Nathalie Sancoeur is Gabriel Agreste's assistant who manages his fashion work, his mansion, and takes care of his son Adrien and is the secondary antagonist of Miraculous Ladybug (both her civilian than her supervillain name Mayura are the secondary antagonists).
Personality[]
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 when persons of greater authority like Audrey Bourgeois yelled at her, knowing the latter couldn't actually affect her and smiled with satisfaction after the event. Objective, sensible, and understanding, Nathalie is able to 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.
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.[8]. 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[9]. 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[10]. As shown in "Ladybug", Nathalie apparently sees the sentimonsters she creates as Mayura as beings who only do her bidding, having no remorse when it comes to killing the titular sentimonster when it was convenient for her.
Trivia[]
- The name Nathalie means "Christmas Day/Christmas".
- Nathalie's surname Sancoeur ("sans cœur") means "heartless" or "without a heart" in French.
- 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 and Cat Noir (Origins - Part 1)".
- Nathalie is the only person in the present who knows that Gabriel Agreste is Hawk Moth.
- By the time Bunnyx is an adult, she is also aware of who Hawk Moth is.
- 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 appears to be suffering from prolonged health issues as a result of using the Peacock Miraculous.
- Without her Gabriel never would have find both Peacock and Butterfly Miraculouses.
- The name Mayura in Sanskrit means peacock, one of the sacred birds in Hindu mythology. It is also a contemporary Hindu name used in many parts of India.[12]
- While the villain is female, Mayura is specifically the term for males while Mayuri is the term for females.
- Mayura was revealed at the Miraculous panel at New York Comic Con 2016 under the name "Le Paon" (French for "The Peacock").[13]
- 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.[14]
- Her final name was revealed at a TF1 press conference advertising the upcoming Season 3.[15]
- Mayura's civilian identity was revealed by the end of Season 2.[16]
- There were also clues about her in the opening theme song for the season.[16]
- 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 back 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.
- Nathalie's akumatized form, Catalyst, was first revealed in a promotional video for Season 2 from TFOU.[17]
- 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.
- She is also the first akumatized villain who didn't directly fight Ladybug and Cat Noir.
- In a video interview held on August 25, 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.[18]
- She was said to appear as Hawk Moth's "boss" in Season 3.[13][19][16]
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