Characters / Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug)

Cheshire's Order

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Cheshire

A kind and lonely, bullied girl. After finding the Black Cat Miraculous, she becomes the hero Cheshire and protects Paris from Akumas and other dangers.

• Adaptational Superpower Change: She gains the Black Cat Miraculous, obviously, but an extra layer comes with Cataclysm. If she uses it on corrupted magic (like Hawk Moth's Akumas), she gets to use Catastrophe, a spell on par with the Ladybug's Miraculous cure. However, it hurts her to use it since the build-up is stressful on the Miraculous of Destruction.
• Adults Are Useless: Has this mentality, and it's kind of Justified. Her parents are constantly out, most Dupont adults either are apathetic to her suffering or are unable to help her lest they invoke the wrath of Chloé, Bella Blue is in cryostasis and her replacement Mayura's in league with the Big Bad, and Master Fu has mistaken her for a supervillain. It's no wonder she probably doesn't trust people.
• All of the Other Reindeer: She suffers it in her civilian identity from her classmates and the school staff, and as Cheshire from other Miraculous holders.
• The Aloner: Not of her own volition. Chloé has gone out of her way to isolate her and ruin her life.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Years of bullying and isolation means that she has very few human friends, tending to prefer the company of her Kwamis. Plagg is particular is a Living Emotional Crutch to her, to the point that she has a panic attack when Plagg suggests that she leave his Miraculous at home for a patrol so she can get used to the others without carrying more Miraculous around at once than she needs to.
• Cats Are Snarkers: She's learned to be quippy during regular social interactions and fights.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Despite her class bullying her at Chloe's urge, being hunted by other Miraculous holders, her chronic loneliness and the effects of these factors on her health, she continues to save the class and the people of Paris from akumas.
• Cute Little Fangs: After using "Catalyst", she's developed fangs.
• Dark Is Not Evil: In the past, every Black Cat before her was Dark Is Evil, and Fu's Team Miraculous think she's the latter because of that bad reputation. However, she's this trope.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Her reaction to Nino backing away from her friendship. She has a Downplayed variation once she finds out Alya's ending their friendship, especially since the latter at least has the excuse of being blackmailed as Marinette (as Cheshire) finds out.
  • Her fellow Miraculous-users attacking her has made it almost impossible for her to team up with them full-time.
• Face of a Thug: As far as Fu's Team Miraculous are concerned, she's a villain (and even Hawk Moth is wary of the Black Cat's reputation). However, she's actually a Nice Girl if they stopped to meet her publically on neutral ground.
• Gamer Chick: Even moreso than her canon counterpart. She's done so to keep herself company.
• Graceful in Their Element: Like her canon self, she's an ace when it comes to Miraculous-related business as well as video games. But unlike her canon self who Grew a Spine when it came to bullies, she isn't as capable of standing up for herself in social situations.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Marinette's main motivation to gather more kwamis and become a Guardian.
  Marinette: I just wanted friends damn it! Is that so wrong! To be a regular person with friends!
• The Kindnapper: Make no mistake, most of the Kwamis she has acquired save for Plagg were the result of her stealing their Miraculouses. However, she is very good to them compared to their previous owners that aren't Master Fu.
• Poor Communication Kills: Why she has a problem trusting Adrien. She knows he and Chloé are Childhood Friends, and Chloé is a Clingy Jealous Girl to Adrien who hates Marinette. Add in Marinette's poor luck and Adrien ending up with two of her belongings, she thinks Adrien is a willing accomplice to the bullying plan Chloé has going on.
• Post-Victory Collapse: Tends to do this a lot once she gets home to the point that the Kwamis are worried about her health.
• Redeeming Replacement: She is the very first Black Cat Miraculous-user in known HISTORY to not be an actual villain. Unfortunately, the Big Good thinks she's either a ticking time bomb (at best) or a very convincing Villain with Good Publicity with a hidden agenda (at worst).
• Small Steps Hero: Even before her initial debut she was out there helping old people across the street and stopping muggings for years. This is part of why Misterbug and Pegasus get such a Hero with Bad Publicity treatment when they get caught on film attacking her seemingly unprovoked.
• Start My Own: Upon finding out about the Guardian Order and how they'll probably never agree with her, she decided she's going to become a Guardian.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Gets Xuppu out of the bracelet he's stuck in by using pepper so he sneezes his way out.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Marinette constantly returns home from various fights, especially Akuma battles where she catches the Akumas first, in serious pain and collapsing on her bed, healing magic be damned. This is a serious concern with the Kwamis in her possession.
• We Used to Be Friends: While Nino and Chloé, of all people. The latter's Face–Heel Turn caught her completely off guard.

Plagg

The Kwami of the Black Cat Miraculous and, at the start, Marinette's sole friend.

• Anger Born of Worry: Delves into this a few times as Marinette continues to push herself beyond what is healthy.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Although Plagg is understandably wary of Marinette when they first meet, given his history of evil wielders, her kindness towards him is what wins him over to her.
• Been There, Shaped History: Has been used by some of the most ruthless criminals in history, including this universe's original Darkblade.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Years of being used by horrible people has mentally prepared him for the worst. However, his soft spot for Marinette makes him worry about her physical and mental health.
• Cosmic Plaything: He's spent literal centuries with holders that either started out bad or had good intentions to start but went Drunk with Power and/or Then Let Me Be Evil, to the point that it's actually considered that he might have a passive ability that brings bad luck. Sass eventually theorizes that the Order's wish for prosperity at its inception has saddled Plagg (and to a lesser extent his users) with the karmic backlash and causing the universe to twist things to make sure that he and the Order will always be at odds, like influencing the Kwamis to believe the worst of him more easily (with Sass unable to consider this until he joined Marinette's new Order).
• Grail in the Garbage: Marinette finds Plagg's ring in a mud ball.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Is this to the rest of the Kwamis to the point that they, their users, and the Guardian Order all mistakenly believe he is the Token Evil Teammate of the Kwamis and The Corrupter.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Is Marinette's. Without him in her life, who knows where Marinette would be thanks to Chloé?
• Nothing but Skin and Bones: Plagg is in a bad state when Marinette finds him.
• Only Friend: At the start of the story, he and Marinette are each other's only friend. He gives her an Affectionate Nickname to emphasize this that none of the other Kwamis copy.
• Team Dad: Due to Marinette's actual parents being swamped with busy work (as part of Chloé's efforts to ruin Marinette's social life), Plagg has stepped up to be this.
• Through His Stomach: Part of what caused Plagg to warm up to Marinette was her feeding him well and regularly.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While still very jaded, Plagg grows a soft spot for Marinette, especially because he has to watch over her. He also is able to slowly win over the other Kwamis.

Cheshire's other Kwamis

Trixx

Kaalki/Nucklavee

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Hawk Moth manages to akumatize them, planning to have a sentimonster "wield" her in battle against the heroes. Unfortunately for him, he loses control of her like Robostus in canon, and she tries to find Sass and Fluff in order to go back in time and take about Neko, the first Black Cat, before he can betray the Order.
• Poor Communication Kills: Whenever Max asks for information she's forbidden from getting, she says something like "I’m afraid I’m not at liberty to tell you." Unfortunately, because of her wording Max doesn't get that she physically can't tell him this information, and eventually orders her not speak until she can. This causes her to be unable to calm him down after he loses to Marinette before he gets akumatized.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: When Hawk Moth Akumatizes her using the trauma of losing two of her holders to previous Black Cats, she goes rogue and tries to steal Sass and Fluff in order to go after the first user of the Black Cat Ring before he could become a threat, willfully ignoring that this would Ret-Gone the world as the characters know it.

Mullo

Liiri

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Shows up on Alix's birthday due to King Monkey accidentally zapping Knightmare to New York where his Miraculous is, months before the canonical trip.

Longg

Alya Cesaire/Rena Rouge

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Given one by Chloé. It was her renouncing her friendship with Marinette or causing her families' lives to be ruined. She chooses the former, and she hates herself for it, vowing to free herself of Chloé's influence.
• Face–Heel Turn: Not by her own choice, but she joined Chloé's circle.
• Going for the Big Scoop: Alya's tendency for this allowed her to record when Misterbug and Pegasus attacked Cheshire, after she helped them to defeat Newscaster. This led to their Hero with Bad Publicity status.
• Intrepid Reporter: Just like her canon self. She's trying to use this to free herself of Chloé by exposing her bullying scheme.

Alix Kubdel/War Horse, later(??) Bunnyx

• The Atoner: Her future self has made a few appearances, and she greatly regrets what she did to Marinette in the past.
• Hates My Secret Identity: Alix becomes a big fan of Cheshire after being saved by the hero, but joins the bullying of Marinette when she joins the class.

Misterbug's Team(?)

Adrien Agreste/Misterbug

• Hero with Bad Publicity: As Misterbug, he is trying to stop Hawkmoth, but because he attacked Cheshire (who had been active as a hero for fair longer), most of Paris loathes him.
• Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: Adrien honestly wants to be Marinette's friend, but as Misterbug he wants to capture Cheshire, her alter ego, and retrieve her Miraculous. Also he can't help but compare the status of his civilian identity as "Paris's Golden Boy" with the cold reaction of the Parisians to his hero self.
• Only Sane Man: He is the only responsible member of his team... which reflects badly on him since every single member except Purple Tigress and Viperion is horribly incompetent when it comes to the social climate of Paris.
• Poor Communication Kills: A lot of his interactions with Marinette are soured because Adrien can't clear things up with her as long as Chloé's nearby.
• Token Good Teammate: While he is perfectly fine with antagonizing Cheshire and taking her miraculous, having been told by Tikki and Fu about the Cat's history of villainy, he's perfectly fine with teaming up with her whenever Hawk Moth becomes the more immediate threat and is willing to listen to her. His resolve in procuring her miraculous declines as the series goes on when Cheshire's genuine desire to do good becomes less obvious to ignore and his own teammates prove to be too incompetent, impulsive or malicious to act like proper heroes.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Has this dynamic with the other Miraculous-users after Pegasus. Mylene never got a chance to discover her Miraculous, King Monkey's Skewed Priorities cost them, and Queen Bee is a selfish bully who barely lifts a finger to help.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Adrien thinks that he's in a Kwami Swap story where the Cat Miraculous-user is evil and is a Villain with Good Publicity. However, Cheshire's actually Dark Is Not Evil and this is an ordinary Kwami Swap story.

Max Kanté/Pegasus

• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Immediattely attacking Chesire while she was comforting the de-evilized Newscaster not only ruined what was left of any potential trust Cheshire could have had with Fu's faction, but effectively turned most of the city against Misterbug and Pegasus when it was published online by Alya, making it harder for the forming Team Miraculous to operate.
• Bad Boss: Orders Kaalki not to speak until she can tell him about the secrets of the Miraculouses. Since Kaalki is unable to do so due to the restrictions on her Miraculous, this effectively renders her mute and prevents her from helping him calm down after Marinette beats him in the tournament placings and allows him to be akumatized.
• Entitled Bastard: Wanted the Miraculous secrets as well as to be seen as Dupont's number one gamer. Losing to Marinette was a heavy blow to his ego.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Shades of this when he questions how Cheshire could fix the city from the damage of Akuma fights if her power is Destruction... despite the fact Cheshire did it several times.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Ordering Kaalki not to speak leads to him being akumatized because she can't help calm him down which gets his miraculous taken by Cheshire when he's defeated.
• Sore Loser: He is akumatized for losing his place in the gaming tournament and that leads to Cheshire collecting his Miraculous.

Chloe Bourgeois/Queen Bee

• Adaptational Intelligence: While canon!Chloe was impulsive and not a really good planner, here she is the mastermind of a campaign of systematic bullying against Marinette, that while a lot of people are aware of, no one dares or cares to intervene due her willingness to use her connections and wealth to bribe and to blackmail. She also does not immediately out herself as Queen Bee.
• Adaptational Villainy: Bullying Marinette is one thing, but here she viciously goes out of her way to ruin Marinette's life by completely isolating her, blackmailing and threatening anybody who tries to help Marinette's social life. She also steals Pollen's Miraculous from Marinette and mocks Akumatized victims online.
• Bad Boss: When she gets Pollen by stealing her from Marinette, she quickly proves abusive to the poor Kwami.
• Big Bad Ensemble: While Hawk Moth is the villain of the superhero part of the story, Chloé is the villain of the school life part of the story.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: She's desperately seeking her mother's approval, and found out the "best way" to do this was creating a rival and destroying them... and she picked Marinette, who she used to be FRIENDS with before this advice, as her rival, simply because she was the only one who had an interest in fashion like Chloe did. This does not excuse in several members of her class' eyes what she's done, but those members are powerless to do anything about it (for instance, in Alya and Juleka's cases, one complaint or phone call from Chloé could easily ruin their entire lives).
• Hate Sink: It's Chloé, but this is WORSE because she sacrificed her friendship just to get a bit of praise from her mother.
• Internet Jerk: Uses her Queen Bee identity to troll Akumatized victims online.
• Kick the Dog: Has been doing this to Marinette for YEARS, but managed to create a system to deliberately ruin Marinette's life to the smallest detail. For extra steel toed part of her boot, this was her Childhood Friend!
  • Creates a Twitter account where she (as Queen Bee) makes fun of Akumatized victims.
• I Have Your Wife: What she does to Alya to force the latter on her side.
• It's All About Me: Chloe's standard mental state.
• Shame If Something Happened: Says this nearly word-for-word when threatening Alya's family's careers should she not join Chloé's group.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: What kicks off Marinette's school life plot. Her betraying Marinette out of desire to get her mother's approval.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Has a crush on Adrien, who only views her as a friend... at least, before he learns how twisted she's become.
• We Used to Be Friends: Marinette, Nino, and Chloé used to be Childhood Friends... then to gain her mother's approval, Chloé turned on Marinette and began bullying her, escalating that bullying to isolate Marinette.
• "Well Done Daughter" Girl: She wanted her mother's praise, and that came at the sacrifice of her friendship with Marinette. The fact that she didn't seem to look back on that makes it worse.

Le Chien Kim/King Monkey

• Accomplice by Inaction: Kickstarts the Queen Bee arc by letting Chloé steal the Bee Miraculous from Marinette, thinking Chloé would make a better user than Marinette. Xuppu, for his part, is disgusted with his user.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Kim in canon may be abrasive, but he was still a well-meaning guy. Here, Kim is Marinette's most physical bully.
• Black-and-White Insanity: He thinks Chesire is the biggest threat to Paris and will prioritize defeating her over the Akumas terrorizing the city.
• The Brute: Chloé's go-to muscle when it comes to physically bullying Marinette. He's also this to Misterbug's Team Miraculous.
• Fatal Flaw: While impulsiveness is one for Fu's faction as a whole, Kim takes that to a colossal level. He's incredibly incompetent, wanting to always prioritize defeating Cheshire over even the Akumas, even if the latter is the bigger threat.
• Forgot About His Powers: It takes a few fights before he even tries to use Uproar, something that gets lampshaded.
• It's Personal: He has it out for Marinette on both sides of her mask since her actions caused Max to lose his temper and by extension the Horse Miraculous. Deconstructed, because he causes his team's already shaky reputation to be dragged further through the mud and later causes him to be defeated by Black Queen. He even personally causes the theft of the Bee Miraculous by letting Chloé steal it out of spite for Marinette.
• The Millstone: As King Monkey, he's, unfortunately, this to Fu and Misterbug's Team Miraculous since he brutally assaults Cheshire. His inability to read the room and desire to bring Kaalki back to Max runs Team Miraculous' already poor reputations through the mud, and he's an active hindrance during Akuma fights. It takes him several fights before he even tries to use Uproar, for example.
• The Poorly Chosen One: Chosen by Master Fu, he only fights Cheshire to recover the Horse Miraculous to give it to Max, to the point that he ignores Akumas to fight her.
• Revenge Before Reason: As King Monkey, he prioritizes Cheshire's defeat over stopping Akumas for Max's Miraculous. His doing this eventually costs him AND Queen Bee their Miraculouses.

Master Fu

• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Upon first meeting Cheshire, he instinctively attacked her in what he thought was self-defense and to strip her of her Miraculous since the Black Cats throughout history were Always Chaotic Evil Hero Killers. However, all he did was turn the Redeeming Replacement, who was a Small Steps Hero and is popular with the common citizens of Paris, against him, as well as lose the Fox Miraculous. He doesn't help his case when he encourages his Team Miraculous to treat Cheshire as an enemy.
• Big Good: He tried to be this. Unfortunately, he's proven very inept at this as his selection process has left a lackluster team.
• The Chooser of the One: Deconstructed. The story shows how much research and observation one would need in order to make the right decision about who gets superpowers. Master Fu's picks for Miraculous holders tend to go awry because he does not truly know what these people are like, having only superficial information on each of his chosen.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction as he found out that giving Kim Xuppu has severely backfired.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: A rare Deconstruction. He took the joking, not-yet hostile Cheshire, who from first glance anybody could tell is a teenage girl, as deadly serious of a threat as previous Black Cat-users, and attacked her with the intent to at least severely hurt her. Marinette, for her part, was very traumatized by the encounter, and is incredibly reluctant to trust him as a result, especially as he assigns Miraculouses to teens who can't read the social implications of publicly attacking Cheshire.

Luka Couffaine/Viperion

Juleka Couffaine/Purple Tigress

• Double Agent: She tries to be this in Cheshire's team for Misterbug. But since Misterbug talked to Marinette about the idea, she easily sees through it.

Other characters

Emilie Agreste/Bella Blue

• Incurable Cough of Death: She had this in her meetings with Cheshire before her disappearance.
• Only Sane Man: She is this for the Agreste family in the Early Discovery AU

Nino Lahiffe

• Accomplice by Inaction: Seeing as he used to be best friends with Marinette and Chloé, once the latter had her Face–Heel Turn and began ruining the former's life, Nino staying either neutral in the conflict out of fear of Chloé or accidentally contributing to Chloé's plan makes him this.
• Adaptational Wimp: He doesn't get the Turtle Miraculous, here. Not to mention Cheshire solos his Akumatized form of Bubbler.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: He, Marinette, and Chloé's were friends as little kids. Then Chloé betrayed Marinette, and Nino drifted apart from both of them.
• Neutrality Backlash: His neutrality between Marinette and Chloé has cost him his friendships with both of them.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Marinette and Chloé before the latter's Face–Heel Turn.

Lila Rossi

• Boxed Crook: Chloe keeps Lila under her control under the threat of expose her as a liar.

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