Tikki

Tikki is one of the two tritagonists of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is a kwami that is connected to the Ladybug Miraculous, and with her power, its wearer can use the earrings to transform into a ladybug-themed superhero, the current wearer being Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
She is voiced by Mela Lee, who also voices Erika Karisawa, Agnes, Yuki Cross in the English Version.
==Appearance==
Tikki is a small crimson creature with a large head, a tiny body, and dark blue eyes. She resembles a ladybug, with two antennae, a large black spot on her forehead, back, and each side of her head, and a short tail with three tips aligned vertically. However, when commanded by the wielder of the Ladybug Miraculous to reveal herself, Tikki transforms into a more humanoid form with two legs, six arms, wings, and a ladybug-themed appearance. She can then be commanded to fuse with her counterpart, Plagg, to become Gimmi, Kwami of Reality, and grant a wish to whoever summoned her, but as to maintain universal balance, a sacrifice must be made in return, i.e. if someone wishes to bring someone back to life, someone else must lose their life in exchange, and Gimmi will then destroy and recreate the universe in accordance with the wish.
==Personality==
Tikki is calm and collected, while being optimistic, loving, kind, and encouraging. Having a lot of wisdom, Tikki is very open to giving advice, and she will call people out for bad decisions if necessary. Although she can become annoyed or exasperated with others, she doesn't stay upset at them for long, only wanting what's best for them and those around them. She believes in the importance of saving the world above her own needs, even willing to help Marinette transform instead of seeing Master Fu to get healed in "Princess Fragrance". She can also act a bit rashly if she needs to achieve something important, like getting the Miraculous book from Adrien in "Volpina".
She also takes things literally, like when Marinette asks someone to pinch her thinking she means it and when she believes Alya is heading to a dentist because she doesn't understand what a surprise party is. Sometimes, Tikki shows a more playful and affectionate side. In "Guitar Villain", Tikki plays an air guitar solo with Marinette, and she has a pretend fencing match with her in "Riposte". She can be hurt or displeased when someone isn't paying attention or appreciates her, displeased with Marinette unintentionally disregards her gift to her in "Befana". When around other kwamis, Tikki is playful, generous and kind as she is seen playing with Wayzz in "The Collector" and when she shares a macaron with Plagg in "Dark Owl".
==Abilities==
Tikki is able to fly and levitate. In "Copycat", helping Marinette get Adrien's phone, she shows that she can also phase through solid objects, such as a locker door so she can unlock it. She can also carry things that weigh more than her, such as bringing an apple to Marinette without struggle until she trips over a spool of thread in "Mr. Pigeon".
As a kwami, Tikki gives the wearer the power of creation (good luck) and transforms them into a ladybug-themed superhero by entering the Ladybug Miraculous. Although unable to communicate to the wearer while they are transformed, Tikki usually knows what is going on during that time. In "The Bubbler", Tikki is aware that Marinette wasted her power as Ladybug because she was jealous of Chloé with Adrien, and in "The Mime", after Marinette detransforms, Tikki says to her that it was cool she complimented Alya when she was surrounded by the press earlier. Whenever the wearer uses Lucky Charm, Tikki begins losing power and eventually can't retain the transformation any longer, leaving the earrings and reverting the wearer back to normal. Tikki is exhausted and out of energy afterwards, so to be able to transform the wearer again, she must refuel by eating food like cookies.
== Biography ==
=== Background ===
Thousands of years prior to the series, Tikki and the other Kwamis traveled the universe, unable to interact with any creatures, particularly humans. This was until a mage forged the Miraculouses, so Tikki and the others could both interact with mankind and grant them the ability to transform into heroes; Tikki and the Ladybug Miraculous able to give a person the ability to grant other people superpowers.
=== Season 1 ===
=== Season 2 ===
=== Miraculous Shanghai ===
=== Season 3 ===
=== Miraculous New York ===
=== Season 4 ===
=== Season 5 ===
=== Miraculous Paris ===
Tikki is with Marinette and Alya still discussing the situation following the events of retrieving the Rabbit Miraculous and Monarch being infected with Cataclysm, putting him on a proverbial countdown to a date with the Grim Reaper as his body succumbs to the Cataclysm's necrosis. When Alya suddenly collapses to her knees and transforms into Ubiquity, a Kamikotized superhero, a portal she summons brings the Gabriel Agreste from a parallel universe, known as Betterfly due to using his Butterfly Miraculous for good, not evil, through. When Marinette instinctively goes to turn into Ladybug, Tikki signals "no", indicating Marinette can trust this version of Gabriel. When Ubiquity warns that Betterfly's enemies are coming through and to run, Tikki goes with Betterfly and Marinette as they flee to the Eiffel Tower, only to then be engaged by Betterfly's enemies, Shadybug and Claw Noir. Watching from her hiding spot, Marinette is told by Tikki that there are multiple parallel universes out there, and she can exist simultaneously in all of them, but due to the human lifespan, there is never enough time to fully explain all the details to one Miraculous user before they pass on. Tikki also reveals that whenever Marinette turns into Ladybug, when she uses her Lucky Charm, it triggers a failsafe, resulting in why Marinette turns back to normal after a set time limit after using Lucky Charm, as using it saps health from both the Kwami and the user. Since Shadybug and Claw Noir use their Miraculous for evil, they can bypass this failsafe, but in the process, using their Lucky Charm and Cataclysm constantly without need for rest and recuperation is slowly killing them. Horrified by this revelation, Marinette has Tikki turn her into Ladybug to protect Betterfly, and when Cat Noir arrives to help, Betterfly Kamikotizes him into the superhero Celesticat to fly Ladybug and himself to safety.
After Marinette and Adrien revert back, they feed Tikki and Plagg to help them recover their energy while they recuperate, and learn the full details from Betterfly of the nightmare his universe is in thanks to The Supreme, who possesses all of the Miraculous, and placed seals on Tikki and Plagg to prevent summoning Gimmi in that universe so he alone could control reality there.
Speaking of the parallel Tikki, upon Shadybug reverting back to Marinette, having read the Prime Marinette's diary and learning of Gimmi, she tries to have her Tikki and Plagg become Gimmi, but The Supreme intervenes, reminding the Parallel Marinette and Adrien that only he defines reality, before turning Tikki and Plagg back to their Kwami forms. Monarch then appears and offers Shadybug and Claw Noir the opportunity to help him capture his universe's Tikki and Plagg to summon Gimmi and have their wish.
Once Tikki and Plagg are recovered, and so are Marinette and Adrien, they turn back into Ladybug and Cat Noir and agree to help Betterfly. Upon Alya showing that Shadybug and Claw Noir have allied with Monarch, Ladybug and Cat Noir fly Betterfly and Alya to London to carry out Ladybug's plan to beat them, having Betterfly turn Alya into Ubiquity again, then having Ladybug combine Tikki with the Parallel Nooroo to become Ladyfly, Kamikotize the good Gabriel into Guardian Angel, and stash his Kamikotized object back in his home universe where Monarch can't detect it and reverse the transformation. The plan works as Monarch is forced to retreat upon realizing he fell into a trap, while Ladyfly fights Shadybug. However, upon summoning a mirror as her Lucky Charm, Ladyfly tries to reason with Shadybug, but Shadybug, distraught and blinded by her hopelessness, breaks it while telling Ladyfly of how much she's suffered back in her universe thanks to Chloe and not having any friends or family to turn to for moral support. Seeing this, Ladyfly manually reverts back into Marinette, and with Tikki watching, tries to still reason with Shadybug. At first, Shadybug pins Marinette to the wall and prepares to take the Butterfly Miraculous back before probably going for Tikki and the Ladybug Miraculous next, but Marinette's words finally break through The Supreme's conditioning of Shadybug, and she relents. Encouraged by Marinette and Tikki, Shadybug performs her own Miraculous Ladybug to repair the damage she's wrought on the Prime Paris, which also heals her and gives her a new uniform, though whether or not this also broke the seal on the Parallel Tikki and Plagg to summon Gimmi is unknown.
When Ubiquity warns that Monarch is attempting to give himself the power to travel between universes to get the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous from somewhere else, Tikki braces herself as Ladybug willingly lets herself be Kamikotized into Ladybiquity, allowing her to link with herself in the parallel universes and attack Monarch from there, forcing him to abandon his quest and swear vengeance on Ladybug throughout the Multiverse.
After Betterfly and the reformed Shadybug and Claw Noir, now calling themselves Ladybug and Paw Noir, return home through Ubiquity's portal to their home universe, Marinette, Tikki, and Alya return home just in time to get some sleep before awakening for breakfast made by Marinette's parents.
=== Season 5 Continued ===
In the two-part season finale, Tikki joins Marinette as, tipped off by Argos and Kagami as to Monarch's true identity as Gabriel Agreste, and joined by Plagg, who had been told to return to Marinette to protect her by Adrien as he was in no position to help her anymore as Cat Noir, they infiltrate the mansion and confront Monarch while avoiding the various citizens who, thanks to Gabriel and Tomoe, had been turned into loyal Miraculized soldiers to hunt Ladybug and Cat Noir down. Having Tikki and Plagg combine their powers to turn her into Bug Noire, Marinette faces off with Gabriel, but is unable to disarm him of the Butterfly Miraculous until she threatens to attack the glass coffin containing Gabriel's comatose wife and Adrien's mother, Emilie. With Monarch forced to protect his wife from Bug Noire's attacks, she manages to disarm him of the Butterfly Miraculous, turning him back into Gabriel. After she shows him the last video message Emilie left to Nathalie before slipping into her coma from using the Peacock Miraculous while it was damaged, seeing Gabriel finally break down in guilt and remorse, Marinette reverts back from Bug Noire, despite Tikki and Plagg warning her of the risk of doing so, to encourage him to repent and atone for his actions. However, with his own body about to die from the necrosis from the Cataclysm he infected himself with before, Gabriel uses his last ounces of strength to immobilize Marinette with the Bee Miraculous' Venom, just as Tikki and Plagg warned her of, captures the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, and then has Tikki and Plagg transform into their true forms, before fusing into Gimmi. However, Marinette's words did have an effect on him, and Gabriel asks Gimmi to look in his heart and soul for what he wishes for and what to sacrifice in return to maintain the universal balance. Understanding his request, Gimmi grants it, sending Gabriel and Emilie to the afterlife before beginning the process of recreating the universe in accordance with Gabriel's wish.
After Gimmi completes her task and returns back to being Tikki and Plagg, fast forward one month later to show that Gabriel's wish seemed to have a positive effect on Paris: Adrien is back in his family's estate like he never left, his aunt Amelie, cousin Felix, and a healthy Nathalie are watching over him, his classmates are having a pool party there, Miss Bustier is the new Mayor of Paris, making it more eco-friendly, Tomoe has taken over Gabriel's business to continue his legacy, and Gabriel himself is hailed as a hero for taking Monarch down at the cost of his own life, with a statue being made in his honor using the melted down Alliance Rings after all the Miraculized were reverted back with no memory of what happened thanks to Gimmi's power. With Tikki and the Miraculous Grimoire's help, Marinette is able to restore the Miraculous back to their original forms, and entrusts them once more to her classmates to become members of the French Miraculous Superhero Team again, seeing it better to keep the Miraculous separated to prevent them being stolen and used for evil again, but much to Tikki and Marinette's disappointment, they could not recover the Butterfly Miraculous, but vow to find it and get it back, even if someone else acquired it and intended to use it for evil as well.
==Trivia==
*Tikki's name means "happiness" in another language.
* Tikki is the only kwami who is referred to by the feminine pronoun in Season 1.
** This is true in every dub except for the Korean and Turkish dubs, where Nooroo is considered female.
* She is the kwami of creation.
* There have been cases where Tikki has been accidentally heard or noticed by people:
** Alya overhears Marinette's and Tikki's conversation in "Lady Wifi" and "The Mime".
** Cat Noir almost sees Tikki when he is trapped with Marinette in "The Evillustrator", but Marinette manages to hide her.
** Tikki is almost seen by Cat Noir in "Befana" when Marinette attempts to transform but she stops before he gets to her.
* In an interview, Mela Lee revealed that Tikki likes baking, but that she is too small to bake, and so she will spend time just reading recipe books.
* She knows about Cat Noir's secret identity.
*She symbolizes the Yang.
* She is around 13.772 billion years old.
*She share her English voice actress with renling Tang Tang.
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