Nora Césaire

**Nora Césaire** is Alya's older sister and a kickboxer. In "Anansi", she is akumatized by Hawk Moth into **Anansi**, a spider-themed supervillain, when Alya refuses to listen to her overprotective advice.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Nora is brown-skinned and muscular with golden brown hair. Her hair is tied into a ponytail. Nora's left eyebrow has what appears to be a scar going through it. She also has a beauty mark underneath her right eye.

### Civilian attire

Nora wears a yellow cropped tank top with white edges with a black spider design on the front. White bandages wrap around her hands and wrists, and she wears black elbows pads. She also wears yellow shorts, which have a white upper band with the word "Anansi" written black capital letters on the front and two horizontal black lines wrapping around the rest, two black downward-bent lines on each side of the shorts, and white edges of the shorts' legs. Beneath her shorts are black short leggings.

### As Anansi

Anansi has dark skin and yellow hair braided into a spiky ponytail. She has six eyes and they are white and are outlined in black. Her costume is black with yellow stripes. A black and yellow spider design is on her chest. She has six arms.

## Personality

Nora is strong and caring but also somewhat overprotective, especially when it comes to her family, believing only strength is needed to carry you through. She is also very confident in her fighting abilities and has little regards for superheroes, doubting they'll always be around to save everyone when there's danger. She also calls Alya's friends by nicknames, like calling Nino "Cappie." Once she calms down, Nora can be humble when admitting defeat.

As Anansi, she is overconfident in her fighting abilities, believing it will always end in one punch and underestimates her opponents, whether it's civilians or superheroes. When angered, she is easily distracted and can lose her cool.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Nora is excellent at kick boxing. She is very fit and strong, easily able to defeat others in arm wrestling unless tricked.

In "Stormy Weather 2", she is even strong enough to pick up and hold her sisters and Nino with ease.

### As Anansi

Anansi can shoot webs from her mouth that she uses to trap people . She is shown to be able to climbs with her sticky grips . Because she is spider-themed villians , she has six arms and two legs. She also has immense strength.

## Relationships

### Alya Césaire

Nora cares deeply about her younger sister, but sometimes that care leads her to be overly protective. She displays a great amount of concern for Alya's safety since she has been in direct danger from past akumatized villains and even tries to forbid her from going to the ferris wheel with her friends out of fear that an akumatized villain might attack her.

As Anansi, she does everything in her power to try and show Alya how dangerous Paris can be.

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### Ella and Etta Césaire

Like Alya she cares deeply for her youngest sisters wanting to protect them from danger.

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Nora is aware that Marinette is Alya's best friend calling her Baguette unknown to her that she helps Nino win the match. After she is deakumatized and Marinette tries to explain what happened Nora quickly forgives her.

As for Ladybug, Nora like the many people in Paris have heard of her and her heroism. And yet, she is doubtful that Ladybug would always be around forever or protect them. As Anansi she tries to steal her earrings. As time goes on she treats the heroine with respect and support seen during the events of "Heroes' Day".

### Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir

Nora is aware that Adrien is Alya's friend calling him Cellphone Boy.

As for Cat Noir, Nora like the many people in Paris have heard of him and his heroism. And yet, she is doubtful that Cat Noir would always be around forever or protect them. As Anansi she tries to steal his ring. As time goes on she treats the hero with respect and support seen during the events of "Heroes' Day".

### Nino Lahiffe

When Nino tells Nora that he can protect Alya from danger, Nora laughs at him, believing that he is incapable of such a thing, though she does allow him to arm wrestle her to prove his worth. Though he wins the match (thanks to Marinette's help, unbeknowest to her), Nora insists that he cheated, finding it hard to believe that Nino could beat her. However, after being deakumatized, she apologizes for overreacting and spends time with him and the others at the ice rink.

As Anansi, she constantly taunts him calling him weak. She even toys with him when he fights her using Cat Noir's staff but is angered when he lands a hit on her face.

## Family

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    = **Male**

    = **Female**

    = **Gender Unknown**

### Notes

* All of the Césaires' first names are based on famous jazz singers.
* Marlena is the only member of the Césaire family so far not to be akumatized.

## Trivia

* Nora's stage name and akumatized form, "Anansi", comes from the African folktale character of the same name.
	+ In African folktales, Anansi often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories.
* Her character was officially introduced after Thomas Astruc designed her character and posted preliminary sketches of her on his Twitter on August 13, 2016.
* Nora's existence was first teased in an earlier tweet by Thomas Astruc, where he asked the question, "Afraid of spiders?", foreshadowing Nora's spider-themed akumatized form.
* On a computer screen in a photo of production by Jeremy Zag on his Instagram, there is an unfinished reference model of Nora's civilian form.
* Thomas considers Nora his "favorite girl" as well as "buff and beautiful."
* She calls people multiple nicknames:
	+ Cat Noir's nicknames are Cellphone Boy, Mr. Whiskers, and Kitten.
	+ Ladybug's nicknames are Beetle and Baguette.
	+ Hawk Moth's nicknames are Mothy, Butterfly Man, and Fly.
	+ Nino's nicknames are Cappie, Flyweight, and Lightweight.
* As a supervillain, Anansi is one of the few villains that Hawk Moth doesn't name, since "Anansi" is Nora's stage name in her boxing matches.

## References

1. ↑ https://tvschedule.zap2it.com/overview.html?programSeriesId=SH02296324&tmsId=SH022963240000&from=sl&aid=gapzap
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/978336355599208448
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/764534101298782208
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/764539655412916224
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/754017692600901632
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVhzJMGAgVU/
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas\_Astruc/status/978342324190236673

Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir • Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Reoccurring Miraculous holders
Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee • Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge • Luka Couffaine/Viperion • Max Kanté/Pegasus • Nino Lahiffe/Carapace • Lê Chiến Kim/King Monkey

Villains
Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth • Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura

Guardians
Wang Fu

Kwamis
Barkk • Daizzi • Duusu • Fluff • Kaalki • Longg • Mullo • Nooroo • Orikko • Plagg • Pollen • Roaar • Sass • Stompp • Tikki • Trixx • Wayzz • Xuppu • Ziggy

Previous Miraculous holders
Ancient Chinese Bee Miraculous holder • Ancient Chinese Butterfly Miraculous holder • Ancient Chinese Fox Miraculous holder • Ancient Chinese Ox Miraculous holder • Ancient Chinese Peacock Miraculous holder • Ancient Egyptian Ladybug • Ancient Egyptian Miraculous holder • Bọ rùa • Cernunnos • La Coccinelle • Herakles • Hēi Māo • Hippolyta • Jeanne d'Arc • La Mariquita • Micazoyolin • Mudekudeku • Piáo Chóng • Pied Piper of Hamelin • Sasuke Sarutobi • Sun Wukong • Tentomushi • Tomoe Gozen

Future Miraculous holders
Aspik • Brazilian Miraculous holder • Dragon Bug • Future Queen Bee • Future Butterfly Miraculous holder • Jade Turtle • Alix Kubdel/Bunnyx • Lady Noir • Mister Bug • Multimouse • Multimouse with Fox Miraculous • Snake Noir • Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko

Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth • Akuma • Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura

Akumatized villains
**Anansi** • Animaestro • Animan • Antibug • Backwarder • Bakerix • Befana • The Bubbler • Captain Hardrock • Catalyst • Chameleon • Christmaster • The Collector • Copycat • Darkblade • Dark Cupid • Dark Owl • Despair Bear • Desperada • Destroyer • The Evillustrator • Frightningale • Frozer • Gamer • Gigantitan • Glaciator • Gorizilla • Guitar Villain • Horrificator • Ikari Gozen • Kung Food • Lady Wifi • Magician of Misfortune • Malediktator • The Mime • Miraculer • Oblivio • Party Crasher • The Pharaoh • Mr. Pigeon • Pixelator • Prime Queen • Princess Fragrance • The Puppeteer • Oni-Chan • Queen Wasp • Reflekta • Rena Rage • Replay • Reverser • Riposte • Robostus • Rogercop • Sandboy • Santa Claws • Sapotis • Shell Shock • Silencer • Silurus • Simon Says • Stoneheart • Stormy Weather • Style Queen • Syren • Timebreaker • Troublemaker • Vanisher • Volpina • Weredad • Zombizou

Other villains
Trash Krakken

Unknown and/or future villains
Apkli • Cat Blanc • Dr. Sadness • Hawk Moth (future) • Ignoblia • Kwamibuster • Loveater • Miracle Queen • Pain and Tears • Monsieur Rat • Startrain • Timetagger • Trio of Punishers

Miss Bustier's class (Ivan Bruel • Juleka Couffaine • Mylène Haprèle • Alix Kubdel • Nathaniel Kurtzberg • Rose Lavillant • Sabrina Raincomprix • Lila Rossi)Adam • Ali • Marc Anciel • Aurore Beauréal • Mireille Caquet • Jean Duparc • Ondine • Kagami Tsurugi • Wayhem

Children
August • Boy • Ella Césaire • Etta Césaire • Manon Chamack • Kenya • Chris Lahiffe • Mrs. Michelle's son • Quentin

Adults
Adrien's bodyguard • Emilie Agreste • Arlette • Art teacher • Thomas Astruc • August's mother • Vincent Aza • Banana Man • Théo Barbot • André Bourgeois • Audrey Bourgeois • Breaker • Caline Bustier • Butler Jean • Alec Cataldi • Marlena Césaire • **Nora Césaire** • Otis Césaire • Nadja Chamack • Sabine Cheng • Wang Cheng • Chris (performer) • Clara Contard • Anarka Couffaine • Mr. Damocles • Armand D'Argencourt • Doorman • Gina Dupain • Rolland Dupain • Tom Dupain • Fire captain • Fisherman • Ghetto Blaster • André Glacier • Simon Grimault • Fred Haprèle • Howard • Jørgen • Kenya's father • Killabee • Mr. Kubdel • Jalil Kubdel • Marianne Lenoir • Lila's mother • Maid • Ms. Mendeleiev • Metal Face D • Mrs. Michelle • Clara Nightingale • Philippe • Prince Ali's chaperone • Public Enemy • Roger Raincomprix • Xavier Ramier • Penny Rolling • Bob Roth • Santa Claus • Sarah • Shaolin Soul • Jagged Stone • Jean Tretiens • Tomoe Tsurugi • Véronique • Vincent (Adrien's photographer) • Wealthy woman • XY

Animals
Fang • Minor animals • Whiskers

Groups
Kitty Section

Characters from the past
Darkblade (ancestor) • Mage • Order of the Guardians

Miscellaneous
Albert • Markov

Future characters
Lindalee Rose • Sabine's mother • Vivica

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