Post by Mamá Imelda on Dec 24, 2017 12:11:50 GMT -5
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's MAGGIE, and I wished upon a star from ADS FOREVER AGO. My other imaginary friends include TRIPLETS ETC. IMELDA and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
Character basics
Character name: Imelda
Age: 120 something technically, but only looks well kept and maybe late 30 as skeleton
Species: human
Birthplace: Santa Cecilia
Movie: Coco
Custom title: Shoemaking Matriarch
Why'd you pick this character? She was the one I felt I could do the most with/explore and I love her spirit even (and especially) if she gets things wrong.
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Dark with shades of grey which show her age before she passed, or how her age was staring to show, but not too advanced. Immaculately kept and tied back with a purple ribbon
Facial description/mood/expressions: Imelda is all jawbone and facial structure now, but with delicate flowers at the corners of her eyes in sugar skull fashion and detailed brow of art also. Though most would say her still very expressive face is most often scowling, this is not in fact true. Imelda has just delt with a lot during her life and is predisposed, even in death, to serious facial expressions, but she does know how to smile and is learning bit by bit after the reconciliation with Hector
Clothing style: Fashinable, and well kept, purple dress and tan shoemaker's apron. Very, very well made boots. While nothing about Imelda's dress in life or death screamed opulence, it does show her skill in turning what one has to the best that one can. Imelda will never look shabby if she can help it.
Body build: Thin and skinny in some areas just due to her skeletal nature, and in death she's achieved an almost hourglass figure on top of her general trimness, just with far too much motherly wisdom in her eyes to be attractive to any but her reunited husband. There's a strength to her posture too, though.
Any unique traits (optional): Not that are truly unique.
Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality:
Resilience is a crucial part of Imelda’s being, and runs deep through her. Whatever life throws at her, she refuses, most times, to show it and just puts her attention to what needs to be done. From big to little problems, it’s just more noticeable in the big. Stubborn and unyielding due to it, it takes many tries to convince Imelda she is wrong, even from her family.
Her in-laws and grandkids are under a respect-driven fear of her and will not often challenge, but Miguel and Hector (during both times she’d talk to him) can most easily get around her.
Deeply loving, if it’s not always apparent, her control is all for those around her more than herself. If it was just her, she’d deal with an offense, but hurt her family and you’ve a lot to answer for! Friends fit a bit into this, but she’s mostly focused on her family, and they are her deepest friends.
History:
From early on, Imelda's focus was on family, helping her own parents and twin brothers in any way she could while still determined she would not become locked into only being defined by such things as kitchen work, etc. She had a will and quick eye that seemed to lend itself to whatever she put her mind to. She didn't think, then, of ever making shoes, but she did admire the detailed craftsmanship that went into some of her favorite pairs of boots.
She more openly admired the art of it, at the time, and was more lenient to her brothers getting wacky ideas at times. Apparently, Hector had lived in the same town for quite a while before she noticed him, or he noticed her first, in all honesty. She was closed off and just unsure even then, but he quickly won her over with that guitar and singing of his, even getting her to show some of her own dance moves and singing, though she was self-conscious about it. Hector quickly reassured her, though, and the two formed a fast friendship and then came courtship and marriage.
Of course in the back of her mind, Imelda worried what sort of life they could have, honestly, with him a musician. She never went on any tours with him, and he built up a sort of a trust by hardly touring, just sharing his music with Santa Cecilia and her.
When their daughter came along, she worried more about all this and turned her hand more to her motherly duties, becoming more and more annoyed at what had drawn her to Hector in the first place, and his seemingly just charming his way about problems and serious issues. Unbeknownst to her, he did take things seriously when called for, but she could hardly tell such!
The head to it all came when his friend, Ernesto De Le Cruz, suggested an extended tour to garner up more fame and money. She knew the allure came more from providing better for them while doing what he loved, for Hector, but still had a bad feeling even then about the whole thing and her and Coco being left even a few months on their own. Hector assuaged her concerns, though, and did keep his promise of writing, so Imelda tried to not stay too mad about the whole thing, though the longer and longer the months stretched the more her worry turned to anger.
She made a few shoes, just to get by, and experimenting with some old leather from one of her brothers' own inventing forays turned into something she could do to supplement income between what Hector sent now and again.
When the writing stopped altogether, Imelda readily believed the worst, and that fame and the road had lured him off away from them! She wanted to both cry and throw the nearest vase agains the wall, but Coco needed her to be strong.
Seeming like she didn’t care, Imelda did, but put her attention directly into what she must do, like she always did. A few shoes became a business, Imelda sharing the knowledge with her brothers and then daughter and then son-in-law as Coco grew and their family and business grew.
She thought, at first, she would just be apathetic to music, but after flinging the before-saved vase at a passing whistler, Imelda realized she was wrong (only in that assumption). She could hardly handle the sound, after all it had done to them, and would readily stop her brothers from tapping their feet too much in the shop!
Imelda had shoved her husband from her mind pretty much the day he left, and certainly the day the writing stopped, and would readily admit she tried to do the same to Coco, but the little girl was too resilient, she saw it all along, and especially when she couldn't give up dancing even after she stopped humming that stupid hurtful lullaby!
Yet her girl also turned her attention to family with a whole heart and was someone Imelda could be proud of, and arguably Imelda coddled her growing up for being all she had. In her own way of coddling. She went on year by year, overseeing her business and family, and dying semi-young still just due to the time they lived in and contracting a passing sickness turned worse.
The transition to the Land of the Dead was beyond shocking! Imelda also had hardly put too much attention to if it existed or not, to her regret she realized when arriving and finding that giving only a passing thought to it allowed her own parents to face the Final Death when she arrived and since more of her focus had gone into her living family than the ofrenda. She feared she'd be paid out and forgotten herself, but she had put in a good legacy in her daughter and granddaughters and they were better about the ofrenda, thankfully giving Imelda the chance to see how the family progressed.
She saw the shoe-business continue too, but honestly cared more for her family's progress. She heard a rumor upon arriving that Hector was here too, from a hesitant shanty town resident who seemed to be a messenger, trying to see if she would accept words and explanations from her estranged husband. Imelda would not. Even after she learned that her actively trying to forget him had almost worked and put him in dire straights. But for Coco he would be forgotten. That was just fine by her though!
A bit lost at first, Imelda instead continued on as she always had thanks to him, alone, and soon got up a business for making shoes for the dead as well. Her brothers, Julio, Rosita, Victoria, slowly her family from the Land of the Living arrived and helped her; and every year their pictures were added and they could continue to watch the family's progress.
Imelda honestly thought they were happy and good as they were. Then...her Great-Great-Grandson started challenging his Abuela Elena's passing of her legacy, and trying for music. Even Imelda saw it, but she figured her granddaughter had it under control, and frankly couldn't turn on Miguel as she had Hector. She didn't know why, maybe being but a child, still her child in many ways. It got worse and worse, though, until finally it ended in him stealing her picture from the ofrenda, unintentionally, and cursing himself to be trapped here, unintentionally.
Imelda acted like she only wanted to send him back for her picture, but it was more than that, and she was honestly concerned for the boy, in both that area and ruining his life by music. He refused her quick fix and blessing to send him back though, instead seeking out his Great-Great-Grandfather (she pieced together) and...well...see! Almost dying because of that musician again!
Imelda didn't know about Miguel's wild goose chase (and how she made more trouble for him from her not mentioning Hector or having him mentioned, leading Miguel to a wrong conclusion and more wasted time), but when she was finally able to catch him and hold him, Hector coming along in the bargain too, she was also set right about what had really happened. De La Cruz, Hector's friend, had murdered him. That was why he was stolen from them.
It almost mattered to Imelda, did, but in the same way as she'd always done, she acted like it didn't. Not all an act, the bitterness she'd cultivated was hard to let go of, and he had still left! She could promise him her help, but not her forgiveness, at the time. She could hardly deny calling Hector the love of her life when punching De La Cruz later for all he'd done also, as Miguel and Hector annoyingly kept on about!
Getting Hector's photo for Miguel to take back, and sending the boy back, worked finally though, and yet at the risk of her losing Hector forever as Coco slowly forgot, thanks to her. Thanks to Miguel she didn't though, and over the months and on to next year, even before they both saw Coco again in the Land of the Dead, Imelda was given the chance to heal and forgive her husband finally and given many years with him and all her family thanks to Miguel and Coco firmly passing down the legacy of him along with all of them.
Ambitions:
Keep her family safe. Keep the Land of the Dead, or wherever she is, well stocked with shoes. Find her way back to her family, they need her guidance. Also, now, do further right by her family (as she always has) by finding her way around how she feels/fully forgiving Hector.
Strengths & abilities:
Her tongue/words. Resourceful. Determined. A quick learner, it seems Imelda can turn her hand to whatever she chooses, or shoe making just came off easy. Fiercely Loyal of family. Also her singing could perhaps fit in there, but she's hesitant to list it a such.
Flaws:
Grudge holding and Stern. Quick to jump to her own conclusions and hesitant to let go of them. Imperious, though she would say she has gained her respect.
Likes:
Her Family (including Hector now). Pepita. Singing and Music though she wouldn't admit it before. A well made pair of shoes or boots. Her legacy she's gained.
Dislikes:
Formerly Hector. Chaos and Disorder. Disobedience. Being left to pull more than her own weight, in anything now. A messy work station. Unhelpful Agents. Devil Box Computers!! Back Talk.
Fears:
Anything further happening to her family, living or dead. Being out of control. Being Forgotten. Something she doesn't actually know/about (through she'll act like she does). Facing mistakes.
Anything to add?:
Nope
RP SAMPLE:
PAST TENSE ONLY. MUST BE ABOUT THE CHARACTER FOR WHOM YOU ARE APPLYING.
SEE TRIPLETS ETC"
