Luka Couffaine

"Music is often simpler than words."

- Luka

Luka Couffaine is a character who appears in the second season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is the older brother of Juleka Couffaine, the guitarist of Kitty Section, and a new student at Collège Françoise Dupont, who attracts the attention of Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

In "Silencer", when Bob Roth threatens Marinette after she accuses him of stealing Kitty Section's idea for XY's new song, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth into Silencer, a voice-stealing supervillain.

Physical appearance
Luka is a tall, slender, attractive teenage boy of fair skin. He has a Roman nose, pale pink lips, light aqua blue eyes, and medium-length black hair that has dyed teal blue tips.

Civilian attire
His attire includes a white shirt with a black Jagged Stone imprint and black jeans ripped at the knee. He also wears a brown leather bracelet, yellow and orange wristbands, and his fingernails are painted black. He has a sky blue jacket with a navy blue hoodie underneath, as well as black high top converse with multi-colored splotches. He wears a black ring with silver outlining on his left pointer finger and black gauges in his ears.

As Silencer
He has blue skin and he wears a pink, black and yellow-ish outfit with a jagged mouth on his helmet.

As Viperion
He wears a black, teal, and cyan suit, appearing to be slender and muscular. His suit has a snake texture along with the same kind of underbelly like a snake and has a cyan colored mask around his eyes. His eyes change from aqua to green as does his hair highlights. His weapon appears to be a lyre.

Personality
Unlike his sister Juleka, Luka is a calm boy who has a mixed personality of being playful, charming, mature and flirtatious. He is empathetic at reading people's emotions and expressing it through music. Luka is very kind and generous, especially towards his friends and family, but also to people he just met as he cheers Marinette up shortly after meeting her.

Luka seems to be a easygoing and relaxed boy. However, sometimes he can lose his calm if feels that he and mainly his friends are being wronged, like when Bob Roth stole his band's music, dance and outfits and claimed them to be XY's. Despite everything, he tries to retain his cool, only getting really mad when Bob threatened Marinette.

As Viperion, most of Luka's personality remains the same like his caring and helpfulness as he tried to save Carapace by taking Party Crasher's attacks.

As Silencer, his main goal is to make Bob Roth tell the truth regarding the fact he stole the Kitty Section's song as he takes the voices of anyone that could serve his purposes or get in his way. However, he still retains his care for Marinette, as she was the only person whose voice he spared and he reassured her he would make "justice" for her and Kitty Section.

As a civilian
Luka is excellent at playing his guitar and similar musical instruments. He is particularly good at creating melodies through people's emotions.

In "Frozer", Luka is good at ice skating and fairly strong as he can lift Marinette with ease.

As Viperion
Viperion has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and he is almost invulnerable to physical damage. Like a snake, he also has enhanced senses like hearing, smell, infrared vision and possibly the ability to feel vibrations but it is yet to be seen.

His special power, Second Chance, allows him to reverse time and change the outcome of an event, in which the power activates by sliding his finger on his Miraculous. He is able to go back to the first moment he activated his power as many times as he wants before the snake's head returns to its original position.

As Silencer
Silencer can steal people's voices by touching their lips with his two fingers and making a shushing motion; the voice will then escape from the person as a jellyfish-like entity. Once their voices are out, he can store them inside his mask and then he can talk with them using his hands. If his power is used on a Miraculous holder, he can render them virtually powerless unless he says the invocations in their place.

Juleka Couffaine
Juleka is Luka's younger sister, whom he is very close to. They are part of the same band, Kitty Section, in which they play similar instruments. He does hang out with her and her friends on occasion by going to the movies with them seen in an instagram post. Luka is also caring towards as he wanted to save her accepting the Snake Miraculous to do it in "Desperada"

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Marinette and Luka first meet when his mother sends her down to go get him to rehearse with the band. Still bothered by Adrien not coming and not knowing who Luka is or what he looks like, Marinette is startled by him as he opens his eyes and starts to stutter and mix up her words. He simply teases her playfully about her stuttering, but immediately regrets it when she frowns, embarrassed. Reacting to her frown, he apologizes and begins to play his guitar. Her warming up to him as she listens to him play the guitar, he believes that music is "often simpler than words". As a memento, he lets her keep a guitar pick of Jagged Stone that she admires, leaves her in thought, calling her a "funny girl" with a sweet smile. Luka falls in love with Marinette at first sight.

The two exchange sweet glances to each other when Alya Césaire notices Marinette's interest in Luka immediately and teases her about it. He compliments Marinette throughout the time he has with her, helps her escape and hide, and is worried about her when he talks to Ladybug. Finding out Marinette is safe he calls her "unbelievably brave", and Marinette, as Ladybug, blushes at his comment. Luka spends time with Marinette when she begins to doubt her relationship pursues of Adrien Agreste offering her support while at the ice rink, where the two have fun together. Afterwards, he isn't fazed when Marinette thanks him by kissing him on the cheek.

By "Silencer", Luka and Marinette are part of Kitty Section and pass more time together. Their mutual admiration for their work and care for each other is so strong that both of them enter to a studio to confront Bob Roth about stealing their ideas. When he witnesses threaten her, Luka gets angry enough to be prone to akumatization. Even as Silencer, he retains his care for her, sparing her voice and promising to bring justice for her and Kitty Section.

Luka appears to respect Ladybug. When Ladybug unties him in "Captain Hardrock", he asks her about Marinette, to which Ladybug tells him that she's safe and was the one who alerted her to the situation. In "Mayura", he participates in the Parisian rebellion in order to help Ladybug and Cat Noir in defeating Hawk Moth.

As Viperion, like the other heroes on the team, he follows Ladybug's lead without question.

However, as Silencer, he gets annoyed with Ladybug interfering with his plans and has no qualms about taking her voice away.

Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
Luka doesn't know Adrien too well, but when he meets Adrien for first time, Luka welcomes him into the band. He notices that Marinette seems to have feelings for Adrien and advises her to talk to him.

Luka later attends Adrien's boys only party and helps clean up the mess after it in "Party Crasher".

Despite not meeting Cat Noir in person like Ladybug, he appears to respect the hero and takes in the Paris Rebellion showing his support towards him in "Mayura".

He also works alongside the hero following his lead in battling the party villain in "Party Crasher".

As Silencer, he gets annoyed with Cat Noir interfering with his plans and has no qualms about taking his voice away.

Nino Lahiffe/Carapace
Luka doesn't know Nino too well, even though they are both into music, as well as Luka attending the boys only party Nino put together for Adrien, and had stayed behind to help him and the others clear the "aftermath" of it in "Party Crasher". Before Party Crasher, the two had met in "Captain Hardrock" during the music festival on the Couffaine's boat house.

As their alter-egos, Viperion uses his marked position of Second Chance so he could go back in time to prevent Carapace from getting captured by Party Crasher.

Max Kanté/Pegasus
Luka doesn't know Max too well, even though Luka later attended the boys only party that Max and a small number of his friends helped Nino put together for Adrien, and had stayed behind to help them clear the "aftermath" of it in "Party Crasher".

As their alter-egos, Viperion and Pegasus fight beside each other as a team, with Ladybug, Cat Noir, and the rest of their Miraculous holder allies. Pegasus shows concern for Viperion when he gets captured by Party Crasher.

Lê Chiến Kim/King Monkey
Luka doesn't know Kim too well, even though Luka later attended the boys only party that Kim and a small number of his friends helped Nino put together for Adrien, and had stayed behind to help them clear the "aftermath" of it in "Party Crasher".

As their alter-egos, Viperion and King Monkey fight beside each other as a team, with Ladybug, Cat Noir and the rest of their Miraculous holder allies.

Bob Roth
When Bob steals Kitty Section's idea for XY's new song, Luka goes along with Marinette Dupain-Cheng to angrily confront him. Though he attempts to retain his cool, upon witnessing Bob threaten Marinette, he becomes so angry that he gets akumatized. As Silencer, his main goal is to force Bob to admit that he stole Kitty Section's idea on live TV.

Trivia

 * Luka was first revealed in a French synopsis for Season 2 on Le Figaro.
 * He was later revealed to be Juleka Couffaine's older brother in a Brazilian synopsis for Season 2 on O Universo da TV.
 * The name Luka means "light" in Latin.
 * In the Russian dub, his name is changed to Luke.
 * Luka's surname Couffaine is a combination of "couffin" (French for "coffin") and the French suffix "-aine" (meaning "of or from a place"), ultimately meaning "of/from the coffin".
 * All the Couffaine's names so far end with "-ka".
 * However, it is actually a pun, as a matter of fact in French it sounds like "acouphène" which means "tinnitus".
 * According to Thomas Astruc, Luka is approximately two years older than Juleka.
 * According to Feri González, Luka is a handsome boy and people "are going to fall in love with him."
 * She also noted that both Luka and Kagami Tsurugi are "charming, rounded characters" who are not limited to roles as alternate love interests.
 * Viperion was first revealed in concept art shown at the 2018 Comic Con Experience panel on December 6, 2018.
 * Viperion's name is likely a portmanteau of viper (a family of venomous snakes) and Hyperion, a Titan of Greek mythology associated with the sun and daytime.
 * In Greek mythology, the priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as Pythia, stemming from the giant snake slain by Apollo (another god of the sun) "in the strength of Hyperion (day)."
 * Apollo is also known to have a lyre.

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