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“Chat?” Ladybug poked him in the rib to get his attention. It was a nice, slow evening, and they had decided to take the rest of patrol time to sit on a random roof. They hadn’t had an akuma in a while, so most of their patrols nowadays were simply hanging out for a few hours until they called it a day.
“Yeah?” he asked.
“Have you seen this yet?” Ladybug extended him her yoyo in phone mode, the screen displaying a Ladyblog post.
Top 10 Chat Noir funniest moments (UPDATED)
It was a series of pictures of him during the many bouts of cat traits he had as of lately. The Kwamis had warned the team, the longer anyone wielded a Miraculous, the more animal-like traits and behaviors they would start to display. As simple as that.
However, he hadn’t really paid attention to them.
At least not until now.
There were pictures of him chasing his tail, him chasing a beam of light one time Ladybug discovered he was particularly prone to chasing it on a wall, him pouncing around.
Pictures of his ears flopping and shaking whenever an insect flew by, the one time Ladybug accidentally stepped on his tail, that sort of stuff. It was amusing to a certain level, yet endearing too, how despite the whole chaos Monarch had created Alya was not only focusing on the hardships of the job.
If he was really honest, it was refreshing to see the fifth hundredth updated version of that compilation amongst the stream of daily akuma reports on the blog from a few weeks ago.
“No, I meant the comments! Well, the post too, but the comments!” Ladybug clarified.
In a streak of curiosity, he scrolled all the way down to the comment section of the post, slightly annoyed at the length of Ladybug’s screen. How did she manage to see anything with it? Maybe it was just that he was too used to his own baton’s being long and more phone-like, but Ladybug’s was just straight up tiny.
After a few seconds of scrolling, he arrived at the bottom of the page.
Comments (58)
tiredpineapple: THE SIXTH ONE IM WHEEZING
Chat had to admit it was pretty funny. It was a GIF of him pouncing to get from one roof to another. As weird as it had felt the first time he did it, he had to admit it was quite an effective way of moving. He had even begun practicing the jump out of the suit just for the laughs.
However, what caught his attention was the comment underneath that one.
chatnoirsleftear: speaking of the sixth one guys, have we ever considered chat could be a furry or a therian? those quadrobics are AMAZING if you ask me. no way the dude simply knows how to do them.
claire3829: wait thats true, ive never seen a non-furry or therian do them as well as him
frostedberry23: are you guys thinking the same as me
chatnoirsleftear: chat is a furry/therian confirmed?
“And that’s not all,” she looked at him with a half-amused, half-outraged expression. “Check Twitter, it’s chaos there.”
Curious yet concerned, he opened it on his baton.
Trending
1. Heroes - Trending
CHAT NOIR IS A FURRY??
2. Heroes - Trending
CHAT IS ONE OF US
3. Heroes - Trending
CHAT IS A THERIAN??
4. Heroes - Trending
WE NEED ANSWERS
5. Heroes - Trending
chat noir honorary furry
“So?” Ladybug asked with a teasing smile, nudging him in the shoulder.
“Guess I have to make a statement now,” he said.
He started drafting a new post.
PURRfection@catgotyourtongue
so about the whole thing today, i wouldn’t call myself a therian, i understand there is a long history there that i’m not as educated about as i’d like to, but about the furry thing, i wouldn’t consider myself a furry… yet
chat noir honorary furry was #5 trending i see?
As soon as he hit send, Ladybug opened the notification.
“Chat Noir Idon’tknowyoursurnameorI’duseit, what have you done?”
He simply gave her his best cat smile.
~(X)~
It was the Alliance rings.
It had to.
There was no other possible explanation. Maybe Monarch was an expert hacker? Maybe he had access to either the Tsurugi or Gabriel documents that described the mechanism of the rings?
There were far too many options. The question was, how on earth had he managed to turn a ring into a teleportation device?
“Chaton, what are we going to do? Practically the entire city has one, even I was offered one as a civilian! Leave alone the city, the international release is barely a few days away and most of the Union already has people who have them! I’ve literally seen tourists camping outside Gabriel and Tsurugi stores any time a restock is announced.”
“We could emit a statement?”
“People love that stuff, no tech bro is going to believe us without calling us conspiranoic or whatever,” Ladybug said, worried. “If there was only a way to turn all of them off forever… I mean, I technically know how to speak with Gabriel Agreste? The thing is, let’s say he doesn’t exactly like my civilian self.”
Chat looked at her. First of all, what on Earth could sweet Ladybug have done as a civilian to gain the despise of his father? Well, thinking about it, if he disliked Marinette, he could dislike anyone.
The second thing, was an idea. “M'lady, you’re a genius! Turning them off all at once, how come we didn’t think about it earlier?”
“Chaton, for the Kwamis’ sake, how are you going to turn off a novelty product from two of the biggest companies in Paris?”
He smirked at her, opening Twitter on his baton. A few clicks, and he was looking at a profile.
“Who on earth is FLUFFYBRI485?” Ladybug asked, confused. It was a furry artist’s profile, with a wolf fursona as the profile picture and everything.
“You see, I found them on a furry integration dynamic after my… statement. Really nice person, didn't want to interact much other than for art trades when she realized I was a minor and suggested I stayed out of most groupchats, but she said her DMs were always open if I needed something.”
“And?” She still didn’t know where it was going.
“They're the product manager at Tsurugi’s,” he said with a smile.