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“ | Music is often simpler than words. | ” |
—Luka, "Captain Hardrock" |
Luka Couffaine is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Kagami Tsurugi) of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is the older twin brother of Juleka Couffaine and the guitarist of Kitty Section who attracts the attention of Marinette Dupain-Cheng.[9][10][11][12]
In "Silencer", when Bob Roth threatened Marinette after she accused him of stealing Kitty Section's design for XY's new song, Luka was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Silencer, a voice-stealing supervillain.
In "Desperada", after Adrien Agreste gave up being Aspik for not being able to help Ladybug against the titular akumatized supervillain for the 25,913th time, she decided to give Luka the Snake Miraculous. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Sass, he becomes Viperion, a snake-themed superhero with the power of Intuition who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir during "particularly difficult missions" in the third season and beyond.
In "Truth", when Marinette couldn't tell him why she disappeared all the time, Luka was akumatized and amokized by Shadow Moth into Truth, a three-eyed supervillain that forced people to tell the truth. His sentimonster was Lighteye, a giant floating eye that could shine a spotlight that prevented people from being able to move.
In "Wishmaker", during the fight against the titular villain, Luka, as Viperion, discovered the true identities of both Ladybug and Cat Noir, who were exposed after being affected by the titular akumatized supervillain's powers. Because of his power to go back in time, this didn't happen in the main timeline, leaving everyone, including the two main heroes unaware that Luka knows who they are, but Luka didn't tell them of his knowledge as to not give them something else to worry about.
After the events of "Strikeback", Luka was temporarily unable to become Viperion after Monarch managed to steal the Snake Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.
In "Migration", after Bob Roth tricked Kitty Section to sign a contract only for him to fire everyone except for Luka so he can get rich with his talent and take ownership of the band's name, songs, and everything they've created and will create, Luka was almost reakumatized by Monarch into Silencer. However, Luka was able to reject the megakuma, but not before Monarch sensed his vehement resistance and correctly deduced the reason why: he knows Ladybug and Cat Noir's true identities. After Bob Roth was deakumatized, Luka told everyone that he needed to temporarily leave Paris for knowing Ladybug and Cat Noir's true identities, going away with Jagged, Penny, and Fang until Monarch is defeated.
In "Re-creation", after having joined up with Su-Han and the Order of the Guardians, Luka returned to Paris to help out in the fight against Monarch. After Marinette recovered the stolen Miraculous and reforged them following Monarch's defeat, Luka was given back the Snake Miraculous permanently and reunited with Sass.
Appearance
Physical appearance
Luka is a tall and slender teenage boy. He has a Roman nose, pale pink lips, luminous cyan colored eyes, and medium-length black hair that has dyed cyan tips.
Civilian attire
His attire includes a white t-shirt with a black Jagged Stone imprint and black jeans ripped at the knee. On his right wrist, he also wears a brown leather bracelet, yellow and orange wristbands, and his fingernails are painted black. He has a grayish cerulean denim jacket with a strong blue elbow-length sleeved hooded cardigan underneath, as well as black high-top converse sneakers with different colored patterns. He wears a black ring with silver outlining on his left index finger and black earrings in his ears.
As Viperion
He wears a mostly deep green, dark cyan, yellow, brilliant opal, and dark turquoise snake-themed superhero bodysuit, and appears slender and muscular. His suit has a snake-like texture and patterns, complete with fangs on his brilliant opal and turquoise-ish gray mask. His eyes change from cyan to brilliant spring green, and the dyed ends of his hair change to a moderate sea green. Along with this, he seems to wear light pink lipstick. He wears the snake bracelet miraculous on his wrist and carries a lyre as his weapon.
As Silencer
He had brilliant cobalt blue skin and vivid emerald green eyes and he wore a brilliant purple, vivid yellow, brilliant gold, moderate heliotrope, and black bodysuit with a jagged mouth on his helmet.
As Truth
He wore a sapphire bluish-black full-bodysuit with a hidden wedge on his feet which covered all of his body with dark grayish cornflower blue accents on the chest, shoulders, and around the eye symbol on both of his knees. He had three pupil-less eyes and they were cornflower bluish-white, and his third eye was on his forehead (similar to Mylène's form of Horrificator) and carried an eye necklace on his chest, the akumatized version of the guitar pick Marinette gave him that he made into a necklace.
- For more of Luka's outfits and designs, see Luka Couffaine/Designs.
Personality
Unlike his twin sister, Juleka, Luka is described as a calm and reserved boy who also has a mixed personality of being playful, charming, mature, and flirtatious. He is empathetic at reading people's emotions and usually expresses them through music.
Luka is also very kind and generous, especially towards his friends and family, but also to people he just met, like when he cheers Marinette up shortly after meeting her. Like Adrien, he is also supportive and encouraging towards others like Juleka. Adrien himself describes him as brave, caring, and determined.
Luka seems to be an easygoing and relaxed boy. However, sometimes he can lose his calm if he 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. He still maintained a level of cool and only lost it when Bob threatened Marinette. According to her, in "Luka as seen by Marinette", he is very intuitive.
He is also very understanding and patient when he ended his relationship with Marinette despite being sad, he decides to wait until her secret was gone. Upon discovering it, in "Wishmaker", aware of the rules and Ladybug's need for secrecy, Luka understood that the city needed Ladybug and Cat Noir.
That very patience is seen again in "Migration", as Luka had no problem acting as the mediator for his family and friends making time for each one and like Adrien he's willing to give those who have done wrong or bad a second chance but to the point of naivety as he was tricked by Bob into signing his contract without reading it first.
Luka's morals and a desire to protect others is strong as he refused to work for Bob to fill his endless greed nor leave his friends behind to where he resisted his own akumatization to protect Ladybug and Cat Noir.
As Viperion, most of Luka's personality remains the same as his caring and helpfulness. Given his calm disposition, Viperion is focused, observant, and not afraid to give suggestions or ideas to others.
As Silencer, his main goal was to make Bob Roth tell the truth regarding the fact he stole the Kitty Section's song as he took the voices of anyone that could serve his purposes or get in his way. However, he still retained 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 Truth, his views on trust and honesty were warped. He was shown to be desperate to know Marinette's secret, interrogating anyone that could possibly know it, like her best friends and her parents while proclaiming he always told the truth. He was shown to get frustrated quite easily when they kept telling him a secret he already knows. However, he could prioritize other secrets when they had a much bigger meaning to him, like when he made his mother confess to him who his father was. He was violent and aggressive as he was upset about Jagged being his father and abandoning him to where he threw Jagged away off a roof, and wouldn't hesitate to attack anyone who got in his way of knowing someone's secret.
Abilities
As a civilian
Luka is excellent at playing his guitar and similar musical instruments and seems to have a specialty for fingerstyle guitar. He is particularly good at creating melodies through people's emotions. He claims to have been playing the guitar since he was a baby. It was also confirmed on Twitter that he can play the violin.
In "Frozer", Luka was shown to be very good at ice skating, as well as fairly strong, lifting Marinette with ease. Luka can also ride a bike, as shown when he was delivering pizzas in "Heart Hunter", and the numerous times he has given Marinette a ride. In ¨Wishmaker¨, Luka is a good swimmer, as he was able to save his Dad from drowning.
Sometime after “Migration” but before “Re-Creation", Luka met Su-Han, the Order of the Guardians, and learned Mirakung Fu after spending time with him.
As Viperion
Viperion, like the rest of the superheroes, has enhanced capabilities 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 superpower is Second Chance. With this, he marks a moment in time by sliding back the snake head on his Miraculous, and the snake head slowly returns to its place over the course of five minutes. Then, when needed, he slides the snake's head back again, reversing time to the point he marked. This gives him the opportunity to change the outcome of a recent event. He is able to go back to the marked moment as many times as he wants before the snake's head returns to its original position. He proves to be more competent than Adrien at using this ability.
As Silencer
Silencer could steal people's voices by touching their lips with his two fingers and making a shushing motion; the voice would then escape from the person as a jellyfish-like entity. Once their voices were out, he could store them inside his helmet, and then he could talk with them using his hands. He could also use more than one voice at a time. If his power was used on a Miraculous holder, he could render them virtually powerless unless he said the invocations in their place. However, the victims could reclaim their voice if they got the jellyfish-like entity before he did or If his helmet was destroyed, all the voices were freed from within it.
As Truth
Truth was able to shoot beams from his third eye on his forehead, which forced people to tell them the truth. Those hit by the beam had bigger sclera, smaller pupils, and white lipstick, similar to the black lipstick worn by the victims of Dark Cupid. Once hit, the victim would have to answer truthfully to any question Truth asks. He had total control over his sentimonster who let him immobilize anyone he enlightened, allowing Truth to listen to his victim without them trying to leave or escape.
Family
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Jagged Stone's mother | |||||||||||||
Jagged Stone | Anarka Couffaine | ||||||||||||
Luka Couffaine | Juleka Couffaine | ||||||||||||
= Male
= Female
= Gender Unknown
Relationships
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History
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Sightings
Episodes
Other
Trivia
- Luka was first revealed in a French synopsis for Season 2 on Le Figaro.[9]
- He was later revealed to be Juleka Couffaine's older brother in a Brazilian synopsis for Season 2 on O Universo da TV.[11]
- Lindalee Rose hinted at the possibility that Luka and Juleka's father is Jagged Stone, which is revealed and confirmed in "Truth".
- His full name means "light of/from the coffin".
- The name Luka is an Eastern European variant of a name that derives either (or both) from the name of a region in Italy[13] or from Latin lūx, lūcis, meaning "light".
- 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".
- When the official Miraculous Ladybug website got updated in September 2020, the official character description has his surname incorrectly spelled as Couphène.[14]
- All the Couffaine's names so far end with "-ka".
- The name Luka is an Eastern European variant of a name that derives either (or both) from the name of a region in Italy[13] or from Latin lūx, lūcis, meaning "light".
- Thomas Astruc had originally stated that Luka is approximately two years older than Juleka.[15] He later stated that he and the show's other writers changed their minds, and he's now Juleka's older twin brother.[16] However, he is still older than the rest of the main cast as Thomas Astruc revealed that Juleka failed a year of school and thus had to repeat it. At the very least, he and his twin sister are around 15/16.[17]
- The French tweet (link in the ref) goes and translates as follows: "Je pensais que Luka était plus âgé, mais du coup est ce que Juleka a redoublé?" "I thought Luka was older, does that mean Juleka failed a grade?" (Or more literally, they ask if Juleka repeated.) Astruc replies: "Oui. C'est une redoublante." "Yes. She failed a grade." (Again, more literally, she repeated.) Thus, Luka remains an older age, and Juleka was aged up to match him since it was changed to them being twins.
- According to Feri González, Luka is a handsome boy, and people "are going to fall in love with him."[18]
- She also noted that both Luka and Kagami Tsurugi are "charming, rounded characters" who are not limited to roles as alternate love interests.[19]
- Internationally, Luka debuted in "Captain Hardrock". However, the episode was released out of order and Luka's actual debut in production order was a background appearance in "Frightningale".
- Viperion was first revealed in concept art shown at the 2018 Comic-Con Experience panel on December 6, 2018.[20]
- Following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, and Nathalie Sancoeur, he is the fifth person to become a Miraculous holder and akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself.
- 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.
- He also shows to be a better user for the Miraculous and its power, as Adrien wasn't able to beat Desperada after 25,913 times, while Luka was able to defeat her after 4 times. Although an exact number wasn't directly confirmed, it was definitely in a faster time span in comparison to Adrien's attempts. However, this might also be because Cat Noir was helping Luka while Cat Noir couldn't help Adrien (because they're the same person).
- Also Adrien was distracted and love-struck while Luka was more cool, calm, observant and focused which is the exact description Master Fu used to describe the Snake Miraculous.
- 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)".
- Both Hawk Moth (in "Party Crasher") and Ladybug (in "Miracle Queen") have said that Viperion is the most difficult superhero to be against because of his superpower.
- As shown in "Heart Hunter", Luka works as a pizza delivery guy.
- Luka is the third person to try to resist Akumatization, following Caline Bustier and Chloé Bourgeois, but is unable to prevent it from happening, much like how it happened with Miss Bustier in "Zombizou".
- Truth is the only villain who still identifies as his civilian identity despite being akumatized, calling himself "Luka Couffaine" in front of Jagged Stone.
- Although he could have introduced himself as such to be specific and receive a clear answer from Jagged.
- Additionally, this may or may not tie in with his line to Shadow Moth, "I always tell the truth".
- As of "Crocoduel", he's the only member of the Couffaine family who doesn't own a Magical Charm.
- As of "Wishmaker", he is the fifth member of the French Miraculous superhero team (and 2nd chronologically) to know Ladybug's civilian identity.
- The others are Alya Césaire, Kagami Tsurugi, Félix Fathom and Alix Kubdel (the latter will find out in the future).
- He is the 1st of the French Miraculous superhero team to know Cat Noir's civilian identity.
- He is also the only member of the French Miraculous superhero team to know both Ladybug and Cat Noir's civilian identities.
- He is the second human to know both Ladybug and Cat Noir's civilian identities, the first being Master Fu, although Fu has forgotten due to his amnesia, making Luka the only person to know both identities.
- Unlike other people, both Ladybug and Cat Noir were unaware that Luka had discovered their civilian identities until the events of "Migration". They only knew one of those people they knew and that was the previous guardian, Master Fu.
- It is revealed in "Wishmaker" that Luka goes to a different school unlike the other main characters who go to Collège Françoise Dupont.
- He is the eldest of all Marinette's and Adrien's friends as civilians and of the French Miraculous superhero team.
- He has the longest transformation sequence out of all the Miraculous holders.
- He wears the same T-Shirt as Vincent Aza.
- Following Master Fu and Marinette, Luka is the third person to become a Guardian and Miraculous holder.
- So far, Luka, Zoé and Marc are the only members of the French Miraculous superhero team that have not met nor interacted with Lila/Cerise.
- Currently, five characters know Luka is Viperion: Adrien, Marinette, Nathalie, and Chloé.
- Adrien was the one who suggested Ladybug give the Snake Miraculous to Luka in "Desperada", and following Adrien's suggestion, Ladybug gave the Snake Miraculous to Luka.
- Nathalie and Chloé found out in "Miracle Queen".
- Eleven if counting: Master Fu (Post Amnesia), Alya, Nino, Kim, and Kagami when they were brainwashed.
- Gabriel also found out in "Miracle Queen", but due to him sacrificing himself, he no longer is alive and only five people know.
- In "Miraculous: Paris Under Siege", after André Bourgeois cancelled the Aset exhibition due to the centerpiece being broken, due to the anger at his hard work going to waste he was reakumatized into Truth alongside Lady Wifi, Sole Crusher, and The Bubbler, working with Stormy Weather to take over Paris using Aset's power.
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References
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg8lzaYnQE-/
- ↑ By Bob Roth in "Migration"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1378630221818163200 (See Trivia for more info, translation provided by miraculousbugaboii on Tumblr)
- ↑ Crocoduel - the twins have their birthday
- ↑ Wishmaker
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1379133181195079680
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Winny_BayDay/status/1352929318217912321
- ↑ As shown in "Wishmaker".
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/miraculous-les-secrets-de-la-saison-2-de-ladybug-et-chat-noir_d32cc720-a2c3-11e7-b619-f944cd28c6f6/
- ↑ http://adala-news.fr/2017/09/le-plein-dinformations-sur-lanime-miraculous-ladybug-saison-2/ (translated by Tumblr fan official-ladybug)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://www.ouniversodatv.com/2017/10/gloob-estreia-novos-episodios-de.html#axzz4ukj8DxGx
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1379133181195079680
- ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/luke
- ↑ https://www.miraculousladybug.com/#characters
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/981480463243055105
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1379151547112816640
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1378630221818163200 (Translation provided by miraculousbugaboii on Tumblr)
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MiraculousMX/status/916773746941267968
- ↑ https://twitter.com/dAFerisae/status/917205120462471168
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MiraculousINTL/status/1070793485802827776