/'altro͞oˌizəm/ noun 1. the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others 2. behavior of an animal that benefits another at its own expense.
hey… do you guys think… that the blue spirit became kinda like a criptid/myth in the ATLA verse? like Zuko never told the public about it obviously. and we know from the ember Island players episode that the blue spirit was “The scourge of the fire nation” so do like… do you think people are out there… looking for the blue spirit like bigfoot… and Zuko is sitting in his palace like “I wonder what I did with that old mask”
Waiting for your friend to get into her house after dropping her off like
I don’t care if she got her keys out, some pepper spray, a machine gun, her parents welcoming her in the doorway with airport runway lights, i will wait for her to safely cross through that threshold.
you are all COWARDS for making “adrien teaches marinette chinese” headcanons, she speaks wenzhouhua at home and just vaguely understands mando because sabine preferred speaking her local dialect with her kids and figured she could learn mando some other time
she did not learn mando but can understand some of it. also she feels insecure about her wenzhouhua at times but. i promise u it’s better than adrien’s mando, which i could not understand for my life and needed subs for
going shopping at the chinese grocery store with her mom and picking out the veggies, knowing what they are but forgetting the names cuz she wasn’t taught to read chinese
SHOES OFF IN THE HOUSE, always wearing fuzzy slippers indoors. her dad forgets this rule sometimes and sabine always starts mopping and grumbling under her breath immediately afterward
i guess it’s a french bakery or whatever but don’t u dare thing sabine didn’t take marinette to chinese bakeries growing up, eating egg custards and hot dog buns and pineapple cakes
her mom sent her to love boat
sabine hosts family reunions every year. the house is extremely cramped and crowded, there’s at least 70 people in inside because only half the family could make it.
“we have two 40-year-old cousins in hong kong from your jiu jiu’s first marriage, but we don’t really talk to them. i think the younger one is a singer”
that jiu jiu is currently sitting on the couch and has two six-year-olds with his second wife
there’s a mountain of shoes at the front door and finding your own pair is like playing “where’s waldo”
especially when you have a lot of cousins in your teens and twenties who all wear the exact same adidas sneakers
long before adrien marinette’s biggest crush was jay chou and she dreamed of being a S.H.E. member
sabine would not wear a qipao 24/7 HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS!!!
she dresses in ankle-length mom jeans and a blouse with the sleeves rolled halfway up and carried a gucci handbag, change my mind
she becomes friends with kagami and brings her to her house and says “oh by the way can you tell my mom you’re chinese but don’t understand or speak it? thanks”
adrien and marinette let the families meet. gabriel reaches for the bill, but it’s nowhere to be found. sabine is cackling in the corner, having finally found someone who doesn’t know the bathroom trick.
she approves of the match once she finds out adrien’s grades and family income because marrying smart and rich will get you places
marinette’s friends think her house is pretty chinese when they walk in with the ink paintings and scrolls. her older cousin’s house on the other hand, has a those plus a shrine plus a buddha statue plus jade turtles and frogs with coins on their heads and in their mouths RESPECTIVELY plus a tape continuously playing buddhist chants.
her mom always tried to give her teachers gifts at the end of the semester and it was embarrassing because NOBODY ELSE DID IT
her friends watched anime but like… she grew up on the old ones like shin chan and doraemon, but the chinese dubs
speaking of which she has tapes of the three monks and tadpoles looking for their mother and nezha conquers the dragon king in her room at the moment
All those family members have very specific names. It’s not just her cousin, it’s her younger male cousin on her father’s side (堂弟 in Mandarin). Talking to her family can be a nightmare when she can hardly remember how this person is related to her, much less their title.
Marinette is totally one of those people who perfers chopsticks and will eat anything with them. And yes spaghetti is a noodle dish I will eat it with chopsticks, fight me.
Sabine has three half empty bottles of Tiger Balm lying around the house.
The spring festival rolls around and oh my fuck what asshole cousin put a string of firecrackers in my bathtub!?
Marinette absolutely does befriend Kagami and has that Asian Friendship ™ experience we all know. It’s refreshing to be able to talk about your trip to see your grandparents without stopping to explain hong bao or titles/names like Nai Nai and Ye Ye. Also who doesn’t like sharing traditional food? Nothing like gossiping over sesame balls. These two are absolute Asian Legends and y'all can fight me.
Sabine is absolutely the kind of asian mom who regularly uses a really fancy tea set. Marinette was not allowed to touch it until she was 10 because she’s such a clutz.
HER FAMILY EATING DINNER HOT POT-STYLE ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS (thats what my family likes to do)
the dupain-chengs are great with french pastries but they’re also amazing with making mooncakes, egg tarts, ningao, Red Bean-Filled Steamed Buns.
You Name It. theyve got it all.
not only did Marinette grow up with the shin chan and doraemon dubs but she sure as hell watched some good ol’ Xi Yang Yang (which is that one piece of children’s entertainment which is as ubiquitous as Spongebob in China)
listen we know marinette is half chinese and kagami is japanese and those are different but at my school all the korean, chinese, etc. kids band together like a squad, so they’d definitely be ultimate besties. but also because they are simply awesome gals. kim is invited too to dine in on the sesame balls
side note: we dont know what year Marinette was born in but NOW I REALLY NEED TO KNOW because i need to know what her Chinese Zodiac Animal is
ALSO!! this original 2013 concept art of her room back was sooooo neat-looking and is worthy to talk about as a whole:
WE COULD’VE HAD IT ALL
This is everything amen
she also watched nezha as a kid cause you can pry that animated classic from my cold dead hands
marinette has never been in china before so she’s had to prove she’s “chinese enough” to her visiting family sometimes but they eventually get it
she hits up the mall with her hongbao money right after her birthday/new years/any occasion bc she wants to buy gifts for her friends
marinette can handle spicy. she can handle spicy spicy. she is the queen of spicy, bc even when she asks the waitress for their hottest dish, she doesn’t hesitate to add more spicy to it
speaking of spicy, sabine makes her own concoction of spicy oils and flakes, stored in reused glass jars in the fridge
Idg why people are against busty women in turtlenecks, literally who cares if you have “uniboob”? To whom do you owe separate and defined titties? Only cowards and fools fear the breast monolith
do you ever just suddenly learn there’s apparently a whole Discourse you’ve never heard of before
