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With this fandom being so chaotic, sporadic, and creative I have seen/read many great ideas and interpretations of the shows lore and characters. Here are a few of my personal headcanons that have for the content of Miraculous Ladybug.
1) I have liked the concept of true holders, those who embody the aspect of a certain miraculous. I imagine that while anyone can bond with a miraculous or wield a miraculous, the closer you are to being a true holder the faster and better the person can adjust with that miraculous. Also being a true holder makes the person able to unlock new abilities with the miraculous slightly faster than those who are not.
2) Kwamis are able to sense if someone is a true holder or not (though this mainly goes for if the person is their true holder, but any kwami can tell if a person can connect with a miraculous just not which specific one). This sense does have a limited range and the farther away the kwami and holder are, the harder it is for the kwami to pinpoint them.
3) With the miraculi, the longer a person wields the miraculous; the more in-tune they become with it. This goes for both those who are true holders and those who are not, but the true holders are just able to bond quicker and in a little more depth. With enough time and training, the holder and kwami might even be able to telepathically communicate when transformed.
4) As the bond between kwami and holder strengthens, eventually the time limit after the use of the special power lengthens in time. (My explanation of why Ladybug and Chat Noir have only five minutes while Hawkmoth has a lot longer since the age thing is odd. Since Hawkmoth has presumably had the butterfly miraculous for a long time before LB and CN got thiers.)
5) Since a miraculous seems to only be limited by the imagination/will of the holder, as time passes, holders are able to unlock different powers/sub powers that are able to be used on occasion. The sub powers are smaller in scale than the "special" power or the potion power ups, but are still big enough to be noticeable.
Alright lads (gender neutral), time to start some controversy.
Totally normal and unoriginal take: I think Marinette and Adrien are relatively equal in physical strength. (Not who would win in a fight, the show has shown multiple times that it would be LB, I’m just saying realistically, in terms of exerting one’s muscles).
I often hear arguments that Marinette would be super strong due to being Ladybug, but the same should apply to Adrien, right? Sure he gets blipped out of some fights, but there’s also plenty of fights where he’s present (still physically active) but mind-controlled by the villain of the week. Furthermore, there’s plenty of episodes where Chat Noir has to hold off the villain while Ladybug focuses on problem solving (which requires a lot less physical exertion). Therefore, if Marinette is strong because she’s Ladybug, that alone cannot justify her being stronger than Adrien due to him also being a superhero (her being stronger than her usually-civilian classmates however, I can easily get behind).
I suppose if we’re using the argument that she’s stronger due to doing things like lifting bags of flour in the bakery, then maybe, but the show only has her occasionally helping her parents in the bakery (not that it’s her fault she has other stuff to do, just saying that it doesn’t fully work as a reason for her being physically stronger), and even then it’s usually managing the counter and sometimes baking some of the goods.
There’s also technically the diet factor, as people will say that she’s stronger due to getting to eat normal foods that build muscles better, while Adrien eats smaller meals due to being a model. However, from personal experience (I have a pretty unimpressive diet and sometimes forget to eat three meals a day), my scrawny noodle arms can lift a surprisingly amount to most people, so I don’t think his diet would keep him from being able to do muscle-intensive activities. If anything, I maintain that Marinette and Adrien would have equal physical abilities, Marinette would have more muscle mass (if they didn’t insist on giving her toothpick arms to be more marketable), but Adrien’s muscles would be more pronounced/defined (skinny people’s muscles usually stick out more due to having low amounts of body fat).
On the one hand, I get the “haha little girl wearing pink is actually an absolute unit and stronger than all the boys” joke, but on the other hand, I think I find the “supermodel is actually as strong as baker” joke even funnier. (Like you mean to tell me that the class would underestimate Marinette, their over-achieving “everyday Ladybug”/class rep, more than Adrien, that one rich boy they’ve known for less than a year and constantly typecast as a helpless damsel in distress? I don’t think so.)