Miraculous Ladybug/Ships

Lukaniel
Lukaniel is the slash ship between Luka Couffaine and Nathaniel Kurtzberg.

Canon
Luka and Nathaniel don't know each other very well, but their paths have crossed at the boys-only party that Nino threw for Adrien in "Party Crasher", where they were briefly seen standing not too far from each other when the titled villain attacked; and when the party "ended" they stayed behind to help Adrien and a few of his friends to clear up his room. Because Luka's younger sister, Juleka, is in the same class and art club as Nathaniel, there is a chance that they might have heard about each other from her, while their brief on screen "moment" in "Party Crasher" subjects that they might have been talking to each other in passing. Before the boys-only party was crashed, and after the titled villain was defeated the two helped their friends to clean up Adrien's room. Like Nathaniel is with both Ladybug and Cat Noir, he has no idea that Luka is the off and on snake-themed superhero, Viperion.

In "Miracle Queen", Luka and Nathaniel are seen spending the rest of the day with Nathaniel's friends and classmates, as Luka and Marinette sit right next to Nathaniel and Marc. There is a chance that Nathaniel will be one of the many mind control victims of the title villain's wasps, like Luka was, until Ladybug and Cat Noir defeated Miracle Queen and freed them all from her control.

Fanon
While the exact origins of the ship is a mystery, as the two don't know each very well or at all, but there is a possible chance that it might have began when fans decided to ship them through their similar traits, as both Luka and Nathaniel have their own ways of expressing themselves, music and art, respect Ladybug and are friends with Marinette, as well as having a romantic interest in her; without knowing that Ladybug and Marinette are in fact the same person. Even though Nathaniel's romantic feelings for Marinette died down after he was de-akumatized and had began to develop a crush on Ladybug, before he meets and befriends Marc. Because Luka has also been fanon shipped with Marc, fans sometimes have Lukaniel rival with Lumarc or ship all three boys together in a poly ship.

When Miraculous Ladybug fans briefly saw Luka and Nathaniel standing "beside" each other in "Party Crasher", a few began to see Lukaniel as a fanon "canon" ship. As they believe that before the party was crashed by the said villain, Luka and Nathaniel were properly having a conversation with one another or were dancing beside each other. While some feature this theory in their fan art and written work. Along with having Juleka as one of the people who brought Luka and Nathaniel together, since she has a connection with both boys, which is why she is sometimes include in the ship's fanfics and art.

On AO3, the ship has about 27 fanfics, while fanfiction.net has 24. The ship also has a reasonable size fanbase on Tumblr, where some of its fanart has the two showing each other their music and art creations, as well as doing what they love to do together and even has Nath drawing Luka (as either his civilian or superhero self); since he has a habit of drawing the people in his life. That he is every close with and makes sure to references them in his art in any way.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Luka/Nathaniel tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Luka/Nathaniel tag on FanFiction.Net

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Nathalix
Nathalix is the friendship between Alix Kubdel and Nathaniel Kurtzberg.

Canon
Alix and Nathaniel are students at Françoise Dupont High School, who are in the same class. Season one has the two having little interaction with each other outside of school, but there are times when both of them take part in some of the group activities, as well as a few kinds of group get togethers with the rest of their classmates. Like her race with Kim where Nathanial cheers Alix on, as well as them helping Nino to make his film before they both get captured by an akumatized villain.

While in the season two episode, "Reverser", they are shown to be very close friends who take part in an art club; as Alix is into street art, while most of Nathaniel's drawings are of a comic strip style. The episode also shows Alix to be a younger sister-like figure to Nathaniel, as she playfully teases Nathaniel, sticks up for him, gives Nathaniell her support, like when she tells him that he'll be able to meet someone who would want to make a comic book of his drawings with him, and listens to his problems when he needs comfort and advice from her. Like when he presumed that Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Marc had played a joke on him, Alix helps him to realize that Marinette isn't the kind of person who would do something like that, along with the fact that his dissepiment might had caused him to miss assume that was the case. Since Nathanial has misread situations before, while Alix's words help him to see that she is kindly right.

Once Alix learns from Ladybug and Cat Noir that Nathaniel is one of the main targets of an akumatized villain, she states that she wasn't going to sit on the sideline while her friend is in danger and wants to help them keep Nathaniel safe from Reverser. Which she does, as the superhero duo weren't themselves and needed help to defeat Reverser before he could use his abilities on Nathaniel. After Reverser was reverted back to Marc, Nathanial gives Alix a copy of the comic book he made with Marc. While Alix is pleased to see that her friend did find his letter for his comic drawings and couldn't wait to see the rest of their series.

Season Two
Reverser
 * Alix asks Nathaniel to toss her red spry paint to which he happily obliges.
 * Nathaniel throws a scrunched up piece of paper at Alix as a way to tell her to "knock it off", after she playfully teases him.

Quotes
"Don't worry buddy. There's gotta be somebody out there just waiting to meet you."

- Alix to Nathaniel in "Reverser"

"[Nathaniel] likes to draw people in skinny suits."

- Alix playfully teasing Nathaniel in "Reverser"

"It looks like to me you’re gonna need a helping hand. [...] Nathaniel is my friend. I’m not dropping him."

- Alix to Ladybug and Cat Noir in "Reverser"

Fanon
Soon after "Reverser" aired, fans fell in love with Alix and Nathaniel's friendship and a few began to ship them. Though some did ship the two before episode aired. The growing popularity of Marcaniel, however, might be the reason why Nathalix isn't very popular itself, but still has a few loyal supporters.

On AO3, the ship has 16 fanfics. A few of the ship's fanart, on Tumblr and DeviantART, has them as their akumatized selves, or wear clothes that are similar to their villain forms, which is commonly seen in ML's popular Breakdancing AU and a few other AUs.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Nathaniel/Alix tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Nathaniel/Alix tag on FanFiction.Net

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WIKIS
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Trivia

 * Nathaniel and Alix are seen in the same "photo" together in the season two/three opening.