Felila

Fila is the het ship between Félix Fathom and Lila Rossi from the Miraculous Ladybug fandom.

Canon
Lila Rossi is an Italian student attending Collège Françoise Dupont. She is in Miss Bustier's class. Félix Fathom is Adrien Agreste's cousin and son of Amelie Graham de Vanily.

Intro
Lila and Félix share a lot in common, as they are both master manipulators. Both of them have done similar things, such as impersonate Adrien, manipulate others for their own personal gain, lie to their parents, and have harmed others as it works in their favor. Still, they have one key difference: Lila is an energetic and extroverted girl. She often lies to increase her reputation, so that she can benefit off of everyone in her school. As soon as she sees a social threat, such as Marinette, she does whatever she must to eliminate said threat in order to keep everyone wrapped around her finger, so she can continue to get whatever she wants. Félix is just as skilled if not more, but he doesn't do this. He has manipulated others only when essential for his own good. He keeps to himself and spends most of his time alone. He shows no interest in forming superficial relationships in the way that Lila does. Still, he usually has a lack of remorse or guilt for his actions when he harms others for his own benefit.

Considering this, it's unclear whether the two would make a good pair or not. In one instance, it's easy to assume that they'd work well together because they're good at plotting things. However, on the second hand, they both live by "my way or the highway". It could be that if they worked together, they'd constantly reject each other's inputs and be in constant disagreement. Knowing Lila and Félix, this could be a bad argument at best, but likely much worse. However, let's analyze what we've seen so far:

Volpina
This episode is an important one. It introduces Lila as a compulsive liar with no conscience, however the viewers are still unaware of how immoral she is, as she doesn't do much harm to Marinette or Adrien in this episode. However, this does make us aware of her short temper; Adrien is a famous model, and Lila knew she could benefit from dating him. She took him to the park and came up with a lie about her being the descendant of a vixen superhero named Volpina. Adrien was fooled, until Ladybug showed up and told her off. Earlier that day, Lila lied on Alya's LadyBlog and made a ton of people believe that she was in a close friendship with Ladybug. This is how Marinette found out that she was ingenuine, and she got rightfully frustrated, as Lila was now flirting with the love of her life, effortlessly deceiving him in order to make him like her. Marinette transformed into Ladybug and screamed at Lila, telling her to stop lying about them having a friendship. Ladybug did this right in front of Adrien. Lila was so embarrassed, she ran out of shame, and then, as if it was the universe's way to rub salt in the wound, Lila saw an advertisement on the street that had Ladybug on it. That's when she lost it. She threw a tantrum in the middle of the street, throwing her bookbag at the advertisement and then falling to her knees, on the verge of tears. That's when she got akumatized by Hawk Moth into Volpina. She pretended to be a superhero, and acted as if she was on Ladybug and Cat Noir's side. They fell for it, until Volpina threatened Ladybug into giving her her miraculous. Still, Volpina almost got Ladybug to give up her miraculous twice, and she was the only akumatized villain ever to almost get Ladybug to willingly hand over her miraculous.

Catalyst
Lila is shown to have a complicated relationship with her mother who is always away. The scene began with Lila on facetime with the classroom, pretending to be on a magical trip in the kingdom of Achu. As soon as she hangs up, she is revealed to be alone in her room. Her mother walks in, staring at her phone and not even glancing at her own daughter. She asks Lila who she was talking to on the computer, and Lila lies to her, telling her she was on a call with her "boyfriend" Adrien, who misses her so much during her quarantine from the akumatizations. Her mother then asks about the school re-opening, and Lila insists that the school remains closed down due to all of the akumatizations occuring in Paris. Mrs. Rossi tries to call Mr. Damocles, the school principal, but Lila panics and tells her that he had been akumatized and is unreachable. Though the situation sounds blatantly unrealistic, her mom did not double check, and just decided to trust Lila and get back to her job.

Clearly, Lila doesn't flinch at the thought of deceiving her own mother, and it is a possibility that her lack of parental attention may have traumatized her from a young age, causing her to seek out love from superficial sources. This could be what developed her instinct to lie, as it's shown that she's extremely used to showing a lack of respect for her own parental figure. Lila can come up with a fake defense in the span of a second, and that is a great red flag on how she was brought up. This kind of reflex should not be taken lightly, and it comes to show that she lives her life in constant threat. Her parents likely play a large role in this mentality.

As opposing to this, Félix is generally shown to be receiving unconditional love and support from his mother, Amelie Graham De Vanily. However, the two do have a common link that relates to their absent fathers. Félix had lost his late father some time ago, while Lila's was never mentioned or seen in the series. This likely indicates that her father may have passed away as well, or that he had left his family. However, Lila and Félix both put on an innocent front when around their mothers. Both Lila and Félix are ingenuine with their acts of kindness.

Chameleon
Both teenagers are cunning and have sided with Hawk Moth for their own personal gains, along with helping Hawk Moth find people to akumatize. Lila has even served him on more than one occasion, one of the times being when Hawk Moth akumatized her into Chameleon, giving her the ability to shapeshift into anyone she kisses. Lila used this power to make herself look like Adrien, and then proceeded to insult his best friend, Nino, in order to make Adrien look bad, as well as trying to kiss Ladybug in order to knock her out and take her miraculous.

Felix
This is similar to how Félix later dressed up as Adrien and recorded a video of himself saying hurtful remarks to his friends in response to a video they sent Adrien to show their appreciation and empathy for him. This troubled Adrien and his honor, and led to three of his friends getting akumatized. As well as harming Adrien's reputation by hurting his friends, Félix also tried to kiss Ladybug without her consent after finding out that Adrien had a crush on her. Lila is aware of Félix's existence, due to that very time when he dressed up as Adrien and recorded himself saying rude comments to all of his friends. She was on a call with them when it happened, and she was the one who sent his video to Gabriel Agreste. That's how Hawk Moth knew to akumatize them in the first place. It's fair to say that in some sense, Lila and Félix had already subconsciously worked together, causing three akumatizations due to each other's inputs.

Timetagger
The show has given possible hints, likely foreshadowing that Lila is the Hawk Moth of the future. In the episode, it is revealed that there will be a different butterfly miraculous holder in the future. In the episode, Nino needs a babysitter for his younger brother, Chris Lahiffe. The episode ends with Lila babysitting Chris, and lying to him, causing him to think very highly of her. This is seen as incredible foreshadowing, considering it was Chris' future teenage self who got akumatized by the future Hawk Moth in the episode, not to mention that Lila didn't appear in the episode until that very scene. Her appearance wasn't relevant, which is why it is likely foreshadowing her future as the next butterfly miraculous holder.

Strikeback
In Strikeback, the last episode of Season 4, Félix meets Lila on the StarTrain, while pretending to be Adrien, who is supposed to be going on a round-the-world trip with Lila. She didn't know Félix was deceiving her, and told "Adrien" that they were going to become the best of friends by experiencing their long trip together. Félix responded with a seemingly genuine smile, and told her that he hopes so with all of his heart. He then got up and left to go to the bathroom, where he'd attempt to transform using the peacock miraculous. Lila countered his kind remark with a confused expression on her face, considering she knows how much Adrien truly dislikes her. While Félix is known to be a clever guy, he doesn't seem to know much about Adrien's relationships, aside from his childhood friend, Chloé Bourgeois. While nothing is confirmed yet, his comment to Lila may have blown his cover, considering Lila is aware that Adrien has a physically identical cousin.

At the end of the episode, Félix had deceived Ladybug and had managed to steal all of the miraculous except for the ladybug and black cat. He makes a trade with his uncle, and gives him all the miraculous in exchange for the peacock miraculous. Félix goes back on the train to London and takes his peacock brooch home.

Multiplication
Lila makes several appearances in this episode, but most importantly, Félix was shown in the last scene with Dusuu and the peacock miraculous. He was at home with his mother after she had been worried about him, as Gabriel had told her he wasn't in Paris. However, now it is shown that Félix intends to use the peacock miraculous for his own benefit, but his motive is not known yet.

The fact that Hawk Moth and Mayura, the original holders of the butterfly and peacock miraculous were a duo themselves is important. It means that Lila and Félix may fall into a parallel where the two of them form a corrupt alliance.

Fanon
Despite the two characters having hardly interacted in the series, Fila has gained a great amount of shippers. The long list of traits they share has caused many fans to envision them as a couple and/or evil duo. Lila constantly lies and manipulates people to get her way, and prefers to dispose of those that stand in her way, while Félix is a skilled liar and thief, having easily stolen one of the Graham de Vanily rings, despite Gabriel having it in his grasp. Most villain duos have a master liar and a slight of hand thief, and this is why many fans believe the two antagonists would have a great dynamic as an evil team themselves. Some fans like to note the fact that both Lila and Félix are green eyed villains, which is just another one of the many things they have in common.

Felinette fans, on the other hand, like to picture Félix helping Marinette to expose Lila for the cruel liar she is, after harmfully lying about Félix. However, some prefer to see Félix as a key to Lila improving as a person, because they believe that Félix is a far worse person than her, and his actions may lead her to understand the effects of her own harmful behaviors, by projecting them onto Félix. This ties in with fans who want Lila to be redeemed, and the idea works vice-versa with Lila helping Félix to realize the harm he has done, and that he can still improve as a person and strive to become more empathetic. Along with featuring both Lila and Félix being redeemable, this idea may not appear to be possible, considering how they have been presented in the series so far. Still, some fans enjoy the idea of the two turning over a new leaf, whether it's separately or together as either friends or lovers.

While Lila has a fake Fox Miraculous in her possession, there are theories that the rings Félix took from his uncle and cousin might turn out to be a Miraculous that only works when both rings are worn. However, more people believe that the twin rings are simply objects that contain Félix and Adrien's Amoks, linking to the theory that they are both sentimonsters.

On AO3, the ship has over 60 fanfictions written. As well as Fila having a well-formed fanbase on DeviantART, Tumblr and YouTube.

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