Lila Rossi

## Lila RossiCerise リラ・ロッシセリーズ *Rira RosshiSerīzu*

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**Lila Rossi** is an antagonist of *Miraculous Retold*, serving as the final antagonist of Season 1, a minor antagonist of Seasons 2 and 4, a major antagonist of Season 3, one of the three secondary antagonists (alongside Nathalie Sancoeur and Tomoe Tsurugi) of Season 5 (as well as the second season of *Kimberly's Adventures*), and an important antagonist of Seasons 3 and 4 of *Kimbery's Adventures*. She is a student in Miss Bustier's class**Cerise** (real name unknown), formerly known as **Lila Rossi**, was an antagonist of *Miraculous Retold*, serving as the final antagonist of Season 1, a minor antagonist of Seasons 2 and 4, a major antagonist of Season 3, one of the three secondary antagonists (alongside Nathalie Sancoeur and Tomoe Tsurugi) of Season 5 (as well as the second season of *Kimberly's Adventures*), and an important antagonist of Seasons 3 and 4 of *Kimbery's Adventures*. She was a former student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. She iswas the love rival of Marinette Dupain-Cheng (and Ladybug), competing their rivalry for Adrien Agreste's affection. Her masterful manipulation tendstended to cause trouble for Ladybug and Cat Noir (as well as their friends), especially after she alliesallied herself with Hawk MothHawk Moth, and later Darkmoore.

In "*Volpina*," after Ladybug humiliates her in front of Adrien Agreste by exposing her lies about the both of them being close friends and her owning the Fox Miraculous, she is akumatized by Hawk Moth into **Volpina**, a fox-themed supervillain who is a master of illusions.

In "*Catalyst*," after Gabriel Agreste calls Volpina a false hero in comparison to Ladybug on TV, she is re-akumatized into Volpina. Afterwards, she takes part in Scarlet Moth's plan to acquire the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses.

In "*Chameleon*," in a new attempt to get revenge on Ladybug, she willingly akumatizes herself and becomes **Chameleon**, a shape-shifting supervillain.

In "*Ladybug*," Lila makes a deal with Gabriel Agreste. She frames Marinette for cheating on a test, pushing her down the stairs and stealing her necklace, resulting in her rival getting expelled from school. Though Marinette eventually returns to school, as a reward, Gabriel makes her the new female face of his brand.

In "*Emotion*," Lila is revealed to be aware of Gabriel's supervillain identity as Monarch.

In the adaptation of "*Revelation*," it's revealed that Lila possesses multiple families and identities. Besides Mrs. Rossi, an Italian ambassador, she has two other mothers: one that believes she is in Africa helping endangered animals and one that is deaf-mute and communicates with sign language. In the same episode, after being replaced by Kagami Tsurugi as the face of the Gabriel brand and campaigning to replace Marinette as class representative, she is akumatized by Monarch into **Hoaxer** and receives the superpower of the Fox Miraculous through her Alliance ring. Using her ability to control minds, she manipulates Nathalie Sancoeur into sending her pictures of all of Gabriel's secrets, including photos and documents related to his past, his contracts with Tomoe Tsurugi, pages from the Miraculous spellbook, the location of Emilie Agreste's body and one of Graham de Vanily Twin Rings that Nathalie wears.
In the adaptation of "*Confrontation*," Lila, along with Chloé, frames Marinette for forging her classmates' study option forms in order to get them to turn against her. Her plan backfires when she falls into a trap set up by Marinette and Sabrina and accidentally exposes her true nature in front of her entire class and the school faculty, leading to her expulsion from the school. Following this, she discards her identity as Lila and takes on another as **Cerise**, a student at Collège Paul Bert who is also her class' representative and claims to be a movie star.

In the adaptation of "*Collusion*," it is revealed that Cerise and Chloé have stayed in contact after the former was expelled. She now communicates with Chloé from her lair through an earpiece. She guides Chloé in their plan to take revenge on Marinette and Miss Bustier, arranging a situation that would result in the former's expulsion and the latter's dismissal. She also advises her to accept a proposal made by Gabriel Agreste, leading to Chloé becoming the new mayor of Paris.

In the adaptation of "*Revolution*," after Chloé is removed from power, she grabs Tomoe Tsurugi's briefcase. Bringing it to her hideout she begins to work on unlocking it.

At the end of the adaptation of "*Re-creation*," after Gabriel Agreste's sacrifice, Cerise has now obtained the Butterfly Miraculous, succeeding him. Not just that, but she has enrolled at the same school Marinette and her friends are going to for the upcoming school year.

## Bio

### Appearance

**Lila** is a slender teenage girl of average height with a light tan. She has grayish chartreuse green eyes, wearswears grayish chartreuse green contact lenses, pale vermilion lipstick, and has long, hip-length auburn hair with blunt bangs and two shorter pieces framing her face. Her hair is loosely tied near the ends with orange bands.a long, hip-length auburn wig with blunt bangs and two shorter pieces framing her face, which is loosely tied near the ends with orange bands.

As shown in "Confrontation", her natural eye color is hazel-brown, while her hair is a short and messy brown pixie cut.

She has multicolored wristbands on her right arm. She wears a brilliant vermilion jacket over a dark gray romper that has tiny white spots and a ribbon bow. Additionally, she wears light gray leggings and brown ankle-length high heel boots.

As **Cerise**, she replaces her romper and jacket with identical ones colored moderate purple and brown respectively.

In her disguise in "*Re-Creation*," she wears blue contact lenses, a dark blue bob cut wig and glasses, She replaces her purple romper with a pink one, and wears blue jeans similar to Alya's and a black jacket like Zoé's and also wears a light vermillion pink lipgloss.

As **Volpina**, she wears an orange mask with black edges, and her hairbands are black. On top of her head, two fake orange ears with white and black insides are attached. The top of her hair is black and then quickly ombrés down to light brown with the tips of her hair being white. She also has orange lipstick, and her eyes remained hazel. The necklace with a foxtail hanging off of it is worn around her neck. She wears an orange jumpsuit with a white section going down the front. Wrapped around her waist is an orange sash that looks like a foxtail. The edges of her collar and the tops of her upper arms have black lines, and her forearms and lower legs are solid black, with the soles of her feet being white with an orange fox foot printed on each. Her weapon is a replica of the flute.

After being akumatized into **Chameleon**, she retains her normal form. However, with her shape-shifting abilities, she can change it into whatever she kisses. She took the form of Adrien, a little boy, Cat Noir and an oyster by accident.

Her appearance as **Hoaxer** is mainly an enhanced version of Lila's previous akumatized identity as Volpina. However, the orange highlights in her hair have been changed to brilliant scarlet, as well as many parts of the costume being recolored shades of scarlets and reds as well. The most notable changes are the black cross on her chest instead of the fake Fox Miraculous pendant, as well as she no longer wields a flute either.
### Personality

Lila is proud and loves attention, which she is willing to obtain by lying. This even means going beyond words to support her lies, like buying a necklace that looks like the Fox Miraculous to convince Adrien telling that she is a descendant of the fox-themed superhero, or cause situations that can discredit whoever can threat her own lies. She gets jealous if someone gets more attention or love than her and doesn't like it when someone reveals that her lies aren't true, showing no remorse for lying in the first place. If anyone attempts to expose her, she won't hesitate to try to make them miserable or break them down just to get them out of her way. She also doesn't take advice from those who try to make peace with her or encourage her to be honest like Ladybug or Adrien. At first glance, it appears that the reason why she acts like this is probably because her mother is away a lot with her busy job schedule, making Lila feel disheartened and using lies to cover up that loneliness to her mother and others that are around her.

Lila doesn't easily forgive people who she feels wronged her, as she is still furious at Ladybug for ratting her out harshly and ruining her chance to woo Adrien. Aside from being adept at lying, her desire for vengeance is so great that Gabriel Agreste decided to form a formal alliance with her, not just to akumatize her.

Lila is also not afraid to get her enemies' friends against them by manipulating and lying to them, portraying her enemy as the villain, and not having any care for the consequences that her lies may have on others, as she didn't feel any remorse after almost causing some of classmates and teachers to be akumatized by Scarlet Akumas after blaming Marinette of cheating, hurting her and steal her necklace to turn everyone against her.

Another example of this is shown in "Perfection" and "Protection" when she lies and manipulates Kagami into thinking Marinette is a bad person.

Due to her talent to create the most convincing lies, Lila is extremely intelligent and observative, being able to notice the most subtle details, especially when she is motivated through her hatred and grudge.

Similar to Félix, Lila was able to deduce Gabriel Agreste was Monarch and used that information in her favor, manipulating the supervillain for her personal gain, like convincing him to akumatize Kagami again in order to separate Adrien and Marinette in "Protection."
The extension of her lies goes further than her school and social life, as they also extend into her family life. It's revealed that Lila at least three identities, along with three different mothers, keeping them ignorant of the existence of each other by making them believe she does a lot of travel around the world due to works such as acting and endangered species rescuing.

As Volpina, her personality is still intact, while additionally determined to get revenge on Ladybug. Wanting to make Ladybug suffer, she nearly convinced Ladybug to give up her earrings twice, almost tricking her with illusions of people she threatened to hurt, such as civilians like Adrien.

As Chameleon, because she is akumatized voluntarily, her personality remains the same, using her powers to get even with the ones that she believes wronged her. For example, she took Adrien's form to make him look bad and at the same time to lead Ladybug into a "trap". Her desire to defeat Ladybug is so great that she would rather advance to battle her than take an unconscious Cat Noir's Miraculous to Hawk Moth.

As Hoaxer, her vengeful personality becomes much more intense, as she uses her power to convince everyone that Marinette is Monarch to turn them against her, as well convincing them that Ladybug and Cat Noir are aliens that will destroy the ozone layer in order to defeat them, as the superheroes wouldn't use their powers against civilians. Not just that, but Hoaxer showed to be very intelligent, keeping herself inside the system of the Alliances to avoid physical confrontation and even using her pursue over the superheroes to keep Monarch distracted and prevent him from realizing the vengeance she was about to enact on him by manipulating Nathalie to deliver her all of his secrets.
### Etymology

* The name Lila means "beauty", as well as "lilac" in Italian.
	+ Lila is pronounced as "lee-lah" in the French dub, and "lie-lah" in the English dub. The change in pronunciation may have been a nod to "lie" may have been to allude to all the lies that Lila tells.
		- It is possible that the name "Lila" was chosen because it sounds similar to "lie" in English.
	+ In the Irish dub, her name is changed to **Líle**; Irish for Lily.
	+ In the Welsh dub, her name is changed to **Leila**.
* The surname Rossi means "red" in Italian.
	+ Rossi is a popular Italian surname, with famous examples including, among others, classical composer Giaochino Rossi and MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi.

* The name Cerise is the color of deep, bright red with pink tint.

## Interests

### Likes

* Modelling
* Painting
* Attention
* Revenge
* Manipulating others
* Making her rivals look bad

### Dislikes

* Sports
* Being humiliated
* Superheroes (especially Ladybug)
* Defeat
* Being lectured
* Being exposed

## Skills

Lila is a very crafty and sneaky liar. She can use her lies to manipulate people into doing what she wants. When this doesn't work, she tries to make others feel pity for her and manipulate them emotionally. Even Tikki, a being who has existed since the universe's creation, thinks that Lila has lied better than anyone she met before. The only ones who don't believe her are Marinette (Ladybug), Adrien (Cat Noir), Tikki, Plagg, Kimberly and Garry.

She was shown to be very stealthy, like taking the test answers without anyone noticing and placing them in Marinette's bag. She also managed to return home from the Eiffel Tower unseen during the events of Heroes Day.

Also, she was able to sneak into the Agreste mansion and steal the Butterfly Miraculous unnoticed.
 Lila possesses a sort of indomitable will due to her undying hatred for Ladybug and will do anything to bring her down.

She seems to be able to know the sign language used by the mute and the deaf as we see her communicating with one of her three mothers who is just that.
Lila is also a master of disguise, as she was able to disguise herself as a Le Grand Paris waitress and infiltrate without being recognized.

As Volpina, like Rena Rouge, sge can play a tune on her flute with an idea in mind to create a glowing orange ball of energy. She can throw the orange ball of energy anywhere with her flute and create whatever incredibly lifelike illusion that she wants. However, the illusions are intangible, and when touched will disappear in an orange cloud. Volpina's flute is long enough to wield as a staff.

As Chameleon, she can transform into another person after kissing them, causing her victims to fall asleep. As long she remains in their form, her victims remain asleep. Once Chameleon takes another form, they wake up. When turned into a Miraculous holder, Lila is able to use their powers, like when she fights Ladybug in Cat Noir's form and her power allowed her to utilize Cataclysm. Even if she can't take the form of a Miraculous holder, she is very agile, as shown while pretending to be Adrien she is able to jump up the Eiffel Tower.

As Hoaxer, Lila possesses the ability to enter the Alliance Rings system and pop in and out of the real world as she pleases. She also possesses the ability to, aided by the power of the Fox Miraculous, create highly elaborated and life-like illusions that appear on the holographic screen of any Alliance, and anyone who looks at them will get mind-controlled, and will believe whatever she says to be the truth and will do her bidding as she orders them to, as when she ordered the civilians to go after Marinette after showing them an illusion of her secretly being Monarch. However, her control over someone is cancelled if the person's Alliance ring is removed or destroyed, such as when both Roger and Alya were freed when the heroes removed their Alliances.

## Trivia

* As seen in "*Catalyst*", Lila's room is decorated with masks, which symbolize hiding truth.
* Volpina is similar to the word *volpe*, which is Italian for "fox". The suffix "-ina" indicates "small" and is often used in feminine names among friends, as a form of nickname or pet name. Roughly translated, "Volpina" means "Vixen" or "Small Fox" in Italian.
* Lila was first revealed when Wilfried Pain posted a drawing of her as Volpina on his Twitter. When a fan page on Facebook shared the image, Thomas Astruc added a comment where he revealed her akumatized name.
	+ Later, Thomas posted a picture on Twitter as a sneak peak of Lila (as Volpina) with the caption "Una ragazza italiana in Pariggi," meaning "An Italian girl in Paris."
* When Mélody Cisinski was asked on Tumblr if Volpina would show up eventually before Season 1 ended, she replied "yes and no."
* Thomas noted that he intentionally made Lila to be unlovable.
* Volpina's abilities are based on the Fox Miraculous holder and Rena Rouge's powers, similar to how Copycat has Cat Noir's powers, Antibug has powers similar to Ladybug's and Queen Wasp is similar to Queen Bee.
* She tells several stories assumed to be lies:
	+ Her "name" is Lila Rossi.
	+ She knows Prince Ali and flew with him in his private jet.
	+ Jagged Stone wrote a song about Lila.
	+ Lila knows all of the Hollywood directors. She promised she'd introduce Nino to Steven Spielberg.
	+ Ladybug saved Lila's life, and the two of them are best friends.
	+ Lila loves superheroes.
	+ Lila claims to be a descendant of a Fox Miraculous holder seen in the Miraculous spellbook, calling her Volpina. According to Lila, Volpina is "one of the most important superheroes, more powerful and celebrated than Ladybug." Lila also claimed her grandmother gave her the Fox Miraculous, showing a similar looking trinket she bought in a gift shop after seeing the miraculous in the Grimoire.
	+ As Volpina, most of the things she says are lies. For example, she tells Adrien and all of Paris that she is a true superhero.
	+ She has a close relationship with Prince Ali.
	+ She saved Jagged Stone's kitten.
	+ She knows a famous manga artist.
	+ She had tinnitus.
	+ Lila once saw a guy in India have their eye gouged out by a napkin.
	+ She knows several foreign languages.
	+ She has a ball related phobia.
	+ She once starred in a Hollywood movie.
* Despite her claims of being a descendant of a fox-themed superheroine being false, Lila physically looks like the holder of the Fox Miraculous illustrated in the Miraculous spellbook.
* So far, Lila is the first person to know about Adrien's crush on Ladybug.
* She is the first akumatized villain to have amplified Miraculous superpowers, as it's revealed in "*Timetagger*" that prolonged and multiply use of said powers only occur when a holder grows into an adult.
* She is the the third akumatized villain who doesn't appear in the theme song or its animatic in Season 1. The others are Animan and Kung Food, both of whom appear in the animatic.
* Lila is the one of the few people, alongisde Gabriel, Nathalie and as of "*Miracle Queen*" Chloé, that sees Ladybug as her enemy even while not akumatized.
* Lila is the first previously akumatized victim to be reakumatized with the same supervillain identity but with a different akuma.
	+ Also, the Akuma which affects her is the first seen Akuma to be de-evilized by Hawk Moth himself and removed on-screen. That happened again to André and Audrey Bourgeois in "Heart Hunter"
* Lila's smirk after being de-evilized in "*Catalyst*" implies she may have been the first person to be willingly akumatized other than Hawk Moth himself and his assistant Nathalie.
* Lila is the third person to be akumatized voluntarily, but the first to direct the akuma to an object.
	+ She is also the first akumatized victim to introduce herself to Hawk Moth instead of the other way around.
* Her powers as Volpina, Hoaxer, and Chameleon have to do with lies and deception.
* Despite her third akumatization being caused by Scarlet Moth, she didn't have a red-colored appearance.
	+ According to Thomas, this was an animation error.
* In "*Style Queen*", Lila appears in the audience, but according to Thomas Astruc, it was actually an animation mistake and she wasn't supposed to be in the episode or its use as a clip in "Queen Wasp".
* Every time Lila gets deakumatized, she is on the Eiffel Tower.Until "Revelation", every time Lila got deakumatized, she was on the Eiffel Tower.
* Lila is the second person to rival Marinette for Adrien's affections, behind Chloé Bourgeois.
	+ Also, it is interesting to note that while Chloé becomes progressively more heroic over the course of the series, especially during "Malediktator", Lila, on the other hand, becomes much more antagonistic and dangerous than Chloé over the course of the series.
	+ However, unlike Lila, who remains loyal to Hawk Moth until he fires her, Chloé was manipulated during the season 3 finale and throughout season 4, even ending up teaming up with Lila due to their common hatred of Marinette and Ladybug, only for Lila to use her for her goals.
* Volpina appears another time in "*Gamer 2.0*" for Gamer's powers.
* A statue of Volpina appears in the Musée Grévin in "The Puppeteer 2".
* Lila's akumatization into Chameleon marks the first time a villain doesn't change their appearance upon akumatization; however, this quickly changes after she uses her powers on Adrien.
* Lila Rossi is very similar to Lila Bird from *Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese*. Both of them are power-hungry liars who try to manipulate their schools' students and bully the main characters. In addition, they both have long brown hair with bangs and wear an outfit featuring orange clothes.
* In "*Timetagger*", it's implied that she will get the Butterfly Miraculous in the future, as Timetagger said that the Hawk Moth of the future isn't Gabriel, and Chris thought Lila was cool. Also, after being fired by Gabriel in "Revelation", she became determined to steal his Miraculous.

* As seen in "*Mr. Pigeon 72*", Lila has been akumatized into Volpina five times. ("Volpina", "Catalyst", "Mayura" and two off-screen akumatizations).
	+ With her akumatizations into Chameleon and Hoaxer, Lila has been akumatized 7 times in total.
		- With her 7 akumatizations, Lila comes in third place for having been akumatized the most number of times, alongside Kagami and Roger and behind Mr. Ramier and Chloé.
		- However, unlike the others, Lila, along with Kagami and Chloé, haven't been re-akumatized into the same villain all the times.
* Lila is the only member of Miss Bustier's class who hasn't wielded a Miraculous so far. That is until "Re-creation, where she secretly gets her hands on the Butterfly Miraculous.

* Lila is revealed to be one of the few people aware of Gabriel's supervillain identity alongside Nathalie Sancoeur, Félix Fathom, Tomoe Tsurugi and potentially Amelie Graham de Vanily.
* In the Miraculous Secrets (card game) it is confirmed that Lila Rossi is not her real name.

* As seen in both "Revelation" and "Confrontation", Lila has created a great web of lies that involve multiple identities and mothers which she appears to juggle with little effort.
	+ So far, she is known to possess at least three identities, each one possessing their own mother:
		- Lila Rossi is the daughter of an Italian ambassador with supposed friendships with many celebreties and with the dream to achieve world peace and solve the issue of global warming. She used to be student at the Collège Françoise Dupont and the female face to the Gabriel brand.
		- Cerise is apparently a movie star who studies in a different school in Paris, being the class representive of her class and has been away for most of the school year because of a movie shoot.
			* Her mother appears to be the second woman that called her at the beginning of "Revelation", as seen how she calls her without video probably not just to hide her from her other mother and that she is in Paris, but also to hide the fact she uses a wig and green contact lenses.
		- She also has a third unknown identity that she uses with a deaf mother.
			* In "Re-creation", she uses a new identity as "Iris Verdi" to enroll at the same school as Marinette and her friends. It's possible that is the identity she uses with her deaf mother.
* As of "Re-creation", it is unclear if Lila found out about Marinette's secret identity as Ladybug.

* As shown in TBC, her Digimon Partner is a Pucchiemon, and her partner Pokémon is a Zoroark.