Juleka Couffaine

**Juleka Couffaine** is a part of Paris' superhero team, Team Miraculous, wielding the Tiger Miraculous which holds the spirit of the Elder God Sherkan. She is the twin sister of Luka Couffaine and daughter of Naud Gamigin, scion of the Gamigin Clan of the Netherworld.

As a superheroine, she is known as the **Purple Tigress**, or **Tigresse Pourpre** in French.

## Appearance

Juleka is a slender young girl who stands at average height. She has brilliant red eyes with dark eyeshadow and long black hair, with dyed mulberry-colored tips at the end and bangs covering the left side of her face.

She wears a black swan-necked T-shirt with black mesh sleeves, purple ripped leggings with rips above the knees and black high top sneakers. On her hands, she has fingerless lace gloves that have a diamond pattern design, and the Tiger Miraculous in the form of a dark-colored ring-bracelet with a large gemstone on her right arm.

While being the superheroine Purple Tigress, she wears a brilliant crimson bodysuit with dark-cerise lace stripes and light-gray fuchsia patches to mimic a tiger's stomach and paws, black gloves with swirling designs and golden claws, a long bolas worn around her waist like a belt, and crimson tiger ears are spawn on top of her head. Her hair changes into a heliotrope color with deep fuchsia highlights, and her eyes become orange with golden scleras. Her mask is crimson, dark-cerise bordered with fuchsia marks on her eyelids and eyebrows.

## Personality

Despite her timid nature, Juleka is very kind and cares about other people. She isn't as talkative as her friends, and when she does talk, she often does it in a self-conscious mumble. She is rarely particularly expressive, though she isn't afraid to call out someone's bullshit if it's necessary.

Because of her quiet nature, she feels like no one ever notices her and forgets she is around, but she is aware that there are people who care about her, to whom she expresses compassion and gentleness.

She has a fascination toward horrors and scary things, and outwardly expressed her excitement upon finding out she's a half-devil. Although she is an actual wizard, albeit still underaged, she has an unnatural interest in stereotypical "witchy" stuffs in media, such as the occult, demonology, and old rituals, though she admits it's less because she actually believes in them and more because she finds them strange and interesting to research about.

While acting as Purple Tigress, her superhero persona is more confident, braver, and fierce. Just like a tiger, she is stronger, fearless, and loyal to her team. She has a slight cockiness side to her that only shows up when fighting criminals, though people have also pointed out that she's also prones to flirting and teasing her girlfriend in this form, and can be outright vain and prideful at times.

According to Naud, this is due to her devil heritage manifesting itself when she's most comfortable with herself, as it magnifies pre-existing traits - even ones neither she nor others realize she has - to the point they become deadly sins like all devils. However, because of her human side, her traits aren't as enhanced as normal devils and only become flaws at most.

## History

Juleka Couffaine was born in 2000 as the younger twin sister of Luka Couffaine, daughter of Anarka Couffaine and popular musician Jagged Stone. However, due to disagreements between her parents, Jagged Stone never knew of his children and both Juleka and Luka were raised by their mother.

Growing up, neither she nor Luka noticed their devil heritage as Anarka was a wizard and had raised them with her family, who have been pure wizards for over three generations, and as such, all unnatural things their infernal energy did was instead marked off as accidental magic. When she was 8 years old, she, Anarka, and Luka left their grandparents' place in Bordeaux to Paris and the three have lived on Anarka's enchanted houseboat since then.

When she was 11 years old, she and Luka enrolled in Beauxbatons. Due to France's Ministry of Magic's acceptance of wizards with creature heritage, the two of them still didn't find out about their nature as half-devils. When they were 14 years old, an outbreak of Crimson Fever broke out in Beauxbatons, causing 3 students to die while both her and her brother were hospitalized and would have died had their infernal energy not saved them in time.

Because of this, Anarka decided to withdraw them and homeschooled them in magical subjects herself while letting them go to a mundane public school during the day. Juleka was then enrolled in Collège Françoise Dupont and, due to personal issues, was forced to repeat a year while Luka advanced to the next level. She also met and befriended Rose Lavillant, another former student at Beauxbatons.

## Equipment

**Tiger Miraculous**: Juleka is the wielder of the Tiger Ring-Bracelet, which is the Miraculous Jewel holding the spirit of Sherkan, the God of Exaltation. By establishing a soul contract, Juleka is able to tap into Sherkan's primordial power and becomes a pseudo-Avatar for the Elder God, transforming her into the powerful Purple Tigress.

## Trivia

* Juleka likes rock music, horror movies, makeup, and modeling.
* Like Luka, Juleka can play several musical instruments, though unlike him, she doesn't intend to become a professional musician.
* Because of her mother's insistence, Juleka is trained in several forms of self-defense and martial arts, such as Muay Thai, kickboxing, and Wing Chun.
* Juleka and Adrien are the models for her friend Marinette's MDCDesigns.
	+ In 2016, she is considered by several magazines to be one of Paris' best up-coming models.
* Thanks to her friends' encouragement, Juleka has her own YouTube channel with over 3-millions subscribers consisting videos of her makeup tutorials, fun makeup challenges, talks about current fashion trends with Marinette, and the occasional videos where she shows her viewers the best way to use everyday items as self-defense.
	+ She also has a second channel with 740,000 subscribers revolving around true crimes, urban legends, and the occult.