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Adrielix is the family ship between Adrien Agreste and Félix Fathom from the Miraculous Ladybug fandom.
Canon[]
Adrien and Félix are cousins, with their mothers being identical twins. Adrien and Félix also look nearly identical to each other, and sound nearly identical as well. As children they were said to pretend to dress up as each other, causing their parents confusion. Even Marinette, who was known to be "obsessed" with Adrien was unable to tell the two apart. It seems as though they were much closer in childhood, prior to the disappearance of Emilie Agreste.
It is revealed in season 5 that Adrien and Felix are both sentimonsters, created by their parents due to their mothers being infertile. Adrien was born out of love, whereas Félix was born out of jealousy. Félix's father resented him, calling him a monster. He controlled Félix until the day that he died, which finally broke the hold he had over him. Adrien's own father, Gabriel Agreste, continued to control him using the Graham de Vanily twin rings. Félix longs to free his cousin and to regain control over the ring that once belonged to his mother and also to get the Peacock Miraculous which was used to create them and also could risk their existences.
Félix is first introduced in season 3, coming to the Agreste manor with his mother on the anniversary of Emilie Agreste's disappearance. Adrien seems excited to see Félix, but Félix does not return the sentiments. He steals Adrien's phone, borrows his clothes, and decides to impersonate his cousin to ruin his reputation with his friends. This angers Adrien's friends, causing three of them to become akumatized. After Ladybug and Cat Noir save the day, Félix apologizes to Adrien and hugs him before departing back for London.
When Gabriel throws a private party in his mansion, he sends a sentimonster of his likeness akumatized as The Collector to capture Félix and force him to reveal where he keeps Emilie's wedding ring, and Adrien, despite Félix's past actions, saves him as Cat Noir. Also, Gabriel hinted to Félix being a sentimonster by threatening to destroy him wtih a snap of his fingers, and despite Gabriel's trick with his sentimonster, Félix started to suspect his uncle being Shadow Moth as he earlier noticed Gabriel having the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses hidden under his tie.
After seeing Adrien looking upset on television, Félix travels to Paris to try and help his cousin. He sneaks into the Agreste manor by disguising himself as Adrien, then offers to speak to Gabriel Agreste while still impersonating Adrien, and in the meanwhile he lets Adrien to dress up as him to be free from his father's control. Adrien agrees, but the confrontation does not go well. Later, Félix discovers the body of Adrien's mother in the crypt beneath the manor. He also confirms his suspicions that Adrien's father is Shadow Moth.
Later, in the train, Félix is approached by Pennybug, who believing him to be Adrien, lends him the Dog Miraculous to help her to deakumatize Risk as the superhero Flairmidable, and while doing so, Félix noticed her accesing to her Miracle Box from her Yo-yo, and after succeding in doing so, Flairmidable is praised by Ladybug, much to Cat Noir's jealousy, who acts cold when introduced to him. Later, Ladybug offers to take "Adrien" back to the train, but with a smirk, Félix declines and offers to stay to help Ladybug, much to her delight. At the battle, while Ladybug explains her plan, Flairmidable secretly tagged her yo-yo with his power Fetch and abandoned Ladybug's team unnoticed, and after the sentimonster Strikeback was defeated (which for some reason saddened Flairmidable), he returned to the Agreste mansion and confronted Gabriel, and offered him a deal, in which Félix would give him Ladybug's yo-yo with all other Miraculouses and Gabriel's wedding ring in exchange of the real Peacock Miraculous while blackmailing his uncle by telling Adrien the truth about Emilie if he refused and Gabriel reluctantly agreed to the deal, where after renoucing Duusu and giving her Miraculous to Félix, he used Fetch to get her yo-yo (who unknown to him was in Adrien's room upstairs to get the Dog Miraculous back and had just realized her mistake), much to Ladybug's distress and Gabriel's joy, and Félix left his uncle with his prize while he returned to London with the Peacock Miraculous, pleased.
Later, that night after Monarch announced his victory, Cat Noir was told by Ladybug about her mistake of giving Félix the Dog Miraculous under the belief he was Adrien Agreste, and Cat Noir realized Félix must know who Shadow Moth is and soon in space mode with Cosmobug, the two flew to London to find Félix and make him reveal where Monarch is hiding, but at the Fathom apartment, they only find his mother Amelie, who claims to not having seen Félix since that morning.
Disheartened at failing to find Félix, Astrocat returned home and after detransforming, remembers what his cousin told him that day and becomes angry at having listened to him and unintentionally helping him to steal the other Miraculouses. And unknown to Adrien, Félix was in his apartment the whole time and Amelie lied to cover up for her son, and Félix put on the Peacock Miraculous and officially meets Duusu, to whom he tells her he's more than her new owner.
Using the Peacock Miraculous, Félix becomes the antihero Argos and creates a Red Moon sentimonster. Anyone bathed in the light of the moon disappears, a power that Félix wants to use to free Adrien from Gabriel's control, despite having earlier assured his uncle he wouldn't use the Peacock Miraculous against him. Knowing how much Adrien cares for Marinette, Félix puts her somewhere safe so that she will not fall victim to the sentimonster's power while saying Adrien is lucky to have a girlfriend like her. However, Marinette transforms into Ladybug and tries to stop Argos. He causes her to disappear, and is shocked when he finds that Marinette has disappeared as well. Adrien is devastated by this. Realizing he's made a mistake, Félix calls off the power of the sentimonster so that Marinette, and everyone else, is able to return.
Félix reveals the truth about himself and Adrien to Marinette, but has not informed Adrien about his status as a sentimonster. Still, he seems to care very deeply for his cousin, even if he doesn't always understand the best way to show it.
After Gabriel is defeated, Félix and his mother moved in the Agreste mansion to take care of Adrien alongside a revived Nathalie.
And later both cousins reunited (unknown to Félix) with the rest of Ladybug's restored superhero team to protect Paris from the new villainous Butterfly Miraculous holder.
Fanon[]
Félix was first introduced as a character in the Miraculous PV, who later became Adrien Agreste. Before he was officially added to the canon series as Adrien's cousin, Miraculous fans liked to present him as Adrien's older brother or twin brother, based on how much they looked alike. People had also featured the two as cousins long before the "Félix" episode aired. As he was the earlier concept of Cat Noir, some fans even had Félix as the previous holder of the Cat Miraculous before it found its way to Adrien. This idea has also been used in the "Agreste Brothers AU," as Adrien and Félix take turns using the Cat Miraculous or have Félix pretend to be Adrien, to help maintain his secret identity whenever the need calls for it.
In some fanfics and theories of what would happen to Adrien after his father was revealed to be Hawk Moth and gets sent away to prison for his crimes, they assumed that Adrien would end up moving in with Félix and his mother in London, as they are his only known relatives.
The relationship between Félix and Adrien, and Félix's character in general, was mildly received by the fandom at first. However, his actions throughout season 5 caused many to warm up to him and realize that he truly does care about Adrien. Now, Adrielix is a rather beloved relationship. As Adrien has such a terrible relationship with his father, fans were glad to see that he had a family member who loved him.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Adrien & Félix Fathom tag on AO3
- Adrien/Félix Fathom tag on AO3
- Adrien & Félix (promo video) tag on AO3
- Adrien/Félix (promo video) tag on AO3
