Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge

**Alya Césaire (aka Rena Rouge)** is Marinette Dupain-Cheng's best friend, and a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. She is also the sole admin of the Ladyblog and head of the school blog. In "Lady Wifi", after Alya gets suspended from school because of Chloé Bourgeois, she gets akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes **Lady Wifi**, a supervillain whose powers come from her smartphone and its Wi-Fi signal.

In "Sapotis", after Alya receives the Fox Miraculous from Ladybug, she, when the Miraculous is inhabited by Trixx, becomes **Rena Rouge**, a fox-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir difficult missions" in the second season and the third season.

In "Mayura", during the fight with Scarlet Moth, Rena Rouge is akumatized into **Rena Rage**, a fox-themed supervillain.

In "Oblivio", Alya, alongside Nino, is akumatized into **Oblivio**, a memory-erasing supervillain.

In "Félix", she, along with Juleka Couffaine and Rose Lavillant, will get akumatized into **Trio of Punishers**, a group of supervillains.

In "Gang of Secrets", after Marinette keeps hiding secrets from them, Alya is re-akumatized by Shadow Moth into Lady Wifi along with Reflekta, Princess Fragrance, Timebreaker and Horrificator, the five supervillains all form the **Gang of Secrets**, a group of supervillains who want to reveal Marinette's secrets. However, Alya was able to resist Shadow Moth while akumatized, which allowed her to transform back to normal. Ladybug returns the Fox Miraculous to become Rena Rouge. At the end of the episode, Marinette tells Alya that she is Ladybug.

As of "Optigami", she is now a permanent holder of the Fox Miraculous. She also becomes Marinette's successor presumptive for the ownship of the Miracle Box.

During the events of "Sentibubbler", she created an illusion of Ladybug, which said Alya would no longer use the Fox Miraculous, allowing Alya and her family to be freed from any future threats from Shadow Moth. This forces Alya to only use her miraculous behind the scenes, at least until Shadow Moth is defeated.

As of "Rocketear", after putting herself in a position where her hero persona could no longer be seen in public and where she could only assist her allies from the shadows, her costume changes and she decides that she is now **Rena Furtive**.

## Trivia

* Alya's name is derived from the R&B singer Aaliyah, just as the rest of her family's names are references to jazz singers.
	+ In Slavonic, "Alya" means "beautiful" or "scarlet", possibly a reference to her red-brown hair. In Arabic, "Alya" means "sky," "heaven", or "loftiness".
* Her surname, Césaire, is a name variation of "Caesar", which translates to "hairy", akin to her large wavy hair.
* In the Serbian dub, her name is changed to Ajla Sezar.
* Alya is the most recurring supporting character of the series, appearing in nearly every episode, alongside Marinette, Adrien, Hawk Moth, Tikki, and Plagg.
	+ Likewise, Lady Wifi made the most appearances of any Akumatized villain in the first season.
		- In "The Evillustrator", she reappears in Nathaniel's fantasy, teaming up with Stormy Weather to attack Marinette.
		- In "The Puppeteer", she makes her third appearance while being controlled by the titular villain.
	+ Lady Wifi appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" for Gamer's powers.
	+ A statue of Lady Wifi appears in the Musée Grévin in "The Puppeteer 2".
* Her family comes from Martinique, which is possibly a reference to Aimé Césaire.
* Alya's role as the future holder of the Fox Miraculous was foreshadowed in the second opening, in which she was shown with a fox emoji.
* Alya is the first superhero to integrate Ladybug and Cat Noir's team, excluding themselves.
	+ Alya is the first person to become an Akumatized villain and a Miraculous holder, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself.
* Rena Rouge means "Red Fox" in French, as Rena is short for renarde, which is French for "fox", and rouge is the French word for "red".
	+ Alternatively, rena could also be referring to the word for "fox" in Haitian-Creole.
	+ In the Italian dub, she is called Volpe Rossa, which also means "Red Fox".
	+ In the dub for Portugal, she is called "Fox Rouge" which, like Cat Noir, is a combination between the English "fox" and French "rouge" for "red".
	+ As revealed in "Syren", she still gets called on by Ladybug to be Rena Rouge from time to time, but she always gives back the Fox Miraculous when she is done.
* Similar to Cat Noir, Rena Rouge's ears and tail are fake, but it is unknown if they respond to her mood and emotions, or if they can enhance senses.
	+ Since her ears are fake they could be a pair of clip on ears.
* As mentioned in "Startrain", besides the Ladyblog; Alya has also worked on other blogs.
* Alya has her own official Instagram account. You can find her under the username @alya.ladyblogger.
	+ She mentions starting a bullet journal in one of her Instagram pictures.
	+ Due to her dad's job at the zoo, on occasion, he lets Alya and her friends or family in after hours.
* 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.
* Despite the statement in "Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)" that Alya was a new student at the school and didn't know any of the school's students beforehand, in "Darkblade", she says that Chloé may have been Class Representative since kindergarten.
* Like Kagami with the Dragon Miraculous, Alya is the only holder to solely use the Fox Miraculous.
* Lila Rossi, during her akumatization as Volpina, can create hyper-realistic illusions by playing her flute, mirroring Rena Rouge's ability to create illusions, similar to how Théo and Chloé's akumatized forms' skills mirror those of Cat Noir and Ladybug respectively.
	+ However, while Volpina can create multiple illusions without losing power and detransforming, Rena Rouge can only make one illusion per transformation and transforms back after five minutes.
* In Season 2 and later comics, Alya has more interactions with Nino.
* Lady Wifi is the first villain that manages to remove a Miraculous from one of the heroes without making it disappear, as Cat Noir drops his ring when she throws him into a freezer. However, she is unaware of the success as she focuses on Ladybug at the time.

## Gallery

As Rena RougeAs Lady WifiAs Rena RageAs Oblivio (with Nino Lahiffe)As Rena Furtive