Zoé Lee (aka Vesperia) is a teenage girl from New York City and a student in Ms. Mendeleiev's class at Collège Françoise Dupont. She is also Chloé Bourgeois' half-sister. She attended boarding school back in New York, where she used to live with her mother.
In "Sole Crusher", after hiding her true self in order to please her half-sister, Zoé is akumatized by Shadow Moth into Sole Crusher, a giant golden supervillain who has an ability to absorb people by stomping or kicking on them
In "Queen Banana", after Chloé is akumatized into the titular villain, Zoé receives the Bee Miraculous from Ladybug. When the Miraculous is inhabited by Pollen, Zoé becomes Vesperia, a bee-themed superhero who helps Ladybug and Cat Noir during particularly different missions in the fourth season and beyond.
In "Transmission", in order to allow Adrien to be free to love Marinette, Plagg takes back the Cat Miraculous from him and gives it to Zoé so she can take his place. When Plagg inhabits the Miraculous, Zoé becomes Kitty Noire, a cat-themed superhero, who becomes Scarabella's partner when she gets the Ladybug Miraculous.
After her secret identity as Kitty Noire is uncovered by Monarch, he formulates a plan to take her Cat Miraculous. This forces her to renounce the Miraculous back to Cat Noir.
Personality[]
Zoé is a very sweet girl. She can be very caring and nice to anyone that crosses her way, being even able to make friends with someone she has just met, like Marinette Dupain-Cheng. She is also very forgiving, showing this in Sole Crusher, after Marinette trips and falls on her. Zoé is also very generous, as she gave to the taxi driver that took her to Le Grand Paris the baking goods that Marinette gave her, after hearing from her how her children love them. She is also shown to be creative, shown to dye her hair and customize her own shoes.
Her greatest dream is to become an actress, and she is very skilled at doing so. However, because she was constantly acting a role, much like Lila Rossi and her lies, Zoé ended up concealing her true self and, when she was not able to do it anymore, she ended up having no friends back in New York. After moving to Paris to live with her maternal family, she pretends to be like her mother and half-sister in order to please them and be accepted by them. She also wants to fit in, which is why she is always acting. After being deakumatized, she learned that the way she was acting was wrong, and decided to finally stop hiding her true self.
However, despite learning to not let Chloé get in her way in things she likes (like taking her role as the star of Marinette's class' movie project), Zoé still avoids any type of conflict with Chloé in order to not give her any excuse to convince her parents to send her back to New York. This goes as far as avoiding any place inside the hotel where she is not allowed and where Chloé may be and/or doing any menial task for her, like cleaning all of her shoes.
Zoé also seems to be protective of Marinette and Adrien's relationship as she told the class that they shouldn't interfere with their forming relationship and constantly come up with crazy plans, she then went to Marinette's house to try and discuss it with her.
When Chloé tries to humiliate Marinette by trying to ridicule her dream of being Adrien's girlfriend, Zoé, moved by her desire to protect their happiness as a couple, gathers the courage she needed to confront her half-sister and drag her to her seat. She is shown to be very remorseful for her mistakes (unlike Chloé) as she felt bad for having her identity revealed to by Monarch due via the effects of Venom and of the Alliance Ring, causing the latter to be renounced off-screen when actually it wasn't her fault. According to Plagg, he told her that it was her own choice to call the shots and stand up to her half-sister, before saying farewell to her.
In "Queen Banana", at first she was hesitant in taking the Bee Miraculous knowing how Chloé would react, but Ladybug reassures her that unlike Chloé, she'll keep her identity a secret.
In "Optigami", she is instinctively protective of anyone as she wanted to pull Chloé down before Style Queen hit her.
As Vesperia, most of Zoé's personality remains the same and she's proven to be very clever using her acting skills that led to her sister's downfall. She can also act in a flashy way, similar to Queen Bee, but always shows a much humbler side. According to Plagg, she is more refined, sweeter and nicer than Queen Bee.
As Kitty Noire, she is showed to be rather competent and skillful when using her powers (despite the initial struggle when using her staff). She was able to take the right iniciative like using her Cataclysm to get access to the villain's akumatized object, failing only because of unexpected events (like the use of Resistance). Kitty Noire is also able to cooperate very well with others, even when she has just met them, as she was able to make a great teamwork with Scarabella moments after they had just met each other, with the two of them quickly coming up with a plan together to defeat a villain and execute it perfectly.
Similar to Cat Noir, she has a little of a flirtatious side.
As Sole Crusher, she is much more confident and refuses to let others boss her around. However, she is still willing to please Chloé, as she considers crushing Kitty Section just to be like her.
Trivia[]
- She will appear in Pooh's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- She will appear in Tino's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
- She will appear in Tabby's Adventures of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, and beyond, being part of The Tabbic Forces after Tabby the Fox vs The Mitchelles vs The Machines.
- Zoé's phone number is +33612443.
- The name of her akumatized form, Sole Crusher, is a pun and combination of the noun "sole", the bottom part of a shoe, and the saying "soul crusher", used to describe someone who is cruel and discouraging.
- Sole Crusher's French name, Pirkell is a pun on "Pire qu'elle", meaning "Worse than her", referencing her resembling Chloé.
- As of "Queen Banana", following Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, Nathalie Sancoeur, Luka Couffaine, Max Kanté, Kagami Tsurugi, Lê Chiến Kim, Alix Kubdel and Adrien Agreste, Zoé is the eleventh person to become a Miraculous holder and akumatized villain, excluding Gabriel Agreste, who akumatized himself.
- Her voice actress is Deneen Melody who also voice Kaalki and Mullo.
- As shown in Liam's Adventures of Pokémon the Series, in Pokemon Journeys, she has a yellow Rotom Phone, this is referencing to the color of her Bee Miraculous alter-ego, Vesperia.
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