an angst writer?)

[soc_puppet]

(...I mean, did you want me to float an actual answer to that, or...?)


PS I've added a bit more to the Furuba Hugging Rules WIP. I need to tweak some transitions, but I think it might be getting pretty close.

[alexseanchai]

It was rhetorical but also I'm curious?

*pokes*

[soc_puppet]

Short version, because you relate so well to Adrien, figuring out Adrien's issues and how to help him deal with them is helpful to you, and angst is the most helpful medium for you to do it in.

Alternately (or additionally), I'm armchair psychoanalyzing and need to sit in a corner and think about what I've done.

(I, meanwhile, am absolutely using this fandom as an escape and an attempt to pretend there's at least one world where everything has a chance of turning out mostly well for everyone involved, and can't I just live there for a while?)

[alexseanchai]

Both entirely plausible hypotheses

(preach)

[soc_puppet]

(Ah, to be transported to a world where I, as a Magical Girl-ish-type-person, could be certain that Love as an ideal could save the day, and that I would always have a very clear bad guy to beat (and if I didn't, I could turn around and figure out the real bad guy pretty quickly), and that otherwise my only major problems would be romantic that would inevitably end in my favor... *...deliberately uses the Chloe icon*)

[alexseanchai]

mm-hm yup