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Sorry for making yet another post about it, but I just REALLY love that they included the mystery of whether Aglae is Cerise or not, right in episode 1. With it being the same voice actress in French, but that in itself isn't a give away because Kagami, for example, shares the same voice actress, too.

But what I TRULY love about this is that it finally gives us a narrative justification for suddenly hiding away Cerise's face even though we've seen her since season 1. That has bothered me the entire time, but now with Aglae (even if she's not Cerise) I can work with this again. Cause another thing this mystery now does well is taking advantage of the new art style.

Yes, we know what Cerise looked like in the OLD art style, but we can't 100% say what her face looks like NOW, especially in the 10.000 disguises she has.

The biggest clue we have by now is that she still has the same short brown hair we saw her have at the end of season 5, which I always took as confirmation that thats how she truly looks like, since we saw her put contact lenses on her brown eyes (which you can't do when you're already wearing contact lenses), and especially because the short brown hair was the only time her hair color actually matched her eye brows.

Especially the eye brows were alongside her long (claw-like) nails the thing I thought they would now use as consistent hints for her being disguised, but I'm honestly not sure anymore since we already saw up-close in episode 2 that Cerise doesn't have her claw nails anymore in the new model (which is a shame cause I loved that detail)

BUT THEN we can kinda gather what clothes Cerise wears as her "real self", and they do go well with Aglae's style and especially the purple and dark color scheme.

Which is yet another thing with two possible explanations: Aglae IS Cerise and this was an easy enough disguise to catch in episode 1, or Aglae is NOT Cerise and her inclusion is meant to tell us design and voice wise to not go with the easiest assumptions. Both are equally valid ways for the show to take this.

I just REALLY love this right now, okay? I missed having this much fun with one of the show's mysteries.

kasane teto in her awesome new outfit

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Our animation pick for today is the recent series, A Sign of Affection. The general style of this series was highly detailed, but we also want to highlight the almost chibi style that appeared frequently. Having both was a fun mix that gave more insight into chracters' feelings and reactions. We really hope there's more animated in the future.

Ohh character+ emoji! I have 2...

First one! Uncommon Combo!

Chloé Bourgeois + 😇

This was SO FUN to draw, you have no idea.

Look at her!!! and her totally innocent face, mhmm, has done nothing wrong, pay no attention to whatever might be happening behind her just focus on her adorable innocent face.

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The book does have a basic breakdown of the hands, but I felt that references like these were much more needed.

From Graphic Sha’s “How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi”

What do you think, is Chloe’s main weakness?

I was trying to decide on which of these two was primary for you, but I think it's a chicken-egg thing.

Her Faith and her Insecurity.

Chloé has zero sense of internal self worth. You can explore why without too much effort. Trophy child, materialistic parents, it's pretty clear what was emphasized growing up.

Without any sense of worth to hang a self-generated framework for morality on, she latched onto other people's.

When she adopts a framework (Audrey/André's being the main) she puts full faith in the correctness of it. She is unshakeable in the face of 'reason'. If not for her faith in the Truth (tm) of how she was raised, she would have given up on the classism long ago. It has never won her anything. She has lost and lost and lost, but she still holds to the fath that the way of life taught by her authority figures is Correct(TM) and it is everyone else who is wrong.

In a sense her willpower is her undoing.

It was Chloé's faith in Ladybug that made her the only person to break free from Hawkmoth without help or Secret Knowledge.

It was the shattering of that faith via Hawkmoth's manipulation and Ladybug's mistakes that caused her downfall.

Chloé needs to be able to accept she has been sold a lie, that others were manipulating her, that she has the right and duty to decide for herself what to believe.

If that happens, I think you would see a cascading change.