-Carmella’s name means Garden or Orchard/Garden of God while her last name Aguirre means prominent or exposed. (I’ll let you connect the dots)
-Carmella is very loosely based on Francine Smith from America Dad, very loosely.
-Carmella’s favorite movie is the Disney movie Pinocchio, mostly bc she was very empathetic to Pinocchio and would cry constantly when watching the film. It also partially inspired her to have children of her own so she could shield them from this sort of suffering.
-Carmella’s favorite food is Pozole. It comforts her and reminds her of the simple pleasures of life before everything sucked. Her neighbors would make it and give it to her out of compassion since they knew her father barely fed her.
-Carmella is extremely hygiene conscious due to severe neglect. I imagine she’s germaphobic and has some kind of ocd revolving around cleanliness. It reminds her of her time as a prostitute and how filthy she felt, also child neglect. She breaks out into hives and often refuses to let Franco touch her when he’s dirty.
-Something Franco loves to do is grab Carmella’s cheeks and smooch her forehead or cheek. She loves to grasp him by the collar and passionately kiss him. She loves his hair too weirdly, it feels nice.
-They love helping each other dress, it’s an intimate activity and a massive sign of trust considering everything they’ve been through. Franco tries to be gentle with his beloved while Carmella doesn’t laugh at Franco’s height, weight or scarring.
-Their intimate life is also strangely healthy in an odd way. Of course their practices are extremely unethical nor safe or even sane. But they like the exchange of power. Franco gets a safe place to be humiliated and Carmella gets to roleplay being in control.
-Their date nights are always extremely romantic yet end with some type of violence towards someone. Even when they have the expectation of normalcy, it always winds up being a mess.
-Carmella’s parenting would’ve eventually spiraled into martyrdom for her and would hold it over Fígaro’s head. She’s also extremely anxious and worrisome, probably going out of her way to avoid teaching necessary things to keep her son with her. Also her need to conform would’ve had an incredibly negative impact. Essentially colonizing her own heritage out of her son before he could appreciate it. Unintentional racism out of survival too, not out of genuine malice or hatred but survival. Carmella sorta recognizes her faults but it ends up getting clouded or she justifies it.
-She blames herself for what happened in her marriage and what happened to Fígaro. It’s agonizing, sometimes Carmella will deny herself the right to eat or sleep and punishes herself for her alleged failures. Franco tries to cull this behavior albeit extremely unethically. Like drugging her food with sleeping pills or forcing her to eat.
-Franco hates her husband and is glad Carmella killed him. Although it’s mostly for the fact that he got to her first and treated Franco’s woman like that mostly. Tending to make the issue about himself and how he feels which Carmella reluctantly accepts since that’s the only kind of genuine validation she receives.
