Talk:Lila Rossi/@comment-33385933-20190201154847

My take on Lila:

She’s a horrible person, but an interesting character. One can’t help but wonder WHY she feels a need to lie so compulsively with every breath. Is it for attention? Because she doesn’t want to be seen as “uncool”? And moreover how does she know what buttons to press to get most of the other classmates on her side, like how Rose knows Prince Ali?

Maybe it’s something tied to how she grew up. Since she’s only seen with her mom and her dad is absent, I headcanon that her parents are divorced and her mother got custody of her, moving from Italy to France in the process. Maybe she felt closer to her father and resents her mother for separating her from him. Who knows?

All in all Lila was made to be a character you’d both love to hate, but also want to see succeed in her schemes a bit, and it works. It would be interesting if close to the end of the season Lila successfully turns most of Marinette’s classmates against her, but Marinette also gains an unlikely ally: one Chloé Bourgeois. In “Catalyst”, Chloé’s the only other person aside from Marinette who seems unimpressed by Lila’s exaggerated lies, and I have a feeling a Chloé-Lila rivalry will become official soon, especially with how Lila schmoozes up to Adrien a lot.