Heartwarming / The One to Make It Stay

• Silence Can Be Beautiful begins with Marinette being happy with the way Kitty Section's video turned out, and bursting with creative energy. Her mom comments that she seems less stressed out lately, too.
  • There's a bit of a timeskip in the chapter, to after Luka's confession. While she's working to sort out her feelings, she still draws hearts and smiley faces in her diary, describing the day's events.
• Marinette offers to help her parents with catering at the movie premiere. Kitty Section is quick to also offer their assistance. They all end up wearing matching maid and butler costumes.
  • At the premiere, Marinette and Luka run into Jagged, who recognizes the latter from their performance. He's worried that Kitty Section already signed with Bob Roth, but Luka assures him that they didn't. Jagged then compliments them to Thomas Astruc.
• After Animaestro is dealt with, Luka expresses concern over what happened to Marinette during the attack.
• Kitty Section signing with Jagged's new label.
• Because of all the time she's spent with him recently, Marinette now has a collection of photos on her phone of Luka. When she's Obliviated, she thinks he might be her boyfriend.
  • At the end of the chapter, Marinette asks him out on a date.
• Besides dropping the bomb about not knowing Lila, Ali's letter to Rose is rather sweet. He's even looking forward to hearing music from Kitty Section!
• Luka is concerned when he thinks Lila threatened Marinette, and when she confirms it, Juleka, Rose and Luka are all noticeably upset by it.
• Luka and Juleka have more of a rivalry going on here compared to canon, but it's more friendly than anything. Rose and Ivan seem fond of the memory of the two siblings playing Guitar Hero to determine who the lead guitarist of Kitty Section should be, only for it to end in a tie.
• Luka agreeing to go to the museum with Marinette and Manon, and playing a game with the latter to keep her busy.
• Marinette and Luka go on a date the next day, and Marinette is able to just relax and make light conversation with him. Luka tells Marinette that both Jagged and Juleka would like to see her at the studio later in the week, and he himself would like to see his "favorite person."
• Marinette's conversation with Alya, while painful, doesn't end with her wanting to end the friendship, but simply take a break. It shows that Marinette still has some hope in her best friend that they can continue to be best friends. All the Laughs shows Alya making amends with Ladybug, so there's a good chance that she'll also apologize to Marinette as well.
• Marinette, Juleka and Rose all having fun at the pool, despite the rough morning that they had.
• Luka worrying over Marinette when Juleka is akumatized.
• In Kagami's POV chapter in Paper Sky, Tears Are in Your Eyes Tonight, Alya demonstrates just how far she's come when she reassures her that she won't post footage of Friend Zone, deleting it off her phone. A far cry from the girl who'd do anything for a scoop and despised Kagami simply for getting in the way of her shipping...

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