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[soc_puppet]

Three Lila Redemption prompts:

1) Ladybug confronts Chloe about her behavior, and will only invite Queen Bee out to play again if Chloe proves she's willing to do the work to be an actual good person. How can she do this? By befriending Lila Rossi, chronic liar and akuma bait, and making her less awful. (Liloe optional.)

2) Lila is actually convinced by Ladybug's speech in Chameleon, and starts spying on Hawkmoth for Team Miraculous. Does she tell Ladybug and/or Cat Noir she's doing this or change her behavior at all? No idea! Dealer's choice.

3) Lila is hit with something that compels her to tell the truth; not only are all of her lies revealed, but we finally learn the reason she can't stop telling them.

Comments

[izzet_bedtime_yet]

...is it actually called Chlila? Because that sounds like an ITI to me....

[soc_puppet]

Heck if I know; I honestly don't know if anyone else even ships it, and it's at least half crack ship for me. It felt like about the most natural name mashup for those two, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. Chlola is an option, but it sounded too close to Chlolya to me, which I'm also not sure is an official ship name (even though I ship it slightly more than Chloe/Lila). I'm also pretty sure that DJ/Wifi is still among the dominant ship names for Nino/Alya, so non-namesmoosh is definitely an option.

(ITI? I'm not familiar with that one, and Google isn't helping. Did you maybe mean STI or UTI?)

[izzet_bedtime_yet]

I feel like this might be an area where the namesmush isn't the best way to formulate the ship name....

(ITI is "intimacy-transmitted infection" to cover things you can get from activities people don't think of as "sex". It's not really caught on, I think.)

[soc_puppet]

I am 100% open to alternatives, because I am stumped for them. Unfortunately, most of Lila's characteristics are either lying/deception (which, if I want Lila to be redeemed, we should probably pull away from) or shared with at least one other character (foxes, which is shared with Alya now that Rena Rouge is canon, and romantic rivalry with Marinette, which is shared with Chloe and Kagami). I know there are insects (and also plants and at least one bird) that look like bees but aren't, so one of those/a reference to it might work? Beelusions for bees + illusions might be okay, except it also sounds a little too close to delusions :/

...I could call it Art Deco Shrimp, since it sounds super pretentious (Chloe) and it's also what redsixwing thought this icon was (false fox for Lila), but I really don't think anyone else would get the reference, and I also just adopted that for my fandom side-account on Tumblr.

(Okay, that makes sense. Thank you for useful new vocab :) )

[alexseanchai]

Liloe?

[soc_puppet]

I like it! Especially how it even suggests a fic name or prompt from improper pronunciation: Lie Low. Approved!

[alexseanchai]

:)