Lila Rossi

> I am Volpina, the only superhero Paris needs!
>
> Lila

**Lila Rossi** is an antagonist in *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*.She is an Italian student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont and the tertiary antagonist of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. She is the arch-rival of Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Her lying behavior tends to cause great trouble for Ladybug and Cat Noir.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Lila is a slender teenage girl of average height with grayish chartreuse green eyes, light vermilion lipstick, and long, hip-length dark grayish scarlet hair with bangs similar to a horse mane. Her hair is loosely tied at the tips with orange bands where she has two shorter strands of hair. In the middle of Season 5, she soon reveals she is wearing a wig. Revealing brown eyes, and short pixy hair. We dont know why she had contacts in.

### Civilian attire

She has multicolored wristbands on her right arm. She wears a vermilion jacket over a dark gray sleeveless and short pant legged jumpsuit that has tiny white spots and a ribbon bow. Additionally, she wears light gray leggings and brown ankle-length high heel boots.

### As Volpina

Volpina wears an orange mask with black edges, and her hair bands are black. On top of her head, two fake orange ears with white and black insides are attached. The top of her hair is black and then quickly ombrés down to light brown with the tips of her hair being white. She also has orange lipstick, and her eyes remained grayish chartreuse green. The necklace with a fox tail hanging off of it is worn around her neck. She wears a orange jumpsuit with a white section going down the front. Wrapped around her waist is an orange sash that looks like a fox tail. The edges of her collar and the tops of her upper arms have black lines, and her forearms and lower legs are solid black, with the soles of her feet being white with an orange fox foot printed on each. Her weapon is a replica of the flute staff.

## Personality

Lila is proud and loves attention, which she is willing to obtain by lying. This even means going beyond words to support her lies, like buying a necklace that looks like the Fox Miraculous to convince Adrien telling that she is a descendant of the fox-themed superhero. She gets jealous if someone gets more attention or love than her and doesn't like it when someone reveals that her lies aren't true, showing no remorse for lying in the first place. If anyone attempts to expose her, she won't hesitate to try to make them miserable or break them down just to get them out of her way. She also doesn't take advice from those who try to make peace with her or encourage her to be honest like Ladybug or Adrien. The reason why she acts like this is probably because her mother is away a lot with her busy job schedule, making Lila feel disheartened & using lies to cover up that loneliness to her mother & others that are around her.

Lila doesn't easily forgive people who she feels wronged her, as she is still furious at Ladybug for ratting her out harshly and ruining her chance to attract Adrien. Asides her lying ability, her desire for vengeance is so great that Gabriel Agreste actually decided to form a formal alliance with her, not just akumatize her.

As Volpina, her personality is still intact, while additionally determined to get revenge on Ladybug. Wanting to make Ladybug suffer, she nearly convinced Ladybug to give up her earrings twice, almost tricking her with illusions of people she threatened to hurt, like civilians and Adrien.

## Abilities

### As a Civilian

Lila is a very crafty and sneaky liar. She is able to use her lies to manipulate people into doing what she wants. When this doesn't work, she tries to make others feel pity for her and manipulate them emotionally. Even Tikki, a being who has existed since before the dawn of humanity, thinks that Lila has lied better than anyone she met before.

Like Rena Rouge, Volpina can play a tune on her flute with an idea in mind to create a glowing orange ball of energy. She can throw the orange ball of energy anywhere with her flute and create whatever incredibly lifelike illusion that she wants. However, the illusions are intangible, and when touched will disappear in an orange cloud.

## Relationships

### Mrs. Rossi

Lila even lies to her own mother, which is evident in "Catalyst", when she tells her that Adrien is her boyfriend and the school closed down from all the akuma attacks. However, Lila doesn't appear to be very close with her mother because she is always left alone as a result of her mother's busy job schedule, leaving her disheartened and using lies to cover up that loneliness.

### Marinette-Dupain Cheng/Ladybug

Marinette continuously tries to expose Lila as a liar, but Lila is always able to come up with another lie to explain. She takes note of how Marinette doesn't seem to like her yet still tries to be her friend, but Marinette refuses, revealing that she is aware of her deceitful nature. Lila then threatens Marinette, warning her that if she continues to try and expose her, she will turn all of her friends and classmates against her. She gives her until the end of class to decide whether she's with her or against her. When Marinette unintentionally gets Lila stuck sitting in the back row, she tells Marinette that she made her decision and from now on, the two of them are at war. She vows to make Marinette lose all her friends and make Adrien hers, though when Marinette responds calmly to Lila's threat, she walks away in a huff.

In "Ladybug", Lila turns everyone against Marinette by framing her for cheating on the Mock Exam by stealing the answers, pushing Lila off the stairs, and stealing Lila's necklace. This culminates in Marinette getting expelled and nearly akumatized by Hawk Moth. After all that, Lila uses her skills to get Marinette reinstated back in school with a little reluctant "persuasion" from an angry Adrien. She later says Marinette's own words to her about how not everything is what it seems to be, confirming that their war isn’t over.

In "Volpina", Lila lies about knowing Ladybug and being friends with her, but after Ladybug humiliates her in the park while she is trying to impress Adrien, she starts to hold a grudge against her. Despite Ladybug apologizing after de-evilizing her, she won't forgive her, angrily declaring that they will never be friends. She appears to be able to tell that Ladybug is interested in Adrien, which she uses to her advantage as Volpina to trick Ladybug into thinking she will drop Adrien from the Eiffel Tower if she doesn't give her the Ladybug Miraculous.

In "Catalyst", it is shown that Lila still bears a grudge against Ladybug and is irked by everyone celebrating her. Therefore, she takes a lot of enjoyment as Volpina in ruining her reputation with an illusion of an akumatized Ladybug destroying Cat Noir with his own Cataclysm.

In "Chameleon", Lila allows herself to get akumatized by Hawk Moth in order to get revenge against Ladybug. When deakumatized, she pretends to accept Ladybug as a friend and take her advice, though deep down she still resents her. In "Oni-Chan", despite Ladybug trying to save her, she continues harboring a grudge against her, pretending to trust her, tricking Oni-Chan into attacking her, and faking an injury just to get her alone with the akumatized villain.

### Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir

Lila very quickly becomes infatuated with Adrien, doing everything she can to win him over. When Ladybug exposes her lies in front of him, she is very upset and angry at the thought that she has lost every chance with him, leading to her getting akumatized. The first thing she does as Volpina is to change an advertising board of Ladybug to one of her saving Adrien, with an arrow piercing a heart as the background. Later, she finds him and reveals herself to prove to him that she is a superhero like she said she was. She becomes miffed when, after telling Ladybug that they were on a date, Adrien responds that it wasn't really a date, though he immediately says that it could have become one to avoid making her angry. She even lies about him being her boyfriend to her mother. In "Chameleon", Lila is aware that Adrien knows about her lies and is urged by him to be honest but she rebuffs him and she uses her new powers as Chameleon to make him look bad in front of Nino and Alya.

In "Oni-Chan", Lila dupes Adrien into spending time with her under the guise of needing help with homework and manipulates her way inside the Agreste mansion. She goes through Adrien's stuff and is irked that he is still a fan of Ladybug and took a picture with him to make everyone believe they're an item. After Kagami's akumatization, Lila attempted to apologize to Adrien for the trouble she caused and yet was told she could count on him unless she hurt his loved ones.

In "Ladybug", during Adrien's photoshoot, Lila gets scolded by him for disobeying his earlier warning. And yet, was convinced that if she wanted to continue being friends she used her lying skills to prove Marinette's innocence.

While viewing Cat Noir as an enemy, Lila doesn't hate him like Ladybug, even complimenting his costume as part of her ruse in "Volpina". Furthermore, in "Chameleon", even though she had him at her mercy, she chose to go after Ladybug instead of taking his Miraculous. In "Oni-Chan", she faked an injury in order to lure him away from Ladybug, and later tried to lie to him again once her deception was discovered, though failed to convince him.

### Miss Bustier's class

Lila doesn't care about her classmates or teacher, viewing them as people that she can easily fool and manipulate. She has no problem lying to them in order to gain their attention or trick them into doing what she wants. In "Volpina", she makes up various false tales about herself so that she is the center of attention. In "Catalyst", Lila continues her deceit by telling her classmates that she isn't attending school because she is on vacation in the Kingdom of Achu when really she is hiding in her room. In "Chameleon", she returns to class and uses her lies to get whatever she wants, like having a seat next to Adrien and having everyone get her lunch for her.

###  Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth

In "Catalyst", Lila is furious when Gabriel insults her akumatized identity on a TV interview, so much so that she throws her laptop against a wall in anger. Despite this, in "Oni-Chan", when Adrien tells her that his father would never allow her to come over to his place, Lila remained confident that she could change his mind. When she sees Gabriel for the first time, she tells him that she's a fan before leaving the mansion.

The next day, she receives a call from Gabriel and is invited to his house, where he expresses scorn over the fact that she entered his home through lies and manipulation, though she claims that she only wanted to help Adrien as he is kept isolated most of the time. When Gabriel asks her what she'd do if she were in his place, Lila says that she'd allow Adrien to have a friend his age to protect him from bad influences. The two then shake hands and form somewhat of an alliance, though Lila remains unaware of the fact that he's Hawk Moth. From that point on, Lila continues to report to Gabriel about his son’s life, though she is unaware that he is really using her to further his own goals by akumatizing the people around her, as seen in "Miraculer". In "Ladybug", after "showing" that Marinette is a "bad influence" (actually getting her akumatized along with many people who admired her), Lila was rewarded by Gabriel, participating in a photoshoot with Adrien.

Regarding Hawk Moth, while Lila doesn't know him personally, she does seem to like him to some extent as he can give her the power she desires to destroy Ladybug. In "Catalyst", she is delighted when Hawk Moth reakumatizes her into Volpina and, after using her illusion powers to make it look as if an akumatized Ladybug destroyed Cat Noir, she tells Hawk Moth that she'll be waiting for him to reakumatize her again. She also participates in his plan to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir by creating an illusion of him in "Mayura". In "Chameleon", she even grabs an akuma she spots and directly asks Hawk Moth to akumatize her.

### Chloé Bourgeois

At first, Lila dislikes Chloé like all the girls who wants for Adrien's attention, but she doesn't really see her as a threat, considering her a fool who isn't worth her time.

In "Miraculer", Lila is enraged to learn that Chloé and Adrien have been close friends for a long time, and in retaliation she plays a prank on Chloé by telling her about her "magic code for contacting Ladybug". It seems to bother her that Chloé is Queen Bee, although she tries to downplay it.

### Kagami Tsurugi

Since Lila has Kagami as a telephone contact, it is implied that the two of them have known each other previously. In "Oni-Chan", Lila was jealous when she saw a photo of Adrien's fencing class in which he was with Kagami. Lila then take a selfie of herself kissing Adrien on the cheek, and sent it to Kagami and other contacts. Shortly thereafter Kagami was akumatized into Oni-Chan, and she immediately set out to track down Lila; the later initially feared for her life and tried to flee. Realizing that he couldn't fool the villain with her lies (due to the horn on her forehead), she decided to make a deal with Oni-chan for her to eliminate Ladybug.

### Alya Césaire

Just like the rest of her classmates, Lila won Alya's admiration with her lies and even managed to get Alya to interview her for her Ladyblog.

In "Chameleon", when Lila declares war on Marinette, she tells her that she will make her lose her friends and wind up alone, meaning include Alya. A threat that she is carrying out, since in "Timetagger", Alya asks her to take care of her sisters and Chris, since Marinette (who is in her alter-ego) is busy. So it can be said that she is simply friendly with Alya in order to ruin Marinette's life.

### Nino Lahiffe

In general, Lila acts nice to Nino, but it actually bothers her that he is Adrien's best friend. In "Chameleon", when taking the appearance of Adrien, the first thing she did was insult him by stealing his cap. In "Miraculer", she mentions to Gabriel Agreste that "Nino is not a good friend to Adrien"; apparently jealous that they spend so much time together. In "Oni-Chan", she uses it to get closer to Adrien.