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| “ | Oh, it isn't my school, but... the result of a collaborative effort. In this new school, there will be no classes or struggling to get good grades. Children of all ages will be able to intermix and freely access all kinds of activities. They'll be able to try their hands at everything, learn at their own pace, and help each other until they've figured out what they want to do later in life. The school will be their second home. Children are our future. If we want it to be right, we must help each child to shine. | ” |
—Caline Bustier, "Re-creation" | ||
Caline Bustier[3] is a recurring character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is the mayoress of Paris and a former teacher at Collège Françoise Dupont.[4]
In "Zombizou", while trying to protect Marinette Dupain-Cheng from an akuma which was originally trying to akumatize Marinette after Chloé ruined her gift for Caline's birthday, Caline was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Zombizou, a zombie kissing supervillain.[5]
In "Miraculous World: New York - United Heroez", Caline revealed to her class that she was pregnant.
In "Collusion", Caline was unfairly fired from her job as a teacher as a result of Chloé and Cerise's manipulations and was almost akumatized by Monarch into Miss Sans-Culotte, a villain themed after the Sans-culottes. However, the first akumatization became useless as Caline rejected it. Feeling a sense of injustice after watching an edited video of Mayor Bourgeois admitting to using his position to limit citizens' freedom, she was fully akumatized by Monarch into Miss Sans-Culotte, and received the power of the Pig Miraculous through her Alliance ring, allowing her to transform people into singing balloons.
In "The Final Day", Caline begins her campaign in Paris' mayoral elections. In the special's second part, "Re-creation", she wins the election and becomes the new mayoress of Paris. She also gives birth to Harmonie, her daughter.
Appearance
Physical Appearance
Caline is tall and light-skinned with long ginger hair which she pulls back in a high bun, strong cyan eyes, thin light pink lips, and freckles.
Civilian Attire
She wears a light cerulean jacket with a moderate opal popped collared shirt and a white undershirt beneath, along with a pair of white earrings and a small goldish white necklace. She also wears light cerulean pants and white high heel shoes.
As Zombizou
Caline as Zombizou.
Zombizou was a light Malachite green-skinned villain with moderate cerulean hair with a gray hue and brilliant arctic blue eyes. She wore black lipstick in a heart shape. She wore a butterfly-shaped pink mask, curved on top and curving to point beneath the eyes. She wore a primarily black dress with torn sleeves and was adorned with a pink heart and a smaller black heart within it. The black heart had a pink lipstick stain on it. The dress had pink puffy sleeves that feature a stapled design, a la Frankenstein. She also had black fingerless gloves that were connected to her sleeves and leggings, both of which had holes. Zombizou wore her hair in a bun decorated with two pink hair sticks with large round ends. On her feet, she wore black high-heeled boots with pink shoelaces. She wielded black lipstick.
As Miss Sans-Culotte
Caline as Miss Sans-Culoette.
As Miss Sans-Culotte, her skin turned pure white, with vertical light brilliant blue and light brilliant red stripes going through her whole body. Her lips were also light brilliant red in color. Her hair was cut short, reaching the top of her neck, and golden blonde in color. She wore a gold metallic Phrygian-style cap, gold strapless breastplate that fitted her baby bump, and gold high-heeled boots. The cap, the plate, and the boots all detailed Greco-Roman embossed designs on them. She also wore high-waisted pants in the same colors and stripes as her skin. Her akumatized object, the bracelet, converted into a thick golden chain that wrapped around her entire left forearm, and had a huge guillotine blade, also with Greco-Roman embossed designs on it, at the end of it, which she threw at her targets using her right arm. As she was powered up by the Pig Miraculous, the blade glowed in a hot pink color.
- For more of Caline's outfits and designs, see Caline Bustier/Designs.
Personality
Caline is a pleasant, kind, helpful, and instructive teacher. Even though she is kind to her students, she can be stern with them if they misbehave and she will send them to Principal's office if she thinks it's necessary. When André Bourgeois is upset at her when Chloé Bourgeois loses her bracelet in "Rogercop", she is indignant at the rebellion. However, if a villain or another threat appears, Caline gets nervous, as seen when Rogercop questions her and will suggest to her students that they leave if it becomes potentially dangerous, as seen in "Lady Wifi". Caline also has incredible willpower, being able to initially resist becoming infected by an akuma in "Zombizou", something not very many can do. She also has a great deal of compassion for others especially towards those that mean and hateful like Chloe believing that with patience and setting good examples anyone can be good and change.
However, her kind and compassive nature can come as a flaw as well. Because Caline is willing to give new chances, try to appeal to a person's better side and make sure everyone is on equal ground, she is sometimes unable to perceive the true length of a person's less good nature, which results in her becoming a bit naive and vulnerable to those who try to take advantage of her kindness. The best example of this is Chloé Bourgeois. Despite Chloé's mean nature is very well-known and evident, Caline always treated Chloé like any other student, giving her nothing but kindness and compassion and trying to help her become her better self. However, that also prevented her from giving Chloé the real punishment she actually deserved, as seen in "Zombizou" when Chloé ruined Marinette's birthday gift or in "Revelation" after discovering Sabrina has been making all of Chloé's school work for her. Another example is Lila Rossi, as Caline (like most people) was fooled by the girl's lies and manipulation, even having a new class representive election two weeks before the end of the school year, after Lila expressed how "unfair" it was to uphold an election without her, in "Revelation".
Caline is aware of this flaw of her and is able to learn from the mistakes she commits because of it, as seen in "Confrontation". After Marinette is able to expose Lila and Chloé, Caline decides to take a new approach when it comes to deal with Chloé. In "Collusion", even if still trying to call upon her better side (which she still believes to exist), she now is more stern with her. This is again seen in "Revolution", as Caline grew tired of Chloé's nastiness and is the one to strip her from her megakuma.
Despite her gentle and calm nature, Caline does have a temper, which is mostly seen when in face of a great injustice, especially when her students are at the receiving end of it. This is perfectly seen in "Mega Leech", as she became furious upon hearing that Ivan and Mylene were taken by the police, calling to Roger and demanding him to take them back to the Place des Vosges so she can pick them up herself, all while confronting mayor Bourgeois about his actions. This temper of her is seen again in "Collusion", as, after watching an edited video where it appars that mayor Bourgeois was plotting a dark future for the children of Paris, she became so enraged that she falls victim of Monarch's akumatization even if she previosly had been able to resist it.
Caline also takes her job as teacher very seriously, as she knows the future of world rests on the newer generations. That belief is what drove her to become a great teacher, as most of her students were able to become better people under her care and get along quite well between each other. She would also make sure they would have the necessaries tools to become their better selves and also to protect themselves from akumatizations. All that served as base for her to become a great Mayoress to Paris, from where her leading skills were able to bloom. She managed to lead Paris into becoming an example to follow to the world, creating green areas, reducing pollution, harnessing clean energy, increasing public transportation and improving educaton.
As seen in "El Toro De Piedra", Caline had also started a project called "New Chances", where criminals are giving a new chance into integrating society with less prejudice as possible, including giving them a job. One example of that is Ivan's father, Raúl, who used to be a criminal known as El Toro.
As Zombizou, her views on love became warped, believing that she was spreading the love by turning people into kissing zombies.
As Miss Sans-Culotte, duped by the false video of the mayor, Caline was angry that André used collusion to wrongly take her job away and wanted to confront him but her sense of reasoning was still there as she listened to what Zoé had to say about her stepfather. She was even willing to let Ladybug and Cat Noir accompany her in case if any trickery, upon talking to André, she was shocked to hear that he admitted what he was wrong and humbly hearing that her job reinstated, satisfied, Caline released the akuma.
Abilities
As a Civilian
Caline is a qualified teacher, having taught French, literature, poetry, and history.
In "Zombizou", she is shown to be able to resist or even overcome Hawk Moth's influence (something not very many akumatized victims can do), though unfortunately, she succumbed after approximately 30 seconds. By "Collusion", she is shown to be even better at resisting Hawk Moth's influence even when she is heavily pregnant by taking deep breaths, and manages to break free of it the first time.
As Zombizou
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With her lipstick, Zombizou could blow kisses that turned people into zombies with brilliant mulberry eyes who sought to kiss and hug other people, and she could even spread kisses through direct kissing, as shown with Denis Damoclès in his office. Although the effect wasn't seen, it is probable Denis Damoclès was infected. The zombies had contagious kisses.
Zombizou also had enhanced physical abilities such as strength and agility.
As Miss Sans-Culotte
As Miss Sans-Culotte, she had a huge guillotine blade she could throw at her targets, being able to cut through solid objects easily. When the blade touched a person, they were transformed into a red, blue, or white singing balloon. As she was given the power of the Pig Miraculous, Gift, through her Alliance Ring, the blade got infused with the power, making so that the transformed people saw their own dreams of freedom and obeyed her every command, as they were made to see her as the one to free them all.
Miss Sans-Culotte also had enhanced agility, despite being pregnant when she was akumatized.
Relationships
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History
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Sightings
Episodes
Comics and Books
Other
Trivia
- Caline looks noticeably similar to the character Lucille from A Monster in Paris. Despite this, no one who designed Caline ever saw A Monster in Paris and their similarities are entirely coincidental.[6]
- Her akumatized form was first revealed as a silhouette in a promotional poster on Jeremy Zag's Instagram.[7]
- Caline celebrates her birthday in "Zombizou".
- Caline is the third character in the show to be akumatized on their birthday, the first two beings Alix in "Timebreaker" and Nathaniel in "The Evillustrator".
- Caline was the first character in the show to be akumatized not because of a person, but by the akuma itself.
- Caline is the first character to attempt to resist an akumatization, even though she didn't succeded to do so.
- Zombizou briefly reappears in "Ladybug", but she is quickly de-akumatized.
- Zombizou appears another time in "Gamer 2.0" from Gamer 2.0's powers.
- In "Miraculous New York", it is revealed that she is pregnant.
- In the episode "Multiplication", Caline appears notably pregnant for the first time.
- In the same previous episode, she was wearing a different outfit due to her pregnancy, but in "Illusion" onwards she went back to wearing her normal outfit just opening her white t-shirt.
- As shown in "Perfection", Caline was also shown to be able to perform her yoga classes even while pregnant while many other pregnant women would hardly be able to perform these types of activities.
- In "Collusion", she becomes the first civilian to be akumatized while pregnant.
- In "Re-creation", she finally gives birth to her daughter named Harmonie.
- According to one of Adrien's Instagram story posts, Caline owns a dog.[8]
- As revealed in the Miraculous Secrets card game, Miss Bustier was once a student of Mr. Damoclès when she was in school, and once pinned a fish to his back as an April Fool's joke.
- Caline is the second civilian to purify a megakuma and the first one to do so without the help of a magical charm.
- Caline is a sapphic character, being part of the fifth LGBTQ+ romance pair to appear in the show, after Nathaniel and Marc, Juleka and Rose, Barbara and Olympia, and Zoé and Marinette (despite the latter was shown to be one-sided and eventually became platonic for both parts).
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References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/cFbi6OQtoDA
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 As of "Re-creation"
- ↑ Her first name was originally revealed through a now-deleted tweet by Thomas Astruc, but it was later seen on Roger Raincomprix's phone in "Mega Leech"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/655079661588885504
- ↑ https://tvschedule.zap2it.com/overview.html?programSeriesId=SH02296324&tmsId=SH022963240000&from=sl&aid=gapzap
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/689514358565634048
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZg2ST6n097/?hl=en
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Lollipop_Mach/status/1250554724035825673