I'm Proud of Lady Noire

Every day Lady Noire forces herself to take on the burden of superhero and continue fighting against a villain who is destroying for a city that hates her. It becomes difficult, with the miraculous' powers acting up and the physical toll of her health, of her internal and online and external battles that she never seems to win. She hates seeing Mister Bug, always off to the side, making fun of her--except she fails to notice when he stops, because by then, the burden that she had thrusted onto her has become much too heavy on her, and it's a challenge to just get out of bed every morning and face her classmates. She wants to defeat Shadowmoth one day, truly, because then everyone would learn to love her and accept her, but it becomes too late when one action makes her world spiral downward.

Now, she must deal with a life-long event, and all the while, she must take down a man terrorizing a city where she seems to be very limited on supporters, the numbers growing smaller every day.

Sometimes, when she's alone, she wishes she wasn't Lady Noire. She wishes she was just a normal teenage girl again. But she can never really have what she wants, can she?

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Cross posted on AO3! :)
Cover art: https://pin.it/3TBKbp03e (I fit it to the wattpad cover size and added a filter)
Originally posted on AO3: January 11, 2024
Word Count: 83,624 (minus author notes)