Marinette Dupain-Cheng

**Marinette Dupain-Cheng** is the female protagonist of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. She is a student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont]] in Paris, France, and a budding fashion designer who wants to have her own brand one day. With the Ladybug Miraculous]], when inhabited by Tikki, Marinette transforms into the superheroine **Ladybug**, gaining the power of creation to stop Hawk Moth and his akumatized villains. She is the leader of the French Miraculous superhero team.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Marinette is a half French (by her father's side) and half Chinese (by her mother's side) slender teenage girl of average height with a slightly light skin tone, medium-length black hair with blue reflections that is always seen tied back in twin tails, light scarlet lipstick on her lips, bluebell eyes, light freckles on both sides and the bridge of her nose.

In "Cat Blanc" and "Heart Hunter", Marinette has her hair down, the full length of her hair reaches down to her shoulders.

### Civilian attire

Marinette wears a dark gray blazer with rolled-up sleeves; the inside of the blazer is lined in white with light fuchsia polka dots, and it has black trimming. Underneath, she wears a white t-shirt with black stitching and a flower design below the collar. The design itself has pink flowers and black leaves. She wears pink rolled-up jeans and light pink ballet flats with very reddish brown soles. She wears eyeliner around her eyes and sports black earrings that also serve as her Miraculous when Tikki inhabits them. She often wears a light pink purse with a thin black strap over her right shoulder. She also wears her Kwagatama necklace under her t-shirt.

### As Ladybug

She wears a red superhero jumpsuit covered in black spots and with 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. She keeps her normal blue-black hair, and her eyes are vivid azure.

In "Mr. Pigeon 72", when Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm most of her costume remains the same except she dons solid black coloring on her hands, bottom of her feet, on her waist to upper thighs and arms where the spots are inverted. Her collar turns swan-necked, and the color of it changes from completely black to red with a black lining and a small ladybug shaped zipper connected to the front of her costume similar to Cat Noir's bell. Her pigtails and hair ribbons become longer and gains a pair of blue ribbons but after using her Miraculous Ladybug she reverts back to her normal appearance.

### As Lady Noire

The costume of Lady Noire is very similar to Cat Noir; she wears a dark cornflower bluish 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, a small flowing green band in the heel, and end with small black triangular platform shoes. She has floor-length reddish brownish gray/dark cyanish gray hair that is styled in a single braid, which makes it look like a tail that is supported by a black two-wire ball fluo green at the end of each a black feather, cat ears on her head (like Cat Noir) with fluorescent green accents, her eyes become green and feline with green sclerae where she has lighter green irises with oblong pupils and a black mask. Like her yo-yo, Lady Noire keeps her staff attached to her hip when not in use.

### As Multimouse

Multimouse wears a gray, pink and black bodysuit. She wears her hair in Odango-style twin buns, which resemble mouse ears. She also wears her Miraculous, a necklace, around her neck. Her mask is gray at the top and pink with a black border at the bottom. She wears black gloves that are a little above her elbows and have a thick pink horizontal stripe at the end. She also wears black boots that are above knee-level with a thick pink horizontal stripe.

### As Multifox

Multifox essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but all the pink accents on Multimouse become orange, and she has a white section on her chest similar to Rena Rouge as a result of the Fox Miraculous influence. The pink section of her mask also becomes orange. Her head bands also become orange as well.

### As Multibug

Multibug essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but her suit gains black spots on the grey part, and all the pink accents on Multimouse become red as a result of the Ladybug Miraculous influence. Her mask also gets five black spots that are in a symmetrical design, and the pink section becomes red. Her head bands turn red as well.

### As Multinoir

Multinoir essentially looks the same as Multimouse, but all the pink accents on Multimouse become black (in a darker shade than the black of the Multimouse suit) as a result of the Cat Miraculous influence. The pink section of her mask also becomes black. Her head bands become black as well.

### As Dragon Bug

Dragon Bug wears a suit that possesses traits from both the Ladybug and Dragon Miraculouses in asymmetric disposition. The right side is essentially red with black spots with a yellow outline with a black line with a yellow outline wrapping around the leg and the forearm and ending on the foot and the hand, respectively. The left side is essentially black with red spots with a yellow outline, but with the leg and the forearm being red with the same line, but ending on the ankle and wrist, respectively. She has a black collar/turtleneck with a yellow edge (where she has the Dragon Miraculous), and on her chest, over a black spot, she has the images that represent the three elements she controls: lightning, air, and water. On the back of her head, she has four red dragon-like horns (two pairs of conjoined horns on each side) with black tips with a thick yellow outlining and, on her back, she has a holder for her sword. On her face, she wears a red mask around her eyes with three spots and a yellow and black outline at the base of the sides.

### As Lady Bee

She wears a suit that possesses traits from both the Ladybug and Bee Miraculouses. Most of her suit is red with black spots that have a yellow outline and a black line at the front of her body. The area of the hips, the upper arm, half of the forearm and collar are black with yellow stripes at the edges. The upper half of her mask is red with black spots with a yellow outline and the lower half is yellow and black. She wears her hair back in a ponytail which is curled to resemble a bee's stinger at the ends, tied with a black hairband, with two black antennae-like ribbons sticking out from the hairband, and a streak of yellow and black hair curled into the end of her ponytail, along with a small streak of red. She uses both the yo-yo and the spinning top around the hips when not using them.

### As Pegabug

Pegabug wears a suit that possesses traits from both the Ladybug and Horse Miraculouses. Most of her suit is red with black spots, but the front is completely white, with a white horseshoe over her chest. Most of her upper arms and the upper side of her forearms are dark brown, while the rest of the forearm and hands are white with dark brown fingers. Her legs are white with a gradient effect, with black spots with the soles of her feet being dark brown and her face mask remains the same, except for a white middle spot on top of the black one. Her hair is tied in a ponytail with a red hairband with two red antennae-like ribbons sticking out from the hairband and the ends of her ponytail hair are white. She possesses as well two pairs of gold wing-like ornaments with white edges with one pair located on each side of her head and the other on each outer ankle. Her horseshoe is located on her back, while her yo-yo is around her waist.}}

## Personality

Marinette is a sweet, outgoing, and joyful girl who loves fashion, her friends, family, and Adrien Agreste (her crush), where Adrien describes her as honest, kind, fair, and the type not to cheat. She is very helpful as she was willing to help those who have insecurities, such as; Juleka Couffaine, who thought she had a "class photo curse," and Marc Anciel, who was too afraid to share his creative writing. According to Clara Nightingale, Marinette has a pure heart. She cares deeply for other people, usually putting their feelings and interests even before her own, in some cases at a personal cost. Despite being genuinely kind, she has her limits, such as when she gets irritated with Chloé Bourgeois to the point that she refuses to continue guarding her against the Evillustrator as Ladybug.

Despite her outgoing and empathetic personality, Marinette struggles with self-confidence and self-esteem. She used to be even more nervous and didn't oppose others, but her confidence grew considerably since she became Ladybug. In a situation she deems urgent, she becomes very nervous, clumsy, a bit awkward, and quick to panic. These situations include approaching her crush, trouble-choosing between her love interests, when in contact with a really big celebrity if she thinks others do greater success compared to herself, or losing something that will expose her secret identity. Thanks to her confidence as Ladybug, though, Marinette has gotten more calm and comfortable around Adrien as herself, as seen when she helps him get away from a swarm of fans and talks to him more fluently.

Marinette can act impulsively and irrationally at times, as shown when she tried to deflect the false accusation of "stealing" Chloé's bracelet onto others who are also innocent. She is willing to do several risky tasks in order to protect her image, like stealing Adrien's phone to erase an embarrassing message she accidentally left on it. She also expresses jealousy whenever other girls such as Chloé or Lila Rossi flirt with Adrien, sometimes causing her to act irrationally, even abusing her powers as Ladybug to keep them away or forget to detransform in the first place. However, Marinette tends to learn from her mistakes and become a more open-minded, understanding person. She also takes advice from others very well, whether it is family or friends, as seen throughout the series. According to Marinette in "Family", as her civilian self-personality wise, she takes after her father as well as having her great uncle's creative side.

As Ladybug, Marinette retains many of her alter ego's characteristics, but she is much stronger. Her confidence and bravery come out more prominently. According to Cat Noir, she can be stubborn at times, especially when she isn't easily convinced. While almost all of Ladybug's plans are effective, they tend to be complex and rather bizarre. She is more cautious and careful than Cat Noir, sometimes needing to restrain or stop him from doing hasty acts seen in several episodes. Only during rare occasions she can act hasty, especially if she is in a rush to do something or multiple things at one time. She usually follows her head, saying that a great superhero always listens to her head, meaning that she isn't easily fooled or swayed by deceptions and lies.

As Ladybug, Marinette strives to rescue everyone, including those akumatized by Hawk Moth. She usually tries to persuade the supervillains to calm down and stop their rampage when she is able to do so. Ladybug is aware that there is a line between justice and revenge. She thinks that honesty and justice don't mean anything if you're pressured into doing it, like as she didn't pressure Bob to tell the truth about him stealing everything from Kitty Section but waited until he admitted everything himself across the TV. Ladybug acknowledges that good things come by doing good actions and that not all problems can be solved by wishing them away like Hawk Moth hopes, especially at the expense of hurting the innocent. She also values the lives of others more than material possessions. Similar to her partner, through her lifestyle, she isn't tempted by power because Marinette understood that her life could be great without it.

Marinette takes her image and Miraculous powers as Ladybug very seriously. She has a more serious side when fighting against Hawk Moth's villains, as opposed to Cat Noir's laid back and goofy personality. She got angry at Chloé as Ladybug for using her powers to create a fake accident, which could have led to a serious one. Given these traits, Adrien claims that her civilian form is funnier than Ladybug. Marinette can be sensitive about her image, getting annoyed at Chloé playing her alter ego in Clara Nightingale’s music video, becoming a little angered when Nora doubted her abilities, or even attacking impulsively to Sabrina Raincomprix (as Miraculer) after the latter tauntingly mimicked her. Although she can get exasperated with Cat Noir if he jokes too much, she handles joking calmly at times and enjoys teasing him or others. Similar to Cat Noir, she is clever with her words and occasionally enjoys making puns. According to Marinette in "Family", as her alter ego personality-wise, she takes after her mother along with her grandmother Gina's adventurous spirit.

As her alter ego, Marinette strives to keep her personal and superhero lives separate to protect herself, the people she knows or is close to. Still, she aims to be honest with others in other ways, like her honesty with Cat Noir about not having romantic feelings for him and seeking advice from others. No matter the difficulty of her tasks, Marinette does everything in her power to set things right as Ladybug while keeping up with her everyday responsibilities, like studying, designing something, babysitting, or working in the bakery. There are exceptions to the rule as well, such as when she mixed her duties to her former Master and her personal plans, like her letter to Adrien. She also has occasional problems at inventing excuses about her absences to her friends, teachers, and parents.

Despite enjoying being Ladybug had allowed her to meet Tikki and save people, Marinette admits that she is growing tired and stressed about keeping her lives separate and having to lie to everyone she loves, causing her to break down and cry to Luka about her problems. While on occasion, it is rare that she breaks down as Ladybug, she often voices her doubts and mistakes to Cat Noir during their hardest times. She began to feel more of the strain in her civilian life as she took the mantle of the guardian, causing her to break down, even more, realizing she can't have a love life, be honest with anyone being condemned to a cage of lies until Hawk Moth is gone.

Speaking of her tasks as the Guardian, Marinette worked relentlessly to decode the grimoire and was very determined to stop Hawk Moth from reakumatizing people. After gaining help from Alya in "Mr. Pigeon 72", she has deeper understanding of her powers and when using it she can take pleasure in protecting people even further. Also through it, she has relaxed and calmed down a bit starting to see the flaws in others. Unlike Hawk Moth, Marinette started to learn to let go of the mistakes of past as seen in "Furious Fu" as she didn't blame herself for her former master's condition as she knew that Master Fu wouldn't want her to do such a thing when others needed her more.

While working with other Miraculous holders as team leader, Ladybug doesn't see them as sidekicks but as friends and extremely values their support and help. She is also great at giving advice to others when they need it. Thus, she is saddened about suspending those who do a great job but at the cost of having their identities revealed to Hawk Moth like Chloé and Kagami, but she does it in a caring and considerate way, letting them know she does it to protect them and their loved ones. When she is off duty like Cat Noir, Ladybug had learned to relax and have fun. As a leader, she learned to take suggestions, ideas and to follow the lead of others when the situation calls for it. Most of the time, as a leader, she is cool, calm, and levelheaded, but sometimes Ladybug does let her anger get the better of her as she voiced her frustrations at Cat Noir during a fight which led to her impulsively telling him about her doubts in trusting him during the "New York Special", which led to an accident.

As Lady Noire, Marinette retains most of her personality as Ladybug, like her cautiousness and creativity. She takes after her partner's sense of humor, cunning, and charm, with Mister Bug believing that she is the one wearing the clown suit.

Like Adrien when he was Aspik as Multimouse while trying to protect her identity as Ladybug, Marinette is trustworthy, faithful, and clever. However, she pretends to be a klutz and "reveals" her identity in front of Cat Noir.

As her adult alter ego, according to Bunnyx, Marinette will grow into a wise, calm, strong, and confident leader, meaning that she isn't impulsive and irrational. Such as when she comforted Bunnyx, telling her that their fight wasn't over, easily figuring out she had a message from her younger self, and after Timetagger's defeat, she confidently told her younger self that they'll always be able to save the day.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

Marinette has exceptional talent in fashion design, able to sketch ideas in a notebook after getting inspired by her surroundings and sewing by hand or with a machine. She usually wears her own creations and makes clothing for others. She also can create graphic designs using a computer, such as album covers. Her skills in this field are exceptional for an amateur, such as when her pigeon-styled derby hat was good enough to be recognized by the famous professional designer, Gabriel Agreste, despite the fact that she had never made one before. According to Audrey Bourgeois, the harshest fashion critic, she didn't see other talents as great as Gabriel Agreste until she met Marinette. She also wants to become a fashion designer when she grows up.

Since "Reflekdoll", Marinette is working on a website to show off her designs. In "Reverser", she is good at flying a kite. In "Gorizilla" and "Lies", she knows how to drive a remote-controlled helicopter and a drone.

Although she is absent-minded, Marinette is clever and quick-thinking, as shown when she hid her signature in her hat when Chloé stole her design, which exposed her. Many of her friends describe "she is always able to come up with the right plan at the right time". Despite being amnesiac from the effects of Oblivio's powers, she outsmarted the villain while they were looking for her and Adrien. Ladybug's resourcefulness is more obvious when she is figuring out how to utilize her Lucky Charm, most of her plans being outside the box yet risky and complicated. She also has good instincts, as she told Cat Noir, that revealing their identities would have to wait until Hawk Moth was defeated, meaning she understood what her archenemy is capable of if he found out. By putting the clues together, she figured out, despite being deceived, discovered Hawk Moth's identity and also managed to trick Cat Noir into believing she isn't Ladybug. To the point where her instincts have developed so much that even Su-Han had praised it with marks calling it an essential quality for being a guardian.

According to Alya, Marinette always gets a high score on school tests. Ms. Bustier said that she had answered each question on the last test correctly.

Even in her civilian form, Marinette has high stamina, endurance, and agility, running long distances without stopping in several episodes. She is naturally flexible, being even more flexible as Ladybug because of her enhanced physical abilities. She is also quite stealthy, frequently sneaking up on Adrien and other people without being noticed. Marinette is very good at sports, being quite good at ice-skating and dancing. She has good reflexes, being on par with Adrien despite fencing for the first time. With practicing from Kagami, Marinette has the potential to be a good fencer. In "Kwamibuster", due to her high stamina, endurance, and mental resistance, Marinette was able to handle the strain and/or use of multiple Miraculous at one time with minor fatigue.

From Master Fu, Marinette learned the history of the kwamis and their Miraculouses. Her knowledge extends to the spells such as the incantation needed for the wish-granting power of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses. However, as Fu's understanding is limited, Marinette's training might be incomplete.

Marinette is very skilled at video games, easily beating Max at Ultimate Mecha Strike III and getting the highest score in the entire school. While playing with Adrien, she quickly wins the round they were playing. When playing with both boys, while the boys seem to be tense, concentrating really hard, Marinette is the complete opposite. Unlike them, her expression is calm and collected, showing how easy and effortlessly it is for her to win.

As complimented by Adrien, Marinette is an excellent baker. She knows both approaches, modern and traditional, on baking, as well as how to handle cooking facilities. She makes "magicaroons" for Tikki, containing all the power-ups from Miraculous spellbook. In "The Puppeteer", it is revealed that Marinette can whistle. Not as good as Lila, she is adequate at acting or deceiving people, especially akumatized villains, as a part of her plans to defeat and save them.

She is also working on learning Mandarin Chinese with her mother's help. She is learning how to play the guitar with Luka's help.

Due to her spending time with her grandmother, she learned how to ride a scooter bike in "Queen Banana".

### As Ladybug

Ladybug has much more enhanced physical skills, 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 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. 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 as 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, it 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. 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.

### Aqua Form

When accessing her aqua powers, Ladybug has the ability to breathe underwater and has enhanced swimming capabilities due to the fins on her feet.

### Ice Form

When accessing her ice powers, Ladybug has the ability to handle extremely low temperatures, as well as move freely and quickly on the ice with her ice skates.

### Space Form

When accessing her space powers, Ladybug has the ability to breathe in space, and with the help of her jet pack, the ability to move freely and quickly while up in the air.

### 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's power, causing her to revert back to Marinette five minutes afterward, so she has to use it wisely.

### As Multimouse

Multimouse has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and she is almost invulnerable to physical damage.

Her special power, Multitude, allows her to turn into a number of tiny clones of herself. The clones are small, a lot smaller compared to the Kwamis. In order to activate her power, Multimouse takes several jumps using her jump rope (her tool), which makes her bottom section of her legs shine and, her tiny clones were created and start to appear. As the original size starts to shrink down and decrease, Multimouse has the ability to divide herself into smaller clones. All of them have the same costume, including the miraculous, but the original one wore all of the miraculouses, creating a difference between the rest of them.

### As Multifox

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multifox possesses the power Mirage. She divided herself into tiny clones and gave the fox miraculous to one of the clones. By playing her flute, she produces an orange ball of energy at the far end of it and then throws it to create a hyper-realistic illusion. This illusion can disappear when touched or when Multifox undoes it by shouting out "Reality".

### As Multinoir

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multinoir possesses the power Cataclysm. As Cat Noir gave her the miraculous, she wore it around her waist. It allows her to negatively affect anything that she touches with her ring hand. While it is usually used to destroy objects, it can be used for a variety of different effects.

### As Multibug

Besides the powers she has as Multimouse, Multibug possesses the power of Lucky Charm. Still wearing her earrings after being set free, she used her powers to trap the akuma and purify it.

### As Dragon Bug

Besides the powers she has as Ladybug, Dragon Bug possesses the powers of the Dragon Miraculous Superpower. It allows her to use the power of the Water, Wind, and Lightning elements and even combine them with her yo-yo to make a shield.

### As Lady Bee

In addition to the powers she has as Ladybug, in her fusion form with the Bee Miraculous she possesses the power of Venom. It allows her to use her spinning top to paralyze her adversaries.

### As Pegabug

In addition to the powers she has as Ladybug, Pegabug possesses the power of Voyage. It allows her open a portal that she can travel through and exit at any location that she desires.
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