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scans_dailyI've mentioned before the fun kids cartoon Miraculous Ladybug, featuring the magically empowered young heroine of Paris, Ladybug, and her partner in crime-fighting, Chat Noir.
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There's now a tie-in comic (originally digital, now just released in TPB) where the series creator chooses to reveal a surprising amount about their origins.
Much of the fun from the series comes from the complicated relationship between the main characters, neither of whom knows who the other is.
Ladybug is Marinette, who has the hots for her classmate Adrien but finds Chat Noir a reliable, but frequently exasperating, ally.
Adrien likes Marinette as a friend, but in his identity of Chat Noir has fallen completely for Ladybug.
Add in a few other friendships, romances and fanon crushes and we're so far beyond love triangle that we need to enter the realm of the platonic solids (Or romantic solids in this case).
But that's not what we're here for today. We're here to talk about Miraculous's (Since Miraculous shouldn't be a noun, I'm not sure how the plural works)
Now we know that all the major players in the series get their powers from their Miraculous', magical talismans which transform them. We believe there are currently 19 Miraculous, each with a unique power, an animal theme and a guardian spirit called a Kwami.
They also get full on magical girl transformations (Chat Noir's is perhaps even more magical girls than Ladybugs, because that boy can POSE!)
Each Miraculous looks like an item of jewellery and they appear to be set up as certain conceptual groups; Representing Yin and Yang we have Ladybug (earrings),
and Chat Noir (signet ring),
The five basic elements of Chinese legend are Butterfly/Moth (brooch), Fox (pendant) and the soon to be revealed trio of the Bee (hair-slide), Peacock (another brooch) and Turtle (bracelet) and the other twelve are based on the animals of the Chinese Zodiac (None of whom we've seen yet)
We know that the Miraculous are thousands of years old, but the Kwami are even older, and have been creating heroes for that entire time.
In the cartoon, the guardian of the Miraculous is Master Fu, a 186 year old man and also currently holder of the Turtle Miraculous (though seemingly too old to transform). He knows a lot about the history of the Miraculous but has never shared very much (in fact Adrien has never even met him properly)
Even so, it's perhaps a little odd that we find out so more about them in the pages of the comic (written by the series creator Thomas Astruc and drawn by Brian Hess) than we do in the series, but such is life.
So Marinette is having one of her regular meetings with Master Fu and they chat, in the company of her Kwami Tikki, and Fu's Kwami Wayzz.
So basically it would seem that the Kwami, through the Miraculous, are sort of like the Endless, embodying certain universal concepts . Ladybug is Creation and Chat Noir is Destruction (Though Plagg is hardly Gaiman's take on Destruction), I think Hawkmoth is Generosity (subverted because he's the villain of the piece, giving powers to villains he creates, rather than heroes he inspires) and based on her power of illusion, Rena Rouge (the Fox) might be Deception or Creativity/Artistry, Turtle is probably Protection
BTW, I really want to see the Mathematics Miraculous in action!
The rest of the story is sort of fun too, as our Parisian heroes are temporarily recruited by some American superheroes, but this seemed the more interesting part to share.
(Click to embiggen)
There's now a tie-in comic (originally digital, now just released in TPB) where the series creator chooses to reveal a surprising amount about their origins.
Much of the fun from the series comes from the complicated relationship between the main characters, neither of whom knows who the other is.
Ladybug is Marinette, who has the hots for her classmate Adrien but finds Chat Noir a reliable, but frequently exasperating, ally.
Adrien likes Marinette as a friend, but in his identity of Chat Noir has fallen completely for Ladybug.
Add in a few other friendships, romances and fanon crushes and we're so far beyond love triangle that we need to enter the realm of the platonic solids (Or romantic solids in this case).
But that's not what we're here for today. We're here to talk about Miraculous's (Since Miraculous shouldn't be a noun, I'm not sure how the plural works)
Now we know that all the major players in the series get their powers from their Miraculous', magical talismans which transform them. We believe there are currently 19 Miraculous, each with a unique power, an animal theme and a guardian spirit called a Kwami.
They also get full on magical girl transformations (Chat Noir's is perhaps even more magical girls than Ladybugs, because that boy can POSE!)
Each Miraculous looks like an item of jewellery and they appear to be set up as certain conceptual groups; Representing Yin and Yang we have Ladybug (earrings),
and Chat Noir (signet ring),
The five basic elements of Chinese legend are Butterfly/Moth (brooch), Fox (pendant) and the soon to be revealed trio of the Bee (hair-slide), Peacock (another brooch) and Turtle (bracelet) and the other twelve are based on the animals of the Chinese Zodiac (None of whom we've seen yet)
We know that the Miraculous are thousands of years old, but the Kwami are even older, and have been creating heroes for that entire time.
In the cartoon, the guardian of the Miraculous is Master Fu, a 186 year old man and also currently holder of the Turtle Miraculous (though seemingly too old to transform). He knows a lot about the history of the Miraculous but has never shared very much (in fact Adrien has never even met him properly)
Even so, it's perhaps a little odd that we find out so more about them in the pages of the comic (written by the series creator Thomas Astruc and drawn by Brian Hess) than we do in the series, but such is life.
So Marinette is having one of her regular meetings with Master Fu and they chat, in the company of her Kwami Tikki, and Fu's Kwami Wayzz.
So basically it would seem that the Kwami, through the Miraculous, are sort of like the Endless, embodying certain universal concepts . Ladybug is Creation and Chat Noir is Destruction (Though Plagg is hardly Gaiman's take on Destruction), I think Hawkmoth is Generosity (subverted because he's the villain of the piece, giving powers to villains he creates, rather than heroes he inspires) and based on her power of illusion, Rena Rouge (the Fox) might be Deception or Creativity/Artistry, Turtle is probably Protection
BTW, I really want to see the Mathematics Miraculous in action!
The rest of the story is sort of fun too, as our Parisian heroes are temporarily recruited by some American superheroes, but this seemed the more interesting part to share.
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Date: 2018-04-03 01:51 am (UTC)Still they were 12 episodes with a lot to unpack.
I don't think I like the two main Kwami anymore. I get the secret they're keeping from their "partners" is a conceit of the show but they could save them so much trouble just by telling their wielders the truth. Nooroo shows more loyalty and he clearly hates his job.
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Date: 2018-04-03 03:17 am (UTC)US Netflix DID add them?
WHAT THE HELL, NETFLIX CANADA? WHY DO YOU STILL ONLY HAVE SEASON ONE?
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Date: 2018-04-03 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-04 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-03 10:51 am (UTC)Nooroo seems to be enslaved, so I don't think his attitude reflects the real him.
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Date: 2018-04-03 11:50 am (UTC)Given how many Akuma have been created from misunderstandings, I think it would be easier on everyone if Tikki would just tell Marinette who Cat Noir is and Plagg did the same.
Nooroo obviously isn't happy with his position in life but he seemed disappointed when his master temporarily renounced him so he could use a different Kwami.
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Date: 2018-04-03 12:53 pm (UTC)Adrien would, I think be less flustere. Given how he's learned to admire Marinette over the course of the two seasons, I think he'd be delighted to learn that his "Bugaboo" was also one of his friends, even if it would mean reflexively toggling back the flirting by about 60% (and he'd be replaying every thing he'd ever said to LB and trying to imagine saying it to Marinette and he'd probably be blushing redder than her costume the whole time.
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Date: 2018-04-03 01:06 pm (UTC)