Keyseeker's Choices For The Best Completed Miraculous Fics Of 2025
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There was a short pause. Then Marinette cleared her throat. “Hey… you girls wanna start a band?”
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Marinette plays drums. Kagami plays the piano. Juleka plays the bass. They all start in the same class at France's most prestigious academy of music and immediately end up in the same band, where they realise that all three of them are world-class talents, and that they should definitely keep their band going for as long as possible. And perhaps also that they should do some other things together...
Written for Marigami Week 2025 (Day 5: Gift) (very late).
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- Part 9 of Marigami Week 2025
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Marinette’s smile was too wide to be human.
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Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste are the unsuspecting stars of The Adrien and Marinette Show, a reality television program filmed 24/7 through thousands of hidden cameras and broadcast to a worldwide audience. Unbeknownst to them, the Paris they call home is actually an elaborate set, constructed under a dome and populated with thousands of actors and crew members.
Thomas Astruc, the show’s creator and executive producer, seeks to capture their authentic, unscripted emotions as they grow up. But a lie can only be maintained for so long, and as their world begins to unravel around them, Marinette and Adrien realise that all is not what it seems.
A Truman Show AU.
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Adrien has mastered the art of the smile. Even while his mind is on poor behavior, when he's caught beneath a barrage of unkind thoughts to himself, he's still able to keep his smile. Attend his friends' parties, maintain small talk, get through the day — and hopefully his friends won't realize how messed up he really is.
Everyone is out-pacing him. While he's barely getting out of bed in the morning, his friends are making waves, changing lives, getting engaged.
He can't even get his girlfriend to text him back.
So, sure. Maybe he's not in the best head space right now — but 'suicidal'? Ladybug's certainly just reading too deeply into things. But if her concern for Chat Noir's mental state is enough to get her reaching out, well, he won't turn down the opportunity to chat with a friend. Besides, Ladybug seems to be having a rough go of it, too. Maybe they can help each other out.
(a Ladynoir hurt/comfort texting fic, with established Adrienette)
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On the day Marinette brings her first child into the world, Sabine holds her granddaughter and relives the moments that shaped her daughters life.
From scrapped knees to sleepless nights, from first love to the wedding aisle, from whispered fears to the quiet exhaustion of survival, Sabine traces the unspoken battles that made Marinette who she is.
A heavy, reflective one-shot told in Sabine's POV
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There was a short pause. Then Marinette cleared her throat. “Hey… you girls wanna start a band?”
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Marinette plays drums. Kagami plays the piano. Juleka plays the bass. They all start in the same class at France's most prestigious academy of music and immediately end up in the same band, where they realise that all three of them are world-class talents, and that they should definitely keep their band going for as long as possible. And perhaps also that they should do some other things together...
Written for Marigami Week 2025 (Day 5: Gift) (very late).
Series
- Part 9 of Marigami Week 2025
- Language:
- English
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- 20,514
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- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 10
- Kudos:
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Bookmarked by Keyseeker
02 Jan 2026
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Linerle keeps pushing her Julegaminette agenda, and I'm down for it! This is really just a slice-of-life romcom sort of fic, with the three bandmates feeling each other out and gradually realizing that they really, really like the other two - but not without a few misunderstandings along the way. If you just want a low-stakes fluffy poly lesbian story, then this is the fic for you.
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On the day Marinette brings her first child into the world, Sabine holds her granddaughter and relives the moments that shaped her daughters life.
From scrapped knees to sleepless nights, from first love to the wedding aisle, from whispered fears to the quiet exhaustion of survival, Sabine traces the unspoken battles that made Marinette who she is.
A heavy, reflective one-shot told in Sabine's POV
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- English
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- 3,468
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 19
- Kudos:
- 118
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- 19
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- 806
Bookmarked by Keyseeker
11 Nov 2025
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This is a very meditative, melancholy oneshot, with Sabine thinking over Marinette growing up and the struggles she's faced, and the struggles she, herself, has faced being Marinette's mother. The prose is excellent.
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He unfolded the dress, eyes unfocused and fingers numb. He used a cedar hanger meant for his suits, and hung it in the back of his closet.
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Or, Adrien struggles with gender identity through buying a lot of clothes he doesn't know are for himself. Plagg helps.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,101
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
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- 21
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- 161
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- 27
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- 1,089
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11 Nov 2025
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Just some good old "Adrien's in the closet due to insecurity over gender norms" goodness that I love. Luckily, once his dad is dead, it's a bit safer for him to explore that side of himself.
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Adrien has mastered the art of the smile. Even while his mind is on poor behavior, when he's caught beneath a barrage of unkind thoughts to himself, he's still able to keep his smile. Attend his friends' parties, maintain small talk, get through the day — and hopefully his friends won't realize how messed up he really is.
Everyone is out-pacing him. While he's barely getting out of bed in the morning, his friends are making waves, changing lives, getting engaged.
He can't even get his girlfriend to text him back.
So, sure. Maybe he's not in the best head space right now — but 'suicidal'? Ladybug's certainly just reading too deeply into things. But if her concern for Chat Noir's mental state is enough to get her reaching out, well, he won't turn down the opportunity to chat with a friend. Besides, Ladybug seems to be having a rough go of it, too. Maybe they can help each other out.
(a Ladynoir hurt/comfort texting fic, with established Adrienette)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,130
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 3
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- 1,516
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- 3,489
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- 625
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- 57,239
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02 Nov 2025
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It's some good old Adrien angst, with Ladybug realizing that Chat's severely depressed and even suicidal, and doing what she can to help him, even though he thinks he isn't worth the help. I particularly loved the irony whenever Ladybug and Chat Noir discussed their relationships with their romantic partners, never realizing that they're dissecting their own relationship. I also like that while Adrien's issues are the main focus, Marinette is also shown to have some severe anxiety and self-worth issues that Adrien does his best to help with.
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“Well, you see… it’s about the villains,” she said.
“Then it’s bad news,” said Elytria. She cackled a little, obviously in jest. “Unless you’ve figured out who they are already.”
“Well… um…”
Elytria’s eyes went wide. “No… don’t tell me, you’ve figured them out?”
“No,” said Marinette, shaking her head. Not really. It would definitely be bad news if her suspicions were correct, though, no matter what Elytria thought. “But… I think, I’m not sure, but I think I might have met Spurlet out of costume…”
Because things were getting complicated, and fast.
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Marinette was given Xuppu as her kwami, and a mission to fight bullies and bullying. And her worst enemy, she thinks, is the rooster-themed Spurlet: a sword-wielding girl with angry copper eyes, who seems to twist people's negative emotions into dangerous weapons. As she keeps fighting Spurlet, though, it becomes clear that something far deeper and far darker is afoot...
Written for Marigami Week 2025 (Day 8: Inspire).
Series
- Part 8 of Marigami Week 2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,287
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 19
- Kudos:
- 39
- Bookmarks:
- 13
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- 550
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28 Oct 2025
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I love Senti angst fics, and this is no exception. I love how Kagami, Felix, and Adrien band together as best they can in such horrible circumstances, and how it makes sense that they resent the heroes, even though on some level they know they don't deserve it. And when Kagami sees a ray of hope, she takes it.
Fair warning: Tomoe's and Gabriel's abuse is more severe than it is in canon, and Amelie... well, she isn't as bad as them, but she's definitely not a good parent in this. It also ends on a somewhat ambiguous, but hopeful, note. So if you want everything tied up in a neat little bow, this ain't the fic for you.