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| “ | In my known day, the Kingdom of England was protected by the hero who wore the Miraculous of the Black Cat. His nameth was Dark Grimalkin. The Duke of Bedford, then regent, had ordered him to help the English armies to subdue France. I was then entrusted with my Miraculous of the Ladybug to restore the balance, and I becameth Scarlet Fate. We fought each other at time of many, Dark Grimalkin and I, until we realized we were being manipulated by the monarchs of each our own. Greedy were they for power and cared not for the fate of the people. We fell in love, my sweet Gib and I. No more did we wanteth to fight. We just wanted to love each other. This did not please the petty kings. We tried to be in secret, but those gents caught us. We were over. Well... most of me. But with one final trick, I did manage to escapeth. Then both we gave up our Miraculous, not to be seen again. | ” |
—Jeanne d'Arc, "Reunion" | ||
Jeanne d'Arc, also known as Joan of Arc, (January 6, 1412 - Unknown)[2] was a French warrior who lived approximately 600 years ago (at the present day of the show). She helped to put Charles VII on the French throne during the Hundred Years' War. She was a past Miraculous holder, wielding the Ladybug Miraculous and transforming into Scarlet Fate, a ladybug-themed superhero, when Tikki inhabited the earrings.
She was given her Miraculous as a means to restore the balance of power, when the English knight who wielded the Cat Miraculous, Dark Grimalkin, was sent by his nations regent to subjugate France. They clashed many times, but eventually they fell in love, much to the displeasure of the cruel monarchs they served. After Jeanne escaped her public execution, she and Dark Grimalkin both renounced their Miraculouses and left everything behind to be together.
In "Ephemeral", after Sass uses Second Chance to go back in time and prevent Shadow Moth from using the Ultimate Miraculous Absolute Power, it causes temporal anomalies which included living or non-living things from the past to appear in the present. Jeanne d'Arc was one of those anomalies, where she appears for a few seconds at the top of the Eiffel Tower, meeting the current holder of her Miraculous, before returning back to her time.
In "Reunion", through the use of the kwagatama, Marinette is able to establish contact with the memory of Jeanne d'Arc, who tells her about her love story with the Cat Miraculous holder of her time, Dark Grimalkin.
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Appearance
Physical Appearance
Jeanne has white skin with scars over her right and left eyes, a cross scar on right cheek and the right side of her upper lip. She has dark brown hair in a pixie cut and dark green eyes.
Civilian Attire
From a painting of Jeanne's memories during her execution, she wore a white tunic long sleeve shirt and dress.
As Scarlet Fate
She wore silver armor with a ladybug-print tunic over the chain mail. She also wore the Ladybug Miraculous, which she used to transform.
Personality
Jeanne's most obvious trait is her great confidence and courage. Tikki describes her as being "hot tempered", what is well-fitting as Jeanne has an avid passion for battle and has a tendency to attack first and ask questions later. Unlike the current Ladybug Miraculous holder, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who is a thinker, Jeanne was a fighter.
She also bears the status of her holder legacy with honor and pride and expect her successors to do the same. After her memory is explained the reason why Marinette called for a reunion with her, Jeanne's memory becomes very upset with that, finding it insulting that one holder of her Miraculous would call for a reunion with a past holder just to ask trivial questions, demanding Marinette to cease the reunion immediately. But due to her memory being limited to her time as a past holder it could be implied that maybe she was sensitive about it as it hurt her that she couldn't remember.
However, despite her hot-tempered demeanor, Jeanne had a great sense of morality and sacrifice, being willing to sacrifice herself to protect the innocent, especially those caught in the crossfire of her battles. It was this traits that allowed Dark Grimalkin, her own adversary in the war, to fall in love with her and she with him. Their love was so strong they were willing to abdicate their own Miraculous just so they would be together.
Abilities
As a civilian
Since she is seen with a sword, it's likely that she was trained on how to fight with it.
As Scarlet Fate
If Scarlet Fate had the same powers as the current Ladybug, she had enhanced abilities and the superpowers Lucky Charm and Miraculous Scarlet Fate. She also had a yo-yo.
Relationships
Tikki
Despite her being hot tempered, Jeanne got along well with Tikki to the point where their friendship got so strong that she received a kwagatama from her and upon being reunited with her in spirit memory form she affectionately called her vile little gargoyle.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
Upon meeting her successor, Jeanne hoped she called a reunion in needing her help with fighting a dragon or a war but upon hearing she was summoned for love advice Jeanne was furious with Marinette and refused to talk to her any further wanting the reunion to end. However her opinion about her successor began to change when she saw Marinette in action as Ladybug as she had no problem in embarking her knowledge and coming face to face with The Pharaoh this is where she realizes the difference between them finding that her current successor likes to think and use reason. Seeing that saved it her successor's black cat and vanquished the villain Jeanne praised Marinette for a job well done and finally told Marinette her love-story.
Of how she came across her black cat Dark Grimalkin while on opposite sides of the Hundred Years War. And that they fought countless times against each other for their Monarchs until they were deceived by their Monarch's endless greed putting many innocent in danger. And it was Jeanne's and Grimalkin's compassionate hearts that made them cease their fighting as well as fall in love but had to show it in secret until they were caught and sentence to die for their treason by fire and yet they escaped. Knowing they couldn't be together because of their jewels the pair surrendered them leaving for parts unknown ending the story.
But when asked if she and Dark Grimalkin lived happily ever after Jeanne hoped the real them did as she couldn't remember nothing else. Then, her successor tried to embrace her but were reminded she was a spirit and they laugh it off with her Miraculous in the hands of a worthy warrior she asks Marinette if she'd like to end the reunion to which she does.
Cat Noir
She first hears about her current successor being in love with her partner Cat Noir. During Pharaoh's rampage, Jeanne meets the hero, describing him as puny. But when he ends up being caught by the akumatized supervillain, she showed great concern for him.
Sightings
Trivia
- Thomas Astruc drew Jeanne d'Arc in an image created for a fan-made charity magazine. She appears in the image with Hippolyta, Mudekudeku, and current Ladybug.[3]
- The way Thomas depicts her hair is different from how historians agree her hair was. Most historians credit the bob hairstyle to Jeanne.
- The way Thomas depicts her hair may differ in style, but it should be noted that this is one of the few depictions of her in fiction with a more accurate hair color. Reputable sources state that her hair was black, or at least dark, not blonde.[4]
- She is the first known person of French origin to wield the Ladybug Miraculous, preceding her successors Aramis and Marinette becoming the first of Paris' superheroes.
- She is the first past Ladybug Miraculous holder to have any known family preceding her successor Mudangbeolle.
- In the French dub, Jeanne d'Arc's supperhero name is Parque Écarlate, which is French for "Scarlet Fate".
- In the Spanish dub, her superhero name is Suerte Escarlata, which is Spanish for "Scarlet Luck".
- In the European Portuguese dub, her superhero name is Morte Escarlate, which is Portuguese for "Scarlet Death".
- The image of her slaying a dragon is a modified version of a stained glass window depicting Saint George slaying a dragon, located in St. George's Hall in Liverpool, England.
- Since dragons were once real in the Quantic Universe, the painting could imply that this happened before or after Plagg used his powers to make the rest of them go extinct, meaning that these creatures were around until the 15th century or after.
- With him using his powers during that time it's likely Plagg was active with an owner and in "Reunion", it's revealed that Jeanne knew Plagg's holder at that time as Dark Grimalkin.
- She is the first Ladybug Miraculous holder from a distant past that Ladybug meets personally.
- She is also the first Ladybug Miraculous holder whose memory was accessed by Ladybug with her kwagatama.
- Out of all the past ladybugs she made the second most appearances including pictures or photos being succeeded by Khepri.
- It's revealed in "Reunion" that, unlike her real world counterpart, Jeanne d'Arc managed to escape the stake and went to live her love with Dark Grimalkin after they renounced their Miraculous.
- Jeanne d'Arc was said to hear voices and have visions, signs interpreted as being from God. In the Miraculous universe, these were possibly due to when she was brought to modern Paris by Sass' Second Chance or when she went to reunite with past holders of her Miraculous, as only the holder and respective kwami can see and hear them.
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