Zoé Lee

* Zoé
* Vesperia

> No - my name's Vesperia!
>
> Zoé

**Zoé Lee** is a character who appears in the fourth Season of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. She's a teenage girl from New York City and a student in Ms. Mendeleiev's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. She is also Chloé Bourgeois' half-sister. She attended a boarding school back in New York, where she used to live with her mother.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Zoé is a slender half Zainichi Korean and half American teenage who has blonde hair with hot-pink bangs on the left side, vivid azure eyes (similar to Marinette's) and light scarlet lips. She also has small freckles. In "Sole Crusher", Zoé's hair strand was originally like the rest of her hair until she gets it dyed later in the episode by Rose and Juleka.

### Civilian attire

She wears a black leather jacket, a white top with a pink, cyan and yellow honeycomb flower on the front, and yellow pants. On her feet, her shoes have white shoelaces, toe caps, and soles. The sides of her shoes are decorated with blue, lime-green, and pink heart patterns with black outlines. There's a moderate apple green crown on the left side of her left shoe and a white skull on the left side of her right shoe. The midsole of the shoes seem to be decorated with different drawings that appeared to be drawn with a black permanent marker. The left shoe has a red heart drawn on the toe cap that reads "I ❤️ U". At the end of "Sole Crusher", her shoes get more drawings from her new friends. She also wears a two blue beaded brown bracelets and red and yellow pattern wide white bracelet with black lining on each on her left wrist and a luminous vivid opal-colored beanie on her head.

### As Vesperia

As Vesperia, she wears a yellow and black swan-necked, bee and wasp hybrid formed themed-superhero jumpsuit. The upper part of the suit is black with yellow stripes with yellow forearms and hands with black fingers. She has a zipper at the front with a triangular yellow and black slider, making it look like she is wearing a jacket. The lower part of the suit is yellow with black stripes. She wears black boots with a yellow stripe at the collar, tongue and toecap and a black mask with yellow around her eyes. Her hair becomes braided with a black streak and her bangs are of equal length and black highlights. The Bee Miraculous is located right above of the base of her braid. She also has a black hair tie, similar to Chloé's as Queen Bee. The spinning top, her weapon, when not in use, is around her hips and is black with yellow stripes.

## Personality

Zoé is a very sweet girl. She can be very caring and nice to anyone that crosses her way, being even able to make friends with someone she has just met, like Marinette Dupain-Cheng. She is also very forgiving, showing this in Sole Crusher, after Marinette trips and falls on her. Zoé is also very generous, as she gave to the taxi driver that took her to Le Grand Paris the baking goods that Marinette gave her, after hearing from her how her children love them. She is also shown to be creative, shown to dye her hair and customize her own shoes.

Her greatest dream is to become an actress, and she is very skilled at doing so. However, because she was constantly acting a role, Zoé ended up concealing her true self and, when she was not able to do it anymore, she ended up having no friends back in New York. After moving to Paris to live with her maternal family, she pretends to be like her mother and half-sister in order to please them and be accepted by them. She also wants to fit in, which is why she is always acting. After being deakumatized, she learned that the way she was acting was wrong, and decided to finally stop hiding her true self.

However as Vesperia, most of Zoe's personality remains the same and she's proven to be very clever using her acting skills that led to her sister's downfall. She can also act in a flashy way, similar to Queen Bee, but always shows a much humbler side. According to Plagg, she is more refined, sweeter and nicer than Chloé.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Zoé is very good at acting. In fact, she is so good she can convince others she possess a much different personality than the one she truly has, as she was able to convince her mother and half-sister she was just like them. In the episode "Queen Banana", a scene from a movie shows her skillfully wielding a toy sword demonstrating that she has good fencing skills.

### As Vesperia

Zoé, as Vesperia, has the same abilities as the most recent Bee Miraculous holder, Chloé. She has enhanced physical characteristics such as speed, strength and agility. She also has the superpower Venom, enabling her to immobilize her opponents.

## Relationships

### Chloé Bourgeois

Chloé is Zoé's maternal half-sister. They come to meet when Zoé comes from New York to live with her maternal side of the family. Despite having a very sweet and caring demeanor, she, decided to be accepted and liked by her sister, by pretending to be like her, vain and mean, and following her advice, ending up being mean to Marinette, the very first friend she meets in Paris, in order to please her. After being deakumatized and realizing she could be herself and still be accepted, Zoé stops following Chloé's advice, causing a great gap in their relationship.

Their gap continued to grow in "Queen Banana", when Chloe's jealousy got the better of her as Zoe was going to be the star of their class' film and yet she didn't mind giving her sister the role. Despite that when the class' original film was put in the theater it caused Chloé's jealously to make her vulnerable to akumatization and Zoe was her main target, she gave into her akumatized sister's demands but was saved by Ladybug. Then, realizing she'd have to become a heroine to save her sister, Zoe was hesitant to take the Bee Miraculous knowing how Chloé would react but as Vesperia she helped Ladybug and Cat Noir deakumatize her. Despite it she heard that Chloé wasn't thankful and called and inferior copy of her.

After Chloe's deakumatization, Zoe still chose to love and care for her regardless of Chloe still hating her and convinced her in taking Ladybug's magical charm saying it was gift from their mother.

Her desperation to be accepted by Chloé causes her to be akumatized by Shadow Moth into Sole Crusher. In her akumatized form, she wants to show Chloé that she can be at her level and better by crushing her with the latter's own shoes she had lent to her. She follows her all over Paris just to be able to stomp on her.

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Zoé meets Marinette when she arrives to Paris and stops by the latter's family to have some French croissants. The two of them immediately get along, with Marinette inviting her to hang out with her and her friends and sharing numbers. However, struggling to be accepted by her half-sister Chloé, Zoé ends up being mean with Marinette in order to please her. After being akumatized and learning that she can be herself and still be accepted, Zoé stops listening to Chloé's advice and decides to be friends with Marinette. She was working with Marinette and their friends in making a film. During Chloe's akumatized rampage in "Queen Banana", she was brought to safety by her.

Unaware that Marinette is heroine, Zoe first sees Ladybug among the rooftops with Cat Noir as she was getting a tour of Paris. After being deakumatized, she was grateful towards the heroine for saving and giving her the magical charm. In "Queen Banana", she was saved by Ladybug when giving into the titular villain's demands, and seeing that the heroes would need her help in stopping Chloe, Zoe hesitated in taking the Bee Miraculous aware of her actions with it believing she wasn't strong enough to do it until she was convinced by Ladybug otherwise and working together they deakumatized Chloe. But hearing Ladybug voice concern about Chloe rejecting the Magical Charm being only thing that can protect her from future akumatizations, she had idea how to get her sister to accept it and in doing so returned the Bee Miraculous to the heroine.

As Sole Crusher, Zoé is shown to still have some care for Marinette. This is shown when, after capturing Marinette while trying to get Chloé, Sole Crusher doesn't absorb her, holding her instead. Not only that, but when Marinette tries to reason with her, she does listen, before being convinced otherwise by Shadow Moth. As Sole Crusher, she was furious with Ladybug getting in her way.

### Audrey Bourgeois

Just like Chloé before Audrey decided to stay in Paris, Zoé seems to have a distant relationship with her mother. Nevertheless, much like with Chloé, Zoé tried to act just like Audrey to be liked and accepted by her. However, it's still unknown the true extend of their relationship, despite being showed that Audrey seems to favor Chloé over Zoé, as she seemed to side with the former about sending the latter back to New York when she failed to live up to her half-sister's expectations.

### André Bourgeois

Zoé seems to have a very good relationship with her stepfather, as he, much like her, has to hide his true self from his family, fearing to not be liked or accepted. When Zoé seems conflicted on what to do, he tries to help her, by sharing his secret with her and helping her to hide her shoes. When Chloé demands her father to send Zoé back to New York, André is able to convince her to allow Zoé to stay, but in another room away from Chloé's, something that Zoé appreciates. In "Queen Banana" he angrily scolds Chloé for wanting to get rid of her again, refusing to indulge his daughter because Zoé stood up for herself.