Ramiro Ponce

Ramiro Ponce is one of the deuteragonists of the 2016 Disney Channel TV series Soy Luna. Ramiro is aware of his talents in dancing, singing, and skating and he basically wants the whole world bowing at his talents. He makes decisions based on what is best for himself and often disregards the feelings of others without thinking about the consequences.
He is played by Jorge López. 
==Biography==
===Season 1===
====Part 1====
Although Ramiro proves to be a hard-working and talented person, he is also shown to be arrogant, cocky and conceited, even with Jim & Yam whom he often takes the pleasure to intimidate, including their Open Music rehearsals, and calls them "beginners". He first shows up at Jam & Roller after the girls return from their vacations and watches in amusement as the two accidentally break Pedro's tablet, which they eagerly wanted to use to sign themselves up for the first Open Music of the year and he later manages to sign himself up before Jim and Yam could, thus gaining the opening performance. Throughout the next few episodes, Ramiro is shown to be "just there" and constantly getting in the middle of Yam and Jim's fights and on their nerves with his cockiness. All of those qualities make him more of an anti-hero. 
However, a soft side of Ramiro is shown when it is revealed that he harbors genuine feelings towards Yam. Ramiro has a dog named Ritmo, which he introduces to Yam in an attempt to impress her, though his plan comically fails when he is unable to instruct the dog. At one point, they were skating for the Jam & Roller competition, but then began arguing continously following their elimination from the first round. However, Jim manages to convince the two of them to put aside their differences and perform together at the second Open Music. Ramiro then develops a crush on Vero, a girl from a band named Electro Power, but is then confronted by her guitarist boyfriend for asking her out, so he tries to ease the situation by having Yam pretending to be a hurt girlfriend. When the guitarist shows up for a second time, Gastón accidentally outs Ramiro, so the guitarist gets mad at Ramiro for lying to him. Once again, he tries to calm him down by surprisingly kissing Yam, surprising him and everyone present.
====Part 2====
Ramiro realizes that Yam has feelings for him too, so the two of them start dating. However, Mariano, who is Tamara's ex-boyfriend, manipulates both Ramiro and Jim into turning on her, causing them to drop out of the Jam & Roller team and join another team by the name of Power & Speed. As a result, Yam breaks up with Ramiro in effect of that. After the gang manages to convince Jim and Ramiro to return, Yam forgives Ramiro, even though she does not want to get back together with him. He skates with Jam & Roller at the Intercontinental Skating Competition and wins with his team. He is last seen doing the rapping verse of the song Vuelo.
===Season 2===
====Part 1====
For the second season, while still being friendly towards Jim & Yam, Ramiro abandons the Jam & Roller team and instead joins the Adrenalines, a street skating team. At this point, he becomes a little more distant and has to choose between his friends and the Adrenalines. As of his romance with Yam, the two are still friends but their relationship is a bit rough in the edges. However, they slowly start to rebuild it from scratch as the season progresses. The Adrenalines offer Ramiro a spot on their tour, but he declines since that would mean leaving his friends behind and dropping out of Blake South College, where he is currently completing his senior year along with Ámbar, Delfi, Jazmín, Matteo and Gastón. He returns to the Roller team near the end of the first part after showing his abilities to Juliana, the team's new trainer.
====Part 2====
Throughout the second half of the season, Ramiro continues to change for the better, becoming less self-centered than before and more generous and helping. Not only does he improve as a skater, but also as a person. During one rehearsal when Simón and Matteo were fighting, he tried to assist in separating them both by reminding them that they are on the same team and if they have a problem, they should solve it through the talking, to no avail. Still interested in Yam, Ramiro gets tickets for the two of them to see Yam's favorite band and puts them in an envelope on her locker, taking baby steps to tell her his true feelings. Later on, he finds the tickets ripped in pieces in the trash along with the envelope, and thinks that Yam did it, as a harsh way of rejecting him.
Ramiro catches up with Yam and questions her as to why she's avoiding him. She denies it, but when he asks why she ripped the tickets she laughs and tells him that it had been misplaced onto Simón's locker, and that he, thinking it was to him from Ámbar, was the one who tore it apart. The real reason that she was avoiding Ramiro, appears to be the complete opposite. She tells him that she was too shy to get close to him to tell him how she feels. He says he hopes it's the same as his feelings, and they finally kiss and hug each other. 
He competes with his friends at RodaFest in Cancún, yet the Sliders end up being announced as the winners.
===Season 3===
====Part 1====
In this occasion, Ramiro becomes a villain. After Gary decides that Jam & Roller does not exist anymore, replacing them for the Red Sharks, Ramiro worries that he may not be able to achieve his dream of becoming a professional skater, even criticizing Luna for her supposed lack of interest in the sport after she rejects being part of the Red Sharks. His desperation reaches a boiling point when he joins the Red Sharks and, with his friends seeing him as a traitor, slowly becomes influenced by their behavior, causing Ramiro to return to his old selfish ways.
====Part 2====
For this part, Ramiro feels genuinely remorseful for abandoning the Jam & Roller for the Red Sharks (even whenGary disbands the latter team), and tries in various episodes to prove himself and earn their respect and trust back. He starts by visiting Matteo at the hospital after his accident and recalling the good times he has had with Jam & Roller, attending the Blake South College, singing at previous Open Musics, and joining the Adrenalines with Matteo, despite Simón and Pedro being displeased with his presence. He even disagreed with the recent evil schemes of Ámbar, Emilia and Benicio as part of their revenge against Jam & Roller for "ruining" their festival, despite Gary and the Red Sharks themselves being the true culprits. Ámbar and Benicio falsify Felipe Mendevilla's number out of jealousy for choosing Luna over them, and Ramiro does nothing about it until after the Flash Open when he admits the truth to Luna but had nothing to do with this, whilst Emilia and Benicio recorded Delfi and Jazmin, exposing them as liars. Unlike the first attempt, Ramiro (without a second thought) told everything to both girls. He also sympathized with his friends' sadness after realizing that Felipe's proposal was only for Luna and that she rejected it, out of loyalty and humbleness to her team.
Ramiro asks Jam & Roller for a second chance, yet some of them, even Jim (who barely recognizes that he changed a bit) and Yam (who is still mad at him), are reluctant to trust him after everything he has done. Yam argues that he recorded them skating and ratted them out to Gary and Delfi adding that he knew about the fake number scheme and concealed the information. Matteo, Luna and Simon defend him: Ramiro just couldn't bring himself to turn on the Red Sharks that easily (despite Yam saying that she would've done that in his place), but what matters is that he finally told the truth (although too late), but he did and that we can mistakes but in the end everyone should deserve a second chance.
After a lot of thought, everyone seems to be okay with Ramiro rejoining the Jam & Roller and they joyfully accept him back. However, for a temporary period of time, Yam is the only who refuses to forgive Ramiro, despite Jim's best efforts trying to reassure and prove her wrong, to no avail. In addition, Yam sarcastically claims "Oh, poor Ramiro, he regrets everything he has done and all of a sudden he's very nice to everyone", dubbing his redemption as a "victim performance". Whenever Yam is rehearsing for her audition, Ramiro tries to compliment and give her some feedback, but he is only met with very harsh responses from her. Hopeless, Ramiro believes that she will never forgive him. Later, Yam receives an unexpected surprise: Her audition was pushed back for the same day as the casting. Yam has no choice but to leave the casting and do the audition as she is one step ahead of fulfilling her dream. Ramiro asks her to think about her friends and how it will affect them, something that ignites Yam's fury, and leads her to strike back at Ramiro by reminding him that he thought of no one when he joined the Red Sharks, leaving him dejected. Near the end of the series, Yam finally does forgive Ramiro after she is accepted into the musical school and apologizes for being too hard on him, now understanding the similarity of her situation to Ramiro's as they both had to choose between the team and their future.
== Personality ==
Ramiro is very self demanding. He can skate, dance, and sing very well, and he knows it. He wants to do everything well, and when he does not, he can not keep his frustration in check. Ramiro can't admit to any of his mistakes, and tries to blame his mistakes on the people around him. In other people's eyes he can be seen as arrogant and unsympathetic. Ramiro dreams of being a star, and works hard, hoping one day his dream will come true.
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