Rena Rouge

Alya Césaire is one of the deuteragonists of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is a student at Collége Françoise Dupont, the admin of the Ladyblog, the head of the school blog, and Marinette Dupain-Cheng's best friend. In the season 2 episodes Sapotis and Syren, she receives the Fox Miraculous from Ladybug, which, when inhabited by the kwami Trixx, can transform her into Rena Rouge, a fox-themed superhero who has the power to create illusions and will aid Ladybug and Cat Noir during certain missions in season 2.
In "Re-Cretion" after Monarch was defeated, Alya got to resume her role as Rena Rouge, with no need to hide anymore.
She is voiced by Fanny Bloc in the French version, and Carrie Keranen, who also voices Mahiru Koizumi, Yamraiha, and Satsuki Kiryūin in the English dub.
==Appearance==
Alya has tan skin, grayish gold eyes, and red-brown hair that is a lighter shade of red at the tips. There is a beauty mark above her right eyebrow.
She wears a orange, purple, beige and white-striped shirt with a white tank top underneath it, sport blue jeans, and black and white sneakers.
As Rena Rouge, the tips of her hair are now white and she has a ponytail. She wears an orange fox-themed superhero jumpsuit with a white front and an orange and white mask. The arms, hands, legs, feet and collar of the suit are black. The Fox Miraculous doubles as a zipper for the collar. She has orange fox ears with white insides on her head, and a coattail that looks like a fox's tail. She carries an orange and white reed flute for a weapon, which she keeps on her back when she's not using it.
As Rena Furtive, Rena Furtive has the same appearance as Rena Rouge expect for having blue hair with her outfit having a blue camouflage print design.
==Personality==
Alya is very clever, loyal, and supportive towards her friends, like Marinette, whom she often tries to encourage to spend time with her crush, Adrien Agreste. She is a fan of superhero comics, and thus also a fan of Ladybug and Cat Noir, becoming very excited about anything having to do with them and wanting to find out their secret identities. 
However, she sometimes goes too far or endangers herself while pursuing information about them, like the time she spied on Chloe's locker in "Lady Wifi". She is also brave, as she is willing to put herself in harm's way to protect other people. She is also shown to be good with children when she babysits her younger sisters and Manon.
As Rena Rouge, she still acts much the same way she does as Alya. She is very excited to be working with the superheroes she admires and sometimes has trouble focusing on the mission as a result.
==Biography==
===Background===
===Season 1===
===Season 2===
In the season finale, Rena Rouge, along with Carapace and Queen Bee, join Ladybug and Cat Noir dealing with Hawk Moth as he carries out his most sinister plan yet, Akumatizing everyone he's turned into a supervillain in the past once more, and not even Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee are immune, as they are also Akumatized into Rena Rage, Shell-shock, and Queen Wasp, putting Ladybug and Cat Noir at a major disadvantage. However, thanks to some ingenuity, Ladybug and Cat Noir destroy Hawk Moth's cane, reverting the Akumatizations all at once. With Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee back on their side, Ladybug and Cat Noir confront Hawk Moth and prepare to disarm him of the Butterfly Miraculous, but are stopped by a new Peacock Miraculous user, Mayura, who manages to get Hawk Moth to safety, escaping their clutches, and they are unable to pursue when Hawk Moth reverts back to his civilian identity, thus preventing them from tracking him with his broken cane, meaning that Hawk Moth is still able to terrorize Paris, and with Mayura helping him, things got a lot worse for Ladybug, Cat Noir, Rena Rouge, Carapace, and Queen Bee.
===Miraculous Shanghai===
===Season 3===
Alya continues to aid Marinette and Adrien, both in her civilian identity and as Rena Rouge, against Hawk Moth and Mayura, along with things back in school, especially after Chloe betrays Team Miraculous to aid Hawk Moth, forcing Ladybug to relieve her of duty as Queen Bee, passing the torch to Chloe's half-sister Zoe as Vesperia instead.
===Miraculous New York===
===Season 4===
Despite Marinette being dubbed the Guardian of the Miraculous Box by Master Fu, entrusting her with the protection of all the Miraculous not in Hawk Moth's possession, Alya cannot maintain her duty as Rena Rouge once her civilian identity was known to Hawk Moth, as he could use it to blackmail her into surrendering the Fox Miraculous to him to protect her family or friends from being turned into Akumatized supervillains. This came after she had been made the permanent bearer of the Fox Miraculous by Ladybug/Marinette to help her in her battles with Shadow Moth, along with temporarily giving other Miraculous to their other classmates, like Luka, Juleka, Mylene, Sabrina, Ivan, Kim, Marc, and Nathaniel. She attempts to circumvent this by taking on a new identity as Rena Furtive, but this only delays the inevitable. When her cover in compromised again during when the team is facing the Akumatized supervillain Risk and the Sentimonster Strikeback, she is forced to renounce the Fox Miraculous for good, unable to continue her duties as part of Team Miraculous any longer. Worse still, thanks to Adrien's cousin Felix, the Fox Miraculous, and the rest of them in the Miraculous Box, fall into the hands of Shadow Moth, now redubbing himself as "Monarch", allowing him to threaten Paris without Ladybug and Cat Noir having Rena Rouge or any of the French Miraculous Superhero Team to back them up any more.
===Season 5===
Despite losing her abilities to become Rena Rouge, Alya joins the Resistance, made up of all the Miraculous users and classmates of Marinette and Adrien, to continue to try and keep morale up as they deal with Chloe and Lila attempting to garner more power and control over their school, especially as Chloe continues to flaunt using her father's status as Mayor of Paris to stay out of trouble. This also goes especially for trying to keep spirits up among the people of Paris as they still believe in and support Ladybug, despite it being only her and Cat Noir now keeping them safe from Monarch.
To try and help, Grevin Museum curator Veronique has a wax figurine of Rena Rouge made, alongside those of the rest of the team, in hopes of helping to boost hope. When Mayor Bourgeois, under Chloe's influence again, refuses to let the figures be displayed, Veronique is Akumatized by Monarch into Manipula, bringing the wax figures of Rena Rouge and the others to life to try and make Manipula look like a hero by bringing the team back. The Rena Rouge wax figure is later defeated alongside the Vesperia one by Ladybug and Cat Noir, and once Manipula is defeated, the figures are restored to the museum unharmed and inanimate again by Miraculous Ladybug, and Ladybug convinces Mayor Bourgeois to open the exhibit after all.
At one point, Sabrina helps Marinette to get Chloe and Lila caught in their most diabolical scheme to get Marinette in trouble and expelled from school, resulting in Lila's expulsion, while Chloe is put under surveillance by Miss Bustier to keep her in line. However, this effort leads to Principal Damocles resigning to protect his students when Chloe flaunts her father's authority again to at least keep the main part of her plan with Lila intact. Chloe later manages to get Miss Bustier fired and Marinette expelled, but this backfires once her father decides to atone for his actions and corruption of duty as Mayor and reverses the decision as one of his final acts before resigning in disgrace.
Even after getting Miss Bustier back, Alya and the rest of the class now had to deal with Chloe taking over as Mayor and turning Paris upside down with all her new laws and rules that seemed to be biased towards the Bourgeois family. They are even sent to Chloe's "detention" maze to suffer, until being broken out by Ladybug and Cat Noir. Confronting Chloe at the Louvre as she was holding a press conference to announce the abolishment of the mayoral elections, Chloe reveals herself to have been Akumatized again as Queen Mayor, and captures Ladybug and Cat Noir, preparing to expose their civilian identities to all of Paris. However, Ladybug's encouraging words convince Alya and the rest of Team Miraculous/The Resistance to urge Paris to rise up in rebellion against Chloe, which they do in spades, and Chloe is left to fend for herself when Gabriel, Tomoe, and Lila, even her own mother Audrey, abandon her to the angry mob. Ladybug and Cat Noir are able to find the willpower to unlock the full power of their Miraculous, allowing them to stay transformed indefinitely without needing to revert back to recuperate from overtaxing themselves after using Lucky Charm and Cataclysm, and thus Chloe's plans fall apart almost instantly, with Miss Bustier personally taking away her mayoral sash and destroying it, freeing the Megakuma for Ladybug to purify. As Alya and everyone else glare down the defeated Chloe, Ladybug is about to give her a Magical Charm, before Andre Bourgeois, Chloe's father and ex-Mayor of Paris, personally sees to taking Chloe away to be severely punished, finally taking control of his life and ensuring that all of Chloe's actions she got away with before finally catch up to her. With Chloe stripped of her power as Mayor, Alya and the other students suggest that Miss Bustier run for the empty position as the new Mayor, and with their encouragement, she does. Alya and the other students then head to the Eiffel Tower to celebrate their end-of-the-school-year dance as Paris celebrates their freedom from the Bourgeois family once and for all.
However, things take a turn for the worse when Hawk Moth, now calling himself Monarch, and Tomoe, launch their master plan: Operation Perfect Alliance, turning many people all over the Earth into Miraculized soldiers to hunt down Ladybug and Cat Noir. Alya finds herself struggling against them alongside the rest of the Resistance, especially after freeing Ivan from being a Miraculized himself. Even with support brought over by Bunnyx, it is a losing fight as the Miraculized keep coming by the dozens. Alya tries in vain to reach Marinette, but keeps getting her voicemail, leaving her to wonder what is happening to Marinette/Ladybug that she's not answering, and worried that she could be in trouble if the Miraculized got to her first.
Thankfully, before Alya and the others can be overrun by the Miraculized, it is around this time that Marinette defeats Monarch, learning of his true identity as Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's father, and Gabriel acquires the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous to have Tikki and Plagg become Gimmi, allowing him to make his wish, which thanks to Marinette's words from talking with him earlier, Gabriel sacrifices himself to heal Nathalie of her comatose state, while he and Adrien's mother and his wife, Emilie, ascend to the afterlife. Gimmi then sees to resetting the universe in accordance to Gabriel's wish.
Fast forward one month later, and Alya and the rest of the Resistance are alright. They are seen celebrating a pool party at the Agreste mansion together, with Adrien now being watched over by a healthy Nathalie, his aunt Amelie, and cousin Felix, while Gabriel is hailed as a hero for taking Monarch down with himself, Tomoe has taken over his company, Miss Bustier was elected the new Mayor and is making Paris more eco-friendly, and after recovering the Miraculous Grimoire from the mansion earlier after her battle with Gabriel, Marinette has rebuilt the Fox Miraculous, along with the rest of the ones Gabriel had acquired, back to their original forms, though Alya sympathizes with her over failing to recover the Butterfly Miraculous and assures her they will get it back. Having learned from what happened with when the Miraculous were all together in the Miraculous Box, Marinette, as Guardian of them, makes the conscious decision to split them up among her classmates/members of the French Miraculous Superhero Team to ensure they can't be taken and used for evil again. Alya is reunited with Trixx and becomes Rena Rouge once more, joining Purple Tigress, Polymouse, Pigella, Ryuko, Miss Hound, Vesperia, Bunnyx, King Monkey, Pegasus, Carapace, Argos, Rooster Bold, Viperion, Caprikid, and Minotaurox as they rejoin Ladybug and Cat Noir with defending Paris from any future threats the city will be facing in this new universe brought about by Gabriel's wish.
Unknown to any of the team, Lila Rossi/Cerise Bianca, now going under the alias "Iris Verde", had acquired the Butterfly Miraculous and planned on using it against Marinette, but was attacked by an unseen force, leaving her fate unknown.
===Miraculous Paris===
Taking place somewhere in Season 5 after the events of "Evolution" and "Destruction", as Marinette and Alya are talking about their next move to try and get the rest of the Miraculous and Kwamis back from Monarch, Alya suddenly collapses to the floor, clutching her head in pain, before suddenly transforming into Ubiquity, a Kamikotized superhero, to allow the Butterfly Miraculous user of a parallel universe, Betterfly, who uses the Miraculous for good, not evil, to come through. After the portal closes, Alya wonders what happened to herself before Betterfly explains everything to her. She is initially enraged, suspecting this was Monarch's doing, but before Betterfly can further explain things, Alya is forced to reopen Ubiquity's portal as her own parallel self from Betterfly's universe speaks through her, warning Betterfly and Marinette that his enemies are coming through and to run for it. After they flee, Shadybug and Claw Noir emerge through the portal, and quickly subdue Alya/Ubiquity, since she's their means to return to their universe. After they take off in pursuit of Betterfly, Alya/Ubiquity contacts Betterfly and warns him of her situation. Thanking her for her efforts, he recalls his Kamiko and returns her to normal, before Alya then has to make up a cover story to fool Sabine and Tom when they investigate all the noise from Claw Noir blowing out the wall of the room with Cataclysm earlier.
Marinette later calls Alya once she and Betterfly reach the Eiffel Tower to explain the situation to her about Betterfly being a parallel Monarch from another universe that fights on the side of good while Marinette's parallel self and that of Adrien are on the side of evil. Alya's a little confused until Tikki clears up the confusion due to her own knowledge of the Multiverse. After that, Marinette asks Alya to keep Tom and Sabine in the dark about the damage to her room until everything is fixed with Miraculous Ladybug. Alya promises to do that before hanging up.
Later, when Shadybug and Claw Noir return to Marinette's room so Shadybug can look over Marinette's diary and learn about her Quantic Universe counterpart's life with Alya and her other classmates and friends, something Shadybug doesn't have in the Re-Verse, finding her cellphone got broken earlier when she first turned into Ubiquity, Alya sneaks downstairs to grab Sabine's, succeeding when she and Tom finally turn off the TV to go to bed. She returns just in time to record when Shadybug and Claw Noir are confronted by Monarch and he offers an alliance with them to acquire the Quantic Universe's Ladybug and Cat Miraculous to summon Gimmi to grant Shadybug and Claw Noir's wishes.
She then flees to meet up with Betterfly, Cat Noir, and Ladybug, to show them the footage, and soon enough, with Cat Noir's encouragement, Ladybug works out a plan:
* First, travel to London as Astrocat and Cosmobug with Alya and Betterfly to be out of reach of Monarch's ability to sense Akumatizations/Kamikotizations so he could reverse it if he sensed it.
* Second, transform Alya into Ubiquity again to access the Re-Verse, then have Betterfly transform back into Re-Verse Gabriel and allow Ladybug to use the Butterfly Miraculous to become Ladyfly to turn Re-Verse Gabriel into the Kamikotized superhero Guardian Angel to protect Ladyfly and Cat Noir from any attempt by his Quantic Universe counterpart in Monarch to ambush them while they are fighting Shadybug and Claw Noir.
* Third, to ensure Guardian Angel can't be turned back, store his object infused with the Kamiko back in the Re-Verse, where it will be safe from Monarch and out of his reach, where he can't detect it.
Once the plan is set, Ladyfly, Cat Noir, and Ubiquity return to Paris, where when they are spotted by Monarch, Shadybug, and Claw Noir, Monarch reverts Ubiquity back into Alya, all according to Ladyfly's plan. When Monarch then attempts to ambush Ladyfly and Cat Noir using the Mouse Miraculous' ability to create clones of himself and paralyze them with the Bee Miraculous' Venom, Guardian Angel's power prevents it and takes out his clones instead. Realizing he's fallen into a trap, Monarch flees, leaving Shadybug and Claw Noir to fend for themselves, and soon be convinced by their Quantic Universe counterparts to repent and turn good, renaming themselves Paw Noir and Ladybug.
The mission complete, Quantic Ladybug returns the Re-Verse Butterfly Miraculous to Re-Verse Gabriel, turning him back into Betterfly, who then turns Alya back into Ubiquity again to provide a portal back to the Re-Verse for Betterfly, Paw Noir, and Re-Verse Ladybug to return home. However, she soon doubles over in pain, sensing someone else is trying to travel to another parallel universe at the same time. Quantic Ladybug figures it is Monarch, using Sublimation to give himself the power to travel to other universes. Telling Betterfly to Kamikotize her to deal with Monarch, Betterfly turns Alya back to normal and sends the Kamiko to Quantic Ladybug, Kamikotizing her willingly into Ladybiquity, a fusion of Ubiquity's powers and the Ladybug Miraculous. With Ubiquity's powers, Ladybiquity syncs with her counterparts in other parallel universes to stop Monarch and his attempts to secure the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous from those universes.
First was a parallel universe where Alya was given the Ladybug Miraculous to become Scarabella and Zoe the Cat Miraculous to become Kitty Noire. When Monarch ambushes them and tries to take Scarabella's Ladybug Miraculous, he's stopped by that universe's Marinette as Ubiquity, who quickly decks him back into his own universe. The next was a 2D anime style universe, where he is quickly spotted by that universe's Ladybiquity and Cat Noir, and quickly overpowered. The third was a comic style universe, but again, Ladybiquity is on top of him in an instant. The final attempt was where Marinette and Adrien had swapped Miraculous and Adrien was Mister Bug while Marinette was Lady Noire, or in this case, Ubiquinoire due to the fusion of the Cat Miraculous and Ubiquity's powers, who quickly sends Monarch packing with her staff, which finally convinces him to throw in the towel and give up, swearing to take out Ladybug throughout the Multiverse to have his victory.
With Monarch defeated, Alya is turned into Ubiquity one last time to allow Betterfly, Paw Noir, and Re-Verse Ladybug to return home, and prepare their Resistance for war with The Supreme. After that, Alya is returned to normal for good, and she and Marinette return home to the Dupain-Cheng Bakery, just in time for breakfast.
==Powers and Abilities==
===As a civilian===
Being the admin of the school blog and Ladyblog, Alya is skilled with phones and technology in general, and knows how to do things like adding videos, streams, and articles. She is also good at writing, as shown with the articles she writes for her Ladyblog and the script she wrote for a movie in the episode "Horrificator". Another one of her skills is reporting and explaining situations even in dangerous situations. Finally, she is a skilled observer, being able to figure out many things about Ladybug and Cat Noir, as well as their enemies, simply by watching them.
===As Rena Rouge===
Rena Rouge has enchanted abilities like speed and strength, and most notably agility, being able to jump much higher than either Ladybug or Cat Noir. Her weapon is her flute, which she uses to hit enemies and use her special ability.
Her special ability is called Mirage, and she uses it by playing her flute, which creates an orange energy ball at its tip. She then swings the flute to throw the energy ball, creating an illusion wherever it lands. 
This illusion will disappear if someone touches it. Mirage can only be used once per transformation and will cause Rena Rouge to revert to her civilian form five minutes after its use. Should she be able to do like Ladybug and Cat Noir in "Revolution" and unlock the full power of her Miraculous, she will be able to use Mirage repeatedly without the need to revert back after a set time limit after using Mirage the first time.
==Trivia==
*She is the first in the show to find out the identity of another Miraculous holder, as well as the second to reveal her secret identity as Rena Rouge. Chloé Bourgeois previously revealed her secret identity as Queen Bee in the episode "Queen Wasp". Ladybug and Cat Noir also found out each other's identities in "Oblivio", but their memories of this were erased by Ladybug's Miraculous Ladybug.
*Alya Césaire is the first person to become a permanent Miraculous holder and second akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel, who akumatized himself.
*She is the first person other than Master Fu to discover Marinette’s identity.
*She shares the same English voice actress with Renling She She.
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