the world needs a little less gloom

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Stayed Down Till I Came Up (2486 words) by Chanter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Juleka Couffaine & original kwami character
Characters: Juleka Couffaine, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Nino Lahiffe | Carapace, Luka Couffaine | Viperion, Aurore Beauréal, Nora Césaire, Rose Lavillant (mentioned), Alya Césaire (mentioned), original civilian character(s)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Confidence, Pride, Secret Identities, IDENTITY SHENANIGANS, Tiger!Juleka Couffaine, dragon!Nora Césaire, ox!Aurore Beauréal, Alternate Universe, awesome Juleka Couffaine, awesome Luka Couffaine, Awesome Everyone, one akumatized jerk, self-expression, secret identities can be liberating, puns, multilingual puns, Wordplay, Not Canon Compliant, nautical references everywhere, nautical mythology everywhere
Series: Part 4 of Alterna-wielder and -kwami Vignettes
Summary:

The powers are so not icing on the cake. They're three or four out of about twelve layers, so far, of the cake, and that cake is getting seriously ginormous.

No one's going to guess it's her under the mask, even if they take a million years to try.