Ella Lopez

Ella Lopez, better known as Ella or Miss Lopez, is a major protagonist in the TV Series Lucifer.
She first appeared in Season 2 then in all the seasons as a major protagonist and serving as major character in all seasons since her first appearance.
Ella is a young woman from Detroit, Michigan, being the only daughter of a family of Mexican origin. To survive, she specializes in car theft and card counting, although she is a great Christian faithful. She later became a medical examiner and moved to Los Angeles.
She is portrayed by Aimee Garcia.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Ella was born and raised in a tougher and more dangerous neighborhood in Detroit, with four brothers and raised in a very strong Catholic faith. When she was in high school, her grandmother (Abuelita in Spanish) taught her how to pick locks and steal cars. She later admits that it's funny if you drive it really fast.
When she was eight, Ella was injured in a "gnarly car accident" and Azrael, the angel of death and sister of Lucifer, was sent to collect Ella's soul. But Ella was still alive, so Azrael didn't do her angel of death thing because Ella was still alive, but she took a liking to Ella, whom she found to be a good and happy person, who makes other people feel good about themselves. Azrael become friends with Ella, but only her can saw the angel, so she tells to Ella that she was a ghost named Rae-Rae, the nickname used by her brother Lucifer to call her and she had not seen him since he was banished from Heaven by God. So Azrael, AKA "Rae-Rae" became Ella's invisible friend throughout her childhood. Eventually she encouraged Ella to leave home and move to Los Angeles, where Lucifer was also residing. She hoped that her two favorite people could be there for each other when she could not be. Ella was under the impression she moved to Los Angeles to keep an eye on her brother, Ricardo, but he "totally ghosted" her. 
Even as Ella was now working in law enforcement, some of her family, including Ricardo, and unbeknownst to her, Jay, are still involved in shady business. Also, is very know at Las Vegas as an exceptional card counter and she is banned from almost all casinos across the city.
== Personality ==
Ella is easy-going, friendly, and quick to greet everyone she meets with a hug, even unknowns people. She seems to be quick to trust people as well, and enjoys making jokes, even at her own expense. She has a mischievous side, getting a stripper for Chloe's birthday at the precinct; a thing one would expect from Lucifer, not her. But like him, she is quick to strip when pursuing a suspect in a nudist retreat.
As a forensic scientist for a very big city like Los Angeles, Ella is well-educated, smart, and a very quick thinker. She has knowledge of many scientific and chemical properties, such as chemical compounds that can prove fatal if mixed together.
Ella is a woman of faith, "I actually really like talking about it. It's my faith, it's kind of a big part of my life." When Lucifer insisted she ask a favor of him, she repeatedly refuses to do explaining that the point of a favor is to do it without expecting anything in return, she asked that he go to church with her and he reluctantly complies.
To big Lucifer's surprise and delight, she tells him when they first met that she thinks the devil gets a bad rap. She doesn't believe that rebelling against his Father and offering "a naked lady an apple" makes him evil. For her, the devil would only be a capricious teenager in lack of attention. However, she thinks him running Hell "with the torture and eternal damnation" is "not so great." She further delights him with unsuspected talents such as lock-picking and marksmanship. He tells her, "Miss Lopez, you are an enigma, wrapped in a hoodie, under a jaunty pony-tail."
However, Ella goes through a rough patch in Season 4 after a close friend, Charlotte Richards, is killed by the hand of a man she idolized, Marcus Pierce. At that moment, she gets angry with God, because she doesn't even know if he answers her prayers and she removes her cross, losing her faith which she only regains at the end of the season.
Later, Ella questions her kindness, saying that despite everything, there is a lot of darkness in her. God himself tells Ella that her life and the darkness within, have shaped her into one of the brightest souls that he has ever seen, that the deeper the darkness, the brighter the light, and that she is nothing, but good.
When Ella finally discovers the truth about the celestial origins of the people that she cares about, she accepts without the emotional crash that Linda, Dan, and Chloe went through, but is hurt and heartbroken that she had not been taken into the "inner circle" sooner. She is also sad and upset that they didn't tell her that Charlotte was now in a better world and that she now resided in Heaven.
== Powers and Abilities ==
* Forensics Specialist: Ella Lopez is a well-educated, well-trained forensic scientist. Her knowledge assists in many homicide cases. Even Lucifer trusted her skills and asked her to perform an analysis on Uriel's grave to uncover who stole Azrael's Blade. Ella also saved Dan's life in "Welcome Back Charlotte Richards", while discovers that Dan's favorite pudding is a poisonous pudding.
* Blackjack Expert: She is a highly capable blackjack player and an excellent card counter. Her abilities have gotten her banned from at least one casino in Las Vegas.
* Marksmanship: She is skilled with firearms. In "Vegas with Some Radish", she was able to precisely shoot Judd in the leg.
* Lockpicking: She is a proficient pick lock, which according to her, she learned in middle school.
* Car's stealing : Her grandma taught her how to steal a car and drive it really fast.
* Multilingual: She speaks both English and Spanish fluently, having grown up in a Hispanic neighborhood. An avid Trekkie, she is also fluent in Klingon. In one episode, she spoke a bit of French.
== Physical Appearance ==
Ella is a lovely, well-built young woman of Mexican descent. Ella stands only around 5'2" and has black hair and brown eyes. Ella's wardrobe seems to consist of various colorful t-shirts, often with humorous logos, who presents life's joy and wears them under many different colored and styled jackets, often hoodies. She tends to wear skinny jeans and DKNY sneaker boots.
== Trivia ==
* Ella mentions that despite her cheery disposition, she's got "a lot of darkness" in her. This is something even her brief serial killer boyfriend saw in her. However, God himself tells Ella that the darkness has shaped her into one of the brightest souls that he has ever seen, visible even from Heaven itself and God expresses pride in just how good she is.
* In "A Good Day to Die", when called in the middle of the night after Chloe was poisoning, she wears glasses, implying that she usually wears contacts.
** "The Angel of San Bernardino" confirms this as she's seen wearing glasses in the forensics lab and at the crime scene.
* Her first hug in the series was improvised by Aimee, which explains Lucifer's confused reaction. Considering that it suits her character so well, it became part of her character.
* Unlike most people, Ella constantly gets along with Lucifer and does not get annoyed by him. Though this is different in serious situations close to home. She gets angry with him just one time, when he's back to LA after not tell good bye to Ella before leave. However, the one she believes to be Lucifer is actually Michael, his twin brother who is impersonating him, so Ella never got angry with Lucifer anyway.
* "Orgy Pants to Work" shows Ella isn't judgemental about nudists, being perfectly comfortable with being naked at the resort when asking the patrons about the murder victim. That implied that Ella likes her body just the way it is.
**Backing this up is that Ella implies she sleeps naked; Ella's says "you're lucky I remembered to out in pants.... eventually" when called in by Lucifer and Chloe in "A Good Day to Die".
**Ella mentions going to a nudist resort was on her bucket list, but her positive experience suggests she would be visit again.
* In "All About Her", it is revealed that everyone enjoys Ella's quirky and interesting commentary while they're at the crime scenes.
* In "Vegas with Some Radish", Ella tells Lucifer that she counted cards to drown out the voices in her head. When Lucifer gets confused, she refuses to elaborate and started to speak about something else.
** This is a apparently a reference to Azrael, who Ella doesn't know is real. This is also the reason why Ella is banished from the casino.
* She might be clairvoyant to some degree, as she once stated that when Goddess possessed Charlotte Richards, she saw a light in her, which she hadn't seen anymore after Charlotte was resurrected. She could even feel God wasn't around anymore after he left for the Void.
* In "High School Poppycock", Ella talks about writing a book about a forensic scientist who talks to ghosts.
** This is a reference to Azrael, who Ella doesn't know is real.
** The name Ella is a Norman form of the Germanic name Alia, which was a short form of names containing the Germanic element alja meaning "other".
* Ella's taste for "bad boys" can explain why she was so into Pierce in season 3 and fall in love of Pete Daily.
* Ironically, Ella met God after previously having a crisis of faith. Her monologue in the Season 5 finale suggests she may believe God was indeed Himself as she quoted his advice to her.
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