Gabriel Agreste (Parallel Universe)

## Gabriel Agreste

* Gabriel Agreste
* Betterfly
* Guardian Angel

**Gabriel Agreste** is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Alya Césaire) of *Miraculous World: Paris - Tales of Shadybug & Claw Noir*. He is the heroic version of Gabriel Agreste from an alternate universe. When Nooroo inhabits the Butterfly Miraculous, he transforms into **Betterfly**, a butterfly-themed superhero.

In "Miraculous Paris", he crossed the mutiverse to seek help from Ladybug and Cat Noir to fight Shadybug and Claw Noir, who came to their world to steal the Butterfly Miraculous from him. After his enemies allied themselves with Ladybug's own nemesis, Monarch, and set up a trap, Ladybug comes up with a plan to counter it. Borrowing his Butterfly Miraculous to become Ladyfly, she kamikotized him into **Guardian Angel**, an angel-themed superhero with the power to protect his allies from any attack. After Ladybug and Cat Noir managed to reform Shadybug and Claw Noir, who became superheroes, the latter two joined Betterfly's team to fight the Supreme and bring peace to their universe.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Because he is Gabriel Agreste's counterpart in another universe, he has a similar appearance to him, but with a middle part hairstyle.

### Civilian attire

He wears a blue vest with a peach collar shirt, a dark blue ascot tie with a triangular blue pattern, and white round glasses.

### As Betterfly

Betterfly wears a light purple dress shirt, over which he wears a dark indigo jacket with lighter purple butterfly-shaped lapel-like adorn coming from the central button of his jacket. He also wears dark indigo pants and dress shoes without laces, purple gloves, a dark purple butterfly-shaped mask over his face, and a light purple cavalier shoulder cape that resembles butterfly wings, and his hairstyle is white middle part.

### As Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel was similar to Gabriel in appearance, but with his body and clothes appearing to be made entirely of white feathers. He was seen wearing a tailcoat and had big white wings and completely white eyes. His kamikotized object, his glasses, seemed to be the only part of his form not made of feather.

## Personality

Much like his counterpart, Gabriel used to be willing to go to great lengths to get what he wanted. In order to make his dream a reality, he joined the Supreme and stole two Miraculous: the Butterfly and the Peacock. However, because of his misuse of their powers, he lost his wife. This event had a great impact on Gabriel who decided to use the power of the Butterfly for good, creating superheroes to fight the Supreme and bring hope to his world.

However, unlike his counterpart, Gabriel was able to move on from his wife's death and never considered in finding a way to bring her back. Not just that, but he is able to learn from his mistakes.

As Betterfly, unlike Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch, he embodies all the ideals of hope and freedom he stands for to the heart. It is his belief that powers must be shared to the world and used for the greater good, a lesson that he learned in the hard way. Remaining true to the purpose of his Miraculous, he only uses his powers to kamikotize someone that willingly wants to help them, instead of preying on those with negative emotions or on innocent civilians. Even with his allies, unless it's a life or death situation, he asks them for permission before releasing his kamiko. An example is when he saves Marinette, as he doesn't try to kamikotize her to help him fight Shadybug and Claw Noir, despite the clear disadvantage he has.

This is also evident in his fighting style, which also contrasts with that of his counterpart's. Unlike Hawk Moth/Monarch, who prefers to remain in his lair and let his akumatized villains fight for him, only fighting his enemies directly when necessary, Betterfly is more opened as he is willing to fight his battles than just watch from a distance or manipulate everyone to his advantage. Even those he kamikotizes are seen to possess powers that serve mostly as support, like Ubiquity's ability to transport him to an universe where he can get allies or Celesticat's ability to emanate a blinding light and flight to help them escape Shadybug and Claw Noir.

Betterfly always prioritizes the safety of the civilians and his allies, even before his own mission to defeat The Supreme and his followers, seen how he went to put Marinette in a safe place, as soon he heard from Ubiquity that Shadybug and Claw Noir were coming, instead of taking that time to prepare an ambush. Also similar to Ladybug and Cat Noir, he was also caring and considerate even to his enemies as he tried to convince Shadybug and Claw Noir that it wasn't too late for them to change likely wanting to save them from the negative effects of their jewels. Without realizing it he also felt great empathy unlike his counterpart he like Ladybug and Cat Noir knew what it felt like to be hunted and lonely.

Betterfly is also very emotional and passionate about his job as superhero. He is very dedicated to his duty to his world in such way that it actually made him have a troubled relationship with his son, who believes that his father doesn't have time for him so he can keep making clothes to help him move on from Emilie's death. But despite his estranged relationship with his son being painful to him, he knows it's the only way to keep him safe. After coming to Ladybug and Cat Noir's world and seeing how different it is from his, Betterfly became very emotional, as that only gave him more hope that his dream of turning his world into something as marvelous is still possible.

## Abilities

### As a civilian

In the theme song like his counterpart he has skills of the fashion industry.

### As Betterfly

Like his heinous counterpart, he can use the power of the Butterfly Miraculous to give superpowers to people. However, unlike him, who can create Kamikos to turn people into Supervillains, Betterfly creates Kamikos, which are able to kamikotize them into superheroes. It would appear that Betterfly is able to shoot the kamikos directly to his targets, instead of just directing them and let them fly naturally to them. He can also undo any transformation originated from the Butterfly Miraculous, by retrieving the butterfly used on it, being it a kamiko or an akuma.

### As Guardian Angel

Like a real angel, he had wings that allowed him to fly. However, his real power was his ability to protect his allies from any attack. To activate his power, he involved his allies with his wings, marking their backs with wing marks and then disappearing. As long his allies had his mark, they became protected from any attack that may have landed on him. When they were attacked, a swarm of white feathers were released from the mark and involved the assaulter completely, immobilizing them and putting them out of combat.

## Relationships

### Adrien Agreste/Claw Noir/Paw Noir

Similar to his counterpart, Gabriel had a distant relationship with his son after his wife's death, due to Adrien believing him to have moved on too quickly by designing clothes.

However, unknown to Adrien, Gabriel actually was distant due to his superhero duties as Betterfly, fighting against the Supreme. As seen in the special's opening, Gabriel clearly regrets being distant from his son, but does it to keep him safe from harm.

Unknown to Gabriel, Adrien was also entrusted with a Miraculous by the Supreme and fought him as his enemy Claw Noir, who wanted to steal his Miraculous for the Supreme. Despite this Betterfly tried to convince him to join the Resistance, stating that the Supreme was manipulating him and that it was possible to have a better world. However, Claw Noir refused to listen and Betterfly became horrified when Claw Noir forced Cat Noir to Cataclysm him.

After Claw Noir reforms and becomes the superhero Paw Noir, he decided to join Betterfly and the Resistance, much to the former's pleasure who welcomed him to his team.

### Shadybug/Ladybug

As a follower of the Supreme, Shadybug was an enemy to Betterfly, who wanted to steal his Miraculous and relentlessly attacked him with her Lucky Charm weapons. Despite this, Betterfly tried to convince her to join the Resistance, stating that the Supreme was manipulating her and that it was possible to have a better world, which Shadybug briefly considered before trying to steal his Miraculous, only to fail by Ladybug and Cat Noir's intervention.

After Shadybug reforms and becomes the superhero Ladybug, she decides to join Betterfly and the Resistance, much to the former's pleasure, who welcomed her and Paw Noir and became a superhero team.

### Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug/Ladyfly

Betterfly first met Marinette when crossing over to the her universe due to Ubiquity connecting by said universe's Alya who was at a sleepover with Marinette. When seeing her surprised by his sudden appearance, Betterfly apologized to her, and asked for her help to find Ladybug and Cat Noir, unaware he was talking to Ladybug in her civilian form, and Marinette unsure to trust him lied to him she didn't know where to find the heroes, claiming to be only a normal girl, much to Betterfly's disappointment, but was cut short when alerted by Ubiquity that Shadybug and Claw Noir were pursuing him. And not wanting innocent people to be hurt, he carried her away to safety.

Once safe in the Eiffel Tower, Betterfly told Marinette that no one should get hurt for a fight that isn't theirs and recieved his purified Kamiko, and expressed confusion when Marinette asked if it was an Akuma.

When the rogue Miraculous Holders arrived and threatened to destroy the universe, Betterfly told Marinette to stay safe before going to confront them.

Before Shadybug could steal his Miraculous, Ladybug saved him alongside Cat Noir. And, when hidden in the sewers, Betterfly expressed his surprise to see the heroes's world being so different from his, with Ladybug and Cat Noir being partners who trust each other and told them his motivations to become a superhero and encouraged them when Ladybug felt down after recently losing almost all the other Miraculouses to Monarch and she agreed to help him.

After learning that Shadybug and Claw Noir teamed up with Monarch and planned to set them a trap, Ladybug formulated a plan where Betterfly willingly lent his Miraculous to her and allowed the heroine to Kamikotize him into a superhero to protect her and Cat Noir.

When Shadybug and Claw Noir reformed and joined him, Betterfly thanked Ladybug for her help and reassured her she'll succeed in recovering the stolen Miraculouses, to which Ladybug thanked him as well for helping her to regain her hopes.

### Cat Noir

Betterfly first met Cat Noir when the latter joined into the fight against Shadybug and Claw Noir, with Betterfly telling him who the rogue holders were and stated it was a honor to met him.

During the fight, Betterfly sent a Kamiko to Cat Noir, which the latter understably refused at first but Betterfly reassured him he wasn't his enemy and fought for the greater good like him, and asked him to accept his gift to save themselves, to which Cat Noir agreed, becoming Celesticat and flying him and Ladybug away from the rogue holders.

Once safe in the sewers, Betterfly removed Celesticat's gift and thanked him, before telling him and Ladybug about the Supreme, his motives and how their world was different from his, and when they felt down for losing the other Miraculouses to Monarch, Betterfly encouraged them, and the heroes agreed to help him.

When Ladyfly kamikotized Gabriel, he willingly used his powers to protect Cat Noir from Monarch's powers.

Unknown to him, Cat Noir is the counterpart of his son.

### Monarch

Betterfly never met Monarch directly and became surprised when Alya briefly confused him for his villainous counterpart.

In the sewers, Betterfly learned in that universe there was another Butterfly Miraculous holder who used it for evil purposes and also recently stole almost all the other Miraculouses from Ladybug. But was unaware that he was Gabriel from the quantic universe, who unlike him was unable to move on from losing Emilie and used his powers to revive her at the cost of hurting innocent people.

However, when learning Monarch teamed up with Shadybug and Claw Noir, Betterfly was willing to help Ladybug and Cat Noir to stop him, by first trying to undone the latter's supposed akumatization on the rogue holders and later by loaning his Miraculous to Ladybug to kamikotize him into protecting her and Cat Noir from Monarch's powers.

After regaining his Miraculous and reforming Shadybug and Claw Noir, Betterfly briefly kamikotized Ladybug to stop Monarch from stealing the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses from other universes and after she succeeded, Betterfly reassured her she'll succeed into defeating his bad counterpart as well.

### Nooroo

It's not much known about Gabriel's relationship with his kwami, but as shown in the opening, Gabriel cares about his kwami, unlike his bad counterpart, and uses his powers to help people.

It's known that in the past, Gabriel originally used Nooroo for evil purposes, which costed him his wife, which motivated him to redeem himself.

### Emilie Agreste

Like his bad counterpart, Gabriel deeply loved his wife and both of them used the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses for an unknown purpose, which proved to be a grave mistake as it costed Emilie her life, which devastated Gabriel, like his main counterpart. However, unlike him, Gabriel was able to move on from her death, and the incident motivated him to start using his powers for the greater good and bring hope to his world, and never considered using his powers to try to bring Emilie back.