History Recap / ScarletLadyS1E2OriginsPart2

* CatSmile: Scarlet Lady sports a smile when she declares to her disgruntled partner, "Don't worry, I'll be sure to tell ''our'' story," making it clear [[StealingTheCredit she plans to claim credit for all his hard work]].

!![[https://zoe-oneesama.tumblr.com/post/182790688664/its-not-good-to-suppress-your-true-feelings Episode 2 - Origins: Part 2 - Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted]]

* CatSmile: Scarlet Lady sports one when she declares to her disgruntled partner, "Don't worry, I'll be sure to tell ''our'' story," making it clear [[StealingTheCredit she plans to claim credit for all his hard work]].

!!Episode 2 - Origins: Part 2 - Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted

** One of the heroes saves the non-Mylène hostage by doing a Bridal Carry - only, this time Marinette is the saved rather than the savior.

*** Conversely, Scarlet Lady makes a speech about saving Paris quite similar to Ladybug's in canon--but this time, Chat Noir instead declares his hatred of her regardless of whom she is under the mask.

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Chloé's response to Tikki's insistence that they rescue her classmates is an annoyed "Ugh, I GUESS!" She also doesn't react at all to Stoneheart tossing Marinette down from the Eiffel Tower.

** Adrien tells Chloé that he won't be friends with her anymore if she keeps bullying people. [[spoiler:[[Recap/ScarletLadyS4E1DespairBear Three seasons later]], he goes through with the threat and breaks off their friendship.]]

** Sabrina becomes pleased that she won't have to put chewing gum on Marinette's seat.

*** Conversely, Scarlet Lady makes a speech about saving Paris quite similar to canon'--but this time, Chat Noir instead declares his hatred of her regardless of whom she is under the mask.
** Once more, love blooms during the rain after Adrien's first school day. This time, it's Adrien that falls in love instead of Marinette.

** Adrien launches one when he yells at Natalie to tell his father "[[SymbolSwearing F@$# YOU!!!]]"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Marinette declares how much she hates when bullies pretend that ''they're'' the victims. We soon get to see why, courtesy of Chloé.

** Once more, love blooms during the rain after class. This time, it's Adrien that falls in love instead of Marinette.

--->'''Marinette:''' Don't reverse the roles! ''We'' know who the bad guy is! ''You'' transformed the innocents into villains! And ''you'' took advantage of Ivan's heart! If there's one thing I hate, it's [[PlayingTheVictimCard a bully playing the victim]]!

At school, the classmates are crowding around Ivan, who doesn't remember anything about his experience as Stoneheart, while Chloé stews over the fact that no one is talking about Scarlet Lady. She attempts to fish compliments from Adrien, who is grossed out by the idea of praising Scarlet Lady and prefers to comment on Chat Noir and Marinette. Chloé attempts to do so as well, but she spits out blood at the idea of complimenting someone other than herself.

Scarlet Lady jumps in to disperse and purify the butterfly swarm, claiming that she will keep Paris safe, much to Chat Noir's anger, since the Ladybug heroine didn't even mention him.

To Chat Noir's chagrin, Scar has taken advantage of him being tired from the fight to present a highly skewed account of the fight, painting herself as the one saving the day and cleaning up after Chat Noir. Chat Noir attempts to call her out for this, since she didn't do anything to stop Stoneheart, but Scar points out that his ring is beeping and makes it obvious she intends to claim the credit for everything, angering him.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Marinette declaring her intention to become Adrien's frend is what fully cements his love for her.
* BerserkButton: Hawk Moth strikes one of Marinette's when he attempts to blame the ''heroes'' for hism terrorizing Paris.

* EveryoneHasStandards: SleazyPolitician André Bourgeois is horrified when Marinette is thrown from the Eiffel Tower and stunned that Scarlet Lady didn't even react to it.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Marinette delivers one to Hawk Moth when he tries to blame the heroes for Stoneheart:
-->'''Marinette:''' Don't reverse the roles! ''We'' know who the bad guy is! ''You'' transformed the innocents into villains! And ''you'' took advantage of Ivan's heart! If there's one thing I hate, it's [[PlayingTheVictimCard a bully playing the victim]]!

* CrocodileTears: In order to sell her claims that Marinette is bullying her, Chloeé uses eyedrops to fake tears, then discreetly tries to pass the vial over to Sabrina.

After school ends, it begins to pour, and Adrien finds Marinette at the gate. Adrien compliments Marinette for how she stood up to Hawk Moth, and Marinette returns the compliment by thanking him for telling Chloé off. Adrien states he feels a bit bad, as Chloé has been his only friend for most of his life. Marinette declares she'd like to be his friend as well. Falling for her once more, he offers to walk her home under his umbrella as they bond over their dislike of Scarlet Lady.

* LaserGuidedKarma: While Scarlet Lady successfully steals the credit for all of Chat Noir's hard work, her mistreatment of her partner makes Adrien ''much'' less patient with her antics in ''either'' identity, as he promptly hits Chloé with an ultimatum: shape up or lose his friendship.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Nathalie is caught completely flat-footed by Adrien ''swearing'' at her, as it's completely unlike the "Sunshine Boy" she's used to dealing with.

* RageBreakingPoint: Marinette hits hers when Hawkmoth begins PlayingTheVictimCard.

Alya creates a blog she calls the ''Ladyblog'' to comment on the news about Paris's new hero: Scarlet Lady. When she shows this to Marinette, the latter is unhappy that her friend's dedicating her time to the lazy hero.

Adrien manages to reach the school gates after escaping his home, and Nathalie attempts to keep him from entering school. Encouraged by his success as Chat Noir, he decides not to let himself be bossed around anymore and turns to Nathalie to fire a PrecisionFStrike, making him realize he may have been holding in more than he thought.

At school, the classmates are crowding around Ivan, who doesn't remember anything about his experience as Stoneheart, while Chloé stews over the fact that no one is talking about Scarlet Lady. She attempts to fish compliments from Adrien, who is grossed out by the idea of praising Scarlet Lady and prefers to comment on Chat Noir and Marinette. Chloé attempts to compliment Chat Noir, but she spits out blood at the idea of complimenting someone other than herself.

Chloé turns to Sabrina, who reluctantly compliments the heroine, not knowing what is going on with Chloé but at least relieved that she won't have to carry out Chloé's plan to put chewing gum on Marinette's seat. At the other side of the classroom, Nino wonders why Adrien is so excited about classes, and when he hears that Adrien has never been to school and has no friends other than Chloé, he decides to become friends with him.

Marinette then enters the classroom, making Adrien giddy that he's sharing classes with the cute girl who helped him during the fight with Stoneheart, much to Nino's confusion.

At some point, Ivan is once more transformed into Stoneheart and captures Myléne. Alya pulls out her phone, telling Marinette they can film the event... only for Marinette to also be captured by Stoneheart. While Tikki attempts to convince Chloé to save the two girls, Myléne asks Stoneheart what he's doing, and he replies he intends to deliver a message. Marinette attempts to calm Myléne down, knowing that Ivan would never hurt Myléne, while also worried because Ivan might hurt ''her'' due to how she convinced him to confess to Myléne.

Stoneheart arrives to the Eiffel Tower, which he begins climbing with his captives in hand. André Bourgeois, Paris's mayor and Chloé's father, demands the return of the two girls, and Stoneheart throws Marinette at them, shocking André and Chat Noir while Scarlet Lady checks her nails, impassive.

Marinette, falling to her death, begs for help, and help comes when Chat Noir grabs her in a BridalCarry with "I got you, Princess!" Marinette falls for the chat-themed hero, although she's not impressed with his nickname for her.

Stoneheart spits a swarm of black butterflies that Hawk Moth, the story's villain, uses to communicate his name. He attempts to blame Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir for the damages that have been caused, but an incensed Marinette drives herself into a fury as she berates the villain for attempting to make himself look the victim. Chat Noir falls for Marinette as she flips the villain the bird.

Scarlet Lady jumps in to disperse and purify the butterfly swarm, claiming that she will keep Paris safe. much to Chat Noir's anger, since the Ladybug heroine didn't even mention him.

Marinette tells Chat Noir that Ivan is in love with Myléne, and Chat Noir considers working with Scarlet Lady to take advantage of this. However, Scar is too busy taking selfies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, much to his chagrin. Jumping up, Chat Noir hits Stoneheart's arm to make the akuma and Myléne kiss; in shock, Stoneheart drops the object that kept him in his monstrous state and transforms back into Ivan, with both him and Myléne falling. Chat Noir destroys a part of the tower to provide a landing for both of them.

Scarlet Lady purifies the akumatized object and casts Miraculous Ladybug. Marinette grabs the object and, seeing it's the song Ivan wrote to confess to Myléne, rushes to give it to the girl, who jumps to hug a blushing Ivan, clearly returning his feelings.

The next day, Marinette tells Alya everything about what happened at the Tower and decides to take the seats behind Adrien and Nino, eager for a confrontation with Chloé, which slightly scares her other classmates. When Chloé demands to know why she's sitting there, Marinette, emboldened by her berating Hawk Moth, tells Chloé off for her bullying. Adrien then arrives, and Chloé tries to paint Marinette as the bully. However, he's heard enough to realize the actual bully in the class is Chloé and threatens to stop being her friend if she continues acting out, causing Marinette to start crushing on Adrien, which Alya notices.

After school ends, it begins to pour, and Adrien finds Marinette at the gate. Adrien compliments Marinette for how she stood up to Hawk Moth, and Marinette returns the compliment by thanking him for telling Chloé off. Adrien states he feels a bit bad, as Chloé has been his only friend for most of his life. Marinette declares she'd like to be his friend as well. Falling for her once more, he offers to walk her home under her umbrella as they bond over their dislike of Scarlet Lady.

* AmazonChaser: Adrien begins to fall for Marinette when she [[FlippingTheBird flips Hawkmoth off]] [[PrecisionFStrike while telling him to go fuck himself]].
* AttentionWhore: Here, Chloé's declaration that "once a monster, always a monster" is [[DrivenByEnvy fueled by her frustration]] at everyone paying more attention to Ivan than to her 'heroic' alter ego. She also can't join her 'Adrikins' in complimenting Chat Noir for his hard work without coughing up blood.

* BerserkButton: Hawk Moth strikes one of Marinette's when he attempts to blame the ''heroes'' for his terrorizing Paris.
-->'''Marinette:''' If there's one thing I hate, it's a bully playing the victim!\\

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Both Chloé and Adrien remark on how impressive their superhero personas are. However, Adrien also remarks on "that pig-tailed girl" being equally impressive, while Chloé is solely focused upon hyping up Scarlet Lady.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Chloé dismisses Adrien's threat to stop being friends, claiming that "He didn't ''mean'' that" and that he'll lose interest in their classmates after "realizing how lame they are".

** When both of them are snatched by Stoneheart, Marinette comforts Myléne by insisting Ivan would never hurt her. She very carefully does not bring up that she's terrified he might harm '''her''' instead.
** When Chat Noir tries calling Scarlet Lady out for StealingTheCredit, she notes that his alarm is going off, smirking evilly as she 'reassures' him that "Don't worry, I'll be sure to tell '''our''' story."

* GrewASpine: Both Adrien and Marinette start standing up and asserting themselves after dealing with Hawk Moth.

** Chloé plays this straight; as much as she ''adores'' her 'Adrikins', she can't stand Chat Noir, to the point that she spits up blood while attempting to praise him.
** PlayedWith via Adrien; while Chloé is still his first and formerly OnlyFriend, his experiences with Scarlet Lady enable him to quickly recognize her attempts at manipulation and call her out.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When standing up to Chloé, Marinette compares her directly to supervillains like Hawk Moth, calling her a lowlife. Chloé is more upset by her offhandedly insulting her 'stupid ponytail'.
-->'''Marinette:''' I'm standing up to ''all'' supervillains, and a lowlife like you is no exception! I'm done taking orders from you and your stupid ponytail, ''so sit down!''\\

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Ivan explains to the others that he doesn't have any memories of his time as Stoneheart. As a result, the poor boy is ''terrified'' when he detransforms near the top of the Eiffel Tower and finds himself plummeting alongside Myléne with no idea how they got there.

*** Conversely, Scarlet Lady makes a speech about saving Paris quite similar to canon's - but this time Chat Noir declares his hatred of her.
** Once more, love blooms during the rain after class. This time, it's Adrien that falls in love, instead of Marinette.
* NeverMyFault: Fu angrily snaps at Wayzz that he's not responsible for the Earrings ending up in the wrong hands:

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After encouraging Ivan to confess his feelings to Myléne, Marinette gets kidnapped alongside her after he's transformed back into Stoneheart. The strip where this happens is even titled "No Good Deed".

** Both the Mayor and Chat Noir react this way to Stoneheart tossing Marinette away, while a disinterested Scarlet Lady examines her nails.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Nathalie is caught completely flat-footed by Adrien ''swearing'' at her, as it's completely unlike the 'Sunshine Boy' she's used to dealing with.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: When Marinette stands up to her, Chloé tries to convince Adrien that her long-time victim is actually bullying ''her'' instead.

** Marinette calls out Hawk Moth for blaming the heroes for his own actions. Adrien then does the same when Chloé tries to play the victim card herself.
** Both Marinette and Adrien [[GrewASpine start standing up for themselves]] after dealing with Hawk Moth and his akumas. Both also start to develop a crush after witnessing the other calling out somebody for trying to [[BlamingTheVictim blame the victims of their crimes]].

** Adrien launches one when he informs Natalie to tell his father "[[SymbolSwearing F@$# YOU!!!]]"
** Marinette supposedly does the same when she calls out Hawkmoth for PlayingTheVictimCard.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Chloé's response to Tikki's insistence that they have to rescue her classmates is "Ugh, I GUESS!" She also doesn't react at all to Stoneheart tossing Marinette down.

-->'''Marinette:''' Don't reverse the roles! ''We'' know who the bad guy is! ''You'' transformed the innocents into villains! And ''you'' took advantage of Ivan's heart! If there's one thing I hate, it's a bully playing the victim!

* UnhandThemVillain: When Mayor Bourgious demands the girls' safe return, Stoneheart pitches Marinette down while declaring "You're welcome to half!"

** Both Marinette and Adrien [[GrewASpine start standing up for themselves]] after dealing with Hawk Moth and his akumas. Both also start to develop a crush after witnessing the other calling out somebody for trying to [[BlamingTheVictim blame the victims of their crimes.
* PrecisionFStrike: Adrien launches one when he informs Natalie to tell his father "[[SymbolSwearing F@$# YOU!!!]]"

!!Scarlet Lady - Episode 2 - Origins: Part 2 - Tales of Chat Noir the Exhausted

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Ivan explains to the others that he doesn't have any memories of his time as Stoneheart.

* FalseReassurance: When both of them are snatched by Stoneheart, Marinette comforts Myléne by insisting Ivan would never hurt her. She very carefully does not bring up that she's terrified he might harm '''her''' instead.

** Both Marinette and Adrien [[GrewASpine start standing up for themselves]] after dealing with Hawk Moth and his akumas.

* WhatTheHellHero: A brief non-verbal one: both Chat Noir and the Mayor look at Scarlet Lady in mute shock upon realizing she hasn't reacted at ''all'' to Marinette being thrown into freefall.

Alya creates a blog she calls the ''Ladyblog'' to comment on the news about Paris's new hero: Scarlet Lady. When she shows this to Marinette, the latter is unhappy that her friend's dedicating her time to the lazy hero.\\\

Adrien manages to reach the school gates after escaping his home, and Nathalie attempts to keep him from entering school. Encouraged by his success as Chat Noir, he decides not to let himself be bossed around anymore and turns to Nathalie to fire a PrecisionFStrike, making him realize he may have been holding in more than he thought.\\\

At school, the classmates are crowding around Ivan, who doesn't remember anything about his experience as Stoneheart, while Chloé stews over the fact that no one is talking about Scarlet Lady. She attempts to fish compliments from Adrien, who is grossed out by the idea of praising Scarlet Lady and prefers to comment on Chat Noir and Marinette. Chloé attempts to compliment Chat Noir, but she spits out blood at the idea of complimenting someone other than herself.\\\

Chloé turns to Sabrina, who reluctantly compliments the heroine, not knowing what is going on with Chloé but at least relieved that she won't have to carry out Chloé's plan to put chewing gum on Marinette's seat. At the other side of the classroom, Nino wonders why Adrien is so excited about classes, and when he hears that Adrien has never been to school and has no friends other than Chloé, he decides to become friends with him.\\\

Marinette then enters the classroom, making Adrien giddy that he's sharing classes with the cute girl who helped him during the fight with Stoneheart, much to Nino's confusion.\\\

At some point, Ivan is once more transformed into Stoneheart and captures Myléne. Alya pulls out her phone, telling Marinette they can film the event... only for Marinette to also be captured by Stoneheart. While Tikki attempts to convince Chloé to save the two girls, Myléne asks Stoneheart what he's doing, and he replies he intends to deliver a message. Marinette attempts to calm Myléne down, knowing that Ivan would never hurt Myléne, while also worried because Ivan might hurt ''her'' due to how she convinced him to confess to Myléne.\\\

Stoneheart arrives to the Eiffel Tower, which he begins climbing with his captives in hand. André Bourgeois, Paris's mayor and Chloé's father, demands the return of the two girls, and Stoneheart throws Marinette at them, shocking André and Chat Noir while Scarlet Lady checks her nails, impassive.\\\

Marinette, falling to her death, begs for help, and help comes when Chat Noir grabs her in a BridalCarry with "I got you, Princess!" Marinette falls for the chat-themed hero, although she's not impressed with his nickname for her.\\\

Meanwhile, Alya writes a message for her ''Ladyblog'', unable to escape from being stuck between a car and a wall and attempting (and failing) not to sound bitter that Scarlet Lady didn't try to help her.\\\

Stoneheart spits a swarm of black butterflies that Hawk Moth, the story's villain, uses to communicate his name. He attempts to blame Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir for the damages that have been caused, but an incensed Marinette drives herself into a fury as she berates the villain for attempting to make himself look the victim. Chat Noir falls for Marinette as she flips the villain the bird.\\\

Scarlet Lady jumps in to disperse and purify the butterfly swarm, claiming that she will keep Paris safe. much to Chat Noir's anger, since the Ladybug heroine didn't even mention him.\\\

Marinette tells Chat Noir that Ivan is in love with Myléne, and Chat Noir considers working with Scarlet Lady to take advantage of this. However, Scar is too busy taking selfies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, much to his chagrin. Jumping up, Chat Noir hits Stoneheart's arm to make the akuma and Myléne kiss; in shock, Stoneheart drops the object that kept him in his monstrous state and transforms back into Ivan, with both him and Myléne falling. Chat Noir destroys a part of the tower to provide a landing for both of them.\\\

Scarlet Lady purifies the akumatized object and casts Miraculous Ladybug. Marinette grabs the object and, seeing it's the song Ivan wrote to confess to Myléne, rushes to give it to the girl, who jumps to hug a blushing Ivan, clearly returning his feelings.\\\

To Chat Noir's chagrin, Scar has taken advantage of him being tired from the fight to present a highly skewed account of the fight, painting herself as the one saving the day and cleaning up after Chat Noir. Chat Noir attempts to call her out for this, since she didn't do anything to stop Stoneheart, but Scar points out that his ring is beeping and makes it obvious she intends to claim the credit for everything, angering him.\\\

The next day, Marinette tells Alya everything about what happened at the Tower and decides to take the seats behind Adrien and Nino, eager for a confrontation with Chloé, which slightly scares her other classmates. When Chloé demands to know why she's sitting there, Marinette, emboldened by her berating Hawk Moth, tells Chloé off for her bullying. Adrien then arrives, and Chloé tries to paint Marinette as the bully. However, he's heard enough to realize the actual bully in the class is Chloé and threatens to stop being her friend if she continues acting out, causing Marinette to start crushing on Adrien, which Alya notices.\\\

After school ends, it begins to pour, and Adrien finds Marinette at the gate. Adrien compliments Marinette for how she stood up to Hawk Moth, and Marinette returns the compliment by thanking him for telling Chloé off. Adrien states he feels a bit bad, as Chloé has been his only friend for most of his life. Marinette declares she'd like to be his friend as well. Falling for her once more, he offers to walk her home under her umbrella as they bond over their dislike of Scarlet Lady.\\\

Unbeknownst to them, Master Fu had been observing them, attempting to understand why Marinette doesn't have the Ladybug Miraculous.

Alya creates a blog she calls the Ladyblog to comment on the news about Paris' new hero: Scarlet Lady. When she shows this to Marinette, the latter is unhappy that she's dedicating her time to the lazy hero.\\\

Adrien manages to reach the school gates after escaping his home, and Nathalie attempts to keep him from entering school. Encouraged by his success as Chat Noir, he decides not to let himself be bossed around - and turns to Nathalie to fire a PrecisionFStrike, making him realize he may have been holding in more than he thought.\\\

At school, the classmates are crowding around Ivan, who doesn't remember anything about his experience as Stoneheart, while Chloé stews over the fact that no one is talking about Scarlet Lady. She attempts to fish compliments from Adrien, who is grossed out by the idea of praising Scarlet Lady and prefers to comment on Chat Noir and Marinette. Chloé attempts to compliment Chat Noir, but she spits blood at the idea of complimenting someone other than herself.\\\

Chloé turns to Sabrina, who reluctantly compliments the heroine, not knowing what is going on with Chloé, but at least glad that she won't have to implement Chloé's plan to put chewing gum in Marinette's seat. At the other side of the classroom, Nino wonders why Adrien is so excited about classes, and when he hears that Adrien has never been to school and has no friends other than Chloé, he decides to become friends with him.\\\

And then Marinette enters the classroom, making Adrien giddy that he's sharing classes with the cute girl that helped him during the fight with Stoneheart, much to Nino's confusion.\\\

At some point, Ivan is once more transformed into Stoneheart, and captures Myléne. Alya pulls out her phone, telling Marinette they can film the event - only for Marinette to also be captured by Stoneheart. While Tikki attempts to convince Chloé to save the two girls, Myléne asks Stoneheart what he's doing, and he replies he intends to deliver a message. Marinette attempts to calm Myléne down, knowing that Ivan would never hurt her - while also worried because Ivan might hurt her due to how she convinced him to confess to Myléne.\\\

Stoneheart arrives to the Eiffel Tower, which he begins climbing with his captives in hand. André Bourgeois, Paris' Mayor and Chloé's father, demands the return of the two girls, and Stoneheart throws Marinette at them, causing André and Chat Noir to be shocked - while Scarlet Lady checks her nails, impassive.\\\

Marinette, falling to her death, begs for help, and help comes when Chat Noir grabs her in a BridalCarry with "I got you, Princess!". Marinette falls for the chat-themed hero, although she's not impressed with his nickname for her.\\\

Meanwhile, Alya writes a message for her Ladyblog, unable to escape from being stuck between a car and a wall, attempting (and failing) not to sound bitter that Scarlet Lady didn't try to help her.\\\

Stoneheart spits a swarm of black butterflies that Hawk Moth, the story's villain, uses to communicate his name and attempt to blame Scarlet Lady and Chat Noir for the damages that have been caused -- but an incensed Marinette drives herself into a fury as she berates the villain for attempting to make himself look the victim. Chat Noir falls for Marinette as she flips the villain the bird.\\\

Scarlet Lady jumps in to disperse and purify the butterfly swarm, claiming that she will keep Paris safe -- much to Chat Noir's anger, since the other hero didn't even mention him.\\\

Marinette tells Chat Noir that Ivan is in love with Myléne, and Chat Noir considers working with Scarlet Lady to take advantage of this -- but Scar is too busy taking selfies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, much to his chagrin. Jumping up, Chat Noir hits Stoneheart's arm so Myléne and him will kiss: in shock, Stoneheart drops the object that kept him in his current state and transforms into Ivan, with both he and Myléne falling: Chat Noir destroys a part of the tower to provide a landing for both of them.\\\

Scarlet Lady purifies the akumatized object and casts Miraculous Ladybug. Marinette grabs the object, and seeing it's the song Ivan wrote to confess to Myléne, rushes to give it to the girl -- who jumps to hug a blushing Ivan, clearly returning the feeling.\\\

To Chat Noir's chagrin, Scar has taken advantage of him being tired from the fight to present a highly skewed account of the fight, painting herself as the one saving the day and cleaning after Chat Noir. Chat Noir attempts to call her out for this, since she didn't do anything to stop Stoneheart, but Scar points out that his ring is beeping and makes it obvious she intends to claim the credit for everything, angering him.\\\

The next day, Marinette tells Alya everything about what happened at the Tower, and decides to take the seats behind Adrien and Nino, eager for a confrontation with Chloé -- and scaring her other classmates. When Chloé demands to know why she's sitting there, Marinette, emboldened by her berating Hawk Moth, tells Chloé off for her bullying. When Adrien arrives, Chloé tries to paint Marinette as the bully, but he's heard enough to realize the actual bully in the class is Chloé, threatening to stop being her friend if she continues acting out -- causing Marinette to start crushing on Adrien, which Alya notices.\\\

At the end of classes, it begins to pour rain, and Adrien finds Marinette at the gate. Adrien compliments Marinette for how she stood up to Hawk Moth, and Marinette returns the compliment by thanking him for telling Chloé off. Adrien states he feels a bit bad, because Chloé has been his only friend for most of his life -- and Marinette declares she'd like to be his friend as well. Falling for her once more, he offers to walk her home under her umbrella as they bond over their dislike of Scarlet Lady.\\\

While Master Fu observes them, attempting to understand why Marinette doesn't have the Ladybug Miraculous.