Miraculous holders

Argos (temporarily; formerly)
Mayura (formerly)

**Miraculous holders** are people who use the Miraculous to transform into animal-themed superhumans with the help of the kwamis.

## History

After the Miraculous jewels were made, it was the job of the Order of the Guardians to protect and distribute them to people for the good of mankind. In Ancient China, many people became the first Miraculous holders. Each miraculous and their respective abilities were kept in a book written by the guardians in their special code so they could prevent those who had evil intentions from misusing the book. For the next 5000 years, many people throughout the history of the world were picked by the guardians to become an owner. These recipients would be chosen through passing a test that showed their best personal characteristics and qualities, such as Marinette, for her willingness to help others, and Adrien, for his kindness. However, just as there are good people who were gifted with the Miraculous, there are also bad people who sought the jewels' powers for their own gain, putting the world in danger, such as the present-day Hawk Moth. In such cases, it's been the task of some Miraculous owners to assist in helping the Guardians retrieve the lost jewels and stop the people who misuse them, in addition to protecting the world from other dangers. Once their task was complete or when they couldn't continue their responsibilities as Miraculous owners, the jewels were returned to the Guardians, or new owners were chosen to act in their stead with the Guardian's permission or if the Guardian couldn't intervene first.

During their adventures, some Miraculous owners have experienced other powers and abilities with their jewels when needed or under great emergency, like the Miraculous potion power ups used by Piáo Chóng and other owners, as well as new fusion forms and other powers. In doing so, some wielders have made long lasting bonds with their kwamis, receiving a Kwagatama as a sign of friendship between them. And yet, there have been incidents where holders were separated from their kwamis and sometimes during said separation some have witnessed the unconstrained version of their companion's powers. Most of their accomplishments and monuments have been recorded throughout history, but was erased by the Guardians for unknown reasons except for the few that have made their way to museums.

However, in 1842, when Fu was young, he was unhappy with his life as a Guardian. During one of his training sessions, he grew hungry and used the Peacock Miraculous to manifest a Sentimonster to get him a snack. But the creature, born from his combined hunger and anger caused him to lose control of it, and in its rampage, the Sentimonster destroyed the temple, swallowed the remaining Guardians and all, but one of the Miracle Boxes. Wang tried to escape the creature with the last box and Spellbook in tow, but lost the book along with the Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous. Fu felt so guilty about what happened that he suspended the use of the jewels for the next 172 years.

### Recent to present

On a previous trip overseas with the Agrestes, Nathalie found the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses and gave the jewels to Gabriel. Both Agrestes made a terrible mistake and discovered that the Peacock Miraculous was damaged. However, for an unknown reason, Emilie continued using it ending up in terrible condition, before entering in an eternal slumber the couple endlessly searched for the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses and found nothing causing Emilie's condition to pass. Afterwards, Gabriel forbid the use of it and hid it away. Desperate to fix his mistake, he began using the Butterfly Miraculous for evil to obtain the Ultimate Power by trying to steal the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous.

As the fight continues, Ladybug and Chat Noir notice that Hawk Moth is using the Peacock Miraculous under the alias Shadow Moth to attack the city and them with sentimonsters and becoming more deceptive than ever. Understanding the severity of his attacks and knowing that this isn't a time for rules, until the strain of using a damaged miraculous inspired him to discontinue it's use, becoming Hawk Moth again.

Under the state of emergency, Master Fu gave the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous to Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste in an effort to stop him. Over time the two of them did a great job protecting Paris on their own and eventually gained allies, creating the French Miraculous superhero team. However, thanks to Chloé's betrayal, Ladybug and Chat Noir (with the exception of Bunnyx) returned back to a duo.

Through their adventures, they began to discover other Miraculous and jewels related to them, such as the Prodigious in Shanghai, China the duo had discovered that Hawk Moth had desired it's ancient powers in his continuing quest for obtaining the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous. Along the way, Ladybug and Chat Noir meet the guardian of the Sacred Cave, Fei despite them keeping the Prodigious out of Hawk Moth's hands the mastermind akumatized the jewel's guardian Mei Shi into Wan Yoshi sending him into a rampage eradicating Chat Noir and Hawk Moth in the process. With Ladybug helping Fei understand the true meaning of the dragon the two manage to calm Mei Shi and Fei was worthy of being the next Renren and the duo's first out of the country ally.

While in New York, they find the Eagle Miraculous by allying themselves with the American Heroes, Ladybug and Cat Noir were able to stop Hawk Moth and Miraclonizer from misusing it, which gave rise to a new hero, Eagle, who had previously been Sparrow. Like Gilbert and Washington, Ladybug and Chat Noir allowed Sparrow to keep it as a sign of friendship and trust. Shortly after, Eagle and Uncanny Valley were approached by a guardian who demanded the Eagle talon back, but was seemingly convinced by Eagle instead to stay and raise a new generation of heroes in North America.

In an alternative timeline after the Miracle Queen Incident, through betrayal and trickery, Hawk Moth manages to gain all of the other jewels except the Ladybug, Black Cat and Peacock Miraculous, making most of the French Miraculous superhero team inactive, except for Ladybug and Chat Noir, returning them to a duo once more. However thanks to their enemy's greed the duo called on Bunnyx and with her help they were able retrieve the Rabbit's Watch but still had a long way to go. Soon they are against Monarch by changing the stolen Miraculous into rings he could transfer the jewel's powers to others without the need to give the Miraculous away. They tried to continue this particular timeline until Monarch got too close to winning by gaining the Ladybug Miraculous from Scarabella, becoming **Monarbug**, they were able to retrieve it from him but afterwards called upon Bunnyx once more but this time, they changed the past and made sure that Hawk Moth never got the other Miraculous during the Miracle Queen incident.

Unfortunately, this changing of the past led to something far, far worse, Monarch still came to be but ended up gaining the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous, and summoned forth Tikki and Plagg's true forms, both of whom then proceeded to merge together to create Gimmi, the kwami of Reality, and made his wish, but the heroes weren't as horrified as they thought they would be, as Monarch no longer was with them, and Emilie was back.

After the wish and rebuilding of the Universe, the former team was back in action, every hero was back in action forming the French Miraculous superhero team once again.

## Abilities

In order for a Miraculous owner to transform, they need to be wearing the Miraculous and have the kwami connected to the Miraculous present to be absorbed. Through transformation, they change into an animal-themed superhuman. In these forms, the Miraculous owner gains enhanced physical abilities, an omni-purpose tool (such as Ladybug's yo-yo), and a Unique superpower (such as Chat Noir's Cataclysm).

However, as revealed in "Miracle Queen", if the owner doesn't know the kwami's name or the right commands, they won't be able to transform.

In "Miraculous New York", it's revealed by Uncanny Valley that when Miraculous holders are transformed they are protected by a layer of magic that makes them unrecognisable to the human eye, but not to robots such as her. However, the magical protection is useless if the holder transforms in the open or when they reveal themselves willingly or not.

Not only that, the owners also gain the abilities of the animals the Miraculous is based off of, such as Chat Noir's hearing, smell, and night vision, and using his clawed gloves like actual claws to climb surfaces, as well as Ladybug's ability to walk on walls like a bug. On occasion, a wielder will also show the behavioural patterns of the animals the Miraculous is based off of such as Chat Noir purring like a domestic cat in "Prime Queen".

According to Plagg, the suit that the Miraculous transformation creates is "what you really want deep down" or a natural reflection of a holder's whole personality. Upon transforming, some owners with impairments, like poor eyesight, will have said impairments modified or fixed completely, like with Alya when she transforms into Rena Rouge and Nino when he transforms into Carapace. The transformations of a holder's suit is further explained in "Rocketear", the design of them can also be based on what role they play or have like with Alya needing her to be "behind the scenes" until Hawk Moth's defeat, giving her suit a new camouflaged look. Or Adrien in "Kuro Neko", if one focuses on certain parts of their personalities their costumes will change as he focused on an image of perfection becoming the prestigious Cat Walker.

Miraculous owners can use more than one Miraculous at the same time, which is why Hawk Moth desires both the Ladybug Miraculous and Black Cat Miraculous. This allows the wearer to utilise the powers of both, as well as utilise a new, more powerful fusion superpower. It also creates a costume that combines the aspects of both animal themes.

In "Kwamibuster", in order to fuse two miraculous, the owner, while transformed with one of the miraculous, must say the name of the kwamis they want to fuse and say "Unify" while intertwining the hands. To unfuse, the owner must say the name of the kwami they want to let go and say "Divide" or to sat the kwami's detransformation phrase. When under the powers of fusion, Miraculous wielders can combine their weapons with other miraculous superpowers. As seen in "Miracle Queen", when Ladybug, as Dragon Bug, used her yo-yo combined with the Water Dragon to make a water sphere shield. It is unknown whether the Unified Miraculous Holders are still under the effect of the timer.

Miraculous owners can restrict their kwamis to certain commands, as seen in "Sandboy". However, it is as of yet unknown whether this is some outside ability of Gabriel or a benefit of being a Miraculous wielder, and if it is, it seems that it's a matter of a wielder's personal choice. It seems they can undo their commands with just a simple word or snap of their fingers.

In "Syren", Miraculous holders can have access to other powers when their kwamis drink certain potions from the Miraculous Spellbook:

* When in Aqua Mode, the holder has the ability to swim and breathe underwater.
* When in Ice Mode, the holder has ice skating abilities and withstand very cold temperatures.
* When in Space Mode, the holder gains a spacesuit version of their original costumes and the ability to breathe and move freely in space.

In "Mayura", it is revealed that if a Miraculous owner is in any of their powered up forms like Aqua or Ice mode, they'll detransform into their normal superhero forms. In "Startrain", when Miraculous users are transformed, they can temporarily handle lack of oxygen and survive temperatures of absolute zero degrees.

It turns out that some Miraculous abilities don't reveal themselves to their users until they become of age, like with Ladybug and Chat Noir still being "too green" with their powers. With each Miraculous being different, the full range of powers and the way the holders master them could vary such as figuring out what the secret or said meaning of the power is and with a deeper level of understanding it can result in gaining a new power(s) or a change in their costumes as with Ladybug in "Mr. Pigeon 72". However, one of the abilities adult Miraculous owners can gain is being able to maintain their transformations even after using their superpowers and prolong the use of them, revealed by Hawk Moth in "Mayura" and by Alix's future self, Bunnyx, in "Timetagger". It's further revealed that when adult holders transform they can use their energy to sustain their kwamis meaning they don't have to feed them as much. When a Miraculous owner grows to be an adult, they don't need a voice command to activate them; as Bunnyx fought Timetagger, she used her powers without saying the word "Burrow" the same number of times. Older holders could also have further control of their powers. For example, when the Rabbit Miraculous was struck with a Cataclysm by the Future Chat Noir, it was cracked (or it's possible that it didn't receive a full blast) compared to the Bee Miraculous when it was completely destroyed by Chat Noir in "Queen Wasp".

Miraculous owners seemingly don't age or look affected by lack of food or thirst while transformed, as Bunnyx was able to remain in the obelisk for thousands of years in "Timetagger" before being released from a deep sleep. However, it is unknown if this ability is exclusive to Rabbit Miraculous owners, applies to all Miraculous owners, or if it is simply just an ability of the obelisk she was trapped in. In "Chat Blanc", as Chat Noir was akumatized and alone for months but remained the same being unaffected by the lack of food or thirst.

In "Chat Blanc", Hawk Moth is shown to be able to call for his Cane from afar. It's possible when a Miraculous owner gets older, they share a mental connection with their weapons or some, like Ladybug's yo-yo string, are connected to their holder's willpower. Due to being young, it's possible that their mental connection grows with time, but if the weapon is damaged or broken, then so will the link.

Also on an interesting note, if a holder activates a Miraculous superpower, then in turn loses the jewel to another person and said new holder deactivates it, it's unknown if the timer will be activated as in the case with Eagle and Miraclonizer in "Miraculous New York".

In "Pretension" it's revealed that the quantum masking that hides a Miraculous holder's appearance it can also mask their scent as well.

## Weaknesses

While they are almost invulnerable while transformed, they aren't exempt from everything, such as drowning, unless they're in Aqua Mode or using their weapons as breathing devices. While not transformed, the Miraculous has no effect. As seen in "Gorizilla", a Miraculous owner could not survive jumping off a high building while not transformed. In "Miraculer", they do have some resistance to their own powers while transformed, but it will leave them injured and possibly on the verge of death if struck in a vital area, as with Chat Noir and his Cataclysm.

In "Destruction", it turns out when not struck in a vital area with a Cataclysm the transformed holder's suit will have cracks or rips. More so for the holder if not healed by Ladybug's restoration powers it will leave a huge terrible black scar on them or if left untreated it's also revealed in "Jubilation" and "Illusion", that the recipient's injury will cause them irritation and spread across their body.

While they are almost invulnerable, minor miraculous owners must be wise about how and when they use their superpower because after it is used, the kwami begins to lose the energy needed to keep the transformation, and in five minutes, the Miraculous owner detransforms back to normal as the kwami emerges from the jewel. If they want to transform again, they need to help their kwami regain energy by feeding them. Not only that, some powers are strictly linked to a owner's weapons, likes Ladybug's Lucky Charm and her yo-yo. This can also be a weakness, meaning that while an owner is using their weapons to summon their powers, they can't use them to attack or defend, leaving them vulnerable, as seen with Ladybug in "Sandboy".

When Miraculous jewels are damaged or negatively impacted, it can result in damaging the wearer's powers leading to them not working at all, the way they are suppose to, go completely out of control. And have other negative effects on the wearer themselves, it's likely when kwamis are working with adult holders they feed off more energy from them to sustain themselves leading to like fatigue and health problems as seen with Nathalie in "Mayura", when the jewels are damaged, but they can overcome it, if they use the jewel sparingly. It's unknown if the same effects will happen with a younger Miraculous holder. However, if they just transform with a damaged jewel and remain inactive, like Bunnyx who was in a stone slumber, they won't be affected. Similar to the jewels, a wielder can transform with a sick or hurt kwami. However, they, too, must use extreme caution since it's the kwamis that give their owners their powers and transformations. If they transform under these conditions, it's likely they won't be able to hold it for long, let alone give their owners their powers or their powers will be weakened.

Another negative effect is the owner being stuck in their superhero form, as seen in "Timetagger", until said jewel can be repaired or by removing them if their voices are taken away, as seen in "Silencer", showing how important a Miraculous owner's voice is while they're transformed. Since they use their voices to activate their superpowers and transformations, if an owner can't speak, then they can't summon their powers or if they get cancelled out, as seen with Ladybug therefore they can experience improper prolonged transformations. If it happens before they transform, they can't transform at all. It's unknown how long they can stay transformed under normal circumstances and yet, if they decide to do so for long time periods it will lead too many unanswered questions or if any have unknown side effects. All vocal commands of an owner's powers can only be done by the voice of the person who's actually wearing the jewel, meaning that a Miraculous owner can't activate the powers of another owner unless they switch their Miraculous or when they come into the possession of another jewel, like Ladybug with Chat Noir's ring in "Gamer 2.0".

According to Master Fu, the use of or merging too many Miraculous, either activated or in camouflage mode, may have consequences both to the body and mind of the owner. It's also unknown what the full damage could be if a damaged Miraculous is fused with another jewel.

In a holder fuses four or more together and overuses the jewels powers it will result in electrical discharges causing the holders great pain.

The holders can transform while under the effects of an Akumatized villain if their powers are minor, like amnesia in "Oblivio", or appearance changes, like in "Reflekdoll", as long as they remove the Miraculous before they get affected.

In "Dearest Family", it's also very dangerous for a wielder to transform when a kwamis enters a "food-hungry" state after they eat delicious and unique individualised sets of foods. Because the holder will be affected by their kwami's hunger and craves, but by exerting willpower, the holder can resist their kwami's cravings.

In "Evolution", when any holder are paired with a kwami, it's their job to keep them well fed between each transformation. Because the effectiveness of their powers depends on how much energy their kwami possess, before or during transformations. If not fed, an excessive use of the powers ends up making them weaker. When under unification, for both young and adult holders, the combined use of the powers places a great strain on the kwamis and holder's energy, draining and debilitating both much faster but giving them too much food will give too much power.

## Known Miraculous holders

* Ladybug
* Black Cat
* Butterfly
* Fox
* Bee
* Turtle
* Peacock
* Mouse
* Ox
* Tiger
* Rabbit
* Dragon
* Snake
* Horse
* Goat
* Monkey
* Rooster
* Dog
* Pig
* Eagle
* Unknown

Currently owned by Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Currently owned by Adrien Agreste.

Currently owned by Cerise.

Currently owned by Alya Césaire.

Currently owned by Zoé Lee.

Currently owned by Nino Lahiffe.

Currently owned by Félix Fathom.

Currently being kept by Mylène Haprèle.

Currently owned by Ivan Bruel.

Currently owned by Juleka Couffaine.

Currently owned by Alix Kubdel.

Currently owned by Kagami Tsurugi.

Currently owned by Luka Couffaine.

Currently owned by Max Kanté.

Currently owned by Nathaniel Kurtzberg.

Currently owned by Kim Lê-Ature.

Currently owned by Marc Anciel.

Currently owned by Sabrina Raincomprix.

Currently owned by Rose Lavillant.

Currently owned by Jessica Keynes.

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