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missmaladroite) wrote2017-04-28 07:26 pm
missmaladroite) wrote2017-04-28 07:26 pm
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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Marinette Dupain-Cheng
AGE: 14ish
CANON: Miraculous Ladybug
NAME: Marinette Dupain-Cheng
AGE: 14ish
CANON: Miraculous Ladybug
CANON HISTORY: Wiki and Marinette's page
CANON PERSONALITY: Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by--- wait, wrong magical girl show. Ahem. Marinette is an optimistic, kind, girl in middle school with a penchant for being irrational and clumsy -- I swear this isn't Sailor Moon.
So, Marinette! As one would expect from a protagonist in a superhero genre, she has a civilian identity and a superhero identity - and naturally, she has difficulty juggling her duties as a superheroine and student. As Marinette, she's kind, absent-minded, optimistic, a natural leader, enthusiastic about fashion and always ready to lend a hand or sass if necessary. She's a naturally supportive person who tries to make the people around her happy, occasionally at her own expense. She does, however, possess several quirks: on top of being forgetful, embarrassingly clumsy and, frankly, just embarrassing at times - Marinette has a tendency to be awkward and nervous if thrown a curveball, especially if that curveball happens to be one Adrien Agreste, who she has a massive teenage crush on. Marinette becomes so nervous around Adrien that she constantly mixes up words, stammers and struggles to have a basic conversation with him. While this behavior mainly manifests with Adrien, (due to said absolutely gigantic and all-encompassing crush), it can happen in other situations where she's nervous or anxious to please whoever she's with. Additionally, as a superhero barely juggling her double life, she tends to disappear frequently or arrive late to various events and class, with barely believable explanations or none at all. Aside from complicating her own life, this tends to exasperate her parents and her best friend, and lead them to think of her as severely air-headed at times.
As Ladybug, Marinette is far more confident and comes off as much more capable. Marinette's best qualities: natural cleverness, courage, and quick-thinking really shine, and Ladybug is a staunch protector of Paris and quick to quash any wrongdoing. Despite her kindness, she's no pushover. Ladybug is very pragmatic - she understands the gravity of her position and hides her identity zealously, even if it means deceiving her loved ones. She will also defeat akuma through any practical means - whether it's using her partner's hand to smash the item it's in or a civilian's whole body. Speaking of her partner, Chat Noir - they're constantly described as being 'made for one another', which is far truer than Marinette realizes. Unbeknownst to her, her wise-cracking, flirtatious, pun-loving teammate is actually the object of her affections, Adrien. And while she pines after Adrien and struggles to string two words together around him, she, while prone to some superhero bantering and a smidge or ten of flirting, generally brushes of Chat's consistent advances and attempts to charm her. While she can sometime undermine him as a partner or ignore his sound advice, they work extremely well together. They're almost always in on the same wavelength and when given even vague instructions, he will instantly figure out what she needs from him and do it. While she is often frustrated or exasperated by him, she trusts and values him very deeply. In a webisode Marinette even admits she would consider him as a romantic partner if Adrien didn't exist, before panicking at the thought of Adrien not existing.
Both as Ladybug and as Marinette, she has a strong sense of justice, will fearlessly stand up to villains or bullies to protect others, very passionately. While Marinette tries to tone down her person feelings and act as she believes as a hero should while Ladybug, she can be reckless, quick to lose her temper, and occasionally lets her personal feelings influence her superheroing (especially when it comes to one classmate in particular who is a huge bully). She isn't a perfect hero. Marinette has a deep hatred of liars, (something that causes her to lose her temper more than once) can become very jealous, single-minded, or blindsided by Adrien, and has the tendency to sometimes be self-righteous and/or shove her foot solidly in her mouth. While she isn't a malicious character, she can be brash, blunt and, at times, she acts thoughtlessly and hurts the people around her. Marinette's quick-thinking and active imagination can quickly turn into over-thinking - occasionally, her mind goes on wildly exaggerated tangents (or ridiculous daydreams) if things aren't going her way, especially where Adrien is concerned. These ridiculous daydreams or tangents are usually followed by her panicking over unrealistic scenarios, such as Adrien moving to Hollywood with a girl he literally just met.
Prior to becoming Ladybug, Marinette was constantly bullied by That One Popular Girl Chloe Bourgeois, and her low self-esteem and horrible luck meant she previously had not stood up to her. Upon becoming Ladybug, she began slowly developing confidence and learning to stand up for herself, but in her mini-crusade to stop Chloe's bullying, she sometimes crosses the line and acts similarly. She's also guilty of some other shifty actions: stealing phones, especially to cover up a mistake she made - and letting her infatuation with Adrien encompass and blind her, whether it's accusing everyone of theft aside from him, or plastering her room with pictures of him and copying his schedule. Her Kwami, Tikki, acts as her moral compass, especially in these off moments, and, thankfully, Marinette usually realizes she's right.
That isn't to say Marinette is a bad character; just a human one. While she makes mistakes and has flaws, she is able to admit to her own mistakes, puts the wellbeing and happiness of others before herself, and regularly risks her life to save Paris. Even if she slips, or loses confidence, or loses her temper and act boorishly, in the end, she always does her best to make amends and apologizes for her wrong actions. It's important to note that Marinette always takes responsibility for her poor behavior.
On that note, even if she may act confident (and certainly, being the heroine of Paris means she's been slowly gaining some real confidence), Marinette has poor self-esteem and doubts herself regularly over the course of the series. At first, she even refuses to be Ladybug and nearly gives up several times in her first stint because she believes she'll fail. With the encouragement of Chat Noir and Tikki, she is able to push past it (to an extent), but the doubts linger throughout the first season. She's also known to be unable to say no to anyone, something that hasn't changed.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Using her earrings and Tikki, her kwami, Marinette has the power to transform into the superhero, Miraculous Ladybug. As Ladybug, she's faster, stronger, more resilient, and capable of more feats, such as parkour. Her suit absorbs damage and allows her to take falls or scrapes that otherwise might be lethal. She's equipped with a magic yo-yo that functions as a weapon, a grappling hook of sorts, a communicator, a tracker, a tiny magic super computer, akuma purifier, and even a shield if she swings it quickly enough. As Ladybug, she has two special abilities related to good luck/creation:
Lucky Charm: Ladybug has the ability to manifest an item out of thin air that will help her out of any situation. Most of the times, the item is not a straightforward solution to the situation she's in, rather, Ladybug has to use creative thinking in conjunction with the item to resolve it. Also, once this power is used, Ladybug has five minutes before she's detransformed.
Miraculous Ladybug: This ability cannot be used without her first using Lucky Charm, but once she has, she's able to use this move to repair damage done to buildings or people by the akuma she fights -- restoring everything to their natural order. As Paris tends to get torn up during her fights, after she's used Lucky Charm, she tosses the item received up in the air and calls out "Miraculous Ladybug", causing a swarm of ladybugs to fly up and repair the damage and replace misplaced people and items, every episode.
As Marinette, she's a very talented fashion designer and artist. She's able to create things like hats, bags, special sunglasses, a rock album, a sticker designed to smell like sweat and rock and roll, all in a matter of hours. She wins contests, gets the attention of celebrities, and is even commissioned for her work. She's also talented at sketching and otherwise creative. Marinette is very ingenuitive, great at problem-solving, and quick-thinking.
CANON PERSONALITY: Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by--- wait, wrong magical girl show. Ahem. Marinette is an optimistic, kind, girl in middle school with a penchant for being irrational and clumsy -- I swear this isn't Sailor Moon.
So, Marinette! As one would expect from a protagonist in a superhero genre, she has a civilian identity and a superhero identity - and naturally, she has difficulty juggling her duties as a superheroine and student. As Marinette, she's kind, absent-minded, optimistic, a natural leader, enthusiastic about fashion and always ready to lend a hand or sass if necessary. She's a naturally supportive person who tries to make the people around her happy, occasionally at her own expense. She does, however, possess several quirks: on top of being forgetful, embarrassingly clumsy and, frankly, just embarrassing at times - Marinette has a tendency to be awkward and nervous if thrown a curveball, especially if that curveball happens to be one Adrien Agreste, who she has a massive teenage crush on. Marinette becomes so nervous around Adrien that she constantly mixes up words, stammers and struggles to have a basic conversation with him. While this behavior mainly manifests with Adrien, (due to said absolutely gigantic and all-encompassing crush), it can happen in other situations where she's nervous or anxious to please whoever she's with. Additionally, as a superhero barely juggling her double life, she tends to disappear frequently or arrive late to various events and class, with barely believable explanations or none at all. Aside from complicating her own life, this tends to exasperate her parents and her best friend, and lead them to think of her as severely air-headed at times.
As Ladybug, Marinette is far more confident and comes off as much more capable. Marinette's best qualities: natural cleverness, courage, and quick-thinking really shine, and Ladybug is a staunch protector of Paris and quick to quash any wrongdoing. Despite her kindness, she's no pushover. Ladybug is very pragmatic - she understands the gravity of her position and hides her identity zealously, even if it means deceiving her loved ones. She will also defeat akuma through any practical means - whether it's using her partner's hand to smash the item it's in or a civilian's whole body. Speaking of her partner, Chat Noir - they're constantly described as being 'made for one another', which is far truer than Marinette realizes. Unbeknownst to her, her wise-cracking, flirtatious, pun-loving teammate is actually the object of her affections, Adrien. And while she pines after Adrien and struggles to string two words together around him, she, while prone to some superhero bantering and a smidge or ten of flirting, generally brushes of Chat's consistent advances and attempts to charm her. While she can sometime undermine him as a partner or ignore his sound advice, they work extremely well together. They're almost always in on the same wavelength and when given even vague instructions, he will instantly figure out what she needs from him and do it. While she is often frustrated or exasperated by him, she trusts and values him very deeply. In a webisode Marinette even admits she would consider him as a romantic partner if Adrien didn't exist, before panicking at the thought of Adrien not existing.
Both as Ladybug and as Marinette, she has a strong sense of justice, will fearlessly stand up to villains or bullies to protect others, very passionately. While Marinette tries to tone down her person feelings and act as she believes as a hero should while Ladybug, she can be reckless, quick to lose her temper, and occasionally lets her personal feelings influence her superheroing (especially when it comes to one classmate in particular who is a huge bully). She isn't a perfect hero. Marinette has a deep hatred of liars, (something that causes her to lose her temper more than once) can become very jealous, single-minded, or blindsided by Adrien, and has the tendency to sometimes be self-righteous and/or shove her foot solidly in her mouth. While she isn't a malicious character, she can be brash, blunt and, at times, she acts thoughtlessly and hurts the people around her. Marinette's quick-thinking and active imagination can quickly turn into over-thinking - occasionally, her mind goes on wildly exaggerated tangents (or ridiculous daydreams) if things aren't going her way, especially where Adrien is concerned. These ridiculous daydreams or tangents are usually followed by her panicking over unrealistic scenarios, such as Adrien moving to Hollywood with a girl he literally just met.
Prior to becoming Ladybug, Marinette was constantly bullied by That One Popular Girl Chloe Bourgeois, and her low self-esteem and horrible luck meant she previously had not stood up to her. Upon becoming Ladybug, she began slowly developing confidence and learning to stand up for herself, but in her mini-crusade to stop Chloe's bullying, she sometimes crosses the line and acts similarly. She's also guilty of some other shifty actions: stealing phones, especially to cover up a mistake she made - and letting her infatuation with Adrien encompass and blind her, whether it's accusing everyone of theft aside from him, or plastering her room with pictures of him and copying his schedule. Her Kwami, Tikki, acts as her moral compass, especially in these off moments, and, thankfully, Marinette usually realizes she's right.
That isn't to say Marinette is a bad character; just a human one. While she makes mistakes and has flaws, she is able to admit to her own mistakes, puts the wellbeing and happiness of others before herself, and regularly risks her life to save Paris. Even if she slips, or loses confidence, or loses her temper and act boorishly, in the end, she always does her best to make amends and apologizes for her wrong actions. It's important to note that Marinette always takes responsibility for her poor behavior.
On that note, even if she may act confident (and certainly, being the heroine of Paris means she's been slowly gaining some real confidence), Marinette has poor self-esteem and doubts herself regularly over the course of the series. At first, she even refuses to be Ladybug and nearly gives up several times in her first stint because she believes she'll fail. With the encouragement of Chat Noir and Tikki, she is able to push past it (to an extent), but the doubts linger throughout the first season. She's also known to be unable to say no to anyone, something that hasn't changed.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Using her earrings and Tikki, her kwami, Marinette has the power to transform into the superhero, Miraculous Ladybug. As Ladybug, she's faster, stronger, more resilient, and capable of more feats, such as parkour. Her suit absorbs damage and allows her to take falls or scrapes that otherwise might be lethal. She's equipped with a magic yo-yo that functions as a weapon, a grappling hook of sorts, a communicator, a tracker, a tiny magic super computer, akuma purifier, and even a shield if she swings it quickly enough. As Ladybug, she has two special abilities related to good luck/creation:
Lucky Charm: Ladybug has the ability to manifest an item out of thin air that will help her out of any situation. Most of the times, the item is not a straightforward solution to the situation she's in, rather, Ladybug has to use creative thinking in conjunction with the item to resolve it. Also, once this power is used, Ladybug has five minutes before she's detransformed.
Miraculous Ladybug: This ability cannot be used without her first using Lucky Charm, but once she has, she's able to use this move to repair damage done to buildings or people by the akuma she fights -- restoring everything to their natural order. As Paris tends to get torn up during her fights, after she's used Lucky Charm, she tosses the item received up in the air and calls out "Miraculous Ladybug", causing a swarm of ladybugs to fly up and repair the damage and replace misplaced people and items, every episode.
As Marinette, she's a very talented fashion designer and artist. She's able to create things like hats, bags, special sunglasses, a rock album, a sticker designed to smell like sweat and rock and roll, all in a matter of hours. She wins contests, gets the attention of celebrities, and is even commissioned for her work. She's also talented at sketching and otherwise creative. Marinette is very ingenuitive, great at problem-solving, and quick-thinking.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Marinette Lieveheersbeestje (though she'll go by various fake names)
AU AGE: 16
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Her hair is black instead of blue. Other than that, her appearance is a little shabbier and she owns more than one outfit, incredible
AU NAME: Marinette Lieveheersbeestje (though she'll go by various fake names)
AU AGE: 16
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Her hair is black instead of blue. Other than that, her appearance is a little shabbier and she owns more than one outfit, incredible
AU HISTORY: This is designed in conjunction with Adrien's player! Note, we're playing them from the french dub, so Hawkmoth is an injoke.
Marinette's parents were tailors with a failing business (because nobody uses tailors anymore) who ran afoul of the french mafia. They were cruel and abusive to Marinette, and when unable to pay their debts, were killed as an example when she was seven. At that time, she had only an inkling of who her parents were involved with (she later came to realize it was the mafia with age and experience), but it mostly served to breed a strong distrust of adults from the get-go.
She alone fled and survived by pickpocketing on the streets with other children without much success, and ended up living off of scraps and fending for herself. While the children were all brought together by similar experiences and would cooperate to pull off thefts, it was less of a friendship and more of a partnership of convenience, ie: every man or woman for themselves. Marinette counted them as allies more than friends, and the relationships were about as businesslike as ragamuffin children could be.
When she was ten, another orphan by the name of Adrien offered her a baguette when she was starving. As he was the only person to ever show her kindness, Marinette developed an instant attachment to him. He invited her to join him and his guardian, Hawkmoth, and while Marinette was reluctant -- but Adrien was her age and showed her genuine warmth. She was immediately taken with him. More than that, Adrien had an actual home and steady source of food, and Marinette had barely been scraping together enough to survive. Distrustful of adults as she was, she wouldn't refuse an offer like that.
Under the tutelage of Hawkmoth (who she did come to trust with a lot of time and coaxing from Adrien) and Adrien himself, they taught her how to be a con artist, while she helped Adrien with his pickpocketing skills. Hawkmoth also homeschooled her, and Marinette used the internet to educate herself on things that were both relevant and not relevant. Both of them made use of the internet (yes, Nigerian prince scams are Real) for intel gathering and scams, as this is modern day, and thus met a lot of people online. While many of her online relationships were superficial (as she had many handles and identities), she did make some real friends, ones she kept in steady contact with under the screenname "Ladybug". (I would also offer this as pre-existing CR to any players interested!)
She and Adrien worked as a duo for years and years, partners in every sense and balancing each other out. While Marinette was always the "man with the plan" and provided the brains of the outfit, they relied on Adrien's natural charm and sway with people to pull off their cons. At some point, they began dating -- though they didn't hesitate to "date" other people as part of their cons. They weren't without their own set of morals - they would never cheat the needy or children, and donated a portion of their earnings to a local orphanage - but everyone else was fair game. After a while, their little band began ramping up in notoriety, getting the attention of the police, until finally, the three of them prepared to leave Paris together. Hawkmoth had planned for the three of them to go Recolle - a city he'd always wanted to go to to find a woman he'd been madly in love with years before. She'd spoken of Recolle to him, and he'd wanted a better life for the orphans he'd taken in - as well as a big enough city for them to blend into with ease while still supporting themselves through cons if need be.
Unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan. Hawkmoth was killed by an overzealous police officer, and Adrien and Marinette, still frightened teenagers despite how quickly they'd had to grow up, panicked and fled France. As notorious as they were in Paris, no one had seen their faces and they had used so many pseudonyms and stayed just out of the spotlight enough that the police didn't know them by name or face. Thus, luckily for them, they slipped out of Paris unnoticed by the police, who were quick to dismiss even the idea that the con artists were anything but adults.
From then on, they fled overseas, searching for the city where the the three of them had meant to be. Marinette and Adrien had done online research on Recolle and their papers were all in order to migrate. Both of them agreed with Hawkmoth's assessment of the city, and more than that, there was a tinge of homesickness - with the name being french and Hawkmoth's stories of the woman he'd loved - drawing them there. It'd be a challenge for them to attend regular school and get by day to day without drawing too much attention to themselves (but still intending to continue as scam artists), but they were prepared to do it. And-- maybe there was a part of Marinette, deep down, that wanted to settle down in a place she could call home. This was a month and a half ago. Since then, they've been getting a feel for the city themselves.
AU PERSONALITY: In a nutshell, she's Tulio from Road to El Dorado.
Ahem. While in canon, Marinette's personality is a mixture of both her Ladybug persona and the clumsy, awkward, impuslive, but kindhearted Marinette, her AU personality is a little different. Here, the "Marinette" persona - clumsy, awkward, but kind -- is the mask and the con, while the Ladybug persona -- cocky, quick-thinking, clever, pragmatic, is her true personality. Her rough upbringing has lead her to be more cynical and bitter than her canon counterpart, and her morals are more flexible, but Marinette still upholds her own personal sense of justice zealously and expresses the same loyalty as her regular self. Despite being more jaded and slower to trust, Marinette is still capable of forming strong bonds and recognizing the good in others. She has her own moral code, as well, she wouldn't scam the needy or the truly innocent, for example, and has a bit of a Robin Hood approach to theft. Her kind nature, while buried, is still present.
However, it doesn't come out as much as it would with her regular self. This Marinette's had to look out for herself pretty much all her life, so rather than being a hero of justice she's more concerned with keeping Adrien and herself alive, clothed, and fed. Heroics are naive idiots, and she is anything but. She has her own code, sure, and a lighter side to her gray morality, but it's not in the vicinity of 'heroic'. While her temper is still fiery, she's far more practiced at reigning it in and controlling herself.
Marinette's parents were tailors with a failing business (because nobody uses tailors anymore) who ran afoul of the french mafia. They were cruel and abusive to Marinette, and when unable to pay their debts, were killed as an example when she was seven. At that time, she had only an inkling of who her parents were involved with (she later came to realize it was the mafia with age and experience), but it mostly served to breed a strong distrust of adults from the get-go.
She alone fled and survived by pickpocketing on the streets with other children without much success, and ended up living off of scraps and fending for herself. While the children were all brought together by similar experiences and would cooperate to pull off thefts, it was less of a friendship and more of a partnership of convenience, ie: every man or woman for themselves. Marinette counted them as allies more than friends, and the relationships were about as businesslike as ragamuffin children could be.
When she was ten, another orphan by the name of Adrien offered her a baguette when she was starving. As he was the only person to ever show her kindness, Marinette developed an instant attachment to him. He invited her to join him and his guardian, Hawkmoth, and while Marinette was reluctant -- but Adrien was her age and showed her genuine warmth. She was immediately taken with him. More than that, Adrien had an actual home and steady source of food, and Marinette had barely been scraping together enough to survive. Distrustful of adults as she was, she wouldn't refuse an offer like that.
Under the tutelage of Hawkmoth (who she did come to trust with a lot of time and coaxing from Adrien) and Adrien himself, they taught her how to be a con artist, while she helped Adrien with his pickpocketing skills. Hawkmoth also homeschooled her, and Marinette used the internet to educate herself on things that were both relevant and not relevant. Both of them made use of the internet (yes, Nigerian prince scams are Real) for intel gathering and scams, as this is modern day, and thus met a lot of people online. While many of her online relationships were superficial (as she had many handles and identities), she did make some real friends, ones she kept in steady contact with under the screenname "Ladybug". (I would also offer this as pre-existing CR to any players interested!)
She and Adrien worked as a duo for years and years, partners in every sense and balancing each other out. While Marinette was always the "man with the plan" and provided the brains of the outfit, they relied on Adrien's natural charm and sway with people to pull off their cons. At some point, they began dating -- though they didn't hesitate to "date" other people as part of their cons. They weren't without their own set of morals - they would never cheat the needy or children, and donated a portion of their earnings to a local orphanage - but everyone else was fair game. After a while, their little band began ramping up in notoriety, getting the attention of the police, until finally, the three of them prepared to leave Paris together. Hawkmoth had planned for the three of them to go Recolle - a city he'd always wanted to go to to find a woman he'd been madly in love with years before. She'd spoken of Recolle to him, and he'd wanted a better life for the orphans he'd taken in - as well as a big enough city for them to blend into with ease while still supporting themselves through cons if need be.
Unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan. Hawkmoth was killed by an overzealous police officer, and Adrien and Marinette, still frightened teenagers despite how quickly they'd had to grow up, panicked and fled France. As notorious as they were in Paris, no one had seen their faces and they had used so many pseudonyms and stayed just out of the spotlight enough that the police didn't know them by name or face. Thus, luckily for them, they slipped out of Paris unnoticed by the police, who were quick to dismiss even the idea that the con artists were anything but adults.
From then on, they fled overseas, searching for the city where the the three of them had meant to be. Marinette and Adrien had done online research on Recolle and their papers were all in order to migrate. Both of them agreed with Hawkmoth's assessment of the city, and more than that, there was a tinge of homesickness - with the name being french and Hawkmoth's stories of the woman he'd loved - drawing them there. It'd be a challenge for them to attend regular school and get by day to day without drawing too much attention to themselves (but still intending to continue as scam artists), but they were prepared to do it. And-- maybe there was a part of Marinette, deep down, that wanted to settle down in a place she could call home. This was a month and a half ago. Since then, they've been getting a feel for the city themselves.
AU PERSONALITY: In a nutshell, she's Tulio from Road to El Dorado.
Ahem. While in canon, Marinette's personality is a mixture of both her Ladybug persona and the clumsy, awkward, impuslive, but kindhearted Marinette, her AU personality is a little different. Here, the "Marinette" persona - clumsy, awkward, but kind -- is the mask and the con, while the Ladybug persona -- cocky, quick-thinking, clever, pragmatic, is her true personality. Her rough upbringing has lead her to be more cynical and bitter than her canon counterpart, and her morals are more flexible, but Marinette still upholds her own personal sense of justice zealously and expresses the same loyalty as her regular self. Despite being more jaded and slower to trust, Marinette is still capable of forming strong bonds and recognizing the good in others. She has her own moral code, as well, she wouldn't scam the needy or the truly innocent, for example, and has a bit of a Robin Hood approach to theft. Her kind nature, while buried, is still present.
However, it doesn't come out as much as it would with her regular self. This Marinette's had to look out for herself pretty much all her life, so rather than being a hero of justice she's more concerned with keeping Adrien and herself alive, clothed, and fed. Heroics are naive idiots, and she is anything but. She has her own code, sure, and a lighter side to her gray morality, but it's not in the vicinity of 'heroic'. While her temper is still fiery, she's far more practiced at reigning it in and controlling herself.