| “ | We have no rules on the Liberty! Out of chaos comes creation! Messiness is life. | ” |
—Anarka, "Captain Hardrock" | ||
Anarka Couffaine[3] is a minor character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is the mother of Luka and Juleka Couffaine. Starting from season 6, she is the music teacher at the Collège Françoise Dupont.
In "Captain Hardrock", after Roger Raincomprix banned her from playing in the National Music Festival, she was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Captain Hardrock, a musical pirate supervillain.[4]
In "Crocoduel", after arguing with Jagged Stone about their separation, she was akumatized by Shadow Moth into Captain Hardrock, and alongside Guitar Villain, the two villains formed Crocoduel, a duel of two supervillains who wanted to prove one of them was right. She also received a Magical Charm from Ladybug that prevented her from being reakumatized.
Appearance
Physical Appearance
Anarka is a petite fair-skinned middle aged woman with light cerulean eyes and long silver colored hair with bangs that has been braided-down her back. She also sported red lipstick on her lips.
Civilian Attire
Anarka's attire consists of a black-and-pale lilac headband with a flower clip positioned on the center, a set of bright red glasses over her eyes, a black necklace with a gold-designed pendant around her neck, and a knee-length gold-and-pink-trimmed black coat over a long light pink top which itself is worn over a black undershirt. She also wore light blue jeans with flower-patches sewn on them, and calf-high high-heeled beige boots with darker-colored soles.
She accessorizes with a set of earrings with alternating aqua and red spheres, a variety of bracelets and armlets, and three rings on every finger except on the finger of her right hand.
As Captain Hardrock
Captain Hardrock takes the appearance of a tan-skinned humanoid with long vivid-red hair that is spiked-upwards, held back by a black bandana with a spiky-haired white skull located on the center.
Her eyes have dark maroon-outlined golden-yellow irises, neon-yellow sclera, and thick black eyeliner which forms to thick bottom lashes. She also has accessorized small golden hoop-piercings, and retains her red-colored lipstick.
In terms of attire, Captain Hardrock wears a black captain's jacket with golden-yellow inner lining, golden spikes on the shoulders, golden edges and belt straps with golden buckles on the sides. Her jacket is worn over her skin-tight, high-collared gray bodysuit with a red flame-design from the collar to the chest, alongside three small golden button vertically on the lower part, golden spikes horizontally over each knee, and a bright yellow patch above each hip. Her shoes are that of red calf-length, low-heeled boots with a black flame-pattern painted on them, black inner lining, black soles, bright yellow heels and straps with golden spikes around them.
She accessorizes with a set of black and gray fingerless elbow-length gloves with some of the holes being accessorized by pirate-inspired golden rings, and two black belts with golden buckles; one going around the body diagonally and the other wrapped around her waist.
For a weapon, she carries a cutlass with a black handle, three thin red stripes on and near the pommel, and a blade with jagged black edges that goes from red at the handle to white at the tip.
- For Anarka's designs and outfits, see Anarka Couffaine/Designs.
Personality
Anarka sounds and talks like a pirate as she believes that chaos and disorder can be a good thing, which is shown when she tells Marinette that she likes to keep her houseboat messy. Despite this, she knows when they are not, such as not allowing a metallic statue anywhere near the boat's compass, knowing metal makes it go crazy and thus useless. She also believes in freedom, even naming her houseboat "Liberty". When Roger Raincomprix orders her to keep her music’s volume down, Anarka stands her ground as she believes that she should be free to be as loud as she wants for her concert. However, after she is de-akumatized, she realizes that she should obey the rules sometimes and keeps her volume down.
She doesn't appreciate being lied to as she got mad at Jagged for lying to her about what happened between him and Vivica.
As Captain Hardrock, her desire for freedom increased to the point where she wanted to blast her music across Paris and ruin the other concerts so that she'd be the only one heard, which also included her houseboat only obeying her when she said an order. When the passengers of her ship refused to play music for her, she got mad and imprisoned them. She also didn't consider herself her children's mother anymore and had no remorse for taking them prisoner when they refused to obey her.
When she was reakumatized in "Crocoduel", she was determined to defeat Guitar Villian while competing with him to defeat the heroes, however she prioritized defeating her opponent and both flew into the sky to continue their fight without Ladybug and Cat Noir intervening. Despite their rivalry, she was willing to collaborate with her rival to attack the heroes when they obtained her akumatized object.
Abilities
As a Civilian
She is fairly strong as she is able to toss anyone overboard off her boat especially if they make her angry. She is seen to be able to play different music instruments and is a music teacher at Collège Françoise Dupont. Anarka is also an experienced sailwoman, as she is shown to operate her boat greatly and is aware of some rules, like not putting magnet next to a compass.
As Captain Hardrock
Her houseboat, the Liberty, had become a seemingly indestructible living ship that flew and could fire chains on command to ensnare Captain Hardrock's foes, as well as blast lasers, and its cannons fired cannonball-shaped speakers which seemed to act as white noise machines. The compass also pointed to whatever direction Captain Hardrock orders.
She had a microphone that doubled as a laser cutlass and could also turn into a spyglass.
In "Crocoduel", Liberty gains the ability to fly.
Family
Tree
| Jagged Stone's mother | |||||||||||||
| Jagged Stone | Anarka Couffaine | ||||||||||||
| Luka Couffaine | Juleka Couffaine | ||||||||||||
= Male
= Female
= Gender Unknown
Relationships
Family
Luka and Juleka
Luka trying to calm Anarka down.
Anarka is shown to deeply care for her children. In "Captain Hardrock" it was mentioned that she doesn't give her kids many rules and doesn't allow they to clean up, because she believes that creation comes from chaos. Anarka is also fine with Luka and Juleka inviting friends to her houseboat, as seen in episodes "Frozer", "Desperada", "Félix" and other episodes. Their relationships are explored more in episode "Migration", when she throws Bob Roth out of her boat to protect her children. According to her, Luka and Juleka were the only people whom she never wanted to throw out of the boat.
Anarka asking Juleka if she's fine with Jagged being on her birthday party.
She was also reluctant to leave Luka travel the world on his own until Jagged reassured her that he would accompany Luka. Anarka seems to listen to her children when they're trying to calm her down or to ask them for their opinion, as seen in "Migration" or "Crocoduel", when she was told by Juleka not to argue but to talk.
Despite that, she never told her children who their father is, until "Truth", where she was ordered to tell the truth by the epomymous villain.
Friends/Allies
Marinette Dupain-Cheng
.png){kind=link}
Anarka talking to Marinette.
Anarka is on good terms with Marinette. During their first meeting, Anarka tells Marinette not to clean the boat or put magnet near the compass. It is currently unknown, whether she was aware of Luka and Marinette's relationship as well as their break-up, but she seems fine with Marinette in further episodes, including "Action".
Acquaintances
Roger Raincomprix
Anarka becomes annoyed when Officer Roger tells her that she needs to keep her volume down and gets extremely angry when he gives her multiple tickets, causing her to get akumatized. However, after being de-akumatized, she respects his request to play her music quieter.
Jagged Stone
Anarka and Jagged hugging before saying goodbye.
Anarka is not very fond of Jagged in "Desperada" it's shown that they used to play music together, but they got separated for some reason. After he let go of his latest guitarist Vivica, Jagged tried to convince Anarka to play with him again, but she refused to do it. Even more, she got mad at Jagged for lying to her about his guitarist having abandoned him, when the truth was he was the one to fire her. Anarka let go of her anger on Jagged after he apologized to Vivica and hired her back.
In "Truth" when the titular villain forces Anarka to tell him who his father is, she tells her akumatized son that it is Jagged Stone. Revealing that the two were more than just music partners, as Jagged appears to still care about Anarka when he approached her in "Desperada". The reasons that got Anarka to end their partnership is most likely the reason why she didn't tell Luka and Juleka who their father is.
In "Crocoduel", she still harbored a grudge against him and didn't like it when he came on board her ship without permission. Later in the episode, it is revealed that their first album as a croco-duo was the reason they broke up. After being deakumatized, Juleka yelled at them to listen to each other, prompting them to reconcile; however, they started to argue again over who was in the wrong.
Vivica
.png){kind=link}
Anarka and Vivica playing together.
In "Desperada" after she turned Jagged down, akumatized Vivica came to get her revenge, with Anarka saying she knew that she didn't quit but Jagged kicked her out. Desperada was furious when she found out that Jagged wanted to replace her with Anarka, and Anarka states she worked with Jagged long before her, which caused Desperada to attack her. At the end of the episode, Anarka and Vivica are seen playing music together and smiling.
Penny Rolling
Anarka is aware of Jagged and Penny being in a relationship, however, it's unknown whether Jagged cheated on Anarka with Penny or someone else. While Anarka is mostly cold towards Penny, at the end of "Migration" she asks whether Penny is fine with Luka travelling with her and Jagged, to which Penny reassured that she's going to help Luka with school. After that, they all share a group hug.
Enemies
Bob Roth
Anarka confronts Bob.
As seen in "Migration", Anarka despise Bob and is willing to throw him out of the boat and rip his contract several times.
Sightings
Episodes
Others
Etymology
- The name Anarka is based on the word "anarchy", meaning "a state of disorder due to a lack of authority".
- Anarka'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 Couffaines' names so far end with "-ka".
- However, it is actually a pun, as it sounds like "acouphène", which means "tinnitus" in French.
Trivia
- According to Wilfried Pain, Anarka is "the mother everyone wants, except when it's yours".[3]
- Anarka's Akumatized form was first revealed when concept art of her ship was shown during a Nolife interview.[4]
- Later, her appearance was revealed from a press conference by TFOU.
- In response to a comment on Twitter, Thomas Astruc noted that, "in a way", Captain Hardrock is a reference to Captain Harlock from the manga series Space Pirate Captain Harlock.[5]
- Both Captain Hardrock and her ship are a visual pun on musical piracy.
Anarka and Jagged's Magical Charm.
- As seen in "Mr. Pigeon 72", Anarka has been akumatized into Captain Hardrock three times. ("Captain Hardrock" and two off-screen akumization).
- As of the events of "Crocoduel", she has been akumatized into Captain Hardrock four times.
Gallery
Click here to view the gallery.
References