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    Basically an AU where MC and the boys are neighbors in a condominium. It gets real messy and chaotic.

    Six neighbors live in a building where the walls are thin, the drama is thick, and no one knows when to keep it down.

    Everyone is just trying to get through life, but with non-stop shouting, petty squabbles, and insults flying through every hallway, peace is nowhere to be found. The elevator’s the only thing that moves slower than the building’s gossip, and every floor feels like its own battleground.

    In this building, survival means embracing the noise, the nonsense, and the absurdity of living in a place where everyone’s too close for comfort, and no one’s leaving anytime soon.

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    15 May 2025

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    He pries the swab of cotton out of her hands and lets his eyes flicker to where he’d spotted the bruising from a distance. It takes him a moment but he figures out what he’s seeing and he stops breathing.  

    Etched in sharp red lines, is the symbol of a wifi, sitting below the nape of her neck, no wider than three fingers.  

    Absent-mindedly, traces the symbol and almost misses the way she stiffens; he wouldn’t know that she was trying to suppress a shudder. “A gift from the akuma,” she laughs nervously. “They appear everytime I purify an akuma.”

    “Does the Cure not work on you?” 

    “Well, with major injuries, yes,” she says, as she carefully packs up the first aid box and stows it away neatly behind a potted orchid. “It’s… The price of… Not being in harmony, I guess.”

     

    ( Or in which Ladybug has scars from purifying the akuma because Chat Noir is her enemy and their partnership is therefore not balanced. Chat - Adrien - finds out and it's the start of a journey neither of them expect. )

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    08 Dec 2021

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    -Please be sure to read the tags!!!! This story is very dark in places and has the potential to make you uncomfortable. Read at your own risk-

     

    You are a simple college student, working towards an art degree your parents warned you about. Aside from the occasional college party, the few high-class events your best friend drags you to, or a stray coffee date with an underachieving frat boy, your social life doesn’t really exist.

    Until one fateful night when you’re thrust into the world of the Korean mafia, run by a calculated, cold, Kim Namjoon and his band of psychopaths. A single decision has you pinned between two assassins, a spoiled heiress, a mafia kingpin, a corrupt doctor, a drug lord, an escort, and an arms dealer.

    They had it all, money, power, luxury. Everything they’d ever wanted had been thrust into their waiting hands the minute Namjoon’s father had handed over Busan to his only son. He’d expected them to drown, flounder in untested waters until the criminal underworld chewed them up and spat them out as his obedient pawns. But here they were, three years later, thriving in their own little kingdom. With you as their plaything.

    It only goes up from here.

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    28 May 2020

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    Currently Delayed Updates while I finish my Master's Degree. Due to AI scraping of AO3, ALL of my works now require you to be a registered user to read them. I also publish Bittersweet on Quotev if this makes it inaccessible for you here, but my priority it preventing as much of my work as I can from being lifted by AI. Thanks for understanding!

    A decade on from Hawkmoth's defeat, and the classmates of College Franciose Dupont had gone their separate ways.

    At twenty-five, Marinette Dupain-Cheng struggles with the consequences being dealt a bad hand in life, and Adrien Agreste wrestles the denial of his past, and avoids Paris at all costs.

    Unforeseen circumstances drive Adrien home again, but will finding each other again be enough to resolve their issues...

    ... or will they both fall apart?

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    28 Jun 2017

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    During an akuma fight, Ladybug and Chat Noir are flung into an alternate dimension. They find out that they are no longer superheros and instead are living the lives of their bestfriends'. Adrien's dad is loving and Marinette is finally dating the boy of her dreams. Everything seems perfect... until it's not. Adrien has to wait until his Ladybug can fix everything and get it back to normal. But can she? Does she want to?

    Inspired by @adrienagrests AU AU on tumblr

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    02 Feb 2017