The clearly depressed version of Adrien just sobbed before Luka while he processed what to do and say. He did love Adrien, a lot. The only reason he didn't say anything about it was because he thought Adrien was still hung up on ladybug. But it seems that wasn't the case after all.

"Melancholy- I do love Adrien" Luka admitted.

"Then why haven't you told him?" Melancholy Adrien replied, through choked sobs.

"I thought he still liked Ladybug"

Melancholy Adrien immediately shushed him and put his hand over Luka's mouth, looking around in panic for a moment.

"Don't say her name is loud! Rage will hear it... he's furious at her..." Melancholy Adrien said.

Luka gave him a confused look, gently pushing his hand away from his mouth. He thought Ladybug and Cat Noir were in decent terms? What happened?

"What? Why?" Luka asked.

"Because she treats him so badly. Never tells him any of the important information, throws him around, leaves him in the dark... it's not the rejection, he can handle that. We all know Adrien isn't amazing as social cues, but once he understood she was turning him down for real he understood that you know? But she started getting... mean..." Melancholy Adrien explained.

"She is...?"

Luka had no idea, then again he wasn't called in as Viperion often, so he didn't have any first hand accounts of the interactions between the cat and the bug off the battlefield. Seems like being inside Adriens head was revealing a lot more than he initially thought.

"Is rage mad at anyone else?" Luka asked.

"Practically everyone... ladybug, Gabriel, the fashion industry, even you..."

"Me?"

"Yeah, he's convinced you're playing with Adrien's heart because you haven't admitted your true feelings yet. I keep telling him that these things take time, and admittedly I didn't think you liked him back so... I may have told rage it's pointless to be mad over someone that doesn't even like you. But he never calms down..."

Luka sighed, looks like things between him and Adrien were more complicated than he thought. It was all one but misunderstanding, he thought Adrien still liked ladybug so he didn't say anything. Meanwhile Adrien was too scared to say anything himself and was waiting for Luka to make the first move. Luka knew when he was back in his own body he had to address this and fix it fast.

"I understand why he's be mad at everyone else, but... Damnit this is all one massive misunderstanding. I do like him, I really do. I just thought ladybug- fuck. Ok, as soon as I'm out of his head I'll talk to him about everything. Will... will that make you stop crying and calm rage down?" Luka rambled.

Melancholy sniffled, trying to wipe away his tears only for them to keep falling.

"No... I mean it does make me feel better. But I have so many other things to cry about, I miss mum, I'm scared for Nathalie, dad hates us- everything is a mess" Melancholy Adrien cried.

Luka sighed again in sympathy, and pulled him into a gentle hug. Melancholy seemed unsure at first, but quickly grew to accept the hug and return it, softly crying into Luka's shoulder.

"I'll try and fix what I can. I can't exactly solve all the family issues, but the parts that involve me? I'll fix them. Now where's rage? I'll talk to him" Luka asked.

"I wouldn't do that, he's... dangerous" Melancholy Adrien said.

"I have to, for Adrien"

The hug broke, and Melancholy gave him a somber but thankful look.

"Down the hall to the right... be careful" he admitted.

"I will" Luka replied, getting up to go face the next part of Adrien's mind.

Melancholy grabbed his sleeve, stopping him for a moment. He gave Luka a gentle smile, tears still in his eyes.

"Hey... thank you" he said.

"No, thank you for telling me what I needed to hear. I'll fix things ok?" Luka replied.

Melancholy nodded, and let Luka go. He made his way down the halls, watching the surroundings that resembled the inside of the Agreste mansion start to become disheveled and broken down. Like someone had come though and destroyed an already abandoned building. The end of the hall had a door, one that had scratches in the wood. Luka hesitantly opened it and stepped inside to find this room that looked like it was once a child's playroom had been completely trashed. Although not in the way an angry teenage boy would be punching holes in the walls. More like things had been torn at, scratched at, disintegrated.

Before he could even call out to Rage, Luka was suddenly knocked down and pinned to the ground, sharp claws digging into his wrists.

"HOW DID YOU GET IN? GET THE FUCK OUT IF HERE-"

So this was rage, he certainly sounded angry. He looked like what Luka would imagine the miraculous of the black cat would look like as a person. He resembled Adrien, but his hair was black, his teeth were sharp and nails were claw like. His cat-slitted eyes glowed green and from his free hand a cataclysm was charged up. The black cat was the miraculous of destruction after all, no wonder Adriens anger manifested like this.

"WOAH! HANG ON! I'm only here because an akuma put me here. I haven't done anything to harm Adrien, promise!" Luka explained, fighting against the string grip of Rage.

"BULLSHIT! YOU'VE ALREADY HURT HIM ENOUGH. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES!" Rage Adrien snapped.

"NOT ON PURPOSE! I didn't mean to hurt him I swear! I didn't even know he liked me until like 5 minutes ago!"

"LIES! LIES. ALL LIES! YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS GABRIEL!"

"WOAH-"

Luka managed to struggle out of his grip, standing up defensively.

"- do NOT compare me to that abuser thank you. I know you're angry and you have every right to be but me not knowing Adrien liked me is nothing compared to what Gabriel does. We BOTH hate him here, direct that rage toward him not me!" Luka said.

"YOU DON'T LOVE HIM! If you did you'd be able to tell tha-" Rage Adrien began, before being cut off.

"LISTEN FOR FUCK SAKES! I DIDN'T KNOW! I LOVE HIM AND AS SOON AS IM BACK IN MY BODY IM TELLING HIM THAT!"

Rage eased up a little, but still looked hurt and had his cataclysm hand ready to strike.

"You mean that..?" He asked.

"I promise. Please just let me fix things, I know I can't fix everything but I can fix the parts that involve me. If I want to do that though I need to see everyone in here, get all sides of his feelings" Luka replied.

He lowered his hand, sensing the sincerity in Luka's voice and deciding to hear him out.

"Fine. But I swear to gods if you break his heart I will shove my cataclysm so far up-" Rage Adrien began.

"-ok, yes I get it. I won't hurt him, I promise. But... what's this about you hating Ladybug? I thought Adrien liked her?"

The mention of ladybug only fired Rage up again, immediately he rolled his eyes and angrily kicked the ground with a scoff.

"He did, that fucking idiot. I knew she was bad news from the start, the way she completely dismissed him- UGH IT MAKES ME SO MAD! WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?! Not telling him about the guardian for months, standing him up, THROWING HIM IN THE TRASH! That bug is a good for nothing, selfish BITCH- I'm so glad he's over that stupid crush" Rage Adrien rambled.

Wow, he really hated her. For a long time it seemed. Luka might not be able to fix that issue completely but he could at the very least be someone to vent to.

"I can't exactly fix those issues, but I can be someone to vent to. If you- or Adrien, ever want to scream into the void, I'll listen" Luka offered.

Rage clenched his fits in anger, but relaxed and sighed letting the tension out.

"Thank you..." he muttered.

"You gave every right to be angry, I don't blame you at all. But you can't wallow in anger forever, if you want Adrien to be happy you need to help him fix things. Let the anger out in a healthy way, I'll help. I promise" Luka explained.

"Yeah... yeah. You're right. Fucking of course you are, you always are..."

Despite getting attacked upon opening the door, Luka found Rage to be simply just hurt under all that anger. And that was something that could be worked on. Having some anger here and there was perfectly normal and healthy, but this much? And bottling it all up? Bad idea.

"I'll help fix things, and now I know about his true feelings I'll act accordingly ok? Promise" Luka said.

"You fucking better-" Rage Adrien replied.

"I promise I will. Now... where's the next person I can talk to? There's a love right?"

"You gotta go through the kid first"

Luka gave him a confused eyebrow raise.

"The kid?" He asked.

"The inner child, he's upstairs"

So there were three more people to talk to to get to the bottom of this. Adrien's inner child, Love and Comfort. At least the last few would me much nicer t to experience than Melancholy and Rage... although dealing with a traumatised inner child? That may be a challenge...