Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Undying Echoes by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
04 Feb 2022
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When the thing appears in a flash of light, blood-red with death-black spots, all Marinette can feel is—
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[In which the lost soul of a magical girl slips through the cracks between universes and settles into the body of the child known as Marinette Dupain-Cheng.]
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- Part 6 of Marinette-centric Fics
- Part 1 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Chained by Memories by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
02 Oct 2022
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Marinette has always felt there is something…off about herself.
(That might be because she really isn’t supposed to exist.)
[Marinette was a magical girl in her past life au]
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- Part 2 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 2 of nobody has a good time (whumptober 2022)
- Part 10 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Illusion of Safety by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
04 Oct 2022
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When Ladybug casts the miraculous cure for the first time, she fully expects it to take part of her energy, health or even pieces of her soul for payment. It doesn’t happen, but that doesn’t mean Marinette can bring herself to believe the miraculous cure is the fix-all button the rest of Paris seems to think it is.
[reincarnated magical girl Marinette au]
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- Part 4 of nobody has a good time (whumptober 2022)
- Part 3 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 11 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Know Nothing of Loyalty by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
05 Oct 2022
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Chat Noir might be Ladybug’s chosen partner, but that doesn’t mean she trusts him.
(what do magical girls know about loyalty? everyone competes. everyone betrays. everyone is an enemy.)That is, until an akuma attack triggers half-forgotten memories from
Marinette’spast. Ladybug is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about herself, and she realises Chat Noir is a partner she truly does not deserve. (But then, she has always known that.)[ex-magical girl Marinette au]
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- Part 5 of nobody has a good time (whumptober 2022)
- Part 4 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 12 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Story without a Happy Ending by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
06 Oct 2022
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(
This is a story without a happy endingThis was a story without a happy ending.)
After her conversation with Chat Noir, Marinette dreams about her past life.
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- Part 6 of nobody has a good time (whumptober 2022)
- Part 5 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 13 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Nightmares are Dreams Too by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
26 Jan 2023
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To Adrien, becoming Chat Noir is a dream come true. It takes far too long for him to comprehend why Ladybug views her powers as a nightmare.
(But then, aren’t nightmares dreams too?)
[ex-magical girl marinette au]
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Finding The Best Part Of Me by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
09 Jul 2023
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There is something fundamentally
strangewrongdifferent about Tikki’s latest holder. But Tikki can see Marinette for who she truly is—a scared (of what?) and traumatised (by what?) young child with too little people on her side. And Tikki will stop at nothing to provide Marinette with the help she doesn’t know she needs.Or; in which Tikki gets attached easily, and kwamis are fiercely protective over their chosens.
[ex-magical girl Marinette au]
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- Part 7 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Love Conquers by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
14 Dec 2024
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True Love’s Kiss breaks the spell. Nobody ever said True Love has to be romantic.
(or; Dark Cupid, but it's Tikki proving her affection for Marinette.)
[ex-magical girl Marinette au]
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- Part 8 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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The Monster Within by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
18 Dec 2024
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To defeat Sapotis, Chat Noir deploys the Fox miraculous. Ladybug definitely does not have a panic attack the moment she finds a new miraculous at play, haha.
In which old habits die hard, and being (ex-)meguca continues to be suffering.
[reincarnated magical girl!Marinette au]
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- Part 9 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Guard the Future by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
12 Jan 2025
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Ex-meguca!Marinette au. A butterfly flaps its wings (or rather, a lost soul falls from magical girl heaven back onto the mortal coil). Somehow, this causes Chat Noir to be chosen as the future Guardian instead of Ladybug.
And unlike Master Fu and the Ladybug of an alternate universe, he isn’t that keen on keeping secrets from his partner.
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- Part 10 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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The Memories Bring Back You by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
06 Dec 2025
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Three deities hold a conference in Marinette’s room, and Marinette finally regains all the memories of her past life.
There are a lot of conversations to be had about that.
[Marinette was a magical girl in her past life au]
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- Part 11 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Strength in Broken Places by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
07 Dec 2025
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Chat Noir has learnt about Ladybug’s past life as a magical girl…but things don’t change as much as Ladybug thought they would.
Within the box is a cake, covered in uneven white frosting. Painstakingly piped onto the surface is the following message, spelt out with shaky black icing:
Congrats on finally discovering the source of your trauma!!
{ sorry that the bunny-cat thing was awful :,( }
Well, mostly.
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- Part 12 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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To The Ones We Lost On The Way by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
09 Dec 2025
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Marinette makes a shrine to commemorate her dead friends.
[ex-magical girl Marinette au]
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- Part 13 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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A Kinder Reflection by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
12 Dec 2025
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“Did you know some really famous historical figures are miraculous holders as well? Uh…for example, there’s our national hero, Jeanne D’Arc—”
Huh. Ladybug frowns, “In my…in my past life, Jeanne D’Arc was a magical girl.”
Chat Noir blinks. “Huh.”
Or; just how many miraculous holders also happen to be magical girls?
ft. Marinette & Tikki heart-to-heart
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- Part 14 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Life's Metamorphosis by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
15 Dec 2025
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As ladybugs mature, they break free from their pupae and grow into the iconic, red-spotted images of their adult forms.
A study of Ladybug’s metamorphosis, told through the evolution of her costume.
[ex-magical girl marinette au]
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- Part 15 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
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Nowhere I Won't Follow by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
30 Sep 2023
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In which the Jeanne D’Arc who is a Ladybug wielder and her Black Cat, are reincarnated as Tart and Riz.
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- Part 16 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 1 of Undying Echoes (past mortality)
- Part 1 of pain is just the firing of nerve impulses (whumptober 2023)
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False Heaven by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
01 Oct 2023
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Madoka’s eyes are wide.
“…you’re scared of me.” she whispers, voice impossibly small and confused, and—oh, Homura thought she couldn’t possibly feel worse, but here she is, her monstrous heart torn in half by how broken Madoka sounds because of her.
Homura throws her head back, and laughs. If failure could speak, it would make the same sound as the strangled vibrations from her throat.
EPIC FAIL!! Homura’s Guide to Imprisoning Goddesses 101
Series
- Part 17 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 2 of Undying Echoes (past mortality)
- Part 2 of pain is just the firing of nerve impulses (whumptober 2023)
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Hope, the Best and Last by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
04 Oct 2023
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The Goddess lays her humanity on the altar, and rewrites the laws of the universe. It changes nothing—and everything.
Or; in the version of the world after Madoka made her Wish—between her first life as a magical-girl-turned-witch and her third one as the wielder of the Ladybug miraculous—Marinette lives and dies once again.
[an ex-meguca!Marinette extra]
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- Part 18 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 3 of Undying Echoes (past mortality)
- Part 3 of pain is just the firing of nerve impulses (whumptober 2023)
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Remember When You Promised You’d Never Leave? by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
08 Oct 2023
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Once upon a time, [plum]’s brother died in a warehouse fire, and the rest of her family left her for dead. She Wishes to change things, so that her brother never died and her family never fell apart. But just because it never happened in this timeline doesn’t mean it never happened to her, and—
Being abandoned by her own family is the sort of thing that leaves its scars.
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- Part 19 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 4 of Undying Echoes (past mortality)
- Part 4 of pain is just the firing of nerve impulses (whumptober 2023)
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Live Your Life and Die Your Death by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
16 Oct 2023
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Her mother has two dying wishes: “Don’t stop living on my behalf, my dear sunflower! Go out, enjoy the world, and try to help as many people as you can along the way.” and “Damn. I was really fucking hoping to eat that one dish once more before I died.”
So, she takes it upon herself to fulfill both at the same time.
Series
- Part 20 of Undying Echoes (of a life long-lost)
- Part 5 of Undying Echoes (past mortality)
- Part 5 of pain is just the firing of nerve impulses (whumptober 2023)