Chancellor Esteban

### Personality

**Formerly**: Dignified, snooty, uptight, conniving, independent, prideful, strict, treacherous, guilty, power-hungry, evil, wounded, insecure, traitorous, egotistical, cowardly, self-entitled, two-faced, corrupt
**Later**: Kind, caring, remorseful, protective, tragic, sophisticated, heroic, noble, selfless, honorable

### Appearance

Tall, slender, light brown skin, graying black hair and facial hair, sideburns, light brown eyes

### Occupation

Chancellor of Avalor (formerly)
Member of the Grand Council of Avalor (formerly)
Leader of the Four Shades of Awesome (briefly)
King of Avalor (briefly)

### Alignment

Good
Bad (temporarily)

### Affiliations

Shuriki (formerly)
Grand Council of Avalor (formerly)
Zopilote (formerly)
Ash Delgado (formerly)
Four Shades of Awesome (formerly)
Avalor

### Goal

To prove that he is more responsible than Elena (formerly)
To form an alliance with other villains alongside Ash (formerly)
To be King of Avalor (formerly)
To redeem himself (succeeded)
To make up for his misdeeds

### Relatives

Unnamed father †
Margarita † (mother)
Princess Elena (maternal first cousin)
Princess Isabel (maternal first cousin)
King Raul † (maternal uncle by marriage)
Queen Lucia † (maternal aunt)
Francisco (maternal grandfather)
Luisa (maternal grandmother)

### Allies

Princess Elena, Princess Isabel, Francisco, Luisa, King Raul and Queen Lucia, Alacazar, Armando, Naomi Turner, Mateo, Gabe, Higgins, Doña Paloma, Professor Mendoza, Migs, Luna, and Skylar, King Toshi, King Joaquín, Daniel Turner, Scarlett Turner, Princess Marisa, Shuriki (formerly) , Ash Delgado (formerly), Zopilote (formerly), Chatana (formerly), Pili (formerly), Tziloco (formerly), Four Shades of Awesome (formerly), Victor Delgado, Carla Delgado, Flo, Antonia Bello, Ixlan, Quita Moz, Dulce

### Enemies

Victor Delgado, Flo, Princess Elena, Gabe, Naomi Turner, Mateo, Higgins, Alacazar, Princess Isabel, Francisco, Luisa, Migs, Luna, and Skylar, King Raul and Queen Lucia, Dulce, Princess Marisa, Ixlan (all formerly ), Shuriki, Carla Delgado (formerly), Marimonda, Fiero, Duke Cristóbal, Cruz (formerly), Vestia (formerly), Cahu

### Likes

Sailing, tres leches cake, appreciation, attention, authority, Olaball, carnivals, his parents, planting cacao trees, his family, spending time with his family

### Dislikes

Having to answer to others, being wrong, Shuriki's ruling of Avalor, being disrespected, helping Shuriki, stealing, taking his medicine, surprises, hurting his family

### Powers and abilities

Swordsmanship
Magic
Teleportation

### Possessions

Magical Staff
Scepter of Light (briefly)

### Fate

Gets forgiven by Elena and attends her coronation

### Quote

"And it will be clear to everyone who is the real power behind the throne."
"This is true." Ha Ha Ha

**Chancellor Esteban**, is a recurring character who appears in the animated series, *Elena of Avalor*. He is Princess Elena and Princess Isabel's maternal cousin and the former Chancellor of Avalor.

## Background

### Personality

When he was Chancellor of Avalor, Esteban is very knowledgeable of The Kingdom of Avalor and, as he himself boasts, knows "anyone who's anyone in Avalor". He is also a firm adherent to etiquette. He is also shown to be both shameless and a bigot. Because of this, he can be snooty and is not liked much.

He thinks his cousin Elena is too young to bear the responsibilities that come with ruling a kingdom and disapproves of her personal approach to leadership to the point where he constantly seeks to become the power behind the throne by undermining her and hates being reminded that she is the one in charge as Crown Princess and successor to her parents and his uncle and aunt, King Raul and Queen Lucia. He also wants Elena and Isabel to behave properly for their stations, likely so that they will be easily able to do what is expected of them.

Unlike Elena, he is happy to delegate responsibilities to others and simply give orders from the sidelines. Despite his differences with Elena, he does care about her enough to want to keep her safe and values his family quite enough. In fact, in "Island of Youth", he chooses to save Elena's life rather than retrieve his canteen to keep himself young, showing how he values family most of all, considering how Shuriki double-crossed him with murdering his aunt and uncle and possibly Elena after he explicitly asked his family would be left unharmed when she took over with his support and Alacazar had to imprison the rest of his family in an enchanted painting to keep them safe.

### Appearance

Esteban, in comparison to the majority of the other characters, is the tallest and has a rather slender physique. He has short, slicked dark brown hair that is slightly greying around his temples with wavy side bangs that fall just above his ear. His eyes appear to be a warm, hazelnut or amber color. Although he appears in his early 30s, it’s stated that he's in his fifties and was able to keep his youthful appearance thanks to exfoliation.

Esteban's commonly portrayed in a wine coat with yellow and black accents, a yellow and blue sash, yellow neckerchief, (possibly) blue dress shirt, white trousers and black boots.

### Powers and abilities

Even without magical powers, Esteban was an athletic youth, but has worn out in his old age. It stated by his old friend Victor that he and Esteban had tricks when they were younger like stealing thing from people without them noticing. Esteban has some level of swordsmanship skills, as shown when he attempted to charge towards Marimonda with a sword, although he was overwhelmed by her powers. Despite loosing his athletic prowess, Esteban was fast enough to escape Gabe and Ixlan, dodge and withstand some of Zopilote's energy projectiles, thought this was from coming out of the Well of Crystals. It's possible that the Well of Crystals gave him back his athletic prowess but Esteban didn’t know. He has also displayed some skill on wielding his magical staff as a weapon without using it for magic.

In "Captain Mateo", Esteban fell into the Well of Crystals, causing him to gain teleportation powers and also received with a new Magical Staff, which he uses to channel his powers. He has trouble using his new magic at first, when he accidentally teleported everyone out of the forge and almost got him and Ash to get caught by Elena and the guards multiple times. After a few tries to use his powers again, he teleported him and Ash away. Later he and Ash went to Zopilote's lair, where he and Ash agreed to train Esteban in dark magic. The extent of his teleportation powers include teleporting people including himself and other people, as well as objects such as stalactites and the Scepter of Light. Although Zopilote considered him to have low raw potential for magic, Esteban was able to expand his abilities beyond teleporting himself after receiving training from him and Ash, such as project a hologram to locate persons and generate a magical beam to grab objects. To teleport Esteban uses his staff by banging it down to the ground and think of a location to go to. Without the staff he can't use his powers well, because he fell into the Well of Crystals with it when it was a stick. Esteban says his staff isn't powerful enough to go to the Spirit World, so he and Elena combined their magic together.

In "Coronation Day", as Esteban tried to throw to Elena her Scepter, it began to glow in his hand, which meant he could use it too since he now had his own magic to augment it. Esteban then used the Blaze spell, and the spell hit Cahu and broke her hourglass. This appears to only work if Esteban only channels Good Magic, as when he first touched it in "Spirit of a Wizard", it didn't glow.

## Role in animated shows

### *Sofia the First*

Esteban appeared in the special, *Elena and the Secret of Avalor*. In the episode "King of the Carnaval", it is revealed that he was able to survive Shuriki's purge because he was one of the people who made a deal with her prior to her invasion, promising to help her take over Avalor in exchange for a position of power, but only if she left his family unharmed, which Shuriki only partially fulfilled when she still murdered King Raul and Queen Lucia to secure her reign and kicked the Delgados out of Avalor. Esteban eventually felt horrible about what he did, but initially kept it to himself, not wanting to get on Shuriki's bad side if he chose to rebel against her if it meant losing his position as Chancellor, or worse, ending up like Raul and Lucia, so when Elena came back to challenge Shuriki with the support of the people behind her along with the rest of his family, he finally stood up to her and helped Elena defeat Shuriki and liberate the Kingdom of Avalor, even maintaining his position as Chancellor under Elena's reign.

### *Elena of Avalor*

As Chancellor of Avalor, Esteban is a major character in the show that is the sequel to the special. He is a member of the Grand Council of Avalor, alongside his grandparents and Naomi. He was chosen by Elena for his extensive knowledge of the kingdom and his management of it in her absence during Shuriki's reign. Unlike his cousins, he is very knowledgeable of how much Avalor has changed during the Royal Family's imprisonment.

In the episode "Spellbound", Esteban is among those attending Mateo's celebration as he succeeds his grandfather as Royal Wizard of Avalor. However, Alacazar's arch-enemy, the malvago wizard Fiero, turns Esteban to stone alongside Isabel, Luisa, Francisco, Mateo's mom Rafa, and the rest of the guests to force Elena and Mateo to find the Codex Maru to undo the spell. In the end, Mateo turns Fiero's own spell back on him, turning him to stone, while Mateo uses the Codex to create the counter-spell and return Esteban and everyone else to normal, though not without Esteban noticing half of his mustache lying on his shoulder due to Naomi breaking it off earlier while he was stone and panicking about damaging him, leaving him very puzzled.

In "Olaball", Esteban is with his grandfather to cheer on Elena and the Avalor Olaball team as they face the Cariza Olaball team. At first, it looks like Avalor will lose as Cariza takes an early lead, but thanks to Gabe and the training he completed with Elena, Avalor comes from behind to win the match, and Esteban is ecstatic with Francisco when they see Avalor won.

In the episode "My Fair Naomi", concerned about being talked about by Dona Paloma and the other big members of Avalor City when Elena decides to throw a birthday party for Naomi, who wasn't from Avalor herself, fearing that if things go wrong, it could humiliate him for some time, Esteban aids Naomi in making her Royal Quinceanera party-perfect, causing Naomi to alienate Elena, Gabe, and Mateo in the process. However, when Naomi bails on her party to make amends with Elena and the others, Esteban thinks his fears will come true as Dona Paloma and the others start to gossip about Naomi leaving her party, but when Naomi returns with her friends and manages to dance with them and get everyone else involved, Esteban is impressed, and with his grandparents encouraging him that Avalor will be talking about the good parts of the party for a long time, Esteban makes sure it will stay that way, causing an unamused and defeated Dona Paloma to walk away in disgust at having failed to disgrace the Royal Family again.

In "King of the Carnaval", Esteban is shocked when Victor Delgado and his daughter, Carla, return to help with the Carnaval, but in reality, they were seeking revenge against Esteban for not protecting them when Shuriki banished them upon taking over Avalor 41 years prior. Threatening to reveal his part in Shuriki's coup to his family, they blackmail him into stealing the Avalor Crown Jewels for them. However, when Esteban is forced to give them to Elena, Isabel, and his grandparents to wear, Victor provides a means to distract them for Esteban to steal them again, but when he is unable to take back Queen Lucia's tiara, which Elena was wearing, Victor drops the bombshell and tells Elena of Esteban's betrayal. However, when Esteban attempts to tell Elena that Victor was telling the truth, Elena however, is convinced that Victor was lying and Esteban would never do anything to harm their family. Realizing she did not buy Victor telling her the truth, Esteban goes with it, and together, they are able to stop Victor and Carla from escaping with the Crown Jewels and have them apprehended. Elena personally sees to it that they never return to Avalor again, but this results in Victor and Carla swearing revenge against her and all of Avalor, including Esteban for helping see to their exile again, despite trying to turn his family against him with the truth of his part in Shuriki's takeover.

In the special "Realm of the Jaquins", Esteban is the only member of the Grand Council not happy with Elena for having ruled Avalor as Crown Princess for one year, leaving three more before she comes of age to be Queen, even feeling nervous when the mention of the Delgados is brought up, fearful of if Elena really learns of his part with Shuriki's takeover. He sees off Elena as she leaves on Luna to go watch the Guardian Test that Skylar's younger brother Nico is taking part in under Mateo, Migs, and Chief Zephyr's supervision. Esteban assists his grandfather in trying to fight off the plant growth of the forest sprite Marimonda, after being warned in advance of her attack on Avalor by Zephyr's Jaquins, alongside the Royal Guards, to little success until Elena manages to imprison her again thanks to an illusion created with the Scepter of Light. Learning afterward that the ones responsible for Marimonda's escape from Vallaestrella was Victor Delgado and his daughter when Elena tells their grandparents everything, Esteban prepares for their return once more, knowing they want revenge for what happened with the Crown Jewels. Unknown to him, Victor and Carla are working for Shuriki, who is planning revenge on Elena for her previous defeat. Whether Esteban will be dealt with by Shuriki for betraying her at the last moment previously after he had been her faithful servant since her original takeover is unknown.

In "Royal Rivalry", when Elena calls an emergency meeting of the Grand Council to discuss the threat of Victor and Carla Delgado still being a threat to Avalor, Elena suggests allying with the neighboring kingdom of Paraíso, which Esteban is vehemently against due to Paraíso and Avalor being long-time rivals, and how if the Delgados make it across the border to Paraíso, they will never catch them and bring them to justice. Despite learning of what sparked the long-time feud from her grandparents, Elena suggests inviting the Paraíso Princess, Valentina, to Avalor to sign the peace treaty. When Elena calls the vote, Esteban is the only one to vote against it while everyone else supports Elena's idea. When Valentina arrives, she quickly begins boasting about Paraíso having better stuff, angering Esteban and his grandparents. In an attempt to quell the tension, Esteban and Elena take her to the Twin Xolos, but when Valentina finally pushes Elena too far herself, an attempt by Valentina to attack Elena brings the Twin Xolos statues to life, threatening everyone in the royal carriage. After Valentina confesses to being jealous of thinking Avalor had better stuff than Paraíso, she and Elena make amends and are able to return the Twin Xolos back to their inanimate forms. Esteban and Naomi come out of the carriage Valentina signs the treaty, and the Delgados and Shuriki are forced to rethink their plans once they see the increased patrols at the Avalor-Paraíso border. Afterwards, Esteban and Naomi try some of the Paraíso chocolate, but quickly agree that Avalor's is better.

In "Three Jaquins and a Princess", Esteban is with Elena in the kitchen, checking out Armando as he prepares his entry for the Avalor Bake-Off when Isabel comes in to show off her latest invention. However, when an accident with it ends up causing the pies it was carrying to hit Esteban in the face, he reprimands his young cousin for it, hurting Isabel's feelings. Later though, he makes it up to Isabel and helps her with her invention before she goes off to play with Migs and Dulce's new children Mingo, Zoom, and Estrella.

Later on, in the episode "Shapeshifters", Esteban learns of the return of Shuriki, and her new alliance with Fiero and the Delgados. When Elena vows to defeat Shuriki once and for all to ensure she can't threaten Avalor again, vowing to avenge her parents' murder at Shuriki's hands, Esteban is against it, saying the Royal Guards can handle it, with Francisco adding on that the Jaquins are looking for her as well. However, when Elena argues that she has to handle this, for the sake of her late parents, Esteban calls the Grand Council to vote on having Elena remain in the palace for her own safety under heavy guard from Gabe and his men. Francisco, Luisa, and Naomi all agree with Esteban, making it unanimous, but after Elena leaves saying they made the wrong choice, Esteban is still confident they made the right choice.

Esteban is mentioned in "The Scepter of Night", as being away on a diplomatic visit to the neighboring kingdom of Cordoba with Francisco and Luisa, but his earlier ruling that Elena stays in the palace under guard remains in effect, which Gabe remains ironclad to maintaining, even when joining Elena, Gabe, and Naomi with pursuing Shuriki and getting the pieces of the Scepter of Night before she does.

Esteban joins his grandparents, Elena, Isabel, Mateo, and the Turners as they travel to the Avalor Summer Palace in Nueva Vista for summer vacation in the one-hour special, "Song of the Sirenas". However, they have an encounter with the Sirenas while en route, and then meet up with Duke Cristobal upon arrival in Nueva Vista. Later on, following the parade held for Elena regarding her original defeat of Shuriki, Esteban is horrified alongside Francisco, Luisa, and Isabel, when they find themselves face-to-face with Shuriki, Fiero, the Delgados, Cruz, and Vestia, and are taken to be imprisoned in the tower. Elena joins them shortly afterwards with Princess Marisa, the crown princess of the Sirenas, revealing Duke Cristobal to be allied with Shuriki, having betrayed them for gold. Mateo, Naomi, and Gabe bust them out with Migs, Luna, and Skylar, and they attempt to flee back to Avalor City, but are pursued by Shuriki on the Duke's yacht. Luckily, Sirena King Pescoro and his people arrive to save Marisa, having been warned of her capture by her brother and Pescoro's son, Crown Prince Marzel, and soon after, Mateo petrifies Fiero again, and Elena kills Shuriki, leaving only the Jewel from the Scepter of Night behind, which Cruz escapes with alongside the Delgados and Vestia. Esteban is relieved to see Elena is alright and Shuriki is gone for good, before watching as Elena punishes Duke Cristobal for his treason, and forges a new alliance and friendship with King Pescoro and the Sirenas.

Later on, in "Movin' On Up", Esteban doesn't take too kindly to some of the changes that Rafa makes to the palace due to her wanting to be with Mateo after he was granted his own quarters in the palace, still believing he needs her help. One, in particular, is a plant he tried to hide behind some curtains. Later on, when Rafa finally heads home, now convinced of Mateo's maturity and ability to handle himself without her support, Esteban is too late to return the plant to her before she departs. At the end of the episode, he drops it from the tower so it smashes on the ground below.

In the Season Two finale, "Naomi Knows Best", Esteban joins Elena when she travels to King Joaquín's kingdom under the pretense that he had captured the Delgados, only to find that they had been lured into a trap so Carla's mother and Victor's wife, Ash Delgado, could drain Elena of the magic within her, which would kill her, using the salvaged Jewel from the Scepter of Night that Victor and Carla retrieved after Elena killed Shuriki, while Esteban is locked up with Joaquín, and later Gabe, after Gabe attempted to save Elena and botched the rescue attempt. However, thanks to Mateo and Naomi, Esteban and Joaquín are able to capture Victor, while Elena is rescued and Mateo destroys the Jewel, forcing Ash and Carla to retreat, swearing revenge for their defeat and Victor's arrest. Esteban returns to Avalor with the captured Victor to aid Elena in preparing for Ash and Carla's return to rescue Victor and get their revenge on Princess Elena and her friends.

In Season Three, "The Magic Within", Esteban's dark secret of his original alliance with Shuriki is finally revealed to Elena and the rest of his family when Elena inquires as to where he was the day that her parents were killed, and when Esteban shows anxiety, hesitation, and nervousness when trying to answer, Elena uses a new ability of her Scepter of Light to find out the truth, enraging her and the rest of the family upon seeing it. Elena immediate summons Gabe and his men and orders Esteban incarcerated in the dungeon. While his grandfather decided to forgive him for what he did in the past after Esteban explained his reasons, Elena, Naomi, and his grandmother couldn't as they lost King Raul and Queen Lucia because of Shuriki's transgression through Esteban's selfish needs. He was supposed to be exiled from Avalor to Soledad Island for the rest of his life, but he escapes with Ash Delgado. He is also stripped of his position as Chancellor by his infuriated cousin Elena.

In "Captain Mateo", Esteban reluctantly leads Ash to Takaina and later encounters Elena. Esteban tries to speak with Elena, trying to reason for his past actions, but she refuses to listen. Elena's anger towards her cousin causes her magic to levitate everyone and when she finally calms down, Esteban falls into the Well of Crystals, causing him to gain magical powers. However, Esteban has no control over them and accidentally transports himself, Ash, and everyone out of the temple. When the temple is later sealed by Elena, Ash decides that Esteban must be trained to properly use his new magic and returns to her lair to seek help from Zopilote, her mentor in assistance in training him.

In "Dreamcatcher", Esteban tries to gain a hold of his new magic from the Well of Crystals, but soon finds himself confronting Elena again when she summons him to dump all her emotional baggage over his treason and get it off her shoulders. Despite his best attempts to ask for forgiveness for his past allegiance to Shuriki, Elena refuses to forgive him and officially disowns him, kicking him out of the Royal Family of Avalor. Upon returning to Ash, feeling heartbroken, with nothing left for him in Avalor, Esteban fully embraces the side of evil and joins Ash to better gain control over his new magic.

In “Spirit of a Wizard”, Esteban has fully mastered his teleportation powers. He and Ash learn from Zopilote that the entrance to Takaina is sealed shut by enchanted crystals, which Esteban quickly deduces is the work of Elena’s scepter, noting how powerful it’s become since Elena fell into the Well of Crystals. When Ash expresses disappointment about not being able to obtain the power Elena has, Esteban jokingly comments that now she needs her scepter for that, but Ash takes the remark seriously and therefore the three come up with a plan to obtain it. Esteban uses his powers to locate Elena and is surprised to learn that Alacazar is with her, explaining that he was once Avalor’s royal master wizard who hasn’t been seen for over forty years. Later, the three allies ambush Elena, Mateo, Flo, and Alacazar using fake firestones to lure them. After a brief struggle, Esteban manages to get ahold of Elena’s scepter using his powers, though he refuses to allow Ash to hurt Elena and becomes concerned for Alacazar when Zopilote injures him with his powers. However, Ash later discovers that she cannot use the scepter since it only channels good magic and Elena manages to get it back thanks to Mateo. When Zopilote attempts to attack Mateo, he gets turned into a small yellow bird, much to Ash and Esteban’s shock. Elena tries to blast them, but Esteban uses his powers to teleport him and Ash away. Ash blames Esteban for what happened to Zopilote, stating that he should’ve let her get Elena when she had the chance, though Esteban argues that Elena is still his cousin. Ash reminds Esteban that Elena didn’t hesitate in trying to blast him and claims that the only way to truly be safe is to stop her before she stops them. She decides to create an evil alliance with other villains and proclaims that together they’ll defeat Princess Elena. Though reluctant at first, Esteban ultimately agrees.

In “The Last Laugh”, Esteban and Ash decide to recruit Chatana, an ancient evil winged sorceress with the power to conjure monsters, as a member of their evil alliance. Ash explains to Esteban that she will bribe Chatana into joining them with her golden diadem, the source of all her powers. Ash then attempts to free her from her imprisonment only to discover that the vault she’s inside of is boobytrapped. Esteban and Ash are transported miles away from it, so Ash tells him to use his powers to teleport them back. Esteban argues that he can’t take them all the way back there in one jump, to which Ash says that anything is better than walking. Esteban agrees and teleports them both. Eventually, they run into Chatana and introduce themselves to her, though Esteban becomes annoyed when Ash refers to him as her trainee. After Ash explains to Chatana why she freed her and promises to give her golden diadem back if she helps them, Chatana asks her pet Pili what he thinks, to which Pili says that Ash is definitely evil, but Esteban may be even worse. Esteban agrees with a smirk, and Chatana joins their team.

In “Giant Steps”, Esteban teleports Ash, Chatana, Pili, and their new ally Tziloco to the gateway to Vallestrella, where Tziloco opens it up by producing a fake jaquin paw. They plan on recruiting Chatana’s most fearsome giant Kizin. On their way, Tziloco senses someone using magic to locate them, which Esteban realizes must be Elena and tells Ash to use her Cloaking Spell. Chatana also creates baby spider eagles as a diversion, though Esteban believes adult spider eagles would’ve been more efficient until Pili assures him that they’ll do. Once the team reaches the mountain in which Kizin is trapped under, Esteban teleports them in front of it and Ash frees him. When Esteban sees Kizin for the first time, he is baffled as to how such a babyish creature could be so dangerous, yet he still attempts to convince the giant to join their alliance by complimenting him. Though Kizin takes a liking to Esteban, he refuses to help because he is mad at Chatana for not freeing him sooner and almost steps on them until Esteban teleports them away. The allies leave Vallestrella, planning on recruiting villains from the other side of Avalor.

In "Dia de las Madres", Esteban only appears in flashbacks and mentions, but still manages to play an important role in the episode. While celebrating Mother's Day with their grandmother Luisa, Elena uses her Scepter to show visions of her favorite Mother's Day, which also show child Esteban's life when he first moved into the Palace following his parents' death. Evidently, Esteban had an incredibly close relationship with his cousins Elena and Isabel, having a chocolate fight with the former and entertaining the latter with funny faces. However, he becomes depressed upon seeing other children declare their love to their mothers. Later on, to cheer him up, Luisa shows Esteban trees depicting their family's history, such as his parents' marriage. Inspired, he willingly misses out on his family's painting portrait to plant a tree himself to honor his mother and grandmother.

The revelation of all this make Elena and Luisa become more sympathetic toward Esteban despite their initial disownment of him, and near the end of the episode, Elena calls him "Cousin Esteban" with a smile on her face.

In "To Queen or Not to Queen", Elena is shown a vision by Zuzo when she's asleep of Esteban having become King of Avalor with Dona Paloma as his wife and Queen, and rules with an iron fist, being shown when one group of competitors that Mateo and Gabe race against win by default due to bribing Esteban to ensure their victory. When Elena confronts him about it, Esteban has her taken to the dungeon. After Naomi, Gabe, and Mateo bust her out, she encourages the citizens to revolt and overthrow Esteban and Dona Paloma. After it succeeds, Elena awakens from the dream.

In "Coronation Day", Esteban joins Ash and her team as they lay siege to Nueva Vista and Coronado as part of a plan to unleash the Four Shades of Awesome to take over Avalor. When Elena arrives to protect Marisa, her brother, parents, and the Sirenas, Elena and Ash are sucked into the Spirit World, leaving Esteban to take command of the Four Shades to invade Avalor with them, lying to them that he set them free when it was Ash who really did it. However, while it appears that they are following his instructions as they lay siege to Avalor, despite losing one of them thanks to Isabel and her defense of Avalor in Elena's absence as Crown Princess and heir to the throne when Hetz has his own lightning turned against him, Esteban overpowers her defenses and enters the palace, only to soon discover the Four Shades had no intention of following his command when Cahu the Time Shade, the most powerful and dangerous of the Four Shades, turns Francisco and Luisa to stone, essentially fossilizing and killing them, to Esteban's horror, when they prove too annoying and she grows impatient with them as they tried to reason with Esteban and convince him he would be hated as ruler if he took over, just like with Shuriki. With this, Esteban affirms his belief there is nothing he can do to make up for his mistakes and that it is too late for him to find redemption, especially after Cahu tells him that trusting others is his fatal flaw as he made the same mistake with them as he did with Shuriki, so he has not learned his lesson yet regarding that.

When Elena returns and sends Vuli and Yolo back to the Spirit World to join Hetz, Cahu decides to turn her to stone as well after slowing her down and disarming her of the Scepter of Light. Despite Elena having disowned him and being filled with hatred against him for his part in Shuriki's original takeover that resulted in Raul and Lucia's deaths, Esteban can't bear to see his cousin meet the same fate as his grandparents and several others citizens, and takes the bullet for Elena. As he is petrified, he apologizes to Elena for everything he had done against her, hoping to find some redemption before his death. Heartbroken by his noble sacrifice and apology for his actions against her, and remembering what her parents told her back in the Spirit World, Elena forgives him, resulting in her emotion magic being triggered, restoring Esteban to flesh and blood. Together, the two cousins destroy Cahu's hourglass, stripping her of her powers, before banishing her back to the Spirit World to join the other Shades once and for all, undoing all their damage to Avalor in the process as Elena's newly-awoken emotion magic of forgiveness undoes the damage single-handedly. Quita Moz then arrives to reveal that Elena's test was forgiving Esteban. By forgiving him, she passed her test, and can now become Queen. With his status in the Royal Family restored, Esteban attends Elena's coronation as Queen, and when Elena names Naomi her new Chancellor, Esteban gives his blessing to Naomi, knowing that she earned it since he no longer needed it. Esteban joins in the celebratory dance afterwards, which is also attended by the Royal Family of Enchancia.

## Appearances

### Season One

* Elena and the Secret of Avalor (first appearance)
* First Day of Rule
* Model Sister
* All Heated Up
* Island of Youth
* Spellbound (no lines)
* Finders Leapers
* Navidad
* Olaball
* Captain Turner Returns
* King of the Carnaval
* My Fair Naomi
* Spirit Monkey Business
* Realm of the Jaquins
* Blockheads
* Masks of Magic

### Season Two

* Royal Rivalry
* Three Jaquins and a Princess
* Shapeshifters
* All Kingdoms Fair
* Song of the Sirenas
* The Tides of Change
* Snow Place Like Home
* Movin' On Up
* Naomi Knows Best

### Season Three

* The Incredible Shrinking Royals
* Norberg Peace Prize
* The Magic Within
* Captain Mateo
* Dreamcatcher
* Spirit of a Wizard
* The Last Laugh
* Giant Steps
* Dia de las Madres (flashbacks)
* To Queen or Not to Queen (in an alternate reality)
* Coronation Day (final appearance)

## Trivia

* As revealed in "Model Sister", Esteban spent some time in the Kingdom of Satu and is very knowledgeable of Satu's cuisine and culture.
* Esteban is technically Elena's regent, as he helped keep Avalor intact during her absence, and serves as Elena's mentor in leadership before she takes the throne.
* According to "Island of Youth", Esteban was a picky eater when he was younger and that he was never able to pursue his own passions because he was always being told what to do.
* Because Esteban was the only member of the family not magically protected (aside from Cristobal), he aged during the 41 years Shuriki ruled Avalor as its tyrannical queen, unlike his cousins and maternal grandparents, who remained the same ages since they were magically imprisoned in a mystical painting, as with Princess Elena in the Amulet of Avalor.
* According to Craig Gerber, Queen Lucia's sister was Esteban's mother. Traditionally, in Spanish surnames, the father's last name usually comes first and the mother's second, therefore his name would most likely be Esteban "blank" Flores (since we never learn his late father's last name).
	+ In "Snow Place Like Home", Esteban revealed that his parents died in a storm at sea when he was younger. Their ship capsized and sank over the northern seas.
* In an alternate reality, he became King of Avalor and had taken Paloma as his queen consort.

## Gallery

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