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| “ | Time is like a river with multiple streams, and the Burrow is where they all come together. Okay, we'll make it simple. The Burrow's like a car and we both got the keys. | ” |
Burrow is the special superpower granted by the Rabbit Miraculous to its owner.
Description[]
This superpower allows the user to travel through time without limitation. It is activated by the user speaking its name.
Miraculous Owner[]
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Pocket dimension.
The Rabbit Miraculous Holder opens a portal leading to a spherical pocket dimension full of circular windows. Through these windows, the Rabbit Miraculous owner view any and all events of the past, present, and future, as well as open a portal through any of the windows that one can use to exit the pocket dimension and travel to any desired point in time. The portal can also take the user to the location where the chosen event in time is/was/will be happening.
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Portal leading to the Past.
In "Evolution", it's revealed that Burrow is located at the center of all time, like river with multiple streams all coming together, meaning it is used by all Rabbit Miraculous holders, past, present and future, and they can all meet there. It is also revealed that the Burrow can continue to exist even if there is no active Rabbit Miraculous wearer inside it, as it stayed intact after the paralyzed Bunnyx was stripped of her Miraculous after Monarch left.
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Ladybug and Rabbit Noir running through the air.
Notably, as seen in "Evolution", the portal into the pocket dimension does not necessarily have to be a vertical like a doorway, it can be horizontal like a hole or tilted diagonally if the user chooses. In this case, the user will enter the pocket dimension from a window that is at the same angle as the portal they came through. That in mind, the pocket dimension is shown to have no physical up or down, meaning that anyone inside it can walk anywhere and in any direction without needing a ground to support them, including vertically through the air. Although, this does not prevent someone from falling all the way through if it benefits them.
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Ladybug and Rabbit Noir diving from one portal into another.
Additionally, another portal into the Burrow can opened, even before the first portal closes. Interestingly, even though the Burrow is a sphere, the fact that it's a pocket dimension makes the physics a bit distorted. The spherical pocket dimension can be accessed anywhere and from any direction and the user could open a portal parallel to an already existing portal, in other words, the two portals would be facing each other despite the fact that such thing would normally be nonsensical for a spherical structure.
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A portal window fast forwarding.
The circular portal windows inside Burrow just show blurry colors until someone actually interacts with them; then they show a clear image of a point in time, even voices and sounds can be heard from inside the Burrow. These time periods can be seen from various angles and distances. Each of these portals functions like a touchscreen; they can be made to "fast-forward", "pause" or "rewind" by swiping one's hand across it. The portal windows can also be made to "zoom in" on a specific area of the place and time it's showing, as well as alter the point of view the user is seeing it from and rotate to a different angle. While anyone can interact with the portals like this, only the Rabbit Miraculous users themselves can open them. The "fast-forwarding" and "rewinding" does not simply show the previous events that happen in a certain location, but rather follows one's expectations, allowing the user to track a target through time as well as observe their personal history. Additionally, the portals to the future change accordingly with the events that happen in the past and/or present, meaning, if a change happens in one of them, the future is rewritten progressively.
In "Strikeback" and "Evolution", it is revealed that any holder of the Rabbit Miraculous can use Burrow as many times as they want without detransforming, even an underage Miraculous holder can reopen the portal after exiting. This is due to the very nature of the power itself, the Miraculous of time being unaffected by regular time.
In "Re-creation", it is revealed that Burrow can also be used for teleporting without having to travel through time.
Fluff[]
The effects of Fluff's Burrow is unknown, but it would most certainly be unconstrained and results in some kind of catastrophe. It could possibly be similar to Kaalki's use of Voyage or Sass's use of Second Chance.
Since Burrow causes Fluff's holder to suffer from brief temporal anomalies, like talking backwards, it's possible that Fluff, when she uses Burrow, is able to cause something similar but on a much bigger scale.
Weaknesses[]
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Rabbit Miraculous holder disappearing as a result of past being changed in the present.
According to Bunnyx in "Cat Blanc", "there's a time for everything and time is a fragile thing". Even the tiniest singular difference in the past can cause major, in some cases disastrous, changes in the present. Pennybug gave very specific instructions that absolutely no one must see her, Flairmidable, or the Ball when they traveled to the day Froggy was akumatized in "Strikeback" and with Canigirl in "Evolution". And shown in "Miraculous London", or at least take things or people from the past that will cause the least interference and as long as they and everything are put back in their place in time. As seen in "The Dark Castle", the Rabbit Miraculous holders must be extremely careful with the way they alter time as one tiny change can have big consequences as there is a time and place for everything. Which may mean that the timeline has it's own way of fixing itself meaning sometimes for that happened every event must go the way they did the first time.
Unified Rabbit Miraculous holder telling their teammates that they can't seem by anyone while in the past.
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Rabbit Miraculous holder prevent their teammate from seeing the future.
Because this power can cause drastic and unpredictable changes to the timeline, the Rabbit is considered to be the most powerful and dangerous Miraculous and is only to be used as a last resort when all the other Miraculouses, even the Ladybug, Cat, and Snake, have failed. Even the Rabbit Miraculous holders themselves are not safe from the timeline being changed, even if they are inside the Burrow. If the past before they get the Rabbit Miraculous is changed in a way that alters that event, the holder will slowly start losing the ability to access any time period as the new future starts settling in, shown by the windows starting to close to them and the holder themselves starting to be erased along with their timeline. As seen with Bunnyx, the fading out of existence happens pretty slowly, erasing the user piece by piece or slowly fading out altogether.
Similar to Second Chance, while the user can provide helpful advice to their allies while traveling in time, they must be careful with the information they give out, as that could disrupt their allies plans and Bunnyx says "what's seen can't be unseen", as well as the reason Ladybug chose her specifically to wield the Rabbit Miraculous is because she knows how to keep a secret.
It's possible that an Ox Miraculous holder using Resistance can avoid entering the Burrow if the user tries to make them go through one without their consent.
However, it's not only the Rabbit holders that must keep events of the future a secret but everyone. Like in "Cat Blanc", sometimes telling about future events to allies can also hurt them especially when you can't prove it still believing Cat Blanc about his akumatization, Ladybug couldn't tell her partner why else they couldn't be together romantically because she might have thought Cat Noir still wouldn't believe her or it would devastate him such as when she told him the truth about it in "Strikeback", he didn't believe it was going happen until in later episodes what she mentioned was true and for it to become the hero's greatest nightmare. As well as Past Tikki in "Miraculous London", by jumping 10 months into the future she knew that Gabriel Agreste was Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch all along since she witnessed several points in time that confirm it, yet never told Marinette to preserve the flow of time. Not only that this time version of her and Marinette just met, so Tikki had no idea or way to prove her claim or probably didn't want to give Marinette more than she could handle not without growing a bit.
And using the power to search for answers involving the past can be just as dangerous as looking for answers that involve the future because if one goes looking for answers before they are ready it can lead to complications that alter the future into disastrous results.
Rabbit Miraculous Holder giving their teammates something to wear so they don't get mixed up with their past selves.
According to Bunnyx, there is a risk when the user of Burrow is working with someone else. The user might mix up their teammates with their counterparts from the past. A simple solution is to have said teammate wear something that allows the user to discern the difference. Also depending on how old the person is that the rabbit holder's tracking, they must be mindful of what the person looks like depending on how far back in time they go let alone for a fact finding mission.
There also seems to be another consideration with the Burrow from "Timetagger", to further protect the timeline under certain circumstances or situations there will be times when even the Rabbit Miraculous holder's memories are erased like adult Bunnyx but that was mostly due to her being put into a stone slumber outside the dimension. When Ladybug said to her, "You gotta know how all this ends" in regards to defeating Hawk Moth yet the time separation between both Bunnyxes was 10 years. So from adult Bunnyx's perspective the events of "The Last Day" and "Miraculous London", were a distance memory even more when it came to her stone slumber.
Also regardless of the timeline despite the rewinding and fast-forwarding features of the events following one's expectations it isn't wise to assume things about other events in the timeline such as when Hawk Moth connected to the titular villain he instantly assumed that Timetagger was sent by his future self and was going to keep fighting the heroes for the next decade until he was corrected. Meaning except for the Rabbit holder, others are supposed to know as little as possible so they don't go off and change something off of a whim or an assumption. In "Evolution", both he and Nathalie, just assumed that if the drive was dropped in the past her and Emilie would be saved true but it would only a temporary fix until the latter died of something else and Gabriel would just return to his path as a villain again or be done by someone else. Meaning due to the watch's nature (creating endless possibilities) the best it can do is rewrite how something happens not what.
Another major weakness is that even though the user can choose what point in time they want to go to, if the user's mind is unfocused, they might sometimes end up at a random destination, as seen when Ladybug and Rabbit Noir were chasing Monarch across time.
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Monarch being pulled out from the Burrow by a later version of Ladybug.
As seen in "Evolution", if two Rabbit Miraculous holders are fighting against each other, then they would both have equal control over the Burrow and would be able to use it to one-up each other. When Monarch traveled back in time and was just about to take the Ladybug Miraculous from Ladybug, Bunnyx made the window rewind to just an instant after he got there, and he was pulled back into the Burrow before anyone noticed him, thus preventing him from disrupting the timeline like he did before Bunnyx's interference.
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Monarch attempting to change the past by giving his past self a flashdrive on how to fix the Peacock Miraculous.
Also in "Evolution", Gabriel attempted to leave a flash drive containing information on how to repair the damaged Peacock Miraculous to his past self. His goal was to prevent his wife, Émilie from becoming sick and going into a coma in the first place. However, this would have created a paradox: if Émilie never got sick, Gabriel would not have become a supervillain, and Colt Fathom wouldn't have died. As a result, Marinette, Adrien, and the rest of their team would never have become superheroes, and the events that led to Gabriel stealing all the Miraculouses wouldn't have occurred. Consequently, he would never have obtained the Rabbit Miraculous to travel back in time to save Émilie, meaning none of the events of the series would have happened. Since his attempt to leave the flash drive failed, it's unclear what the consequences of such a paradox would have been.
In "Miraculous London", Marinette considered going back in time to retrieve the Butterfly Miraculous before the new holder could steal it, to ensure the safety of all the jewels. Bunnyx advised against it; despite confirming that losing the Butterfly Miraculous was a major blunder that would haunt her for a long time, going to retrieve it would have altered the course of history, resulting in a branched timeline. There also could be a consideration to another rule, sometimes for your future self to have something your past self needs to get it first.
It should be noted, Bunnyx seemed to know what Marinette's future would hold, or rather, what it's supposed to hold, and she was surprised to see that someone made a wish, as history had somehow gone off track. Also, before the timeline was changed, Tikki hinted that she knew what Marinette would be doing that night, as Marinette borrowed her Miraculous from the past, but that was only after she got help from Bunnyx to go back.
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All the windows going dark.
Burrow completely empty.
As seen in "Cat Blanc" and "Miraculous London", if the entire universe or the very fabric of time itself is on the verge of being completely destroyed, then all the windows will lose their color one by one and become useless. The images in the windows that go dark are replaced with white noise static or turn black, depending on the situation. It's like being at the movies; the film has ended and there's nothing more to see. The windows will eventually disappear completely, turning the Burrow into a blank white void. This even includes the ones that lead to the past, long before the universe was about to be created by the Big Bang. The windows will return to normal if the universe is saved.
Sometimes, after an underage user detransforms, they can suffer from a temporary temporal anomaly, like speaking backwards. It's possible that, for the user to suffer the temporal anomaly, they need to use the power at least more than twice, as Pennybug, when she used the power (using it twice to go to the past and back to the present), didn't suffer any temporal anomaly.
Uses[]
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| - | Bunnyx | Some point in Alix's childhood. | In the cardboard game Miraculous Secrets, it has been confirmed that Alix, when she was little, was given a pet rabbit by her future self. | 
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| Season 3 | "Timetagger" | Bunnyx | The battle against Timetagger | Used several times to travel in time during her battle with Timetagger so she could travel back to the present every time the villain sent her into the past and future. | 
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| "Cat Blanc" | An alternate future Paris. | Used to take Ladybug to an alternative future to fight Cat Blanc and to discover what caused the future to change and prevent it from happening. Later used to travel there again to take Ladybug home after Cat Blanc was defeated and Bunnyx figured out how the future was destroyed. |  
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| A few minutes before Bunnyx showed up that morning. | Used to take Ladybug back to that morning so she could undo the mistake that destroyed the future. | 
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| Season 4 | "Strikeback" | Pennybug | Events of Risk, where Froggy was akumatized. | To find Risk's akumatized object so that the holder of the Dog Miraculous could use Fetch to retrieve it in the present. | 
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| "Evolution" | Monarch | Various events of Lady Wifi, Animan, Riposte and Mayura. | To defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir when they were at their most vulnerable in the past so he can take their Miraculouses. While he is battling Ladybug and Rabbit Noir. |     
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| The 1940s. | To escape Ladybug and Rabbit Noir. |  
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| The day Marc Anciel was akumatized into Reverser. | To escape Ladybug and Rabbit Noir after using Fetch to retrieve the Rabbit Miraculous. | 
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| The Present | To feed and recharge the Kwamis. | 
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| The day he gave Émilie the Peacock Miraculous. | To give his past self a flashdrive containing the instructions to repair the damaged miraculous and prevent Émilie from going comatose, but postponed this mission after being tricked by the heroes. | 
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| Bunnyx (future) | Inside the Burrow | To take Ladybug and Cat Noir inside the Burrow so they can stop Monarch from changing events in the past. Later, after the heroes recovered the Rabbit Miraculous, she uses the power to bring Monarch back to the present, right after the moment she had come to take Ladybug and Cat Noir in her Burrow. | 
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| Rabbit Noir | Various events of Lady Wifi, Animan, Riposte and Mayura | To prevent Monarch from changing events in the Past. | 
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| Heroes Day, during the battle of the Scarlet Army. | Used it to set a trap for Monarch with Ladybug and Canigirl. | 
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| Bunny Dog[1] | Inside the Burrow | To escape Monarch when he tries to retrieve the Rabbit Miraculous with Fetch. | 
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| Bunnyx (present) | The moment where Ladybug and Rabbit Noir borrowed the Dog Miraculous in the past. | To deliver the past Dog Miraculous back to young Master Fu in the 1940s to make sure that the past isn't changed in the present or future timeline. She also sends Ladybug and Cat Noir back to the present right at the moment future Bunnyx delivers Monarch back to the present so they can capture him. | 
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| "Reunion" | Paris in 200 years | To go to the future to find the answer to the question asked by Pharaoh's Book of Truth that Ladybug asked her get, and then go back to the past to give her the answer and then go back in Burrow. |   
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| "Re-creation" | Paris in the present. | To take Luka, Su-Han, Jagged, Penny and Fang to Paris to help The Resistance, the United Heroez, and Ladydragon. |   
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| "The Dark Castle" | Bunnyx | The Present | To reach Marinette in her room after being called by her. | 
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| Bunnybug | Alix's birthday party | To send Alix to her birthday party. | 
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| A few moments before | To give her past self the idea to take Bunnyx's place so she can spend her brithday with her family and friends. | 
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| Alix's birthday party | Tried to give a kiss to Adrien, but changed her mind. | 
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| To stop Jalil from getting dirty with pie and leave the party to change clothes. | 
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| To prevent a pidgeon from defecating on the cake. | 
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| Move a bowl of pudin from place so Nathaniel from tripping on it and have the birthday cake fall on Jalil. | 
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| To move the bowl of pudin back in place after watching how the chain reaction of her previous action caused a major disaster. | 
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| Present at nightime after battling the Dark Castle | To bring her future self into the Burrow and give her the Rabbit Miraculous. | 
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| Bunnynette | Present | To send Ladybug to battle The Dark Castle. | 
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| To bring Ladybug back to the Burrow after defeating The Dark Castle. | 
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| Bunnybug | Present; right after she went to pick her up | To send her future self back to her time. | 
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| Present; after Alix's birthday party | To bring her back inside the Burrow and give her the Rabbit Miraculous back. | 
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| Bunnyx | Present; nighttime | To send Marinette back. | 
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| "Miraculous London" | Bunnyx (present) | Present | To pick up Marinette before the wish granted by Gimmi can reach her, so the two of them can prevent it from happening. | 
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| Events during "Ladybug & Cat Noir" | To allow Marinette to get her Ladybug Miraculous in the past so she can help prevent the mysterious villain from discovering her identity and getting the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to make a wish. | 
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| The moment Spectral Looter steals all the Miraculous from Marinette. | To assist Chronobug during her fight against Spectral Looter. | 
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| Various moments | To assist Chronobug during her fight against Timestalker and prevent them from discovering Ladybug's identity and warning themselves after they are de-akumatized. |   
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| "Diários de Paris" | Bunnyx (present) | 1500's Florence, Italy | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous she met Leonardo da Vinci and Mona Lisa herself. |
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| Ancient Egypt | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, during the time of King Tutankhamun I, where she met Khepri, the holder of the Ladybug Miraculous of that time and confirmed her brother's theory. | |||
| Brazil during the Cretaceous period | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, where she encountered the Vespersaurus paranaensis, a theropod that was found on Paraná Basin and she also tried looking for dinosaur Miraculouses but hasn't found anything. | |||
| The USA during the 1900's | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, she met she met the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, as they invented the airplane and she also intends to visit Santos Dumont, the one who disputes with the Wright brothers for the title as the inventor of the airplane. | |||
| Shanghai, China | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, she visited Fei, the current holder of the Prodigious and also witnessed the battle between Ladybug, Ladydragon and YanWoshi. | |||
| Ancient China, | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, she met Piáo Chóng, the very first holder of the Ladybug Miraculous. | |||
| Paris in the 1600s | While protecting the Rabbit Miraculous, she went to Paris, during the 17th century, when Louis XIII was king, where she met the group that inspired Alexandre Duman to write The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. She discovered that Aramis was actually a woman and that she was as well the holder of the Ladybug Miraculous at that time, known as La Coccinelle. |
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Trivia[]
- In the French dub, this superpower is called "Rabbit Hole".
- "Rabbit Hole" is another term for transporting.
- This is also a reference to the saying "down the rabbit hole".
- Which is understandable as most wild rabbits avoid predators by hiding underground.
- But timewise it means when a person ends up in situation so deep it can be difficult for them to get out.
- Unlike Second Chance, the time travel-like power of the Snake Miraculous, Burrow allows its holder to go forward and back in time physically placing them in a different time period, while the Snake Miraculous' superpower can only go back to the moment its holder has marked it on mentally within its holders perception of passing events.
- Burrow is the sixth known superpower to not need a Miraculous tool to be activated, following Akumatization, Cataclysm, Second Chance, Voyage, and Elemental Dragons. However, the Umbrella can apparently be used to activate it as Bunnyx managed to knock Timetagger through a portal she conjured whilst hitting him with the Umbrella, possibly meaning that Burrow can be activated with the Umbrella but it's not strictly necessary.
- In "Timetagger", Bunnyx repeatedly uses Burrow without saying the name of the power. It is unclear whether this is a feature of Burrow itself, or an ability available to adult Miraculous users in general.
- In "Evolution", it is confirmed that teenager holders have equal access to the full powers of the Rabbit Miraculous as an adult, but will suffer some kind of temporal anomaly, like talking backwards, for sometime.
- Burrow and Voyage are currently the only Miraculous powers to use portals.
- Sometimes, during its use, it's possible to notice the portals can directly transport an individual to a determined point in time, without the need to enter inside the pocket dimension.
- Burrow can also be used to travel to different places within the timeline they are currently without going into a different time stream, which is essentially teleportation.
- This ability to use the power as many times as the user wants is similar to Second Chance, which can be used as many times as the user desires because of its ability to take them to the moment they activated the power. However, unlike it, Burrow does not cause its respective Miraculous to lose energy.
- In a way, Burrow is similar to Lucky Charm, as both create things which the holder has no control over to a certain degree. Though one creates objects while the other creates events.
- At first, the Ladybug Miraculous holder creates an object through their powers and by changing the events of time the Rabbit holder creates a new event(s) as well as a new timeline. However with time and practice the Ladybug holder can conjure the perfect object through willpower but for the Rabbit despite changing the past they don't control everything that happens in it.
- Just like Lucky Charm, Burrow is also similar to Cataclysm too, as both have the power to destroy things to a certain degree. Though one has control over what they destroy while the other doesn't for the Burrow it acts like a domino effect nor a chain reaction.
- Despite the fact that it is the center of all the time flow, Burrow's pocket dimension seems to have a time of its own. Evidence of that is how the holders of the Rabbit Miraculous that have ever existed don't meet each other all at once in the same pocket dimension that is at the center of all the time flow.
- It's unknown how the time inside the Burrow works, but it's possibly connected to the perspective of the holders themselves, as evidenced in some instances:
- In "Evolution", Bunnyx came to the past to help Ladybug and Cat Noir fight Monarch through time, but never encountered him inside the Burrow up until the moment she brought the two young superheroes inside herself. Also, in the same episode, they were able to stop Monarch from changing the events of "Lady Wifi" by bringing him back into the Burrow as soon he left it.
- In "The Dark Castle", Bunnyx is seen receiving a call from Ladybug, while watching a scene from the past of her friends comforting Jalil and trying to find a way to congratulate her on her birthday. This suggests that the Burrow is capable of connecting to the present its user belongs to, allowing Bunnyx to simply hop into the present without any time displacement.
- In the same episode, future Bunnybug is seen giving the idea to present Marinette, while still in the Burrow, while present Marinette, after becoming Bunnybug, had to do the same thing. The same thing happened when present Bunnybug went to fetch her future self so the latter could hold the Rabbit Miraculous, with her then later receiving a visit of her past self for the same reason.
- It's unknown how the time inside the Burrow works, but it's possibly connected to the perspective of the holders themselves, as evidenced in some instances:
- Since expectations are linked to memory, that would imply not only events are recorded in the Burrow but memories too of everyone and everything. As adult Bunnyx said, "she could barely remember" might also suggest that once an event happens its marked permanently by the timeline so if someone forgets then someone else let alone the timeline will remember for them.
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