Fanfic / Moving On

Marinette has had enough. She's taken the high road, she's ignored Lila and her constant lies, she's smiled and played nice with everyone. But she's still sitting in the back alone, her friends only talk to her to call her mean and rude, and no one's listening to her anymore. She's done. It's time to move on, to take care of herself for once instead of everyone else. A new school, new friends, a new life. This is for the best.

Moving On is a Miraculous Ladybug Fix Fic written by Ace_of_Spades_400, and one of many of its kind written after the airing of "Chameleon". At eleven chapters, it is currently complete.

Moving On contains examples of the following tropes:

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Luka doesn't get a Miraculous until the climax.
• The Ace: Allegra, the class representative of Marinette's new class and a musical prodigy.
• Adaptational Secrecy Downgrade: Claude is the first one to figure out that Marinette and Adrien are Ladybug and Chat Noir, due to the two of them being the only students in their old class who were never akumatized. After he reveals he knows, the team members all fairly quickly reveal their identities to one another. By the fic's end, Ladybug, Chat Noir, the Quantic Kids, Ryukogo, Queen Bee, and Viperion all know each other's secret identities.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Here, Chloé ends up in a relationship with Allegra, Marinette's music-loving classmate. The narrative implies that they like to flirt and make out. A lot.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: As they had yet to debut in the show at the time the story was written, the Dragon and Snake heroes have different powers than they do in canon.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Carter's crush on Marinette, which we only learn about after she starts dating Luka.
• Ascended Fanboy: Claude, Allegra, and Alan are all superhero fans who end up becoming superheroes themselves.
• The Atoner:
  • Chloé wants to atone for her time as the school's Alpha Bitch, but Lila's made it hard for her.
  • Adrien tries to atone for how badly he screwed up by visiting Marinette more as Chat Noir.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Claude manages to figure out Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities when he realizes that Marinette and Adrien were the only people in Mme. Bustier's class who never got akumatized.
• Bad Liar: After asking her friends to meet her later as Ladybug, Marinette notices that Claude seems to be doing the best job at keeping it a secret.
• Bad Powers, Good People: The power of the Snake Miraculous turns out to be mind control, a power that's usually associated with villains (including multiple villains in the fic itself). Like all Miraculouses, it's intended for heroic use.
• Befriending the Bullied: After Lila turns the entire class against her, Marinette can't take the intense bullying anymore and asks her parents to let her change schools. She ends up at Rose River Academy, where she's quickly befriended by Allegra, Alan, and Claude. She also begins a friendship with Kagami and Chloe, who saw through Lila's lies and believed that the class' treatment of Marinette was too cruel. When her new friends learn about the bullying, they are completely supportive of Marinette while looking ready to murder Lila, Alya, Adrien, and pretty much everyone from Dupont. Claude even walks with Marinette on her second day of school so she doesn't have to go by her old school (and possibly face her old friends) alone.
• Big Bad: Lila is the source of the story's main conflict.
• Bittersweet Ending: Emphasis on the Sweet. The group all are enjoying happy lives after the Time Skip but Hawkmoth is still active well into their adulthood.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Three of the akumatized villains faced over the course of the story have these powers — Dream Snatcher, Clay Face, and Weaver.
  • This is also Viperion's special power, which he uses to override the control of the above-mentioned Weaver.
• The Charmer: Claude playfully flirts with Marinette (and has apparently done so with several other new kids), but doesn't actively pursue her beyond that, and ultimately supports her decision to date Luka (after some dramatics, of course).
• Chekhov's Gunman: An akuma named Jester is mentioned at the beginning of the fight with Clownzilla. Marinette later finds out that this akuma was Claude.
• Class Clown: Claude, Elias, and Carter all fill this role.
• Class Representative: Allegra is this for her homeroom.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Jagged Stone is as quirky and distracted as ever, but all of his advice to Marinette about overcoming bullying and betrayal really helps her come to terms with what happened between her and her friends. What's more, it's implied that he and Penny came up with the scheme to expose Lila's deceit with nothing but a simple statement: he's never owned a cat.
• Cool School: Rose River Academy is one. It's fully dedicated to helping every student with their goals in life, no matter what they may be.
• Cool Uncle: Jagged Stone sees himself as this to Marinette, to the point where he insists that she call him "Uncle Jagged". He later cements himself as this by using an interview to start tearing down Lila’s credibility among her classmates.
• Cuteness Proximity: When Allegra, Claude, and Alan first meet Marinette, Allegra squeals and calls her adorable. The three continue to argue over who gets to walk with her or show her around, accusing each other of "hogging Marinette".
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Kagami over the course of the fic, especially after she's brought into Marinette's new circle of friends.
• Despair Event Horizon: Marinette hits hers regarding the situation with Lila in the beginning of the story, leading to her finally telling her parents what's been going on.
• Disappointed in You: It's implied that Mme. Bustier feels this way towards her class in regards to how they treated Marinette. She regains her faith in them later upon discovering they plan to expose Lila.
• Dramatic Irony: Marinette cuts ties with Adrien, but her relationship with Chat just keeps getting better. Then she finds out they're one and the same.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Alya and Nino both quickly forgive Adrien for keeping the truth about Lila from them, realizing it was partly their fault he'd done so in the first place.
  • Despite Chloé being a bully towards Marinette for most of their time at school together, the former Bee holder has realized (after seeing the fallout of Lila's actions) just how terrible she was, and admits that Marinette didn't deserve what she went through. While things are awkward at first, Marinette forgives and even befriends Chloé.
  • Averted in regards to Marinette and her old friends. It takes plenty of time and a mutual identity reveal for her to forgive and start over with Adrien, and she doesn't fully forgive Alya and Nino until sometime between the story's end and the epilogue, which takes place years later.
• Engineered Public Confession: The class sets one up, using Markov to record Lila confessing to her lies and calling for Hawk Moth to akumatize her.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Claude apparently had a crush on Luka in the past.
• Expy: Lila's akuma form, powers, and name are all based on Taylor Hebert; her name is the same as Taylor's hero name, and her Mind Control powers are reminiscent of the 11th-Hour Superpower upgrade Taylor got.
• Freudian Trio:
  • Claude is the Id (the Class Clown and a frequent Large Ham), Allegra is the Superego (the class representative and a musical prodigy), and Alan is the Ego (he balances them out).
  • The Miraculous of Man are best wielded by one of these; notably, the Miraculous of Mind (which seems better suited to the Superego) goes to Claude, while the Miraculous of Soul (Id) goes to Allegra.
• Good Parents: The minute they find out what's been going on, Tom and Sabine comfort their daughter and immediately start making preparations to have her transferred to a new school.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Hawk Moth, whose akumas tend to drive any plot not directly related to Lila and the fallout and who ends up akumatizing Lila upon request during the climax.
• Heel–Face Turn: Chloé was one of the few people to see Lila for the liar she really was, with the other being Adrien. Unlike Adrien, she saw how much damage the class' Lila-influenced behavior was hurting Marinette, to the point that she changed schools over it. Realizing how much her own actions had probably hurt Marinette in the past, Chloé is the first of the Dupont students to make an effort at making up with her. While things are awkward at first, Marinette ends up forgiving Chloé, introducing her to her new friend group and even trusting her with the Bee Miraculous again.
• Heel Realization:
  • Adrien has one the day he learns Marinette transferred schools, realizing that his advice did nothing but hurt her in the long run.
  • Alya and Nino both get one when Adrien finally tells them the truth about what happened between Marinette and Lila.
  • The rest of the class has this after Jagged debunks one of Lila's lies on live TV, and they immediately make plans to expose Lila for good.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Luka gets surprisingly competitive during his bowling date with Marinette.
  • Jagged Stone was bullied back when he was in school, so learning that Marinette (a kid he loves as both a designer and surrogate niece) was bullied out of Dupont sends him into an expletive-laced rant for several minutes.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Marinette notes that it's unfair that she's calling out Adrien for being a horrible friend when she's done plenty of things that have violated his trust. The two decide to start their friendship over.
• Imagine Spot: Marinette has a brief one, where Alan tells her to "woman up" and ask Luka out on a date.
• Large Ham: Claude, as the resident actor-slash-Class Clown.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Lila's lies are exposed at the end, and as a result all the goodwill she's built up is lost, she gets expelled, her mother grounds her, and she has to leave Paris.
• Magical Flutist: Allegra as Melodie can use her flute to create large musical notes and use them in a variety of ways.
• Meaningful Name: In music, "allegro" is a term that refers to the speed at which a piece should be played. So it's a fitting name for Allegra, who's a musical prodigy and has the power of a magic flute.
• Must Make Amends: Alya's main goal when she gets akumatized into Backstabber. Her idea of making amends with Marinette involves murdering Lila.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Alya has this reaction when she realizes how horrible she's been to Marinette, and how she made Adrien feel that he couldn't tell her what Lila was doing.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Claude, Allegra, and Alan are all based on character concepts that never made it into the show.
  • Marinette dresses in an outfit reminiscent of one of her beta designs for her date with Luka.
• Noodle Incident: Elias and Carter's stairwell theory, which involved a rubber chicken, a staircase in the school, and required Allegra's intervention.
• Nothing Is Funnier: We don't see the physical altercation between Allegra, Alan, and Claude over pizza toppings, but according to this remark from the teacher, it was fun to watch (especially since we never learn what "that" is):
  Toulouse: Allegra, please let go of Claude's hair and sit down. Claude, please put your shoe back on. Alan... please don't do that ever again.
• Out of Focus: Alan gets the least screen time out of his friends.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Tom Dupain and Sabine Cheng, once they learn what happened to Marinette, are livid and practically ban all of the kids from Bustier's class from entering the bakery. Tom in particular is the one to lay down the law, scaring the kids away.
  • Jagged Stone is a little out there, but he sincerely cares for Marinette as both a personal designer and a surrogate niece (he tried getting her to call him "Uncle Jagged" a few times). So he utterly snaps when he learns that she was bullied out of her school.
• Parental Neglect: Claude’s parents, of the "promise to show up to your play and then never come" variety.
• Pass the Popcorn: The first time Kagami sits with Marinette and her new friends at lunch, the narration notes that she "seems to be enjoying the dinner and a show".
• Personality Powers: The Miraculous of Man work like this. Performer Claude gets Your Mime Makes It Real abilities, track team member Alan gets Super-Speed, and flutist Allegra becomes a Magical Flutist.
• Persona Non Grata: Lila ends up banned from Paris until the akuma situation is dealt with, as it's too dangerous to let her continue living in the city.
• Playing with Fire: The power of the Dragon Miraculous is "Dragon's Breath", which lets the user summon fire and use it to burn whatever they need to.
• The Quiet One: Claude as Kid Mime. Invoked, as his powers won't work otherwise.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Marinette gives one to Adrien for how he never did anything to help her, especially since this means she can't trust him as Chat Noir.
• Sad Clown:
  • The constant absence of his parents hurts Claude a lot more than he wants to admit, especially since he thinks he's supposed to be the "funny cool guy" that's always there for his friends and can't show that he's hurting, too. Marinette talks him out of this mentality.
  • Chat Noir continues to act flirty and fun-loving, but inside he's wracked with guilt over how badly he handled the situation between Lila and Marinette.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Marinette meets Allegra and Alan when they're debating whether Superman could beat Batman, and vice-versa.
• Serious Business: All of the arguments between Claude, Allegra, and Alan are treated as this.
• Shipper on Deck: Tom and Sabine happily support the relationship between Luka and Marinette.
• Ship Sinking: Any sort of romance between Marinette and Adrien in either identity is not to be, thanks to Adrien's unwillingness to confront Lila and Marinette ultimately hooking up with Luka.
• Something Only They Would Say: Claude sees Ladybug's behavior during the fight with an akumatized Alya, realizes it's similar to how Marinette would act, and manages to figure out they're one and the same from there.
• Spiders Are Scary: Lila becomes the spiderlike Weaver upon being akumatized in the climax.
• "Success Through Sex" Accusation: Lila tries to imply that Marinette did "something unsavory" in order to design for Jagged Stone when the class starts praising the suit she made him. We don't see the class' reactions to this, but Alya (having long wised up to Lila's true nature) is disgusted.
• Superpowers For A Day: Kagami and Luka both become temporary Miraculous holders over the course of the fic — the former getting the Dragon, the latter getting the Snake.
• Super-Speed: Alan gets these powers as Mercury.
• Those Two Guys: Elias and Carter, who are essentially the Fred and George Weasley of Rose River.
• Time Skip: The epilogue takes place ten years in the future.
• Trauma Button: Claude and (ironically enough) clowns, because he was turned into a clown-themed akuma and now any mention of them just remind him of his constantly-absent parents, the reason he was akumatized in the first place. Marinette helps him start to get over it.
• True Companions: Claude, Allegra, and Alan. No matter how much they rag on each other, they always have each other's backs.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Luka, who supports all of Marinette's decisions regarding what direction she wants to take her life.
• The Unmasking: So many happen among the heroes over the course of the fic that, by the end, most of them give up on trying to hide their identities from their teammates.
• Visual Pun: Lila's powers as Weaver allow her to control people with a literal web of lies.
• Wham Line: Jagged Stone, during an interview at the PMAs, decides to address a rumor going around about him. It's at this point the reader realizes that Lila's empire is about to topple.
  Jagged Stone: Apparently someone's saying I used to own a cat.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Marinette tells Adrien this when he considers himself unworthy of being Chat Noir.
• Your Mime Makes It Real: Claude gets these powers upon getting his Miraculous. He can only make one construct at a time, and they only work if he doesn't talk.

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