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| “ | There ain’t no more Vivica! There's only Desperada now. If I can't be your guitarist anymore, I'm gonna make sure NOBODY can! | ” |
—Desperada, "Desperada" | ||
Vivica is a minor character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is a professional guitarist.
In "Desperada", after being temporarily fired by Jagged Stone for eating his cereal and drinking Fang's milk, she was akumatized by Hawk Moth into Desperada, a skeleton/mariachi-themed supervillain.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Vivica is a slender teenage girl of average height. She has light red lipstick, dark brown eyes, thick dark brown eyebrows, and long dark brown hair with bangs that covers a bit of her right eye and face, which is also tied in a low ponytail. She has a mole on her right cheek below her eye and also wears braces.
Civilian attire[]
In her civilian attire, she wears a reddish brownish black t-shirt with red letters underneath a grayish malachite green jacket hoodie. She also sports blue jeans and knee-length black and white platform soled boots.
As Desperada[]
As Desperada, she looked like a skeleton from Día de los Muertos with light gray skin, violetish black hair that half covered her right eye and face which was also tied into a low ponytail, black eyeshadow, deep blue-violet lipstick, and two black musical notes shaped eyebrows and two more musical notes that were on both sides of her cheeks and hands. Her nose is painted with very dark cornflower blue skin paint, and her eyes had dark purple sclerae, moderate amber irises and small, round black pupils. She wore a black Traje/Mariachi jacket with pointed shoulders and gold bones details on the chuffs, underneath a yellow t-shirt with swan-necked collar and a logo (white circle with black outline and a musical note on the top, and 3 black bones on the right, left and bottom), on her chest and neck. She also wore black pants with gold long bone designs on side of the legs, and gold high heel shoes that were connected to them. She also had black star-shaped guitar case on her back.
Personality[]
Not much is known about Vivica's real personality. However, if she is anything like her akumatized persona, she has a deep love for music. She also can get very upset when her work is underappreciated, like when Jagged fired her for a very unfair reason, leading to her akumatization. But she is forgiving, as Vivica accepted Jagged's apology and invite to return to her job as his guitarist.
As Desperada, she disliked anyone that tried to replace her such as Adrien Agreste. Even if that one person refused to take her job, the mere fact that person was even considered by Jagged made them a target to her, like Anarka (who was her first victim).
Desperada had a very high respect for musical instruments as a whole, especially stringed instruments, "punishing" those who dared to play them wrongly, like when turned into stickers all the pigeons that were pecking the strings of Luka's guitar. That high respect for stringed instruments could also become her undoing, as Desperada could get easily distracted by anyone who played a stringed instrument near her, such as Viperion who used his lyre strumming to distract her so Ladybug and Cat Noir could disarm her and then quickly subdue her and take her akumatized object.
Abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Vivica is a skilled guitarist, even skilled enough to be recognized by the rockstar, Jagged Stone.
Vivica is generally observant and good at hiding, a skill which she could use to make sneak attacks while she was Akumatized.
As Desperada[]
Desperada could summon a variety of music-based weapons from her guitar case. Any person or object who was hit by these was transformed into a sticker on said case. Her known weapons included:
- A trumpet that fired blasts of yellow energy that transformed anyone she hit into yellow dust. She also could use the smoke as smokescreen to distract her enemies.
- A medieval-axe-shaped guitar.
- A pair of bicycle horns resembling dueling pistols that also fired out yellow energy.
- A trombone that resembled a sniper rifle.
Relationships[]
Jagged Stone[]
Vivica is Jagged Stone's guitarist. However, after she accidentally ate Jagged's cereal and drank Fang's milk, the rock star fired her and searched to replace her, something that leads to her akumatization as Desperada. After she is de-akumatized, Jagged rehired her and the two made peace with one another.
As Desperada, she wants to make Jagged pay for firing her, all while getting rid of anyone he had considered to take her place. She ends up transforming him into a sticker.
Anarka Couffaine[]
Vivica and Anarka can be seen playing the guitar together at the end of the episode after they made up.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug[]
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Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir/Aspik[]
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Luka Couffaine/Viperion[]
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Sightings[]
Episodes[]
Others[]
Trivia[]
- Vivica is the first character in the show to have braces.
- When akumatized, she referred to herself as Vivca and Desperada on separate occasions. She is the first akumatized villain to refer to both their previous and akumatized identity.
- As Desperada, she looks like Fiesta from Skylanders: SuperChargers.
- Originally, Desperada's character looked like Deathstroke from DC Comics with a musical twist.[2]
- One of the weapons she wields as Desperada, an axe/guitar hybrid, is very reminiscent of the Axe Bass used by Marceline Abadeer in Adventure Time. Coincidentally, both characters have some relation to rock music.
- Vivica is based on a real person of the same name. As the winner of a contest at the Miraculous Ladybug panel at Los Angeles Comic Con 2016, Vivica got to help create a future Akumatized character during a visit at Zag Studios in Los Angeles.[3]
- The real Vivica said she wanted to be a vet when she grew up, which is what inspired the character Vivica's job and Akumatized form in early development, though it has since changed.
- According to the whiteboard seen behind Jeremy Zag during the meeting for creating Vivica, Vivica was originally going to be a fan of Cat Noir and felt like he doesn't get enough attention.[4]
- Based on the whiteboard, either Hawk Moth, who "knows Cat very well", might have gotten jealous of Vivica or something else, or Vivica might have become jealous and it led to her Akumatization.
- As of May 17, 2017, Vivica's episode had not been written, and the French crew didn't know about Vivica even being a character. As Season 3 was written completely then, it's possible that that Vivica isn't the same Vivica as the one seen in the show, and that she might appear in the future.[5]
- A year later, on June 3, 2018, Thomas Astruc noted that Vivica will still appear, but ideas from her development early on have changed.[6] It's currently unknown whether the real Vivica was involved with the changes, or they were done by the Writers Team.
- It's possible, however, that only her akumatized form was changed, and all other parts of her character remained the same, as the Vivica seen in the show shares a lot of her physical features with the real Vivica (similar skin tone, similar hair, similar eye color, and both have braces).
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