Post Mayura Speculations

Anyone else noticed that Mayura looks different from the first pic that was revealed of her? You know, back when she was introduced as La Paon?

You can clearly see that the facial features are different here, and the hair is more floofy in Nathalie’s case. The collar is also slightly different.

The sleeves are different as well

And the dress is much shorter

I can see two possibilities.

1. The picture we got wasn’t finalized, which could also be why the name was changed from La Paon to Mayura. Therefore there were some changes before the final design. Maybe the picture we got was even made before they knew who was going to become Mayura.

2. They are two different people. I think this one is less likely, since it doesn’t really make sense to hype up a character by showing another character’s picture, but it might be a bait-and-switch. La Paon and Mayura are two different characters who wielded (or will wield) the Peacock Miraculous at different points in time, and we will at some point see La Paon.

Aside from all of this, what really intrigued me was when Gabriel said the Peacock Miraculous is damaged. It seems pretty likely that this is what caused Emilie’s current condition.

Now, I have been harping on about this, because it’s a detail that I see a lot of people have forgotten, but Nooroo states in the Origins episode that bad things happen when Miraculous are used for evil. I suspect that since kwamis are born from abstract concepts, they can become corrupted or sick if they are used for evil.

So, I believe that a previous holder of the Peacock Miraculous was evil, corrupting Duusu, which then led to Emilie’s illness when she used it.

Emilie may have been the one who did this. I definitely support the theory that Emilie might secretly be a villain, especially after Gabriel implied that she made him promise to use the Miraculouses to bring her back, and might even have been the one who told him about the equal exchange thing, since it has been confirmed that Gabriel knows about that, and neither he nor Nooroo can read the book about the Miraculous.

But it might also have been a previous user, although I don’t know why Emilie would keep using the Miraculous if it was making her sick; we can see from Nathalie that the process isn’t instantenous.

But the Kwami being the one who’s corrupted, not the Miraculous itself, would make sense, since we can see nothing is physically wrong with the Miraculous. Plus we didn’t see Duusu, which may be to purposefully keep us in the dark, since I suspect the corrupted Duusu is going to be pretty evil