I love how the body language of their kiss really reflects how they feel for one another.
Adrien holds Marinette gently like she is something precious because that’s what she has always been to him, throughout their relationship and friendship:
“You’re amazing Marinette”
“Marinette´s important to me (…)”
He values Marinette´s presence in his life and has expressed how grateful he is for what she does to others and who she is to him.
*Thinks about the scene where he says she´s our everyday Ladybug and NY special when he hugs her tightly for fighting for him to go on that trip, standing up to his father before they were even together.*
Marinette immediately cups both Adrien´s cheeks tenderly and holds his face, shielding him from the dangers of the world, his cruel father and all the things he was forced to do against his will.
It enhances how protective she is of him. She is Adrien´s knight in shining armour and she will always be there to save him.
*Battles Volpina to save Adrien (´s illusion) from falling off the Eiffel Tower; Hides him in an Egyptian coffin to protect him from Riposte; Immediately rushes to the train station to stop him from leaving Paris in Risk…*
I love that Adrinette´s (and even Ladynoir´s) love language is physical touch since these two just have so much love in their hearts for one another to give and it just complements them so well. Marinette does not know what is it like to grow up without affection whereas Adrien suffered neglect most of his life.
They instinctively reach for each other at every opportunity and thrive on that love <3
Can’t believe that it took me so long to see this parallel, but isn’t is interesting that both Marinette and her nemesis (unbeknownst to her) are designers?
The parallel struck me in Pretension, where Gabriel criticises Marinette’s approach to fashion:
You listen to people’s desires and create what they want. People make you. But I make people’s desires. They buy what I decide that they buy. They think of what I want them to think. I make the people.
Let’s put this in the context of Ladybug vs. Monarch fights.
The usual fight goes as follows: Hawkmoth/Shadow Moth/the Monarch chooses a victim and makes a supervillain out of them. He bends people and circumstances to his will. Especially in the later episodes (such as Risk), he even chooses his victims specifically to give them powers that align with his plan.
Then, Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm, which gives her a random object. She thinks hard and finds a way to use to beat the supervillain. Unlike the Monarch, she doesn’t try to impose her will over the Lucky Charm. We know that the Lucky Charm works differently with different people: for example, with Chat Noir, it gives him exactly what he needs. What makes Ladybug’s Lucky Charms so complicated is her will to adapt to the situation.
Then, Marinette disagrees with Gabriel’s claim, and says that:
Fashion is about listening to people. It’s about understanding who they are, what excites them, and creating the clothes that will help them express themselves.
And that’s exactly what Ladybug and Chat Noir do. In order to deakumatise a victim, they need to understand why they got akumatised, so that they can find and destroy the object with the akuma. If they weren’t trying to understand the victim, they literally wouldn’t be able to do their job.
The fact that the Monarch builds an entire supervillain persona around the victim’s frustration may seem, at first glance, closer to Marinette’s approach to fashion. He seems to be listening to them and giving them power accordingly, after all. Hovewer, the Monarch’s approach to the akuma victims is completely different. He sees them as tools, puppets that he uses to realise his evil ends. And this reply to Marinette exactly expresses that:
That is not fashion. That’s making dolls’ clothes.
The Monarch makes the supervillains. Ladybug (and Chat Noir) free them by adapting to the circumstances (with the Lucky Charm) and seeking to understand the akuma victim (to find the akuma object).
If you like the Marinette and Gabriel parallels, maybe my post on Marinette/Adrien vs. Gabriel/Emilie parallels may interest you too :)
Can’t believe that it took me so long to see this parallel, but isn’t is interesting that both Marinette and her nemesis (unbeknownst to her) are designers?
The parallel struck me in Pretension, where Gabriel criticises Marinette’s approach to fashion:
You listen to people’s desires and create what they want. People make you. But I make people’s desires. They buy what I decide that they buy. They think of what I want them to think. I make the people.
Let’s put this in the context of Ladybug vs. Monarch fights.
The usual fight goes as follows: Hawkmoth/Shadow Moth/the Monarch chooses a victim and makes a supervillain out of them. He bends people and circumstances to his will. Especially in the later episodes (such as Risk), he even chooses his victims specifically to give them powers that align with his plan.
Then, Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm, which gives her a random object. She thinks hard and finds a way to use to beat the supervillain. Unlike the Monarch, she doesn’t try to impose her will over the Lucky Charm. We know that the Lucky Charm works differently with different people: for example, with Chat Noir, it gives him exactly what he needs. What makes Ladybug’s Lucky Charms so complicated is her will to adapt to the situation.
Then, Marinette disagrees with Gabriel’s claim, and says that:
Fashion is about listening to people. It’s about understanding who they are, what excites them, and creating the clothes that will help them express themselves.
And that’s exactly what Ladybug and Chat Noir do. In order to deakumatise a victim, they need to understand why they got akumatised, so that they can find and destroy the object with the akuma. If they weren’t trying to understand the victim, they literally wouldn’t be able to do their job.
The fact that the Monarch builds an entire supervillain persona around the victim’s frustration may seem, at first glance, closer to Marinette’s approach to fashion. He seems to be listening to them and giving them power accordingly, after all. Hovewer, the Monarch’s approach to the akuma victims is completely different. He sees them as tools, puppets that he uses to realise his evil ends. And this reply to Marinette exactly expresses that:
That is not fashion. That’s making dolls’ clothes.
The Monarch makes the supervillains. Ladybug (and Chat Noir) free them by adapting to the circumstances (with the Lucky Charm) and seeking to understand the akuma victim (to find the akuma object).
If you like the Marinette and Gabriel parallels, maybe my post on Marinette/Adrien vs. Gabriel/Emilie parallels may interest you too :)
Since Marinette and Adrien have been attending different lycées, Marinette has found it easier to talk to her boyfriend about her best friend. The only issue is Adrien’s not a fan of someone who seems to be funnier and more romantic than he is — regardless of his girlfriends protests.
Will Adrien get over Marinette having a special ‘male’ best friend or will he figure out it’s him first?
How Fyodor will escape Meursault and how he’s communication with the outside
This is a continuation of my theory on Fyodors true ability here
Most of the evidence is in the linked post.
TL;DR Fyodors ability manifests with a face and a different outfit which no other ability does… except Elise. It also doesn’t attack him and is able to merge with him without its gem being destroyed.
If Elise manifests with a face because she has one even outside of the fog, could that mean that Fyodors ability is able to manifest as a copy of him even outside of the fog as well? And if so how will that play into the current arc?
This panel is what really convinced me something was up
“…You can’t kill me.”
not “You can’t kill me, like this” or “This won’t be enough to kill me” just simply “You can’t kill me”
Why? why can’t Dazai kill him, even if he had a skill of immortality Dazai would only have to touch him and he’d be defenceless. So why…?
Dazai has had connections to the Book in the past, implying that he knows or previously knew where it was being held. What is the Book, and why is it so detrimental to the storyline?
The Book is a highly sought out supernatural item which can alter reality. It consists of many blank pages, and once written on, acts on said words. This has the ability to change reality as it is (Shown in the beginning of the arc where the ADA are suddenly the terrorists that they had perviously sought out to apprehend). The book is regarded as greater than abilities. This could allude to a higher being in play, as the creator of the Book is unknown. Could it be a singularity? Yes, but again, it is mentioned by Ranpo that it is too powerful to be an ability.
Dazai, as seen in Beast (An alternate universe created where Dazai took over the Port Mafia), is completely aware of the multiple universes created through the book. This ‘Dazai’ from beast creates this universe through the infinite possibilities available to him.
My interpretation of this text excerpt is that original Dazai was in possession of the Book when he sought out an alternate universe where Oda lived. Original Dazai created Beast Dazai with his memories. Beast Dazai is a product of Dazai’s regrets and therefore behaves accordingly in connection to the original. They are essentially the same person through a completely different timeline.
Though the wording of it is confusing- You can’t create an alternate world that you already live in unless you are from a different world originally. This could imply though that the world in Beast was identical to the original world until Beast Dazai stumbled upon the Book and diverged the course of the world from there, therefore splitting it. Feel free to correct me on any of this.
Either way, we know that it was most likely obtained from Yokohama (So it was at least there from the years that Dazai was 14 to current age). We also know that original Dazai has some sort of connection to the Book.
As we see in the image above from chapter 28, Fitzgerald mentions that the Book cannot be affected by any abilities. Though the book is resistant to all abilities, Dazai’s is the exception. Atsushi’s ability is rumoured to have a connection to the book, as well. This leaves there to be two possible options:
1. Dazai’s ability has the capacity to nullify the book, and therefore other supernatural creations that may or may not be limited to abilities, OR he is directly connected to the Book and such is able to interact with it. This makes me wonder, does his power play a much larger role in the plot of BSD?
2. The Book is actually not resistant to all abilities, and thus there are abilities that share a connection to the book. These abilities would be considered exceptions. Fyodor’s ability also shows resistance to laws that abilities supposedly follow, shown in Beast where his manifested ability not only refuses to attack him, but appears sentient. This theory results in the idea that abilities aren’t a singular type of power; There are fundamental differences between different skills.
Both options involve Dazai. I think Beast could very well become an important aspect to the storyline of BSD due to the fact that it is proof of what the Book is capable of. Are there other alternate universes created by the Book?
This information comes from the BSD wiki, the manga panels and the BEAST light novel. I don’t really post analysis stuff, but also it’s fun to research and collect my thoughts, so yeah! Someone discuss bsd theories with me pls im dying nobody wants to talk with me about it
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