Luka Couffaine

Luka Couffaine (aka Viperion) is a character from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

In "Silencer", when Bob Roth threatens Marinette after she accuses him of stealing Kitty Section's idea for XY's new song, he is akumatized by Hawk Moth into Silencer, a voice-stealing supervillain.

In "Desperada", after Adrien Agreste gives up being Aspik for not being able to help Ladybug against the titular villain, she gives Luka the Snake Miraculous. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Sass, he becomes Viperion, a snake-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir during "particularly difficult missions" in Season 3.

In "Truth", after Marinette refuses to tell him her secrets, Luka is akumatized and amokized by Shadow Moth into Truth, a three-eyed supervillain that forces people to tell the truth and his emotions form the giant eye sentimonster.

Bio

Unlike his sister Juleka, Luka is a calm boy who has a mixed personality of being playful, charming, mature and flirtatious. He is empathetic at reading people's emotions and expressing it through music. Luka is very kind and generous, especially towards his friends and family, but also to people he just met as he cheers Marinette up shortly after meeting her. Like Adrien, he is also supportive and encouraging towards others like his sister Juleka. Adrien himself describes him as brave, caring and determined.

Luka seems to be a easygoing and relaxed boy. However, sometimes he can lose his calm if feels that he and mainly his friends are being wronged, like when Bob Roth stole his band's music, dance and outfits and claimed them to be XY's. Despite everything, he tries to retain his cool, only getting really mad when Bob threatened Marinette.

As Viperion, most of Luka's personality remains the same like his caring and helpfulness as he tried to save Carapace by taking Party Crasher's attacks. Given his calm disposition, Viperion is focused, observant and not afraid to give suggestions or ideas to others.

As Silencer, his main goal is to make Bob Roth tell the truth regarding the fact he stole the Kitty Section's song as he takes the voices of anyone that could serve his purposes or get in his way. However, he still retains his care for Marinette, as she was the only person whose voice he spared and he reassured her he would make "justice" for her and Kitty Section.

As Truth, he is shown to be desperate to know Marinette's secret, attacking anyone that could possibly know it, like her best friends and her parents. He is shown to get frustrated quite easily, when they keep telling him a secret he already knows. However, he can prioritize other secrets when they have a much bigger meaning to him, like when he made his mother confess to him who was his father, causing him to abandon his search for Marinette's secret to know the all truth.

Appearance

Physical appearance

Luka is a tall, slender, attractive teenage boy of fair skin. He has a Roman nose, pale pink lips, light aqua blue eyes, and medium-length black hair that has dyed teal blue tips.

Civilian attire

His attire includes a white shirt with a black Jagged Stone imprint and black jeans ripped at the knee. He also wears a brown leather bracelet, yellow and orange wristbands, and his fingernails are painted black. He has a sky blue jacket with a navy blue hoodie underneath, as well as black high top converse with multi-colored splotches. He wears a black ring with silver outlining on his left pointer finger and black gauges in his ears.

As Silencer

Main article: Silencer (Character)

He has blue skin and he wears a pink, black and yellow-ish outfit with a jagged mouth on his helmet.

As Viperion

He wears a black, teal, and cyan suit, appearing to be slender and muscular. His suit has a snake texture along with the same kind of underbelly like a snake and has a cyan colored mask around his eyes. His eyes change from aqua to green as does his hair highlights. His weapon appears to be a lyre.

As Truth

He wears a black suit that covers all of his body with grey-green accents on the chest, shoulders and around the eye symbol on both of his knees. He has three eyes on his forehead and carries a eye necklace (his akumatized object) around his chest.

Abilities

As a civilian

Luka is excellent at playing his guitar and similar musical instruments. He is particularly good at creating melodies through people's emotions.

He claims to have been playing the guitar since he was a baby.

In "Frozer", Luka is good at ice skating and fairly strong as he can lift Marinette with ease.

As Viperion

Viperion has much more enhanced skills, such as speed, agility, and strength, and he is almost invulnerable to physical damage. Like a snake, he also has enhanced senses like hearing, smell, infrared vision and possibly the ability to feel vibrations but it is yet to be seen.

His special superpower is Second Chance, first, he marks a moment in time by sliding back the snake head on his Miraculous, the snake head slowly returns to place over the course of five minutes. Then, when needed, he slides the snakehead back again, reversing time back to the point he marked. This gives him the opportunity to change the outcome of a recent event. He is able to go back to the marked moment as many times as he wants before the snake's head returns to its original position.

As Silencer

Silencer can steal people's voices by touching their lips with his two fingers and making a shushing motion; the voice will then escape from the person as a jellyfish-like entity. Once their voices are out, he can store them inside his mask and then he can talk with them using his hands. If his power is used on a Miraculous holder, he can render them virtually powerless unless he says the invocations in their place.

As Truth

Truth is able to shoot beams from his upper eye, which forces people to tell the the truth. Those hit by the beam will have smaller pupils and have white lips, and any question asked to the victim will have no choice but to answer the truth.

Relationships

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Luka's relationship with Marinette is wholesome and slightly complicated. Their relationship is involved in a love triangle between Marinette, him, and Adrien Agreste. Luka knows that Marinette has feelings for Adrien, but instead of being jealous he supports Marinette and encourages her to shoot her shot with him. However, he lets her know that he'll always be there for her if things don't work out. Luka truly loves Marinette.

Marinette and Luka first meet in "Captain Hardrock" when his mother sends her down to go get him to rehearse with the band. Still bothered by Adrien not coming and not knowing who Luka is or what he looks like, Marinette is startled when she notices him and starts to stutter and mix up her words. He teases her playfully about her stuttering, but immediately regrets it when she frowns, embarrassed. He instantly apologizes and begins to play his guitar in an attempt to make her feel better. As Marinette listens to his playing, he remarks about how he believes that music is "often simpler than words". As a memento, he lets her keep a guitar pick of Jagged Stone that she admired. Luka said she was a "funny girl" with a sweet smile, and falls in love with Marinette at first sight.

The two exchange sweet glances to each other when Alya Césaire notices Marinette's interest in Luka immediately and teases her about it. Later, he helps Marinette escape his akumatized mother. Luka calls her "unbelievably brave" in front of Ladybug, and Marinette, as Ladybug, blushes at his comment.

Luka spends time with Marinette at the ice rink in "Frozer", which makes her begin to doubt her pursuit of Adrien Agreste. Marinette blushes as she and Luka skate together, and couldn't decide between him and Adrien when they both offer her their hand when she falls. Afterword, Luka figures out that Marinette has feelings for Adrien, but he just smiles and encourages her to go talk to him, thanking her for inviting him out. Marinette kisses him on the cheek and runs off to catch Adrien.

By "Silencer", Luka and Marinette are part of Kitty Section and spend more time together. Their mutual admiration for their work and care for each other is so strong that both of them enter to a studio to confront Bob Roth about stealing their ideas. When Bob threatens Marinette and her career, Luka gets angry enough to be akumatized. Even as Silencer, he retains his care for her, sparing her voice and promising to bring justice for her and Kitty Section. He also confesses his love for her, but Marinette was confused since he was possessed by the akuma. After his akumatization, Marinette asked if he meant what he said earlier, but Luka doesn't remember what he said. He said he hopes he didn't say anything mean, and repeats his declaration of love to her, this time as himself.

In "Desperada", Luka and Marinette hang out during rehearsals for Kitty Section, where he teaches her how to play his guitar. In "Battle of the Miraculous", he was working on a song for her, that he showed to her briefly before it was finished. Luka also helps by giving Marinette a lift to Le Grand Paris hotel, which she kissed him on the cheek for. Later that day, Marinette breaks down in front of him, crying about all her crushing responsibilities and how she feels like she can never be who she truly is. Luka holds Marinette and comforts her, letting her know that she can always be herself around him. Then, when he sees one of Miracle Queen's wasps flying towards them, Luka shields Marinette from it, taking the hit for her. After the battle, he goes out with Marinette and her friends for ice cream and plays her the finished song he wrote especially for her. In "Miraculous New York", he was willing to take her to catch up with the bus and see her off, saying that he hoped the trip would help bring her some clarity with her feelings.

By "Truth", it's official that he and Marinette are dating, but he grows worried with her constant disappearances and asks Marinette what's going on. When she tells him she can't say he becomes devastated enough that he is akumatized. Luka tries to resist, telling Shadow Moth that he should let Marinette tell him on her own instead of prying into her personal business. Eventually he gives in, but before he could be taken over completely, Luka tells Marinette to run. After he is deakumatized, Luka understands that with Marinette's secret, the two couldn't be together. He lets Marinette know that he'll wait until they can together again.

In "Crocoduel", he becomes saddened that Marinette continues to avoid him to the point where he nearly gets akumatized but avoids it with the help of his friends. After Jagged arrives, he was surprised she was there and was told they'll talk later and after his parents become deakumatized they make up and continue to be friends.

In "Wishmaker", he comes across Marinette while making his own booth at the career festival and described Marinette's inability to decide what she wants to do in life as "so many brass being played together at the same time being unable to hear the melody unless she listened closely."

Luka appears to respect Ladybug. They only interact briefly while Luka is not Viperion.

As Viperion, Luka assists Ladybug and Cat Noir with defeating akumatized villans. During "Desperada", Luka helped Ladybug escape from the titular villain and received her thanks. Ladybug trusts him, as she gave him a Miraculous, and also because she knows him while she's Marinette. Ladybug respects him too, since she's open to his ideas and accepts his orders when he is using his power of Second Chance. He has worked with her and the other superheroes in the battles with Hawk Moth and Mayura, as well as the defeat of Party Crasher. Like the other heroes on the team, Luka follows Ladybug's lead without question.

In "Wishmaker", Luka discovers that Ladybug is Marinette after she got hit by the titular supervillain, despite his initial shock he finally understood why, he used Second Chance to save her and prevent it from happening again. He ultimately kept her identity a secret to himself, and keeping Ladybug's promise by not telling her about it.

As Silencer, he gets annoyed with Ladybug interfering with his plans and has no qualms about taking her voice away.

As Truth, he gets annoyed with Ladybug interfering with his plans and has no qualms about using his powers to attempt to reveal her identity.

Trivia

• He will appear in Pooh's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
• He will appear in Tino's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
• Viperion's name is likely a portmanteau of viper (a family of venomous snakes) and Hyperion, a Titan of Greek mythology associated with the sun and daytime.
  • In Greek mythology, the priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as Pythia, stemming from the giant snake slain by Apollo (another god of the sun) "in the strength of Hyperion (day)."
    • Apollo is also known to have a lyre.
• Both Hawk Moth (in Party Crasher) and Ladybug (in Miracle Queen) have said that Viperion is the most difficult superhero to be against because of his superpower.
• Luka's surname Couffaine is a combination of "couffin" (French for "coffin") and the French suffix "-aine" (meaning "of or from a place"), ultimately meaning "of/from the coffin".
  • All the Couffaine's names so far end with "-ka".
    • However, it is actually a pun, as a matter of fact in French it sounds like "acouphène" which means "tinnitus".
• The name Luka means "light" in Latin.
  • In the Russian dub, his name is changed to Luke.
• Luka is the second known character to use the Snake Miraculous, the first being Adrien.
• Luka Couffaine is the sixth person to become to a Miraculous holder who was also an akumatized villain, following Nino Lahiffe in "The Bubbler" and Alya Césaire in "Lady Wifi", Lê Chiến Kim in "Dark Cupid", Max Kanté in "Gamer", Chloé Bourgeois in "Antibug", but excluding Gabriel Agreste\Hawk Moth, who akumatized himself in "The Collector" into the titular villain.
• In "Desperada", he claims to have been playing the guitar since he was a baby.
• According to Feri González, Luka is a handsome boy and people "are going to fall in love with him."
  • She also noted that both Luka and Kagami Tsurugi are "charming, rounded characters" who are not limited to roles as alternate love interests.
• Luka is the third person to be able to resist akumatization, following Caline Bustier and Chloé Bourgeois, but is unable to prevent it from happening, much like how it happened with Miss Bustier in "Zombizou".
• In "Wishmaker", Luka discovers that Ladybug is Marinette and Cat Noir is Adrien, after they were hit by Wishmaker, but he used Second Chance to save them and prevent it from happening again, he ultimately kept their identities a secret to himself, and keeping Ladybug's promise by not telling her about it.
• As shown in Liam's Adventures of Pokémon the Series, in Pokemon Journeys, he has a turquoise Rotom Phone, this is referencing to the color of his Snake Miraculous alter-ego, Viperion.

Gallery

As Viperion

Luka's kwami Sass

As Silencer

As Truth