Random Fandom Rants

10 MLC WHO as Queen Bee?! Oh, and Volpina 1-10

*SPOILERS* Volpina and Queen Bee
I still have not seen any of season 2. I will not see it until the season has ended. So I can rant about anything I like. And please don't spoil it for me.

20 chapters! Huzzah!

This is a rant about Queen Bee, not Volpina. I have no problems with Volpina. It is Queen Bee that I'm ranting about. I have no problem with the kwami, miraculous, etc. I just have a problem with WHO they have chosen.

Queen Bee
Kwami: Pollen
Miraculous: Hair comb
Identity: Chloé Bourgeois

. . . I'm sorry.
WHAT?!?!!?
Chloé as Queen Bee? Who the hell decided that?! She's a bitch! She's one of the main antagonists! She IS the antagonist of Marinette's life (Hawkmoth is not in Marinette's life. He is in Ladybug's. Sometimes, you have to compartmentalise to make sense of things.) She is the most common denominator of people getting Akumatised. Out of 27 akumas she was the reason at least 10 got Akumatised (off the top of my head).

Rogercop-ordering her father to fire Roger
Timebreaker-snatching the watch which she then drops
Kung Food-spoiling his soup
Dark Cupid-laughing at his Valentine
Princess Fragrance-laughing at her crush
Reflekta-locking her in the bathroom
Vanisher-Sabrina. Enough said
Evilstrator-making fun of his crush
Horrificator-making fun of her being scared
Antibug-yes, I know she is Antibug, but if she hadn't lied to Ladybug, it would have been fixed earlier. So I'm adding it to the list of Akuma she caused.
Just realised most of them are her making fun of them... That's sad, Chloé.
(Do you have a reason that other [S1!] Akuma were her fault? Tell me in the comments.)

She is selfish, bitchy, rude, a bully, self-centred, egotistical, manipulative, and just plain non-superhero material. She doesn't care for anyone else apart from herself and perhaps Adrien.
She bullies Marinette horribly, and most of the class has been bullied by her as well. She manipulates everyone (particularly her father) to get what she wants. She hides behind her father and makes him do horrible things in her name. Mind you, as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory readers know, the spoilt little girl is a product of her own origins. (In other words, she's like that because her father couldn't say no.)

She, without any guilt at all, pretends to be Ladybug on NATIONAL TELEVISION! (I mean, congrats on your balls, but why the fuck would you do that?) Pretending to be Ladybug, she barges into a interview that isn't about her to begin with, flicks Jagged Stone with her hair, steps on Jagged's alligator (boy, that sounds weird out of context) and then has the guts to yell and complain when she's found out.
By the way, congrats, Jagged. He's the only one that realised 'Hey, Ladybug has a totally different hairstyle! She might be a fake!' [And attitude, but we'll go into that in the next paragraph.] Unlike Nadia, who just took it stride that Ladybug would stampede through someone else's interview so it was all about her.

And attitude. Chloé has a lot of it. She is a spoilt brat who doesn't care who she insults or hurts until she gets her way. I honestly don't see her caring enough to do the superhero gig. LB and Chat are always looking out to protect everyone else, even in their civilian forms. I can just see Queen Bee standing there, picking her nails and not saving someone because they are having a bad hair day, and thus don't appeal to Chloé's... How should I put this... sense of who's asethhecally pleasing enough to be worth to be saved? Yeah, that sounds about right.
But then, her attitude of 'I am the best, everyone get out of my way' would fit with a 'queen',

I really hope that the production team doesn't have a cliche 'I'm mean to everyone else because I'm insecure and scared on the inside' backstory to get this one going. Because I can't see Chloé like that. Trust me. I've tried. Even the fanfics that make her as such annoy me because it is so implausible.
I just hope Chloé has a severe change of heart, and a really good reason for the change (because, seriously thinking about it, no one will ever change that easily), or the producers are just tricking us.

Volpina
Kwami: Trixx
Miraculous: necklace
Identity: Alya Cesaire

I am so looking forward to Alya as Volpina. I can totally see her as a hero. But I just have one question.
If Alya is Volpina... Who's filming for the LadyBlog?

PS✉️: Headcam, obviously.
BD📚: But that would mean that her audience will know who Volpina is. So her 'secret identity' would be right out in the open. And the fact that there might be some things Alya wouldn't want to show to the audience-such as her kwami. That is a big secret to tell. And it might encourage some people to try to steal the kwamis.
✉️: She'll blackmail Nino to do it.
📚: Yeah, I can see her doing that. But then... If they swap, sometimes Alya's filming and other times Nino, wouldn't the audience figure out that Alya disappears and Volpina appears?
✉️: You're talking about the people who couldn't, and can't, figure out that Adrien and Marinette disappear and then Chat Noir and Ladybug suddenly appear. And that they look almost EXACTLY the same?
📚: . . . Good point.
✉️: *mic drop*

On a different still-superhero/identity subject:
I totally support the whole 'Gabriel has a twin brother' theory.
. . .
If the newly introduced twin is neither Gabriel nor HawkMoth.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PS ✉️!
It's her birthday in a few days. 🎂 She turns 20, like M🥜. Old farts, the lot of you. Hope you live for, what was it? Another 34 years? Is that before or after you get the straitjacket? 🤐
(I feel so left out. They have their birthdays within a fortnight of each other, whereas I have it 6.5 months later. Even Denmark and Iceland have their birthdays within a fortnight, while poor Norway has his birthday in the month before.)