Adrien and Marinette have been paired together for a project where the guidelines are to learn about another student by living with them for one week, and seeing what their daily life is like. It's going to be an interesting two weeks.
Miraculous Two Weeks
by Sparkling Grimm is a completed Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction published on Fanfiction.net.
Miraculous Two Weeks is third person, switching narrative that follows around the main two protagonists from Miraculous Ladybug as they grow closer together despite trying to maintain their own secrets.
Miraculous Two Weeks contains examples of:
- Actually a Good Idea: Adrien to Plagg when the latter suggests letting Ladybug do the talking to avoid saying something he shouldn't.
- Always Save the Girl: Justified. Adrien acknowledges to himself that if something serious happens to Ladybug, he won’t be able to get her back.
- Ambiguously Bi: Luka flirts with both Adrien and Marinette at different points.
- Amazon Chaser: Adrien comments on how “impressed” he is with Marinette after she outsmarts him as Adrien and throws him around as Cat Noir.
- Antagonist Title: Mother Midas, The Liaison, The Mourner, and The White Knight all have their primary chapter titled after them. Subverted with the Chemist.
- Apologetic Attacker: Hawkmoth apologizes to Emilie when he decides to let Adrien’s akumatization happen.
- April Fools' Day: The chapter titled “Happy April Fools” was posted April First and is about the heroes meeting Tom Bombadil. Adrien wakes up at the end of chapter and tells Plagg about his dream. Plagg replies that he should “stay out of the barrow downs.”
- Big Brother Mentor:
- Julien for Adrien, to the point that Marinette wonders if the former might be related to Cat Noir because of their similar traits.
- To a lesser degree, Luka to Adrien
- …But He Sounds Handsome: Played straight whenever Adrien talks about Cat Noir. Averted when Cat Noir talks about Adrien.
- Call-Back: When Ladybug asks Cat Noir to tell her something nice, he says he had asparagus for dinner. Several chapters later, Marinette asks Adrien if he likes asparagus and lets it slip that one of her friends does as well, but refuses to tell him who leading him to believe that it's the guy she likes.
- Cassandra Truth: Plagg to Adrien, first about Marinette’s identity, then later about the boy he’s looking for.
- Chekhov's Gun: The smock Marinette made Rose for her birthday shows back up at the end of the story.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Chloe, as usual, this time about Cat Noir.
- Compliment Fishing: When Marinette tells Adrien she kissed Cat Noir in her dream, he asks if it was the good part.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The White Knight lasts less than a paragraph when faced with an enraged Cat Noir.
- Curse Cut Short: Luka cuts off Alix’s curse when the group is running toward the dancing green.
- Disability-Negating Superpower: Averted. Cat Noir notices that The Mourner uses French Sign Language and doesn’t react to noises.
- Double Meaning:
- Almost everything Master Fu says in his tea tent qualifies.
- Gabriel and Natalie also use this when discussing Pierre and Julien."What do you think, sir?" Natalie asked. "Is there any chance of Pierre getting akumatized?"
"Not likely." Mr. Agreste snorted. "I might have worried about Julien here, but it appears that you have calmed down."
- Draw Aggro: Adrien does this to an akuma threatening Marinette by screaming her name in rage. His friends and classmates also try it to varying degrees of success, making it look like a viable tactic for diverting future akumas.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Both Marinette and Adrien are guilty of this at different points throughout the story.
- The Empath: Luka can hear people’s ‘heartsongs’. This is all but stated to be a psychic ability.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The story takes place in just a little over two-weeks.
- Exact Words: Used by both Marinette and Adrien whenever they can to avoid lying to each other.
- Fall Guy: Marinette and Adrien both try to convince each other that Luka could be Cat Noir and walk away thinking that they succeeded.
- Family of Choice: The members of Emilie’s crew have fully adopted Adrien as one of their own, and warm up to Marinette quickly when he introduces her.
- Friend of Masked Self: When Cat Noir realizes that Marinette must have seen Ladybug transform, Ladybug soothes him by replying she already knows Marinette is her Secret-Keeper. He then spends the rest of the plot trying to convince Ladybug and Marinette that he should be allowed to tell Adrien Agreste his secret, so they both have a civilian that can reach them.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Adrien’s childhood friend is STRONGLY implied to be Marinette. Later confirmed by Julien.
- Get Out!: Laurent to Pierre after he calls Adrien an idiot and makes implications about Marinette. Then Pierre gets it a second time from Gabriel himself."You're gonna wanna leave this room."
- Glamour: Adrien suspects this why he can’t visualize Ladybug without her mask. Alya also makes the suggestion when she’s looking at Nathaniel’s drawing.
- Hell Is That Noise: “Listen as the Quiet Man did and share in his pain.”
- Hive Mind: The Liaison’s power
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Marinette tells Adrien she forgot her textbook at school so she can get away from him during an akuma attack.
- Inconvenient Attraction: Adrien for Marinette when he’s spent the better part of a week trying to figure out who he is supposed to be setting her up with.
- "Just Joking" Justification: The Chemist turns out not to be akumatized.
- Magpies as Portents: Master Fu, Alya, Marinette, and Adrien drink out of teacups that depict an old Nursery Rhyme about Magpies.
- Oblivious to His Own Description: Adrien. Discussed and Justified by Plagg."Alright, alright, let's go over his description again. He is kind, smart, brave, likes asparagus, and he's been spending a lot of time with Marinette." Plagg tapped his mouth thoughtfully with one paw, "Wait! I've got it!"
Adrien looked up hopefully.
"It's you." - Oblivious to Love: As usual, Adrien to Marinette
- Oh, Crap!: Cat Noir when the Mourner shakes off his attack by floating down his staff.
- One-Hit Kill:
- Mother Midas's power is the Midas Touch.
- The Mourner has a similar power with his lily.
- Original Character: None of Emilie's crew are canon characters.
- Open Secret: Nino implies that Marinette's crush is this for everyone but Adrien.
- Out-of-Character Alert: How various members of the Hive Mind are identified.
- Parental Neglect: Gabriel’s neglect of Adrien is what nearly gets Marinette akumatized.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: In Universe, one of Marinette's costumes is called: Lady Noir. She tells Natalie that this is what Alya calls the combination of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- Reminder Failure: Most, if not all, of Adrien’s mental notes are forgotten by the end of the scene.
- Say My Name: Adrien screams Marinette's name when an akuma flies toward her in the chapter "The White Knight". The gesture is repeated by classmates and friends as the akuma goes after different people.
- Secret Chaser: Alya finally confronts Adrien on her suspicions that he’s Cat Noir. Marinette shows her a picture of Adrien and Cat Noir standing together to change her mind.
- Secret-Identity Identity: Cat Noir sees Adrien as a broken shell and Cat Noir as his true self.
- Shipper on Deck: Happens multiple times for various characters, but the biggest offenders where Marinette and Adrien are concerned seem to be Alya, Luka, and Chris.
- Shipper with an Agenda: Adrien, after discovering that Marinette is Ladybug’s Secret-Keeper, wants to set Marinette up with the guy she likes so she’ll trust him to be a Secret Keeper for Cat Noir. As the story continues, his priorities slowly shift closer to I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
- Single-Episode Handicap: The Mourner deafens both heroes in his chapter.
- So Proud of You: Tom Dupain tells Cat Noir that Adrien is a good kid, and he knows Adrien’s parents must be proud of him.
- Super Power Lottery: The Mourner can negate electrical lights, deafen people, and has selective Intangibility, plus a One-Hit Kill with his lily.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: Adrien’s friends assume he is trying to figure out Cat Noir’s identity when he asks for Alya’s list. He doesn’t correct that impression.
- Tough Love: Hawkmoth justifies his treatment of Adrien to himself as this.If Adrien got use to disappointment, then it would be hard to find its peak.
- You Are Not Alone: An overarching problem for Adrien is his loneliness. He combats it pretty well himself, but the people around him are constantly reaching out to him as well.
