prologue: adrien

BY DAY:

marinette dupain-cheng - works in/lives above a bakery, daydreams of being a world-class primadonna, designs outfits for herself and for her dance studio

adrien agresté - son of a world-class choreographer, has taken ballet all his life to make his father proud, is tired of restrictive rules and regulations

BY NIGHT:

ladybug - one of the best hip-hop dancers in the world, completely revolutionary, hidden behind a splash of blood-red paint

chat noir - break dancer extraordinaire, defying every rule (even gravity), clad in black and neon green with a cat-eared hood and a shadow-smeared face