Alya Cesaire

**Alya Césaire**[1] is Marinette'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, she is akumatized by Hawk Moth and becomes **Lady Wifi**, a supervillain whose powers come from her smartphone and its Wi-Fi signal.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Alya is tan-skinned, and at a medium height, with hazel eyes. She has reddish-brown wavy hair that goes slightly past her shoulders, with the tips of her hair having a lighter shade of copper red. Above her right eyebrow, she has a beauty mark.

### Civilian attire

She wears black-rimmed glasses, with a white spot on each side, whereas her outfit consists of a white tank top underneath a plaid flannel shirt with white, orange, and purple stripes; light blue jeans, and white sneakers with black tops.

### As Lady Wifi

Lady Wifi has a black butterfly-shaped mask on her face, and her eyes are dark magenta. She wears a black suit, her lower arms, and legs white with three stripes that are white above each. On her chest is a glowing hot pink Wi-Fi symbol, and a thin white line goes around her waist, with the line creating a semicircle above a short vertical white line in the front, resembling a power button.

## Personality

Alya is a rather energetic, passionate, and funny. Yet down to earth and smart. She is extremely loyal, supportive, and helpful, like going out of her way to encourage and (sometimes literally) push Marinette into spending time with Adrien. Her cleverness and foresight have come in handy many times. After Marinette thinks she accidentally lost a video of Ladybug on Alya's cellphone, Alya explains that she had already posted the video on her blog, expecting something to go wrong when she showed Marinette the video. From thoroughly observing Ladybug and Cat Noir while in action, Alya has figured out the basics of the superhero's work, like breaking the akumatized object to stop the villain. She doesn't like being undermined or doubted by others, especially when it comes to her work.
Alya has a dramatic side to her personality as well, such as when she pretends to be a unicorn with Manon (in "Stormy Weather") and when she later makes an excuse to Adrien's photographer, who asks for her to be a support model for Adrien, so Marinette can do the modeling instead. Having to babysit her several younger siblings at home, she is great with kids. When it comes to anything involving Ladybug and Cat Noir, Alya easily becomes very excited and basically has a single goal of updating her blog as soon as possible, like when she is kidnapped by the Pharaoh to be a sacrifice yet still records herself and live streams the video on her blog in "The Pharaoh". She also tends to jump to conclusions, such as when she quickly suspects Chloé of being Ladybug after seeing the mayor's daughter with a Ladybug prop yo-yo and suit and mistaking them for the real ones. She is intent on finding out who the civilian identities of the two superheroes are and is willing to follow almost any lead she is given towards that goal. In her pursuit of the truth, Alya tends to forget her own safety at times, needing rescue from the very superheroes she's filming. Sometimes, she goes too far, like spying on Chloé's locker, which results in her getting punished by Mr. Damocles.

As Lady Wifi, her desire for answers increases considerably. Despising Ladybug's secrecy, she will stop at nothing to find out her secret identity, even if it means exposing a horrible person underneath, like when she believes that Ladybug is Chloé. Her speediness to update onlookers remains the same, but her methods for finding info become sneakier and harsher.

## Abilities

Alya is very tech savvy. She keeps up the school blog and Ladyblog with ease, uploading videos, streaming live recordings, and adding articles. She records with her cellphone, knowing how to download videos from them. Along with technological skills, Alya is a very good writer, writing blogs for Ladybug and writing the script for Nino's film in "Horrificator". She excels at presenting herself in her videos, explaining situations when needed and usually keeping her cool if the situation gets dangerous, like with the Pharaoh. Observant and a quick thinker, Alya has figured out a lot of things about Ladybug, Cat Noir, and the villains they fight from watching them.

### As Lady Wifi

A Wi-Fi signal, gives Lady Wifi power, but if the signal is too weak or nonexistent, she loses her abilities. She uses her cellphone, which is the akumatized object, as her weapon. Swiping her phone, she can shoot out glowing pink icons:

* The pause and stop icons, which can freeze people.
* The padlock icon, which can lock doors, and bind body parts to a surface.
* The camera icon, which she uses to film and broadcast videos, which she can project in the sky and on all available screens.
* The fast forward icon, which can be like a hover board as a mode of transportation. This is first shown in "The Puppeteer".

She is also able to dispel any of the currently in-use icons by crossing them off using her cellphone.

Additionally, Lady Wifi can teleport herself using cell phones and antennas.

Even without her phone abilities, Lady Wifi is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, easily being able to pin Cat Noir down on the ground. In "The Puppeteer", Lady Wifi is also shown to be remarkably strong, easily lifting an entire wooden chest and throwing it across the room at Ladybug.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Alya likes to record everything the heroes do and post it on her blog call the T-Blog. She says there's nothing to worry about as she have typed that this blog is all about a movie yet in a really realistic way. She's the one getting into trouble

## Trivia

* Alya's name is a reference to the R&B singer Aaliyah, just as the rest of her family's names are references to jazz singers.[4]
	+ In Slavonic, "Alya" means "beautiful" or "scarlet," possibly a reference to her red-brown hair. In Arabic, "Alya" means "sky," "heaven," or "loftiness."
* Alya is the most recurring character of the series, appearing in every episode, alongside Marinette, Adrien, Hawk Moth, Tikki, and Plagg.

* Unlike in the final product, Alya knew that Marinette was Ladybug in the early concept of the show.[5]
* In older concept art, Alya didn't wear glasses but instead wears sunglasses on top of her head.[6]
* In "The Evillustrator", Lady Wifi reappears in Nathaniel's fantasy, teaming up with Stormy Weather to attack Marinette.
* In "The Puppeteer", she makes her third appearance as Lady Wifi while under the Puppeteer's influence.
* Lady Wifi has made the most appearances out of any akumatized villain so far.
* She is the only villain that manages to take off a Miraculousfrom 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.
* Her family comes from Martinique, which is possibly a reference to Aimé Césaire.[1]
* 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.
* In Season 2 and upcoming comics, Alya will have more interactions with Nino.[7]