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Another thing I really feel the need to explore in fics sometime is Alya as genre-savvy. She's canonically a superhero fangirl, and was even before Ladybug came on the scene, so she should actually know a number of very good arguments for why superheroes knowing one-anothers secret identities can work in their favor, for example.

I also want to explore how I think she runs the Ladyblog, because my impression is that she runs it more like a fansite for fiction than a news site dedicated to a particular topic. They're similar concepts, yes, but what's relevant and useful to post to one isn't necessarily to the other, and how each one approaches secret identities in particular differs wildly.

A fansite is going to collect all the information possible from as many sources as possible in one place; for a fictional superhero, that definitely includes things like secret identities. A journalistic site about real people should ethically be going in with the understanding that there are some things they shouldn't publish without the consent of the subject, and personal information is definitely at the top of the list.

This approach also might be why Alya originally published the Lila interview without verifying her sources; with fictional superheroes, especially as DCU and Marvel comics are run, there are many sources of canon, and if the Ladyblog is a fansite, Alya may feel pressured/obligated to report every snippet of even potential news and rumors she comes across. If the Ladyblog is a more journalism-oriented website, she would likely feel more obligated to cite her sources and do more research in general.

Fansites, especially fansites about fictional characters and franchises, can be a little bit more ethically gossipy than journalistic sites, is what I'm trying to get at. One of the things I'm not sure about, though, is whether Alya realizes she's running more of a fansite than a journalistic site, or if that's even her intention. I think that would be an important angle to explore someday.

(Though not, I'll admit, nearly as much fun as Alya chatting away with Nino (and possibly Marc and Nath?) about the logistics of superheroes knowing each others' secret identities where Marinette can hear.)

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All it's gotta be is, like...

Nino and Alya are gonna do something together after school, right? Only Nino has something to take care of real quick, so Alya's gonna hang out with Marinette in the art club until he's done. And there's Marc and Nath, working on their comic book, and Alya brings up the question, "For your comic, do you think you're ever going to have them know each others' civilian identities?" She obviously doesn't know how it is with Paris' real superheroes, she may run the Ladyblog but that seems like the kind of information that superheroes would keep to themselves even if she didn't feel like risking her good standing with them to actually ask, ha ha ha, but how were you two, specifically, planning to address it in your version?

And Marinette's just kinda... stuck there. Trying really, really hard not to (look like she's) eavesdropping on Alya discussing the pros and cons of superheroes knowing each others secret identities. And then Nino comes in mid-discussion, all, "Oh, so that's what's up. How long has she been at this?" And Marinette just groans. Meanwhile, Alya is gushing with Marc and Nath about how the team dynamic between the members of Team Glory or whatever team Majestia is on got so much better after they revealed themselves to each other, and how they can look out for each other now, etc, but on the other hand, they rarely have to deal with the same sort of mind control that Paris' superheroes do, and etc etc etc.

Or something like that.

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is Adrien there? not sure if that's logistically realistic, Gabriel being Gabriel, but like

I hadn't really planned on it, but I guess what Nino had been planning to do was "pick up" Adrien after fencing practice so they can walk to Adrien's car together? (Any little bit of bro time is better than no bro time!)

how's this shifted given "New York"?

On reduced sleep, I'd say that the Ladyblog started as a celebrity fan account rather than a journalistic account, which has a lot of the same pratfalls as a fiction fan account when it comes to dealing with real people. I'd also say that Alya might be more used to superheroes who are allowed to be open about their identities, and she may have been (consciously or not) pushing to get that sort of ...reform? across in Paris as well, with the advent of their own superheroes. "This is how the superhero capital of the world does it, we should do it that way, too!" It was only after she was given her own Miraculous that she started to understand there might be negative consequences for a superhero's identity getting out. (Not sure if or how much any given superhero's age would play into this.)

Or something like that.

*nodnod*