Marinette Dupain-Cheng

**Marinette Dupain-Cheng** is a crossover resident in Jewel City originally from Paris in *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir*.

## Appearance

She has a fair complexion followed by shoulder-length black hair with blue reflections that are always seen tied back in pigtails, light pink lips, bright bluebell eyes, and light freckles on both sides and the bridge of her nose.

### As Ladybug

She wears a red superhero jumpsuit covered in black spots and a black collar/turtleneck. According to Marinette in "Marinette's Double Life", her suit is made out of indestructible fabric. When not in use, she keeps her yo-yo around her hips with a red string. On her face is a red mask with five black spots that are in a symmetrical design, and the waterlines of her eyes are colored black. Her earrings are red with five black spots in a quincunx pattern, and the bands holding her hair back become red ribbons, resembling a ladybug's antennas or a ladybug flying when she's moving.

For her swimwear, she wears a red bikini with black spots while still having the same mask on.

### As Lady Noire

The costume of Lady Noire is very similar to Cat Noir; she wears a dark gray catsuit with fluorescent green accents on her knees, forearms, waist, and neck. She has black gloves on her forearms with claws and a fluorescent green band that goes down a bit and a black ball, and her black collar is a little open at the neck and has a fluorescent green band that goes down to the poitrine and a black ball in the lower part of the neck. Around the waist, a black belt with a fluorescent green band in the middle at the right leg, a black button with a fluo-green cat, and a fluorescent green son with a black ball hanging. Her black fluo-green boots go all the way up to the knee, with a small flowing green band in the heel, and end with small black triangular platform shoes. She has floor-length black hair that is styled in a single braid, which makes it look like a tail (similar to Cat Noir's belt). She also has cat ears on her head with fluorescent green accents and a black mask. Lady Noire has green eyes the same as Cat Noir, with the green sclera and slitted pupils. Like her yo-yo, Lady Noire keeps her staff attached to her hip when not in use.

For her swimwear, she wears a dark gray bikini while still having the same cat ears on her head with fluorescent green accents and black mask with the same green eyes as Cat Noir retaining floor-length black hair that is styled in a single braid, which makes it look like a tail.

### As Ladyfly

Ladyfly wore a suit with traits from the Ladybug and the Butterfly Miraculouses. The torso, hips and thighs kept the Ladybug suit of red, but with dark magenta spots, and the same went for the face mask, however with those parts also possessing hues of purple shining on them. The thighs had dark magenta around them above the knee and ascending until halfway on the outer side with a red spot. Her shoulders were purple, but possessed a dark magenta cover connected to the costume with V-neck collar (with the Butterfly Miraculous beneath it), with two lines descending from it through the costume around the torso, and then connecting with thicker dark magenta lines originating from the back and ending below the abdomen, having two red spots (one on each side, aligned) at the front, with two thinner lines coming out from it at the back ascending until below the shoulder cover. She wore magenta gloves up until below the shoulders, each with a red spot at the top, and purple knee-high boots with a red spot at the top of each of them. She had her hair tied with pigtails with red ribbons with dark magenta edges at the shape of butterfly wings, each side representing one half set and having one purple spot on each end (both top and under) of the bigger "wings". Her cane, when not in use, was located at her back.

## Abilities

### As Ladybug

Ladybug has much more enhanced physical abilities, such as speed and agility. These abilities allow her to react to and evade light-based attacks, as well as jump and leap several times her height and length. Similar to a real ladybug, she can climb up and walk on surfaces without her yo-yo. Her increased strength allows her to do things such as using her yo-yo to pull a large robot onto the ground, as well as break Cat Noir's nearly unbreakable staff and an oyster's pearl using only her fingers. Her near-invulnerability and great durability to physical damage allow her to jump off of 2 story buildings and land without issue and survive a fall off of one, as well as seemingly survive a fall at the height of at least several stories. She can even handle temperatures as severe as absolute 0. Ladybug is skilled in hand-to-hand combat when fighting villains or Cat Noir when he ends up being controlled by one. Her combat skills have improved so much that she can fight blindfolded with ease in "Psycomedian". Even out of "Aqua Mode", she is a good swimmer.

Ladybug has remarkable talent with wielding her yo-yo, like using it as a grappling hook, a rope to restrain others, a projectile, a slicer even against solid materials, and a shield if she spins it fast enough. Her yo-yo also can work as a breathing apparatus for those who can't breathe underwater like herself. After an akuma or amok is released from its corrupted object, Ladybug can open her yo-yo to catch it and remove the energy charged with it, releasing it into its original form. In other episodes, she can fight exceptionally well with other weapons besides her yo-yo and is good at dual wielding despite having little to no training.

Her special power, Lucky Charm, creates an object that helps her to achieve her goal, often being to stop a villain. Though usually confused at first, her creativity and cleverness help enable her to perceive where the object can be used to help her achieve her goal. However, Lucky Charm drains her power and reverts her back to Marinette shortly afterward, so she has to use it wisely. Although, from "Revolution" and onwards, that is not the case anymore, and she can cast as many Lucky Charms as she wants without detransforming. Once the villain is dealt with, Ladybug can throw her Lucky Charm object into the air and use the Miraculous Ladybug, which will make it revert to an enormous swarm of ladybugs and fix all of the damage done since the villain appeared.

Because she has the power of creation, Ladybug is the one that sets the limits of her own power. This is shown when Ladybug, determined to stop other people from being akumatized, is able to expand her powers, gaining a new costume and the ability to create magical charms that are able to prevent reakumatizations to those who receive them.

### As Lady Noire

Lady Noire has the same abilities as her partner, such as more enhanced skills, like speed, agility, and strength, that she is almost invulnerable to physical damage. She has enhanced senses such as hearing, smell, night vision, and super stealth like a cat.
Like Cat Noir, Lady Noire can use her staff efficiently, wielding it as a sword, being able to spin it at high speeds to form a shield, and taking advantage of its length-changing features. To travel long distances, she uses her staff and its variety in length to vault over obstacles.

Her special power, Cataclysm, allows her to negatively affect anything that she touches with her ring hand. However, using Cataclysm drains her Miraculous' power, causing her to revert back to Marinette five minutes afterward, so she has to use it wisely.

## Relationships

### Alice Pederson

Marinette likes Alice Pederson as a friend who is the running back for the Panthers despite being NFC South rivals.

### Amanda Jyles

Marinette likes Amanda Jyles as a friend who is the playing for the Buccaneers despite being NFC South rivals.

### Chloé Bourgeois

Marinette dislikes Chloé Bourgeois and disapproves of her actions.

However, their rivalry landed them as NFC South rivals with Marinette in the Atlanta Falcons and Chloé in the Carolina Panthers.

### Jenna Peterman

Marinette likes Jenna Peterman as a friend who is the playing for the Saints despite being NFC South rivals.

### Kylie Hamilton

Marinette likes Kylie Hamilton as a friend who is the running back for the Panthers despite being NFC South rivals.

### Nicole Smoker

Marinette likes Nicole Smoker as a friend who is the wide receiver for the Panthers despite being NFC South rivals.

### Sabrina Raincomprix

She is likely friends with Sabrina Raincomprix as she is working with the Miraculous superhero team as she becomes Miss Hound.

### Zoé Lee

Marinette gets along well with Zoé Lee. She met Zoé when the latter arrived at Paris and came to the former's family's bakery to try French croissants. Despite meeting after one of Marinette's tumbles, they immediately get along, with Marinette welcoming her warmly, admiring her fashion style and after learning Zoé didn't have any friends, she hasted to give her a lot of baking goods, conquering Zoé's sympathy.

However, their friendship landed them in the Atlanta Falcons as Marinette is on offense and Zoé is on defense.