Grandma Paguro

* Sea-Monster
* Human

## Grandma

### Likes

The ocean, Luca's happiness, the surface, encouraging her grandson to explore the surface, sea cucumbers

### Dislikes

Family tension, Daniela's stubbornness and overprotectiveness, her grandson upset

### Powers and abilities

Sea Monster (can shapeshift into a human)

### Other relatives

Lorenzo Paguro (son-in-law)
Uncle Ugo (son-in-law)

### Children

Daniela Paguro (daughter)
Luca Paguro (grandson)

**Grandma Paguro** is a supporting character in the 2021 Disney•Pixar animated feature film, *Luca.* She is a sea monster, Luca's grandmother and Daniela's mother.

> Some people, they'll never accept him. But some will. And he seems to know how to find the good ones.
>
> Grandma talking about Luca

## Background

Grandma Paguro and Luca Paguro have an understanding. She sees the spark in her *grandson’s eyes. Grandma knows that breaking a rule or two is part of growing up.*

## Appearance

Grandma has brown eyes. In the sea-monster form she wears green dress. In her human form she has grey hair. In her sea monster form, Grandma has purple scales and brown "hair". She wears dress made from a pink moss.

### Physical Appearance

In her sea monster form, Grandma has light magenta scales and purple "hair". She has light pink eyes with a faint yellow sclera and oval shaped pupils. Her tail is long and forms a twirl with purple caudal fins, and she also wears a dress and bandana, probably made from seaweed.

## History

When Daniela takes her son Luca home for lunch time, the two pass by Grandma to which Luca happily greets her. During a conversation with Luca's family at home during lunch time, Luca asks his grandmother to know where do boats come from, to which she explains to him that they come from the human world above the surface, explaining to him that she beat a human during a game of playing cards, much to her daughter Daniela's shock about her fear of humans. When Luca asks his grandmother about being at the surface, his mother prohibits him from mentioning the human world because according to her, she warns her son about the dangers of the human world just before taking Luca back to work.

Later when Luca returns back to the ocean, he approaches his mother who is disappointed to know where he went to which his grandmother interrupts that she sent Luca to look for sea cucumbers to which Daniela explains to her mother that protecting Luca is more important than snacks. Later that night, Luca passes through his grandmother sleeping just before discussing with his parents.

During dinner time with Massimo, Grandma arrives and joins in with her family during pasta dinner where she explains to her daughter that she comes to Portorosso most weekends just as she explains to her daughter that Luca seems to find the good ones. Grandma and the rest of her family later approach Luca at the train leading to Genova where she bids a farewell to Luca just before leaving.

## Trivia

* Grandma sometimes sleeps with her eyes open, which can be a nod to how fish sleep with their eyes open in real life, since most fish have no eyelids.

* Despite her last name being Paguro, it is possible to have a maternal grandmother with a paternal last name. As it does not apply to cartoon logic.

* For unexplained reasons, her last name is Paguro despite the fact that she is Daniela's mother.

* When asked about Grandma's name, director Enrico Casarosa said they only called her "grandma" during production, but that he'd "always thought of her as having the name Libera", which he picked from his own grandmother.

## Gallery

### Concept Art

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Casarosa, Enrico (August 24, 2021). Enrico Casarosa on Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved on January 19, 2022.