Marinette

History

In "Ladybug & Cat Noir", on Marinette's first day of school in her last year of middle school, she woke up late. Worried about Chloé being in her class again for the fourth year in a row, she didn't want to go to school. Her mother reassured her that no one can be that unlucky and she would be fine. Marinette then lost what luck she had, spilling her breakfast and making a mess in the kitchen. She then left for school, bringing with her a box of macarons. While waiting at the crosswalk outside, she saw a man crossing the street and pulled him to safety, losing some of her macarons and making her late to school in the process.Unsurprisingly, she was in the same class as Chloé once more, immediately being bullied by her to move seats. Alya saw this and helped Marinette, pulling her to sit next to her in class. Before Marinette could make it to her new seat, she tripped, spilling all but one macaron and splits it with Alya, the two becoming friends. After the first class, she and Alya were in the library when they saw the rock monster Stoneheart shouting for Kim. Alya rushed off, leaving her behind. Marinette returned to her home, finding a small box in front of her computer. When she opened it, a flash of light entered the room and she met Tikki, a talking kwami. Tikki convinced Marinette to put on the Ladybug Miraculous and to transform into a superhero. Afraid, Marinette didn't want to be a hero, but with no way to remove the costume, she left her room, swinging her yo-yo and flew across Paris.Still learning how to control the yo-yo, Marinette landed on Cat Noir while falling out of the sky. She followed him to fight Stoneheart, still afraid and nervous. In the Parc des Princes, Marinette hesitated before joining the fight, but accepted her role as Ladybug and helped Cat Noir take down Stoneheart with her Lucky Charm wet suit and turned him back into Ivan. She returned to her room before she detransformed however, she forgot to capture the akuma. This failure on her end resulted in the akuma multiplying and infecting innocent Parisian citizens. Her confidence plummeted and she rejected the Ladybug Miraculous out of guilt. She took them off, hiding them in her vanity until she could give them away.In "Stoneheart", the next day, Marinette watched the news report about the Stonehearts, with her confidence gone. She took the Ladybug Miraculous to school to give to Alya, believing that she would make a better hero. At the same time, she kept Ivan from being akumatized at first by helping him build his confidence toward Mylène Haprèle. Arriving to class, she saw Adrien poking at the gum on her seat and accused him of putting it there. She decided not to trust him, believing him to be the same as Chloé.When Stoneheart busted down Miss Bustier's classroom's door and took Mylène and Chloé captive, Marinette tried giving Alya her bag with the Ladybug Miraculous so that she could run and hide, but Alya left it behind. She chased after Alya and saw her nearly die when a car was thrown at her. With Cat Noir captured and Alya trapped, Marinette decided that she had to be Ladybug. She transformed, freed Alya, grabbed Cat Noir's staff, and went after him. Freeing Cat Noir, they went after the original Stoneheart who was on the Eiffel Tower.Ladybug caught Chloé when she was thrown off the Tower then tried to stop the police from firing on Stoneheart, but Agent Roger reminded her that she failed, agreeing with him that it was her fault, but Cat Noir encouraged her to try again. When Hawk Moth told her to give up her Miraculous, she reminded him that he was the villain and that they would take him down and swung her yo-yo at his akuma-face and captured all of them. Then promised Paris that she and Cat Noir would keep them safe and ran up the side of the Eiffel Tower, deciding the only way to free Mylène was to bring her and Ivan closer together. She summoned her Lucky Charm and received a parachute. Using her yo-yo Ladybug made Mylène kiss Ivan, causing him to drop his akumatized object. She broke the object and changed Ivan back to normal. To save Mylène, she dove off the Tower, grabbed her, captured the akuma and set her on the ground with help from the parachute. Using Miraculous Ladybug, she freed the other Stonehearts and returned the city to normal.The next day, she and Alya sat behind Nino and Adrien, until Chloé demanded her to move. After battling Stoneheart, Marinette gained the confidence to stand up to her until she moved. By the end of the day she ignored Adrien but accepted his apology for the gum incident. It was then that she fell in love with his kindness. Marinette finds herself stammering to say goodbye and Tikki playfully teases her about her crush. After that using the umbrella he gave her, she went home.In "Stormy Weather", Marinette babysat Manon Chamack for Nadja Chamack but found it hard to keep her under control. Until Alya convinced her to take Manon to the park so that she could watch Adrien's photoshoot. She tried to get Adrien's attention and somewhat succeeded but watched from the sidelines. Marinette bought Manon a balloon when she shouted at her interrupting the shoot. After Manon led her away to the carousel, Alya stepped in and made Marinette join Adrien's photoshoot. Before she could, Stormy Weather attacked and trapped Alya and Manon in ice. She transformed into Ladybug regretting she shouldn't have left and tried to free them, but was unsuccessful. Ladybug then left to find the villain, helped Cat Noir to his feet (after he was blown away and landed on his face); they fought against Stormy Weather but the duo was blown away twice and had a bus thrown at them.When they freed themselves, they ran to the KIDZ+ studio and broke down the door, but she wasn't there; falling into a trap. Stormy Weather turned off the lights and ran to the rooftop due to the darkness she was led by Cat Noir to the rooftops. Once there, Ladybug summoned her Lucky Charm receiving a bath towel while he defended them from the falling hail. She had him take down a billboard with his Cataclysm and as apart of as chain reaction Ladybug wrapped her yo-yo around Stormy Weather's ankle, preventing her from escaping. Then pulled her back to the ground and causing her to lose her umbrella. With a toss from Cat Noir she broke it, purified the akuma and returned the city to normal. Marinette returned to the park, intent on joining the photoshoot, but the photographer liked Manon better.In "Lady Wifi", Marinette and Tikki transformed into Ladybug and missed half of her classes due to an akuma attack. Afterwards they went home where Marinette spent the rest of the night working on her homework. When she received a note from Alya about Ladybug's identity she wanted to speak with her, but never got the chance because the WiFi was out in the neighborhood. The next day, Marinette was an hour late to school because she fell asleep doing her homework. Upon arriving, she found out Alya was suspended for a week because believed she thought that Chloé was Ladybug. Her outbursts made Miss Bustier to send her to Mr. Damocles but when she got to his office, she found him frozen from Lady Wifi's powers. Determined to save her best friend, Marinette transformed into Ladybug and went to Le Grand Paris to stakeout Chloé's home waiting for Lady Wifi with Cat Noir.When Lady Wifi appeared, they entered Chloé's room after Chloé was freed, the duo led Lady Wifi down to the basement to trap her. However, she caught onto their plan and set up a trap of her own in Le Grand Paris' restaurant. With Ladybug separated from Cat Noir; Lady Wifi caught her and tried taking off Ladybug's mask, but wouldn't budge. The hero tried to come to her rescue, but ended up trapped in the freezer by the villainess and she was released by Lady Wifi to free Cat Noir, but the event was broadcasted to the entire city. Ladybug used her Lucky Charm to set him free, came up with a plan to defeat Lady Wifi, and then waited, hoping Cat Noir would be fast enough to stop her before she detransformed. When he destroyed the WiFi antenna, she rushed to the roof to help defeat Lady Wifi and returned the city to normal. With only a minute left, Ladybug ran downstairs and detransformed in a closet. In her heart, she wanted to tell Cat Noir her identity, but in her mind, she knew it wasn't the right choice. The next day, Alya came over to her house to show Marinette, her new phone and some pictures of Adrien. She teased her about Adrien's pictures and the two girls chased each other around her balcony.For more on Marinette's story check out:
https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Marinette_Dupain-Cheng/History

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Occupation

Tailor/Seamstress

Marinette has been sewing from a young age. Her imagination ran wild and she started to create clothes for her dolls, then herself, then her family. It blossomed from there, creating more than just clothes. However, as she grew and got bullied and her confidence started to wane. Eventually she made her friends small things that she could keep hidden, refusing to sell any of her things. To keep sewing in her life, she became a seamstress and takes in clothes for others.

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Biography

Marinette grew up as an oddball kid but with a smile on her face. She had a family that loved her and encouraged her. Marinette was bullied in junior high and high school when she was bullied on her clumsiness and hobbies. The confidence she had built up with her family's help was crushed, but her love for creating things never dulled.While in college she made a friend, Luka Couffaine, who helped her combat the villains in her mind and help push past the lack of confidence. She didn't know or care about his past, she knew him as a good-hearted person. Blissfully unaware of her friend's fate, Marinette graduated with him by her side. She leaned on him as she applied to fashion brands to be a designer for them. Unfortunately, she got rejection letters or was ignored. It hurt to see her dream not come to fruition, but Luka had been by her side despite his own troubles.While waiting for acceptance letters, she got a job at "Mad as a Hatter" as a seamstress. She took in clothes, repaired anything that had to do with fashion, and in her downtime designed some of her clothes with the workshop she was given. She enjoyed what she did, and her boss, Jefferson Hatter (deceased), and the boss's son, Maddox Hatter were extremely good to her. Most of the time, Marinette spent time in the workshop even when she wasn't working to complete an outfit she was working on. She was either at her office or at home, she didn't go out much, though she always made time for Luka when he asked her to spend time with her.The more time she spent with him, the more her "tiny" crush developed and she practically jumped at the chance to hang out with him. The crush was reciprocated and Luka asked her to be his girlfriend on one of their "not dates." She was over the moon excited that she couldn't sleep that night and just sketched away in her sketchbook.The sketchbook was her lifeline to all her designs, it acted almost like a diary, especially since she didn't produce a lot of her style for more than herself or Luka. One day on the way to work, Marinette bumped into someone at the park causing both parties to drop their things on the ground. In her haste to get to work, the girls swapped sketchbooks and they weren't noticed until later during the day. Since neither of them knew the other, they had no way of giving back their sketchbooks. While Marinette made sure to take good care of the sketchbook, her heart raced wondering what would happen to her sketchbook. She did eventually get that back and in perfect condition, thus starting a friendship between Emily and herself.

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