It works on a pocket dimension principle. The doorway is the stable way through. If it tries going through the walls, it's gonna hit a lot more than just shielding even if it's capable of phasing without empowering an item.

But if the door is fine, then Papillon definitely isn't getting through. [He's pretty sure the door would be fine. That's why he has a key.] And he doesn't have Miraculous magic. The kwamis are the power source. No kwami, no proper magic. If he had the kwami, we'd know by now.

I do have a couple of copies from last December. We handed over fakes for my father. Used a hologram to make it look like I detransformed. Then I poker faced through the entire complicated exchange, had a whole conversation. Never had I been so glad to both be a model and extremely used to manipulative, control issue laden adults.

I do too. We actually got to enjoy it too, Garfield and I had a lot of feelings about it.