Nathalix

Nathalix is the friendship between Alix Kubdel and Nathaniel Kurtzberg from the Miraculous Ladybug fandom.

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. Even though there are times when both of them take part in some of the group activities. Mostly a few kinds-of group-get-togethers with the rest of their classmates. Like her race with Kim, where Nathanial cheers Alix on. Along with 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. With her playfully teases Nathaniel, sticks up for him, gives Nathaniel her support. She even tells him that he'll be able to meet someone who would want to make a comic book of his drawings with him. Also, she 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 side-line 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.

Alix had always known that she would one day become the holder of the Rabbit Miraculous, but she couldn't tell Nathaniel this. Knowing that a superhero have to keep their identities a secret from their friends and loved ones. Although Nathaniel was given the Goat Miraculous before present day Alix could be given the Rabbit Miraculous, the theft of the other miraculouses and needing to keep the Rabbit Miraculous far away from Monarch's reach has Alix spending the rest of season five far away from Nathaniel. Until it was safe for her to come home. Sometime after Monarch was "defeated" and the friends of Adrien Agreste were having a party at his place, Alix and Nathaniel are seen spry painting one of the walls together. With Alix being allowed to keep the Rabbit Miraculous and Nathaniel being trusted as a full-time user of the Goat Miraculous, the two friends find themselves becoming part of Ladybug's growing team of Miraculous Heroes. Even though Alix and Nathaniel aren't aware of each other's hero or civilian identities.

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 the 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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Trivia

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