Miguel Rivera
Jan 30, 2018 14:30:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 14:30:12 GMT -5
MIGUEL RIVERA would like to become part of the magic!
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's SAGE, and I wished upon a star from my memory. My other imaginary friends include Rapunzel and friends. MIGUEL and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
I'm wishing, I'm wishing
Character basics
Character name: Miguel Rivera
Age: 12
Species: human
Birthplace: Santa Cecilia
Movie: Coco
Custom title: el chico músico
Why: ¡Español! ¡Y una guitarra! Me gustan los dos, y quería a alguien que pueda hacer ambas cosas. Spanish! And a guitar! I like both, and I wanted someone who can do both. (Gotta keep up my Spanish skills somehow XD)
Who's the fairest of them all?
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Miguel has short, shaggy black hair. When wet, his bangs will fall into his eyes, but when dry he keeps them swept off to his left.
Facial description/mood/expressions: Miguel has the round face of a child, and is as expressive as one. He likes to show off his left dimple and lack of right dimple, and can often be found smiling.
Clothing style: Miguel prefers the casual clothes of a modern-day preteen. Jeans, a white tank top, and a red jacket, and—of course—comfortable boots.
Body build: Miguel is skinny, but he has some arm strength from his time as a shoe shiner. He’s also slightly short, but he’s still growing.
Any unique traits (optional): If you looked close enough, Miguel has calloused fingers from long hours spent practicing guitar. Miguel is also pronated in his gait.
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Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality: Miguel is an energetic, rebellious 12-year-old. And with his age, he has yet to learn patience, and his determination can make him stubborn. But he loves music, his family, and fun, and he’s not the kind to do something with a cruel intention.
History: Miguel discovered Ernesto de la Cruz at an early age. He would accompany his mother to the market, and he saw the statue. After much pestering, his mother told him who Ernesto was, and he was fascinated from that point onward.
In secret, he learned more about the musician. He fashioned a hideout in the attic of his family home that featured posters of the artist, a homemade guitar, and a small television with a VCR attached. One of the neighbors had patched together a tape of the best of de la Cruz for the fan-crazed boy, which he also kept hidden from his family.
He was thrilled when, at the age of 8, he was granted permission to go out on his own and shine shoes for people. It was his only real chance to listen to music, as his family had a generations-long ban on any kind of melody. He relished his time there, and spent many days in the sun, shining shoes, listening to music, and earning a few tips now and then.
When he was 12, he told a mariachi about his family problems, and the mariachi responded by suggesting the preteen attend a talent show contest, as well as encouraging Miguel to play music. This is what started Miguel’s adventure.
After remonstrations from his family, and being forbidden from playing music, Miguel decided to seize his moment—something Ernesto de la Cruz was fond of saying. He hid in the room with the ofrenda and narrowly avoided being caught by hiding Dante and his guitar beneath the offering table. Instead, his father told him that Abuelita had deemed him old enough to learn the family business of shoemaking. He feigned excitement, just to get rid of his family.
After their departure, Dante knocked over the pictures on the ofrenda, shattering the frame for the picture of Mamá Imelda, Mamá Coco, and his unknown great-great-grandfather. Miguel found a fold in the photo, and saw that his great-great-grandfather was holding a guitar. A quick deduction told him that his unknown Papá must be Ernesto de la Cruz, and it redoubled his determination to become a musician.
After a loud declaration that he would become a musician, and a forced decision that music was more important to him than his family, Miguel ran away, determined to enter the contest. A reluctant Miguel broke into de la Cruz’s mausoleum; he needed a guitar, and Abuelita had destroyed his. But the theft had unforeseen consequences, and Miguel found himself in the Land of the Dead.
Some help from Dante led Miguel to his deceased family, who decided to take the should-be-living boy to see the matriarch of the family: Mamá Imelda. Mamá Imelda agreed to give Miguel her blessing to return to the Land of the Living, with a condition that he never play music again. Miguel quickly agreed, but broke the condition within seconds of his return. He fled his family yet again, determined to get Ernesto’s blessing; surely the musician would understand, and he could get a no-strings-attached blessing.
After an adventure covering one end of the Land of the Dead to the other, and a run-in with a friendly skeleton named Héctor (who promised to help Miguel in exchange for putting Héctor’s photo on anofrenda), Miguel found himself facing another musical contest. This time, if he won he would be able to get into de la Cruz’s party. He overcame his stage fright with a little help from Héctor, but the truth about his family in the Land of the Dead came out in the process.
Miguel fled once again, seeking help from fellow musicians to get access to de la Cruz’s fiesta. Once inside, he used his music to get the star’s attention, and the duo whiled away the hours of the night. Héctor found them shortly before sunrise, and it was revealed that Ernesto de la Cruz was not as good of a man as Miguel had believed him to be. Murder and theft tarnished Miguel’s view of the man, and it was revealed that Héctor was Miguel’s great-great-grandfather, not Ernesto.
They reconciled in a sinkhole, and were shortly rescued by Dante, who had led Pepita—Mamá Imelda’s spirit guide—to the boy. Héctor was reunited with a fierce Imelda, who repeatedly denied Héctor’s apologies, believing the man to have forgotten his family to follow music. Miguel earnestly told her the truth of the story, but Imelda would not forgive.
With the help of Héctor and his family, Miguel infiltrated de la Cruz’s show to steal back Héctor’s photograph. de la Cruz inadvertently exposed himself as a fraud, and Miguel returned to the land of the living, due to a blessing from Mamá Imelda that didn’t forbid music.
Hurriedly, Miguel returned to his family, determined to help Mamá Coco remember her father, thus earning him his spot on the ofrenda so he wouldn’t disintegrate. He played her the song her Héctor had written for her, and she remembered.
With Mamá Coco’s memory strengthened, and the truth about Papá Héctor revealed, Miguel was encouraged to play music. He did so proudly, and with gusto.
Ambitions: keep playing music, be a better musician, keep up the family traditions for Día de los Muertos, (he wouldn’t exactly be against learning the family trade, but only if he has to),
Strengths & abilities: Miguel is a skilled musician, and largely self-taught, and his music has a way of getting people’s attentions.
Flaws: Miguel is determined—a trait he inherited from his Mamá Imelda and his Abuelita—to the point of doing what he wants without thinking of consequences.
Likes: music, his family, Día de los Muertos, Dante, tamales,
Dislikes: Ernesto de la Cruz, kissing scenes in movies,
Fears: forgetting his family, not being able to play his music,
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