#élite Carla

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Ester Expósito in 'Élite Short Stories: Carla Samuel' (2021)

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Ester Expósito for Netflix’s “Bandidos” (2024)

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Elite (2018 - )

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SAMUEL AND CARLA - Señorita #elite

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ESTER EXPÓSITO as CARLA ROSÓN ÉLITE “34 Hours Missing” (2019)

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10 FAVORITE CHARACTERS FROM 10 DIFFERENT TV SHOWS

I was tagged by @fadeintoyou1993 to list my ten favorite characters from ten different shows & then tag 10 people! thank you so much bru!! i'm not going to try and live up to your wonderful talent with my own gifs so i'll just list mine instead 🥲

tokio (la casa de papel)

dana scully (the x files)

regina mills (once upon a time)

sabrina spellman (chilling adventures of sabrina)

sarah manning (orphan black)

veronica lodge (riverdale)

toni shalifoe (the wilds)

bonnie bennett (the vampire diaries)

taissa turner (yellowjackets)

carla rosón (élite)

tagging: @narcobarbies @myrcella-lannister @lisa-swallows @hotgirlmeg @avasillva @normani-kordei @kathrynmhahn @jennifersbod @anyataylorjoys @woody-harrelson ♥

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ÉLITE (2018–2024): Trashy, high-gloss Spanish soap opera about students at posh private high school Las Encinas, initially a mix of rich brats and social-climbing scholarship students, whose conflicts result in murders, near-fatalities, and mysterious disappearances: Each of the first five seasons is framed by a police investigation of the latest casualty, a gimmick that really only works in the first season (where it provides a degree of narrative structure and gravitas that would otherwise be lacking).

Even in its best moments, the show's relationship to reality is never strong, and it's sometimes rather witlessly hypocritical (for instance, the narrative is capable of recognizing the injustice of the school forcing Palestinian scholarship student Nadia (Mina El Hammani) to remove her hijab in class, but not enough to not indulge in its own array of islamophobic cliches in its depiction of Nadia's conservative working-class family). Nonetheless, the show gets by for a surprisingly long time on the strength of its cast and direction, buoyed by a welcome refusal to descend into self-mockery even when the plot leaves the rails. None of the male characters is especially endearing, with Itzan Escamilla (as scholarship student Samuel) becoming particularly insufferable and Miguel Bernardeau (more recently the lead on the disappointing 2024 ZORRO show) a little too convincing as rich dickhead Guzmán, but the girls are consistently more interesting, with Mina El Hammani (as Nadia), Ester Expósito (as morally compromised aristocratic rich bitch Carla), and Claudia Salas (as the salty Rebeka, whose mother is a drug dealer, and who ends up one of the show's most genuinely sympathetic characters) making the strongest impressions.

It's not until the sixth season, with all the original cast gone (several of them feet-first), that ÉLITE starts to feel like it's overstayed its welcome, with some flailing attempts to examine serious themes like abusive relationships tripping over the increasingly orgiastic celebration of wealth and privilege (any interest in characters who aren't filthy rich having departed with the last stragglers from the original cast). Although more visually stylish, it feels like it's become a different, much weaker show, and the writers seem to no longer grasp the distinction between "entertainingly messy bitches" and "grating assholes who are no fun to watch"; by the seventh season, there isn't a single character interesting or sympathetic enough to sustain the plot's frequent lurid detours into cloud cuckoo land. (It does at least have the decency to throw one of its most hateful recurring characters off a roof at the end, which I appreciated.)

The forthcoming eighth season will be the last, but Season 7 was already at least two too many, IME. CONTAINS LESBIANS? One of the boys from the early seasons has two moms, but while there are a surprising number of acknowledged mmf and mmm triads, it's not until the fourth season that there are really any wlw relationships among the principal characters, and they always remain distinctly secondary to the boys. VERDICT: More enjoyable than it has any right to be, at least for a while, but its watchability begins a marked decline after the fourth season, and the sixth and seventh seasons are no longer much fun even as trash TV.

[hightowcrs]

mini screencap-pack of my favorite scenes of ester expósito as carla roson caleruega in season 2 of élite <3 part 6/?

[demayoaseptiembre]

Para soñar un golpe primero tengo que saber cómo ejecutar la caída.

Me he distraído de Nuevo con la curvatura mágica de lo que supongo será tu sonrisa.

No me acuerdo cómo era verte sonreír.

A veces para mantener la vitamina exacta de mi cuerpo recurro al peligro de tu recuerdo.

Delito es amenazar con no obviarte.

Tú,

dueña de la élite que hay en el cielo.

Algún día nos tiene que alcanzar esta tormenta.

Una nube impostora destrozando la tristeza.

Mis ganas de vandalizarte y echar a volar.

i.

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Ester Expósito in 'Élite Short Stories: Carla Samuel' (2021)

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Danna Paola

Danna Paola Rivera Munguía (Ciudad de México, 23 de junio de 1995) es una cantante, actriz, modelo y compositora mexicana. Es una de las figuras del pop en español más importantes actualmente. Su larga trayectoria la ha colocado como un icono de varias generaciones.

Ha sido ganadora de diferentes premios, entre los que se encuentran 9 Kids Choice Awards, 4 MTV Millennial Awards, 4 MTV Italian Music Awards, 1 MTV Europe Music Awards y 2 premios de la Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México por «Oye Pablo» y «Sodio». Además fue nominada al Grammy Latino por su sexto álbum de estudio K.O. en 2021.

A lo largo de su carrera musical, ha lanzado seis álbumes de estudio: Mi globo azul (2001), Océano (2004), Chiquita pero picosa (2005), Danna Paola (2012), (Sie7e +) (2020) y K.O (2021). Además, dos EP: Danna Paola (2007) y Sie7e (2019). Ha realizado distintas giras musicales, entre las que destacan Mala Fama Tour (2019-2020) y XT4S1S TOUR (2022 - 2023), con las que ha recorrido gran parte de Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos. K.O y Sie7e han recibido certificaciones de oro y platino por AMPROFON.1​ Ha colaborado con otros artistas como Noel Schajris, Ana Victoria, Fey, Carla Morrison, Paty Cantú, Aitana, Lola Índigo, Sebastián Yatra y Steve Aoki. Entre sus sencillos más populares y con más recepción se encuentran «Mala fama», «Oye Pablo», «Sodio», «No bailes sola», “XT4S1S” y “1Trago”.

En su carrera actoral, debutó en la telenovela infantil Rayito de luz (2000-2001). Con su primer papel protagónico, en María Belén (2001), ganó un premio a «Revelación Infantil del Año». Desde entonces, Danna Paola ha participado en diferentes telenovelas y series de televisión como ¡Vivan los niños! (2002), La familia P. Luche (2003), Amy, la niña de la mochila azul (2004), La rosa de Guadalupe (2008), Atrévete a soñar (2009), Como dice el dicho (2013) , ¿Quién es quién? (2015) y La Doña (2016). También se ha desempeñado como actriz de doblaje en Enredados (2010) como Rapunzel, Home: No hay lugar como el Hogar (2015) como Tip Tucci y Raya y el último dragón (2021) como Raya, pero alcanzó fama mundial al interpretar a Lucrecia Montesinos en las primeras tres temporadas en la serie española Élite, de Netflix. Además, ha sido jurado de La Academia (2019-2020) y de Top Star ¿Cuánto vale tu voz? (2021).

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Elite (2018 - )

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I watched Élite seasons 1 through 5 (I'm sooo late, I know) and boy do I have thoughts. Be warned: this is a really really long post.

First off: I loved the first three seasons. They're quite good for what they set out to do and they wrap up the overarching story in an overall satisfying manner. I was surprised by how invested I got in the two main straight couples and really liked the main queer one. The show itself and the mysteries were always gripping (it made me want to watch 'just one more' over and over again), and the storytelling and plot were honestly pretty neatly constructed, especially considering the kind of show we're talking about. Loved the additions in seasons 2 and 3, and who they decided to get rid of after 1. Lu (so problematic during her worst times but it was aldo so so pleasant to watch her grow up and become a better person), Nadia, Carla, Guzmán, Rebeka, and Omar are clear standouts for me (Danna, Mina, Claudia are quite possibly the three best actors of the first story).

Which brings me to seasons 4 and 5 (haven't watched 6 and don't know if I want to, which is telling when just a few seconds ago I was telling you I couldn't put down the first three seasons), where the exact fucking opposite happened.

-- brief intermission: Lu and Nadia's friendship is the very best thing about seasons 1 to 3; Danna Paola acted the hell out of every single line and scene she was given; Mina, Georgina, Ester, and Claudia were outstanding too --

Most characters had a clear pathway of development and their stories closed out on a firm note of either growth or regression (or something a bit more complex than that), instead of flip-flopping back and forth between points A, B, and C for three seasons.

-- brief intermission 2: it's important to keep in mind that season 4 had some positives (one very big one); season 5 is the really bad one --

Let me preface this by stating the obvious. High school/college shows that are directly bound to their HS/C setting have an evident handicap: they can't really ever leave that setting (which with enough skill you can turn into a strength imho). This gives you three options.

A - Keep your characters at the eternal age of 15/16/17/18, which ruins the characters and storytelling, because 1) it becomes absolutely nonsensical, and 2) it forces you to do that same flip-flopping where characters keep growing and regressing and growing and regressing ad eternum (see: Marvel's Iron Man);

B - Renew the cast every so often, which gives you the chance to tell new stories and refresh your show with each new cycle, therefore lending it a longevity that won't tire your viewers out, because it's basically like you're making a whole new show every three or for years. You have to do it well, though, so viewers don't feel like they're watching the same story over and over just with different faces.

C - A mix of options A and B. You renew the cast but keep some characters to give it a sense of continuity. This is what Élite does: some characters spill over from seasons 3 to 4, and then (I googled) some introduced in the second three-season arc stay for the handoff to season 7. And, sure, it makes sense continuity and familiarity wise, but it also demands careful writing so that the storylines of the characters that are going to stay over for the next overall arc don't feel closed and so that those characters have clear room to grow. So do you know who definitely should NOT be the ones you choose to keep, *most especially* in a high school setting? Your main characters aka the ones whose full story you just told. They're ready to graduate, my buddies. Let them!

And this is where the issues start (but definitely do not end) for Élite. The characters that stay over for season 4 - SPOILER - are (iirc) Samuel and Guzmán, the ~main characters~, plus Ander, Omar, Cayetana, and last but not least my baby Rebeka. The show comes up with mildly logical ploys and explanations for those six to remain, but right off the bat, it's way too many. Six characters??? That's OVER HALF of the main cast of seasons 2 and 3.

While it made sense to have Rebeka and Caye – additions in season 2 and whose stories you could feel hadn't reached their conclusion –, Samu, Guzmán, Ander, and Omar's character arcs were done. They had grown all they had to grow. What does that mean for the story? It means that we had to watch the slow and steady (not literal) assassination of all four characters. It was so painful to watch as the showrunners undid all the growth SGOA had done over the past three seasons and destroyed their characters for the sake of keeping them on the show. The way Guzmán and Samu went back to being assholes to each other made absolutely no fucking sense. And it was honestly fucking annoying seeing that after they became friends so organically in the first arc. That was a friendship you rooted for ffs. As for Omar and Ander, while it made sense on paper for them to still be in high school due to what happened in season 3, the writers could have easily written them off, because their arc WAS over. We'd done the closet. We'd done the back and forth. We'd done the cheating. We'd done the breaking up and making up and all 72 lines of Katy Perry's Hot N Cold. We'd done Omar's story with Nadia, the parents, and Lu (BEST friendship btw), and Ander's with Polo, Guzmán, and his mom. And then the writers decided to put them in a narrative vacuum with a third, endlessly annoying dude and redo all the gay drama parts but ten times worse 🙃

And that's just season 4, because Guzmán and Ander leave at the end of that and then in season 5 the writers decide to fuck up Omar and Samu's friendship too. Fuck you for putting my son Omar through the ringer tbh.

This is coming out way longer than I anticipated (as usual). ANYWAY, quality goes way down in seasons 4 and especially 5. The mysteries are boring and predictable, and – this is important – sex takes on that GOT quality of mattering for nothing other than to goad people to watch. With each season, sex becomes more and more graphic and less and less meaningful for plot and characterization. It's just softcore porn. There's a beautiful sex scene in S4 (I'm biased tho ngl lol) but everything in S5 is Not It.

Rebeka and Caye are two of the best three/four things of seasons 4 and 5. Nevertheless, they ruined Omar, Ander, Samu, and Guzmán, like I said, and the additions to the cast are no better.

Patrick, Ari, and Benjamín (introduced in S4) are frankly bad characters; Philippe (S4) is a missed opportunity; Isadora (S5) is just there to suffer (1 - I say this despite Isa being a good character with lots of potential and Valentina Zenere doing excellent work with her; 2 - I suspect she will have a bigger role in S6, which would be good); and Cruz (1 - I've never met Portuguese person called Cruz (mas também nunca tinha visto ninguém chamado Carloto, por isso o que sei eu lol), 2 - Carloto Cotta's acting is Not Good At All) and Iván (both S5) serve possibly the worst plotline of all five seasons. The only super welcome addition is... Mencía ❤️ even so, her turnaround in season 5 is soooo poorly done and with it the show ruined the best thing about season 4, because if one thing's for sure with Élite is that no one can ever have a happy ending. The writers made that crystal clear when they brought Guzmán, Omar, and Ander back for the second overall arc of the show.

That brings me to the two good things about season 4, all of which season 5 destroyed. Caye is given room to grow into her better self after her fuck-ups in the first arc and she shines in season 4. Then in 5 they decide she should actually be in love with her abuser 👍

Rebe and Menci *whimsical sigh*. I fell in love with them. Their push and pull was the heart of s4, which firmly paved the way for reconciliation in 5. It happened. And then it didn't. Then it happened again. And then it didn't. Again. It's so fucking frustrating, because they built one of the best love stories in the show – by far the best of the second arc – and poofed it away like it meant nothing. Fuck it hurt. Honestly for me Rebe/Menci is up there with Nadia/Guzmán, Samu/Carla, and Omar/Ander seasons 1-3. The epic love story the show had been unable to repeat with anyone else. It also gave Rebe her due spotlight and agency and the sensational Claudia Salas a chance to shine. Her chemistry with Mencía/Martina Cariddi was off the fucking charts. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say they had the most explosive chemistry of all of Élite along with Carla/Samuel. And if they were going to destroy it, I'd rather they would have done it in season 4 when Rebeka made a choice that she herself said meant losing Mencía forever than what they did in 5. Because FUUUUCCKKK they really made me believe that reconciliation was possible in s5.

Rebeka was wonderful throughout all five seasons and my only criticism is that I would have given her even more screen time while she was on the show. I miss her already 🥲

This takes me to *drumroll* Mencía. Gosh I love my baby Menci, who has the nicest, most radiant smile. They had her make some stupid choices in season 4 but I guess they had to feed the Armando storyline for all eight episodes. Also, it allowed for some badass Rebe scenes as well as some great hurt/comfort. Season 5 is a garbage fire and she gets dragged along. Mencía is a /wonderful/ character throughout though, it's just a shame that the writers continually chose to cause her pain and to put her between a rock and a hard place.

Which brings me to my last but not least talking point: women and queer people get the short end of the stick over and over and over again.

Just to be clear, racial diversity is worse than bad – we have three (?) black people in five seasons, all with minor roles – but this is Spain we're talking about, so unfortunately my expectations on that front were below zero (the same goes for Portuguese content btw). We have Nadia and Omar in the first three seasons. I'm hesitant to include Lu, Iván, Valerio, Isa as Latinos, because I don't know exactly how it works in Spain, but we don't make that distinction in Portugal. First time I heard of Latinos was in a US media context. I don't want to be ignorant/dismissive though so I'm at least making a reference to the four of them.

-- TW sexual assault --

Four women who are victims of sexual violence in the first five seasons (I'm choosing to include Carla's dad pimping her out to Yeray in this too – Yeray was all too happy to go with it until Carla made it clear that she hated it so much she needed drugs to withstand pretending to be in love with him), three of them in seasons 4 and 5. You see what I'm talking about when I mention how bad those two seasons are? As for the queer characters (some overlap): cancer, prostitution, constant cheating, two instances of borderline p*dophilia (as in, a fully grown adult and a teenager), homophobia, family abandonment, transphobia (in season 6, according to a review I read), racism, religious intolerance, sexual assault, drug dealing – seriously, all the kids who dabble in it one time or another for whatever reason (Omar, Rebe, Valerio, Patrick) are queer – etc etc etc.

And while mistakes were learning opportunities in the first overall arc – e.g. Rebe and Valerio's drug dealing in season 3, however brief, and the damage it caused – in seasons 4 and especially 5 they're just something that happens for drama and pain and to push characters back on their growth, not that they will ever learn from them. Remember when we talked about how seasons 1-3 mostly managed to avoid the Tony Stark Syndrome? Well 4 and 5 revel in it. Character development is but a mirage.

I think this is it. Anyway, Rebe x Menci forever, and Lu, Nadia, and Carla are my babies ❤️

[tertuliadetodo]

De Succession  a la “niña lino”: ¿qué tienen en común?

Con el fenómeno de la serie Succession, la próxima coronación del Rey Carlos y el empuje de tiktokers de moda surgió nuevamente el interés por la estética del old money Pero…¿qué es? Un artículo de la revista Ohlalá toma la definición de Cambridge la cual explica que el old money hace referencia a personas adineradas cuyas familias llevan siendo ricas mucho tiempo. Se podría decir que old money se nace, no se hace. 

Este estilo surgió a principios del siglo XX entre los jóvenes de élite que asistían a Universidades privadas en Estados Unidos e Inglaterra. Se caracteriza por colores clásicos como el crudo, blanco, azul marino y todas las tonalidades de grises. Además, y esta es su principal particularidad, es discreto. No busca ostentar marcas y se opone a la logomanía. El old money preferiría sacrificar su caballo antes que usar un suéter que tenga inscripciones de “Balenciaga” en letras gigantes.. Además, es mejor amigo del lujo silencioso. 

Lujo silencioso: llevar un outfit de miles de dólares sin decirlo

El lujo silencioso consiste en un objeto, actividad o experiencia al que solo tiene acceso un grupo reducido de personas que no necesitan presumir de esto. No llevan un tipo de vida aspiracional porque simplemente esa es su realidad. 

En cuanto a marcas hay para todos los gustos: la indumentaria de Loro Piana, los bolsos de Boarini Milanesi y hasta las valijas de la marca alemana Rimowa. En cuanto a la ropa, las prendas prescinden de mostrar su marca o divulgar su precio porque no hace falta: quienes las usan las reconocen y las utilizan para reconocerse entre sí. 

Argentina’s version 

¿Existe el lujo silencioso en Argentina? Sí. Pero es importante tener en cuenta que el precio no es el único factor. Como en nuestro país los parámetros de lo barato y lo caro suelen ser un tanto polémicos, el lujo no pasa solo por lo económico sino también por la exclusividad. Podríamos mencionar marcas como Rapsodia o Ricky Sarkany que si bien no son “baratas”, están al alcance de alguien ahorre un poco. Por ello, haciendo incapié en la exclusividad, tomaremos otras opciones menos conocidas. La primera es Markova, una marca que históricamente hizo sastrería y confecciona piezas elegantes y atemporales para mujeres de cualquier edad. Otros ejemplos son las prendas de las marcas de polo La Martina y Rossi & Caruso y por el lado de la indumentaria femenina se destaca Blue Sheep. En cuanto a complementos pueden nombrarse los anteojos y lentes de Carla Dí Sí, los sobres de Flanêur Clutch o los diseños de Isabel Englebert que van desde los accesorios como aros hasta las esculturas y los adornos para el hogar. 

El fenómeno niña lino 

En las últimas semanas se hizo viral en TikTok el concepto impuesto por Maureen Fellner de la “niña lino”. Habla de una chica de un estatus económico alto, que se viste sencilla, con colores crudos y claros y con prendas específicamente de lino. Mantiene un perfil bajo, sube fotos a las redes sociales de paisajes o puertas. Luego ahonda más sobre la niña y los niños lino: tienen familia de polo, viajan a destinos europeos no tan conocidos y se matan antes de ir a Miami. ¿Les suena familiar todo esto? Este concepto parece una reversión de algo que ya conocemos. Entonces ¿Podemos decir que la “niña lino” es la versión 2.0 del old money? ¿Por qué si? ¿Por qué no?

[veren4s]

𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐎-𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐑É. veintidós años. leo. matriculada y estudiante de medicina y nutrición en st. wolfeius. mansión tres.

tablero. audición. conexiones.

wenas !!! cyra por acá, presentando a mi primera cría: verena insoportable robredo. abajito del read more dejo headcanons así como también posibles conexiones que me interesan para esta rubia hegemónica. si me dan like o me reaccionan en discord me acerco a a hablarles <3.

HEADCANONS.

verena es de san sebastián, don osti, españa. nació y creció ahí antes de mudarse a barcelona con la familia.

nació ya en cuna de oro. la mamá es periodista, modelo, una belleza nacional y el papá es médico super reconocido e importante en el país. ambos egresados de st. mary magdalene ofc.

muchos la verán por el dash y si se vieron élite me van a decir que es una versión reciclada de carla ronsón y lowkey sí es !! sólo que esta mujer es mucho más hija de puta y menos sensible que carla, así que watch out for that.

no me refiero a que sea más hija de puta en el sentido de aaay la bully, no. me refiero a que cuando se meten con ella o la sacan de quicio es bastante tenaz con lo que suele hacer para vengarse, porque sí es vengativa aunque sabe escoger sus batallas. también es bastante mecha corta con varias cosas.

por ejemplo, si le dicen apodos o motes tipo "mi amor, mi vida, bebé, hermosa" cosas así, se desquicia. también si no le dicen VERENA sino vere, vero, ena, ver, cualquier diminutivo de su nombre le dan ganas de arrancarse las pestañas.

fuera de eso es bastante disimulada, tipo, tiene carita de ángel y actúa como tal frente a las personas que a ella le interesen. es bastante doble cara, bastante camaleón, bastante mirrorball como diría taylor swift.

está estudiando medicina para seguir los pasos del papá porque si bien reconoce que la belleza la puede llevar a muchos sitios, como a la mamá, le importa más que la reconozcan por su inteligente and boy oh boy is she smart.

no, fr, es bastante inteligente y el promedio perfecto que mantiene se debe a eso: a que se dedica a estudiar y no le gusta hacer trampas cuando se trata de sus estudios. es bastante la chica de los plumones versión exagerada y más clasista ahr.

es bastante callada y prudente y con esto me refiero a que sabe cuándo tiene que hablar y cuándo no. bastante calculadora con todo lo que hace, la pregunta verdaderamente es cuándo va a dejar que alguien más tome control??? veremos.

está atrasada un año or so porque cuando se graduó fue directo a un internado a "reforzar sus estudios".

tiene un hermano menor que podría estar comenzando el primer año de universidad por si este dato le interesa a alguien.

POSIBLES CONEXIONES.

con verena me interesan FRENEMIES más que todo. tipo personas con las que pueda tratar pero de alguna manera a verena no le cae bien nadie y está bien centrada en su objetivo más que en ser popular así que me imagino que el número de AMIGOS VERDADEROS o intímos los cuenta con una mano.

ENEMIES: alguien con quien haya tenido algún roce, alguna competencia académica o por fuera porque también es bastante competitva, alguna cosa que hayan hecho para llevarse como el orto ahr.

HOOKUPS, FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS O COSAS DE UNA SOLA NOCHE: listen................. yo nunca dije que verena es católica debota aunque los directivos crean otherwise y sí esté bautizada y demás. she fucks who she wants when she wants if the other person is down, básicamente. así que pueden ser chicas, chicos, everything in between that... ella no discrimina cuando se trata de eso.

COMPAÑEROS DE CLASE: de la carrera, de los clubs a los que pertence, personas con los que haga los trabajos en grupo y las presentaciones y que ella pueda tolerar porque son lo mejorcito de las clases porque, ofc, nadie es mejor que ella. los va a mandonear cuando se trata de los trabajos, aviso.

FAMILY FRIENDS: sus papis tienen bastante conexiones así que personas que su familia conozca que ella sepa quiénes son porque los ha visto en fiestas, eventos, etc.