History Fanfic / LadyLuckMiraculousLadybug

After finding a small box with a pair of magical earrings inside, Chloé Bourgeois becomes Lady Luck, Paris' lead superhero. With her partner and childhood friend Chat Noir, she works to save the city from Hawkmoth and his akumas.

** Mme Bustier turns into Zombizu due to feeling that she isn't doing enough to help her students rather than fear of the akuma Hawkmoth sent after Marinette.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The reason Chloé and Adrien go to the museum for the Pharaoh incident is because "Wonderland" commented on the Luckyblog saying that there were exhibits regarding Miraculous users in Egypt. In ''Fanfic/HeroChat'', by the same author, Alix's Miraculous allows for time travel and goes by the name "Wonderland" in the chat.

* HeroicBSOD: Marinette [[spoiler:goes into one after realizing that Chloé is Lady Luck. It's nasty enough that Hawkmoth is able to Akumatize her]].

* OffhandBackhand: Chloé does one unintentionally to an Akuma Moth while ranting about her hatred of soup. This unintentionally reveals that moths have to infect an ''item'' and cannot infect a person directly- a human can touch the moth with their bare skin with no problem. It also causes a chain of events that leads to Kung Food, since the moth was backhanded into Cheng's soup.

* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler:What Lady Luck does to Miss Fortune a.k.a. Marinette who was Akumatized because she couldn't fathom the bullying Chloé also being the hero Lady Luck. To prove to her that she wants to do the right thing, she stops fighting and simply waits to let her identity time out, saying that if Marinette believes that she was irredeemable, she'd let it time out and let Hawkmoth learn her identity, or if she does actually believe Chloé can improve, she can fight against his control and break free.]]

* SpiritualAntithesis: ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'' to this story. Both fics are based around the same premise: What if, instead of Marinette, Chloé ended up with the Ladybug Earrings instead? In this story, she takes it as a cue that she needs to become a better person and behaves like a hero, treating Chat Noir as well as she can and doing her best to stop Akumas. In the latter fic, she merely sees the Earrings as something to make her famous, not even bothering with fighting and only becoming famous due to her skills in working the media. Chat Noir also utterly ''loathes'' her and the two are at each other's throats all the time, mostly because she makes him do all the work when it comes to fighting Akumas and trying to stop Hawkmoth. Lady Luck was chosen to be a Miraculous wielder, she and Chat Noir figure out each other's secret identity the very first time they meet, and they're more like brother and sister; while Scarlet Lady stole the earrings, she and Chat Noir don't know each other's identities, and she's obsessed with Adrien.

** [[spoiler:In the fight against Miss Fortune, Lady Luck tells the former that she is genuinely working to be a hero, and that deep down Marinette believes this. Luck allows the akuma the choice to either fight against Hawkmoth's control or let Luck's power run out, revealing her identity. It works, and Miss Fortune breaks free of Hawkmoth to destroy the hairband the akuma was in]].

* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler:Gabriel briefly resolves to put Hawk Moth to rest permanently when he inadvertently causes Adrien to become a victim of Style Queen's rampage. After Chloé calls Emile a better mother than Audrey ever was in front of him during her CallingTheOldManOut moment, he immediately goes back to trying to get the Miraculous, now justifying his actions by claiming that he's trying to revive Emile for the sake of those who miss her like Adrien, Chloé, and Nathalie.]]

* BerserkButton: Chloé has a few, but Rogercop pushed a big one for her- [[PoliceAreUseless Cops not doing their jobs]]. After police investigators concluded that Emile (Adrien's mother and Gabriel's wife) simply ran away from home and didn't investigate further (which Chloé points out that such an act would have been extremely out of character for Emile), it gives her and to a lesser degree Adrien a few psychological scars.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: [[spoiler: During the Sandboy episode, Marinette's nightmare tears into her with questions about this, questioning multiple points where this trope led to her making uninformed decisions simply because those involved were "good" or "bad"]].

* ClusterFBomb: After [[spoiler: Marinette discovers Chloé is Lady Luck]], the remainder of the narration, from Chloé's perspective, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck is just the word "fuck" repeated over and over again]].

* ExactWords: When Chloé needs to get Marinette alone to give her the [[spoiler: Fox Miraculous]], she pulls Marinette away while saying she needs help with a project and won't take no for an answer. Said project is stopping the current Akuma.
* FailedASpotCheck: Lila attempts to fool Adrien by showing him a foxtail pendant that looks almost exactly like the Fox Miraculous. [[spoiler: Too bad for her that he notices the Agreste brand logo stamped onto the back, which she didn't]].

* HatesMySecretIdentity: Marinette is one of Lady Luck's biggest fans, but sees Chloé as nothing but a bully. [[spoiler: This starts to change for the better after learning Lady Luck's true identity... though not without a pretty big hiccup.]]

** Jean's full name in this fic is Jean-Sebastian. In canon, his full name is revealed in season 5 to be... [[spoiler: Armand]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Well, more jerk than villain, but when [[spoiler: Audrey slaps Chloe in public in "Chloe", this finishes destroying the grudge and anger her classmates, especially Alya, still held towards Chloe.]]

Redemption -- and this new superhero gig -- isn't going to be easy, but the idea of Chloé failing? [[{{CharacterCatchphrase}} Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The bracelet that Plagg gets stuck in in "Rogercop" wasn't explained in canon, he just got stuck and that drove the plot, despite it being shown before and after that Kwami can phase through solid matter. Here, it's because Kwami can't phase through magical objects, and it turns out that Chloé's bracelet is secretly the Phoenix Bracelet, with its own powers.

** Lady Luck succeeds in making Simon Says feel guilty and reconsider his method of revenge after asking him why he blames Gabriel when it was the showrunners who disqualified Simon based on arbitrary rules after lying to trick Gabriel to appear on the show.

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:InUniverse example in "Malediktator", when Chloé decides goes with the titular Akuma so he won't harm her friends, she subtly gives the Ladybug earrings to Marinette, expecting her to temporarily use them. Instead, Marinette hands them to Chat, since as Lady Luck's partner she sees him as the better choice. This leads Adrien as Lord Bug to give her the Cat Miraculous so she can become Kitten Noir, with their arrival surprising Chloé]].

* BerserkButton: Chloé has a few, but Rogercop pushed a big one for her- Cops not doing their jobs. After police investigators concluded that Emile (Adrien's mother and Gabriel's wife) simply ran away from home and didn't investigate further (which Chloé points out that such an act would have been extremely out of character for Emile), it gives her and to a lesser degree Adrien a few psychological scars.

** "Gigatitan": Marinette here, mainly dealing with her female classmates trying to matchmake her with Adrien and preventing August from becoming an Akuma as he did in canon.

* ForWantOfANail: Because this fic's Ladybug heroine is a childhood friend of Chat Noir's secret identity, Lady Luck recognizes him through his voice and his use of puns before the enchantment that makes it difficult for people to recognize Miraculous users has a chance to affect her. It's explained in the fic that the enchantment didn't stop her because she first heard Chat Noir speak ''before'' she ever saw him. The way Lady Luck responded to his pun before she realized she's talking to "Chat Noir" allows him to figure out ''her'' secret identity.
** Since Chloé is the Ladybug holder, "Antibug" never happened. Instead, Marinette is the one akumatized, going as Miss Fortune.
** Since Marinette is more friendly and open with Adrien, she accompanies him in "Gigantitan" after his photoshoot. As such, she immediately notices the Akuma evading The Gorilla and going for August. Because of that, she manages to prevent his akumatization by calming August with a song and removing the bracelet with the Akuma from him.

* FreudianExcuse: Chloé has a few big ones, such as the fact her mother emotionally abused her and her largely-absent father spoiled her rotten. She also has a BerserkButton regarding cops who don't do their jobs properly after Adrien's mother disappeared.

** During the Dark Owl chapter, Chloé hopes that the events would teach Mr. Damocles not to throw himself into danger for heroics. Keep in mind that she and the others are teenagers that do the exact same thing, with even the narration lampshading it.

* IWarnedYou: Chloé and Plagg both suggest delaying taking down the Bubbler despite Tikki's protest since the Akuma seems only interested in throwing a great party and it gives Adrien the chance to have a normal Birthday. They later learn from Marinette that the Bubbler has been bubbling adults and sending them to the stratosphere, which forces the heroes to action. Chloé tells Tikki not to give them an "I told you speech," which Tikki says it's fine because it's clear they got the idea... which feels much worse than the speech.

*** Chloé gets frustrated when she asks the same question ("Why would Mylène volunteer to be in a horror film if she gets scared all the time, since it keeps ruining the takes") as both Chloé and Lady Luck, but she's faced with scorn as Chloé yet understanding as LL.

* NotInFrontOfTheKid: In "Kung Food", Jagged Stone is saying "jacka..." but changes to "jackwagon" to avoid swearing around kids.

-->'''Adrien:''' Excuse me. We're French. We'd go to Beauxbatons.\\

* SpiritualAntithesis: ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'' to this story. Both fics are based around the same premise: What if, instead of Marinette, Chloé ended up with the Ladybug Earrings instead. In this story, she takes it as a cue that she needs to become a better person and behaves like a hero, treating Chat Noir as well as she can and doing her best to stop Akumas. In the latter fic, she merely sees the Earrings as something to make her famous, not even bothering with fighting and only becoming famous due to her skills in working the media. Chat Noir also utterly ''loathes'' her and the two are at each other's throats all the time, mostly because she makes him do all the work when it comes to fighting Akumas and trying to stop Hawkmoth. Lady Luck was chosen to be a Miraculous wielder, she and Chat Noir figure out each other's secret identity the very first time they meet, and they're more like brother and sister; while Scarlet Lady stole the earrings, she and Chat Noir don't know each other's identities, and she's obsessed with Adrien.

* CouldHaveBeenMessy: Chloe accidentally backhands something into Cheng Shifu’s soup while ranting about how much she dislikes soup and how she’s going to need to pretend otherwise to be a fair food critic, not realizing her role in the accidental sabotage until seeing the security footage later. The thing she knocked into the soup? ''An akuma that was coming for her.'' If she’d hit it with anything other than her bare hand, Hawkmoth could have won right then.

* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: I’m a reversal of canon, Adrien falls for Marinette while Marinette falls for his hero identity Chat Noir.

** Chloé's [[CallingTheOldManOut calling-out of her mother]] borrows some lines from [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Raven's speech to her father]].

Redemption -- and this new superhero gig -- isn't going to be easy, but the idea of Chloé failing? [[{{Catchphrase}} Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!]]

** Generally, chapters that are based on episodes where a new hero debuted will have the same akuma and Miraculous but with Chloé giving the Miraculous to a different character than Marinette in canon. In "Startrain" (which was Pegasus , the Five active heroes are able to defeat the titular Akuma without additional help. And while Chloé did bring the Horse Miraculous in case an akuma appears in Paris while she and her classmates are traveling, she opts to use the [[WorldHealingWave the Miraculous Cure]] to get the train back to Earth as she suspected the teleported train would still have it's momentum.

** Each chapter tends to be an adaptation of an existing ''Miraculous Ladybug'' episode with an akuma to fight. "The Queen's Battle Part 2: Chlo&eacute" (an adaptation of Queen Wasp) mainly follows Chlo&eacute [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out her mother for her neglectful and abusive behavior]], with any chance of Chlo&eacute becoming an akuma prevented by Sabrina [[MundaneSolution trapping the akuma in the vase]].
** Generally, chapters that are based on episodes where a new hero debuted will have the same akuma and Miraculous but with Chlo&eacute giving the Miraculous to a different character than Marinette in canon. In "Startrain" (which was Pegasus , the Five active heroes are able to defeat the titular Akuma without additional help. And while Chlo&eacute did bring the Horse Miraculous in case an akuma appears in Paris while she and her classmates are traveling, she opts to use the [[WorldHealingWave the Miraculous Cure]] to get the train back to Earth as she suspected the teleported train would still have it's momentum.

Other material that ties into the AU can be found on the writer's Tumblr [[https://princess-of-the-corner.tumblr.com/tagged/lady-luck-au here]] and [[https://princess-of-the-corner.tumblr.com/tagged/lady-luck here]].

** [[spoiler:Mylene is told when she is picked as Turtledove in "Anasai"]].

Redemption--and this new Superhero gig--isn't going to be easy, but the idea of Chloé failing? [[{{Catchphrase}} Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!]]

Other material that ties into the AU can be found at the writer's Tumblr [[https://princess-of-the-corner.tumblr.com/tagged/lady-luck-au here]] and [[https://princess-of-the-corner.tumblr.com/tagged/lady-luck here]].

* AdaptationalExplanation: In the canon "Kung Food", Marinette is shown to not know how to speak Chinese, but it's not explained why. In this it's explictly said that Marinette ''can'' speak Chinese, but only the Yueh dialect while Wang speaks in Mandarin.

-->"You once got mad at me for apologizing to Sabrina by giving her a gift," she (Chloé) said. "You say that's not right. Not how it should work. Not… sincere."\\

* AuraVision: Chloé using the Miraculous has kicked off her understanding of other magic, and unlocked her ability to see magic- not just Miraculous based sorcery.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: {{Parodied}} in "Kung Food." Chloé complains that Cheng Shifu decided to make soup and wishes he'd made sushi like the some of the other competitors instead. Later, she and Chat Noir face off against Jagged Stone wielding a mace made out of seafood and Kung Food with a pair of sushi tonfas.

* BoringButPractical: Lady Luck's Lucky Charms tend to be more straightforward than Ladybug's in canon, either being hints on how to defeat the akuma (without needing to actually use the item), or something to attack or counter their powers directly. She's even gotten weapons multiple times. The one time she did get a Charm with a Rube-Goldberg solution, [[spoiler:she had just recruited Marinette as the Fox hero, and she’s the one who found the answer]].

** For some Akuma, this is lampshaded and averted- Unlike in canon episodes, there are times where Chloe doesn't happen to bump into the future Akuma victim, and thus it comes as a (semi) refreshing surprise that she has no idea who these people are.

** Upon realizing [[MisplacedRetribution he blamed Gabriel for something that was actually the showrunners' faults]], Simon Says becomes noticeably remorseful about his actions and reconsiders his plan for revenge.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both Marinette and Chloé at different points find Nora, Alya's older sister, attractive, in part due to [[AmazonChaser how buff and tall she is]] and how she is wearing just a sport bra and exercise shorts. Though that might be due to their bisexuality; when [[spoiler:Mylene]] is deputized into helping Lady Luck stop Anansi, she complains that she picked one of the few classmates who isn't into women at all.

** Chloé realizes how beyond redemption her mother is when Adrien, Marinette and Sabrina, who didn't give up on her; point out how terrible of a mother Audrey is.

** After finding out that Chloé's bracelet got stuck on Plagg's head since he thought it was cheese, Tikki chasties him for sneaking away from his partner just to satisfy his hunger. This leads Adrien to wonder why ''Tikki'' wasn't in Chloé's bag to stop him, with Plagg teasing her for sneaking out for pastries.

---> No that lesson isn't hypocritical what are you talking about.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In "La Befana", Marinette asks if Chloé heard anything about a surprise party and Chloé replies by asking if Marinette really thinks she'd know if Alya was throwing a surprise party. Marinette smirks and points out she "never said Alya was doing it".

* IWarnedYou: Chloé and Plagg both suggest delaying on taking down the Bubbler despite Tikki's protest, since the Akuma seems only interested in throwing a great party and it gives Adrien the chance to have a normal Birthday. They later learn from Marinette that the Bubbler has been bubbling adults and sending them to the stratosphere, which forces the heroes to action. Chloé tells Tikki not to give them an "I told you speech," which Tikki says it fine because it clear they got the idea... which feels much worse than the speech.

** Though more members of the class knows that Lila is a liar, she still gets away with most of her lies in "Chameleon" by providing doctor's notes about her medical conditions and making her stories sound reasonably plausible to the class (who already have notable accomplishments and connections of their own). Additionally, in the end, everyone who is aware of her lies still agrees to hold off on trying to expose her unless her lies become more harmful to avoid being MadeOutToBeAJerkass.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Well, more jerk than villain, but when [[spoiler: Audrey slaps Chloe in public in "Chloe", this finishes destroying the grudge and anger her classmates, especially Alya, still held towards her.]]

** Nino uses this as an excuse as to why he uses "Moronosaurus" instead of something age appropriate- he'd rather, if his little brother overheard him, learn something harmless than teach him swear words.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: During "Dark Cupid", Chloé has to briefly stop at Marinette's house in order to get her help snapping Chat Noir out of the HatePlague, and has a brief chat with Marinette when she's [[ItMakesSenseInContext briefly staying in her closet.]] Chloé admits that she's "not a good person" behind the closed door - Marinette says that "as long as you're not as bad as this girl from my class, you'll be fine!" (She's referring to Chloé herself).

** Chloé calls out Alya on how it's super dangerous to try to figure out a hero's identity, since Hawk Moth would have no problem killing people to get what he wants.

** They are Shout-Outs to ''Fanfic/TheAdventuresOfPantheraNoire'', a series with Juleka weilding the Cat Miraculous. Adam, an antagonist character from the same series, makes his appearance in "Prince Shining".

** Upon seeing a Turtle themed hero in action, Nino asks Lady Luck "Since when do you have a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]]?". After answering, Lady Luck asks if [[spoiler:Mylene]] already picked up a name and says they're "rehauling the ideas" if [[spoiler:she]] chooses 'Michelangelo'. Michelangelo's catchphrase "Cowabunga" is said later in that chapter.

* SpiritualAntithesis: ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'' to this story. Both fics are based around the same premise: What if, instead of Marinette, Chloé ended up with the Ladybug Earrings instead. In this story, she takes it as a cue that she needs to become a better person and behaves like a hero, treating Chat Noir as good as she can and doing her best to stop Akumas. In the latter fic, she merely sees the Earrings as something to make her famous, not even bothering with fighting and only becoming famous due to her skills in working the media. Chat Noir also utterly ''loathes'' her and the two are at each other's throats all the time, mostly because she makes him do all the work when it comes to fighting Akumas and trying to stop Hawkmoth. Lady Luck was chosen to be a Miraculous wielder, she and Chat Noir figure out each other's secret identity the very first time they meet, and they're more like brother and sister; while Scarlet Lady stole the earrings, she and Chat Noir don't know each other's identities, and she's obsessed with Adrien.

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: This version of "Sandboy" which explore the fears of each of the heroes.
** For Chloé, her nightmare was hearing her classmates and loved ones calling her unexceptional and completely irredeamable. As Lady Luck, her fear takes the form of drowning in rising water

** [[spoiler:Sabrina/Abeille's fear is a copy of herself with [[VoiceOfTheLegion everyone's voice]], representing how she feels that she has to be in service in others just to be accepted]].

** Jean's full name in this fic is Jean-Sebastian. In canon, his full name is yet to be revealed.