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    Ms. Mendeleiev's Class 

Ms. Mendeleiev's Class

The Class In General

  • Adaptational Badass: The class takes the roles of the Miraculous-users in canon and usurps them.
  • Badass Crew: Mireille aside, the major members of the class have at least some degree of badass to them.
  • True Companions: As the fic seems to go on, they seem to be a very tight-knit group who sticks together and openly protect and comfort each other. Sure, they have a few personality clashes, but they do all at least like each other.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Our plucky heroine, who's surprised to learn that she's just been transferred out of her old homeroom and into Ms. Mendeleiev's care. Just in time, too — her life's gotten a lot more complicated after being entrusted with the Ladybug Earrings and protecting Paris from Hawkmoth!
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Marinette, thanks to Mendeleiev's firmer teaching style, is much more ahead than she was in Bustier's class, and she's much quicker on the take. She even almost unmasks Chat Noir with a Sherlock Scan before Tikki stops her train of thought. She also handles Lila's claims of being besties with Ladybug and a Miraculous-user in her own right with a lot more calm tact, confronting her in private and trying to warn her. While it doesn't work at first because Lila thinks Ladybug is just jealous she's not getting attention, she's not Akumatized and she doesn't become Ladybug's Arch-Enemy.
  • Adaptational Sexuality: Canon!Marinnette is heterosexual and is in love with Adrien but had dated Luka. Here, Marinette is by Word of God demi-asexual, and doesn't know Adrien enough to be attracted to him.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed, Marinette doesn't really have the spine she would grow in canon when it comes to Chloé, since her default approach to Chloé is to either avoid her or run away.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Mostly stemming from the homeroom shift:
    • Since Marinette isn't one of his classmates, Adrien didn't bother helping her when she was stranded by the sudden storm, and doesn't pay her any mind until he thinks she might be connected to Ladybug. She, meanwhile, only knows him as Chloé's Childhood Friend and fervent defender, and has no interest in him.
    • There is no Love Square, only Chat Noir's fruitless pursuit of an uninterested and increasingly frustrated Ladybug.
    • Alya is, at best, a New Transfer Student to Bustier's class that Marinette hardly knows, and at worst, a Stalker without a Crush pursuing her Secret Identity. She's best friends with Aurore instead, and is playing her wingwoman rather than having Alya shove her towards Adrien.
    • While she and Nino are still long-time friends, their friendship is severely strained by his entitled and manipulative behavior while working on his movie.
    • Kim and Alix are also noted to have been part of her former friend group, with this proving key to the former's Character Development.
  • Adults Are Useless: Prior to Mendeleiev, she genuinely lacked faith in authority figures since none of the ones she knew stood up to Chloé. Her parents intervening to transfer her to another class took her completely off-guard, and she lets out Tears of Joy when Mendeleiev chases Chloé out of her classroom.
  • Grew a Spine: Downplayed; while getting away from Chloé's immediate influence has helped, she still struggles with standing up directly to her, preferring avoidance over confrontation.
  • Morality Chain: Marinette switching classes shows that Marinette really held Mme. Bustier's class together and brought the best out in the good students.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Upon hearing that Nino and Adrien regard Ladybug's Miraculous Cure as a Reset Button that completely erases the consequences of your actions and lets them be as reckless as they please, she's horrified and blames herself. She's considering asking Tikki to limit what the cure repairs in order to help curb this attitude.
  • Not a Game: Takes her duties as Ladybug very seriously, which leads to her increasingly clashing with Chat due to his far more relaxed attitude towards their responsibilities. In both versions of the story, this trope is also what leads to Nadja's interview breaking down, as Nadja is more interested in getting a scoop on Paris' Power Couple than on useful advice for Paris. Ladybug specifically states she doesn't want Paris thinking she's interested in romance, as she wants them to know that she's a superhero that won't get distracted by anything.
  • Not Afraid of You Anymore: At the start of the story, she's still terrified of Chloé and the latter knows that and wants to continue bullying her, and she later starts fearing Bustier because the latter won't stop pestering her to at least tutor Chloé. Part of her Character Development involves coping with both. She eventually deals with Bustier to get her to have a Heel Realization. By the time Marigold defeats the Akumatized Queen Bee, Marinette doesn't seem afraid of Chloé anymore.
  • Power at a Price: Her Lucky Break lets her summon any tool she wants, rather than having to figure out what to do with whatever her Lucky Charm gives her. However, it requires sacrificing and transforming her yo-yo in the process.
  • The Reliable One: Her hard-working tendencies serve her well, though they've unfortunately also led to her being exploited, mainly by Mme. Bustier and her 'partner' Chat.
  • Second Super-Identity: When Tikki falls ill, Marinette takes up the Bee Miraculous as Marigold. After Hawk Moth's final defeat, she retires Tikki and becomes the Bee heroine on a more permanent basis.
  • Sherlock Scan: During the Horrificator incident, which was a Bottle Episode, she notices while late, Chat Noir showed up. The problem with this, however, was that Chat Noir DIDN'T use Cataclysm to break in since Horrificator sealed all the exits, and the only people in the school at the time were her and Bustier's class since Principal Damocles gave only them access to the school for their film project. This set of details showed she concludes that Chat Noir must be a boy in Bustier's class. She's only stopped from going any further by Tikki, who insists they drop it.
  • Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Getting away from Chloé helps kickstart her development into a much happier, more self-confident person. Naturally helped along further by new friends like Aurore.
  • When She Smiles: Is so relieved over no longer being in the same class as her long-time bully that Aurore's first impression of her is that she 'smiles too much' and is completely overwhelmed by her radiance.
  • World-Healing Wave: Cleansing an akuma with Miraculous Cure functions this way. Critically, unlike Chat, she doesn't view this as a Reset Button, and is horrified when she finds out that people are treating it like one.

Aurore Beauréal

The first friend Marinette makes in her new classroom. Steadfast and true, and highly ambitious — the sort who pursues her dreams with everything she's got.
  • Adaptational Badass: She goes from random civilian of the week to mouthing off at Akumas and Miraculous wielders alike to being granted the Dragon Miraculous, and later the Bee Miraculous.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Has a crush on Adrien Agreste, but he barely even registers her existence. Eventually she starts getting Ship Tease with Marinette that appears to avert this trope.
  • Badass Boast: Stands up to Frozer, reminding him that she was Stormy Weather, who commanded significantly more elements than he did. The fact that she's not currently Stormy Weather doesn't weaken her resolve at all.
  • Badass Bystander: Most people would see an Akuma on a rampage and be quick to flee. Aurore stands up to Frozer to protect her friend Marinette and manages to browbeat him and Hawk Moth long enough for Ladybug to quickly capture him.
  • Break the Haughty: Though she's far from a Jerkass, Aurore is completely confident that she's going to win KIDZ+'s Weather Girl competition, and is thrown for a loop when that doesn't work out.
  • Character Development: Aurore goes from resenting Mireille for winning to realizing she's not being fair to the poor girl and understands Alec is taking advantage of Mireille's Extreme Doormat personality to pressure her and vows to help her out. She's also interning under Nadja to expand her wheelhouse in spite of Alec not wanting anything to do with her, especially because of Stormy Weather.
  • Cincinnatus: Like all temporary Miraculous wielders, she returns the Miraculouses she wields after her various adventures.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Aurore has the audacity to flip off three in one chapter within moments of each other, all of whom who are capable of killing her if they wanted to: Frozer (who just froze the city over), Hawk Moth (who is a terrorist), and Chat Noir (who literally can destroy anything he touches). She's not even Stormy Weather when she does this.
  • Foil: Offers a view of how Chloé could be if she got over herself; Aurore is certainly bubbling with Pride and self-confidence, and can take things a bit too far, but also genuinely cares about others and steps up to defend them. She usually doesn't feel any need to tear others down in order to make herself feel better, preferring to lift them up alongside her instead and turn her sharp tongue against those who more rightly deserve it.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: She is recruited as a temporary heroine three times: she uses the Dragon Miraculous as Oudragon to fight Syren, she uses the Bee Miraculous as Miss Sting to fight Befana, and she uses the Turtle Miraculous as Shellegant to fight Zombizou. She is later promoted to a full-time heroine after Chat Noir is retired, wielding the Dragon Miraculous.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Making for a sharp contrast with Chloé.
  • Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: She has a crush on Adrien, just like in canon. However, she thinks pretty low of Chat Noir, whom she sees as lazy and overreliant upon Ladybug to carry them to victory. Thank goodness she hasn't realized they're the same person. She eventually drops the crush on Adrian, though.
  • The Nicknamer: Tends to give her friends nicknames, such as Marinette being 'Sea Breeze' and Ondine being 'Red Sky'.
  • Parasol of Pain: Willing to use her parasol as a weapon if need be. This carries over into her Guest-Star Party Member adventures.
  • The Resenter: Towards Mireille, though she recognizes how unfair this is and tries to mitigate it.
  • Sore Loser: Struggles with this a bit after losing the contest, as she can't help resenting Mireille a lot, questioning why she even bothered to enter in the first place.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: Pulls this off against Frozer when she takes him to task for threatening her and Marinette, proceeding to rip into him and Hawkmoth for their incompetence.
  • True Companions: Steps up to defend Marinette from Chloé time and again, and repeatedly makes clear that she won't tolerate others bothering her.
  • Verbal Tic: Tends to use weather metaphors when speaking.
  • You Are in Command Now: As the most experienced superheroine other than Ladybug herself, when Ladybug goes on the DL due to Tikki falling ill, Oudragon takes charge.

Jean Duparc

The resident Class Clown. Particularly enjoys teasing Aurore.
  • …But He Sounds Handsome: As Fauxy, he says he enjoys "Jean's" puns.
  • Foil: While he shares Chat Noir's love for joking around, and can occasionally take his teasing a bit too far, Jean is more socially aware and adept, demonstrating that there's a marked difference between annoying others and outright ignoring their feelings.
  • The Gadfly: Loves to tease his friends, especially Aurore.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: Subverted. During the Befana incident, he is granted the Fox Miraculous and becomes the superhero Fauxy. However, before he can return the Fox to Ladybug, she promotes him to a full-time hero on the spot.
  • Hidden Depths: Turns out that he's already a member of the same Fencing Club as Adrien.
  • Hurricane of Puns: Unleashes one after Aurore loses the competition, supposedly aiming to cheer her up... though it's unclear how sincere that was versus him being trolly again.
  • Jumped at the Call: He quickly accepts the offer of the Fox Miraculous from Trixx, saying "This will be fun."
  • Ship Tease: He appears to be growing closer to Marc Anciel, especially after he is akumatized in reaction to Nathaniel tearing up Marc's work.
  • Spot the Thread: Detects something off during the Zombizou attack with Trixx disguised as Marinette. This earns Trixx' respect.

Ondine

A highly athletic girl who's a member of Dupont's Swim Team.
  • Badass Bystander: Intervenes against Timebreaker and reveals a truly impressive amount of strength.
  • Cincinnatus: Like all temporary Miraculous wielders, she returns the Turtle Miraculous after her adventure battling Animan.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Yes, she's sweet and cheerful. Doesn't stop her from facing problems head-on with a disarming smile, and refusing to back down in the face of a suspicious Alya or furious Chloé. She also literally tosses Timebreaker, who is one of the deadliest early Akumas in the show, for a loop and earns praise from Ladybug.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: During the Animan incident, she is loaned the Turtle Miraculous and becomes the superheroine Tortue Marina. She is later promoted to a full-time heroine after Chat Noir is retired.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Encourages Kim to do what he wants, such as accepting Chloé's invitation to check out her rooftop pool, even if it hurts.
  • Love Triangle: Ondine and Kim are close friends, but Kim has a hopeless crush on Chloé.
  • Nice Girl: She's a perky and friendly individual.
  • Verbal Tic: Uses bubbles as a metaphor... and a replacement curse word: "Oh, bubbles."
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend:
    • Not his girlfriend, but part of her tossing Timebreaker had to be in response for the Akuma stealing Kim's energy.
    • She gets into an argument with Chloé over Kim, and her Akumatization, rather than because she Cannot Spit It Out, is because she gets upset that Kim was forced into being Chloé's muscle.
    • When she becomes Tortue Marina, she does so to protect Kim.

Mireille Caquet

A shy classmate who also entered the Weather Girl competition, despite her more withdrawn nature.
  • Crack Defeat: Aurore clearly believes this to have been the case.
  • Gone Horribly Right: According to her friend Primrose, she entered with the intention of losing, hoping that she'd be able to build up her confidence by competing. Winning throws her for a loop.
  • Out of Focus: Of the Mendeleiev students, Mirielle has the least amount of screentime. Justified since she's a Shrinking Violet.
  • Springtime for Hitler: She entered the weather girl contest figuring she'd lose and only meant to build confidence. She's thrown off when she actually wins it.

    Mme. Bustier's Class 

Mme. Bustier's Class

The Class In General

Adrien Agreste

A recent arrival at Dupont, whose controlling father finally let him start attending public school, Adrien is Chloé's Childhood Friend... and Ladybug's crime-fighting partner, Chat Noir. Though he's more interested in becoming partners in other senses of the word...
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Much of his behavior is based off of that in the actual series, just with his Protagonist-Centered Morality protection stripped away.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: His crush on Ladybug. Problem is that he refuses to accept that...
  • Because Destiny Says So: Believes that he and Ladybug are 'soulmates', and that this means he doesn't have to actually work to build the relationship he wants with her.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts like a Nice Guy when not playing around as Chat Noir, but is secretly just as self-centered as Chloé, with a deeply manipulative streak.
  • The Chosen One: He was chosen by Master Fu to bear the Cat Miraculous. Unfortunately, freedom from consequences brings out the worst in him.
  • Decoy Protagonist: He's the effective deuteragonist for the first 5/8 of the story, but his selfishness ultimately costs him the ring and his plot relevance disintegrates right along with his superhero career.
  • Deuteragonist: He's for all intents and purposes the secondary main character, as his immaturity foils Marinette's efforts to protect Paris and he has far and away the most time in the spotlight behind Marinette. He eventually blunders the ring away, is permanently stripped of his position by Master Fu, and swiftly fades into the background from that point forward.
  • Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't care for cheese himself, finding it gross. The fact that it's Plagg's Trademark Favorite Food means nothing to him, and he treats his kwami as though he's stupid for not finding it just as gross as he does, underscoring how Adrien refuses to consider anyone else's points of view as valid.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: How he sees himself, with a heavy emphasis on the notion that he and Ladybug are meant to be.
  • Dragon Their Feet: As Chat Blanc, he is still bogged down fighting Fauxy when Hawk Moth is defeated.
  • Entitled Bastard:
    • Aside from his insistence that he and Ladybug should be an item, he also sees the Ring as his personal property, treating Plagg as an annoyance rather than a partner. When Ladybug starts gaining new powers, he expects to be granted more as well, despite not doing anything to earn them.
    • Near the climax, he expects to be given a temporary Miraculous, sulking and complaining when he's refused.
  • Entitled to Have You:
    • Feels entitled to Ladybug's love and all of her secrets, regardless of how many times he's warned off.
    • When he believes Marinette is Ladybug, he expects Marinette to be willing to have a sudden romantic moment with him despite not being acquainted enough in their personal lives to be friends. He's shocked and offended that when she actually says "no" to being asked if she would kiss him in the heat of the moment.
  • Establishing Character Moment: First meets Marinette (outside of their secret identities) after their third day of school, when he sees her stranded at the entrance without an umbrella, opens his own... and runs off offering her nothing more than an apologetic smile. Illustrating how little she registers to him when she's not one of his classmates.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He allows Ladybug to comfort Aurore after Stormy Weather, and actually has the decency to warn her that her transformation was about to run out without taking advantage of it. It's one of the few moments he actually proves responsible.
  • Evil Is Petty: Takes out his frustrations on Plagg, such as deliberately transforming before his kwami can finish eating just to deny him a chance to enjoy his cheese.
  • Fair-Weather Friend: Adrien only starts hanging out with Marinette and Aurore because he thinks the former is Ladybug. However, thanks to time-travel shenanigans bringing Future Ladybug next to Marinette, he's quick to turn away from them.
  • Fatal Flaw: His self-centeredness and his belief that he is above consequences. Adrien very quickly becomes caught up in his romance fantasy with Ladybug and absolutely refuses to accept that people aren't just going to go along with what he wants simply because he wants it, and his constant abuse of Miraculous Ladybug allows him to get away with behavior that would have gotten him killed without it. This ultimately leads to him selfishly demanding secrets from Plagg that he hasn't earned, which results in him losing the Cat Miraculous for good.
  • Final Boss: He is the final akuma victim, and since Hawk Moth himself goes down before Chat Blanc does he is the final villain to be defeated by the heroes.
  • Holier Than Thou: Scolds Marinette and Nino for being happy at Chloé suffering some Laser-Guided Karma, trying to guilt-trip them into apologizing.
  • It's All About Me: His feelings take precedence above all else, and his priorities are completely skewed in his own favor.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: The first half of the fic, Adrien/Chat Noir gets away with repeated goofing off and unwanted advances to Ladybug. However, when he steals the Miraculous Grimoire from his father and loses it to Lila, it looks like his punishment will stick because Marinette does not like or trust Adrien enough to return the Grimoire, leaving it in Fu's hands. But it gets Subverted when Chloé storms the Agreste mansion and harasses Gabriel on Adrien's behalf. Then it gets Double Subverted when his threat to quit in the middle of a city-level Akuma crisis over being Locked Out of the Loop gets to Fu's ears when the Miraculous Cure he relied on so much to undo any consequences of his actions returns the Ring to its proper owner: the Miraculous Guardian who loaned it and Plagg to him.
  • Killed Offscreen: Or in this case, defeated offscreen. He is akumatized into Chat Blanc shortly before the final battle, but is drawn away by Fauxy. His defeat is not shown onscreen, as the narrative cuts straight from Emilie's revival to the epilogue.
  • Lethally Stupid: During the fight with Mime, he mindlessly outs Lila as a "superheroine", which could have gotten her killed if it were true.
  • Loose Lips: He is rather terrible at keeping secrets. He blurts out Lila's claims of being a superhero during the Mime incident, which could have gotten her killed, blurts out Nino's identity as Jackrabbit in the final chapter to his father, and then makes the conscious decision to reveal he was Chat Noir to his father in the same conversation.
  • Manipulative Bastard: A real fan of trying to make others feel guilty for going against him.
  • Mirror Character:
  • Moral Myopia: Stubbornly believes that because he and Ladybug are supposedly 'meant to be', all of his flirting, harassment and ignoring her feelings is justified. Feels hurt and upset by her resistance and outright denying any interest in him, while completely ignoring his own admirers and their feelings.
  • Never My Fault: Blames Ladybug for Théo's akumatization into Copycat, and gets very upset when it looks like the consequences of his swiping the grimoire from his father's safe might stick.
  • No Listening Skills: If he doesn't want to hear it, there's no point telling him anything at all.
  • Oblivious to Love: Seemingly unaware of Aurore's crush on him, despite her best efforts. When he does start paying attention to her, it's purely because he thinks she might know Ladybug.
  • Out of Focus: After losing the ring, he quickly becomes just another background character.
  • Playing the Victim Card: A favored tactic of his; he likes guilt-tripping others by emphasizing how much they've hurt his precious feelings, such as when Ladybug wanted to deal with his akumatized bodyguard rather than hang out with him or when Marinette made clear she wasn't interested in kissing him.
  • The Poorly Chosen One: His sense of entitlement to Ladybug, lack of priorities when it comes to his job, his view of the Miraculous Cure making him lax, and his refusal to listen to and disrespect of Plagg is not really making him a worthy bearer of the ring. Heck, had Lila actually been a Miraculous-user, he would have blown her Secret Identity on her first day of school, which is making him seem WORSE for the role since it shows he doesn't CARE for The Masquerade that the role requires. The Last Straw in Tikki and Fu's minds is that he let his desire for classified information he hadn't earned the right to know take precedence over millions of innocent people's safety, threatening to throw away the Ring in the middle of a crisis, only to lose the Ring by accident to Syren knocking it out of his hands.
  • Secret Chaser: Despite Ladybug's insistence on keeping their secret identities secret, he still tries to figure out who she is, to the point of only paying attention to Aurore when he thinks he might be able to use her as a way to figure it out. This eventually gets Deconstructed as the fic goes. Adrien's reckless pursuit of Ladybug's Secret Identity and other information he hasn't proven trustworthy with wears on their partnership atop of the rest of Adrien's flaws, and arguably makes him The Millstone to a team of heroes who need secrecy in order to operate against the Big Bad. It's also implied that Adrien plans to attempt to use the knowledge of Ladybug's Secret Identity to pressure her into a "romantic relationship" with him, which isn't portrayed positively in the slightest.
  • Secret-Keeper:
    • Completely defied. He doesn't see the point of hiding their identities; when he thinks Lady Wifi has outed Ladybug as Chloé, he casually offers to reveal himself to her as well, and sees nothing wrong with openly calling her by what he thinks is her real name. Later on, Lila tells Adrien that she's 'secretly Volpina', and asks him to keep it secret. Chat Noir immediately outs her when she's held hostage by Mime, much to Lila and Ladybug's mutual horror. Given his carelessness, it's clear that Ladybug can't trust him not to do the same to her if he ever learns who she is.
    • Played straight during the Simon Says incident, where he directly witnesses Ladybug loan Nino the Rabbit Miraculous as the superhero Jackrabbit. Shame he outs him while complaining to his father shortly afterwards.
  • Selective Obliviousness: Though fully aware of how Chloé feels about him, he feigns ignorance, and may well be doing the same to Aurore. His reaction to Marinette not crushing on him suggests that he's used to being desired by default.
  • Skewed Priorities: His actual duties as a superhero continuously take a backseat to his pursuit of Ladybug.
    • When Lady Wifi 'exposes' Chloé, he gleefully harasses the real Ladybug about knowing who she is, calling her nicknames like Chlohoney.
    • When his own bodyguard is akumatized into Gorilla, Adrien is perfectly happy to let him rampage through Paris unchecked while he tricks Ladybug into a 'date' by convincing her to hide out in a movie theater with him.
    • He responds to Ladybug's attempt to warn him about Dark Cupid by placing a finger on her lips and shushing her, insisting that she needs to hear his Love Confession right away.
    • Tries to take advantage of Mylène becoming Horrificator to see whether or not Marinette is Ladybug.
    • During the Collector incident, Chat is more worried about getting out of his punishment for swiping the book than stopping and asking why his dad even HAD this book on the Miraculouses in the first place.
    • This comes to a head during "Undining Love" when he is willing to let Paris drown if Plagg doesn't share Ladybug's secrets with him... only to lose the ring when Syren accidentally knocks it out of his hands, and the Miraculous Cure sends it back to Fu.
    • During "Ace Up the Sleeve", when he sees that somebody broke into his father's safe, he's more concerned with the fact that they were using 'HIS' Ring. Similarly, he doesn't care about his father being targeted by Simon Says nearly as much as he cares about getting denied a temporary Miraculous of his own.
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Takes Marinette's lack of romantic interest in him very personally, especially since he learns this while suspecting that she's Ladybug. This might also factor into how he snubs her and Aurore after deciding she can't be Ladybug; his ego's still bruised by the fact she's not one of his fangirls.
  • Stupid Sacrifice: Ladybug effectively treats Chat Noir's tendency to perform Heroic Sacrifices (and abusing the Miraculous Cure as a Reset Button) to pointlessly gamble with his own safety like this. He even got killed by Timebreaker in the original timeline because he insisted on doing one of these when it just left Future Ladybug to fix everything.
  • They Just Dont Get It: By the end of the story, it's clear that he has learned nothing from his experiences, as he vents to his father about Nino being Jackrabbit, barely hesitates before telling his father that he was Chat Noir, and blames Ladybug for not following his whims or giving him another Miraculous.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: While they disagree when it comes to Chloé, Adrien encourages Nino during his power trip by claiming the others should just do whatever he demands, and encouraging him to treat the Miraculous Cure as a Reset Button.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: His incredible sense of entitlement means that he hardly even acknowledges Chloé's moments of kindness towards him, such as when she helps get him back into public school and throws a massive party just to cheer him up... only for him to walk out of said party in favor of following Kim.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Chat Noir's main argument with Ladybug after their interview with Nadja is his firm belief that she's simply intimidated with the idea that they're soulmates since their Miraculouses are counterparts. Ironically, this conversation put Ladybug in a position to find a way to Screw Destiny since it gave her a chance to realize she can talk to Fu about Chat Noir and the potential of a new partner.

Chloé Bourgeois

Daughter of the mayor and a Rich Bitch through-and-through. Has spent years tormenting her classmates, with Marinette as her favorite target, and isn't too keen on the thought that Marinette might dare to feel safe and happier now that they're no longer classmates.
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • Chloé ends up causing the Akumatizations of Aurore and Ondine as petty revenge for them standing up to her and unintentionally stealing her party, respectively.
    • While Queen Bee in canon was the Token Evil Teammate of Seasons 2-3, here, Queen Bee is the name of Chloé's Akuma form.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: While Hawk Moth is the one who is creating the main threats to Paris, it's Chloé who keeps causing Marinette problems in her social life to continue bullying her.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: As bad as she is, she can't succeed in hurting Marinette unless it's in the locker rooms or where they're somewhat private. She also PALES in threat level to Hawk Moth.
  • The Bully: Bullied Marinette for years, and is determined to continue tormenting her despite the increased difficulty now that she doesn't have direct access to her all day.
  • Bullying a Dragon:
    • She bullies Gabriel Agreste—who, even disregarding his supervillainy, is still an affluent fashion designer who easily has enough influence to ignore anything the mayor does—into rescinding Adrien's grounding at the end of the Collector incident. Somehow, it WORKS.
    • She attempts to demand a Miraculous from Ladybug and her team, which goes about as well as one would expect. Her inner thoughts afterwards show that while she does have a rare moment of clarity in deciding not to mess with Oudragon, the phrasing of said decision strongly implies she's still willing to pick a fight with the other heroes.
    • Her particular degree of entitlement later evolves into her blatantly patting down Marigold for a Miraculous... despite being targeted alongside Prince Ali by Princess Fragrance.
  • Cartesian Karma: Zigzagged. She is banned from attending the fashion show that ultimately causes Style Queen for two reasons: one reason is because she previously stung her mother as Queen Bee, an act committed while she was Brainwashed and Crazy by Hawk Moth's dark magic, but the other is because she stole Marinette's design in a previous competition, which was completely of her own volition.
  • Climax Boss: When she becomes Queen Bee, she is the final major opponent before Tikki all-but confirms Gabriel is Hawk Moth from interrogating Plagg, when begins the story's endgame. She also serves as the final foe Marinette needed to conquer to get over her fear of Chloé.
  • Duel Boss: When she is akumatized into Queen Bee, she incapacitates most of the heroes, so Marigold is forced to face her down one on one.
  • Entitled to Have You: More like "Entitled To Torment You Whenever I'm Bored", but her main goal is to prove to Marinette that NOWHERE is safe from her, and she's frustrated that Marinette has friends who will stand up for her and a homeroom teacher who won't tolerate her harassment of Marinette.
  • Entitled Bastard: She, in the second half of the story, becomes utterly convinced that she is worthy of a Miraculous to the point that she tries to bully Ladybug and the rest of Team Miraculous into giving her one. When refused by Marigold (and humiliated by her mother again), she gets Akumatized by Hawk Moth as part of a deal to keep the Bee Miraculous.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Even she's disgusted by Gabriel's parenting strategies, and she bullies him into getting Adrien's grounding revoked. She's also the only person willing to comfort Adrien at the end of the story post-Hawk Moth's arrest.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Is completely baffled when Ladybug and the rest of Team Miraculous refuse to let her have a Miraculous for herself.
  • Evil Counterpart: She accepts the false promise of Hawk Moth to get the Bee Miraculous, and she is akumatized into a bee-themed supervillain. Her villain name is "Queen Bee".
  • Evil Gloating: Loves to gloat when she has the upper hand.
    • At the beginning of the story, she invades Mendeleiev's classroom and tries to give Marinette a Breaking Speech about how she hasn't escaped her reach.
    • Gleefully rubs in Aurore's face that she's responsible for her losing the Weather Girl contest.
  • It's All About Me: Deeply self-absorbed and takes any resistance to the idea that the world doesn't revolve around her whims as a personal affront.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: While her purpose in calling out Nathaniel was to antagonize him and hurt his feelings, she's completely right in that his crush on Marinette is disturbing and unhealthy, and that no matter how badly he wants it to be otherwise he's not in her friend circle.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: Zig-Zagged.
    • Being the Mayor's daughter and having a teacher who encouraged her victims to 'lead by example' has allowed Chloé to be utterly awful for years without facing any major consequences. This has started to shift after Marinette's transfer; while she still has Mme. Bustier in her corner and her father's resources at her disposal, she's starting to discover that her influence doesn't extend quite as far as she'd like.
    • Hawkmoth akumatizing her victims and giving them the ability to bite back hasn't gone well for her, either...
  • Kick the Dog: As prone to do so as much in canon, if not more so. SHE screwed over Aurore during the Weather Girl contest out of spite of her standing up for Marinette, her favorite victim. And she retaliates at Kim and Odine unintentionally stealing her entire party by threatening to shut down their favorite pool if Kim doesn't help her with a bunch of day-long tasks just to rub it in both of their faces that she owns Paris.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Downplayed; Chloé's mainly good at manipulating a few select individuals. Namely her father, Sabrina, and Mme. Bustier.
  • Mugging the Monster: She routinely picks fights with Marinette, who unbeknownst to her is the superheroine Ladybug. She also goes after Gabriel Agreste a.k.a. HAWKMOTH, who could (and probably would if he thought could get away with it) kill her for merely barging into his house.
  • Never My Fault: Naturally blames others for her problems.
  • Rich Bitch: Born into wealth and power, and more than happy to make use of it.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Uses her and her father's connections to her advantage as much as possible, such as with rigging the Weather Girl contest. She also strongarms Nino into letting her be involved with his movie by threatening to ensure it fails otherwise.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Willing to use her father's money and connections to get away with anything and everything.
  • Spoiled Brat: So used to getting her way that she can't stand Marinette slipping out of her reach, especially after Mendeleiev makes clear that she won't allow her to barge into her classroom whenever she pleases and harass her.
  • "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Wants her mother's acknowledgement, as it's something she hasn't been able to con and connive her way into getting.

Alya Césaire

A new student who just transferred into Dupont this year. Eager to establish herself as an up-and-coming journalist, she creates the Ladyblog and begins pursuing answers about Paris' new defenders.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Only knows Marinette in passing as part of a different class. While she treats her with some respect during the Horrificator incident, they're still far from 'best friends'. Further, Marinette feels awkward around her since Alya is trying to get her identity exposed.
  • Dramatically Missing the Point: Marinette attempts to warn Alya that publishing Lila's claim of being best friends with Ladybug may put her in danger. Alya brushes her off, saying that it would instead make Lila the safest person in Paris.
  • Entitled Bastard: When it comes to Ladybug's alter ego. While her primary argument in her defense is that "most American superheroes are fine with" unmasking themselves, she refuses to acknowledge that most — ultimately, she just wants to satisfy her own curiosity/discover something big.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Alya's willing to risk her own life chasing after akumas, but balks at the prospect of dragging others into harm's way for the sake of her scoops. When Nino is eager to cast Horrificator as the monster in his movie, she calls him out on it.
  • Going for the Big Scoop: Throws herself into danger for the sake of getting 'good footage' of akuma fights, and wants to learn Ladybug's Secret Identity despite the danger.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Buys into Lila's lies hook, line and sinker, not even questioning any of her claims.
  • Intrepid Reporter: How she sees herself.
  • Logical Fallacies: Believes that because most American superheroes are fine with going without secret identities, Ladybug should be fine with having her own identity pursued and exposed. The fact that Ladybug has good reasons to protect her identity with Hawkmoth about is lost upon her.
  • Secret Chaser: When it comes to Ladybug's identity.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her posting of Lila's false claim of being besties with Ladybug on the Ladyblog has the darker consequence of putting Lila in mortal danger because Hawk Moth saw the interview and targeted Lila.

Nino Lahiffe

One of Marinette's former classmates and friends.
  • 11th-Hour Ranger: He is recruited to wield the Peafowl Miraculous for the Final Battle.
  • Acquired Situational Narcissism: Suffers a bad case of this while working on his movie, showing a nasty sense of entitlement toward Marinette's time while taking out his frustrations on her.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: In canon, he wields the Turtle Miraculous as the superhero Carapace. Here, he is loaned the Rabbit Miraculous and the Peafowl Miraculous at separate points, taking the superhero identities Jackrabbit and Tempavo.
  • The Atoner: To a lesser degree, he realizes that he was clutching the Jerkass Ball pretty tightly with Horrificator, and since then has been looking for a way to apologize. He gets his chance at the zoo, just before Animan.
  • Betrayal by Inaction: Not only does he stand by and let Chloé torment one of his friends, he chooses not to warn her when Chloé changes her mind about 'helping' with the movie, knowing that Marinette would Opt Out if given the chance.
  • Broken Pedestal: To Marinette. Between breaking their promise of "no Chloé involvement", browbeating both her and Mylène over Chloé, his callous actions during the Horrificator incident, and his belief that the Miraculous Cure gives him carte blanche to do whatever he pleases since it will all be fixed, Marinette's decided she's done doing him favors. This slowly starts getting rebuilt once he apologizes.
  • Easily Forgiven: Subverted, much to his disappointment. Marinette still holds a grudge for his behavior during the Horrificator incident. Played a little straighter in chapter 17, since once he actually works up the guts to admit his faults during the Horrificator Incident, including the ways he was a jerk, she accepts the apology with the caveat "Don't do it again."
  • Entitled Bastard: Insists that Marinette has to help with the movie despite her discomfort, harasses his lead actress and makes unreasonable demands of everyone involved.
  • Foil: To Kim. Both are Childhood Friends of Marinette whose relationships with her have grown more distant over the years. Kim's moment of self-realization and vowing to make up for past mistakes is sharply contrasted with Nino showing a nastier streak that drives Marinette further away. That said, Nino does later have a similar moment of self-realization and seeks to make up for his actions.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: During the Simon Says incident, he is loaned the Rabbit Miraculous and becomes the superhero Jackrabbit.
  • Hypocrite: Unable to stand up to Chloé's threats to ruin his movie if he doesn't let her 'help', he turns around and tells Marinette that she wouldn't have to deal with her bullying if she just stood up to her.
  • Jerkass Ball: Grabs it while working on his movie; Marinette's comment about how much she hates when he has these moments reveals this isn't the first time she's dealt with his selfish streak.
  • Never My Fault: He blames Marinette for his own lack of honesty regarding Chloé's blackmail.
  • The Promise: Told Marinette that Chloé wasn't going to be involved with his movie. When that changes, he doesn't warn her, then acts as though it's her fault that he wasn't honest and that she needs to honor her promise to help him regardless of how he broke his own word.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • Puts his 'creative vision' ahead of the safety, comfort and happiness of everyone who's helping him work on it, engaging in a lot of deceptive practices. When Mylène gets akumatized as a result, he even wants to exploit her situation by recasting her as the monster!
    • Averted in the attack of Animan, since the first thing he starts asking about is if Marinette (who was right behind him while they were running from panthers) is also okay. Since he's asking Ladybug about Marinette, it can be assumed that she is.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: He feels some pity for Gabriel after learning why he became Hawk Moth. Ladybug, on the other hand, points out he still made the conscious choice to become a supervillain and spread terror across Paris instead of simply asking for help.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: Zig-Zagged; on one hand, he calls Adrien out on prioritizing Chloé over everyone else and trying to guilt-trip them into compliance. Yet he engages in strikingly similar behavior while working on the movie, with Adrien enabling him by claiming that Mylène has no right to be upset by his demands and that there's nothing wrong with exploiting her akumatization. Also, note that Adrien is the only person who verbally supports his addition of the kiss scene.
  • We Used to Be Friends: His behavior during the Horrificator incident leaves a sour taste in Marinette's mouth as she finds herself reevaluating their relationship. However, he knows he screwed up and is trying to atone for his actions, similar to Kim.

Lê Chiến Kim

Another of Marinette's old friends, who's been nursing a crush on Chloé for some time.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Has been crushing on Chloé while remaining blissfully unaware that Ondine has a crush on him.
  • Betrayal by Inaction: Was fully aware that Marinette was getting bullied, but allowed it to go on unchallenged. After having his heart broken by Chloé rejecting his Love Confession, he reflects upon this and realizes how awful it was.
  • Cincinnatus: Like all temporary Miraculous wielders, he returns the Monkey Miraculous after his adventure battling Style Queen.
  • Distressed Dude: Poor guy keeps being targeted by Akumas.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He agrees fully with Ondine that the reason why Animan got Akumatized is incredibly dumb and petty- and he was the one who caused the Akumatization (making fun of a panther and claiming that he could do better than it could).
  • Foil: Has his Jerkass Realization at the same time that Nino grabs the Jerkass Ball, and vows to become a better friend while Nino's spate of callousness drives a deeper wedge between him and Marinette.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: During the Style Queen incident, he is loaned the Monkey Miraculous and becomes the superhero Roi Singe.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: His crush on Chloé caused him to downplay her more negative traits. Getting rejected helps him realize that he was lowering his standards just because he thought she was cute.
  • Sadistic Choice: During "Undining Love", Chloé forces one on him (that would have no doubt ended with Odine's Akumatization, regardless). He either helps her with an entire day of physical labor to "make up" for unintentionally ruining her party, or she gets her father to shut down his and Odine's favorite public pool. Kim, knowing how important the pool is to Odine, chooses the former.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: He's the first person from Marinette's old class to genuinely reach out to her since she moved classes, and spends most of Chapter 9 trying to support her.
  • Token Good Teammate: Kim is the only decent member of Marinette's former class she can bond with besides Nino after a while, especially since he took the lesson he learned after his Akumatization to heart. It's why he's the first member of the class that Marinette gives a Miraculous to, albeit temporarily.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Downplayed; while he hung out with Marinette, Alix and Nino all the time when they were younger, the group grew further apart as he and Alix got into the competitive scene. His mother comments on how long it's been since Marinette visited their place.

Alix Kubdel

Another sporty student and one of Marinette's old friends.

Nathaniel Kurtzberg

An artistic loner who writes comic books with himself as a hero who often saves Ladybug.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Without a crush on Marinette, and without the humbling experience of becoming Evillustrator, Nathaniel is cold to everyone. He has a crush on Ladybug from a distance, with an Entitled to Have You aspect when he gets a story he is directly told is fanfiction of his work. He chooses to take it as a Love Confession from Ladybug, and takes out his misconception on Marc. As a result, it appears unlikely that the two of them will become any closer.
  • The Aloner: With the supposed friendship with Alix, Nathaniel's pretty much alone, especially after he ruined any chance he could have had with Marc.
  • Arc Villain: He's effectively the antagonist/instigator of the events of Chapters 16-20, directly causing Jean's Akumatization and indirectly causing Bustier's before becoming an Akuma himself.
  • Broken Pedestal: He doesn't take Ladybug's chewing him out for him causing the mess they were in very well, and abandons his feelings for her.
  • Damsel in Distress: How he views Ladybug in his comics and later, Marinette.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Nathaniel gets Jean banned from the school's art room because he doesn't view improv as a form of art. He also destroys Marc's notebook just because he thinks Jean and Marc were pranking him about his crush on Ladybug (when it was simply a fan of his work wanting to meet him).
  • Dramatic Irony: Just as he abandons his crush on Ladybug, he decides he needs a newer, more helpless muse... Marinette, who IS Ladybug.
  • Entitled to Have You: His comic has him constantly saving Ladybug with a clearly romantic undertone to it. Changing targets from Ladybug to Marinette proves that he learns nothing from the experience.
  • His Story Repeats Itself: Like Adrien before him, he only focuses on his fantasy of being with Ladybug. Even when he thinks he's moving on from Ladybug, he still fantasizes about Marinette being his Damsel in Distress, not knowing Marinette IS Ladybug.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Just like Chloé, Lila, and Nino before him, he fails to learn his lesson after he was targeted by an Akuma incident he caused... but he makes his failed lesson worse by making Marinette his new muse instead of Ladybug.
  • It's Personal: He really dislikes Jean, to the point he deliberately gets the other boy in trouble and even attempts to attack him FIRST when Akumatized.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Although it was rude to get Jean banned from the art room, improv is more in line with comedy and/or acting than drawing, painting, and the like, and Jean manages to annoy even his fellow classmates. He's also wary of Jean because he expects the meeting with Marc instead of Ladybug to be some kind of retaliatory prank... though he loses the high ground when he destroys Marc's notebook.
  • Mirror Character: To Adrien. Both young men are selfish, entitled boys who are attracted to Ladybug and view themselves as the heroes of the story when that's not even close to what they are. Neither takes being called out on their self-centeredness well, and resist learning anything from their experiences.
  • Path of Most Resistance: Unintentionally picks this when he moves his crush from Ladybug to Marinette, who IS Ladybug.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Starting to shape up like one for Marinette.
  • Straw Hypocrite:
  • A Tragedy of Impulsiveness:
    • A lot of the drama of "Spell It Out" could have been easily averted if Nathaniel calmed down and listened to Marc and Jean instead of jumping to conclusions, not to mention Nathaniel should have realized that there is no real "Diary of Ladybug", since she takes the matter of a Secret Identity seriously. Him choosing to rip up Marc's notebook cost him a potential friendship and perhaps something more.
    • Similarly, he convinces Mme. Bustier that Jean is a 'bad influence' on Marinette, what with the whole 'letting her speak for herself' and 'standing up for her'.

Lila Rossi

A New Transfer Student with a knack for spinning lies.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed because she's far from a hero and still a pathological liar, but she never joins Hawk Moth in this continuity.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: She's not Marinette's Arch-Enemy since they're in different classes, and her relationship with Ladybug, while still semi-hostile, is not outright antagonistic. Instead, she's angrier at Chat Noir, starting a smear campaign against him by blaming the fake Fox Miraculous on him and claiming she dumped Chat.
  • Arch-Enemy: Unlike in canon, where she has a deep grudge against Ladybug for outing her as a liar, here she develops a grudge against Chat Noir for mindlessly parroting her superhero lie to Hawk Moth and nearly getting her killed.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: She lies about being besties with Ladybug AND having the Fox Miraculous, wanting to use both to get with Adrien (who is unbeknownst to her attempting to use her to get to Ladybug). Despite Ladybug warning her it will end badly, she ignores it and continues trying to ride off the Celebrity Lie. However, her Attention Whore behavior backfires when Hawk Moth sees the interview and believes it, sending the next Akuma he creates after HER. And Chat Noir (who is Adrien) exposes her and is unintentionally willing to let her die by attempting to assure Ladybug she could use her "Miraculous" to save herself.
  • Broken Pedestal: What little respect that she had for the heroes and especially Chat Noir died when she was actually dragoned into an Akuma fight and the latter exposed her (fake) status as a Miraculous-user and nearly got her killed over it.
  • Celebrity Lie: One of her favorite tactics; in addition to claiming Ladybug as her best friend, she pretends to know Spielberg.
  • Demoted to Extra: Rather than becoming a major antagonistic force, she's quickly embarrassed on her first day at Dupont, and any grudge she holds against Ladybug pales in comparison to the one she's got against Hawkmoth for taking her hostage and forcing her exposure, and even THAT one pales to her hate for Chat Noir.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • Fails to consider the very real possibility of her claims of being besties with the local superheroine getting back to Ladybug... or reaching the ears of the local supervillain.
    • She didn't think that anybody else would find out about her fake Miraculous, let alone unintentionally call her bluff. It nearly gets her killed.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Twice over — her pretending to be Ladybug's BFF puts her on Hawkmoth's radar, and the lie she spins to Adrien spurs Chat Noir to out her while she's being held hostage, forcing her to reveal the truth in hopes of saving herself.
  • I Have Your Wife: Was the wife in the scenario. Hawkmoth had Mime take her hostage and attempted to kill her to force Ladybug to surrender her Miraculous.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Calls Ladybug out for spying on her, though she was investigating the rumors Lila was spreading. Her anger towards Hawkmoth and Chat Noir is also justified, as the supervillain had her kidnapped, while Chat Noir exposed her (false) identity in public.
  • Malicious Slander: Tells her classmates that Chat Noir gave her the fake Fox Miraculous, and that she dumped him after discovering the truth.
  • Never My Fault: After her kidnapping, she blames Hawkmoth, Ladybug, and especially Chat Noir for what happened, refusing to acknowledge that it was her own actions that created that situation in the first place.
  • Sadistic Choice: On the receiving end of one thanks to Chat Noir's 'helpful' commentary. She either maintains her lie and gets herself killed by Hawkmoth's Akuma over her supposed Miraculous, or endure public exposure and humiliation by admitting the truth. She chose the latter.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Downplayed, but she gives Ladybug a look of disdain as she saves her and comments on how she warned her that she was playing with fire. However, she's probably more upset that Hawk Moth even targeted her, to begin with, and Chat Noir for his "help".

    Teachers 

Teachers

Ms. Mendeleiev

Head of Marinette's new homeroom. A very no-nonsense sort of woman with a low tolerance for shenanigans.
  • Badass Boast: Answers Chloé's demand of 'Do you know who I am?' by declaring that she is the meanest teacher in their school, and will see her suspended if she disrupts her class again.
  • Cool Teacher: She might be strict, but she also goes straight to bat to protect her students and is on the right side of "firm but fair".
  • Good Is Not Soft: She's a righteous woman, but makes it clear she will tolerate none of Chloé's usual shenanigans.
  • Out of Focus: Despite being Marinette's new homeroom teacher, she's not a major character in this fic. In fact, it's Marientte's FORMER homeroom teacher who is given more characterization.
  • Stern Teacher: Tough but fair. Illustrated well by her giving Jean a warning when she sees him harassing Aurore, then clearing her throat when Aurore taunts him back — contrasting with everything Bustier allows Chloé to get away with in her class.

Mme. Caline Bustier

Marinette's former teacher, who's been in charge of their class for years. Believes that good students should 'lead by example' for a more harmonious classroom... ignoring the actual results of her teachings.

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