Caterina

**Caterina Rodriguez** is Cinnamon's mother. Not much was known about her during the series except that she ran away from Carlos and Cinnamon with an Egyptian prince when she was a little girl. Cinnamon's Maid said that she is a very attractive women. However, her entire character has changed thanks to the Halloween special- revealing BVH's darkest secret + plot twist YET.

## **Appearance & Personality + Overview**

### Appearance

Catarina's appearance conists of a red dress, red heels and breast-length black hair. She was actually mentioned by Cinnamon's maid in the Q&A special. From her description, she was a beautiful and tall woman with long gorgeous red locks.

### Personality + Overview

Her entire character is A LOT to unravel. Before the plot twist from the Halloween special, Caterina was known to be a very mysterious antagonist with a lot of secrets. After abandoning Carlos- leaving him alone to take care of their only daughter Cinnamon, she was mentioned multiple times in the show. Cinnamon mentions how she had told people that Cinnamon was her 'niece', so her true older age wouldn't be revealed. This shows Caterina is quite selfish, and vain- and obviously not a good parent. At the beginning of the year, Caterina leaves Cinnamon a letter- which the maid never reveals to her. Instead, she hides each letter Caterina writes to Cinnamon, thinking she will hurt her and that she doesn't deserve to be in her life. She is very revengeful, almost deciding to spoil Cinnamon's prom night by visiting her, but is convinced by the maid not to. She also comes back to Beverly Valley to tamper with Beth and Carlos's wedding. Despite leaving Carlos, she is very stubborn and possessive, and wants him back after finding out he has moved on with another women. She invades Beth's space when she is trying on wedding dresses, and they automatically become enemies. She later on crashes their ruined wedding in another surprise plot twist, and manipulates a heartbroken Carlos and Cinnamon- convincing them to forgive her and allow her to come back into their lives- becoming a family again.

Here is where things get twisted. During the Halloween special, Cinnamon and Tootsie travel back in time after eating a magic candy apple- given to them by a suspicious old witch. They travel to the year 2003- and witness a tragically dark event. They see what went down between Hope (Serenity's mother), and Caterina- who are both members in a popular sorority. At the time, Hope is dating a younger Carlos- and is a young mother to Serenity, who is only a baby/toddler at the time- Cinnamon is not born until 2005. The girls automatically realize something is wrong when Caterina pours wine for the two of them, and takes out a potion given to her by the witch, with an oblivious Hope sitting a few feet away. This potion was given to her by the witch, who reveals it cannot be undone, and it is very dangerous. She pours it into Hope's wine glass, and then gives it to Hope. Cinnamon then realizes this flashback is of her mother, and continues to look on. Multiple obstacles stop Hope from drinking the drugged glass- like her stopping to show Caterina the locket Carlos gave her, and Serenity waking up crying upstairs. Hope eventually catches on when Caterina starts acting suspicious, and keeps pressuring her to 'drink up'. Hope does not drink it, and rushes upstairs to tend to Serenity and to avoid Caterina- who now reveals the true her when her back is turned. A relieved Cinnamon and Tootsie then watch Caterina rush to a knife in desperation, and stabs Hope to death whilst her back is turned. It is revealed that Caterina is obsessed with Carlos, and killed Hope so she could get out of the way. Caterina is incredibly jealous, and wants him all to herself. She coldly snatches the necklace Carlos gave Hope, and kisses it- laughing that Hope is dead and states that nothing can get between her and her 'mi amor.' A traumatized Cinnamon then realizes how dark her family really is- and is so shocked she lashes out at everyone when they are teleported back to the party in their current year. This makes Caterina so much more twisted, malignant and developed as a character in the series, bringing forth one of the most shocking plot twist yet.

## Trivia

* Cinnamon's Maid said that her leaving was the reason why Cinnamon is very mean.
* It is unknown how Strawberry knows about her mother because Rhubarb doesn't know about it.
* She ran away with an Egyptian prince.
* Dan & Riya replied to a comment asking her to appear in the series along with Strawberry's dad saying "your wish is my command 😉"
* It seems that Elizabeth has known about her beforehand.
* Her name may be spelled Caterina/Catarina instead of Katarina because of the initials under the IG post show "C.R."
	+ It also would make sense for her name to start with a C considering Carlos and Cinnamon's names also begin with a C
* **Caterina** was in the Kappa Kappa Nu Sorority.
* Serenity's mother was dating Carlos before **Caterina** killed her.
* **Caterina** is the second murderer in the Beverly Valley Full Series.
	+ Mary is the first murderer in the series
	+ Her killing Laya Mulroney wasn't planned out unlike **Caterina** killing Serenity's mother.

## Appearances

Mary Gives Birth

Prom On Fire

My Big Fat Billionaire Wedding

Halloween Special 4 (as her younger self)

Surviving Every Video Game (voice only)

Serenity Gets Adopted