Nathalie Sancoeur (2024)

Nathalie Sancoeur (aka Mayura) is a character from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

In "Catalyst", which is part of the "Heroes' Day" special, Nathalie is 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 uses the Peaco*ck Miraculous. When the Peaco*ck Miraculous is inhabited by Duusu, she becomes Mayura, the secondary antagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She helps Hawk Moth by creating allies for akumatized villains.

In "Ladybug", Nathalie amokizes herself and her dedication forms the Ladybug-themed sentimonster.

In "Optigami", in an effort to reveal the true identities of Ladybug and Cat Noir after The Battle of the Miraculous, Nathalie created Optigami, a butterfly or moth-themed spy camera sentimonster.

In "Evolution", after Gabriel fails to fix the Peaco*ck Miraculous by giving the recipe to do it to his younger self, in that way preventing both Emilie and Nathalie from using the damaged Miraculous and get sick, all because of his obsession to get Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous, Nathalie, feeling betrayed by him, decides to break ties with him and stop helping him, reforming herself and breaking up with Gabriel in the process.

Appearance[]

Physical appearance[]

Nathalie stands at an average adult height. She has pale skin, dull blue eyes, and black hair with the left side of her head that is dyed a dark pink or red color. Her hair is pulled back into a bun with the hair on top, while a piece hanging over her face.

Civilian attire[]

Nathalie has glasses with black and red striped frames and she wears periwinkle eyeshadow. She wears a red turtleneck sweater, a black dress jacket, black pants and black medium-heel shoes. She also has round creamy-white earrings.

As Mayura[]

Mayura's eyes have pink irises and scleras that are pink which fade into dark indigo, and there is black liner around her eyes, resembling glasses. Her skin is a light indigo and her hair is dark blue, and part of it curls up underneath her left eye. She wears a peaco*ck-feather-like co*cktail hat, which is blue and tear-shaped with a light pink mark in the center and a light blue, translucent veil over her right eye. She wears a blue dress with a fuzzy black collar and sleeves that end in a point on the back of her hand. The dress appears to have a set hexagonal texture, as well as a Peaco*ck Miraculous in the center. The bottom of the dress has a front-slit skirt, and the end of the skirt has rounded points with dark blue, light-pink-centered spots, resembling a peaco*ck's tail feathers. The rounded points are edged with translucent light blue material. Underneath the dress, she has translucent indigo tights that are opaque from the knees down, making the opaque section resemble high-heeled boots. She also holds a blue hand fan.

As Catalyst[]

Main article: Catalyst (Character)

Catalyst has periwinkle skin. Over her head, while leaving her mouth exposed, she wears a black helmet with a red visor with black edges and a red spike pointing towards the back of her head. Catalyst also wears a black dress suit with stiff shoulders, including a dark red front and swan neck collar that features a red downward-arrow-shaped section in the center. The sleeves cover her entire arms, with the tips of her fingers fading into red. Also, Catalyst has pocket-like ridges on each side of her hips, and her pant legs come down to her feet, having red high-heels, soles, and tips.

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.

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. 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. She takes sad*stic 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. 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.

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.

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 notice. This ability allowed her to evade professional guards and steal Fu's tablet with the deciphered spellbook pages.

As Mayura[]

Mayura has 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 is able to infuse a feather plucked from her hand fan with her power, transforming it into an amok, and send it out to possess an object owned by a chosen target, with whom she can communicate telepathically. While she is communicating, a blue curved peaco*ck mask appears in front of her and her target's faces. Her actions will then give an emotion from her target a physical form of that person's choosing, which would act as the target's ally until recalled via a snap of her fingers, which destroys it.

Even if she didn't create them, Mayura can either bring back to life dormant sentimonsters or destroy them through their amoks. This ability was first seen in "Feast".

As Catalyst[]

Catalyst has the power to multiply/enhance/increase someone's powers; infusing scarlet energy into an object belonging to her target, similar to an akumatized object. When affected, the person gains a red-colored outfit. In Hawk Moth's case, this power allows him to akumatize multiple butterflies and transform multiple people at once. Catalyst can also communicate with the person she enhanced, during which a red sharp-edged butterfly mask appears in front of both of their faces, similar to Hawk Moth.

Trivia[]

• Nathalie Sancoeur will make an appearance in Pooh's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• Nathalie Sancoeur will make an appearance in Tino's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
• Nathalie Sancoeur will be one of the characters from Connor Lacey's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• She will make an appearance in Ryan's and Crash's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• She is one of the secondary antagonists of Tabby's Adventure Series where she tries to capture Tabby the Fox in Tabby's Adventures Begin, and then in Tabby's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
• In season three of Miraculous, Nathalie possess the Peaco*ck Miraculous and became Mayura.
• 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.
• 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.
• She's the second Miraculous holder to use their power for evil after Gabriel Agreste.
• The name "Mayura" is the Sanskrit word for "peaco*ck", 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.
• Unlike the other Akumatized villains, Nathalie isn't akumatized due to negative emotions, but rather a real desire to help Hawk Moth.
  • 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.
• She's the first Miraculous holder whose skin tone changes color when she transforms.
• 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.
• Nathalie's surname Sancoeur ("sans cœur") means "heartless" or "without a heart" in French.
• She was said to appear as Hawk Moth's "boss" in Season 3.
• Mayura is so far the second known Miraculous holder to use their power for evil after Hawk Moth.
• Nathalie appears to be suffering from prolonged health issues as a result of using the Peaco*ck Miraculous.
• Without her Gabriel never would have find both Peaco*ck and Butterfly Miraculouses.
• She's also 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 appears to be suffering from prolonged health issues as a result of using the Peaco*ck Miraculous.
• The last person to hold the Peaco*ck Miraculous is implied to have been Emilie Agreste.
• Mayura's civilian identity was revealed by the end of Season 2.
  • There were also clues about her in the opening theme song for the season.
• 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)".

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