Villains Contest 2: Candidate n°1 (Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth)
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Presentation:
Gabriel Agreste (born as Gabi Grassette) a.k.a Hawk Moth (and later Monarch) is the main antagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. He is a fashion designer and billionaire. He is the Adrien's father and the main enemy of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
His villainy's journey:
In his youth, Gabi Grassette was a punk boy who lived with his parents in a fry shop at Lille (France). He created designs in this period. He created clothes for his friends (Harry Clown and André Bourgeois). He was finally noticed and honoured by Audrey (André's future wife) the Style Queen. That made him the King of Fashion. When he went to Paris, he met Emilie Graham de Vanily (an aristocracy heiress) and the two of them fell in love each other. Meanwhile, a lot of people from the noblesse disapproved this relationship: The Graham de Vanily parents (especially the patriarch Emil) and Colt Fathom (a weapon seller). In same time, the forbidden couple tried to have children but Emilie was sterile. So, with the Nathalie Sancoeur's assistance, they travelled across the world to find a way to get their ideal child for better normally living like a real family. He even joined a secret society called the Kingdom and took the codename of The Diamond. After a dozen years, they found the Butterfly and Peacock miraculouses and a mysterious book in Himalaya mountains Tibet (China). Thanks to the Peacock miraculous and Duusu, Emilie, as the magic jewel user, managed to become pregnant. She created an amok and inserted the magic feather inside of the Graham de Vanily twin rings. So, their son Adrien was born. Meanwhile, the Peacock brooch was damaged that inflicted a disease to Emilie during the 13 next years before falling into her magic comatose. For Gabriel, this situation was unacceptable and he didn't supported the idea of losing his beloved wife. During this same period, he and Nathalie travelled across the world to find a cure to heal the ill woman. When Emilie fell in her comatose, Gabriel took the Butterfly miraculous and forced Nooroo to assist him in his new crazy quest: To find and take the Ladybug and Cat miraculouses in order of make the wish of bringing his wife back to life whatever the price/exchange the wish can require. He became Hawk Moth.
His biggest crimes:
14-15 years before the beginning of the main story, Gabriel tricked Colt and Tomoe by offering the broken Peacock Miraculouses to them. So they got their respective children (Félix and Kagami). Meanwhile, Colt died of his magic disease after a long time of agony and abuse toward his own son. And Tomoe lost her eyes next to the Duusu's power and wears cybernetic eyes instead.
During this One Year of terrorizing Paris, Hawk Moth akumatized a lot of people (good and bad people without any distinction) to try to take the miraculouses from Ladybug (Marinette) and Cat Noir (Adrien). His obsession to reanimate Emilie turned him into a strict, cold and abusive parent toward his son Adrien (despite the latter managed to enroll at Françoise Dupont middle school): He forbid the boy to make a birthday party, grounded him to go to school because of the disappearance of the Guardians' book. He even drove him to be an arranged couple with Kagami Tsurugi (Tomoe's daughter) due to a deal with Tomoe. Despite the fact that the Butterfly villain didn't wanted to hurt his son during the akumatized incidents, he was indirectly responsible to endanger the latter. In Gorizilla, he tried to verify if Adrien was Cat Noir. He akumatized Adrien's schoolmates (and friends) into supervillains in this same period (Nino into the Bubbler, Alya into Lady Wifi, Chloé into Antibug, Luka into Silencer, Kagami into Oni-Chan, etc.). He even tried to akumatized Marinette the Adrien/Cat Noir's love interest multiple times (See Ladybug (3.24), Elation (5.09) and Derision (5.14)). In the Heroes' Day, he orchestrated an evil plan to akumatize a mass number of Parisians as Scarlet Moth with the help of Catalyst (akumatized Nathalie). So, he led an army of akumatized scarlet supervillains to take control of Paris. But he failed. From New York, he took the entire world as hostage by threatening everyone to nuke the planet just for get the two superhero's magic jewels. He failed too. He failed to take the miraculouses from the superheroes in each incident. Even with the Nathalie/Mayura's help, Chloé's bullyish persona (main akumatization source) and the Lila Rossi's (not her real name) tricks didn't give chances to win. In civilian life, he recruited the latest girl to in reason of her deceptful nature to cause akuma incidents and to keep Adrien away from "bad influences" (Nino, Marinette and Adrien's other true friends) by ruining their lives (mainly Marinette's). He captured Master Fu the Guardian of the Miracle Box and convinced Chloé/Queen Bee to side with him to get revenge against Ladybug in reason of the fact that the blond brat was warned by the red-black spotted girl she cannot be Queen Bee anymore (that the blond girl never tolerated). At the end of the Battle of the Miraculous (3.25-3.26), Fu transferred his role of Guardian to Ladybug at the cost of his own memories.
When Gabriel got all the Miraculouses of the Miracle Box after a deal with Félix (Colt's and Amélie's son, Adrien's cousin and sentimonster) and exchanged the fixed Peacock brooch, he became Monarch. He travelled across the time with the Rabbit miraculous to win the Ladybug's and Cat Noir's easily but he was prevented by the heroes (helped by Alix/Bunnyx) and he lost the Rabbit's pocket watch. He was even hit by Cat Noir's Cataclysm in his left arm. In parallel, he worked with Tomoe to turn the stolen miraculouses into configured rings and to produce Alliance rings. With these things, he can transfer miraculouses' powers to his akumatized supervillains. He even imprisoned the captive kwamis inside single-bubble-cages. When Lila failed to break the Adrienette couple, he fired the brunette from his brand Gabriel (but he was unaware that the super liar knew his villain's identity). And the brunette double-crossed him during her akumatization into Hoaxer by stealing his personals informations (see Revelation (5.20)). He later convinced Chloé to become acting Mayoress of Paris after forging an audio of her father André that recorded (against the latter's will) and publishing it on TV media. The tyrannical blond brat was so arrogant and envious to get revenge against the two Parisian heroes that (after a Lila's advice) she listened and accepted the Monarch's alliance deal. She turned into Queen Mayor but Ladybug and Cat Noir unlocked their unlimited powers and overthrown the spoiled brat. Nextafter, Gabriel sent his son Adrien to London against the latter's will. Kagami was relunctantly sent to London too while she secretly dated Félix (and convinced him to ask help to Marinette/Ladybug to get their freedom to live their true love). Gabriel acted himself as the greatest opponent against the Marinette-Adrien romance. Next again, the old man temporarly akumatized himself into Nightormentor to send a magic cloud across the world. So all the affected inhabitants were cursed by nightmares in their minds and that drove everyone to upload the latest update on their Alliance rings. But everything was part of the Operation Perfect Alliance. Monarch and Tomoe used the rings to turn all the Alliance holders into a worldwide army of Miraculized that drove the entire world into chaos. The Miraculized were used to believe that Adrien and Kagami were kidnapped by Ladybug and Cat Noir but it was a fake record. In reality, the real two teen formers were confined in white different rooms under survey on London.
The final battle happened (Re-Creation (5.26)): Marinette turned into Bug Noire (fused with Ladybug and Cat powers) and fought against a crazy Gabriel/Monarch (who was slowly dying because of the Cataclysm he suffered from Cat Noir some months ago). Bug Noire managed to separate the Butterfly brooch from Gabriel (the brooch fell on the water and later retrieved by Lila in the aftermath). While Marinette was showing the Emilie's testimony and was reasoning with Gabriel about reconciling with Adrien, the remorseful old man stole the Ladybug and Cat miraculouses from the teenage girl. He forced Tikki and Plagg to fuse into Gimmi the kwami of Reality. He later used the Ultimate Miraculous Absolute Power of Gimmi to make his latest wish: to heal Nathalie from her magic illness (due to the use of Peacock power as Mayura) in exchange of his own life (and take his wife in the afterlife). But before, he requested Marinette to never tell Adrien that he was Monarch and to make the boy remember all his efforts to be a nice father toward him.
Despite he technically let the bakery girl and his son to live their romance, he let the girl insecure about his secret as Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch.
The reaction(s):
-Voldemort: "Wait a minute. You have got the two jewels that can control the reality itself. You let your own main enemy alive. But instead of accomplishing your goal of ressurect your wife, you made the wish of suicide yourself. You should sacrifice this blue-haired muggle girl for that."
-Sôsuke Aizen: "People can debate about who is the winner. Your final battle issue remains indecisive."
-Gabriel: "I just planned my own solution for the Adrien's sake."
-Palpatine: "Your son should be a better apprentice under my care if he discovers your villain's identity."
-Gabriel: "Who are you to say that ? 😠"
-Palpatine: "If I was the one who confronted Ladybug, I wouId took the Miraculouses so I would conquer the Reality and I would WON for real. 😏"
-The other Jury members: "Us too. 😒😒😒😒😒"
-Thanos: "I don't care about your Ladybug and Cat artefacts. I have my Infinity Gauntlet and I grant every random wish by exchanging by own health status. 😒"
The alternate plans imagined by the Villains in this post (R-13).
