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Juleka Couffaine[7] is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. She is a former student in Miss Bustier's class at Collège Françoise Dupont and the younger twin sister of Luka Couffaine.
In "Reflekta", after being locked in the bathroom by Sabrina Raincomprix under orders from Chloé Bourgeois to prevent Juleka from participating in the class photo, she was akumatized by Hawk Moth and became Reflekta, a flamboyant supervillain who could transform people into lookalikes of herself.
In "Reflekdoll", after Juleka backed out of modeling in the photoshoot for Marinette Dupain-Cheng's design and was not given a chance to explain herself, Hawk Moth re-akumatized her into Reflekta. She was also amokized by Mayura, which caused her frustration and misery to form Reflekdoll, a doll-themed sentimonster that could also transform people into Reflekta lookalikes.
In "Félix", after being fooled by the titular character into thinking that Adrien Agreste didn't appreciate his friends' kind videos, Juleka was re-akumatized into Reflekta yet again alongside Rose into Princess Fragrance and Alya into Lady Wifi. The three formed the Punishers Trio, a group of akumatized supervillains who wanted to get revenge on the disguised Félix, who later convinced Hawk Moth to let him help them, as he was after some jewelry too.
In "Ladybug", Lila Rossi orchestrated a plan that got Marinette in trouble for things that she did not do. Cheating on a school test, pushing her down a flight of stairs and stealing a fox pendant from her, convincing almost everyone Marinette did all those things. Hawk Moth seized the opportunity Lila handed him to re-akumatize Nathalie into Catalyst who powers him up into Scarlet Moth again. He created several scarlet akumas to akumatize the people at the school into scarlet akumatized supervillains, including re-akumatizing Juleka into a scarlet version of Reflekta. But Catalyst's use of the damaged Peacock Miraculous came back to bite her. Scarlet Moth de-transformed and checked on her, abandoning his plans and causing the de-akumatization of Nathalie, and therefore, all of his scarlet akumatized supervillains.
In "Gang of Secrets", when Marinette kept hiding secrets from her and her friends, which caused Marinette to end their friendship, Juleka was re-akumatized by Shadow Moth into Reflekta yet again along with Alya and Rose becoming Lady Wifi and Princess Fragrance yet again, and Alix Kubdel and Mylène Haprèle becoming Timebreaker and Horrificator again. The five formed the Gang of Secrets, a group of akumatized supervillains who wanted to reveal Marinette's secrets to make her feel better and become her friends again.
In "Guiltrip", Juleka tells the class a secret involving Rose: she has a medical condition, occasionally requiring hospital care because of it. After Rose snapped at the class for being too overprotective, Juleka racked with guilt, was re-akumatized for the fifth time and re-amokized into Reflekta by Shadow Moth, with her guilt and sadness forming a different sentimonster Guiltrip, a portal-like creature that made people feel guilty. After being de-akumatized and de-amokized, she received a Magical Charm from Ladybug that prevented her from being re-akumatized or re-amokized.
In "Crocoduel", after her parents were re-akumatized into Captain Hardrock and Guitar Villain who formed the titular akumatized supervillain group, Juleka is lent the Tiger Miraculous from Ladybug. When it's inhabited by Roaar, Juleka becomes Purple Tigress[8](Tigresse Pourpre in the French version), a tiger-themed superhero with the Miraculous superpower of elation: Clout, which lets the user perform a powerfully devastating punch.
After the events of "Strikeback", Juleka was temporarily unable to become Purple Tigress after Monarch managed to steal the Tiger Miraculous along with all the others contained in the Chinese Miracle Box from Ladybug's yo-yo.
In "Confrontation", when she found out that she would repeat her school year again from her false study options form, Juleka was once again re-akumatized into Reflekta and was given the power of the Tiger Miraculous through her Alliance ring. She also received a new Magical Charm from Ladybug after her first one got destroyed.
In "Re-creation", Juleka is reunited with Luka during the fight against Monarch. After Ladybug recovers the stolen Miraculous and reforges them following Monarch's defeat, Juleka is given back the Tiger Miraculous permanently and reunites with Roaar.
Appearance[]
Physical appearance[]
Juleka is a slender teenage girl of pale skin who stands at a medium height. She has brilliant red eyes with dark eyeshadow and coccyx-length black hair, with dyed moderate mulberry tips at the end, and bangs covering the left side of her face. She wears a light violetish gray lipstick and her fingernails are painted light sapphire bluish gray with black nail art of intricate patterns on each one with different designs on each hand.
Civilian attire[]
Juleka wears a black turtlenecked, swan-necked T-shirt with a sea green lined collar, and side pockets, and black mesh sleeves. She also wears purple ripped leggings with rips above the knees and black high top sneakers with white soles. On her hands, she has blue-violetish black fingerless lace gloves that have a diamond pattern design; the right ends halfway up the forearm, while the left is slightly shorter as compared to the right one. She sometimes wears an arctic blue wrist mirror on her right hand with a royal blue gemstone in the center.
As Reflekta[]
Reflekta's face is white, and she has light brilliant rose circle markings around her eyes, along with strong gamboge-colored eyes and moderate purple lipstick. On the tips of her eyelashes, there are small light green spheres. Her hair is shiny and brilliant rose colored-with light purple stripes, and two twisted ponytails stick upward on each side of her head. She has side bangs, and at the center of the front of her hair, there is a gambogeish white upward almond-shaped eye with a light purple outline and a pink pupil. She wears a brilliant rose colored-ruff-like collared dress with light purple chevron stripes around her stomach to waist, and eyes like the one on her hair around her puffed sleeves and skirt. The tips of the ruff and the skirt have light pink edging, and her arms and legs have pink gloves and stockings. Her long pale, light grayish sea green fingernails stick out of the end of her gloves, and on the back of her right hand, she has a pink eye design with a black outline, the center being a black jewel that opens up to reveal a small circular mirror, (which is the akumatized object). At the bottom of her feet, she has pink rectangular platform dress shoes with triangular wedges and miniature eyes without pupils appear above the feet that covers her entire feet.
As Purple Tigress[]
Purple Tigress wears a brilliant crimson swan-necked superhero body-jumpsuit with a pale, light grayish fuchsia front, back of her arms, and palms of her hands and fingers which ends at the middle of her shins, with boots with pale, light grayish fuchsia toe caps resembling paws and golden soles. The suit has dark cerise lace stripes with similar patterns to her lace gloves. Her collar is outlined in gold with a zipper at the front. Her right hand, where she wears the Tiger Miraculous, sports a bejeweled black glove with swirling gold lines and feline-like fingers with golden claws. Brilliant crimson tiger ears with pale, light grayish fuchsia insides like Cat Noir's are in her hair, which is dark grayish heliotrope with deep fuchsia highlights, which is bound in a ponytail. Her eyes are a brilliant orange with light apple green sclerae, with a brilliant crimson, dark cerise bordered mask which bears pale, light grayish fuchsia marks on her eyelids and eyebrows. She also has dark grayish blue-violet lipstick. At her waist is the bolas, a long whip-like tool with three weighted striped balls at the end. It is worn like a belt with a gold ring in the center.
Personality[]
Like Marc, Juleka is very timid and nervous around others but is very kind. She doesn't speak as often as the rest of her classmates, and when she does it is often in a self-conscious mumble. She is rarely particularly expressive, though she will be in some cases, including calling out being through with Kim's "stupid dares". Because of her quiet nature, Juleka feels like no one ever notices her and forgets she is around, but she is aware that there are people that care about her, to whom she expresses compassion and gentleness. She can be affectionate with those she is close to where she shares hugs with her friends or cuddling with Rose.
Juleka seems to like scary things or be unafraid of such, as she is the only student to not fear Horrificator, calling her "awesome". Despite her shyness, Juleka can be brave and supportive towards her friends as seen during the attacks of Darkblade, Befana, Gigantitan, and Truth. However, she is very sentitive when she told her classmates about Rose's condition which causes everyone to treat her differently and makes her feel guilty, leading to her akumatization.
As Purple Tigress, Juleka is more confident, braver, and fierce. Just like a tigress, she is stronger, fearless, and loyal to her team. All the confidence she got after her first appearance as a superhero changed her in a way that, she even showed it as a civilian, having been facilitated thanks to Ladybug's incentive for her to not be afraid to speak up even when detransformed.
As Reflekta, she is proud and vengeful because no one ever paid attention to her, she wants everyone to look like her so that she will never be unnoticed again. In particular, she wanted to transform Chloé because she prevented her from being in the class photo causing her first akumatization. She is quite vain, constantly telling everyone that they'll look better once they are changed and reassures them that they look amazing once they are. Due to her arrogance, she believes her victims like their new looks, when they clearly do not. Without a second thought, Reflekta is ruthless, even transforming people who are nice to and notice her, including Rose.
During a second time as Reflekta, she retains her vanity and pride but wanted to get back at her friends for excluding her from the photoshoot even though Marinette pointed that she said she didn't want to be in it, but claims she didn't let her explain. When her Reflekdoll went out of control, she panics and begs for the superheroes help'. However, she doesn't show gratitude and tried to transform them afterwards. For a third time as Reflekta, she, along with Lady Wifi and Princess Fragrance, wanted revenge on Adrien for sending an ungrateful message. However, after learning it was his cousin Félix, the Punisher Trio aimed their anger at him for making Adrien look like a monster and will also "punish" anyone who gets in their way.
When akumatized a fourth time as Reflekta, she, along with Lady Wifi, Princess Fragrance, Timebreaker, and Horrificator, wanted to expose Marinette's secrets in hopes of saving her and their friendship by forcing her to give them up so they can comfort her. She and the Gang of Secrets have no qualms putting bystanders in danger to find Marinette, such as transforming some people into images of herself. Her desire to persevere their friendship is so intense that she, Princess Fragrance, Horrificator, and Timebreaker chased after an illusion of Marinette instead of taking Cat Noir's ring.
When akumatized a fifth time, unlike before, Reflekta loses her usual behavior, being consumed by immense guilt by letting herself get sucked into her sentimonster, and continues sulking, even losing her will to fight when Ladybug and Cat Noir find her. When Pigella gave her Gift, Reflekta becomes happy again and even willingly let herself de-akumatized.
Abilities[]
As a civilian[]
Juleka seems to be skilled at applying makeup, as she is the makeup artist for Nino Lahiffe's short film in "Horrificator".
Juleka knows how to play bass and is a bassist in Kitty Section.
Juleka is cunning, figuring out as Reflekta Ladybug's plan to catch her and persuading a transformed André Bourgeois that she'll turn him back to normal if he tricks Ladybug and Cat Noir into believing he is her. Similarly, she is good at hiding, which she can use for sneaky attacks while akumatized.
Reflekta is able to shoot rays from the jewel she has on her right hand, which transforms people into an identical physical copy of herself. Those transformed by her retain their regular voices and minds but don't have her powers and lose their own abilities. However, if someone acquires a Miraculous after being transformed by Reflekta, they can use it to transform as normal. It is unknown if detransforming in this state would turn them back to normal or if it would return them to being a clone of Reflekta. As clones, people are immune to subsequent hits from her ray. Reflekta is implied to be able to reverse the transformations as well, as she says to Hawk Moth that she will take care of getting Cat Noir's ring after getting the Ladybug Miraculous, despite having transformed him. She seems to be able to float, as seen when she jumps around. She also is very strong and fast, quickly throwing multiple lockers in front of a door in the span of a couple of seconds and breaking free from a basketball hoop around her body.
In "Reflekdoll", Reflekta is able to pilot a gigantic doll-like Sentimonster that fires a much stronger version of the same kind of beam from its mouth and turns people into copies of herself. It also owns Reflekta's strength and speed, as shown when it is quickly throwing a car.
As Purple Tigress[]
Purple Tigress has enhanced capabilities such as speed and agility. Her weapon is a bolas, a whip-like weapon with three weighted, striped balls on one end; it can be worn as a belt when not in use, functioning like a tail. She can use her power Clout to charge her fist with powerful energy. When Purple Tigress punches something, she completely overpowers it and sends the person or object she targeted flying. She also can cause a great deal of damage when she hits, for example, surfaces, like when she hit the ground where some of Penalty's copies were, creating an enormous crater.
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- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BOx9FaBjGCN/
- ↑ https://www.rebabuhr.com/voiceover
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1378630221818163200 (See Trivia for more info, translation provided by miraculousbugaboii on Tumblr)
- ↑ Crocoduel- the twins have their birthday
- ↑ During Operation Secret Garden in "Gigantitan"
- ↑ By Luka in "Reflekdoll", and Rose in "Guiltrip"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/755033027823046656
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1420543334716739588
