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To say Félix wasn’t funny was far from the truth. His sarcastic humour made him hilarious whenever he decided to speak up.
It didn’t get any better when he became Renard de Nuit. No, quite the contrary: in fact, his quips got funnier and funnier. He even started saying more things that made his teammates laugh.
It was nice, especially seeing Ladybug… Marinette, laugh brightly at his jokes, despite all the conflict happening in their civilian lives. He hoped he could make her laugh more.
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“Hello Paris! Today is our day off, and look who came to join us!” Ladybug moved the camera from her face to the illusioned Renard de Nuit, who looked like Hawkmoth at that moment. “It’s Hawkmoth! Hello, Hawkmoth, thank you for joining us.”
“A pleasure, Ladybug.” ‘Hawkmoth’ spoke, eliciting giggles from the rest of the squad, which Ladybug panned her shot to show them. The squad contained of Abeille, Carapace, Viperion, Chat Noir, Ryuuko and Jackrabbit. They all waved for the camera, and Ladybug turned the camera back to ‘Hawkmoth’.
“So, Hawkmoth, I have a question. Why do you keep akumatizing people? Or, specifically, why do you keep akumatizing the same people?” Ladybug asked the ‘man’, who hummed loudly as if in thought. They heard snickers again but ignored it this time.
“Hm, what a question Ladybug. But it all boils down to two things. One, I have no social life and want the miracle stones, but two…. I have a confession to make,” Hawkmoth hid his face from the stream, looking down and away shyly. Jackrabbit snickered.
“I akumatized a man twenty-five times because I fell in love with him. Of course, I have no chance at gaining his love. I simply desire to be close to him in whatever manner I can. In those fleeting moments of akumatization, I can feel his heart beating against mine, and I wonder, I wonder if I will ever be deserving of this angel's love.” He paused, arms thrown outstretched, as if for dramatic effect, but in reality it was in order to prevent himself from laughing. The others weren’t so lucky. They were dying with laughter, Ladybug included. He waited until they calmed before he continued.
“I see him in my dreams, a-angelic pigeon wings silhouetted against a backdrop of holy light.” His voice cracked at angelic pigeon wings, he was really struggling not to laugh, but he kept on, letting the camera and audience believe he was choking on the force of his love. “But I... I am a fallen man, lesser than a demon, corrupted by sin.” He swooned, overdramatic hand against his forehead and everything.
“And so, I will akumatize him again and again, and hope, with my empty, shriveled up heart, that one day, he may offer me the honor and undeniable pleasure of a glance my way.” He ended dramatically, hiding his face in ‘embarrassment’ and clutching at his heart, even going so far as to swoon again. This resulted in the uproar of laughter from the other heroes, which Ladybug turned the camera to. All of them were laughing, ranging from Ryuuko and Abeille’s simple giggles to Jackrabbit’s roar of laughter as she held her stomach.
Ladybug finally turned her camera back to her face, and grinned. “There you have it folks! Hawkmoth is in love with the man behind the pigeon! That’s it for the interview, be sure to let us know your thoughts on the entire situation! Bug out!” and with that, the stream cut off.
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When he woke up the next morning, Félix was shocked to see that he had a ton of messages from the group chat he was in. They were never this active this early in the morning. He opened it up, only to find everyone was talking about a new… reddit page?
He scrolled up to read the entirety of the conversation, chuckling slightly at some of the memes that they posted, until he found the link to the page. He tapped onto it, and his eyes bugged out when he saw what the page was.
It was a page dedicated to his joke last night, memes littering the subreddit. r/Hawkmomemes was the reddit pages, and Félix had to admit. The memes were hilarious. Now he understood why the group chat had exploded like it had.
It had been worth it just for Marinette’s smile.
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Hawkmoth scowled as yet another akuma had been sent back to him. Ever since that ‘confession’ of his, set up and manipulated by that blasted fox, he had been struggling to get any victims. Most of them were laughing at his attempts, teasing him for his confession. He was having to resort to letting Mayura, of all people, to do the work, and she was sick!
How annoying. That fox would get his just desserts, one way or another.
He would see to it.