Elise Torres

**Elise Torres (**née **Unknown)** is Fabiola's mother. She is portrayed by Tembi Locke.

## Personality

**Elise** **Torres** often appears caring towards Fabiola, always asking her about school, her grades, and boyfriends. She is always trying to get her to do things to make her look more feminine, like inviting her to get her nails done.

## Physical Appearance

**Elise Torres** is an African-American woman who has straight brown hair and brown eyes. She is usually well-dressed and well-groomed. She wears blouses, pants, and shoes. She also wears statement jewelry such as necklaces and earrings.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

#### At the Nail Salon

**Elise** **Torres** was first seen spending some time with Fabiola at the nail salon. Fabiola chooses to have clear nail polish and tells her to try some fun nail art, like something feminine. She assumes that Fabiola has a crush on Ben when she told her that she was with annoying kid, Ben, on her group project, because when she was in high school she called every boy she liked annoying. While Fabiola is struggling with new complicated emotions.

Further in the conversation Fabiola tells she guess that she technically has a boyfriend, Alex Gomez, she is really happy and asks Fabiola if he is human and not a robot.

#### Family Meeting

After school, Fabiola tells Gears Brosnan, the robot, that she is gay. Later on, she had a family meeting so that she could tell her secret that she is gay. She asks her family not to look at her any differently after she tells them something personal. Elise face was starting to change and asks her if Alex got her pregnant, which she denies. She is trying to tell them that she is gay but can't. Instead of telling them that she is gay she tells them that she is switching from AP French to AP Latin. Elise is a little shocked and sort of blindsided after Fabiola told them that and tells her that that isn't the life she imagined for her.

#### PTA Bake Sale

During the bake sale, Joyce, her old friend and also Eleanor's mother, attended to be with her daughter for a little bit.

Joyce tells Elise and Nalini that she hung out, baked cookies, gossiped with them and got to know all about the girls high school love lives.

Joyce's talkative behavior got things out that the girls ask her not to tell anyone, as their boyfriends and girlfriend which she said when she was gabby. When Elise asks Joyce who has a girlfriend, Fabiola got into the conversation saying that no one have a girlfriend.

When she and Fabiola are cleaning up she says that she is feeling sorry for Eleanor about her mother being a flake and that Fabiola should feel really lucky that they are a normal family. Further in the conversation Fabiola says to her that something about her may be embarrassing to Elise, she tells her that she wasn't embarrassed by her robots and weird clothes.

When Elise tells her that she loves everything about her, she tells her that she is gay, she is shock hearing that and tells Fabiola that she isn't disappointed and trying to process. She doesn't know what to say to her daughter, but eventually she tells her that she loves her and that there is nothing she could tell her that will change that she loves her. She just wants Fabiola to be happy and gave her hug, after the hug she asks her if that's why she called the family meeting about changing subjects.

### Season 2

#### Meeting Her Daughter's Girlfriend

After finding out that her daughter was gay, Elise decided to be as supportive as she could be of Fabiola's partner being a girl. She was excited to meet her daughter's partner all the time, trying to get Fabiola to introduce her to the family, however, Fabiola didn't do so because she was afraid of embarrassing her girlfriend.

Much to her satisfaction during the 24-hour relay of Sherman Oakes, Torres finally met her daughter's girlfriend, Eve Hjlem with whom she instantly hit off with extremely. Torres encourages her daughter and her partner to go to the Winter Dance telling them it's going to be really amazing. Much to her disappointment, the girls initially denied going to the Winter Dance because they were afraid of being out of place there.

In response, Elise reveals that she and her husband, Victor won Cricket King and Queen back when they attended Sherman Oaks High. They were the first Cricket Queen and King of Color, and it meant a lot to all the other students of color. Much to Torres' happiness, this inspired her daughter and Eve to run as Cricket Queen and Queen to promote the queer community. An extremely happy Torres, tells Eve she likes her and invites her to come to their house and watch Carol sometime, taking her away to talk about the Winter Dance,

## Appearances

* *... started a nuclear war*
* *... been a big, fat liar*
* *... set my mom up* (mentioned)

## Trivia

* She is of African-American descent.
* She is accepting of her daughter after she comes out to her.
* She was the first cricket queen of colour.