ladyofcreation:

@neyla9 replied to your post “Speculation/Headcanon: Butterfly Miraculous Countdown Power”

I think the Butterfly Miraculous’s power is the akumatization. I just think the countdown first begin once the akuma has been defeated and purified. I think Chat’s cataclysm also first starts the countdown once he has touched something, rather than when he first activates it.

That’s a possibility but wouldn’t that provide the Butterfly Miraculous an advantage that the other Miraculouses don’t have? Even if Cataclysm has a delayed countdown (and I don’t think it does, I think it’s more a case of the show engaging in this trope), it’s a disadvantage to get around with that active, and it wouldn’t remain if you had to detransform. And Lucky Charm and Mirage have no such delays possible (because what reliably constitutes when the object has first been “used”?).

Also, I presume the countdown occurs because the power drains energy from the kwami (in-universe reason, obviously the out of universe reason is to provide limitation on their powers and allow for ‘race against time’ tenseness), and if that’s the reason, I would think that the energy use comes with the initial activation. I mean it is magic, it can work in weird ways – but it makes the most sense to me that energy would be expended at the beginning rather than at the end. Especially since the powers aren’t supposed to be used in a way that they would require release and purification.

I agree, there are a lot of holes in my theory, but I just don’t think the Butterfly miraculous would have two powers (the akumatization and teleportation) when all the other miraculous we’ve seen thus far only have one.

It does seem weird, but I think if you look at it in a sort of cosmic balance way, that it is when the energy needed for the special power disappears, then the countdown begins. Like, the energy used to create the akuma is still connected to the Butterfly miraculous, due to Hawk Moth’s own connection to his victim, and so the miraculous hasn’t “let go” of the energy yet. In the case of heroic users of the Butterfly miraculous, I think once the mission is over, the Butterfly holder “releases” the person they gave powers, thus releasing the energy back into the cosmos.

I admit, I’m pulling at straws, but the fact is we just don’t know a lot about the Butterfly miraculous or how it’s supposed to work for a heroic holder.