so zombizou was a ride from start to finish, much heavier than weve been getting thus far this season, and chockablock of shipping fuel but it also gave us two very important pieces of information
- mme bustier is the best character, everyone else can go home
- she has really fucking weird eyebrows
joking (not really)! but actually, regarding hawkmoth:
1. hawkmoth can force a person into akumatization.
no verbal contract required, at most maybe a little bit of sweet-talking (which im not convinced wasnt just for hawkmoth to justify his own actions)– and youve got an akuma, out to get the miraculous, whether or not the person agreed to help in the first place
(edit: yes aurore tried to fend off the akuma when it came towards her in stormy weather, but once it and hawkmoth got into her head, she explicitly agreed to help hawkmoth. mme bustier never did)
and 2. hawkmoth can force the negative emotions required for akumatization…or more dangerously, the mere appearance of an akuma, at this point, is all it takes to ignite enough fear to allow hawkmoth to take over
akumas have caused enough damage that they are a well-known fear in paris at this point…and it might allow hawkmoth to skip that first step of finding new victims. instead of waiting around for chloe to step on someones shoe or something, whats stopping hawkmoth from simply…sending out a dozen akumas to find whoevers scared enough to latch on to? boom- twelve akuma attacks at once.
maybe hawkmoth needs that negative emotion to even ‘’’evilize’ the butterfly in the first place, you say? fine- why not start off a single akuma attack, wait a few minutes for the panic to set in…and there you go. a city full of people afraid enough to be made into akuma.
remember how much trouble ladybug and chat noir have had with just one?
edit: well as of syren its confirmed that hawkmoth can send out more than one akuma, but whether he knew the first akuma would be dealt with in time before the other activated or not, is unconfirmed
also marinette bad at jokes
edit: well as of syren its confirmed that hawkmoth can send out more than one akuma, but whether he knew the first akuma...