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| “ | Don't ever do that again! I came to this house to hunt magical artifacts for you and Émilie. I became your bodyguard, your right hand woman, your friend, and even more. But this is all over. You used to do this out of love for Émilie, but now, you're only doing it out of madness, and the only reason I'm still here is to protect Adrien from you! | ” |
—Nathalie Sancoeur to Gabriel Agreste, "Passion" | ||
Nathalie Sancoeur[10] is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, serving as a recurring character in Season 1, the final antagonist of Season 2, the secondary antagonist of Seasons 3 and 4, a major anti-hero in Season 5, and a minor character in Season 6.
She is also a major antagonist in Miraculous World: New York - United Heroez, a supporting antagonist in Miraculous World: Shanghai - The Legend of Ladydragon, a minor character in Miraculous World: Paris - Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir, and the tritagonist of Miraculous World: London - At the Edge of Time.
She is a former treasure hunter of magical objects and Gabriel Agreste's assistant who manages his fashion work, his mansion, and takes care of his son, Adrien, of whom she has been the legal guardian since season 6. She is the daughter of a member of The Council, an evil organization that is after the Ladybug and the Cat Miraculouses, of which she is also a member under the name of Shadow of the Diamond, before becoming the Shadow of the Machine.
In "Catalyst", which is part of the "Heroes' Day" special, Nathalie was voluntarily akumatized by Hawk Moth into Catalyst, a power-enhancing supervillain.
In "Mayura", in order to save Hawk Moth from the French Miraculous superhero team, Nathalie used the Peacock Miraculous. When the Peacock Miraculous was inhabited by Duusu, she became Mayura, a peacock-themed supervillain with the power of Emotion who helped Hawk Moth by creating allies for akumatized villains.
In "Ladybug", Nathalie was reakumatized into Catalyst in an attempt to help Scarlet Moth, but due to being ill, she was de-akumatized shortly after.
Throughout Season 4, due to using the damaged Peacock Miraculous, Nathalie was left very weak and stuck in bed, but was eventually well enough to get back to work, with the aid of robotic leg braces that help her walk.
In "Evolution", after Gabriel failed to fix the Peacock Miraculous by giving the recipe to do it to his younger self, in that way preventing both Émilie and Nathalie from using the damaged Miraculous and getting sick, all because of his fixation to get Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous, Nathalie, feeling betrayed by him, decided to break ties with him and stop helping him, leaving Gabriel frustrated that she had abandoned him for his failure.
In "Passion", with Adrien in risk of becoming alone due to both hers and Gabriel's terminal situation and to honor Émilie's wishes, Nathalie let herself to be akumatized by Monarch into Safari, a hunter-themed supervillain with the power to never miss her target and received the power of the Goat Miraculous superpower through her Alliance ring. She also wanted to take the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous herself in order to prevent Gabriel from using them to mold the universe into his own madness.
In "Representation", Nathalie's illness from the Peacock Miraculous got worse, as there were visible eye bags under her eyes and the red highlights in her hair turned white. Gabriel also took the other half of the double wedding ring from her, as he said that she was unworthy of upholding the legacy of the Agrestes.
In "Conformation", Nathalie attempted to do a video message for Adrien, but failed to do so. She also tried to stop Gabriel, but passed out, after Gabriel transformed into Monarch and attacked her with his cane. He took Nathalie to her room, where Ladybug was hiding. Once Gabriel left the room, Ladybug questioned Nathalie about where Adrien was. Nathalie informed her that he was safe and implored her to stop Monarch at all costs before she succumbed to her illness.
In "Re-creation", after Gabriel sacrificed himself and made the wish to heal Nathalie and to redeem himself, she recovered from her illness.
In "Miraculous London", after awakening from her coma, Nathalie confronted Bug Noire, in this way discovering her secret identity as Marinette, and learned about Gabriel's sacrifice, and helped the heroine release the imprisoned Kwamis while revealing Gabriel's plan. At Bug Noire's request, she decided not to tell Adrien about his father being Monarch or her role as Mayura to take care of Adrien.
In "Werepapas", Nathalie has taken on the role of Adrien Agreste's legal guardian following the death of his father. This marks a significant shift in Adrien's life, as he is no longer under his father's strict control. Nathalie, who had always been loyal to Gabriel and cared deeply for Adrien, now steps up to ensure his well-being. Given her past as Mayura and her deteriorating health due to overuse of the Peacock Miraculous, it remains to be seen how she will handle this new responsibility and what it means for Adrien's future.
Appearance
Physical Appearance
Nathalie stands at an average adult height. She looks about in her early 30's, has pale skin with wrinkles under the eyes, bluebell eyes and straight black hair with dark blue reflections and a streak on the left side of her head that was dyed a red color. Her hair is pulled back into a bun with the bangs parted at right on top and a piece of it hanging over her face in the middle.
However, from "Representation" to "Conformation", due to her illness, her dyed streak became white and she got dark eye bags.
From Season 6 onwards, Nathalie's hair now has an ombre from black to red, is down, and now reaches the nape of her neck. She is seen with red lipstick. The bottom of her hair is rounded inwards and she has dark mauve reflections in place of her dark blue reflections and cerise nail polish. In the post-credits of "El Toro De Piedra", she has her hair pulled back into her initial bun-style when she had a private discussion with the council of The Secret Organization.
Civilian Attire
In the first five seasons, Nathalie had glasses with black and red striped frames and she wore very pale blue eyeshadow. She wore a red turtleneck sweater, a black dress jacket, a charcoal gray collar, black pants, and black medium-heel shoes. She also had round creamy-white earrings. From "Risk" and onwards, she wore Émilie's wedding ring, which was entrusted to her by Gabriel, until he took it from her in "Representation".
From Season 6 onwards, she wears a dark red dress shirt, has her dress jacket unbuttoned with two lighter buttons at the left and pockets, the same pants from before, and short dark red boots. Her suit also gets a pinstripe pattern on it. She also wears sharper, angular glasses with the frames now slightly dull burgundy, which also circle the lens at the top and sides. She also no longer wears her earrings.
As Mayura
Nathalie as Mayura.
Mayura's skin was light indigo, and she had short, strong blue hair, part of which curled up underneath her left eye. Her eyes had light magenta irises and vivid violet sclerae, and there was black eyeliner around her eyes, resembling glasses.
She wore a peacock-feather-like cocktail hat, which was blue and teardrop-shaped with a light pink mark in the center and a light blue, translucent veil over her right eye below. She wore a blue dress with a fuzzy black collar and sleeves that end in a point on the back of her hand. The dress appeared to have a set hexagonal texture, as well as the Peacock Miraculous in the center, which turned blue and black at the tip with the feathers pale cerulean and blue with cerise marks. The bottom of the dress had a front-slit skirt, and the end of the skirt had rounded points with dark blue, light-pink-centered spots, resembling a peacock's tail feathers. The rounded points were edged with translucent light blue material. Underneath the dress, she had translucent indigo tights that were opaque from the knees down, and black high-heeled boots with laces. She also held a blue hand fan as her tool which resembled the patterns on her skirt.
As Catalyst
Nathalie as Catalyst.
Catalyst had pale, light grayish blue skin. Over her head, while leaving her mouth exposed, she wore a dark grayish cornflower blue helmet with a red thin visor that is jagged at the ends, with dark grayish cornflower blue edges and a red gradient spike pointing towards the back of her head. Catalyst also wore a dark grayish cornflower blue dress suit with pointed shoulders acting as a collar, including a dark red front and swan neck collar that featured a red downward-arrow-shaped section in the center. The sleeves covered her entire arms, with the tips of her fingers red. Also, Catalyst had pocket-like ridges on each side of her hips, and her pant legs came down to her feet, having red high-heels, soles, and tiny triangular tips.
As Safari
Nathalie as Safari.
As Safari, she looked a lot like her civilian form. However, she had pale light grayish purple skin, vivid red eyes with dark purple sclera, dark purple lips, a pair of pince nez glasses with silver frames and red lenses, and her now black hair was slicked back with her red streak being more evident and vibrant at the left, followed by a slightly thick red strand bending downwards in front of her face, slanting at left. She wore a dark purple turtleneck short-sleeved sweater, a crimson camouflage hunting short-sleeved jacket and shorts rolled up to the thigh with a white belt accented by dark mauve rectangular straps, the left one having a silver dot to accent the similar charcoal gray square button with another dot on top near the shorts ends, dark purple fingerless lower arm-length gloves, and dark mauve knee high boots with laces at the front and slightly higher tan socks below. Her right glove had a black circular pod-like device around the wrist. She was also armed with a light lavender crossbow with light red accents.
- For more of Nathalie's outfits and designs, see Nathalie Sancoeur/Designs.
Personality
Nathalie reluctantly allows Adrien to enter the school.
Nathalie is a serious and formal woman who works very diligently as Gabriel Agreste's assistant. She has a cold and distant demeanor as she doesn't openly show her emotions around others most of the time. Her will is strong, remaining unfazed even when people of greater authority like Audrey Bourgeois yell at her, knowing the aforementioned couldn't affect her and smiled with satisfaction after the event. Objective, sensible, and understanding, Nathalie can reason with both Gabriel and Adrien whenever they are acting inconsiderately or emotionally, sometimes in relation to each other. While not warm, she can be cordial and polite.
However, in situations where she is dealing with Gabriel, Nathalie becomes nervous, being afraid to disappoint him. Her desire to be on his good side leads her to unfair actions, such as giving Adrien a birthday gift and claiming it is from Gabriel when it is actually from Marinette. Despite this, she doesn't always obey Gabriel's orders or has acted rebelliously, as seen in "Oni-Chan" when she let Lila enter with the intention to help Adrien, not knowing she was being manipulated in that moment. This was seen again in "Ladybug" but to a more dangerous step, as she used the then damaged Peacock Miraculous despite her more delicate condition.
Nathalie goes along with Gabriel's plan.
Although she doesn't usually openly show it, Nathalie desires what is best for the Agreste family and often hopes that Gabriel would pass more time with Adrien instead of acting as a villain.[11] However, her concern is limited to the Agreste family only and she doesn't seem to care about the other Parisians' well-being. In fact, Nathalie obeys Gabriel's orders and helps him with his plans with fierce dedication and loyalty, no matter how morally wrong they are, so he could accomplish his goal and thus finish his time as Hawk Moth[12]. She takes sadistic joy in fooling the heroes into thinking they can win.
Even though she has a cool and calm demeanor, Nathalie can lose her temper on occasion and would disregard any detrimental consequences as a result. She can get frustrated by the fact that her boss is failing and even goes as far as letting herself be harmed in order to success, which actually make many plans successful. Despite this, Nathalie admits that the job is sometimes too much[13]. As shown in "Ladybug", Nathalie apparently sees the sentimonsters she creates as Mayura only as tools to do her bidding and has no qualms with revoking their amoks if they defy her as she did with the Ladybug sentimonster, effectively murdering a living, sentient being and showing no remorse for having done so.
However like Gabriel, she didn't think things the whole way through like in "Evolution", as they both didn't fully understand the consequences of time travel. Even if Gabriel managed to give himself the recipe to fix the Peacock Miraculous before it was used by Émilie, it would create a time paradox that could put in danger all the time-continuum.
Despite initially being extremely loyal to Gabriel (as she helped him in many dangerous and risky plans to get the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses and even put her life on the line while using the damaged Peacock Miraculous), Nathalie is not above to perceive the madness forming in Gabriel's mind. That is showed at the moment he came up with the plan to force Ladybug to take risks so she would make a mistake. However, it is when she realizes that Gabriel's obsession in defeating Ladybug and Cat Noir is far bigger than his wish to heal Émilie and herself that she finally understands his madness and puts a strain on their friendship, refusing to help him any longer. However, despite stopping supporting Gabriel as Monarch, she would still work for him as his secretary and live at the mansion in order to keep Adrien safe.
After learning about Gabriel's Cataclysmed arm that was fated to spread and kill him, what would cause Adrien to become alone (as Nathalie was fated to die as well because of the magic illness she got from using the damaged Peacock Miraculous), Nathalie comes to a decision to continue to help Gabriel in his plans, even letting him akumatize her. However, instead of helping him to give him the Miraculous, she would use him to get the Miraculous to herself so she would be the one to make the wish to bring Émilie back in order to prevent Gabriel from using them to mold the universe into his madness. Failing to do just that, Nathalie decided to spend the rest of the time she had left to enjoy Adrien's company and ensure his future and happiness.
As Nathalie started to dedicate herself fully to Adrien, the very remaining loyalty she still had for Gabriel started to disappear as she saw her boss abusing the control he had on Adrien. This is seen when Gabriel, after realizing Adrien was dating Marinette instead of Kagami, forced his son to stop seeing Marinette. This led Nathalie, after seeing how miserable Adrien was because of the conflict he was feeling about obeying his father and his love for Marinette, to incentivize him to not let anyone tell him who he should love, something that angered Gabriel. Since that moment, Nathalie started to do her best to protect Adrien's happiness from Gabriel's control, something that is slowly turning Gabriel against her as well.
After Gabriel launched his final plan, Nathalie, despite her illness decided to stop him from taking someone else's life away to revive Émilie, knowing she wouldn't have agreed to that. In "Miraculous London", it's showed that, despite Gabriel healed her with the wish, Nathalie was still willing to confront him and stop him, becoming surprised to learn that he had sacrificed his own life for her and yet relieved that, in the end, Gabriel, thanks to Marinette/Bug Noire, was able to rekindle with his humanity and do the right thing. However, while assuring Marinette/Bug Noire that she was now on her side, she did regret not stopping Gabriel years ago. When Bug Noire tearily confessed to feeling guilty and heartbroken about the Agreste family to the point where she admitted that she wanted to sacrifice herself, Nathalie comforted her and began making her amends by telling her where the kwamis where, destroy evidence linking Gabriel to Monarch and inform her about Tomoe Tsurugi's role as his ally, and where Adrien and Kagami were being kept in London. Nathalie was willing to tell the truth, even if that meant turning herself into the authorities for what she did when she was Hawk Moth's accomplice, showing she's willing to accept the consequences of her actions, but Bug Noire advised her not to, stating Adrien still needed her to be a mother figure to him, which surprised her because she is not his parent but presumably thought of Émilie's words of being there for Adrien and to take care of him as a mother.
Abilities
As a civilian
Nathalie is an effective assistant, able to take care of Gabriel's fashion work, look out for superheroes and potential akuma victims, and organize Adrien's strict schedule. Additionally, Nathalie has capable teaching abilities, as shown during Adrien's homeschool period.
Nathalie evades Princess Fragrance's attack.
Like her boss, Nathalie is insightful and cunning. She had the idea to use Lila's lying ability to cause stress to Chloé, who indirectly caused a very powerful akumatized villain and caused eventual doubt in the former superheroine. In the episode "Félix", she displayed notable unarmed combat skills.
Her plan of impersonating Ladybug with the Sentimonster Ladybug to get the Cat Miraculous had a considerable chance to succeed, but ultimately failed.
Throughout most of her appearances, Nathalie has proved to be talented with the element of stealth. She is good at hiding herself and take advantage of distractions to sneak without anyone noticing. This ability allowed her to evade professional guards and steal Fu's tablet with the deciphered spellbook pages.
Due to her experience as a treasure hunter, she knows how to use a crossbow, as she tried to use it against Gabriel to stop him, only failing due to her illness.
As Mayura
Mayura had enhanced physical characteristics: speed, strength, and agility. She showed considerable hand-to-hand combat skills against more experienced combatants.
However, her illness started to weaken her physical prowess even in her enhanced state.
Mayura was able to infuse a feather plucked from her hand fan with her power, transforming it into an amok, and sending it out to possess an object owned by a chosen target, with whom she could communicate telepathically. While she was communicating, a blue curved peacock mask appeared in front of her and her target's faces.[14] Her actions then gave an emotion from her target a physical form of that person's choosing, which acted as the target's ally until recalled via a snap of her fingers, which destroyed it.
Even if she didn't create them, Mayura could either bring back to life dormant sentimonsters or destroy them through their amoks. This ability was first seen in "Feast".
As Catalyst
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Catalyst had the power to multiply/enhance/augment/increase someone's powers; infusing scarlet energy into an object belonging to her target, similar to an akumatized object. When affected, the person gained a red-colored outfit. In Hawk Moth's case, this power allowed him to akumatize multiple butterflies and transform multiple people at once. Catalyst could also communicate with the person she enhanced, during which a red sharp-edged butterfly mask appeared in front of both of their faces, similar to Hawk Moth.
As Safari
Safari's main power was to be able to always hit her target. From Monarch, she received the power of Genesis, which allowed her to create her own set of weapons: a crossbow with five projectiles, each with the ability to hold a Miraculous power, and were charged by Monarch with other Miraculous superpowers: Mirage, Venom, Gift, Elemental Dragons and Clout; a tracker that she used on her right wrist to guide her projectiles and also a whip that she could use to throw objects at her target, with those objects following them due to her innate power.
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Sightings
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Etymology
- The name Nathalie comes from a Latin root meaning "birth" or "born". Its use as a name is typically taken from the Latin phrase natale domini, meaning "birth of the Lord", referring to Christmas Day.
- Nathalie's surname Sancoeur ("sans cœur") means "heartless" or "without a heart" in French.
- In the Irish dub, her name is changed to Nainsí; Irish for Nancy, which means "grace", "favored", or "pure".
- The name Mayura means "peacock" in Sanskrit, one of the sacred birds in Hindu mythology. It is also a contemporary Hindu name used in many parts of India.[15]
- While the villain is female, Mayura is specifically the term for males while Mayuri is the term for females.
- In the Bulgarian dub for "Mayura", her name is changed to Mayra. However, throughout season 3, she is referred to as Moyra.
Trivia
Revealed by the Staff
- Mayura was revealed at the Miraculous panel at New York Comic Con 2016 under the name "Le Paon" (French for "The Peacock").[16]
- Earlier, at a panel at San Diego Comic Con, Thomas Astruc pointed to an image of her in the sneak peek collage image, commenting that she will be a new recurring supervillain that will be Hawk Moth's ally.[17]
- Her final name was revealed at a TF1 press conference advertising the upcoming Season 3.[18]
- Mayura's civilian identity was revealed by the end of season 2.[19]
- There were also clues about her in the opening theme song for the season.[19]
- Nathalie's akumatized form, Catalyst, was first revealed in a promotional video for Season 2 from TFOU.[20]
- She is also the first akumatized villain who didn't directly fight Ladybug and Cat Noir until "Passion".
- In a video interview held on August 25, 2018, Jeremy Zag mentioned that the new main villain will make Hawk Moth appear like "a baby" in comparison. It is unknown if this villain is Mayura.[21]
- She was said to appear as Hawk Moth's "boss" in season 3.[16][22][19]
Miraculous Holder and Akumatized Villains
- Nathalie is the first character to explicitly be willingly akumatized (aside from Gabriel Agreste akumatizing himself in "The Collector"), although Lila Rossi's smirk after her de-evilization implies she may have also been willing to serve his scheme.
- Nathalie used to suffer from prolonged health issues as a result of using the Peacock Miraculous.
- She's the second Miraculous holder to use their power for evil after Gabriel Agreste.
- She is the first villain in the series to both directly and permanently kill another character by voluntarily taking back the Ladybug Sentimonster's Amok after she betrayed her to side with the real Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- She's the first Miraculous holder whose skin tone changes color when she transforms.
- Following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, and Chloé Bourgeois, Nathalie is the fourth person to become a Miraculous holder and akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel, who akumatized himself.
- Catalyst also shares a resemblance with the Collector's design as they both have purplish skin, red glass over their eyes and black dress suits with stiff shoulders.
- Catalyst is so far the only akumatized villain not to be defeated by the French Miraculous superhero team and the only one they are not aware of.
- Catalyst is also the first akumatized villain to enter Hawk Moth's lair, aside from The Collector.
- Despite knowing the Peacock Miraculous was damaged, she still used it to the point that her health condition was dangerously close to Émilie Agreste's condition from the Miraculous. If she hadn't stole Wang Fu's tablet to fix the Peacock Miraculous in "Miracle Queen", she might have ended up like Émilie. However in "Conformation" she fell in an endless sleep due to her illness, but is revived in "Re-creation" due to Gabriel's wish.
- Catalyst's telepathic mask when estabilished has the same sound effect of Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch's, but seven steps higer pitched.
Miscellaneous
- Nathalie appears to be left-handed as she does most things with her left hand like holding a stylus in her left hand during "Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)".
- Without her, Gabriel never would have found both the Peacock and Butterfly Miraculouses. As such, she can be considered largely responsible for the events of the show happening in the first place, aside from Master Fu when he created the Dormant Sentimonster.
- Nathalie was the only person in the present who knew that Gabriel Agreste was Hawk Moth, the only person other than Félix Fathom to know he was Shadow Moth, and was among the few people to know his identity as Monarch along with Félix Fathom, Tomoe Tsurugi, Lila Rossi/Cerise, and eventually Kagami Tsurugi, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Alix Kubdel.
- Nathalie bare some similarities to Nastasia from Super Paper Mario, both in appearance and personality.
- She is the seventh person confirmed to discover Marinette's identity as Ladybug in the permanent timeline, following Alya Césaire, Su-Han, Luka Couffaine, Kagami Tsurugi, Félix Fathom and Alix Kubdel.
- However, it's possible that she is the eighth person to discover Marinette's superhero identity, if we assume that Marianne Lenoir knows about it.
- In "Conformation", Gabriel also discovered Marinette's superhero identity in the permanent timeline, bringing the number to nine, but he died after granting his wish.
- However, it's possible that she is the eighth person to discover Marinette's superhero identity, if we assume that Marianne Lenoir knows about it.
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References
- ↑ https://instagram.com/p/2okJS7nlp_/
- ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/serie/33761
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/notes/dubbers-incmalaysia/senarai-pengalih-suara-miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir-bahasa-malaysia/10158174682148307/
- ↑ By Hawk Moth in "Catalyst"
- ↑ By Queen Bee in "Miraculer"
- ↑ By Nino Lahiffe in "Party Crasher"
- ↑ By Duusu
- ↑ By Ladybug in "Heart Hunter"
- ↑ By Gabriel Agreste in "Passion"
- ↑ https://x.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/655411981617381376
- ↑ As seen in "Queens' Battle"
- ↑ As implied in "Queens' Battle", "Catalyst", and "Timetagger"
- ↑ As mentioned in "Stormy Weather 2"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MiraculousINTL/status/1011622625066586113
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B0#Sanskrit
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 https://twitter.com/stelllalights/status/784490783810416640
- ↑ https://youtu.be/vtO8bbvmU0g?t=1561
- ↑ https://twitter.com/MiraculousINTL/status/1011622625066586113
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yNxaqRQrMqxj (exact moment here)
- ↑ https://pandasuite.com/viewer/2.0.2/59a6c26e48abe6f53a002dc9?t=1 (direct video source here)
- ↑ https://youtu.be/n1avxPB4txE
- ↑ https://youtu.be/IsTygn5xxZs?t=396