Chat Noir

**Adrien Émile Gabriel Donatien Athanase Agreste** is a human from Universe AC-8, fashion model, and student at Collège Françoise Dupont. He serves a deuteragonist in *Marvel's Avengers: Odyssey* and one of the main protagonists in *Book I: Assemble*. As the son of wealthy fashion icons Gabriel and Émile Agreste, Adrien lived an isolated, yet loving childhood. His life would change drastically when his mother Émile disappeared and was later presumed dead, causing Gabriel to become distant and emotionally abusive to his son, leading to Adrien attempting to stay close to him by modelling for his father's company. Nine months later, Adrien would begin attending public school for the first time in his life. There he would befriend many students including Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, and Marinette Dupain-Cheng. It was also on that day that Adrien was secretly gifted the Cat Miraculous by Wang Fu, allowing him to transform into the superhero **Chat Noir**.

## Chat Noir

* Adrien
* Chat Noir

## Biographical Information

### Name

Adrien Émile Gabriel Donatien Athanase Agreste

### Alias

* Adrien
* Chat Noir
* Adrikins
* Kitty
* Cat

## General Information

### Relatives

* Gabriel Agreste (father)
* Emille Agreste (mother)

### Affilations

* Gabriel (model)
* Collège Françoise Dupont (student)
* French Miraculous Team
* Ladybug (partner)
* Avengers

### Occupation

* Student at Collège Françoise Dupont
* Superhero
* Second-in-Command of the French Miraculous Team
* Member of the Avengers

## Other Information

### AU Status

Active

As his alter ego, Adrien found himself partnered up with Ladybug, another superhero and holder of the Ladybug Miraculous, as they fought crime and defended Paris from the villain Hawk Moth. Adrien would fall in love with Ladybug, who rejected his advances but still saw him as a friend. But unknown to Adrien, Ladybug was actually his fellow classmate Marinette, who secretly had a crush on him in his civilian form. In his school life he would continue to form friendships with his classmates, growling fond of Marinette particularly. While as Chat Noir, he and Ladybug would form a team of Miraculous users including Césaire & Lahiffe as Rena Rouge & Carapace, Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee, Luka Couffaine/Viperion, and Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko. All of them only participated in difficult missions before returning their Miraculous charms to Ladybug so she could return them to Fu.

A few months later, Adrien would be pulled into conflict with the entity Abeloth, who wanted to kill Ladybug and obtain her Miraculous. This ultimately led to Adrien crossing paths with the Avengers, who were trying to protect his partner.

## Personality

### As Adrien

Adrien is a dreamer and charismatic but is also often shy, a bit reserved, and considerably innocent and naïve — particularly due to his unfamiliarity with much of the world beyond his father's reach. According to his friends, and Pepper Potts after spying on him, he resembles a baby bird coming out of his shell. Due to his kind heart, Adrien always tries to see the best in others, even those with cruel intentions. His patience does have limits though, as he has become increasingly annoyed with both Chloe Bourgeois and Lila Rossi's harassment of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, along with Rossi's lying and manipulative nature.

Even though he is not very openly emotional to most people, he is friendly, empathetic, understanding, supportive, and encouraging to others in hard times and will defend his friends against those who would do them harm. His will for exposure, change and making friends definitely complements his personality, although it is a bit of a struggle for Adrien due to his busy schedule. Adrien's shyer and gentler characteristics can be observed in awkward, uncomfortable situations or scenarios with particular people.

Despite his friendly demeanor, Adrien is more serious, obedient, somewhat insecure, and less lively due to his strict upbringing. His relationship with his father is emotionally abusive and strained. He gets his feelings hurt and cries easily-- mention of his mother is enough to make his eyes tear up-- however he is used to disappointment and is able to manage these feelings to avoid attracting akumas. When in public, he usually tries to downplay his feelings on it, like his relationship with his father. He has an easier time letting his feelings show to those whom he is close to, such as Marinette.

### As Chat Noir

As Chat Noir, Adrien has the freedom to act however he desires outside of his normal life, letting his wilder side come out. More optimistic and open, he says whatever comes to his mind and has a habit of cracking cat-related jokes and puns. Basically speaking Chat Noir is the only time Adrien can be himself. Much of his exaggerated personality, especially his flirtatious behavior with Ladybug, stems from entertainment such as anime, television, and movies due to his lack of experience with people his age beyond Chloé Bourgeois. It is rare for Chat Noir to reveal his vulnerable side, but it does come through at times. Examples of this are when he quietly comments that not all parents are loving, tries in vain to tell Ladybug about his love for her before their transformations wore off, and opens up to Marinette (in her civilian persona) about his struggles in the love department.

In his attempts to get Ladybug's attention, as well as interacting with certain other people, he acts cocky and brags, liking to boast about himself in a comedic way. His perspective of people slowly begins to change at first through his fights as Cat Noir; Adrien naively believed that people are only dangerous when akumatized, but this changed after his eyes were opened to the actions of Lila Rossi. Where he learned that people could become dangerous even without superpowers. Horrified that her hatred of Ladybug is so deep, she was willing to leave the heroine and, by extension, everyone else in great danger just to have her revenge.

Chat Noir occasionally shows insecurity when comparing his abilities to Ladybug or their new partners. These traits also often spark his instincts to protect Ladybug before himself, sacrificing himself numerous times always with the confidence she'll find a way when he can't.

Adrien holds deep hatred of secrets due to his upbringing. He longs to one day reveal his identity to Ladybug. This trait is highly apparent in his romantic pursuit of her, to the point where both Marinette (referring to Cat Noir) and Kagami Tsurugi believe that he is stubborn. His hatred of secrets have also put him at odd with his partner, especially after the latter began taking on more responsibilities such as handing the Miraculous to their respective users and having to return them, with Adrien being unaware of the holders are. However his curiosity stems from him wanting to know whose behind the mask as he trusts them. However, like Alya Césaire, he places extreme values on the mutual trust he has with Ladybug, respecting her decision to keep her identity secret and eventually her secrets with Wang Fu.

It is understandable as to why Adrien hates secrets because of his father and possibly mother as he had to live his whole life as one big secret as he was home schooled meaning he was unable to interact with anyone else beside Chloé. Extending to the point to where no one else knew the real him, only the image his father made up of him and as a model. Not only that because of his parents mistake he felt excluded from them as well even mentioning himself that he took up modeling just to get close to his father. When he dons the mask of Cat Noir Adrien is free to express his inner self, but is bound by his secret identity and ends up becoming a liar himself. However his understanding is bit more refined; as he accepts the secrets of his father and Ladybug and trusts that they have good intentions. Which also shows his strong desire to be included to point of being impatient as it takes time for people to trust others.