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.
i would like to get to know your world, yuki
I wanna make it clear I'm not docking points off of the episode the episode was fantastic. This is just a really weird note comparing the episode to the rest of the show. I guess this is another point to why Chloe being written to go full bully/villain is season 4 and 5 makes little sense.
thomas recently made some interesting comments about chloe on twitter (which you can read in this post). i’ve been thinking about chloé’s potential redemption arc for a while now, so i wanted to respond to those comments that seem to shut down the possibility of redemption
i have to start by saying that by no means am i a chloé stan, and i am the furthest things from a marinette salter lol (just clarifying because thomas’s points call out those two groups in particular, which are usually the same group). i am also generally supportive of thomas/the writing team and like the direction the show is going. but this is one case where i am hoping it will turn out differently than he’s implying.
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