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| “ | But Master, the Miraculouses are not meant to be used for evil purposes! | ” |
—Nooroo to Gabriel Agreste, "Ladybug & Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)" | ||
Nooroo[7] is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. He is the kwami of Transmission[8] who is connected to the Butterfly Miraculous.[3] With his power, Nooroo's wearer can use the brooch to transform into a butterfly-themed superhero.
Nooroo and his Miraculous are currently inactive, but owned by Cerise Bianca.
In an alternate universe, Nooroo and his Miraculous are active, being owned by Gabriel Agreste, who uses it to transform into the superhero Betterfly.
Appearance[]
Nooroo is a light purple, butterfly-like creature who is 10 centimeters tall.[5] He has butterfly wings that have a long tail with a tip at the end of each lower wing and dark purple eyes. There is a slightly dark purple spiral mark on his forehead and one on each lower part of the back of his wings.
- For more of Nooroo's designs, see Nooroo/Designs.
Personality[]
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Nooroo tries to tell Gabriel that the Miraculous aren't meant for evil.
Nooroo is a knowledgeable, helpful, and empathetic kwami. He shows a bit of his curious side in "Gorizilla" when Gabriel thought Adrien might be Cat Noir. Like Wayzz, Nooroo has a formal side, calling his holder Master instead of his real name. Despite his intellect, Nooroo apparently can be too trusting for his own good as he apparently provided Gabriel with most of the information he desired without realizing his wicked intentions until it was too late.
Though he reluctantly succumbs to Gabriel's demands to help him get the Ladybug Miraculous and Cat Miraculous, Nooroo was distressed that he is helping someone use the Butterfly Miraculous for evil reasons. When Gabriel later learned that there are more kwamis and tells him that he wants to find them all, Nooroo was scared and concerned for his friends. But despite being afraid and worried deep down he felt great joy when his fellow kwamis were saved in "Battle of the Miraculous". Meaning that he never gave up hope that he'd be saved someday showing that Nooroo is hopeful.
In "Stormy Weather 2", Nooroo demonstrates a remorseful side, being aware of the damage that's been happening with his powers. He has also stated to Gabriel several times that his powers are not meant to be used in the way Gabriel is using them, showing a responsible side.
In addition to this, Nooroo was sometimes scared of Gabriel and was quite meek with him, such as in “Syren”, when Gabriel interrogated him on how to obtain more powers. In “Sandboy”, when he attempted to sneak away but was caught by Gabriel, he appeared frightened and meekly tried to explain his motives.
Just like Tikki who took on some of Marinette's personality traits in "Hack-San", it seems that Nooroo is taking on Gabriel's habit of using drastic measures to fix problems. Remembering the encounter with Robostus, Nooroo hoped with him akumatized again they'd be free meaning like Gabriel he isn't thinking things through.
Abilities[]
General Skills[]
As Nooroo's holders has a telepathic link to an akuma or kamiko, it's likely he has it too as well as have a good memory.
As a Kwami[]
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Nooroo transforms Gabriel into Hawk Moth.
Nooroo is able to fly, levitate, phase through solid objects, and carry things that are larger and/or heavier than him.
As a kwami, Nooroo possesses and grants the wielder the power of Kamikotization, transforming his wielder into a butterfly-themed superhero by entering the Butterfly Miraculous.
Like his fellow kwami, Nooroo can automatically speak any and all languages in the world, as he does not know who his next holder will be; not being able to speak the same language would cause problems for both parties, due to language barriers.
Similar his owners just as they can create akumas or Kamikos as well as give and take away powers from their champions that means it's likely that Nooroo is able to do it too but it's unknown what his version of akumatization or kamikotization, the reverse process even looks like, or if he can create Megakumas.
Relationships[]
Gabriel Agreste[]
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Nooroo conceding to Gabriel's orders, unwillingly.
Nooroo was treated like a slave by Gabriel and is completely under his will. He was not satisfied with his treatment nor with being forced to help a villain, but he submitted to Gabriel's orders because he had no other choice and told him everything he wanted to know. Although Nooroo tried to tell him that Miraculouses are not meant to be used for evil, Gabriel refused to listen and even yelled at him.
Nooroo was not allowed to be more than a few meters from Gabriel or communicate with anyone else besides him, as seen in "Sandboy". He was also not always sure what Gabriel is thinking or feeling, and is surprised when Gabriel gives up on him in "The Collector" and "Queen Wasp". Even though his teacher mistreated him all the time, Nooroo still cared about Gabriel's condition to a certain extent as seen in "Mayura" after the latter detransforms upon suffering a major defeat.
Nooroo continued to care about Gabriel in "Miraculous Shanghai", when she expressed her concern about messing with the Miraculous' guardian to the point of advising him to stop fearing Mei Shi's wrath, which she had a right to be afraid of, like Gabriel. Akumatizing him led to both of them being temporarily eradicated until Ladybug brought them back.
In "Stormy Weather 2", despite being afraid of Gabriel, Nooroo had the courage to advise him to spend more time with his son and stop his dark path before losing him, although Gabriel refused to listen and even closed his mouth, much to Nooroo's chagrin and sadness.
In Ladybug Nooro did not wake up Gabriel when Nathalie took the Peacock Miraculous and was scolded by Gabriel for not doing so.
In The Battle of the Miraculous Gabriel managed to find Master Fu and Nooroo had to watch with disgust as Gabriel attacked his guardian and captured his companions' miraculouses, but was glad when Gabriel's plan failed and his companions he were released.
In the fourth season, Gabriel repaired the Peacock Miraculous and began fusing it with the Butterfly Miraculous, and Nooroo and Duusu were forced to give power to Gabriel and watch as his obsession grew as his plans continued to fail.
In Strikeback Nooroo is horrified when Gabriel gives up Duusu in exchange for Felix giving him all of his companions' miraculouses and is saddened that they are now also forced to serve Gabriel.
In Evolution Gabriel demanded total obedience from Nooroo and all his companions and Nooroo was forced to fuse his powers with several of his companions' powers, which led to Gabriel abusing his energy and Nooroo and his companions becoming exhausted but Gabriel ended up losing Fluff.
In Destruction Gabriel locked the other Kwamis in Cages and reforges their miraculouses into Alliance rings, much to Nooroo's sadness.
As the season progresses, Nooroo sees how Gabriel loses his sanity more and more, abusing Adrien, making desperate plans and abusing the powers of his companions.
At this point, Nooroo seems to have stopped caring about Gabriel, already fed up with his evil and wishing to be freed once and for all.
By continuing to have to give power to Gabriel, Nooroo noticed that his hatred towards Marinette began to grow as much as his hatred towards the heroes in "Revelation" in addition to making constant attempts to keep Adrien away from her by abusing the control he had on his son and others.
Nooroo knowing Gabriel was going too far.
In "Representation", judging by his facial expressions, Nooroo knew Gabriel was going too far when he akumatized himself as Nightormentor as a way to severely punish Adrien for disobeying him and find Marinette.
In "Re-Creation", he was separated from Gabriel first when Bug Noire threw her staff at Monarch's chest, detransforming him, and his Miraculous fell into the sewers and also because of Gabriel sacrificing his life to make his wish, giving Cerise the chance to steal the Butterfly Miraculous somehow.
Cerise Bianca[]
Nooroo is aware of Lila, due to Gabriel using her as his ally against Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Unknown to Nooroo, Lila somehow discovered Gabriel's identity as Monarch and after being fired from being a model in his brand in "Revelation", she became determined to get revenge on him by stealing his Miraculous, and after discarding her identity as Lila Rossi and adopting a new one with the name Cerise Bianca, she started her plot by manipulating both Gabriel and Chloé in "Revolution" to get information on the former's secrets and later stealing Tomoe's laptop, which she used in "Re-Creation" to hack into the Agreste mansion security system and unnoticed by Marinette and Gabriel, she managed to get her hands on the Butterfly Miraculous, thus becoming Nooroo's new owner, and intended to use her new powers to get revenge on Marinette.
Gabriel Agreste/Betterfly[]
Alternate Nooroo has a good relationship with Alternate Gabriel.
Unlike his simultaneous counterpart, Nooroo has a positive relationship with this version of Gabriel due to him being used for good instead of evil. His relationship with Gabriel is shown to parallel with the main world versions of Marinette and Tikki. Through Nooroo with the memories of his linked counterpart knew Gabriel of another universe being bad but didn't bother bringing this up with his parallel holder because there isn't enough time in the human lifespan to explain even the tiniest bit about other universes, and instead Nooroo choose to stick with the basics and focus on the time he has with Betterfly. Nooroo through the eyes of his simultaneous counterpart watched Monarch fail to steal the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous from other Universes knowing that Ladybug had Betterfly's help.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug[]
Nooroo hasn't met Marinette in person in the Quantic Universe at least not directly within Gabriel's ownership but was aware of the many times his owner tried to akumatized her.
Nooroo seeing Gabriel's hate for Marinette grow.
He is aware that Marinette and Adrien are in a relationship with each other and as of "Revelation", heard Gabriel holding great resentment and hatred towards her for messing up his plans as well as for her Ladybug identity and vows to make her pay.
As for the heroine, Nooroo knew Ladybug was Tikki's owner, even though they hadn't officially met he was happy that Tikki was good hands. Even though he knows that his owner bared resentment towards the heroine, it's likely he doesn't knowing that she was coming to save him.
Soon in "Miracle Queen", Nooroo was aware that Ladybug became the guardian of his Miraculous after Master Fu surrendered his memory. When she and Cat Noir captured his owner in "Destruction", upon likely feeling his guardian touch his jewel and hearing that he will be the first to be taken from Monarch, Nooroo briefly felt happiness that he is servitude was going to end or as so he thought as Monarch pulled a daring stunt to prevent it.
In "Miraculous Paris", Nooroo helped Marinette through his simultaneous counterpart in unifying his Butterfly Miraculous of the Re-Verse in unification with the Ladybug Miraculous of the Quantic Universe to help Ladybug defeat her bad counterpart Shadybug. Nooroo indirectly help Ladybug stop Monarch from stealing the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous from other universes through the actions of Betterfly.
In "Representation", Nooroo felt bad and sorry for Marinette as Gabriel akumatized himself as Nightormentor to find her and severely punish Adrien for disobeying him.
In "Re-creation", after the Butterfly Miraculous is taken from Gabriel by Ladybug; Nooroo likely felt happiness that he was free but being aware that he was separated from the other kwamis again. He still held onto hope that his guardian would find him. However, the Miraculous was later stolen by Cerise, but since Ladybug never renounced it, she remains as his rightful guardian/holder, despite being in someone else's possession.
Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir[]
Nooroo hasn't met Adrien in person, but he does know that he is Gabriel's son and expresses curiosity over the possibility of him being Cat Noir in "Gorizilla".
During "Stormy Weather 2", Nooroo was even caring towards Adrien. When Gabriel sensed negative emotions, Nooroo believed that they might be Adrien's and advised Gabriel to spend more time with him. As well as telling Gabriel that, if he continues on his dark path, he runs the risk of losing what family he has left.
As for the hero, Nooroo knew Cat Noir is Plagg's owner, even though they hadn't officially met he was happy that Plagg was in good hands, unaware that they were closer than they though and knew his owner had an extreme hatred towards him. It's likely he doesn't knowing he was coming to save him.
In "Ephemeral", it turns out that Nooroo's curiosity was true as he aware that he was Plagg's owner and briefly met Adrien, but thanks to Sass's Second Chance, their encounter was erased.
In "Representation", Nooroo felt bad and sorry for Adrien as Gabriel akumatized himself as Nightormentor to severely punish his son for disobeying him and find Marinette.
Other Kwamis[]
When he became active again 170 years after the temple's destruction it's mostly likely Nooroo believed that if he and Duusu had survived, then so did his friends. After the rise of Ladybug and Cat Noir, he became joyful that Plagg and Tikki were alright along with his other friends through the French Miraculous superhero team.
Nooroo appears to be quite close to the other kwamis and likely misses them a lot. In "Sandboy", the kwamis try to communicate with Nooroo to wish him a happy 3500th cycle and save him from Hawk Moth's control, but the plan goes awry. When Gabriel later tells Nooroo that he wants to capture all the kwamis as to have unlimited powers at his disposal, Nooroo becomes very concerned for his friends. As of "Battle of the Miraculous", his worry became a reality as Nooroo was likely aware that the Kwamis' powers were being used for evil.
But through the actions of Ladybug, Cat Noir and Master Fu, Nooroo likely took in the pleasure knowing that his kwami friends were safe and still held on to hope that they, along with their wielders, would rescue him one day.
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Nooroo and his captured fellow kwami scared of Gabriel
However, his fellow kwamis were captured again by Gabriel in "Strikeback", due to Flairmidable betraying Ladybug and Nooroo. He and kwamis become terrified now that Gabriel has gained more powers to get to Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses.
Before that Nooroo shared his siblings happiness when they believed their servitude with Monarch was over only to be dashed when he forcibly took them away in "Destruction". Despite him and the others reveling in Fluff's and Dusuu's freedom, they were quelled by their master saying that this would be as far as they would go in "Multiplication" and Nooroo was further saddened to see that the remaining kwamis were imprisoned in cages.
Being the only Kwami who was not caged, Nooroo did not interact with his companions and was forced to watch with disgust as Gabriel took the powers of his terrified companions.
In "Re-creation", during the fight between his guardian and holder, Nooroo was separated from them once more but unknown to him by the fight's end and after Gabriel made the wish, his remaining fellow kwamis had their Miraculouses restored and were reunited with their true owners.
Master Fu[]
Unlike Tikki and the others, Nooroo didn't know Master Fu personally, but through his siblings powers, was aware that they were under a guardian's protection and was happy that just like them a guardian had survived the Order's destruction as well. And like the others he too was aware of the Guardian's Code, and when Master Fu surrendered his memories, it's likely he was sad that he had to say goodbye to a guardian he didn't even know as well as couldn't give his thanks to Master Fu for protecting his siblings.
Duusu[]
Nooroo appears to be friends with Duusu, and in "Reflekdoll", he seems to be deeply concerned for her sporadic personality. Duusu was the only kwami he was able to meet in person until the events of "Strikeback".
In "Truth", Duusu's Miraculous is repaired, which heals her scatterbrained personality, and she is ecstatic to see Nooroo, telling him how she felt like she was trapped in a nightmare being used for evil. Nooroo regretfully tells her that it was no nightmare right before both are forced to transform Gabriel into Shadow Moth.
Even though Nooroo wasn't happy about the rest of his siblings being traded to his villainous owner, he felt some small happiness that Duusu was freed but as well as worried for her when Gabriel talked about recapturing her.
Nathalie Sancoeur[]
In "Reflekdoll", like his master, Nooroo shows concerns towards Nathalie and her condition from using the Peacock Miraculous when it was broken.
In "Ladybug", when Nathalie sneaks with the Peacock Miraculous, she tells Nooroo to keep quiet, which he complied.
After Nathalie abandoned her loyalty to Gabriel, it is unknown if Nooroo still sees her as an enemy.
The Supreme[]
In the alternate universe, Nooroo, like his Quantic counterpart, was forced by The Supreme to use his powers for evil by mantaining his rule over the Re-Verse until the day which his Miraculous was entrusted to Gabriel Agreste's alternate counterpart, who decided to use his powers for good, thus freeing Nooroo from the Supreme, and despite knowing the Supreme wants to get the Butterfly Miraculous back, Nooroo still helps Gabriel and his resistance to try to defeat the Supreme and free the Re-Verse and his fellow Kwamis from his evil rule.
History
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Trivia[]
- Nooroo's name is an African variant of the name Nuru meaning "born in daylight" or "light" referencing that butterflies are diurnal. His name also means "the time of night", referencing from his moth based appearance and that most moths are nocturnal.
- The word Nuru also means "to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear; to put up (wallpaper)" in Japanese.
- The word Noro also means "source of life" in Malagasy.
- Nooroo is also the name of a locality in northern New South Wales, Australia, northwest of the town of Stroud.
- Both the butterfly and the moth symbolize change or personal evolution. This is likely in connection with his ability to corrupt and transform others into his henchmen.
- The swirl on Nooroo's head and the lower part of his wings resembles the proboscis of a moth or butterfly.
- As of "Sandboy", Nooroo is the youngest of the known kwamis.
- In Miraculous: Les Aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir, Nooroo states that he grants the power of generosity.
- In "Hawk Moth and the Akumatized Villains", Marinette has plans for Nooroo once he is free, by using his powers for good once Hawk Moth is defeated.
- However this did not happen now that Cerise has the Butterfly Miraculous with Hawk Moth being defeated.
- Nooroo is the fourth kwami to have his Miraculous destroyed as of "Miraculous Shanghai", following Fluff and Plagg in "Timebreaker" and Pollen in "Queen Wasp".
- Nooroo is one of four known kwamis to grant emotion-related powers, the other three being Duusu, Liiri and Daizzi.
- Nooroo and Duusu are the only two kwamis from the Chinese Miracle Box who never met their current guardian, Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
- However, Nooroo from the Parallel Universe met her in "Miraculous Paris".
- Unlike Orikko, Nooroo can grant powers which already belong to other kwamis.
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References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/BenjaminDiskin/status/1054121895593832448
- ↑ https://youtu.be/GDUIVwnQyg8?t=4043
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcCyRZMfAuA
- ↑ Tikki in "Sandboy": He's celebrating his thirty-five hundredth cycle today .. A kwami's cycle lasts several hundreds of human years." Even if a cycle was merely 200 human years ("the bare minimum of "hundreds", though "several" implies more) this would make Nooroo at least 700,000 human years old.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Confirmed to the user BelieveInMagic814 by the official Miraculous Ladybug Tumblr blog.
- ↑ https://www.zag-store.com/collections/accessories/products/fridge-magnet-tikki
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Winny_BayDay/status/725555076027265024
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1050451327497752579