The idea is probably one of the most original I found among salt fics. Lila as the Ladybug holder, Marinette and her friends deciding to willingly ally themselves with Hawk Moth and becoming more villainous... You don't find many fics that explores such ideas.
The problem comes when it's clear the author had little idea what to make of them. If you read it from the beginning to the end, you'll notice the story doesn't actually follow a steady course and seems to abort several things. I am going to somehow excuse this on a lack of experience, since it was one of the very first fics the author has wrote, but on a purely neutral level the fic lacks in many areas and some aspect could have been explored better.
The characters, for example, feel underdeveloped, with most of them seemingly have an already established personality that barely (or 'doesn't') grow. The author then throws some angst there and there on them, but it feels more forced than anything.
There's also the fact every other characters except the protagonists are characterized like most salt fics usually do, only with their faults maximized, which doesn't really make them interesting to see. Whenever the author did it on purpose or not, I really can't say.
The fic might come across as characters that decide to finally cross the Moral Event Horizon in order to put a stop to their harassment, and while the author seemed to have tried hard to make them come across as sympathetic, they also don't try to justify their actions, trying to paint them as the bad guys they actually are. I'm not sure if they actually succeeded on that though.
It's perhaps an interesting story to read among the many clichéd salt fics due to its original ideas but if you're expecting something of a higher quality, you're probably be disappointed.
Interesting Idea. Lacking Execution
The idea is probably one of the most original I found among salt fics. Lila as the Ladybug holder, Marinette and her friends deciding to willingly ally themselves with Hawk Moth and becoming more villainous... You don't find many fics that explores such ideas.
The problem comes when it's clear the author had little idea what to make of them. If you read it from the beginning to the end, you'll notice the story doesn't actually follow a steady course and seems to abort several things. I am going to somehow excuse this on a lack of experience, since it was one of the very first fics the author has wrote, but on a purely neutral level the fic lacks in many areas and some aspect could have been explored better.
The characters, for example, feel underdeveloped, with most of them seemingly have an already established personality that barely (or 'doesn't') grow. The author then throws some angst there and there on them, but it feels more forced than anything.
There's also the fact every other characters except the protagonists are characterized like most salt fics usually do, only with their faults maximized, which doesn't really make them interesting to see. Whenever the author did it on purpose or not, I really can't say.
The fic might come across as characters that decide to finally cross the Moral Event Horizon in order to put a stop to their harassment, and while the author seemed to have tried hard to make them come across as sympathetic, they also don't try to justify their actions, trying to paint them as the bad guys they actually are. I'm not sure if they actually succeeded on that though.
It's perhaps an interesting story to read among the many clichéd salt fics due to its original ideas but if you're expecting something of a higher quality, you're probably be disappointed.