Félix Graham de Vanily

Félix Fathom is a major character of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, serving as the titular main antagonist of the episode "Félix", a major antagonist of Season 4, a major anti-hero of Season 5 and a recurring character of Season 6. He is the son of the late American billionaire, Colt Fathom and the British aristocrat, Lady Amélie Graham de Vanily. He is also the nephew of the late Émilie Agreste and the late Gabriel Agreste, as well as the maternal cousin of Adrien Agreste.[7] In "Representation", it is revealed he is a human-sentimonster created by his father from his emotions of jealousy in order to make his wife pregnant. In "Gabriel Agreste", when he was convinced that Gabriel was Shadow Moth, Félix was nearly akumatized. However, the akumatization failed as Félix rejected it and managed to escape. In "Strikeback", while disguising himself as his cousin Adrien, Félix was temporarily given the Dog Miraculous from Ladybug which, when inhabited by Barkk, allowed him to transform into Flairmidable, a dog-themed superhero with the power of Adoration. After being able to capture Ladybug's yo-yo using the power of Fetch, Flairmidable traded all of the Miraculouses in the yo-yo including the Dog Miraculous and his uncle's ring for the Peacock Miraculous, thus becoming Duusu's new owner, and also protecting his own existence. In "Emotion", Félix returned to Paris and, wanting to get rid of everyone in the city all while ensuring what he thinks is the happiness to those he cares about, he used the Peacock Miraculous which, with Duusu inhabiting it, allows him to turn into Argos, a peacock-themed Miraculous holder with the power of Emotion. He used his anger and hate to create Red Moon, a moon sentimonster that allowed him to cause anyone he wanted under its light to disappear and reappear, with a snap of his fingers. In "Pretension", Félix returned once again to free Kagami from her strict mother and also to get to know her better. In "Representation", Félix returned to reunite with Kagami in order to help her tell Marinette (after finding out that she's Ladybug from the latter) the truth through their projector sentimonster: Once Upon a Time, revealing he and his cousin Adrien are sentimonsters, why (to his regret) he betrayed her, and that he was created by his late father out of jealousy towards Adrien's parents for having a child before him, who constantly abused and tortured him through his childhood before his passing. They urged her to stop Monarch so everyone could be free and have a happy ending. At the end of "Re-creation", Félix became the newest member of the French Miraculous superhero team as Argos. In "Revelator", it's shown that Félix, along with the other secondary heroes of Ladybug's team, was trained to unlock his adult powers, no longer detransforming after using his power. Appearance Physical Appearance Félix is tall with blond, combed-down hair parted at left with a piece hanging in the front of his head and bright green eyes that are a little darker than his cousin Adrien. He is borderline identical to Adrien, including sharing the same skin-tone. The only noticeable differences are their clothes and the different ways they style their hair. Civilian Attire He wears a light gray, long-sleeved dress shirt with a black neck tie underneath a dark gray vest, darker gray dress pants, and black dress shoes, also wearing a silver ring on his right hand, which contains his amok. In Season 6 onwards, he no longer wears his neck tie. As Flairmidable Given that his appearance was similar to Cat Noir's, Flairmidable had messy hair which, unlike Cat Noir's, didn't cover his ears, and was instead combed at left. His outfit consisted of an orange suit with white on his torso and arms and dark-grey pauldrons on his shoulders and legs, the leg pauldrons having sections extend up to the sides of the thigh. His weapon, a ball, hung on his turtle neck that had dark grey sides and a swan-neck, and white boots with dark grey outsoles. He also wore orange and white corgi ears and a mask consisting of the same colors to cover his face, having a white bottom with arched sides and a diamond-like point on top similar to the design of his kwami, Barkk. He also had a small orange scraggy tail. hen transformed, the collar necklace became like it normally does when Miss Hound transforms. As Argos Argos wears a stunning sapphire blue jumpsuit adorned with light mint lines running down each side on the legs. The lines have a design featuring diagonal dark blue peacock feathers, trimmed in cerulean with a light pink button on top, accented by the one on his zipped up turtleneck that has dark blue lining, and on the top of his boots acting as a slider, as well as his cuffs and around the feet, the three straps securing each side of his torso, and the large pieces on either side of his hood. Over the jumpsuit, he dons a stunning sapphire blue cloak, which has a light mint interior. The bottom of it is widely jagged, with a main downward point in the middle. The cloak features a five-pointed tail resembling a peacock tail, with each point designed like a dark blue peacock feather featuring a light blue center. The hood of the cloak has the pieces on top of it adorned with three light turquoise linear appendages with blue diamond-shaped feathers on top. He completes his look with dark blue gloves and blue high boots with darker soles. Argos has pale indigo skin, light magenta irises, and vivid violet sclera. His hair is light green, retaining his normal hairstyle as Félix, and he wears the Peacock Miraculous at the center of his jumpsuit. In Season 6 onwards, his eyes become light blue and the sclera becomes white like as Félix. Personality Similar to Gabriel, Félix changed when his father passed away, meaning he wasn't always mischievous. This is later showed in "Representation" to have been because of the control his father had on him due to the amok placed on his ring. As Colt would abuse his control over his son due to the deep hate he had on him for considering him the reason why his life force was being drained slowly, Félix was always perceived as being an obedient son that would do what his father wanted. After Colt's death and Félix inheriting his ring (the object that contained his amok), the latter was able to obtain his own freedom and be who he really was. Despite both being identical in appearance as much their respective mothers were between each other, Félix was the complete opposite of his twin cousin in terms of personality. This is due to the fact that both were shaped by very different emotions. Unlike Adrien who is kind and gentle, Félix was rude, sneaky, and according to Ladybug, very pushy, especially when it came to getting what he desired, even being willing to negotiate with Hawk Moth and put others in danger. Adrien, as Cat Noir, said to him, "I bet you don't have a lot of friends, acting the way you do", implying that, Félix didn't get along well with others because of his mischievousness. And yet, it could be that Felix wasn't mischievousness for the sake of it but out of fear of losing those he loved or close to because of his father and didn't want anyone else to suffer because of him. Despite these negative traits, Félix is shown to genuinely care for his family. With the exception for his father and uncle, he has a deep affection for the rest of his family members, especially his mother, aunt and cousin. This is especially showed in his relationship with his mother, as he is willing to do anything to please her, including to steal the Graham de Vanily ring. Despite he doesn't like how Adrien is too much nice (something that causes him to tease him by pretending to be him and cause him some trouble), Félix does love his cousin and would do anything to make him happy, including to free him from the oppression of the latter's father. By "Gabriel Agreste", he hasn't changed that much, but he is seen having a much heroic figure as he became determined to discover if Gabriel was Shadow Moth and threatened to expose him. In "Risk", it seemed that he became much more heroic, less villainous and somewhat rebellious. He was perceptive enough to convince Adrien to disobey his father for once. He was also very stubborn, as seen that upon seeing Adrien's message about his cousin telling him to stop (saying he was on his way), Félix disregarded and deleted the message, and continued his act. However, he was understandably horrified when he found that his aunt was in a comatose state and hidden in Gabriel's bunker. Félix is perhaps best categorized by sneakiness, selfishness and a lack of culpability or concern for others as long as he got what he wanted. These traits became exacerbated when he became Flairmidable, and he explained to Ladybug that the newfound power she gave him made him feel invincible. His actions in offering an alliance with Shadow Moth in exchange for the twin rings and willingly giving out all but two active Miraculouses to his evil-intentioned uncle in exchange for the Peacock Miraculous indicated that he was not above nor had any hesitance or remorse in committing criminal acts or endangering innocent lives if it would advance his agenda. In "Emotion", underneath all the coldness and selfishness, he harbors great hate and resentment towards everyone that uses their authority to repress the freedom of others, something that sterns from the very abuse he endured at his father's hands. This caused him to desire a world where everyone can be free and live as they want and goes to great lengths to do it, including betraying those who trusted him as he did with Ladybug in "Strikeback" or creating a sentimonster that allowed him to destroy anyone he wanted, using that to blackmail the heroes of Paris to give him their Miraculous. However, despite his pure intentions of creating a free world, he did not perceive that, by using his powers vengefully, he acted like those he hated, something that Ladybug pointed out when she compared him to Monarch in doing what they thought was right, but causing much more trouble than needed. His vision of a world without oppressors also includes the ones he cares about and sympathizes with, as he spares Adrien and Kagami, seeing them as equals who also experienced the same pain as him. He is even willing to spare the ones they care about or that he considered to be worthy of his envisioned world, like Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the girl Adrien loves and Kagami's best friend who was able to prove herself worthy by showing how much she cared for Adrien, even being willing to crash an exclusive event like the Diamond's Dance. After seeing how upset Adrien and Kagami were by his actions and how he couldn't find Marinette, believing he accidentally erased her and was unable to bring her back, unlike everyone he hates, he started to realize the error of his ways and bring everyone else back. His hatred towards oppressors also blinded him as Félix didn't understand the difference between an oppressor and authoritative figures such as with Ladybug and by letting him see the error of his ways Argos begins to understand why the world needs such figures and why Miraculouses can't be used so selfishly. However, even if he saw the flaws of it, he still stood by the virtues of his vision as he later separated Kagami from her mother as he didn't like seeing her being controlled and protected her despite her rejection of his help, even breaking his own weapon to prevent her akumatized mother from finding her which shows he can be selfless towards those he cares about. Also, according to Kagami, her getting spied on and kidnapped by Félix as Argos just so he could to talk to her and due to him being excluded made her believe he lacks social skills. Unlike the recent Peacock Miraculous holders before him, he cares very deeply for the sentimonsters that are created by its power, including his, as he felt sorry for Strikeback and its clones when Ladybug and her team sent them to the sun, and when he realized the error of creating the Red Moon to satisfy his selfish desires, caused him to act like his predecessors leading him to free it from reality in great grief. During "Pretension", his escapade in "Emotion" left him deeply scarred and yet with the better understanding he needed, viewing the sentimonsters as more than just creatures that can do their creator's bidding, as it is the creator's duty to care for and guide them as he refused to create them just so their lives could be taken in the end. And yet, he acted somewhat similar to Chloé as both were scarred by the pain of the past and by letting it stir them in the present which led to actions in the future that caused nothing but trouble for everyone else. With Félix's intense hatred of being excluded it could imply that maybe he was like that his whole life unaware he did the same to Ladybug and Cat Noir, like he was waiting for someone to give him the power he craved but didn't, as opposed to Chloé who lived her life in power but she wrongfully thought she had what she deserved taken from her otherwise. As of "Representation", Félix changed dramatically. He shed his villainous personality, becoming as kind and caring as his cousin. He helped Kagami escape her mother, and when Kagami told him Ladybug's secret identity, Félix was skeptical that such a naïve girl could be a superheroine with whom he had a very complicated relationship, but accepted the truth. Félix was also very sympathetic towards Marinette as she was in a vulnerable state. He felt back for her seeing her heart being broken from being separated from Adrien, but gently assured Duusu, his Kwami, that they were only doing this so that everyone will have a happy ending, showing that, unlike his uncle or Nathalie, he is very kind and gentle towards Kwamis. Félix and Kagami bait Marinette to the school, where Félix reveals his tragic past, along with Gabriel revealed to be Monarch. With this information, Marinette was able to defeat Monarch once and for all in "Re-creation". Abilities As Félix Félix is a master of magic tricks and a skilled pickpocket. He is also good at basketball, being able to score a basket while facing away from the hoop. According to Adrien, he is also skilled in martial arts. This was seen when he was able to fight with three akumatized supervillains (Lady Wifi, Princess Fragrance and Reflekta) simultaneously, as well as when he easily kicked Lady Wifi's tablet right out of her hand. In "Multiplication" he is revealed to be a triple kung fu medalist. Félix demonstrates ingenuity and psychological flexibility as he tends to come up with creative solutions and resist external pressure. In "Risk", Félix returns to Paris with various high-tech devices to expose his uncle, such as a jammer to disable security cameras and open safes. His most used item is an eyepiece, resembling a monocle, with a red lens; it is capable of x-ray vision and detecting hidden details on objects, such as fingerprints. In "Multiplication" he is also revealed to be a horse riding medalist, chess prodigy, and England's youngest graduate. As Argos Argos has enhanced physical characteristics: speed, strength, and agility. He showed considerable hand-to-hand combat skills against more experienced combatants. Argos is able to infuse a feather plucked from his hand fan with his power, transforming it into an amok, and send it out to possess an object owned by a chosen target, with whom he can communicate telepathically. While he is communicating, a blue curved peacock mask appears in front of him and his target's faces. His actions will then give an emotion from his target a physical form of that person's choosing, which would act as the target's ally until recalled via a snap of his fingers, which will release it from existence. Even if he didn't create them, Argos can either bring back to life dormant sentimonsters or dispel them through their Amoks. As Flairmidable Flairmidable had enhanced physical characteristics such as speed, strength and agility. He also had the superpower Fetch, allowing him to use his ball to track any object he had tagged with it beforehand and then teleport it to him once the ball touched it. Notes Émilie Agreste mysteriously disappeared before the events of Season 1. She's later revealed to have fallen in a coma from using the broken Peacock Miraculous to create Adrien Agreste, and that she's kept in a glass coffin in a garden under the Agreste mansion. The three deceased members of this family tree died due to the Miraculous. Émilie Agreste and Colt Fathom were victims of the damaged Peacock Miraculous, while Gabriel Agreste sacrificed himself by making a wish to save Nathalie. Without the wish, Gabriel would have died from the Cataclysm anyway. Etymology Félix was the original name of the Cat Noir character in the PV, who was later replaced by Adrien.[8][9][10] This character was discarded as Thomas Astruc believed Félix was not purposeful to the series, as he came off as an anime cliché[11], and no one was convinced his dynamic with Ladybug as a couple of heroes to be appropriate.[12] For a while, Thomas considered bringing Félix back at some point[13], but since then, he did not have intentions to use him, eventually outright stating that PV Félix will never appear.[14] Despite the fact that Félix as Cat Noir was scrapped, his design and name were reused to create Félix Fathom, Adrien's cousin.[8][9][10] The most notable differences between the two are PV Félix's eye color being steely grey instead of green and his hair being combed in the opposite direction. Félix's name was inspired by the Latin word for happy/lucky.[15] Félix's last name, Fathom, is an English word that, as a verb, means "to understand/comprehend". This fits his character, as Félix is always trying to understand everything around him.[16] Despite using his father's last name, Félix does prefer his mother's much better, finding it to be as noble, pretty and elegant as her.[16] His name Flairmidable is a combination of "Flair" (meaning style, poise or finesse) or the French word "flairer" (sniffing, smelling) and "Formidable" (meaning great, talented or mighty). Félix having the Dog Miraculous and Adrien having the Cat Miraculous symbolize their counterpart dynamic with cats and dogs often being considered opposites. Interestingly, both boys possess traits of the other's Miraculous animal, as Félix is shown to be solitary and self-centered (traits associated to cats), while Adrien is faithful and loves being with his friends (traits associated to dogs). Argos is named after the Greek myth of Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant whose eyes were placed into the feathers of the peacock by Hera after his death. Trivia So far, Félix is the second person after Cerise, other than Plagg, to know about Adrien's former crush on Ladybug. He is the third person to resist akumatization, following Chloé and Alya. He is the second person chronologically to discover Gabriel's identity as Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch, after Nathalie. He's possibly the second person after Gabriel to know Nathalie's identity as Mayura. As seen when Ladybug reads his Wikipage in "Multiplication", Félix's birthday is either February 12th or December 2nd Félix is the first occasional superhero to not return a Miraculous after a mission. The third not wanting to return the Miraculous following Alya and Chloé. The second to use it for selfish reasons following Chloé. Thanks to Félix, Gabriel had access to almost all the Miraculous in the Chinese Miracle Box. The only Miraculouses Félix didn't give to Gabriel in their exchange are the Peacock Miraculous (which Félix owns from the exchange), the Ladybug Miraculous, and the Cat Miraculous. However, Gabriel would end up having the Rabbit Miraculous taken from him by Canigirl in "Evolution". According to Félix himself, despite he saw helping his uncle steal the Miraculous as a necessity to retrieve the Peacock Miraculous to secure his own existence and prevent its power from being abused, he does regret to have done it, as he knows how evil his uncle really is.[16] This regret, together with his desire to free Adrien (and then Kagami), may have been the catalyst for his decision to create Red Moon and use it to either force Ladybug and Cat Noir to give him their Miraculous so he can have his wish for a free world granted or use his sentimonster to transform it. Following Dark Grimalkin, his aunt and cousin, Félix is the fourth known person of English origins to wield a Miraculous. Through his father, he is the eighth person from the Western Hemisphere to wield a Miraculous following Micazoyolin, Gilbert du Motier, La Mariquita, his father, Alya, Jessica Keynes, and Zoé Lee. Similar to Zoé due to his American origins, he is also the first known person from the Western Hemisphere to wield the Dog and the second known person to wield the Peacock Miraculous after his father. He is the fourth known sentimonster to use a Miraculous, after Adrien, Kagami and Sentinino. As of "Re-creation", He becomes the first member of the French Miraculous superhero team to use a Miraculous originally to be a supervillain and later use it to become a hero. He also becomes the seventh member of the French Miraculous superhero team to use another Miraculous. The first is Marinette with the Mouse, Fox, Cat, Dragon, Bee, Horse, Rabbit and Butterfly Miraculouses, the second is Adrien with the Ladybug, Snake and Rabbit Miraculouses, the third one is Master Fu with the Turtle and Peacock Miraculouses, the fourth one is Alya with the Ladybug Miraculous, the fifth one is Alix with the Dog Miraculous and the sixth one is Zoé with the Cat Miraculous. He is also the only member of the French Miraculous superhero team who has not yet been officially akumatized/kamikotized. Since he rejected his akumatization in "Gabrel Agreste" before he had officially become an akumatized villain. He is so far the most recent member of the French Miraculous superhero team to meet/interact with Lila/Cerise in "Strikeback". He is the fifth person chronologically to discover Marinette's identity as Ladybug, after Alya, Su-Han, Luka, and Kagami. Before "Representation", there've been hints suggesting that Félix is a Sentimonster: Félix proved to be interested in the Graham de Vanily Twin Rings, which are later revealed to be containing Adrien's amok. He was said to be after "a piece of jewelry" and was willing to make an exchange. In "Gabriel Agreste", the Sentimonster clone of Gabriel Agreste says that he "only needs to snap his fingers to make Félix disappear" which scares Félix. After his debut episode, every time Félix appears, a Sentimonster shows up or is mentioned. In "Risk", after Félix stole from Gabriel's safe both the fake Peacock and Butterfly Miraculous and in "Strikeback", he unsuccessfully tried to activate the fake Peacock Miraculous. In "Strikeback", Félix felt grief after the Strikebacks were teleported to the Sun. In "Multiplication", Félix answered Duusu that "he was more than just her holder". In "Emotion", along with Kagami (and later Adrien), Félix was the few existing people on his "free world". Also, he noticed something which shocked him when he saw Kagami's ring. Additionally, when Argos cried before releasing Red Moon of existence, he called her "my sister". In "Pretension", Félix claims that sentimonsters should not be called "monsters". Also, he said that whenever a living being is bring to Earth, the progenitor/creator is responsible to show the meaning of the life and their existence, and when asked by Kagami if he was talking about himself, he told her he was talking about both of them, hinting that Kagami is a sentibeing too. Despite wanting to free Adrien and Kagami from their parents, for some unknown reason, Félix didn't participate in the final battle against his uncle's Miraculized army nor was it revealed if he tried to find his cousin and girlfriend. This could be because his nightmares were tormenting him too much and/or was protecting his mother. He, along with Marinette, Adrien, Luka, Alix, Ivan, and Mylené don't wear Alliance rings. The only reason Félix doesn't wear an Alliance ring is because of his hatred for his uncle. Besides his need to secure his own existence and prevent its power from being abused, the other reason for Félix to want to possess the Peacock Miraculous is its importance to him due to its role in his family's history. The fact it was used by his father to create him and also was used by his aunt to create Adrien, he considers the Peacock Miraculous as part of the legacy of the Graham de Vanily family and, similar to his mother regarding the Graham de Vanily Twin Rings, couldn't just stand watching someone like his uncle use its power.[16] He has the shortest transformation sequence out of all the Miraculous holders. Currently, twelve characters know Félix is Argos: Gabriel, Adrien, Marinette, André, Audrey, Chloé, Tomoe, Kagami, Ali, Soraya, Amélie and Nathalie. Gabriel always knew that Félix was now in possession of the Peacock Miraculous when they made an exchange in "Strikeback". Adrien, Marinette, André, Audrey, Chloé, Tomoe, Kagami, Ali, Soraya and Amélie discovered or showed that they knew his identity in "Emotion". Nathalie showed knowledge when she overheard Gabriel and Tomoe's conversation in the former's lair in "Pretension". Many unidentified civilians were shown to have knowledge of his identity when he revealed himself in public in "Emotion". However, as Félix was posing as Adrien at that time, it is unknown if they know the full truth of what happened and if that is really Félix. This makes Félix the third character to have the most characters knowing his superhero identity, following Chloé and Alix. Chronologically, he is the second known sentimonster to have control of himself, the first being the Dormant Sentimonster. However, considering Kagami was in possession of her ring (her amokized object) when she was introduced (before Félix's introduction), it's unknown if she has had control over herself before Félix did. Due to the nature of his superpower, Amokization, allowing him to create a sentimonster that can last after he had detransformed, it's unknown if Félix, as Argos, managed to unlock his adult superpowers or if he, like the rest of the Miraculers in "Revelator", had to be taught by Ladybug and Cat Noir. Considering he is not seen training with the others, it's very possible that he had already unlocked his adult powers, making him (possibly) the third of the Miraculers to do so, after Ladybug and Cat Noir. However, if he had to train as well, it's unknown if he went to create a Sentimonster to start the countdown for his detransformation, considering his reservation to do so unless extremely necessary.