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ML Fanfic Character Analysis - Alya Cesaire from MiniMinou’s “Lies We Tell (Ourselves)” by Keyseeker for MiniMinou
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
29 Nov 2019
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So I REALLY love MiniMinou's "Lies We Tell (Ourselves)" and especially Alya, so I've written an analysis of her character up through the most current update, Chapter 11. Warning: There be spoilers.
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- Part 1 of Fanfic Analyses
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Reconstructing Chameleon: Lies We Tell (Ourselves) by Keyseeker for MiniMinou
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
06 Dec 2019
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I really love "Lies We Tell (Ourselves)" by Miniminou, especially with the way it takes the old tropes that are common in Chameleon saltfics and reconstructs, rebuilding from what they burned down. In this essay I will
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- Part 2 of Fanfic Analyses
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Fixing Seasons 2 and 3: Angelofthequeers "Hold Me By Both Hands" by Keyseeker for angelofthequeers
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
29 Jun 2020
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So I REALLY liked Angelofthequeers "Hold Me By Both Hands", it's an awesome fix-it fic with a ton of well-developed subplots, and it deserves some good analysis! (And also a read. Seriously, it's good.)
Essay 1: The Harassment and Objectification of Adrien
(To be clear, this is harassment and objectification by other characters in-universe, not the narrative)Essay 2: The Poly Love Interests: Luka and Kagami
Essay 3: Alya (and Nino)
Essay 4: The Redemption of Chloe Bourgeois
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- Part 3 of Fanfic Analyses
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Conflict Resolution Within The Love Square: Miraculouslycool's "Her Light To His Darkness" by Keyseeker for miraculouslycool
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
09 Jul 2020
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I really love how Miraculouslycool handles fights and disagreements between Ladybug and Chat Noir in her story “Her Light to His Darkness”, especially the big one at the beginning of the story. It’s very tense and things even get a little nasty, but even so, they don’t lose sight of why they’re truly upset in the first place, nor how much they care for each other – at least, not for long. And the way they reconcile contains a valuable lesson in how to handle conflicts more generally.
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- Part 4 of Fanfic Analyses
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Justice for Alya (And Adrien. And The Rest Of The Class): enigmaticEditor's "Outfoxed" by Keyseeker for enigmaticEditor
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
19 Aug 2020
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“Outfoxed” by enigmaticEditor stands out among “Lila Exposed” fics as being one of the few of that genre that douses Alya and Adrien in sugar while refraining from salting the class or anyone besides Lila and Gabriel.
It starts when the glamour around Lila breaks, when Lila makes a claim - or at least IMPLIES a claim - that Alya knows for a fact cannot be true. Lila ‘accidentally’ exposing a necklace that looks an awful lot like the Fox Miraculous and implying that SHE’S Rena Rouge.
And everything comes tumbling down. All the lies, all the deceptions, they all shatter like glass.
This isn’t an unusual way for Alya to discover Lila was lying. It’s everything that happens afterwards that make this fic stand out.
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- Part 5 of Fanfic Analyses
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Emotional Baggage, Misunderstandings, and Navigating Through Relationships Despite Them: HappyCamper41's "Wanted: A Butterfly And A Cat" by Keyseeker for
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
12 Dec 2020
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I love what HappyCamper41 has done with many of the arguments and conversations between characters in “Wanted: A Butterfly and a Cat”. Oftentimes ‘good’ characters, ones with good intentions, end up coming into conflict or having a misunderstanding of some sort - but the conflict is reasonable, the misunderstandings have a good reason for occurring, and while characters can make mistakes, they aren’t demonized for them. They’re treated as people, just trying to navigate their world and situations as best they know how.
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- Part 6 of Fanfic Analyses
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A Different Kind Of Akumanette Fic: LoganLight's "Scarlet Fever" by Keyseeker
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug
27 Jan 2021
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I really enjoyed "Scarlet Fever", from how well it handles the action scenes (which are usually not emphasized much in this fandom), to how it explores and develops its characters, to its subtle (and not-so-subtle) commentary on many salt tropes and accusations which are thrown around in the fandom nowadays.
Analysis 1: Action
Analysis 2: Salt Fighting
Analysis 3: LukaSeries
- Part 7 of Fanfic Analyses