The characters appearing in Part of Me.
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Main Characters
Mónica Serrano / Mónica Arriaga
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Played By: Laura Flores, MarÃa Elisa Camargo
A world-renowned pianist and mother of two daughters, Camila and Emiliana. After 4 years of widowhood, she remarried with Gerardo Fonsi, 12 years his junior, a dishonest man who makes shenanigans behind her back. She will be murdered by her niece, Elena. Thanks to the help of a talisman, Monica will eventually reincarnate in the body of Adriana Aguilar so that she can protect her family and do justice for her "death".
- Action Survivor: She's an average civilian, but gets into a lot of tough spots where she needs to use her wits to survive, mostly at Carlos's hands.
- Arch-Enemy: Discussed. Once she realizes the true circumstances of her own murder, she aggressively becomes this for Elena and Gerardo. However, in doing so she also becomes this for Adriana and David, as the greatest obstacle to their love story. The latter fact greatly aggrieves her, but not enough to stop her plans for the former.
- The Atoner: Mónica sees her second chance in life as a chance to make up for the mistakes she made with her daughters.
- Back from the Dead: She's killed by Elena, but due to the Psychic Link she had formed with Adriana, she ends up possessing her body instead, and uses this second chance of life to protect her daughters.
- Character Death: Is killed by Elena early in the story, who stabs her with a needle and gives her a lethal injection. Her soul ends up in Adriana's body, but after the Unfinished Business with her daughters is done, her soul passes away.
- Damsel out of Distress: When she's kidnapped and forced into prostitution by Carlos, she manages to escape using her wits, burning down his brothel and leading the police there, while she escapes with the other girls, including Maite and Valeria.
- The Determinator: She doesn't let anything get in the way of her daughter's safety.
- Elegant Classical Musician: She is a refined and educated pianist with international renown.
- Grand Theft Me: An accidental example. Due to a Psychic Link formed by her taking Adriana's Magical Accessory, Mónica ends up possessing Adriana's body after she's killed.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She always believes the best of people, which ends being her Fatal Flaw as she had Gerardo and Elena plotting behind her back for years and never seemed to realize how much of a Big, Screwed-Up Family the Serrano's are.
- Interclass Friendship: She's good friends with her servants and is quick to befriend Adriana shortly after they meet.
- Loving a Shadow: Her Second Love Gerardo is not the man she thought he was, and she is disgusted by him once she finds out his true character.
- Mama Bear: Her strong desire to protect her daughter is what brought her Back from the Dead and drives the whole plot.
- Ms. Fanservice: While inhabiting Adriana's body, she ends up showing more skin than Adriana herself, even though she wears more modest clothing. She has a lot of sex scenes with Gerardo and has a Skinny Dipping & Sexy Surfacing Shot scene (albeit with Shoulders-Up Nudity & Sexy Silhouette) the story flashbacks to quite a few times.
- Nice to the Waiter: Mónica is very kind to her house staff, whom she treats almost like family. In her will, she leaves a considerable part of her fortune for the pensions for her staff and even money to pay for Ricardo’s university.
- Parental Neglect: She would often focus on her career as an international pianist more than her family, which became a major source of conflict between her family, causing her first husband to turn unfaithful and her oldest daughter to resent her.
- Private Tutor: Disguised as Mónica Arriaga, she becomes one for Emiliana, as a way to get back into her home and protect her daughters.
- Proper Lady: Monica is an elegant, refined woman who usually wears refined and expensive clothing. This is Downplayed once she switches bodies.
- Retirony: She announces she's retiring as a professional pianist to focus more on her family the very same day Elena decides to kill her.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Due to her Psychic Link with Adriana, she starts seeing through her eyes.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Grows to become one as she gets comfortable with Adriana's younger body. She starts doing things such as sleeping in the nude, wearing more revealing clothes, and actively using her body to seduce others.
- Team Mom: Acts as a protective maternal figure for Maite and Valeria, which weirds them out as she looks the same age as her.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: After dying and ending up in Adriana's body, she is unable to remember the last few moments of her life, except for the fact that her daughters are in danger, so she remains unaware it was Elena and Gerardo who killed her for a long time.
- Unfinished Business: After dying, she doesn't recall it was Elena who killed her, but does recall someone threatening her daughters. When she comes Back from the Dead in Adriana's body, she makes it her mission to keep them safe, and her soul leaves Adriana's body once they are.
Adriana Águilar
Played By: MarÃa Elisa Camargo
A modest young woman who works as a waitress in Mexico City and is Diego's fiancée.
- Almost Dead Guy: Played With. Her body is intact, but her soul separates from it and is possessed by Mónica's soul, with Adriana being effectively dead for most of the story. She comes back to normal at the end, after Mónica fulfills her Unfinished Business.
- Cool Big Sis: Was one for Jacinto and becomes one for Emiliana later in the story, when she gains control of her body again.
- Dude Magnet: She gets a lot of men attracted to her, including Diego, Carlos, and Gerardo.
- Fanservice with a Smile: She worked as a waitress at Carlos's bar and was very popular due to her beauty and sassy attitude.
- Grand Theft Me: Due to her shamanic amulet being accidentally taken by Mónica, she ends up forming a Psychic Link with her and has her body possessed by Mónica after her death.
- Happily Married: Marries Diego at the end of the story, and the epilogue shows they are very happy together.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Men constantly fawn over how hot she is, and she ends up being the Lust Object of many characters.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a very attractive woman that often wears revealing clothes. Although ironically, she's in more Fanservice scenes when Mónica is inhabiting her body, than when she herself is.
- Official Couple: With Diego, both of them having the healthiest and happiest relationship in the story.
- Sleepwalking: She's prone to sleepwalking which also means her soul likes to "wander". A shaman gave her a amulet to keep her soul from wandering out of her body.
- Spicy Latina: She's a beautiful Latina girl with a sassy attitude and fierce temper.
- Spirit Advisor: Appears several times to Diego as a spiritual vision, usually to encourage or guide him.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Diego. Even by telenovela standards, they are kept apart by downright cruel (and supernatural) forces. Unlike most examples it’s the story’s protagonist who keeps them apart the most!
- Working-Class Hero: Just like Diego, she's an honest hard working girl with a heart of gold, which contrasts with most other characters who are richer, but lead much more troubled lives or are of questionable character.
Diego Ochoa
Played By: David Chocarro
A talented young mechanic and Adriana's fiancé.
- Badass in Distress: During his time on prison, Carlos tried to get him killed many times, but Diego manages to fight off his assassins.
- Chick Magnet: Quite a few women become attracted to him, including Adriana, Maite and Valeria.
- Frame-Up: He ended up being framed for Jacinto's murder and is sent to prison for a while.
- Mr. Fanservice: A handsome man that gets quite a few Shirtless Scenes.
- Honesty Is the Best Policy: He can be honest to a fault. When he ends up in the same apartment as Rodrigo, Maite and Valeria, he simply tells them the truth about his fugitive status and quest to find Adriana. Rodrigo almost ends up calling the cops on him, but he's convinced not to in the end.
- The Illegal: He ended up in America after escaping from prison, so he troubles as being a fugitive as well as an illegal.
- Nice Guy: He's a kind, honest man, and becomes one of the few men to befriend Valeria after her traumatic experience.
- Official Couple: With Adriana, both of them having the healthiest and happiest relationship in the story.
- Secret-Keeper: He eventually finds out about Mónica's soul inhabiting Adriana's body, and becomes her ally after she promises to return Adriana's body after she resolves her Unfinished Business.
- Secret Stab Wound: He got a nasty stab wound in prison by one of Carlos's hitmen. During his time in America, he struggles to keep it hidden due to his status as The Illegal and a fugitive since it would bring up awkward questions.
- Self-Made Man: He grew up in an abusive home, which he run away from and made his living working in a car washer, and eventually learned how to be a great mechanic.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Adriana. Even by telenovela standards, they are kept apart by downright cruel (and supernatural) forces. Unlike most examples it’s the story’s protagonist who keeps them apart the most!
- Working-Class Hero: Just like Adriana, he's an honest hard working man with a heart of gold, which contrasts with most another character who are richer, but lead much more troubled lives or are of questionable character.
Elena Serrano
Played By: Vanessa Villela
Mónica's niece and right-hand woman, who is secretly plotting to kill her and steal her fortune.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Played With. She gives off this appearance to others, being an elegant dark-haired girl who's often haughty, cold and aloof. But her real personality is much more vicious and maniac.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Towards her mother and foster parents.
- Arch-Enemy: First to Monica, then even more so to Camila, since she murders both her parents, sabotages her relationship, and steals all her property.
- Broken Ace: She’s beautiful, intelligent, cultured, wealthy, and successful but her resentment and envy towards her family makes it impossible for her to enjoy her life.
- Big Bad: She is the primary antagonist of the story and is the one behind the events that drive plot, having killed Mónica and planning to steal her fortune from her daughters.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretended to be Mónica's kind dutiful niece while plotting behind her back her whole life. She only shows her true colors to Mónica when she's on her deathbed to taunt her. She keeps up the act for the rest of the family for a long time.
- Brainy Brunette: She has long dark hair and is very intelligent and calculating.
- Cain and Abel: For all intents and purposes she is the Cain to both her cousins’ Abel. Their fathers are even twin brothers, making them even closer than cousins.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She is very possessive of Gerardo, despite the fact she's the one that put him up to seducing Mónica in the first place, and makes a habit of interrupting their intimacy.
- Daughter of a Whore: A rare female example. Granted, Lorena never worked as a prostitute, but Elena treats as such, being a 60’s flower child hippie slut who slept with so many men she never knew the identity of Elena’s father. this left her with a serious chip on her shoulder.
- Evil Is Petty: Her evil acts are fueled by resentment and envy rather than pure greed, and often goes out of her way to make the people she dislikes suffer.
- Evil Niece: The plot of the telenovela boils down to this. Indeed she murders both her uncle and aunt.
- False Friend: To Mónica and Camila, who both considered her a bastion of stability in the Serrano household, unaware she is actually the source of most of their troubles.
- Girl Friday: She worked as Mónica's right-hand woman, helping her handler both her business and her personal life.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Her main motive for plotting against Mónica. She is was deeply envious of Mónica's glamorous life and felt like she lived on her shadow. When Mónica (in Adriana's body comes to work at the Serrano's estate, she's immediately jealous of her good looks.
- Hates Their Parent: She hates both her real mother Lorena and her "adoptive" mother Mónica. Lorena due to her being an awful irresponsible parent that abandoned her and Mónica due to envy.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Her schemes are very clever and tend to succeed, but she always ruins them with her jealousy, paranoia, and pettiness.
- Iconic Item: She often wears a chunky, gem encrusted necklace, evocative of Cleopatra.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Her greatest downfall is her resentment of her aunt's life. She hates that her own mother abandoned her, and had to live on Mónica's "charity", and grew up to resent her aunt and cousins despite them being generous to her.
- It's All About Me: As far as Elena is concerned, the world and everything in it exists to serve her.
- Lady Macbeth: Exaggerated. She even half murders a victim, then corners Gerardo into finishing him off.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: She may be gorgeous and seductive but it's heavily implied to be far worse than the Sex Goddess that she thinks she is. While she enjoys pouncing on her lover and partner-in-crime Gerardo (who is a Sex God due to his past as a gigolo), he doesn't really seem to enjoy it as much and is implied she has him do all the work during sex. This becomes even more clear once starts an affair with the new Mónica, with their lovemaking being shown to be passionate and mutually satisfied, while his scenes with Elena shown that she is satisfied but he's often stone-faced or putting on a fake smile.
- Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates her whole family for years, while slowly plotting to rob them of everything. She always makes sure all her evil deeds get pinned on Mónica or even Gerardo to make herself look better.
- Master Poisoner: She really knows her ways around sophisticated and untraceable poisons.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's is a beautiful woman who often wears elegant and revealing clothes, and has quite of few Lingerie Scenes.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: After she scores her first (accidental) kill, it goes downhill from there.
- Number Two: She worked as Mónica's personal assistant in both the family business and her musical career.
- Properly Paranoid: She’s quite right to suspect the new governess from the start.
- The Resenter: Big time. Anyone else’s happiness causes her duress.
- Revealing Cover-Up: Her ways of trying to get rid of people that are suspicious of her just make her look more suspicious.
- Seven Deadly Sins: People frequently refer to her as a demon for the extent of her sinfulness.
- Pride: She will not tolerated even slightest insult to her superiority.
- Envy: What drives her to hate and murder Monica.
- Wrath: Her anger is downright murderous.
- Sloth: She prefers not to get her hands dirty and has other do her work for her. She also feels entitled to the fruits of other’s labor.
- Greed: She wants every last cent of Monica’s fortune.
- Gluttony: She loves the finest things in life and is never satisfied.
- Lust: She derives great pleasure from sex and the suffering of others.
- Stepford Smiler: For years she feigned complaisance in front of the family she hated and resented, then her sanity spirals out of control.
- Surprise Incest: She seduced and slept with her uncle, Julián without either of them knowing about it.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Her favorite trick which she constantly falls back on, is to slowly poison people by putting in their food or drink.
- The Unfettered: She has absolutely no limits or scruples.
- Unholy Matrimony: She schemes together with her lover and partner, Gerardo. She even pushes for them to get married, uncaring of how scandalous that would look for the rest of the family.
- Ungrateful Bitch: She loathes Mónica despite having been raised by her like her own daughter, feeling she was pitied by her and was living in her shadow.
- The Vamp: She is not above using her good looks to seduce and manipulate others.
- Victory Sex: She often gets all hot and bothered after one of her evil schemes succeeds, and pounces on Gerardo for some celebratory sex.
- Villainous Breakdown: Her paranoia causes her to become more and more unstable as the story progresses. She breaks down completely by the end when confronted by Mónica and ends up in jail being haunted by visions of Mónica.
- Would Hurt a Child: Plans of killing off her cousin Emiliana in order to inherit her money.
- Yandere: She killed Mónica's first husband Jorge when she seduced him, but still refused to leave Mónica for her and decides to kill Mónica when she thinks Gerardo starts having feelings for her.
Gerardo Fonsi
Played By: Jorge Luis Pila
Mónica's second husband. Actually a gigolo hired by Elena to seduce Mónica and steal her fortune.
- The Atoner: Late in the story, he tries to make up for what he did to the Serrano family and starts to manipulate Elena to keep Emilia and Camila safe from her.
- Black Widow: A rare male example. Subverted, in that he didn’t want to do it but went along with it after the fact.
- Byronic Hero: He’s very handsome, very smart, very charming, and wasted his life swindling wealthy women out of their money. He steadily grows to hate himself for this.
- The Casanova: He has a talent for seducing women, and used to be a gigolo before he married Mónica.
- The Charmer: He's skilled at getting people to like him.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Acts very possessive of Mónica Arriaga during their affair, and is extremely jealous of her relationship with Diego.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While he's one of the main antagonists of the story and something of a Jerkass, he's nowhere near as bad as Carlos or Elena and is always uncomfortable with the evil depths they sink to. As he himself says, he may be a swindler, but he's not a killer.
- Gold Digger: He married Mónica for her money while having an affair with Elena behind her back. But he didn't actually want to kill Mónica and was perfectly happy with keeping the arrangement until she naturally passed away.
- Ladykiller in Love: He liked Mónica's personality, but wasn't that attracted to her. After she dies and starts inhabiting Adriana's body, he falls for her hard.
- Only in It for the Money: He only got onboard Elena's plan for him to seduce her aunt so he could get a comfortable life.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Constantly butts head with Elena about her Evil Is Petty ways, as she's actually out to hurt and humiliate those she dislikes while Gerardo just wants a quiet, comfortable life.
- Redemption Equals Death: He's killed by Elena while trying to stop her from hurting the Serrano family.
- Romancing the Widow: Seduced and married Mónica after she spent 4 years of widowhood.
- Second Love: He became the second man Mónica fell in love with, and her second husband. Although she later finds out she was Loving a Shadow.
- Serial Homewrecker: He was sleeping with Elena while he was married to Mónica and then ironically slept with Mónica (as Mónica Arriaga) behind Elena's back. It's implied he did this a lot with other women in the past when he was a gigolo.
- Sex God: Both Elena and Mónica consider him a great lover. Notably, he used to be a gigolo.
- Video Wills: Before dying, he left a video will where he confesses all of his and Elena's crimes, while also giving Mónica a posthumous Anguished Declaration of Love.
Other Characters
Camila Serrano
Played By: Kendra Santacruz
Mónica's eldest daughter.
- Beta Couple: With Ricardo.
- Betty and Veronica: She is the Betty in the Camila/Ricardo/Eileen Love Triangle, being much less flirtatious and forward in the relationship.
- Broken Pedestal: She had issues with her mother, who tended to prioritize her career over her family, but still loved and admired her. But after her death, when she learns that her mother's will (which Elena faked) assigned most of her fortune to Gerardo and left her and Emiliana almost penniless, she starts wondering if her mother ever loved her at all. But by the end of the story, she learns that it was Elena's villainy all along and gets a Rebuilt Pedestal of her mother.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Her Love Interest, Ricardo grew up with her in the Serrano's estate and they were friends, despite him being the son of a servant.
- Daddy's Girl: She was much closer to her father than to her mother and took his death very badly.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She has a good heart deep down, but is distrustful of strangers and treats them coldly until befriended.
- Friend Versus Lover: Gets into many fights with Ricardo when he starts accusing her cousin and friend Elena.
- Hates Their Parent: She is resentful of her mother due to her constant absence and that she married another man after her father died. It turns into actual hate when Elena manipulates her into hating Mónica more after her death.
- Parting-Words Regret: Had a nasty fight with her mother right before she died and felt immensely guilty about not having reconciled with her.
- Spoiled Sweet: She was shown to be like this in her youth, being a caring gentle girl who befriended the maid's son and was constantly spoiled by her parents. But her mother's successful career leading to constant absence and her father's depression and death made her much more cynic as an adult.
Emiliana Serrano
Played By: Gala Montes
Mónica's youngest daughter.
- Break the Cutie: She is a kind little girl who suffers a lot from Elena's cruelty.
- Bully Magnet: She was bullied at school, and it only got worse after her mother died.
- Homeschooled Kids: Her bullying problem causes so much trouble at school that Lorena and Camila decide she needs to be home-schooled, and Selma takes the opportunity to offer Mónica as the Private Tutor, putting her in a position where she's close to her daughters.
- Morality Pet: For Gerardo, as the two actually have a good relationship.
Lorena Serrano
Played By: Karen Senties
Mónica's sister and Elena's mother, who comes to live at the Serrano's estate after Mónica's death.
- Black Sheep: She's the black sheep of the Serrano family due to her irresponsible attitude and substance addiction.
- The Chew Toy: She is constantly berated by Elena on her many failings as a parent.
- Desperately Craves Affection: She's rather desperate into getting redeemed in Elena's eyes for her failure as a mother. Elena takes advantage of this by manipulating her into being an Unwitting Pawn in her schemes.
- The Klutz: Even without drinking, Lorana often screws up the simplest of tasks.
- Lady Drunk: She's prone to drinking, and once almost killed little Elena by accidentally setting her house on fire while drunk.
- Nephewism: Was named the legal guardian of Emiliana and Camila after Mónica's death, and she's eager to be a good guardian to them to pay back for Mónica having to raised Elena while Lorena was in rehab. Considering she was almost a stranger to them, they aren't very excited by the prospect.
- Parental Abandonment: After the fire incident, she went into rehab for her drinking problem but when she came out, Elena didn’t want anything to do with her and she just left her daughter with Mónica.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Went to rehab for years to fix her substance addiction problem. But Elena wanted nothing to do with her when she came back and actually tempts her to go back into drinking again to discredit her.
- Secret-Keeper: Discovers early on that Elena is sleeping with Gerardo, but Elena guilts her into keeping it a secret.
- Unwitting Pawn: She's often used by Elena in her schemes. As time goes on, it becomes less unwitting and it's clear Lorena is just turning a blind eye to Elena's viciousness.
Julián Larrea
Played By: Javier Gomez
Mónica's deceased first husband and father of her two daughters.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: He loved his wife deeply, but when he felt abandoned by her due to her constant absence, he became unfaithful and ended up in a relationship with Elena while he was still married. But he still refused to leave Mónica, and ended up being killed by Elena.
- Good Parents: Was a good father to Camila while he was still alive.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time his story arrives, but his presence is still felt by the scar his death left on Camila and Mónica as well as the fact he was murdered by Elena.
- Self-Made Man: He and his brother together started the winery business from scratch and that is now the main source of fortune for Julián's family.
- Sibling Triangle: Was the winner in a Love Triangle between himself, his brother and Mónica long before the story started.
- Surprise Incest: He never found out, but he ended up sleeping with his niece Elena, as she is Jorge's daughter.
Jorge Larrea
Played By: Javier Gomez
Julián's twin brother.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: He wasn't actually close to his twin brother and they parted on bad terms, which is actually why his death causes him so much grief, they never got the chance to make up
- Nice to the Waiter: He treats his employers and servants well, to the point he was good friends with the housekeeper Vicky, back before he left the country.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: It's revealed late in the story that he's Elena's father.
- Self-Made Man: He and his brother together started the winery business from scratch and that is now the main source of fortune for Julián's family.
- Sex for Solace: Ended up sleeping with Lorena after losing Mónica to his brother. Elena would end up being the result this one-night stand.
- Sibling Triangle: Was the loser in a Love Triangle between himself, his brother and Mónica long before the story started.
- Spanner in the Works: His return becomes a huge threat for Elena and Gerardo's plans of acquiring Mónica's fortune and the Larrea vineyard, as he's the actual owner of those lands.
- Unknown Relative: For Camila And Emiliana, since he departed and disappeared from the country after Mónica married his brother. They were barely aware of his existence.
Martha Cantú
Played By: Gloria Peralta
Rodrigo's ex-wife and mother to Ricardo and Gabriel. Works as a housekeeper for the Serrano's estate and is a close friend to the family.
- Kindly Housekeeper: She is this for the Serrano family, being Mónica's personal friend and a mother figure for her daughters.
- Parental Substitute: Due to Mónica's absence she was the primary maternal figure to Camila and Emiliana and practically raised them.
- Struggling Single Mother: After her husband, Rodrigo fell deep into alcoholism, she left him and took her children with her, and was only able to support both with Mónica's help.
Ricardo Cantú
Played By: Martin Barba
Martha and Rodrigo's eldest son. Studious and hard working.
- Bookworm: He is very studious, and enjoys reading and learning
- Beta Couple: With Camila.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Grew up together with his Love Interest, Camila, in the Serrano's estate were they were friends, despite him being the son of a servant.
- Hates Their Parent: He deeply resents his father for his failure to support his family and descent into alcoholism, and doesn't believe the story about his script being stolen, just that he's a failure. It's not until his career is sabotaged by Elena that he starts sympathizing with his father.
- He Knows Too Much: His family got targeted by Elena because he spotted her with a gun and he became suspicious of her.
- Insecure Love Interest: He cares a lot about the gap of social status between him and Camila and feels very insecure in their relationship.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: He's more introverted, proud, and temperamental, the opposite of his brother.
- The Smart Guy: He's very well-read and intelligent and is a law student and assists Camila in contesting Monica's false will that Gerardo and Elena made as well as being one of the first to suspect Elena is the mastermind behind all the bad stuff happening with the Serrano's.
- Spotting the Thread: He's suspicious of Elena and is the first character to do the most work in trying to uncover her schemes. The fact she tries to sabotage his life after he starts doing only encourages him.
Gabriel Cantú
Played By: Jonathan Freudman
Gabriel is Martha and Rodrigo's youngest son, known for his friendly attitude and skirt-chasing.
- The Casanova: He's a big flirt and both Jennifer and Susana end up being attracted to him.
- Distracted by the Sexy: He's prone to this which gets him to be easily manipulated and seduced by Elena.
- False Rape Accusation: Was seduced and tricked by Elena into coming into her room while she was undressed, and she purposely made a scene and started screaming he was forcing himself into her. It gets him (and almost the rest of his family) expelled from the estate, as only his brother and father believe when he tells them it was a setup.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Gabriel is the foolish sibling to Ricardo's responsible sibling. He's not studious like his brother and prefers spending his time chasing skirts and getting into trouble.
- Friend to All Children: He's good friends with Emiliana, who feels lonely at her house after he's expelled.
- Love Triangle: Is in the center of one, involving Jennifer and Susana.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: He's more extroverted, humble, and easygoing, the opposite of his brother.
- Small, Secluded World: Having lived most of his life in the Serrano Estate, he has some issues adapting to life at his father's house.
Rodrigo Cantú
Played By: Guillermo Quintanilla
Martha's ex-husband. A poor and ambitious artist and screenwriter.
- The Alcoholic: A recovering one by the time the story begins, but he's known to relapse into Drowning My Sorrows.
- Bookworm: Ricardo inherited his passion for reading from him. He even works in a bookstore.
- Despair Event Horizon: Getting the credit for his successful screenplay stolen caused him to have a breakdown and descend into alcoholism and pessimism, which drove his family away.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Turned to the bottle due to his depression after his dream of being a film screenwriter failed. During his very first scene, he is very distressed when he learns of Mónica's death and starts drinking after a long period of sobriety.
- Face of a Thug: He looks rather mean and has a bulky appearance, but is actually a kindhearted intellectual at heart.
- Genius Book Club: He owns a bookstore due to his passion for books and is constantly seen reading classic literature.
- Starving Artist: His failed dream of being a film screenwriter led to him becoming one, and his wife Martha left him as fell deep into alcoholism and became unable to support his family.
- Stealing the Credit: He wrote the script for a famous and successful movie, but ended up getting ripped off by the guy he worked with and ended up seeing no money or credit for its success, with people not even believing he was capable of writing it in the first place.
- Taking the Bullet: Took a shot meant for Ricardo, after a random robber tried to steal from him.
Victoria "Vicky" Andrade
Played By: Beatriz Monroy
The oldest housekeep at the Serrano's estate.
- Blackmail: Elena threatens her into being deported if she tries telling anyone about her seeing Elen covered in Julián's blood the day he died.
- Character Death: She is assassinated in cold blood by Elena late in the story.
- The Illegal: She's Mexican and her stay and American is illegal.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Susana, the youngest housekeeper on the estate.
- Kindly Housekeeper: The oldest housekeep at the estate, she's reserved but has a good heart and looks out for Susana
- Secret-Keeper: She knows Elena was involved in Julián's death as well as the affair between Elena and Gerardo, but keeps quiet since Elena threatened her.
- She Knows Too Much: At first Elena isn't worried about the things she knows, but when she finds out Jorge is good friends with her, she starts planning for her demise.
Jennifer Andrade
Played By: Maria Elena Davila
A sweet and funny young woman who lives in downtown east LA and becomes Gabriel's girlfriend, but she is involved with bad company so she ends up getting into a lot of trouble.
- Betty and Veronica: She is the Betty in the Jennifer/Gabriel/Susana Love Triangle.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Ends up bickering a lot with her Love Interest Gabriel.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: She tries being mean to Gabriel to push him away so her ex-boyfriend gangster won't hurt him, but he can tell what she's doing.
- Gangbangers: Used to be the girlfriend of a gang leader, who still acts as if he's Entitled to Have You, giving Gabriel trouble for pursuing her.
- Street Smart: She's a clever girl, knowing her way around the streets and working as a street vendor. She mentors Gabriel at it too, after he's expelled from the Serrano Estate.
Susana
Played By: Daniela Macias
Susana is a young housekeeper at the Serrano's estate.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She's not pleased about Gabriel and Jennifer becoming a couple.
- Gossipy Hens: She loves gossiping, frequently informing other characters about the going-ons in the Serrano estate.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Vicky, the oldest housekeeper in the estate.
- Relationship Revolving Door: She had this kind of relationship with Gabriel before the story started.
- Unwitting Pawn: Elena takes advantage of her jealousy of Jennifer to manipulate into acting against her and Gabriel.
Selma Carrasco
Played By: Marisela Gonzalez
Selma is a renowned journalist and was Mónica's best friend in their youth.
- Intrepid Reporter: Downplayed, she does a lot of risky stuff in her investigations against dangerous killers, but it's more for Mónica's sake than for professional ambition or a desire for exposing the truth.
- Occult Detective: Selma is a paranormal reporter and hosts a show about paranormal activity.
- Old Friend: She was an old friend from Mónica and Lorena, who fell out of touch. They reconnect right before the story starts, and thankfully for the plot is a paranormal journalist who helps Mónica during the soul switching business.
- Secret-Keeper: For most of the story she is the only one who knows Mónica's soul is inhabiting Adriana's body, since she's Mónica's friend and a paranormal reporter.
- Skeptic No Longer: Despite hosting a paranormal show, she didn't actually believe it was real until Mónica's soul switch. It actually takes some effort from Mónica to get Selma to believe her, but she eventually does
Eileen Parker Carrasco
Selma's only daughter, a Broadway that returned home after living abroad for years.
- Friend to All Children: She quickly befriends Emiliana shortly after they met.
- Fun Personified: Usually brightens the day of anyone she interacts with.
- Genki Girl: She's a very energetic girl that's fun of life, always overwhelming other characters.
- In Love with Love: She's told this by her mother, causing Eileen jokes she saved her months in therapy.
- Really Gets Around: She's said to have had many conquests throughout her youth.
- The Tease: She's a shameless flirt, especially towards Ricardo.
Maite Carvajal
Played By: Silvana Arias
Maite is one of the women that escape from Carlos's brothel with Monica.
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Angst? What Angst?: Unlike the other girls, she shows close to no trauma about her time at Carlo's brothel, and is shown to be boy crazy days after the ordeal. - The Illegal: She's illegal in America, which is why she is reluctant to go to the police after they escape Carlo's brothel.
- Motor Mouth: Talks quite a lot and often very quickly, usually overwhelming the quiet and timid Valeria.
- Sex Slave: Was kidnapped and forced into prostitution by Carlos's men, along with Monica and Valeria.
- Shipper On The Deck: For Valeria/Diego and later for Valeria/Eddie.
- Spicy Latina: She's a Latina girl with a feisty, flirty attitude.
- The Tease: She has a very flirtatious personality and is always pursuing men.
- Those Two Girls: She's often seen with Valeria and their stories are very interconnected.
Valeria Martinez
Played By: Alexandra Pomales
Valeria is one of the women that escape from Carlos's brothel with Monica.
- Defiled Forever: She feels that she was forever ruined for love after her rape, though she gets over this attitude in the end with the help of her friends and Love Interest Eddie.
- Does Not Like Men: As a side-effect of her brutal rape, she becomes deeply uncomfortable when dealing with most men.
- Hopeless Suitor: Has a hopeless crush on Diego, who doesn't return her feelings due to his enduring love for Adriana.
- The Illegal: She's illegal in America, which is why she is reluctant to go to the police after they escape Carlo's brothel.
- Nature Adores a Virgin: Was kidnapped by Carlos thugs due to her virginity and beauty making her very valuable for their brothel.
- Nice Girl: She's a kind and gentle girl, who doesn't deserve all the awful things that happen to her during the story.
- Rape Leads to Insanity: After she has her virginity taken by force in Carlos's brothel, she becomes very traumatized, especially around men. Monica and Maite start saving money so she could go to a therapist.
- Sex Slave: Was kidnapped and forced into prostitution by Carlos's men, along with Monica and Maite.
- Shrinking Violet: She's very shy and reclusive and often has Maite doing the talking for her.
- Those Two Girls: She's often seen with Maite and their stories are very interconnected.
- Wicked Stepfather: Is reluctant to go back home after she was forced into prostitution, since she knows he would blame her for it and beat her up.
Carlos Ricalde
Played By: Plutarco Haza
Carlos Ricalde is a dangerous Mexican mafioso.
- Arch-Enemy: Becomes this for Diego and Adriana.
- Character Death: He's shot and killed by Gerardo after he kidnaps Mónica and Emiliana.
- The Don: He's the head of a criminal organization, which includes gambling and a prostitution ring.
- Downfall by Sex: His lust for Adriana eventually brings his whole operation.
- Hate Sink: Unlike Elena and Gerardo who have a few Pet the Dog and Sympathy for the Devil moments, Carlos has no sympathetic traits.
- Human Traffickers: He's a gangster that leads a huge criminal operation that trafficks women from Mexico into America.
- Revenge by Proxy:
- After he's scarred by Adriana. he swears revenge on her by keeping her alive but going after her loved ones to make her suffer, starting by having Jacinto killed.
- When Monica fails in her attempt to escape his brothel, instead of punishing her he punishes her friend, Valeria, giving her to be raped by one of his clients.
- A Scar to Remember: During his Attempted Rape on Adriana, she fends him off and ends up leaving a nasty scar on his cheek. It infuriates him so much he switches from rape to murder, and almost kills her.
- Smug Snake: He thinks he's much smarter than he actually is. When he leaves Mexico to pursue Adriana and the rest of the girls, he's much less of a threat than he was at the start and is reduced to being The Brute for Elena.
- Sexual Extortion: When Adriana refuses his advances, he tricks his brother into being indebted to him and offers Adriana to pay back the debt by sleeping with him.
Jacinto Aguilar
Played By: Oscar Priego
Jacinto is Adriana's younger brother.
- Sacrificial Lion: He's killed early in the story to establish Carlos ruthlessness and an Anyone Can Die feeling to the plot.
- Slashed Throat: Gets his throat slashed by one of Carlos's goons, as revenge for his sister having scarred Carlos.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: Adriana's younger brother Jacinto He uses the hard-earned money his sister makes for him to go to medical school on gambling, so he can make easy money and have her stop working for Carlos, but he gets deep into debt with Carlos instead, who happily takes advantage of it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Ends up killed in the first few episodes without getting mcuh focus.
Ernesto Fonsi
Played By: Adrian Carvajal
Ernesto is Gerardo's younger brother and his partner in crime.
- Casanova Wannabe: He tries, but it's nowhere near as good as seducing women as his brother is.
- The Dragon: For Gerardo and Elena, he ultimately sides with his brother when Gerardo and Elena start clashing.
- Sibling Team: Works together with his brother Gerardo in running their cons.
