Alya and Nino’s cross-related name themes

wallywolf:

Something really amuses me about the names of the Alya x Nino couple in Miraculous Ladybug, and I think it goes unnoticed by almost everyone.

Alya Césaire was named after the singer Aaliyah, and the rest of her family were all named after jazz singers (Otis Redding, Marlena Shaw, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, and Norah Jones). However, it is Nino who is a DJ with a passion for music, always hanging around with his headphones.

As for Nino Lahiffe, his name is a wordplay on the French network Nolife, a now-defunct channel directed to pop culture news. And it is Alya who is a devoted blogger who created Ladyblog, and wants to become a journalist in the future.

So you see, they were truly made for each other.