"But there's these parodies," Nino laughs. "With kind of ridiculous villains, and they're the most entertaining things I've ever read. Let's be honest, LadyBug needs to lighten up with her villains. Make a ridiculous one for once."

"I've got to go," Adrien says, ending the call before Nino can continue. It's not unheard of for Adrien to quickly end calls when Nathalie comes in. The only difference is that this time, Adrien is completely alone.

He's never told Nino that he likes drawing, too. His own characters, while well-drawn, have no personality and the comics he's drawn lack any sort of plotline and worldbuilding. Unlike LadyBug, whose first comic has exploded into something huge within a day of the first episode coming out. Last time he checked, The Adventures of Tikki had over one thousand five hundred likes, and just under that in comments. He could only dream of having that many people like his comics.

Adrien opens his Miraculous account, which he created a few days after he met Nino. He'd always wanted a close friend, and the moment Nino had mentioned Miraculous, he'd gone and made himself an account. Unfortunately, his account, AAgreste, is constantly being flooded with people who don't care about art and just want to talk to him. He's never posted a comic on there, because his father would be furious if he found out that Adrien had permanently made his name connected to terrible quality comics.

He hesitates at the Create Comic button, and changes his mind. He's going to be like LadyBug. Anonymous.

He logs out of AAgreste and clicks Sign Up!

Email:

Username:

Password:

He frowns at the email. He only has one. So he opens a new tab, creates a new email with his real name, and reaches the second boundary of the username. LadyBug is obviously based on a ladybug, which are known for being lucky. If he created a character the opposite of Tikki, he could make it the kwami of destruction, and as lazy as Tikki is enthusiastic. And the first creature that comes to mind when he thinks of bad luck is black cats.

He clicks the username section and types "ChatNoir". He types in a password he's used for years, probably the same password to AAgreste, and the screen shifts. His first drawing on the new account is in the same style that LadyBug draws, and it is of himself as ChatNoir. But with enough changes that people won't recognise that it's Adrien Agreste owning the account. He knows the owner of the account can be found easily, so it's not a secret account, but he certainly doesn't want that he owns it to be public knowledge.

He clicks Create Comic without hesitating and beams at the blank canvas. He's used it before on AAgreste, and begins to plan out his own comic. He decides on the name Plagg for his own kwami, and grins as he creates the villain Mr. Pigeon. A pigeon man, who after being yelled at and mocked for liking and feeding the pigeons in Paris, intends to take over the world with pigeons. It takes him a while, but he creates the comic with Plagg finally using the power of destruction on Mr. Pigeon's pigeon whistle. He doesn't think he's ever had so much fun drawing a comic.

It's easy for him to press Post, and he grins. He knows he's using LadyBug's idea, but he's put credit for the idea in the description and the title. And he doesn't want to become popular, he doesn't really care about the hundreds of comments and likes that LadyBug has. He just wants to make a decent comic, something he can be proud of.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng sits on her bed, feeling her phone buzz with absurd regularity as many people comment and private message her on Miraculous. It's reached two thousand likes, and every single one of them comes through.

When her phone buzzes again with another like, Marinette opens settings and sets it to only notify her with comments and private messages. Just as she clicks Save, the phone buzzes again. Annoyed, thinking it's another like and the app hasn't changed her notification settings, she checks it. To her surprise, it's a private message from RenaRouge, Alya's account.

Hey, LadyBug! Just wanted to tell you I loved The Bubbler and I can't wait for the next episode. Also, there's this account called ChatNoir that created his own version of Adventures of Tikki with his own kwami. You two should totally collab!!

Marinette frowns. Just under a week, and someone is already copying her ideas? Maybe it was a mistake to post The Adventures of Tikki on Miraculous after all.

She clicks the link in RenaRouge's message, and it takes her to a comic labelled The Adventures of Plagg (BASED ON THE ADVENTURES OF TIKKI BY LADYBUG). She has to admit, while utterly ridiculous, Mr. Pigeon makes her laugh. There's only one episode, and when she opens her comic to her own comic, she sees the little Collaboration! button. She'd previously ignored it, not having it even occur to her that she could want to create a comic with someone.

When she clicks it, it tells her that when she chooses a user, an offer will be sent to them to collaborate on the comic that you have sent. The credit will then become equally divided.

With Miraculous open on both her laptop and phone, she glances from ChatNoir's profile to the Collaboration page. Does she want to introduce a second kwami, Plagg, to help Tikki defeat the akumas? Is she prepared to share the universe that has always been hers?

She sees the comments on The Adventures of Plagg, how people are amused by Mr. Pigeon. Maybe she needs more amusement in her own work.

Adrien has just installed Miraculous on his phone and logged into ChatNoir when it buzzes with a collaboration request.

LadyBug has invited you to collaborate on The Adventures of Tikki.

Adrien can hardly believe his eyes. LadyBug wants him to help her with The Adventures of Tikki? For real?

He clicks Accept, and types a private message to LadyBug.

Thanks for the collaboration request

He deletes it. He doesn't have to be Adrien on Miraculous. He can be ChatNoir, he can joke around and be ridiculous.

ChatNoir: Nice to meet you, LadyBug. You ready?

The reply comes through a minute later.

LadyBug: You bet I am.

And when he opens the comic, he sees the title has been changed to The Adventures of Tikki and Plagg.

It was in that moment that Adrien knew that this was going to be one of the best things he had ever been a part of.

[A/N: Thank u @aronos2 for voting for all the chapters, I got home and saw ur votes and they made me rlly happy :D)