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Marinette knows her dad is famous, and that she got her smarts from him. What she doesn’t understand is why he goes missing when she’s four. He is gone for so long he misses her birthday! He never does that on purpose! While he is missing, she only wears dark colors. When her best friends, Nino and Kim, who are a year older than her, ask why she is wearing dark colors. She looks at them with a blank expression and bursts into tears, she runs home to her Maman. Her Maman just holds her while she cries. When her dad calls her from his car to a press conference while he is eating Burger King, she screams and demands to know where he has been. Then she cries and makes him promise never to do that again. He looks at her guiltily and agrees to the promise.
The next day at school, she is back to wearing bright colors. When Nino and Kim ask this time, they are greeted with a bright smile and the answer of, “My daddy is back.” When her dad announces he is a superhero, on live TV no less, Marinette was so excited. Her daddy could come to her anytime.
In 2012, the Avengers came forward to stop the Chitari and Loki from invading, Marinette is eight, when her dad flies through a portal, scared, she calls him. After she talks to her dad, she watches the TV and when her daddy flies back out of the portal, she is ecstatic. What her and her mother don’t know is that once Tony came to. He wanted to go to Paris, kept saying he needed to, he was near hysterical saying it was the most important thing.
In 2016, Marinette’s dad is left for dead by one of the people he trusted with his life. By the time he is found he is half dead and half frozen.
In 2017, Marinette is the youngest in her class and has the best grades of the class, she is on par to graduate even earlier than her classmates. Marinette is thirteen when a bug-mouse, ahem, kwami gives her powers to save her city from akumas. Her partner, Chat Noir, seems a little immature, like he doesn’t understand that the fate of Paris or even the world rests on their shoulders.
It’s 2018 when Marinette’s friends are stolen from her, one by one, by a lying snake named Lila, a fitting name for a liar. One upside, Chloe has retreated from antagonizing her. The downside? Chloe is a shell of herself. By now her crush on Adrien has died and she’s realized that Chat’s behavior is toxic. He tries to force her on dates even though she has said no multiple times.
In 2020, Marinette has no friends, only classmates, who demand her to make them things as favors. She celebrates her sixteenth birthday with her Maman, Dad and Tom. On her birthday her Dad gives her the best gift she could receive. A field trip to Stark Industries for her whole class or as her and her Dad see it, a way to expose Lila. Who lately had been lying about the Avengers. And to be honest, Marinette needed a break from just about everything.