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--> '''Faedrien''': ''W''h''a''t’''s'' t''h''e ''m''a''t''t''e''r? I''t''’s ''j''u''s''t ''m''e, ''m''y ''l''a''d''y.
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* CuddleBug: Fae usually aren't very tactile, but Adrien is, especially with his cat instincts.

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* {{Glomp}}: Adrien opens his Christmas present from Marinette and promptly bowls her over in a hug, fortunately landing on a mattress.



* IWasJustJoking: Marinette is used to childhood sleepovers with Nino, so she's just making conversation when she suggests to the twins that they could all do each other's makeup. But they're models, so they take the idea entirely seriously; Adrien is quite excited at the prospect.

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Marinette is used to childhood sleepovers with Nino, so she's just making conversation when she suggests to the twins that they could all do each other's makeup. But they're models, so they take the idea entirely seriously; Adrien is quite excited at the prospect.prospect.
** Shortly afterward, with Adrien in makeup, she suggests that with hair extensions he would look like a girl. He immediately starts making plans to try this out in public.

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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Faerie fruit at least makes its victims ''think'' so. To outside eyes it appears to actually be rotten and worm-ridden, but once a human eats some (including force-feeding it), they will ignore everything else to beg for more.


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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Faerie fruit at least makes its victims ''think'' so. To outside eyes it appears to actually be rotten and worm-ridden, but once a human eats some (including force-feeding it), they will ignore everything else to beg for more.


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* IWasJustJoking: Marinette is used to childhood sleepovers with Nino, so she's just making conversation when she suggests to the twins that they could all do each other's makeup. But they're models, so they take the idea entirely seriously; Adrien is quite excited at the prospect.
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* ShoutOut: When Felix is braiding Marinette's hair for Christmas Eve dinner, and she learns that he hasn't had the chance to practise since his mother disappeared, she responds with, "Well, [[Literature/TheHungerGames I volunteer as tribute]] for future hairstyling sessions then. This looks beautiful."

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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Adrien fears this for Marinette.

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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade:
** Happened to Nathalie's family after she didn't manage to persuade them to move into the Agreste mansion (which was protected by Mrs Agreste's bargain with the Court).
** Audrey demands that Felix dissolve his mother's bargains so that she can finish the job and eliminate his father and Nathalie. He insists on leaving things unchanged until his mother returns.
** The synopsis is about how
Adrien fears this for Marinette.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: Fae who know someone's name can control them. They usually use nicknames amongst themselves, although since they cannot lie, they tend to say "You can call me X," instead of saying that it's their name.
** Melusine learns Marinette's name, and claims Marinette for herself as far as the Unseelie Court is concerned.
** Felix isn't able to directly seek out Audrey Bourgeois at the Samhain revel, since he doesn't know her true name. Unfortunately, the person he finds who can track her down is dangerous in her own right.
** Bridgette had her name stolen and is enslaved to the fae as a result. Learning it again would free her.
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* ColdIron: All iron burns the fae on contact. Adrien and Felix have a hard time navigating the modern world as a result.

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* ColdIron: All iron burns the fae on contact. contact, though for half-fae it's only painful blistering rather than anything more serious. Adrien and Felix have a hard time navigating the modern world as a result.result, and often carry gloves.
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* BerserkButton: The Fair Folk don't like to be called faeries. One way Adrien notices Chloe embracing her fae side is that she starts objecting to the word.[[note]]Although her selfishness and cruelty were also pretty good indicators.[[/note]] Felix becomes temporarily sensitive to it as well, after his experiences at the Samhain revel.
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* MythologyGag: A non-canonical pilot video had a slightly different looking Ladybug holder, named Bridgette. In ''Spellbound'', Bridgette is a former Ladybug holder who lost the earrings and was taken by the fae, losing her memory of her own name and becoming a shapeshifter with a ladybug-themed native form.
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* ChangelingTale: Felix meets a changeling at the Samhain revel, a former human turned into a shapeshifter by exposure to magic, who has temporarily replaced kidnapped people on many occasions to disguise their disappearance. [[spoiler: She later replaces Marinette when Chloe decides to take Marinette into protective custody.]]

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* ExactWords: Deals with the fae are sometimes unavoidable, and they won't break them, but woe betide you if you weren't careful with exactly what you agreed to.

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Deals with the fae are sometimes unavoidable, and they won't break them, but woe betide you if you weren't careful with exactly what you agreed to.to.
** Before accepting a dance at a revel, Felix is careful to specify that he can't stay long; an open-ended acceptance would be very unwise.
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Going out on Midsummer had been a very bad idea, Adrien was able to admit that much. He couldn’t regret running into a girl named Marinette though, who has helped him through the time where Faerie tried to call him with sweet songs.

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Going out on Midsummer had been a very bad idea, Adrien was able to admit that much. He couldn’t regret running into a girl named Marinette though, who has helped him through the time where Faerie tried to call him with sweet songs.



* FateWorseThanDeath: The fae are surpassing experts in this. There's a good chance that they ''will'' kill you in the end, once they're bored, but the intervening time can be pretty horrifying - torture, slavery, humiliation, the world - and afterward some of them can even eat your soul. Felix looks away after a human is fed MindControl fruit and then told to strip and get down on all fours, not wanting to see what would follow.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: The fae are surpassing experts in this. There's a good chance that they ''will'' kill you in the end, once they're bored, but the intervening time can be pretty horrifying - torture, slavery, humiliation, the world works - and afterward some of them can even eat your soul. Felix looks away after a human is fed MindControl fruit and then told to strip and get down on all fours, not wanting to see what would follow.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The fae are surpassing experts in this. There's a good chance that they ''will'' kill you in the end, once they're bored, but the intervening time can be pretty horrifying, and afterward some of them can even eat your soul.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: The fae are surpassing experts in this. There's a good chance that they ''will'' kill you in the end, once they're bored, but the intervening time can be pretty horrifying, horrifying - torture, slavery, humiliation, the world - and afterward some of them can even eat your soul.soul. Felix looks away after a human is fed MindControl fruit and then told to strip and get down on all fours, not wanting to see what would follow.
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* ManChild: Technically Adrien isn't an adult, but he certainly does act younger than his age, becoming very excited about kindness and cake and birthday parties and making friends. It's partly just his personality, but also from being socially isolated, plus a generous dash of faerie passion and sensitivity.
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--> '''Adrien''': Felix, you have to see this!\\
'''Felix''': I would, if your behind wasn't blocking the entrance.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Felix has plenty of moments.
--> '''Marinette''': Excuse me, but do I know you from somewhere?\\
'''Felix''': I believe you do. We have not been formally introduced at our last encounter, which might also have been better so. It was a painful ordeal to watch.

--> '''Marinette''': You're Adrien's brother.\\
'''Felix''': Unfortunately, yes.\\
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It is for my own wellbeing too when I say that you should give him a chance. Listening to his endless rambles of how you apparently hate him and how he can make it up to you, robs me of more sleep than I’d like to admit.
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* OnlySaneMan: Felix feels like this to most of the world, particularly his brother. (The human world, at least; the Faerie Courts are another matter entirely.)
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* FoodChains: Once a kidnapped human eats faerie food, there's no going back. Sometimes that's because they're turned into an animal; Felix watches a formerly human deer hunted and torn apart by a pack of dogs for the fae's amusement.

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* FoodChains: Once a kidnapped human eats faerie food, there's no going back. Sometimes that's because they're [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting turned into an animal; animal]]; Felix watches a formerly human deer hunted and torn apart by a pack of dogs for the fae's amusement.
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* FoodChains: Once a kidnapped human eats faerie food, there's no going back. Sometimes that's because they're turned into an animal; Felix watches a formerly human deer hunted and torn apart by a pack of dogs for the fae's amusement.
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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Faerie fruit at least makes its victims ''think'' so. To outside eyes it appears to actually be rotten and worm-ridden, but once a human eats some (including force-feeding it), they will ignore everything else to beg for more.


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* YearInsideHourOutside: Time is twisted and variable inside faerie mounds. Felix, at the revel, watches trees grow up, bear fruit, and die, within apparent seconds.
* YearOutsideHourInside:
** This typically happens to anyone who visits the LandOfFaerie - including Mrs Agreste. She is likely to return safe and sound one day, but it could be decades or centuries.
** Felix is aware that this can happen inside faerie mounds, and has to be careful about how long he stays at the revel and where he goes.
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* AbusiveParents: Gabriel's mistreatment of his sons extends to installing iron gates and security screens to keep them in the mansion.

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* AbusiveParents: Gabriel's mistreatment of his sons extends to installing iron [[ColdIron iron]] gates and security screens to keep them in the mansion.mansion, and even punishing Adrien with a bell collar (which hurts their cat ears). To add insult to injury, on one occasion where Felix actually ''wants'' the security screens closed to block out the temptations of the LandOfFaerie, his father dismisses his concerns and re-opens them.
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* {{Curse}}: Felix curses Alya to "fail to unmask Ladybug no matter how hard you try." The balance of magic means that he even gets some good luck out of it. Adrien is unhappy about the potential side effects, though.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Chloe insists to Adrien that Marinette is going to break through the Masquerade eventually and that he needs to do something about it. She tries to speed up the process by slipping glamour-breakers into Marinette's possessions.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Chloe insists to Adrien that Marinette is going to break through the Masquerade eventually and that he needs to do something about it. She tries to speed up the process by slipping glamour-breakers into Marinette's possessions. [[spoiler: When that doesn't work, she has Marinette kidnapped.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Plenty of sentient magical creatures qualify. The kelpie deserves special mention for luring a lost human girl to it by mimicking the voice of a friend, dragging her to the bottom of a bog, and eating her, while deliberately terrifying her and enjoying it.
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* AscendedExtra: Felix is Adrien's twin brother, and is inextricably entwined with Adrien's life from the start.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14998685 Spellbound]] is a fanfiction by Lilafly, and is in progress as at March 2020.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14998685 Spellbound]] is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfiction by Lilafly, and is in progress as at March 2020.


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** Plagg warns Adrien against being overwhelmed by his power; destruction can be used to protect, but it's a very dangerous shield.

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** Plagg warns Adrien against being overwhelmed by his power; destruction magic can be used to protect, but it's it can also have a very dangerous shield.big influence on the mind of the wielder.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14998685 Spellbound]] is a fanfiction by Lilafly, and is in progress.

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[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14998685 Spellbound]] is a fanfiction by Lilafly, and is in progress.progress as at March 2020.

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* AbusiveParents: Gabriel's mistreatment of his sons extends to installing iron gates and security screens to keep them in the mansion.
* ColdIron: All iron burns the fae on contact. Adrien and Felix have a hard time navigating the modern world as a result.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget:
** Plagg warns Adrien against being overwhelmed by his power; destruction can be used to protect, but it's a very dangerous shield.
** After Felix deliberately "unroots" himself in preparation to survive a revel, he takes a long time to adjust to life again.
* EnthrallingSiren: Felix nearly falls prey to one at a revel, and is rescued by another attendee.
* ExactWords: Deals with the fae are sometimes unavoidable, and they won't break them, but woe betide you if you weren't careful with exactly what you agreed to.
* TheFairFolk: The author has drawn heavily on Celtic mythology. Meeting these folk is generally best avoided.
* FantasticSlurs: A typical fae insult is "Bite iron!" while cussing includes "Ringing iron bells!"
* FateWorseThanDeath: The fae are surpassing experts in this. There's a good chance that they ''will'' kill you in the end, once they're bored, but the intervening time can be pretty horrifying, and afterward some of them can even eat your soul.
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: When Marinette is kidnapped, Adrien falls back to "Plan Z": absorb enough of Plagg's magic to let him fight the Court and get her back, at the cost of losing too much humanity to ever wear the Miraculous again.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Chloe insists to Adrien that Marinette is going to break through the Masquerade eventually and that he needs to do something about it. She tries to speed up the process by slipping glamour-breakers into Marinette's possessions.
* ItAmusedMe: The modus operandi of most fae. Unfortunately, their amusements are often not healthy, or for that matter survivable, for mere mortals.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Adrien fears this for Marinette.
* LandOfFaerie: Most half-fae do their best to avoid going there, since they're likely to become lost and be gone for decades, like Mrs Agreste. But at certain times of year, it calls out to them and is hard to resist.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Adrien makes Marinette forget about seeing his ears and tail, for her protection. She doesn't fully understand, but trusts him enough by this point that she gives her permission.]]
* TheMasquerade: The fae don't want humans to know about them.
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Marinette knows that Adrien is keeping things from her, and is quite patient about it, but it definitely puts a strain on him and on their relationship, [[spoiler: especially after he removes some of her memories and feels guilty about it]].
* MasterOfIllusion: A speciality of the fae. Adrien and Felix wear glamours whenever they're in public in "human" form, because they still have cat ears and tails.
* MercyKill: The soul of a human who wandered into a sidhe and was eaten by a kelpie calls out to Felix and begs him to eat it and put it out of its misery. He does, but has mixed feelings about it.
* MuggleMageRomance: Technically Marinette does have a natural affinity for noticing the magical world, but ultimately she's a human who doesn't and isn't supposed to know about it. And Adrien wants to keep her blissfully (and safely) ignorant.
* PaintingTheMedium: When Adrien leans on his fae side, his voice changes, depicted with alternating regular and italic letters.
* ThePoorlyChosenOne: One of Plagg's past holders turned out to be unfit for the role, too power-hungry. So Plagg poured more magic into him, turning him into a large black cat and leaving him not human enough to use the Miraculous.
* PowerAtAPrice: Magic always has a cost. Adrien and Felix are quite relieved when they learn that Plagg just wants Camembert cheese, rather than life force or losing happy memories or firstborn children.
* RunningGag: Felix and Nino start poking Adrien and Marinette whenever they're acting like a couple without realising it. Later, Alya joins in, although Felix has to explain the rules to her.
* {{Selkies}}: Sabrina's devotion to Chloe is explained by her being a selkie whose coat is held by Chloe's mother.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Adrien and his brother Felix can transform into cats.
* SoulEating: Felix is pressured into using this on a human eaten by a kelpie. It increases his magic power but makes him less human.
* {{Trickster}}: Faeries are naturally this, of the more cruel and sadistic variety.
* WouldHurtAChild: Most of the fae ''love'' children. Which is to say that given a chance, they'll bewitch the parents and whisk the child away to watch its fascinating panicked screams.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Melusine seems to be this. She's still fae and shouldn't be blindly trusted, but she's generally been helpful and trustworthy to the teenage protagonists.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Dark Cupid is able to make the human part of Adrien hate Ladybug. But Adrien's fae side is resistant to such control, and feels rather possessive toward Maribug, and finds amusement in beating Dark Cupid to a pulp and breaking one of his wings. If not for Ladybug's intervention, he probably would have killed him.
--> '''Faedrien''': Y''o''u ''ſ''h''o''u''l''d''n''’t ''h''a''v''e ''d''o''n''e ''t''h''i''s.
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Going out on Midsummer had been a very bad idea, Adrien was able to admit that much. He couldn’t regret running into a girl named Marinette though, who has helped him through the time where Faerie tried to call him with sweet songs.

He really wanted to get to know her better, but there was a slight problem: he was a ''Cat Sidhe'' and if she found out about it, she could as well be proclaimed dead on the spot. But the loneliness he had seen in her eyes had been too familiar for him to just leave her alone. Keeping her ignorant of the presence of the fair folk, while he himself was one of them, proved to be a lot harder than he had expected it to be though.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14998685 Spellbound]] is a fanfiction by Lilafly, and is in progress.

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