Talk:Ladybug (episode)/@comment-374096-20190811200941

Look, all I'm saying is, Marinette is just a very unreliable friend. She, herself, has admitted that she's become a master of terrible excuses and she's always flaking out or suddenly disappearing in the middle of things. And while Marinette is kind and wonderful and her friends generally seem to not mind, as of Timetagger, she's definitely been doing this for at least a whole year now. Now, we know why Marinette is always flaking and disappearing at random, but her friends don't. And, let's be honest, having your friend frequently cancel on you for seemingly no reason, with increasingly poor excuses for over a year...you're not gonna feel nothing. Most people would feel something, even if it's deep down in their subconscious. And those feelings are a perfect workshop for Lila. We all know that when it comes to lies and telling stories, Lila's like Scheherazade, only Marinette, Adrien, Gabriel, and Nathalie have seen through her so far (probably because they're constantly living double lives).

Also, it's not like easily succumbing to negative emotions is a novel concept for Marinette's classmates. I mean, even after receiving Kwami and becoming superheroes, Alya and Nino still succumbed to their negative emotions and managed to get re-akumatized in Oblivio. And, in Reflekdoll, we know that Juleka somehow manages to get akumatized again, plus, in Félix, we know that Alya and Juleka succumb to negative emotions and become reakumatized for a third time (Rose for a second time).

With all this, I'd say that yeah, it makes sense that Lila would be able to turn her friends against her. Lila promised Marinette that "soon you won't have any friends left at all". She's been planting the seeds as far back as Timetagger, where after Marinette dips and breaks her promise to babysit Alya's sisters and Chris, Lila swoops in to replace her, so it's not like this is coming out of nowhere. Lila's clearly waging a protracted campaign to break Marinette's friendships

In this respect, Adrien is pretty fortunate not to have too many friends or be allowed to hang out often. He's not forced to constantly lie