Dolores Madrigal

Dolores Madrigal

“ Oh, and Luisa, I heard her eye twitching all night only, *little squeaks* hmm. ”

– example

Background and Character Information

Full Name: Dolores Madrigal

Other Names: 

Born: August 31, 1934

Species: Terran Human

Nationality: Colombian

Age: 21 (Encanto); 28 (Weather Dragons)

Gender: Female

Occupation: Housekeeping

Language Spoken: Spanish, English

Alignment: Good

Paraphernalia: n/a

Powers and Abilities: Enhanced hearing

Partner(s): Mariano Guzmán (boyfriend)

Relative(s): Pedro Madrigal † (maternal grandfather); Alma Madrigal (maternal grandmother); Bruno Madrigal (maternal uncle); Julieta Madrigal (maternal aunt); Agustín Madrigal (maternal uncle by marriage), Isabela Madrigal (maternal older cousin), Luisa Madrigal (maternal younger cousin), Mirabel Madrigal (maternal youngest cousin); Félix Madrigal (father); Pepa Madrigal (mother); Camilo Madrigal (younger brother); Antonio Madrigal (youngest brother)

Affiliate(s): 

Likes: Her family, Mariano, knowing everyone's business, telling secrets, dancing, singing, romance, the Casita, magic, parties, pictures, poetry, hugs, tranquility, food, helping others, expressing her feelings, sounds, humming

Dislikes: The magic dying, Mariano's betrothal to Isabela, family issues, loud noises, being the center of attention, losing the house, talking about Bruno (formerly), Bruno's visions (formerly), Escobar (formerly), Chloe (formerly), Antonio (formerly), Espinas (formerly), threatened Colombia, war, Madremonte †, Candileja †

Inspiration: herself

Dolores Madrigal is the supporting character and minor tritagonist introduced in Disney's Encanto. Dolores Madrigal is the one of the invasive character introduced in Weather Dragons: The Second Gift (formerly known as Replacement for Hippos from Escobar).

Etymology

The name Dolores in Latin means "lady of sorrows," which is one of the many titles given to the Virgin Mary.

Physical Appearance

Dolores is a 21-year-old Colombian (mixed Black Caribbean-European) young lady with curly brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a white and yellow shirt with golden-colored trimming on it with red fabric going through the collar and sleeves, a long red skirt with yellow and light-red streaks, a red choker with a golden gem adorned with a ruby on the middle of it, and heart-shaped golden earrings, and red sandals.


She also wears a big red bow on her hair, which she wears in a bun. Symbolizing her super hearing, Dolores' clothes have many sound waves on her shirt, skirt (along with flower-like symbols with them), and bow.

Abilities

Dolores has enhanced hearing; her ears are strong enough to hear even the quietest noise, such as the sound of a pin dropping, and even the sound of someone's eye twitching. Her hearing also works over great distances, she is able to receive messages from people all the way in town from Casa Madrigal, as seen when she reported Mariano's family coming for dinner. However, her gift's one drawback is that she apparently doesn't do well in noisy environments, as she was seen holding her hands over her ears as everyone else cheered for Antonio.

Personality

Described as "a little bit quiet", Dolores while not entirely stoic, is the least emotional of the family. She speaks or sings as low as a whisper and unlike her outgoing younger brother Camilo and their energetic parents, Dolores does not enjoy being the center of attention and prefers to stay in the background. Dolores also seems to enjoy helping others, especially her family. She on different occasions uses her enhanced hearing when someone asks her to know or find out something. Although with her gift she ends up causing problems or causing different disasters with the things she knows, Dolores is not ill-intentioned since she only tries to be useful, like a large part of her family.


While she is generally calm and quiet, Dolores can have rare moments of stress and emotional weakness that are in stark contrast to her normally stoic personality. Her gift causes her incredible discomfort and suffering, causing her to cover her ears when they are too loud for her. Dolores powers also gives her a reputation as a busybody and forces her to keep others' secrets constantly, something that clearly makes it hard for her to pull off. 


Due to the nature of her gift, Dolores has a tendency to expose people's secrets even if she does not want to, such as when she blurted out to the village kids that her cousin, Mirabel, did not have a magical gift. Despite her nature of exposing secrets, she never told anyone that Bruno still lived in the walls due to the fear others had of him and his powers, or Antonio still lived with his second gift as chaotic disaster.

Background

Born into the Madrigal family, Dolores is the eldest daughter of Félix and Pepa, and the older sister of Camilo and Antonio. In addition to being the niece of Julieta, Bruno and Agustin, Dolores is also the cousin of Isabela, Luisa and Mirabel. In the early years of her life, Dolores lived in the nursery with her cousins Isabela, who is only a few weeks older than her, and Luisa who is two years younger than her. When Bruno was still with the family, Dolores apparently received a vision from her uncle who told her that the "man of her dreams" would be out of her reach because he would be engaged to someone else, causing her a great fear that would haunt throughout the years.


Dolores first appeared getting ready for the day and heading to the village with the rest of her family to help around. In "The Family Madrigal", Dolores is seen suddenly appearing whenever Mirabel mentions her to the Town Kids and listening with her enhanced hearing to some village rumors from great distances. Since the day was also her youngest brother's, Antonio, fifth birthday and gift ceremony, Dolores soon returned home to help prepare for the celebration. When Mirabel was concluding her talk about her family to the Town Kids before being interrupted by Abuela Alma, who was standing by the door of the Casita, one of the kids told Alma that Mirabel was about to tell her and the rest of the kids about her magical gift, only for Dolores to suddenly appear at her abuela's side and tell the kids that Mirabel didn't receive one before suddenly leaving to hear what time some guests were arriving at Antonio's party.


She has a hard time keeping the secrets that she hears with her gift and has to cover her ears every time she hears noises that are too loud. Despite the negative view her uncle gave her when she was young, Dolores listened to Mariano Guzmán and learned more and more about him to the point of falling in love with Mariano. After the fall of the Casita, Dolores, with Mirabel's help, finally confesses her true feelings for him, which he corresponds, much to Mirabel and Isabela's joy. Dolores also confesses that unlike the rest of her family and the Encanto villagers, she was aware of Bruno still living in the Casita as she heard him every day.


At some point while rebuilding the Casita, Mirabel consoles a visibly upset Mariano and she introduces him to Dolores. When Dolores takes over the conversation, she expresses her feelings towards Mariano and confesses to him. When Dolores begins to relate different things that she likes about him, Mariano seems puzzled at first, but then his eyes widen in surprise and he falls in love with her. Dolores is very happy to be together with Mariano, although she tells him to slow down when he suggests that they should get married. After completing the house, Mirabel added a doorknob the family made just for her to the front door, which caused Casita to spring back to life, and the magic returned to the entire Encanto. The Madrigals then celebrated the return of their home and gifts with a family picture while Casita squished the whole family closer together unexpectedly.


Both herself and her husband Mariano Guzman now lives in Bogota, Colombia from her family but decided to go back to her homeland for Antonio Madrigal 's second gift in Hermosa Fisura at Colombia to lift the true curse against tragedy and truce.

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