that meme that's afoot

[chanter1944]

Yoinked from muccamukk.

Give me a character you know I know, and I will tel you:

1. How I feel about this character
2. All the people I ship romantically with this character
3. My non-romantic OTP for this character
4. My unpopular opinion about this character
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.

One limit I'm putting in place for this one. Please don't ask me anything Stargate? I can't bear it right now.

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[chanter1944]

Soooo, now that I'm awake and have brains to spare: Mylène Haprèle.

1: I'm really quite fond of Mylène. She grew on me the more I saw of her, and I'm now firmly of the opinion that she deserves a full story of her own. Surprise surprise, huh? :)

2: Ivan Bruel, because they are adorable together.

3: ... Oh jeez. Mylène & Nino while he's being Carapace, Mylène as either Multiflora or Doormouse, depending on universe, & Nino as Carapace, Mylène as Multiflora and Kagami as Ryuko... this is harder than it looks. Plus there's always the giant platonic polygon that is much of the class getting along.

4: Are there unpopular opinions about Mylène? I don't know that the idea that she's got a broader character beyond the few traits canon makes a point of showing is exactly an unpopular idea...

5: A storyline not entirely built around fear/courage. Mylène clearly has strong family connections, thoughtfulness to spare, concern about the wider world... I'd love to see canon run with some or all of that.

6: I credit alexseanchai for planting this idea in my head via a fic with trans Mylène in it. That connected with the wish to have more queer characters of multiple stripes in canon, and then morphed/evolved, and one of my headcanons became intersex, female-identified Mylène. We have no canon evidence to the contrary, and I doubt we ever will, so I am totally rolling with it.

[alexseanchai]

*happy squeaking*

Multiflora? reasoning please? also unless you're angling for a pun involving closable room entrances, the spelling is D O R M O U S E, which is a beautiful Rat!Mylène name in and of itself. fits with all Bunnyx's Alice in Wonderland references, too.

[chanter1944]

*beams*

Multiflora is a play on the flower called a multiflora rose, riffing off Mylène being the one to organize planting trees by the river during "Party Crasher". Suitable only for canon mouse!Mylène. As for the other, Dormouse - ooooops! I never had a clue. I thought it had something to do with being small enough to hide behind or squeak (ahem) through gaps beneath/around doors. Will fix! Although... should I? Either one could fly, given [spoilers for the alterna-mouse].

[alexseanchai]

Ooh cool!

Actual etymology of 'dormouse' seems to connect to 'dormant', since these little rodents can apparently hibernate six months of the year. If you want to keep the pun, though, by all means keep the double O.

[chanter1944]

I might play with the pun when the name is being created, even. I've headcanoned that Rena Rouge has at least a little English, since she twigs to another, as yet unrevealed superhero name [hecka spoilers for the alterna-verse this way lie!] being a case of wordplay, so maybe she questions the origin/meaning of Dormouse/Doormouse and Mylène runs with it?

[alexseanchai]

Foreign language study starts in French schools when they start middle school equivalent. What year the show says they're in contradicts itself, but their whole class has definitely already had at least two years of a first foreign language. And at least one year of a second.

Most French students, that first foreign language is English. Marinette's definitely is, else why would "Ladybug" and "Lucky Charm" be English phrases in the French dub? I don't know if we have any solid reason to believe Alya's is or isn't anything in particular, but English is definitely plausible.

[chanter1944]

Ooh, good to know. Also you've got a valid point re English phrases in the French dub. With Rena Rouge (and also Firewall, actually), I was going off Alya and Nora's Caribbean connections and the likelihood of bilingual or trilingual English/French/Creole knowledge, if not full fluency in English.

Émilie, by the way, I'm headcanoning as having very iffy English at best. I will get to answers for her, by the way.