María José Sevilla

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**María José "M.J." Sevilla** is a main character in the Netflix series *Rebelde*. She is portrayed by Andrea Chaparro. She is one of the best characters out there.

She is a teen from California who’s previously only gone to all-girl schools and whose religious upbringing is tested at EWS. As she arrives at her new school to try out for the MEP program as a pianist and singer, she’s immediately attracted to Esteban.

## Biography

### Background

María José is the daughter of Agustina Sevilla and Francisco Sevilla. Despite being from California, she comes from a very religious Mexican family. To be enrolled into EWS M.J. lied to her parents that she would study at a religious music conservatory.
When she arrives at the EWS and finally sees, at school, the possibility of living without the rules imposed by her parents. In fact, due to her strict upbringing, she had never studied with boys until arriving at EWS.

Throughout the season, she kept referencing how she feels more akin to RBD member Roberta than to lead singer Mía Colucci. She first mentions this during the hazing by the "Lodge", when they pass over giving her Roberta’s uniform to wear.

## Physical Appearance

MJ is seen to have deep tan skin, big brown eyes and short curly hair. She is skinny and pretty and has perfect teeth. In season one, she wore 'wacky' hairstyles for majority, for season 2 she wore her hair more seriously and a fringe. Her outfit style is similar to Jana's, crop tops and skirts. She wears the uniform correctly usually with stocking or high socks.

## Relationships

### **Dixon**

At the beginning, M.J. seems to not really care about Dixon, due to her crush on Estebán. Dixon is irritate about the fact that she didn't see how much he loves her, which makes her misunderstanding some of his actions.

When M.J. finally realised Dixon felt in love with her, she kissed him. But then they fight about Jana. After M.J. betrayed the band to sing with Sebas, Dixon felt betray as well. At the end of the first season, she let a tears flowing along her cheek while watching her friends performing. After that, she regretted her actions towards the band and towards him.

### **Jana**

M.J. was a huge fan of Jana. At first, they became good friends, but when they both started to have a crush on Estebán, it created conflicts between them and Luka Colucci, manipulated by the Lodge, didn't help to fix the tensions.

When things started getting better between the two of them, Luka kept on telling M.J. she deserved better than just being the 'chorister' of Jana. She started to get jealous of the attention everybody gave to Jana and of her image of the main member of the band. In the final of the first episode, this jealousy led her to betray the band to sing with Sebas. Something she real fast started to regret.

### **Estebán**

At the beginning of the series, M.J. had a crush on Estebán, but her feelings towards him were only one-sided.

### **Andi**

Andi and M.J. are best-friends. At the beginning of the series, when she meets both Jana and Andi, her roommates in EWS, she's completely obsessed with Jana and didn't really pays intention on Andi. When they started to spend time together, they became real fast close friends.

Andi enjoys teasing M.J. by flirting with her or joking about her inexperience, which makes M.J. a bit uncomfortable. M.J. is really supportive about Andi's sexuality despite the fact her parents are super religious. She's even joking about Andi's being in love with Emilia the "beautiful Brazilian" as she called her once. She even proposes Andi to help her getting better grades on biology.

Sebastián Langarica

MJ and Sebas do not have a close relationship at the start of season 1. Later in the season, the Nonames plan to get Sebas drunk. Jana convinces MJ to try and get Sebas drunk. They end up in the hot tub together, however, Sebas discovers her plan and leaves. At the end of season one he apologieses for leaving her in the hot tub and they are layer seen singing a duet. MJ sang with Sebas at the "battle of the bands". They end up winning the competition. In season 2 the two start getting closer together. Sebas is beating up by some students and MJ tends to his wounds. They share their first kiss during this scene. They are now dating.