Nathalie Sancoeur, formerly known as Mayura, is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. She is the assistant of Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth, who aids him in his quest to steal the Miraculouses of Ladybug and Cat Noir and revive his wife Emilie out of both dedication and romantic feelings.
She would later begin using the Peacock Miraculous to become the villain Mayura, further assisting Hawk Moth's goals by creating powerful Sentimonsters; although she would be forced to retire her identity after being injured by the damaged Miraculous.
Later on, as a result of Gabriel's growing obsession with the Miraculous, she would eventually start to turn against him, remaining loyal only for the sake of protecting his son, Adrien. In the season 2 finale episodes "Catalyst" and "Ladybug", she is akumatized into Catalyst, a villain capable of enhancing superpowers. In "Passion", she is again akumatized into Safari, a hunting-themed villain who never misses her targets.
Description[]
She helps Gabriel with his business.
Personality[]
Nathalie possesses a rather cold and distant demeanor, very rarely showing her emotions around others. She is consistently serious, organized, and diligent in performing her duties as Gabriel's assistant, yet is otherwise cordial and professional when it comes to dealing with others, such as reasoning with either Adrien or Gabriel when they act inconsiderate or emotionally (typically in relation to one another) or when assisting Ladybug with protecting Gabriel in "Simon Says". She can also be extremely fearful of disappointing Gabriel, panicking after realizing she forgot to get Gabriel a birthday gift for Adrien in "The Bubbler", and quickly deciding to disguise Marinette's scarf as a gift from the former instead. She seems to care greatly about Adrien in general and does her best to provide for the Agreste family.
As shown in Season 2, Nathalie is not only dedicated to but incredibly loyal to Gabriel, as she is both aware of his activities as Hawk Moth and supportive of his efforts to steal Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses. As such, she seems to be slightly sociopathic, having almost no concern for the consequences of Hawk Moth's actions, not even when they affect her directly. Like Gabriel, she also has a hatred of Ladybug and Cat Noir (though not nearly to the same level) and wants to see them defeated, fully accepting Gabriel's plan to Akumatize her and recreate most of his Akumatized villains in "Catalyst", taking sadistic joy in fooling the heroes into thinking they can win all the while. She is furthermore willing to take any risks if it means protecting him, leading to her deciding to use the damaged Peacock Miraculous to help him escape capture.
Her loyalty and admiration of Gabriel is disrupted however when Gabriel chose to defeat Ladybug and Cat Noir over saving her and Emilie, leading her to denounce Gabriel and presumably lose faith in him. This causes her to turn on him and to encourage Adrien to rebel against him. Later, before she passes out in front of Ladybug, she begs him to cease Monarch's motives for Emilie's sake.
Overall, Nathalie is a ruthless but honorable woman who genuinely cares and worries about the people she loves, and despite her anger towards the heroes, is willing to collaborate and join them if she believes it is the right thing to do. She will apparently be a great ally of Ladybug and Cat Noir in the coming seasons.
Skills[]
Powers[]
As a result, she wears a brooch known as the Peacock Miraculous, which when worn grant Nathalie the ability to transform into Mayura, her supervillian alias.
As the holder of a Miraculous, Nathalie is assisted by a small blue creature resembling a peacock called Duusu, who is a magical being known as a Kwami. As Mayura, Nathalie's signature ability is emotion.
- Entity creation: her special power, Amokization, allows her to create Sentimonsters from one's emotions. She does so by infusing a feather with blue energy and sending to infect an object.
- Sentimonster control: she forced the Sentimonster created by Wang Fu from eating her Miraculous and destroyed her own Sentimonster after it turned on her.
- Telepathy: she can speak to her amokized victims, similar to Hawk Moth when he akumatizes someone.
As Catalyst[]
- Power enhancement: she takes an object and infuses it with scarlet energy, enabling her host to become stronger. She can also speak to the ones she's enhanced with a mask appearing on both her and the host's faces, similar to Hawk Moth's telepathy.
As Safari[]
- Homing Attacks: Safari has the ability to never miss any of her targets. Any weapon she fires and any object she throws, ends up following her intended target.
- Genesis: After being transferred the power of the Goat Miraculous by Monarch, Safari was granted the power to make any inanimate object of her choosing. Safari used it to create a box full of high-tech hunting weapons: a crossbow with bolts charged with power from the Fox, Bee, Pig, Tiger and Dragon Miraculous, a wrist-mounted targeting device and a whip that can pull or throw heavy objects.
Abilities[]
- Business intuition: she helps Gabriel in his business.
- Hand-to-hand combat: she took on the Punishers Trio without transforming into Mayura and held them off before being turned into a Reflekta clone and being paused by Lady Wifi.
Trivia[]
- The name "Mayura" is the Sanskrit word for "peacock", which is one of the sacred birds in Hindu mythology. It is also a contemporary Hindu name used in many parts of India.
- While the villain is female, "mayura" is specifically the term for males, while "mayuri" is the term for females.
- Mayura was first revealed at the Miraculous panel at New York Comic Con 2016, referred to at the time as "Le Paon" (French for "The Peacock"). Later on, her final name was disclosed during a TF1 press conference advertising Season 3.
- At the time, Mayura was said to appear as Hawk Moth's "boss" in Season 3. This was ultimately proved to be false when Mayura officially debuted.
- Nathalie is the first character in the series shown using the Peacock Miraculous, although she is later established to be the third character to have used it, following Wang Fu and Émilie Agreste.
- Not including Nooroo, Duusu, and Bunnyx (who is from the future), Nathalie was the only person to know Gabriel Agreste's secret identity as Hawk Moth. This later changed after the events of "Gabriel Agreste", where Félix also found out.
- Unlike the other Akumatized villains, Nathalie isn't akumatized due to negative emotions, but rather a real desire to help Hawk Moth.
- Also, 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.
- Her second akumatized form, Safari, is the second Akumatized villain in the show to name herself, after Gabriel Agreste/The Collector himself.
- Mayura is so far the second known Miraculous holder to use their power for evil after Hawk Moth.
- Mayura is the first villain in the series to both directly and permanently kill another character by revoking Sentimonster Ladybug's Amok for betraying her to Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- She's the first Miraculous holder whose skin tone changes when she transforms.
- Currently, she is one of the few people who know that Ladybug is Marinette, along with Gabriel himself (who died), Alya, Su-Han, Luka, the Reverse Marinette, Félix, Kagami, Alix and the Kwamis.
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