Fanfic / Lady Luck (Miraculous Ladybug)

Lady Luck is a Miraculous Ladybug fanfic by Cornerverse.

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 Hawk Moth and his akumas.

Unfortunately, outside of the costume, Chloé spent years bullying everyone around her. Even though she's trying to be better, none of her efforts seem to actually be working. People will praise Lady Luck in one breath and then curse Chloé for doing the exact same thing. It's frustrating, to say the least.

Redemption — and this new superhero gig — isn't going to be easy, but the idea of Chloé failing? Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous!

Other material that ties into the AU can be found on the writer's Tumblr here and here.

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This fanfic provides examples of:

• 10-Minute Retirement: 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 Emilie a better mother than Audrey ever was in front of him during her Calling the Old Man Out moment, he immediately goes back to trying to get the Miraculous, now justifying his actions by claiming that he's trying to revive Emilie for the sake of those who miss her like Adrien, Chloé, and Nathalie.
• Accidental Misnaming: In this fic, Chloé started misnaming Jean-Sebastian on purpose to be more like her mother and, by the time she decided to be a nice person, she genuinely forgot what came after "Jean".
• Adaptation Deviation:
  • Many of the headcanons and background details of the story are the same between various stories that the author has, like Rose having necromantic powers (but she's still really nice), the Dragon Witch of Paris, and more.
  • Juleka and Luka are not twins as would eventually be stated in Season 4 after a Flip-Flop of God on the matter, they are instead half-siblings. Luka's around two years older than the main cast. This detail being the original age Luka was implied to be, though there was never an implication that he and Juleka had different fathers.
  • Unlike in canon, where superhero outfits tended to be skintight jumpsuits, here the superhero outfits more resemble actual clothing. The author tends to provide links to what they look like.
• Adaptation Expansion: 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.
• Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the fic's version of "Rogercop", Roger never explains that he's refusing to search Marinette's bag because it would be an illegal search, making the refusal come off as Police Are Useless instead of a Sudden Principled Stand. Comments by the author about the canon episode indicate that they were unaware of this explanation.
• Adaptation Name Change: When Adrien uses the Ladybug Miraculous in this fic, he goes by "Lord Bug" instead of "Mister Bug".
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Chloé and Adrien, while still Childhood Friends, have a Like Brother and Sister dynamic, rather than Chloé having a crush on him. This gets reflected in their hero life as Lady Luck (the fanfic's Ladybug) and Chat Noir, thanks to a Something Only They Would Say moment on their first day as heroes.
• Adaptation Species Change: Due to a strong divergence from canon, Adrien, Felix, and Kagami are normal humans rather than sentimonsters as revealed in Season 5.
• Adaptational Context Change:
  • Andre in canon became the Akuma Malediktator from fear of his daughter leaving with her mother. In Lady Luck, it's implied he's Akumatized after realizing the emotional abuse Chloé had suffered from Audrey.
  • Mme Bustier turns into Zombizu due to feeling that she isn't doing enough to help her students rather than fear of the akuma Hawk Moth sent after Marinette.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In canon, Optigami debuts in Season 4 episode "Optigami" but in this fic Optigami debuts during events that took place in Season 3 episode "Backwarder".
• Adaptational Explanation: 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 explicitly said that Marinette can speak Chinese, but only the Yueh dialect while Wang speaks in Mandarin.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In canon, it's established that Chloé has been cheating to get through school and making Sabrina do all her schoolwork for years. Here, while Sabrina does help her out a lot with school, Chloé has always made sure she studies and understands the material well enough to pass tests on her own.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Chloé is still a jerk who is getting better but at the beginning of the fic, she's still faaaaar nicer than her canon counterpart. Although maybe it's more right to say that she's less of a jerk?
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • Chloé receives the Ladybug Miraculous and Marinette becomes her akuma counterpart, thus switching their canon powers.
  • In "Sapotis", it's Marinette who gets the Fox Miraculous instead of Alya.
  • In "Style Queen", Sabrina receives the Bee Miraculous instead of the Dog one.
  • In "Anansi", Mylene receives the Turtle Miraculous in place of Nino.
• Age Lift: The members of Bustier's class are sixteen, rather than the fourteen years they are in the show.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • When Tikki scolds Plagg for getting Chloé's bracelet stuck on his head due to only thinking about his appetite, Adrien asks her where she was if she wasn't in Chloé's purse to stop Plagg. Her embarrassment and silence lead to Plagg concluding that she'd also snuck away from her partner to find food.
  • Marinette has a brief chat with Chloé after she's deakumatized from being Miss Fortune - Chloé asking Marinette this is part of said chat.
    "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."
    "Yes?" She (Marinette) said, unsure where she was headed.
    "So what does that mean when my dad apologizes to me the same way?" She asked.
    Marinette seemed to mull that over. There wasn't an answer.  
  • Chloé asks Marinette why the Gamer went after the latter and ignored Adrien, even though both of them qualified over him in the tournament. It takes a while for it to sink in, though Marinette is visibly shocked when it does.
  • 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 into appearing on the show.
  • Lady Luck distracts La Befana by asking if it's better to lie to spare someone's feelings or if Marinette should've just said she didn't like her grandmother's gift. The distraction was a key factor on the heroes' victory.
  • During the Sandboy episode, Marinette runs into a Nightmare version of herself, who asks her a lot of these about her Black-and-White Morality issues. Marinette has a lot of trouble thinking of an answer.
• Ascended Fangirl: Chloé is just as much of a fan of anime and heroes as Adrien is, and initially is very happy to become a hero with the Ladybug Miraculous.
• Aura Vision: Chloé using the Miraculous has kicked off her understanding of other magic, and unlocked her ability to see magic- not just Miraculous-based sorcery.
• Big Damn Kiss: After the events of Hero's Day where Marinette learned Adrien's Secret Identity, when she sees him arriving at the park, she tackles him and kisses him to the cheers of all her friends.
• Bait-and-Switch: In-Universe example in "Malediktator", when Chloé decides to go 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.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Parodied in "Kung Food." Chloé complains that Cheng Shifu decided to make soup and wishes he'd made sushi like 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.
  Lady Luck: The sushi comment is really coming back to bite me, isn't it?
• Berserk Button: Chloé has a few, but Rogercop pushed a big one for her- Cops not doing their jobs. After police investigators concluded that Emilie (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 Emilie), it gives her and to a lesser degree Adrien a few psychological scars.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Its noted that nicer people tend to make the worst Akumas because they usually have very good reasons for being angry.
• Black-and-White Morality: 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".
• Boring, but Practical: 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, she had just recruited Marinette as the Fox hero, and she's the one who found the answer.
• Broken Pedestal: Learning that Chloé is Lady Luck makes Marinette so disappointed she becomes vulnerable to Akumatization over it. The pedestal gets rebuilt after Marinette learns why Chloé wants to redeem herself.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Lady Luck gets a reputation for "tough but fair," saying what needs to be said despite how it makes people feel. Chloé, on the other hand, gets called a bitch for doing the exact same thing.
  • When Vanisher shows up, Marinette says it's because Chloé is a bad friend. Chloé comments that that's rather blunt.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Lady Luck points out Chat was "about to be stabbed six ways from Sunday", Chat dismisses it as "Just another Thursday".
• Call-Forward: When Audrey is briefly brainwashed into actually being a good mother, she offers to bring Chloé to New York and says "you and Zoé will get along wonderfully!" Chloé briefly wonders who the hell Zoé is, before dismissing it as not important at the moment.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Chloé finally calls her Mom out for her negligence after Audrey attempts to give Marinette an internship in New York, which in turn made Chloé realize that she would never get her mother's love.
• Celeb Crush: Rose's canon crush on Prince Ali gets brought up when she's akumatized into Princess Fragrance and tries to marry him.
  Lady Luck: Rose, what the fuck? You have a girlfriend.
  Princess Fragrance: Prince Ali is on the freebie list!
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • The Phoenix Bracelet, AKA the bracelet that Plagg got stuck on in Rogercop, actually has a subplot here. It's apparently a magical artifact that allows the wielder to generate a phoenix-shaped burst of flame that only burns what the wielder wants it to burn, and was passed to Chloé through the mayor by the Dragon Witch of Paris. Chloé uses it to burn away Princess Fragrance's perfume instead of the fireworks of canon.
  • Chloe giving an Offhand Backhand to an Akuma Butterfly when judging Cheng's soup reveals to the world that Butterflies can't possess people directly; people can touch them with their bare skin and not get akumatized. They need an item to possess. This is later exploited by Chat and Marinette on separate occasions.
• The Chosen Zero: Initially after her first fight, Chloé believes she isn't worthy of being Lady Luck thanks to her past as an Alpha Bitch and failing to capture the Akuma Butterfly. Tikki tells her she was chosen because she has the potential to be a hero, such as protecting those she cares about. Her role as Lady Luck leads her to become more heroic in both hero and civilian identities.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Chloé notes that all the hero work parkouring around Paris has caused her to put on quite a bit of muscle and she makes a note to refresh her wardrobe, but none of her classmates seem to notice any change until she shows up in a swimsuit at the pool.
• Cliffhanger: "Vanisher" ends with Marinette realizing that Chloé is Lady Luck and vanishing.
• Cluster F-Bomb: After Marinette discovers Chloé is Lady Luck, the remainder of the narration, from Chloé's perspective, is just the word "fuck" repeated over and over again.
• Company Cross References: To Hero Chat, also by Cornerverse:
  • A comment on the Luckyblog by "Wonderland" says that the Louvre had exhibits on Miraculous wielders in ancient Egypt. "Wonderland" was Alix's username in Hero Chat, making this Foreshadowing of Bunnyx.
  • According to Alya, Marinette once used "knight in shining leather" to describe Chat Noir. Adrien tried to use that as his username in Hero Chat, but Chloé overruled him.
  • Miraculous users grow fangs after a period of time. This came up in Hero Chat and was discovered by Chloé.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • Chloé, while fighting Dark Cupid, angrily complains that of all the millions of people who live in Paris and the thousands suffering from heartbreak, the one person who gets akumatized into Dark Cupid is the one she personally rejected. It's brought up in the author's other works that magic tends to group together; everyone in Chloé's class has a high amount of magical power, making them both tempting targets for akumatization as well as excellent Miraculous wielders if they get the chance.
  • For some Akuma, this is lampshaded and averted - unlike in canon episodes, there are times when 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.
• Could Have Been Messy: 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, it would have resulted in her becoming a villain that Chat would have to fight alone.
• Cute Little Fangs: Like Hero Chat, people who use the Miraculous gain these as time goes on. Chloe notices hers after she first meets Lila.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • "Riposte": Adrien is the POV character for the entire chapter, and is the one to defeat the titular Akuma.
  • "Gigatitan": Marinette here, mainly dealing with her female classmates trying to match her with Adrien and preventing August from becoming an Akuma as he did in canon.
  • "Prince Shining": Mylene for this episode, even helping the heroes take down the Akuma.
  • "Reverser": Sabrina as Abielle takes the lead in the second half of the chapter after the rest of Team Miraculous have their greatest traits sapped away by Reverser.
  • The focus in "Anansi" is split between Alya's and Nora's relationship and Mylene becoming the Turtle hero Turtledove.
• Does Not Like Spam: Chloé really hates soup. She also has a sensitive nose, so perfume is awful to her.
• Eiffel Tower Effect: This is lampshaded multiple times, as Akuma seem to be drawn to the Trope Namer. Lady Luck sarcastically asks after fighting the Mime if Akumas need to keep reminding people that they're French.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Upon realizing he blamed Gabriel for something that was actually the showrunners' fault, Simon Says becomes noticeably remorseful about his actions and reconsiders his plan for revenge.
  • Animan feels ashamed after Lady Luck calls him out on wanting a teenager dead simply for insulting an animal. Unfortunately, Hawk Moth soon reasserts his influence over the akuma and strengthens his resolve again.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Both Marinette and Chloé at different points find Nora, Alya's older sister, attractive, in part due to how buff and tall she is and how she is wearing just a sports bra and exercise shorts. Though that might be due to their bisexuality; when 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.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Tikki serves as a Morality Pet for Chloé, who regularly pushes her into being nice and not insulting people and trying to look for the best in others... but when she sees and hears Mr. Pigeon, even she has to admit that no, that's still pretty weird.
  • 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.
• Exact Words: When Chloé needs to get Marinette alone to give her the 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.
• Failed a Spot Check: Lila attempts to fool Adrien by showing him a foxtail pendant that looks almost exactly like the Fox Miraculous. Too bad for her that he notices the Agreste brand logo stamped onto the back, which she didn't.
• 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 Hero Chat, by the same author, Alix's Miraculous allows for time travel and goes by the name "Wonderland" in the chat, meaning Bunnyx was the comment's author.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • Each chapter tends to be an adaptation of an existing Miraculous Ladybug episode with an akuma to fight. "The Queen's Battle Part 2: Chloé" (an adaptation of Queen Wasp) mainly follows Chloé calling out her mother for her neglectful and abusive behavior, with any chance of Chloé becoming an akuma prevented by Sabrina 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 Chloé giving the Miraculous to a different character than Marinette in canon. In "Startrain" (which was Pegasus's debut), the Five active heroes are able to defeat the titular Akuma without additional help. 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 the Miraculous Cure to get the train back to Earth as she suspected the teleported train would still have its momentum.
• Freudian Excuse: 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 Berserk Button regarding cops who don't do their jobs properly after Adrien's mother disappeared.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: One of Chloé's struggles in this universe is learning how to interact with normal people in a way that's healthy. It comes to a bit of a head when explaining to Marinette that she's not trying to be a bad friend to Sabrina, that her "bribing" Sabrina to be her friend is how she was raised, but until recently she didn't know any other way to be friends. She's learning now, though.
• Genre Savvy: Being an Ascended Fangirl Chloé is wise to many of the tropes in horror, Sci-Fi, and anime. This has come in handy while fighting Akuma's that fit into these genres such as Zombizou.
  Chloé: Everyone, check each other for kiss marks. I refuse to fall into the "we get screwed over by the one idiot who didn't realize they were infected" trope.
• Hates My Secret Identity: Marinette is one of Lady Luck's biggest fans, but sees Chloé as nothing but a bully. This starts to change for the better after learning Lady Luck's true identity... though not without a pretty big hiccup.
• Help Mistaken for Attack: In "Startrain", Chloé sees an Akuma butterfly on the train and moves to capture it, but another passenger intercepts her because he thought she wanted to use it to become an Akuma. Said passenger gets a lot of grief from everyone because not only is the class of kids present very experienced with Akumatization, Lady Luck had put out a PSA saying that one can capture the butterflies with their bare hands if they don't have any belongings that can be used as a focus (and Chloé was seen taking off her jacket and jewellery before approaching).
• Heroic BSoD: Marinette goes into one after realizing that Chloé is Lady Luck. It's nasty enough that Hawk Moth is able to Akumatize her.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Simon Says accidentally freezes himself with one of his own cards.
• How Did You Know? I Didn't: After Lady Luck's plan to defeat Guitar Villain works, Chat Noir asks how she knew it'd work and she says she didn't.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • After finding out that Chloé's bracelet got stuck on Plagg's head since he thought it was cheese, Tikki chastises 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.
  • 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 who do the exact same thing, with even the narration lampshading it.
    No that lesson isn't hypocritical what are you talking about.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: 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 that she "never said Alya was doing it".
• Internal Reveal:
  • Marinette finds out Chloé is Lady Luck at the end of "Vanisher".
  • Sabrina learns the truth when she is picked as Abeille in "Style Queen".
  • Mylene is told when she is picked as Turtledove in "Anansi".
  • During "Hero Day Part 1", Adrien reveals himself as Chat Noir to the rest of the team.
• It's All My Fault: Chloé believes her father wouldn't have been Akumatized if she never publicly decried her mother for the emotional abuse she caused her.
• I Warned You: 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.
  Adrien: Oh that's so much worse. How does she do that?
  Plagg: Years of perfecting it.
• Identity Impersonator: In this fic, it's Marinette who impersonates Adrien to trick Gorizilla and she has the idea on her own.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Chloé really is trying to be better, but she still keeps causing akumas. Her playful teasing of Nathaniel looks like mocking and still embarrasses him, her rather subdued rejection of Kim still breaks his heart, and her calling Officer Raincomprix out on his poor behavior still causes him to lash out. Her butler still becomes Despair Bear, but the party that led to it happening was a suggestion by Marinette instead of Adrien demanding Chloé to be nice.
  • Despite her being nice, she still sabotages Cheng Shifu's soup—though it occurs by accident when she performs an Offhand Backhand to an akuma Butterfly, causing it to land in his soup pot. The events of Kung Food go on much the same, with Marinette kidnapped and tied up in Chloé's place, though she's dangled away from the boiling soup since her great-uncle doesn't have any grudge against her.
  • Someone still impersonates Adrien during the events of Gorizilla in spite of his partner in this fic already knowing he's Chat Noir.
  • Though more members of the class know 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 Made Out to Be a Jerkass.
• Innocently Insensitive: Lady Luck confides in Marinette about how much of a jerk she is under her mask and Marinette tries to comfort her by saying she'll be fine as long as she's not as bad as Chloé.
• Irony: Multiple people, especially Marinette, quote Lady Luck's lines at Chloé when calling her out for her behavior.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • A staple of Chloé's. It gets on her nerves that any such comments made by her will have everyone else jumping down her throat, while the same comments made by Lady Luck are taken as Brutal Honesty.
    • While she was rude about it, Alya did break into her locker and was taking pictures, which was absolutely a crime.
    • When Tikki tries to say that Chloé can apologize to Roger since her bracelet was stolen by Plagg, Chloé shuts that down hard, pointing out that Roger did a terrible job investigating the crime. Later, she does apologize, recognizing that while that was true, Chloé was also letting her Freudian Excuse get in the way.
    • 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.
    • When Marinette drops out of the Ultimate Mech Strike tournament so Max can compete, Chloé reminds her that This Is a Competition, and that regardless of how much more the tournament means to Max than it does to Marinette, he still failed to qualify fair and square. She gives Marinette pause again when she points out the problems with Max taking out nearly all his resentment on Marinette while akumatized, even though Adrien had also beaten him in the tournament.
    • Tikki concedes that it was wrong of Marinette to say that Chloé has no taste simply because the latter admitted to not liking soup, even if Chloé had expressed her opinion a bit harshly. Moreover, when Chef Cheng is disqualified from the contest for terrible soup, it's Chloé who points out that it makes no sense to assume the worst of a world-renowned chef; he wasn't picked up off the street.
  • Gabriel was completely justified in walking out on a gameshow that he had been tricked into appearing on. Even Simon Says, who had been disqualified as a result and had initially wanted revenge on Gabriel for it, seems to realize this after Lady Luck points it out to him.
• Legacy Character: Chloé is the latest holder of the Ladybug Miraculous, while Adrien is the current one of the Cat Miraculous. Theo, before he's corrected after the Copycat Akuma, thinks that Ladybug is an immortal goddess, but Lady Luck sets him straight.
• Like Brother and Sister: Adrien and Chloé have this type of relationship, completely subverting the canon Ladynoir ship (much to the disappointment of in-universe shippers).
• Loves My Alter Ego: Adrien loves Marinette but she prefers Chat Noir.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Averted, but Theo was under this assumption when he tried to win Lady Luck's heart- that she was an immortal who's been around since the Pharaohs, compared to his nineteen years old. Lady Luck sets the record straight, as it's a Legacy Character situation instead of this. He's appropriately contrite after this, particularly on learning that she's just sixteen.
• Misplaced Retribution: Gabriel is called onto a game show to help a contestant; he shuts the thing down and doesn't help. The contestant is akumatized as Simon Says and goes after Gabriel. When Lady Luck catches up with him, she points out that the show screwed them both over, ambushing Gabriel and punishing Simon for it. She even suggests that Gabriel will help him sue.
• Mistaken for Gay: Someone took a picture of Chat Noir kissing Marinette's hand while she was disguised as Adrien, making people think he was kissing Adrien's hand.
• Mistaken for Racist: Since Chloé hates soup, when she finds out that Marinette's uncle will be making soup for a contest Chloé is helping to judge, she says she wishes he would make sushi instead. Marinette is annoyed that she'd expect Japanese sushi from a Chinese chef, but Chloé clarifies that she's just in the mood for sushi.
• Morality Pet: Tikki and Adrien serve as these for Chloé, pushing her to be a better person.
• Mundane Utility: The Horse Glasses magically adjust to the wearer's prescription. Which is how Chloé discovers that she needs glasses.
• Mutual Masquerade: Subverted; Chloé and Adrien hear each other's voices while transformed before they see each other, so they immediately recognize each other before the glamour has a chance to take effect. Tikki and Plagg aren't particularly concerned.
  Tikki: I think that's a record.
  Plagg: It is. The previous record was that married couple about a century ago. They lasted a week. This pair couldn't even last two days.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Tikki mentions that the other candidate she had for bearing the Ladybug Miraculous was Marinette, the canon holder. This gets brought up a few more times.
  • When Alix joins Chloé and Sabrina on outings, it's a reference to how in canon, the three of them were supposed to be a Girl Posse Shout-Out to Totally Spies!.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • Jean's full name in this fic is Jean-Sebastian. In canon, his full name is revealed in season 5 to be... Armand.
  • August's mother is named Josephine in this.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Well, more jerk than villain, but when Audrey slaps Chloe in public in "Chloe", this finishes destroying the grudge and anger her classmates, especially Alya, still held towards Chloe.
• No Endor Holocaust: "Syren" is generally the episode brought up the most for an Inferred Holocaust; the entire city was flooded, surely some people had to have drowned. Here, the author had it so that anyone who was about to drown got physically thrown out of the water. Mostly because it's a kid's show, but also because Ondine wouldn't have wanted anyone to die anyway.
• Not in Front of the Kid:
  • In "Kung Food", Jagged Stone is saying "jacka..." but changes to "jackwagon" to avoid swearing around kids.
  • 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 teaching him swear words.
• Not So Above It All: Tikki scolds Plagg for thinking with his stomach and leaving his partner just to look for cheese, which led to Chloé's bracelet going missing and Roger's akumatization. It's then immediately revealed that she'd also snuck away from her partner at the same time to look for pastries.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: During "Dark Cupid", Chloé has to briefly stop at Marinette's house in order to get her to help to snap Chat Noir out of the Hate Plague, and has a brief chat with Marinette when she's 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).
• Oblivious to Love: When they find out that Syren is Ondine, Kim's classmates realize that he's been this again. Kim promises to be more aware if a friend likes him, but based on Max's "why do I like this idiot" expression, that promise is already broken.
• Offhand Backhand: 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 Shifu Cheng's soup.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: When Chat Noir tells off Gabriel about an Akuma being after him, Gabriel looks to a picture of his missing wife and says that he finds his temper familiar, which leads Lady Luck to comment that she now has an image of Gabriel's love life and flustering everyone around. After it's all over, Nino tells Adrien about how Lady Luck kinkshamed his dad, prompting Adrien to demand that Nino never say that again.
• Point of Divergence:
  • 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.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Marinette delivers one to Wayhem about how much of an obsessive fan he is. He takes it to heart.
• Related in the Adaptation: The Sandboy Akuma, here named Casey, is the younger half-brother of Ondine and Marc, whose respective mom and dad are Casey's parents.
• Revealing Skill: Subverted, but Gabriel has to come up with a plausible reason why a released akuma lands peacefully on his shoulder in the presence of witnesses both before and after being purified.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Cheng's soup is sabotaged, Marinette accuses Chloé of being the one to do it, so Chloé pulls up the security tapes to prove her innocence... only for them to show Chloé performing an accidental Offhand Backhand to an Akuma Butterfly. This knocked the butterfly into a pot lid, which then made it land in Cheng's soup. Chloé, though, didn't realize until she saw it in the film (she thought her hand hit a pot). Cheng apologizes to Chloé since while yes, she did technically sabotage the soup, it was clearly an accident in this case.
• Secret Identity:
  • In canon, the time it has taken the wielder of the Cat and Ladybug Miraculous to find each other's identities: four seasons and several specials, and they haven't found out yet (technically they did find out in the third and fourth seasons, but both times were undone by Time Travel). The time it takes Chloé and Adrien to find each other's identity: 2 seconds, if we're being generous.
  • 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.
  • After the events of Miss Fortune (the in-universe version of Antibug, but with the roles of the Miraculous user and akuma switched), Marinette knows who Lady Luck is, but not Chat Noir.
  • During the events of Hero's Day the entire team knows who everybody is due to Chloé and Adrien pulling them together to show that Chat is still alive.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: It's hinted that Alix knows that Chloé is Lady Luck.
• Sheathe Your Sword: 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 Hawk Moth learn her identity, or if she does actually believe Chloé can improve, she can fight against his control and break free.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Chloé and Adrien learn the former has powers beyond what the Ladybug Miraculous can give her, Adrien suggests they could learn magic and she accuses him of wanting to go to Hogwarts.
    Adrien: Excuse me. We're French. We'd go to Beauxbatons.
    Chloé: At least we'd have better uniforms.
  • They are Shout-Outs to The Adventures Of Panthera Noire, a series with Juleka wielding the Cat Miraculous. Adam, an antagonist character from the same series, makes his appearance in "Prince Shining".
  • Chloé's calling-out of her mother borrows some lines from Raven's and Zuko's speeches to their fathers.
  • Upon seeing a Turtle-themed hero in action, Nino asks Lady Luck "Since when do you have a Ninja Turtle?". After answering, Lady Luck asks if Mylene already picked up a name and says they're "rehauling the ideas" if she chooses 'Michelangelo'. Michelangelo's catchphrase "Cowabunga" is said later in that chapter.
  • When talking about how he built Markov, Max mentions reading the work of Dr. Wakeman and her XJ series.
  • The lawyer that Chloé got to help her deal with the Lady Luck movie apparently previously worked on a case regarding "Marvelous Alien Hero Friends Adventures"; the title, as well as the fact that its mention hits hard with those familiar with the hero industry, indicate it's meant to be a parody of the Ben 10 Show Within a Show "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures".
• Spiritual Antithesis: Scarlet Lady 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 Hawk Moth. 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.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Lady Luck suggests to Puppeteer that, instead of fighting over the Lady Luck doll, they agree to a trade: Puppeteer's toy wand, which contains the Butterfly, for the doll. Puppeteer agrees instantly.
• Surprise Party: Discussed. Chloé says throwing those is a bad idea because people who think everyone forgot their birthday could be akumatized over it.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Seems to be a staple of Lady Luck.
  • 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 Hawk Moth's control or let Luck's power run out, revealing her identity. It works, and Miss Fortune breaks free of Hawk Moth to destroy the hairband the akuma was in.
  • While staring down Puppeteer and her four Puppets, Lady Luck manages to win by simply offering to trade a doll of herself for Puppeteer's akumatized object, which the akuma immediately agrees to.
  • Simon Says is defeated shortly after getting distracted when Lady Luck points out his Misplaced Retribution against Gabriel.
  • Lady Luck distracting Befana with an Armor-Piercing Question was also key to the heroes' victory.
  • Lady Luck is able to talk down Robustus by convincing him that him being Akumatized is ample proof that he is a real person and not just a program.
• Take That!:
  • Chloé and Adrien mock the concept of the canon Love Square, pointing out how silly and time-wasting the whole thing would be when mentioning that Adrien likes Marinette, but Marinette likes Chat.
  • Lady Luck says that the Lady Luck movie could have Messed up Hawk Moth's characterisation is by having Chris Pratt play him.
• Two-Person Love Triangle: In a reversal of canon, Adrien falls for Marinette while Marinette falls for his hero identity Chat Noir.
• Villain Has a Point: When Marinette runs into her Nightmare in "Sandboy", it accuses her of having Black-and-White Insanity and not being able to understand Gray-and-Gray Morality. While Marinette more or less shrugs off the speech in order to focus on stopping the Akuma, she noticeably has trouble thinking of a comeback.
• Weirdness Magnet: Magic tends to draw other magic closer to itself. Chloé's Aura Vision confirms this when she looks at her class and finds that they all have incredible magical potential, and there isn't a member of the class who doesn't have something unusual about them or happen to them. Unfortunately, because of this magical potential, it also makes Bustier's class prime targets for Akumatization.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: This version of "Sandboy" explores the fears of each of the heroes.
  • For Chloé, her nightmare was hearing her classmates and loved ones calling her unexceptional and completely irredeemable. As Lady Luck, her fear takes the form of drowning in rising water
  • Adrien's fear is everyone leaving him alone in a cage. As Chat Noir, his fear takes on a nightmare version of himself, mocking how he still hides his Secret Identity from Marinette and how easily he could use both sides to manipulate her.
  • Marinette/Fennete's fear takes the form of a black-and-white version of herself, claiming that Marinette easily falls into Black-and-White Insanity based on their first interaction.
  • Sabrina/Abeille's fear is a copy of herself with everyone's voice, representing how she feels that she has to be in service to others just to be accepted.
• What Does He See in Her?: Self-applied to Chloé when she wonders why Kim would want to ask her out on Valentine, given her past reputation as an Alpha Bitch. Even Word of God lampshades that it doesn't make sense at that point in time, since Kim would have only known Chloé to be a jerk.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Lady Luck calls out Roger regarding his attitude towards Chloé when investigating the theft of her bracelet and not doing his job, but does pull back her trying to get him fired.
  • Two are given in Lady Wifi.
    • The first is given when Adrien tries to ask why Chloé got Alya suspended, and she rants for a good minute about how Alya broke into her locker to spy on her, and that Nino is lucky that she didn't get the police involved (which she very well could have) because he would be an accomplice to that.
    • The second is when Alya is leaving the hotel, Chloé points out that her attempts to reveal Lady Luck's identity would just get everyone Lady Luck cares for killed by Hawk Moth.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Lady Luck has this reaction twice in "Animan": first when she learns about Otis's petty reason for akumatization (he was offended that Kim claimed to be capable of outrunning a panther), and second when she realizes that the akuma's Animorphism includes dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex.

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