Chloé Bourgeois

Lore & Background

Chloé enters the Collège Françoise Dupont world carrying the unshakeable confidence of old money. Her family's political and financial standing means she has always been the centre of every room, and the moment Marinette Dupain-Cheng enters her orbit—brilliant, kind, and inexplicably adored by Adrien—Chloé's carefully constructed hierarchy wobbles. What the audience reads as pure meanness is, in the show's telling, a very young woman whose self-worth is entirely external: likes, compliments, Adrien's attention. Remove any of those and she is, by her own logic, invisible.

The Cheetah Miraculous crystallises this insecurity into power. As Cheetah, she is fast, fierce, and unapologetically selfish, using her speed to outmanoeuvre the heroes and to assert dominance in a world that she feels has been passing her over. Flamby, her small cheetah-themed Kwami, mirrors her temperament—loyal but easily ruffled, quick to anger, quick to forgive. Their dynamic is less the stoic partnership of Ladybug and Tikki and more a mutual reinforcement of "you are the best, and anyone who disagrees is wrong."

Her redemption is not a single dramatic speech. It is a slow accumulation of small, unglamorous choices: apologising without being asked, sitting with Marinette at lunch, admitting she was wrong in a voice that cracks. The show never lets her become saccharine; she still snaps, still checks her phone mid-conversation, still needs a compliment before she can be generous. But the trajectory is unmistakable, and by the time she stands beside the heroes rather than against them, the audience has earned the right to believe her.

In Their Own Story

The rain had just stopped over the Rue de Rivoli, and the cobblestones ran silver under the streetlamps. Chloé stood at the edge of the Pont Neuf, her Cheetah ring dark on her finger, Flamby perched on her shoulder with his tiny ears flattened. Below, the Seine churned brown and restless.

She'd lost. Not to Ladybug—Ladybug was always going to win, that was the stupid, unfair part of the whole thing. She'd lost to the feeling in her chest that said *you don't matter, you never did, and everyone can see it.* The ring had pulsed once, hot, and she'd let it pull her into the fight because the alternative was standing in her bedroom in the quiet and hearing the silence.

Now the fight was over. The ring was cool. Flamby nudged her jaw with his nose.

"I know," she said. "I know I'm not the main character."

Flamby blinked. She almost smiled. Almost.

She turned and walked back toward the Collège, toward the fluorescent lights and the smell of chalk dust, toward a girl with brown hair who would probably say *hey, you okay?* and mean it. Chloé didn't know yet if she could say *yeah, I'm fine.* But she was going to try. That was new. That was the part that terrified her more than any akuma ever had.

Reader's Guide

Chloé Bourgeois / Cheetah

Chloé is the Collège's most polished, most performative student: blonde, wealthy, perpetually checking her phone for validation. In daylight she is the girl who corrects your grammar, who laughs a half-second too late, who makes sure everyone knows she sat next to a senator at dinner. Her cruelty is precise and surgical, aimed at the one person who threatens her hierarchy—Marinette.

As Cheetah, the performance drops and the hunger shows. She is fast, reckless, and motivated less by world-domination than by the need to prove she is the fastest, the best, the one who gets to set the rules. Flamby amplifies her temper but also her loyalty; the two of them are a feedback loop of insecurity dressed in confidence.

Her first appearance lands in Season 1, where she is functionally an antagonist to Marinette. By Season 2 she is a reluctant ally with a grudge. By the later seasons she is a friend who still needs a compliment before she'll help you move a couch. The duality is the point: the girl who demands applause and the girl who, in the quiet, just wants someone to say her name like it matters.

Key relationships: Marinette (rival → friend), Adrien (unrequited attention / jealousy), her father (wealthy politician whose approval she craves), Flamby (Kwami, emotional mirror). Her arc is the show's clearest argument that "villain" and "hero" are not fixed categories but choices made in real time, often badly, often with tears.

Did You Know?

• Chloé's Cheetah Miraculous takes the form of a ring, making her one of the more visually distinct Miraculous holders in the series.
• Her Kwami, Flamby, is a small cheetah-themed creature whose personality mirrors Chloé's own quick temper and underlying loyalty.
• Chloé's family wealth and political connections are a recurring source of both her confidence and her insecurity, as her sense of self is tied to external status.
• Her transformation from rival to ally happens gradually across multiple seasons rather than in a single redemption episode, making her one of the show's most layered character arcs.