The Love Square

* Ladynoir
* Adrienette
* Marichat
* Ladrien

> No wonder I fell in love with you.
>
> -Adrien to Marinette Dupain-Cheng in Oblivio

**The Love Square** is a complicated bond between Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste and is also a important part of the story in the show.

## How it works

There are two teenagers named Marinette and Adrien, who are both superheroes named Ladybug and Cat Noir.

Adrien is in love with Ladybug, but Marinette, who is Ladybug, is in love with Adrien.

Cat Noir who is also Adrien is in love with Ladybug who is actually Marinette.

Ladybug who is also Marinette is in love with Adrien.

However, they don't know each other's identities.

## Adrienette

*Main article: Adrienette*

Adrienette is a heterosexual ship between Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste.

In "Frozer", Adrien asked Marinette for love advice.

Adrien thinks Marinette is just a friend but Marinette has a crush on him since the beginning. However, Adrien doesn't know that Marinette is in love with him and considers her an amazing friend. Adrienette is semi-romantic because it is one sided, Marinette loves Adrien but Adrien loves Marinette's alter-ego, Ladybug. It was revealed in "Cat Blanc" that in an alternative universe, Adrien and Marinette are dating.

Marinette always stammers or falls when she sees or talks to him and Adrien just laughs and views her as a friend.

As shown in "Puppeteer 2", Adrien cares a lot about Marinette and was very sad when he thought Marinette was mad at Adrien.

In Season 5, Adrien fell in love with Marinette. But Marinette fell in love with Cat Noir, so she rejects Adrien.

This ship is very popular and many fans enjoy shipping it.

### Fanfiction side

The fanfiction versions of Adrienette often contain a story line that involves Marinette confessing and Adrien rejecting her only to realize that he likes her and the story continues from there with lots of character development and it tends to be more of a fluff kind of story than a sin or lemon, however it is different with ever different author and many people would recommend this ship.

## Maricat (Marichat)

*Main article: Maricat*

Maricat is a heterosexual relationship between Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Cat Noir.

Neither of them are in love with each other. In "Weredad", Marinette thought Cat Noir was about to figure out her secret identity, so she lied and said she was in love with Cat Noir. Cat Noir was pressured by Tom Dupain to join the Dupain-Chengs for lunch and after fighting an akuma they became good friends. In the episode "Glaciator", they hanged out on Marinette's balcony when Marinette was upset Adrien didn't show up at the same time Cat Noir was upset that Ladybug didn't show up for dinner.

In Season 5, Marinette and Cat Noir fell in love with each other.

Many people love this ship and even though they are friends, most fans ship them romantically.

### Fanfiction side

This fan fiction side of Miraculous is often very far from the shows versions of the characters interactions with each other.

The story sides often show Marinette or Cat Noir in need of a friend or place to really feel like themselves and how the become better friends, eventually after sometime they realize how much they truly care the other and they overcome there old crushes of each and love the alter ego version.

Yes, there is character development and it often the stories lead to lemon or sin although most times it ends with just fluff. This is one of the most prefered ships, second only to Adrienette.

## Ladrien

*Main article: Ladrien*

Ladrien is a heterosexual relationship between Ladybug and Adrien Agreste.

In Season 5, Ladybug fell in love with Cat Noir and Adrien with Marinette. This means, that they only see each other as friends.

Ladybug and Adrien both have a crush on each other, but they are both oblivious to Ladybug and Adrien's crush on each other. When they meet each other or when Ladybug saves Adrien, they both blush, and they work as a great team.

### Fanfiction side

Out of every single Fanfiction on Miraculous Ladrien is considered to be the "perfect one" because of the fact that they are both in love with each other already. The story line tends to travel in the direction of it raining or something occurs to where Ladybug and Adrien are stuck together and Adrien is just so in love with her that he confesses or kisses her and Ladybug excepts but she forgot that she is Ladybug leading up to the drama of her wondering if Adrien would ever love her as Marinette and not just Ladybug. They overcome the obstacles and there normally is sin or lemon included not normally as much fluff but its still a good ship to really read about.

## Ladynoir

*Main article: Ladynoir*

Ladynoir is a heterosexual relationship between Ladybug and Cat Noir.

Ladybug thinks that Cat Noir is just a good friend, but Cat Noir is madly in love with her and always hands roses to her which she refuses to accept. Although, in the New York special, she accepts it and leaves.

In "Oblivio", they fall in love with each other and kiss, but have their memories wiped.

In "Heart Hunter", Ladybug was jealous of Ryuko, and asked Cat Noir to call her "M'lady", surprising him.

Cat Noir sometimes proposes to her but she gets serious and doesn't like it, especially when he makes puns or call her "Bugaboo".

In Season 5, Ladybug fell in love with Cat Noir, but Cat Noir with Marinette.

This ship is very popular and (nearly) everyone loves it.

### Fanfiction side

The fanfiction side of Ladynoir is often hard to find because there is already so much content in the show people tend to prefer to make fanfiction about Adrienette and Maricat or Ladrien because they don't feel as pressured to make the characters act a certain way. Anyways, the story lines tends to go somewhat like this, the remember there memories from a previous battle where they kissed or Ladybug realizes how Cat Noir has always been there for her and they fall in love, go through a tough time, have character development, get over an old crushes, and learn to except each other. Honestly to me it seems that this ship is least commonly used for fan fiction but I'm sure that there is fan fic out there that I just haven't found yet. The ship tends to include sin, or fluff never as much lemon though some stories do include it more.