Maribat Pen-Pal Au

A/N Neither Miraculous Ladybug nor Batman and Superman Characters belong to me. they belong to Thomas Arstruc and DC Comics. I would also be happy about a bit of constructive criticism.

Damian didn't really like the idea of having a pen pal. Even at the age of twelve he found it would be a waste of his time. He just didn't understand, why his father insisted on him participating at his school's pen-pal project. He was perfectly content with not having any friends at school or otherwise. So why should he want to befriend someone from another country. It would not only be a hassle should they ever decide to meet up, but he also doubted that his pen pal would be interested in combat and weapons. At least not the same way he was. So, he pushed the whole thing to the back of his mind, as to not distract him from, in his eyes, much more important things.

Damian had almost forgotten about the project, had not a pink, with flowers decorated, envelope arrived.

Reading the letter to get it behind him, he found out that his pen pal, was a little French girl by the name of Marinette. Her parents were bakers and she liked designing and baking. Her favourite colour was pink and her English surprisingly adequate.

Over the next few weeks, they exchanged letters and Damian was more surprised with every letter. Not only did Marinette, thanks to her mother, have a fundamental understanding of hand to hand combat, but she also was very insistent on being his first friend, which would have annoyed him to no end, if it had been any other person.

Even after the project ended, they stayed, to Damian's secret delight, in contact. They even exchanged phone numbers, so they didn't have to wait until the letter made its way from Gotham to Paris, or the other way around. Now being able to respond in the matter of seconds their discussions changed to even more interesting topics, that just couldn't really be talked about, if they had to wait weeks for the reply to arrive.

The chats turned into calls and the calls into video chatting. After only one year of knowing, but never actually meeting face to face, Damian could safely say, he would never actually admit it, that the petite girl was one of his favourite humans (and non-humans) in the universe.

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Over the years the two of them never lost contact, and after the rest of the Waynes, and Alfred, had found out their Baby Bird had a friend, they were over the moon. After all it wasn't every day you found out the most antisocial person you know found a friend. Much less when said person, is a grumpy, by assassins raised boy, who wouldn't even blink if he slit the throat of one of his adopted siblings, it nearly happened, more than once. Even more unbelievable is that the before mentioned friend, is a petite Chinese French girl with a fable for the colour pink and the hobbies designing and baking. After they got over the shock, they promptly invited her to Gotham.

Marinette gladly accepted after she asked Master Fu, if it was possible for her to leave Paris, without compromising her duties as Ladybug. In the end Master Fu decided, that she would carry the horse Miraculous with her whenever she would leave Paris.

Having no reason not to visit Damian, she boarded the flight and twelve hours later touched down in Gotham.

During her first night at the manor, she stumbled upon a misplaced Batarang, Tim had accidently left lying around. After that she quickly connected the dots, and promptly confronted the Waynes about their nightly activities.

She even went so far as to berate them for their horrible choice of outfits, that in her eyes where unacceptable. Who even combines red, yellow, and green in a way that the person wearing the outfit, looks like a walking traffic light? Not to mention the lack of pants, of the first Robin suits. During the following conversation about their alter egos Marinette decided to trust them with her own secret identity.